Chapter 1 Crab Farms on the Beaches and Tidal Flats
On the shore of the Yellow Sea, 15 kilometers away from the coastline, a tidal flat is densely covered with large and small aquaculture farms, among which there is a 50-acre crab farm, which is Shang Tao's family, this crab farm has only five acres since the beginning of 2006, and has developed to the present, ten years have passed, and the area of the farm has expanded tenfold. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Originally, Shang Tao's family had relied on sea fishing for generations, until 10 years ago in 2006, when they sold their fishing boats and went ashore to engage in aquaculture.
After the Yellow Sea was closed in 2000, the Shang family and many other fishermen went south to the Yangtze River estuary to continue fishing to make a living, but three years later, the Yangtze River was also closed.
Because the fishing ban policy affected the income of fishermen, the local government began to encourage fishermen to go ashore to engage in aquatic product breeding, and gave a number of preferential policies, so Shang Tao's father Shang Jianguo made an important decision, he sold the fishing boat, and with the support of the local government, he borrowed 50,000 yuan of interest-free loans, and contracted a few acres of saline-alkali land ashore, and began freshwater crab farming.
In the first two years, the income of crab farming could only barely reach the break-even, and it was not until the third year that it gradually became profitable, and by 2012, the Shang family's crab farm had expanded to 20 acres, and the annual profit had exceeded 300,000 yuan, which was almost equivalent to more than twice the annual income in the best years of fishing.
However, it is precisely because the farmers have made money, the newly appointed township mayor has also set his sights on the farmers this piece of fat, not to mention a lot of messy costs, even the three-phase electricity that was free to open an account was also pulled the gate, and it is necessary to pay 10,000 yuan to continue to use the network, and the electricity bill has also risen from the original policy support of the four corners and six cents of civil electricity to the standard of one dollar for commercial electricity.
In the face of more and more and higher fees from the township government, Shang Jianguo decisively took the lead and organized dozens of surrounding farmers to jointly go to the county to protest against a number of unreasonable charging policies in the township.
However, the arm can not twist the thigh, and in the end the county is just a heavy hand, what to say 10,000 yuan of three-phase electricity account opening network fees and commercial electricity prices, fully in line with the pricing standards of the Price Bureau, the reason why the account opening fee was exempted at the beginning, that is also to see the villagers start a business difficult, now everyone benefits from the original preferential policies to make money, not to mention the return to the society, the original should pay the account opening fee is also a matter of course.
As for other expenses such as the maintenance fee of the sea channel, the maintenance fee of the rural road, the health management fee, etc., the county price bureau will send someone to investigate, and if there are unreasonable charges or excessive charges, the county government will order the refund of the excess part.
In short, in the end, many farmers, including the Shang family, had no choice but to pay a high amount of account opening fees, and paid electricity fees according to more than double the original electricity price.
In fact, this kind of trouble, there are pros and cons, the advantage is that the township chief should also consider this gang of people is not easy to provoke, when you want to set up a name in the future, at least you have to weigh whether it will suffer from the backlash of the farmers, the disadvantage is that Shang Tao's father Shang Jianguo was remembered by the township chief, so far, the township power supply bureau at every turn with maintenance, maintenance, the masses reported that someone stole electricity and leakage and other excuses to pull the electric gate in this breeding area, and focus on the Shang family who took the lead in making trouble.
Not only that, but the township chief also asked the electrician to reveal intentionally or unintentionally that if you want to blame the Shang family, you should blame the Shang family, but in fact, you have suffered from the Shang family's pond fish.
In the end, under Shang Tao's bewitchment, Shang Jianguo simply ripped off the three-phase electricity of the township power supply station, and erected a ten-kilowatt wind turbine in his own house, so as to get rid of the conspiracy of the township chief.
You must know that many equipment such as aeration pumps and summer flood prevention pumps are electric, especially the two high-power pumps, which are specially prepared to prevent the drainage ditch from being able to discharge rainwater in time due to heavy rainstorms.
In fact, although it is in an area with developed wind resources by the sea, if it is not a last resort, no one is willing to pay 100,000 yuan to install a 10,000-watt wind turbine.
Even if the Shang family's crab farm uses more electricity, according to the electricity price of commercial electricity, the electricity cost is about 400 yuan a month, so calculated, the installation of a 10 kilowatt wind turbine will not recover the cost of the equipment for 20 years, and then consider the maintenance costs during the period, especially the cost of replacing the battery, it is estimated that the cost will not be recovered in 30 years.
