Lu Ming

And the former student/clerk named Gou Mingde wearing a big cap saw them, and immediately showed a smile of "I knew you were coming back" on his face.Before a certain sad and angry old fisherman made an attack, Officer Gou took the lead: "I couldn't even call you just now, are you in a hurry to reincarnate?"

Speaking of which, he threw out a few watches and some banknotes from behind the table: "Then, quickly fill in the forms and get the money, I'm still busy."

Suppressing his anger to ask for an explanation, Yu Chengde picked up the few banknotes and shook his palm: "Gou Wenshu, which one is this?"

"Fuel cost. After deducting the cost of dismantling the ship, it's only so much." Gou De said here, and glanced at Old Yu: "Our firewood is not worth much here, and there are already a lot of these!"

Yu Chengde slowly squeezed the banknotes tightly, and his whole posture changed from "opening the door to welcome guests" with his palms outstretched to "unloading the mill and killing the donkey" with his fists clenched. The next moment, he jumped out from between his teeth. A few words: "Why do you want to dismantle my boat?"

"It seems that you don't know yet?" Staff member Gou shook his head, reached out and took out a document from the table: "According to the regulations, all old ships with less than 400 materials and no value for renovation after evaluation will be ordered on the spot. It can be dismantled and used as fuel. Those with more than 400 materials are allowed to be sold at Daming Port."

After reading this, he threw the document in front of Chengde: "Your two broken ships add up to less than 400 materials, and they are full of rats and cockroaches. Are you going to dismantle them and wait for the plague to spread?"

Yu Chengde was stunned. Even if he killed him, he would never have imagined that the government would issue such a strange letter.When will the government even take care of such things?Also, what is the relationship between cockroaches and blight?

After judging that Gou Wenshu's words did not seem to be fake, the awe of the government for many years finally contained Chengde's anger.However, this could not solve the problem. Yu Chengde, who found that his dream had been dismantled into a pile of broken wooden boards, still asked with red eyes: "Without a boat, how can I make a living?"

Gou De rolled his eyes: "It seems that you don't know anything about policies. Why don't you study hard during the quarantine period?"

Speaking of this, the thin and shrewd staff member Gou turned his head and shouted into the room: "Section Chief, I will take someone to see the ship."

Then he returned to the shipyard with the ignorant Yu Chengde and his party.

……

The current scale of Taijiang Shipyard has already accounted for half of the east bank of Taijiang River.Various berths and docks extend north along the coast one after another, until they reach the sand embankment connecting the Wei Island of the Northern Line to the main island of Taiwan.

Yu Chengde and his party were taken by Gou De to the special wharf of the shipyard.

Pointing to the 10 smooth-shaped Chinese-style sailboats parked on the left hand side of the pier, Gou De said with a smile: "Aren't the newly manufactured 10-ton standard fishing boats [-] times stronger than your rags?"

Yu Chengde had seen these ships before.Based on his experience, it is easy to judge that the draft of these ships is above 400 materials, which is exactly the kind he wanted to buy at the beginning.

"I'm afraid this boat will cost thousands of taels of silver?"

"Well, for the new ship built by Hongcypress, one thousand two three is almost enough."

"Gou Wenshu, you are joking, where did we get more than 1000 taels of silver..."

"Hey? Didn't I exchange a thousand taels of silver for you? Pretend I didn't know?"

"That's not treasure..."

When Yu Chengde said this, he suddenly froze.He blinked his eyes and thought for a long time, and after thinking things through clearly, he asked cautiously and tentatively: "Gou Wenshu, that's not enough, is there still two or three hundred taels of silver?"

"Idiot, you have paid [-]% of the total amount, and you are afraid that you will not be able to get the rest? The interest rate of the fishing loan is very low. If you can't make it right, it will be interest-free. Go to the bank and ask yourself later. "

"Oh, what are you waiting for, hurry up and pick a boat!" Finally, someone figured everything out, and before he had time to pray to Mazu and Guanyin for the kindness of Master Kunren, he hurriedly beckoned his men to go pick a boat first.

"Wait a minute!" At this moment, Yu Chengde's shoulder was grabbed by the staff member Gou.

Pointing to the direction of Chikan Wharf, Officer Gou said with a smile: "There are better ones, why don't you go and have a look?"

……

The waves are ups and downs, the sun is scorching like fire, and there are two boats sailing side by side in the strait.

One of the ships was named "Fathead Fish".This is a motor-sail fishing boat with a displacement of 400 tons, and the deck is equipped with a gantry crane that is necessary for fishing boats of later generations.

Yu Chengde and his men are currently working as apprentices on the ship.

