The plan for trawling fishing boats has made a good start in Fujian. After more than three months, the total loans were 10 million yuan, and the number of fishing boats of various types exceeded 3,000. The number of fishermen employed has reached 470,000, which is an extremely high starting point. Among these people, many qualified Chinese naval soldiers will grow in the future.

But this is just the beginning. Relying on a province in Fujian cannot support China's huge naval plan in the future. Next, based on Fujian's experience and summary, five regions were found nationwide for promotion, namely Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui and Shandong.

They are the most important coastline along China's coast, almost starting from the Bohai Bay and extending to the South China Sea. Among them, the focus is on the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea. As for the South China Sea, it is not because Yang Yuanzhao does not develop, but because the South China Sea is too sensitive. The Indochina Peninsula belongs to the French sphere of influence. Southeast Asia is under the control of Britain and the United States. A large number of sailboats entering the South China Sea can easily attract the ideas of the great powers. If they discover the actions of the northwest in Southeast Asia, it will be a big trouble.

In the five major provinces, each of which has a large number of harbors and a large number of fishermen. In the Northwest Bank, the focus is different and has a certain tradition. Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are both economically developed provinces. The tea, silk and textile industries in Zhejiang and Jiangsu are extremely famous in China. They are second only to the northwest. They are not only rich, but also many fishermen who rely on working to make money. They are more accepting than the fishermen in Fujian and are less difficult to promote.

But there are also big problems there. Fishermen have a wide range of ways and may not necessarily have to fish. Under any circumstances, fishing is a very hard thing. Without a significant increase in salary, it is better to work in a factory to be more stable.

This situation has affected the popularity of fishing boats. Their situation is not as good as in Fujian. The three provinces have contributed 22 million yuan in loans and about 7,000 fishing boats. The number of fishermen has reached 100,000, which can basically achieve Yang Yuanzhao's goal. As long as they have been steady for a few years, the money-making effect of trawling fishing boats will be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This number will maintain a relatively high growth line.

Compared with the previous four provinces, Anhui and Shandong are slightly different. Their economy is underdeveloped and they are not a key area for working outside. However, among the six provinces, what Yang Yuanzhao values ​​most is Shandong, which is located at the northernmost end of the province that remains, and the last province that Northwest Bank entered. There is no naval tradition here. Yang Yuanzhao has great confidence in it. For a long time, the most important naval base of the Chinese Navy was Qingdao, which includes China's largest military shipyard and large dock. There are only 5 docks with a total tonnage of more than 50,000 tons, and the total tonnage is definitely more than 1.5 million tons. Qingdao's local sailors are even more conducive to the stability of the sailors.

The navy is always lonely and boring. It may take dozens of days or even months to perform tasks. After returning to the port, the rest time may be quite limited. In this case, local sailors can go home nearby and enjoy the warmth of their families. In any case, it is much better than those who are thousands of miles away from home or even thousands of miles away. This is the best choice. Shandong must be the area with the most concentrated Chinese naval personnel outside Fujian, and even surpass Fujian.

I have done a lot of work in Shandong. Even because of Germany's control of Shandong, whether it is the Revolutionary Party or the Beiyang, the political foundation in Shandong is not high. Local governments are just nominally obeying the leadership of the central government. However, it means that there are many infiltrated here in the northwest. In addition to the cities of railway hubs, some harbor cities, Rizhao, Yantai, Longkou and other places in later generations have been added. These are currently only a small fishing village, and have become famous deep-water ports in later generations. These are the key points.

Rizhao, Shandong, China, is just a county-level place, close to the seaside, but not particularly rich. During the Qing Dynasty, when the grain was transported by sea, it was still a little vitality, but now it is just an ordinary seaside city in China, and there is not even a harbor.

In 1912, the Northwest Commercial Bank entered Rizhao, and gradually penetrated it later, and it took some real power. The county magistrate sent from Beiyang was not in Rizhao because of the existence of the Germans, but hid in the provincial capital Jinan. Most of the things in Rizhao were basically controlled by the Northwest.

Zhang Baotang is an old fisherman. He has always been making a living on this sea. Because of poverty, he only has a broken wooden boat, which cannot even resist the small wind and waves. Of course, he cannot withstand the wind and waves. Every time he goes to sea, he always holds the idea of ​​not being able to come back, just to eat three meals a day. Like the fishermen near the sea, most of them rely on the weather for their meals. Maybe that day, the boat capsizes and dies and they will not come back. However, today, the men in the county solemnly came to the fishing village and posted a notice.

