The large yellow croaker that Gu Kun caught quickly passed the scale and it turned out to be 16 kilograms.
Everyone was amazed, and then they immediately prepared to kill the fish and make soup. It didn't look like going out to sea to fish, but more like a picnic.
Based on the price in 1995, if this fish could be kept well and live for a few more days, it could be sold for 20,000 yuan when it reaches the shore.
However, when Gu Kun was fishing, he simply used a harpoon and stabbed him half to death. He couldn't keep it alive. He didn't need ten thousand or twenty thousand, so he just accompanied his students to have fun and eat it.
He didn't plan to let everyone know the market price right away, so as not to have a psychological burden and make the meal uncomfortable.
After the big fish was taken away, Gu Kun waved his hand and ordered Long Wu to arrange to close the net and bring up the hundreds of kilograms of fish caught nearby.
In just 20 minutes, the girls in the class had stewed pickled vegetables, yellow croaker in large soup, and several other freshly caught seafood dishes, and started to enjoy them.
Chuanshan is a famous fishing ground in the East China Sea. The seafood here is also quite attractive to college students who usually study in Hujiang, because you can't eat it so fresh on the shore.
More than ten kilograms of large yellow croaker to make soup;
Three to four pounds of swimming crabs and blue crabs are boiled directly;
The big hairtail fish, as shiny as silver, caught with a deep-sea squid hook, is half fried and half sashimied.
"Holy shit, it's so delicious. What is this? Is this hairtail? Is the paint on the hairtail we usually eat peeled off? And whatever hook you have, I don't think you need to re-bait it. It has a constant supply of energy.
Hooking up hairtail fish from the sea is amazing."
While Huang Han and his girlfriend were frying hairtail and watching Gu Kun cutting sashimi there, they couldn't help but try a piece of it raw. The result was like opening the door to a new world.
"Is it really okay? Can hairtail really be eaten raw?" Zhou Yaoguang was a little frightened, fearing he might get some kind of parasitic disease.
"Whatever, it's amazing when eaten raw with mustard and soy sauce. Try it, you won't regret it." Huang Han, who had already eaten to the point where he couldn't even speak, came out to speak out, and soon others started to rush over to get excited.
Come fish.
Tang Jia also ate a piece and was amazed. He felt that it was extremely sweet in his mouth. He still held the hairtail fish in his hand. It smelled fishy, so he poked Gu Kun with his elbow and said, "Tell me, how did you catch it and why did it grow?"
Eat, it’s so magical.”
While cutting the sashimi, Gu Kun replied casually: "Oilfish is a deep-sea fish. As long as it is fresh enough, it has no parasites. In Japan, pure silver hairtail sashimi served within 48 hours after being caught is cheaper than top-notch Arctic Norway."
Salmon and sea bream sashimi are quite expensive, but it’s a pity that they can’t be kept fresh under normal circumstances.
Because it lives at least two to three hundred meters below, you need to use a 300-meter long line for squid fishing to slowly sink down when fishing for hairtail. It has the same phototaxis as other deep-sea fish, so you don’t need bait. People with good skills can just rely on it.
The light on the squid hook can lure hairtail to the bait.
However, I am a bit overqualified. Light squid fishing hooks are only used in the deep sea. The maximum water depth here does not exceed three or four hundred meters. You can also catch hairtail by scraping the bottom trawl of the seabed. I just did it for everyone to have fun.
Let you experience all kinds of things.”
While we were chatting here, a girl in charge of simmering yellow croaker soup next to us greeted everyone to eat: "The fish soup is ready, everyone eat it while it's hot."
This girl's name is Bai Ling, who is also in Gu Kun's class. Her face is not ugly, but her figure is a bit hunky. She brought her boyfriend with her to the ship for internship and vacation this time.
Her boyfriend's name is Hu Jin. His school is worse than hers. He is from Hujiang Maritime University, but he is quite handsome. He is also a senior than her and is about to graduate.
