Chapter 390 The shrimp farming staff has been decided After
talking for a while, Zhong Yongrui chatted with Liang's father and Liang Tiancheng for a while before returning to the village.
It can be seen that Zhong Yongrui is in a good mood today as he successfully "persuaded" Liang Ziqiang to expand the scale of breeding.
After Liang Ziqiang and his two sons finished their work, they packed up and went home.
After lunch, Liang Ziqiang remembered something, said hello to his wife, and went to the village.
After leaving Juzipo and walking on the village road, he went straight to Deng Zhaocai's house.
Seven or eight days ago, that is, before this voyage, Deng Zhaocai pulled him under the old palm tree and said that he wanted to go find distant relatives and go to Shenpeng City to check out the situation, so as to prepare to leave for a distant place with Yan Zi in a dozen days.
Now that so many days have passed, he wanted to see if Deng Zhaocai had returned from Shenzhen Peng and whether he had found a job.
When we arrived at Acai's adobe house, we were a little surprised to find that there was no one in front of the house. There was only a willow tree full of tender buds, which was a little wilted under the sun.
When I arrived at the door, I saw two blackened wooden doors closed tightly, with an equally old and blackened iron lock fastened to them.
Neither Acai nor Yanzi were there. It seemed that Acai's trip to Shenpeng City was quite smooth. After he found his place, he came back immediately and quietly, and took Yanzi with him to Shenpeng.
Liang Ziqiang didn't expect that although Ah Cai was usually a bit clumsy, once he made up his mind at a critical moment, he would act decisively without any hesitation.
Originally, Deng Zhaocai had planned to accompany him out to sea one last time, but now it seems impossible.
The only regret Liang Ziqiang had was that he had wanted to take Ah Cai to Longju Mountain on the lotus-patterned boat these days. April was approaching again, and the golden swifts were back. He was thinking of asking Ah Cai to collect more bird's nests this year and sell them to earn money for his trip.
Don't think about it anymore. Anyway, it's better for Acai and Yanzi to find a fixed place to settle down and work outside than to hesitate and stay in their hometown waiting to be separated.
That night, Liang Ziqiang sat down with his father and elder brother and continued to discuss the shrimp farming issue.
The spring flood should be coming in a while, and then they will go to the sea to catch more blue clams, thin shells, sea centipedes, and krill and put them in the shrimp pond as auxiliary bait for shrimps.
In addition, a large number of broodstock must be caught.
Although a small portion of prawns are retained when the pond is cleaned and are still placed in the broodstock pond to hatch shrimp fry, this alone is not enough.
He has not yet concluded whether natural broodstock from the ocean are more reliable than second-generation broodstock from farms, so he can only use broodstock from both sources first.
It is April in a blink of an eye. Liang Ziqiang is extremely cautious every time he goes to the wintering fishing grounds. As long as the sun is too strong or the temperature is high, he will stay at home to rest and will never go there.
In the whole month of April, he only caught two suitable opportunities and went out to sea twice. On one of the trips, the sun came out on the third day. When he saw that the weather was getting warmer, he decisively ended his work and returned home immediately.
The "black dragon" phenomenon in Longjuling is terrifying, not to mention the wintering fishing grounds. If they stayed there out of greed and really encountered a "dragon sucking water" caused by the sudden high temperature in the area, it would be a problem whether the five people on the boat could return.
In fact, since April, the fish caught in these two trips have obviously decreased. Apparently, as the temperature rises, many fish have begun to leave their wintering grounds and gradually migrate back to the shallow sea. The spring flood has begun.
The combined revenue from these two trips was around 18,000, which was significantly less than the previous trips.
It seems that this round of wintering fishing operations has officially ended. The next round will begin more than half a year later, when the north wind rises again at the end of the year and the winter flood season begins.
Liang Ziqiang calculated that from before the Spring Festival to after the Spring Festival, in just a few short months, the income from the wintering fishing grounds alone reached more than 150,000 yuan, close to 160,000 yuan!
