Villager of Daming

Chapter 652 The North needs more exchanges
"It's really profitable!" Yan Xizhe, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, sighed with emotion. A boat can go out for a few days and earn [-] copper coins. One clam is worth ten copper coins?

"It can only be sold a few times, and the overall amount of money is limited. When I sold it to them, it was [-] yuan per catty. If they sell it again, they will increase the price."

The mayor shook his head. If there were too many, they would be worthless, and everyone’s purchasing power could not keep up.

Let everyone have something fresh to eat first, and then come back on the next boat. The price needs to be reduced a lot, for example, twenty cents per catty, and one cent for a large clam.

Ordinary people would not buy it. They only need a few pennies to have a full meal. They are not satisfied with eating clams. The money is gone.

"When packing, both sizes are required, and then sold separately. The big ones are more expensive, and the small ones are naturally cheaper. Forty yuan per catty, twenty cents per catty.

The common people could earn a day's money and still have money left over to buy a pound. If forty were cooked, a few could be eaten by the whole family.

Instead of going that far, let people pick up shellfish near the sea, and bring them over for ten cents a pound, so that the people can eat enough.

There are seafood products in Suzhou Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, Shaoxing Prefecture, and Hangzhou Prefecture.

There is no need to load too much coal and water on the ship to transport [-] dan,"

Yan Xizhe doesn't necessarily have to make a lot of money when he comes up with an idea. The current shipping speed in offshore transportation is fast, so making a few hundred guan at a time is not money?

Even if it costs ten cents per catty, 18 catties is still [-] guan. Excluding the cost of hiring manpower, [-] guan is no problem.

Two days of work, no, one trip of transportation, [-] guan a day, and [-] guan in a year, how much revenue will the imperial court have?
One ship costs 30 yuan, ten ships...

No, it can’t be calculated that way. People can’t eat this every day. And how many are there on the beach?
Yan Xizhe thought about it and became distressed, how should the account be settled?

"Build the ship first, then sell it to see if it can't be sold, then reduce the price. The main thing is transportation, not necessarily fishing for seafood."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the troubled look on the face of his minister of household affairs, shook his head, and advised him not to worry.

"I am too urgent. Transportation is important. Yes, no matter what he transports! Anyway, the exchange of goods along the Yangtze River will be convenient."

Yan Xizhe wiped the sweat from his forehead and found that he was in over his head.

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The soybeans were being harvested, and the [-]-ton ship left again. This time, instead of going to Jiulian City, it took boilers, radiators, heating pipes, steam engines, generators, light bulbs, and wires to the northeastern part of the Bohai Bay.

It is not called Liaodong Bay yet, and there is no Yingkou or Daliao River, only Sancha River.

Liaoyang is not called Liaoyang, but Ding Liaoduwei. From there, continuing to the northeast, is the Hun River in the northeast, flowing from east to west.

Shenyang Zhongwei can be reached from Hunhe, but it does not have this name now, and Fushun is even later.

At present, Fushun is conducting border trade with the Jurchens and has built greenhouses. There is good coal there, so good that the coal slime is better than the coal from the coal mines in Guangdong.

There are large amounts of coal and amber, and they are mined in open pits.

Heating and lights were delivered to them to boost their morale, and then they took the washed coal to Jiulian City and delivered most of the coal to Jiulian City.

There are coal mines in Jiulian City, but they are buried deep and require experienced craftsmen to dig wells. The craftsmen are unwilling to go there, and no one wants to dig there. There are trees and they can just burn wood.

Now the ship goes over to deliver coal for the locals to try, and then brings the yellow clams back to Nanjing to sell some of them. This time it is very cheap.

Next time, I will send heaters and lights to Jiulian City by ship. Jiulian City also has vegetable greenhouses, and I can make money by trading with Gaoli.

There is cod here, yellow line pollock, which is used to make pollack, and the cod is made into dried fish, without the heads, which are worthless and not delicious.It is a specialty of North Korea and Dandong. When eating, it is usually smashed with a stick, otherwise it cannot be bitten. First, use a stick to smash the dried pollack loose, like smashing uraku grass.

That's how the name "stick" came from. They used sticks to beat clothes on the banks of the Yalu River for washing clothes, and they also used sticks to hit pollacks.

At the same time, platycodon is used to make pickles, in the same way as spicy cabbage. When the platycodon is dug out, the bottom is wet like ginseng.

It's not cut into shreds with a knife, let alone cut with scissors. When smashed with a stick, most of the water will be knocked out. The platycodon is smashed into thin strips, which makes pickles.

This stick is very useful. They can't survive without it, such as smashing ice to catch fish in winter, beating dogs and eating dog meat.

Well, pollack is a local specialty, and it is not freshwater cod. Freshwater cod is called burbot, which is more tender, but is not suitable for making pollack.

Cod is a processed raw material for Korean spicy fish. It is particularly delicious and cheap.

In the future, pollack will be transported to Fushun and Shenyang for them to eat. Seafood is not available there, including Liaoyang. The place where marine fish is available is Yingkou, the mouth of the sea.

There is Bayuquan in Yingkou, which is rich in Bayu fish. Some people are allergic to eating Bayuquan, so the dried fish is not as good as cod.

It is mostly canned, and salted fish is also made into salted fish and cornmeal pancakes.

Some of the people who make salted fish are yellow crucian carp. All those who make salted fish are worthless fish and the quantity is large.

No matter how valuable it is, it is still better than nowhere. Dried sea food shipped to Shenyang and Fushun is all good stuff, including very small crabs, dried oysters, dried sea rice, small shrimps, seaweed, dried kelp...

The locals are in short supply, not to mention the Jurchens. They have to catch fish in Liaodong Bay, then dry it and send it to trade with the Jurchens.

The local people, together with the army, can solve the problem of no seafood.

"Is this ginseng cultivation? No wonder we have to plant thorns and have people patrolling and guarding them inside and outside. The barbed wire fences are propped up and the thorns are not removed."

The boat shouldered a heavy burden and ran to Dingliao Capital Guard. Zhu Yuanzhang could not watch the soybean harvest every day. He took people to the place where they were given to Xiaqiu Village, mainly to see the medicinal materials.

Ginseng was transplanted to a shady slope, and other medicinal materials were also placed in their own places.

With the tea saplings, grapes and fruit trees planted, it looks very comfortable.

All routes are paved with cement to facilitate vehicle transportation. The roads are crisscrossed and the uphill parts are S-shaped.

"It's another paradise. Before I came here, it was still a mess. People were cutting grass to scare snakes and hacking with knives to clear the way."

Zhu Yuanzhang was filled with emotion when he looked at the planned and constructed place, especially the scattered barracks, some of which were actually very hidden.

There are also many kennels to prevent outsiders from arriving and the guards will not notice.

"Your Majesty, mainly to facilitate harvesting, transportation and planting, we will build an internal railway next year and pick the fruits and transport them to the river for loading. This will save time and effort compared to overland animals pulling carts."

The director talked about future plans. This area has not been fully utilized yet. The work has to be done bit by bit. There are too many people hired, and there is a shortage of people elsewhere.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "The railway is good! It is invested once and the subsequent maintenance costs are low. As long as there are enough goods, it is more cost-effective than using animals."

A lot of iron ore tracks have been laid this year. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to build a bridge across the Yangtze River or build a railway to it. "

(End of this chapter)