Hujiang Maritime is the second professional maritime school in China, second only to Lushun Maritime in Northeast China.
When Gu Kun met Hu Jin, he was considered a fellow traveler, so he was able to chat with him for a few words.
At that time, Gu Kun asked privately, half jokingly, how Hu Jin and Bai Ling met and how they got together.
Hu Jin's answer really made him dumbfounded: "We are studying maritime affairs. What's the use of having a beautiful wife? We run out all year round. If we are beautiful, we won't feel at ease!"
Yes, he is also someone who plans to hunt wild food for his family all over the world.
I'm very enlightened, and I might be able to be a captain in the future, but I still need a few more years to hone my skills.
Bai Ling and Hu Jin made the fish soup and served everyone a bowl. There was still a lot of it. Bai Ling felt that it was a pity to let it cool, so she took the initiative to suggest: "Gu Kun, why don't the crew members also
Let’s take a rest first, have a bowl of yellow croaker soup and eat before we do anything else.”
It is a woman's nature to want the food she cooks to be appreciated, to be eaten up, and not to be wasted. Otherwise, she will easily feel frustrated.
However, Gu Kun explained: "They are at sea all year round and are not interested in seafood at all. We just closed the net just now and we have to freeze the fish before we can stop."
Bai Ling was a little discouraged: "Why worry about it like the capitalists? Forget it, let's finish the soup and go kill the fish and freeze it with the workers. Anyway, we are here to experience life. If we work for a few days, it will be an eye-opener and we won't be tired."
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After saying that, Bai Ling didn't eat very well, so she picked up some hastily and went to help with the fish freezing.
On the contrary, Hu Jin, who was already a senior and had more social experience, smiled kindly and explained to Gu Kun: "She is like this, more idealistic. Don't mind it, Mr. Gu, I was an intern on the ship. You treat your subordinates here already."
He is very lenient, other captains are called ruthless."
"That's what I said, but since the work is busy, we should help. How can we let their workers work while we just eat and drink and watch." Tang Jia suggested, and took the lead to help Gao Jianxiong, who was directing the work.
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People like Huang Han, Zhou Yaoguang, etc. naturally followed.
Because it is the first time for everyone to do it, it feels very fresh, so even if the muscles are a little tired, the brain does not feel tired, just like playing.
With nearly ten more helpers, the harvest processing on the ship was quickly completed.
Girls like Tang Jia and Bai Ling felt very satisfied in their hearts. They looked at the sea one by one and sighed: "Looking at it this way, the life of a fisherman is really unrestrained. Although sometimes a little tired, you can see the beautiful scenery and eat seafood every day. If only
It would be perfect if the boss were more lenient."
Experienced people like Gao Jianxiong and Hu Jin immediately looked a little unnatural, thinking that the girls were talking nonsense without any social experience, and even winked at Gu Kun.
Gu Kun laughed and said: "There is a clear saying in ancient times: Car and boat shops, feet and teeth, even if innocent, should be killed. Do you really think that the world at sea is so tender and tender? I am already the most merciful boss. Under normal circumstances, the crew can do up to 16 jobs a day.
Hourly work, even on particularly busy days, does not exceed 18 hours.
Moreover, the basic salary I calculate for them is based on 12 hours a day, and I will pay extra for overtime. This is all because fishing for seafood is no longer my main source of income, and I cannot afford to treat my subordinates harshly - but you know that I
What did those colleagues do?"
Tang Jia was slightly shocked when she heard this. She quickly put away her previous attitude and humbly asked for advice: "Is there anything darker?"
Gu Kun sneered: "Take us in Southeast Asia as an example, Lanfang is pretty good. If you go to India, Myanmar, countries that don't treat people as human beings, there are a lot of fishermen slaves working 20 to 22 hours a day, and they may be given to you.
Eating a bowl of rotten rice, not even getting paid, and not being able to go to the mainland for the rest of my life. The fishing boats only docked at offshore islands to unload and barge after harvesting.