No other place, whether in shallow or deep sea, has ever had any income comparable to this. It can be said that the wintering fishery is currently the main source of Liang Ziqiang's savings!
This is assuming that they only have one boat. If they proceed steadily according to the plan and develop into a small fishing company while deploying several large steel ships to operate, how much will their income be?
What is even more fascinating is that there are several other islands and sea areas in the deep sea that are blessed with unique conditions and extremely rich resources, but he has not had time to find them.
He couldn't imagine what was waiting for him in those places yet...
After finishing fishing in the wintering grounds, Liang Ziqiang took a relatively long rest.
One reason is that if they go out to sea again, they will have to resume normal deep-sea operations, and the income per trip will drop from more than 10,000 to between more than 1,000 and 2,000, so the motivation will naturally be greatly weakened.
Secondly, after such a tiring few months, everyone really needs to have a good rest for a while, and Liang Ziqiang has a lot of things waiting to be done.
In mid-April, Zhong Yongrui came to reply to him, and the town expressed support for Liang Ziqiang's plan to contract the abandoned salt land in other villages.
Liang Ziqiang went to Yanwan Village again and negotiated the contract. Since it was a contract, of course the contract should be for the longest period allowed, which was fifteen years.
Although the contract was between Liang Ziqiang and the Yanwan Village Committee, the town, out of support for the breeding business, sent someone to witness the transaction at Liang Ziqiang's request and added the witness's signature to the contract between the two parties.
With this contract signed by three parties, Liang Ziqiang no longer has to worry about some uncertain variables and can finally rest assured.
The core problem of Artemia has been solved, and we immediately started to work hard.
The more than 20 acres of fish ponds that Zhong Yongrui had urged last time are all concentrated in the east of the village, not far from the original 7 acres of shrimp ponds in Liang Ziqiang's hands.
According to the prior agreement, Liang's father took eight acres of the twenty-four acres, Liang Tiancheng also took eight acres, and Liang Ziqiang also took eight acres, which was exactly divided equally among the three sons.
Adding the amount that was contracted last year, Liang Fu and Liang Tiancheng now each have contracted exactly ten acres, and Liang Ziqiang has contracted fifteen acres.
But Liang Ziqiang’s main shrimp ponds are not just these, but the stone “jiwei pond” that is about to be built on the wasteland.
He has currently decided to build 25 acres, plus the 15 acres of ponds in the village. This means that the area of his contracted shrimp ponds has expanded from 7 acres last year to 40 acres this year.
The father and his two sons together occupied a total area of 60 acres!
Liang's father and Liang Tiancheng did some calculations. Last year, they only had two acres of shrimp, and they sold them for about 3,000 yuan. This year, if they can maintain the momentum of last year, the income from ten acres of shrimp will be around 15,000 yuan each! 15,000 yuan, no matter Liang's father or Liang Tiancheng, this is not what they can earn from fishing in shallow waters.
In comparison, they instantly didn’t want to go out to sea anymore! In fact, with the increase in shrimp ponds, if they feed the shrimp themselves, they won’t be able to take care of it as much as they did last year.
Liang's father and Liang Tiancheng decided to go out to sea less often and concentrate on raising shrimp.
For Liang Ziqiang, this was another problem. He could not take care of the 40 mu shrimp pond by himself, and he could not ask his father and elder brother for help.
What's more, his main focus is on the deep sea, not here. Therefore, hiring helpers to raise shrimp is the only option that cannot be avoided.
Who to hire? He had been thinking about this a long time ago.
If he wanted to hire someone, he had to hire someone he trusted. He didn't want the various technical details of shrimp farming to be leaked out so early.
Liang Ziqiang imagined that there were a few reliable relatives on his mother's side, while the relationship with the uncles and uncles on his father's side was not that close, but they could get along with each other. If not, it would be no problem to invite them to raise shrimps.
