Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 108 The Plan Can't Keep Up With Changes

Hearing the sound of the horn faintly, in the cabin, the 13-year-old boy opened his eyes without turning on the lights. Taking advantage of the dim light coming in from outside the cabin, he found that his husband on the bed next door had gotten up at some time, jumped up quickly, and felt the darkness quickly After dressing and washing, he walked all the way to the door of the upper cabin of this thousand-material ship, and then slowed himself down.

The surroundings are still shrouded in night, the stars above the head are sparse, but there are little fishing lights around, as if the sky and the earth are upside down.

Looking around, the boy's breathing also stabilized.According to the teacher's usual instructions, he stepped into the cabin without haste.

Everyone is discussing matters around a long table.

The young man entered the door, saw the gentleman looking over, then cupped his hands, and said apologetically, "The disciple fell asleep, please punish him."

Li Gui looked at the disciple who became more and more satisfied during this time, smiled and shook his head, and said, "You are also tired from traveling around at sea these days, today I specially asked you to sleep more, and you should work hard in the future."

Liu Chaosheng hurriedly cupped his hands again.

Then he did not forget to say hello to the others: "Chaosheng met Wang Qianhu, Qizhi County, and everyone."

Wang Wu, who was in charge of the sea arrest and guarding, and Qi Sheng, the magistrate of Xiangshan County who was ordered to come from Xiangshan County, also nodded with a smile, and the others followed suit, and the atmosphere was harmonious.

Who doesn't like a well-mannered teenager?

After the greeting, everyone turned to business. Li Gui continued to discuss today's sea fishing route with the other two and the surrounding officials. Liu Chaosheng was in charge of delivering paper and pens or serving tea and water on the periphery in a regular manner.

Today is the tenth day of April.

The fleet departed from Dinghai on the sixth day of April and arrived at Hepu Island harbor in the south of Xiangshan yesterday. This is an official port determined by the Ming Navy in advance. It is on the north-south waterway, so there is also a lighthouse.

In addition, Hepu Port is only sixty miles away from the Yushan Islands in the southeast, which is also the starting point of this sea fishing, the Yushan Fishing Ground.

When the sky was bright, counting the boats coming from Xiangshan and Wentai in the south, a huge sea fishing team of more than 2 people had breakfast. Countless ships, big and small, left the port one after another with the horn of departure, heading to the sea. go.

Through repeated observation and detection, the Yinghai Division confirmed that there will be no major storms in the next three days in the sea off Xiangshan.Three days is the official weather forecast limit stipulated by the Yinghai Division. Forecasts exceeding three days cannot be counted.

Therefore, this sea fishing operation will last three days in the open sea, starting on the morning of the [-]th day of April and returning in the afternoon of the [-]th day of April.

No wind today.

The fleet basically relied on manpower. It was not until the afternoon that they arrived in the vicinity of the Yushan Islands. From a distance, one of the islands could be seen emitting a plume of smoke. It was another recently established navigation lighthouse with two small flags stationed daily. 20 people team.

If fishermen on nearby boats encounter problems, they can make an emergency stop in the direction of the lighthouse for assistance.

In the vast sea, a total of more than [-] large and small ships were scattered, without any sign of congestion. At this time, everyone was concerned about their feet.

The dense shoals of large yellow croakers visible to the naked eye even make the ocean surface golden.You can also hear the sound of 'cuckoo...cuckoo...', which is the cry of the big yellow croaker.

On the eastern outskirts of the area where fishing boats are scattered, two large boats of 001 materials and four small fishing boats form a group. The two large boats have eye-catching white numbers, 002 and [-]. Not only that, the sides of the hull are also painted with pure white large characters.

001 is flanked by 'safe production' and 'everyone is responsible', while 002 is flanked by 'work hard' and 'everyone strives to be the first'.

Similar to slogans, all the large ships under the Mingzhou Fishery Production Company have them, and even the official ships and military ships following this time are not lacking in large white characters such as "official and civilian family" and "military and civilian family".

This is naturally written by Zhu Yuan.

The purpose is for some subtle influence.

This is subsection.

The two large ships 001 and 002 constitute the first production team of the Mingzhou Fishery Production Company. The captain of the No. 001 ship is Liu Da, the eldest son of Liu Laoqi, who is also the leader of the first production team.

Taking my own production team to the east of the fishing ground in one breath, looking at the densely packed fish under my feet, most of the people on the boat felt a little unreal.

