Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 116 Delivery of 40-meter Class Ship
On July 1982, 7, Wang Jiankun brought five young men selected by his father from Fengshan Commune to Sizhou Town and sent them on a boat to Hukou Town.

These selected young men have all learned the theory of sea driving and have obtained the best test scores.

Of course they also underwent vertigo tests. Wang Jiankun made a lot of sports equipment and sent them to the Wangjia Production Team, such as the large windmill and large turntable used to select pilots.

At present, many young men in the commune have started to study with books, because the more than 30 young people selected have all had top test scores and of course relatively good physical fitness.

These selected people send a lot of money back home every month. Some of them have become captains or are about to become captains. Their salary and benefits add up to almost 200 yuan a month, which is several times more than the salary of the commune cadres.

So when I chatted with my mother, she mentioned that many people in the commune went to the night school of Wangjia Production Team to study. Even if they were very tired after finishing their work in the team every day, they were still willing to walk more than 20 miles to Wangjia Production Team after washing up, and after finishing two classes, they would light torches and rush back.

Seeing how hard these volunteers worked, the team, with the support of their mothers, provided each participant with a midnight snack with meat and eggs, with the money coming from the team's public account.

Because the captain is very supportive of people who love to learn, and besides, those who come here to study may be able to contribute to the team's enterprises in the future.

At present, all the educated people in Wangjia Production Team have become small managers to a greater or lesser extent, but unfortunately they are still not enough. Therefore, after completing the second phase of expansion of lighter production, there is no capacity to carry out the third phase.

Because as the scale of production expands, more requirements are placed on the quality and quantity of management personnel, otherwise blind expansion will lead to reduced efficiency and lower quality.

After sending these five people on board, he drove an Experiment No. 5 alone to Shanghai with some difficult-to-collect metals on board. He planned to go to Shanghai to build the 2-meter-long seafood collection ship.

In the past few days, Wang Jiankun had been in contact with Ye Yaodong and learned about their daily schedule.

For example, he returned to his hometown in Fujian. Three of the people who were traveling with him lived close to his home, so they went ashore to visit their family and friends and left some Hong Kong dollars for their families.

When they set out, they asked Wang Jiankun if they could dock and go home. Wang Jiankun asked for their respective addresses and then asked Ye Yaodong to seek opinions and decide where to dock, because the stay would definitely be very short and it would be impossible for everyone to go home.

In the end, of course, the minority obeyed the majority and chose to dock in the town where Ye Yaodong was located, because by docking there, 8 out of the 4 of them could go home to visit their families. If they docked somewhere else, at most only 2 people could go home to visit their families.

In fact, this can be regarded as a test for this group of people by Wang Jiankun, especially Ye Yaodong. He will be the captain of the fishing team in the future, and it is very important for him to lead the team well.

From the messages he sent back one after another, it can be seen that he is quite competent for this role, especially that he was able to convince two reserve captains who are a few years older than him.

These people certainly did not say that they would run away with the money from selling fish. After all, Wang Jiankun promised them very good treatment. As long as they worked for one or two years, they would surely become households earning ten thousand yuan. If the sea transportation was good, they might even become households earning one hundred thousand yuan.

After all, this fishing boat is very advanced. Although they had to hurry on their journey, they encountered a school of valuable cuttlefish on the way. They filled the cabin with just two nets and sold them at the fishing port in Fuzhou for more than 6 yuan.

If we deduct the depreciation of the ship, oil, water and ice from this money, the net profit will be around 4.

According to what we discussed before, the captain gets 10% of the dividends, which means he can earn 4 yuan for a shipload of cargo. If he encounters a large school of fish or particularly valuable fish a few times a month, he can earn several thousand yuan a month.

So none of these people thought about running away, and they also wanted to take their relatives with them, but Wang Jiankun did not allow it.

If in the early stage all the people on the fishing boats are relatives and friends of these people, it will be hard to say whether the fishing team will belong to Sihai Fisheries in the future.

Moreover, if these people refused to leave after boarding the ship, Wang Jiankun would have no other options and could not resort to violence.

所以初期的4条S-25型渔船的配置是香港招募的8人平均分配，每条船上2个，然后廖军从上海金山附近招2个渔民上船当普通船工，然后王建昆从老家公社带来的5人中分配4人各上一条船。

This mixed working group can supervise each other. After all, it is impossible for Wang Jiankun to keep an eye on things happening at sea all the time.

The people selected from the commune mainly go to learn how to live on the sea and how to drive ships. In the future, there will be more and bigger ships, and they cannot be driven without reliable and trustworthy people.

Once this group of people have worked well together and those selected from the commune can work on their own, the Sihai Fishery fleet will be expanded. At that time, Ye Yaodong and his Fujian fellow villagers can go back to their hometown to recruit boatmen and sailors.

Even when the seafood market expands and requires larger ships, this batch of S-25s will be sold to them at a low price, allowing them to develop as independent entities.

