One Piece of Song Dynasty
Chapter 68 Rescue Liu Fa (1)
Li Xin saw that everyone on the boat was cheering and said, "Everyone, everyone has seen it today. As long as we dare to think and do it, there is nothing we can't do. This Kun is big enough, so he will still be killed by us." He's dead, so don't underestimate yourself. As long as we work together, nothing can stump us. Let's go back and have a good meal of Kunrou today. There will be many good days in the future. As long as we work hard with a certain person, we will eat it every day from now on. Meat is not impossible..." Taking advantage of the opportunity to kill a whale, Li Xin successfully won over people's hearts.
Everyone clasped their fists in unison and said, "I will obey your orders."
Li Xin nodded and said, "Okay, let's return to the voyage."
This whale is too big, weighing eight or nine tons. The boat can't move fast with such a heavy whale. The whale's blood flows all the way, and the smell of blood attracts sharks. How could Li Xin let the sharks take it away? After finally finding the whale that they had finally killed, they immediately ordered other ships to surround the boat towing the whale. Whenever the shark dared to get close, they would use crossbows, arrows, and whaling harpoons to wait on them. Some sharks even ignored the danger in order to eat, and ended up eating a lot of food. Unfortunately, several sharks were seriously injured. The shark blood made the nearby sharks even more violent. They began to attack their companions. The entire sea area became a mess, with blood and shark meat everywhere. Li Xin saw this picture and remembered There is a famous saying “Man perish for money and bird perish for food”.
Li Xin led the fleet back to the pier in the evening. As the ship slowly docked, people who had been busy all day rushed to the pier one after another. When they saw the huge thing behind the ship through the lights of the pier, they were shocked. shocked.
Amid everyone's amazement, Li Xin led the sailors to drag the whale ashore. Although they were escorted all the way, the whale was still bitten by sharks. Li Xin did not intend to wait until the next day to start, and immediately asked people to prepare large pots, salt, knives and axes to decompose the whale overnight.
The whale skin is very thick and requires a lot of strength to cut. There is a thick layer of fat under the whale skin. Everyone has never done this before, so they can only cut the whale skin awkwardly, and then separate the fat layer from the whale skin. Finally, Separate whale meat from fat.
After the fat was separated, it was boiled directly in a large pot. Soon the air above the city was filled with the fishy smell of whale fat. After the whale oil was refined, it was placed in wooden barrels and sent to the soap workshop; whale skin was cut After coming down, it was dried to dry.
There were more than three tons of fish meat left from this whale. Half of the whale meat was shared by everyone. On average, each person got half a kilogram of whale meat. The remaining half was pickled with salt. Whales are mammals and have a meaty taste. Unlike other sea fish, it tastes very similar to beef, so everyone ate it with gusto.
Whale bones were crushed into powder by Li Xin and preserved. Whale bones are rich in phosphorus and potassium and are good fertilizers, which will be used when reclaiming land in the future. Whale baleen can be used as bow strings and was also preserved; whale liver It is rich in vitamins. In this era when night blindness is widespread, it is a good supplement for treating night blindness. Li Xin distributed the whale liver to the soldiers of the Water Ghost Team and Xuanwu Camp. These are Li Xin’s elite forces, etc. In the future, if there are more whale livers, they will be distributed to more soldiers.
The entire whale decomposition process lasted until midnight. Li Xin and the sailors had a very satisfying day. The sailors were fully exercised both mentally and physically.
In this way, in order to avoid fishing out of the lake, Li Xin and his sailors only went out to sea to catch whales every five days. At first, it was one whale at a time. Later, as the island's population increased, it became two whales at a time. Before the large-scale breeding of pigs and chickens, the island The people on board had a stable source of meat. As the number of whaling increased, the sailors' whaling and ship-managing techniques became increasingly mature, and they became more and more accustomed to bloody scenes. Later, in order to let more whales The soldiers adapted to the feeling of the battlefield, and Li Xin asked the soldiers in the Xiang Barracks to take turns following the sailors out to sea to hunt whales.
The days went by like this day by day. Ruan Xiaowu led the fleet to travel between the two sides of the strait, bringing people and supplies to the island, and taking away the soap, candles and glycerin on the island. Li Xin did not bring the fruit wine. After the workshop moved to the island, Li Xin felt that it would be better for the fruit wine workshop to stay in Hui'an. The fruit wine workshop actually only does one thing, mixing the purchased fruit wine with glycerin. There is no secret involved. I don't know about glycerin. Even glycerol is used in the preparation process. With the mass production of whale oil, the output of soap, candles, and glycerin is also rising.
The population is slowly increasing, as are all kinds of craftsmen, Confucian scholars, and sailors. The construction of the city continues day by day. Some houses have been built in advance. After they were built, Li Xin first let some of the refugees live in his house by drawing lots. Some refugees in the province complained about the fair lottery for houses.
Just as Li Xin was engaged in construction in full swing, the Battle of Tong'an City, the biggest defeat against Xixia in the late Northern Song Dynasty, was about to begin. Historically, General Liu Fa fell in this battle, and Zhao Yun led all the dead soldiers to do what they wanted. Be prepared to go to the battlefield to protect General Liu Fa from death.
The Battle of Tong'an City was also a decisive battle between the old enemies, General Liu Fa and the Western Xia Jin King Cha Ge. Previously, the Western Xia Jin Wang Cha Ge and the divine general Liu Fa had fought fierce battles several times from ancient Gugulong to Renduoquan to Zhenwu. The result of the fierce battle was that the Song Dynasty The border of Xixia has been advancing northward, and Xixia has been shrinking the front line. However, Chage's main force has not been seriously damaged. Chage has been waiting for the opportunity to give the Song army on the western front a fatal blow.
However, this opportunity came under the pressure of Tong Taishi. Because Tong Guan was anxious to go north to conquer Liao with Jin and regain the king of Yanyun. In order to ensure that there would be no worries during the expedition against Liao, Tong Guan was determined to eliminate the threat from Xixia, the northwest backyard, first. So Tong Guan ordered the Western Army to attack Xixia again. However, both Zhong Shidao and Liu Fa were opposed to attacking Xixia at this time, because Xixia was retreating steadily but most of its main force remained intact, and regardless of whether it was the Zangdi River on the eastern front The battle was still on the western front. Several fierce battles such as Zhenwucheng inflicted heavy casualties on the Song army. The western army had not yet recovered, and the Xixia army had stabilized the eastern battlefield through the previous battle of Jingxia City, but Tong Guan Because he was eager for quick success and could not listen, he transferred Zhong Shidao away from the Western Army. Liu Fa, because he had previously boasted about Haikou to Song Huizong and was not resolute in his opposition, was forced by Tong Guan to lead elite troops of the Western Army to the expedition. .
On this day, Liu Zhi, the shopkeeper of Tianxiang Tower in Yan'an Prefecture, found Zhao Yun, "Brother Zhao, this is the news from the master's family and the news collected by someone in Yan'an Prefecture."
Zhao Yun looked at the message in his hand and said, "Your Excellency, please let us prepare to rescue General Liu Fa. General Liu Fa will go out to conquer Xia soon. Your Excellency's secret letter said that General Liu Fa's expedition will be a disaster, so let's go." Let’s pay more attention.”
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