Chapter 320 Too few people help count money

Chapter 320 Too few people help count money

Yanei sighed helplessly, shook his head and replied, "The fishing volume is too large, and it's too much to eat."

After saying that, Yanei also picked up a piece of whale meat with chopsticks, but he tried to put the meat into his mouth several times, but he didn't have the courage after all, so he sighed and threw the meat into the ground.

Under the wine table, the three wolf cubs picked up by Shizhan had grown up and were happily eating leftovers. Yanei watched the wolf cubs compete for bacon and sighed and said, "Mr. Huang probably didn't know that an adult Kun fish grew up as big as two ships. Such a big fish could not be cleaned up in the sea. They need to be dragged back to the shore and use various lifting tools to lift the fish and dismantle them.

Lord Huang, such a large fish usually never come back to the shore - the water on the shore is shallow, and they can't swim. Therefore, these fish are usually caught in the deep sea. Pulling such a huge fish from the deep sea back to the shore, the boat will walk extremely slowly; the fish's corpse is soaked in the sea water and will rot in three or two days. When they return to the shore, most of the meat on the fish is rotten and cannot be eaten, and only the deep meat can be imported.

The rotten meat has a peculiar smell and naturally has to be discarded, but this meat is rich in oil. If it is dried, it can also burn it as charcoal and it can also emit a particularly refreshing fragrance. Therefore, fishermen on the beach like to place these rotten whale meat in a windy house for air drying.

But this fish is too big. Even if the rotten meat on the surface is cut off, only one of the remaining fish can fill a small boat. Although there is a lot of salt on the beach, the meat can be made into bacon and stored, it still cannot hold back the meat on it. Moreover, when the shore, the Kun fish leaves the water, and the meat on its body rots faster. Once it is too late to deal with it, the meat can only be discarded...

Uncle, you don’t know. I am fishing for six or seven whales every month, and the warehouse is full of salted bacon. The bacon smells so strong that I shake my clothes every day and feel like I’m almost a piece of bacon. Well, if my uncle likes this kind of meat, he will take one cart away. One cart is not enough, what about ten cars? But fresh meat may not be transported to Shuyang.

I know Shi Dalang is a good bite of this fresh meat on the table, so I have someone dealt with it on the sea and then delivered it with a quick horse when I go ashore. This meat is still delicious today, but the taste will be a little worse tomorrow, and I will throw it away the day after tomorrow."

Shi Chuan turned to his side and reminded Shi Yanei: "I still remember telling you how to make ice with chemical ice using nitrate. You don't have to throw away the chemical ice you made with nitrate afterwards. The nitrate water can be used as a preparatory process for purifying nitrate."

Shi Yanei suddenly complained: "Dalang, you are standing and talking without a pain in your back. The ice-making method of making chemical ice will still occupy the cabin. The boat I went out and the cabin was not enough, so how could I have free time to ice all the meat? Besides, even if I have that free time, where did I get so much salt?"

"Ryukyu", Liu Xu, who had just buried his head in his meal and never interrupted, suddenly interrupted: "When Mr. Mengxi was appointed as the magistrate of Shuyang County, my ancestors were studying with Mr. Mengxi. I heard from Mr. Mengxi that in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was an overseas fairy continent who came to pay tribute. The people there were Han people who escaped the war in the Central Plains during the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China, drifted along the sea to Ryukyu, and then it took a hundred years to return to the Central Plains.

Mr. Mengxi said: Some of the gems presented by the Ryukyu people at that time were clear and transparent, but they were easy to break. According to the alchemist at that time, the gems were actually boron beads and saltpeter beads. It is rumored that several islands in Ryukyu were made of bird guano, and some birds could not digest them after eating. These transparent and translucent gems were often found in the dung pile. The Ryukyu people did not recognize the goods and used them to offer them to the court, which caused a big joke... Mr. Mengxi also said..."

"Don't worry about what Mr. Mengxi said," Shi Chuan interrupted excitedly: "Shen Kuo was talking about 'strucci'. The feces and corpses of accumulated birds, bats and seals have been transformed into high concentrations of phosphate and nitrate after years of impact from sea water... Oh, and borax, these are all treasures. Yanei, your glass workshop is saved, borax, saltpeter, phosphate fertilizer, are all good things. When you take a boat back, your workshop will not worry about raw materials for half a year."

Shi Yanei unconsciously missed the truth: "Ryukyu, don't you have a castle where you and me? But have you never heard of saltpeter there?"

After hearing this, the wealthy businessman in the chief lowered his eyes - all maritime merchants who traded with Japan knew the castle at the Ryukyu Island Relay Station... and the charges, it turned out that this castle belonged to Shi Chuan and Shi Yanei.

After hearing this, Huang's father was a little proud. He actually came here to take stock of his son-in-law's family's family. The more his son-in-law's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family

Liu Xu rolled his eyes with unknown intentions, not knowing what he was thinking.

"The Ryukyu that Shen Kuo mentioned was not the Great Ryukyu, but the Small Ryukyu..." Shi Chuan thought about it and decided to go back and draw a navigation chart, and handed it to Shi Yanei to open this route: "There was once rumored that there was a large island nearby. On sunny days, you can see the Small Ryukyu at the eastern end of the island.

