Chapter 1101 Oh my god, how much meat is this net?
Luo Chong is planning the industrial layout in the south, while Xiaodie and Zhan Ying at home are not idle.
"Sister Ying, do you think Tang Yao will like this house?"
"She should. Didn't she think it was good when she lived in the house in Hanyang City before? Now this new house is more beautiful than the old house in Hanyang City. How can she not like it?
"Besides, I think the house is not the most important thing. The most important thing is the attitude of the husband to her. Just like the two of us, we live with the husband. Wherever the husband is, that is our home. As long as the husband is good to us, it doesn't matter if we live in a thatched cottage. We will not starve to death if we grow crops and raise pigs ourselves." Zhan Ying also expressed his own views after hearing this.
"Well, what you said makes sense. The house is not the key. The key is the attitude of the husband to her. Then should we go and urge the husband? We have been here for several days, and the husband has not visited her in the Tang tribe. Do you think she will feel bad when she knows it? "
Xiao Die also nodded in agreement. When she first got together with Luo Chong, didn't they live in a thatched hut? But it didn't matter as long as Luo Chong treated her well.
"Then hurry up. Maybe your husband is too busy and forgot. Let's talk about it when he has dinner tonight." Zhan Ying suggested again.
"Yeah. "
After the two men discussed things, they immediately began to take care of every aspect of their new home. Luo Cheng's train had not been put on the train yet, and he had been making trouble again in the past two days.
On the other side, Gu Ji and Tian Hong, accompanied by Ye An, boarded the sailing boat for the sea. This time they were not on a flying fish boat, but a trawler converted from a two-masted sailing boat.
The boat was not big, and there was not much room for people to live. Most of the space in the cabin was converted into a cargo hold.
The boat was not specifically going to Qiongzhou Island, but the captain was going to go out to sea to fish, so they took a visit and agreed with the captain to make a detour to Qiongzhou Island to drop them off.
Ye An was the Jinwu Guard of the Han tribe, the leader's personal guard, and they were entertaining guests from other tribes who came specifically to see how the Han tribe fished. Besides, Ye An and his men were not unwilling to pay, so the captain did not refuse at all. For no apparent reason, they were brought on board.
The boat sailed out to sea, along the Liuyang River all the way to the estuary. The scene at this time was very shocking to Gu Ji and Tian Hong.
When they were young, they followed the hunting team to hunt everywhere. The farthest they had been was the shore of the Liuyang River, which is now the location of the Chengkang County Pier. At that time, they looked at the width of the Liuyang River of three or four hundred meters and thought it was the largest river in the world.
This concept remained the same until they arrived at Takumi County, because the river was so wide along the way. But until now, when they arrived at the estuary, watching the land on both sides gradually disappear, and there was a water surface that could not be seen at a glance in front of them, the two people only felt deeply shocked and endless fear.
After all, the feeling of not being able to see the land and being surrounded by water was too uncomfortable for Gu Ji and Tian Hong, two landlubbers.
"Brother Ye An, are we really going to the sea? Is the place in front of us where there is no land and it is all water called the sea? "Gu Ji asked nervously while grabbing the railing on the side of the boat.
"Yes, that's the sea. You can't see the end at a glance. It's all water. In our Han tribe, we call the water flowing on land a river, and the water gathered in a big pit a lake. Water like this that you can't see the end of is the sea." Ye An introduced to the two.
"Why do you have to come here? The Han tribe obviously has so many territories and countless people. There is nothing but water here. What are you doing here?" Tian Hong asked puzzledly.
While they were talking, the fishing boat had already sailed into the sea with the wind.
At this time, Ye An explained with a smile.
"Because there are countless resources in the sea. Don't look at the water everywhere here, but there are the most precious things in the world. "
Gu Ji and Tian Hong looked at Ye An as if he were a madman. There was obviously nothing but water here, and the water was so deep that you couldn't see the bottom. It was all pitch black. What kind of resources could there be here?
