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Twenty-one years, November.

After leaving Wenyuan College, Zhou Ming took more than 30 classmates (some of them went back to his home) and returned to his hometown in Haiping County.

So many guests came, parents were a little surprised, I do not know how to arrange.

Fortunately, several years ago, a bastion designed by Zhou Ming for his family ’s vault was almost half finished. This base was made of reinforced concrete, and its circumference was one mile in height, nearly 40 meters high, and it was less than Wubao. Wuli, near Beijiang, is well-protected and protected by matchlock guns and cannons (the world has ample gunpowder raw materials, matchlock guns have been developed, and the cannons currently have only a few test items due to lack of copper), together with supporting port facilities, In the case of war, even if it is besieged by a million-strong land force, it will not fall easily.

In the tall fortress, there are hundreds of rooms with complete supporting facilities, and the river can be blown at night to see the distant sea view. Therefore, after consulting the opinions of more than 30 students, Zhou Ming placed most of these students in In the fortress room, beside each person, a servant and a maid were arranged to wait close to each other and provide good treatment.

These classmates, Zhou Ming, of course, did not feed and live up to them. These are all senior intellectuals. Some of them can be included in the “literary group” to help with literary creation, and some can be included in the “cartoon group”. Help him draw cartoons, and some can be included in the “entertainment group” to help him develop his entertainment career.

Even if some waste wood can’t help with anything, standing on the side is responsible for rising momentum, and shouting and shouting is also very useful.

In short, make the best use of things, not let a classmate, eat blindly here.

The students were properly placed and returned to Wujiabao, Tianjiazhuang. Zhou Ming asked his father Tian Feng to ask him about it. He spent most of his time in the four years and the development of the family’s various industries.

A lot of dark skin, obviously older father Tian Feng, in the past four years, all the development plans formulated by Zhou Ming have been done with utmost care, and people seem to have become more mature and mature, full of success, full of successful men Temperament, he took out more than a dozen books, and introduced it to Zhou Ming. In recent years, the development status of various industries in the family.

The first is the big farm plan. There is nothing more to say. Now in Tianjiazhuang, not only can food be self-sufficient, there are more than 4,000 cattle, more than 2,000 horses, tens of thousands of pigs and sheep in the farm. There are countless chickens and ducks, and the meat and egg milk produced every year allows the farmers in Tianjiazhuang to live a well-off life with meat and eggs every day. In recent years, the children in Tianjiazhuang have an average height of People of the same age in other counties and counties are taller than three or five centimeters, and the greater the age, the greater the gap.

The second is the large salt field plan. The current Haiping salt field has been developed for nearly ten years. The salt field area has expanded from the original 20 mu, 1,000 mu, and 5,000 mu to 30,000 mu, with an annual output of millions of sea salt. Shi, this output is close to one-third of the sea salt of Yangzhou Changlu Saltworks, but because of the shortage of manpower, and the annual payment of salt taxes at all levels of government, it has risen to 50%. Father Tian Feng has no such strong motivation. It is necessary to continue to expand the area of ​​salt fields, otherwise the government will raise the salt tax again. This hard work is tantamount to making wedding dresses for the court.

Finally, the Ocean Fishing Company plan, this plan, at the beginning, when the investment was greater than the return every year, his father Tian Feng was not particularly attentive. Instead, a large number of ships and ships were damaged every year due to storms, reefs, ocean currents, etc. The fishermen felt very painful, and sometimes they felt that the plan was stagnant and had no significance for development. However, under the insistence of his son, the plan was still sticking to their teeth, organizing training of fishermen, building shipyards, buying good wood, and building Larger, sturdier, and more scientifically shaped fishing vessels came out and continued to invest for nearly a decade. Now, they have finally achieved fruitful results and brought many unexpected surprises.

For example, the fishing volume of marine fish, small boat nets in the first few years, can only catch small fish and shrimps in the offshore waters. There are five or six hundred tons of fishing volume in a year, which is not bad. Throw away some of the rotten and spoiled products. Dried fish, you can consume most of them. However, since the 19th year of Tiansheng, Tianjia Shipyard adopted a standardized construction model and built a batch of “sea catching type 1” fishing boats with waterproof compartments and a displacement of 550 materials. After being put into batch construction, Tiansheng 20 In 2014, the catches of marine fishing companies nearly doubled to 5,000 tons in one year.

In addition, the fishermen have invented some fresh-keeping techniques for marine fish (such as wooden barrel stocking, artificial oxygen supply, etc.), which can ensure that most of the marine fish are still alive before going to shore. This gives the workers who cook the dried fish on the shore. , Bringing a lot of raw materials, so that a specialty called Haiping Dried Fish in Haiping County quickly became popular in the surrounding counties.

Even, the newly appointed Du County magistrate of Haiping County (due to the light of the Haiping Tian family, the original Chen magistrate and Sun magistrate were promoted because of their outstanding performance), found that “Haiping dried fish” tastes good, very Features, to please the center, this dried fish is listed as a tribute, dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor Ming and the Queen Mother, and soon received a praise, requesting the annual supply of dried fish and hundreds of stones, to taste the royal family, civil and military officers .

If the dried fish industry is a well-regulated and profitable industry, then the Tianjia Marine Fishing Company, the whale fishing industry that has developed wildly in the past two years, is a completely profitable industry. It only depends on whale fishing for two years. In time, the Tianjia Marine Fishing Company made all the huge sums of money it invested in the previous decade, not to mention the huge profits of nearly 200,000 yuan.

Why is whale fishing a profiteering industry?

Because all the whales are treasure!

