Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 105: Construction of offshore forecast station (asking for monthly ticket)
Because there were veteran fishermen on Wang Jiankun's fishing boat, they could not go to the island to build a mobile base station, radar and weather station this time. So after recording the terrain, Wang Jiankun drove the fishing boat back.

He did not catch any of the large and small yellow croakers he encountered on the way, because it was already 6 o'clock in the evening and it would take almost midnight to get back to Jinshan Wharf. He wanted to go back and rest early. It was very tiring to drive the boat on the sea continuously without anyone to take over.

The time of arrival at the shore was almost the same as Wang Jiankun had estimated, close to midnight. Wang Jiankun asked Liao Jun to help him process the fish on the boat. He ate some midnight snack brought by Liao Jun and went to his room to rest.

He has already paid the old fisherman's wages and asked him to start working with Liao Jun tomorrow. He will call on him if he needs to go out to sea in the future. If he doesn't go out to sea, he can help on the shore. He receives a basic salary every month and additional subsidies for going out to sea. After all, going out to sea is much more tiring than working on shore.

The old fisherman is of course very happy. He now has more hope for the future. Although he has worked on a fishing boat all his life, he has not saved much money. His wife is sick and needs medicine, and his children have not had good jobs after they started their own families. So even though he is in his 50s, he still has to go out to sea all the time.

Now that Boss Wang has invited him to work, maybe he can earn enough for his retirement in the future. After all, this boss seems to be very generous.

At 6 o'clock in the morning on June 7, Wang Jiankun finally got enough sleep. He told Liao Jun that he was going to the city to bring the sonar fish finder. If Captain Zheng and his team came, he would ask them to go to the fish stall and wait. He would be back around 8 o'clock.

After saying that, he rode his motorcycle towards Shilipu Wharf.

There were many kinds of elemental substances in the cabin of Experiment No. 2. Wang Jiankun used his superpowers to synthesize 7 sonar fish finders according to the adjusted drawings.

After the synthesis, Wang Jiankun used a data entry device to import all the previously collected data into the newly manufactured sonar fish finder. After the entry was completed, these sonar fish finders will be able to prompt the probability of a certain type of fish when encountering a specific school of fish. If the probability exceeds 70%, there will almost be no error.

Of course, it doesn’t matter if there are mistakes. After all, it is still a single school of fish, and it won’t be a big loss to catch it. In addition, Wang Jiankun will provide them with data update services from time to time in the future.

Once his fleet is formed, he can collect data on different fish schools on the seabed, as well as data on the topography of the seabed.

However, Wang Jiankun will not sell this sonar fish finder that can collect and save data to other parties. It will only be used by his own fleet and will be strictly traced. After all, the seabed topography data is also a state secret, and it would be bad if it was obtained by foreign hostile forces.

Wang Jiankun collected these in order to prepare for the future construction of maritime armed forces. Of course, he will also find the right time to provide them to the country. At present, the country's strength is many times stronger than his.

The seven sonar fish finders are not very large in size. Each has four integrated transmitting and receiving probes on the outside, which are connected to the processor and screen with wires. The screen is a small 7-inch black and white display.

Wang Jiankun packed all of these into anti-collision boxes one by one, with Sihai Group written on the outside, as well as corresponding English labels. These were to make the sonar fish finder look more like a regular product.

After installation, I put them all in the wooden box on the back of the motorcycle and rode to Jinshan Wharf.

When Wang Jiankun arrived at the fish stall that was being renovated, he saw Captain Zheng and two other captains who had followed him fishing waiting there. They saw a large box hanging on the back of his motorcycle and guessed that the sonar fish finder was inside.

"Boss Wang, are you going to bring the sonar fish finder? Is it heavy? Do you want us to help carry it down?" Captain Zheng spoke up first.

"Boss, they have been waiting here since you left. I told them you will be back around 10 o'clock." Liao Jun said.

"Okay, it's okay to wait here. Captain Zheng, you all happen to be together, so I'll talk to you about the future use and maintenance of the sonar fish finder, and then demonstrate it to you after it's installed on the boat. We'll go out to sea in the afternoon to test the effect. How do you think this arrangement is?"

"That's great, but I don't know if it's difficult. We are all rough and uneducated, so we might not understand it!"

"You should be able to recognize some basic characters. If you really don't know them, just remember a few symbols and their corresponding functions. The operation is also very simple."

"We can recognize hundreds of characters. We all participated in literacy classes. Lao Zheng even went to primary school for three years. It's good if it's not too complicated. If it's too complicated, we're afraid we won't be able to use it in the future."

