In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

The day after the shrimp farm’s opening ceremony, Li Duoyu and his shrimp farm were featured on the front page of Rongcheng Daily.

Most of the front page is related to Li Duoyu, and the title uses a sentence from Li Duoyu’s speech: Strive to be world-class and open up overseas markets.

The Minlong shrimp farming base has achieved phased success and will provide shrimp fry to shrimp farmers free of charge within two years.

At the end of the edition, there is also an article titled "Learn from Comrade Li Duoyu".

After this newspaper came out, several well-dressed middle-aged men in a western-style building on the Lu Island frowned after seeing the newspaper.

"This is too biased. And the leader's article, is it insinuating that it is talking about us?"

Someone also asked: "Boss Sun, is it possible that Li Duoyu from Dandan Island has really managed to raise shrimp fry?"

Sun Xiangdong knocked on the table and said, "If it were that easy, we would have done it long ago. Cultivating high-quality shrimp seedlings requires manpower and material resources that ordinary companies cannot afford. Besides, research is not a matter of one or two years. It requires continuous burning of money."

"If that's what you said, then Li Duoyu is not trying to deceive his boss and deliberately get a loan by cheating."

“It’s hard to say.”

Sun Xiangdong knocked on the table and said, "Whether he can do it or not, it's not a good thing for Haixin. I think everyone should know what to do. At the critical moment, we still have to unite and not be fooled by a little brat."

Someone said: "I think that Li Duoyu's confidence should be the eel farming. As long as his foundation is destroyed, there shouldn't be any more trouble."

Sun Xiangdong continued to knock on the table and asked, "By the way, how is Mr. Zhang doing? It seems that the eels will be shipped in the next two days."

"Mr. Zhang said that there were some minor problems, but the overall impact was not significant. By then, there will still be 200,000 eels to be exported."

Sun Xiangdong frowned and said, "This is different from what we agreed upon. We are aiming for a scale of 500,000."

Someone helped out, "How can you succeed right from the start? Didn't we take a lot of detours when we first started raising shrimp? We lost a lot of money before we got high-quality shrimp seedlings?"

Sun Xiangdong smiled slightly, and when he saw that someone was speaking up for him, he didn't continue the topic.

At about this time, someone on Dandan Island saw a large ship heading towards Nanri Town.

When passing near Dandan Island, a whistle was sounded, and even Li Duoyu who was working in the eel factory heard it.

Chen Wenchao said, "Brother Yu, this boat looks similar to the big boat that came to buy your eels last year."

Li Duoyu nodded: "This boat should be going to Nanri Town to collect eels."

Chen Wenchao frowned and said, "They have also raised them."

Li Duoyu smiled and said that raising an animal and raising it well are two completely different concepts.

As the big ship docked at the largest wharf in Nanri Town, all the employees at Haixin Eel Factory were very happy.

After more than a year of hard work, the time for harvest has finally arrived.

Several leaders of the eel factory said: "That Li Duoyu is nothing special. Although a lot of our eels died, a lot of them survived."

"But the facts have proved that our breeding model is still feasible. If the orders double next year, we only need to continue to double the size of the eel pond."

Zhang Xuejin's mouth twitched when he heard this. To be honest, raising these eels almost cost him his life.

Principal Chen urged him to go back to teach, but he had no time to go back. Now the school party committee has held a special meeting to discuss whether he should stay or go because of his personal style issues.

If the scale were to double, his identity as a school teacher would be 100% lost.

On the day the live fish boat arrived, Zhang Sanming directly contracted the best restaurant in town.

He warmly welcomed buyers from island countries, as well as staff from the customs and foreign trade bureau.

In fact, Zhang Sanming was not very familiar with the buyers from these island countries. He initially contacted them through the Foreign Trade Bureau.

In this era of earning foreign exchange, the Foreign Trade Bureau does a lot of things. As long as you have suitable export goods, the bureau will find ways to help you find buyers.

Simply put, the Foreign Trade Bureau itself is the biggest salesperson.

In order to treat this dinner, Zhang Sanming spent a lot of money and bought a lot of rare game in advance.

But the embarrassing thing is that apart from seafood and rice, these islanders are not particularly interested in owl meat, silver pheasant meat, and bear paws.

As a result, I only drank one or two sips of Moutai. Instead, I preferred local seafood and rice wine, and ate a lot of white rice.

On this day, dozens of eel ponds had begun to release water, and all fishermen were in place.

But what Zhang Sanming didn't expect was that the eel buyer named Fujiwara did not directly transport the eels away.

Instead, they took a lot of water samples from each eel pond, and then selected a few eels from each pond to take them to their ship for quarantine testing.

Zhang Sanming was quite puzzled, and then asked a quarantine officer: "What are you testing for?"

The technician replied: "According to the requirements, live fish products must undergo quarantine inspection before they can be exported."

After hearing this, Zhang Sanming and Zhang Xuejin broke out in cold sweats and couldn't help but look at the salesperson who had helped them in the first place.

"Chief Lin, when we signed the contract, I think we didn't mention testing this."

