In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Li Duoyu sometimes feels that he is too lucky. There are many varieties of jellyfish, in addition to cotton jellyfish and sand jellyfish,

There are also spotted yellow jellyfish,

Stick jellyfish,

Hemp stings, etc.

But he happened to come across the most expensive cotton jellyfish. To be honest, Li Duoyu might not really like other jellyfish.

Even for the second-ranked sand jellyfish, Li Duoyu had to think about it. After all, a jellyfish can weigh one or two hundred kilograms, and even if a boat is filled with it, it can't hold much.

Therefore, many fishermen process jellyfish directly on the boat and throw the unwanted parts directly into the sea.

But after a short while of happiness, Li Duoyu began to have trouble, because jellyfish have very weak swimming ability and they prefer hitchhiking to swimming.

As long as you open the jellyfish umbrella, just like a "sail", the sea will take them to other places.

So jellyfish generally don't stay in one place for too long.

Li Duoyu looked down at the tide for a while, then looked to the east. This ocean current was heading towards Zhejiang Province.

If we don’t catch them now, I feel like in two days these stingrays will be caught in the nets of fishermen in the neighboring province.

Li Duoyu now really envies the Zhoushan Islands. There are endless fish to catch when he goes out. It is simply a gift from God.

Li Duoyu snorted:

"No, I have to make this money. I have to take it from him no matter what. They eat the meat, but I have to at least drink the soup."

Li Duoyu looked at his watch and found that it was still early, so he immediately took the boat back to Dandan Island and went to his uncle's house as soon as possible.

After all, Little Elephant Island is still some distance away. If we rely on small boats for fishing and transportation, the efficiency is too low and we can't catch much at all. We must have a large ship that can load cargo to help transport it.

The first thing that Li Duoyu thought of was the large steel tugboat that several of his relatives had jointly purchased.

The deck and the fish hold are large enough, so it is not a problem to pull dozens of tons at a time. Even simple processing and sorting can be done on board, saving a lot of trouble.

Li Duoyu asked:
"Aunt, where is my uncle going this time?"

Zhang Guifen, who was washing clothes, said: "They said they went to fish for hairtail. It seems they are in the nearby waters, but they haven't returned to the port for seven or eight days."

"That's it."

Li Duoyu frowned slightly. Now is indeed the best time to catch hairtail. It seems that all the big ships along the coast have gone to catch them.

If it was the original wooden fishing boat, it would be difficult to contact, but after changing to this large steel ship, all communication equipment has been upgraded.

If my uncle and his fishing boat haven't gone too far, there's still a way to get in touch with them.

Li Duoyu returned to his fishing boat and contacted the coastal radio station directly using the ship's radio.

"The main desk?"

"Hello, this is the shore radio station of the Mindong Fishery Command." (Locals call it the main radio station.)
"Hello, Headquarters, I am Li Duoyu, the village director of Xiasha Village on Dandan Island."

"The main station has received it. Please go ahead."

"Can you help me broadcast this, asking Minrongyu 056 from Dandan Island to return to the island immediately after hearing the news."

"No problem, Director Li, we will broadcast it immediately. Since it is a channel broadcast, there is no guarantee that we will be able to get in touch."

Li Duoyu replied: "Thank you, Headquarters."

The other party also replied happily: "Our station director said that the main station is also very grateful for the detailed nautical charts you provided us last year."

After hearing this, Li Duoyu smiled. The nautical charts he provided did help a lot of people.

Not long after.

Li Duoyu’s fishing boat received the wireless information from the main station.

"This is the shore radio station of the Mindong Fishery Command. If Minrongyu 056 hears the broadcast, please return to the island immediately. Director Li Duoyu of Xiasha Village on Dandan Island is asking you to return to the island as soon as possible."

In the days before mobile phones, this was the only way to communicate with fishing boats out at sea.

Coastal radio is unfamiliar to ordinary people, but for coastal fishermen, it is a channel that they listen to every day.

Not only forecast the weather.

When the fishing season comes, we will even directly notify the fishing boats to go fishing. When a fishing boat encounters problems at sea, the first thing the fishermen think of is to ask for help from the CCTV.

Li Duoyu's imported three-in-one radio in his home could even hear their conversation as long as he tuned it to the radio channel of the central station.

As early as a few years ago, the headquarters had already announced its telephone number. If you don’t have a ship radio like Li Duoyu, if you have an emergency, you can also call the headquarters and ask them to help broadcast.

Not long ago, a fisherman suffered from acute appendicitis while fishing in the open sea. The engine of the fishing boat happened to have problems, but he was rescued thanks to the timely contact with the central station.

