Chapter 1264

The two of them just took a stroll around the pier, not expecting to run into another group fighting and brawling; it seemed like it was because their spot for selling goods had been occupied.

It was another chaotic fight involving dozens of people, and the two of them watched from far away.

"Damn... I just saw two groups start fighting, and they were held back by the people beside them. I thought they wouldn't end up fighting, but I didn't expect them to have turned into a ball of chaos here. It's really messy..."

Ye Yaodong also agreed and chimed in, "Yeah, it's really messy here..."

It was messier than all the piers he had ever stayed at.

And this was only in the afternoon, not even the time when there were the most people.

When he went out to sea in his previous life, he was already old and didn't participate in the chaos of this era. Now, he had only been here for two days and had already encountered several incidents, and he had even personally participated in one himself.

It's really messy...

In his previous life, after being rectified, the piers were generally very orderly, unlike the chaos now.

"Someone is coming to maintain order..."

"Tsk tsk tsk, how many people do they have to catch every day?"

"Hey, they ran away, their reaction was very fast..."

Ye Yaodong watched those people fighting stop as soon as they said so. Before the people maintaining order could even come over, they reacted quickly, lifted their things onto the flatbed carts, pushed them, and ran away. They looked very practiced.

If they weren't habitual offenders, they were at least used to seeing it; they were very familiar with the rules on the pier, and both sides stopped without any hesitation.

The two of them looked at each other, and he said, "Still have to be able to run fast!"

"Yeah, fighting is fine, but you still have to run fast. Even if you don't want the goods, you have to run."

"Let's go, let's head back. I reckon there are several incidents every day, it's just that we didn't run into them."

The two of them took a turn and went to check on the progress of the fishing nets before heading home.

After returning, Ye Yaodong re-allocated the personnel for going out to sea the next day. He picked 6 people to follow him out to sea, let 2 people go out to set longlines, and left two people to look after the house.

He let the remaining 6 people follow Zheng Shu and the others out to sea separately to learn how to use the radar nets.

He pondered for a while and felt it was still better to listen to Zheng Shu: the big boats would use radar nets to catch hairtail, and the small boats would continue to use longlines.

After all, their boats didn't have other special equipment, nor did they have technical workers who understood fishing. They couldn't do targeted fishing. The harvest from trawling was not bad, but once the fishing season arrived, it definitely wouldn't be as profitable as catching hairtail.

They kept the fishing nets they had originally ordered yesterday as usual.

Because something happened today, the fishing boats didn't go out to sea, so everyone took the opportunity to buy materials and make longlines at home.

Ye Fu and the others' boats didn't go very far, and Ye Yaodong could contact them not long after his boat left the shore.

After asking, he learned that the surrounding resources were abundant. They had only been sailing toward the East Sea for more than two hours when they discovered a school of fish, so they had been staying in the surrounding area and didn't leave.

No wonder they could encounter fishing boats working along the way when they came, and they were all big ones.

By the time he arrived, several boats already had full holds, and some boats even had goods piled up on the decks.

"Oh, so many goods?"

Ye Fu smiled, "It's a good thing you came early, otherwise if it were a bit later, we would have had to make a trip back because our boats couldn't hold any more."

"There are a lot of white pomfret and small yellow croaker."

"The day before yesterday, just after we came out at dawn, we saw a fishing boat nearby that was about the same size as ours. They pulled up a whole net of large white pomfret, and the silver-white color when they poured them out was incredibly beautiful. So, we decided to drag a net here to try it out, and sure enough, there were too many pomfret, small yellow croaker, and shrimp and crab."

"Then the resources here are truly abundant."

"A net here is worth two nets back home most of the time, and there are more big fish. It's just a pity that those miscellaneous fish were thrown directly into the sea."

"Don't be greedy, it's good to be able to earn more money."

"After we finish collecting the goods for you today, we'll probably start dragging nets while heading toward the outer edge to see if the resources out there are even better."

"Alright."

"How have you been on the shore these past two days?"

How was he supposed to answer this?

Congratulate his father for not being at home?

Thinking that his father was still at sea and it would take a few more days before he could go back, he decided it was better not to let the old man worry. He would naturally know when he went back; there was nothing to say about this matter.

"It's alright, no major problems. You guys just focus on fishing at sea, and I'll come out to collect a batch of goods again in two days."

Ye Fu really thought nothing had happened and felt relieved.

After Ye Yaodong had scavenged through all the fishing boats, he rushed to shore to return before dark.

