Shenzhou, Jinxia City.
Xia Fan met two elf elders-Senia and Zhuoflan in the affairs bureau.
"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... long?"
"You have helped Shuzhou so many times. If you continue like this, it only shows that our alliance status is not matched." Senia stretched out her hand to hold her chest. "Now there is finally something Shuzhou can do, which can be considered a relief." It worries me a lot. If you need Noah to do anything, Master Xia, just tell him."
"Same goes for Silver Star. You risked your life to save your people from the empire. This alone is worthy of Silver Star's full reward." Zhuoflan also expressed his stance. After just two weeks of study, she was able to speak directly in Mainland Chinese without being translated.
"I need as much food as possible to ensure that Shenzhou will not fall into turmoil due to food shortages." Xia Fan did not hesitate and gave a brief summary of the news he learned last night, "The price of food in Liuzhou and Qingzhou It is also rising, and the possibility of obtaining food supplies from other places is very slim, so the most suitable source of food at present is the sea."
"I understand." Senia nodded thoughtfully, "You want to convert most of the seeds into thorn algae to increase the fishing capacity of the tree boat?"
"No, what I want is a large amount of golden vine - or rather, the aged rattan of golden vine."
Xia Fan has thought clearly. Although the thorn algae currently used by the elves for fishing does not need to be taken care of by anyone and can automatically catch the approaching sea fish when thrown into the water, the efficiency is not much higher. After all, the fish are mobile, and the darkness below the tree boat is not a favorite place for the fish. Even if all the tree species in stock are converted into thorn algae, the production can be doubled or tripled at most, and it still cannot keep up with the consumption of Shenzhou Realm.
In terms of efficiency, trawl fishing is the ultimate mode of fishing. Not to mention eliminating the air force, there is almost no grass wherever the trawl reaches. How many fish can be left depends entirely on the size of the gaps in the net. During the period when trawling was widely used, more than a dozen fishing boats could even make the fishing grounds on the seaside empty and desolate, so much so that the regulatory authorities had to impose mandatory fishing moratoriums and limit the minimum size of the mesh to fight for a bite of the fish. A respite.
The golden vine is very tough and can control the thickness of the vine through the growth cycle, making it very suitable for making fishing nets. With the help of the elves' catalysis, it only takes a few quarters of an hour for a seed to grow into a vine. If someone takes turns supplying the air, its growth rate can be doubled.
"You want to use vines to make a net for fishing? Is that really faster than thorn algae?" Senia asked curiously. In her impression, using a net to catch fish is both labor-intensive and energy-intensive, and the effect is not as good as harvesting thorn algae once a day.
"I'm sure of this. But according to the price of the golden vine in the trading manual, Jin Xia can't afford it." Xia Fan said calmly.
"That's it." Senia said happily, "Since you want aged vines, the price can be calculated separately. That list was just written according to past practice. We didn't expect it before we arrived at Jinxia. Making gorgeous ceremonial robes is just a side job.”
"But this is Noah's specialty," Zhuoflan didn't want to miss this opportunity to repay Jinxia, "The seeds bred by the Silver Star Spiritual Tree cannot be transformed into golden vines...
"It doesn't matter. Trawling needs to be done by Shuzhou." Xia Fan pushed a list in front of the two of them. "The Machinery Manufacturing Bureau is responsible for providing technical support for trawling, and Jinxia City will also purchase it at the lowest market price. The seafood caught by the elves. 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 does not make everyone's work in vain, what do you two think?"
"As long as it is something that can help, Yinxing will not refuse." Zhuoflan responded without hesitation.
"Wait a minute, Mr. Xia, is there a mistake in writing this order?" Senia carefully looked at the numbers on the paper and saw that all pricing units started at a thousand catties, and the most common yellow croaker was even priced at ten thousand catties. The measurement methods of the world island and the mainland are quite different, but this does not prevent the high priest from understanding the meaning of ten thousand catties.
This is certainly a rather large unit, so large that it is rarely used for weighing food.
"No, that's exactly what I meant." Xia Fan replied, "Only such a unit can be competent in the delivery work after trawling."
Ten thousand kilograms is only about two tons, and the harvest from one net may be ten times that amount. You must know that the sea in this era has not experienced real industrial fishing, and the offshore area is simply a natural cornucopia—the kind with so many resources that they are about to overflow.
"Really?" Senia blinked and said half-surprised, "Then I'll wait and see."
Not long after the elf elder left, the two heads of the Fang family, Fang Jiuzhang and Fang Yu, were invited to the lobby of the Secretariat.
"I've seen Mr. Xia." Fang Jiuzhang said with cupped hands, "What's going on outside? The queue of people has almost reached the intersection of the long street. Did the Secretariat suddenly have so many new positions?"
"That's right." Xia Fan asked the two of them to sit down. "You should have heard about the signs of food shortage in Shenzhou. The Secretariat must mobilize as many people as possible to deal with this situation."
"I understand the truth, but the people on the notice board seem to be all handymen, dock porters and sailors from the Machinery Building Bureau? Can this really cope with the problem of food shortage?" Fang Jiuzhang asked confused.
"Of course, the best way to deal with the food gap is to produce, keep producing, and produce to the best of your ability. As long as there is more output than consumption, all the tricks of the Privy Council will be in vain."
"Okay, Mr. Xia is busy. Stop asking here and there." Fang Yu slapped Mr. Fang, "Sir, do you have any tasks for the Fang family when you come to us this time?"
"I mentioned the idea of a logistics department before, and now it's time to realize it." Xia Fan said straightforwardly, "I wonder if you two would be interested in joining the Secretariat to be the head of a department?"
This idea born of the ability of the living dead has been fully verified in Jinxia City.
A cold storage built two meters below the surface can maintain its refrigeration capacity for a month when the area exceeds one hundred square meters and is surrounded by ice. At the same time, as the area increases, its duration can also be further increased. In other words, a living dead can ensure the stable operation of multiple cold storages as long as it is maintained once a month.
The same goes for shipping.
If a cargo ship has to complete the cabin freezing before departure, there is no need to send the living dead to accompany the ship, which makes large-scale fresh-keeping logistics possible.
Seal the enemy's backup, while greatly increasing Jinxia's food production capacity, filling the gap in the entire Shenzhou with one city, and then transporting resources to where they are needed. This is the responsibility that the country should bear, and only efficient Only the state machine can do this!