In the morning, several sailing fishing boats were operating on the lake, and the crew worked together to turn the winch to retract the heavy fishing nets.

The best way to catch fish is to catch the net, and the harvest of catches varies according to the size of the net.

Pang Qiu directed the crew to close the net, and everyone shouted horns rhythmically, exerting force together, the winch slowly rotated and the fishing net slowly retracted.

Li Xin and Liang Miao, who were watching the fun with the boat, and several other young children, held the railings and looked at the big trough at the stern of the boat. This big trough was called "slide" and was located at the stern of the boat.

The large trough usually has large fishing nets, with thick beams hanging from above, and a lifting "pulley set" is hung. There is an opening at the stern of the boat. The large fishing net slid down from here and is now being dragged up.

This is the Li family's sailing fishing boat, called "trawling fishing boat". It is different from ordinary boats. There is a large hole in the stern and a large cover that can be opened and closed. The fishing net is very heavy and needs a "pulley set" to collect and store it.

Now, the first thing that was taken back were thick and thick hemp ropes, and then a corner of the large fishing net was pulled up, like a funnel, which became larger and larger, and the crew members who were turning the winch were getting more and more difficult.

"Get harder! Drag the net up!"

Pang Qiu shouted loudly, and seeing that the winch was spinning slowly, he quickly took the others and ran over to help.

With the creaking sound, the winch continued to rotate, the fishing net gradually entered the slide, and the stern of the boat gradually sank.

Li Xin and Liang Miao looked at the fishing net excitedly, cheering and countless people shouted in unison, pulling the big net that covered countless fishing catches into the slide.

The huge fishing net was squeezed by countless big fish and small fish. The crew closed the stern cover, then jumped down the slide and locked the cover.

Everyone looked at the fish in the big fishing net, and their excitement was beyond words.

The crewman who got off the slide took out an iron crowbar and untied the hemp rope knots at the bottom of the fishing net one by one, then quickly left. So the big net bag began to "lead the bottom" and a large number of white fish gushed out.

Make a "rattle" sound.

A crew member was slower and had no time to climb up, and was almost overwhelmed by the surging fish. Fortunately, his companions were quick-eyed and quick-handed, and he pulled him up from the fish.

The crew continued to turn the winch and put away the fishing net (hang up). Everyone looked at the fish that were crowded with lively jumping in the cabin, smiling.

The trawler fishing boat customized by Li Li is very capable of trawling fishing. As long as you find the right fishing waters, you will return home with a full load after one net. It is much faster than ordinary fishing boats of the same size.

The crew, who had already been ready, took a sharp knife and flew the deck, arranged wooden barrels and basins, and prepared to kill live fish.

Pang Qiu held a big paper loudspeaker and shouted: "Everyone works hard to kill the fish in this cabin, clear the slide, let's go back to the net!"

Next to it, several other trawlers have also closed the nets. According to the established operating procedures, they are now killing live fish, and then put the fish pieces on the fast ship that comes to pick up the goods, and then continue trawling fishing.

Li Xin and Liang Miao also came to help, and both adults and children were busy with a better life.

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Somewhere near the river bank, somewhere in the manor, two melting iron furnaces were emitting thick smoke. The furnace worker was busy all around. The worker pushed the cart to the top furnace entrance and poured a truck of iron coins in.

In the sound of "crashing la la", the iron melting furnace was like a hungry chick, holding its head up, opening its mouth, and desperately swallowing a lot of food.

Next to the furnace, the furnace workers worked hard to operate the air bag to blow the iron furnace to make the fire more prosperous.

At the same time, next to a furnace-opened furnace, a large amount of pig iron water flowed into the ground grooves and gradually cooled down.

In the autumn and winter, the weather is getting colder, but the heat from these two melting iron furnaces makes the heat waves roll within more than ten steps around, so that Jia Cheng, who was visiting, had to take off his coat and even wipe the sweat from his forehead from time to time.

A young man accompanied Jia Cheng to watch the operation of the iron smelting furnace. Seeing that Jia Cheng was very interested in melting iron, he found a furnace worker to explain the technology.

Jia Cheng listened carefully and wanted to know how the 10,000 kilograms of iron coins he transported by ship were melted by the furnace, removed impurities, and made usable pig iron.

Then it is forged to make a good quality cooked iron bar.

One stone is equal to one hundred and twenty kilograms, ten thousand kilograms of iron coins, and less than ninety kilograms of iron, an ordinary hundred-stone ship can be loaded.

