Chapter 411: Mass Production
Shenzhou, Jinxia City.
Xia Fan met two elf elders in the Affairs Bureau - Senia and Zhuo Fulan.
"I need your help." He said straight to the point.
"Oh?" Senia smiled kindly, "To be honest, Noah has been waiting for this day for a long time."
"Waiting... for a long time?"
"You have helped Shuzhou so many times. If this continues, it only shows that our alliance status is not matched." Senia put her hand on her chest, "Now there is finally something that Shuzhou can do, which can be regarded as alleviating some of my worries. Lord Xia, just tell me what you need Noah to do."
"Yinxing, too. You risked your life to rescue your people from the hands of the empire. This alone is worth Yinxing's full return." Zhuo Fulan also expressed her opinion. After just two weeks of learning, she can already communicate directly in the mainland language without translation.
"I need as much food as possible to ensure that Shenzhou will not fall into chaos due to food shortages." Xia Fan did not say anything more and simply summarized the news he learned last night. "The food prices in Liuzhou and Qingzhou are also rising. The possibility of obtaining food supplies from other places is very slim. Therefore, the most suitable source of food at present is this sea." "I understand." Senya nodded thoughtfully, "You want to convert most of the seeds into thorn algae to increase the catch of the tree boat?" "No, what I want is a large amount of golden vines - or the vines of golden vines after aging." Xia Fan has thought it through very clearly. Although the thorn algae currently used by the elves for fishing does not need to be taken care of by people and can automatically wrap up the approaching sea fish when thrown into the water, the efficiency is not very high. After all, the fish are active, and the dark and lightless under the tree boat is not a place that the fish like to go. Even if all the stocked tree species are converted into thorn algae, the output will double or triple at most, which still cannot keep up with the consumption in Shenzhou. If you want to talk about efficiency, trawling is the ultimate mode of fishing. Not to mention eliminating air forces, there is almost no grass growing where the trawling nets go, and how many fish can be left depends entirely on the size of the gaps in the nets. During the period of large-scale use of trawling nets, more than a dozen fishing boats can even make the fishing grounds on the coast empty and desolate, so that the regulatory authorities have to stipulate mandatory fishing moratoriums and limit the minimum size of the mesh to give the fish a chance to breathe.
The golden vine is very resilient and can control the thickness of the vines through the growth cycle, making it very suitable for making sea fishing nets. With the help of the elves' catalysis, the seeds only need a few minutes to grow into vines. If people take turns to supply air, its growth rate can be doubled.
"You want to use vines to make nets to catch fish? Is that really faster than thorn algae?" Senya asked curiously. In her impression, fishing with a net is labor-intensive and exhausting, and the effect is completely inferior to the thorn algae harvested once a day.
"I can be sure of this. But according to the price of golden vines in the trading manual, Jinxia can't afford it." Xia Fan said frankly.
"I see." Senya said happily, "Since you want aged vines, the price can be calculated separately. That list is just written according to past practices. Before we came to Jinxia, we didn't expect that making gorgeous robes was just its sideline."
"But this is Noah's specialty," Zhuo Fulan didn't want to miss this opportunity to repay Jinxia, "The seeds bred by the Silver Star Spirit Tree cannot be transformed into golden vines...
"It doesn't matter. Trawling fishing also needs to be handed over to Shuzhou." Xia Fan pushed a list in front of the two people, "The Machinery Bureau is responsible for providing technical support for trawling, and Jinxia City will also purchase the seafood caught by the elves at the market bottom price. Although the unit price is not high, the advantage is that the quantity is huge, and it can still earn a lot of income for the people on the island. It is not a waste of time. What do you think? "
"As long as it is something that can help, Yinxing will not refuse." Zhuo Fulan responded without hesitation.
"Wait, Lord Xia, is this list wrong?" Senya carefully looked at the numbers on the paper, and saw that all the pricing units started at 1,000 jin, and the most common yellow croaker was even marked at 10,000 jin. The measurement methods of the World Island and the mainland are quite different, but it does not prevent the high priest from understanding the meaning of 10,000 jin.
This is undoubtedly a very large unit, so large that it is rarely used to weigh food.
"No, that's exactly what I mean." Xia Fan replied, "Only such a unit can be competent for the delivery work after trawling."
Ten thousand jin is about five tons, and the harvest from one net may be ten times this number. You must know that the sea in this era has not yet experienced real industrial fishing, and the offshore area is simply a natural cornucopia-the kind of resources that are about to overflow.
"Really? "Senya blinked and said with a hint of surprise, "Then I'll wait and see."
Not long after the elf elder left, Fang Jiuzhang and Fang Yu, the two heads of the Fang family, were invited to the lobby of the Bureau.
"Hello, Lord Xia." Fang Jiuzhang bowed and said, "What's going on outside? The people lining up are almost extending to the intersection of Chang Street. Are there suddenly so many new positions in the Bureau?"
"I guess so." Xia Fan asked the two to sit down, "You should have heard about the signs of food shortage in Shenzhou, and the Bureau must mobilize as many people as possible to deal with this situation."
"I understand the reason, but the notice board seems to recruit errand boys, dock porters and sailors from the Machinery Bureau? Can this really deal with the problem of food shortage?" Fang Jiuzhang asked puzzled.
"Of course, the best way to deal with the food shortage is to produce, produce continuously, and produce to the maximum potential. As long as the output is greater than the consumption, all the tricks of the Privy Council will be in vain."
"Okay, Lord Xia is busy, stop asking questions." Fang Yu slapped Master Fang, "Sir, did you ask us to come this time? Do you have any tasks to assign to the Fang family?"
"I mentioned the idea of a logistics department before, and now it's time to realize it." Xia Fan said directly, "I wonder if you two are interested in coming to the Affairs Bureau to be the head of a department?"
This idea born out of the ability of the living dead has been fully verified in Jinxia City.
A cold storage built two meters below the surface, when the area exceeds 100 square meters and is surrounded by ice, its refrigeration capacity can be maintained for a month. At the same time, as the area increases, its duration can be further improved. In other words, a living dead only needs to maintain it once a month to ensure the stable operation of multiple cold storages.
The same is true for transportation.
As long as a cargo ship completes cabin freezing before departure, there is no need to send zombies to accompany the ship, which makes large-scale fresh-keeping logistics possible.
Blocking the enemy's reinforcements, while greatly increasing Jinxia's food production capacity, using the power of one city to make up for the gap in the entire Shenzhou, and then transporting resources to where they are needed, this is the responsibility that the country should bear, and only an efficient state machine can do this!