Villager of Daming

Chapter 1133: Geography and economy are not just one corner

Officials in Gaizhou County are in luck. They don't like to eat seafood very much. They usually only like to eat it in winter. Seafood can be stored for a long time after being fished out of the sea.

If you eat Spanish mackerel now, it will be very fishy when the fishermen catch it from the sea and deliver it to the county government office. The longer it goes out to sea, the more fishy the fish will be.

They do not know this principle, but they know this fact.

Officials like to eat prawns, but they are difficult to catch. Fishermen use throw nets. Unless they wait until spring, when a large number of prawns appear here to spawn and reproduce, they can only find a reef that will not be submerged after high tide, or go there by themselves. My family’s small fishing boat, on which I fish for shrimps.

During that time, people at the beach had a lot of harvests. After the female shrimp laid eggs, they were washed up on the shallows by the sea water. Everyone picked them up and immediately boiled them and dried them in the sun. Some of them were already dead. Most of the female shrimps died after laying eggs.

When there is a tide in the morning, whether they are dead or dying, they are washed up and fished out in baskets.

When cooking, don't use sea water, it must be fresh water, and add some salt separately. The sergeants came here last year to teach you.

After they are cooked and dried, they are put into sacks and beaten. The shells of the prawns gradually break into pieces, and the heads and tails of the prawns are also smashed away. The remaining shrimps are collected by this department store.

Officials also do something. They don't spend money. During transportation, there will be natural wear and tear. Department store sellers say that loss is not enough, and the people don't agree. Fifty pounds is fifty pounds.

Key Department Store also refused to agree. You sent me forty catties and told me fifty catties. If I accept fifty catties, will I make up for the ten catties myself?

What? Storage loss in my warehouse? No, I don’t lose it. What’s more, even if there is loss, can’t I eat it myself? Why do you let me report the loss after you eat it?

So the officials sent the shrimps to the mutual market place in Dingliao Duwei via the river in winter and sold them to the Jurchens, so that there would be losses.

It was clearly eight pounds, but it was said to be ten pounds. The Jurchens also knew the situation, accepted it, and tolerated it.

In fact, the ratio is not that big. Isn't it normal for a 5,000 jin shrimp meal to be less than a hundred jin? The officials divided the 100 jin or so.

Officials have eaten prawns. Two months ago, they even ate prawns that were over a foot long! But they had never eaten open-backed prawns before. They didn't even know how to remove the shrimp threads when eating them.

When you eat prawns, they are cooked. Peel off the shells with your hands and eat the meat. The shrimp threads are still on it! It's actually very fishy when you eat it. The bigger the shrimp, the fishier it is because the shrimp threads are also larger.

It was impossible for Zhu Wentian to watch the caught prawns being operated like this. He opened the backs, baked them with salt, buttered them, cut them on iron plates...

While he was doing this, I was secretly eating, and I was muttering to myself: There are too few good prawns at this time, and it would have been better if it had been served two months in advance.

Right now, prawns are the same as mackerel. If we leave here in another month, most of the female prawns that came here in the first two months will die, and the rest will become thinner. The few who survive will make themselves fat again. , it is simply rare.

Zhu Wentian has seen before that wild female shrimps that are five years old usually die in one year. Just like crabs, they live a long time. If they are caught on a yacht, if they are not dead, they don't want to eat them, so let them go! What if I can live another year?

When Zhu Wentian cooked prawns in this way, everyone changed the tableware and used knives and forks, but the knife was not a serrated blade, but a normal blade, very sharp.

When the officials of Gaizhou County saw the tableware coming up, they picked it up very skillfully and knew how to use it. There were Jurchens in the area. In fact, a knife was enough, and a small fork was fine, so there was no need to use it.

Zhu Wentian left the heads and tails of fresh prawns and stir-fried them on the iron plate.

If you take it out of the bucket and it looks like it has been dead for more than two hours, don't leave the head to avoid eating problems.

Ling'er was the happiest, busy delivering things to everyone, and sneaking a bite when picking up things.

"Everyone, have a drink." The key people had all eaten the prawns, and Zhu Ping raised his glass.

Everyone raised their glasses. Zhu Ping was currently the eldest here. Xu Da, the general who held the position of prime minister, was not as high as Zhu Ping in theory. "Drink, cool, good, oops! Hmm! Hey hey hey hey..."

Zhu Wentian adjusted the position of the heavy machine gun with his feet. The position of the sun changed, the light also changed, and the shooting field of view was different.

By the way, he put some sauce on the small crabs that were skewered on the side and fried in a small oil pan, and gave Ling'er a handful of small skewers.

These are small sand crabs that won’t grow very big. Don’t eat them if you want to eat meat. They are only suitable for deep-frying and will be crunchy when eaten.

The key is that the swimming crabs are too small now, so you have to wait more than a month before you can eat them, preferably two months later.

The local magistrate of Gaizhou County over there felt really comfortable after drinking. He actually had ice-cold beer. He drank the beer once, just once, and eighty sergeants brought it with them when they came over.

"Okay!" Zhu Ming was satisfied and put down the cup: "If I have anything to say, I will follow you all the way, passing by my fiefdom, and then to the fiefdom of my third brother, King Jin, and the fiefdom of my fourth brother, King Yan.

In other people's fiefdoms, we don't want to talk too much. We each mind our own business, and there is no need for me to step in and take over.

When we arrived here, unlike there, I and my three younger brothers brought political and military orders.

In the eyes of some people, this is rights, profit-making interests, after all, rights and interests are combined with benefits.

It's just that in our hearts, we don't want this kind of benefit. Whoever takes the benefit must bear responsibility.

Gaizhou County has a small population and its main source of income is farming. Previously, the sea was banned, which frightened some fishermen.

Nowadays, the sea is still closed, only foreign trade is prohibited, fishing is not allowed, and no one cares about contacting Japanese pirates.

What I want to talk about is making money, not making money. If I want money, I will not come to you. How much money can you give me?

I will tell you about Shijiu Lake. Some people may not know where Shijiu Lake is. It doesn’t matter, it is..."

Zhu Xi began to explain that he must take on this responsibility and cannot always ask the village chief and Xiaqiu Village to take the lead.

According to the resources he has at his disposal, he dares to compete with Prince Zhu Biao, provided that Xiaqiu Village supports it, but Xiaqiu Village will never allow it.

Zhu Biao was the eldest son, so he would be the crown prince regardless of where he was, not to mention the fact that he had the eldest grandson.

Of course, Zhu Feng himself did not want to be a prince, and he had a good relationship with his eldest brother. He was talking about how to develop a passing economy in Shijiu Lake and how to turn the passing economy into an industrial chain economy.

There is an outlet to the sea here and a natural harbor for seafood. At present, the entire Liaodong is located. Apart from non-mineral resource-based areas and non-political administrative areas, the only remaining areas are trading areas.

Trade with the Jurchens and trade with Goryeo, the economies of these two places should be good.

What is there in Gaizhou County? The outlet to the sea! The land route is too difficult to travel, and there are seasonal rivers. In spring and autumn, river transportation is used, and in winter, ice transportation is used.

That is, with good ships, Gaizhou County can send seafood to the inland and obtain inland export materials.

"This is a development strategy for the economic model of our region. I am not here for Gaizhou County. We will link it up later. In many cases, political interests come first."

After Zhu Fang finished speaking, he reminded the Gaizhou County officials who listened in rapt attention that we are not here specifically to help you, you are just one part of it.

(End of this chapter)