Lin Shengjin frowned and said, "Yes, I emphasized to you the other day that the export of live fish must comply with the quarantine standards of the importing country. It is clearly written in the contract."

Zhang Sanming didn't believe it and took out the contract immediately. There was indeed such a clause written on it.

[For live fish export, please refer to "Precautions for Export Live Fish Inspection". The other party's import standards shall prevail. 】

Zhang Sanming's face darkened. The contract was so thick and everyone was more concerned about the price. Who would pay attention to these short thirty words?

Besides, he drank a lot of wine on the day of discussing cooperation, so how could he remember what Section Chief Lin said to him?

Zhang Xuejin was also sweating profusely. In fact, he had long felt that there might be problems with the drugs he bought from the expert from the overseas province.

Otherwise, the effect of the medicine would not be so immediate.

Seeing that Zhang Sanming's forehead was sweating, Lin Shengjin's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

This business was his. When he first got it, he didn't know how many people in the bureau were envious of him.

There are even rumors that as long as this deal is done, he will most likely become the best candidate for the next director.

Lin Shengjin couldn't help but ask, "Boss Zhang, why are you sweating so much? Our batch of eels should be fine, right?"

Zhang Sanming wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, "Of course it's no problem. I'm afraid of heat. When I get hot, I sweat all over."

"You are sweating and weak." Lin Shengjin smiled and said, "Boss Zhang, we are in the same boat now. Please don't drag me down with you."

"No, how could that be possible?"

To be honest, Zhang Sanming really wants to just pack up and run away, because his intuition tells him that he will probably not pass the test this time.

But he still had a glimmer of hope.

Maybe the expert from the overseas province gave him a new drug and the other party couldn’t detect it?
perhaps,

What they test for is not drug residues or anything like that, but other things.

He just didn't believe it. Eels are so difficult to raise. Li Duoyu didn't add any feed to the pond and it still passed the inspection, so there must be nothing wrong with him too.

However, the inspection had just begun, and the inspection equipment on the live fish boats kept sounding alarms and flashing red lights.

"Chloramphenicol test, failed."

"Parasite test, failed."

"Salmonella test, failed."

"Antibiotic test, failed."

A quarantine officer wearing protective clothing said: "The veterinary drug residue index is seriously exceeded and does not meet the purchase conditions."

After a whole day of testing, except for the freshness test, the rest of the tests were almost completely failed.

The eel buyer from the island country had a gloomy face throughout the process and was holding a pile of unqualified inspection results.

After arriving at the Haixin Eel Factory, he started cursing loudly and looked very angry.

Lin Shengjin from the Foreign Trade Bureau and the people from the Customs were all dumbfounded. Although they didn't understand, the other party looked so angry that it was obvious that something had happened. Zhang Sanming and Zhang Xuejin's hands and feet instantly turned cold, and the last bit of luck in their hearts was snuffed out.

The female translator from the Foreign Trade Bureau filtered out the international common language used to greet other people's ancestors and repeated the words of the eel buyer.

"Mr. Fujiwara said that our batch of eels does not meet the export standards and failed all tests. He is not going to buy eels anymore."

"According to the agreement, we have to compensate him for his travel expenses and subsequent economic losses, a total of 300,000 yuan."

After hearing this, Lin Shengjin looked at the accompanying translator and said with a wry smile: "Zeng Mei, this is a very serious occasion, don't be kidding us."

The female translator asked seriously, "Chief Lin, do you think I'm joking?"

Lin Shengjin clenched his fists suddenly, veins on his forehead bulged, and he felt that his career seemed to have come to an end.

He looked at Zhang Sanming angrily and asked tremblingly, "Boss Zhang, what on earth did you do to the eel? How did you manage to make it fail all the tests?"

Last year, he followed the director to participate in the export of eels by Li Duoyu. He remembered that after the other party finished the inspection, all the indicators passed, and they were full of praise for Director Li.

Some even said that even he couldn't do it so well.

I thought that Zhang Sanming and his team had experience in shrimp farming and should be more reliable. When the contract was signed, he boasted all kinds of things at the drinking party, and that's why he dared to take on this business.

But I didn't expect it to be such a big pit.

Lin Shengjin gritted his teeth. This time he was really in trouble. According to the agreement and contract, not only did he not earn any foreign exchange, he might even have to lose money on it.

This is unheard of in the bureau.

At this moment, Zhang Sanming was sweating profusely, but his hands and feet felt cold: "If the test is so strict, how did Li Duoyu pass it?"

"Mr. Fujiwara, maybe the test results are wrong? How about we test it again?"

After the translation, the Japanese man became even more angry and said, "Do you think we are as careless as you? We tested it three times before we got this result."

Lin Shengjin's last bit of fantasy was shattered, and now all he could think about was how this matter would end.

The first person he thought of was the person in charge of this matter, the local county party committee.

I used the Haixin Eel Factory's phone number to call the county party committee directly, and it took less than half a day.

Because he was close to Li Duoyu, Zhang Sanming did not invite the new county magistrate to this foreign trade transaction.

