Seeing the truth but not saying it out loud, Xiang Yang could only shovel rice into his mouth to hide his emotions.
Because there was something important to do tomorrow morning, Xiang Yang did not go out to sea again after dinner.
Xiang Yang, who had gone to bed early, got up very early the next day. As soon as it was light, Xiang Yang didn't even bother to eat breakfast and walked out of the house in the dew at the sound of roosters crowing.
According to the agreement between Xiang Yang and his uncle, the fishing boat will be able to return to Qinglongwan within this week, but the dock at Qinglongwan still needs to be dealt with.
Qinglongwan itself has a dock, and the berth is more than eight meters deep, which is fully capable of accommodating Xiang Yang's large fishing boat. However, a real dock requires more than just a berth with sufficient depth. It also requires berth space, distance to the shore, space for loading and unloading cargo, warehouse area, and the surrounding openness.
The small wharf at Qinglongwan has no data other than the berth depth which meets the minimum standard for a real wharf.
Xiang Yang was unable to change the berth space, number of berths, and warehouse area in a short period of time and could only make do with them, but he had to change the space for loading and unloading cargo and the distance to the shore.
The cargo capacity of a drift net fishing boat with a total length of 39.5 meters, a beam of 7.1 meters, a height of 3.5 meters, a draft of 2.4 meters and a total tonnage of 207 tons is very terrifying. Every 0.1 meter increase in the distance to the shore and every meter decrease in the loading and unloading space requires unimaginable manpower to make up for it.
Referring to the advice given by his uncle, Xiang Yang chose to purchase triangular steel frames and bamboo tangerine boards to build a unloading bridge next to the dock to expand the Qinglongwan Wharf.
Although the service life of bamboo tangerine boards and triangular steel frames is very limited, this can only be a short-term feasible method, but it is indeed the method with the lowest cost. Xiang Yang, who is short of money, chose this method without hesitation as a way to transition Qinglongwan Wharf from a small wharf to a large wharf.
The bamboo tangerine boards and triangular steel frames were both bought by Uncle Xiang. The other party only delivered the goods to the town and Xiang Yang had to go in person to receive them.
In addition to receiving the bamboo tangerine boards and triangular steel frames, Xiang Yang also needs to invite a team of construction workers back.
Xiang Yang hired a very professional construction team. They were not the kind of bricklayers who built houses for people in the village. Every construction worker in the entire construction team had built railways or highways and had first-class professional qualities.
"It is very difficult to build such an unloading bridge next to the dock!" Chen Fugen, the contractor in Huhai Town, looked at the engineering drawings handed over by Xiang Yang, especially after hearing that Xiang Yang had already bought the construction materials himself, he was obviously unwilling to take this business.
"How much does it cost?" Xiang Yang asked directly.
"This is an underwater operation. Our machines are completely useless. The entire project needs to rely on manpower to complete. Each triangular steel frame weighs dozens of kilograms. At least four or five workers are needed at the same time to find the exact position and place a triangular steel frame on the seabed... No one will be willing to take on such a project without 40,000 or 50,000 yuan." Chen Fugen said, rolling up the drawings in his hand.
"I can give you fifty thousand. Can you help me finish this project within a week?"
"Boss Xiang, you look down on me, Old Chen. You know about high-speed rail, right? I, Old Chen, can repair high-speed rail tracks. How can such a small project take a week? I promise to help you finish it within three days. As for the quality, Boss Xiang, you can ask anyone you want."
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Xiang Yang looked at Chen Fugen deeply and finally chose to sign a contract with the other party. Maybe Chen Fugen's offer was a bit high, but Xiang Yang did not think that 50,000 yuan was expensive. In some places outside, it costs hundreds of thousands to decorate a house. Building a willow bridge next to the pier is more difficult than decorating a house.
After leaving Chen Fugen, Xiang Yang went to the cement factory to buy some cement and slate.
The unloading space at the Qinglongwan dock is also too small, so Xiang Yang needs to expand it to a certain extent. This is actually very simple. First, lay a layer of sandbags on the beach, level it, pour cement on it, and then cover it with stone slabs.
The construction work at the dock was progressing at full speed. Xiang Yang did not go out to sea for the next two days and stayed at the dock from morning to night every day.
Two days later, the two batches of diving equipment purchased by Xiang Yang and Village Chief Zuo were shipped back almost at the same time.
The villagers who bought the diving equipment couldn't put them down when they received their brand new diving equipment.
Xiang Yang stopped several fishermen who were about to sink into the sea with oxygen tanks on their backs. "Do you know how to use diving equipment? Just sink into the sea with them on your back?"
"Xiao Yang, didn't we see you using diving equipment in this way before?" The fishermen who were stopped by Xiang Yang all laughed awkwardly.
Xiang Yang was immediately confused. Yes, Xiang Yang always carried an oxygen tank on his back when he went ashore, but the tank was connected to a breathing mask, right? What were the villagers trying to do by jumping into the water with oxygen tanks but without breathing masks? Were they dissatisfied that the water was not sinking fast enough
"This is how you use the diving equipment." Xiang Yang demonstrated how to connect the two ends of the oxygen tube to the oxygen cylinder and the breathing mask. "The oxygen cylinder is on your back, but you have to rely on the breathing mask to breathe underwater."
The fishermen looked at Xiang Yang eagerly and nodded repeatedly like students listening to their teacher in class.
After teaching the fishermen how to use the diving equipment and reminding them that they must dive in groups of at least two, and that each diving time should not be too long and that they must surface once every certain number of minutes, Xiang Yang stopped caring about them. They were all fishermen, and there was no such thing as special underwater training. At most, they would feel a little uncomfortable at the beginning when carrying the diving equipment, but it would be fine once they got used to it.
Xiang Yang planned to wait for the fishermen to adapt to the diving area for two days before taking them to the sea area where the tiger ear mushrooms grew.
Even though they had not yet seen the sea area that Xiang Yang mentioned that was rich in tiger ear mushrooms, the fishermen were already pleasantly surprised by the charming underwater scenery of Qinglongwan.
The fishermen who dived to the bottom of the sea felt that they had completely entered another world. The unknown mysterious veil of the seabed was being lifted to them little by little. Various marine creatures of different species, colors and shapes were swimming lively among the lush aquatic plants on the bottom of Qinglongwan.
The endless lush seaweed, huge numbers of fish, shellfish, swimming crabs, lobsters, etc. make the entire Qinglongwan seabed look full of vitality.
"I'm rich, I'm rich. No wonder Brother Yang always comes back with a full load every time he goes out to sea. It turns out the fishery resources on the seabed are so rich." Fatty Zuo, wearing diving equipment, surfaced after diving for just a while on the seabed, holding a swimming crab and a big lobster in his hands, and danced with joy.