Among these two expedition ships that have been transferred to fishing boats, the "League Sea" will sail north to the mouth of Heilongjiang River, and then use trawls to capture the migrating salmon; while the "Fubo" will go to the waters near the Kuril Islands, on the one hand, exploring local sea areas information, and on the other hand, more importantly, detecting the local famous saury fishing information.

In a while, the extremely large number of saury in the Okhotsk country will begin to migrate south. It is appropriate to go fishing in the waters near the Zezhai Island. If the east coast people are equipped with some combined lamps using large condenser mirrors, they can perform light trapping at night, and can easily catch dozens of tons of saury in one night. However, the local Ainu fishermen do not know this kind of fishing method. They will only drive small boats day after day, year after year, and use their inferior nets to capture some upper-level fish in the inland rivers or near the sea. They may not even know what the fishing flood is.

Therefore, science and technology are the primary productive forces. If you guard the Thousand Island Fishery (i.e. Hokkaido Fishery), the world's largest fishery, if combined with advanced fishing technology, scientific fishery and marine knowledge, this fishery will become a natural marine granary for people on the east coast. Moreover, this granary seems to be endless: high-yield fish such as salmon, saury, Far East Sardines, and mackerel are all enriched here; in addition to these, there are also a large number of crabs and molluscs in the waters around Sakhalin Island, which is really an inexhaustible treasure house.

The situation in the Ming Dynasty in the south is getting worse. Next year, as the war progresses, the number of refugees will usher in an explosive growth period. This also means that the number of refugees in the Ming Dynasty collected by the East Coast people will increase in a magnitude. So how to ensure that the food of so many (possibly tens of thousands or even tens of thousands) of refugees will definitely become a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the East Coast people. To calculate roughly, the food required by refugees of this order of magnitude will be conservatively estimated to be more than 4,000 tons. If the number is too large, it may require a terrifying nearly 10,000 tons of grain.

What is the concept of nearly 10,000 tons of grain? Now the total annual output of various types of grain in the East Coast of China is only more than 20,000 tons. This is still the grain output after stable output in agricultural bases such as West Lake Fort and Dafeng Fort. If the total annual grain output was only more than 10,000 tons in the past two years, the annual total grain output might be just over 10,000 tons. The grain needed to feed tens of thousands of refugees is massive. If there is a certain amount of redundancy left, the people of the East Coast must prepare at least 6,000 tons of grain (the upper limit of 20,000 people is the capacity).

Where can I raise these 6,000 tons of grain? You must know. I can’t count on Australia in a short period of time. I can’t take care of myself. It’s difficult to have surplus grain to support the north for the time being. It’s even more unrealistic to transport from the local area. Not to mention the obstacles of the tens of thousands of miles of sea route, even this transportation capacity cannot afford so much grain transportation task. Then, only the local solution is solved!

The local solution is nothing more than the following. First, farm farming within a region that you can control, and Mo Ming had already started to do this a while ago. Draining swamp water near Yantai Fortress, building artificial reservoirs, and reclaiming deserted fields is the first step. In addition, some potatoes and spring wheat are also sown on Hei Shui Port and Lishi Island. However, the common point of the above is that the sowing area is small, the land is not fertile enough, and many are raw fields. In the end, the total grain output may not be too high, and can only be used as a supplement.

Second, we buy grain nearby and buy food and livestock from neighboring North Korea, Japan and even Sakhalin natives. Not to mention that this will cost a lot of money, these countries probably don’t have much surplus grain. Let’s not talk about those bitter Sakhalin natives. North Korea’s grain production is just that, it’s sloppy, but don’t forget that there are millions of people to support it, and it’s basically difficult to sell excess grain. Just look at the wild boar skins that year, and it’s not that they are unwilling to give it to, but there is really no! Japan’s situation may be worse than North Korea, because its population is larger, and the food will only be more tight. Therefore, purchasing food from North Korea, Japan and even countries on the Indochina Peninsula can only be used as a supplement, and as a small part of the food source, it cannot be used as a support.

Third, that is fishing, which is the most reasonable and most likely way that people on the East Coast can think of now. Bearing the fishing grounds with the richest fishing products in the world, saying that there is not enough food, and you have certain fishing boats and equipment, and more advanced fishing technology and knowledge. If you can still say this, then you can really doubt whether your IQ is at a normal level. Since you know that the local resources are so rich, you should start preparing as soon as possible.

