Chapter 117: Borrowing money to buy a boat
A fishing boat without a refrigerated compartment is inconvenient. The live water tank cannot hold the fish, and there is not enough ice, so the fish can only be piled up in the fish tank.
In other words, Zhang Ze’s second grouper catch was very poor, otherwise the live water tank would not even be able to accommodate groupers and lobsters.
By the time Zhang Zhenghong and his team pulled up the longline, it was already past two in the morning.
The catch had to be sent back the next morning, so Zhang Ze asked them to go back to take a shower and sleep, while he secretly put all the groupers and lobsters in the live water tank into the space to prevent them from dying from lack of oxygen.
There were more than a thousand kilograms of grouper, which almost filled the live water tank.
Many of them were almost suffocated to death, and Zhang Ze immediately saved them after collecting them into the space.
The space now has fourteen cubic meters, and although it seems that the side length has not increased much compared to ten cubic meters, in fact the entire space is still much larger.
In addition, he had cleared out most of the fish, leaving only the blue crabs crawling on the bottom, so after putting more than a thousand pounds of grouper and more than two hundred pounds of lobsters in, it was not crowded at all.
Zhang Ze looked at the total weight of the grouper and lobster. The common grouper weighed 1,026.3 jin, and the tiger grouper weighed 123.6 jin.
The water temperature in the southern part of the Nanping Islands may be more suitable for the survival of tiger grouper, resulting in a higher catch of this fish than in previous places.
The oily grouper weighs 52.6 jin, and the sea red grouper weighs 137 jin.
An ordinary lobster weighs 123.9 jin, while a flower lobster weighs 77.4 jin.
Zhang Ze returned to the cab and took out a notebook to calculate the gains of Zhang Qinghe, Zhang Zhenghong and others.
The groupers and lobsters from both sides are weighed and counted directly after they arrive on the boat, so when the longlines are collected, they also finish counting the two types of aquatic products to avoid mixing them together and making it impossible to calculate.
Subtract their gains from the total weight, and what's left is yours.
Zhang Ze calculated their harvest and also counted his own catch, and then calculated the price he should pay.
The total weight of the common grouper for Zhang Qinghe and Zhang Zhenghong was 721.8 jin, and the price was 80 cents each, so he should pay 577.44 yuan.
He originally planned to give his cousin one dollar, but longline fishing was too uneconomical for him today, so he simply agreed on a unified price.
The tiger grouper weighs 87.3 jin in total, and the unit price is one dollar and three cents, so the required payment is one hundred and thirteen dollars and forty-nine cents.
The total weight of the oil spots was 38.3 jin, and the unit price was 3 yuan, totaling 114.9 yuan.
There were a total of 82 kilograms of red grouper, and the unit price was 5 yuan, or 410 yuan.
The only green lobsters available were from Zhang Qinghe, weighing 57.2 jin, and priced at one dollar and thirty cents each, totaling seventy-four dollars and thirty-six cents.
The flower dragon weighs 23.3 jin, and the unit price is 2 yuan, totaling 46.6 yuan.
So this time Zhang Ze had to pay more than 1,300 yuan for both of them. It would have been fine if he hadn't calculated the bill, but he was shocked when he did.
This is the amount we have to pay them, so the total price after selling it might reach three thousand, which is almost the price of a whole ship.
This does not include other fish, even if the price is not high, it will cost at least two or three hundred yuan.
He estimated that he could sell a thousand kilograms of conger eels for four or five hundred yuan, and the income from longline fishing was completely beyond his expectations.
It's just that this thing takes too much time to make. If he does it alone, he can only put out two longlines a day at most. If he does more than that, there won't be enough time.
It seems that the remaining longlines can indeed be given to Zhang Qinghe and the others, and he only needs to keep one for himself.
Then you can customize a sub-line with a length of 100 meters, so that you can fish for deep-sea fish.
After finishing the accounts, Zhang Ze went back to take a shower and sleep, but he woke up very punctually around five o'clock.
The other people were so tired that they were still snoring around two in the morning. After he got up, he started the fishing boat and came to Tong Yuanhang. A whistle woke up everyone on the two boats.
