Village chief, your township enterprise sells laser cannons?

Chapter 109 Mission Completion: Eel Breeding Technology! (First Update!)

The question made Lin Man stop what he was doing. He gently shook his head: "Don't blame me for being heartless!"

"They only have themselves to blame for their own impulsive actions. If they hadn't been so impulsive and hadn't caused all that trouble, I wouldn't have had to deal with them."

"Alright, everything's in order. Today is your first day at the company. After tomorrow and the day after, you'll all receive your election certificates."

"Once we receive the certificate of election, we go through the procedures, prepare proposals, and then start dismantling [the structures]."

Faced with Lin Man's arrangement, Mo Kaiming rubbed his hands together eagerly. Lin Man excitedly said, "Village Chief, you can rest assured, I will definitely demolish it quickly and cleanly."

"You go ahead and get busy!" Upon receiving the instruction, Mo Kaiming nodded, turned around, and walked out. "I'll be going now."

After Mo Kaiming left, Lin Man took out his phone, turned off his computer, put away the information from the service window, took out a marker from the drawer, went out the door, and wrote his destination on the sign next to the door.

[Inspecting the safety of fish rafts used by offshore aquaculture farmers]

After writing down his destination and stuffing the marker into his pocket, Lin Man hummed a tune as he left. Passing the guardhouse, he reached for the guard's phone, opened WeChat, and scanned 50 yuan to send: "Your old man should eat something better. Don't just eat noodles all day long, you don't even eat vegetables!"

Old Zhang, the gatekeeper, grinned as he looked at the 50 yuan notification on his phone, pointing to his toothless mouth with his right hand: "Hehe, I don't have any teeth left!"

"Dried noodles are delicious. We never had dried noodles when we were kids!"

Looking at Old Zhang's face, Lin Man sighed and pointed to the village committee office: "If anyone comes looking for me, just tell them I went to the sea to inspect the safety of the fish rafts."

"I left my phone number. Call me if anything happens urgently. I'll bring you two fish tomorrow. You can get some spices and stew them slowly."

Upon hearing that there was fish, Old Zhang nodded repeatedly, "Okay!"

As Lin Man walked out of the village committee gate, he turned and headed towards the dock by the Qinghe River. Just as he reached it, the people busy at the dock saw him and greeted him, "Uncle Man, are you going out to sea?"

"Xiaoman, do you think our dock needs some repairs? It's all silt."

"Brother Xiaoman, I don't want to spend every day watching fish at sea anymore. Can you help me find a job? I'll definitely work hard."

"Xiaoman ah————"

The noise was so loud that it hurt Lin Man's ears, so he quickly raised his hand and said, "Listen to me!"

"This dock definitely needs to be repaired, but how to repair it and where the funding will come from are things that need to be discussed carefully. Once the village committee members are in place, we can all have a proper discussion then."

"Then there's the issue of jobs. My dad's company is still undergoing restructuring. Once it's settled, they'll post job openings."

"Those who want to go, sign up; those who don't, don't need to look."

"Those village collective enterprises won't survive for a year or two. So, I still have to go to Haisheng, so I'll be leaving now."

After speaking with the people at the scene, Lin Man jumped onto a fishing boat. "Xiao Fei, take me to the seawall!"

"Uncle Man, hold on tight!" On the fishing boat, the young man steering the boat turned the key, then slowly turned the rudder to adjust the direction of the boat, pushed the throttle lever all the way, and the fishing boat headed straight for the seawall of Hongxing Village.

It took more than 20 minutes for the fishing boat to reach the waters belonging to Hongxing Village, which is more than 10 kilometers from the coast.

Villages by the sea can lease land on land, as well as beaches and sea areas.

A few years ago, when technology was not advanced, there were frequent cases of fishing beyond the designated sea boundaries. In the last two years, with the advancement of various technologies, everyone has chosen to use cage aquaculture. In addition, with the help of satellite positioning technology, disputes about crossing sea boundaries have decreased significantly.

The fish farms of Hongxing Village were scattered in the sea. Lin Man stood at the bow of the boat for a while and did not go to his own fish farm. Instead, he randomly picked a fish farm, pointed to it, and asked Lin Fei to take him there.

He arrived at just the right time. The owner of the fish farm was feeding the fish. The owner picked up a knife and cut a slit in a feed bag that weighed several dozen kilograms. Then, two people lifted the feed bag and threw it forcefully into the net cage. The artificially prepared feed flew into the net cage and did not sink directly to the bottom of the water, but floated on the surface.

The next second, the previously calm sea suddenly surged with waves, and within those waves, golden figures appeared.

That was a golden pomfret whose back had already revealed its golden color.

