Whaling is such a thing, and the big guy has seen it more than once on the way here.

Whales in the ocean are just scary to look at.

In fact, it is no different from the cattle and sheep on the land.

Once hit by a human weapon, there is basically no chance of survival.

Comparatively speaking, the transportation and slaughtering and refining after the harvest may be more troublesome than the hunting.

But it doesn't matter.

The fact that everyone is not able to transport, slaughter and refine whales does not mean that others are not able to do it, let alone that the imperial court is not able to do it.

It's a big deal, after the whale is caught, it is sold at a low price.

For example, a whale that was originally worth hundreds of thousands of dollars can be sold to someone who has the ability for 20,000 or 30,000 yuan.

A whale is tens of thousands, and ten is hundreds of thousands.

Just be diligent and work hard.

Making a fortune is not a dream!

Once every three years, I earn hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, which is enough for everyone to have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives!

So the key is, can the ship of the Lord of the 'Doctor' have the ability to hunt whales?

The ships of the Han family, although they have always been divided into ships and ships.

However, in the two branches of the ship and the ship.

The size is never equal.

The largest building ship of the Han family, several zhang high and dozens of zhang long, is moored in the harbor, like a hill.

But the smallest building ship may not be as good as a civilian passenger ship.

And in the ship, this situation is even more exaggerated.

The big one, more than ten zhang, can run rampant in the rivers and lakes.

The smaller one may be a small sampan, and the boat will capsize as soon as the waves hit.

"Captain......" Someone asked, "How big is the ship that this doctor can rent?" ”

"Then it depends on how much you can pay for the lease......" Xu Ji smiled slightly: "If you can afford the price, you can rent the ship!" ”

"It's like a whaling ship that you rent at the age of a year, and it costs a thousand gold!"

This is also because Chen Huan is a relative of the emperor!

Moreover, because of the whales caught by Chen Huan, thirty percent of the products finally refined will be handed over to the Lou Ship Yamen as a reward for hiring sailors from the Lou Ship Fleet!

That's why it's so cheap.

If you change to someone else, don't say if you can rent it.

It's rented, such a big ship, the annual lease cost is at least 3,000 gold!

For no other reason than that such a huge ship requires the best sailors and captains to handle it.

Since entering the Yamen of the building ship, Xu Ji has deeply realized how terrifying the cost of the building ship fleet is!

Not to mention, just qualified sailors and captains, each of them is piled up with money.

Because of its nature, this part of the labor cost is almost negligible.

However, Lou Ship wants to continue to grow, develop and become strong, and finally realize its naval dream.

The treatment and salary should be on par with the Qiu Ba on land, or even surpass each other!

This is the only way to attract the best talent and the best warriors.

Otherwise, if it is like now, a captain in charge of a building ship will only be treated as a Sima of the Han army.

The annual income is only 800 stones, plus allowances and subsidies, it is enough to be able to live a well-off life with a wife and a young family, if you want your children to go to school, then basically you have to live a tight life.

Therefore, in the past, the officers of the Han army, as soon as they had the opportunity, would run to other troops.

It wasn't until the establishment of the general Yamen of the Lou boat that such things gradually became fewer.

But the best officers and talents still can't help but go out.

And it takes five years, or even more than ten years of careful cultivation to train a captain.

Especially after the ship goes to the ocean, such outstanding talents are even more precious.

Last year, more than half of the income from the Xinhua Heishui River was invested in raising the salaries of sailors and captains.

But that amount of money is just a drop in the bucket.

After the Battle of Mayi, it triggered a major brain drain from the Louchuan Yamen.

Especially among the officers subordinate to his Incheon Governor......

In just three months, five captains and more than a dozen deputy captains were poached.

The Chen Huan brothers, King Han, and Joseon Jun are all wielding five-baht coins and gold, desperately poaching.

It is precisely because of this crisis that Xu Ji thought of this brain hole now.

I want to keep talents, I want to recruit talents.

Lou Ship will have to improve the treatment.

But if you want to improve the salary, you need money!

At present, there are more than 50,000 officials and soldiers from top to bottom of the Louchuan Yamen.

Even if it is an average salary increase of 100 yuan per person, it will cost 5 million!

Xu Ji really had no choice but to come up with such an idea.

borrowed the financial resources of the princes and nobles and the world to support the building ship.

So, in fact, the so-called lease and the so-called fish war are all disguises.

The real purpose is to let people from all over the world come to rent warships and go to sea to hunt whales.

Then, the boat sat on the fishing profit.

For example, Chen Huan, the whaling ship he leased, needed more than 400 people, including the captain and sailors, to help him start the ship.

These people's salaries, salaries and welfare subsidies will naturally be paid by Chen Huan.

When the nobles and wealthy merchants from all over the world flock to whaling, the Lou Chuan Yamen can use this to have a relationship of interest with them.

While acquiring a huge amount of wealth and resources to support oneself, one can develop and strengthen oneself at the same time.

Wait until one day in the future, Xu Ji believes that the Louchuan Yamen will make everyone in the world stunned, and then bow and worship.

