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    Dengzhou is mountainous and hilly, and there is not much land available for farming. In addition, the current agricultural technology is underdeveloped and the yield per mu is not high. Therefore, agriculture is not a major industry for Dengzhou and supports the main industry of Dengzhou.  There are three, fishing, salt and maritime trade, as well as slave catching, gold mining, fruit planting, etc. There are not many people engaged in these industries, and they can only play a certain supplementary role to the main industry.

    Maritime trade was limited by the types of ships and commodities, so there was not much Li Min could do, other than expand ports, reduce or reduce unreasonable taxes, etc. to stimulate the growth of sea trade. In addition, although new types of sea-going ships were also developed, they were still limited.  During the trial period, it is estimated that it will take at least a few years to be fully promoted only in Dengzhou, let alone the entire Datang Dynasty.  .

    The growth of sea trade is limited, but the two aspects of fishing and salt give Li Min enough room to display. Nowadays, the use of trawl nets in fisheries has become extremely common. The previous fishing model of scattered small households has been completely broken.  Instead, a situation was formed in which the Qi Wangfu fishing team was the leader and other large and small fishing teams coexisted.

    Behind these fishing teams are one or several powerful fishery businessmen. They use fishing boats, fishing nets and other means of production and spend money to hire people to fish for them. Using trawling, a new fishing method, they not only make huge profits  , and also drove many small fishermen out of business.

    The salt industry is similar to the fishery. With the promotion of sun-dried salt, salt households with strong capital invested in the construction of salt fields, while small households were unable to use new technologies, and the cost of cooking salt was too high to sell it at all.  .  Nowadays, the salt produced in Dengzhou has increased exponentially, but the share of salt produced by small households is getting smaller and smaller.

    Whether it is trawling or drying salt, the emergence of these two new technologies has broken the jobs that many fishermen and salt residents have inherited for many years. In order to make a living, many people join the fishing teams or salt factories run by big families, and they still do the same thing.  Pretty much the same thing as before.  Some of them have entered newly opened seafood processing factories. These workers receive a decent monthly salary, but they actually do not have any means of production themselves.  It can be said that he is already a full-time worker.

    Technological innovation in the fishery and salt industry has made the types of seafood more and more abundant, and the price of Dengzhou salt has become lower and lower.  With the spread of maritime trade from various places, more and more businessmen have been attracted to Dengzhou. Therefore, Dengzhou is now extremely busy both by sea and land, and the tax revenue of Dengzhou Prefecture has also risen several levels.  , even several neighboring states have benefited from it, and at least the cargo flow has increased several times.

    With the busy trade routes, the demand for Dengzhou¡¯s fish, salt and other goods has naturally increased again.  Although the output of the salt factory was affected by problems such as lack of manpower some time ago, with the sale of slaves.  This problem has been greatly alleviated. In addition, it is now summer. As long as there are no cloudy days, the output of the salt factory has been increasing.

    Compared with the salt industry, which only requires manpower, space and weather, fishing is a bit troublesome.  The most important one is the restriction on fishing boats. Although the existing fishing boats were renovated some time ago, there are not many fishing boats suitable for remodeling in Dengzhou. Therefore, after the remodeling, many fishing teams have ordered new boats to the shipyard.  orders, but shipbuilding takes time.  Moreover, it is impossible for all the shipyards in Dengzhou to build fishing boats, so all fishing teams have more people and fewer boats, even the fishing team of Prince Qi's Mansion is no exception.

    Because of this, the fishing team now implements a rotation system. When a ship docks and unloads the fish, the crew members on the ship get off, and the other crew members who were resting immediately board the ship to check the performance of the ship. If there is no  If the damage is serious, you will need to go to sea immediately.

    Counting the days, today is the day that Prince Qi¡¯s fishing team returns. Zhou Tu, his crew, and several other captains are standing on the dock waiting.  Zhou Tu was the first person to join the Wangfu fishing team. He was down-to-earth, hard-working and good at fishing. He also learned the new technology of trawling very quickly, so he was appointed as the captain, and he had more than a dozen people on a ship.  Tube.

    After waiting for a while, I saw a few familiar masts on the sea in the distance, and then several fishing boats with a big "Qi" painted on their bows appeared on the sea.

    "One, two, three Zhou Tu and the others, as long as they knew how to count, counted silently in their hearts. They found that there were no fewer fishing boats out to sea this time, and they were relieved.  It was windy on the sea last night, but fortunately the Wangfu fishing boats were fine.

    The fleet was about to dock. Zhou Tu and the others immediately rushed up to help unload the fish. But what they didn't expect was that as soon as the first boat docked, a man jumped out of it and saw  When Zhou Tu arrived, he immediately shouted anxiously: "Uncle Tu, find me a horse quickly. I want to see the prince right away!"

    The man who jumped down was none other than Zhou Yu, the steward of the fishing team. He was the leader of the team last time we went to sea. But now his clothes were torn and he still had a few scars on his body. I don¡¯t know why.What happened.

