Chapter 119 Fisheries Work

The fat sea fish jumped in the knotted fishing net. It was difficult to catch these big fish from the sea and bring them to the fishing boat without trying hard.

"I wonder how much of this we can get..."

The young fisherman looked at the fish jumping in the fishing net in his hand and smiled.

"Don't be too happy too soon. They may not give us food at that time. There are not many fish we catch to share with us. This is their fishing ground."

The old fisherman sighed and realized that such a good fishing ground would not be given to them for free. In the previous villages, fishermen needed to take a small fishing boat to go out to sea for several kilometers or even dozens of kilometers to catch some satisfactory catches.

They were just hired workers who simply helped the lord to work.

It was naturally impossible to share the profits of such a rich fishing ground with these slaves. That was an extremely greedy act. The old fisherman had never thought of this.

But with such a good fishing ground, this territory will not be poor. In a territory that is not poor, they can also get a little bit of nourishment. The porridge they eat has two more grains of rice and a piece of fish meat, which makes it thicker.

Thinking of last night's meal, the old fisherman's throat rolled.

The old fisherman suspected that this might be the best meal he had ever eaten in his life. Thinking of the full-grained white porridge, the meat slices and pickles filled in it, they also ate black bread that could be preserved for a very long time when they were in the fishing village, where had they ever seen rice with distinct grains.

It's a pity that each person is limited to one bowl, and the fishermen only eat half full.

This undoubtedly proves the wealth of the territory.

The slave traders only provide some porridge every day, just to ensure that they maintain a little physical strength. These people with a little skill are still more expensive than those who can only sell dead strength, and the food they eat is naturally a little better - a bowl of porridge with a few more grains of rice.

Ji Lin provided them with porridge. The lord was afraid that these slaves would be damaged if they ate too much at once. If people who have been hungry for too long eat a lot of meat and solid food.

It is easy to cause indigestion, damage the stomach and intestines, and cause acute gastric dilatation or gastric rupture.

The medical facilities in the territory only have herbal medicine rooms, which can treat minor illnesses and injuries, and leave the rest to fate.

It is necessary to use liquid and semi-liquid food such as porridge as a transition to let their stomachs slowly adapt to digesting large amounts of food before feeding them normal meals.

The collective dormitory they were assigned to live in was simple, but it was several times better than the shacks they had thought of with dozens of people in one room.

Thinking of these old fishermen, they got some motivation again, and worked hard with the young fishermen to pull up the fishing net.

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Ji Lin gave these fishermen a day of rest and used it to familiarize themselves with the tools and these newly built fishing boats.

The fishing port provided the simplest knotted fishing nets used by the fishermen. They used coarse cloth and hemp as raw materials, and multiple ropes were woven into nets and then thrown into the water.

This kind of fishing net is easy to rot, has poor toughness and is heavier.

It cannot be compared with modern lightweight and highly ductile synthetic fiber fishing nets.

But when thrown into the water, a full bag of fish can still be pulled up. The silver scales are jumping in the net bag, unwilling to leave the ocean. They are big fish at least as thick as the fishermen's arms. They jump and reflect a piece of scale color.

This undeveloped light blue ocean still has abundant fish.

The fishermen looked at the full catch in the fishing net and were happy.

In the past, they didn't have to go out to sea to fish for a whole week in the fishing village.

These fishermen who started fishing again were a little rusty, but they quickly found their previous fishing skills in the work.

All the fish caught were weighed and recorded immediately when the fishing boat arrived at the shore. The militiamen in clothes would watch them process it, and finally put the processed fish into wooden barrels and carts.

They were sent to the kitchen immediately.

Fish is not easy to preserve, so it needs to be processed as soon as possible.

The young fisherman remembered that the clerk with glasses and gentle manners was a clerk or a tax officer.

The weight of their catch will be recorded in their group, representing the catch of their group. On the last day, the excellent labor group will be allocated according to the weight of their catch. A total of two groups can obtain the status of free people.

The fishermen can't read a single word, otherwise they can see that Xu Shan is holding a simplified version of the assessment form, which is settled every fifteen days. If it weren't for the size of the paper, it would have to be recorded as thirty days.

As for the groups he mentioned, they didn't understand them very well, but the status of free people was still extremely attractive, and it was good to be a hope.

Initially, Ji Lin's plan was to set up a board and write the catch data on it by themselves, so that everyone could see it.

Their fishing boat group was five people in a group, and the fishing boat could just accommodate five people. Excluding some disabled people who couldn't work, they finally got together 85 fishing groups. 85 groups were too many, and using a large board to record abnormal space took up a lot of space, so they gave up.

The Engineering College is not far from the fishing port, so the responsibility of this record falls on Xu Shan, who is the closest.

Not only the record, but also the management responsibility falls on the head of the college, and the head of the college also accepts it. The workload of the territory management is getting bigger and bigger, and their few hero units are not enough.

This rapidly expanding management work is often the last straw that overwhelms many lords in previous lives. The pressure of population will quickly overload the administrative capacity-not everyone has experience in government management and personnel allocation.

Many lords will choose to give up one aspect of management work due to lack of ability, resulting in a large waste of resources, increased crime rate in the region, and decreased productivity.

Or some areas will be directly entrusted to the church.

There are only three internal affairs personnel under Ji Lin, not counting the lord himself, Chongshan, Wubai, and Li Erlang. They have also found their own assistants and some subordinates to assist them. The dean is only temporarily seconded, and his main responsibility is still scientific research and training personnel.

For slaves, Ji Lin is not as confident as the normal residents. Normal residents will have a certain sense of belonging to the territory from the moment they arrive, while slaves are still in the stage of supervision.

The supervision method adopted by Xu Shan is very simple. He transferred all the steam spiders that have been maintained. The safety of these steam spiders has been strengthened to reduce the internal pressure to the point that they will not spray out due to excessive pressure.

Ten dormant steam spiders are evenly spread out to surround this small residential area.

There are also forty light crossbowmen converted from garrison soldiers. These light crossbowmen are farming when they are not needed, and they are also archers when they are needed. Their discipline is much better than that of ordinary untrained villagers.

It is also a good choice to second them to manage these fishermen. They will temporarily serve as guards and be responsible for transporting supplies from here back to the main residential area.

Ji Lin did not expect them to feel a sense of belonging to the territory immediately.

But the surrounding environment, outside the protection area of ​​the territory, is full of various monster camps and caves.

The wild is never safe.

Only Chang Heng dared to take his musket hunters and rely on the reconnaissance advantage of the hunting spiders to go deep into the dense forest.

The fishermen ran out and didn't know how they died.

This is a kind of protection for them.

The moving steel creations also made these slave fishermen have awe of the territory. The existence of these steam spiders itself is an extremely deterrent, and those who wanted to escape also gave up their little thoughts.

The young and old fishermen looked at their full boats of catch and weighed them, then waited for the clerk to write down the data and send their catches aside for them to deal with. The fish with good vitality were first put into the large pool in the fishing port for storage, and those with poor vitality or dead fish would be dealt with first.

"Mr. Xu Shan, no more fish is needed."

A figure ran to Xu Shan's side, and the dean raised his head and shouted.

"The kitchen can no longer hold it, it's enough for the next three days!"