1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 443 Please come to your door
Li Liang and Lin Baixian looked at each other, as if they had not quite understood what Liang Ziqiang meant.

"It's like this. You will work as a crew member on the ship for a while, and then become the first mate. I will buy a new ship soon and let the two of you be the captain. You two should be fast in learning these things. I estimate that by the second half of the year when we start winter fishing, you will be able to be the captain. The captain does not get paid."

Liang Ziqiang paused for a moment and said, "Take a 10-point share. When it comes to winter fishing, the share should be much higher than casting a net in the shallow sea!"

He told them in detail about the captain's share of the profits he had recently received.

Lin Baixian's calculations were too easy. He only compared his current income situation and immediately felt that it would be much better to work for Liang Ziqiang as a captain.

"There are ten points? I calculated that this is a lot more than I have now! Why not go? Anyone who doesn't go is a fool!"

Lin Baixian made the decision immediately. After saying this, he realized that Li Liang, who was sitting next to him, had not made a decision yet. At this moment, the latter was looking at him with an expression of being scolded.

"That's not what I meant. I said I'd be a fool not to go, not that you're stupid!"

Realizing that something was wrong, Lin Baixian made his explanation even more ambiguous.

"Come on, I'd be a fool if I didn't go, how could I not go?"

Li Liang obviously also made some calculations. Even if his situation was better than Lin Baixian's, it would still be better for him to work for Liang Ziqiang as a captain.

"By the way, after I go to your place, my brother will definitely not be able to drive a wooden boat out to sea to cast nets by himself. If he is willing, can he also be a crew member and sort out the catches?" Lin Baixian thought of a very realistic problem.

Similarly, Li Liang also mentioned his brother-in-law Yuan Lijun.

"We are in need of crew members anyway. If they are willing, they can come and be crew members!" Liang Ziqiang agreed immediately.

Lin Baixian's younger brother Lin Baiyi is very diligent in his work and there will be no problem for him to be a crew member.

As for Yuan Xiaomei's younger brother Yuan Lijun, I heard that he sometimes has a bad mouth, but it's not a big problem.

Being an ordinary crew member is not a big problem. But if he wants to grow up to the position of first mate, he needs to change his personality a little bit so that he can get along with everyone more happily.

Having decided on this matter, Liang Ziqiang prepared to start working on appropriately expanding the size of the fleet in the near future.

But there are more urgent things to do. It is already April, and it is time for wild prawns to gather and spawn.

Based on the experience of the previous two years, Liang Ziqiang, his father and elder brother continued to cast nets in the shallow sea to catch large numbers of broodstock, and then brought them back to the village broodstock pond to prepare for hatching shrimp fry.

In order to ensure that prawns do not degenerate from generation to generation, wild broodstock caught in the season should be used as the main source of shrimp fry.

A lot of blue clams, thin shells, and sandworms are also caught from the sea and put into shrimp ponds for breeding and use as auxiliary bait for shrimp farming.

He had just returned from the shallow sea with a large number of shrimps and sandworms. As he was walking on the beach road after landing, he saw a man jogging towards him. It turned out to be Zheng Liu.

"Brother Defu, Aqiang, are you guys back from the sea? It's been a while since I last saw you. If you are free, why don't you come to my room and sit down? We are old friends, how about chatting for a while?"

As he got closer, every cell on Zheng Liu's face was trying hard to smile, and he greeted the father and son.

"Come sit with you? Chat?"

Father Liang seemed to have heard Journey to the West, and couldn't understand what this guy was up to. He had never done this before, and he didn't know what had gone wrong.

"If you're too busy, we can just stand here and chat for a while!"

Seeing that Liang's father and the others were standing there without any sign of moving, Zheng Liu laughed, and his smile was still so sincere:
"Nephew Aqiang, Brother Defu, let me tell you something. I went to other villages and the county town a while ago and met several people. Do you know what the first thing they said when they mentioned our Pomfret Village?"

"What?"

"Prawns! They all say that our Pomfret Village produces prawns, and the prawns produced are of renowned quality! My face lit up when I heard that, and I said, of course there's nothing else to say, those are the prawns raised by my brother and nephew, how could they be bad? Not to mention the whole county, even in Yanghai, who else can raise such good prawns?!" Zheng Liu said sincerely, with a glow on his face.

Elder brother Liang Defu and nephew Liang Ziqiang were confused when they heard this. They had no idea when they suddenly had such a younger brother and uncle.

Not only was it confusing, it also sounded a bit awkward.

