Vigorously developing the whaling industry is an established policy of the Hantang Group, and the importance attached to it is no less than that of the current agriculture.

However, in the general development plan, it was not officially launched until the autumn of 1650, when it was not only the best season for the whale hunt, but also when the other corresponding supporting facilities were more complete - the level of use of whale hunting was too low if it was only for meat and whale oil.

However, this plan was born ahead of schedule.

Of course, this is not only because of the two amateurs, but also because other industries have begun to demand this, which can be regarded as a kind of homeopathy, although the preparation is still somewhat insufficient.

However, fortunately, this plan was born ahead of schedule, and there was no conflict with the conscription plan being implemented, and both the sea and land sides did their own thing......

When the work is scheduled, there will always be people who are busy with it, and others who are working normally. The days are beginning to be dull again.

The only thing that can make everyone gossip is that Manager Mei Lezhi officially proposed to the Xiamen Wang family and gave a dowry gift...... The dowry was that Manager Mei Lezhi personally made an IOU to Ye Chuang, and loaned two kilograms of gold and some other items, which was collateralized by his future salary income.

Originally, it could have been mortgaged with the numerous physical documents of Mei Lezhi's manager, but in Ye Chuang's evaluation report, this application was not recognized.

Surprisingly, Secretary Yang Youxing sighed for no reason, saying: "That ton of books is worth more than a ton of gold in my eyes - in the eyes of stingy people, they can't mortgage two kilograms of gold - stingy book friends refuse to even give a few pennies of subscriptions, and it is troublesome to recharge?" As long as you spend money, there's nothing that doesn't bother—"

Ye Chuang said: "I didn't read online articles, if I have a chance in the next life, I will also read pirated online articles, who doesn't take advantage of it?" ”

After saying that, he returned a wicked smile. was so angry that Secretary Yang Youxing was speechless.

"According to the evaluation criteria that I participated in developing, this batch of books could have been printed by us in a year's time, so of course it would not have a high credit limit – I didn't expect our printing technology to develop so quickly, hehe."

However, I still refuse to use shares as collateral, no matter how low the pledge rate is—otherwise our economic system will be washed away by ourselves—taking advantage is also a herd mentality, and the problem is not in private morality, but in the system, and a small system can restrain it. ”

After the crossing, except for the original private quota and the items they carried, everyone's accounts were made public, of course, that number was only the number of wages paid by the group and the number of subsidies paid, and there were no other categories...... How many tickets are left for individuals and the direction of the flow of horse tickets is personal privacy, although there are still people who are dissatisfied with this, but for now it can only be so.

The men of the Hantang Group gave congratulatory gifts, and the gifts that were worth more than fifty horse tickets were all sent back by Manager Mei Lezhi, for a very simple reason.

"Since I am the first person to explicitly embark on the bridge of communication and integration with the Akito, I have set a personal standard, and I don't want this kind of relationship to become a heavy burden for ordinary people in the future...... Fifty horses is a better psychological position. ”

But what no one expected was that the first person to reply to the post turned out to be a girl, Bayin.

Bayin is the only utility engineer in the Hantang Group, but she only has work experience, but she has not obtained the national utility engineer qualification certificate.

Li Ziqiang was recruiting at that time, and when he was interviewed, the first feeling was that he was an engineer in the machinery industry, and the second feeling was that she was a woman.

Li Ziqiang admired a woman with such a personality very much, and asked a few questions about General Dynamics casually...... It's over.

Engineer Bayin said in the forum: "You boys are either playing with technology or numbers all day long, and then you just say something inexplicable, isn't it interesting?!" ”

What does that mean? The boys didn't dare to reply, and Manager Mei Lezhi didn't even reply, and collectively ignored the post......

Principal Rolland quietly sent a secret message to Engineer Bayin, asking her what was wrong.

Engineer Bayin said that looking angry, they knew every day that they were doing something boring.

