On the morning of the third day, after breakfast, Li Xiaofeng's family set out and came to the familiar Tongchuan Wharf.

After the preparations of the past few days, they have been fully prepared in terms of personnel and materials, so today is also the day when the "Deep Blue" fishing boat will go to sea.

And this time it is not only the "Deep Blue" that will go to sea, the "Harvest" fishing boat will also go to sea with them.

After an open and honest interview the afternoon before yesterday, both parties were quite satisfied, so Hu Dequan and the three people he brought with him had successfully joined the company.

Yesterday afternoon, Li Xiaofeng also gathered Han Minghua, Li Xiaoliang, and Hu Dequan together for a small meeting, which can be regarded as clarifying the division of labor for several people.

There is a saying on board that "the first officer on the deck and the chief engineer below the deck." "So Hu Dequan and Han Minghua are actually at the same level, and both of them are directly responsible for Li Xiaofeng.

Because Han Minghua has more and more complicated things to manage, Li Xiaoliang can be regarded as his deputy.

It can be said that it is the four of them that constitute the brains of the "Deep Blue", an ocean-going fishing vessel.

In addition, Li Xiaofeng also recruited Meng Guangming, who has more than five years of experience in driving ocean-going fishing vessels, as the second officer on the fishing boat.

said that it was recruitment, but in fact, it was a high-paying poaching person, Meng Guangming was also from Tongchuan, and he had been the second officer on an ocean-going fishing boat in Guangdong Province for many years, and he came back this time to get off the ship and take a vacation.

During the period of vacation at home, he had also heard about Li Xiaofeng's high salary on their fishing boat, and this side was indeed close to home, so when the intermediary found him, he didn't say a word, and directly resigned and came to Li Xiaofeng's boat.

Of course, his main role is to assist Li Xiaofeng and Han Minghua in driving the fishing boat, and Li Xiaofeng also let Han Minghua get on the boat to see if there is a suitable person and train an assistant driver.

Now their fishing boats can barely be said to be fully staffed, and the soldiers are strong! The key now depends on how many fish they can catch when they go out to sea.

It can be said that the seafood merchants, fishmongers, and seafood restaurant owners in the town are paying attention to their trip, and even some leaders in the town are also paying attention to them.

After all, the "Deep Blue", as the largest tonnage and most advanced ocean-going fishing vessel in Tongchuan Town, has been moored in the port for a period of time, which can be said to have earned enough attention.

Listening to the "crackling" firecrackers in the distance, a middle-aged man who looked like a leader asked a young man next to him, "Xiao Zhang, is this firecracker sound the new fishing boat on the dock ready to go to sea today?" ”

"Yes, Mayor Zhou!" The young man hurriedly replied, "When I went to work in the morning, I took a turn from the dock, and they were loading all kinds of daily necessities into the ship. ”

It turned out that this middle-aged man was Zhou Guangqian, the new mayor of the town who had just been transferred from the town, and this town government staff member known as Xiao Zhang, but he knew how much the leaders paid attention to this fishing boat, so he was also very concerned about the movements of the fishing boat.

Some leaders in the city are very dissatisfied with the backward economic development of Tongchuan in recent years, and you must know that the geographical location of Tongchuan Town is not bad, and it also has the advantage of a natural deep-water port, but the economy is backward and there are many surrounding areas.

Therefore, the city transferred Zhou Guangqian, who understood economics, to Tongchuan in an attempt to make him reverse the current backward economic outlook of Tongchuan.

After arriving in Tongchuan, Zhou Guangqian also investigated everywhere, and finally he came to the conclusion that because Tongchuan has no industrial base, if Tongchuan wants to develop, it must take advantage of its geographical advantages as a deep-water fishing port and vigorously develop the marine fishing industry.

Although Tongchuan is also a traditional fishing port, the development of the fishing industry here is actually very average.

Although many fishermen here have made a living from fishing and have many fishing boats, they can only be said to be many but not refined, big but not strong.

Although there are many fishing boats here, most of them are small fishing boats in the offshore waters, and with the decline of the current offshore fishery resources, fishermen are struggling to fish in the offshore waters.

Zhou Guangqian's goal is to support the development of several leading enterprises in the town's distant-water fishing, so as to drive the transformation of fishermen from offshore to offshore and to distant-water fishing.

Then, through these ocean-going fish, it will drive the downstream industries that Tongchuan has supporting it, such as fish deep processing, seafood e-commerce industry base, and so on.

Of course, the premise of these is to let the fishermen really see that deep-sea fishing can really get rich returns, otherwise it is really difficult to let these fishermen whose ancestors fished in the offshore waters pay huge sums of money or even loans to upgrade their fishing boats!

It is precisely because of this consideration that Li Xiaofeng, who owns the most advanced ocean-going fishing vessels in the whole of Tongchuan and even in the whole of Dongzhou, came into his sight.

At this time, Li Xiaofeng, of course, didn't know that he had entered the sight of some leaders. Of course, even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

After returning home from Mingyang, he didn't have any big ambitions, and he was fed up with poisonous chicken soup, so he wanted to go out to sea to catch fish for a few months every year, and stay at home comfortably when he was done, and when he was bored, he would go out to visit the great rivers and mountains of the motherland and live such a leisurely life.

Since this was the first time that the "Deep Blue" went to sea to fish, Li Xiaofeng also had to follow the tradition of their side and take his entire crew to carry out a ceremony to sacrifice to the sea.

At this time, the wharf was already crowded with the families of the crew, tourists watching the excitement, and fishermen preparing to go to sea.

At this time, the bow of the "Deep Blue" was enshrined with a statue of the god Mazu they had invited, and a table covered with red cloth was placed in front of the statue, which was filled with various tributes and a golden incense burner.

At this time, all the crew members of the fishing boat were standing on the deck, Li Xiaofeng was standing at the forefront, Han Minghua, Hu Dequan, and Li Xiaoliang were standing behind him, and behind the three of them, there were forty-two crew members standing neatly.

Under the leadership of Li Xiaofeng, all the crew respectfully burned incense and prayed to the statue of Mazu, hoping that they would be safe all the way after they went to sea, and the warehouse was full of fish and shrimp!

After the salute, the cable was untied, and Han Minghua and Hu Dequan led the crew, shouting and cheering, "Go to sea...... Go to sea......"

Meng Guangming, who returned to the cockpit, also quickly started the fishing boat, and then accompanied by a "woo...... Woo......" The whistle sounded, and the fishing boat began to slowly leave the dock, and Li Xiaoliang also took a few crew members at this time and began to sprinkle paper money into the sea.

At this time, the families of the crew members and their relatives and friends who were standing on the shore also silently prayed for them, hoping that they could return safely.