"The wealth of the country comes from the sea, and the danger also comes from the sea. Xu Ji took the famous words that his uncle said when he was on an expedition to North Korea, and said to everyone: "You have the weight of your family, country, and world, and you are the pioneer of the building ship, please accept my worship!" ”

said that Xu Ji was bowing down.

This fish war is not a cover.

It is the meaning and symbol of the existence of the building boat now.

Why did the Han family raise such a large army?

Of course, it is to protect the country and the people from foreign aggression. At the same time, with the sword of the Han army and the sword of the Han horse, the land was obtained for the plough of the Han family!

In the same way, the meaning of the existence of the building boat, for the time being, must be to protect the whales and fish schools from all over the world from being poached by others.

Xu Ji can now think of a slogan - there are Han fishing boats there, and that is the place where the Han family building boats patrol.

Our generation is not only the defender of the Han fishermen, but also the protector of the Han family's maritime frontier.

I am the wings of the Son of Heaven and the shield of all peoples!

Is there a more inspiring slogan than this?

Without!

However, I want the world to recognize this slogan.

It is necessary that the Han family sea is full of countless fishing boats.

It is necessary to let the relatives of the noble ministers and princes have interests with the Louchuan Yamen.

In this way, shouting slogans can be logical and straightforward.

Otherwise, who will listen to you?

And these people in front of him, like Chen Huan, are the pioneers and experimenters of the policy of Lou Chuan.

Therefore, this worship, Xu Ji is very solemn.

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At the same time, on the so-called 'Cheng'en' island named by Chen Huan.

Hundreds of Han soldiers and more than 1,000 servants from Zhenban and Mahan, driving thousands of Japanese slaves, are cutting down forests on the island to build camps.

Huge stoves are built on the island.

Chen Huan rode her horse and whipped up, looked at the scenery of this island, and said triumphantly: "This is an inexhaustible golden island!" ”

This island is only a few dozen miles away from the active whale colony of 'Yuanhai'.

At the speed of the lucky ship, it can go back and forth in just two hours.

Not to mention, he had just ordered a whaling ship that had almost squeezed his net worth clean.

But, in Chen Huan's opinion, it's worth it!

"I have invested so much, the Son of Heaven should not let Chen Xu and others end up in a short period of time......" Chen Huan thought in her heart: "Even if the Son of Heaven agrees, Chen Xu and Liu Ming may not have such courage!" ”

Chen Xu and Liu Ming may be willing to spend a lot of money, just for the Pomeranian people to smile.

But he certainly didn't have the courage to invest thousands of gold, and he came here to hunt whales at the cost of high benefits and subsidies for the generals of the Han fleet.

It was only when he had seen and witnessed with his own eyes the huge whales and endless fish in the waters near the 'Yuan Sea' and the Unu Islands, that he was willing to give up this book.

"If I can't earn tens of thousands of gold a year, how can I go to see the Son of Heaven again?" Chen Huan laughed proudly in her heart.

In his opinion, although he spent a lot of money, he also managed to keep his two biggest competitors and others out of the door for at least a year.

One year was enough time for him to take possession of the two islands of Cheng'en and Shunde—at least to mark all the places on the islands where whale oil was smelted and whales slaughtered.

In this way, even Chen Xu and Liu Ming want to make a fortune in the future.

But he can only pay for himself.

In this way, even if you can't compete with others in whaling in the future, you can still make money lying down by relying on the slaughtering grounds and smelting bases on these two islands.

As long as there are whales and fish near Yuanhai and the island of Japanese slaves, he and his descendants will not worry about wealth and wealth.

But, now that she has come to this point, of course Chen Huan doesn't just want to be rich.

He cast his gaze on the island of Japanese slaves in the distance, full of ignorance and primitiveness.

He remembered a piece of information that had come back from the last time he had sent people to the island to search for the Japanese slaves before last winter—someone had found several stranded ships in a bay somewhere on the island of the Japanese slaves.

From the point of view of style, it is undoubtedly the style of the ships of the Qi State more than 100 years ago.

"Legend has it that Qin Shi Huang sent Xu Fu to take 3,000 boys and girls to the sea, cross the sea frontier, and visit overseas immortal mountains ......"

"It seems that Xianshan has not been found, Xu Fu has probably found this island of Japanese slaves!"

"And then, behind closed doors, reign as king?"

"Tut-tut...... Poor First Emperor was thinking about Xu Fu's elixir of immortality until he died......"

Of course, it doesn't have to be the wreckage of Xu Fu's fleet.

It may also be that in the past years, the Qi nobles who went to sea to escape the war.

But in any case, it's a good thing to explore.

If it was the former, he caught Xu Fu's descendants, not to mention that Xu Fu, who went to sea with the fleet back then, brought countless treasures.

That's a windfall!

Anyway, on the island of the Japanese slaves, what he Chen Huan does casually, Chang'an can't know.

If it is the latter, rescuing and welcoming back the lost Chinese nobles overseas, this can add a wave of prestige!

With the help of these compatriots, we can find out and figure out the size and ethnic groups of the Japanese islands, so as to better catch the Japanese slaves!

No matter what, he Chen Huan will not lose! (To be continued.) )