Chapter 291: Fukuyama Incident
The breeze of Fushan and Sea in November is cold, but no matter how cold the sea breeze is, it cannot dispel the enthusiasm here.
With the arrival of the new magistrate, Lord He, Fukuyama is really blessed.
Not long after Lord He arrived in Fushan, he punished a group of servants and also caused several unjust cases. None of the people in Fushan County did not call him Master Qingtian.
However, before Lord He took office, several people from other provinces came to Fushan with money. First, they bought a large area of land around Zhifu Island, and then built a pier, a large workshop, and a warehouse.
The whole of Fukuyama was shocked.
Zhifu Port has been declining for hundreds of years. Even the locals have no sea in their eyes. The sea has been destroyed to the point where only a few small fishing villages and small fishing boats are parked.
Suddenly, a group of people came to build a dock and a large workshop warehouse. Isn’t it shocking to the entire Fukuyama?
At the same time, there were ships of coal constantly transporting to Zhifu Island, which was even more inconspicuous.
The local gentry of Fushan watched coldly, while the officers in the county yamen stepped forward to fight for the autumn wind. Until Lord He took office, he suddenly resolutely rectified a group of yamen runners within half a month.
The people had no knowledge and thought that they were the new county magistrate, and after He Zhihui followed a few unjust cases, the name of Master Qingtian was completely put on him.
The gentry in Fushan knew that this county magistrate He must have a great connection with those Central Plains people who came to Fushan to spend money.
The subsequent development did confirm their speculation. However, the gentry in Fushan County did not complain, but instead shouted "It's really fragrant".
The second month after He Zhihui took office as Fushan, a large ship began to sail to Fushan in the Beihai Commercial Bank under the Zhao family.
It's not a merchant ship, but a cargo ship.
A bucket of whale oil, a bucket of whale meat, even whale skin, whale whiskers and a small amount of bone meal were unloaded from the sea boats.
A whale is full of treasures, and there is nothing useless from the inside out.
Even the bones and internal organs can squeeze out oil, and the remaining bone meal is still a good material for the fat field.
However, bone meal has the lowest value. If it weren't for the extra space for the first ship of cargo, these bone meals would have been thrown away.
Europeans who had a tradition of whaling in this era needed more whale oil. They even took the oil directly after catching a whale and threw away all other things.
This is a waste.
But Beihai Commercial Bank has just started operation. In order to make as much money as possible, as long as conditions allow, it is impossible to throw away whale meat. The whale skin, whale whiskers and even bone meal are all neatly collected.
The function of whale bone meal has been mentioned. Whale skin can be used as leather, whether it is shoes, leather jackets, leather goods, whale whiskers can be used as umbrella bones, and brushes.
The Beihai Merchant Ship, which is sailing on the Japanese Sea, is based on the fleet, and each fleet consists of two large ships and three small ships.
The small boat is a whale hunting ship, while the large boat is a processing ship and a transport ship.
After a whale is hunted, it is best if it is close to the coastline or the island base. But this possibility is not great, and the coastline may be great or Japanese.
Most of the time it is solved directly at sea.
Pieces of whale oil, internal organs, bones, etc. were sent to the processing ship. There was a processing cabin at the top, which was smaller in area, but it could boil whale oil and pickle whale meat.
This will maximize the efficiency of the ship.
Once the materials accumulated in the warehouse reach a certain level, you can return, or one of the processing ships will return!
In this sea area, the ships of the Beihai Commercial Bank are only very safe.
Because there are almost no Western ship activities here, it is even harder to see Western naval ships. These ships from the Beihai Trading Company are equipped with small cannons, whale hunting forks and other weapons. Instead, there are no tigers and monkeys in the mountains to call themselves kings. They can really beat the mighty navy, as for the Japanese, the Tokugawa Shogunate has no navy at all, so there is no threat at all.
A bucket of whale oil and whale meat were sent to Fushan, and the large workshop that had been prepared started immediately.
Whale skin is used to make various leather goods, from clothes to belts, horse boots, saddles, scabbards, etc. Whale whiskers are mainly used to make umbrellas and brushes. Because China does not need tights, and cup covers do not exist in the market. Except for Zhao Liang who can make some private plays by himself, there is no economic benefit.
But whale oil is different from whale meat. A large number of whale meat was invested in the Fushan market at the first time and spread rapidly to Dengzhou and Laizhou and other places.
There is no need to say more about whale oil. Candles, soaps, and even can be used as mechanical lubricating oil and steelmaking for tempering.
So the workshop became busy, and the workers in the workshop were recruited by Fushan nearby. This made it self-evident that the improvement of the local people's livelihood in Fushan was self-evident.
But the takeoff of Fushan's economy is even greater because of the large number of candles, soaps, etc. are put into the market.
Businessmen have always been an animal with a sensitive sense of smell.
The changes in Fushan have long attracted the attention of merchants from Dengzhou and Laizhou, not to mention that the locals in Fushan may not know He Zhihui's background, but some people with great powers know who is behind He Zhihui, and they are more aware of who brought the changes in Fushan.
From the moment whale oil and whale meat appeared in Fushan, those people rushed over.
This has been even more so now.
Who says whale oil is easy to use, whale meat is cheap?
Compared with other fuel oils, whale oil is bright and does not have the smell of odor or smoke. This one alone is enough to make it the need of countless families, especially those with money.
And whale meat is the favorite of the people.
Large chunks of lean meat do not have much fat, especially after being marinated, it is not fragrant for people of this era, but this thing is cheap enough to outweigh everything.
So less than a year after He Zhihui came to Fushan, many flagship products emerged locally in Fushan.
From whale oil to whale meat, to candles, soap, and even whale leather goods and baleen umbrellas, nowadays, they are all hot.
But Fushan County has a limited population and there are still about 100,000 people in the entire county. Faced with the erosion of such a large economic torrent, there is no need to say much about the benefits of its people's livelihood.
On the way to the north and south of the Lingnan River, Zhao Liang received a handwritten letter from Zhao Hui, He Zhihui and others.
The letter also lamented that they did it in Fushan too roughly.
Whether it was the county jail service before or the subsequent work, it was simple and crude - dealing with the service was fishing and law enforcement, and the subsequent revitalization of Fukuyama was a large investment in gold and silver, and they all crushed their opponents with absolute advantage, without any process of fighting wits and courage.
Both of them lamented in the letter that they had not learned too much.
Chapter completed!