This……

Such a prosperous fish situation has disappeared for many years.Even, some young people, this is the first time they have seen it in their life.It's not that the fish are not there, the fish have always been there.But in the past years, the army was in turmoil, and it was difficult for the people along the coast to survive, let alone organize a fleet of this size to go fishing in the far sea.

Everyone stared blankly, and when they heard someone yelling from a distance, a thin old man next to Liu Da finally said, "Leader, shall we get off the net too?"

Liu Da came to his senses and nodded quickly: "Down, down..."

The Liu family could have been converted to private households in silence. After all, Liu Laoqi became an official, and the southeast has been in chaos for a few years. difficulty.

However, for the sake of the future of the three grandchildren, Liu Laoqi, who had become a bit more assertive after the trouble at the beginning, personally made the decision and still declared the fisherman.

Or for their own children, the three Liu brothers have no objection.

This trip to the sea, the three brothers all came to the south, and they are also related to Liu Laoqi. The three brothers are all team leaders, leading the first to third production teams respectively.

Everyone is okay with that.

Who let the Liu family have such good luck? Moreover, the three brothers are also considered kind people. Compared with other group leaders who have no background, following the group of the three brothers can benefit more.

Years of troubled times have led to the slack fishing industry in the southeast coast. There are not many people in the first group of two large boats who can operate large pairs of fishing, let alone two large boats with 500 feed.Under the guidance of several elderly fishermen, the two boats approached and carefully spread out the ten-foot-long large double net. Four small boats also came to help spread the net.

When the pair of nets fell, the four rows of large oars on the two ships were also ready to stop.

Liu Da personally took the lead in shouting the chant, and the big boat began to move forward slowly, dragging the ten-foot-long large pair of nets to cover the fish under the water.

After less than a mile, the two old fishermen in charge of observation reminded them to stop.

The fish are too busy, if you drag again, the net will explode.

Then came the net.

In order to keep the boat balanced, more than half of the people went to one side of the big boat, and the other 30 people lined up on the other side of the boat. When they tried to lift the big net, they found that there were still too many fish.

Liu Da asked an experienced fisherman, called four small boats, first unloaded the fish into a part of the small boats, and then made another effort.

"Hi-yo-hey-"

"Start—big—net—heh—"

In the shouts of concerted efforts, when the pair of nets finally came out of the water, there was a sudden sound of fish jumping, cooing yellow croakers, and fishermen's chants.

After working for a quarter of an hour, the first large yellow croaker finally arrived on the deck of the ship No. 001.

Whether it is a veteran boatman for many years or a young junior who is going to sea for the first time, looking at the fat yellow croaker on the deck that can weigh at least two thousand catties at a glance, they are all a little dazed.Some people even thought that if the boat belonged to their own family, the [-]-odd loads of fish caught in this net would be enough to go home and marry a wife.

With a few more nets, the new house and big house can all be up.

Seeing that everyone around him was also in a daze, Liu Da, who was in a daze, came back to his senses first, and realized that he should take the lead, and shouted: "What are you in a daze for, unload the fish quickly, while the sky is still there, let's fish a few more times." Nets, the Marshal Envoy has orders. The more fish you catch, the more rewards you will get. Old Xuntou, take out the basket every few times..."

When everyone heard Liu shouting, they started to get busy.

At about the same time, the tens of miles of ocean around the Yushan Islands, similar to Liu Da's first production team, was full of exclamations and admiration for a good harvest.

Problems arose quickly, too.

Due to unfamiliarity, when the first day was approaching dusk, a 26-load ship of the [-]th production team did not expect a seven or eight-foot-long juvenile shark to be hidden in one of the nets. When pulling out the net, the baby shark suddenly exerted force, and brought the fish with a thousand catties, and directly brought the fishing boat over.

Fortunately, there are fishermen nearby, and the Qianliao navy ship that Qianhu Wangwu was on happened to pass by, and they were rescued in time. Not only were the people rescued, but even the overturned boat was saved after being righted in time.

It's a pity that all the thousands of catties of fish caught on the deck were dumped out, and the day's work was wasted.

Li Gui also arrived in time.

According to the regulations, the position of the leader of the 26th production team was revoked, a new person was replaced, and at the same time, the entire team was asked to conduct a review.

Not much criticism.

Because... On this day, Li Gui was in a really good mood seeing the bumper harvest after boat after boat.

When it got dark, more than a thousand fishing boats did not return to Hepu, but gathered near the lighthouse island of Yushan Islands.

This side has been surveyed in advance to confirm the location suitable for berthing.