There is an even more outrageous case. The wife of a ship captain in the neighboring county gave birth to a boy. Her family was so happy that they called the main radio station and asked them to inform the ship captain that his wife had given birth to a boy.

I thought I would be rejected, but the central station still broadcast it. Li Duoyu still remembers those words to this day.

[Li Dafu from Min Ning Yu 045, your wife has given birth to a boy. Your family members told you not to catch fish anymore. Go back and pay the fine.]

For fishermen, coast radio stations are very good and can really help them when something happens.

However, there are still some inconveniences. The communication is almost always one-sided, and whether the other party can receive it depends on luck.

After all, the radio station's broadcasting distance is limited. If the fishing boat is beyond the broadcasting distance, it will definitely not be able to hear the broadcast information.

While thinking about these questions, Li Duoyu suddenly had an epiphany and remembered the communication problem on Dandan Island.

If I remember correctly, it would take at least ten years before Dandan Island's wired telephone could be brought in.

Since wired technology is difficult to use, we can try wireless technology. If I remember correctly, there are many small electronics workshops in Quanzhou.

They specialize in making high-power cordless phones. I think it's called "Black Pearl".

The distance from Dandan Island to Qixing Bay is such that you can just build a larger signal amplifier on the top of the mountain.

If we assemble a high-power cordless phone, we might be able to make free unlimited calls between Dandan Island and Qixing Bay.

In a place far away from Dandan Island, surrounded by the vast ocean, there is a large ship with lights on, fishing for cutlassfish with a row of hooks.

The bait they used were those small tubes that could not be sold at a high price. There were four or five people on the deck who were reeling in the fishing lines. After a while, a cutlassfish that was brighter than stainless steel was pulled up.

The hairtail caught by fishing is of the best quality and sells for a very high price, while the hairtail caught by trawl is generally sent to processing factories and the price is much lower.

Captain Li Zhengtian was on the fishing boat, and the ship's radio occasionally made a hissing sound, followed by some intermittent sounds.

But as the fishing boat got closer and closer to the coast, Li Zhengfa in the captain's room suddenly heard a broadcast and his face changed drastically.

Because the land side rarely contacts the fishing boats, and every time they contact, it must be something important, so I immediately went to the deck of the ship to find the big brother.

"Is there something wrong with our family?"

Li Niantian frowned: "Duoyu, is that all you said? You didn't say anything else."

Li Niantian replied: "It should be that he is embarrassed to say something. Based on my understanding of him, if there is really an emergency, he would have said it long ago. It is 100% that this boat is needed to transport something, but he is embarrassed to speak on the radio channel."

That’s what my brother said.

The third brother, Li Zhengfa, also calmed down and said, "What should we do now?" Li Niantian frowned and thought for a while, then shouted to the crew members who were pulling the hooks, "We won't fish anymore after these few are pulled. Get ready, we will be back to the port soon."

The uncle, smoking a pipe, was puzzled: "The catch tonight is not bad. The hairtail is big and fat. Why don't you fish it?"

Li Niantian quickly explained:

"I just received a broadcast from the main station. Duoyu asked us to go back quickly. I think there will be more profitable business."

Upon hearing this, several crew members were all stunned. When they listened to the radio before, they heard about rescues and childbirth.

They kept thinking that one day someone would ask the main reception to contact them, and they never thought that they would actually receive a call today.

After hearing that they were going back to Hong Kong, a shirtless young man jumped up with joy: "Damn, I can finally go back to Hong Kong. My underwear is almost patinated."

His father couldn't help but pat his head and said, "If you don't wash it yourself, who will?"

Chen Liang touched his head and was about to say something to his father when he suddenly felt a pain in his arm. The sharp teeth of the hairtail fish in his hand bit his forearm and he started bleeding on the spot.

Chen Liang grabbed the hairtail and threw it hard on the deck, cursing, "Salinne, you dare to bite me."

The rest of the crew all laughed, and his father was disgusted: "You weren't concentrating on catching fish, so you deserved to be bitten."

The jellyfish was just passing through.

But if Li Duoyu wants to catch it, he has to think about a lot. Not only does he need to organize a fishing fleet, but he also has to consider the fishing nets.

In addition, they have to consider the processing. After all, this place is not the main production area of ​​jellyfish, and the processing factories are unwilling to process it.

Moreover, they are not very familiar with the three-alum processing method. He has a very good relationship with Director Liu, but he will not make things difficult for his employees just to make you make money.

Li Duoyu thought that if he was going to do it, he might as well make it of export quality. If the local sales were not good, he would be fine.

Contact the Foreign Trade Bureau directly and ask them to help sell this batch of goods.

It just so happens that there are many empty cement pools for breeding near the eel factory and Qixing Bay. After cleaning, they can be used to process jellyfish.

