"There are so many fish, they must be delicious! Sir, how about we have a meal on the boat?"
Wang Wan proposed enthusiastically.
"Yeah! Wan'er's suggestion is good. It's a unique experience to enjoy the sea breeze and eat sea fish!"
Before Ying Feiyu could speak, Ying Zheng was the first to agree, and then turned his attention to Han Xin.
"There is a stove on the ship, but the seasonings are too simple, so the taste may be a little worse!"
Han Xin would definitely have no objection to cooking on the ship, but he was afraid that they would find it unpalatable.
"High-end ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods...!"
Ying Feiyu smiled and continued: "There is no need to make any tricks. Just do what you did on the ship now!"
These seafoods have their own umami flavor. Even Da Qin’s most primitive cooking methods, steaming and boiling, can still make them delicious, and can better reflect the fresh fragrance of the ingredients.
"good!"
Han Xin responded and hurried to make arrangements.
In just a moment, a dozen soldiers came out of the cabin, roughly classified the seafood on the deck, put them into frames made of bamboo strips, and washed all the decks clean with water.
These people move neatly, and you can tell they do these things often!
Taking advantage of the waiting time, Ying Zheng stood on the deck and looked at the sea in the distance. After a moment, he seemed to suddenly think of something and turned to look at Ying Feiyu, "Bad boy, I just realized it! You let me take it. Money bought so many steamships, now that the war is over, what should be done with these ships?”
The steamship was originally built to enhance Qin's military power and prevent foreigners from attacking from overseas.
In addition, when Xu Fu arrives at Wo Island, we need an ocean-going ship to bring him back!
So, he spent a lot of money to buy a batch.
Later, they transported gold from Wo Island and trained the navy, so they spent money to buy another batch!
One after another, the imperial court now has two hundred steamships.
Now that all overseas territories have become Great Qin's, there are no more wars, and there is no need to worry about foreign invasion. Aren't these ships no longer needed?
"My father is wrong. What do you mean by a steamship that my father asked my father to buy? When was there not a time when the court had a need and took the initiative to ask my father to buy it? Besides, even if the war is over, there will still be a lot of overseas business, and the steamship will definitely It won’t be idle!”
Hearing this, Ying Feiyu immediately became unhappy.
Why do you say it as if he is buying and selling by force?
When the gold and gems were being brought from Wodao to Daqin one by one, why didn't he think there were too many steamships?
When he sent soldiers to explore Southeast Asia, why didn't he think there were too many ships?
When Han Xin led his troops to conquer several overseas states, he didn't hear him say there were too many ships!
Now that all these things were stable, he remembered that there were too many ships and began to worry about money!
"Overseas business? What other overseas business can there be?"
"Father, please don't forget that the remaining states have not yet started immigration! Don't we need ships for immigration and transportation of supplies?"
"There are hundreds of steamships in the DPRK, which are enough for immigration!"
"Father, don't worry, we won't let these steamships rust!"
Ying Feiyu didn't bother to explain to this old guy.
In the future, the number of people living overseas will gradually increase. Not to mention the eighty ships now, even adding eighty more ships will not be enough.
"Hmph! Then tell me, kid, how to prevent the ship from getting rusty? Is it possible to go fishing?"
Ying Zheng's energy has come back again. If Ying Feiyu doesn't give him a few reasons to convince him today, he will never give up.
"What happened to fishing? Even if there is no use for it for the time being, fishing is still a good choice!"
Ying Feiyu looked serious.
"What……?"
Ying Zheng laughed angrily at him and looked at him in disbelief, "Each ship is worth a million gold, you tell me to go fishing? The navy trained by the imperial court, let them become fishermen?"
He had just forgotten a few things about the previous officials and was in a better mood, but now he was annoyed by Ying Feiyu again.
Lian'er also thought that her son was doing it on purpose, so she softly persuaded him, "Feiyu, please speak up and don't be angry with your father!"
"Mother, what I said is true! What's wrong with using steamships for fishing? There is no war now anyway. The immigration matter needs to be done step by step. Take advantage of this time to use the temporarily idle ships for fishing. Make money, be flexible, what’s the problem?”
Ying Feiyu didn't think there was anything wrong with this at all.
"Didn't you tell me that these fish will die when they leave the sea? There are so many ships fishing in the sea, and they catch at least a million catties every day. And the people in the offshore are tired of eating fish. Who are you going to sell to after catching so many fish? "
Ying Zheng said angrily.
"Marine fish will indeed die if they leave the sea water. If you want to transport them to the inland, it is really difficult to survive! Even if they survive, the cost is quite high, but it does not mean that there is no way to transport them!"
"When I return to Xianyang, Erchen will research a refrigerated truck to freeze these freshly landed shrimps and crabs and transport them to various inland locations!"
"In addition, you can also dry fish, make it into canned fish, and sell it throughout Daqin!"
“In this way, we can enrich people’s dining tables and let inland people taste fish from the sea!”
"Sea fish is rich in nutrients and can make people's bodies stronger...!"
Ying Feiyu analyzed it seriously for everyone.
"You kid really want to go fishing?"
After hearing so many ways to preserve food, Ying Zheng realized that he was not joking.
"I have already said it, this is not a joke! Didn't my father also say before that he hopes to eat fish from the seaside in Xianyang?"
"I guess the people of Great Qin all have this idea!"
"Since we can't survive, we have to find another way...!"
Ying Feiyu nodded firmly.
"Okay! Even if the ship is idle and wasted, it can be used for fishing! Then if the soldiers have been fishing all year round and neglected to train, what will they do if there is any need overseas?"
Even though his analysis was in order, Ying Zheng still felt something was wrong.
"What's the point? Establish a naval base directly in Nanhai City and divide the navy into two parts! One part will conduct normal training, and the other part will go out to sea to fish! Do rotations every once in a while. In this way, not only will the training not be delayed, but also Take care of fishing at the same time!”
"Of course, any soldier who goes out to sea to fish will receive a certain amount of subsidies based on the amount of fish caught!"
After all, fishing is a strenuous job, and you have to float on the sea. It is much harder than usual training, so you should be given some compensation.
“What about the money you make from selling fish?”
Ying Zheng didn't have any objections to this kind of training method.
After all, there is no war going on overseas right now, so it’s okay to train in the navy for a month and rest for a month!
"The ship belongs to the imperial court, and the navy also belongs to the imperial court, so the money earned naturally belongs to the imperial court...!"
Ying Feiyu said as a matter of course: "You can use this money to build roads, railways, medical care, etc.!"
