Chapter 18 The Rise of Large-Scale Fishing
For someone to "grab business" from the imperial court, Liu Hou was not only not annoyed, but happy to see it. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info navy, whether it is the navy, it is always the army of the imperial court, the duty of the army is to fight wars, to defend the country and the people, and to use the army to carry out production activities, which is just an expedient measure under special circumstances.
This situation cannot be sustained for a long time, otherwise there will be problems. In the early days of the Republic, there were also many construction corps to help the country tide over difficulties, and later, as the country gradually became rich and strong, these construction corps were gradually disbanded or restructured.
This principle is the same in Dahan, and now there are still various construction corps in Dahan, which are also used to tide over difficulties at the beginning of the country's establishment, and when domestic production recovers, the economy recovers, and the finances are no longer able to make ends meet, these construction corps will gradually withdraw from the stage of history.
When the time comes, the army can return to its roots, and the soldiers can do what they are supposed to do. Therefore, now that there are non-governmental forces joining the fishing industry, Liu Hou certainly supports it.
He hoped that the civilian fishing industry would develop as soon as possible, so that the official or military fishing teams could withdraw from the industry as soon as possible and go on military missions as soon as possible.
To this end, Liu Hou also set up a fishery department in the household department to support, regulate, and manage the country's fisheries, and its status is the same as that of the agriculture department and the animal husbandry department. The state encourages non-governmental organizations to go out to sea to fish, and the government can provide some information support such as nautical charts, weather forecasts, and fish stock information measured by the navy.
The navy can also provide substantive guarantees such as safety and rescue for civilian fishing teams. At present, although the navy has mapped some nautical charts, they are still only limited to a small area of sea areas, and the situation of a large number of unknown sea areas is unknown.
Once the fishing boat sails out of these uncharted waters, it is very dangerous, where there are undercurrents, where there are reefs, where there are whirlpools, and where there are sea monsters. And the most terrifying thing is the storm, if you encounter a strong tropical storm, even the best ship will not be able to hold on.
So, sailing is a very dangerous thing. If the fishing fleet is in danger, the navy needs to search and rescue, but in this era, communication is not developed, and there are not many cases where the navy can be notified to search and rescue after being in distress.
With the development of the oceans, the species of pirates will inevitably arise. At this time, the navy is very important. An important role of the Navy is to eradicate pirates and protect law-abiding fishermen.
Of course, while enjoying the benefits brought by the state, those fishermen also have to fulfill their obligations, and every fishing team and every fishing vessel needs to be registered with the relevant state departments and accept official management.
The most important thing is that they need to pay taxes on their catch, which is the same as agriculture and animal husbandry, and they have to pay a certain tax. Otherwise, why would the state give them such a big piece of fat?
Acceptance of this by private fishing teams varies. Some people agree with it, because they originally believed that they had taken food from the navy, and the navy would definitely crack down on their behavior of stealing jobs.
But now the navy not only does not deal with them and stop them, but supports them and protects them, which flatters them, and even grabs Dade, as for paying some taxes, it is simply trivial.
But there are also those who resist paying taxes, who believe that they have risked their lives to get their gains, so why should they pay a share of the tax to the state? There are also those who believe that the sea is not land, that the imperial court does not have the right to the sea, and that the output here does not need to be taxed to the imperial court.
Anyway, they have all kinds of reasons for refusing to pay taxes, and even think that the court is exploiting them. Moreover, since these people dare to risk their lives to go to sea, and dare to snatch food from the hands of the navy, most of them are outlaws who are not afraid of death.
For this kind of person, the Fisheries Department had no choice but to join forces with the navy to strike hard, so there were many more activities to crack down on tax evasion and evasion on the sea, and the navy had not yet begun to hunt down the remnants of Dongwu, and the entire East China Sea had been in an uproar.
Fishermen who go out to sea can often hear the rumbling of cannons and the sound of gunfire, and when they encounter such a situation, they will stay away from it, because they know that either the navy is encircling pirates or chasing fishing boats that have evaded taxes and gone to sea to catch fish without permission.
For the ~big~ sea, Liu Hou supports private forces to go to sea to fish, but for inland rivers and lakes, he prohibits private fishing teams from fishing. Although the natural resources are abundant nowadays, the rivers and lakes are much smaller than the sea, and if they are not protected, the resources will be exhausted one day.
It is enough to have an official fishing team to fish here, but if it is opened to non-governmental fishing teams, with the style of the Chinese locusts, I believe that many fish and shrimp in rivers and lakes will be caught.
Of course, he could only order a ban on large, organized fishing teams fishing for fish and shrimp in rivers and lakes, and he did not prohibit and could not prohibit the sporadic individual behavior.
No one expected that this food crisis would not only lead to the reform of the salt industry, but also give birth to an industry. Although the fishing industry has existed since ancient times, it has never been on a large scale, and it is one person or several people who make a small fishing net and net a few nets of fish in rivers and lakes, and the harvest is very limited.
Now, large and medium-sized ships are used to carry out large-scale fishing with large trawls in large rivers and even large oceans, and this production method and production efficiency are simply different from the past, and it can even be said that this is a completely new industry, which can be called large-scale fishing industry.
Liu Hou is optimistic about the emergence of a new industry, but unfortunately, from the beginning of this industry, it is destined that only those families can intervene, and the entry threshold for this industry is too high.
This entry threshold is not set by the imperial court, but by the characteristics of the industry itself. To enter this industry, it is necessary to have sophisticated sea boats, large fishing nets, and a large number of manpower and even animal power, which are simply not affordable for ordinary people.
Only those dignitaries, wealthy families or wealthy businessmen can afford to play. This is destined to be a rich man's game, that is, the rich can become richer through this industry, while the poor can only stare dryly.
This industry is a microcosm of social polarization, and Liu Hou has no way to forcibly reverse it, and with the development of social industrialization, there will be more and more such things. At such a time, it was impossible for Liu Hou to take action on the issue of ownership, so he could only gradually establish a social security system, strengthen the welfare of the common people as much as possible, and avoid the occurrence of people dying of starvation or freezing to death.