"Isn't this a scam? You need to use chemical fertilizers to raise fish! The fishing team and the fishmongers work together to lower the price! There is still a way for good people to survive!" Hong Tao sat down on the deck and couldn't get up, like a deflated rubber ball. "The problem is that you are not a good person either!" Boss Liu was still trying to criticize him! "That's what the contractor did in the past. I saw with my own eyes that he hired people to salvage the water and then hauled them away one by one. If the rainfall hadn't been too severe, he would have been reluctant to transfer the reservoir to me. He wouldn't have done the same. Compensate!" Hong Tao was still not convinced and found another reason. "Then you have to ask him. Maybe he just specializes in this. He has a fishing team and fishmongers. He doesn't know anything about reservoir farming. He doesn't even start to do such a big thing. You If you can get one-third of this reservoir into net cages, I will immediately take my son to raise fish for you. It won¡¯t take more than three years, and we, father and son, will be rich, and you will be even richer! . . . It depends on how to do it.¡± Old Man Li pushed back. ????????????????????????????? Old Man Jin, who specializes in contracting to plant fruit trees in barren hills, speaks much more kindly than Old Man Li, but the content is not at all kind. He suggested that Hong Tao not plant fruit trees, because the soil layer on the slopes near the water is too thin and not suitable for growing fruit trees. The top of the mountain is suitable for planting, but there is no way to water, fertilize, or apply pesticides. In addition, wild boars are infested here, and small saplings The chance of survival is very low and of little significance. Old Man Jin suggested that Hong Tao plant some Pinus tabulaeformis, not for the purpose of producing results, but to wait for them to become useful. After 10 years, he could contact the forestry department. After becoming useful, he could cut down part of them every year, and then replant them. You can make money by selling wood. "10 years? Can I survive these 10 years?" Hong Tao ignored Old Man Jin's words. Ten thousand years is too long. He can only seize the day. If fish farming does not generate enough income, he will not be able to survive in 10 years. Besides, planting trees is not a white species. You have to buy saplings and hire people, which is another huge expense. "Don't be too discouraged. I'll give you an idea that will allow you to sell your wild fish at the same price as fish in cages. You make a few empty cages next to the dock, and then once the fishmonger lowers your price, you Just put the fish in and raise them first. Although there may be some losses, as long as the density in the cage is smaller, the loss can be tolerated. In this way, your income can be higher, but it is not the same as raising fish in real cages. Fabi. I estimate that if the sales are good, it will be no problem to get 3 million fish every year. The main thing is that you have to stock enough fish. The stocked fish will grow slowly and the fish will be 2. Years ago, you keep catching fish year after year. If you didn¡¯t catch enough fish last year, you won¡¯t be able to see it this year, and you will be dumbfounded next year.¡± Old man Li looked at Hong Tao¡¯s dejected look. Gave him another idea. "Next time if you have something to say, can you please stop saying it several times? You've almost given me a heart attack, so I'll do as you say. I'll go find a sale right away! Uncle Liu, Uncle Fat! You Do you two know the fishmonger?" After listening to Old Man Li, Hong Tao resurrected with full health as long as he could basically guarantee the annual contracting fee. Even if Hong Tao pays hundreds of thousands, he can hold on. "We can do this business, but you dare to do it without thinking about anything! I have no place to find a fishmonger for you! I'll find a few supermarkets for you. You can hire a car to deliver them to them at a designated time. Maybe The price can be higher!" Boss Liu had a black line on his forehead and wanted to kick Hong Tao into the water. However, he still found a way for Hong Tao. As for whether he could sell all Hong Tao's fish, then It depends on how Hong Tao goes to talk to others. "That's good That's good Hey By the way You guys I'm treating you to fish head cakes in a wok. That's enough. You can try our fish first. Let's go. Let¡¯s go!¡± Hong Tao finally settled the fish farming matter for the time being. He was in a good mood and also thought about eating. There is nothing else to eat here, except for rare game such as pheasants and badgers. Reservoir fish are something that can be used very well. In fact, Hong Tao¡¯s mind is still very firm. No matter what kind of opposition he encounters, he still moves forward in the direction he has designed. And these friends of his are also interesting enough. Those with connections help him find connections, and those with connections help him find connections. They have found all the building materials, engineering construction, fish fry, and saplings that can be used. Whether they are needed or not. I'll look for those who are above and take a look. The more the merrier! Before Labor Day, Hongtao, a green ecological reservoir, finally began to take shape. The original office building of the Reservoir Management Office was transformed into a building integrating accommodation and catering. It has 8 guest rooms, a restaurant and a cafe. Vera and Tasia became the managers here, and they also The piano will be played for the guests who dine and stay here. For this purpose, Boss Liu also donated a piano. It is