Chapter 388: Deserted Beach Can Become a Source of Wealth
"Anyway, the city and county are determined. I heard from the town that they hope to support a few decent breeders. Villages with conditions can lease more fish ponds and shallow bays to breeders, sign longer contracts, and do not need to set the contract fee too high.
Of course, if the farmers can’t pay the contract fee right away, they can wait until the business is developed and then pay the contract fee. Also, if the farmers are short of money, the county can help arrange a bank loan. You know how difficult it is for ordinary people to get a bank loan? ! "
Zhong Yongrui said a lot in one breath. He glanced at Liang Ziqiang and changed his words: "Of course, that's for others. For you, how can you lack money for breeding?!"
Liang Ziqiang doesn't seem to be short of money for the time being... but that's not the point. He smiled and said, "It sounds quite tempting, huh? Let me think about it!"
Zhong Yongrui was a little anxious, his face pulled: "What are you thinking about? You know, I was sitting in the town meeting and heard what they said at the meeting. I slapped my thighs at that time. This policy is good. Isn't it specially made for our village? Our village has a ready-made breeding expert like you. This alone gives us an advantage. Which other village can compare with you? I didn't say anything at that time and directly reported the situation of our village to the town. I just lacked a military order. It is because of your breeding experience that I dare to express this attitude. Don't tell me now that you need to think about it. If you back down at the critical moment, how can I take it back if I let you go?"
Seeing Zhong Yongrui's anxious look, he even looked a little bitter. He was really afraid that Liang Ziqiang would not cooperate...
Yes, the fact that Pomfret Village has become a large shrimp farming company is also the result of Zhong Yongrui's work. In other aspects, it may not be able to compete with other villages, but in shrimp farming, no other village in the town can match it.
Liang Ziqiang saw that the preparations were almost ready, so he called Uncle Rui and comforted him: "Don't worry, I said I'd consider it. It's not that I don't want to cooperate with you to expand the scale, but I have to think about how big the scale can be! To be honest, I went to your house a few days ago to find you, Uncle Rui, because I wanted to expand it and try to lease a few more acres..."
"How many acres?!" Zhong Yongrui was happy to hear the last sentence, but his face darkened again. "How can you say a few acres? You call that expansion? Although the village contracted out a round of land last year, there are still more than 20 acres of ponds in the hands of the village collective. In addition, the Wild Duck Bay is dozens of acres. If you don't contract all of them and just do a few acres of land, how can I have the face to go to the town for meetings in the future?!"
"Wild Duck Bay? Hasn't the village been raising oysters for that?"
"You can't raise them well. The village sent someone to take care of this matter. They tried to fool around every few days, but they couldn't get it up and running. So they just transferred it out and contracted it to you to raise shrimp. Now you can increase the scale of the farming in no time, right?"
Wild Duck Bay was the important turning point where Liang Ziqiang, Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai went from being mortal enemies to being close friends. At that time, several men from Jitou Village came to destroy Wild Duck Bay, but they turned the tables and beat them so badly that they fled...
"Forget about Wild Duck Bay. That place has always been a place of confusion and confusion. I will have a headache every day if I take it!" Liang Ziqiang rejected it without hesitation.
Yeya Bay connects the two villages. Jitou Village has always believed that the land belongs to their village and wants to take it back, so some people went to Yeya Bay to cause trouble.
If I contract this controversial land, what difference would it make from taking on a hot potato?
Hearing what he said, Zhong Yongrui was disappointed again. Without contracting Wild Duck Bay, Liang Ziqiang's breeding business would not be able to expand!
Unexpectedly, Liang Ziqiang looked thoughtful, and after a pause he spoke:
"But Uncle Rui, you have already expressed your position in the town. If I really only expand a few acres, it will be disrespectful to you! How about we make a compromise? Although we can't take Wild Duck Bay, there is a long coastal wasteland in the east of the village. I can use stones to enclose the pond along this wasteland, and with some effort, I can build dozens of acres of shrimp ponds!"
"You mean... shrimp?!"
Zhong Yongrui was shocked for a moment, as if he had never thought about this blind spot. After thinking about it for a while, he was surprised.
In fact, Zhong Yongrui is not wrong to call it mud shrimp. In recent years, people in various places have been engaged in mud shrimp.
