Dengzhou is mountainous and hilly, there is not much land available for cultivation, coupled with the current agricultural technology is not developed, the yield per mu is not high, so agriculture is not a major industry for Dengzhou, there are three main industries supporting Dengzhou, fishing, salt and sea trade, in addition to slave hunting, gold mining, fruit planting, etc., these industries are engaged in not many people, can only play a certain supplementary role in the main industry.

Due to the restrictions of sea trade and commodity types, Li Su can not do much, nothing more than to expand ports, reduce unreasonable taxes, etc. to stimulate the growth of sea trade, in addition, although a new type of sea ship has also been developed, but it is still in the trial voyage, only in Dengzhou to be fully promoted, it is estimated that it will take at least a few years, let alone promote to the entire Tang Dynasty.

The growth of maritime trade is limited, but the two aspects of fishing and salt, but Li Su has enough room to play, and now the use of trawling nets on the fishery has been extremely common, and the previous fishing mode of scattered small households has been completely broken, but has formed a situation where the fishing team of Qi Wangfu is the leader, and other large and small fishing teams coexist.

Behind these fishing teams are one or several powerful fishermen, who use fishing boats, nets and other means of production, pay people to catch fish for them, and use trawl as a new way of fishing, not only to make huge profits, but also to squeeze many small fishermen out of business.

The salt industry is similar to the fishing industry, with the spread of salt-drying and the construction of salt pans by the salt-rich households, while the small households cannot afford to use the new technology, and the cost of boiling salt is too high to sell at all. Now the amount of salt produced in Dengzhou has increased exponentially, but the share of salt produced by small households is decreasing.

Whether it is trawling or drying salt, the emergence of these two new technologies has broken the rice bowl that many fishermen and salt farmers have inherited for many years, and many people have entered fishing teams or salt factories run by large households in order to make a living, and they are still doing the same thing as before. Some of them went to the newly opened seafood processing factories of various kinds, and these workers received a lot of monthly wages, but they did not have any means of production themselves. It can be said that he is already a full-time worker.

Technological innovation in the fishing and salt industry has led to an increasing variety of seafood, and the price of Dengzhou salt has become lower and lower. With the spread of maritime merchants from all over the world, more and more businessmen have also been attracted to Dengzhou, so now Dengzhou is extremely busy whether it is by sea or land, and the tax revenue of Dengzhou has also risen several steps, and even several states next to it have been stained with light, at least the flow of goods has increased several times.

The busy trade routes naturally increased the demand for fish, salt and other goods in Dengzhou again. Some time ago, although the output of the salt factory was affected due to problems such as lack of personnel, with the purchase and sale of slaves. This problem has been greatly alleviated, and now that it is summer, as long as there are no cloudy days, the output of the salt plant has been increasing.

Compared to the salt industry, which only requires manpower, space and weather, the fishing aspect is a bit more troublesome. One of the most important is the restriction of fishing boats, although some time ago the existing fishing boats were renovated, but there are not many fishing boats suitable for renovation in Dengzhou, so after the transformation, many fishing teams have placed orders for new ships to the shipyard, but it takes time to build a ship. Moreover, it is impossible for all the shipyards in Dengzhou to build fishing boats, so each fishing team has more people and fewer boats, even the fishing team in the Qi Wangfu is no exception.

Because of this, the fishing team now implements a rotation system, a boat docks, after unloading the fish, the crew on the ship comes down, and the crew who was originally resting immediately gets on the boat, checks the performance of the boat, and if there is no major damage, it is necessary to go to sea immediately.

Counting the days, today is the day when the Qi Wangfu fishing team returns, and Zhou Tu took his crew and several other captains to stand on the dock and wait. Zhou Tu was the first person to join the royal fishing team, he was down-to-earth and good at fishing, and he also learned the new technology of trawling quickly, so he was appointed captain, and more than a dozen people on a boat were under his control.

After waiting for a while, I saw a few more familiar masts on the sea in the distance, and then several fishing boats painted with a big 'Qi' word on the bow appeared on the sea.

...... the first, second, and third years, as long as Zhou Tu and the others were literate, they all counted silently in their hearts, and found that there was not a single fishing boat that went to sea this time, so they put their minds at ease. The wind blew at sea last night, but luckily the fishing boats in the palace were fine.

The fleet was about to dock, and Zhou Tu and the others immediately greeted them, ready to help unload the fish, but what they didn't expect was that as soon as the first boat landed, a person immediately jumped down from it, and when they saw Zhou Tu, they immediately shouted anxiously: "Uncle Tu, quickly find me a horse, I will go to see the prince immediately!" ”

The person who jumped down was Zhou Yu, the steward of the fishing team, and he led the team last time he went to sea, but now he sees that his clothes are broken, and he still has a few scars on his body, and I don't know how to do it.