But Zheng Liu was not embarrassed at all. He continued to hold them and said cheerfully:
"Such a good thing should be marketed well and promoted as much as possible, don't you think? I've been thinking recently, since I'm running a purchasing point in our Pomfret Village, how can I be lazy and not contribute my efforts? Even if I can't say all, at least I should contribute a little. It would be great if I can sell some of your prawns! Brother, nephew, don't you think so?"

Having said that, the tail is revealed.

Liang Ziqiang glanced at him:
"Just tell me, has anyone approached you recently to buy the prawns we farmed?"

This is obvious. All the talk of being proud and trying to sell hard is nonsense. It must be because the prawns raised by the Liang family have opened up the market and have become famous. More and more people want to buy the goods, so when they meet Zheng Liu, they ask him about it. After all, Zheng Liu is from Pomfret Village, and in their opinion, he must be familiar with the Liang family.

After being exposed by Liang Ziqiang's words, Zheng Liu was stunned for a moment, but his smile revived immediately, still without any embarrassment:

"Isn't it? They say these shrimps are easy to sell! Ah Qiang, you have to pay for gas if you load them up and sell them yourself. If you sell them to me, you save time and gas, right? Of course, to be honest with you, your uncle Zheng is having a hard time making a living. You are also giving your uncle a way out! Friendship is friendship, but I have to thank you for this!"

Zheng Liu said that his business was getting slower and slower, which didn't seem to be false. Liang Ziqiang knew that Wei Pan had a freshwater boat that was floating on the sea, intercepting a lot of fish from the purchasing points in various villages, and Zheng Liu was one of the typical village vendors affected.

"No way, Zheng Liu," Liang's father said slowly, "our shrimps are only worth four dollars. How can they be as magical and popular as you say? You are exaggerating!"

The reason why Liang's father said this was because when they sold shrimps in the first year, Zheng Liu actually went to the shrimp pond to negotiate with them. But at that time, the general purchase price in the county town had reached 7 or 8 yuan, but Zheng Liu thought that the shrimps in the shrimp pond were nothing more than farmed shrimps, and he could only buy them at 4 yuan at most, and refused to increase the price by even a cent.

As a result, the two parties failed to reach an agreement at that time. Later, as the number of prawns increased, Liang Ziqiang never looked for Zheng Liu to sell prawns again.

When Liang's father said this, he was naturally still remembering what happened back then and wanted to say something to stab him. Zheng Liu probably wanted to slap himself in the face when he thought of that incident now. What a missed opportunity!

However, Liang Ziqiang was wrong. Zheng Liu glared at Liang's father and said angrily:
"What, four dollars?! What fool is there who can buy such good shrimp for four dollars? Brother, there are always such idiots in the world who don't know the value of things. I'm afraid their eyes are covered with eye boogers! You don't need to bother with such idiots. In my opinion, these are wild shrimps, which are better than ordinary wild shrimps. If anyone compares them with farmed shrimps, I will scold him!"

After these words were spoken, Liang Ziqiang, his son and his father were all stunned for a moment.

Although they never thought that Zheng Liu was a thin-skinned person, they did not expect that this guy's thickness has increased recently and reached a whole new level!
Liang Ziqiang thought about it and originally thought that the wall of his house was just too thick, but now it seems that it is still not as thick-skinned as Zheng Liu's.

"Then what price do you think is a smart price?" Liang Ziqiang, who had come to his senses, was also a little amused and asked Zheng Liu.

"Needless to say, the price must be the same as that of wild prawns on the market! For example, recently, wild prawns are 12.5 yuan. If you sell these prawns to me, I will definitely charge you 12.5 yuan!" Zheng Liu said without any ambiguity.

"There are no shrimps now. You can see that all the shrimp ponds have been emptied."

"I'm just giving you an analogy. If wild prawns cost 13 yuan next year, I'll charge you 13 yuan! What do you think?"

"Next year's will still be shrimp eggs!" Liang Ziqiang pointed to the shrimps that had just been brought back from the shallow sea. It seemed that Zheng Liu was planning to reserve this batch of shrimps from the womb!
"If everything goes well and the shrimp yield is high next year, then as you said, I will consider clearing a few acres of shrimp to sell to you. We are all from the same village, so it's easy!"

Seeing that Zheng Liu had been begging for so long and had even scolded himself to the point of being completely destroyed, Liang Ziqiang finally gave in and agreed to give him some.

Of course, he had his own considerations behind this decision.

Firstly, as long as the price is the same, selling a batch to Zheng Liu nearby will indeed save time, effort and fuel.

Secondly, Wei Pan not only sold a large number of prawns, but also a lot of snappers and groupers would be sold there in the future. In addition, a considerable portion of deep-sea fish was also sold to Wei Pan.

But it is not necessary to put all the channels in one company. It is also necessary to distribute some of them to other channels...

(End of this chapter)