In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Looking at the baskets of dead shrimps buried in the soil, Zhang Mingsheng felt so distressed that he almost cried.

"If I sell this basket, I'll get at least 200 yuan. With so many baskets, I'll lose 5,000 or 6,000 yuan."

Zhang Mingsheng pulled Li Duoyu aside and said, "Duoyu, don't bury them anymore. Let's make these shrimps into dried shrimps and dry them in the sun for half a month. Any virus can be killed by the sun."

Li Duoyu shook his head:
"If we do this, what's the difference between us and Zhang Sanming? Besides, after drying these dead shrimps, would you dare to give them to Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun?"

Hearing this, Zhang Mingsheng fell silent. Although he also felt that there was nothing wrong with dead shrimps, it was impossible for him to really feed them to his own children.

“But this is such a waste.”

Li Duoyu said seriously: "Some waste is necessary. This is written in our breeding regulations. All seafood that died of disease must be disposed of harmlessly and not allowed to be circulated in the market."

This time, Li Duoyu deliberately disposed of the dead shrimps in front of all the employees. He did this for only one purpose, which was to intimidate the employees.

Let them understand one thing, once there is a problem with breeding, this is the only way to deal with it at Minlong.

Li Duoyu, who used to be an employee, knows best that if employees have a way out, they tend to be lazy.

Just like when I was in the eel factory in my previous life, eels would occasionally die, and the boss would have them slaughtered immediately and thrown into the cold storage.

Over time, these employees have become very casual and no longer care too much about such things, thinking that they are all normal.

All I can say is that the employees will be like their boss. If Li Duoyu is not a little harder on himself, these employees will probably follow suit in the future.

The price of seafood continues to fall, even falling back to the level of three years ago. At Rongcheng Farmers' Market, one pound of pork can even be exchanged for ten pounds of seafood.

Some people who used to be reluctant to eat seafood have been eating a lot of seafood recently.

In fact, the biggest beneficiaries of the drop in seafood prices are consumers. They used to be reluctant to eat it, but now they can finally afford it.

Some poor families may not be able to afford pork, but they can afford seafood.

An old man who was picking up scraps, holding his granddaughter's hand, said to the owner of the seafood stall: "Give me two kilograms of mussels."

"And another hairtail fish, the flat hairtail, a bigger one with thicker meat."

This drastic drop in seafood prices not only affected fishermen and fishmongers, but also the Xinyuan Group, which runs seafood distribution channels and restaurants.

In an office on Shanghang Street, a female boss sitting on a rattan chair asked, "How much have we lost so far this month?"

Zhu Sulan replied: "There is no loss. Although the price of seafood has dropped, the aquatic product company has indeed lost money, but the restaurant business is very good, so overall it is still the same as last month."

The female boss continued, "Last time, you just gave the car away so easily. Now there's a shrimp plague. If Director Li doesn't have money, how do you think the people in the company will sue you?"

Zhu Sulan had a bitter face.

Life is so unpredictable!
Who could have thought that this would happen? She grinned and said, "Director Li is quite reliable. Even if there is a shrimp plague, there are still a lot of blue crabs in his pond. He can't be without money."

Chen Yuansu frowned slightly: "Give him a call when you have time to ask about his recent situation and see if there is anything he can help with. Otherwise, if he suffers a serious loss, we will really give him this car for nothing."

After spending a long time with Mr. Chen, Zhu Sulan has already figured it out. Mr. Chen is a person who always likes to hide his true thoughts behind his words.

But she didn't dare to respond to this. She had suffered a loss last time and would not be fooled again in the same place this time. She just treated it as the boss's monologue.

"Okay, Mr. Chen, I'll call Director Li this afternoon to inquire about the latest situation of the shrimp farm."

Chen Yuansu said, "I'm a little sleepy. Go make me a cup of coffee first."

Zhu Sulan nodded and said, "It's still the same as last time, no sugar, right?"

"Yeah, no sugar."

Zhu Sulan turned around to grind coffee. When she was grinding the coffee, it smelled really fragrant, but it tasted very bitter.

She really didn't understand what was so good about this thing. Mr. Chen had a cup every day.

Ugh.

An owner of two tea factories doesn't drink tea, but likes to drink this strange thing.

