Chapter 1701: High Efficiency

"Holy crap, this ship is too beautiful, isn't it too majestic?"

"My god, it looks even bigger than the Dongyu Hao."

"Awesome, absolutely awesome."

"What's the load capacity of this ship in tons?"

"Definitely not small... the Boss is mighty..."

Before the Pioneer even got close, the crew on the No. 3 fishing boat had already widened their eyes and were shouting in amazement.

It just so happened that their preparations were finished, and they were idling, waiting for the fresh-catch collection ship to approach so they could arrange the cargo transfer.

The task of the fresh-catch collection ship was like a bee gathering nectar, collecting the fruits of their hard labor one by one.

Ye Yaodong sat in the wheelhouse, like a fleet commander. On the electronic nautical chart in front of him, nine light spots representing his own fishing boats were clearly visible; among these nine, two belonged to his eldest brother and second brother.

Based on each boat's position, catch volume, and operational progress, he used the walkie-talkie, or the high-frequency radio for those further away, to understand their status, then dispatched and arranged which boat took priority, which boat was secondary, making the most efficient cargo collection arrangement.

It wasn't just him approaching the No. 3 boat; the No. 3 boat was also moving toward him.

Bringing two ships together requires skill, especially with a ship as large as his.

Ye Yaodong directed the captain of the No. 3 boat to slowly approach the relatively flatter area of his rear quarter from the leeward side.

This process also required the captain of the No. 3 boat to be bold yet careful; they maintained uninterrupted communication via walkie-talkie.

The crew on the ships were also prepared at all times.

Once the ship sides made contact, the crew on the fishing boat would immediately throw the messenger line to the collection ship.

The crew on the deck of the collection ship would then quickly secure the messenger line and use the winch to gently pull the two ships tight, maintaining a short, stable window of time.

After the two ships were briefly stabilized, the collection ship's crew would quickly lower one or two thick, reinforced fish-suction hoses from the high freeboard of the collection ship, passing and connecting them to the fish hold hatch of the fishing boat.

"Stuff this thing into the hold! Hurry!" the crew on the collection ship shouted.

Seeing the other side was a bit confused and didn't know what to do, they hurriedly shouted instructions.

Several workers scrambled to aim the mouth of the pipe, which seemed to have a life of its own, at the pile of fish.

Then, a low, rumbling sound, like the breathing of a giant beast, came from inside the large ship.

A miracle happened.

The pipe suddenly shuddered, generating a powerful suction force. Silver-glittering hairtail, yellow croaker, and squid, mixed with crushed ice and sea ice, roared as they were sucked into the pipe, surging continuously toward the large ship.

"Oh my mother..."

A young crew member opened his mouth wide, the shovel in his hand dropped onto the deck with a 'clatter', and he forgot to even pick it up.

Everyone stopped what they were doing, staring dumbfounded at the scene of "automatic fish suction."

The shovels, nets, and cranes they had prepared all became decorations; they only needed to occasionally move the pipe opening to ensure there were no dead spots.

The main task of the crew on the fishing boat changed from "shoveling fish" to "guiding," ensuring the catch could be smoothly sucked into the pipe opening.

The crew on the collection ship was responsible for monitoring the pipes, operating the pumps, and simply organizing the catch in the hold.

Manpower was mainly concentrated on monitoring and collaboration, rather than pure physical labor.

"Oh my mother... it can be like this?"

"Can it really be like this?"

"Can it evolve into this?"

"Holy crap, this is too labor-saving, right? Before, we had to shovel by hand, and carry by hand."

"This conveying machine is good..."

"This is too awesome, too efficient, right? Won't it be sucked up in a little while? Do we not have to work hard anymore?"

Someone explained and shouted: "No, the fish in other freezers have to be carried out by hand, and then lifted over by the crane."

"Just leave a few people here to watch and clear blockages; most of the other hands still have to carry by hand."

"That's still much more efficient than before."

"That's already much stronger; these iced ones don't need manpower anymore."

With the roar of the pump machine and the sound of the two ships' engines, everyone had to shout at the top of their lungs to talk.

"Alright, transfer over here, you guys hurry up and carry, be a little faster!"

"Finally, it's a bit easier; this new machine is good."

"Everyone can save some effort."

The boatmen were all happy to continue carrying and unloading, the ship crane lifted to the collection ship's transfer area, and then sent to the freezer hold via conveyor belt.

It took only half the time of the past for one ship's catch to be completely extracted.

"Adong, I just went to take a look, this new machine you added is too easy to use, it saves so much trouble, and also saves half the time."

"It's all money, cousin."

"Time is money; the time saved can earn more money."

"That's true. Alright, transfer the supplies and diesel, and you guys can continue fishing."

"Received."

Next, several baskets of fresh vegetables, bags of sealed fresh water, the large blocks of plate ice they needed most, and oil drums were easily sent over by the large ship's stable crane.

The cables were untied, the pipes were retracted, and the fishing boat nimbly broke away to continue exploration operations.

The way this fishing boat collected cargo had already touched the threshold of modern industrialized fishing boats.

It was also because he knew the direction of development, so after inquiring at the Jiangnan Shipyard at the time, he added it without hesitation, even though it didn't exist in the country yet and the system was not mature.

