"Don't drive Zhao, please get up quickly!" Li Su was taken aback by Zhao Fu and hurriedly helped him up.

"The lower official begs His Highness, stop promoting the method of trawling, otherwise most of the fishermen in Dengzhou will no longer have a way to live." Although Zhao Fu stood up, he repeated his request again.

"Oh? What is Zhao Beijia worried about? Li Su had a strange smile on his face, making it impossible to guess what he was thinking.

"Your Highness, although your trawling method is good, the requirements for fishing boats are also high, generally only those large fishing boats can be transformed into trawls, but Dengzhou has the most small fishing boats, but they can't be used at all. The big fishing boats are generally in the hands of those big fishers, and the amount of trawl fishing is so amazing, then the consequence is that the amount of sea fish produced by the fourteenth octopus cannibalistic year rises sharply, and the price of marine fish will become more and more cheap, and the decline in fish prices has no big impact on those big households, because their annual fishing volume has also increased a lot, but for ordinary fishermen, there are still so many fish caught every year, and the money from selling them is getting less and less, so that the rich will only get richer and the poor poorer! ”

Zhao Fu said everything he thought in one breath, this is not his speculation, but the result of his actual investigation, now there is only one fishing team in Qi Wangfu fishing with trawls, but in the past few days, the price of fish has been affected, down by nearly one percent, if there are a few more fishing teams, then ordinary fishermen will not be able to live at all.

Li Su smiled slightly after hearing this, although Zhao Fu said a lot, in the words of later generations, it was Li Su and those big fishermen, with the capital in their hands, upgraded the fishing method and squeezed out the living space of those ordinary fishermen. Although this is a normal phenomenon when the old and new technologies are alternated, Li Su is a Dengzhou assassin after all, and the number of ordinary fishermen is large. If it is not dealt with in time, I am afraid that it will cause very serious consequences.

Zhao Fu smiled silently when he saw Li Su after hearing his words, thinking that he didn't have the fourteenth octopus eating man to listen to his own admonition, he was a little anxious at the moment, and he wanted to say something more when he opened his mouth. But Li Su waved his hand and stopped Zhao Fu and said with a smile: "Zhao Beijia, I understand what you said, and I have realized it in advance, as for the way to deal with it." I've already had people prepare, so you don't have to worry. ”

Zhao Fu was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and looked at Li Su's confident look when he spoke, which didn't seem to be lying. But this is not a trivial matter, but it is related to the livelihood of tens of thousands of fishermen, and it is not sloppy at all, so I have to ask: "Your Highness, can you let the lower officials know what your method of dealing with is it?" ”

"Hehe, this matter will naturally not be hidden from Zhao Beijia!" Li Su smiled and said, this matter still needs Zhao Fu's assistance, so it is also a good thing to communicate with him in advance.

"Zhao Beijia can know why he catches so many fish. Will the price of fish fall? Li Su thought about it, but first asked a seemingly unrelated question.

Zhao Fu was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment and then replied: "Your Highness, the fish caught by fishermen in Dengzhou is generally collected by fish merchants, or transported to other places for direct sale or processed and sold. Although there are many of these fish merchants, the number of fish collected each year is a certain amount, and the principal prepared is so much, if the total value of the fish exceeds these principals, those fish merchants will naturally lower the price. ”

"Hmm. Zhao Beijia is right! Li Su smiled, this Zhao Fu has been an official for many years, and this ability and insight are indeed not comparable to Yanbei's half-tone. However, he asked again, "Then Zhao Beijia, can you know why these fishmongers only charge so many fish every year, why don't they prepare more principal and charge more fish, so that they can make more money?" ”

Hearing Li Su ask again, Zhao Fu lowered his head and thought for a while before saying: "Your Highness, the key to this problem is preservation, fish is not like rice noodles, it can be stored for a long time, after the fish in the sea is caught, if it can't be sold while it is fresh, it can only be used as salted fish, but to make salted fish is to consume a lot of expensive salt, and second, the taste of salted fish is fishy, and few people in the interior will like it, so the sales of salted fish are not large, which is also the reason why fish merchants are reluctant to collect more fish every year." ”

"Haha, Zhao Beijia is really extraordinary!" Li Su laughed loudly, what he wanted was this question and answer.

"Your Highness, what do these problems have to do with solving the livelihood of ordinary fishermen?" Although Zhao Fu was very happy to hear Li Su's praise, he still didn't forget his business, and asked a little anxiously.

Li Su saw that the time was almost up, and asked people to bring up the things that had been prepared a long time ago, and then said softly in front of Zhao Fu.

"This ...... This is ......" Zhao Fu looked at the things in front of him, his face was extremely surprised, the thing in front of him was made of glass, because His Royal Highness King Qi opened a glass factory in Dengzhou, so he had also seen a lot of glass products. This is a made bottle, the shape is very ordinary, like a fundamental cylinder, the key is that there is some cooked meat in the bottle, and the bottle is plugged with a wooden stopper, reinforced with string, and sealed with wax. The meat in the bottle looks very fresh and has not deteriorated in the slightest.

