It took two days to get back to the Sanya pier from the location of the shipwreck, which was about the same time as the previous trip.
This time they docked at a port in the city, which is larger and can accommodate larger ships.
After the salvage vessel arrived at the port, Li Shuang had already arranged the transport vehicles. As soon as the vessel came to a stop, they could begin unloading the cargo.
In order to pack up and take away all the salvaged supplies, Li Shuang arranged for five trucks to carry different supplies.
The least informative, yet also the most numerous, item is various types of timber.
There were a great many of these items. Leaving aside the ship's hold, which was salvaged along with supplies, there were also the scattered pieces of timber and other parts of the wrecked ship.
All these things together weigh tens of tons, so it would take several trucks to pack them all together.
The remaining porcelain shards and gold and silver ingots were loaded onto one truck, while the piles of rags were placed on the last truck.
"Uncle Liao, if there's nothing else here, I'll take my leave first. You can discuss the subsequent expenses with our company's General Manager Li."
If anything else comes up, I will contact you, Mr. Li. I hope there will be opportunities for cooperation in the future.
After the salvage boat docked, Bai Yu led Li Xue and the others to say goodbye to Uncle Liao.
Although he was interested in recruiting Uncle Liao's team, the time for that wasn't now.
Opening up a new way to make money is a big deal, and he plans to hold a meeting to discuss how to resolve this issue.
Uncle Liao shook hands with Bai Yu with a big smile and kept saying he looked forward to the next collaboration.
As for the issue of subsequent expenses, Uncle Liao was not worried at all. After all, Bai Yu was a public figure, and given the earning power of Yu Xue Company, they wouldn't be short of a little salvage fee.
At the same time, Uncle Liao is also very much looking forward to future collaborations.
As Uncle Liao said before, the business of shipwreck salvage is really not very profitable now.
If you let him go out to sea to salvage the sunken ship, the cost would be extremely high, and if he returned empty-handed, the cost would be unbearable for him.
However, if he doesn't go to sea, he has several ships under his command. Even if these ships are not in use, they will still incur daily maintenance and berthing costs.
In addition, he now has to support a whole team, which costs money both inside and out.
Now, for Uncle Liao, this puts him in a dilemma: if he can't find a sunken ship at sea and can't salvage any supplies, it's a losing proposition.
Even without going to sea, the daily staff wages and ship maintenance costs are still a significant expense.
What he hopes for now is to meet more clients like Yuxue Company, to give them money, and to let them salvage shipwrecks.
In that case, they might not earn a lot, but at least they're guaranteed to make a profit.
Just like Bai Yu and his team this time, according to the budget made by Li Shuang, the salvage cost this time is more than ten million, less than twenty million.
This money will be transferred to Uncle Liao's side. As for his various costs, personnel expenses, and how much he can make in the end, that remains to be seen.
Who knows? It's definitely over a million, otherwise the other party wouldn't have taken the job.
Now Uncle Liao is really hoping that there will be more of these kinds of jobs. That way, he only needs to go out to sea three times a year, each time for nearly four months, and he can earn millions of dollars. Just thinking about it makes him happy.
Afterwards, Bai Yu took the company car back to the company, not home.
That's because Bai Yu and the others arrived at the dock at just the right time, around 11:00 AM, which is almost lunchtime.
By the time Bai Yu returned to the company from the city, it was almost lunchtime. Their company provided lunch, which was prepared by the chef from Uncle Sun's hotel.
In this situation, should Bai Yu go home to eat by herself, or go to the company and have a meal with everyone?
In addition, a truck carrying gold and silver ingots and porcelain fragments also went back with Bai Yu.
Porcelain shards and those with minor damage are easy to handle. Have some professionals examine them and select those that can be repaired.
The remaining unrepairable fragments won't be wasted. Bai Yu plans to use them to create a landscape in their company's lobby, placing it in a prominent spot.
At 11:58, Bai Yu returned to the company.
As soon as the car stopped, Bai Yu and Li Xue got out and ran out. His goal was clear: to head straight for their company's restaurant.
"Xue'er, you walk slowly behind me, then go to the restaurant and save a seat. I'll go get the food first. Is there anything you'd like to eat?"
