The Manchu Qing Dynasty snatched half of North Korea and made Hu Dinggui anxious.

The 11th Division was stationed in Gaiju and Jinju, and there were more than 100,000 civilians under its rule, and all the grain was purchased at high prices in Korea.

If there is no food in North Korea, it is equivalent to the 11th Division has no food.

After receiving the recital from the civil and military officials in Liaodong, Zhao Han, who was already short of food, could only tighten his belt and send a ship to send it.

Fortunately, in the spring, more than 100,000 people in the three cities of Liaodong have all planted wheat. If you stay up for another month, you will be able to harvest grain, but you must beware of the Manchu raids!

Not only Gaizhou, but also Jinzhou and Fuzhou have to be defended.

Because the mountainous area of the Liaodong Peninsula is still inhabited by some Jurchen tribes, Phoenix City (between Benxi and Dandong) also has the Manchurian Eight Banners. The Manchu army could cross the mountains and mountains and plunder the countryside during the wheat harvest season.

It's not that it's possible, it's definitely coming.

Because of the lack of food, they all went to fight Mongolia, how could they not grab the food under their noses?

There are still about 100,000 left in the Eighth Banner Army, and Hu Dinggui's 10,000 people will definitely not be able to prevent it, and they may even be besieged by heavy troops.

Zhao Han immediately ordered the transfer of troops, Li Zheng's third division, Xiao Zongxian's fourth division, and Lu Xiangsheng's 5,000 horsemen, all of whom went to the Liaodong Peninsula by boat.

Hu Dinggui was stationed in Gaizhou, Li Zheng was stationed in Jinzhou, and Xiao Zongxian was stationed in Fuzhou. Lu Xiangsheng was also stationed in Fuzhou, centering to respond and rescue friendly forces in the north and south at any time.

Fei Ruhe moved to Tianjin, Zhang Tieniu moved to Dengzhou, and at the critical moment, he immediately took a ship to Liaodong to fight!

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Zhoushan sea area.

Hong Xu, deputy marshal of the Shanghai Navy in Datong, was once ranked as "Eighteen Zhi", but now he has become a professional fisherman.

In order to fish in the Zhoushan fishing grounds, the Shanghai Navy even expanded its army and recruited Tando fishermen as sailors in Zhoushan, who knew the situation of the Zhoushan fishing grounds best.

On the deck of the ship, Hong Xu was holding a pipe and smoking Nangan tobacco in a cloud and smoke.

His large and small warships were fishing with trawls.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the marine fishing technology was already mature, and the large nets were mainly divided into six types: gillnets, purse seine nets, trawl nets, open nets, construction nets, and plugging nets.

In the Saxon era, the British fished herring with drift gillnets, a technique that was very common in Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.

The trawl technology, which can catch 400 tons of fish in one net, is also widely used in China, but the trawl is relatively small.

This is because of the ban on the sea and the Japanese bandits, and driving a giant boat to sea is not only risky, but also a criminal act. Therefore, the businessmen who own big ships have gone to engage in smuggling, who is willing to fight for their lives to fish?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the largest fishing boats in the coastal areas carried only three to four tons of cargo.

Later, due to the shortage of food, as early as the beginning of last year, Zhao Han promulgated a policy to encourage marine fishing.

First, the tax on fishing salt will be abolished.

Second, it is possible to set up a marine fishing trading company to directly connect with the salt farms, bypassing salt sellers and buying salt from the salt farms at low prices (a short-term policy, which will be canceled when there is enough food).

The Ming and Qing dynasties were all taught by fishing salt, because of the ancient fishing flood, a large number of saltwater fish and freshwater fish were fished. It cannot be sold out in a short period of time, and due to storage technology, it must be salted.

But lawbreakers love to take advantage of loopholes, in the name of selling salted fish, but in fact selling illicit salt.

A five-pound fish can hang half a catty of salt!

Therefore, the imperial court had to collect the fishing salt tax and supply a limited amount of salt for pickling fish. This allowed the magnates, officials and gentry to take advantage of the loopholes and take the opportunity to control the fishermen and the fishing industry, which made it difficult for the fishing industry to develop in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

These policies to encourage fishing were all suggested by Wu Yingji.

Wu Yingji, because of his many suggestions and meritorious contributions, has now been promoted to the political envoy of Jiangsu.

As soon as the policy came out, businessmen and fishermen really responded, and even some maritime merchants participated. The tonnage of fishing boats is getting bigger and the nets are getting bigger, which has alleviated the food crisis to a certain extent.

No matter how big a civilian fishing boat is, it can't be bigger than a naval warship!

Zhao Han commanded several major sailors, and now half of the warships are fishing in coastal fishing grounds.

"Return!"

More than 20 naval warships, in groups of two and two, dragged a large net to Haiyan County. Haiyan County naturally produces sea salt, which is dragged over and pickled on the spot, which is a perfect match for the Zhoushan fishing grounds.

Trawling is generally towed directly to the shore, and as for how much you catch, you have to go ashore to know, which is as full of surprises as opening a blind box.

A large number of people in the vicinity were hired to carry, sort, and marinate the fish.

The elderly, the young, and the women are all beaming, and this kind of work is charged by the piece. I don't have to worry about not having a job during the fishing season, but I can't finish it every day, and I can't wait for the children at home to grow up early, and I can help after graduating from primary school.

During primary school, you are not allowed to drop out of school or skip school without reason!

"Pick-up!"

Large nets were pulled up, and small boats sailed over, picking up the catch from the nets and carrying them to the shore to be carried by coolies.

The navy's warships tow specially made large nets, and if you are lucky, you can catch dozens or hundreds of tons in one net.

Now it belongs to the summer flood season, and the fish catch in Zhoushan fishery is mainly large yellow croaker, cuttlefish, squid and pomfret.