At this moment, as if he knew what the two were thinking, Ye An grabbed a bucket on the boat and threw it down. When it was half full of sea water, Ye An picked up the bucket again.
"Come on, two clan leaders, try the sea water here and see what it tastes like. Remember, don't drink it, just taste it."
The two looked at him strangely, then scooped up a handful and sucked it into their mouths to taste it. It didn't matter after tasting it. The two's faces suddenly changed and their brows furrowed deeply.
"The water in this sea is actually salty. Is there salt in it?" Tian Hong spit out the water and asked in surprise.
"Yes, the water in this sea is all salty and inexhaustible. Tell me, if the Han tribe doesn't make salt from sea water, how can we provide salt for hundreds of thousands of people in the entire tribe? "Ye An explained again.
The two of them understood immediately after hearing it. Before they had contact with the Han tribe, the Baiwu tribe was a small tribe with only 2,000 people. It was a big problem for them to have salt. The Han tribe has a population of hundreds of thousands and so many territories. If they don’t have a large and stable source of salt, how can they support the entire tribe?
Let alone other resources, the fact that seawater can continuously produce salt is enough for the Han tribe to put a lot of effort into it.
"Don't underestimate the sea. Although the sea water is salty, there are fish in it, and they are bigger and fatter than the fish in rivers on land. We don't need to raise these fish. It doesn't cost anything. As long as you can catch them, there will be countless meat to eat.
"You may not believe it, but the fish in our land rivers are already big fish if they can grow to the size of an arm. If they can grow as long as a human leg, they are rare.
"But in this sea, there are countless fish of that size. It is quite common to see fish as big as pigs and sheep, and there are even some that are bigger than cows and horses. They are so big that you can even ride on their backs. I even heard a captain say that he had seen fish that were bigger than a sailboat.
"They usually don't catch monsters like that. Some say they are sea monsters, and some say they are sea gods. Their cries sound like they come from another world, and they spray water from their heads. Their mouths are so big that they can hold a table and let several people sit around it. If you can see it, the scene must be very spectacular."
Ye An introduced the rich fish resources in the sea, but Gu Ji and Tian Hong were dumbfounded.
My God, fish as big as pigs and sheep were already surprising enough for them, how amazing would it be if they were as big as cows and horses? And this was not the biggest one. The biggest one was even bigger than the boat under their feet. They couldn't even imagine what that fish looked like, because they really had no idea or outline in their minds.
"Hey, guests, we are about to reach the muddy water area, and we are about to start casting the net. Do you want to sit in the cabin for a while or stand aside?"
Just as several people were chatting about what resources there were in the sea, the captain of the boat was ready to cast the net to catch fish.
"Are we going to cast the net? Okay, come on, two clan leaders, let's stand aside first and don't delay others' work." Ye An quickly pulled the two of them to the side to make room for the sailors.
"Cast the net? What does it mean to cast the net?" Gu Ji asked puzzled.
"Oh, this is it, look over there, do you see that line of different colors in the sea?
"That place is called the muddy water area. The water coming down from the big rivers on land carries a lot of food. The leader said it's called plankton, anyway, it's what fish and shrimp eat.
"After these foods are washed into the sea, they will gather in such muddy water areas, attracting many fish and shrimp in the sea, and then the fish and shrimp will attract countless seabirds and bigger fish, so there will be a lot of fish under this muddy water area, and now they are going to fish in that muddy water area.
"And the net they are talking about is a tool used for fishing. You see, that is called a trawl net, which is woven with hemp rope. "
While Ye An was introducing the knowledge of fishing to the two, the captain of the ship also started to lower the nets with the sailors.
Trawling is the simplest way of fishing, and it mainly targets those fish that live on the seabed in shallow water.
It uses several ropes to sink the net bag to the bottom of the sea, and then moves forward with the boat, so that all the fish below the heading of the fishing boat will be caught in the fishing net, and when it is full, the net will be pulled up with a winch, and a full net of sea fish can be harvested.