"Sanzi, you are ......"

Zhou Tu is Zhou Yu's elder after all, and when he saw his appearance, he naturally wanted to ask clearly, but Zhou Yu interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "Uncle Tu, don't ask yet, human life is at stake, I have to see the prince as soon as possible!" ”

Seeing Zhou Yu's anxious appearance, Zhou Tu and they didn't dare to delay any longer, and hurriedly found a carriage on the dock, and after sending Zhou Yu away, they all rushed to the boat, and when they asked the crew to clarify the situation, Zhou Tu and they all had angry faces, and even some young people were eager to drive the boat out to sea immediately and find the opposite person to settle accounts.

"Phew! The little Goguryeo dared to be so arrogant, is it really that we have no way to deal with them in the Tang Dynasty? In the palace of King Qi, Li Su listened to Zhou Yu's report, and then looked at the embarrassed appearance of the other party, and immediately became angry, angrily scolding Goguryeo for having no one in his eyes.

It turned out that Zhou Yu and they went out to sea to fish this time, and they ran a little far, not far from Goguryeo's Beisha City, and everything was going well, but just last night, several of their boats had caught enough fish, and when they were about to come back, they were stopped by a group of Goguryeo warships, not to say that this is the territory of Goguryeo, and the fish are also Goguryeo fish, and they have violated the laws of Goguryeo by running to fish without authorization, so they must not only confiscate the fish they caught, but also detain them together with people and boats.

Zhou Yu saw that the other party was so arrogant, and he was naturally unconvinced, so he stepped forward to theorize a few words, but he didn't expect to immediately attract a severe beating from the other party, and the injuries on his body came from like this. Fortunately, he was clever, and when he saw that the timing was not right, he immediately reported the name of the Tang Qi Palace, and the other party was also taken aback when he heard it, after all, Dengzhou was not far from Beisha City, and Goguryeo had already heard of Li Su's name, and knew that he was the favorite son of His Majesty the Tang Dynasty, so he didn't dare to be as presumptuous as just now, so he released them back, but the fish caught on the boat was still detained.

"Your Highness, if it's just the fish that you hunt and it's taken away, it doesn't matter, but yesterday I saw that between their warships, they even captured a few of my Datang ships, which seem to be the ships of the tiger shark slave hunting team." After Zhou Yu finished telling his story, he told a situation he saw, the slave catching team and the fishing team are both operating on the same sea, and they are very familiar with each other, so they can be so sure.

"What, even Lao Tzu's slave catcher team dares to arrest it?" As soon as he heard this, Yanbei next to him immediately jumped up, although the big boss behind the slave hunting team was Li Su, but he was always in command at the front desk, so the slave catching team has always been regarded as a forbidden body by him, and even Li Su couldn't intervene, and now when he heard that someone dared to move the slave capture team, it was like robbing his woman.

"Hasn't the slave hunting team always gone to Silla, how could they be arrested in Goguryeo, is it ......" Li Su said this, his face suddenly sank, his fierce gaze turned to Yanbei, and asked viciously, "Brother Yan, I seem to remember that I said on the day your slave hunting association was established, don't go to Goguryeo to cause trouble for the time being?" ”

This matter was explained to him again and again, and first, Goguryeo was different from Silla Baekje, and both the national strength and the combat power of the army were very considerable. Second, the first two of the three policies of Pingliao that he proposed at the beginning were mainly aimed at Goguryeo, and they were implemented smoothly. In this case, there is no need to trouble provoking Goguryeo, and after two years to defeat Liaodong, it is not what to do at that time?

"Rokuro, wronged!" Yanbei hurriedly shouted for himself, "Although there is a great shortage of people in both the coal mine and our Dengzhou now, relying only on Silla will not meet our needs at all, and we can still buy it with money in the past, but now almost all of them are robbed by hard robbery, even if we add another Baekje, it will be useless." Although slaves can also be provided there, the distance is a little farther, and the Japanese slaves are small in stature and can't sell them for much price, so not many people are willing to go, but even in such a difficult situation, I still gave a strict order to the people below that they are absolutely not allowed to hunt slaves in Goguryeo! ”

Yanbei analyzed the three countries that were the objects of slave hunting, compared with them, Goguryeo's conditions were simply unique, one was the closest to Dengzhou, and the other was a large population. Such a large piece of fat was placed in front of him, but he could only watch and did not dare to do it, which was even more uncomfortable than killing him.

"That's strange, the slave hunting team in Dengzhou passed by Goguryeo, and it wasn't a day or two, how could they be suddenly arrested?" Li Su muttered to himself.

However, as soon as his voice fell, he said with a cold face: "Hmph! Now is not the time to study these, people have already been captured by Goguryeo, if it is delayed for a few more days, it is estimated that those slave hunters will become corpses, but how can they rescue people? (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )