Chapter 27 Fishing Chronicle

[Silently recite the URL three times. Do you remember it? If not, I will ask again in the next chapter. It would be best if you can share it on Facebook for me]

Early July of the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty (1627).

At this moment, Qin Hao was on a high hill in his territory, looking out at the entire piece of land that belonged to him.

After being here for more than half a month, he almost knew his exact location. The current location is probably on the right side of the Hsinchu Hills under the branch of the Snow Mountain on Taiwan Island, about 30 kilometers from the coastline, which is completely consistent with the half-day journey Qin Hao took to get here that day.

This place is located at the northern end of Taiwan Island. Going further north is Taoyuan and Keelung in the future, and on the south is the largest plain on the entire Taiwan Island - Jiajia Plain.

Qin Hao remembered that Zheng Zhilong seemed to have recruited refugees there a few years ago. Now his strength is not enough to reach out. The most important thing at the moment is to reorganize and develop his own territory first.

"More than half a month has passed, and the villages and communities in the territory have basically settled down." Qin Hao said to himself while looking at the busy figures under the hill.

As a new regime without any foundation, Qin Hao, Zhuge Xuan and others have spent a lot of energy on the development and stability of the territory.

Not only some policy support, but also the greatest help in materials, Qin Hao distributed most of the grain, salt and cattle in the warehouse to the households, so that they could start to cultivate the land they had just obtained.

However, there is a problem that needs to be solved urgently, that is, the land of the households is slightly remote from their residence. According to Qin Hao's original plan, the households should start to build new settlements in batches, but due to the huge demand, only one has been settled now.

It is still a long way from being truly arranged.

[Ding! ]

[Talent Task - Li Chun]

[Talent Type: Engineering Character]

[Character Advantages: Proficient in various engineering projects, brick building, blast furnace iron making, fire guns and iron cannons, navigation and shipbuilding, etc.]

[Character Evaluation: All-round scientific and technological talents, can make your social civilization develop rapidly. ]

[Task Requirements: Patrol your territory, check the status of the people, and deal with some necessary troubles. ]

Sure enough, as long as Qin Hao encounters a problem, the Mount and Blade system can give a solution in time, and the difficulty of this task can be said to be easy.

After receiving the task, Qin Hao took several guards to patrol the territory.

Since the last battle in Gujiazhuang, Qin Hao fell in love with the sport of horse riding, especially the Liaodong horse of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, which was very obedient. Qin Hao basically did not need to deliberately control it to run very steadily.

That was naturally borrowed by Qin Hao, and as for the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, it followed behind on a captured horse.

Along the way, the people have planted rice in the paddy fields that belong to them. Now it is green. Now they are basically reclaiming virgin land and planting some grains.

This is the first village that Qin Hao settled, which is the original village of Li Yi and his people. There are not many cultivated fields and few people arranged. Most of them are from Gujiazhuang. Qin Hao specially arranged the place for training soldiers here as a precaution.

With the development of reclamation work, food reserves are also decreasing. Especially for the large number of newly reclaimed virgin land, a large amount of rice seeds are needed in the first season, otherwise they can't grow them at all. If they are not well taken care of, they may even end up with more expenses than income.

This is why the original households did not like reclamation. Without support, they dared to take care of their own one mu and three fen of land, and dared not open more new land. If there is an instability, this season will be in vain.

Now that Qin Hao is here, he has to reclaim new land. There is enough land now, but in the future, there will be more people and not enough land to share, so we must prepare for a rainy day.

Qin Hao then issued an order that there would be enough seeds and each person would have half of the land to be reclaimed. Since there was support, the people burst into great enthusiasm and picked up pickaxes to reclaim new land.

According to the data reported by Zhuge Xuan in the past few days, at this rate, the food would probably run out before the autumn harvest.

Although Zhuge Xuan told Qin Hao that the rations distributed to the people would not be eaten every meal, they would be frugal and mixed with other wild vegetables.

