They spent a week in Chile, except for a few days in Santiago, and then they went to southern Chile.
This place is home to what is said to be the city furthest from our home, and also the closest place to Antarctica. There's even a place in Chile called the Chilean Antarctica.
They definitely won't go to Antarctica; it's an extreme environment where there's nothing but ice and snow.
Since Bai Yu and his team set off, their planned route has never included Antarctica.
If it hadn't been during the ice melt season when they arrived at the Bering Strait, they wouldn't have even come to Chile; they would have simply crossed the Bering Strait and gone straight to the Atlantic Ocean.
Now that we're in Chile, let's explore the Chilean Antarctic region.
In May, the temperature in Chilean Antarctica is slightly higher, but the islands and mountain peaks are still visibly covered with unmelted ice and snow.
If this weather were in Hainan Province in May, they would have already switched to short sleeves and shorts and been enjoying air conditioning every day.
But here, even during the day they still wear a coat, wrapping themselves up completely.
Southern Chile is dotted with numerous small islands, many of which are not purely land islands but are composed of ice flowers that have remained frozen for millennia.
Sailing here is also a great test of skill.
If Bai Yu hadn't spent money to buy a navigation map here before leaving Chile, and learned which places were accessible and which were inaccessible, they might not have been able to successfully pass through Chile and enter the Atlantic Ocean.
This is because their company pays membership fees to the Chilean Fisheries Association. Otherwise, if it were an unfamiliar company, even if you had the money, you might not be able to buy marine environmental maps of Chilean waters.
Even if Bai Yu and his group managed to buy a fishery distribution map, they wouldn't be able to obtain information about the marine environment in certain areas.
After leaving Chile, before entering the Atlantic Ocean, they would pass through the southern region of another country, but Bai Yu and his men did not stop there.
That's Argentina, a country that's been acting very erratically lately. Bai Yu has absolutely no interest in them.
As we move into 2023, our relationship with Argentina is not very friendly; things have been quite turbulent there in the last two years.
Although this country also has many attractions, including some areas that our family is not very good at but they are very good at, Bai Yu still did not stay here.
They sailed directly into the Atlantic Ocean, arriving at this vast and resource-rich ocean.
After bypassing Argentina, Bai Yu and his crew's yacht headed straight for another country with which our family has a very close relationship: Brazil.
This is also a tropical country with abundant marine resources, especially for fishing, where you can catch a lot of big fish.
Especially tuna, there is a type of tuna that can grow to over a thousand pounds, that is the Atlantic bluefin tuna.
They didn't catch any large Pacific bluefin tuna in the Pacific, so they switched to the Atlantic, hoping to catch Atlantic bluefin tuna weighing over a thousand pounds.
At the very least, they can catch a tuna weighing six or seven hundred pounds. They can lower their expectations a bit.
When Bai Yu and his group arrived in Brazil on their yacht, it was already the end of May, and June was just around the corner.
The reason it took so long was because they had spent a few more days making money in the cold water area and then they were late.
Bai Yu and his crew fished for cod near the Antarctic Circle for a while. Although the weather was very cold, the cod here was valuable.
Especially the cold-water cod from Antarctica, including a lot of silver cod, which is considered the most competitive cod and commands a very high price.
Even in the cod-producing areas, these cod can still sell for 40 to 50 yuan per kilogram, and a cod weighing more than 10 kilograms can cost several hundred yuan.
Looking at it this way, some people might think it's nothing special, only a few dozen yuan per kilogram, how can it be considered valuable? It's just some small kalami.
Keep in mind that this is in the cod's place of origin, and this is the price of cod at the port of entry. It's sold to processing plants and buyers at wholesale prices, which can already reach tens of yuan.
If these silver cod were brought back to China, how much do you think they could sell for?
Their company has sold this type of codfish before, but not whole fish; instead, they sell it in segments. A 400-gram portion of codfish can sell for 170 or 180 yuan.
Even netizens across the internet have to say that they have the lowest price, a truly conscientious price!
And netizens were right; the price they set was truly a fair deal. If anyone on the internet was selling it for less than their company, then what they were selling was definitely not genuine silver cod.
