It turned out that Xia Pengjie did not completely lose contact with his classmates after graduation.
In the class group, everyone still chats together occasionally.
Once, someone in the class group complained that it was difficult to find a job after graduation and the salary was low.
Then Xia Pengjie showed off in the group.
After graduation, everyone received a monthly salary of several thousand yuan, but Xia Pengjie alone received tens of thousands of yuan in bonuses and benefits every month. This immediately made many of his classmates jealous.
In addition, when he was in school, Xia Pengjie was also a warm-hearted person and had a good relationship with many of his classmates.
So, that day several classmates found Xia Pengjie and asked him to speak to Xiang Yang and ask them to get on Xiang Yang's boat.
At first, Xia Pengjie naturally refused, saying that he didn't have the ability.
But Xia Pengjie couldn't resist the flattery of a few classmates who used to have a particularly good relationship with him, so he gritted his teeth and said he would give it a try.
But maybe there was some misunderstanding about the way Xia Pengjie expressed himself when he said this, and those people who heard this also had some hearing problems, so when they got to the class group, the conversation turned into Xia Pengjie taking the responsibility, patting his chest and saying that it was no problem and that he would take care of everything, and then those classmates expressed their gratitude one after another.
In the end, more and more classmates asked Xia Pengjie for help, and by the time Xia Pengjie realized that something bad was going on, it was already too late.
Xiang Yang tapped his fingers and tried to suppress his laughter: "So, the only person in your class who has no problem with comprehension has a problem with expression?"
Xia Pengjie scratched his head and said in distress: "Captain, I was wrong. I will go back and find a solution."
Xiang Yang waved his hand and asked, "How many people do you think want to come over?"
Xia Pengjie looked embarrassed and hesitated for a long time before he said, "About twenty."
"Twenty? You'd be wasting your talent if you didn't go into human resources."
Xiang Yang sighed, then frowned and said, "This number makes me hesitate."
Xia Pengjie looked at Xiang Yang with a puzzled look on his face. "Captain, you just said you were hesitant, not embarrassed?"
Xiang Yang sighed and nodded, "I'll tell you the truth. I've actually been thinking about when to buy one or two more fishing boats and build a fleet for myself. If you have a few people, I'll directly recruit them onto the boat and prepare for the future."
"But if there are twenty people, a fishing boat definitely cannot use so many people. If there are two boats, the staffing is really too low. I even have problems with normal continuous ocean voyages, let alone fishing operations." Xiang Yang said.
"Captain, you can buy a slightly smaller fishing boat." Xia Pengjie suggested carefully.
Xiang Yang shook his head. "I think this ocean-going fishing boat is too small. I plan to completely transform it into an ocean-going processing mothership. After the fleet is formed, this boat will not be used for fishing. You want me to buy a smaller fishing boat now. How is that possible?"
Xiang Yang tapped his fingers. "How about this. Tell them that I will take anyone who is willing to come. The treatment will be the same as before. Then you can use your expertise to see if you have any friends in school other than your classmates. If you do, call all of them over."
"I will get another fishing boat back later, and then we'll see how many crew members you can call over. I'll also think of ways to recruit some more people. As long as we can have forty or fifty new crew members, we can initially form a fleet, and then slowly recruit crew members while adapting to fishing near the coast." Xiang Yang said.
There are very few crew members on oil tankers. A 2,000-ton oil tanker can only have 30 people at most. But fishing boats are different, especially those with processing and production lines. Without 70 or 80 people, even normal work cannot be completed.
Xia Pengjie looked up with surprise, "Captain, are you saying that we should form a fleet now?"
Xiang Yang nodded, "Well, I will go to the shipyard in Longcheng in person in the next two days to check and get a new fishing boat as soon as possible."
On the same day, Xiang Yang contacted the shipyard in Longcheng.
Because of the previous cooperation, Xiang Yang is also an old customer and a big customer.
After Xiang Yang revealed the news that he wanted to buy a ship, people from the shipyard rushed to Qinglongwan that day and took the initiative to find Xiang Yang.
"Boss Xiang, please take a look at this information. This is a fishing boat independently developed and produced by our country. It has a total length of 77.8 meters and a width of 11.6 meters. The total area of the front and rear decks alone is equivalent to the size of a basketball court. In addition, this hull has 6 floors and a height of nearly 10 meters. The engine power is up to 100 horsepower, the net load capacity reaches 100 tons, the draft when fully loaded is 5.4 meters deep, the total displacement is 1950 tons, the maximum speed is 14 knots, it can be equipped with 560 tons of fuel at a time, and the cruising time is over 70 days." The shipyard owner who had met Xiang Yang a few times introduced to Xiang Yang enthusiastically.
Xiang Yang looked at the picture, and then compared the data carefully. "The displacement is close to 2,000 tons, the fuel capacity is as high as more than 500 tons, and the carrying capacity is only more than 1,000 tons. Isn't the cost-effectiveness of your ship too poor?"
"Boss Xiang, this is a real fishing boat, not an ocean-going processing mother ship. Its carrying capacity is certainly not as good as that of an ocean-going fishing boat, but its fishing capacity is definitely top-notch. When the fishing conditions are good, the yield from one net is almost one hundred tons. Isn't it much better than your ocean-going fishing boat? In addition, there are three large fish holds on the ship, one of which can hold fifty tons of fish." Seeing that Xiang Yang was dissatisfied, the shipyard owner hurriedly began to introduce in detail.
Xiang Yang nodded slightly. This fishing ability was indeed far stronger than that of an ocean-going processing mother ship. Xiang Yang's ocean-going processing mother ship could never catch more than 100 tons of fish in one net.
The processing mother ship and the fishing boat have different focuses. It is indeed unrealistic to insist that a fishing boat compare its carrying capacity and fuel efficiency with that of a processing mother ship.
However, Xiang Yang was still not satisfied. "The endurance of your ship is too poor. Five hundred and sixty tons of oil is only enough for me to sail for two months. It consumes nearly three hundred tons of oil every month. I really can't afford to support this oil-guzzling ship. Even if I can afford it, it doesn't have the ability to sail in the ocean."
The shipyard owner was not giving up. He continued, "Boss Xiang, you can't just look at it this way. You have to see the benefits of this ship. This ship has two of the world's most advanced fishing machines. Each fishing machine has 30,000 small fish hooks. If you fish for squid, one fish hook can catch three or four large squids on average. Just do the math. This is a huge profit." (To be continued)