If these iron coins are stored, they will easily become rusted unreasonably, so it is better to 'return to the furnace to smelify' and continue to work.

Jia Cheng looked at the melting iron furnace and the trucks of iron coins poured into the furnace, remembering many things Li Li said.

The Liang Kingdom lacked copper, and there were Buddhist temples everywhere, so a large amount of copper materials were needed to make Buddha statues, so the imperial court issued iron Wuzhu coins to replace copper Wuzhu coins.

Iron is cheaper than copper, so a penny of copper five zhu is worth a few iron five zhu. People don’t like it, but they can’t help but hold it in their hands and always want to use it as soon as possible or exchange it for copper coins.

Therefore, for private furnaces in various places, the best iron smelting material is the iron coins issued by the imperial court, which is also called formula money.

The formula money is mass-cast by the government. Because it is necessary to ensure a certain durability, the quality of pig iron used is good and there are not many impurities.

Private furnaces in various places collect formula money on a large scale, melt them and cast them into various iron tools to make profits.

Or it may be further forged into marinated iron and forged into various iron tools to sell to make profits.

At the same time, private furnaces in various places also use inferior iron ore to melt inferior pig iron and mass-cast inferior iron coins. This is an act explicitly prohibited by the court, but it has been repeatedly banned.

The iron melting furnace Jia Cheng saw now was a private furnace of private cast iron coins. Because the owner was a local big household, the government turned a blind eye to it.

Not only here, there are private furnaces in various parts of the Liang State that the government cannot control or dare not control. Countless formula iron coins issued by the imperial court were swallowed by these private furnaces, and then a large number of inferior iron coins were generated and circulated in various places.

According to Li Li, such behavior led to chaos in the currency system, soaring prices, and various bad coins flooding the market. Iron Wuzhu and traditional copper Wuzhu could not be exchanged one-to-one.

The government forces the people to accept the exchange of iron Wuzhu and copper Wuzhu "one to one", but when the government collects taxes, it does not collect the iron Wuzhu it issued in a one-to-one ratio, and even only collects the intact copper Wuzhu (i.e. good money).

In order to pay taxes, many people have to spend more money to exchange copper coins with wealthy merchants who have accumulated a lot of good money. In theory, they only need to pay a tax of one thousand cents (based on copper coins), but in fact, the people have to spend nearly two thousand cents.

Therefore, although the Liang Kingdom has experienced decades of peace, due to the chaos in the currency system and soaring prices, the lives of the people are getting harder and harder. Many places use barter and no longer use money as currency.

This is what Jia Cheng knew from Li Li, and now he is engaged in business with the owner of the private furnace. According to the laws of the Liang Kingdom, it is a serious crime and should be sentenced to hard labor.

However, only good people will be unlucky if they violate the ban. Even if those powerful households who are like local tyrants are used, the local government will not dare to take care of them.

Therefore, when Jia Cheng came here to do a transaction, he didn't need to worry about being arrested and imprisoned because someone reported it, because there were some officials in the government office.

After listening to the old furnace worker's introduction, he asked the young man: "I have delivered my iron money as promised, what is the iron bar?"

"Don't worry, you can load the ship tomorrow." After the young man finished speaking, he pointed to the iron shop next to him: "It was just released two days ago. They fought day and night, and they can complete it tonight."

Jia Cheng nodded, no longer said anything, and did not rush to rest, but continued to ask some questions.

This is the territory of the local snake, so he brought a few teenagers here. If the other party is "black and eats black", it will be really a bad response, and it will be called "dirty".

But Jia Cheng was not worried because the two parties had a mutually beneficial relationship and had made several transactions and were already ‘acquaintances’.

Jia Cheng was responsible for part of the workplace affairs, including the most important supply of iron materials, including sending iron coins to melt, changing them back to cook iron, and using money to make money.

Make cooked iron into a fish hook, exchange it for iron coins, then turn the iron coins into cooked iron, and then make it into a fish hook for sale. Just cycle on like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger.

The private furnaces that cooperated also make great profits, and both parties benefit each other, so there is no need for the private furnace owner to "eat black" them.

There is no doubt that Li Li is very capable and can come up with this method to "make money for money". Jia Cheng admired him very much. Therefore, when Li Li entered the royal family, he had to take on the "responsibility".

We must do everything that Li Li entrusted to do properly.
Chapter completed!