On a sunny morning, the three high officials of the Zhengshi Hall were sitting, and the emperor was also on the head. On the central platform of the hall, several officials were fiddling with the model. This model was a simulation of the fishing scene, mainly to show the specific maritime fishing scene to the Emperor and the Zhengshi Hall.

This kind of scene is unimaginable to the priests present, so it is not enough to rely on text description and sketch description, and it must be displayed by models.

In order to show to the Emperor and the Prime Minister that vigorously developing the marine fishing industry is a good thing that is "benefiting the country and the people".

Yuwen Wen decided to vigorously develop the marine fishing industry so that more people can eat cheap abalone (salted fish) and improve people's livelihood, but this policy has encountered considerable resistance.

The marine fishing industry has exceeded the understanding of traditional officials. For the Central Plains court, agriculture is always the first. After all, "the country is based on the people, and the people are based on food."

Therefore, for thousands of years, rulers of all dynasties have been concerned about how to encourage farmers and cultivate the people, how to ensure food production, so that the people can eat without rebellion. Things like going to sea to catch fish are basically not involved.

Going to sea is risky, so fishermen in coastal areas basically lick blood on the head of a knife when going to sea. For traditional political concepts, persuading people to go to sea is to kill people, which is "unkind".

It is unfilial to advise others to go to sea, die, and leave their parents at home, lonely and helpless.

Then, forcing the people to be unkind and unfilial is not what the monarch does

Secondly, the government on land cannot control what fishermen go out to sea and do on sea, and these fishermen are likely to occupy islands as bandits, either attack and kill other fishermen at sea, kill people and seize wealth, or drive boats to other coastal areas to rob and become giant bandits.

When a person died, the miserable went to the official office to cry, saying that the local officials wanted to act, but they didn't know where to go to arrest the murderer. When assessing political achievements, they were criticized by Shangguan as "incompetent".

If the miserable causes trouble, the officials will still be in trouble if they cannot afford to take advantage of the situation.

Therefore, fishermen going to sea will cause all kinds of real management and public security problems for the government. According to the consistent morality of the bureaucratic group, it is better to have less than more things. It is best to ban the sea and confine people in the fields, so it is easy to manage and very relaxed.

Such political inertia lasted for thousands of years and even formed a certain kind of "political correctness". Therefore, if anyone encouraged the people to go out to sea, they would inevitably face strong resistance.

But this kind of resistance is nothing in the face of interests.

The government does not like the people going to sea because the responsibility they have to bear is much greater than the benefits, which means it is like a "lose". But if going to sea can bring benefits to the government, profit is the first thing they want, and whoever blocks the way will die.

Not to mention anything else, in terms of the history of the Ming Dynasty that Yuwen Wen is familiar with, the officials and gentry in the southeast coastal areas strongly supported the imperial court's ban on the sea, but in fact, the sea trade in the southeast coastal areas is still vigorous, and the backstage of major maritime merchants is these officials and gentry.

Such a strange phenomenon, to put it bluntly, it is profit.

For these officials and gentry who are capable of doing maritime trade, if the imperial court implements maritime ban, it will be impossible to collect taxes on the surface, and it will prevent serious businessmen from entering maritime trade. They control maritime trade channels but are not affected by maritime ban policies.

Taking the sea ban as the threshold, keep competitors out of the door, turning sea trade into your own specialized financial path, and maximizing benefits through tax avoidance, why not do it?

Therefore, there is no difference between benevolence, righteousness and morality in the face of huge profits and local chickens and dogs.

If Yuwen Wen wants to break through the resistance of the bureaucratic group and promote the marine fishing industry, he must play the card of "profit" and make the court realize that although the profits of carrying out marine fishing industry are not as good as those of marine trade, they are also profitable for the court.

This is for public and private purposes. Everyone has an extra way to make money in private, and no one will think that it is too much money.

Of course, the emperor and the priests talked about "profit" in a solemn and sacred place like the Political Affairs Hall, which seemed too merciless, as if the small vendors on the streets and alleys bargained with civilians, so they had to change their names, that is, how to "benefit the country and the people" to develop the marine fishing industry.

The empty talk cannot solve any problem, so on the deepening of marine fishing to "benefit the country and the people", the Department has prepared a lot of information, summarized the development of the fishing industry in various coastal areas in recent years, and made short-term and long-term plans.

At the same time, officials from prefectures and counties in the major coastal areas also summarized the local people's livelihood, economic development and taxation situation, and submitted them together.

All the attendees had read the information in advance, so even though they were confused about the marine fishing industry before, they now had at least some understanding. By reading the information in advance, everyone had enough time to think about the problem and then put it forward at this meeting.

Because Zhou State currently does not have a special marine fishery management office, the officials who gave explanations and were questioned in the Political Affairs Hall today are mainly officials of the Liangyang Municipal Shipping Department and trading company personnel.

After the model was placed, Yu Wenwen put down the information and began to listen to someone's explanation.

One of the model scenes shows the traditional sailing fishing method (single boat). This kind of sailing can be used as a single or double brig sailing boat. The fishing method is the same as an inland fishing boat.

The second model scenario is that the traditional multi-ship fishing method is usually two ships (can be used together with sails) dragging a large net to fish in the sea.

