As a golden waterway connecting Chang'an and Shannan, the water of the Danjiang River is beautiful.
Green mountains on both sides of the strait, sandwiched by a clear water.
The light boat rowed through the clear water, hesitating to sail in the sky.
Li Chao sighed very much at the water quality at this time, and even sighed that the air at this time was not polluted.
There will be no smog and no sewage.
Li Chengqian's journey, Danyu was not caught, but his fishing skills were rising.
He took his Boy Scout brigade with him and now basically contracted the fishing tasks on the boat.
Walking on the boat, eating on the boat.
The boatmen were all locals along the river, and Li Chao rented their boats and paid them at market prices.
After the boatman knew that it was the current prime minister and the crown prince who sat on the boat, he said that he would not dare to take any money.
Li Chao smiled and gave it hard, and in the end the old farmer dared to accept it.
The boat is not very big, with a canopy, and it is not afraid of rain.
The cabin is not large, the deck is clean, and there is a fish tank at one end.
This boatman is specially traveling on this section of the river, carrying goods when there are goods, carrying passengers when there are passengers, fishing in his spare time, and sometimes ferrying, anyway, quite leisurely, under the dark skin, very thin but very strong muscles.
It looked like he was in his fifties, but after asking, he found out that he was only in his thirties.
His family lives on the bank of the river, and his family also has land, but there is not much land, and he is usually taken care of by his wife, and his eldest son also comes on the boat to help.
When the farm is busy, they will also go home to help.
When it comes to today's days, the boatmen are still quite satisfied.
"It's not bad, the saint is exempt from taxes, and the fields are equalized."
There are many mountains in Shangzhou and little land, and the boatman's family actually doesn't have much land, and a large family has only five acres of land.
Fortunately, his ancestors all supported boats on the Danjiang River, and boating is also an ancestral business.
Playing small followed the boat to run to the dock, passed down from generation to generation.
"Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, it's all the same."
The boatman is very simple, he thinks that his life is still good, and his family has been allocated a few acres of land, although it is not much, but at least after paying the rent, the rations are still there.
Usually support the boat, carry goods and solicit passengers to ferry, and then fish, the family's life can still be fed and clothed, which is already very good.
The boatman has a good ability to make fish.
Generally, the people on the boat have a good ability to catch fish and make fish by hand, and they don't use any condiments, they don't have any fancy skills, they are simple to boil and stew, and the condiments are only a little salt, and there are some leaves of trees and grass that grow on the banks of the river.
The boiled fish, the soup is delicious and delicious, and there is really only one word evaluation, fresh.
"Teacher, I feel that the fish made by Lao Wang is better than yours."
Li Chengqian shamelessly rebelled.
Li Chao smiled and nodded, he would not deny this.
The boatman's fish was freshly caught in the river, and the fish was good and fresh.
No raw materials were put in, only a little salt and herbs from the riverside were put to keep the original flavor and did not hide the umami of the fish itself.
The boatman's fish is characterized by a fresh, and he will only do the same thing, but Li Chao can make all kinds of tricks into the fish, and the taste is changeable, Li Chengqian usually eats more, so he naturally thinks that Li Chao's fish is also average, not as fresh as the boatman's fish, but if he eats it a few more times, he may think that Li Chao's fish is delicious.
In order to teach this unfilial disciple a lesson, Li Chao handed over the tasks of fishing and making fish to Li Chengqian in the next few days.
The fish is delicious, and fishing is fun, but killing fish and making fish is never fun.
The fish tastes fresh, but it is extremely fishy when killed, and after killing the fish, the fishy smell can't even be washed away.
There are many fish in Danjiang, but the life of a boatman is quite simple, and it is not rich.
Fish did not make the boatman rich, and it could not even change his life, he still relied more on supporting the ship to transport goods to earn some money to live.
The most fundamental reason is that no matter how good the fish is, no matter how much it is, it is difficult to monetize.
Even if the fish is caught alive, if it is to be sold, it can only be sold in a few towns along the river, but there is only one in a town that is dozens of miles away.
Moreover, by the river, there is no shortage of fish, and no matter how fat the live fish is, it cannot be sold at a high price, and often it cannot be sold no matter how cheap it is.
"Lao Wang, do you usually have dried fish at home?"
asked Li Chao.
"Sunning, people who live by the river, every household will dry a little.
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However, drying fish also depends on the season, for example, you can't dry fish in summer, and now in early autumn, it's not good, the fish stinks fast, and there are many flies, and you will have maggots if you are not careful.
"When a boatman talks about fish, it's all too familiar.
People who live near rivers often eat fish, and even get tired of eating fish.
Usually eat more fresh fish, sometimes also dry fish, but dry fish in winter, winter fish is not easy to rot and stink, secondly, there are fewer flies in winter, not easy to grow maggots.
"Generally, I don't dry much, and the fish is not delicious."
The taste of dried fish is definitely not as good as that of live fish, and it is troublesome to dry, and people by the river can often catch live fish, so they will naturally not go out of their way to dry, anyway, they can't sell it for any money.
Cheng Qian waved away the flies that smelled fishy, and said puzzledly, "The dried fish made by my teacher is delicious."
"It's pickled, smoked, grilled and fried fish, and you think it's just ordinary sun-dried.
Let's just say that my pickled fish, first of all, you have to be fresh fish, and secondly, you have to use salt.
Again, in addition to salt, pickled fish also have to put some other condiments, such as my family's put pepper, sauce, cooking wine, etc., so that it is more flavorful, the taste is unique, do you think osmanthus fish, rice fish are born with that taste?"
There are many condiments for pickled fish, which are delicious, but there is a lot of money for any kind of condiment, where do ordinary people use such a luxurious way of pickling fish.
Drying it directly and putting nothing is the simplest, but it doesn't taste good.
There is also smoked and dried kang, which are better and have more flavor.
"Lao Wang, you said that if the imperial court buys dried fish from you now, what do you think?"
Li Chao thinks that the water in Danjiang is good and there are a lot of fish, but the fish here usually can't be sold.
Next year may be a great famine, everything that can be eaten, Li Chao thinks he can try it.
The dried fish is unpalatable, but it is still meat, which is more nutritious than ordinary food.
"I can't dry fish this season, it's still too hot.
If you pickle it, the salt is expensive and you can't get it.
The boatman replied.
"You can smoke it so you don't have flies, you don't have to worry about maggots, and you don't rot and stink."
Li Chao gave Lao Wang an idea.
"Smoking takes time, you have to chop wood, and you have to smoke carefully."
Lao Wang thinks that this is not a good method, the most important thing is that after spending so much effort, the smoked fish can't be sold at any price, so why spend all this effort.
"Lao Wang, if I say that the government will buy a large number of these smoked fish from you, you will collect as much as you want, and the price is not bad, are you willing to catch and smoke the fish and sell it to the government?"
"The court collects a lot of smoked fish, and the price is good" Lao Wang looked at Li Chao with some surprise, if he didn't know that this was the prime minister of the imperial court, he really thought that he had met someone with a sick brain.
"Why does the imperial court collect smoked fish?"
"Of course, the imperial court has its own considerations, you say, if the imperial court collects it, and the price is good.
In other words, you will take the smoked fish and hand it over to the government to offset your rent and reconciliation, are you willing?"
Lao Wang didn't think Li Chao was joking with him, so he nodded violently, "Of course I do." t1706231537: