In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Three thousand acres of kelp!
All the relatives present took a deep breath. Nowadays, the entire Dandan Island only covers two thousand acres.

Li Duoyu wants to cultivate 3,000 acres of kelp by himself, but he doesn't look like he's joking.

Li Shuguang could only give a thumbs up and couldn't help but say, "Boss is generous!"

"The boss is awesome."

Li Qingguang followed suit.

Zhang Mingsheng's face was full of smiles, and he applauded directly: "I support Duoyu unconditionally."

Chen Wenchao and Shitou, who had just finished their meal at home and rushed over, had no idea what they were talking about, and immediately followed suit, saying, "Unconditionally support our boss."

After seeing these two sycophants, Li Shuguang said disdainfully: "Your boss said that if you lose the drinking game, you have to eat shit. You actually support him. Aren't you cheating him?"

"what!"

Chen Wenchao and Shitou looked at each other and said quickly, "Then we won't support it."

"If you say something wrong, you will be punished by three bowls."

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help laughing, and after the two of them came.

Everyone made room for them and Li Shuihua brought them a set of bowls and chopsticks.

Just as they sat down, the Zhao brothers and Liu Yun came over. Zhao Dahai brought over a plate of strange but delicious dishes.

"Brother Yu, we have that fried lagu here, would you like to try it?"

Everyone looked at the dish curiously and found that it was full of big black bugs with many legs. Everyone felt disgusted.

"Sea, what the hell is this?"

"It's all feet. Can you eat it?"

Zhao Dahai scratched his head and said, "This is a cicada larva, given to me by a distant relative."

Li Shuihua, who had just brought them chairs and bowls and chopsticks, couldn't help but get goose bumps all over her body after seeing the plate of "dish".

“This thing is so ugly, can it really be eaten?”

Zhao Dahai scratched his head and said, "It's a little ugly, but it's really delicious. The meat tastes very similar to dragonfly meat."

Li Shuguang's face darkened: "Dahai, you are too scary. You have even eaten dragonflies."

Li Duoyu secretly raised his hand: "I have eaten it too, the meat of the big dragonfly is really delicious."

Seeing that no one was afraid to eat, Li Duoyu couldn't help laughing. It turned out that there was a big difference in diet between people living by the sea and people living in the mountains, and both sides found the other disgusting.

People living by the sea will eat anything that comes from the sea, no matter how ugly or disgusting it looks.

Even dark dishes like sea centipedes, sea intestines, and sea cucumber jelly are just part of their daily life; in some places, even sea cockroaches are not spared.

When they encounter this special "game" from the mountains, most of them will be silenced instantly.

Li Duoyu hadn't eaten this thing for a long time, so he grabbed one and put it in his mouth and started biting it.

Crunchy! Full of the taste of protein, I praised it while eating, "Not bad, fried so deliciously."

Zhao Dahai asked in surprise: "Brother Yu, have you ever eaten this?"

Li Duoyu nodded: "I ate this stuff when I went to southern Fujian before. It was quite expensive. The white larvae that had just shed their shells were very delicious with salt and pepper."

"Brother Yu, you are an expert! I also like to eat the white kind, but it's a pity that it is not very easy to preserve. This one was brought here by my relative after it was frozen."

Seeing how crunchy Li Duoyu was eating, Li Shuguang still didn't believe it. After all, this guy had a criminal record and could eat even bitter melon without batting an eyelid.

"Duoyu, if it really tastes bad, just spit it out. Don't be so hard on yourself."

Li Duoyu rolled his eyes at him and said, "It's not delicious. It's really too disgusting. You all should stop eating it. I'll eat it slowly by myself."

After seeing Li Duoyu eating, Chen Wenchao, Shitou and others also ate. When they first put their mouths, they all frowned.

But the more he chewed, the better it tasted. Chen Wenchao said seriously, "It's delicious. It tastes even better than dragonfly meat. Dragonfly meat is watery, but this is firmer. The tail part feels like eating a bee pupa."

Li Shuguang gritted his teeth and said, "Fuck you, forget it. I'll let you cheat me again."

After eating a few bites, he said, "Duoyu, bring the plate over here and order some. This is really good with wine."

The group of people started drinking again, and some villagers passing by were very envious. Those who could drink with Li Duoyu were all the richest people in Dandan Island.