Tong Yuanhang walked out of the cabin cursing after a while. Seeing that it was Zhang Ze who woke them up, the corners of his mouth twitched and he looked like he wanted to curse but didn't know how.
"What time is it? Why don't you go get up online? It'll be noon by the time you sleep any longer!"
"Right away, right away, are you going back?" Tong Yuanhang asked, wiping his face with his hands to make himself as awake as possible.
"Yes, I'll go back first. You prepare the groupers and other things." Zhang Ze had no intention of asking the other party to deliver the groupers right away.
The groupers in his space have not been put back yet. It would be troublesome if it was discovered that there were no groupers in the live water tank.
After giving the notice, he turned around and saw his eldest cousin coming out wiping his eyes, with the other two cousins following behind him. Only the experienced Zhang Qinghe was still sleeping.
"You guys don't need to come out. Just continue sleeping. I'll call you when we get to the shore."
"Nothing wrong?"
"It's okay. I'll let you practice sailing in the afternoon."
"Okay, I'll continue to sleep. Remember to call us when we get to the shore."
After sending away the few people who had woken up, Zhang Ze drove the boat back. Because he got up early, it was only a little after eight when he returned to the dock.
However, he first came to the pier of Yuewan County. Ou Shuxiang was already waiting there at eight o'clock, which was the time they had agreed on.
He recently rented a house near Zhang Ze's home and will move there with his wife and children in a while.
In the future, Zhang Ze will tell him when he will come back from sea, so Ou Shuxiang can make preparations in advance and he doesn't need to come to Yuewan County every time to notify him separately.
"How was the harvest this time?" Ou Shuxiang asked as soon as he came up.
"The grouper and lobster weighed about 1,500 kilograms. I'm not sure about the situation on the other boat behind, but based on past experience, it should weigh about 300 to 400 kilograms."
Zhang Ze opened the live water tank as he spoke. The dense groupers inside made Ou Shuxiang's eyes light up.
He pondered for a moment and then said, "Well, I'll give you 800 kilograms of grouper and 100 kilograms of lobster. You can help me deliver the rest to Wenshui City, together with your brother-in-law and his men. I'll sell the rest in Wenshui City."
Hearing that Yuewan County had arranged less, Zhang Ze raised his eyebrows: "It seems that your business in Wenshui City is doing well now!"
"It was your sturgeon that gave me the inspiration and helped me to get in touch with several restaurants." Ou Shuxiang had a smile on his face, and he estimated that there must be a lot of money involved.
The main reason is that the price of seafood has increased slightly recently, which made it easier to negotiate his business.
Zhang Ze was not surprised by this. In the early 1980s, the price difference was not big, but there was a certain increase every year. By the mid-to-late 1980s, the price increase was much faster.
He had just started working with Ou Shuxiang and had persuaded someone else to give up his iron rice bowl and become a seafood trader. Naturally, the price had already been agreed upon and could not be raised any further.
A group of people worked together, and 800 kilograms of fish and 100 kilograms of lobsters were quickly carried to the shore and sent away by people arranged by Ou Shuxiang.
Then they continued on their journey, passing by Lumen Island and handing the longline to the net weavers for repair and mending, and ordered a longline with a length of 100 meters, and then returned to Wenshui City.
The price of conger eel was much higher than Zhang Ze expected, reaching 53 cents. He had a total of more than 1,120 kilograms, which he sold for about 600 yuan. Together with other fish, he also earned more than 100 yuan.
Zhang Qinghe also did well this time. In addition to the grouper, his income was also over 300 yuan. Zhang Zhenghong and his companions together made over 450 yuan.
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Zhang Ze was scratching his head when he saw the harvest. If longline fishing could make so much money, wouldn’t it be even more outrageous for those fishing companies that had several trawlers going out to the open sea to fish?
No wonder all the fishing companies are still state-owned, the profits are truly eye-watering!
In fact, Zhang Ze didn't expect something else. Before, it was a collective and the fishermen didn't work hard, so he was able to catch so many groupers.
Now that the market economy is open, there will be more and more trawlers at sea.