Wait until she makes the coffee.

Chen Yuansu said, "I heard that something seems to have happened in Haixin. By then, the price of shrimp will probably drop further. You should pay attention to it."

After hearing this, Zhu Sulan smiled and said, "Mr. Chen, Haixin Aquatic Products failed in raising eels last time. If they fail in raising shrimps again this time, there will definitely be problems.

Our company has been trying to enter the Ludao aquatic product market. If it can’t survive, we can take advantage of the situation to acquire it and use it as a stepping stone. That will make things much easier.”

Chen Yuansu thought for a while, then said with a smile: "Sure, when the time comes, I will leave Hai Xin to you to take care of."

Zhu Sulan was stunned.

Only then did she realize that she had said the wrong thing again. If those experts couldn't take good care of the baby, how could she do it? She turned around with a bitter face and said, "Mr. Chen, I'll call Director Li now."

In a breeding shed at the Ludao Haixin Shrimp Farm, Sun Xiangdong looked at the baskets of dead shrimps, smelled the foul odor, and roared on the spot.

"What's the situation now? Tell me, how many kilograms of shrimp are there in total?"

Zhou Jianfeng, the person in charge of the shrimp factory, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said with trembling lips:

"Mr. Sun, this shrimp disease develops rapidly. It takes less than a week from infection to death. We just found many shrimps sinking to the bottom and dying in the past two days."

Sun Xiangdong's face darkened: "Two days ago, you patted your chest and promised me that you had to check twice a day according to the procedure. How come you didn't find it earlier?"

Zhou Jianfeng didn't dare to reply at all.

He himself was fooled by his subordinates. They did not manage this high-density shrimp farming shed according to the latest procedures at all.

It was the same as those shrimp ponds outside. It was just a simple inspection and did not check the bottom of the shrimp pond.

If someone hadn't told him yesterday that the shrimps seemed reluctant to eat, and if he hadn't gone to investigate, he probably wouldn't have known that the shrimps had begun to die in large numbers.

In the first two years of shrimp farming, everyone did follow the procedures, but because the farming has been going smoothly, many employees have become experienced in these two years.

This time, all the shrimps sank to the bottom and died. They won’t tell you even if one of them died, and the shrimps are farmed at a high density.

Inexperienced employees would not notice the dead shrimps at all if they did not go down to the pond to fish.

Sun Xiangdong looked at the baskets of dead shrimps, picked up one at random, looked at the white spots on it and asked, "Is the shrimp disease we have the same as the one outside?" Zhou Jianfeng nodded:

"It should be the same kind. We don't even know what causes it. There is no such thing."

Sun Xiangdong was completely panicked: "Our shrimp ponds should be fine."

Zhou Jianfeng smiled bitterly. If nothing happened, he wouldn't be so anxious to find Mr. Sun.

“It’s the same shrimp disease.”

However, Zhou Jianfeng didn't dare to say it at all. If this was the symptom, it seemed to have started last year.

As the person in charge of a shrimp farm, he naturally understands aquaculture. He may not be as professional as the people in the Fisheries Research Institute, but he is not much worse.

This suddenly reminded him of something. Last year, the production of ten shrimp ponds suddenly dropped by two-thirds, but the reason could not be found. At first, it was thought that the shrimps were eaten by some fish.

In the end, the water from the five shrimp ponds was drained, and the culprit was not found. However, Haixin’s breeding scale is relatively large.

Even if the production of the ten shrimp ponds decreased, it was not a serious matter for Hai Xin, so he did not take it too seriously.

Judging from the current "stealth death disease" of shrimp, the ten shrimp ponds last year were most likely caused by this disease.

Thinking of this, Zhou Jianfeng couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his forehead. He didn't even dare to tell Mr. Sun about this.

If this gets out, Haixin will probably become the target of public criticism and be scolded to death by those shrimp farmers.

As far as he knows, no other shrimp farmers had encountered such a disease last year, but it happened to break out this year.

Last year, he thought there were strange things in the shrimp ponds, so he drained all the water from those ten ponds into the sea.

Moreover, he had communicated with technical experts in the overseas province in advance, and the disease had already appeared in the overseas province last year.

