The offshore fishing industry in the Song Dynasty also developed explosively.

During the fish season along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, fishermen went out to fish one after another, with as many as a million fishing boats. This prosperity of offshore fishing gradually declined in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty. Because a large number of boat owners were forcibly recruited into the navy, in

During the resistance against the Jin Dynasty, many people died in batches. Then pirates emerged everywhere, and fishermen turned into bandits to attack each other, and even went to plunder coastal villages, and were eventually encircled and suppressed by the officers and soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In this time and space, the coastal and offshore fishing industries of Huainan, Zhejiang, and Fujian not only did not suffer severe losses, but continued to prosper and develop.

Moreover, the fishing area is getting larger and larger, and the distance from the coast is getting farther and farther, and the tonnage of fishing boats is also increasing.

The industrial chain has become richer.

For example, the by-product rubber swim bladder is a necessary material for making crossbows. Now the price has become even lower. There are many workshops in coastal areas that make rubber swim bladders.

Moreover, due to the monopoly on salt, each salt producing area has designated an exclusive sales area. And the areas where the offshore fishing industry is developed happen to be the production areas of sea salt, so they use salt to pickle salted fish like crazy, giving you half a pound of salted fish.

The wonders of salt are sold to other places.

This disguised practice of selling illegal salt has been strongly resisted by officials in other salt-producing areas.

As a result, salted fish sold across provinces will be heavily taxed by customs along the way.

Li Zuqia introduced the fishery and salt industry in Huainan and said in a joking tone: "For the people of the Ming Dynasty in Huaidong counties, fish is cheap and salt is also cheap. Every household can afford salted fish. Even a well-off family can eat three meals a day."

Eat salted fish meat for a meal. It is probably the place that eats the most meat in the entire Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, it cannot be transported out of Huainan. Just the tax on shipping out of Huainan is higher than the price of local salted fish."

"This tax is a bit heavy." Qi Qi'an sighed.

Li Zuqia smiled and said: "It's not heavy at all. Those who sell salted fish across provinces, where is the fish they are selling? You can't even see the fish. A pound of fish can shake out more than half a pound of salt. You also have such merchants in Shandong, right?

Thinking of taking advantage of the loopholes in the "Da Ming Law"."

After a few people chatted on Hongze Lake, Li Zuqia took them to Lianshui to climb Haidai Tower.

A month later, we continued southward and the team grew again.

Li Zuqia, the nephew of the then prime minister Li Hanzhang, actually stopped taking the imperial examination for the time being and took his entourage to travel south to study with them.

Six second-generation officials, all of whom hid the truth from their families, ran away to commit suicide regardless of the dangers at sea.

It's all because of that "Arabian Nights" book!
Chapter completed!