His ship was now considered half-manual and half-automated.

The Pioneer slightly adjusted its course, and he began calling again via walkie-talkie.

"I am Ye Yaodong, the No. 3 boat has finished collecting cargo, are the remaining boats ready?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the channel immediately exploded.

"Ah? Already finished transferring? So fast? How long has it been? Only a few hours?"

"Yeah, how long has it been and it's finished transferring?"

"Boss, does the new ship have some machine that can speed up the transfer? It finished transferring so fast? This is too efficient."

"You said earlier that transferring cargo would be faster, but this is too fast, right?"

People were talking all at once, none of them expected it to finish transferring so quickly; they weren't mentally prepared, thinking it would be a little faster, but only a little, never expecting it to be that fast.

Ye Yaodong briefly explained to them that he had added a fish suction pump, so the transfer would be a bit faster.

"Alright, which boat is ready next?"

"The No. 1 boat is ready, we can start docking and transferring."

"Received."

The radar locked onto the next green light spot, and it slowly sailed over, starting another round of efficient sea harvesting.

This time, everyone deliberately timed it and paid attention to the time, not expecting that it really had shortened the time by quite a bit.

As for how much it was shortened, they could only roughly estimate, as the situation of each transfer was different; after all, it was a large and a small ship docking, some had more cargo to transfer, some had less.

Everyone could clearly feel that this full boat of cargo was transferred even faster than the previous 60-70% full hold.

When it was their own fishing boat's turn, they had an even clearer perception.

One by one, they went from shouting "Oh my mother" to "Holy crap, this is too refreshing."

"Holy crap," these two essence words were still learned from Ye Yaodong, and now everyone knew them.

That fish suction pump whooshed the cargo from the fishing boat over, landing in the ship's hold, and the workers only needed to organize it a little bit; they never needed to rely entirely on manual shoveling or carrying and lifting again.

"Adong, the machine you added to this new ship is too efficient, right? This machine was added well."

"If it were all this fast, everyone would save effort."

"Sure enough, there's a reason for it being expensive."

"This is too high-tech, right? Didn't expect it could be like this."

"It will save time and effort from now on."

"Haha, the workers below were just dumbfounded, saying they hadn't even started to exert effort yet."

"Fine, then remember who it is, let him do more next time."

"Hahaha..."

Everyone chatted and laughed a few times on the walkie-talkie.

Ye Yaodong smiled and said: "You guys need to get used to it; it will only become more technological and labor-saving in the future. By then, it will be fully automated, and people won't need to suffer."

"That would be great; no one likes to suffer."

"It's really different now compared to a few years ago."

"Alright, you guys continue to reminisce, the cargo is collected, and my ship has to return. The factory's holiday time is also out, the list has already been handed to you, you guys study it yourselves."

The factory issued the holiday notice in advance, and it had to be issued here at sea as well; after all, a portion of the people on the ships were retired soldiers, and they wouldn't return to the village with them.

In case someone wanted to return home on time for the holiday, he couldn't hold them back; it just so happened that there was a fresh-catch collection ship every few days, and if they had something to do or were feeling unwell, they could return with it.

And if there was a phone call from their hometown, there was someone to answer it, and then it would be conveyed to the sea; there was no fishing company more humane than them.

"You are the Boss, we listen to you; when you say take a holiday, we take a holiday, right?"

"Hmm, this year take a holiday according to the holiday time of state-owned units, double wages for overtime, triple wages from New Year's Eve to the seventh day of the New Year. Factory workers volunteer to work overtime, you guys naturally don't have any volunteer or not, you have to ask the retired soldiers on your respective ships, those who want to return home on time should report in advance, so I can arrange for people to take over."

"Understood, it's not bad to get double wages, it's just working a few more days, I guess not many people want to return early."

"You have to ask, in case someone has something urgent at home? Just waiting to go back early for the New Year, don't make decisions for others."

"Okay, received."

"Ask everyone, convey it, don't make decisions for others."

"Received."

Everyone on the walkie-talkie echoed.

Ye Yaodong steered the fishing boat away, but since the distance was still close, they could still communicate via walkie-talkie.

"It won't be long now, everyone hold on, the New Year is on February 4th this year, a bit earlier than last year."

"Only a little over a month left..."

"Floating on the sea, it's good that we can see the sun rise and set, and know how many days have passed, otherwise it feels like we've been doing repetitive things day and night."

"How many months have we been at sea this trip?"

"This trip started in October, right? About two months."

"That's indeed long enough, just have to hold on for another month or so and we can go back."

"This trip is probably the longest we've been at sea since coming to DYD, right?"

"Yeah, we only stayed for a month or so when we came out in June before going back, and then there were typhoons from time to time, basically we only stayed for a month or so, it seems we never stayed for more than two months before docking."

Ye Yaodong listened to their exchange and also said: "Get used to it early, it's only been three months from now until the New Year, if we come out to sea in the first lunar month next year, it will be half a year before we can go back."

"Ah! Holy crap! That's true! We might only be able to go back when there's a typhoon in July and we're affected."

"Oh my mother... half a year..."