Because no other company in China imports cod at a lower price than theirs, given the different costs, their price is bound to be the lowest.
Bai Yu and his team spent a week fishing for silver cod in the cold water, and in the end, they caught silver cod weighing about 120 tons.
This is the most cod they could catch in seven days of hard work, even with people taking breaks and fishing non-stop. Any more and the ship's cold storage wouldn't be able to hold it all.
In seven days, Bai Yu and his friends not only fished for seven days, but they also livestreamed for seven days straight, doing livestreams on two platforms continuously.
The content of the live stream was also very limited, just fishing at sea. If it weren't for the fact that the anglers in the live stream changed from time to time...
Given the duration of their live stream, their accounts should have been banned long ago.
When Bai Yu and his team arrived in Brazil in their yacht, their company also had partners there, but not in the fishing industry, but in other areas.
They spent seven days catching 120 tons of silver cod, which they eventually sold all in Brazil. The money they made wasn't much, just over six million, plus enough fuel to fill up their yacht's tank.
Selling these silver cod to Brazil would be cheaper than selling them to developed countries, but oil prices are cheaper there.
The prices offered by developed countries in Europe may be higher, but the oil prices there are also really high, and they have to drive to Europe first.
Instead of that, they might as well go directly to Brazil, which is closer and has cheaper fuel, so overall it would be a very good option.
After arriving in Brazil, Bai Yu and his companions naturally went ashore to explore the local customs and culture.
Bai Yu and others felt that Brazil was a great country, except for one thing: there were too many people living a mundane life.
When you travel here, you'll see several Asians every now and then. Just when you think they're one of your own, they start talking about what they say in their notebooks.
For Chinese people, this kind of travel experience is very unfriendly; they get annoyed by people carrying small notebooks.
"What a pity! What a wonderful country! Whether it's the culture, the environment, or the overall political climate, it's all quite good. But where did all these notebooks come from?"
At the entrance of the São Paulo Cathedral in Brazil, Li Shuang looked at a few small notebooks passing by and said with slight displeasure.
This wasn't the first batch of notebooks they'd encountered; there were simply far too many notebooks here.
"Sigh, there's nothing we can do about it. The Japanese bought land in Brazil, and I heard there are millions of them here. Even if their home country is wiped out, they're still not finished."
"Your hometown has been wiped out? That's a pretty good idea. I think we could try it out sometime."
"If that day ever comes, wouldn't our company have to step in and donate some money to the higher-ups?"
"I'm not going to say anything more. Let's go back to fishing. No matter what the fish resources are like here, we can catch some, and every little bit helps."
Watching the backs of those notebooks, Bai Yu and the others naturally started talking about the notebooks.
However, Bai Yu and the others didn't have a good impression of the notebook. Their conversations went straight to the topic of destroying a country, and they even offered to donate money for it.
Moreover, I believe that if that day really comes, I think there will be more than just a few people who want to embezzle money from those in power.
As long as they're from our family and have a relatively normal way of thinking, I don't think anyone wouldn't dislike notebooks.
Of course, this does not include pro-Japanese elements or remote colonists from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; these two types of people cannot necessarily be called Chinese citizens.
Afterwards, Bai Yu and his companions left the cathedral and drove back to the dock where their yacht was moored, as they were going out to sea to fish and earn money.
It's a good opportunity to use up the fuel in the tank while I'm at it, so I can add more when I refuel later. After all, this fuel is something their company is entitled to.
Bai Yu and his crew didn't dock their yacht in São Paulo, but instead docked it in Rio de Janeiro, the former capital of Brazil, which is also a beautiful city.
Bai Yuna also harbors a slight regret about the city of Rio, namely that he did not participate in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
At that time, he was just a rising star in the domestic sports scene. Before participating in the Universiade, he was virtually unknown.
Even if he participated in the Universiade and gained some fame, he still wouldn't be able to compete in the Games that year because he had no international reputation or achievements and was simply not qualified to participate in the Olympics.
It wasn't until early 2017, when he began competing in international events, that he qualified to participate in subsequent Olympic Games.
He used to be unaware of his own capabilities and the path he was meant to take, which led to this regret.
Fortunately, all of that is in the past, and Bai Yu has now become a Grand Slam champion!
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