After the meeting, Sun Chuanting accompanied Cui Chengxiu to see Mo Jingwan.
When Cui Chengxiu finished explaining his intention, Mo Jingwan smiled heartily and said, "That's nothing.
As long as Cui Yushi tells us, there's no problem with whatever he wants."
Sun Chuanting felt relieved when he saw Mo Jingwan's attitude.
But in Cui Chengxiu's view, Mo Jingwan's smile was full of pride and looked so hateful.
In November of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, a fleet set off from the Tianjin port and headed for the Sea of Japan.
The leader of the fleet was Wei Zhongxian's confidant Zhang Xingming.
He was ordered to recruit fishermen who had gone to sea at high prices in the capital, most of whom were Liao residents.
Moreover, several retired old men were recruited from the Denrai Navy as captains, and ten large ships worth 4,000 materials were purchased from the Tianjin Shipyard to form a royal ocean-going fleet and go to Ezo Island to hunt whales.
The fleet arrived in Jeju three days later.
After replenishing some fresh water and food, the fleet continued to move forward and arrived at Tsushima Island.
The ocean-going fleet observers who came here earlier had already repaired a pier with the local Japanese, and told Zhang Xingming that there was no need to go to Ezo Island at all, as there were whales in the sea near Tsushima Island.
They arrived at a time when whales were showing up in large numbers.
The next morning, the fleet worshiped Mazu and then officially started fishing.
Seeing such a big whale, everyone did not dare to catch it and said, "This is the legendary Kun.
It is a divine creature.
How dare you kill it?"
The Tsushima fishermen who were their guides looked at them with disdain and finally found a sense of superiority.
A Japanese picked up a javelin with a rope attached to the back, aimed it at the head of a whale, and stabbed it hard.
The whale with a large amount of blood was tumbling in the water, and the rope was quickly straightened, pulling the entire boat sideways.
Everyone looked at the Japanese in panic, and the Japanese shouted: "They are just fish, just fish, fish for people to eat."
Then he kept repeating.
At this time, the injured whale ran blindly to the side of the boat.
The Japanese threw another javelin.
The whale struggled a few times and finally stopped moving.
He slowly pulled the rope up to the boat.
When the whale came close to the boat, he inserted a hook into the fish's head and shouted: "Pull up."
At this time, the Chinese fishermen woke up from a dream and quickly pushed over equipment similar to a gantry crane and hoisted the whale onto the deck.
This whale was two feet long, and everyone was amazed to see it.
The Japanese looked at them with contempt and said: "There are bigger ones."
After that, he took out a knife, cut open the whale's head, took out the barbed javelin, and then began to skillfully dismember the whale carcass. , divided into different parts.
When he was so tired that he was out of breath, he found that everyone was watching him busy as if watching a play, but no one came forward to help.
He sighed helplessly and shouted: "Come help."
The fishermen timidly stepped forward to help him break down the whale.
Fear comes from ignorance.
After Japanese fishermen carried out an operation to dismember a whale, the fishermen became bolder and soon began to catch whales with great fanfare.
A large boat with a cost of four thousand materials is completely sufficient for catching whales.
At least you don't have to worry about being pulled over by a wounded whale like a small boat.
This made the fishermen of Tsushima very excited.
Many of their ancestors were buried at the bottom of the sea because of whale madness.
Now there are such big ships, and officials of the Ming Dynasty said that as long as they fish with all their heart, they will be Ming people in a year's time. , which makes them look forward to the future.
On the first day, ten boats caught more than 80 whales.
The small ones were one foot long, and the big ones were almost three feet long.
This is because Zhang Xingming ordered that whales that are too small should not be captured until they grow up.
The whales were first dismembered on the deck of the ship to train the fishermen's courage.
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Later, they were caught first and then transported to the dock together with a few.
The fishermen on the pier are responsible for slaughtering the whales and dividing them into different parts.
The whale oil will be pulled to a large house next to the pier, where it will be made into candles.
The edible whale meat is pickled with salt.
The liver was carefully cut out and marinated.
The emperor said that this thing can be sold very expensively, but it cannot be wasted.
The baleen and teeth were also collected and dried, ready to be shipped back to see if they had any use.
As for whale skin, some whale skins can only be used for eating, while others are soft and tough and should be used to make some leather products.
After working hard until the evening, I finally finished processing all parts of the whale.
The next day, a fleet came to Tsushima to transport the processed products away.
When passing through Denglai, two ships will go to Dengzhou, and then two ships will stop in Tianjin to collect cargo, and other ships will be transferred to the capital.
There are two newly built factories in Zhangjiawan outside Beijing, one is a candle factory and the other is a soap factory.
The manufacturing of these two things is actually not complicated.
The important thing is that if you want to use a machine to make it, you have to put some effort into it.
Candle factories can already use machines to make candles.
Most of the processes of soap manufacturing can only be done by hand. , but the raw materials have been shipped, so naturally we can only start building it first.
Soon new varieties were on sale in the sales department of the agricultural cooperative.
One is a whale oil candle and the other is soap.
There are two types of whale oil candles.
One of them is said to be mixed with strange substances from whales, which has aphrodisiac effects.
The price is very expensive, ten times that of Mastery candles.
Ordinary whale oil candles are cheaper than white wax made from ash worms.
Soap is obviously better than soap and is cheaper to buy.
In addition, there is also a kind of pickled fish meat, which is only half the price of pork and is very popular.
Because this kind of marinated fish tastes pretty good and contains a lot of salt, you don’t need to add any more salt when cooking.
Of course, being cheap is the most important thing.
Many families have not eaten meat for a long time.
Now that such cheap meat is available, of course they will buy some for their families to improve their lives.
Whale liver is sold as a high-end food.
The cooperative promotes that this kind of whale liver is very nutritious.
Eating it can strengthen the body and make people's ears and eyesight.
Indeed, after eating it, some people found that their night blindness was cured.
And athlete's foot, some people cured their eczema and ulcers in the mouth and other places, and rich people flocked to it for a while.
Ten whaling ships, twenty transport ships, and soon the transport ships increased to thirty.
More whale meat was transported back to the mainland, and then entered the dining tables of ordinary people, which made the shortage of meat products to a certain extent. of relief.
The use of soap made pancreas gradually withdraw from the market.
Candles gradually reduced and disappeared the use of cooking oil for lighting, and objectively increased the amount of food
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