By the second half of the year or next year, even if he has the magic bait, his harvest will gradually decrease, unless he can find high-quality fishing spots that others have not discovered every time.
In the days to come, when many coral reefs and reef areas are plowed by trawlers and their ecology is destroyed, the price will further increase after the grouper resources are greatly reduced.
It has reached the point where an average-income family would have to spend half a month or even a month's salary to eat a grouper.
Of course, the large catch of fish this time is also related to the high tide. The harvest during high tide itself is better than usual.
After Zhang Ze had sold all his catch, Tong Yuanhang finally arrived.
Because they didn't have a longline, their catch of grouper was just as he had guessed, only about 430 kilograms, while the lobsters weighed a little over 100 kilograms.
In the end, after Ou Shuxiang sold all the groupers and lobsters, Zhang Ze got 3,672 yuan, plus more than 700 yuan from other fish, so the savings in his pocket directly reached more than 6,000 yuan.
He left a five-jin large flower dragon and a two-jin sea grouper in his own space and went back to cook them for his wife.
"Qing He, do you want to have your own boat?"
Inside the cabin, Zhang Ze was clapping a dozen coins in his hands. These were the proceeds from Zhang Qinghe's grouper fishing trip.
"Gudong~" Zhang Qinghe swallowed as he looked at the money. He knew that this time the harvest was very good and he could make a lot of money. He didn't expect Zhang Ze to directly tempt him with a boat.
After going out to sea so many times, he is now considered a qualified fisherman. With a boat and following Zhang Ze, he no longer needs to worry about encountering problems that cannot be solved.
"You want to lend me some money?"
"Write out a loan document and specify how much money you want to borrow. I'll take you to buy a boat this afternoon." Zhang Ze didn't waste any words. After this longline fishing trip, he had the idea of making Zhang Qinghe independent.
Originally, he wanted to take some shares, but he had said before that if he called his brother over, then the assets would be the other brother's own assets, so Zhang Ze gave up the idea.
According to his idea, he originally planned to arrange for his cousin to go there. The two of them could supervise each other and there would be no need to worry about falsifying the accounts. But now it is obviously unnecessary.
Zhang Qinghe tore off a piece of paper from the notebook without hesitation and began to write the IOU. This guy is better than Zhang Ze before, and he has finished junior high school.
Zhang Ze then looked at his three cousins and asked, "Do you want to buy a boat too?"
Zhang Zhenghong was shocked: "We want to buy it too? We don't even know how to sail a boat, so why buy it and see it?"
"It's easy to sail. I'll teach you how to sail once you buy the boat, and you can practice on the sea. You also need to know how to cast nets and longlines. Just follow me in the beginning, and when you become proficient, you can go out to sea anytime."
Zhang Ze looked at the space where he only needed more than 100 experience points to reach level 15, and his original intention of continuing to take care of his three cousins suddenly stopped.
This time, whenever there was no one on the ship, he would upgrade the space. He felt very uncomfortable seeing that he was only a hundred steps away from being up.
Now that I have just enough money, I might as well just buy it. I will have the space to use freely on my own ship in the future.
Zhang Zhenghong looked at his two younger brothers, and the three of them discussed it and decided that they would have to buy it in the future anyway, so they simply tore off a piece of paper and started writing an IOU.
After both parties had written the IOU, signed it and put their fingerprints on it, Zhang Ze took the IOU and looked at it.
Zhang Qinghe borrowed 2,500 from him, and he paid 500 himself, keeping the rest for other expenses.
Zhang Zhenghong and his friends directly borrowed three thousand yuan. Although they had a few hundred yuan on them, they had a lot of expenses to spend later, so they had to keep some money for backup.
Both parties had agreed to pay it back within one year, and he had no objection to that. He believed that if nothing unexpected happened, the loan would definitely be paid back within one year.
After signing his name and pressing his fingerprints, Zhang Ze drove the boat directly to the shipyard after lunch.
Not only did Zhang Qinghe and his team want to buy a boat, he also had to add a winch to the stern of the boat to pull the long rope.
(End of this chapter)
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