"It's enough to know a few hundred characters. The system of this sonar fish finder has been specially translated into Chinese for the situation in the mainland. Most of them have corresponding Chinese characters. Let's get started!"

"Liao Jun, you should learn along with me. I will teach you how to install it later. You will have to install the next few units by yourself and explain to the captain how to use them."

After saying that, Wang Jiankun opened the wooden box and took out a sonar fish finder.

Everyone looked at the tightly packed package with many letters written on it and felt that it was really high-end and that it was worth 1500 yuan.

When Wang Jiankun took out the sonar fish finder, everyone was even more amazed.

"Wow, there's a small TV too. Just this thing must cost thousands of dollars, right?" Captain Zheng exclaimed.

"It is different from a TV. It displays the detected seabed conditions on it. You can watch the screen to know the seabed conditions. Some other information will also be displayed on the side, such as the seabed depth where the ship is located, the direction of the fish school's movement, and most importantly, the approximate number and type of fish schools."

"This is really good. You can watch it directly on the screen. I thought it was just like a radio talking to report the situation. This is worth 1500!"

After a few people looked at and touched a few things, Wang Jiankun continued to explain. Of course, he did not explain the principles, as they would not understand even if he did, so he only talked about the usage and precautions.

After explaining for about half an hour and everyone saying they remembered it, Wang Jiankun asked a few people to help take the parts to Captain Zheng's fishing boat, while he followed behind with the toolbox hanging on the side of the motorcycle.

After arriving at the dock where Captain Zheng docked his boat, Wang Jiankun first went up to install and fix the display and processor, and arranged the wires inside the boat. He then asked Captain Zheng to drive the boat to the repair point set up at the dock and lift the boat out of the water.

Seeing that the bottom of the boat was covered with various shellfish, Wang Jiankun selected four locations and asked Captain Zheng to clean those locations first to expose the bottom of the boat. It was up to Captain Zheng whether he wanted to deal with the other places now.

After Captain Zheng cleaned the four selected parts, Wang Jiankun used tools to drill holes and then installed the external probes. The materials of these probes are resistant to seawater corrosion and can be used for 5 or 6 years without any problems.

After the outside probe was installed, Wang Jiankun went inside the boat and connected the probe to the wire. He then used homemade waterproof and anti-corrosion tape to seal the joint.

After checking if there were any parts that were not installed properly, he turned on the power and turned on the monitor to check. He found that there were no problems and it could work normally. So he asked Captain Zheng to be careful not to touch the probe when cleaning the bottom of the boat, otherwise he would have to reinstall it or replace it with a new one. Wang Jiankun asked Liao Jun to install the second boat. The steps and operations were very simple. He just fixed the monitor and processor in the cockpit, then connected the wires, drilled a hole in the bottom of the boat to install the external probe, and finally connected the probe to the wire.

The third machine was completely operated by Liao Jun, who was also very skillful, so the installation time was even shorter than the previous one.

After all the installation was completed, the three captains called Wang Jiankun and Liao Jun to go to a seafood restaurant at the dock for dinner.

The three captains had all received considerable benefits, so they were very generous in treating the guests. This is a fishing port, so the seafood is relatively cheap. Each person ordered two small blue dragon fish, a 6-jin large yellow croaker, four blue crabs, and 4-jin prawns as long as chopsticks. They also ordered several other seafood products such as fish balls, cold jellyfish, pan-fried small yellow croaker, etc.

Wang Jiankun had eaten some seafood in Nanhai before. It was steamed at that time. Although the original flavor was delicious, the taste was still incomparable to that made by the chefs here. There are several more ways to eat it.

For example, the prawns are available in salt and pepper, braised, or charcoal-grilled flavors, while the yellow croaker is half steamed and half braised.

As they were going out to sea soon, they didn't dare to drink too much, so they each poured two taels of white wine, and after finishing the wine they concentrated on eating seafood.

Although the three captains have caught countless seafood, they seldom eat them in restaurants. They usually keep some that are hard to sell and take them home to have their families cook them. After cooking, they also eat very little, after all, they have several children and they need to feed them more.

So all the food on the table ended up being eaten, and nothing was wasted.

After eating and drinking, Wang Jiankun took Captain Zheng and his men out to test the sonar fish finder.

They still drove to the sea east of Qushan Island, which Wang Jiankun was most familiar with.

In fact, when they just left the port, Wang Jiankun boarded their boat and taught them how to turn on the sonar fish finder, so they shouted all the way because they could see schools of large yellow croakers, small yellow croakers, and some other fish from time to time.

Wang Jiankun told them not to rush, after all, the sea was too shallow and the fish schools were not large, so there was no need to risk trawling. After passing Qushan Island, Wang Jiankun asked them to wander around and cast the nets when they saw anything worth catching.

