Chapter 14 Cooperatives
In addition, this seafood pot also brought an important news, that is, the problem of Bozhu. She is 18 years old this year, and according to the habits of the Tan family, she should have been a child's mother a long time ago, but it is difficult for Bozhu to get married. The reason is very simple, Bo Zhu is an ominous woman. She killed her mother when she was born, and she had a difficult birth! And when she was ten years old, she killed her eldest brother, who was Bo Fu's eldest son, and all three of her family. Her eldest brother was about to catch the sea, but she squatted on the bow of her eldest brother's boat and peed for a soak of urine, and then his eldest brother's family of three never returned.
With these two deeds, Bo Zhu can not get married, the Tan family is very superstitious about the sea, because it is very dangerous to go out to the sea to chase fish, so they attribute all their incomprehension of nature to the gods, any disrespect to the gods is regarded as a great enemy, people who are disrespectful to the gods, who dares to marry home, even if Bo Zhu grows into the first beauty in the Tan family, no one dares to marry.
This is cheaper for Hong Tao, Bo Fu only has such a daughter, even if she is regarded as ominous by others, Bo Fu still hopes to find a home for her, but Hong Tao happened to come and joined the Tan people, this is not a god-given son-in-law. Others can dislike Bo Zhu, but Hong Tao shouldn't. Besides, Bo Zhu himself seems to like Hong Tao very much, and the reason why Bo Fu can tolerate Hong Tao's finger-pointing interference in the Tan family's fishing is all for his precious daughter.
That night, Hong Tao had insomnia again, in fact, after he crossed over, he slept for a total of two nights, and he didn't fall asleep at all. It's not that I'm thinking about Bozhu, but I'm thinking about how to make myself rich as soon as possible. To buy a boat or not, first build a bamboo building on the shore for yourself, and then get a wooden bed, with several layers of hemp rope woven into a fine net, this is the original Simmons bed, otherwise you will not be able to sleep every day on this hard shipboard!
However, after thinking about it, I didn't come up with a way to get rich quickly, so I could only improve the efficiency of fishing first. According to Huang Hai, a two-pound mackerel can be sold for eight cents, and it has always been more than 100! Even if it's all the kind of grouper that can be sold for more than 20 yuan, this will cost 50! A two-pound blue crab only sells for more than ten yuan, who sets the price for this Nima? Is it cheaper to eat seafood than to eat rice, and is there any reason for it!
In fact, Hong Tao himself knows that the price is very reasonable, because this side is too poor, not only the Tan family is poor, but the local people on the land are also poor, at most they are stronger than the Tan family. I can't eat enough rice, and I have to use taro to satisfy my hunger if I have nothing to do, who has the spare money to buy seafood to eat? If you want to sell at a high price, you have to pull the fish to Zhenzhou, Qiongzhou, where there are many merchants, and there are many merchants who travel to and from the mainland and Southeast Asia, so they have spare money to eat seafood, the more precious the catch, the more it can be sold at a high price, if you can sell these fresh fish to Guangzhou, then the price will be higher.
However, whether it is Zhenzhou, Qiongzhou or Guangzhou, there are many local Tanka fishing boats, and in the words of later generations, the fishery resources are a little depleted. If you traffic it from a distance, the speed of the boat is too slow, and you can't go far in a day by hand-cranked oars, and it is impossible to get the seafood in time even if you are tired to death. If the seafood is not fresh, then who will eat it, some fish species will die when they come out of the water, and the taste will change after half a day. Rely on the sails, it is even more unreliable, when the wind will blow and when it will not blow, no one can say, and it is impossible to predict in advance that the wind is tailwind, and it is impossible to expect the monsoon twice a year to work.
In fact, the Tan family is not stupid, people have long known that they can sell at a good price in big cities, so there are so many Tan families gathered in the sea near big cities, although the catch is small, but the price is high, and they sink while holding on their backs.
pondered for a night, and it was cost-effective Hong Taobai pondered, and returned to the original point. If you want to make more money, you have to catch more fish, if you want to fish you have to stay away from the big cities, if you want to stay away from the big cities and make more money, you have to be fast, if you want to be fast, you have to build new boats, if you want to build new boats, you have to be rich...... This big set of words for a hundred years still can't solve a problem, so Hong Tao rubbed his eyes and just got up. There is already movement outside, and I still have a lot of tasks today, so taking a group of girls and daughters-in-law to the beach to continue making ground cages is the first priority.
Yesterday's harvest has made everyone realize the power of knowledge, a small cage plus a foreigner, a girl, two cubs, the harvest of an afternoon is basically the same as their five boats, and there is no need to run far away, effortlessly. If this doesn't explain the problem, then Hong Tao doesn't have to mess around here, there is no way out. Even the most conservative Bo Fu also contributed an old net and a new net in the cabin, because Hong Tao set the rules when he distributed the catch yesterday, and in the future, the three fishing methods of ground cages, rolling hooks, and crab cages will be the common wealth of this small group, and no one is allowed to operate alone, if you want to use it, you have to work together to set up a cooperative.
What is a cooperative, everyone doesn't know, anyway, this foreigner's mouth is full of fresh words. It doesn't matter what it's called, the important thing is who invests more manpower and material resources, who can share more catches, except for Hong Tao's three-percent technology investment, the remaining seventy percent is calculated according to this. The Tan family is not all living Lei Feng, how can he let his family earn more, everyone knows this account in their hearts.
In Bo Huang Chensan's family, the Bo family is the richest, because his son is the largest and has the most labor, if the eldest son's family didn't die early, now the grandson can go to the sea alone, maybe the great-grandson will be embraced. The Huang family is slightly weaker, and the bride price for his two sons' marriages has just been repaid a few years ago, and the family has no savings. The Chen family is the poorest, Chen Mingen has only one son, his wife also died early, and there is a serious shortage of labor, which is also one of his purposes to accept Hong Tao as his godson.
Since Hong Tao wants to use the strength of the three of them to achieve his goal, he must balance the gap between the rich and the poor between the three. People are often people who can share hardships but cannot share blessings, and it is human nature not to suffer from widowhood but unevenness. When there is no cooperative, everyone is very happy to eat bran vegetables together, once there is wealth, then who has more and who has less is a big problem. At least they are suspicious of each other, and their feelings are getting weaker and weaker, and at worst, they directly contradict each other, and the cooperatives don't cooperate, and everyone goes alone. At present, there are no patent restrictions, ground cages, rolling hooks, and crab cages are all very easy to learn crafts, who will do it in a few days, and then they will become the commander of the light pole, relying on the strength of Chen Mingen and his son, how many years and months will they have to accumulate enough wealth to build a new ship? So we have to make them even, and everyone gets rich together!