August 3rd.

Aomori Port has been transformed into a large construction site that is extremely lively.

It used to be a port, but rather a fishing village, with a population of just over 2,000 and only three or four hundred houses, but in the remote and impoverished Tsugaru Domain, it was still the most populous and lively place.

But now, more than 100,000 people have gone ashore.

More than 100,000 tons of various materials were unloaded.

And immediately began the renovation and expansion of the port, everyone worked together to build houses, temporary camps and fishery processing plants, and strive to have a long-term foothold in the shortest possible time, so as to facilitate the current and future joint fishing operations, because the fish resources in the offshore waters are limited, can not be fished too frequently, at least three or five months of fishing must be left for a moratorium, and during this time, you can come to the Tianci fish sea here, to fight a fishery harvest battle.

Midday.

When a gong sounds.

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat."

"Stop all the work at hand, and do it again after eating."

"Over there, don't soak in the sea anymore and dig in the mud, come up and eat."

The staff in charge of striking the rice gong found that these indigenous workers in the Tsugaru Domain worked too hard, not to mention the earliest and the latest to work every day, and those hardest and most tiring jobs were rushed to do, but in the cold and biting seawater, a soak was for most of the day, which would lead to severe rheumatism, but these indigenous workers didn't seem to care at all.

"The head of the house, it's time to eat, look at ......," said a retainer on the shore, looking at the armored man.

"Okay, let's go eat."

Tsugaru Nobuyoshi finally spoke, and took the lead towards the open-air canteen, seeing that he moved, the surrounding number of about 3,000 indigenous workers, then put down their tools, their faces were happy, and they followed to the canteen, smelling the fragrance of the food, they kept swallowing saliva.

That's right.

Now Tsugaru Nobuyoshi is not so much a feudal lord as a boss and supervisor, who comes to the construction site every day to supervise the work of the people, and when it comes to the meal, he will also eat the meals made from those cauldrons, and he will be satisfied with the food, because the level and taste of the food on the construction site are actually better than what he usually eats as a feudal lord, and his previous life is not as good as the ordinary workers of Xujiazhuang.

Then there is remorse, it is still too late to be the dog of Xujiazhuang! Otherwise, we would have lived a good life long ago.

So now you must behave well and try to make a good impression on Xujiazhuang, so as to bring benefits to yourself, at least not worse than the Hirado Domain.

"Hulahula~"

Holding a head-sized sea bowl in his hand, it is full of fragrant Nanyang rice, covered with eel, lobster, hairy crab and other seafood, as well as fried shredded potatoes and other easy-to-preserve vegetables, piled up into a small mountain, and then poured a spoonful of hoisin sauce soup, that taste, people hold this bowl and want to eat until they are old.

Even as a feudal lord, Tsugaru Nobuyoshi must have the bearing and dignity of a feudal lord, and he can't gobble it up like a starving ghost reincarnated, but he really can't help it, it's too fragrant and delicious, and he sped up before he knew it.

Ten minutes or so.

I ate all the food in the bowl and had a long burp.

Feeling that he was full of Tsugaru Shinyoshi, he swept away the workers who were still eating, and thinking of their number, he said to the retainers next to him, "My people are still too few, even if I call all the samurai to work, there are only more than 3,000 people, less than 4,000, and this number will not bring much profit at all."

You must know that these people who work for Xujiazhuang can get a salary of 90 yuan a day, and he has to divide half of it, and more than 3,000 workers mean that he can get nearly 150 silver dollars a day for labor commission.

But it wasn't enough, the money wasn't enough, it was far from satisfying his appetite.

"Why don't I take the samurai to Hokkaido by boat tomorrow to catch the Ezo natives over there, get a few thousand people over, and let them also come to help Xujiazhuang work." Tsugaru Nobuyoshi thought of an idea.

"My lord, Hokkaido is the territory of the Matsumae Domain, and we brought the samurai there

If you go and catch the Ezo people, the Matsumae clan will not ignore it, but what if there is a conflict?" The retainer asked.

