Chapter 292 Territory Economic Development and Recruitment

July of the second year, Territory, fishing area.

This area, which provides 400 people with housing and work, has been expanded repeatedly within this year due to the increase in foreign population and the demand for meat in the territory: stone docks are laid out along the coastline, an artificial port is built on the soft mud, and wooden poles and cables replace the beach originally covered with herbs.

Looking down from the sky, you can see a row of tall trees lined up along the coastline. These are the recently built high tree bird nests. A large number of seabirds have wide tree canopies to provide fresh high-quality protein for the territory - bird eggs.

The number of ships anchored in the port is also more than before. The old-fashioned fishing boats that are no longer used for fishing have a new job, and are used as work boats for the territory residents to patrol the seaweed fields.

The new 15-meter-class fishing boats can be built in the shipyard next to the fishing port without the assistance of the academy.

After half a year, the territory has accumulated a group of more skilled shipbuilding workers, and after the iron tools have been fully popularized in every corner of the territory, it can finally produce fishing boats in large quantities.

If the cotton output was not too low, the territory could now use cotton rope nets to improve the efficiency of fishermen's fishing again.

In the distance, a large number of work boats were swaying and wandering beside the wooden pillars erected on the seashore, which spread out along the coastline to form a thin line. This is the seaweed field of the territory. The seaweed farmers here collect various mature seaweeds every day and transport them to the newly built seaweed drying field for processing.

These plants that grow in every season can be harvested at any time. After drying, they will enter the table of the territory, usually made into soup for drinking.

Use seabird eggs taken from the high tree bird nests, dry the fresh seaweed, and sprinkle a little sea salt and minced meat, and a pot of seaweed kelp soup that is very popular and popular in the territory is formed.

The fishing area is the main source of meat for the 16,000 people in the territory, and provides 20% of the non-staple plant ingredients for the territory, as well as seabird eggs produced from the high tree bird nests.

One thousand seaweed farmers and six hundred offshore fishermen... and thirty bird egg collectors.

After supplying the territory's monthly consumption, their output still has some surplus to export to the lords' markets. The dried and processed seaweed has a very good response in the lords' markets.

Ji Lin also earned a small extra income by selling excess seafood.

There are always fishing boats docked at the busy dock. The new fishing boats that have finished fishing offshore will return to the port of the fishery area as soon as possible to unload, and try to go out again before sunset.

The territory strictly prohibits fishing at night for safety reasons.

Today's fishery area is more lively than the main city, like a market. Fishermen smile and pour a lot of sea fish from the cabin. The supervisors of the fishery area pick out the rare fish and put them aside, and then put the remaining seafood on the scale in front of the port for weighing.

The appointed fishery officials will record the catches of different fishery groups and include them in the monthly summary.

Each fishing group was working hard to compete in the quantity and quality of seafood caught during the day.

After all, Ji Lin adopted a performance system for the entire fishing area to motivate their work enthusiasm, and only those who ranked first could get some special rewards. And other jobs will gradually implement this performance system to provide them with work incentives and improve their work enthusiasm.

A scientific, feasible, and effective...performance system.

For example, a gold coin, a gold coin with 40% gold content, and the remaining 60% is supplemented by copper compounds. Such gold coins have high strength and better wear resistance.

One for each person in the working group - he would not squeeze each five-person working group to only issue one gold coin.

When the circulation of goods and the production quantity and the amount of gold were still stable, Ji Lin was a little lazy and used the gold standard as a short transition.

Both the dean and Chongshan sternly stated that they would rather take a little less salary than do such a troublesome thing as establishing a monetary system.

Ji Lin has determined that the territory will not pay these people wages at present, because the security services and living environment provided by the territory are already included in their labor income.

The people get performance in addition to the basic salary.

The people who are used to hard life seem to have little objection to him, and have no objection to living in a stable new house and having no shortage of meat and food for every meal.

This kind of patriarchal system may even be familiar to them.

Most of those who have objections are the newly arrived powerful class, and the opponents are already lying in the cemetery outside the territory.

So they don't have much objection.

The people can use this gold coin to go to the newly built market next to the city hall to purchase what they want. It is full of special products purchased by merchant ships from the floating island world. After looking at the price list of the black-hearted merchants in the Holy City, Ji Lin gave up the idea of ​​purchasing.

Ji Lin went to see it the next month and found that the price of the goods had increased. The priest in charge told him helplessly that the sales of other caravans were too good, causing the Holy City business organization to adjust the price of the goods uniformly.

Ji Lin never bought goods with increased prices from them. He only bought some special plants from the Holy City and their story books... story books that were not so theological, and he personally reviewed them.

Their huge Holy City Chamber of Commerce ended up being no different from a bookstore.

The operation of the teahouse, stories, and the usual readings of the people. Some of them came from the readings brought by the Holy City Chamber of Commerce, and some came from the forum.

The old guys in the forum are talented, well-written, and nice to talk to.

Hand-typed Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

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The fishing boat approached the shore with the waves and docked in the port along the waves. The old fisherman finished a day's work. Looking at the full catch on the boat, he breathed a sigh of relief and touched the gold coin hanging on his chest with a cotton rope.

Gold, this is the first time in his life that he has a gold coin of his own.

Today is also the third trip.

But today there is a person in gray clothes next to the fishery inspector. He vaguely remembers that these people in gray uniforms are the guards in the territory.

He obviously noticed the docked fishing boat. The fishery inspector standing next to the officer nodded, and the officer walked straight towards them.

"We need three fishery teams to assist in the work. Is it the thirteenth fishery team?"

The old fisherman looked at him walking towards him, and he couldn't help but wonder if he had done something wrong. The officer had no intention of playing dumb, and stopped the two fishermen, one old and one young, who were still unloading the catch from the boat and explained his purpose to them.

Or perhaps he was conveying instructions.

"We have special fish-related work that needs to be assigned."

He paused.

"If you don't want to accept it, I will find someone else... After the task is completed, each person will be allocated two gold coins."