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After reading the new report, Xiao Feng chuckled: "I didn't expect this Wang Mu to think of this method." I actually came up with the whaling industry. ”

"Whaling? Is it whale catching? But what is a whale?"

Xiao Xing was slightly puzzled.

"There is a fish in the North Sea, and its name is Kun. The Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is. Xiao Feng replied: "The so-called whale is this kun." Seeing the surprise in Xiao Xing's eyes, she hurriedly explained: "Of course, this whale is not so big, the largest is only about ten zhang, and the smallest is about three zhang, it is a creature in the ocean. Fishermen at sea often come across it again, so there are rumors like this. ”

Xiao Xing exhaled a breath of turbid air and complained, "So that's the case." I thought it was that big. Then with worry in his eyes, he said, "Wouldn't it be too cruel to just kill whales so wantonly?" ”

Xiao Xing has always been kind, but he can't stand the bloody breath.

"Although the whale is huge, it is no different from chickens, ducks, fish, pigs, cattle and sheep, but they are all edible creatures. I know that you have mercy in your heart, but the reason why Wang Mu captured the whale was only so that the people under his rule could survive. There is no need to be so sad. Just treat it as a normal thing. Xiao Feng persuaded.

The darkness of the whaling industry, Xiao Feng is naturally clear, otherwise why would the hunting of whales be banned in the future?

But now it has just been developed, and it is far from extinction, and she is not the same existence as the Virgin, so naturally she has no interest in stopping it.

However, Xiao Feng is somewhat interested in how Huating County will develop, because this whaling industry is an extremely demanding industry with seafaring skills, and in order to be able to catch a large number of whales, it is necessary to wander around the ocean.

In order to repair these whaling ships, it is natural that Huating County needs to build a dock to repair them, and there may even be a shipbuilding industry that directly builds new whaling ships.

In addition, it takes a lot of factories and personnel to deal with the whales and various seafood that are caught, and naturally it can also lead to the employment of local people, which is really unimaginable.

On top of that, as the whaling ship goes farther and farther, it may be possible to discover places like the Americas, Australia, and more.

At that time, because of the discovery of these places, it may also cause a new round of development, and then Huating County, as a port, will definitely usher in a new round of development.

Xiao Feng couldn't predict how the future would go, just as a bystander, quietly watching the world and sliding to another trajectory.

Xiao Xing also felt that he was too sad, and laughed at himself: "Maybe I'm too sensitive, I just hope that they won't kill wantonly, at least they will leave a way to live." ”

"Don't worry, I will tell Wang Mu about this. ”

Xiao Feng replied, but he was thinking in his heart: "If this is the case, then Huating County is too low just as a county seat, and it seems that it must be promoted to a prefecture, so that it can show attention." ”

In her future strategy, Huating County has a very important strategic position, and naturally it cannot be just a small county seat forever.

Now that Wang Mu has opened up a financial route, a new construction plan has been proposed in Huating County, and the ports and docks that have begun to be built along the coast have begun to show their potential value, and many factories have been built on those tidal flats. These factories process the canned tuna, whales, and other seafood they catch and transport it along the Yangtze River to all parts of the country, so that people from all over the world can taste the taste of these products.

And in Xiao Feng's plan, this Huating County is more than that.

She also wants Huating County to continue to build, and even to the point where it can repair and even build ironclad ships, so that she can use this place as a naval base to build a fleet that is enough to sweep across the ocean, and use this fleet as the basis to launch an attack on the Yuan Dynasty, just like the Opium War in the past, launch an attack directly from the ocean, so as to completely drive the Yuan Dynasty out of the capital.

Of course, it will take some time to complete this project, at least in ten years, and it will not be possible.

However, Xiao Feng didn't mind waiting, she had been waiting for thirty years before, and now it was not bad for ten years.

So she immediately issued an order to upgrade Huating County to a level, and the county level was upgraded to a government, including Pingjiang Mansion and Jiaxing Mansion, and renamed Songjiang Mansion, Wang Mu was also promoted by a level, from the original prefect to the prefect of Sipin, and its jurisdiction has also expanded a lot, not as constrained as before.

"Haha. It seems that the lord also approves of my deeds. ”

Wang Mu was extremely happy when she saw the order issued, if she got Xiao Feng's promise, then she could do even more.

At this moment, a person walked in from outside the door.

Wang Mu fixed his eyes and hurriedly said, "It turned out to be General Kang." How did you get here?"

