As dusk approached, ten fishing boats returned. Each fishing boat was filled with lively fish. They weighed at least 5,000 catties. Ten fishing boats weighed more than 50,000 catties!
The hundreds of people in the fishing village were shocked!
They couldn't care less about fear. Their eyes were red as they looked at the fishing boats that were filled to the brim, and they drooled crazily. Although they also made a living by fishing, they were not local fishermen of Liujia Island.
As early as the Jiajing period, because the Japanese pirates invaded the Ming Dynasty, the people on Liujia Island were withdrawn to the mainland. Later, they were occupied by pirates. Although they were eventually wiped out by the Ming Dynasty soldiers, Liujia Island was abandoned.
In the fifth year of Chongzhen, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and others rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and occupied Dengzhou, disrupting the entire Shandong. A large number of people were displaced and there were many refugees. Although in the sixth year of Chongzhen, the rebellion in Shandong was eliminated, and Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and others fled to the sea and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the losses caused to Shandong were still difficult to quell.
The people on Liu Clan Island had also escaped to Liu Clan Island during that period of time.
In other words, the fishermen on Liu Clan Island had only lived on the island for ten years.
They were not real fishermen at all. They were just struggling to survive on the island.
They did not have the skills to build ships or fish, so it was very difficult to catch fish. They were busy from day to night, fishing one day and drying the nets three days later. Each boat could catch up to a hundred catties of fish. To them, it was already a reward from the Sea Dragon King.
As for catching more than 5,000 catties of fish in one boat, it was simply a legend for the people of the small fishing village!
Everyone looked at the farmers who had just returned from fishing as if they were looking at gods. As for Lin Feng, who was leading these farmers, they were all shocked.
"Feng Zi…"
Zhang Yun led a group of young men from the fishing village and looked pitifully at Lin Feng, who had come after hearing the news.
Looking at the scrawny old men, children, and dark-skinned women behind Zhang Yun, Lin Feng thought for a moment and said,""Work for me, two catties of fish per person per day!”
Although Lin Feng felt sorry for these people and did not like to watch them starve to death in front of him, he also knew that he could not afford to feed these people for nothing.
Only by working can you get food. If you don't work, you won't be given a single fish bone!
He had a great success in catching fish. Each person had two catties of fish, and it was real labor. To him, it was not worth mentioning.
But if he wanted more, he had to show its value.
Where did the value come from?
Then he had to work!
"Thank you, Master Lin!"
Hearing that Lin Feng was willing to take out two catties of fish per person to work for him, everyone shouted excitedly. To be honest, two catties of fish per day was not considered a lot for a laborer, because only the young and middle-aged counted as one laborer, the young and strong women counted as 0.8 laborers, and the elderly and children counted as 0.5 laborers.
A family of five people only had three laborers, which was six catties of fish.
They wouldn't be full because fish wouldn't fill their stomachs, but at least they could survive!
In this chaotic world, it was enough to survive. How could he expect more?
To Lin Feng, although there weren't many of them, it was a good start. This was because he couldn't just rely on the peasants under him to stabilize his regime. In the future, he had to recruit other talents.
His eyes were not only on Liu Clan Island!
The entire fishing village only had about 200 laborers. Lin Feng only needed to pay less than 500 catties of fish per day to capture the entire fishing village.
This was very cheap for Lin Feng.
He let Zhang Yun be the manager and arranged for these people to move the fish, cut the wood, and burn the bricks.
That's right, it was brick making.
Lin Feng was already sick of living in a thatched hut. He wished he could build a big brick house to live in.
With this arrangement, the entire fishing village began to get busy.
After a series of weighing, the ten fishing boats had caught 55,500 catties of fish!
500 catties of fish were paid to the villagers as remuneration, 5,000 catties of fish were used as food reserves, and 50,000 catties of fish were produced by Lin Feng into 500 farmers in one go!
Instantly, the entire fishing village was filled with people.
However, all of this did not matter. To people in troubled times, it was fine as long as they had food to eat. It did not matter if they had a house to live in.
With 600 farmers in his hands, Lin Feng's manpower immediately became abundant.
He began to arrange for people to cut down trees, build ships, expand the docks, build salt ponds, bake bricks, reclaim land, build farms, and build houses and barracks.
With the fishing boats, an endless stream of fish and sufficient food, Lin Feng began to boldly attack.
He also built the system building, blacksmith shop, tailor shop, and warehouse.
A Level 1 Blacksmith Shop could be built by consuming a batch of wood, stone, and food. It would bring along five blacksmiths. The Tailor Shop was similar.
These buildings were built for the sake of iron-making and textile technology.
It could not produce blacksmiths and tailors.
However, he could arrange for the farmers to learn. These farmers were living people. There were men and women. They had their own thoughts and could give birth to offspring.
By sending a group of farmers to learn, they could expand production.
The farm was still in the state of reclamation. There was no hemp production, so there was no raw material for making linen canvas. However, the blacksmith shop could look for iron ore and make iron by digging iron ore.
As it was only a Level 1 Blacksmith Shop, its skills were limited and could only produce simple iron tools.
For example, hoes, shovels, kitchen knives, iron pots, hatchets, sickles, scissors, axes, hammers, and so on.
Of course, it was possible to make battle swords and armor, but the quality of the iron was not good. It was not very useful, and it would be a waste to make them. Lin Feng was too lazy to make them.
Ten days later.
With an endless supply of fish as a source of food, Lin Feng had gone crazy and produced more than 5,000 farmers!
With sufficient human resources, Lin Feng's construction of the small fishing village went smoothly.
There were ten warehouses that could store 100 tons!
There was nothing they could do about it. Five thousand farmers consumed ten thousand catties of food every day, which was three hundred thousand catties in a month, which was one hundred and fifty thousand kilograms or one hundred and fifty tons!
A hundred ten-ton fishing boats were built, and 500 farmers were arranged to go out to sea to fish. They could steadily catch 500,000 catties of fish every day, and they could have a surplus of 490,000 catties of fish every day!
It had to be said that in this era, there were really many fish in the sea. A casual net could catch a net.
A one-ton saltpan was built, producing sea salt continuously. Lin Feng no longer lacked salt, and he could use sea salt to make salted fish.
The System Warehouse did not have a preservation function. If he wanted to store fish, he had to make salted fish.
490,000 catties of fresh fish could be made into 200,000 catties of salted fish.
Although Liujia Island was not big, there were iron mines and even gold mines. Through the expansion of the blacksmith shop and the training of farmers to learn how to forge iron, there were already 500 full-time blacksmiths and 2,000 farmers who specialized in mining and transportation.
Although the production was not large, it could still produce thousands of ironware every day.
The reason why he had arranged for so many people was because Lin Feng was preparing to manufacture weapons and equipment after the Town Center had been upgraded.
As for the farms, Lin Feng had arranged for more than 2,000 farmers to reclaim the wasteland sunrise night, and had already established 120 farms.
One hundred farms produced grain, ten farms produced cotton, and ten farms produced sisal.
There were still more than 20 days before the first batch of grain was produced from the farm.
In these 20 days, Lin Feng prepared to make salted fish, store dried fish, build barracks, and so on. After the first batch of food was produced from the farm, he would carry out another large-scale riot.
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