"Then staying for two months now, it really doesn't count as anything..."

"Staying at sea for a long time, earning more, everyone has extra bonuses, for the sake of earning money, fight for it."

Ye Yaodong said again: "Everyone's bonuses are considerable this year, work hard, work a few more days in the last month, and you can build a big house when you settle the account for the New Year."

"Haha, I've already started looking forward to it, our fishing boats caught so much cargo this year."

"We've had a full harvest this year, earned big money, and earned honor."

"Yes, yes, yes, that's right."

He said again: "New areas have been zoned to build family housing, everyone work hard next year, when the family housing is built next year, I can open it for you to subscribe to one. Others don't have the opportunity to subscribe, I only rent out the family housing, not sell it."

"This is good! Can also buy a new house here!"

"That's great, state-owned units have to work for many years, and only those who have made great contributions can queue up to subscribe."

"This benefit is only for you who are captains, it's not open to others to buy, if you want it, you can only rent."

"Adong, being able to sail for you, we don't need to go solo at all, how can going solo have such good things? There are bonuses, and what we earn is no less than those small boats."

"Going solo also has costs."

"That's right."

Ye Yaodong thought that if he didn't offer some benefits, and it wasn't better than those small boats going solo, how could he let them continue to work?

It wasn't easy to cultivate the backbone of the ships; he had also signed up for classes outside, taught and practiced for several years, to have the current scale.

"Hmm, there will be more benefits in the future, and I will also raise everyone's wages next year. You guys who run the deep sea, the wage standard will also be raised by one level, higher than the near sea, after all, it's half a year once you go, and the risk is higher than the near sea."

"I've already asked Supervisor Yan to come up with a charter, after the standard comes out, I will notify you then, and talk about wages in detail according to the different work everyone does."

"More work, more pay, important positions naturally get more, anyway, everyone rest assured and continue to work, I won't treat you badly, I also see everyone's hard work in my eyes."

"Let me give you another piece of news... There is news that a pension policy may appear in a few years, and then I will pay social security pensions for you, so when you are old, you can still receive money from the state every month, and medical expenses can be reimbursed."

Ye Yaodong kept throwing out bombshells, making everyone happy in waves.

If he didn't say it now, he might not necessarily come out next trip, and it was highly likely his father would come out.

But it's so efficient now, maybe he can run another trip, the problem shouldn't be big.

After running two trips and everyone is familiar with how to collect cargo, then let the workers arrange it themselves. His father just needs to watch.

He would only run this trip or two before the New Year, what should be said was said in advance, and everyone's expectations were filled, so that there wouldn't be emotions because they had to stay at sea for half a year next year.

It could be considered as one word leading to another.

"Ah! Really?"

"Really? Also give pension, and can reimburse medical expenses?"

The channel exploded.

Who doesn't hope that their later years can be guaranteed.

"Adong, if it's really like this, I'll work for you until I die."

"Yes, if you really give pension and reimburse medical expenses, I'll work for you until I'm old, until I retire."

"In the past, only state-owned units didn't spend money on medical treatment, can we also do it in the future? And can be stronger than them, and have pension?"

Everyone was so excited that they were incoherent, one sentence after another, many of which he couldn't hear clearly.

"Quiet!"

In the channel, the excited everyone sobered up and quieted down.

"I mean what I say, when the state has this policy, we naturally follow it and pay, and let everyone have a guarantee. Anyway, you are still young, you will definitely be able to wait until the policy comes out."

"This is not a benefit I give, I don't dare to take credit, this is given by the state, I just pay a little more money, everyone just report in and participate."

Ye Yaodong spoke according to the facts, and roughly told them about the social security pension, anyway, everyone knew he had connections, and it was normal to know some things that others didn't know before.

If there is really social security in a few years, pay for 15 years, and when the payment is finished, everyone can really start to receive retirement pension, and maybe they can be considered the first batch to receive it, paying the least and receiving the most.

He remembered that it seemed like they could receive it at 55 at the beginning? Women at 50?

Damn, they received more than they worked.

No wonder it has been extended to 65 years old later.

"If it can really be like this, that would be great, there is a guarantee when old, everyone work more, and then you can enjoy your later years."

"Haha, don't have to be afraid of children and grandchildren being unfilial, anyway, there is a pension."

"Indeed, everyone is thinking about raising children to prevent old age, if there is really a retirement pension, don't need children to raise."

Ye Yaodong smiled and said: "When you are old, you still have to let your son look at your face, after all, with a retirement pension, raising you is more cost-effective than raising a pig. Playing at home every day, with a sum of money coming in every month, maybe they are still counting on you to subsidize."

"That would be too useless, still counting on me to subsidize, beat to death."

"Haha, I'm still counting on him to raise me, he actually wants to count on me to subsidize? Dreaming."

"You guys talk, don't forget to command the fishing boat."

"Yes, you watch the fishing boat operation, I'm excited and took the walkie-talkie to the deck to talk."

Ye Yaodong let them communicate by themselves.

Hearing them talking lively, he didn't speak again, focusing on steering the fishing boat forward.

PS: Updated 8000 today. ===== CHAPTER 1702 =====