Whale skin, after being tanned, is firm, durable, waterproof and corrosion-resistant, and strong in defense. It can be made into leather armor, belts, waterproof clothing and whale skin umbrellas, hiking shoes, backpack straps and so on … like ancient industrial plastics , Extremely versatile.

Whale fat, refined whale oil, after burning, has a special fragrance, refreshing, valuable, and is a good industrial lubricant. In the future, it is necessary to manufacture steam engines and whale oil.

Whale meat can be eaten, tastes similar to beef, delicate taste, rich in protein, and not easy to cause obesity, the price is not expensive.

Whale tendons are much stronger than beef tendons and lamb tendons, and are comparable to crocodile tendons. Bows and arrows, crossbows, and various types of siege devices. After using whale tendons, the power will be improved a lot. Whale tendons can be said to be one A variety of military strategic materials.

Whale bones, after grinding into powder, are a kind of high-grade “composite fertilizer” containing a variety of mineral elements, which are applied to the field and can play a magical effect on agricultural output + 10%.

Whale offal, some can be used as medicine, some are delicious ingredients, in short, there are many functions.

Whale **** … throw it away.

How was the first whale of Tianjia Marine Fishing Company caught? It is also a coincidence that this whale was seriously injured after fighting a group of fierce sharks, and fled to the sea offshore. It coincided with the low tide of the sea. This whale, 18 meters long and weighing a thousand stones (50 tons), Unfortunately, she ran aground on the shoal and was picked up cheaply by a “sea catcher 1” fishing boat returning from fishing …

After tasting the sweetness of this stranded whale (this whale is equal to the company’s previous year’s revenue), the marine fishing company, unprecedented, specially modified several whaling ships for whaling. He came out, organized a whaling fleet, and cooperated in whaling. Within two years, he caught hundreds of small and medium-sized whales and returned (the big ones did n’t dare to provoke them). They sold whale oil extracted from these whales. , I earned hundreds of thousands of rounds.

The whale groups in the sea are just like the cattle and horses on land. There are countless. For example, in an ocean current confluence zone more than 300 miles east of Haiping County, tens of thousands of whales live, even if the whaling fleet, one year Catching it for eight or eight hundred is just to update the speed of these whale populations, a little faster.

Uh …

A few days later.

Tianjiazhuang, 30 miles northeast of the sea, a shipyard covering an area of ​​hundreds of acres, is holding a new ship launching ceremony.

Zhou Ming and his father Tian Feng came here.

The person in charge of the shipyard is Tian Guang. He is a middle-aged man in his forties. He has rough skin and dark skin like an old farmer. He is an uncle of the Tian family. He was originally a shipbuilding carpenter and has a certain cultural literacy. He was quite good at building sea ships. After Zhou Ming recruited him, the shipyard’s affairs were handed over to him.

In the center of the shipyard, on the largest berth, sit a ship with a relatively wide side (about 7.5). The ship has a narrow toe and a long slender hull, with three hurdles on the mast (for sails), and two on the left and right of the crotch. Rows of oars can arrange 80 oarsmen to scull; there are also two rows of fins on the bottom of the boat, which are used to reduce the rolling amplitude of the hull during sea navigation.

In front of the new ship that was about to launch, Tian Guang, the shipyard ’s head, flirted and said: “This“ Ocean One ”cargo ship has reached 1155 materials, three decks, and 68 waterproof compartments in it. Large, can load 2,000 stone (= 100 tons) of materials, fixed crew up and down 150 people, operating boat sailing oars, sailing thousands of miles a day under the conditions of wind and water, without exception! With this type of cargo ship, marine fishing company, In the future fishing season, fishing vessels do not have to travel back and forth. The transportation work is exclusively carried by the first-class marine cargo ships. The efficiency of fishing will increase several times! “

In any industry, to improve efficiency, we must pay attention to the division of labor and cooperation, and the same is true for marine fishing: “sea catching type 1” fishing boats are dedicated to fishing, UU reading www.uukaanshu. The more com catches, the better; the “ship type 1”, which has a faster boat speed and more cabins, specializes in transportation … In this way, in the least three or four months of the year when the sea storms, the ocean fishing company ’s catch In this mode of division of labor, there will be a surge.

Zhou Ming nodded and asked him: “Guangshu, the first type of marine cargo ship, let’s mass-produce 20 first. The focus of the next research should be on the” sea catching type 2 “fishing boat. This new type of fishing boat is used It is expected that when it is more than 2,000, it will be able to catch at least two large whales once it has gone out to sea once … You strive to develop a ‘sea catching type two’ fishing vessel within two years. “

Two years?

Tian Guang was taken aback, which is too urgent, doubling the shipbuilding materials means that the workload is not as simple as doubling, but three to four times! In order to maintain the stability of the ship’s navigation, the structural design of the internal cabin also needs to be calculated through a large amount of data. Therefore, the larger the ship, the harder it is to build, which is an axiom in the shipbuilding industry.

“Then it’s about three years, it’s better not to exceed four years! The company will also find ways to recruit more people and craftsmen, including ship design talents … Uncle Guang, you can do it in just two years, The construction of the ‘Marine One Type’ from scratch means that in the face of greater challenges, you can do better than you think! “

Seeing him a little embarrassed, Zhou Ming gave him a breath.

Tian Guang nodded, a firm confidence on his face.

“it has started!”

“Drained, drained!”

With the cheers of his father Tian Fenghe workers, the lock gate opened slowly, and after the seawater was injected into the dock, the new cargo ship, which was slender and bowed with yellow tung oil, slowly floated from the water. It is also like an artificial miracle, which brings people to endless reverie …