This time, many villagers felt that after Li Duoyu survived the shrimp plague, he seemed to have been reborn.

It can be said that Li Duoyu’s journey in breeding is not a very smooth one.

But we can survive the typhoon and raise eels, and now we can even survive this shrimp plague. It is really hard for everyone to imagine how Li Duoyu failed.

After this shrimp plague, everyone truly felt that Minlong had stood up. Before, it was still perceived as a farmer.

But now it is completely different. Even they can see the development prospects of Minlong Company. Now many villagers are trying their best to become formal employees of Minlong Company.

Li Shuguang, who had drunk a few bowls of green and red wine, couldn't help but burp. Seeing that Li Duoyu dared to raise 3,000 acres of land, Li Shuguang gritted his teeth and planned to take out all his belongings.

"Damn, my family has also worked hard. This year, we will directly plant 1,000 acres of kelp."

Li Duoyu gave a thumbs up and said, "Awesome, you are braver than me."

"You can only get rich if you are in trouble. I learned this from you. But if you really go bankrupt, I will hug your thighs."

"No, I hate it!"

"Your uncle's."

The reason why Li Duoyu dared to engage in kelp on such a large scale was not a sudden whim, but because of the typhoon that caused the snakeskin movement.

He no longer has anything to worry about. If I remember correctly, in the next few years, until the 1990s, no typhoons will directly land here. It will be the golden age for offshore aquaculture.

At the village committee, Chen Jianghe looked in the direction of Li Duoyu's house, mumbling and cursing like a grudge woman:

"Damn it, you didn't even call me when you were drinking. I have to write all the materials and give you reports."

Lao Liao, who also lived in the village committee, said, "Secretary Chen, aren't you going to drink with them?"

Chen Jianghe snorted, "How can I have that kind of time? I still have to write materials and reports. I'm not as free as them."

Lao Liao wanted to tell him that he had heard it outside the door just now, but seeing his expression, he could only hold back his laughter and said, "Okay."

Everyone drank until one or two in the morning, and Zhao Dahai and Liu Yun went home arm in arm.

As a result, halfway through the journey, the two of them slept directly on the fishing net of Lao Chen's house. Li Duoyu did not rush to sleep, but sat on the stone slab of the old house to sober up and think about some things.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival.

It will definitely be very busy again. Li Duoyu is going to plant 3,000 acres of kelp this time, which is also a big project.

The piling work alone is estimated to take two months, and one fleet is not enough, at least two or more are needed.

The amount of brown ropes needed for 3,000 acres of kelp is also very terrifying, and it is estimated that they will have to be reserved in advance.

This time, Li Duoyu did not plan to use Casuarina trees for piling, after all, Casuarina trees grow too slowly.

Before he was the village director, he was always thinking about the Casuarina trees, but after becoming the village director, he was reluctant to destroy them.

The Casuarinas on the island are quite old. It would be a pity if they were all cut down and used as stakes.

Moreover, the wind is very strong at the seaside. If all the trees are cut down, when the wind blows strongly, the fine sand on the beach will fly all over the sky.

In the past two years, because everyone has been growing kelp, a lot of Casuarina trees on the island have been cut down.

Now when there is a strong wind, many villagers complain that when they dry the salted fish, there is sometimes a small layer of fine sand on the dried fish.

Some villagers said that they now have to shake their clothes before collecting them, otherwise they will be covered with fine sand when they put them on.

If he could serve as village director longer, Li Duoyu planned to lead the entire village to plant more Casuarinas.

He has always had a plan to build a coastal highway on Dandan Island regardless of whether it is a tourist attraction or not.

At that time, the inner side of the coastal highway will be planted with Casuarinas, which will not only provide wind protection but also block sand.

What Li Duoyu wants to open up most now is the section of road from Xiasha Village to Beilanling.

Currently, the construction has already started there, and the county's fishery research institute has already laid the foundation.

If things go well, the Institute of Fisheries will set up a shellfish breeding research station here in the first half of next year.

Director Zhang said that the entire abalone seedling research project will be moved to the island first.

In addition to abalone seedlings, scallops, oysters, and various clams are also cultivated.

This is not because of any connections or any random act, but because Dandan Island is really suitable for abalone and oyster farming.

A site has also been selected for the Ludao Fisheries Science and Technology School. Li Duoyu, Chen Jianghe and all the village committee members agreed to sign and rent 50 acres of land to the school.