"Then I can only give them some benefits, a strong man of Ezo, give a silver dollar, the Matsumae Clan will be willing to cooperate with me, they are poorer than me."

"But what about the shogunate? Without the permission of the shogunate, the lords of each feudal lord were not allowed to move their armies at will, otherwise they would be punished by the shogunate." The retainers were worried.

"I have Xu Jiazhuang behind me, what is the shogunate?"

Tsugaru Nobuyoshi said with a disdainful expression, "The Tokugawa Shogunate doesn't even have the ability to kill a hundred Xu family soldiers, so what qualifications does it have to rule this world?" The Tokugawa clan, the usurper villain, should have perished a long time ago."

Anyway, in order to make more money, Ezo people, he is caught! I'll take someone with you tomorrow!

……

After more than half a month of intense construction.

On August 15, the port of Aomori had a basic prototype.

The most important thing is that as the project with the highest construction priority, the large-scale freezer has been built, the canning factory assembly line has been commissioned, and the fishery processing plant, which can accommodate at least tens of thousands of people at the same time, has a certain processing capacity, even if it can only process 10,000 stone per day, and the planning capacity is at least 200,000 stone of marine fish and seafood per day.

But it is already possible to send a fishing fleet to the other side of the Tianci Fish Sea to fish, and instead of waiting for the processing capacity to continue to increase, we should get the catch and let the processing plant run as soon as possible.

Considering that the typhoon season has not yet completely passed.

As the first advance fleet, the Hirado fishing fleet, which was the most familiar with the local conditions, was the first to go to the Tenci Fish Sea, because most of the boatmen and fishermen in this fleet were Japanese, they were experienced and aware of the weather conditions, which minimized the risks, and acted as a pioneer to explore and accumulate experience for the fishing fleet that followed, and avoid some detours.

Therefore early in the morning of the 16th.

The Hirado fishing fleet departed.

It consists of two hundred 250-ton ordinary fishing boats (powered by 120 horsepower diesel engines).

Twenty seaborne refrigerated cargo ships and 10 supply vessels (all with a deadweight of 1,000 tons).

Plus two ironclad warships to escort it.

There were a total of 232 large and small ships, and a large number of engines made a beeping noise at the same time, and at a relatively fast speed, they went straight to the Tianci Fish Sea in the east.

Hirata Yoshimanro and his eldest son, Hirata Fukuichiro, are also in this fishing fleet at this moment, becoming the crew of the fishing boat "Fukukai", and Hirata Yoshimanro, who has rich fishing experience, also served as the deputy captain, second only to the Han captain Zhan Fuhai.

Speaking of Hirata Yoshimanro's dream, didn't he want to have a better and bigger ship of his own, he didn't realize this dream, how did he become a crew member on the "Fukukai" and become a senior worker?

Has he given up on his dreams?

Indeed it is.

Although he really wanted to have a new, better and bigger ship, which he could buy for about two hundred silver dollars, and he had saved enough money, in the end, he used all the money to build a new house and gave up the plan to buy a boat.

Because Xujiazhuang's fishing boat with a diesel engine, called "sailboat" (with a small sail), has five times the speed of traditional fishing boats, and the cabin capacity is more than 200 cubic meters, which is ten times that of small fishing boats, and far exceeds traditional fishing boats in terms of endurance and living environment.

The most important thing is that in terms of fishing capacity, the sailboat uses advanced tools such as trawls, purse seine nets, shrimp pots to participate in fishing, and with the help of mechanical winch, a net can catch tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of catties or even hundreds of thousands of fish.

The efficiency is hundreds or thousands of times worse!

With such a big gap, Hirata Yoshimanro is far from being able to catch up even if he buys ten new ships, and he will always be in a backward state.

It is better to accept the recruitment, join the Hirado fishing fleet, and get a fixed salary of 30 silver dollars per month + sea allowance + 1% fishing commission in the future, which is far better than buying a boat himself.

And it is more stable, safer and more comfortable to work in.