Since the conquest of Lin'an, Kang Lu was promoted to the Yangtze River Navy patrol envoy, and is also responsible for the coastal defense of this place, and often comes here on weekdays to see if there is any situation, and because of their appearance, Huating County should now be called Songjiang Mansion's piracy problem, which has also been solved invisibly.

"Hey. Isn't there something I want you to help me deal with? Kanglu said.

"What's the matter?" Wang Mu was a little confused: "As long as I can help you do it, I will definitely help you complete it." ”

Kang Lu replied: "Alas. Didn't I help you fight piracy and capture several ships?"

"Well, those boats have been converted into fishing boats. If you want to take it back, I'm just afraid—" Wang Muton felt embarrassed, and after accepting those seagoing boats, she transformed them into fishing boats for fishing aquatic products and whale hunting.

It was only with the loss of these dozen or so fishing boats that the county government's finances did not go bankrupt, and there was even some surplus.

Kang Lu smiled: "It's just a few sea ships, it's not a big deal." It's just that you also know that when our army fought against the Yuan army again, we captured a lot of warships. It's useless to keep those ships in the army, so I want to get rid of them, I wonder if you can help?"

"So that's it?"

Wang Mu breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately patted his chest and said, "It's just these things, then it's naturally the best." She was now in a hurry to develop the fishing industry, and was in dire need of a large number of warships, which were really timely, but when she thought about it, she was confused: "But why do you want to sell these warships?"

"Hey. It's not that these warships are too dilapidated! Staying in the army is also a waste of manpower, and it doesn't have much effect on improving combat power, so it's better to take them out for money. Kang Lu replied.

Wang Mu thoughtfully: "This is indeed the case. ”

In the previous war, the power of the new ironclad ships had already been verified, and the gap between them and the previous gunboats was simply a world apart, and as the newly established Yangtze River Naval Army, it was natural to want to equip the latest and strongest warships, and the previous wooden ships would be much more disgusted.

They will react this way, and rightfully so.

"That's good. But there are quite a few of them, at least three hundred, so I wonder if you can dispose of them?" asked Kanglu.

For those wooden ships, he didn't want them at all, after all, these wooden ships are not only old, but the guns they are equipped with are basically old-fashioned breech guns, their rate of fire and power are too far apart, and the power of only relying on the paddle wheel is too poor, it is simply like a snail crawling.

Leaving this garbage in the army will consume a lot of personnel and funds on the way, which is simply a waste.

Otherwise, why would he find Wang Mu and hope that she could help solve these warships?

Wang Mu patted his chest and replied: "Don't say it's about 300 ships, even if it's 3,000 ships, I can solve them for you." ”

"Good. Then I'll give you these ships when I get back. Kang Lu was immediately overjoyed, and immediately returned to Zhenjiang Mansion, and after waiting for only three days, he transported all the captured merchant ships to Huating County.

Even though Wang Mu had already expanded the wharf before, it was still dense, and the entire river was crowded with boats.

"Huh. If so, how many people do I have to be able to operate these ships?"

Seeing these warships, Wang Mu also felt a headache, after all, she had scarce manpower in her hands, just manpower was enough to manipulate ten fishing boats, and it was still quite difficult to recruit so many people in a short period of time.

But even so, it has never been Wang Mu.

She chose to make a deal with the fishermen to divide the ships among them, and to make an agreement with each other that they would take the boats for themselves if they paid half of each harvest for five years.

Half of the income was a bit harsh, but these ships were much larger than the fishermen's own boats, and they had not been built for many years, so it could be said that they were quite stable, and even if they paid half of the income, the rest of the harvest would be more than the amount they had previously salvaged at one time.

Together, these fishermen flocked to the city, completely divided the warships, and then drove the fishing boats into the ocean and began to fish.

The scale of 300 fishing boats naturally exceeds the sporadic fishing of fishermen in the past, and their harvest has also increased explosively, with more than dozens of tons of various types of marine fish transported to Songjiang Province every day.

To this end, Wang Mu had to build factories here to process the caught marine fish and whales into various products, and then sell them to Chang'an, Lin'an and other areas to make more profits, and then Wang Mu invested these revenues in a new round of construction, and even in order to attract merchants, she also promised those merchants that they would give away land in a near-free way, and give tax exemptions.

Those businessmen also seemed to smell the flies that smelled blood, and naturally they pounced one after another, bringing a large amount of capital and talents, so that this Andong Mansion can be said to be better than one day at a time, and its future development is limitless.