But Zhang Sanming never expected that he would be invited in this way.

After County Magistrate Tao arrived at the Haixin Eel Factory and learned about the situation, his brows furrowed. This incident happened in their county and it was very likely to affect the county's foreign exchange usage quota.

He was too lazy to curse and said on the spot: "Chief Lin, Mr. Zhang, this matter seems to have nothing to do with our county."

Section Chief Lin said, "County Magistrate Tao, this matter was originally led by the county party committee, and our Foreign Trade Bureau was also involved."

County Magistrate Tao smiled and said, "Who is taking the lead?"

"open"

Halfway through his words, Lin Shengjin swallowed the name back. People are no longer popular anymore, and it is impossible for a new official to settle old accounts.

Fujiwara was very tough and kept demanding that the Foreign Trade Bureau compensate them for their losses.

Zhang Sanming also started to quibble, saying that the islanders deliberately raised the testing threshold, which was a fraud.

On this issue, all four parties were in chaos and no one wanted to take on the responsibility.

Seeing several big guys arguing loudly in the office and banging the table, the employees of Haixin Eel Factory also realized that something was wrong.

"But the water is already half full. Can we catch the eels? The weather is so hot. If it continues like this, the eels will die."

In fact, when the islanders were conducting tests, eels kept dying in the eel pond.

As soon as they died, they were fished out by the staff, collected together and put into the cold storage.

The cold storage is now filled with a foul smell, and every time the staff enter or leave, they can't help feeling nauseous and want to vomit.

Because these dead eels have foul-smelling liquid flowing out of their anus, and when there are too many dead eels, the smell is extremely horrible.

The worker was also curious: "Where did these dead eels go?"

"We are just here to get paid, so don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask."

"I don't know which unlucky person will eat these dead eels. During this period, I have to remind my family not to buy eels to eat."

After arguing until late at night, Fujiwara, who was buying eels, asked the live fish boat to add water to the cabin. He was so angry that he left Nanri Town overnight.

The foreign trade order fell through, but the matter was not over yet. Before leaving, Fujiwara said that if his losses were not compensated, he would report the matter to their superiors.

Right now, Lin Shengjin's mind is blank, but he is not completely brainless.

He certainly couldn't handle such a big thing alone, so he rushed back to the Foreign Trade Bureau overnight, explained the situation to the director, and tried his best to shift the blame to Hai Xin and Zhang Xianjin.

Zhang Sanming and Zhang Xuejin couldn't sleep at all. The situation was developing in a completely uncontrollable direction.

But what they are facing now is that the eels cannot be exported, but they keep dying, so they are easier to catch.

The water in the pond has been almost drained. More than a day has passed, and eels are dying in large numbers.

A staff member asked, "Mr. Zhang, our eels keep dying. What should we do?"

Zhang Sanming gritted his teeth and became furious. All he could do now was to reduce the economic losses.

If he can't make it in Rongcheng, he might as well just give up his job. Anyway, these lands were rented to him at a low price by the county.

The most important thing now is how to explain and account to the shareholders of Haixin Company. As long as he doesn't lose too much, it can be explained that he still has a chance to make a comeback.

"Let's call the fishmongers in town and kill the eels overnight."

Zhang Sanming said to Zhang Xuejin, "Go contact the processing factory and ask them to prepare more ingredients. We will try to grill all the eels within this week."

In fact, Zhang Xuejin's brain is blank now, and he regrets raising this eel very much.

But it's too late to say anything now, because he and Mr. Zhang are now in the same boat.

He has been involved in many dirty things, and if anything goes wrong with him, he will definitely not be able to escape.

"Okay, I'll contact the processing factory right away." Zhang Xuejin asked, "Which packaging should we use?"

Zhang Sanming said angrily, "Li Duoyu's eels will also be on the market. He can't export all of them. What kind of packaging should we use? If something goes wrong, what will it have to do with us?"

"Do things cleanly. Treat the people in charge of the processing plant and the printing factory well. Don't let anyone know."

Zhang Xuejin couldn't help but wipe away a cold sweat. Although he knew Mr. Zhang's methods before, judging from his performance today, this man was even more ruthless than he had imagined.

In fact, he was also very clear that the poisoning of Li Duoyu's eel pond was 100% related to him.

Because when those people were arrested, Zhang Sanming almost smashed his own office.

He also kept cursing: "The people of Dandan Island are all sons of bitches. They took my money and dared to turn against me."

To be honest, Zhang Xuejin is really scared now, but he can't turn back. This time, he is in too deep.

At this moment, he looked at his colleagues with envy. Although they did not get paid much, they were only responsible for raising eels and did not care about other things.

"Ugh!"

Zhang Xuejin sighed heavily. If he had not competed with Li Duoyu at the beginning, he might not have chosen to raise eels.

It's too late to say anything now!

But he still couldn't understand how a street kid who only graduated from junior high school could be more capable than a group of professionals.

He even started a shrimp farming business. If I'm not mistaken, Li Duoyu should be successful this time.

"Haha~~"

Zhang Xuejin laughed at himself. (End of this chapter)