"Zhao Beijia, please see, this thing is called canned, after the fish and other food are processed and put inside, it can be stored for a long time, I plan to promote this thing in Dengzhou, not only our government to open a factory, but also allow private people to open canneries, of course, the patent is in my hands, they have to pay a certain royalty, as for those fishermen who can't feed their families, I plan to recruit them to the canning factory as workers, the government will stipulate the minimum wage for these workers, so that not only is the risk less than being a fisherman, The income is also higher than when I was a fisherman. ”

In fact, from the beginning of trawling fishing, he set up a bureau to calculate all the fishermen in Dengzhou, first using advanced fishing methods to squeeze ordinary fishermen out of the sea, so that he opened a factory with working workers, and could also solve the problem of eating these fishermen, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone. Li Su also gave this operation a somewhat cruel name, called - fish eat people.

Zhao Fu was dumbfounded when he heard this, he was obviously frightened by Li Su's idea, there are tens of thousands of fishermen in Dengzhou, how many factories do you have to open to fit it? Then he thought of a key question and hurriedly asked: "Your Highness, although this can is good, but this glass bottle alone costs a lot of money, how can ordinary people afford it?" If it's only sold to wealthy families, I'm afraid the quantity is limited, right? ”

"Hahaha~, Zhao Don't know something, don't have glass products on the market are very expensive, in fact, that's because there is too little glass produced now, speaking of which, the cost of this thing is cheaper than porcelain, the glass factory built by the people in my house was limited in output because of manpower problems before, but in the next two days, people will be sent, and then they will be able to manufacture glass bottles on a large scale." Li Su laughed and explained, this glass is really a good thing to make money, any new tricks you make, it will be snapped up immediately, if it is not for canned food, Li Su really doesn't want the price of glass to come down.

Zhao Fu heard Li Yu's words but his face was full of black lines, he thought of the pair of glass vases that his daughter Zhao Yifan bought yesterday, it took him half a month's money, if it was worth the money, it would be fine, I didn't expect the glass to be so cheap, and I pity the money I worked so hard to get was cheaper than the black-hearted King Qi in front of me.

"Oh, by the way, is Miss Yifan still working on that steam engine?" After Li Su finished laughing, he suddenly remembered the last time he saw Zhao Yifan, on a whim that day, he took Miss Zhao, who would rather be a thief in order to see the ship model, to the inner house study to see the schematic diagram of the steam engine, this diagram was drawn by Li Su according to the principle of the steam engine in his own opinion, and some places may be very inaccurate, but the principle is probably similar to that of later generations.

But what Li Su didn't expect was that after listening to Li Su's explanation of the principle of the steam engine, Miss Zhao was immediately interested, and also asked some very professional questions, which made Li Su a little surprised, after talking he found that this Miss Zhao is not only proficient in shipbuilding, but also has a lot of attainments in machinery, mathematics, astronomy, geography, etc., Li Su is really a little dizzy, looking at the other party is only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he is just in high school at this age in the future, if he understands these, it is not surprising, but this is Datang, Where did the other party learn these professional knowledge, is she also a traverser? It's a pity that before Li Su could ask, he was interrupted by Zhao Fu who broke in, and later Miss Zhao asked Li Su to send a letter, saying that she wanted to build a steam engine, and at the same time asked Li Su to leave the schematic diagram of Li Su's drawing.

"Your Royal Highness, Fan'er is indeed obsessed with studying your steam engine, she is bored at home all day long, sometimes she even forgets to eat, she finally coaxed her to the street yesterday, but she didn't buy a few things, she went home noisy, and listened to her, it seems that the design drawings are almost completed, and then she will start to make real things to test it." Speaking of his daughter, Zhao Fu was full of wry smiles, speaking of which blamed him, who made him too spoiled to his daughter? Now he, as a father, can't control his daughter at all.

"So fast!" Li Su was also shocked when he heard that he was about to make a physical product, and he thought about it and said: "Zhao Beijia, my palace is planning to build an academy of sciences, specializing in the study of some things, although there are not a few people yet, but the funds are very sufficient, if Miss Zhao wants to study the steam engine, it will definitely consume a lot of funds, it is better to let her come to my academy, and the funds are all up to me." ”

"This ......" Zhao Fu hesitated, although after this period of contact, he found that Li Su was not a lustful person, but his daughter was so beautiful, it was really uneasy to put Li Su by his side, so after thinking about it, he finally said: "Your Highness, there is a shipyard in Xiaguan's house, and it has always been a little girl in charge, so there is no shortage of money, I think it is better to let her study it at home." ”

Li Su was also kind-hearted, but since his father didn't agree, he didn't force it, and when he was about to let Zhao Fu leave, he suddenly thought of a question, so he asked again: "Zhao Beijia, I see that Miss Yifan is very proficient in astronomy, geography, arithmetic, etc., not like she is self-taught, but has anyone taught her?" (To be continued) RQ!!