He also turned on the sonar fish finder to help detect schools of fish and to collect data on other fish species.

Now he has thought of a way to take samples. He has super powers that allow him to control the elements within 130 meters. When he encounters a school of fish, he uses his super powers to create ice to wrap the fish, and then picks them up after they float to see what kind of fish they are.

This way he doesn’t have to bring people on the boat to cast the net, and the data collection process is greatly accelerated.

By mid-afternoon, Wang Jiankun had collected three species of fish worth catching, as well as tiger prawns and swimming crabs.

Captain Zheng and his three boats also cast and collected nets several times. The frequency of casting nets has increased a lot. Although it takes some time to sort out the nets, it is well worth it.

In the past, they would estimate when to cast the nets, and then feel whether they had caught any fish based on the boat's movement status. They would usually pull up the nets after 1 to 2 hours, and what and how much could be caught in each net depended entirely on luck.

Now they can sail while watching the seabed information displayed on the monitor. There will be a prompt sound when they encounter a school of fish, and the size and type of the fish will be displayed on the screen, which is very convenient. Therefore, although the amount they catch in the afternoon is not large, almost all the fish caught in each net are valuable, unlike before, when most of the fish had to be thrown back into the sea after catching a net.

Captain Zheng was lucky and encountered a large school of yellow croakers, catching more than 150 of them. If sold, they would earn a thousand dollars. Although the other two captains did not catch any yellow croakers, they encountered a large school of Mei Tong fish. The two boats worked together to catch all the fish in the school, and each caught probably tens of thousands of kilograms.

The price of plum fish is not low either, the purchase price in the fish market is about 8 cents to 1 cents, so they earned 1 yuan in this short half day.

Wang Jiankun talked to the three captains and after confirming that they all knew how to use the sonar fish finder, he separated from them.

He drove the fishing boat further out to sea, heading for Zhongkui Island which he had selected yesterday.

Along the way, Wang Jiankun encountered some schools of fish from time to time. He used his superpowers to take samples one by one, and then collected the data. It didn't matter if he encountered fish he didn't recognize, he could just ask the old fishermen when he returned to Jinshan.

Wang Jiankun arrived at Zhongkui Island at around 8 o'clock in the evening. Since he had explored the seabed conditions before, Wang Jiankun easily drove the boat to the edge of the island, and then used his superpowers to create a reef-like embankment.

He did not dare to make it with reinforced concrete, for fear that someone would see it and sue him. After all, the appearance of concrete buildings on this uninhabited island would definitely attract the coast guard.

It would be much better if there was a long embankment that imitated the shape of a reef. Not many people come here, and they certainly don’t remember what it looked like before. When they see the long embankment that resembles a reef, they will at most feel the magic of nature. In the future, this can also serve as a good place for fishing boats to shelter from the wind.

After reaching the island, Wang Jiankun used his super powers to explore it. The island was not big, probably less than 3 square kilometers. There were no special minerals underneath, and the elemental composition was the same as that of an ordinary island.

Wang Jiankun relied on his superpowers to grope his way to the highest point of Wang Xiaodao in the dark, carrying some copper and iron on his back, as well as some rare or precious elements used to make circuit boards.

When they reached the highest point, Wang Jiankun asked Chieko to help design a concealed mobile base station tower, radar antenna, various exposed equipment of the weather station, etc.

Because there were some shrubs about 3 to 5 meters high on the island, Chieko designed it and asked Wang Jiankun to make some fake shrubs near the highest point, and then the equipment was installed on the fake trees. Of course, the radar antenna was placed in a spherical shape on the top of the tree.

This dual-purpose sea- and air-surface radar can be connected to a mobile base station, which also has an auxiliary positioning function and will send signals at regular intervals. In the future, Wang Jiankun’s ships can use them for positioning when going out to sea.

Of course, it is not enough to rely on just one base station and radar. After he finishes making the big freezer and puts it at the fish stall the day after tomorrow, he will go south to build a series of radar stations and mobile base stations on some islands in the outer sea. Of course, a weather station is also indispensable.

The data collected by the weather station will also be sent via a mobile base station to the central processor installed in Wang Jiankun's villa in Shanghai. After processing the information, a corresponding weather forecast will be generated. After the equipment on the fishing boat sends a viewing request, the weather information at the corresponding location will be transmitted back. At that time, the weather can be predicted to avoid encountering bad weather after going out to sea and having to return.

Of course, the weather conditions near each weather station will be sent to the receiving equipment of the fishing boat at a fixed time every day, and experienced captains can also use the forecast information to decide whether to go out to sea.

(End of this chapter)