said that Liu Xiaomei bought it when she was in school. It has been left in the garage and no one is using it. Now it has found a new owner. In addition, Hong Tao also built a mobile house with an area of ??more than 200 square meters in the middle of the reservoir as a base camp for warehouse patrols. He retained all 7 warehouse patrols hired by the previous contractor, with a salary of 800 including food and accommodation, and continued to work every day The two inspections of the reservoir were divided into several sections, mainly to prevent net fishing and electric fishing, plus collect fishing fees and provide some basic services to fishermen. There are also some materials such as fertilizers, fishing nest materials and fishing gear stored here. Hong Tao has given up on large-scale planting of fruit trees and only planted a few hundred trees on the hillside where the house is located. The five helpers Gao Miao found for him usually had nothing to do. They totaled it up and contracted this hillside and a nearby hillside to plant risky fields, basically corn, and turned over 2 tons to Hong Tao every year. Corn and beans are used as rent, and the remaining seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. are borne by themselves. These 2 tons of corn and beans are not wasted. Most of the people who come here to fish will not bring nest materials. It can be sold to them without any waste. The only docking dock was slightly renovated by Hong Tao. A floating dock was added to replace the original dock built on a sloping soil slope. This way, whenever the water rises and falls, people who want to take a boat into the reservoir area do not have to go from there. To carry things to the ship dozens of meters away, you can drive the car directly to the floating dock for loading and unloading. On the shore of the pier, Hong Tao also hired excavators and road rollers to build a simple parking lot that can park about 20 ordinary family cars. Coupled with an original parking lot inside the dam, it can basically park 40 cars. There will no longer be the embarrassment of having no place to park when the flood came in the previous life. With these facilities in place, Hong Tao's reservoir can be considered to have the initial function of receiving fishermen. As for other facilities, Hong Tao is more cautious. He plans to work for a year and then see if the amount of losses is within his tolerance range. If the loss is too large, then he will continue to invest in the construction. If the loss is too large, then he will have to think about whether he can continue to play with this reservoir. Just the initial investment of 200,000 white silver carp and flowered silver carp fry, at a ratio of 4:1, with 3 or 4 fish per catty, cost him more than 300,000 yuan. Including the newly built and renovated houses, it cost him more than 500,000 yuan. Ten thousand, in 2 or 3 months he will set up cages near the dock to temporarily feed the fish that have been caught, and he will also have to pay staff salaries. He also wants to buy a small speedboat, and the bits and pieces add up. It's about 1 million again. Including his contracting expenses that year, it's already more than 4 million, which has reached his investment limit. In April, Irene brought Paul and Carl back, and even went to the reservoir to see Hong Tao¡¯s project. Paul's opinion is slightly more positive than Pan's. He believes that if the resources of the reservoir can be fully utilized and some business projects can be added, such as paramotors, paragliders, kayaks and even seaplanes, the profit prospects are still good. "However, Hong Tao cannot immediately agree to the projects Paul mentioned, let alone implement them. Since this reservoir is a water source, any development and utilization must go through very cumbersome procedures to obtain approval. Hong Tao doesn't have time to go through these procedures for the time being, and even if he does, he won't be able to complete them in a month or two. Paul has been in China for more than a day or two. He understands China's national conditions even better than Pan, and he also understands the difficulties Hong Tao mentioned. " But a capitalist is a capitalist. No matter how nice he talks, when he can't see the benefits, he is just an iron rooster, never plucking a dime. Paul thought that there was a little rust in these iron cocks, so he shook himself and a little rust fell off, and invested US$200,000 in Hong Tao in his own name, becoming the third living shareholder of Pan Hong's company. In Paul's own words, this investment was a favor to Hong Tao. The fishing boat was confiscated by Hong Tao. Although it was nominally Hong Tao's, he always used it awkwardly. Now it is equivalent to converting it into money and returning it to Hong Tao, saving Hong Tao. If there is a bigger favor that he needs to repay in the future, he will be passive at that time. "Our favor is worth 200,000 yuan! Then I will lose money. When I finish my work, I will participate in another sub-station competition and the bonus alone will be almost the same!" Hong Tao does not expect Paul and the others to really invest. They and Pan is different. Pan is really using money to coax him to play. Although this woman is a complete capitalist, there seems to be an element of righteousness in her character. But Paul and his friends are 100% capitalists who eat people without spitting out their bones. In their eyes, friends are friends and business is business. Even if I run you bankrupt and then use money to rescue you, it still doesn¡¯t matter. They can't show any affection when doing business. This is their creed as a person, and no one can change it. (To be continued)