Human destiny is always full of accidentality. For Liang Min, perhaps he did not die in the battlefield as a hero in the anti-Qing Dynasty like another time and space. However, being able to enjoy a peaceful life is a blessing in life, especially his son was even admitted to the Imperial College.

However, for Liang Min, who is not well-off, life is not easy. A few days ago, his wife fell seriously ill and he spent all his family property in order to cure her illness. Fortunately, the county school and the government school are free, otherwise his son might not be able to continue studying. After his son entered the Imperial College, he left Nanjing City and looked for a job everywhere.

Finding a job in Shanghai is the easiest.

Like everyone else, he chose Shanghai. As a busy business port, the dock here alone requires tens of thousands of coolies. However, Liang Min did not find such a job. The coolies earned too little money. Compared with the coolies at the dock, he was more willing to go to the boat.

In the evening of that day, Liang Min took a train to Shanghai and stood on the bustling streets of Shanghai. He had no relatives and did not feel desperate.

Touching the small money in his pocket, he thought in his mind that he should find a job that could make a lot of money.

A job that can make a lot of money!

"If you want to make a lot of money, you have to go to the sea!"

Until now, Liang Min remembers what his fellow disciples said to him.

"When you go to sea, you can earn at least one hundred taels a year!"

More than one hundred taels of silver!

For Liang Min, who is in the inland, just earning a few years of money will be enough to buy dozens of acres of land!

"Where are you from?"

"Shandong..."

"Shandong?"

Before he could finish speaking, the manager interrupted him and asked.

“On the beach?”

"no."

"By the Yellow River?"

"It doesn't count, it's a few dozen miles away."

"Oh, have you ever been on the boat?"

"No."

...

Liang Min didn't find a chance to get on the boat for two days. It was true that the Ming Dynasty's sea boat needed sailors, but a sailor with no experience in navigation... Generally speaking, no one is willing to use it.

In the next three days, Liang Min failed to find a job on board the boat. In order to make a living, Liang Min had to find a cool job on the dock, just like many people, to make a living temporarily.

Carrying goods on the dock every day, and after a day of hard work, I only earn two or three hundred yuan. This kind of work is not available every day. Although it is harder, it can still survive. For Liang Min, when working at the dock, he always asks sailors, "Do you want people on the boat?"

In the twilight, the whaling ship "Sky Rich" approached the shore. As soon as the ship landed, the coolies surrounded the pier with the shouts of the manager, and Liang Min was also in it.

"The whale meat is transported on this ship. You all move quickly, but you must not waste time! Hurry up, park the carriage, and the meat should be delivered to the cold storage as soon as possible..."

The manager was shouting loudly there. On the dock, loading and unloading whale meat and sea fish have always been the most stressful job. Because the time is delayed, the meat may deteriorate, so loading and unloading must be fast.

"Daliangtou, go to the cabin to hang meat."

Following the instructions of the manager, Liang Min hurried to the boat. When the sailor led him into the cabin, the cold air that came to his face made him shudder.

"Is it cold?"

The sailor laughed.

"Leng...Brother, why is the boat cold?"

"The ice is loaded on this ship. The ice on Kuye Island is loaded on it. Without these frozen foods, whale meat or sea meat will not be transported to the capital..."

Whale meat and sea fish, in the past few years, have become the most common meat food with the promotion of ice storage technology, and have entered the dining tables of thousands of households. Even in Nanjing, the price of whale meat is not more expensive than pork.

Like all whaling ships, the cabin of the "Sky Rich" is double-layered. In addition to the insulation of cork with a thickness of half a foot thick, there is also wood chip insulation between the double-layer cabins, which are excellent insulators. Ice cubes can be stored for up to four or five months in such a cabin, even in the hottest summer.

This also means that the refrigerated cabin of whaling ships or ocean fishing can maintain low temperatures for four or five months. This also makes it possible to remote transportation of whale meat and fresh sea fish, especially the former, a whale can provide dozens of tons or even hundreds of tons of high-quality meat. Whale skin can be made into leather bags, leather jackets, or other leather goods, and even whale bones can be extracted from whale oil.

Even the internal organs of whales, such as whale liver, whale heart, whale kidney, are all the best "nutritional and delicious" according to traditional Chinese medicine. Even the whale's stomach and intestines are also very popular with the "whale miscellaneous" that is popular among the docks. Liang Min has many such "whale miscellaneous" on the docks, and you can buy a lot of them for a few cents.

And these "whale miscellaneous" are all transported by such whaling ships.

"You've seen it. When the sling is down, just hook the meat with an iron hook, then shout and then hang it up..."

As the sailors greeted, Liang Min, who was in the "rooster mountain", kept busy. Pieces of whale meat weighing thousands of pounds were hooked up and hung into the air, and then loaded on a refrigerated carriage to the nearest cold storage. They would be divided directly in the cold storage, and then frozen by train and freight ship to various places. Finally, they might even appear on the dining tables of people in Xi'an.

To a certain extent, the Ming people lived a life that was far better than any period in China's dynasty in the fifteenth year of Qiansheng. The continuous stream of Nanyang rice fundamentally solved the people's hunger and food worries. Even the sea became a pasture for the Ming Dynasty, providing millions of tons of various types of meat to the Ming Dynasty and providing sufficient protein for the Ming people.

Even though the northern grasslands that brought countless disasters to the Ming Dynasty in the past, they still became pastures, supplying wool and beef and mutton to the Ming Dynasty.

Liang Min, who was in the ice, worked very quickly. He picked up a basket of whale 100 kilograms and carried it on the hanging net. Although the cabin was very cold, he was covered in sweat after a while.

Finally, after working for a while, after carrying a ship of whale meat ashore, looking at Liang Min who was sweating profusely, sailor Li San smiled.

"Brother, you work so quickly. There are two baskets of broken whales, so you can take them when you go down."

This is an extra reward for the coolies. The broken whale mixture contains cut whale lungs, whale stomachs, whale meat, all of which are fragments. No one cares about such things on the boat, and merchants don't want them either. However, after the coolies take them away, they can sell them to small vendors. Two baskets of one or two hundred kilograms of whale mixture can be sold for at least a few hundred cents.

"Thank you, Brother Li,"

When he smiled and thanked, Liang Min asked habitually again.

"By the way, Brother Li Si, are we employed people on the boat?"

Looking at Liang Min's eyes full of anticipation, Li Si smiled.

"You want to work on the boat?"

"I want to dream of it."

Looking at Liang Min's anxious look, Li Si said.

"It's not easy to do on a whaling ship! If you are not careful, you will lose your life. You have to think it through."

Whaling has never been an easy job. It is not only not easy, but also very dangerous. In the process of chasing whales, you may lose your life if you are not careful.

"Then you have anything to think about, as long as you can get on the boat."

Liang Min still seemed very urgent, and he was eager to go to the boat. After all, for him, this was his shortcut to change his life...

"Okay, I'll talk to the captain."

Li Si smiled.

"Anyway, there are people on the ship now, but even if you want to get on the ship, you probably have to wait for a while. After all, we have been going to sea for a while. We have finally come back and we have to gather with our family."
Chapter completed!