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After all, Li Zicheng's ruling center is closer than Zhao Han's, and the speed of dispatching troops is much faster.

Xuanfu, Baoan Prefecture, Yanqing Prefecture, half of Baoding Prefecture, and most of Shuntian Prefecture were all captured by Li Zicheng.Zhao Han only occupied a small half of Shuntian Mansion, and pushed northward to Bazhou and Tianjin.

Both sides agreed to ignore Yongping Mansion, because it was next to Shanhaiguan Pass—it was not worthwhile to garrison heavily, and it would be very laborious to transport grain and grass.

However, after the Manchu Qing returned to Liaodong, due to the shortage of food, they did not choose to cultivate their health and rest, but immediately launched a war!

Internally, the Manchu Qing forced the barbarian Jurchen to give food.If they don't hand over enough food in accordance with the regulations, they will easily slaughter a certain tribe and rob them of food, livestock and women.

Externally, it attacked North Korea in the south and plundered Khalkha Mongolia in the north.

The king of North Korea was going crazy. He had already surrendered to Man Qing, and even the king's personal firearms team was handed over to Man Qing to take them out to fight casually.As a result, Nima was also looted, and northern North Korea was almost robbed, and it also brought plague to North Korea.

In northern North Korea, ten rooms are empty, and famine and plague are spreading rapidly.

On the Mongolian side of Khalkha, the Chechen Khan tribe closest to the Manchus also paid tribute to the Manchus long ago.

As a result, more than 2 Manchurian cavalry and Mongolian cavalry suddenly sent troops to attack the Chechen Khan.

The Chechen Khan has [-] cavalry, but they live scattered on the grasslands and graze, so there is no time to gather.He was killed all the way to the Khan Court by the Manchu cavalry, Chechen Khan Shuo Lei died in battle, and his son Babu was supported by the Manchu Dynasty as the puppet Khan.

Shuo Lei died unjustly, this guy has been plotting to stab Man Qing in the back.

Historically, in another four years, Shuo Lei instigated the Horqin tribe to rebel, and he himself went out to help.As a result, he was defeated by the Qing Dynasty, Shuo Lei died tragically, and the Chechen Khan continued to pay tribute.

The Manchu Qing, who were about to run out of food, quickly obtained sufficient food by virtue of internal and external wars.

It's just that North Korea was nearly collapsed, and the Chechen Khan and Mongols have never recovered from it. The Manchu Qing did not massacre the Chechen Khan, but they robbed their cattle and sheep. I don't know how many people will starve to death this winter.

Datong, Dashun, and Daqing are short of food.

The Qing Dynasty, which seemed to be the worst, was the one with the fastest food recovery.

Chapter 436 [Sea Fish and Kelp]

The Manchu Qing robbed half of North Korea, and Hu Dinggui was devastated.

The No.11 Division is stationed in Gaizhou and Jinzhou, and there are more than [-] people under the rule. All food is purchased at high prices in North Korea.

North Korea has no food, which means that the No.11 Division has no food.

After receiving the memorial from the civil and military officials in Liaodong, Zhao Han, who was already short of food, had no choice but to tighten his belt and move around to send boats to deliver it.

Fortunately, in spring, more than [-] people in the three cities of Liaodong had all planted wheat.After another month, we will be able to harvest grain, but we must beware of Manchu looting!

Not only Gaizhou, but also Jinzhou and Fuzhou.

Because there are still some Jurchen tribes living in the mountains of the Liaodong Peninsula, and there are Manchurian Eight Banners in Fenghuang City (between Benxi and Dandong).The troops of the Manchu Qing could travel across mountains and ridges to plunder villages during the wheat harvest season.

Not that it might come, but it will definitely come.

Because of the lack of food, they all went to fight Mongolia. How could they not grab the food under the skin?

There are about 1 troops left in the Eight Banners Army, and Hu Dinggui's [-] people will definitely be unable to defend, and may even be besieged by heavy troops.

Zhao Han immediately ordered the deployment of troops. Li Zheng's third division, Xiao Zongxian's fourth division, and Lu Xiangsheng's [-] cavalry all headed for the Liaodong Peninsula by boat.

Hu Dinggui was stationed in Gaizhou, Li Zheng was stationed in Jinzhou, and Xiao Zongxian was stationed in Fuzhou.Lu Xiangsheng was also stationed in Fuzhou, and he was in the middle to support the friendly forces in the north and south at any time.

Fei Ruhe moved to Tianjin, and Zhang Tieniu moved to Dengzhou. At the critical moment, he immediately took a boat to fight in Liaodong!

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Zhoushan waters.

Hong Xu, the deputy commander of the Shanghai Navy in Datong, once ranked among the "Eighteen Zhi", but now he has become a professional fisherman.