Officer Gou not only introduced ordinary fishing boats to Lao Yu that day, but also took him to a special fishing pier in Chikan to see the latest motor-sail fishing boats.

Seeing the fresh fish brought out of the cold cabin and sent to the large cold storage at the dock, the bumpkins were naturally extremely shocked.

Officer Gou told someone without losing the opportunity: The total price of this boat is 12000 taels of silver, as long as he takes out the 1000 taels and pays the down payment, he can become a shareholder.

Yu Chengde was shocked.

It's not because of the price - every fool knows that this kind of big boat with ice cellar will not be cheap.What Yu Chengde is worried about is: a bunch of illiterates can't play with this thing!

The good thing is that the timing of Chengde's defection to the senior officials is good: the fishery company is now looking for a new home.

Ever since, Han Baisheng, the boss of the Fishery Corporation, made his debut.Recently, the fishery company, which is attracting capital from Ming people, finally caught another rich one, so naturally they couldn't let it go.

Han Baisheng quickly organized a group of "capital fishermen" including Yu Chengde.Some of these people, like Yu Chengde, brought boats to vote, and some brought money to big officials. In short, they were all petty bourgeois who were interested in fishing.

Han Baisheng quickly divided this group of people into two groups according to capital - trawling requires two boats to operate.

The capital of these two groups is about the same, and each of them put together about 4000 taels of silver, which is just enough to make a down payment of one-third of the ship payment.

In fact, they took advantage of it.You know, in this era, equipment such as fish detection sonar, walkie-talking system, gas cold storage, power trawl, etc. can be said to be priceless, especially sonar and walkie-talking systems, the core parts of which must be imported.

The fishery company's valuation of each motor-sail fishing boat is 12000 taels of silver, which can be said to be a jumping-off price.

…After allocating the capital, the two groups of shareholders can board the ship as apprentices.

Chapter 267 Fishing

The fishery company’s sales conditions for motor-sail fishing boats are as follows: First, the buyer must be a national of the country with a shaved hair and a certificate... The benefits will only be reserved for their own people, and foreign capital is not allowed to enter this high-tech field, even if It is the full amount.

After the rare small capitalists like Yu Chengde have made enough down payment, they can board the ship.Fortunately, for people like them, buying boats together and going fishing together is the daily life of coastal fishermen, so everyone has no scruples—they are all solid men with fishy hands and calluses, and they can do things after a drink. It's settled.

However, the situation after boarding the ship is not optimistic: now it is equivalent to the shareholders spending a lot of money to hire the original captain, engineers and other technicians to work for them.

In this process, shareholders need to take over the ship with their own people as soon as possible.Only in this way can the high labor cost be reduced and the loan can be paid off as soon as possible.

You know, in order to transfer all the precious skilled workers back to do other things as soon as possible, the fishery company has added a "technical tap fee" to these people.If Yu Chengde and the others want to make money, they must quickly master the technology and snatch the profits back from the company.

……

Yu Chengde is currently working hard to operate the stupid, black and thick winch under the gantry crane of the Fat Head Fish.

To be honest, from the moment he saw the gas "ice cellar" on board, he was deeply fascinated by this mysterious power.

Yu Chengde, who has been catching fish for half his life, would never have imagined that there would be such tricks on the fishing boat: Although he is from the south, he still understands the reason why fish is not easy to rot in cold weather.

After that, when he boarded the boat, just like Grandma Liu, his world view of fishing was subverted: the weird black box that can talk between the two boats, the glass plate that can see the fish schools on the bottom of the sea, and the person who goes to the sea to deploy iron nets. The winches, those rattling iron mechanisms in the engine room...

The five large and small shareholders, together with the twenty or so nephews and subordinates they brought on board, were all numb at this moment, at a loss, not knowing what to do.

So they can only learn from the most basic place step by step.

Nephew Yu Chushui was sent to the engine room, and the others learned from the simplest netting and pulling...

There are two types of netting: purse seine and trawl net.

Purse seines are the easiest way to catch shallow schools of fish.While casting the net, the boat circles around the school of fish, and soon there will be a spectacular sight of the school of fish leaping and leaping on the sea.

Trawling is a little more complicated.

The trawling net of later generations is a terrifying existence.One or two ships dragged large nets behind them, and wiped out all the marine life and environment in the middle and lower layers... The seabed ecology was completely destroyed, and the fish catch in the coastal areas of various countries was greatly reduced, and they moved to the deep sea one after another.

