Chapter 86: New Spare Iron Boat
A few days later, after Zhang Ze successfully obtained the business license, good news finally came from the other side. It seems that they have been paying attention to his situation.
According to the agreed time, Zhang Ze rode his bicycle to the fishery station.
When we got here, Tong Yuanhang and his two brothers were already there.
Zhang Ze went up and patted his butt: "You've been having a good time lately. You look like you've gained some weight."
Tong Yuanhang pretended to hit him: "Where are you shooting? Where are you shooting? Is this the place you can shoot?"
The scout next to him said emphatically: "Why, you can't touch the tigress's butt?"
"Go away, second brother, why are you speaking for outsiders?" Tong Yuanhang didn't expect that his own brother would stab him in the back, and he said angrily.
But there was more than one person who backstabbed him. Tong Guoqi also joined in the fun: "Aze is not an outsider. Aze is my sister's husband and my good brother-in-law."
Zhang Ze raised his head proudly, which made Tong Yuanhang laugh out of anger. The stab in the back came too suddenly and he was caught off guard.
A few people were joking around, and after a while Lu Xuanguo walked out of the building.
"Uncle Lu."
"Uncle Lu." X3 "Since everyone is here, let's go!" The arranged car was already parked nearby and waiting. Lu Xuanguo didn't waste any words. He asked everyone to get in the car and then set off for the destination to buy a boat.
It was their first time riding in a car. The Tong brothers were very curious about the car and kept touching it here and there. Only Zhang Ze was relatively calm.
Lu Xuanguo was a little surprised at his calmness, but he didn't think much about it and just thought he was more stable.
The car drove out of Wenshui City and arrived at a town near Oujiang River, which is considered the earliest shipyard base in Wenshui City.
Lu Xuanguo has a comrade here who is a factory director. The boat he helped to inquire about is the new iron fishing boat produced this year. After the state-owned fishery company replaced the fishing boats, some of them were left in the warehouse as spare boats.
Based on the situation in previous years, these fishing boats will most likely be left in the warehouse gathering dust.
But this year's new policies made him see some clues. Later, Lu Xuanguo came to talk about buying a ship, which made his thoughts clearer.
Perhaps in the future, fishing boats will not only be provided to fishing companies.
But before the matter was clarified, the factory manager could not risk making a mistake by selling the ship to them. Therefore, although he wanted to sell the ship, he was reluctant to agree.
He didn't feel relieved until the first business license was issued.
In fact, Zhang Ze did not expect that Lu Xuanguo could help him find a newly built iron fishing boat. Originally, he just wanted to buy a second-hand small wooden boat as a transition, and then buy an iron boat in two years, but it would naturally be better to buy it now.
Soon the car drove into a shipyard, and the director of the shipyard came out in person to greet Lu Xuanguo. Judging from the close demeanor of the two men, the relationship between these comrades-in-arms was quite good.
The two exchanged pleasantries, and then the factory director led the way and personally took them to see the ship.
Walking into the warehouse, a total of six iron fishing boats appeared in everyone's sight.
The outside of the fishing boat was painted blue, and it looked almost the same as the old-style iron boats seen in later generations.
There are two types of boats, four of which are 15-meter ordinary fishing boats, priced at 3,000 yuan, and two of which are 26-meter trawlers, priced at 6,500 yuan.
This price is the lowest price given out of respect for Lu Xuanguo, and there is no way to bargain.
No matter whether it was three thousand yuan or six thousand five hundred, it gave Zhang Ze an inexplicable feeling of cheapness. Mainly because he had experienced the afterlife and often had a sense of substitution for the concept of money in the afterlife, but this price was a sky-high price in the ears of Tong Yuanhang and his two brothers.
After they renovated the house in Wenshui City, the remaining money was just over 7,000 yuan. This was the 5,000 yuan that Lu Man had given to the three of them, plus the money they had saved from selling fish with Zhang Ze for nearly two months at the beginning of the year.
