Beiyang new warlord

"Brother, why do you need so many big wooden barrels filled with water?"

Chapter 28. Granary

What is the barrel for, of course it is for holding things!

It can be regarded as the first time Mao Jue walked through the back door. A No. 1000 [-] ship is only equipped with [-] large wooden barrels. When Mao Jue opened his mouth, Mao Youde directly gave him more than ten No. [-] warships, [-] Many large wooden barrels were piled up in the open space of the village of three hundred households.

However, the quality of these barrels is really poor. With the collapse of the guard system, there is also the artisan household system that the Ming Dynasty relied on for survival. It was originally established at the beginning of the founding of the country. The hair is bad, and most of them have already escaped. Even if they didn't escape, they can't raise their spirits at all, and they can't make a fool of themselves.

As for those merchants who spent a lot of money to buy officials to take orders from the imperial court, all the money was invested in it, so naturally it is impossible to produce any good things. It is not bad to be able to produce some tofu dregs projects, or even worse Directly use solid iron rods as gun shafts and equip them to front-line soldiers.

The corruption of the equipment is also one of the main reasons why the Ming army, which was equipped with 40.00% of the firearms, was defeated by the Jurchen bows on the Liaodong battlefield. Just ask, when the battlefield is in turmoil, is it possible to hold this kind of equipment? The fire stick filled with gunpowder is facing Jianu's gold and iron horse. May I ask which warrior still has the heart to fight?

Even with weapons, let alone these barrels, the only thing Mao Jue can be sure of is that these things are made of wood!

"Is this also called a barrel? I said, why is the water on the boat always broken! If this thing is not broken, God will not tolerate it! Damn, these barrel makers, your mother-in-law uses this broken barrel to bathe every day! Your next door His mother's surname is Wang!"

It is said that the efficiency of the barrel depends on the shortest stave, but it is not said that it depends on the thinnest one?Looking dizzily at the huge wooden barrels that were about to catch up with the cage, Mao Jue's eyes were almost cross-eyed, and he yelled angrily.

Hearing Mao Jue's scolding, Pang Pang Hai couldn't help but look confused. He took a normal bath and had a good time. It's understandable to wear a green hat, but what the hell is the surname Wang next door?What's the deal with barrels?

After being confused for a long time, Pang Pang Hai stopped Mao Jue, who wanted to draw a circle and curse some unscrupulous profiteers. The face that looked more and more like a bitter melon since he met Mao Jue twitched tragically, and his hands trembled. asked.

"Mr. Qian, these buckets can be repaired and repaired. The young people are used to it, but"

Dazed and looking back at the mountain of wooden barrels, Pang Dahai asked twitchingly.

"But please enlighten me, Mr. Qian, what are you doing with so many barrels?"

"Pretend to be a fish!"

Patting the pile of barrels beside him, Mao Jue said as a matter of course.

The working people are really invincible. Some barrels have been broken into cages, and the women in the village have wrapped them with ula grass and patched them up. The fragrance and heavy feeling of planting grass, more than 100 of these barrels were repaired in one morning, and all of them were loaded on a few broken Cangshan boats. It happened that the ten-day training was over, and it was time to go to sea again. More than 200 men from three hundred households drove more than a dozen sentry ships, and Cangshan, who followed the two main battleships, went out.

Different from the last time I ignored the answer, this time Mao Jue seemed to be a different person. He brought a few soldiers with him, and he was also very excited. Amid his yelling, those Ming soldiers who were about to become professional fishermen were flustered. Some of them lost their footing at the bow and fell into the sea with a thump. Some of them even got caught in the net.

Going fishing twice a month is one of the main sources of food for the three people's households. It is really hard to see it anymore. Pang Dahai can be regarded as brave enough to drive Mao Jue down, and let him take charge of it himself.

Not to mention, I don't know if he is good at commanding a war, but he is really an expert in commanding fishing. Under his command, the ship that was still in a mess just now went smoothly, like a large dense net. Surrounded by schools of fish, the sea is still very rich in this era. In less than half a day, there are at least a thousand catties of fish in more than a dozen nets. What kind of gobies, barracudas, and sea bass, the fat ones are jumping on the deck. Non-stop, it looks quite gratifying.