But this also made Qin Hao very upset. Without sufficient energy, the energy of the people to reclaim the land could not be maintained for a long time, and it might hurt their bodies. So he thought of hunting and fishing. Meat and protein can effectively make up for these deficits.

You know, there are many wild animals on the mountains next to it. Li Yi was originally in this business. As for fishing, there are several rivers under the Snow Mountain Range that cross the hills and flow into the strait on the west side. There are many fish in them.

At present, Li Yi is training new soldiers, and Qin Hao did not disturb him. So he asked a few women to go fishing.

After half a day of rushing, he took all the fishing nets in the nearby villages and wove a few small trawl nets, and prepared to try it in the river.

Following the original fishermen, Qin Hao chose a lake as the experimental site.

Because this lake is located at the confluence of several rivers and has a large area, ordinary households often see big fish swimming by the lake, but due to the limitations of fishing methods, they have never caught too many fish.

Because the fishermen were not familiar with this new fishing method, the command returned to Qin Hao's hands.

Qin Hao didn't know much about it either, but based on his memory of later generations, he remembered this trawl net for a while.

In the previous documentaries, the nets were held by tugboats. The giant nets were 100,000 meters long, which was shocking. More than 500,000 fish could be caught in a day. The fisherman only had a small wooden boat, which was useless.

After thinking hard for a long time, Qin Hao decided to make a few bamboo rafts to try the effect. He did it as soon as he said it, and mobilized his staff to start. It was not difficult to make such a simple tool as a bamboo raft. Just cut down a little bamboo and tie the head and tail with ropes.

After making a few, Qin Hao started to act.

First, let several bamboo rafts carry the fishing nets into the water, and one end of the fishing net was dragged on the shore. After leaving the shore for about 30 meters, the nets were put down, extending along the lakeside, and then a bamboo raft gradually pulled the fishing nets closer to the shore on the other side.

When the fishing net reached the shore, the residents on the shore began to pull the fishing net to the shore together at both ends. Six bamboo rafts guarded the water surface on both sides, and were responsible for plugging the gaps on both sides when the fishing net reached the shore. The remaining bamboo rafts slowly moved closer to the shore with the fishing net.

When the two ends of the fishing net were dragged ashore and the gaps on both sides were sealed, the water surface surrounded by the fishing net was still calm. When the fishing net was continuously closed and the surrounded water surface continued to shrink, the water surface began to splash, and from time to time some big fish jumped out of the water and rolled into the water.

This situation attracted the attention of everyone around, and even the residents who were cultivating fields and picking wild vegetables nearby gathered together. As more and more big fish jumped out of the water, cheers came from the crowd.

As the fishing net was tightened again, the surface of the water surrounded by the fishing net shrank again, the water depth became shallower and shallower, and the splashes in the water became more and more intense. In order to prevent the big fish from jumping out of the net, Qin Hao quickly asked the people who were still standing on the bamboo raft but were stunned by the scene in front of them to lift the fishing net in sections.

Finally, the net was closed. The fishing net was full of white. Because the mesh was relatively large, most of the fish caught in the net were big fish weighing more than three or four pounds, and there were even big fish weighing dozens of pounds.

The people behind him were boiling, and some even cried with excitement. This could not be blamed on them, after all, they had never experienced such a big harvest.

At the same time, they looked at Qin Hao with more respect, not only the soldiers behind him, but also were impressed by his wisdom.

They had lived here for several years and some people had not eaten fish from the lake. Now, with the new type of fishing net that His Highness had just invented, so many fish were caught, which really shocked them.

This time, a total of nearly 500 kilograms of big grass carp were caught.

Qin Hao immediately announced that a fish feast would be held that evening, and all the villagers would be given fish.

In the evening, people took out their cooking tools and spontaneously sat around dozens of fires, cleaned the fish, and then put the fish and the food that had just been distributed into the pot, sprinkled a little salt, and put it on the temporary fire, and began to cook.

Soon, the air was filled with the aroma of fish and fish soup, and everyone's face showed a sense of satisfaction.

[Do you remember that I asked you to recite it three times at the beginning of the chapter? Share it on Facebook and there may be a surprise]