In order to fish in the Zhoushan Fishing Ground, the Shanghai Navy even expanded its army and recruited Danhu fishermen in Zhoushan as sailors. These people knew the situation of the Zhoushan Fishing Ground best.

On the deck of the ship, Hong Xu was smoking a pipe, smoking Nangan tobacco.

The large and small warships under his command are trawl fishing.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, marine fishing technology had matured, and there were six types of large nets: gillnets, purse seines, trawl nets, stretch nets, construction nets, and insertion nets.

In the Saxon era, the British used gillnets to catch herring. This technique is very common in Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.

The trawling technology, which can catch 400 tons of fish in one net, is also widely used in China, but the trawl nets are relatively small.

This is because of the sea ban and Japanese pirates. It is not only risky to sail a huge boat to sea, but also illegal and criminal.Therefore, merchants who own big boats are all smuggling. Who wants to risk their lives fishing?

In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the largest fishing boats in the coastal areas carried only three to four tons of cargo.

In the future and food shortages, as early as the beginning of last year, Zhao Han promulgated a policy to encourage marine fishing.

First, cancel the fishing salt tax.

Second, you can set up a marine fishing business company, directly connect with the salt farm, bypass the salt seller, and buy salt from the salt farm at a low price (short-term policy, canceled after food is sufficient).

Both the Ming and Qing Dynasties were taught by fishing salt, because of the ancient fishing season, a large number of saltwater fish and freshwater fish were caught.It cannot be sold out in a short period of time. Due to storage technology, it must be pickled with salt.

But lawbreakers like to take advantage of loopholes, calling it selling salted fish, but actually selling illegal salt.

A five catty fish can hang half a catty of salt on it!

As a result, the imperial court had to collect fishing salt classes, and limited the supply of salt used for salting fish.This in turn allowed the dignitaries, officials, and gentry to take advantage of the loopholes and take the opportunity to control fishermen and fisheries, which made it difficult for the fishing industry to develop in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

These policies to encourage fishing were all suggested by Wu Yingji.

Wu Yingji, because of his repeated speeches and meritorious deeds, has now been promoted to Jiangsu Youbu Political Envoy.

As soon as the policy came out, merchants and fishermen really responded, and even some maritime merchants got involved.The tonnage of fishing boats is getting bigger and bigger, and the fishing nets are getting bigger and bigger, which has alleviated the food crisis to a certain extent.

No matter how big a private fishing boat is, it is no bigger than a naval warship!

Half of the warships under Zhao Han's command are now fishing in the coastal fishing grounds.

"Go back!"

More than 20 naval warships, in groups of two and two, dragged the big net to Haiyan County.Sea salt is naturally produced in Haiyan County, and it is dragged and marinated on the spot, which is a perfect match with the Zhoushan fishing ground.

Trawling is usually carried directly to the shore. As for how much you catch, you can only know after you go ashore. It is full of surprises like opening a blind box.

A large number of nearby people were hired to carry, sort, and marinate fish.

The elderly, young and strong, and women are all beaming, and this kind of work is charged on a piece-by-piece basis.During the fishing season, I don’t worry about not having a job, but I only worry about not being able to finish the work every day. I wish the children in the family grow up early and can help after graduating from elementary school.

During primary school, no dropout or absenteeism is allowed without reason!

"landing!"

Large nets were pulled up, and small boats sailed over to pick up the fish from the nets, and then transported them to the shore for the coolies to carry.

Navy warships drag special large nets. If you are lucky, you can catch tens or even hundreds of tons with one net.

Now it is the summer flood season, and the fish caught in Zhoushan fishing grounds are mainly large yellow croaker, cuttlefish, squid and pomfret.

The harvest was good this time, with more than 20 warships and a total of more than 400 tons.

The common people employed as workers were busy sorting and pickling, while Hong Xu was lying in a hammock and sleeping soundly.

boring!

However, Hong Xu is quite satisfied with this kind of life, drinking small wine and smoking shredded tobacco every day.When the fishing season is over, I take my soldiers out to practice.If an emergency military situation is received, immediately lead the navy to set off.

Although he is Zheng Zhilong's subordinate, his background is much better than Zheng Chenggong's.

Hong Xu was born in a family of hereditary military officials, and his father, Hong Gong, was an official in the garrison.

The Li people in Hainan Island rebelled, and Hong Gonglun went to Lizhai personally to appease them. The rebellious Li people had already agreed to recruit them.However, Wan Ji, a general from Guangdong and Guangxi, felt that Zhao'an could not make any contribution, so he sent troops to attack Lizhai, but was defeated by Li's rebel army.

The Li clan rebelled and it was difficult to deal with it. Hong Gonglun, who succeeded in recruiting security, was pissed to death by this coquettish operation, and Wan Ji was blamed after his death.

