The fishery envisioned by Zhu Youxiao is indeed very promising. As long as the factory ship is large enough, it will become very safe to go fishing in the ocean.o Because large ships can resist wind and waves, as long as the ship is large enough, the possibility of sinking is not too great.&1t;/p>

Moreover, fishery is not only promising in places like Hokkaido and Alaska. The Bohai Fishing Farms, Zhoushan Fishing Farms, South China Sea coastal fishing Farms and Beibu Gulf Fishing Farms are also very efficient in the fishing season.&1t;/p>

According to later experts, the fishing volume of fishery along the coast of China is 80,000 tons, and this standard will affect the sustainability development. In later generations, China's coastal areas have been seriously overfished, and fishing boats everywhere in the ports have brought back small fryes, which have been caught before they grow up.&1t;/p>

Some people may wonder why marine fisheries are so promising, why did the Ming Dynasty not develop? Even the coastal fishing volume is not too large.&1t;/p>

The reason is very simple. One is the problem of shipbuilding. There were not so many large sailing ships in this era and were rarely used as fishing boats. After all, the shipbuilding industry was developed by civil forces in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Ming Dynasty ignored maritime interests, so the shipbuilding industry was relatively slow.&1t;/p>

Second, storage technology is not good, because this country has a salt tax. Which fisherman can use a lot of salt to marinate fish? Even if it is marinated with cheap private salt, he will not dare to sell it on the market. This will not only mobilize the government's salt tax interests, but also touch the interests of salt dealers.&1t;/p>

Therefore, even if fishermen fish in the offshore, they can only dry the catch into dried fish, but that is more troublesome. Sometimes if there is no sun, it may smell before it is dried. Unlike pickled fish, it just needs to be hung until it is half dry. There is little requirement for sunlight.&1t;/p>

Without cheap and legal salt support, let alone ocean fishing, even if it can be driven to the vast ocean, the fish will smell bad if it is not transported back.&1t;/p>

Therefore, to develop fishery, one is to have large ships and marine positioning technology. The large ships now have sextant, and the second is to have salt. The Ming Dynasty now has overproduction of salt. In theory, there is enough salt to support the fishery. Third, there is a market. Can a large amount of pickled fish appear in the market? What if the people don’t like to eat? There is no religious custom in China that only eat fish on fasting days like Europeans.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao thought about it for a while and suddenly thought of a way to have the best of both worlds. Nothing else, Yanshui!&1t;/p>

Immediately asked someone to summon Shen Qing. Shen Qing, who was handling government affairs in the cabinet, had to put down what he had to go to Qianqing Palace.&1t;/p>

"Your Majesty, what's the point of calling me to see you?" Shen Qing asked the emperor, and Zhu Youxiao said: "Your dear, I am now short of food in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty. After thinking about it, there is great potential for offshore fisheries and ocean fisheries."&1t;/p>

Then Zhu Youxiao expressed his idea. "There are countless fishery products in the ocean, and although they cannot be said to be inexhaustible. However, with contemporary fishing techniques, they are inexhaustible. If our Ming Dynasty could obtain a large amount of fishery products from the sea, we could live countless people, and the problem of insufficient food could be greatly solved."&1t;/p>

"Your Majesty, there are fish in this sea, but the fish smelled and rotted before they were transported back." Chen Yan was a little amused and cried, and the emperor's thinking was really out of touch.&1t;/p>

"You can be marinated with salt."&1t;/p>

"If there are a lot of pickled fish on the market, the salt tax will inevitably be affected." Chen Yan said, and Zhu Youxiao smiled and said, "Although the salt tax is affected, although the salt tax is important, it is more important for the people to eat full. Let's do some calculations first and see if the court loses or makes a profit."&1t;/p>

