"It's really profitable!" Yan Xizhe, the head of the household department, sighed on the side, a boat goes out for a few days and earns 20,000 yuan, and a clam is worth ten copper coins?

"I can't sell it a few times, the overall amount of money is limited, and when I sell it to them, it's 200 wen a catty, and if they sell it again, they have to increase the price."

The chief shook his head, more is worthless, and everyone's purchasing power can't keep up.

Let everyone eat fresh first, and come back to the next boat, you need to reduce the price a lot, such as 20 yuan a catty, a big clam a penny.

Ordinary people won't buy it, a few pennies to eat a full meal, eating clams is not enjoyable, the money is gone.

"When you load it, you have to buy it in size, and then sell it separately, the big one is a little more expensive, and the small one is naturally cheaper, forty pounds a pound, and twenty pounds a pound.

The people can still have money left over when they earn a day's money to buy a catty, and after forty are cooked, the family can eat a few.

Don't go that far, let people pick up shellfish in the near sea, and transport it for ten cents a catty, and the people can eat enough.

In Suzhou, Songjiang, Shaoxing, and Hangzhou, there are seafood.

The ship does not have to carry too much coal and water, and it can be transported with 1,800 stones."

Yan Xizhe came up with an idea, he doesn't necessarily have to make a lot of money, the offshore sea is fast with the current ship, and it is not money to make a few hundred times at a time?

Even if it is ten yuan and one catty, 180,000 catties will have 1,800 yuan, and after removing the cost of hiring manpower, 1,600 yuan is no problem.

Toss once in two days, no, transport once, 800 guan a day, get 300,000 guan in a year, how much is the financial income of the imperial court?

One ship is 300,000 and ten ships are ......

No, it can't be counted like that, the people can't eat this every day, and how much is there on the seaside?

Yan Xizhe thought about it and became distressed, how should the account be calculated?

"Build a ship first, then sell it, and reduce the price if it can't be sold, mainly in transportation, not necessarily seafood."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his Hubu Shangshu's tangled face, shook his head, and persuaded the other party not to worry.

"It's too urgent, transportation is important, yes, what does he transport! Anyway, the goods on the Yangtze River line will be convenient. ”

Yan Xizhe wiped the sweat from his forehead and found that he had drilled the tip of the horns.

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As the soybeans were harvested, the 2,000-stone ship left again, this time not going to Jiulian City, but to the northeast of Bohai Bay with boilers, radiators, heating pipes, steam engines, generators, light bulbs, and wires.

It is not called Liaodong Bay now, and there is no Yingkou and Da Liao River, only Sancha River.

Liaoyang is not called Liaoyang, it is called Dingliao Duwei, from there continue to go to the northeast, it is the Hunhe River in the northeast, flowing from east to west.

From the Hunhe River can reach Shenyang Zhongwei, but now there is no such title, Fushun is even later.

At present, Fushun is engaged in border trade with the Jurchens, and after the greenhouse has been repaired, there is good coal in the local area, so good that the coal slime is better than the coal in the coal mines in Guangdong.

There is a lot of coal and amber there, and it is mined in the open pit.

Heaters and lights were sent to them to boost morale, and then they took the washed coal to Jiulian City and sent most of the coal to Jiulian City.

There is a coal mine in Jiulian City, but it is buried deeply, and experienced craftsmen are needed to dig wells, and the craftsmen are unwilling to go, and no one wants to dig there, there are trees, just burn wood.

Now the ship goes over to deliver coal, let the locals try it, and then bring the yellow clams back to Nanjing to sell some of them, this time it will be very cheap.

Wait for the next time to use the boat to send heating and lights to Jiulian City, Jiulian City also has vegetable greenhouses, and you can make money by trading with Gaoli.

There is cod, pollock with yellow thread, which is used to make mentai fish, and the cod is made into dried fish, and there is no head, the head is not valuable, and it is not delicious.

It belongs to North Korea and Dandong specialty, when eating, it is generally smashed with a stick, otherwise it can not be bitten, and the dried mentai fish is loosened with a stick first, like smashing the Ula grass.

That's how the name of the stick came from, they beat the clothes with a stick on the Yalu River, that is, to wash the clothes, and smashed the mentai fish with the stick.

At the same time, bellflower is used to make pickles, in the same way as spicy cabbage, the bellflower is dug out, and the bottom is like ginseng, wet.

It is not cut into shreds with a knife, let alone shredded with scissors, and when you hit it with a stick, you will smash most of the water out, and the bellflower will be smashed into a trace of pickles.

This stick is very useful, they can't live without it, such as smashing ice and catching fish in winter, beating dogs and eating dog meat.

Then mentai is a local specialty, not freshwater cod, freshwater cod is called burbot, this is more tender, but not suitable for making mentai fish.

Cod is a processed ingredient for Korean spicy fish, which is particularly delicious and inexpensive.

In the future, the fish will be transported to Fushun and Shenyang, and they will be eaten, and there will be no seafood there, including Liaoyang, and the place where there is sea fish is Yingkou at the mouth of the sea.

There is a mackerel ring in Yingkou, which is rich in mackerel, and some people have allergies to mackerel, and it is not as dry as cod.

There are many canned foods, and there are salted fish made into salted fish, the salted fish of the salted fish corncake cake, most of them are it.

There is also a part of the salted fish that is made of yellow crucian carp, and all those who make salted fish are worthless fish, and the amount is large.

No matter how worthless it is, it is better than no place, and the dried sea freight to Shenyang and Fushun is a good thing, including very small crabs, dried oysters, sea rice, small shrimp, seaweed, dried kelp......

The locals were in short supply, not to mention the Jurchens, who had to be caught there in Liaodong Bay, then dried and sent to trade with the Jurchens.

The locals, together with the military, solved the problem of the lack of seafood.

"This is ginseng cultivation? No wonder thorns should be planted, and people should be left to patrol and guard inside and outside, and the barbed wire fence should be propped up, and the thorns should not be withdrawn. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't watch the soybean harvest every day, so he took people to the place where he sent it to Xiaqiu Village, mainly to see the medicinal materials.

Ginseng was transplanted to the shady slope, and other herbs were also in their place.

With the addition of tea seedlings, grapes, and fruit trees, it looks very comfortable.

All the roads are paved with cement for easy vehicle transportation, the roads are criss-crossed, and the uphill places are S-shaped.

"It's another paradise, and when I came here before, it was still a mess, scaring the grass and scaring the snakes, and slashing with knives to open the way."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the planned and built places with emotion, especially the scattered barracks, some of which were actually very hidden.

There are also a lot of kennels to prevent outsiders from coming, and the guards did not find out.

"Your Majesty, mainly for the convenience of harvesting, transportation and planting, next year, build an internal railway, pick the fruit and transport it to the river for loading, which is less time and effort than pulling carts by land."

The chief said about the future plan, this place has not yet been fully utilized, the work has to be done little by little, there are too many people hired, and there is a shortage of people elsewhere.

Zhu Yuanzhang bowed: "The railway is good!" Once invested, the cost of maintenance in the future is low, as long as there is enough goods, it is more cost-effective than using livestock.

The railroad tracks of the iron mine have been paved a lot this year, but unfortunately there is no way to build a bridge across the Yangtze River for the time being, otherwise the railway will be built. ”

(End of chapter)