Chapter 6: A good start, next steps!
The place where Ji Hao chose to station his troops was not chosen randomly: it was located in the north of Luoyang, outside the imperial city's defense line, close to the Yellow River, deep in the mountains and capable of accommodating at least tens of thousands of people.

Meet the conditions for building a barracks.

On this basis, the military camp is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the Yellow River on one side. The mountains on the three sides provide rich hunting resources and can also be used for breeding, which enables the camp to be self-sufficient to a certain extent.

The Yellow River was the basis for gathering the disaster victims in the early stages.

When he was still in modern times, Ji Hao had come here to travel. As a veteran fisherman, he stayed on the shore for several days and nights and caught a red carp weighing more than ten kilograms before leaving.

deep impression.

While fishing, he was bored and looked up the history of the Yellow River. He learned one thing: although the Yellow River used to have turbid water and fast flow, it was rich in fish resources, which fed countless fishermen on both sides of the river.

Part of the military supplies for the famous Hulao Pass came from the Yellow River.

When necessary, they can even achieve self-sufficiency by relying on the fish resources in the Yellow River when surrounded by a large army.

It is definitely enough to support the disaster victims in Luoyang!

In addition, there is silt and a large amount of clay in the Yellow River. After being salvaged and combined with limestone that is available in the nearby mountains, it can be used to make cement!
Of course, that is a matter for the future. The most important thing right now is fishing.

Only by catching fish and providing the victims with food can we mobilize their enthusiasm, and then utilize the elderly and women who are unable to work to weave cages and fishing nets to expand the development of the fishery.

Build your own "Mojinxiaowei Office".

"What we have to do now is very simple. We just tie a hemp rope to the chicken coop, put some smelly offal in it, and throw it into the Yellow River to catch fish!" Ji Hao said to Zhou Cang and others, "But the cliff is steep and we may fall into it if we are not careful, so please be alert!"

It was not a whim. Before he traveled through time in his previous life, he had seen an old man catching fish with a chicken coop.

I weighed several kilograms, but it was still not enough.

It is said that decades ago, a chicken coop could catch dozens of kilograms of fish in less than two hours - now is not decades ago, but without electricians and new energy sources, fish resources will only be better.

He is confident that he can catch fish.

"There are no trees on the cliff. Go find some wood and we'll drive the piles ourselves!"

After arriving at the place, Ji Hao took off the fine steel spear on his back and started to drill a hole in the cliff. He used the spear head as a chisel, rode on the horse's back, and shook the spear downwards.

Each stab could penetrate the rock several inches. In one breath, he fired more than ten shots. Amid the sound of "ping pong", he soon dug out a large hole more than a foot deep and as thick as a bowl.

The rubble was carried elsewhere.

Such skills made everyone stare in amazement.

Zhou Cang, in particular, said in shock, "I can also stab a weapon into a stone wall, but it's impossible to do it so quickly and accurately. If this happened on a battlefield... he can kill me with just one shot!"

He is actually very strong.

His arms have a strength of a thousand pounds. He can carry more than a dozen wooden stakes as thick as a bowl without affecting his climbing.

But Zhou Cang was not considered a top master during the Three Kingdoms period.

It's not because he lacks strength, but because he lacks martial arts skills - he can carry the sword for Guan Yu like a shadow, so of course he can do it, but his talent is not only strength, but also the savvy for martial arts.

Some people will never achieve great success in martial arts even if they practice for their entire lives.

"Plant the wooden stakes and tie the rope to them so that they won't be washed away by the river!" After Ji Hao finished drilling the "holes", Cao Cao had already brought his men and got dozens of wooden stakes.

Insert them all and tie the rope.

Start fishing.

"But sitting and waiting like this is too boring, isn't it?"

Ji Hao looked at the remaining hemp rope, and then looked at the red carp that jumped out of the water from time to time because of the abundant resources in the river, and couldn't help but smile.

He took out his fine steel spear and tied it with a hemp rope.

"What are you going to do?" Zhou Cang was puzzled. "Fork the fish!"

Ji Hao saw a super-sized red carp jumping out of the water, and immediately threw out the spear in his hand and stabbed it as a harpoon. The next moment, there was a "pop" sound of water splashing.

The spear penetrated completely, splashing water several feet away.

"It hit me!"

Laughing loudly, Ji Hao pulled the rope hard.

He pulled the struggling big fish directly out of the water.

Zhou Cang and others were very excited when they saw the huge fish head from afar.

"A good start! A big carp from the Yellow River. One of this size is enough for us to eat for half a month!" Cao Cao said, and he also came up to help and pulled the hemp rope.

Zhou Cang also tried hard.

Everyone pulled together and in one breath, they pulled the hemp rope directly to the shore.

Immediately, a huge fish that was more than two meters long and nearly one meter wide, which looked very much like a crucian carp, but was actually a red carp from the Yellow River, came into everyone's sight. It weighed at least three hundred kilograms.

Still struggling, trying to get back into the river.

But Ji Hao punched him on the forehead and killed him on the spot!
"It seems that the largest carp recorded in modern times is only about 130 kilograms? This thing is simply a spirit!" Ji Hao looked surprised.

However, this is not modern times, but a historical novel.

There are people with the strength of a thousand pounds, so it is normal for the fish to grow bigger, and it is not surprising that it evolves towards the level of the king of inspiration.

"Open up the belly and prepare to eat the grilled fish!" Ji Hao said again.

Cao Cao immediately led his men to start working, and gave instructions: "Take out the internal organs and use them as bait, save the scales for armor, and don't throw away the bones, polish them a little and tie them to a stick to make a spear!"

Obviously, Prime Minister Cao is very good at utilizing resources.

"There's some movement over there!" Zhou Cang said suddenly.

Hearing this, Ji Hao looked at the hemp ropes tied to the chicken coop and found that one of them was shaking violently, so he hurriedly grabbed the rope and pulled it up.

After a while, another three-foot-long big fish was caught, and it was unknown what species it was.

Although it is far less than the first one, it is enough for more than a dozen people to eat for a day.

At the same time, seven or eight "small carps" were caught, the lightest of which weighed more than ten kilograms, and together they were no smaller than the big fish - there is no doubt that the fish resources in the Yellow River were extremely abundant during this period.

"There's movement there, too."

"Catch them all, no matter if there's any movement or not, catch them one by one, even if there aren't big fish, there will be small ones!"

……

Ji Hao's original idea was to call on the disaster victims to fish in the short term, let them gather in their own settlements, survive on their own labor, and then guide and recruit them step by step to build his own army.

The plan can't keep up with the changes.

He originally thought that the ten chicken cages could only serve as a demonstration, and that only when the number of disaster victims increased and everyone made tools to catch fish together could a sufficient number of fish be caught.

However, no one expected that the fish resources in the Yellow River at the end of the Han Dynasty were so good that it was almost outrageous.

As a result, in just one afternoon, hundreds of large fish weighing at least ten kilograms were caught, plus some small fish weighing several kilograms, with a total weight of more than four thousand kilograms, which stunned both Cao Cao and Zhou Cang.

The latter even knelt down on the spot and recognized Ji Hao as his lord.

"It's just luck. It doesn't happen every day. But with these fish, we can start the next step of the plan. Our 'Gold-Grabbing Captain' is going to really touch the 'gold'!"

(End of this chapter)