Shen Yan immediately listened attentively, Zhu Youxiao said: "Now, salt is twenty cents per pound, and salt is used to marinate one pound of fish. If a pound of marinated fish is priced at 5 cents, the court still makes a profit. The cost of catching fish on a large ship during the offshore fishing flood season is very low. Because although pickled fish will be popular with the people when it is salty, the salt tax will not be too much impact. Where salt should be used, salt must be used. Even if it has an impact, the court can make it back from the fishing industry. The cost of these pickled fish will not exceed 2 cents per pound. Even if it is sold for 5 cents per pound, we still have 3 cents to make, which is enough to make up for the loss of salt tax. Moreover, the salt tax will not be reduced after the people are rich, but will continue to rise."&1t;/p>

"The most important thing is that fishery development is very cost-effective. It can drive a large number of employment, because we need a large number of fishing boats to expand fishery, so we need more shipbuilders and lumberjacks. The output of the fishery is enough to supplement the grain consumed by these shipbuilders and lumberjacks, and there is a large amount of surplus. At the same time, fishery development can allow us to immigrate a large number of outsiders. After immigration, we can not only open fishery, but also open animal husbandry and agriculture, but also drive various marine trade." Zhu Youxiao calculated the calculations and was a little stunned. "And a large amount of fishery production can allow us to feed more non-agricultural population in the Ming Dynasty. If the disasters are frequent today, we should consider how to feed the people first."&1t;/p>

"Then, your Majesty may guarantee that you can catch cheap fish?" Chen Wei was also very moved after hearing this account, but he did not know much about the ocean.&1t;/p>

"In the coast of Daming, Bohai Bay, Zhoushan and other places, there will be fishing floods every year. A large number of fish are in groups. Just improve boats and nets to catch a large number of fish. During the fishing season, the harvest is more than ten times that of farming. And in the barbarians overseas, there are more abundant fishing grounds. My Ming Dynasty is now the most populous and most productive country in the world. As long as resources are invested in the ocean, they are fully capable of conquering those barbarians."&1t;/p>

"Your Majesty is wise. If you want to develop fisheries, fishermen still cannot afford the salt tax. The court must specially approve low-priced salt for them to use." Chen Yan was convinced. Although he was reserved for bullying weak people everywhere, he was completely convinced by the emperor's method of using fisheries to support the people of the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao said: "I decided to use fishing companies as the main force to develop fisheries. Those fishermen lack funds and cannot build large fishing boats. I want the cabinet to issue a bill as soon as possible to form management of fishermen and fishing companies across the country. The main purpose is to adopt a quota fishing system for the fishing of large fishing boats in the offshore fishing grounds of the Ming Dynasty to avoid the destruction of fishing grounds due to overfishing. If ordinary fishermen want to own large fishing boats, they must also set up fishing companies. At the same time, they must clarify the fishing moratorium period..."&1t;/p>

The quota system is very predecessor. Before trawlers appear, it is basically impossible to dry up fishing offshore fisheries.&1t;/p>

However, after the trawler appears, the quota system will inevitably be subject to the request for a substantial reduction in fishery resources. Moreover, the quota system must be adopted at that time and will harm the interests of fishery practitioners.&1t;/p>

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao decided to formulate fishing quotas before developing large-scale fisheries, making the quota an insurmountable red line. In addition, the system of fishing moratorium should be popularized before the trawler appears.&1t;/p>

Although there is no official fishing moratorium this year, due to the limitations of navigation technology and fishing costs, fishing is staggered from the spawning period of fishermen. However, with the continuous development of technology, one day it will become a state where fishing can be fished all year round.&1t;/p>

The fishing moratorium can also be introduced first. Of course, the fishermen's small fishing boats may not be restricted. However, fishing companies that have large-tonnage fishing boats must be restricted.&1t;/p>

Chen Yi stayed in the Ganqing Palace for nearly an hour before coming out. Soon after, the cabinet formulated the "Da Ming Fisheries Act" and established a fishery department.&1t;/p>

The bill stipulates that all fishing boats with a coastal area of ​​more than 500 materials (about 150 tons) must be registered with the Ministry of Fisheries and established a fishery company.&1t;/p>

