1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 396: A few more ships

"The captain is very important for a large ship to go out to sea. I plan to take out ten points from the income of each voyage after deducting basic costs such as fuel costs and give it to the captain; and five points to the first mate!" Liang Ziqiang said about the plan he had been thinking about recently.

According to the current situation of ordinary deep-sea voyages, after deducting the costs, the income for each trip can basically be no less than fifteen hundred yuan.

That is to say, the captain gets ten points and can get a reward of one hundred and fifty for each trip.

The first mate can get five points, which is seventy-five dollars.

Ordinary crew members still get five dollars a day, and each five-day trip to the sea gets twenty-five dollars. If you want to increase your income, the most direct way is to actively learn skills and strive to grow into a first mate or captain.

This is just the normal sea surface. Every winter, the fleet goes to the wintering grounds contracted by the family to carry out winter fishing, and the income is very different.

After deducting expenses, each ship is estimated to have a net income of more than 10,000 yuan, which means that the captain earns more than 1,000 yuan per trip, and the first mate more than 500 yuan.

Even for ordinary crew members, Liang Ziqiang would give them some extra rewards in addition to their wages when it comes to special times of winter fishing.

As a result, the salaries of the captain and the first mate will rise sharply, and Liang Ziqiang's own income will inevitably decrease accordingly.

But he didn't think this was a big problem, as he still earned enough in proportion.

As the pace gradually increases, the way of thinking must also change. You can't make all the money by yourself, you need to share more and gather a core team around you, which is very important for moving forward.

Especially for people like the captain and the first mate, who sometimes play a decisive role in a boat's fishing operations, they cannot be compared with shrimp farming in a shrimp pond. It is precisely for this reason that he gives a higher share than his father-in-law and his eldest brother-in-law.

"With so many ships, the enthusiasm of the people in charge of each ship is really the most important," Liang's father thought for a while after listening to his idea, "even if it's ten points, isn't that too high? The cost and equipment are all yours, and you are also the general manager and commander of the fleet. To add one more thing, you also bear all the responsibilities and risks. Do you really want to divide so much?"

“It’s a good thing to be able to keep people.”

Liang Ziqiang actually did some calculations in private.

The most important part is that during the winter fishing season, the captain can earn more than 1,000 yuan per trip. If they want to earn more than this, they must buy a big steel boat and go it alone.

However, the fishing rights for the wintering fishing grounds are in Liang Ziqiang's hands and have been signed in black and white.

If the captains want to go to other ordinary sea areas to work alone after leaving the wintering fishing grounds, they can only earn a little over a thousand yuan for a trip, which is no better than staying with Liang Ziqiang.

The ten-point share is just the right balance to discourage captains from going it alone!

Although those who were able to be trained to become captains must have a close relationship with Liang Ziqiang, he doesn't think that relationships alone can sustain the team if it is to continue.

With the support of affection and tangible benefits such as profits, the team can remain together.

"Dad, let's get back to you," Liang Ziqiang revealed the complete plan and returned to the main topic, "When the steel ship is bought back, you and I will work together. As for the remuneration, I will not give you the proportion of the first mate, but the proportion of the captain!"

"What?" Liang's father was obviously surprised, and put the bamboo tube on the ground at his feet. "What kind of captain am I? I have never been in the cabin of a large steel ship before! If you want to give me money, just throw a few thousand on my table during the New Year. Maybe your mother will be so happy that she will praise you for several days!"

"If you say it's a gift, then give me money!" Liang Ziqiang didn't argue. "You worked on a state-owned ship for a long time before. You know everything except driving. It's not difficult for you to learn how to drive. The ship doesn't have three boats on it. If you add more boats in the future, you will be the captain!"

Now my father is estimated to earn at least 10,000 yuan a year from the ten acres of shrimp pond he has contracted. The income from going out to sea should not be less than that from the shrimp pond. With the two added together, the income will go up rapidly.

The eldest brother was not good at going out to sea, so he could only take him to raise shrimp to make money. As for his father's ability to earn more, of course he would help him earn more.

"Ask my father-in-law to help feed the shrimps. How do you calculate it?" Liang's father apparently accepted his son's suggestion and began to ask about the follow-up arrangements. "I will give each of them three yuan a day as a laborer, and at the end of the year, we will give them two points of dividends after selling the shrimps," Liang Ziqiang revealed.

"If you invite three people from Tangduo, then I will invite one from my father-in-law, and give him three yuan plus dividends!" Liang's father made the decision immediately.

In this way, my father-in-law's income can be increased by more than a thousand.

After everything was settled that night, Liang's father did not delay and went to the village to recruit people the next day to help Aqiang.

Five yuan is not a low wage, and many people in the village who don’t have a boat at home were tempted.

Of course, Aqiang and his father were selective when looking for people. They only recruited people with relatively reliable character.

At the same time, Aqiang also told Chen Xiangbei's father to give him his father's shrimp pond to feed. The father-in-law agreed without hesitation. As for how the father-in-law and the brothers-in-law would divide the work, it was up to them.

After arranging the staff, Liang Ziqiang went to Fengshou Shipyard again to discuss the purchase of a ship.

A large steel ship of the same model as the "Zi Qiang" can no longer return to its original price of ten thousand.

It seems that Lao Xu, a worker at the shipyard, has changed his job and now he is received by a young man who calls himself Xiao Jin.

According to Xiao Jin, the latest price of that model of boat is 12,800.

In fact, if Liang Ziqiang hadn't grabbed it at the right time a year ago, the price would have risen to 12,000 yuan. Now it's sold at this price, no matter how expensive it is, I have to buy it anyway.

He specifically asked about the price of another type of ship, the fresh-catch ship. This type of ship is used to receive seafood from other ships and transport them out. There is no trawling equipment on the ship, but the refrigeration equipment is very large, and the refrigerated compartment area is also very large, so the cost is also not low.

Fengshou Shipyard also sells freshwater boats, which are all over 30 meters long. For boats over 20 meters, the price will increase by 2,000 to 3,000 yuan for every additional meter or two.

This kind of fish collecting boat of more than 30 meters in length costs 25,000 yuan, which is almost enough to buy two steel trawlers of more than 20 meters in length.

Liang Ziqiang would learn more about it first. With his current scale, buying a freshwater ship might not be a cost-effective thing.

Eventually, he decided to buy two more trawlers with their own refrigerated hold.

Two boats would cost 25,600. In addition, I would buy an eight-meter wooden boat for my cousin and his wife on Wuming Island, and exchange the lotus boat that was parked on Wuming Island.

The price of an eight-meter wooden boat has now risen to one thousand. The total cost of the three boats is 26,600.

After asking the price, Liang Ziqiang drove his father's gondola to the city and went to the bank to withdraw money.

Fortunately, when he saved money in November and December last year, in addition to the one-year fixed deposit, he also saved a lot of six-month deposits. Now the six-month deposits have all matured, so he just took them out to do business.

After returning to Fengshou Shipyard and paying the deposit, the ship was not yet fully completed and delivery would have to wait for half a month.

Recently I have been busy with the important tasks of laying the foundation, building the dike pond, and successfully taking over the wintering fishing grounds I have been coveting for a long time. As a result, I have not been out to sea for quite some time.

Basically, after the fish and shrimps gathered in the wintering grounds disappeared, we rarely went fishing in the deep sea.

While waiting for the new ship to be delivered, Liang Ziqiang decided to take the Ziqiang and go to the deep sea to catch fish.

(End of this chapter)