Naturally, the eldest son Fukuichiro was also taken on the ship by him, but he was treated as an ordinary boatman, that is, a fixed salary of fifteen silver dollars per month + a half-silver dollar per day to go to sea, which also belongs to the high-income class, enough to support his wife Mieko and the soon-to-be-born child - Fukuichiro is now also married, married to a virtuous woman, and his small life is much stronger than when he got married, Hirata Fukumanro sometimes can't help but feel jealous, why did his good life come so late?

Soon.

A voyage that lasts a day and a night.

The color of the sea water changes from light blue to dark blue and then to black, which means that the bottom of the sea is getting deeper and deeper.

The wind and waves also increased significantly, and the degree of shaking in the ship increased.

Until I saw streams of pitch-black seawater, constantly gushing out from the bottom of the sea, turning into a black belt in the north-south direction, stretching for at least hundreds of miles, ranging in width from several miles to dozens of miles, and even the sea waves became a lot calmer.

"Kuroshio, this is Kuroshio!"

"As long as you see the black tide, there are more fish than the stars in the sky nearby."

"Found out! The sonar system scanned that there was an extremely large school of fish more than ten miles to the southeast."

"Let's go, pick up the speed and catch up with the fish!"

"See, I've seen it, there's a lot of sardines, salmon and cod over there!"

"I can see a lot of saury near the surface of the sea!"

"Whales, we've seen no less than fifty whales here, and they're eating those little fish."

"Fish, there are fish everywhere, maybe more than the sea, the sea of fish, this is simply a sea of fish!"

"Lower the net, quickly lower the net, throw it where the fish are most, okay, okay, pick up the net, pull, all pull hard for me!"

"Deep, too heavy, this net is estimated to be full of fish, okay, come up, it's too heavy, this net will not catch less than 100,000 catties, this is a bit overweight, slow down, slow down, the boatmen quickly use the net pocket, put some of the fish into the cabin!"

"Almost, the weight is lighter, you can lift the net, lift it into the hold, open the net and release the fish."

Under the captain's orders one by one.

Whoa~

Countless sea fish sloped down like a waterfall, and fell into the cabin with a bang, and the fish jumped violently, like countless splashes, and even hit the boatman hard, with such great strength that he could almost smash people into a half-dizziness.

By the time the net was finished, the 200-square-meter cabin was almost one-third full.

This means that the weight of the fish caught is at least more than 60 tons (120,000 catties), and in the offshore area, unless you encounter a very rare school of large fish, you can catch so many fish in one net.

When they arrived at the Sea of Fish, they saw that the Kuroshio and the fish were not long in coming, but they went down for the first time, and in just two or three minutes, they got a harvest that might take more than half a day to obtain in the offshore waters.

Then go down to the second net, and continue to be full of harvest.

Then the third net, the capacity of more than 200 cubic meters of the cabin is full, can not be loaded anymore, must quickly find the frozen cargo ship, these freshly caught fish, after some selection (only leave the large release of the small, as long as the value of the high does not have a low value), and then transfer to the cold storage, to avoid a long time, a large number of fish lack of oxygen to die, meat quality deteriorate, and then lose the value of business - this is in the ancient society, why ocean fishing can not develop, can only engage in offshore fishing, the shelf life of marine fish and seafood is only three or five days at most, Once dead, it is worthless, and it is only after the advent of refrigeration technology that pelagic fish stocks can be exploited.

The potential for distant-water fishing is huge, especially in the fishing grounds where currents meet, such as the Tianci Fish Sea, so it is only two or three hours after arrival.

The first sailing fishing boat was blown up.

The second fishing vessel also blew up.

And then the third, the fourth...... Until the first seaborne refrigerated cargo ship with a maximum capacity of 1,000 tons, it was also saturated and could no longer accommodate it.

Immediately after that, the cold storage of the second refrigerated cargo ship was saturated and could no longer be used

Feign.

The third and fourth ships...... By the evening of the same day, the 20 refrigerated cargo ships were all full, and they had to return to Aomori Port at full speed, and after unloading their cargo, they would strive to return to the Tensai Sea as quickly as possible.