Principal Rolland said, yes.

The girls are really a little angry, for more than a year, not a single girl has ever received a date from a boy, even if it is a hint......

The boys may be bent on catching a big whale, but the girls are even more interested in catching a man in the Hantang group.

If not, find a Akito man in the future? That's scary...... Of course, none of the girls would say that.

The reason why a girl is angry is never the superficial reason.

Everyone is still busy, and the time is fast, and it has passed even with the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Since the whaling plan has been taken out in advance, then the Hantang Group will take a path of comprehensive utilization for the use of this whale.

The whale is full of treasures, it is versatile and versatile, so to speak, on Earth, it is one of the marine animals that has contributed the most to human development. Of course, the amount of this contribution is related to the level of human development and the level of utilization.

Baleen can be used to make brushes, rain gear and other household items; Not to mention the usefulness of whale skin, which is wider than the industrial and domestic uses of deerskin; Whalebone can be made into handicrafts, due to the neatness of the raw materials, it is easier to handle, naturally a good raw material for the production of elemental phosphorus, if processed into bone meal, the yield will be even higher -

The whale meat is delicious, the meat on its ribs is somewhat like pork belly beef, and the meat on the tail is completely veal, so there are many ways to eat it.

Guo Ziren, captain of the No. 3 fishing boat, said: "It is best to eat it while it is hot, and if it is cold, there is a little bit of sea fish—if there is no sea smell, it is not called seafood." ”

Whale meat can also be processed in any way, marinated and processed into meat floss, canned food is the best raw material; Like other domestic animals, whale offal is dried and ground to make the best feed additive, but of course, each has other uses.

Whale oil is a very fatty animal oil. It not only contains a large amount of glycerin, which can be used to synthesize nitroglycerin in explosives, and has great uses in military and medicine, and can be directly refined from whale oil to high-grade lubricating oil for precision instruments, if it is only used in diesel engines, it is a pity.

Whale oil is hydrotreated to obtain odorless lumps that can be processed into edible margarine.

There are many other uses for whale oil, which is too low-level, but that's why it was hunted in large numbers by Europeans, whether it was used to make candles or used as lamp oil. There is also a less popular way to use oil paint, and shoe polish can also be used.

A 120-ton blue whale can get more than 40 tons of oil in its body. This amount of fat is equivalent to the amount of lard taken from thousands of fat pigs. Unfortunately, blue whales are mostly in high-latitude waters. However, there is also a lot of whale oil in other cetaceans, especially sperm whales and humpback whales...... In the South China Sea, there are just a few more of these two types of whales.

"Whale oil is one of the best cosmetic oils, with first-class moisturizing and emollient effects...... That's why small Japanese cosmetics are better on a certain chengdù and are more suitable for Asian skin......"

Originally, the technician next to Ma also wanted to talk about the effect of medicine, but he received secret letters from more than ten girls almost at the same time...... It's overwhelming to answer......

Captain Fan Dahai said happily: "Don't forget whale milk, whale oil makes ice cream, and my son Weiye likes to eat it." It tastes and colours the same as milk......"

There is evidence that as early as 100 A.D., ancient Eskimos and North American Indians used to hunt whales for large quantities of meat, fuel, and materials for making tools.

In Europe, systematic whaling began around the Bay of Biscay in the late Middle Ages. As early as the 16th century, Basque whalers tracked whales and braved the waves to travel long distances to the coast of Newfoundland and Iceland.

In fact, such transatlantic voyages began as early as 1372. In what is now the 17th century, both the Dutch and the English formed large whaling fleets.

It is estimated that about 300 Dutch whaling ships with a crew of 18,000 people go to sea each year.

In the Ming Continent, whaling is also an industry that has been practiced for many years.