There is a route recorded in my room based on the fishermen's description. You sent a whaling fleet to take a look. It is said that the corals are cheap there, and a few porcelain bowls are exchanged for half a boat, as well as tortoiseshell, ambergris, etc. It is said that there is also a must-pass route for whales to migrate. You can let the whaling ship drive directly in that direction. If you can't catch whales, you can pull a boat of small Liuqiu cargo back and you will definitely make a fortune."

"Ah", Shi Yanei was speechless. At the same time, the several wealthy merchants sitting in the chief also opened their mouths in surprise... Fishing is different from sea trade. Sea trade requires taxes, and it is a heavy tax. However, if the fishing boat goes out to attract some local products on the island, and these local products are luxury goods such as tortoiseshell dragon scent, then isn't the fishing business easier than sea trade?

Shi Yanei stammered: "I have... more than twenty whaling ships."

Shi Chuan answered quickly: "Twenty ships of cargo every month, even if these goods are bird droppings, I can eat them all. As for saltpeter, you can ask your father and ask him to take on the work of practicing nitrition for the Privy Council, and then resell saltpeter in the whole ship."

Shi Yanei was stunned for a long time before closing his mouth that had been opened for a long time, and said silly, "I'll go back to buy a boat, and I'll increase the whaling ships to one hundred."

"Not enough, far from enough", Shi Chuan encouraged him with evil interests: "There are not enough for five hundred whales in Haizhou City. Even if one hundred whales are caught every day, as long as the processing capacity is improved, 100 million Emperor Song people can eat these whales. As for whales and whale oil, how much can they be sold?"

"There are not enough people," Shi Yanei hummed: "Whaling at sea requires mastering star-shaping techniques, knowing how to locate at sea, and also knowing the captain of the terrestrial chart..."

"You and I don't have enough people, but Huang Song has 100 million people." Shi Tong rolled his eyes and said temptingly: "It's better for us to use whaling technology as an investment. Who has the money to buy ships? We can develop technology and participate in the whaling fleet. Haha, people in the world use land as land, don't you know that the sea is also a field. How much forage is needed to raise a cow on land, and only one boat is needed to catch a meat of 100 cows in the sea, and it only takes a dozen people to make money by simply doing sea trade. It takes a year to go to sea trade. It takes only a few months to go to sea. The money earned from whaling once should be the hard work of the farmers."

Shi Yanei immediately understood the meaning of Shi Yanei. In fact, Shi Yanei has always envied Shi Yanei. He doesn't have to do anything. He just gave some advice and gave people some ideas to improve the craftsmanship, so he could sit there and count money. Shi Yanei had long wanted to enjoy this kind of life of lying down and counting money, but he didn't expect that it would be his turn now.

"That's right", Shi Yanei pretended to be a fool and revealed his ugly face: "The income from a whale is not only the harvest of a farmer in a year, but the income of a middle-aged household in a year is not as good as that of a year. But the captain has a little more, is the boatman? It's probably a little higher than the income of a farmer?"

Anyway, it is all idle, Shi Chuan also exaggeratedly: "It is said that Xiao Liuqiu is a land without a home. Since the group of people returned in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, no one has come to pay tribute to Xiao Liuqiu. The island does not produce iron and stone, and a few islanders have to use wooden sticks as weapons. The cheap soil and soil there are like trash, but in the future, the amount of tincture used in the Central Plains will only increase. If you can occupy a mine in Ryukyu and sell tinea to the Central Plains, this will be a benefit for future generations.

It’s closer to Xiao Liuqiu than to Japan. I remember that our Song ship sails from Quanzhou Haizhou, about seven days to sail to Japan, and it’s about five days. With such a short distance, you can run twice a month. If you sell two ships of saltpeter, it’s not better than farming?”

Yanei's head flickered: "You don't need to tempt me, I can't go. Yanei, I'm just a whale boat and a workshop, and my money is like flowing water. I only lack manpower, so I don't have the time to mine in the wilderness of Ryukyu."

Ling Fei, who was born in the firearm family, heard this very clearly. He was until the price of saltpeter of high-quality purity. At this time, his eyes were bright, and he stood by the master's table and didn't want to leave. He just regretted that he couldn't get in. After finally waiting for the conversation with Shi Yanei for a moment, Huang's father inserted it in again. He asked Yanei curiously: "Yane, is this kun capture...a great profit?"

Yanei shook his head and smiled proudly: "Mr. Huang, what is the price of wax on the market now? It costs two cents per piece?"

On the female guest's table, Wang had already listened for a long time and quickly interrupted: "It's not only not the end. When we lived in the capital, we said that a candle was sold for twelve cents, and if it was more, it would be sold for 21 cents."

Shi Chuan pointed at Yanei: "The largest candle wholesaler in the entire Central Plains is right in front of you. Each wax in Yanei is sold for two cents outside, and the whole is wholesale to shops everywhere, and they will take out one copper plate and one copper plate."

Shi Yanei nodded proudly and added: "The wax on a Kun's body can be made into 20,000 waxes, if there are more than 200,000 candles."

Wang took a deep breath: "Can a single wax on a fish be sold for 40,000 yuan?"

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