This harvest was good, more than 20 warships, a total of more than 400 tons.

The people who were hired to work were busy sorting and pickling, but Hong Xu was sleeping in a hammock.

It's boring!

However, Hong Xu is quite satisfied with this kind of day, drinking wine and smoking shreds every day. After the fishing flood, he took the soldiers out to sea to practice. If you receive an urgent military situation, you will immediately lead the navy to set off.

Although he is Zheng Zhilong's general, his background is much better than Zheng Chenggong.

Hong Xu was born in a hereditary military attache family, and his father, Hong Gong, was a garrison.

The Li people on Hainan Island rebelled, and Hong Gongluan personally rushed to the fence to appease him, and the rebellious Li people had already agreed to recruit him. However, Wan Ji, the general of Liangguang, felt that Zhao'an could not make meritorious contributions, so he sent troops to attack the fence, but was defeated by the Li rebel army.

The Li rebellion was difficult to clean up, and Hong Gonglian, who succeeded in recruiting An, was angry to death by this sassy operation, and after his death, he also gave Wan Ji a black cauldron.

As a result, Hong Xu became lifeless from the second generation of martial arts, and could only go to sea to make a living as a sailor. Then he married Zheng Zhilong, became a member of the "Eighteen Zhi", and now he is the deputy commander of the Shanghai Navy.

Like Zheng Zhilong, Hong Xu worked hard at sea and didn't want his son to come to eat this bowl of rice.

His son Hong Lei is now a county magistrate.

In the evening, merchant ships arrived with large quantities of freshly salted marine fish, which departed for Shanghai the next morning and were then shipped along the Yangtze River for sale.

This fast-selling freshly pickled marine fish, known as "fresh pickled fish" in Nanjing, is cheaper than real fresh fish, but far more expensive than air-dried salted fish.

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"Freshly pickled marine fish" came to Nanjing and was already shipped by inland merchant ships.

"Here come the fish!"

"The bright sea area that the emperor eats is good and cheap, fragrant and delicious!"

Shouting on the dock, many vendors came to buy it.

Not retail, only wholesale!

From Zhoushan to Nanjing, these catches have been transferred three times, and the retail fishmongers have to make money again.

But when sold to the people, the price is still very low, and they bring their own salt. Families who are not particular or poor are reluctant to wash the salt, so they can cook it directly, and they can also save the money for putting salt.

During the period when grain prices soared, freshly pickled sea fish was used as a dish and eaten with cereals or brown rice porridge, which was a rare delicacy for the people at the bottom.

If you are poorer, then buy dried salted fish.

Saltier and cheaper!

In the palace.

Gong'er, who is already six and a half years old, looked at the dishes on the table, and suddenly said with a bitter face: "It's braised big yellow croaker again, I'm about to vomit." ”

Zhao Han said: "There are fishing floods in these two months, and the big yellow croaker is easy to catch and the price is cheap. ”

"But Daddy Emperor, we have silver at home, and we can buy better food." Gun'er pouted.

Zhao Han put down his chopsticks and asked his eldest son to put them down as well: "My father is indeed rich, and he can eat other delicacies from the mountains and seas." But if my father often ate freshly pickled sea fish, the officials and the people would definitely follow suit, so that more people could eat these pickled sea fish. Got it? ”

"Understood." Gun'er picked up the chopsticks perfunctorily.

Zhao Han smiled and asked, "What do you understand?" ”

Quan Er replied: "To be an emperor, you have to eat more sea fish." ”

"Hahahaha!"

Everyone at the table was amused.

Zhao Han couldn't help but laugh and said: "Today, my father taught you an idiom, which is called upward and downward effect. What is the upward and downward effect? The emperor is above, and the officials and people are below. If the emperor wants the officials and people to eat sea fish, he should eat sea fish first. What the emperor wants the officials and the people to do, he should also set an example. Got it? ”

Gong'er nodded: "Understood." ”

"Do you really understand?" Zhao Han asked again.

"I really understand. Let others do what you want to do first. ”

Now Zhao Han has three sons and one daughter, Fei Rulan gave birth to two sons one after another, Pan Qimei directly gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and Fei Rumei and Liu Rushi are also pregnant.

The eldest son, Zhao Kuanghuan, is known as Zhao Kuanghuan.

The dragon and phoenix fetus are about to turn three years old, and they are called Zhao Kuangwei and Zhao Hanjin.

The third son has just turned one year old, and his name is Zhao Kuangfang.

Don't engage in any chemical element table, as long as the full name is not exactly the same, there is no evasion here in Zhao Han.

After educating his son, Zhao Han swept one of the dishes and was immediately surprised: "Hey, where did the kelp come from?" ”

Pan Qimei replied: "When the navy came back from Shandong, I brought back some kelp by the way, and I made a special trip to Nanjing to pay tribute. Those who give money are considered to be purchases. ”

Pan Qimei likes to cook and eat, and often goes to the imperial kitchen to do it herself.

Anyway, she hasn't moved into the palace yet, no matter what she does, Liu Ru was still working in the Hanlin Academy before she became pregnant.

Zhao Han took a bite of kelp, it was the familiar taste, and he decided to let the Agricultural Science Museum try artificial planting.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the ancients ate kelp, which is a seaweed food, which belongs to the kelp family with kelp, but is classified into different genera.

It can probably be understood that Kombu is a cousin of kelp.

Today's kombu grows in Korea and Japan. However, there are also reefs off the coast of Shandong, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" specifically lists the origins and also introduces the difference between kelp and kelp.

Gong'er was tired of eating big yellow croaker, and when she saw that there were new dishes, she picked up the kelp and ate it with relish.

If Gong'er becomes the emperor, kelp will definitely be popular.

Upside down.