Wang Yue led the families of the Bandit Eradication Captain's Department to build a dock by the river. Then they began constructing boats suited for fishing and organized people to fish in the river.
Wang Yue's fishing method was actually quite simple. He went to some shallow waters and put down bait that he had specially prepared, which was enough to attract plenty of fish.
The special bait was something Wang Yue had learned about in another world. It simply hadn't been useful there.
Once the fish had gathered in large numbers, Wang Yue had the elderly, the weak, and the women row the new-style wooden boats out to catch them.
The new boats had a dedicated hold, much larger than those on ordinary wooden boats, so they could fish very quickly.
All of the more than ten thousand family members of the Bandit Eradication Captain's Department pitched in. Even the children helped sort the fish.
Some of the fish had few bones. Those were taken to the factory and exchanged for money, which they then used to buy grain. The rest, which had more bones, they kept for themselves.
This marsh connected to three large lakes, and the water in the lakes was flowing. There were no dense fishing nets like those used in later times, so the lakes were still full of fish and shrimp.
At their current rate of catch, even if their haul dwindled later, the yield would still be enormous.
The grain originally donated by the merchants would have fed these ten thousand or so people for at most a month or two. Now, with all this fish and shrimp, they could make it last three months at least—just in time for the autumn harvest.
After receiving her own token, Guan Yinping excitedly hurried to