Chapter 225: I have to start working hard to make money at sea
There are actually a lot of cartilage on the wings of manta rays, but the waiter only brought the belly part, which is the softest and most delicious part.
So after tasting it, Zhang Ze felt that manta ray meat was actually quite good. Although the taste was slightly worse than that of ordinary stingray, it was not bad if stewed well.
Of course, if it is a large stingray, its meat may not be as good as this manta ray.
This thing was just for fun, so Zhang Ze only asked the waiter to bring two servings, and each person only took a small bite to taste it.
Especially Zhang Wu, children like it best, but they are also picky eaters.
He had been pampered by Zhang Ze with high-end seafood such as lobster and grouper, but after taking a small bite, he complained that the manta ray meat was not as delicious as the grouper he had eaten two days ago. Zhang Huihong almost slapped him when she heard it.
What is mouse grouper? It is the best among groupers and is known as the king of groupers.
What's more, Zhang Ze used the conversion function to improve the taste of the rat spots.
Since Zhang Wu has a fisherman brother, it is normal for him to be picky about eating seafood. The thing that fishermen have the most is seafood. It’s just that Zhang Ze’s family situation is special, so he can often eat high-end seafood.
The restaurant served the dishes very quickly, and the two younger ones, Zhang Wu and Zhang Qing, were immediately attracted by the food.
Even though they have no worries about food and clothing, they still rarely go to restaurants for big meals.
Zhang Ze didn't care about the money, so he served all the restaurant's specialty dishes, including lobster, abalone and the like.
After all, the taste of what the chef cooks is completely different from what you make yourself, so you won’t get tired of it even if the ingredients are the same.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sales of seafood will drop to a lower level.
So Zhang Ze is not in a hurry to go out to sea. In recent days, he has been helping with his new business, which is the seafood restaurant.
It was very successful to find Lu Wenbin for investment. There was no reason for him to refuse such a win-win cooperation.
After being in the mainland for a few months, he has already seen the potential of the mainland market.
Even though the average income in mainland China is not even a fraction of that in Hong Kong Island, there are more people!
Lu Wenbin even knew that certain businesses could make money faster, such as real estate development.
However, many things are not as simple as they seem, and personal connections are very important.
His clothing business is supported by the local government, and he is currently planning to open a second factory and a chain of clothing stores. However, if he wants to enter the real estate business, the local government may not support him.
He had no interest in the catering industry at first, but Zhang Ze had some connections specializing in catering, so he didn't mind investing.
If you want to make money, you can do so by having a good idea or seizing an opportunity.
If you want to become stronger and bigger, then personal connections are very important.
Zhang Ze borrowed money from him to invest in a seafood restaurant. Lu Wenbin, who has become a local resident of Hong Kong Island, knows him very well.
He is a man who has eaten at Taibai Floating Restaurant and Jumbo Floating Restaurant, and he knows that this business can be very profitable if done well.
Although it is not at the level of robbing money, as long as you do it well, you can make money quickly.
Zhang Ze is currently calculating the budget for the ship in the cabin. They have booked a total of 63 ships, including 15 15-meter-long ships that can provide dining and rest space for 15 people. There is also a tea room on board.
He originally considered setting up a chess and card room and providing massage and relaxation services, but after thinking it over he decided not to.
Anyone who can charter a ship must be a wealthy person, as this could easily lead to cases of pornography or gambling.
He just wants to make money peacefully and is not prepared to touch these things.
Even if he formalizes it, who knows if the masseuse can resist the temptation?
Moreover, the customs in mainland China are still somewhat different from those in Hong Kong Island. Nowadays, pretty young ladies will not come out to give massages to people.
If you date someone who is not decent, his/her quality will be too low and no one will look down on him/her.
Next are twenty twelve-meter ships, and the rest are all ten-meter boats.
Each ship has a kitchen with two chefs and two waiters.
After the customer makes a reservation, the chef will come on board with the ingredients and semi-finished products prepared in advance.
Their bulk model does require a large number of chefs, but fortunately, the seasonings and broths for many dishes can be prepared in advance by the chef.
Therefore, even if the chef's skills on the ten-meter boat are not so good, there will basically be no problems.
The last three boats are large boats of 20 meters. Customers need to make a reservation at least one day in advance and choose the dishes on the day of arrival.
Since the main dish is seafood, it is impossible for the high-end ingredients to be the same every day, so it is reasonable to let customers choose what is available that day.
After the customers have made their selection, the chef will personally prepare the dishes on board.