In fact, the reason is very simple, the electricity bill of 400 yuan a month is based on saving electricity, and he erects a 10-kilowatt wind turbine at home, because on the seaside, the average wind power of more than 25 days a month is more than 15 meters per second, far exceeding the rated wind speed of 10 meters per second of the wind turbine, which means that after the installation of the wind turbine, the actual power generation can reach the maximum power of 15 kilowatts.
This means that there is no need to save electricity, and if converted into electricity bills, if calculated according to the price of commercial electricity, it is equivalent to saving 10,000 yuan a month.
In other words, it means that you can cook without gas and use rice cookers, induction cookers, microwave ovens, etc., and the lights around the crab farm can be kept on at night, and the air conditioner can be turned on to your heart's content in summer and winter, and hot water can be provided 24 hours a day.
If it weren't for the unpleasant quarrel with the township chief, even the electricity that you couldn't use up could be connected to the national grid to make money.
Misfortune and fortune rely on blessing and misfortune, because the three-phase electricity of the township power supply station is not used, so as to get rid of the conspiracy and constraints of the township chief, but also because the crab farm in 2015 acquired two farms next to it, the area of the farm has been expanded to 50 acres, and the pumping pump must also be increased to five, so that it is impossible to continue to use high-power motor pumps, because the 10-kilowatt wind turbine cannot carry five high-power motor pumps.
Moreover, if the wind speed exceeds the maximum safe wind speed, the mechanical yaw device will adjust the blade to an angle parallel to the wind direction to remove most of the wind force, and the generator rotor will be locked to stop rotating by the electromagnetic hydraulic brake, so as to reduce the hazard caused by the high-strength FRP blade in case it is broken by the storm.
Therefore, after the expansion of the farm, Shang Jianguo sold the original two 380-volt motor pumps and bought five diesel engine pumps for emergencies, which laid the ground.
In June 2016, Fudong County, Linxian County, was hit by strong hail and tornadoes, a sudden natural disaster that not only claimed hundreds of lives, but also directly affected Houyi County, dozens of kilometers away.
At that time, only Shang Jianguo and his wife guarded the crab farm, and Shang Tao usually stayed at home in Houyi County because he couldn't stand the endless sea breeze, and only went to the crab farm to help during the crab harvest season every year.
In the face of a sudden storm, Shang Jianguo hurriedly called his son and asked him to come to the crab farm immediately to deal with possible accidents.
However, before Shang Tao arrived at the crab farm, the water level of the crab farm had exceeded the warning line, so Shang Jianguo immediately picked up the crank handle, and started the diesel engine pump one after another in the rain, when starting the fifth diesel engine, because the rain was slippery, the crank in his hand was taken off, he almost fell, the handle suddenly lost force because of the critical moment, and the diesel engine drove the handle to start reversing, as a result, Shang Jianguo was hit in the eye socket by the reversed handlebar, resulting in a skull fracture, and the eyeball of the right eye was directly exploded by the metal handle of the handle on the spot.
Fortunately, Shang Tao arrived in time shortly after the incident, and he immediately sent his seriously injured father to the hospital for first aid, saving his father's life.
Now, more than a month has passed, and my father, who lost one eye, has just been transferred from the ICU to the general ward, and my mother naturally has to stay in the hospital to take care of my father, and the crab farm cannot be left unmanned, so for more than a month, Shang Tao has taken on the responsibility of taking care of the crab farm.
On August 17, 2016, at 3 a.m., the moon was bright and the stars were thin, and it was rare that there was no wind at all, and even the blades of a wind turbine that could run at a wind speed of only three meters per second did not move at all.
Suddenly, a circular beam of light shot down from space, covering the three main houses and two side houses on the edge of the crab farm, and the water surface of the crab farm in a small corner covered by the light spot reflected sparkling waves.
If you look closely, you can see that there are complex textures in the light spots, and the inner and outer rings are still slowly rotating in opposite directions.
This strange phenomenon immediately woke up the five dogs lying outside the house, these five dogs are a black dog, a white dog, a spotted dog and two yellow dogs, all of them are Chinese pastoral dogs, they are not big, they are raised purely to guard the crab farm, and they can play a role in alerting when someone comes.
The five dogs stood up alertly, first one of the black dogs took the lead and barked twice at the sky, and then the other four dogs followed suit.
A minute later, in the midst of a dog barking, the light spots flashed, and everything that was shrouded in the light spots disappeared out of thin air, leaving only a huge circular crater, at least thirty meters deep.
The water of the crab farm instantly flowed into the circular pit, and at the same time, the front of a white K5 sedan with a neat cut like a laser cut was also slowly tilted, and then planted into the big pit with a "poof".