Zhu Yuan and Xing Ji came to the bank of the Yongjiang River together, ignoring Zhao Xu and other guards who subconsciously began to arrange security, and directly ordered the captain of a fishing boat docked nearby to make the final preparations before leaving tomorrow to come and collect salt.

Xing Ji noticed the movement around him.

Not to mention the shore, seeing a few nearby fast oars and light boats quickly offshore, like dumplings, to carry out patrols on the river, in addition to understanding, it is inevitable to envy the little adult next to him, this treatment is really ...... High.

It's just one product away.

As the owner of this group of fishing boats, Li Gui, who will go to sea together tomorrow, quickly brought people over, stepped forward to meet Zhu Yuan and a few people, and began to be busy carrying salt.

In order to ensure the success of this sea fishing, Zhu Yuan gave Li Gui a Zhengbapin, with the title of manager of the Mingzhou Fishery Production Company.

In this era, 'manager' is another new word.

Speaking of which, there is a homonymous official position called 'experience', which is set up by many government offices to be responsible for clerical work.

As for the 'manager', in fact, it is also very easy to understand literally.

Operate and take care of it.

Now that the 'company' has come out, the personnel arrangement is no longer suitable for the old one, not only 'manager', but also many related titles, Zhu Yuan will gradually introduce them. Just like this 'manager' of Li Gui, he is not the number one leader of the Mingzhou Fishery Production Company.

The plan is to wait for this season's fishing to end, and if Li Gui performs well, Zhu Yuan will add the word 'total' to his title.

The general manager should be the number one.

At that time, there will be a cadre manager who is responsible for different businesses and departments.

In addition to Li Gui, the manager, Zhu Yuan also activated the captain system.

At present, a similar title is called 'bow', which doesn't sound good to the ear, and it is also for the sake of a new atmosphere, so he changed it to captain.

The large fishing boats that will depart tomorrow will have a captain and two small boats each. In addition, because the plan is mainly to use net-fishing, two large boats and four small boats form a group of production units, and a team leader is set up.

This time, the official fleet totaled 50 groups.

As for the number of people, depending on the size of the boat, each group ranges from 100 to 200 people.

Compared with the configuration of the grain transport ship, the number of people is much more, which mainly considers that fishing is a hard work, and the current degree of mechanical operation of the fishing boat is too low, just like the towing net, the need for manual rocking, very labor-intensive. In addition, when the net is lifted, it takes dozens of people to pick up the large net containing hundreds of catties of fish.

If there is a later mechanical power, these problems can be easily solved.

The question is, no.

What Zhu Yuan can do is to let Yao seal the tape to improve the net lifting equipment, add the lever principle, and use a more labor-saving bearing device, hoping to save some manpower in the future.

These take time.

This year, it was mainly traditional fishing methods.

On the bank of the Yongjiang River, seeing the salt transportation officials and the fishermen of the Yinghai Division weighing and distributing salt in a big scale, Zhu Yuan, who was talking casually with Xing Ji, soon had another idea, and asked people to bring paper and pens over on the spot, and set up a small round table nearby to start drawing.

At the same time, Yao Feng was called to explain in real time.

Zhu Yuan thought of the scales.

Scale, a very common large-scale weighing tool in memory, is very simple lever principle, compared with the current old-fashioned rod scale, the biggest feature is convenience, and the weighing volume is larger.

It can be expected that the demand for weighing all kinds of substances in Yinghai Division will be very large, and the rod scale is always used, which is too slow and too troublesome.

Zhu Yuan quickly drew and explained, and Yao Feng immediately took the drawings and ran to try it.

The people around him are no stranger to this, including Zhu Yuan himself, who can always think of a lot of things all the time on weekdays.

However, Xing Ji, who was watching from the sidelines, gained knowledge again.

However, a glance at the towering gantry crane not far away is just a small object for weighing, and it seems that it is not so special.

After the handover of the three boats of salt here, Xing Ji refused Zhu Yuan's dinner invitation and left in a hurry.

There is indeed something going on.

The fishing season is not only a good season for the salt transportation department to sell salt, but also a time period when private salt is more rampant, which needs to be worried about Xingji.

Zhu Yuan also went back to the city, but it was not the end of a day's work.

Returning to his Yinghai Envoy's mansion, Zhu Yuan immediately summoned the three Yinghai Shilang's more idle Fang Li, and asked him to arrange the matter of raising hemp materials.

Zhu Yuan's request is to select 1,000 people with good foot strength as soon as possible before tomorrow.

Zhu Yuan plans to form a team of merchants.

It is also a decision to refer to reality.

In this era, there may be people who planted mulberry trees on a large scale, but there were not many who planted hemp in a large area, and basically the farmers opened up a piece of land after farming, and sowed it according to the requirements of the imperial court, or more only in front of the court and behind the house.

Therefore, it also means that if Yinghai Division wants to raise hemp materials, it is impossible to send a bunch of vehicles and ships to buy it from street to street.