Because of this, Hong Xu suddenly became helpless from the second generation of Wu, and could only go to sea as a sailor for a living.Then he became a member of the "Eighteen Zhi" with Zheng Zhilong, and now he is the deputy commander of the Shanghai Navy.

Like Zheng Zhilong, Hong Xu worked hard at sea and didn't want his son to eat this bowl of rice.

His son, Hong Lei, is now a county magistrate.

In the evening of the same day, a merchant ship came to buy goods, loaded with a large amount of freshly marinated sea fish, and set off for Shanghai in the early morning of the next day, and then shipped them to the coast of the Yangtze River for sale.

This quick-selling new salted sea fish, called "fresh salted fish" in Nanjing, is cheaper than real fresh fish, but far more expensive than dried salted fish.

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"Fresh marinated sea fish" arrived in Nanjing and was already shipped by inland river merchant ships.

"Sea fish are coming!"

"The bright sea area that the emperor eats, the quality is cheap, and it is delicious!"

With a shout on the pier, many vendors came to buy it.

Not retail, only wholesale!

From Zhoushan to Nanjing, these fish have been transshipped three times, and retail fishmongers have to make money once more.

But when sold to the common people, the price is still very low, and they bring their own salt.Families who are not particular about or are struggling are reluctant to wash the salt, and cook directly like that, which can also save the money for putting salt.

During the period when food prices soared, cooking with freshly marinated sea fish and eating it with miscellaneous grains or brown rice porridge was a rare delicacy for the lower-class people.

If you are poorer, buy dried salted fish.

Saltier and cheaper!

in the palace.

Gun'er, who was already six and a half years old, looked at the dishes on the table, and immediately said with a bitter face, "It's braised large yellow croaker again, I'm about to throw up."

Zhao Han said: "There has been a fishing season in the past two months. Large yellow croakers are easy to catch and the price is cheap."

"But Emperor Daddy, we have money at home, so we can buy better food." Gun'er pouted.

Zhao Han put down his chopsticks, and asked his eldest son to put down his chopsticks too: "Father is indeed rich, and he can eat other delicacies from mountains and seas. But if Father often eats fresh salted sea fish, the officials and people must follow suit, and these salted sea fish will attract more people." Eat. Do you understand?"

"Understood." Gun'er perfunctorily picked up the chopsticks.

Zhao Han asked with a smile, "Do you understand what?"

Gun'er replied: "To be an emperor, you must eat more sea fish."

"Hahahaha!"

Everyone at the table was amused and laughed.

Zhao Han couldn't help but smile, and said, "Today, my father taught you an idiom, which is called "upper action and lower action". What is upper action and lower action? The emperor is above, and the officials and people are below. The emperor wants the officials and the people to eat sea fish, so he should eat sea fish first. The emperor wants the officials and the people to eat sea fish. Whatever you do, you should lead by example. Do you understand?"

Gun'er nodded: "Understood."

"Do you really understand?" Zhao Han asked again.

Gun'er said: "I really understand. Let others do what you want to do first."

Now Zhao Han has three sons and one daughter, Fei Rulan gave birth to two sons one after another, Pan Qimei directly gave birth to twins, Fei Rumei and Liu Rushi are also pregnant.

The eldest son, Gun'er, was named Zhao Kuanghuan.

The twins are about to turn three years old, and they are called Zhao Kuangtang and Zhao Hanjin respectively.

The third son has just turned one year old, and his name is Zhao Kuangping.

There is no table of chemical elements, as long as the full names are not exactly the same, there is no taboo in Zhao Han.

After educating his son, Zhao Han glanced at one of the dishes and asked in surprise, "Hey, where did you get the kelp?"

Pan Qimei replied: "The navy came back from Shandong, and brought back some kelp by the way, and entrusted someone to send it to Nanjing as a tribute. Those who gave the money were considered purchases."

Pan Qimei likes to cook and eat, and often goes to the imperial kitchen to do it herself.

Anyway, she hadn't moved into the palace yet, so whatever she wanted to do, Liu Rushi was still working in the Imperial Academy before she became pregnant.

Zhao Han took a mouthful of kelp, and it was the familiar taste. He decided to let the agronomy hall try artificial cultivation.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the ancients ate kelp, which is a kind of seaweed food. It belongs to the same family as kelp, but it is classified into a different genus.

It can be understood that kombu is the cousin of kelp.

Today's kelp grows in Korea and Japan.However, it is also found on the reefs off the coast of Shandong. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" specifically lists the place of origin, and also introduces the difference between kelp and kombu.

Gun'er was tired of eating large yellow croakers, and when he saw a new dish, he picked up kelp again and again and ate it with gusto.

If Gun'er becomes the emperor, kelp must be all the rage.

It works well.