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Chapter 298 Gao's Fishing Line

"It's specifically for Yuan Chonghuan's business?" Zhang Yong was stunned.

"Yes, I heard that Yuan Chonghuan has soared into the sky from the seventh-rank county magistrate and became the fourth-rank Ningqian Army Chief! I had contacted this boy when I was in Fujian. I knew that this person could only brag and had no real ability! It was said that he was Zhao Kuo, who was talking about military affairs on paper, insulted Zhao Kuo! How could such a person be arranged to go to the important place in Liaodong?" Gao Shixin said.

Zhang Yong quickly defended himself: "Brother, I have already left the memorial of Hou Xun to stay and not send it! Who would have expected that Hou Xun went to find my uncle directly, and his uncle took the memorial of memorial of staying and not sending it to the emperor. The emperor asked Sun Ge Lao to see him. Sun Ge Lao thought this person was available, what can I do?"

"Why don't you tell Master Sun?" Gao Shixin asked.

"I'm one step late. The emperor's imperial edict has been issued. What's the use of me?" Zhang Yong sighed, "But it's okay. I sent Fan Xin and I to be the military supervisor. Once something is wrong with that guy, I will let the fan take him down immediately!"

Gao Shixin felt much more relieved now. As long as the time traveler is a normal person, he will not like Yuandudu. Judging from various historical materials, Yuandududu is not as terrifying as the treason written in some online articles. According to Gao Shixin's judgment, Yuandudu did not want to surrender to Jiannu's treason, but this person is very ambitious and talented, has a first-class verbal blow, and he wants to discuss peace to make up for his lies. As a result, he kills Mao Wenlong without any worries, causing Huang Taiji to launch the Jisi change.

The biggest consequence of the Jisi Incident was that the army in Shanxi and Shaanxi rebelled, and the rebellious army defected to the bandit army of Wang Ziyong and Wang Jiayin. Among those officers and soldiers, there was a small officer named Li Zicheng.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty was indirectly broken in Yuandudu’s hands.

When Gao Shixin heard that Yuan Dudu was going to Liaodong, he was frightened at that time. He thought that Zhang Yong was Yuan Fan in his previous life, but when he came back to inquire, he learned that Zhang Yong had already arranged a backup plan, so he felt relieved. Gao Shixin believed in Zhang Yong's ability to do business, as long as his little brother was not Yuan Fan.

Just as Gao Shixin was thinking about it, Zhang Yong suddenly asked: "Brother, do you remember what happened in your previous life?"

"Previous life?" Gao Shixin was shocked. He couldn't let him know about Zhang Yong coming to be a father-in-law, so he replied, "Yongwazi, how can a person remember the events of his previous life? Can you remember?"

Zhang Yong smiled and said, "Brother, I'm not afraid of you making jokes. I remember a little bit. It feels like I've had a dream, but it's not very real, and I can't remember it clearly."

"We are just like brothers. Even if you really remember what happened in your previous life, I wouldn't tell anyone." Gao Shixin patted Zhang Yong's shoulder and comforted him.

But Zhang Yong still did not dare to tell Gao Shixin the truth of the matter. If such a thing that had memory for two lives was spread, he would probably be burned to death as a monster.

Gao Shixin left the capital and returned to Tianjin. Because Gao Shixin made great contributions many times, the court gave him a fiefdom. Gao Shixin did not want to leave those enviable good land. He gave all the good land confiscated by the Jinyiwei and gave it to the little carpenter to serve as the imperial village. However, he asked for a piece of land on the seashore of Tianjin and another piece of land on the seashore of Weihai, Dengzhou.

These lands by the sea are barren lands, and they cannot plant wheat or rice. Apart from growing mangroves and some salt-tolerant weeds, there are almost no other vegetation. However, Gao Shixin wanted to leave these lands and use them as his own farm.