If you harvest so much on weekdays, you should return home. After all, the fish needs to be processed quickly and hung up to dry. Otherwise, it won’t take long before it will rot and deteriorate, wasting the resources of the sea, and the villagers will still be hungry. , but who knew that this time, before Pang Hai gave the order to go back, Mao Jue stopped there abruptly.

The deck of the Cangshan ship suddenly became a field of Shura. More than 60 men held short knives, and under Mao Jue's bluff, they directly disemboweled the fresh sea fish that had just been caught from the sea, and threw the internal organs aside. It was also cut off and discarded, fish blood was flowing everywhere, the smell was pungent, fish gills and fish intestines piled up in a pile, Mao Jue refused to let it be thrown away, making people dizzy with choking.

However, the sea salt that was sun-dried on Xiaolu Island a few days ago is now in use. I rub it into the belly of the fish, and then rub it on the front and back. At the bottom of the big bucket, I worked until midnight, and I filled a total of eight buckets, which were heavily pressed on the bottom of the Cangshan boat. Looking at the scattered salt bags, and the soldier sitting on the ground with scarlet and tired hands, the huge sea It was a bit of a sudden change, no wonder Mao Jue was running hard on the salt, it turned out to be for keeping fish fresh.

But he still didn't understand, what did Mao Jue want so many fish for?

Early the next morning, the three Baihusuo fishermen who failed to return had to be driven by Mao Jue, and followed the fish to continue sailing to the depths of Liaodong Bay.

This time it was considered an ocean-going operation. With a huge fishing fleet, Mao Jue fished for more than ten days along the vicinity of Xiaolu Island to the deep sea, and obtained almost [-] kilograms of processed fish. Hundreds of large barrels and several Cangshan boats are heavy. If it was in the past, these fish and shrimps would have rotted long ago. However, it is such a simple knife and salt. Although the smell is not good, the barrel The fish in it is still fresh and not rotten.

It wasn’t that time when I went out to sea, I met a large number of fish schools, and it was not impossible to fail. This long-term operation made up for the shortcomings of the previous fishing. More than 100 large buckets were almost exhausted by these exhaustions. When the fisherman yelled and rolled off the boat, the whole small fish village almost boiled, and the big girl and the young daughter-in-law surrounded and watched in amazement.

However, what was thrown to them was a large pile of ugly fish offals that were no longer smellable. These things weighed a thousand kilograms and were piled up on the bottom of the boat. These days the shop really rotted a lot. The smell, anyway, Mao Jue was Those who didn't dare to stay by the side, in the midst of how many people greeted his eighth-generation ancestors, the fishermen held their noses and took shovels and basins, and then took all these things to the fields and buried them in the ground.

As for the big buckets filled with fish, that afternoon, Mao Jue borrowed more than 20 carts from the military supply camp, and they pulled them to Pidao City on the same day. Not far from the glass shop on East Street, there was another fish shop .

The biggest difference between the small-scale peasant economy and the commodity economy is that most of the former are self-produced and sold, small, scattered, and very isolated, while the commodity economy taps all productive forces, produces on the largest scale possible, and sends them to the market for commodity exchange.

Usually, the Pang Family’s Hundred Households can eat enough for themselves, and they can’t keep them if they catch too much fish. If it is not achieved, what is most lacking is food. A large number of sea fish have poured into this market, and the sales brought by it are really considerable.

According to some historical records such as "Jin Ping Mei" and "Shi Huo Zhi", the price of fish in Ming Dynasty was about 110 renminbi or 1000 a catty. The price of this island is even cheaper in the sea island, and it can only be sold for [-] renminbi. However, the large quantity of sea fish that has been salted has saved a lot of salt money. Even the poor are willing to buy one or two fish and hang them on the wall for the next meal during New Years and festivals. They can be sold in one afternoon. I bought ten barrels of more than [-] catties, and there were merchants in the customs who were optimistic about it. They agreed to order a few barrels and try to traffic them to Shandong.

In the evening, one-fifth of the seafood had been sold. In the eyes of Pang Pang Hai and Wen Meng, 26 to [-] heavy copper coins plus [-] taels of silver were piled up in a large box.

