A few hours later.
The yacht finally arrived at the sea area that Li Chao mentioned.
Xiang Yang put on his diving equipment and dived into the water.
This sea area was once fenced and used as a marine aquaculture farm, and the sand at the bottom was cleaned artificially, so it is very flat.
But at the edge of the fence, there is a low spot that is very deep.
Xiang Yang put on the deep and shallow equipment and dived directly to the seabed.
This set of diving equipment is very advanced. After Xiang Yang reached the bottom of the sea, it didn't feel like he was diving, but rather like he was sitting in a submarine. He couldn't feel the flow of sea water at all.
Of course, due to the change in pressure, there is still a certain change in air pressure.
Xiang Yang also discovered some weaknesses of this deep-sea diving equipment.
For example, it is very inconvenient to move on the seabed wearing this deep-diving equipment.
Although this set of deep-diving equipment has its own power mechanism and can automatically navigate on the seabed, it is very difficult for Xiang Yang to take a few steps forward.
Xiang Yang couldn't help but shake his head secretly. Such diving equipment might be a good choice if used for sightseeing, taking pictures, or for scientific research, but it is really not very suitable for diving and fishing.
It seems that it is still not realistic to lead the crew to conduct deep-water operations, and diving operations as a whole can still only be carried out in shallow water.
Fortunately, Xiang Yang himself carried the mysterious jade shell. If he really found some extremely rare catch in the deep sea, he could dive underwater by himself.
Soon, Xiang Yang stopped thinking about these things and began to concentrate on helping Li Chao salvage the royal abalone from the bottom of the sea.
I have to say, these royal abalones are really big.
These royal golden abalones are originally top-quality abalones with about three heads.
After another year of free-range breeding by Li Chao, most of them have grown into double-headed abalone.
Each of these abalones was stuck to the reefs on the seabed. Because they were once artificially farmed, they were not afraid of people. Xiang Yang swam over and quietly pulled them off the reefs on the seabed.
On the sea.
Zhang Qicheng stood on the edge of the yacht deck, supporting himself with his hands, which he repeatedly unclenched and unclenched, while his eyes were always fixed on the bottom of the sea.
In fact, he was quite nervous inside.
These royal abalone were caught in some accidents because Li Chao did not conduct an on-site inspection of the bottom of the abandoned fishery when releasing them.
If Li Chao had not learned that Xiang Yang had the ability to dive to a depth of more than 100 meters under the sea with his bare hands, he would have been ready to give up this batch of imperial gold abalone.
"I don't know what's going on down there. Can Brother Xiang help me fish out these abalone?" Zhang Qicheng murmured.
"Don't worry, Mr. Zhang. Mr. Xiang was able to build up such a big business from scratch in such a short period of time. I asked the people in their fleet, and they said that Mr. Zhang relied on his extraordinary diving skills on the seabed. With Mr. Xiang's personal help and the deep-diving equipment provided by Mr. Li, those royal abalone on the seabed will be easily caught." said the person in charge of the yacht's management.
Zhang Qicheng stood up straight and whispered, "I hope so."
"Bang!"
At this moment, the sound of water breaking was heard on the sea, and Xiang Yang emerged from the sea.
Zhang Qicheng immediately shouted, "Brother Xiang, how is it, can you get down?"
Xiang Yang took off his helmet in the sea, then held up a net bag and shouted with a smile: "The abalone below is so big."
Zhang Qicheng was stunned when he heard it, then a smile appeared on his face, and the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.
After catching the royal abalone.
Zhang Qicheng personally sent Xiang Yang back to Qinglongwan Wharf.
After returning home, Xiang Yang discovered that Yanlong Village was undergoing its second round of construction.
It turned out that through the continuous efforts of Xiang Yang himself and investors such as Li Chao, some promotional methods that did not show results in the short term gradually began to ferment.
The reputation of the Qinglongwan Coastal Tourist Area has finally spread. Now, there is a special line connecting Longcheng, Yangcheng, and Pengcheng, and tourist buses run from other places to Qinglongwan every day.
The Binhai Department Store has finally attracted new merchants and has started to operate normally.
Thanks to the development of tourism, the poor villagers of Qinglongwan in the past can basically meet their food and drink needs even if they only rely on the land dividends. The villagers who have some spare money in their hands finally dare to invest the money in construction, or bring in others to form partnerships, buy large ships, and start moving towards deeper and more distant fishing grounds.
With the rise of tourism.
Various ocean-themed hotels began to appear in Qinglongwan.
Some rare fish catches are also beginning to be in short supply.
Xiang Hui seized the business opportunity sharply and gave up the increasingly difficult seafood purchasing business in Huhai Town. He partnered with Fatty Zuo to open a seafood wholesale city in Yanlong Village. He merged his previous seafood purchasing business into the seafood wholesale city, and then his main business began to provide marine ingredients to various hotels in Qinglong Bay.
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Half a year later, Xiang Yang bought another ocean-going processing mother ship and three large trawlers in one go, truly forming a huge fleet capable of fishing around the world.
Originally, Xiang's father, who had been working hard in Liancheng and wanted to save some wealth for Xiang Yang, finally discovered that Xiang Yang had completely got on the right track and no longer needed his help.
After confirming that Xiang Yang had truly achieved success, Xiang's father decisively gave up the seafood restaurant he ran in Liancheng and returned to Qinglongwan.
But Xiang's father did not enjoy his retirement.
As a lifelong fisherman, he actually has feelings for the sea.
After Xiang's father came back, he also boarded Xiang Yang's fleet, saying that he wanted to go to sea with Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang tried to persuade him several times but failed, so he proposed the idea of letting Xiang's father be the captain of another ocean-going processing mother ship.
Xiang's father was also ambitious. With decades of fishing experience under his belt, he agreed very readily.
Xiang Yang was actually quite reassured about this. Although Xiang's father was the captain, the fleet basically acted together when going out to sea, and a captain did not need to make too many decisions alone.
Moreover, Xiang Yang also transferred Fang Youqun, who had rich sailing experience, to Xiang's father, so that he could assist Xiang's father in managing the ocean-going processing mothership.
Fang Youqun, who finally got his wish and became the first mate, was naturally satisfied with it.
After more than half a year of continuous preparation, the crew of the entire fleet was finally fully staffed.
On a morning when the sun was rising, Xiang Yang stood on the bow of the main ship, waved his hand, and shouted: "Yang Fan, set sail!"
Immediately, the entire fleet set off towards the distant place where the sea and sky merged into one.
This is Xiang Yang’s first round-the-world fishing trip!
This time, he will go to the farthest, deepest and richest fishing grounds to catch the most fish.