These golden pomfret emerged from the water and began vying for the feed on the surface. In no time, the bag of feed disappeared completely. The owner of the fish farm pushed a cart to the other end of the fish farm, took out a knife, and cut a hole in the feed bag.

The two of them worked together to pour a new bag of feed into the fish raft.

After emptying this bag, I pushed the cart to the warehouse, loaded two new bags of fish feed onto the cart, moved them to the next location, and repeated the same action.

After repeating this process seven or eight times, the owner of the fish farm finally stopped and wiped the sweat from his brow with a towel hanging around his neck.

After wiping away his sweat, the fish raft owner pushed his cart, wobbling as he approached Lin Man. "Uncle Xiao Man, what brings you to the sea?"

"Third brother, get me two fish, I'll take them to Old Zhang."

"Okay!" Lin Chi nodded, put the cart down, picked up a net from the storeroom next to him, and shook it into the fish raft. When he lifted the net, there were three golden pomfret weighing about one and a half pounds inside.

After checking the condition of the golden pomfret, Lin Chi took the fish to the warehouse, found a styrofoam box, took some crushed ice from the refrigerator next to it, filled the styrofoam box with the crushed ice, put the fish in, and covered it with the crushed ice.

After he finished doing all that, Lin Man took out a lotus-shaped cigarette from his pocket and handed it to him: "How are the fish this year?"

Lin Chi took the lotus cigarette, took out a lighter, lit it, took a puff, and exhaled smoke as he said, "It's alright. I went down to the sea the day before yesterday to check, and it should be around 40,000 jin. The buyer's specifications are over 1.2 jin, and the price is 15 yuan per jin. The cost per jin is about 10 yuan."

"I can earn five yuan per kilogram. If I'm lucky, I can earn two hundred thousand yuan from forty thousand kilograms."

"If we're unlucky and a typhoon comes along, or some stupid fisherman comes along and destroys the fish cages, then this year will be wasted."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Lin Man shook his head from the side, then walked to the net cage, squatted down, and looked at the fish in the water through the seawater.

Lin Chi, who was standing nearby, walked over and squatted down next to Lin Man: "Uncle Xiao Man, what brings you here today?"

"Now that the village committee election is over, it's time to get things done. I just wanted to check on the situation at sea." Lin Man gave an ambiguous answer, stood up, shielded his eyes with his hand, and squinted at the surrounding sea.

Looking around, he could only see a pile of old fish rafts, with one or two modern fish cages interspersed among them.

Further away, there is a fish raft covering an area of ​​more than 1,000 square meters. However, that large fish raft does not look like a fish farm, but more like a farmhouse.

After looking around, he turned to Lin Chi and asked, "I remember that bastard Lin Yaozu said last year that he was going to build some kind of modern, high-tech giant net cage. Where's the giant net cage now?"

"Why can't I see any of them?"

"Who knows?" Lin Chi chuckled, continuing to smoke his cigarette. After taking two puffs, he exhaled a smoke ring. "That aquaculture company in the village initially claimed to specialize in golden pomfret fry, providing high-quality and inexpensive fry to the village's fish farmers."

"As a result, the fish fry breeding farms on the shore were left sparsely populated."

"The aquaculture cages at sea haven't been set up yet, but the fish rafts, fishing and agritourism facilities at sea have sprung up, like that one over there, a bunch of tin sheds."

Upon hearing this, Lin Man turned to look at the tin sheds in the distance, and a line of text on the village committee's asset statistics sheet came to mind—Hongxing Village Agricultural Company's offshore fish rafts (non-aquaculture use).

Damn it, it's for non-aquaculture purposes!

This pile of junk can be kept, repaired a bit, and used to promote tourism.

After watching the sea for a while, he turned to Lin Chi and asked, "Do you think it's worthwhile to build large net cages for eel farming at sea?"

The words "large net cages" instantly piqued Lin Chi's interest, but the word "eels" immediately extinguished his enthusiasm. He shook his head: "Large net cages are feasible, but raising eels is not so easy."

"Others raise them on land, and it's become an industry. Unless we can control the seedlings, but I've never heard of any place that can produce its own seedlings; they all have to be caught."

"We can't lower the price; we can't do it!"

Finally, Lin Chi looked at Lin Man and said, "Let's raise golden pomfret instead. If that doesn't work, we can raise grouper. Both are easy to raise and the price is stable."

Lin Man looked up and met Lin Chi's gaze: "What if I could handle the eel breeding?"

The next second, Lin Chi knelt down in front of Lin Man with a thud: "Uncle Man, if you can handle the eel breeding, you'll be my real father!"

"Third Brother will beat me to death!" Lin Man shook his head and distanced himself from Lin Chi.

