After resolving this matter, Xu An continued walking towards his second grandfather's house.

When Xu An arrived at his second grandfather's house, the courtyard was already full, but the seat next to his second grandfather was still empty. Seeing this, Xu An did not hesitate and went straight to the seat and sat down.

Second Grandfather looked around at everyone, mentally counted the heads, and after confirming the number was correct, said loudly, "Alright, Anzi is here too. Now that everyone is here, let's begin!"

Upon hearing this, the group of people who had been chatting quietly fell silent and looked at their second grandfather, waiting for him to speak next.

"You all know why we've called this meeting, right? After nearly four months of hard work, the mudflats we contracted have finally started producing! Under Professor Wei's guidance, we've had a bumper harvest of our farmed prawns, razor clams, and tilapia!"

As he spoke, the second grandfather took out a notebook, looked at the numbers written on it, and read them out word by word.

"The 700 mu of shrimp farming fields have yielded a total of 112 tons of shrimp so far, with a purchase price of 16,000 yuan per ton, resulting in a total income of 1.792 million yuan. After deducting expenses such as shrimp seedlings, feed, and labor, the profit is 530,000 yuan."

The 400-mu razor clam farming area yielded 86 tons of clams, with a purchase price of 18,000 yuan per ton, generating a total income of 1,548,000 yuan and a profit of 360,000 yuan. The marine tilapia farm yielded 270 tons of tilapia, generating a profit of 720,000 yuan.

To date, the Xujia Village tidal flat aquaculture base has generated a profit of 1.61 million yuan. According to the initial share distribution, the collective's share is 60%, or 966,000 yuan. From the collective's portion alone, everyone will receive 34,500 yuan.

As the second grandfather spoke, the eyes of everyone in the courtyard grew brighter and brighter, and when they heard about the collective share of the profits, they were overjoyed.

There are still two or three more shipments before the Chinese New Year, and there might even be a clearance sale after the New Year. Based on the current profit, there should be at least another 40,000 to 50,000 yuan in dividends!

Keep in mind that this mudflat had only been leased for six months, and this was only the first time they had engaged in aquaculture, yet they had already received such a high dividend.

Next year, if we raise three batches a year, plus the dividends from our individual shares, wouldn't each household be able to receive two or three hundred thousand yuan?

Thinking of this, the breathing in the courtyard suddenly increased.

"but."

Just as everyone was getting excited, the second grandfather's words interrupted their reverie and brought them back to reality.

"However, the tidal flats we have leased are a full 15,000 mu! Only 2,000 mu have been completed this year, and after deducting the 1,000 mu that Anzi will need to use for developing the marine hot springs, there are still more than 11,000 mu of tidal flats waiting to be developed!"

Developing all the remaining mudflats would require an enormous amount of manpower and resources, but we only have 80,000 yuan left in our account. This amount is far from enough!

Therefore, I hope that this year's collective dividends will be temporarily withheld for next year's development, and that only the dividends from individual investments will be distributed this year. Is this acceptable to everyone?

At this point, the second grandfather paused, giving everyone three seconds to think before continuing before anyone could speak: "There's no need to make a decision right away. Go back and think it over carefully, and talk to your family."

We'll use anonymous voting. If 60% of people agree to this plan, then this year's profit sharing will be arranged as I've described. If the number of people in favor is less than 60%, then the collective profit sharing from the year-end revenue plus the individual investment profit sharing will be distributed together, and the profit sharing after the year will be retained for development expenses.”

"No need to discuss it, what's there to discuss!" Xu Guosheng slammed his hand on the table and said casually, "This year we only developed a little over 2,000 mu and we can get 100,000 to 200,000 yuan. This is definitely because we've developed the remaining tidal flats, which is over 10,000 mu. That's a five or six-fold increase. If we develop them well, we can get 500,000 to 600,000 yuan next year. Everyone can do the math."

"That's right. This year, we're only farming easy-to-farm and inexpensive seafood. We haven't even started farming high-priced seafood like abalone, sea cucumbers, and mudskippers yet. These seafoods are not only expensive, but the seedlings themselves cost several yuan, or even more than ten yuan each. There are so many places where we need to spend money."

"I agree. Let's distribute the dividends from individual investors this year first, and save the collective dividends for next year's development costs."

"yes"

“.”

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[Cheng Chuan, did you switch jobs to Xu's Catering? What's the salary and working environment like there?]

What's wrong? Are you thinking of changing jobs too?

【Yes, the company's situation is even worse now than when you left. We have to submit invoices to receive our wages, and it has to be half of our salary. I've been begging and pleading with everyone I know for the past two months to barely scrape together the invoices and get my wages (bombshell) (sad)】

Upon seeing the message from his former colleague, Cheng Chuan couldn't help but shake his head and click his tongue twice. His former company was really something else, even resorting to exchanging invoices for wages. Invoices worth over three thousand yuan were not easy to come up with!

With the thought of saving the person from dire straits, Cheng Chuan typed furiously on the keyboard, sending a series of messages to the other party.

[Xu's Catering is still recruiting food R&D engineers. The basic salary is 8,000 yuan per month, with a 2,000 yuan per month allowance for overseas assignments. Meals and accommodation are provided. After the products developed are launched, you will also receive 3% of the sales revenue of those products for three years. The two beverages and three food products I developed have already been launched in various sales channels. Last month, I received nearly 10,000 yuan in bonuses alone!]

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