The three ships will be given names that reflect the characteristics of the chefs' cooking skills. In the future, if customers want to taste the cooking skills of a certain chef, they can just make a reservation for that ship.
Among these sixty-three ships, including a twenty-meter-long ship, the budget for the hull plus decoration and carving costs is thirty thousand for each ship, adding up to ninety thousand in total.
There are fifteen 15-meter boats, with a budget of about 18,000 yuan for each, which adds up to 270,000 yuan.
There is not much difference between a 15-meter and a 20-meter ship, and the price difference is only two thousand yuan, but there is a big difference in the level of decoration, so the price difference is also big.
These wooden boats are not expensive, but it costs a lot of money to decorate them.
For example, a 20-meter ship would have three floors, but a 15-meter ship would only have two floors.
The twelve-meter and ten-meter ones only have one layer, which is mainly used for sun protection or rain protection.
Therefore, the budget for these two types of ships is only 7,000 and 5,000, which is a big difference from the two types of hulls mentioned above.
The total budget for twenty twelve-meter ships is 84,000 yuan, and the total budget for twenty-five ten-meter ships is 125,000 yuan. The total budget for all the ships is 569,000 yuan.
As for wages, they are extremely cheap in mainland China.
Even the chef in charge of a 20-meter ship was poached from somewhere else for only one thousand yuan a month.
Before that, the other party’s monthly income was only over two hundred yuan.
The income of top chefs is indeed much higher than that of ordinary workers, but they still cannot remain calm when faced with a salary of one thousand per month.
Working for three months now is equivalent to working for one year before. Who can remain calm?
As for the rest, the salary for waiters and the like starts at 40 yuan a month, and will increase a little every year based on length of service.
The monthly salary of a boat driver is lower than that of a waiter, starting at only 30. After all, it is just driving a boat on the river, which is indeed an easy job.
Therefore, the total cost plus labor wages is estimated to be only about 700,000 yuan. Compared with the cost of directly building a large seafood restaurant, this investment is simply a drop in the bucket.
Of course, domestic prices, labor costs, etc. cannot be compared with Hong Kong Island. If it were in Hong Kong Island, the investment would probably have to be several times higher, and labor costs might be more than ten times higher.
The three of them discussed it and decided to invest one million.
Among them, Zhao Xianghua contributed 500,000 yuan, Lu Wenbin contributed 200,000 yuan, and Zhang Ze contributed 300,000 yuan.
Lu Wenbin's investment is just a gesture. His focus will not be on this. He is willing to invest only for the sake of his cousin's husband.
After Zhang Ze sold the fish before the Mid-Autumn Festival, he had only a little over 70,000 yuan on him.
Three hundred thousand was far from enough, so he simply borrowed three hundred thousand from Lu Wenbin and invested it. According to his current income, he might be able to pay it off by the end of the year.
As for their seafood restaurant, it is expected to open after the first lunar month of next year, so there is no rush.
Originally they had to build their own pier, but building a small pier would not make much sense. If the seafood restaurant made money, they would definitely start building a large seafood restaurant, and then the small pier would not be very useful.
So Zhao Xianghua simply rented a wharf on the Pearl River from the government and built a small factory near the wharf to store and process food.
Some things can be simpler at the beginning. They are not gambling kings or have big capital. It is impossible for them to invest huge amounts of money without being sure whether the business is good or not.
Only when the seafood restaurant opens and meets their expectations, will they gradually own the larger seafood restaurant and pier.
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By the time the preliminary preparations for the seafood restaurant were almost completed, it was already mid-October, and almost half a month had passed.
During this period, even Nanfang has started to cool down, and the daytime is not as hot as before.
Some people who are afraid of cold have already put on thin long sleeves, and the temperature at night is only around 20 degrees.
Going out to sea in this kind of weather is much more comfortable than before.
After half a month, Zhang Ze returned to the fishing village again. He felt dazed for a moment as if he had not been here for a long time.
I went to Jin Sanbao's house first and learned that he and Jin Fan and others had just gone out to sea yesterday and would probably not be back for a few days.
Zhang Ze could only feel sorry for them. Without him, their fishing efficiency would not be very high.
After asking Jin Sanbao's family to prepare the longline and send it to the dock, he went to the dock first to buy bait.
The tides are high these days, so there is no need to worry about not being able to buy fishing bait.
When Zhang Ze came to his boat, he found it was very clean and there was no bird droppings or anything.
Normally, when a boat stays on the river for a month, there will definitely be many birds stopping to rest and leave some footprints.