Hearing his words, Lin Chi shook his head frantically: "If Uncle Man can handle the eel breeding, my dad definitely won't mind me having another father!"

"He sponsored Lin Yaozu, Lin Yaozu was arrested, and now he has more than 300,000 in famine relief funds."

"After deducting household expenses, all the money earned from this batch of fish will have to go towards paying off debts."

"He's even more eager than I am to find ways to make money now."

Upon hearing Lin Chi mention that his father was looking for ways to make money, Lin Man panicked and pointed at Lin Chi, saying, "Warn him not to take any crooked paths!"

"So can you handle eel reproduction?" Lin Chi didn't take his father's warning to heart at all; all he wanted to know was whether eels could reproduce.

Meeting his gaze, Lin nodded: "Okay!"

"Moreover, I came here today to check on the aquaculture situation in our village and also to invite a professor from Ocean University over."

"With those experts around, eel breeding is child's play!"

"I understand!" Lin Chi nodded, turned and went into the warehouse, then took out the phone and started calling his father.

While he was on the phone, Lin Man picked up the styrofoam box next to the chair, jumped onto Lin Fei's boat, and then asked Lin Fei to sail to his own fish farm.

They also raise golden pomfret, but they stocked the fish fry later than Lin Chi's fish farm, so the fish are not very big.

After observing for a while, Lin Man tossed the styrofoam box in his hand to Lin Xiaoxi, who was fishing on the fish raft: "You and Lin Fei take this styrofoam box to the village committee and to Grandpa Zhang."

Lin Xiaoxi showed her phone's QR code for receiving payment: "Fifty yuan!"

Seeing the phone being offered to him, Lin Man took out his own phone and scanned 20 yuan: "For a delivery order within about 15 kilometers, that's about 20 yuan for delivery fees!"

"Don't inflate the price!"

After receiving the money, Lin Xiaoxi picked up the styrofoam box, turned around and jumped onto Lin Fei's boat, where Lin Fei took her back to the shore.

Lin Man accompanied his uncle on a tour of the fish rafts, then jumped onto a fishing boat and sailed to the fish rafts belonging to the village's collective enterprise.

After boarding the fish raft and walking around inside, he burst out laughing in exasperation.

This dilapidated fish raft is made entirely of plastic buckets and bamboo; there are hardly any steel pipes in sight.

There is almost no security whatsoever.

Where exactly did that bastard Lin Yaozu hide the money?

Filled with doubt, Lin Man sat down by the fish raft and stared blankly at the sunset on the horizon.

As the sun set, he drove his fishing boat back to the fish raft, picked up his uncle, and then pushed the accelerator towards the shore.

For the next two days, Hongxing Village was unusually quiet.

No one filed a complaint under their real name, no one sent a complaint letter, and no one went to the village committee to get those messy certificates.

The unusual calm made Lin Man suspicious. He always felt that there was some scoundrel behind him, trying to use this peace and quiet to lull him into a false sense of security before launching a sneak attack.

This situation continued until the people from the town's civil affairs bureau delivered the election certificate to the village committee.

Upon seeing the certificate of election, Lin Man breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly made a phone call and summoned Lin Yaodong and his group to the village committee.

The Civil Affairs Bureau verified their identities and then proceeded with a simple process, issuing election certificates to Lin Yaodong and others.

As Xie Hua received his election certificate, Lin Man heard a system notification.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, on completing the mission. Please select your reward!]

The notification sound disappeared, and the system panel popped up automatically. After looking at the two rewards, Lin Man hesitated for a moment before raising his hand and selecting the eel breeding technology.

With this technology, and by monopolizing the related industrial chain, the city will naturally build corresponding sewage treatment plants.

Moreover, it has the function of integration and upgrading, and perhaps in the future, it can be integrated and upgraded with other technologies to develop critical wastewater treatment technology.

Therefore, eel breeding techniques are more suitable for me.

Upon receiving the reward, Lin Man eagerly opened the document and, after browsing through it for a while, finally found the content he wanted to see.

[Eel spawning and reproduction can be controlled through interference]

He was trying to figure out the key to eel spawning and reproduction, but after watching for a while, he gave up.

Because it contained protein expressions that he couldn't understand, he became dizzy and lightheaded after just a short while, feeling like his brain wasn't even his own anymore.

After issuing the election certificate, the official from the Civil Affairs Bureau said a few more words to Lin Man, then turned around and left the Hongxing Village Committee without looking back.

It's as if the village committee of Hongxing Village is facing a monstrous flood.

After the vehicles carrying these people disappeared from the village entrance, Lin Man returned to the village secretary's office and retrieved the land data and subsequent land change data from the filing cabinet.