Farmers have reserves, but they are not up to the level of exclusive sales.

Therefore, the method of scattered collection can only be adopted, and the effect of direct use of money is not good, and the more convenient method is to barter.

This reminded Zhu Yuan of the kind of merchant stall that was already in the depths of his memory.

Carrying a burden, holding a rattle, walking the streets and alleys, selling all kinds of needles and threads.

In this era, similar vendor stalls have become common.

Since there is a reference, it is easier to do.

At the same time as sending Fang Li to select people, Zhu Yuan also arranged for the officials of the camp to find some similar merchants' stalls, focusing on listing a document of goods for himself before tomorrow morning, including the purchase price and sale price of the goods.

It is planned to send 1,000 people to disperse to various prefectures and counties from Suzhou and Hangzhou in the north to Wentai in the south, and in half a month, as long as each person can raise 30 catties of hemp material, he can have 30,000 catties.

This will meet the basic needs of this year.

If this method is effective, Zhu Yuan intends to continue, 30,000 catties is really not much, if the people can give 300,000 catties, Zhu Yuan also plans to eat it, after all, hemp is really widely used in the development of the ocean.

Zhu Yuan even considered that doing so could also stimulate the enthusiasm of the people to plant hemp material.

One of the basic principles of the market economy is that there will be production when there is demand.

The next day was the sixth day of April.

The first thing in the morning is the sacrifice.

Then see them off.

There are about 8,000 officials in total, including 100 large fishing boats, 200 small fishing boats, 6 military ships of the battalion Haiwei responsible for rescue and escort, and two official ships of the battalion Haisi responsible for exploration, recording and guidance.

And then there is the folk.

Although there are few large boats, they are still superior to a large number, and there are six or seven hundred private fishing boats gathered from Hangzhou, Suzhou and other directions.

This is also specially arranged by Zhu Yuan.

When official productivity was insufficient, civilian boats were encouraged to follow south.

For this reason, the Yinghai Division issued a notice in the nearby states and counties ten years in advance, reminding the boat households and fishermen in the surrounding states and counties to gather in Dinghai and rush to the southern Xiangshan Sea to start fishing, and the official will give various safety guarantees, and at the same time repeatedly state that there will be no additional tax showdown.

It's not that no one proposed to Zhu Yuan that all civilian ships could be forcibly requisitioned to join the Yinghai Division.

Zhu Yuan didn't do that.

The two fishing forces of the private sector and the government should be mutually reinforcing, rather than exclusive.

After all, the marine resources of this era can be said to be inexhaustible compared to the backward productivity of the present, so it is far from the time to make all kinds of restrictions on fishing.

As long as the taxes that should be paid are paid, the rest should be encouraged.

Anyway, when the fish is caught out of the water, it will become the ration in the bowl of the people, the simplest truth, eat more fish, and consume less food, the food consumption is less, the price can be relatively lower, and at the same time, the food that can be transported to the north will be more.

And then there's the time of this catch.

It departs on the 6th of April and is expected to return on 20 April.

Lasts half a month.

At that time, return to Dinghai, and then rest a little, the end of April Xiaomanchun solar term arrived, the big yellow croaker flood also arrived near Zhoushan, you can start a larger scale of fishing nearby, is expected to continue until the beginning of June.

Therefore, this trip south is just an appetizer.

Referring to the normal years in the past, the annual output of Zhoushan Fishery is about 3 million catties, or 30,000 quintals, and Zhu Yuan's goal is to directly impact 100,000 quintals this summer.

To achieve this goal, not only can tens of thousands of people in the Dinghai area continue to maintain the supply of food rations for 2 liters, ensuring the enthusiasm of labor, but also have an additional part of the fish to be sent to Shandong.

Outside the east city of Dinghai.

Sending off the fishing fleet, Zhu Yuan was standing on the dock and discussing with Liu Lian the details of the preparations for the second batch of northbound grain fleets, when Liu Laoqi and Li Gui's younger brother Li Zhen came over with two young boys.

When they came closer, the two little boys bowed to Zhu Yuan together.

This is two of the three disciples that Zhu Yuan personally pointed out to Li Gui, Liu Chaoqi and Liu Chaoping, and their names were also given by Zhu Yuan.

The eldest Liu Chaosheng was 13 years old, and this time he went to sea with his husband Li Gui to Xiangshan, and the remaining two children were still young, so they didn't go together.

Seeing the two young men who were neatly dressed and polite, Zhu Yuan was also happy, and ordered the two children to get up and asked, "What are you reading recently?" ”

Nine-year-old Liu Chaoqi bowed his hand to Zhu Yuan in a regular manner, and said: "Lord Hui, I am still learning three hundred thousand, and Mr. has also talked about many etiquette things with my three brothers. ”

Zhu Yuan remembered that this was still his own special order.

Learning is not the most important thing, learn etiquette first.