Looking at the money, Pang Pang Hai really wanted to cry. He had the cheek to cry to his father and mother, and finally managed to get some goods, and he was worried, and smuggled them to Houjin tremblingly. Only twice a year, he earned money. A few hundred taels of silver had to be divided equally among three hundred households, and if he got seven or eight taels of food and drink in his hands for a year, it was considered a bodhisattva's blessing. In just one month, the money Mao Jue tossed out was almost Can keep up with him for half a year.

Although the smell of fish was so strong that Mao Jue really didn't want to eat fish anymore, but sitting in front of the money box, he also looked satisfied. It was actually a bit beyond his expectation that he could sell so many in Pidao. However, this result was already expected.

Because someone has already done it successfully.

Netherlands!

In the [-]th century, even the old colonial empire Spain and Portugal were well-known as sea coachmen. However, the initial capital accumulation in the Netherlands did not come from any big business and valuable commodities. Herring.

The West believes in Christianity. There are almost 150 to [-] days a year, or even longer, for fasting days. No meat or meat is allowed. Fish is not included in this prohibition. The growth of European population and the development of land have made many freshwater rivers The fish in the lake are extinct, which provides an excellent market for the Netherlands near the sea.

However, the Netherlands is not the only country that fishes herring. Sweden, Scotland, Norway, and Finland also fish herring and seize the market in the Hanseatic League. In order to compete for the market, the Netherlands has broken out several wars, but what really brought about changes is It was a fisherman named William who invented a one-size-fits-all preservation method.

It is to dig out the internal organs of herring with a knife, then rub them with salt, and store them in wooden barrels. In this way, the shelf life of a few days is increased to more than one year, so that the Netherlands can catch more herring and sell them to farther places. Because of this monopoly position, the profits brought by the monopoly can be imagined.

These were all seen when I was bored browsing the forum before crossing, and Mao Jue did not expect that there would be a day when he could use it. Although there is no fasting day like Christianity in Ming Dynasty, but now it is due to the Little Ice Age. The production of food will be reduced on a large scale. As long as it is eaten, it will not worry about not being sold. Today is just the beginning. Once the market in the customs is opened up, won't the money pour in like flowing water?

Since there is such a prospect, the employees naturally need to win over, sitting on the ground and stretching his feet, Mao Jue kicked the heavy copper coin box directly in front of Pang Hai.

"Take these back and divide them among the three hundred households!"

"Ah! Here, Lord Qianhu, how can this little thing be done!"

"You can take it if you want it, and stop talking nonsense with me!"

He snorted impatiently, and then Mao Jue's face suddenly revealed a sinister look.

"The money is not for nothing, old Pang, you go back and gather your own soldiers, all you can fight, and go back to the camp, I will block people tonight!"

"Block people?"

The joy flashed away, and the treacherous face of Pang Pang Hai was obviously surprised

Chapter 29. It's All Mine

In the evening, there are still people coming and going at the door. Salted fish is one of the cheapest sources of protein for the poor. Many people wobble away satisfied with the big fish, and they are temporarily called to sell fish. The clothes were busy there, pulling the abacus, and the two Wen family members kept picking fish from the bucket. According to the report, Wen Shao has now been promoted from a pimp to a professional manager, and the two Shandong businessmen who are selling goods from the north are still fighting with each other. He was discussing how much cheaper it would be to buy the whole barrel, and when he saw Mao Jue coming out, the fellow gave him a big thumbs up.

Then there are the people in the Baihusuo. These days, the people in the Sanxing Baihusuo are really working hard enough. They dig salt fields and go fishing for Mao Jue. These days, military households do private work for generals. It was almost taken for granted. When the money box was pulled into the hundred households, the fishermen received the strings of copper coins. The first thing these fishermen felt was not joy, but daze.

Seeing the stupid appearance of a large group of people under him who had never seen the world, Pang Pang Hai was furious and yelled profanely.

"You're all fucking dumb, aren't you? You didn't see the reward from Lord Qianhu, and you don't want to thank him so much. You don't want this money, right?"

This is really a word that wakes up the dreamer. These days, three or four hundred fishermen who are drying salt, big fish, and drying like African friends hurriedly bowed together, and all the young and old were trembling and chanting. .

"Thank you, Lord Qianhu, for your kindness! Thank you, Lord Qianhu, for your kindness!"

"Get up!"

Not to mention, now Mao Jue has already started to take the lead of their business manager, with his chest puffed up, humming slang words in an official accent, and gesticulating his hands high and high.