Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

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Early July of the seventh year of the Great Ming Dynasty (1627).

At this moment, Qin Hao was on a higher hill in the territory, overlooking the entire land that belonged to him.

Having been here for more than half a month, I almost know my exact location. The current location is probably on the right side of the Hsinchu hills under the branches of the Snow Mountains in Taiwan, about 30 kilometers away from the coastline. It is completely consistent based on the half-day journey that Qin Hao took to get here that day.

This place is located at the northern end of Taiwan Island. Further north is Taoyuan and Keelung, and to the south is the Jiajia Plain, the largest plain on the entire island.

Qin Hao remembered that Zheng Zhilong seemed to have recruited refugees there a few years ago. Now he was not strong enough to reach out. The most important thing now was to reorganize and develop his own territory first.

"It's been more than half a month, and the villages and communities in the territory have basically settled down." Qin Hao said to himself while looking at the busy figures under the hill.

As a new regime with no foundation, Qin Hao and Zhuge Xuan spent a lot of energy on the development and stability of the territory.

Not only some policy support, Qin Hao also provided the greatest help in terms of materials, distributing most of the grain, salt, and cattle in the warehouse to households so that they could start cultivating the newly acquired land.

However, there is a problem that needs to be solved urgently, that is, the closed land of households and their residences are slightly remote. According to Qin Hao’s original plan, households should start building new settlements in batches. However, due to the huge demand, , I have just installed one now.

It's still a long way from actually being arranged.

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[Talent Mission——Li Chun]

[Talent Type: Engineering Personnel]

[Character advantages: proficient in various projects, brick-burning to build cities, blast furnaces to make iron, fire guns and iron cannons, navigation and shipbuilding, etc.]

[Character evaluation: All-round scientific and technological talents can enable your social civilization to develop rapidly. 】

[Task requirements: Inspect your territory, check the status of the people, and deal with some necessary troubles. 】

Sure enough, whenever Qin Hao encounters a problem, the riding and cutting system can provide a solution in time. The difficulty of this mission can be said to be a breeze.

After receiving the mission, Qin Hao took several guards and began to patrol the territory.

Ever since the last battle at Gujiazhuang, Qin Hao has fallen in love with the sport of horseback riding, especially the Liaodong horse used by the Liaodong Iron Cavalry. It is very well-behaved and Qin Hao can run smoothly without having to control it intentionally.

That was naturally borrowed by Qin Hao. As for the Liaodong cavalry, he followed behind him on a captured horse.

Along the way, the residents have planted rice in their own paddy fields, which are now green. Now they are basically reclaiming the fields and replanting some miscellaneous grains.

This is the first village that Qin Hao settled in. It is Li Yi's original village. There is not much mature land and few people to arrange it. Most of them belong to Gujiazhuang. Qin Hao specially arranged the training place for soldiers here as a precaution.

With the development of reclamation work, grain reserves are also decreasing, especially the large number of newly reclaimed fields, which require a large amount of rice seeds in the first season, otherwise they will not be planted at all. If not taken care of well, there may even be a problem of making ends meet. .

This is the reason why households don’t like to open up land. Without support, they can only take care of their own one-third of an acre of land, and how can they dare to open more new land? If one is unstable, this season will be in vain.

Now that Qin Hao is here, he has to open up new land. There is enough land now, but in the future, when there are more people, there will not be enough land to allocate, so we must prepare for a rainy day.

Qin Hao then issued an order: if enough seeds were taken care of, one person would cultivate half of the fields. Now that there was support, the residents burst into great enthusiasm, picked up pickaxes and worked hard to reclaim new land.

Judging from the data reported by Zhuge Xuan in the past few days, at this rate, I am afraid that the autumn harvest will not be reached and the food supply will be bottomed out.

Although Zhuge Xuan told Qin Hao that they would not eat every meal of the rations distributed to households. They would eat sparingly and mix in other wild vegetables.

But this also made Qin Hao very troubled. Without sufficient energy, the energy of the households could not be sustained for a long time. Instead, they might hurt their bodies, so he started to think about hunting and fishing. , protein can effectively make up for these deficits.