The captain was there directing the sailors to adjust the sails and rudders, control the speed and direction, and slowly align the fishing boat with the boundary of the muddy water area, which is generally where all kinds of big fish are.
After the fishing boat is aimed at the operating area, the sailors at the stern will release the winch and let the trawl net down. At this time, pull the net forward for a while, unfold the net, and then start working.
"Raise the sail, raise the sail quickly, and move forward with full sail. "The captain stood on the deck and shouted.
Upon hearing this, the sailors also shouted and raised the sails. The sea breeze was instantly caught by the canvas, and the boat was blown up by the wind, and the speed of the boat was instantly increased.
The two sails carried the fishing boat forward at a rapid speed, and the fishing boat pulled the trawl below. The trawl sunk to the bottom of the sea was like a black hole, madly devouring all the creatures on the sand and rocks on the seabed.
Whether it was fish, shrimp or muddy coral, they were all caught in it. At this time, the role of the fishing net grid came out. The fishing net would select prey according to the size of the grid. Smaller prey could get out of the grid by chance, while those fish larger than the grid were not so lucky. Once caught by the fishing net, unless it could swim faster than the boat, it would be possible to escape from the front of the fishing net, otherwise it would only have a dead end.
Today's harvest was quite good. The boat had only traveled about a thousand meters when the captain ordered the net to be closed.
What the Han tribe lacked now was more Add advanced mechanized trawlers, such as steam engine winches.
Because of the current situation, if we continue to fish, we will definitely catch more fish, and the boat will definitely be able to tow it. But if the net is really full, even if the sailors on the boat use all their strength, it is impossible to pull up a full net of fish, even if there are labor-saving pulleys and winches, because human strength is limited, and they can't pull up more. They can only use the boat to tow the fishing net back to the shore and use the large crane at the port to lift it.
But now is not the time to return with a full warehouse, so there is no need to do that. If the warehouse is full and the fish in the cabin are full and can't be loaded, if there are more fish that day, the captain will consider whether to tow the net back to the port.
When the captain ordered to collect the net, the sailors began to gather again, and came to the wooden winch together, inserted a few long wooden sticks on it as a labor-saving lever, and then several people worked together to push it. It took more than a dozen people working together to slowly pull up the net.
When the fishing net was just hoisted onto the deck, several sailors immediately stepped forward to untie the rope at the bottom of the fishing net, and the fish inside instantly fell onto the deck like rain.
It was the first time for Gu Ji and Tian Hong to see such a fishing scene. It turned out that fishing in the sea was like this!
At first, they only knew that those shirtless and barefoot men threw the net down, and then drove the fishing boat forward quickly. Unexpectedly, when they collected the net, it was already filled with so many things.
Especially when the fish came out of the water, the fishing net was untied, and the fish fell onto the deck like rain, they were both deeply shocked.
If fishing is also considered a kind of hunting, then what kind of hunting efficiency is this?
There were all kinds of fish falling on the deck, some with silvery-white skin, flat and long in appearance, some with strange shapes, several tentacles, and some with long bodies. Some of them were wearing armor, had a lot of legs, and some were holding two pincers, looking like generals holding two sledgehammers. There were even turtles bigger than washbasins, and it was obvious that they were not land creatures.
Because land turtles have long claws with toes on their claws, but these sea turtles have four fins with no toes at all.
Of course, although there are all kinds of things, the most abundant ones are all kinds of fish.
This is the disadvantage of trawling. Although trawling is currently the simplest way to fish, its disadvantage is that it cannot select schools of fish to catch. When you cast a net, you don’t know what you will catch.
Unlike the large multi-functional fishing boats developed by the tribe, which have advanced and expensive equipment, there is a chance to try to catch a single fish species.
However, laymen obviously don’t understand these tricks. Just like Gu Ji and Tian Hong, they have already started to calculate how much meat this net can catch and how many tribesmen they can feed.
(End of this chapter)
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