Chapter 919: Chaoyang County’s Fishery Support Policy
Niu Wei was sorting out the reforms in Xianfeng County, and Zhan Mao had already arrived at Guanhai County in the south of Qiongzhou Island. Although Guanhai County had a small population, there was a lot of land available for farming. With good development, it could become a large grain-producing county in the future.
Moreover, this was the southern coast of Qiongzhou Island, where salt drying or fishing could also be developed. The potential for future development was not small at all, but currently limited by population restrictions, only some basic agricultural production could be carried out.
Zhan Mao had experience in managing a large tribe of thousands of people, and now he had the assistance of the entire government office staff, so it was no problem for him to manage dozens of villages in Guanhai County.
After going to Xinhua County in Tiezhen with others to hold a meeting, learn from others, and understand the local situation, he quickly started to deal with it.
Jiang Xuan was also very experienced. He had managed a tribe of thousands of people. Later, he and Jiandun managed the local affairs of Muye County. Although Jiandun, the governor of Muye County, was the main person in charge, he was mainly responsible for the agricultural aspects of the county at that time. Jiandun was responsible for the overall situation and the livestock industry of Muye County.
Now that Jiang Xuan came to Chaoyang County, he also put agriculture first. Although the Yu clan in Chaoyang County obtained four trawlers, the current seafood is mainly sold in the county, and at most some are sold to Yashan County, which has no market at all.
In addition, there are only four fishing boats, and there are not many people in total. At most, women can mend fishing nets at home, and most of the other people are still arranged to engage in agricultural production.
The Han tribe is based on agriculture, and with the five-year plan that Luo Chong has come up with this year, it is always right to manage agriculture well. As for those seafood, they are just used to supplement meat before aquaculture is formed.
The people of Chaoyang County were very miserable and poor. They were so poor that they could only live on seafood every day. However, Jiang Xuan decided to change this situation. He decided to achieve food self-sufficiency in Chaoyang County in the second half of this year, so that the people here could also live a life of eating rice.
At the same time, in order to increase the income of local people, Jiang Xuan also decided to develop the local fishery better. He found the governor Xue Qingyao and the governor of Qiongzhou Yang Feng, and decided to let Chaoyang County make salted fish or pickled fish to supply the military supplies of the six counties of Qiongzhou.
There are more than 10,000 troops in the six counties of Qiongzhou. These soldiers always have to eat meat. Where does so much meat come from? Sea fish has become the best source of meat.
First of all, it does not occupy local agricultural and animal husbandry resources, and will not affect the local agricultural and animal husbandry development plan. In addition, the sales of seafood are not worth it now, but the harvest every time you go out to sea is quite rich. Basically, every time you go out, you can return with a warehouse full of fish, and the cabins with so many fish cannot be loaded.
Under such circumstances, the price of sea fish must be very cheap. In order to make more money and to prevent the four fishing boats from staying in the port every day, the fishermen are willing to sell them wholesale to the army at a low price. Now, except for the army, almost no one else buys their fish.
Xue Qingyao and Yang Feng both support it very much. First of all, this can be regarded as the army's support for local construction. In addition, using sea fish as a source of meat is indeed cheaper than pork and mutton. Anyway, the army needs to buy food, and it doesn't matter who buys it. Buying mutton from grassland herdsmen also requires money, and the journey is too far and the transportation is inconvenient.
After buying a batch of sea fish, Yang Feng felt that these various fish meats were indeed very good, and directly recommended them to the cross-sea bridge construction site in Jiahai County.
There are nearly 15,000 prisoners of war, soldiers, and craftsmen on the bridge construction site. These people do heavy work every day and also need a lot of meat supplements. The cheap fish meat in the sea naturally becomes a very suitable source.
With two large orders from the military and the construction site, the four two-masted trawlers controlled by the Yu clan were temporarily out of stock. Faced with this situation, Jiang Xuan contacted Xue Qingyao and Luo Chong again, hoping to increase the number of fishing boats in Chaoyang County, so as to expand the scale of the fishery.