Zhang Ze guessed that it was done by the two brothers Lin Hu and Lin Long. After all, if he didn't go out to sea, these two people would have nothing to do, so they could only do things within their ability to avoid wasting their wages.
But they are free now, but that may not be the case in the future.
Once the seafood restaurant opens, they will be responsible for delivering the daily seafood needs.
Lin Hu came back after three days of going to his hometown. After hearing from Lin Long that he had been depressed for several days, Zhang Ze even went to gossip and show some concern.
Then the result he got was just as he expected. The reason why Bai Yueguang is Bai Yueguang is that he can't get it.
Lin Hu's white moonlight is already married and is pregnant.
Zhang Ze did not comment on this. However, he felt that experiencing emotional setbacks was not entirely a bad thing, at least it made people mature a lot and not as naive as before.
Soon after the fishermen delivered the purchased baits onto the boat, Jin Sanbao's family also came over with the longline.
Zhang Ze had already exchanged the ordinary baits exchanged in the space with the purchased baits, so he asked them to hang the baits on the boat, while he returned to the shore to buy supplies for going out to sea.
Xiao Hei didn't get on the boat just now, he was just guarding on the shore. When he saw him come back, he followed him happily.
Unlike before when it was easy to hold in my arms, the puppy grew fast and now it looked bigger than an adult small dog, and much bigger.
It is only one size smaller than an adult rural dog and will probably be about the same size in another month.
Zhang Ze touched its head and said that by next year, Xiao Hei would be able to watch the boat and guard the house for him.
Fortunately, Xiao Hei is very smart and never hurts anyone, otherwise he wouldn't dare to let him go like this.
Zhang Ze also prepared to get a tow rope. When Xiao Hei grows up a little, he will have to lead the way when he goes out.
After purchasing the supplies, I took Xiao Hei back to the boat and hoisted the small tugboat up, and then he helped to hang some bait.
The bait was hung up and it was already a little after ten o'clock. Zhang Ze did not waste any time. He started the engine to preheat it, then raised the anchor and set off.
This time his destination is still the open sea. He caught so many king-level seafood in that area before, so he will definitely go shopping more in the coming days. He owes three hundred thousand oceans!
We set off at ten in the morning and arrived at our destination at nearly twelve at night.
At this point in time, Zhang Ze was too lazy to go fishing at night. Even though Duoyu had an automatic navigation system, he still had to watch from the cab and could not rest.
Plus, there was no entertainment at that time, and he only had a dog to keep him company, so he was quite mentally exhausted.
But after thinking about it, he decided to let down the longline for deep-sea fishing. It would not be too late to collect it when he got up tomorrow morning. Otherwise, he would be in a hurry to collect six longlines every time.
After leaving the archipelago, I walked around the area and found a pretty good resource point.
After letting down two longlines, Zhang Ze stopped at a distance, dropped the anchor, turned off the engine and went to sleep.
He woke up naturally the next day, opened the curtains and saw that it was gray outside. He thought it was still early, but when he looked up at the alarm clock hanging on the wall, he was suddenly startled to realize that it was already 7:30 in the morning.
He overslept, he overslept, he quickly pulled back the quilt.
But as soon as he opened it, he shivered all over. Why was it so cold all of a sudden? The windows and doors of the room were closed, so the temperature should be much higher than outside.
With a little curiosity, he took out a long-sleeved shirt from the closet and put it on. He opened the door and a damp and cold wind blew in.
Zhang Ze suddenly realized that it was drizzling outside. No wonder the gray outside made him think it was still early.
The temperature is dropping very quickly. When I arrived last night, it was probably over 20 degrees Celsius, but now it's probably only 15 degrees.
The thin long sleeves were a little uncomfortable for cold resistance. Although Zhang Ze didn't feel the cold after his physique adapted, he still went back and put on a short-sleeved shirt.
The weather at sea is more unpredictable than on shore. It seems that I need to prepare some thick clothes and keep them on the boat when I return this time.
Without preparing breakfast first, the longlining took too long, so he started the fishing boat, raised the anchor, and went to reel in the two longlines first.
It was drizzling outside, so he had to put on his raincoat to work.
After pulling up the longline float, Zhang Ze touched the sea water with his bare hands, which felt cold, which made him feel a little regretful.
This water temperature is not suitable for long-term diving. He had planned to dive in the afternoon to explore the underwater area and catch some lobsters, fan shrimps, etc., and pick up some valuable conchs.
(End of this chapter)
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