But relatives on both the father's and mother's sides are not the most ideal choice.
Lying in bed at night, Liang Jingcheng practiced his crawling skills at the head of the bed.
Liang Ziqiang teased for a while and then ignored him. He looked at his wife and said, "By the way, Xiangbei, I've heard your dad complain several times that growing melons is not profitable at all. How much can dad make in a year from a melon that's worth only 70 cents or 80 cents?"
"You mean my dad?" Chen Xiangbei was stunned for a moment. "Seven or eight cents, you mean that's too high! That's the price people usually pay for watermelons. Most of the watermelons in our house are not sold individually. Someone comes to buy them in bulk, and they're only four or five cents a pound!"
"Wait a minute, 40% to 50% means 10,000 kilograms of melons would only give you around 400 or 500 yuan?!"
"How can my dad grow 10,000 kilograms of melons? Besides, these four or five hundred are not pure profit. Not only the labor cost, but also pesticides and fertilizers have to be purchased. Some of the melons are crooked and cracked and cannot be sold, so the profit is not much!" Chen Xiangbei knew everything about this.
(P.S.: To prevent a misconception, the farming of melons and fields in the 1970s and 1980s was not purely natural. The pesticides used in those days were more aggressive than they are today. Several strong pesticides were later gradually cancelled or banned.) "Where is the orchard?"
"The situation of fruits is better than that of watermelons, but local fruits cannot be sold at a high price, and cannot compare with those shipped from other places. However, Huagu Village can't do anything else except growing fruits and vegetables. It doesn't matter whether we make money or not. At least we can support our family." Chen Xiangbei glanced at him, "Why do you suddenly ask this? Do you want to..."
"I was thinking, if your dad is willing, it would be best to ask him to come over every day to help raise the shrimp."
Before this, there were still uncertainties in expanding shrimp farming, and he was reluctant to bring up the idea. Now that the conditions are ripe, he can bring it up.
"Do you really want my dad to come? He only grows melons, he's never raised shrimps!"
"This is not difficult. He will slowly figure it out if he raises shrimps with me for a while." Liang Ziqiang considered, "Think about it, although you have to run to the pond all the time to take care of it, you only need to feed it two meals of Artemia every day, plus some peanut bran and nutrient powder, and throw them into the shrimp pond. Then you can go to the beach, start the water pump, and pump seawater into the shrimp pond. You don't have to pump it every day, just once every few days. Forty acres of shrimp ponds is a bit too much. If your eldest brother and second brother are willing to come together, it will be easier. It shouldn't be harder than planting and picking melons anyway!"
“I don’t know whether it’s easy or not, but growing melons at home was really tiring!”
"That's it. Speaking of making money, I plan to be more flexible with the wages. There are two ways. Either I pay a higher wage directly, or I take the three yuan for a skilled worker first, and then when the prawns are on the market, I will give two points of the profit to dad. If your brother comes, he will also get two points. The more you earn, the more your dad and brother will get!" Liang Ziqiang laid out his thoughts.
The daily wage is three dollars, which is nearly one thousand one hundred dollars a year. No matter who you hire to help, this expense is inevitable.
Liang Ziqiang also calculated the dividends. Based on last year's income from selling shrimp, this year's 40 acres of land could probably sell for more than 70,000 yuan, and after deducting various costs, he could still earn more than 50,000 yuan, or even 60,000 yuan.
Two points is nearly 1,200. With wages and dividends, the annual income is almost 2,300. This figure is definitely much higher than the income of my father-in-law from growing fruits and vegetables.
Of course, dividends are still necessary, so that my father-in-law can take it as his own business and protect it.
The two of them had this preliminary discussion, and Liang Ziqiang thought about taking some time to go to her parents' home to discuss this matter. If Chen Xiangbei's father and brother really couldn't come, he would consider other candidates.