Of course, these are things that will happen next year or the year after. Wang Jiankun was bored sailing alone, so he started to sketch out future plans for Sihai Fisheries in his mind.

Currently, the development of lighters has reached a bottleneck. Ge Tianwei and Hu Yuefei from Yangzhou have gradually distributed the products to several provinces north of the Yangtze River. The current sales volume is about 60 units per month.

The only market left is the Northeast, but because it is too far away, it relies on third-party dealers to send small quantities out of Shanhaiguan to the three northeastern provinces for sale.

Then Cheng Xing is responsible for the distribution in several southern provinces. His domestic sales network can currently sell about 80 units per month and about 5 units overseas.

Of the remaining 15, about 12 were taken by Peter, contributing more than 100 million US dollars to Wang Jiankun’s Hong Kong account every month. The other 3 were sold by Wang Jiankun’s store in Shanghai, and they were mainly galvanized lighters and brass lighters.

Of course, Wang Jiankun would add a few lighters inlaid with jadeite, rubies, sapphires or diamonds to the store every once in a while, because there would always be some wealthy people who were interested in these lighters which cost a few thousand or even tens of thousands.

Especially customers from Japan, they would come to buy one or two from time to time, and many of them paid with foreign exchange coupons.

Wang Jiankun felt it necessary to investigate the luxury goods market, so he asked Ding Shengli's sister to study Japanese and English hard, so that she could communicate directly with these foreigners and talk to them about what types of products they wanted.

After all, it is very easy for Wang Jiankun to make these using his superpowers, and they are small in size and their elemental composition is not complicated.

Especially diamonds. The small diamonds made by Wang Jiankun are inlaid on the lighter. As the flame of the lighter is lit, they often reflect beautiful light. Customers are particularly fond of this lighter inlaid with bricks and stones.

Wang Jiankun learned from some information and conversations with "hams" that it is becoming popular among the upper classes in Europe and the United States to wear diamonds, including diamond rings, diamond necklaces, diamond earrings, etc.

Diamond rings that are over 1 carat and have very few impurities can often sell for thousands of dollars, which is equivalent to one month's salary for an ordinary white-collar worker there.

Moreover, this diamond consumption craze has gradually spread to the middle class, and many people require diamond rings when they get married.

Wang Jiankun is currently testing the waters by inlaying 0.2 to 0.5 carat diamonds on lighters. When the time is right, he will consider opening a store selling diamond jewelry on the busiest street in Shanghai to earn money from wealthy people.

Because this diamond fever will spread to China sooner or later, but there seems to be no natural diamond deposits in China, so if he doesn't try to earn some, they will eventually be taken away by foreigners and their agents in China.

Wang Jiankun was thinking about all sorts of things along the way. Time passed quickly and he arrived at Jinshan Wharf in the evening. He did not choose to dock, but wandered around the wharf and then continued to sail towards the uninhabited island in the open sea.

This island is not on the main shipping route and the water is relatively shallow, which is not suitable for trawling by fishing boats, so not many people come here.

But he still turned on the radar on the ship to check if there were any small boats within ten kilometers. Generally speaking, small boats would return to the port at night and would not stay on the sea, but just in case, he still turned on the radar to check.

The radar showed that there were no ships within 10 kilometers, so Wang Jiankun began to build a 40-meter seafood collection boat.

This was the first time he had manufactured such a large object, and it was manufactured at sea without a dock, so there was still some difficulty. If it was not controlled well, the initial manufacture might sink to the bottom of the sea.

Fortunately, his mental power had been trained for so long that he could accurately control several cubic meters of elements at the same time, so he was able to manufacture the hull in one go.

Once the bottom shell is manufactured, it will be much safer. When you stack elements upwards later, just follow the design requirements and steps, and there will be no problem as long as the center of gravity is not too offset.

Although the ship is 40 meters long, the elements actually required are not much more than those of a C-200 transport ship, because the cabin is very large and the maximum loading capacity is probably more than 240 tons of cargo, which of course includes the ice, oil and water carried.

Every time this ship goes out to sea, it will connect with four S-4 fishing boats. In the early stage, it may only go out to sea once every two days. After all, they are not familiar with this sea area and the catch may be less. Later on, it must go out to sea every day. After all, by then the number of S-25 fishing boats will increase to 2, or even 25, 8, etc.

Of course, at that time, more fresh-food collection boats would be needed. This time, a reserve captain selected from Fengshan Commune would go on the fresh-food collection boat to follow Wang Huawei.

Since the seafood collection boats do not need to catch any fish, they only need to find some boatmen to help move the goods in and out of the cabin, so the only important position is the captain.

It took about 20 minutes to build an ordinary-looking fresh-catch boat. Although it looks ordinary, its functions are extraordinary.