It's an urgent matter. If you want to make this money, you have to be quick because the jellyfish season is very short.

Once you miss it, you can only go to other people's territories to fish. By then, if the fleet is too large, there might even be a fight.

So try to catch more jellyfish before they reach the neighboring province. To put it bluntly, it only takes two or three days.

If you go too far, it is not cost-effective to use your own fleet to catch the jellyfish, because the expensive parts are the processed jellyfish heads and skins.

To process jellyfish, a large amount of salt and alum are required, as well as some plastic buckets to hold the jellyfish.

Li Duoyu couldn't do all these things by himself, otherwise by the time he finished preparing these things, the jellyfish would have disappeared.

After much thought, Li Duoyu still felt that his second brother was most suitable for purchasing, and when the time came, he would let Xiao Chao go with him.

After Li Duoyu arrived at his second brother's house, the fat boy, who didn't soak his feet in warm water, cried on the bed.

“It hurts and it itches.”

Li Yaoguo also looked distressed: "Don't scratch it. Your uncle said it will easily rot your legs if you scratch it."

Seeing the little fat boy like this, Li Duoyu felt very distressed. His second brother's house is still an old house and the sanitary conditions are not very good.

The house is low, and it is indeed quite stuffy when the weather is hot. Li Duoyu frowned and said, "If you feel itchy, come to my house and I will turn on the air conditioner for you."

When he heard the words "turn on the air conditioner", the little fat boy's eyes lit up and he jumped up from the bed: "Uncle, please really turn on the air conditioner for me."

Li Yaoguo said angrily:

"Why turn on the air conditioner? Why don't you just stay at home? Turning on the air conditioner consumes a lot of electricity."

After hearing this, the little fat boy felt a little disappointed for a moment, and his feet began to hurt and itchy again.

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "It's okay. Electrical appliances are bought to be used. If you don't turn on the air conditioner to save electricity, then you might as well not buy it."

"It just so happens that I have something to do with your father. You can come to my house to enjoy the air conditioning these two days, and let your aunt take care of you."

Li Haoran was originally quite happy, but when he thought of his aunt, he immediately frowned. Although his aunt would no longer be his class teacher after the end of this semester, he didn't know why he was still particularly afraid of her.

But when he thought about using the air conditioner, Li Haoran thought hard and said with a smile, "I'll stay at my uncle's house and play with Tutu."

Li Yaoguo's face darkened:
"You boy."

Just now, when he heard that Li Duoyu was looking for him for something, Li Yaoguo was also very happy: "Is it because the shrimp farm is too busy and wants me to help out?"

Li Duoyu shook his head and said:

"It's something else. Second brother, do you know President Wu of the County Supply and Marketing Cooperative?"

Li Yaoguo nodded: "I know him. When he came to our island last time, I ate at the same table with him."

"That's good."

Li Duoyu took out a list on the spot and said, "Wait a minute, you and Xiao Chao will go to the county supply and marketing cooperative to buy a batch of goods for the company. Then tell them that it is Minlong Company that wants to buy them."

Li Yaoguo took the list and frowned after looking at the items he wanted to buy.

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Edible salt: one ton.

Alum: 500 kilograms.

Large plastic bucket with sealed lid: 500 pcs.

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Li Yaoguo couldn't help but ask curiously: "What are you going to do with these things?"

Li Duoyuming said:

"Prepare to process jellyfish and make some money."

Li Yaoguo was stunned for a moment: "Can you make money from jellyfish? We seaside people don't even want to eat this stuff."

Li Duoyu smiled and said that just because people living by the sea don’t want to eat it, it doesn’t mean that people from other places don’t want to eat it.

Li Duoyu said: "The Japanese love this stuff. If the quality is good, we can also export it."

Li Yaoguo looked at the list and said again: "Edible salt and alum should be available. This plastic bucket is very expensive and a bit difficult to get."

After his second brother said this, Li Duoyu realized that the plastic industry was not particularly developed in that era, so plastic buckets were still very expensive.

People consider a lot when buying things. For example, after eating the canned food, the glass bottle will not be thrown away. It is usually used to pickle various small things, or to store salt and MSG.

Plastic buckets are even more useful. Not only can they be used as water buckets, but they can also be used to hold various things.

Li Duoyu continued:

"If President Wu doesn't have it, you can go directly to Rongcheng Plastic Factory. You need the salt and alum quickly, as they may be needed in the early morning."

Seeing Li Duoyu so anxious, Li Yaoguo glanced at the little fat boy and said, "Go to your aunt's house. Don't cause trouble for your aunt, okay?"

Li Haoran was so happy that he jumped up:
"I can use the air conditioner now. Dad, if you go to the county town, please buy me a watermelon." (End of this chapter)