Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 438 Made a fortune

  When a knowledgeable person said this, everyone felt awe-inspiring.

   I see.

  Editor Tang, it's...so...horrible.

   also understand this.

   Could it be that before practicing, pray to the Dragon Lord?

  Everyone began to meditate in their hearts: "Dragon Lord bless you, bless us when we return from the sea..."

  A person, extremely devout.

  In their hearts, although military households have no future.

   But it’s like a miracle. When I came here, I was able to eat so much every day. This is better than when I used to carry banned swords and slash at people every day. I almost died, and I was only half full.

  Actually...whether it is a commoner or a soldier, they are all very simple.

  Especially in this era, whoever gives a bite of food, they will be grateful, and they can do whatever you ask them to do.

   It's just a pity. In this era, wanting to have a full meal is really a luxury.

  Now, they wear new armor, they have barracks to shelter from the wind and rain, and there is endless rice, and even... meat.

  Life is already complete. If there is another wife and a son, the son can also serve as a soldier here in the future, and the children and grandchildren will pass it on like this.

  Tang Yin felt that he was quite second.

  He kept tapping, just when he felt his arms were numb.

   Gradually, the sea water began to turn yellow.

   It's turning yellow.

   "The Dragon Lord is coming..."

   Someone yelled in horror.

  Dragon Lord...

is not that right?

  Everyone noticed that the bottom of the boat started to turn yellow.

  The yellow tide was getting more and more, and there was a crashing sound under the boat.

   Tang Yin's face turned green with fright.

  Hu Kaishan took out his long knife and stood ready: "Don't knock, don't knock."

  Tang Yin was lying on the boat, holding the side of the boat tightly with both hands, and leaning out the bow, he... saw... under the sea, like a sea tide, countless fish.

  Yes, there are countless fish, countless, large yellow croakers, gathered in this sea area, there are tens of millions, or even... hundreds of millions, countless.

  They are almost next to each other, dense and scalp-numbing.

   "Kaishan, Kaishan, look...look..."

  Hu Kaishan closed his eyes, he is a bandit, not a pirate, he is a little scared.

  However, he was a thief after all. He widened his copper bell eyes and looked at the sea.

   It's not the Dragon King...it's fish, a huge school of fish, big and small, ordinary fish, more than one foot long, and the bigger ones are even three feet long.

  Hoo...

  Hu Kaishan had never seen so many fish in his life, he took a deep breath.

  These fish are yellow in color, not much different from the crucian carp in the river.

   This is a large yellow croaker.

  In the next life, the industrious and brave fishermen directly salvaged almost extinct.

  The characteristic of large yellow croakers is that every season, they will flood into the sea to spawn.

  At this time, it is the best time for fishing season.

  Many fishermen suddenly discovered that this big yellow croaker is different from other fishes, they can make strong intermittent sound, and they are also very sensitive to sound. Its main vocal organs are the swim bladder and the vocal muscles on both sides. When the vocal muscles contract, they compress the viscera and cause the swim bladder to resonate and produce sound. During the breeding season, fish schools make "cluck" and "woo-woo" calls all day long, which are rare among fishes. This kind of vocalization is generally considered to be a means for fish schools to communicate, and it is used as a signal for fish schools to gather during the reproductive period.

  So, people began to use the method of knocking on the boat, which can make the big yellow croakers gather together.

  The most insane thing, according to this feature, the fishermen of later generations directly began to develop sonar for large yellow croakers to attract fish schools to gather together, and then use 10,000-ton fishing boats to catch them all.

  Because large yellow croakers are like this, large yellow croakers are almost extinct in later generations. If anyone can catch wild and fat large yellow croakers, they can be sold at almost sky-high prices.

  Even, the behavior of beating boats like this, which is devoid of conscience and catches everything, is gradually banned, in order to protect the endangered large yellow croaker.

   At this time, the fishing industry has long since disappeared in the Daming Sea. Naturally, these wild large yellow croakers have no natural enemies and reproduce crazily. In this vast ocean, there are more than billions of such fish.

  Looking at the fish under the boat, Tang Yin was about to cry; "Dragon Lord bless you."

  Hu Kaishan pulled himself together, this is not the blessing of the Dragon King, it is clearly the blessing of the benefactor.

  Engong is really knowledgeable and talented, this... also understand?

  At this time, he found that En Gong no longer relied on noble character to conquer people's hearts.

   It's Zhuge Liang's reincarnation.

   "Fishing!" Hu Kaishan roared.

correct…

  Fishing.

  What is fish? Fish is meat.

  A fish weighs three to four catties, and a fat fish can weigh as much as ten catties. Just under the boat, there are dozens of them in a place as big as a palm.

  What is this? This is meat.

  Two fish are a chicken, thirty are a dolphin, and eighty are a cow.

   This is food.