"Yu'er, what is the notice?" Zhang Baotang was illiterate and called his 12-year-old nephew and grandson. His age is different from before. Life is still so hard, but there is hope. At least, the landlords and officials dare not take the table tennis casually. The children are all going to school. It is a school established in the northwest, which recruits children of appropriate age for free. Only with knowledge and culture can you change your destiny. Yu'er is his nephew and grandson. He started school at the age of 9 and has been in the school for three years. He can read and read and read newspapers.

"Fourth grandpa, good thing, the government has issued regulations that every family can borrow money to buy fishing boats. The loan amount of each family is 400 yuan. You can buy a 50-ton small trawler fishing boat. The best solution is to buy 5 families together, 20 or even 50 families, gather together and buy a 2,500 tons of ocean fishing boats."

The fish quickly told Zhang Baotang the things on the notice in a crisp voice. He thought the officials posted the notice for the sake of the levy, but he didn't expect it to be this.

Zhang Baotang knows this. There is a fishing boat in Shandong. A fishing boat is at least equivalent to the seafood caught by their thousands of small boats. If you go down a large net, you can even judge the location of the fish through special instruments (simple sonar) to achieve the purpose of increasing production.

The smallest fishing boat of a fishing company is a 500-ton fishing boat, a large boat of a minimum of 2,500 tons, and requires more than 80 sailors. Zhang Baotang is very clear that this ocean fishing boat is the real direction. There are not many fishing resources in the offshore area, and the ocean is the direction. Only in a real ocean fishing ground can there be enough harvests.

Although Zhang Baotang was just a fisherman, when he was young, he went to the South China Sea, boarded German ships, and even followed the ships to the United States and Germany. It was on these ships that he had heard of a whaling ship of the great powers, which was specifically targeted at whales in the deep sea. A whale weighed thousands of kilograms or even tens of thousands of kilograms. That was the real treasure. One fell swoop, it was enough for a factory to start construction.

Whaling is a bit far away, but such a trawling fishing boat is very good. He has encountered it when he was fishing. He ran very fast, but he gained much more than he did after one net. But now he is so poor that he can afford it. It is a loan of 400 yuan. For most poor fishermen, this is an unimaginable amount. The most important thing is that they are afraid that if it is a means of making money by the government, a family that has just stabilized and hoped will be destroyed.

Seeing Zhang Baotang hesitating, Yu'er was like a little adult, and said to Zhang Baotang seriously: "Fourth Grandpa, don't be afraid, it's okay, the guarantee is from the northwest!"

The two simple sons in the northwest attracted Zhang Baotang's attention. Zhang Baotang said with a trembling trembling: "Is it really the northwest?"

In Fujian, the northwest is not well-known, but in Shandong, the northwest has completely affected Shandong over the years. Shandong, as Germany's sphere of influence, is also one of the first areas to penetrate the northwest. The establishment of a large number of schools, free study, and even free three meals. Isn't this free help to raise children? In just three years, some people graduated from school, entered a special factory, became apprentices, learned technology, and even got a salary. They were dozens of lights a month. This is something that fishermen could not think of for generations. They wanted to jump out of this dragon gate, but did they jump out of this real dragon gate? The ancestors were here for generations, and it was not until the appearance of the northwest.

A stout fisherman said loudly: "Just for the northwest, I did it, it's just 400, it's damn, it's damn, it's damn, it's damn, it's damn."

The voices that followed made the notice very happy. He was the head of Northwest Bank, because Northwest Bank started in Fujian, with the main forces being Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and finally Anhui and Shandong. However, I didn’t expect that I encountered a surprise in Shandong. The enthusiasm level was much stronger and faster than that in Fujian.

The procedures were ready, and even the ships were prepared long ago. Next to Rizhao Port, there were more than 70 ships in the emergency fishing administration wharf, the largest one was about 500 tons, and the smallest one was the most basic one. During this period, the Jiangnan Shipyard had full power and produced a large number of ships, divided into two directions, and kept filling the fishing villages along the coast of China.

Zhang Baotang signed a signature. With the help of Yuer, he wrote the name on his behalf, pressed the pressure, and signed a loan agreement. However, he did not get the boat directly, because usually five families share a 50-ton fishing boat together. As for the larger ones left and more people needed, he needed to find 5 equally interested ones to finally obtain the fishing boat. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!