Chapter 212. The Netherlands at the end of the Han Dynasty, or the Western Qingzhou?
No wonder Jia Xu got angry. Wang Hou was so arrogant that he was so arrogant that he also helped Chen Yuanlong, who had cultivated 500,000 stones a year. He went there, but he couldn't even get 50,000 stones a year.
It’s not that you can’t catch fish. After all, Chen Deng was guarding a Zhoushan fishing ground at the door. These days, there were fish when you put the net in. Unlike the poor people in later generations who went to sea for several days, the oil was gone and even a shrimp could not be found. The captain was so anxious that he could give him a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand to the sea. The sea was very rich.
The biggest enemy is the issue of preservation.
There are no quick-freezing cabins these days. Wang Hou taught Chen Deng a live fishing cabin. However, even if he kept the fish in the seawater specially left under the deck, he would die in one day and rot in two days. A large ocean fishing boat of more than 30 meters can operate at sea for half a month, but after going to sea, he could only return on the third day. He didn't earn much from digging out manpower and material resources. In addition, Chen Deng was still not very concerned about the sea, and there were only ten ocean fishing boats in Guangling.
Especially the risk of sea boats is higher than that of river boats, Chen Deng has even overturned these days.
So when he looked at Wang Hou's fishing, he didn't mention much interest.
However, he leaned on the half-deck and stared at his old eyes. After a while, some different actions of Wang Hou still caught his eyes.
It was exactly the same as Chen Deng's steps. He grabbed the fish and threw it into the live fish compartment. But after half an hour of busyness, he completed the harvest of the fish. A different scene came.
The sailor was ordered by Wang Hou to turn around and brought up a bunch of large, sturdy wooden barrels. He personally caught a fish without fear of fishing. Wang Hou cut off the gills with two swords. He threw away the fish belly with a sharp knife and took out the fish bladder alone. It was an important material for making glue. The remaining internal organs and fish scales were thrown into a bucket. He had already taken out the washed fish to grab the salt in the bucket and applied it inside and outside. With a squeak, the golden pomfret that was still jumping was thrown into the third big bucket that had hit half a barrel of concentrated salt water.
The provincial governors took action by themselves. How dare the sailors not help? For a moment, they sat in a bunch of small stools around the live fishing cabin. The sailors surrounded the live fishing cabin, with knives in their hands and feet. Poor and fat sea fish became dead in their decks. The choking smell on the deck was thrilling. The water in the live fishing cabin quickly turned bloody red, but the fish was quickly filled with two large buckets. The internal fish scales were filled with eight or nine buckets, while the fish was filled with more than forty buckets, and there were also shrimps filled with four or five buckets, and the crabs were thrown directly.
Unlike fish, if sea crabs cannot be cooked quickly and freeze, the protein will rot rapidly. Even if you like to eat crabs before traveling through time, you can sell at least one or two hundred on the market. The largest one can be almost one pound of big crabs, Wang Hou had to say goodbye!
There were about 300 kilograms of fish per bucket, and then he harvested more than 120 stones at a time. This was only half a night of harvest for two boats. When they were just working, they were full of energy, but Wang Hou was no longer able to do it. He was so confused by the smell of fish. He slapped his nose and quickly fled back to the first-class cabin at the stern of the boat. He also opened a bucket of fresh water to take a bath for himself. On the other end, the sailors drew lots for a long time. Then a sailor mustered up the courage to jump out of the live fish pond. With the choking smell of blood, he pulled out all the plugs under the live fish pond. On both sides of the boat, bright red blood gushed out. On the other end, the old captain quickly ordered the sail to hang up and was about to run away.
Now there are many sharks gathering. As soon as such fishy blood is discharged, I am afraid that all sharks within a radius of hundreds of miles will come to the scene. Don’t knock the boat over at that time.
But seeing the sailors pushing the heavy barrels under the cabin, Jia Xu was still full of suspicion.
Can it be preserved in this way?
He didn't know that such a simple one-size-fits-all method laid the foundation of a legendary commercial empire in later generations, the Netherlands of the sea coachman!
On the Nordic coastline, a large number of herrings come every year. The Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway all rely on salvage of herrings to survive. Among them, the Netherlands is the weakest.
