Lu Ming

Chapter 266 Shareholders
"Ah! How could this be!?"

With tears in his eyes and trembling legs, Yu Chengde stumbled and walked among the ruins of the Herring, picking up a broken ship plank and touching it a few times, muttering something incessantly.

Seeing that the Herring, which has always been the spiritual sustenance of the whole village, has been dismantled into parts, the other people also have a look of reluctance and confusion—they can't figure out who is going to provoke who is a good ship. To be made like this.Could it be that the government here does not allow people to go fishing?
With anger and doubts, Yu Chengde and his party returned to the lobby of the Port Authority.

And the former student/junior staff member named Gou Mingde wearing a big cap saw them, and immediately showed a smile of "I knew you would come back" on his face.Before a certain sad and angry old fisherman made an attack, Officer Gou took the lead: "I couldn't even call you just now, are you in a hurry to reincarnate?"

Speaking of which, he threw out a few watches and a few banknotes from behind the table: "Then, hurry up and fill in the forms to get the money, I'm still busy."

Suppressing his anger to ask for an explanation, Yu Chengde picked up the few banknotes and shook his palm: "Gou Wenshu, which one is this?"

"Fuel cost. After deducting the cost of dismantling the ship, it's only so much." Gou De said here, and glanced at Old Yu: "Our firewood is not worth much here, and there are already a lot of these!"

Yu Chengde slowly squeezed the banknotes tightly, and his whole posture changed from "opening the door to welcome guests" with his palms outstretched to "unloading the mill and killing the donkey" with his fists clenched. The next moment, he jumped out from between his teeth. A few words: "Why do you want to dismantle my boat?"

"It seems that you don't know yet?" Staff member Gou shook his head, reached out and took out a document from the table: "According to the regulations, all old ships with less than 400 materials and no value for renovation after evaluation will be ordered on the spot. It can be dismantled and used as fuel. Those with more than 400 materials are allowed to be sold at Daming Port."

After reading this, he threw the document in front of Chengde: "Your two broken ships add up to less than 400 materials, and they are full of rats and cockroaches. Are you going to dismantle them and wait for the plague to spread?"

Yu Chengde was stunned. Even if he killed him, he would never have thought that the government would issue such a strange article.When will the government even take care of such things?Also, what do cockroaches have to do with blight?
After judging that Gou Wenshu's words did not seem to be fake, the awe of the government for many years finally contained Chengde's anger.However, this could not solve the problem. Yu Chengde, who found that his dream had been dismantled into a pile of broken wooden boards, still asked with red eyes: "Without a boat, how can I make a living?"

Gou De rolled his eyes: "It seems that you don't know anything about policies. Why don't you study hard during the quarantine period?"

Speaking of this, the thin and shrewd staff member Gou turned his head and shouted into the room: "Section Chief, I will take someone to see the ship."

Then he returned to the shipyard with the ignorant Yu Chengde and his party.

The current scale of Taijiang Shipyard has already accounted for half of the east bank of Taijiang River.Various berths and docks extend north along the coast one after another, until they reach the sand embankment connecting the Wei Island of the Northern Line to the main island of Taiwan.

Yu Chengde and his party were taken by Gou De to the special wharf of the shipyard.

Pointing to the 10 smooth-shaped Chinese-style sailboats parked on the left hand side of the pier, Gou De said with a smile: "Aren't the newly manufactured 10-ton standard fishing boats [-] times stronger than your rags?"

Yu Chengde had seen these ships before.Based on his experience, it is easy to judge that the draft of these ships is above 400 materials, which is exactly the kind he wanted to buy at the beginning.

"I'm afraid this boat will cost thousands of taels of silver?"

"Well, for the new ship built by Hongcypress, one thousand two three is almost enough."

"Gou Wenshu, you are joking, where did we get more than 1000 taels of silver?"

"Hey? Didn't I exchange a thousand taels of silver for you? Pretend I didn't know?"

"That's not treasure."

When Yu Chengde said this, he suddenly froze.He blinked his eyes and thought about it for a long time, and after thinking things through clearly, he asked cautiously and tentatively: "Gou Wenshu, that's not enough, is there still two or three hundred taels of silver?"

"Idiot, you have paid [-]% of the total amount, and you are afraid that you will not be able to get the rest? The interest rate of the fishing loan is very low. If you can't make it right, it will be interest-free. Go to the bank and ask yourself later. "

"Oh, what are you waiting for, hurry up and pick a boat!" Finally, someone figured everything out, and before he had time to pray to Mazu and Guanyin for the kindness of Master Kunren, he hurriedly beckoned his men to go pick a boat first.

"Wait a minute!" At this moment, Yu Chengde's shoulder was grabbed by the staff member Gou.

Pointing to the direction of Chikan Wharf, Officer Gou said with a smile: "There are better ones, why don't you go and have a look?"

The waves are ups and downs, the sun is scorching like fire, and there are two boats sailing side by side in the strait.

One of the ships was named "Fathead Fish".This is a motor-sail fishing boat with a displacement of 400 tons, and the deck is equipped with a gantry crane that is necessary for fishing boats of later generations.

Yu Chengde and his men are currently working as apprentices on the ship.

Officer Gou not only introduced ordinary fishing boats to Lao Yu that day, but also took him to a special fishing pier in Chikan to see the latest motor-sail fishing boats.

Seeing the fresh fish brought out of the cold cabin and sent to the large cold storage at the dock, the bumpkins were naturally extremely shocked.

Officer Gou told someone without losing the opportunity: The total price of this boat is 12000 taels of silver, as long as he takes out the 1000 taels and pays the down payment, he can become a shareholder.

Yu Chengde was shocked.

It's not because of the price - every fool knows that this kind of big boat with ice cellar will not be cheap.What Yu Chengde is worried about is: a bunch of illiterates can't play with this thing!
The good thing is that the timing of Chengde's defection to the senior officials is good: the fishery company is now looking for a new home.

Ever since, Han Baisheng, the boss of the Fishery Corporation, made his debut.Recently, the fishery company, which is attracting capital from Ming people, finally caught another rich one, so naturally they couldn't let it go.

Han Baisheng quickly organized a group of "capital fishermen" including Yu Chengde.Some of these people, like Yu Chengde, brought boats to vote, and some brought money to big officials. In short, they were all petty bourgeois who were interested in fishing.

Han Baisheng quickly divided this group of people into two groups according to capital - trawling requires two boats to operate.

The capital of these two groups is about the same, and each of them put together about 4000 taels of silver, which is just enough to make a down payment of one-third of the ship payment.

In fact, they took advantage of it.You know, in this era, equipment such as fish detection sonar, walkie-talking system, gas cold storage, power trawl, etc. can be said to be priceless, especially sonar and walkie-talking systems, the core parts of which must be imported.

The fishery company's valuation of each motor-sail fishing boat is 12000 taels of silver, which can be said to be a jumping-off price.

After the capital is deployed, the two groups of shareholders can board the ship as apprentices.

(End of this chapter)