During this process, the fishing boats will be fixed together in a chain of iron cables, temporarily stopping fishing, and waiting for the refrigerated cargo ships to return, and then start work again.

At night.

The crew of the fishing boats, which are fixed together in a unit of five fishing boats, set out delicious food and wine, and begin to celebrate, turning into a sea of joy.

On board the Fuhai fishing boat.

"Captain, most of the fish caught by our boat today are salmon, and a small number are squid and saury, weighing a total of about 3,000 stones. A Japanese boatman asked the captain in broken Chinese, Jamford Haimichi.

"The prize for a stone of low-value fish is 1 silver dollar, the prize for medium value is 3 silver dollars, the high value is 5 silver dollars, and the highest value is 10 silver dollars, and the appraiser gives an average of 3.2 cents per stone for our catch today, which is 9,600 silver dollars." Zhan Fuhai did the math.

"The prize money is less than 10,000 yuan, captain, what fish is the most valuable? Let's go catch the most valuable fish." Funichiro Hirata couldn't help but say.

"The high value is deep-sea king crab, pine leaf crab, lobster, whale and shark, and the value of these fish, shrimp and crab is relatively high." Jamford Sea Road.

"A whale was caught by a fishing boat today, weighing hundreds of stones, but I have eaten whale meat, it is not very delicious, why is it so valuable?" The crew member asked.

"In addition, whales and sharks mostly feed on small and medium-sized fish, and if you don't kill some large fish, the ecological balance of the ocean will be difficult to maintain, and you may not be able to catch so many fish next year and the year after, so you have to catch some big fish and small fish to avoid imbalance." Zhan Fuhai explained.

"I see."

"I see, if you don't kill some whales and sharks, maybe they'll eat up the small fish."

"In that case, why don't you kill all the whales and sharks, so that the small fish will not be exhausted?"

"No, small fish feed on smaller fish and shrimp, if there are too many small fish, there will not be enough smaller fish and shrimp to eat, maybe they will starve to death in large numbers, but the number will not increase."

"It makes sense, there are so many doorways that it's not that easy to be sustainable."

"Captain, why don't we go fishing for king crab tomorrow, the value of salmon is still not too high, as long as we can find the place where the king crab is, and go down the net, won't we be going to make a fortune, and the prize will definitely exceed 10,000!" Funichiro Hirata suggested.

"Captain, I think it's a good idea, the fishing manual sent to us above has the approximate distribution range of king crabs, not far from us, why don't you try your luck?" It doesn't matter if we don't catch it, the frozen cargo ship will probably come back the day after tomorrow, and we'll try it tomorrow for a day, and if we fail, we'll just catch some ordinary sea fish." Hirata Yoshimanro also said.

"Okay, just do as you say!"

Zhan Fuhai nodded: "Our priority target is king crab, followed by pine leaf crab and lobster, you can also attack whales when you encounter them, it's really bad luck, there are countless ordinary fish waiting for us...... In short, you can't be easily satisfied, you have to find a way to catch the most valuable fish."

"Yes, Captain!"

"Gotta find the king crab!"

"Come on, eat and drink well, and make persistent efforts tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, cheers!"

"Cheers!"

……

The other side.

After a day and night of fast sailing.

On August 19, 20 refrigerated cargo ships, all loaded with thousands of tons of fish, returned to Aomori Port.

The reporter team of Xujiazhuang's "Oriental Times" also came to this port, immediately took huge photos of the huge harvest of the distant-water fishing fleet with their cameras, and wrote an article to report, and through the digital fax machine, the pictures were combined with the text

The chapter was sent to the headquarters of the Harbour City Newspaper.

August 21.

In the latest issue of the "Autumn Harvest Celebration Series" column of the "Oriental Times", this article is titled "The United Fishing Fleet Wins!" The first batch of 20,000 tons of fish was harvested, and the Tianci Fish Sea will become an inexhaustible fishery treasure house for mankind", which soon caused a considerable sensation and enthusiastic response in the territory of Daming and in the field of public opinion at home and abroad.