Zhang Ze can earn more than 200 yuan per trip, and their total earnings per trip is only a little over 100 yuan. If they divide it among the three of them, it's actually not much.
It's definitely better than working in a factory, but it's far inferior to Zhang Ze.
After buying the trawler for 6,500 yuan, there would not be much left, and the three brothers only needed an ordinary fishing boat, so there was no need to buy a trawler.
Zhang Ze was also thankful. In the nearly two months since the beginning of the year, he had saved up more than 3,200 yuan, which was just enough to buy a boat. He estimated that there would be little left after paying for the diesel for going out to sea.
Unfortunately, current technology is insufficient. Even a 15-meter ship has a range of only about 80 nautical miles. Normally, it can only operate within a range of about 40 nautical miles from the shore. Spare diesel must be prepared on board just in case.
But it is enough for Zhang Ze. The farthest place he is considering at present is Nanping Island or a small area of Zhoushan fishing ground close to the shore.
Fortunately, the boat was equipped with all the basic facilities and equipment, so he had no problem fishing, longlining, setting hooks, Korean nets or gill nets.
The two ships and their identities have been registered. The large ship needs to be registered now, and it will also be convenient for Zhang Ze and others to purchase diesel with the certificates in the future. Then the factory will arrange for the launching.
Zhang Ze and the three brothers of the Tong family were all a little excited, and no one considered whether they could drive the boat.
It was Lu Xuanguo who asked, "Can you guys drive a boat?"
The excited expressions of the three Tong brothers froze on their faces. Although they were fishermen in the production team before, they used small wooden boats without propellers and relied on their hands to go everywhere. When had they ever driven such a fishing boat? Zhang Ze was also a little stunned. He knew how to drive a boat, but he didn't know how the operation of the boat in the 1980s was different from that in later times.
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And even if he can drive it, he has to pretend that he can't drive it. Otherwise, how can he explain it?
The shipyard director seemed to have thought about this problem a long time ago, and said with a smile: "I have a master in my factory, I will arrange for him to teach you how to sail a boat."
"It's not difficult to operate a boat. What you need to learn is how to repair important equipment on board when it breaks down."
"Before you learn it, I believe Old Lu will not let you go to the open sea."
Lu Xuanguo nodded: "Of course."
Not to mention anything else, the three brothers of the Tong family are the sons of his comrades-in-arms, and Zhang Ze is now also his relative. As an elder, he must of course be responsible for them.
Zhang Ze and his friends breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that the factory director would arrange for a master to teach them, otherwise they would not know where to go to learn.
Do I have to apply to be an apprentice in a fishing company and learn from an ocean-going captain?
Whether others want it or not is a question!
After buying the fishing boat, Zhang Ze and his companions immediately followed the assigned master to learn how to drive the boat.
As soon as he got the hang of it, he realized that it was not much different from the fishing boats of later generations. Soon he was driving the boat on the sea, and the old master praised him as the fastest learner among all the people he had taught.
Three hours later, the three brothers of the Tong family had learned almost everything. Lu Xuanguo had an appointment with the director of the shipyard to drink in the evening, so there was no need to bother with him.
After receiving the extra fifty liters of diesel ticket from the captain, they each drove their own boat to the dock to rent a berth.
It is definitely too late to learn about repair and fault inspection today, so they need to take time out to go to the shipyard and learn from the old master.
After renting a berth and parking the boat, Zhang Ze invited Tong Yuanhang and the others, "Come to my place for dinner tonight? I'll show you my cooking skills. I guarantee you'll eat so much that you'll even swallow your tongue."
"How can a grown man like you do kitchen work?" Tong Junqiang expressed his doubt.
Tong Yuanhang was quite interested: "Let's go, let's go. I've heard from Shuyao that you have a lot of ideas. You can cook seafood that others don't eat in various ways. Let's try it today."
(End of this chapter)
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