Time was tight, so we got started. It was just after the Spring Festival, and it had been nearly two months since I took little Cheng Cheng to visit his grandparents. The next day, Liang Ziqiang picked up the fish and shrimp he brought back from the deep sea, and Chen Xiangbei also held Cheng Cheng, and the couple went to Huagu Village together.
As soon as the mother-in-law saw Cheng Cheng, she took her in her arms and said, "Cheng Cheng is here to see grandma. Call me grandma, do you know how to call me grandma?"
“Splash…splash…”
Following the same pattern, two syllables came out of Cheng Cheng's mouth. Chen Xiangbei's mother was very happy, but when she looked closely, she found that the little guy was not looking at her.
While splashing water in his mouth, his eyes were fixed on the big yellow dog walking around on the ground with its tail wagging happily...
"You little bastard," Chen Xiangbei's mother patted her grandson, "Look, grandma is here!"
As they were talking, father-in-law Chen Dagang came down from the orchard on the mountain. When he saw his daughter and son-in-law, he put down his carrying pole and greeted them.
After sitting down and chatting for a while, Liang Ziqiang talked about shrimp farming last year.
"I went to the street a while ago and heard people say that seafood prices have increased. Have the shrimps you raise increased in price as well?"
My father-in-law also heard about the price increase of seafood and asked Aqiang.
"The main increase in price is for prawns. Now the purchase price of prawns alone has reached 11 yuan, and I happen to raise prawns!"
"What kind of prawns are they?" My father-in-law didn't know much about the classification of various types of sea shrimps, but his surprise was written all over his face. "Then your few acres of shrimps were raised just right last year, and you just happened to catch such a good market!"
"Yes, it's not bad. The seven acres of shrimp pond were all sold out after the Spring Festival, and I made about 10,000 yuan."
He had no intention of hiding it from his father-in-law Liang Ziqiang and revealed it directly.
"About ten thousand yuan!" Not only Chen Dagang, but even his mother-in-law who was teasing her grandson nearby was shocked, thinking they had heard it wrong.
"A Qiang thinks the market trend can continue, so he plans to raise more this year!" Chen Xiangbei interrupted at the right time.
"You should raise more!" Chen Dagang was very happy to see his son-in-law making so much money from a few acres of ponds. He said affirmatively, "Don't miss the opportunity. Go for it! If you don't quickly contract more, those people outside will see that you are making money and will surely follow suit in no time!"
"It's fine for now. I have my own set of techniques for raising prawns. If they don't know this and just follow the trend, they may not be able to raise them successfully. Even if they do, they won't taste the same!" Liang Ziqiang turned to the main topic, "This year I contracted 40 acres in one go. Now everything else is easy. The biggest problem is that I don't have enough manpower. I still have to go out to sea. Even if I don't go out to sea, I can't raise enough..."
Liang Ziqiang expressed his true thoughts on this trip, and at the end he asked his father-in-law: "Dad, those watermelon and cantaloupe fields you have haven't been planted yet, can they be transferred out?"
"We have planted a small part of the watermelons, not much. There are two batches of watermelons. The early-ripening watermelons were planted at the end of last month, and the late-ripening ones will not be planted until early May."
The father-in-law looked at him and continued, "It's not a big deal to plant some seeds. You can pass them on to others. But that's not the most important thing. Look at me, I'm just a melon farmer. I've never been to the sea, and I've never raised fish. You just said that raising shrimps requires skills. I'm afraid your brother and I can't handle it, right?"
"Dad, whether you've been out to sea or not has nothing to do with this! My dad and my older brother have never raised shrimp before. Last year, I let them contract two acres of land and taught them the techniques. They also made two to three thousand!"
As they were talking, Chen Xiangbei's two brothers came back home from outside.
Liang Ziqiang told them his plan from beginning to end again. Of course, the most important thing was to settle the accounts with them.
With a daily wage of three yuan plus a two-point dividend for each person at the end of the year, it is estimated that each person's annual income can be around two thousand two or three thousand.
After that, he waited for their responses...
(End of this chapter)
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