Why do we need to take these two pieces of land? In fact, we start from a strategic perspective. Once Liaodong changes, we can mobilize troops from Weihai and Tianjin to reach Liaodong as fast as possible; if the Later Jin attacks Korea, we can also quickly reinforce Korea from Tianjin and Weihai. In addition, Weihai is also a supply point for the future royal merchant fleet. If we take the Japan route, we can obtain supplies in Weihai.

As for the production capacity of these places, Gao Shixin also considered that Weihai's land is better than that of Tianjin. Although they are all on the seashore, Weihai has hills that reach the seashore with a higher terrain and can plant high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes. Weihai Port is also a fishing port, and fleets can go out to sea to catch fish. At that time, the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea had abundant fish resources. If you go down one by one, you will be a big net of fish, unlike the later 21st century, where there were few fish.

In Tianjin, Gao Shixin not only opened a fishing port, but also a seawater farm. He followed Zhang Yong's new farm to dig deeper into a fish pond, and put the digging soil on both sides to plant trees, and then used the open space to plant some vegetables and sweet potatoes.

The seawater farms in the north can raise seafood such as sea bass, halibut, stone flounder, big prawns, pikes, and pike crabs. These fish are not like wild fish. When they are caught on a fishing boat, they are basically dead when they are returned to the shore. It is difficult to catch live fish. When these fish are caught, they are all live fish. They are placed in a water tank and transported to the capital by a speedboat. Therefore, they are very popular among major restaurants in the capital.

Although restaurants sell a lot of live fish, those live fish are river fish, and the taste of river fish is far less than that of sea fish. The live fish smell is much heavier than sea fish, so in some high-end restaurants, dead sea fish are sold better than live river fish.

The reason why sea-farming fish does not raise the most delicious yellow croaker is that once it is artificially cultivated, it will become very fishy. The best quality of yellow croaker is the fish caught by sea, which tastes much more delicious than those caught by trawling.

The slaves were sweating profusely and digging fish ponds by the sea. Two of them had already been dug, and fish and shrimps were placed in them. Since the seawater pig farm has just started to breed, Gao Shixin is not able to provide live food to the Beijing restaurant for the time being, so the seafood currently provided is all fish and shrimps, and they are dead when they are sent ashore.

But he built an ice cellar on the beach of Tianjin. The precious seafood he caught was preserved in ice cubes and then sent to the capital by a fast ship. Every time he arrived, the goods were sold out by the restaurants in the capital.

The seafood provided by Gao Shixin is called Gao's Fishing Farm. The ships used to transport fresh fish between Tianjin and the capital are all hung with the flags of Gao's Fishing Farm. These fresh fish are very popular among major restaurants and brothels in the capital.

At the sea estuary of Tianjin, Gao's Fishing Farm also built a canned factory, which is specially used to produce canned fish. Fishing boats caught low-quality sea fish such as mackerel and blue thorn, and most of them were used to make canned fish or dried fish.

Making canned fish is actually very simple. Put the fish pieces into the clay pot, then put the seasonings, and add a little sauce, brown sugar, and salt. After heating, use the heat to plug the cork on the mouth of the can, and wait until it cools down. Due to the principle of thermal expansion and contraction, the canned mouth shrinks, and press the cork tightly and isolate it from the outside air. In this way, a canned fish has a long shelf life.

Gao's Fishing Farm is not an imperial property, but a private property. It is a company run by Gao Shixin himself. However, he is different from those scholars who have no moral integrity. Those guys can be exempted from taxes as much as possible, while Gao Shixin honestly pays taxes to Daming, but these taxes were not handed over to the Ministry of Revenue, but directly handed over to the Silijian. However, Gao's Fishing Farm is still in a loss period, and the money earned by selling the fish caught at sea is not enough to open a seawater farm. At present, the food expenses of those slaves rely on Gao Shixin to pay for them by himself to support them.

These slaves were all prisoners captured by the last time suppressing Xu Hongru's rebellion. Some of the prisoners were taken away by Gao Shixin himself and were put into Gao's fishing business as coolies.

The fishing boats and fishermen of the Gao family fishing are all fishermen on the seaside.
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