Yueyue just sent us today's menu. Take a look and tell me what you want to eat. I'm going to go queue up now.
That's right, even though Bai Yu is the chairman of the company, he still has to queue up when he eats.
It was almost noon, lunchtime, and Bai Yu didn't want to wait in line. He wanted to use the last minute or so to get to the restaurant as quickly as possible to get his food.
As long as he can arrive at the restaurant before noon, he won't have to queue. If anyone gets ahead of him at that time, they'll be considered to have left early, and Bai Yu will deduct their wages—a hefty deduction!
Fortunately, the employees of Bai Yu's company were all quite well-behaved. When Bai Yu arrived at the restaurant, no employees had left early or come to the restaurant beforehand.
Then he took the first place and ordered two meals, one piled high like a mountain of rice, and the other a normal portion.
The cafeteria lady glanced at Bai Yu several times at his behavior and then told him not to waste food.
Bai Yu nodded repeatedly at the aunt's reaction, saying that he wouldn't waste any food and that he could finish it all.
This auntie is obviously new here. She doesn't know much about Bai Yu's appetite and doesn't know what he did before. His appetite is ridiculously large!
After dinner, Bai Yu called the company's management personnel and they all went to the conference room.
This time, a much larger number of managers were called in. It wasn't just their group of eight or nine people, but also other managers from the company, including vice presidents and managers from various departments.
After everyone arrived at the conference room, Bai Yu's first words were not about the meeting itself, but rather a question to everyone present: what would you like to drink?
When it comes to employee benefits, Bai Yu's company is definitely among the top in China.
This is not only reflected in salary and working hours, but also in the daily benefits, which are something that employees of other companies can only dream of.
Moreover, Bai Yu wasn't just treating the management team to afternoon tea; it's just that their group ordered separately, while the rest of the company's employees were handled by the logistics department.
As for the content that Bai Yu was going to discuss at the meeting, it concerned the development of the shipwreck salvage business.
To be honest, Bai Yu was quite optimistic about this project, but his company didn't have any relevant professionals, and even if the project was established, he didn't know who to entrust with it.
Anyway, after a lot of discussion, we still didn't have a definite answer to this question.
The company's employees also offered some constructive suggestions, such as hiring a professional team to take charge and then using a mentorship system to cultivate their own team.
Their company had used this model before; that's how their shipping company's fleet grew, from a single fishing boat to hundreds of fishing boats now.
When their company only had one fishing boat, they had only forty crew members, including the captain.
Several years have passed since then, and of the first batch of forty crew members in their company, the lowest-ranking has now reached the level of third mate, and there are nearly ten captains.
Working at their company, as long as you are hardworking, ambitious, and able to obtain the relevant certificates, your salary will increase even if you don't get the corresponding position.
The establishment of this new industry undoubtedly provides a new career path for the company's thousands of crew members. It is believed that a large number of existing crew members will be willing to transfer from the fishing boats to the new department.
The only problem now is how to implement this.
After all, when it comes to salvaging shipwrecks, Bai Yu and his team only knew Uncle Liao; they weren't very familiar with the rest of the team and company.
In the end, Bai Yu gave Li Shuang a task: to sound out Uncle Liao's opinion when he was paying the final payment.
Let's see if the latter has any objections to being recruited, after all, Uncle Liao is now the captain of the boat, and he makes all the decisions for the entire team.
However, once Bai Yu and his group recruit him, his team will no longer be his sole authority; it will be split up, at least from one team to two.
Furthermore, there will be several more managers above Uncle Liao, which may cause Uncle Liao some psychological distress and make it difficult for him to accept this situation.
While Bai Yu was arranging work for Li Shuang, another group of people were also arranging work for Bai Yu, and it was the kind of work that Bai Yu couldn't refuse.
On the same day, Bai's parents met with Bai Yu's godparents at Bai Yu's home.
To outsiders, it would seem like the two families were simply having a get-together and chatting.
After all, besides being in-laws, Bai's mother and godmother are also very close friends, the kind of friends who are inseparable.
But only the two parties who met knew that this meeting was not a simple gathering, but that they really had something important to talk about.
According to them, the main characters are Bai Yu and Li Xue.
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