You must know that there are many wild animals in the mountains next to it. Li Yi was in this business in the first place. As for fishing, there are several rivers under the snow-capped mountains that cross the hills and flow into the strait on the west side. There are many fish in them.

Li Yi is currently training new recruits, and Qin Hao did not bother him. He asked some women to be found and organized manpower to go fishing.

After half a day of work, I brought the fishing nets from all the nearby villages and compiled a few small trawl nets, and I was ready to go to the river to try it out.

Following the original fishermen, Qin Hao chose a lake as an experimental site.

Because this lake is located at the confluence of several rivers and has a large area, residents often see big fish swimming by the lake. However, due to restrictions on fishing methods, they have never been able to catch too many fish.

Since the fishermen were unfamiliar with this novel fishing method, the command returned to Qin Hao.

Qin Hao didn't know much about it, but he temporarily remembered this kind of trawl based on the memory of later generations.

In the previous documentaries, tugboats were used to hold the nets. The huge nets were 100,000 meters long, which was shocking. More than 500,000 fish could be caught in a day. With the engine running, the fishermen now had only one small wooden boat. , it has no effect at all.

After thinking hard for a long time, Qin Hao decided to make a few bamboo rafts to try the effect. Just do what you say, and start by mobilizing the people at hand. There is no difficulty in making a simple tool like a bamboo raft. You only need to cut the bamboo slightly, and then wrap the head and tail with a rope.

After making a few, Qin Hao started taking action.

First, let several bamboo rafts carry the fishing nets into the water. One end of the fishing net is pulled on the shore. After about 30 meters away from the shore, the net is launched and extends along the lake. Then one bamboo raft gradually pulls the fishing net closer to the other side. One side of the shore.

When the fishing net reached the shore, the residents on the shore began to drag the fishing net to the shore with force from both ends. Six bamboo rafts guarded the water on both sides respectively, and were responsible for closing the gaps on both sides when the fishing net came to the side. The remaining bamboo rafts slowly moved closer to the shore along with the fishing nets.

When both ends of the fishing net were dragged ashore and the gaps on both sides were sealed, the water surface surrounded by the fishing net was still calm. As the fishing nets continued to close and the surrounding water surface continued to shrink, the water surface began to bloom. From time to time, some big fish jumped out of the water and then rolled and fell into the water.

This situation attracted the attention of everyone around. Even the locals who were cultivating fields and picking wild vegetables nearby also gathered over. As more and more big fish jumped out of the water, bursts of cheers came from the crowd. .

As the fishing net tightened again, the water surface surrounded by the fishing net shrank again, the water depth became shallower and shallower, and the splash in the water became more and more intense. In order to prevent the big fish from jumping out of the net, Qin Hao quickly let the butcher who was still standing on the bamboo raft The locals, who were dumbfounded by the scene in front of them, lifted up the fishing net in sections.

Finally, the net was closed. A piece of white flowers in the fishing net. Because the mesh is relatively large, most of the fish that enter the net are large fish weighing more than three or four kilograms, and even fish weighing dozens of kilograms.

The people behind him were excited, and some were even so excited that they burst into tears. We can't blame them, after all, they have never experienced such a bumper harvest before.

At the same time, they looked at Qin Hao with more and more respect. They were not only impressed by the soldiers behind him, but also by his wisdom.

They had lived here for several years, and some of them had never eaten fish from the lake. Now that His Highness had just invented a new type of fishing net, he was able to catch so many fish, which really shocked them.

In this fishing trip, a total of nearly 500 kilograms of large grass carp were caught.

Qin Hao immediately announced that a fish feast would be held that night, and everyone in the village could share the fish.

In the evening, people took out their cooking tools at home, sat around dozens of fires, cleaned the fish, and then put the fish into the pot together with the food they had just distributed, sprinkled with a little salt, and put it on a temporary On the prepared fire, it began to cook.

Soon, the smell of fish meat and fish soup wafted in the air, and everyone's faces showed a sense of satisfaction.

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