But a fisherman named William in the Netherlands accidentally invented this method of keeping fresh, cutting off the internal organs of herring, applying salt and marinating them with concentrated salt water, so that the herring can be stored for a full year.
You should know that fish is a shortage in the European market. Because these days, the cooking methods of meat are too backward. Western meat is authentic and the body odor of livestock. Why are spices in the West? Because the nobles need to marinate them with a large amount of spices to suppress the odor in the meat. Moreover, in the Christian tradition, almost half of the year is fasting and you cannot eat meat!
But fish are an accident! In Western view, for a long time, fish were not counted in meat. On fasting days, there was only one protein. It is conceivable how popular it would be for the Dutch to keep a year's pickled fish and transport it to the European market.
Relying on this advantage, the Dutch accumulated the first pot of gold to dominate the world!
However, now, the Dutch preservation method has been shamelessly plagiarized by Wang Hou, and it was established long before the Netherlands in the late Han Dynasty. I don’t know if this paragraph is mentioned later in the future. Will you say that Qingzhou is the East Netherlands or the Netherlands is the West Qingzhou?
As for the famous internet celebrity canned stinky herrings in later generations, Wang Hou doesn’t have to worry at all, because this is different from pickling fish! Canned stinky herrings are Swedish specialty food and are not from Dutch at all. Moreover, the production process of stinky herrings was made by Swedes after cooking the herrings for some salt, so they sealed them in the can and let them ferment naturally. The gas rose for two months, and the smell was naturally touching!
The principle of preserving freshness of concentrated salt water is that the concentration of salt water exceeds the cell fluid. After the rotten bacteria fall on the fish, the cell fluid will be directly squeezed and dried to death, which will inhibit the bacteria. Therefore, when the lid is opened on the shore, the smell will definitely be there, but it will definitely not be enough to open the lid to make the dog vomit.
Amid Jia Xu's concerns, two deep-sea fishing boats on the ground of Qingzhou were fishing around the Yellow Sea Islands and reefs for more than a week. After the more than 1,600 large barrels were filled, they all filled the boats with heavy loads. Only then did Wang Hou order the return with satisfaction.
When he came back, Wang Hou even made a magic trick for Jia Xu. Chen Deng's live fish cabin basically died in one day. As for the crabs, they died in a while. But in his live fishing, the fish caught in the last net were still roaring, and even the crabs were roaming with their teeth and claws. They only suffered four sailors who were substituting the class and took turns stepping on the blower like a blower used by an ironworking boiler. As soon as they stepped on it, the pipes reserved in the water bubbled up.
Wang Hou was really irresponsible. He had been tired of staying on the boat. Even the Landlord was ripe and lost to his guards. He also ate pickled vegetables and steamed buns for many days. As soon as he got ashore, he couldn't wait to put the big crabs in the live fish compartment and two qin guns in the carriage and flirted into the mansion. He couldn't wait to improve his life.
This trip harvested about 4,500 sea fish, and it was a meat-eating fish rich in protein. It was a great harvest for the agricultural-based late Han Dynasty, but Jia Xu still held it straight, which was different from what he saw in Xuzhou.
It was the first pier that Wang Hou built, with a huge wooden barrel rolling round and round. Two sailors pushed the shore to unload the goods. As soon as they got ashore, Jia Xu couldn't wait to order to open the barrel. The lid of the nailed barrel was opened with difficulty, and a fishy smell came to his face. But in his surprised eyes, the box of hairtail was still the same as when he had just put it in. The meat was very hard and I didn't see the slightest corruption. Jia Xu shook his head.
"Is it true that the sound of oranges in Huainan is oranges, and the sound of oranges in Huainan is tangerines in Huainan is tangerines?"
However, just as he was shaking his head and sighing, another big bucket was not held firmly when the sailor was stacked up, and it fell to the ground with a bang. In an instant, all kinds of red, black, and sticky substances fell out. Jia Xu, who was still standing next to the unloading area, immediately turned white and fainted. On the other side, he was carrying a big crab and was still calculating who to invite to the crab banquet tonight. Wang Hou, who was also white in his face, vomited out suddenly. He staggered and ran off the carriage, and followed his guards to hold the wall and vomited loudly.
The jaundice water that was vomiting was almost coming out, and Venus was rising from her eyes. Wang Hou was so sad that he pulled out his sword.
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