According to Mo Ming's instructions, Sergeant Johnson was preparing to form a fishing team with hundreds of North Korean fishermen captured before and fifty East Coast sailors in the city as the core. Of course, after the fishing team was equipped, the fishing boats must also be there. There are many large wood around Hei Shui Port. Although these woods are not suitable for building warships, they are also suitable for building merchant ships and fishing boats. However, there are real difficulties in building ships, such as the lack of professional talents and supporting industries closely related to the upstream and downstream of shipbuilding. You should know that the East Coast Republic of China has developed for so many years. Currently, there is a small shipyard in Xinhua Port, and many of its supporting equipment, such as canvas, ropes, anchor chains, etc., need to be transported from the local area. This shows the difficulty of opening a shipyard overseas. Personnel, factory buildings, equipment, docks, wood treatments, etc., each of them may become a roadblock.

However, it is impossible to build large ships. Those small boats that do not have much technical content and do not require any additional equipment are not difficult to build. When the fishing season comes, just put these small boats onto the large boats, and then everyone goes to sea directly on large boats. After arriving at the place, they will take small boats to fish. The efficiency is not low at all.

After these three ways, I guess I could not get so much food every year at the beginning. But there is no way. Who made the East Coast people still lack strength now? In fact, hundreds of people have come to these boats, and they have attacked the loopholes that the Tartars had just finished raging and the Ming government's local control further declined. If they came here normally, it would probably not be a little trouble, at least they could not gain a foothold on the land in a short time. In short, let's start the stronghold first. After all, you can't watch the refugees die in war and be hungry and indifferent. After the recruitment of refugees, they immediately sent them to Heishui Port, Lishi Island to recuperate, and then wait for the ships to be transported to Jinshan Port, Australia.

At the beginning, due to insufficient transportation capacity, maybe only a few thousand people could be transported every year, but that was already amazing. In the past, a few thousand people could only cost more than one million yuan to immigrate. It required the local area to sell dozens of cotton in Europe and millions of pieces of cotton to make it back. So much money is worth all the investments in the local area.

After the "Fubo" and "Lehai" left, the "Baobab" and "Businessman" anchored in the harbor were also loaded with cement, lime and about 70,000 large city wall bricks, heading towards Zhifu Island in the south along the northwest wind. The brick kiln factory outside Heishui Port City has been in operation for about a month and is in good condition. The work of making bricks can be completed by women and children. After proficiency, the efficiency is higher. According to the current rhythm of one kiln in three days, there is no pressure to produce more than 20,000 standard bricks per kiln.

In addition to most of the bricks produced, the remaining small part of the bricks were supplied to the construction of Yantai Fortress in the south, and the remaining small part began to supply local brick and tile houses in Heishui Port. According to the idea of ​​the technicians sent by the local construction bureau, because the climate of Heishui Port is cold and the snowfall in winter, the local style of houses on the east coast seems very inappropriate. Under his plan, the houses on Heishui Port must be built into a large steep roof building of Russia to make the snow fall, and the roof can no longer use the thin tiles of the previous ones, and they must be thicker.

In addition, every house needs to use a fireplace, which is for winter heating. Sakhalin is violent in winter, with a bitter cold west wind and heavy snow. The frozen world can almost make people feel cold from the cracks of the bones. Therefore, it is necessary to build a heating fireplace in each house. The fireplace is fueled by charcoal and exhausts smoke through the pipe chimney. A shed will also be built above the chimney to block rain and snow.

This project volume is extremely large. Especially at present, whether it is Yantai Fortress or Lishiri Island, a large amount of building materials are being diverted, God knows how many years it will take to be built to complete. Faced with such a situation, Sergeant Johnson decided to suspend most of the construction of the Blackwater Port, first fired a batch of refractory bricks, and then began to build a huge wheel kiln to significantly increase the brick production capacity.

However, considering that it is the end of July, it can be foreseen that after the refractory bricks are burned and the construction of the wheel kiln is completed, Sakhalin Island may be about to enter winter. At least the temperature must be not far from zero degrees. It is only a short one or two weeks for everyone to burn bricks. Basically, don’t expect any output of the wheel kiln this year.

After carefully weighing the pros and cons, Mo Ming approved the proposal. For this reason, he even reduced the amount of special bricks for the city wall provided by the Heishui Brick Kiln Factory to 50,000 yuan each month to ensure that there are enough bricks for Heishui Port to build the wheel kiln. Mo Ming believes that with so many bricks, plus the on-site materials, before the Qing army officially enters Shandong in June and July next year, most of the Yantai Fortress should be able to be completed. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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