As the sun set behind the mountains, the fishing boats collectively returned to port, docking and unloading goods in an orderly fashion one after another. The constant shouting was endless, the place was bustling with noise, and merchants and fishmongers who arrived late were everywhere.

He only needed to arrange the unloaded goods and wait for the merchants to pick them. The prices of the same goods on the pier basically didn't have much difference.

From the moment the sun went down until the sky was pitch black, the pier was still bustling with noise and brightly lit. The flow of people was endless, ten times livelier than during the day.

Hundreds of thousands of fishermen and merchants gathered in the port, coming and going. With masts standing like a forest and mountains of fish and seas of shrimp, the pier at night formed a unique landscape.

Seafood and fish goods were basically traded at night, catching the gap in the evening to be transported to surrounding cities, or places further away, or to the surrounding processing plants.

Although there were no cold-chain trucks, by adding ice and wrapping them in thick cotton cloth, they could also be kept for two or three days without spoiling.

There were also many seafood processing plants in the port area, and a large amount of seafood was transported into them every day.

The evening breeze was blowing at night. Ye Yaodong still ate his dinner on the pier, with fishermen beside him also holding aluminum lunch boxes to eat.

He also took advantage of his free time to communicate with the fishermen beside him from time to time, knowing that it was always like this here at night, and it could even last until dawn.

There were fishing boats coming and going, some docking and some leaving. There was a large flow of people regardless of day or night. It would be slightly inferior during the day, but that was only relatively speaking.

The seafood trading locations at the fishing port in this era were different from those in the future. There was no international aquatic products city, only markets and spontaneously formed fish markets, and they had only formed in the last two years.

Most fishermen would directly put the seafood they caught on the pier or at temporary docking points for trading.

So this also led to the frequent blockage of the fishing port's shipping lanes. The management personnel on the pier had to constantly dredge them, which was why there were fish markets officially cordoned off for merchants to trade.

After some fishing boats docked, there were no stalls on the shore at all, so they could only move to the fish market.

There were also some wholesalers who specialized in the acquisition of aquatic products. They would collect seafood from different fishing boats at specific locations, and some fishing boats would specifically send goods to the wholesalers.

Because of this, some intermediaries were also formed.

Whether it was the fish market, the pier, the temporary docking point, or the designated acquisition point, the flow of people was overflowing. Hundreds of thousands of people came and went every day, and fish goods were traded at every moment.

Goods that had just arrived at the port were not worried about not being sold. Thousands of fishing boats docked every day, and tens of thousands of tons of goods were constantly being transported out.

Likewise, because the current trading method was relatively primitive and the infrastructure was not as developed as it would be later, in one night, he stood in front of his stall and saw no less than five or six instances of chaos, and this was only within his line of sight.

Not to mention the places he couldn't see; this was a true place where dragons and snakes were mixed.

And his nearly one hundred tons of goods were also sold out by dawn amidst the constant flow of people. Various kinds of goods could always find the buyers who needed them.

The younger brothers beside him had also been guarding the side. Without a few more people together, it would be impossible to walk freely on the pier with money.

It was only after they returned home that he let out a long sigh of relief.

"Earning money is not easy..."

"Yeah, this is the first time I've seen such a lively pier, and the first time I've seen what a big port is. I've gained knowledge."

"No wonder Zheng Shu kept urging us to come up."

"Those small boats of theirs don't have many goods, they should be able to sell out by dark. If several boats enter and exit together and huddle together, it can be safer."

"Dong Ge, when you were selling goods, I took turns looking around, and it's true that you can see fighting everywhere."

"Be careful, go to sleep early, it's almost dawn."

Ye Yaodong returned to a room alone and first counted the money sold today.

The more he counted, the more excited he became. At that time, he was constantly weighing and keeping accounts, and when he had free time, he didn't dare to count money on the pier at all, for fear that the money would be exposed and attract jealousy.

Now that he counted it, his hands were shaking. Most of them were goods worth a few cents, and a very small portion could be sold for one or two dimes, two or three dimes. Even so, he could sell 1.6 yuan.

Being a bit more conscientious, he split it with the other 4 boats at a 60% rate, and he could still earn 4730!!!

It was three times what he earned from acquiring jellyfish in Wenzhou, and twice what he earned from trawling.

He could earn absolutely nothing from the ice and oil money provided. Whatever was bought on the pier was transported to the boat.

Just the price difference from acquiring fish goods in the middle and selling them on shore was enough for him to earn.

And the four boats also benefited. They didn't need to dock at all, and then waste a lot of time selling goods. In half a day, the fishing boats could have caught several more nets at sea.