The third model scenario is that the trawling method (single boat) of a new type of dual-purpose machine-sail fishing boat (padwheel fishing boat) looks the same as the traditional single boat fishing method, but the fishing nets used by both sides are very different.

This can be seen from the model: the fishing nets of traditional fishing boats are as different from those of paddlefishing boats, just like tea cups and wine jars.

The new trawler used to collect and distribute steam winch, whether in length, width or weight, is much larger than the traditional fishing nets that rely on manpower. Although the paddlefishing boats that use machine and sail have the disadvantage of large coal consumption, they can trawl fishing in the fishing ground more flexibly than traditional fishing boats.

Although the materials of the new trawl and traditional fishing nets are the same, they are weaving ropes and will rot after soaking in the sea for a long time and must be dried frequently, which is the so-called "three-day fishing and two-day drying nets".

However, because of the new mesh weaving machine, the price of new mesh trawl is not high (relatively), and there are many.

A fishing boat can be equipped with multiple sets of trawls. Every time you return from sea, unload the fish and replace it with a new net, you can go out to sea to catch fish immediately. The replaced trawls will be dried on the shore and repaired to achieve "online stopping of boats".

This new type of trawl cannot be calmly retracted by manpower. Therefore, with the same number of people going to sea, the fishing ability of traditional fishing boats and new fishing boats is very different.

Taking into account the various costs, the profits of coal-burning paddlefishing boats going to sea to catch fish are significantly higher than those of traditional sailing boats (including sailing ships), and the amount of fishing has increased significantly.

Model Scene 4: The new type of dual-purpose machine-sailed fishing boat (padwheel fishing boat) has a double-boat trawl fishing net. This fishing method uses the new type of ship that remains unchanged, but it uses a large trawl.

Judging from the model, the large new trawl used for double-boat trawl fishing is at least three times larger than the new trawl used for single-boat trawl fishing, and its high fishing efficiency is obvious.

Although this large trawl is also woven with hemp rope, and in order to ensure strength, use more materials and pay more attention to it, the cost is relatively high, but the durability is not much higher. However, statistics on the actual use effect show that the profit prospects of double-boat trawl fishing are still good.

The most important thing is that the amount of fishing has increased so much more than the increased cost.

New fishing boats are dual-purpose for machine and sail. Although the cost is not low, and coal burning, maintenance of boilers and paddle wheels increases costs, these costs effectively improve the navigation capacity of fishing boats.

The active sea areas of new fishing boats are still in major coastal traditional fishing grounds, and do not require deep-sea fishing, so the coal consumption is not too high and the navigation risk has not increased.

Because of mechanical power, the flexibility of the fishing boats is increased, they can adapt to more complex sea conditions and increase fishing efficiency (not counting the use of trawls).

With mechanical power assisted fishing nets, the time for boats to catch full cabins is shortened; with mechanical power "acceleration", the time for boats to and from the fishing grounds is shortened. In the same fishing time (for example, three months), new fishing boats can catch more fish, but the number of crew members does not need to increase.

Although paddle wheels are easily damaged at sea, the paddle wheel blades used in this new fishing boat are made of wooden, which is easy to replace and is not expensive.

Therefore, according to the "trial operation" in the past two years, the new fishing fleet under the name of the North and South Oceans Trading Company can indeed bring more profits while increasing the number of fishing.

The premise is that the port area is well built and there are a series of supporting facilities, including cheap and large-scale coal supply, as well as repair of shipyards.

This economic account is calculated very clearly, but it is not the most concerned thing for all the officials in the Political Affairs Hall. The main concern of the ministers is the management cost after vigorously developing the marine fishing industry. The second is how much tax can the court increase after the great development of the marine fishing industry.

For the court, the first problem is expenditure, and the second problem is income. If the income is not enough, the funds must be misappropriated from other places to fill the gap.

Although the Zhou State's national strength is growing rapidly now, its family has a large business and expenses are huge, and it requires money everywhere. The court's finances are not so much money to misappropriate, so this account must be calculated clearly.

Although the maritime trade has been booming and the court has already established a system to manage maritime trade, the development of marine fishing has put forward new requirements for the court's management capabilities.

In order to develop marine fishing, the scale of fleets in various places must be expanded. Therefore, the management of a large number of fishing boats and fishermen, as well as the maintenance of public security in coastal areas and sea areas, and the cooperation between governments in coastal areas all require the court to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to build a relatively complete management system.

Adding a system means increasing the "staff" of officials, and the salaries of relevant officials are also an expense.

Various investments are a heavy financial burden for the court. If there is no corresponding fiscal revenue (tax), the court will be unable to maintain this management system and will not be able to achieve effective management.

At that time, the out-of-control fishing boats and fishermen will become pirates and harass all over the country. The security in the coastal areas will deteriorate and the public will be in full swing. Who will bear the responsibility?

For the officials of the Zhengshi Hall, the emperor strongly advocated the development of marine fishing industry. However, if something really happens, it is definitely true that the emperor is wise, so the responsibility must be taken by the "treacherous ministers".

However, no one wants to be a treacherous minister, right?

In response to this, the relevant responsible person - the official of the Liangyang Shibo Department, did not rush to read the data, but instead put out the new model and used it to bring out his own report.

The scene shown in this model is very bloody and exciting.
Chapter completed!