There are radar, electronic chart display information system, high-frequency radio, maritime satellite communication system, sonar, magnetic compass, autopilot, weather forecast receiver, voyage data recorder, and a text message machine capable of sending and receiving text messages.

This set of electronic equipment is all in the cockpit, making it easier for the captain to steer the large ship.

Of course, there is also a small crane that can be used when the sea conditions are better to transport fish, oil, water and ice on and off the ship.

So even though the boat is big, it does not require many people. The wheelhouse is usually staffed by two captains, a chief and a deputy, and three to five boatmen, which is similar to the number of people needed for an S-3 fishing boat.

After the ship was built, Wang Jiankun made a small speedboat and towed it behind, and then drove the large ship to Jinshan Wharf.

It was midnight when we arrived. Fishing boats were beginning to dock one after another. When they saw this huge ship entering the harbor, they all moved out of the way.

Wang Jiankun asked Liao Jun to rent the dock early on, and also told him and Wang Huawei to wait for his news at the fish stall tonight.

So Wang Jiankun docked at the berth smoothly.

At this time, many vendors on the shore and people at some fish stalls came to see the wonder. After all, it is really rare to see such a big ship here, and it does not look like an ordinary cargo ship, after all, this is not a cargo terminal.

Liao Jun and Wang Huawei were also in the crowd. When they saw Wang Jiankun start to get off the boat, they quickly squeezed through the crowd and moved towards the gangway.

Most small fishing boats use wood to make a gangway, but the large boat built by Wang Jiankun uses a retractable gangway, which is more convenient.

"Boss, you drove this boat here by yourself? That's amazing!" said Liao Jun.

"Jiankun, will you let me drive such a big boat in the future? Although I thought a 40-meter boat was very big, I didn't expect it to be this big. I'm afraid I can't drive it well." Wang Huawei said a little timidly.

"Don't underestimate this boat, it's much easier to operate than a normal fishing boat, and it's not difficult to get in and out of the dock. Come with me and take a look. The four S-4 fishing boats shouldn't have come back yet, right?"

"Okay, let's go up and take a look. Ye Yaodong sent a message saying that we will be at the dock around 4 a.m. They are currently catching a group of cuttlefish. We can head back after they finish catching them."

As he spoke, he pulled Wang Huawei up the gangway and walked towards the boat. Others also wanted to come up to see, so Wang Jiankun asked Liao Junding, who was familiar with this and knew which ones could be let up to see. Finally, he let six people on board.

Wang Jiankun took them to take a look at the lower cabin first. When they learned that more than 200 tons of fish could be caught at a time, they all opened their mouths in surprise.

Nowadays, fishing boats of about 16 meters can generally carry less than 15 tons. If they carry more, it will be quite dangerous. After all, today's fishing boats are made of iron and wooden frames, which are not strong, and their diesel engines have low horsepower. If they carry too much, they may not be able to run.

So it's amazing that this one ship can carry the cargo of almost 15 small trawlers.

Then he took them to the cab to have a look.

When everyone saw so many electronic devices, some of which were still shining brightly and looked very high-end, they didn't dare to get too close to these devices for fear of breaking them and not being able to afford the compensation.

After taking them on a tour, Wang Jiankun led everyone off the boat.

Although there were still boats coming to the shore to see the wonder, they would leave after watching for a while because they still had catches to sell to fishmongers and fish stalls.

Although this is the fishing season for cuttlefish and yellow croaker, most of the fish caught by the fishing boats that can rely on the port are miscellaneous fish. The proportion of cuttlefish and yellow croaker is also relatively low, especially for yellow croaker. Some fishing boats do not even have a single catch.

Liao Jun took the opportunity to talk about the fishing situation this year. It might be because the yellow croaker fishing was too harsh in previous years. This year, there were very few boats that caught large schools of yellow croaker. Generally, only a hundred or so fish were caught, and sometimes even 7 or 8 nets were used in a day to catch less than one fish.

Therefore, the selling price of yellow croaker this year has actually increased a little bit compared to before, because many people used to develop the habit of buying yellow croaker to eat at this time of the year. Now the supply is not as much as in previous years, but the demand has increased slightly, which has caused the price of yellow croaker to go up.

That night Wang Jiankun rested on the second floor of the fish stall. Then the next day, he took Wang Huawei and another reserve captain who rushed to Shanghai to board a 2-meter-long fresh fish collection boat. The other four people were arranged by Wang Jiankun to board the four S-40 fishing boats.

It took three days to familiarize them with the equipment and the driving of the ship at sea. Only after Wang Huawei was able to drive alone to the fishing ground to collect a shipload of cargo did Wang Jiankun officially hand over the ship to Wang Huawei.

When the ship was delivered, Wang Jiankun sprayed the hull number S-40-01 on it, representing that this was the first 40-meter ship of Sihai Fisheries. In the future, when he builds fresh fish harvesting ships, the hull numbers will start from S-40-02 and onwards.

(End of this chapter)