Before, when trawling at home, they could only sell a little over 1000 yuan by selling goods to the fresh-collecting boat every two days, and they could only sell 1500 or 1600 by selling on shore.

Now they don't need to go ashore, and they let him collect the goods. One boat can sell 1500 or 1600.

There is a reason why he conscientiously calculated it at 60%, but calculating an extra 10% would at most be giving an extra 100 yuan or so.

The core reason is still because there are many fish goods, and the trawling catch is indeed 1/3 more than at home.

Sure enough, although this place is mixed with dragons and snakes, risk also means high returns.

Otherwise, how could so many fishing boats and hundreds of thousands of fishermen gather at this port? They all came here to pan for gold and earn big money.

After Ye Yaodong finished counting the money, he was ecstatic, and quickly checked all the cargo lists again, and then calculated the price of the goods collected by each boat.

"So this is what it means to earn a bucket of gold a day..."

Last month, for the whole month in Wenzhou, although not many jellyfish could be caught, he was also idle for half a month due to the typhoon.

But in the 10 days before that, he also earned about 18,000 from sea urchins.

There were also jellyfish collected by the fresh-collecting boat for ten days. Although the quantity was large in the first few days and local boats followed suit in the last few days, he earned less, but he still earned 7,000 or 8,000 in total.

And the small boats also caught some during that period.

Adding all these up, he also earned about that much in Wenzhou last month. He remitted 20,000 yuan back, and Aqing let him keep the rest, so he kept it by his side.

Plus, when he came out, he also brought 3,000 yuan with him. After deducting the oil expenses for that month, before calculating the total accounts with all the fishing boats in Zhoushan, he still had nearly 9,000 yuan on him.

However, before setting off for Zhoushan, he calculated the monthly profit dividend in Wenzhou with all the fishing boats, including the Fengshou and Shunfeng.

The dividends of 16 fishing boats in total, plus the dividends of two big boats, he owned 30% of each of those two boats, and he received a total of that much.

The intermediary fee from A Guang also shared 2,600 yuan.

Those boat bosses kept saying they didn't earn much, but actually, it was because half was taken by him.

Plus the labor expenses and oil money, that's why they called out that they didn't earn much. Actually, they only earned a few hundred yuan.

Who told the typhoon to affect them for half a month last month.

It was also because jellyfish blood was expensive that everyone didn't lose money.

Compared with last year's income, last month really couldn't be counted as earning money, so he planned to come to Zhoushan, and everyone thought about following up to fight for it again.

Otherwise, without earning big money, no one would have the face to go back.

Compared with all the fishing boats, he was actually the real winner.

And the Fengshou and Shunfeng were completely because of trawling, and that boat of jellyfish pulled back before the typhoon, so they had money to earn.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel that he was really a capitalist.

With so many boats, he didn't need to put in any effort. As long as it was the money earned by those boats, he could take away half.

For the remaining half, the boat boss still had to pay for labor and oil, and at most, only 1/4 could be left.

They were properly working for him, but renting his boat was better than being a boat worker anyway.

He opened his luggage, and the zippered compartment contained 33,000-plus yuan, neatly arranged.

There were large denominations and small change, all bundled up with rubber bands, and a large pile of coins. It was truly already filling that zippered compartment.

Plus the 20,000 yuan remitted back, deducting the 3,000 yuan brought out, he actually earned over 50,000 last month.

Half of it was earned for him by those rented and joint-stock fishing boats!

So it was said how wise he was to buy so many fishing boats at that time. These were production tools that could make money grow money.

By the way, he could also benefit the hometown.

Those fishermen who rented his boats also improved their lives, stepping from poor people in the village into the middle class in the village.

However, for the money he earned, although it was after deducting oil expenses, the wages of the boat workers had not been paid yet.

After all, they hadn't gone back yet. If it was paid to them, it would be gone before long. Either it was lost in gambling, or it was spent on this and that. They definitely couldn't save much.

Anyway, they were all from the same village, and they weren't afraid that he wouldn't give it.

In previous years, it was also settled clearly when returning. Getting a lump sum could make them happier.

He made a preliminary estimate. Including his father, there were 22 workers in total, and about 3,000 yuan needed to be paid in wages.

So he earned a net profit of more than that last month.

Beautiful!

And today, the first batch of goods just after arriving in Zhoushan could earn about 4,700 again. This was only two days.

His fresh-collecting boat was truly a great killer.

In this day and age, as long as you master the production tools, earning money is really not a problem.

The more production tools, the more the rest of the people can only act as tools for him to earn money. Only a small part of the profit is shared, and actually, all of it is working for him.