    "Third son, what are you"

    After all, Zhou Tu is Zhou Yu's elder. Seeing his appearance, he was naturally concerned and wanted to ask. However, Zhou Yu interrupted him with a wave of his hand and said: "Uncle Tu, you'd better stop asking now. Human life is at stake. I have to  See the prince as soon as possible!"

    Seeing Zhou Yu's anxious look, Zhou Tu and the others did not dare to waste any more time. They hurriedly found a carriage on the pier. After sending Zhou Yu away, they all immediately rushed onto the boat. After asking the crew to find out the situation, Zhou Tu  Tu and the others all had angry looks on their faces, and even some young people wanted to sail out to sea immediately to settle accounts with the people on the other side.

    "Hey! The little Goguryeo dare to be so arrogant. Do you really think that we, the Tang Dynasty, can't do anything to them?" In Prince Qi's palace, Li Min listened to Zhou Yu's report and looked at the other party's embarrassed appearance. He immediately became furious.  He angrily scolded Goguryeo for being arrogant.

    It turns out that Zhou Yu and the others went a little far this time to go fishing, not far from Beisha City in Goguryeo. Everything was going smoothly, but just last night, several of their boats had caught enough fish, and they were about to come back.  , but were stopped by a group of Goguryeo warships. Not only was this the territory of Goguryeo, but the fish was also Goguryeo¡¯s fish. They came to fish without authorization, which had violated Goguryeo¡¯s laws. Therefore, not only the fish they caught had to be confiscated  , and the people and the boat must be detained together.

    Seeing that the other party was so arrogant, Zhou Yu was naturally dissatisfied, so he stepped forward to argue a few words. Unexpectedly, he was immediately beaten severely by the other party. This is how he got the injuries on his body.  Fortunately, he was smart. When he saw that the timing was wrong, he immediately reported the name of Prince Qi of the Tang Dynasty. When the other party heard this, he was also surprised. After all, Dengzhou is not far from Beisha City, and Goguryeo also knew Li Min's name early.  Someone heard about it and knew that he was His Majesty the Tang Dynasty's favorite son, so he didn't dare to be as presumptuous as before, so he released them back, but the fish caught on the boat were still detained.

    "Your Highness, it would be fine if only the fish caught were captured, but yesterday I saw that among their warships, they actually captured several ships of our Tang Dynasty. It seems that they should be the ships of the Tiger Shark Slave Hunting Team.  "After Zhou Yu finished telling his story, he also told a situation he saw. The slave-catching team and the fishing team were both operating on the same sea surface, and they were very familiar with each other, so they could be so sure.

    "What, you dare to arrest even my slave-catching team?" Upon hearing this, Yan Bei jumped up immediately. Although the boss of the slave-catching team behind the scenes was Li Min, he was always in charge at the front desk.  Therefore, the slave-catching team has always been regarded as a taboo by him, and even Li Min couldn't get involved. Now when he heard that someone dared to touch the slave-catching team, it was as if he had robbed his woman.

    "Don't the slave-catching teams always go to Silla? How could they be caught in Goguryeo? Could it be" When Li Min said this, his face suddenly darkened. He turned his sharp eyes to Yan Bei and asked fiercely, "Brother Yan, I  I seem to remember that on the day your slave-catching association was established, I said not to cause trouble in Goguryeo for the time being?"

    He has repeatedly explained this matter. First of all, Goguryeo is different from Silla and Baekje. Both the national strength and the combat power of the army are very impressive.  Secondly, the first two of the three strategies he proposed for the Ping Liao Dynasty were mainly aimed at Goguryeo, and they were implemented smoothly.  In this case, there is no need to go out of the way to provoke Goguryeo. If Liaodong is defeated in two years, can we just do whatever we want?

    "Liu Lang, you're wronged!" Yan Bei hurriedly defended himself, "Although there is a serious shortage of people in both the coal mines and Dengzhou, relying solely on Silla could not meet our needs. In the past,  You can still buy them with money, but now they almost all rely on hard robbery. Even adding a Baekje will not help. Although the Japanese country can also provide slaves, the distance is longer after all, and the Japanese slaves are short in stature.  It can¡¯t be sold at a high price, so not many people are willing to go, but even in such a difficult situation, I still issued a strict order to the people below, and they are absolutely not allowed to capture slaves in Goguryeo!¡±

    With a look of grievance, Yan Bei analyzed the three countries that were targeted for slave capture. Compared with them, Goguryeo's conditions were simply unique. Firstly, it was the closest to Dengzhou, and secondly, it had a large population.  Such a big piece of fat was placed in front of him, but he could only watch it without daring to do anything. This was simply more uncomfortable than killing him.

    "That's strange. The slave-catching team in Dengzhou passed by Goguryeo not a day or two ago. How could they be suddenly caught?" Li Min said to himself.

    But as soon as he finished speaking, he said with a cold face: "Humph! Now is not the time to study these things. The people have already been captured by Goguryeo. If it is delayed for a few more days, it is estimated that the people in the slave-catching team will all turn into corpses.  The corpse, but how can we rescue the person?¡±

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