The lease term is thirty years.

The land is only used for teaching and cannot be used for other purposes.

Li Duoyu predicted that Beilanling would be very lively in two years, so Li Duoyu planned to repair this section of road as much as possible in these two years. It would be best if it could be a cement road.

By then, Li Duoyu won’t even need to make an announcement. Everyone will build houses there because they think there is development potential there.

There are certain reasons why Li Duoyu particularly wants to develop the new district of Beilanling, and he may even have a little selfish motive.

He had always disliked the houses in Xiasha Village in his previous life. They were all crowded together, and the density was even more terrifying than that of the villages in the city.

Neighbors often fight over whether to leave gaps when building houses, and neighborhood relations are very tense.

Originally, Li Duoyu's house was only two or three minutes' walk from the pier via a small path.

However, since new houses were built all over the pier, the path was no longer there when he returned from the island country. He had to take a long detour and walk for more than ten minutes to get to the pier, which made him very unhappy, but there was nothing he could do.

In the end, this matter turned into a vicious cycle. Once the villagers who had to take a detour to get to the wharf made money, they also rushed to the wharf to buy land and build houses.

The end result was that half of the village's population was crowded onto that small road.

In the end, the road did not become wider, but narrower. What's exaggerated is that the price of the row of houses near the dock is even more expensive than the commercial housing in the county town.

The company that originally developed the Dandan Island scenic area initially negotiated with Xiasha Village, but after an on-site inspection, they found the village’s buildings and transportation particularly troublesome.

To put it bluntly, on the road in their village, if two old men's cars were to drive together, they would have to scrape off each other's rearview mirrors.

Finally, the scenic spot company gave up Xiasha Village and chose to develop Chenjia Village. Since their village had little money, people did not build houses randomly. Instead, it became a very good tourist attraction.

After all, tourists who come to the island like to see those retro stone houses.

If they came to the island and saw only villas and four- or five-story houses, they would probably feel very uncomfortable.

All Li Duoyu can do is to try his best to prevent everyone from doing things like in his previous life. He plans to move the village committee to Beilanling next year, and then put the headquarters of Minlong Company there as well.

At that time, he would set up a seafood processing plant. Li Duoyu originally did not plan to set up a processing plant so early.

After all, he has a good relationship with the Qingkou Wharf processing plant and is also very familiar with Director Liu.

Unfortunately, the processing plant is state-owned, and there are a lot of variables. For example, Director Liu, who has a good relationship with him, is about to be transferred back to the city because of his good performance in the past two years.

In fact, Li Duoyu has always felt that there is something wrong with this system. He feels that all employees work very hard just to serve the promotion of their leaders.

Li Duoyu also suggested to Director Liu that if it was really for the good of the processing plant, it would be better for him to stay.

After all, many of the relationships in the processing plant actually depend on Director Liu. If he leaves, some relationships may really be severed.

But the reality is a bit cruel. There are some things that even Director Liu cannot make the decision on. Everything must be arranged by the organization. He cannot stay even if he wants to.

Li Duoyu sighed, but it was also good this way. When Director Liu was around, he was somewhat unable to do anything. After all, the relationship between the two sides was pretty good.

If he left, Li Duoyu would not have so many concerns and would directly set up a private processing plant.

He had even thought about it long ago. After the processing plant was established, the first product to be made would be [Fish with Black Bean Sauce], and the second would be [Spicy Octopus].

Of course, the [Hand-torn squid strips] are definitely not to be missed.

After the kelp industry developed, Li Duoyu planned to import a set of more advanced packaging equipment from the island country to directly produce ready-to-eat kelp shreds.

In short, there are so many things that a processing plant can do, far more than what the Rongcheng Processing Plant is doing now.

As long as the quality can be maintained, Li Duoyu is even confident that he can sell all his products to the island country.

After all, breeding still has risks. As the boss, Li Duoyu is not only responsible for himself, but also for all employees.

Once we encounter some really bad weather and breeding cannot be carried out, at least there are still processing plants to hold on.

To paraphrase a saying often used by leaders: We must do both things well.

Li Duoyu has a lot of ideas in his mind, but many of them are plans for the future. The most important thing for him now is to quickly build these 3,000 acres of kelp piles.

(End of this chapter)