Ye Yaodong happily put the part of the money he had just calculated for himself back into the zippered layer.

There was more inside now. Adding the 4,700-plus he put in, there was almost that much again.

He pondered when he had to remit a batch back. It was too accumulated, and it was not safe to keep it by his side. After all, this was a rented house, and dragons and snakes were mixed, and there were all kinds of people.

Although he specifically left people at home to watch, who knew if it was reliable.

It was just that he had just arrived here and hadn't dealt with the money he brought with him.

Thinking in his heart, he bundled the corresponding amounts that should be shared by the other three fishing boats together with the cargo lists with rubber bands, and then put them into the password box and locked them up.

"This place is messy, but he has so many boats, it's really easy to earn money here."

"I don't know how the harvest of the other small fishing boats is today?"

Yesterday, because of the trouble, many people fought before they finished selling their goods, and the income could not be used as a reference.

Ye Yaodong touched the watch in his pocket and checked the time.

"Damn, it's 4 o'clock."

He looked outside the window, and there was already some white light.

Didn't expect to count money until dawn.

He quickly put the password box into a hole in the ground. This was something he temporarily chiseled out yesterday, and he put a wooden board on top of this hole, and on top of the wooden board was a wardrobe.

No way, when out and about, and in a rented house, with so much money, of course, he had to find a way to hide it.

The seaside is prone to dampness. Some families do put a wooden board under the wardrobe to prevent the ground from being damp during the south wind days.

After hiding the password box, he lay back on the bed and closed his eyes.

Thinking in his heart that he would call Aqing tomorrow to remit the money back, and just keep a few thousand yuan by his side.

When his father comes back next time, he will let his father drive the fresh-collecting boat to sell goods, and he will take the money to the boat, or put the money on the boat. He feels it is safer.

Can't put all the eggs in one basket.

Fortunately, he brought many boat workers. Two boats assigned 10 people, and he could still have 12 people on shore, plus himself, 13.

Leaving two people to look after the house, the remaining people would be more than enough to protect his father when selling goods.

Ye Yaodong fell asleep while thinking. When he woke up, it was already noon, just in time for lunch.

At this time, there were not many people eating, so he asked casually.

"Some went to learn radar nets, some went to the pier. Just now, Xiao Wu had nothing to do and went to the pier for a stroll, and even picked up 13 yuan. Earned big!"

"Aha? Even picked up money?" Ye Yaodong was happy, "Dog shit luck is not bad."

"Yeah, we were envious to death, so except for those of us looking after the house, everyone else went to the pier to pick up money."

"Hehe, it's all cash transactions in large amounts, it's indeed easy to drop money. Go for a stroll, maybe there will really be a harvest."

The light is not good at night, sometimes money is dropped and they don't know it. People come and go there, go for a stroll when you have nothing to do, and trying your luck is also fine.

It's better than staying at home to gamble, or going to the small alleys to find that.

Just arrived here for a few days, the first few days were a busy market, and he went out to sea, and no one ran to him to pay wages.

Reckon in a few days, they will probably be able to run to him to pay wages.

"How was the harvest of the fishing boats of other villagers yesterday? Nothing happened, right?"

"Heard that Lin Shu also ran into a fishmonger who shorted the weight yesterday. They discovered it in time, and there were many people, so they directly said they wouldn't sell. Fortunately, there was no big conflict. Those fishmongers cursed and went to find the next family."

"And some people were almost robbed of their money. The pier is too messy, there are all kinds of people."

"No way, can only let them pay more attention when going out, go out in company, don't be alone."

After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he thought and said: "When you come back at night, I'll pay you last month's wages. Don't know when we'll go back, you also need to put some money in your pockets."

The eyes of the two people eating lit up.

"Paying wages now, not waiting until we go back?"

Ye Yaodong raised his eyebrows, "Going back for the New Year, then I'll wait until the New Year to pay? You guys endure for these few months?"

"Haha, then let's pay for one month first, as living expenses for the remaining few months, and save the rest with you, and take it all at once during the New Year."

"Hehe, I have no money in my pocket long ago, fortunately eating and drinking doesn't cost money..."

He smiled and said, "Everyone's wages have been advanced for a few yuan. I'll calculate it later and pay you all before the 1st of this month."

Some came at the beginning of last month, some came with him at the end of the month before last, and 12 had gone into the water, with extra subsidies.

He also thought that calculating it was a bit messy, so he thought of paying them a batch of wages before this month in advance.

It just so happened to be used as living expenses for them first. Who knows how long they will stay here next. Can't let them keep advancing wages there.