While Wang Wu of Ying Haiwei Thousand Households was arranging the night defense, Li Gui also changed to a small boat of about [-] feet and [-] materials, and kept shuttling between the various production teams, roughly counting today's fishing results, and at the same time found More questions.

The most serious one is that in less than a day, many production teams have already experienced tension and rupture in the paired nets.

Even if the nets set by the Ying Hai Division are higher than the consumption standards of private weaving nets, they will not be able to withstand high-intensity fishing after all. Therefore, many production teams are organizing repairs to fishing nets after dark.

Then there is the most critical, fishing results.

For net fishing, it is a very time-consuming process to lower the net, trawl the net, and lift the net each time. Taking the first production team where Liu Da works as an example, it started in the afternoon and until night fell, only four times in total. .

The fish catch is rich.

I found too many fish in the net for the first time, and there was a rollover around, so I became careful here, but even so, the first production team lowered the net four times, and the preliminary estimate was 5000 to 6000 catties, which is equivalent to fifty or sixty bear.

The first production team has a total of 200 people. According to the fishing task set by Zhu Yuan, 200 loads of fish need to be given.

In just one afternoon, the team completed more than a quarter of the fishing tasks.

By analogy, it is conceivable that as long as everything goes well in the future and it is only the first three days to go to sea, the official fishing team will be able to complete all the 8000 tons of sea fishing tasks this time.

As for private fishing boats, compared with the total of 300 in the imperial court, the number of private fishing boats is more than 1300, far exceeding the official ones. Even if the individual size is small, it is expected that the total amount of sea catches this time will not be lower than the official ones.

The plan is to return on April [-],
Today is the tenth day of April.

After Li Gui's evening patrol, he came to his boat and made some calculations with Qi Sheng, the magistrate of Xiangshan County, and the officials of Yinghai Division. Without wind and waves, it is conservatively estimated that 2000 tons of fish can be brought back to Dinghai.

This is more than twice as many missions as the little adults assigned by Yinghai Envoy.

Li Gui also knows that in this summer fishing season, someone's ultimate goal is to catch 10 loads of fish. Now it seems... what kind of goal is this?

It’s just that the total of more than 1600 large and small boats on the Yushan fishing ground are full of fish, and it is estimated that they can have 5 tons.

As for 10 tons...

If the fishing boats in Dinghai had obtained enough nets before, all of them would go south this time. With the goal of 10 dan, there would be no need to wait for the fishing season to reach the Zhoushan area after Xiaoman.

Li Gui's idea is very good, but he forgot that plans can never keep up with changes.

On the first day when the fleet started fishing, the hemp fishing nets that were not durable in this age were generally damaged.On the second day, after the same busy day, there were more corresponding problems. Even if Yinghai Division urgently issued an order that night to order each production team to use fishing nets carefully, the problems continued to be serious on the third day.

On the afternoon of April [-]th, return on time.

As soon as the fleet berthed at Hepu Port, Liu Da took a pair of shark fins that the team also got by accident, and ran to visit his son first.

In the past three days, the father and son met at sea, but they didn't speak.

Came to the cabin where Liu Chaosheng and Li Gui lived together, put down the shark fin, Liu Da ignored his son's stop, and started to help take care of it, wishing to wash Mr. Li's clothes until his son knelt down and hugged his thigh Called to stop, Liu Dacai finally stopped.

There was no shark fin left either.

The son meant that neither the husband nor himself could accept it, and reminded his father that it should be recorded in the account. After all, this is a precious thing and can be exchanged for success.

Liu Da didn't care about any credit.

However, since the son said it, of course he had to do it.

You can't delay your son's future.

After speaking, he left his son's cabin and asked someone to take the shark's fin back first, then Liu Dacai rushed to the upper cabin of the large Yinghaisi ship.

There is already a meeting here.

There is only one problem, if Yinghai Division does not immediately raise hemp materials to repair the fishing nets, and by the way, soak it in tung oil again for waterproof treatment, then it will be impossible to go to sea!
However, not to mention hemp, the fleet did not carry much tung oil this time.

Facing the problem, Li Gui also had difficulties.

In three days, although detailed statistics have not yet been released, the target of 8000 loads of fish must be more than enough.

The problem is that the fishing nets of each production team are almost damaged.

While Li Gui was distressed, he also thought of the folk proverb of "three days of fishing and two days of drying the net".We can only send a boat back to Dinghai all the time, and let Yinghai Division find a way.

The goal has been achieved.

Should I go back directly, or wait for the hemp material to be replenished?
(End of this chapter)