However, once the environment is destroyed, it cannot be repaired.Why do Bangziguo often arrest rabbit fishermen?Because there are no fish along the coast, the seabed is full of broken nylon rope nets and lifeless wasteland, and all creatures are scraped away by forklift-like trawls.

……

The trawler that appeared in the 17th century had a different style.

In later generations, the steel plate thickness of ordinary fishing boats is about 2 centimeters.However, the efficiency of wooden sailboats in the 17th century was far behind at the same tonnage-to achieve the same structural strength, very thick wood must be used.Generally speaking, this number will not be lower than 10-15 cm.

You know, the thickness of the double-layer oak hull of the British Royal Navy's "Victory" is an abnormal 46 cm...

Thickness means heaviness and bulkiness. What a 2cm steel plate can do, the fishing boat needs to increase its own weight by at least 5 times to barely meet the requirements.

The bulky structure greatly limited the power and functionality of a wooden ship like the Fathead Fish.You must know that the most common 240-ton trawler in later generations can carry 98.3 tons of fish (including ice).And how much fish can be carried by the fat head fish with a displacement of 400 tons? 85 tons.

Yes, the displacement has increased by more than 100 tons, but the payload has dropped instead.There are pots of inefficient, bulky gas power systems, of clumsy timber from planks to beams, of stiff sails and hawsers.

In this case, the power system, which is already a little weak, cannot drag a large wire fishing net... The heavy fishing net and the fish inside, not to mention the bottom layer, even catch the middle layer fish.

……

Today is the first trawling operation since Yu Chengde and the others boarded the ship 10 days ago. Before that, they used simple seines.As the captain who was watching the instruments in the cabin gave an order through the tweeter, Yu Chengde and his group who were waiting on the deck quickly started to get busy.

Yu Chengde's task today is to start the winch.As the winch driven by the motor started to work slowly, the pulleys on the gantry crane also began to rotate, and the trawl net behind the Fathead Fish began to be slowly pulled to the stern. At the same time, the engine room also received instructions, and the speed of the ship began to decrease.

20 minutes later, the large steel wire net bag, which is much smaller than the trawl nets of later generations, was towed up from the iron slide at the stern.

Seeing the struggling and jumping fish in the fishing net, all the sailors jumped on them at this moment: the hardest work began.

Yu Chengde and the others wanted to throw the small fish and sharks back into the sea first in the shortest possible time.The small fish here refers to fish shorter than the elbow—anything below 40 centimeters is counted.

… Evolution over hundreds of millions of years has resulted in fishes being found in all layers of the ocean under different pressures.In history, it was not until the large-scale use of nylon by humans in the 20th century that fish in the middle and lower layers of the ocean were really caught in large quantities.

And in the plane of Transcendence, because of the electric motor and steel wire mesh, the mesopelagic fish in the Taiwan Strait have been hunted for the first time in hundreds of millions of years.

Although the mesh of the wire mesh has expanded to a situation beyond the imagination of fishermen of later generations, there are still many "small fish" trapped in the net, and it is all by manpower at this time.

Yu Chengde and the others not only have to throw out the small fish, but also deal with the big fish.As thick as arms, as thick as thighs, as thick as waists... The quality of the fish that has never been caught in ancient times is too high. All kinds of thick snapper, yellow croaker, and Pacific salmon are filled with fishing nets, including tuna Some deep-layer fish species are often fished up by the way.

These big fish, which are no smaller than fishermen, will be disemboweled soon and beheaded by the way. When fishery resources are too abundant, fishermen will naturally improve the quality of their products, thereby reducing the cost of sailing.

A large number of high-quality pre-processed fresh fish were stacked into the gas cold storage, while the stern of the fishing boat kept flowing into the sea with blood, internal organs and fish heads.The bloody feast even created a trace on the ocean surface, attracting countless fish and seabirds. Ever since, the grinning fishermen were full of bird feces after they had harvested a lot.

Chapter 268 Alonso

Theoretically speaking, the estuaries of all major rivers must be rich in fishing grounds, and the Zhoushan Islands are an obvious example.

However, this rule was not applicable in the 17th century. For motor sailboats with sonar fish finders, the strait was full of fishing grounds.

You only need to walk around Taiwan Island along the "Kuroshio Current", that is, the Japan-Philippines warm current. In fact, you don't need to go far at all. The cold cabin with a capacity of 85 tons will be filled with fat fish bodies.

... After the trawling practice, the two ships hurried back to their voyage.As for the more complicated and dangerous two-vessel trawling mode, this is not yet possible, and shareholders need to explore by themselves in the future.

The return trip was relatively easy.After Yu Chengde settled the affairs on the deck, he hurriedly went to the cabin to learn how to operate the instruments.However, the effect is not good: it takes time and patience for an illiterate old fisherman to understand various electronic instruments.