When the information reached Luo Chong, he also had the idea of developing the fishery. Only when there were more fishing boats in the Han tribe, the fishermen would go further, and the Han tribe could continue to draw wealth from the sea, and then make people aware of the resources in the sea, laying a solid foundation for continuing to expand overseas forces in the future.
This would first allow the fishermen to feel the surrounding sea conditions and even draw a sea map. Second, it would allow people to see the wealth in the sea and focus their attention on the sea.
As for other things, such as discovering a new continent or even colonizing overseas, Luo Chong felt that he had no chance in his life anyway, but Xiao Luocheng had a chance to try.
In order to achieve these two strategic goals, Luo Chong decided to give certain policy support to the marine fishing industry, mainly from two aspects.
First, there should be more boats.
Fishing boats are definitely very expensive. Not to mention that the fishermen themselves cannot afford them, even some of the rich families in the Han tribe may not be able to afford them, so Luo Chong decided to use the current boat rental system in Hanyang County and Ruyang County.
The tribe set up a fishery administration office, then borrowed money from the bank to build boats, and then rented them to the people registered as fishermen, allowing them to rent boats to go out to sea to fish. In addition to paying the rent for the fishing boats, the income also includes daily maintenance, and the rest is their own harvest.
Then after renting for a number of years, the ownership of the boat will be transferred to the fishermen who use it.
This is a bit like a modern full-house loan, but it is more free than buying a house with a loan. The fishermen have not become house slaves and have to pay back a certain amount of money every month. The pressure is too great.
If you think that the income of this leasing system is too little and not cost-effective, you can just not rent it. Anyway, the rent will be settled for the time you use it, and you don’t have to spend a penny if you don’t use it. It is relatively freer.
As for the ownership of the fishing boat, it is enough. After a certain number of years, the ownership of this boat will be automatically transferred to whoever it is.
For the Han tribe, although the return on investment is slow and the initial investment is too large, it can quickly expand the scale of the fishery, which is obviously beneficial to the strategic layout.
The second is to establish more deep-processing enterprises for marine products.
Marine fish is not just for eating, but even if it is eaten, there are various ways to eat it.
For example, canning factories can be established in Qiongzhou Island and Takuhai County to make marine fish into canned food of various flavors to extend its shelf life. In this way, canned fish can be sold to the grassland and the eight counties in the north, thereby expanding the consumer market. After all, without consumption, how can you drive production?
Moreover, eating marine fish regularly has many benefits for the body. This is a good thing for the country and the people. It can strengthen the body, enrich the menu of the inland people, and make the coastal people richer. Of course, the Han tribe can also receive a lot of taxes from it.
In addition, there are other uses for deep processing, such as fish viscera, which can be made into organic fertilizer and sold to farmers for fertilizing the fields. After all, it may not be enough to just point to feces, unless the breeding industry is very developed and there is a large amount of livestock feces to meet the needs of composting.
Fish bones and skins can also be crushed and ground into powder to make feed for raising pigs, cattle, sheep, and even freshwater fish and shrimp on land, as well as chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry. These are all very nutritious. Regular consumption of fish meal by poultry and livestock can also improve immunity and disease resistance.
Fish meat is eaten by people, made into dried fish or canned food, fish skin and bones are used to feed livestock and make feed, and even the most useless internal organs can be used to make organic fertilizer.
This deep processing alone can drive an entire agricultural and animal husbandry industry chain.
Moreover, the impact of industry should not be underestimated. To develop fisheries, first of all, there must be ships, then there must be shipyards, which can feed many people. To make canned food, there must be tin canning factories, glass factories, ceramic pot factories, and these companies responsible for packaging.
Moreover, things must be sold after they are produced, and transported to all parts of the Han tribe, which can drive the transportation industry of the entire empire, which is another income.
In short, the development of fisheries can not only broaden people's horizons, but also bring huge wealth to the Han tribe. In the future, the annual taxes collected from these related industries alone will be an astronomical figure. This initial investment is worth it no matter how it is calculated.
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