Nodding with satisfaction, Zhu Yuan asked again: "What about mathematics, have you started learning?" ”

Liu Chao shook his head: "Mr. only taught ten numbers, saying that mathematics is too deep, let us learn words well, and then talk about counting." ”

"This is not good, mathematics should be learned early," Zhu Yuan said and looked at Li Zhen and instructed: "You have been paying more attention to Li Gui recently, and "Mathematics Basics" must also be taught to them, no matter how old they are, it is not easy to learn." ”

Li Zhen said yes.

Zhu Yuan could sense that Li Zhen seemed to have something to say, and after chatting a few words casually, he no longer stopped by the dock.

When he returned to the Yinghai Envoy's mansion, not long after he came to his office, Li Zhen came over.

After giving the salute, Li Zhen said: "My lord, I want to go to sea with the second batch of grain ships. ”

Zhu Yuan just picked up a list of goods sent by the merchant this morning, and glanced over with a smile when he heard the words: "Don't want to take the entrance examination?" ”

Li Zhen immediately bowed his hand again and bowed lowly: "Wendu...... I didn't have to do it before. ”

Zhu Yuan shook his head: "It's not that you don't measure yourself, if you go to participate in the imperial examination, you have a good chance of winning, do you know why?" ”

Li Zhen paused slightly, but still said, "Because of my lord." ”

"It's good that you understand," Zhu Yuan said, "Since you can take the initiative to come over and speak today, I will explain it to you more clearly." It's not that I deliberately didn't let your brothers go to the imperial examination, but it didn't do you any good to do it. You look at my current scenery, in fact, many eyes around me are staring, they can't do anything about me, but they are likely to use you to make a fuss, and these articles are often a matter of life and death, just like ...... You should have also heard that there is a head of the household department, named Cui Ji? ”

Li Zhen paused and nodded.

Zhu Yuan said: "You are Qingniang's younger brother, and you are also my family, I don't want you to end up in a similar fate, so I insist on keeping you by my side, it's as simple as that." Moreover, staying with me does not mean that you have no possibility of progress, you do things well, there will be everything you should have in the future, don't always think about taking shortcuts, the other end of the shortcut may be a cliff, and falling down will kill people, understand? ”

Li Zhen bowed deeply again: "The villain understands. ”

Zhu Yuan waved his hand: "You want to participate in the transportation of grain, I agreed, let's go and get busy first." ”

After sending Li Zhen away, Fang Li rushed over. With two other clerks, he carried a freshly made merchant burden, and there were some samples of goods in it.

Zhu Yuan got up and studied it in the office with Fang Li.

The merchants of this era are also rich in goods, such as needles and threads, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, snacks and medicines, kitchenware and jewelry, etc.

Zhu Yuan thinks more about the cost of the whole thing.

Compared with silk cotton cloth, the current linen cloth is the cheapest, especially in the southeast region, the market price of 300 Wen can get a horse, the standard cloth of this era, the width is two feet two inches, four zhang long, the weight of a linen cloth is about 5 catties.

Speaking of scattered hemp materials, there is no clear market price because of the lack of transactions.

Referring to the transaction price of cotton, the Yinghai clerk probably gave an estimate.

Related to cotton, a cotton cloth is about 500 Wen, bulk cotton, currently used to make quilt cotton jackets, is 100 Wen a catty, cotton cloth is lighter than linen, according to a horse 4 catties calculation, exactly, the cost of 400 Wen, 100 Wen labor.

With this reference, the price of a pound of hemp can be set at about 50 Wen.

Not expensive.

It is planned that the first batch will collect 30,000 catties, and according to the unit price of 50 wen per catty, only 1,500 yuan will be spent.

But, this is only theoretical.

Zhu Yuan considered a public acquisition very early, but it was not implemented, because it was too manpower-consuming, and he collected it from all over the streets and alleys, and finally gathered in Dinghai, and the cost per catty of hemp material was increased by one or two times compared with the theoretical price, which was not impossible.

If calculated according to 100 catties and 30,000 catties of hemp material, the total price will immediately rise to 3,000 catties.

All right.

Compared to the wealth of more than one million taels of silver in Yinghai Division's current account, as long as he can get things done, this is really nothing.

Still, it's important to be budget-conscious.

The money in Yinghaisi's account, considering the next series of plans, is actually not enough.

Zhu Yuan discussed with Fang Li and his subordinate officials, and soon approved the first batch of 3,000 taels of silver budget, with an average of 3,000 taels of silver for each merchant's stall, including personal food and clothing and goods procurement, and the requirement was that within half a month, each stall must hand over 30 catties of hemp and 1 catty of hemp seeds.

Seeds were added during the discussion.

In addition to some for their own use, it is planned that when the second batch of grain ships depart, they will also take part of it to Shandong and hand it over to Kang Maocai and others for sowing.

If things are done, similar stalls will be permanent.

In the future, these 1,000 people will also be equivalent to eating public meals. Zhu Yuan even thought of the name, Mingzhou grocery chain company.