Fisheries companies implement quota system fishing in all fishing grounds in Daming. The specific quota is still being verified. However, it does not prevent the quota from being formulated first. The quota for the Bohai Bay fishing ground is set at 150,000 tons per year. Zhoushan fishing ground is set at 20,000 tons per year.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the cabinet issued a policy order, and the court will specially approve salt from the fishing company. The price is 1 cent and 2 jin. At the same time, it stipulates the establishment standards for fishing companies. It must have at least one fishing boat with a tonnage of more than 15o, with a registered capital of 3ooo yuan.&1t;/p>

The "Ming Dynasty Fisheries Act" also stipulates that whaling must obtain a special license for the imperial court, and fishery companies that do not obtain a whaling license shall not hunt whales that mistakenly enter the port.&1t;/p>

The reason for promulgation of such whaling restrictions is mainly because once a private whaling ship tastes the sweetness of whaling, it will definitely only have whaling oil and not whaling meat during the whaling process. Just like modern Westerners do whaling, they will throw whaling meat back into the sea in order to pursue the ability to obtain more whaling oil for one voyage.&1t;/p>

If whales are caught by the royal consortium, the whale meat can be cut and marinated, and then transported back to the Ming Dynasty to avoid wasting resources. Moreover, compared with whale oil, whale meat is what the Ming Dynasty can fill the stomachs of ordinary people.&1t;/p>

After the introduction of the "Da Ming Fisheries Act", under the report of the "Da Ming Daily", merchants in the entire Ming Dynasty soon realized the huge profits contained in marine fisheries.&1t;/p>

Fishing boats are not a problem at all. In the past two years, both the official and the Royal Consortium have been ordering ships in large quantities, and private shipyards have received many orders. The shipbuilding industry in the Ming Dynasty has been very rapid in the past two years. Especially after the shipyards invested by Royal Capital, after the recovery of Liaodong, they have invested in two huge shipyards in the Liaodong Bay area.&1t;/p>

Preservation is not a problem, the court has specially priced salt to approve it.&1t;/p>

Suddenly, many businessmen became restless and began to contact shipyards to order fishing boats. Especially the merchants in Northern Zhili, fishery became a new investment highlight.&1t;/p>

The Royal Consortium is naturally indispensable. The Royal Consortium first increased its investment in the shipbuilding industry. The Ming Dynasty needed more warships, merchant ships, and fishing boats.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the Royal Consortium began to establish fishing companies and build a whaling fleet. Daming was indeed unfamiliar with whaling, but the problem was quickly solved because the Dutch would.&1t;/p>

There are now a large number of Dutch employees in the Royal Navy. These Dutch people were captured in previous naval battles. Because the ransom price was too high, the Dutch gave up the idea of ​​redeeming these Dutch people. Therefore, in order not to be thrown into the mine cave to mine, these captured Dutch people had to choose to serve the Ming Navy.&1t;/p>

These days, the Dutch have invested a lot in whaling. A whaling fleet often has tens of thousands of Dutch soldiers following. Many of the captured Dutch officers and soldiers have been in contact with the whaling industry, so it quickly solved the problem of unfamiliarity facing the whaling industry in the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

In addition to the limited entry of private capital in the whaling industry, other fishing private capital can enter, but the fishing quota of coastal fishing farms costs money to purchase. When the purchase quota amount exceeds the quota set by the court, the court will consider increasing the fishing quota. Once the output of the fishing farm decreases, the fishing quota will be reduced to protect fishing resources.&1t;/p>

In addition to purchasing quotas and fishing in offshore fisheries with abundant fisheries, the Royal Consortium will also fish overseas. Hokkaido fishing grounds have obviously become the first area to be targeted. There are not only a large number of fish, but also a large number of whales.&1t;/p>

The Royal Navy also made corresponding cooperation plans at the end of the year, and will escort 30,000 immigrants to Hokkaido after the beginning of next spring to provide sufficient labor for fishery fishing in the sea. It will also send 1,000 Navy teams 6 to Hokkaido, and the imperial government will also establish an administrative region in Hokkaido.&1t;/p>

At the same time, in the fourth year of Apocalypse, the Navy will use the Hokkaido stronghold as a supply point to explore the Alaska region of North America. (To be continued...)&1t;/>&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!