But the real meaning of the shrimp is to build a dam with stones on the mudflats. When the tide is high, all kinds of shrimps in the sea rush into the dam. When the tide is low, they can't get out and stay in the dam to grow up.
The mud shrimp is not a specific type of shrimp. Any shrimp from the sea can be trapped in the dam and become mud shrimp.
This is different from what Liang Ziqiang said.
Liang Ziqiang's method is to build shrimp ponds on the mudflats, but he does not rely on the high tide to bring shrimps. Instead, he puts in shrimp fry that he hatched himself. The shrimps do not rely on the small creatures brought by the high tide, but use their own feed made of a reasonable combination of artemia and peanut bran.
In other words, the farming method is not much different from the ponds under our feet. The only difference is that there is no need to regularly use a single-cylinder diesel engine to pump water, which saves a lot of trouble.
He would build the dike higher and then open a large gate at the bottom of the dike, installing very strong wire mesh and nets at the gate.
Every time the tide rises, fresh seawater can flow into the dike through the grid, but fish and shrimp from the sea are blocked outside the grid and cannot enter the dike.
Similarly, when the tide goes out, the prawns in the pond will be blocked by the mesh and will not flow into the sea.
The method of cooking shrimps relies solely on the high tide to catch a variety of shrimps. This is too dependent on the weather and the efficiency is actually quite low.
My approach is to continue the efficient shrimp farming of last year! The two are similar, but there are still essential differences.
"It's somewhat similar to shrimp, but also very different..." Liang Ziqiang took over the conversation.
"That's not important," Zhong Yongrui had quickly come to his senses. "Your idea is good. There are so many wastelands along the coast. If you really want to fence them off, it will be much larger than Wild Duck Bay. How about this? You can fence off more and make more than a hundred acres..."
"Oh, that's easier to say about the contract fee. It's a wasteland, not like the existing fish ponds in the village, so the contract fee can be lower than that of the fish ponds. The key is that you'd better contract more and do what the town advocates." Zhong Yongrui paused, coughed, and said:
"When the time comes and the county and town come to inspect it, you have to say... it was done with my clear advocacy and strong support. Hehe, there's nothing else to say!"
"Don't worry about that, Uncle Rui is already strongly supporting it!" Liang Ziqiang said with an expression that said, "I understand." Zhong Yongrui really wanted to be recognized by the town, but this was not a bad thing in itself. After all, he still hoped that the village could develop. Overall, Zhong Yongrui was pretty good, and he was relatively fair in most cases.
Liang Ziqiang then added: "But more than a hundred acres is too much. We can't do it all at once this year. Let's try to enclose a few dozen acres first. In addition, our family has decided to contract the twenty acres of existing fish ponds you mentioned. Since you have already made a statement in the town, it is not appropriate for me to make a small move. I will go all out and save your face!"
"That's right!" Zhong Yongrui felt that he had made the right decision to come here today. He turned to look at Ji Liang's father and said with a smile, "Defu, Ah Qiang has always been someone who can accomplish great things. When he was still running around in his crotchless clothes, I said that this kid would definitely have a bright future. You see, I was right!"
Liang's father also laughed and replied with a few random words.
Liang Ziqiang stood there and recalled for a long time. Did he say that? I heard Zhong Yongrui scold Zhong Ming, saying that if he learned to be naughty like Aqiang, he would beat him to death!
Based on last year's seven acres, the ponds and dikes were expanded to dozens of acres. This was certainly not a decision that Liang Ziqiang came up with on the spur of the moment while standing here.
In fact, the shrimp farming was gradually successful in the first year, and Liang Ziqiang had already decided how big to expand it to in the second year. He went to Zhong Yongrui's house a few days ago to discuss this.
It's just that now I'm going with the flow and pretending to be listening to Zhong Yongrui's advice. If I ask for the village's support for many things in the future, I will be more proactive.
"Uncle Rui, you really persuaded me. By the way, if we really want to develop breeding, there are ways to expand it. It's just a little difficult, but it's not impossible to try!"
Liang Ziqiang waited until Zhong Yongrui finished chatting with his father, then he immediately spoke.
After all, all that was just the beginning. It was time to speak out the most important plan in my heart...
(End of this chapter)
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