This advance a batch, that advance a batch, frequent advances, when it accumulates, it's more troublesome for him to calculate accounts. It's better to pay them a month directly as living expenses.

Don't care where they spend it, as long as they don't frequently ask him for advances. He is not at home every day either.

Clear the messy accounts of last month first, and then everyone's wages will be calculated from the 1st of this month, and no one will be special.

When the time comes to calculate accounts, it will be better to calculate, directly from this month, settled by the month.

Bringing them out this year, one person's daily wage is still 4.5 yuan, the same as last year. When his father went to invite people, it was easy to call, so there was no price increase.

But this wage is not low, equivalent to the daily wage of a technical master.

4.5 yuan a day, 135 yuan a month, villagers are scrambling to do it.

Now they are all wishing they could stay until the end of the year to go back, and directly receive half a year's wages!

And in his hands, except for him, 22 people, one month is 2970 yuan. When the time comes, everyone will be paid by the month, which will be clear and understandable.

"Great, thank you boss."

"They will be happy to death when they come back."

"Some of you who came late also have 100-plus yuan, and more may have nearly 200 yuan, which should be enough for you to spend for more than half a year. If you really wait until the New Year to go back, everyone can bring a large sum back when you go back for the New Year."

The mouths of the two people were about to be crooked with laughter.

"Then let's wait until the New Year to go back, stay here to earn money first, bless you to earn big money, and everyone can have a fat New Year."

"Well, worship Mazu more, let Mazu bless me more."

"Haha, must be."

The few people who went to the pier to pick up money also came back to eat after they finished eating.

Once they heard Ye Yaodong say that he wanted to settle their wages before the 1st, everyone was happy to death.

"I said I definitely had wealth luck today, it turned out not to be on the pier, it came from the boss."

Ye Yaodong smiled and asked: "Did you pick up money on the pier?"

"No, there were too many people, kept looking down, almost got separated."

"The clothes pocket was also cut, fortunately there was no money."

"Now thieves are really too powerful. Earlier I ran into someone saying that thousands of yuan were stolen, and cried on the pier."

"We also heard that someone was dragged into the alley to be robbed last night, and it was only discovered this morning that they were half-dead."

Ye Yaodong frowned, "Be careful, nothing, it's better to go to the pier less, and go out less at night when there's nothing."

"Well, know, we now go out with more people before we dare to go out."

"Follow me to the Youdian Bureau to make a call after I finish eating."

"Okay, boss."

It's better to remit the money quickly.

After the meal, Ye Yaodong returned to the room and calculated the wages of several workers. Those who were at home were paid first.

Then he took 10,000 out of the password box to go to the bank to remit money. He didn't dare to remit too much at once, with so many workers watching.

Remitting 30,000 at once could shock their eyes off. After all, just arrived here, some boats just went out to sea.

Wait until tomorrow, he will come over by himself. Today, take people first, and walk the route familiar first.

Lin Xiuqing was already anxious at home.

After receiving his call, she immediately threw out a pile of questions.

It turned out that someone called back to say what happened in the past two days, and the village was spreading it everywhere.

He quickly appeased, "I'm fine, don't look at who your husband is. I am President Ye, nothing, just the pier is a bit messy, everyone is new here, the temper is too hard."

"In the past few days, everyone has become familiar with the pier. Some tempers should be collected, and they will pay attention in the future."

Lin Xiuqing: "The family was scared to death, fearing that it would be the same as those people in the town last year. Being out and about is not better than at home, you have to collect your temper, endure if you can, let if you can. People outside won't care who you are, won't look at face, you be careful."

Ye Yaodong echoed while listening to the other end of the phone, the old lady kept calling: "Dongzi, Dongzi, are you okay Dongzi... don't let the family worry..."

And Ye Xiaoxi's childish voice was also constantly calling father, everyone was scrambling to speak.

"Father... you have to be obedient... have to be safe... Great-grandmother let Mazu bless you... Father... heard it? I also let Mazu bless you..."

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but show a smile on his face while listening.

"Heard it, I heard everything you said, wait for me to earn big money and go back to buy you gifts."

Lin Xiuqing repeated it for them.

"Great great, bless father to earn big money..."

"You just come back safely, come back early, sigh... all gone..."

Ye Mu also spoke, "Can come back early then come back early, outside is too messy. Heard it two days ago, my heart was up and down, your father's unlucky look, I was scared that he would go in again this time."

Ye Yaodong: "..."

"Know, I have a count in my heart, you don't have to worry, we are a group of people in and out, will be careful, will also try not to cause trouble."