After the satellite call, He Mingde also got angry. The other party actually said that they were on a temporary mission and asked Xiang Yang and the others to stay in the country for another week and give them news after a week. He Mingde was so angry that he hung up the phone on the spot.
"What should we do? Should we go to Antarctica? Without an icebreaker, we can't move an inch in Antarctica," said He Mingde.
Xiang Yang frowned and said, "Wait a minute, I'll make a phone call and ask."
Xiang Yang still remembered that there were a lot of Antarctic krill in Zhang Qicheng's aquatic wholesale market. It must have a way to get to Antarctica. Maybe calling Zhang Qicheng at this time would work.
As a result, when the call was made, Zhang Qicheng was very surprised and asked, "Brother Xiang, are you in Xisha now?"
Xiang Yang was immediately puzzled, "What does that mean? Is there anyone else in Xisha besides me?"
It couldn't be that Zhang Qicheng was alone in the Xisha Islands. Xiang Yang knew that Zhang Qicheng generally would not go out to the open sea.
"He is one of my suppliers. His fleet has just arrived in Xisha and is expected to reach Pioneer Beach for resupply this morning. If you want to go to Antarctica, you can go with them. I will give you his contact information then."
After Zhang Qicheng's introduction, Xiang Yang finally understood. It turned out that the other party was a team that specialized in catching shrimps in Antarctica. Their surname was Gao, and the address of the fishing company was in Longcheng. It was said that the boss who led their team was a fellow villager of Xiang Yang. The entire fishing company had more than a dozen ocean-going mother ships and over a hundred fishing boats. There were thousands of fishing boats affiliated with their fishing company. He is now the richest man in Liancheng.
Through Zhang Qicheng, Xiang Yang made an appointment with the other party to meet at Pioneer Beach this morning.
Soon, a huge fleet appeared on the sea.
The entire fleet consists of two large ocean-going processing mother ships, six large drift net fishing vessels, two large trawlers and a salvage ship, a medium-sized icebreaker and two large cargo ships.
The fleet stopped outside Pioneer Beach. A middle-aged man wearing a dark blue jacket, blue sunglasses, and looking handsome but very thin was the first to go ashore standing on a kayak.
Xiang Yang stood by the sea to greet him, "You are Mr. Gao, right?"
The other party took off his sunglasses, looked Xiang Yang up and down, and then carefully looked at the two fishing boats parked on the shore. Finally, he smiled and said, "Good fellow, your ocean-going fishing boat can be used directly as a processing mother ship. I heard Xiao Zhang talk about you. You are brave and courageous. The most important thing is that you have good luck. You are really a young man to be feared."
Xiang Yang smiled, "Indeed, it is a bit of a waste to use it as a trawler. It consumes too much fuel. I am planning to buy two more trawlers after I return this time. This ocean-going fishing boat will be used exclusively for processing in the future."
"My last name is Gao, and my given name is Chuang. You can just call me Brother Gao like Xiao Zhang. I've heard a lot about you recently, and this time I finally meet you in the real person. Are you planning to go to Antarctica like this?" The tall and thin middle-aged man praised Xiang Yang again, and then said in a rather thought-provoking tone.
Xiang Yang asked in confusion: "Brother Gao, I have completed all the formalities and have sufficient supplies. Can't I go to Antarctica?"
"You are really young. You probably haven't been to the high seas before, right?" Gao Chuang looked at Xiang Yang with a smile.
"Come, look, look at what I installed on my boat, what is that?"
Xiang Yang looked over and saw a row of very strange steel frames on the side of the other side's ship.
"Is this a foldable anti-pirate steel spike? Could there be pirates in Antarctica?" Xiang Yang had seen this thing in books. It also came with a high-pressure water gun and a high-pressure water cannon. However, Xiang Yang always thought that pirates were something that only existed in legends. This was not his first time going to sea, and he had grown up by the sea, so he had never seen what a pirate looked like.
"Huh, I didn't expect you to recognize this thing." Gao Chuang first looked at Xiang Yang in surprise, then smiled and said, "It's not that you will encounter pirates in Antarctica, but after leaving the territorial waters, you may encounter pirates everywhere. Now that our motherland is strong, no one dares to act wildly in our territorial waters, so fishermen fishing in the near sea don't know what pirates are, but continuing south from this Pioneer Beach, pirates are not a rare thing. Although I haven't encountered them many times, after all, my fleet is very large every time I go out to sea, and ordinary pirates don't dare to mess with me, but some necessary preparations should still be made. Next time if you plan to go deep-sea fishing, or even cross-ocean fishing, you should also install these barbs on the boat."
"These barbs can be put away when you are not busy. They can also reinforce the side of the ship to prevent crew members from falling into the water. If you really encounter pirates, they can be life-saving."
"Brother Gao, have you ever seen pirates?" Xiang Yang asked tentatively when he saw that the other party spoke with certainty.
"Of course. I, your brother Gao, have been traveling around the world since I was a teenager. I have been on the sea for nearly fifty years. What kind of storms and waves have I not seen? Not to mention I have seen them. I have even had a head-on confrontation with them before. But now, with the suppression of various countries, the big pirates are almost gone, and the small pirates dare not mess with me." Gao Chuang laughed heartily.
Xiang Yang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but then he returned to normal, "Brother Gao is really experienced."
"First of all, thank you for your advice, Brother Gao. Next time I go fishing across the ocean, I will definitely install barbs on my boat. I'll trouble you to take care of me this time."
"You're welcome. It's no trouble. It's a good thing for young people to be hardworking. It's rare for a young man in my hometown to be so successful in this field. If I hadn't seen you, I would have thought that the fishing industry in Longcheng would be in a state of shortage. And you and I are both from Liancheng."
Gao Chuang attaches great importance to Xiang Yang.
He is the leader of the older generation of fishing industry in Longcheng.
In Gao Chuang's opinion, Xiang Yang is the leader of the younger generation in the fishing industry in Longcheng.
"If there were still a few fish to catch near the coast, I would still be rowing my small wooden boat around the fishing village. There are no fish near the coast, and I need to eat, so I thought of going to the open sea to have a look." Xiang Yang immediately said very humbly.
Gao Chuang nodded. He was an old fisherman and knew everything about the ocean.
Nowadays, there are indeed few fish to catch in the near sea. The fishing industry has been deteriorating over the years. Many people who used to work in fishing now go to the near sea to engage in marine aquaculture.
Of course, overall, the path of deep-sea fishing is definitely right and has prospects.
At present, the marine resources developed and utilized by humans are not even the tip of the iceberg.
Take Antarctica for example, it has been almost completely undeveloped.