  Even Hu Kaishan, although he was born as a thief, has the gene of a big foodie in his bones.

  He looked at the countless fish, his eyes sparkled.

   "Fishing!"

  Everyone reacted.

   You have to go fishing.

  This is food...it's food...

   Fishing nets were thrown from the treasure ship one by one.

  The sailors are originally from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where there are dense water networks and many lakes. They have fishing experience since they were young, but they used to fish in lakes, but now they are fishing in the vast ocean.

  This is a completely different concept. The density of fish here is thousands of times that of the fish in the lake.

  Down with a net, hey yo yo... A group of people were panting on the boat, unable to pull it up, the hull was about to tilt, and finally, after pulling and pulling, dozens of big fish came up.

   Everyone is crazy.

  Dozens of small boats are constantly lowering the nets. The technology of the nets in this era is very low, so even if they are constantly lowering the nets, for this dense fish school, it is nothing more than taking away the water droplets in the ocean.

   Soon, a large number of fishing nets were torn off.

   But even so, baskets of fish were pulled directly onto the treasure ship.

   Sailors thought they were going crazy.

  Like a group of robbers who have entered the treasure mountain, they know that there are all kinds of wealth here, but they still greedily ask for it, and even throw the ordinary one-foot-long fish directly back into the sea. They want big fish, and big fish are strong.

  On the treasure ship, the fish caught from the small boat are piled up like a mountain.

  Everyone was stunned to see all this.

   Crazy, absolutely crazy, tens of thousands of fish, no... maybe not just tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands.

  But this pile of fish and the countless fish under the boat are still not worth mentioning.

  They greedily looked at the fish under the boat, wanting to die.

   What a pity, almost all the fishing nets were torn.

   After three or four hours, almost everyone was exhausted.

  Tang Yin is a native of Southern Zhili. He has a deep affection for fish and has loved eating them since he was a child.

   At this time, he also had to make a decisive decision immediately: "Board the big ship, return, return immediately."

  In this era, even if it is not during the sea ban period, fishermen are still in hardship.

   Fishing production is too low.

It takes dozens or even hundreds of people to go out to sea once, and it takes two days to go back and forth on a big boat. However, the fishing time is limited by the time limit, because after a long time, the fish caught before will stink. To deodorize, you can find a way to marinate these fish with salt, but it is a pity that in this era, salt is more expensive than fish. Where can I find so much salt?

Therefore, even if you go out to sea, the fishing cycle must not exceed too many days, and you have to calculate the time to go back and forth, and above the vast ocean, the density of fish schools is actually extremely low, and a fish in the vast ocean is just a drop in the ocean It's just that, along the way, food and drink are needed, and the time for salvage is short. Dozens of hundreds of laborers need to delay a lot of working hours.

  When you are lucky, you can salvage ten thousand catties of fish. If you encounter a big fish, you will also have some harvest during the fishing season.

   But one bad thing is a huge loss.

   Therefore, no one wants to use a big boat to go to the deep sea for big fish. At most, they just cast their nets at the beach, but unfortunately, there are not many fish on the beach. Most of the time, the so-called fishermen can only barely make ends meet for the family, and it is almost impossible to be productive.

  It's like, a person has ten acres of land, and under the condition of low mass production capacity, he can barely make enough food and clothing for the whole family. This big fish is like this.

   But this trip is equivalent to the same ten acres of land, but the grain production has increased by a hundred times and a thousand times in the same time, and the yield per mu is ten thousand catties. At this time, the income can become extremely high.

  Tang Yin was dripping wet. He had been fishing for several hours, casting and retrieving the net constantly. He was really tired.

  The other sailors were not much better, all of them were out of breath.

   "Return!"

   It is necessary to return to the voyage as soon as possible, otherwise, the fish that are salvaged will die quickly when they lose water, and after death, they will rot.

  The treasure ship named 'Majestic Zhen Guogong' immediately began to turn the rudder, lift the anchor, and headed towards the coast.

  In just three days, nearly 100,000 fish, weighing 500,000 catties, arrived in Ningbo Port one day later.

  In this natural deep-water bay, on that land, there are thousands of miles of barren land. The continuous drought has caused most people to eat up and use up their food reserves. Terrible hunger has begun to come.

  Wen Yansheng, the prefect of Ningbo, stamped his feet in a hurry. The Ministry of Households asked him to ask for food from Beiwawei. Are you kidding me? Beiwawei himself has no food.

So he urgently went up and asked the imperial court to distribute relief food immediately, although he already knew that it was too late. As a parent official, Ningbo Prefecture has four counties and hundreds of thousands of people, once they fall into the tragedy of cannibalism, Then, his black hat has been worn to the end.

  Sin, this is...

  Wen Yansheng wanted to cry but had no tears, so he had to visit rich households in the city and ask them to borrow food.

  (end of this chapter)