Facing the sunset in the evening, under the communication of the internal horn, the captain at the helm and the engineer cooperated tacitly, and easily parked the Fathead Fish at the fish pier in Chikan.

The next moment, a scene full of rich capitalist style appeared: the captain, the engineer, and the crane workers, who were in charge of technology, were just like those awesome workers in the United States who left their jobs and left after get off work. Without looking back, I went straight to Chikan Avenue, discussing which restaurant to go to for a meal on the way.

But the theoretical owner/boss/capitalist Yu Chengde and his group started hard work.

They put on thick linen work clothes, opened the cold cabin with their nephews, and began to lift 85 tons of cold fresh fish into the basket little by little with their hands in woolen gloves.After that, the fish will be transported by the crane to the rail trolley at the pier, and then the bosses will be responsible for pushing the trolley into the large cold storage, and then wait for the inspector to weigh it, check it, sign it, and then go to the financial room to collect the banknotes with the documents... …

When the employees are drunk after a venison feast and go home to sleep with their wives, the bosses are still burning the lights: 85 tons of chilled fish are not so easy to clean up.

For the above procedures, about 20 strong laborers usually have to work until midnight under the strong light on the pier to complete the work.

They can't help but not work hard: every second of delay, the gas refrigeration system on the ship will operate for one more second, fuel and various losses will increase, and it is not so easy to be a capitalist.

Poor Yu Chengde, he only now knows that when the dream of "fishing endlessly" is realized since childhood, it is not as beautiful as imagined.

……

After working hard for half the night, the exhausted people took the night bus to go home to sleep. It was not until the next afternoon that several shareholders returned to the ship to settle accounts.

It’s not that I don’t know, it’s shocking: After excluding all personnel expenses, fuel consumables, ship depreciation, taxes, maintenance fees, and wharf fees, the net profit of this trip is only 180 taels of silver...

85 tons of high-quality fish meat that even cold storage inspectors have to admit, and they made such a small amount of money at the end.You must know that the load capacity of a single section of train wagons in later generations is only 60 tons.

What's the problem? ...personnel expenses.

More than 200 taels of silver were taken away by the Port Authority for nothing: "technical tap fee".

This fee is tied to the technicians such as marine engineers. Every time Yu Chengde hires marine engineers for one month, he has to pay the government an extra sum of money: the so-called fuel surcharge...wharf construction...wrong, it is the technician surcharge.

After finishing their accounts, the honest fishermen are planning to revolt...to overthrow the evil Port Authority.

However, the rebellion is also about the Basic Law. This fee item has already existed in the contract. The purpose of the Port Authority is very clear, which is to force the shipowners to master the technology as soon as possible and return the people to them.

So in the end, the depressed people can only say bitterly: "Let this generation be proud for a few more days", and then admit defeat.

In fact, all the reactions of the shipowners were in the expectation of the Port Authority: Can the loan be played by the bank?

According to the plan of the mastermind behind the scenes, based on the net profit of 400 taels per voyage, Yu Chengde and the others can repay the loan of about 1000 taels per month—it takes 10 days for each fishing boat to sail and rest .

In this way, if they can operate the boat independently, it only takes one year to pay off the loan; if it is slower, it will be settled in about one and a half years.

At that point, the shareholders could save up and split: in a year or so, half of them would have raised enough capital to buy a new boat.

Then if all goes well, it will take three or four years for Yu Chengde to own all the shares of Pangtouyu. This is the route planned by the designer. , in order to gradually become stronger.

After the shareholders made a complaint, they started to work: today the ship will be driven to the shipyard for overhaul and replenishment of consumables.

When the ship stopped at the shipyard, the honest man Yu Chengde took the crew to carry the fuel.what fuelHerring.

Except for a little coal for emergency use, the daily fuel used on the sailboat is wood.Therefore, people are subject to change: The wreck of the Herring, which has been acquired by the Port Authority in theory, has recently become a source of affection for an old fisherman.Anyway, there are a lot of broken ships in the scrap yard, and no one cares if they get cheap from the public...

Under the banner of visiting the old man, someone blatantly moved the wreckage of the old man to the new ship, and then completely smashed the old man to make it more convenient for the next voyage - so many days have passed , The old man is almost sun-baked, just suitable for use.

... From this point, it can be seen that even a capitalist in the form of a baby is still a capitalist, and his pores are bleeding.

Poor an honest fisherman who came from thousands of miles to join the Kun people, so quickly transformed into an old man. Therefore, the first pot of gold is full of original sin.