Therefore, he thought that the source of the virus was probably in the shrimp seedlings in the overseas province. After coming to this conclusion, Zhou Jianfeng trembled all over.

If the shrimp fry come from formal channels, even if they carry the virus, it would not be a big problem. It's just that their shrimp fry channel is a bit irregular.

If this is investigated, since Boss Du is from Hong Kong Island, he will definitely be fine.

But those who are in charge may not be able to escape safely. Zhang Sanming, who is currently undergoing labor reform, is the best example.

After seeing that employees had also fished out a lot of dead shrimps from the shrimp pond outside, Sun Xiangdong felt so angry that he was shaking.

“Is this shrimp disease uncontrollable?”

"There's no way." Zhou Jianfeng shook his head.

"Can't even control the drugs in the overseas provinces?"

Zhou Jianfeng nodded and said, "Boss Sun, you should be prepared. Even the overseas provinces can't control this disease, let alone us."

After hearing this, Sun Xiangdong, who had been working in the industry for decades, immediately understood. The two of them had a good understanding of each other, and there was no need to point out some things on the spot.

Sun Xiangdong sighed helplessly, as if he had aged several years in an instant. Not long ago, he secretly went to visit his old colleague Zhang Sanming.

It had only been less than a few months since he was in there, but more than half of his hair had turned white. He looked extremely haggard and thin, and his eyes were completely lifeless.

I heard that he attempted suicide once in prison, and the reason that almost drove Zhang Sanming crazy was.

Not long after he went in, his wife remarried a local wealthy man with her child. Ironically, the man her wife married was introduced by Mr. Du, and it is said that they already have a child.

In a sense, Mr. Du did not break his promise. This could be considered as a disguised way of taking care of his family. However, this method was too cruel.

When Sun Xiangdong thought about the current situation of his former colleague, he couldn't help but feel a little sad.

But he never expected that in less than half a year, he would be facing the same situation as Zhang Sanming.

Fortunately, we have this experience as a lesson.

The fire burning in Sun Xiangdong's heart was extinguished a lot.
"From now on, you will be the major shareholder."

"Work hard. When Haixin develops well in the future, I will move your whole family to Hong Kong Island."

All along, it was these illusory promises that motivated him, if nothing had happened to Zhang Sanming.

Sun Xiangdong would naturally be as excited as a chicken and would do anything for Hai Xin, but now he has seen through everything and naturally would not be stupid enough to take all the responsibility.

Zhang Sanming is right when he said that we are just tools for others to make money, there is no need to push ourselves to death!
Just now, he also heard what Zhou Jianfeng meant, that there was a problem with this batch of shrimps when they arrived, and it was not our fault.

After weighing the pros and cons, Sun Xiangdong gritted his teeth and went directly to report the details to the big boss behind the scenes.

After Du Haijun heard the news, his face was very gloomy, but the first thing he asked was not how much money the shrimp farm lost, but:
"Which side is worse, our shrimp farm or the Minlong?"

Sun Xiangdong was also a little surprised and replied truthfully: "It may be our factory. I also heard it from others. Since Minlong's equipment is relatively advanced, the impact of this shrimp plague on Minlong is not that big."

Du Haijun broke the tip of the pen he was writing on the spot, and then started scolding him.

Du Haijun didn't take Li Duoyu seriously before, but two months ago, he went to Rongcheng in person, intending to carry out all-round cooperation with Rongcheng Xinyuan Group.

I didn't think so,
I was actually rejected by that Chen Yuansu.

They said that the company had already signed a contract with Minlong and had no plans to consider a second one for the time being.

After Du Haijun finished cursing, he continued, "You know, Li Duoyu is just an uneducated country boy, how come he is always better than us?"

Sun Xiangdong laughed awkwardly twice. He had no way of answering this question. But he was different from Zhang Sanming and Du Haijun.

He didn't hate Li Duoyu. Instead, he felt that he was quite capable and was able to survive the shrimp plague.

However, what impressed him most was that Li Duoyu actually invested so much money to set up that laboratory.

I used to think he was a little whimsical, but now that the shrimp fry were in trouble, he suddenly realized the truth.

This young man is simply amazing.

As a believer in the proletariat, he never believed in anything supernatural, but this Li Duoyu gave him the feeling that there was really some unknown force helping him. (End of this chapter)