"New Tang Dynasty Book" volume 36 "Five Elements Zhi III": "In March of the second year of Kaicheng, there was a big fish six zhang long, from the sea into Huai, to Haozhou Zhaoyi, the people killed it. ”

and the "New Tang Dynasty Book" volume 219 "Beidi Lie Biography 61 Heishui Yan Yan" recorded: "Fu Nirvana, also known as the Great Fu Nirvana, Kaiyuan, Tianbao eight times, offering whale eyes ......."

However, the level of whaling in the Ming Continent has always been at the level of "picking", mostly dealing with stranded whales.

From the point of view of the means of acquisition, it is indeed not as good as the small Japan of the period.

Little Japan generally attacked on their own initiative, and their earliest recorded record of whaling was in the 17th century.

They drove small boats from the open sea into the bay, using harpoons, rolling nets, and gillnets to deal with lone whales.

When formulating the overall plan, Hantang Group is determined to make up for this shortcoming.

Hantang Group opened its own equipment in advance.

The development of whaling technology is divided into three stages:

The first stage is the ancient stage. When Europeans first saw Eskimos hunting in the 17th century, they found that Eskimos were using kayaks, whaling javelins with barbs, and the forks had hubs at the heads, and the barbs were raised when the forks were pierced into the whale's flesh. There are also leather ropes, on which swollen seal skins are attached as floats, which are used to hold whales dive into the water until they are exhausted.

The whaling methods used by Europeans and North American Indians during this period were very similar.

Six whalers left the boat and chased the whales in small dinghys, usually 8.5 meters long and equipped with barbed whaling halves and long ropes. Once the whale has been stabbed, it flees with a rope until it surfaces from exhaustion, where it is killed with a whaling gun, a longer form of whaling, and then dragged by a rope to the side of the big boat, where the grease is cut with a bladed spear and the carcass is discarded in luxury.

The second stage is the modern stage. Modern whaling began in the mid-19th century, when the Norwegian Foyne invented a whaling cannon to fire a whaling javelin filled with explosives.

For centuries, whalers could only catch slower whales, such as humpbacks, sperm whales, bowhead whales, and gray whales, because the whaling whales that were not far away could make up these cetaceans.

Foyne's whaling cannon can shoot the whaling cannon at a greater distance. When the number of slower-swimming cetaceans decreases considerably, whalers have been able to hunt down faster-swimmer whales with previously unaffected populations, such as blue whales, cod whales and ankle whales, and the number of whales caught by humans has increased. Later, power boats were used, which complemented the whaling cannons, and these methods have changed little to this day.

The third stage is the modern stage. Modern whaling uses helicopters, underwater sonar, and high-powered whaling cannons, so large numbers of whales can be captured.

The 60-meter-long whaling boat can reach speeds of up to 18 knots and can shoot 54-kilogram explosive-loaded whaling javelins at a distance of 200 meters.

Such a processing vessel includes a huge operating department and is completely self-sufficient, with processing equipment, a real room and a hospital on board.

Blue whales, larger than the largest prehistoric dinosaurs, can be fatted, dismembered, chopped and pressured to make whale oil and whale meat products in about 45 minutes.

Helicopters are available in Hantang Group, but Chairman Wu Dapeng has mentioned the use of helicopters several times, but they have been rejected by the board of directors...... The reason is, not the key point, and wait.

Chairman Wu Dapeng once said angrily: "Like waiting for Godot? ”

Others laughed and said nothing, and Director Li Ziqiang asked curiously, "Who is Godot?" ”

The Hantang Group will not use helicopters for whaling this time, but they have activated the Yu-3.

If they could buy a whaling ship in that world, they would certainly find a way to buy it...... But that country stopped production in the early eighties, and the purchase of foreign ones was too formalistic and eye-catching, so they had to add some modifications to the Yu-3, which no one would notice.

The captain of the Yu-3 is named Guo Ziren, a native of Xuwen County, Guangdong. He has been a captain for many years in the fishing area of Wailuo Port.

Wailuo is a well-known "hometown of whaling and shark hunting".