Especially the island of New Guinea in the southeastern part of India, which is poor and far away from international trade routes, and is bordered by the Arafura Sea in the south and faces Australia across the sea. We usually see those Australian dragons, Australian abalone and other Australian seafood in high-end hotels.
, most of them are from the Arafura seafood, and they are not fished by the delicate Australian uncles, but by the Indian fishermen on the other side of the sea.
The lives of Australian uncles are valuable, and their labor protection is good, but is it useful? Australian capitalists will choose to outsource. Since Australian locals cannot be enslaved, and the high labor price makes them uncompetitive internationally, Australian tycoons will only be responsible for the export and foreign trade of seafood from now on.
, purchase goods directly from Indian mud slave owners, then label them as Australian caught and sell them to other countries to earn a profit.
This is the same as when Apple in Oceania was criticized by Oceania’s labor union for its sweatshop, they could outsource the industrial chain and never open a factory in Oceania.”
Tang Jia and all his classmates were dumbfounded.
These inexperienced college students had their minds cleared by Gu Kun for the first time.
Gu Kun returned to the captain's cabin with compassion, brought a novel, handed it to Tang Jia, patted her on the shoulder, and said sincerely:
"You are also a liberal arts student after all, so you should read more than me. This is "The Crab Boat" by the great modern Japanese writer Kobayashi Takiji. Have you read it?"
"I haven't seen it..." Tang Jia was a little ashamed. His literary quality was actually not as good as that of a foreign engineering student.
Gu Kun sighed: "Then you really should read it. This was written by Kobayashi Takiji after the Great Depression broke out in 1929. Mr. Lu Xun immediately praised this book and recommended it to China. The helplessness at sea,
Mr. Kobayashi saw it so clearly sixty years ago:
This is an industry with international competition, because the sea has no borders. Even if the fishermen of a country fight for their own dignity and status, the results of the fight will be greatly reduced due to international circulation competition.
If fishermen in a country suddenly live with dignity today, then fishermen from poor countries who are the poorest in the world and whose lives are least valuable will come to your sea to grab their jobs. For example, those boats fishing for seafood in the South Pacific
, it is not driven by Australians, Chileans and Argentines. It may be a ship from the country with the lowest life expectancy in the world. It sails across the ocean to the offshore waters of those countries. The hard-earned fishing boats catch the goods and transfer them to the fishing boats of the local countries.
to ship legally.
Then, those fishermen in rich countries who have fought for the strictest will be directly unemployed, just like after the trade unions in Oceania became stronger, the factories were directly closed down. It is even easier to snatch jobs from foreign sweat fishing boats than from foreign sweat shops.
Because this is an industry with no entry barriers, you don’t need to invest upfront to open a factory. As long as your fishing boat can drive there, you can start this business.
In Kobayashi Taki's second book, he writes about a black fishing boat from Hokkaido in 1925, which deceived a group of landless farmers there. Unemployed workers boarded the ship as illegal workers, and then continued north to fish in the Lucian waters of Kamchatka and Sakhalin.
King Crab. In the background of the book, Lucia was in the former Soviet Union, a country with social attention.
Xiaolin lusted after two illegal workers on a crab boat who were thrown into the sea for resisting. They were rescued by a former Soviet fishing boat, and then saw how the fishermen of the former Soviet Union lived a dignified life. But then Xiaolin changed his writing and wrote about the former Soviet Union.
The resources of fish workers were also plundered by Japanese fishing boats. Then
Agree with Comrade Ulyanov’s conclusion: Fishermen are the ones who need the world’s praises the most. Their suffering can only be improved if the suffering of fishermen in all countries in the world is jointly put to an end. Otherwise, they will become even poorer and less human.
The country’s poor will come to grab their jobs.”
The sea has no borders, and no one can live alone.
To change the entire rules, you cannot discuss this issue until you become the overlord of the entire sea area.
After being baptized by Gu Kun, his classmates seemed to have suddenly become more experienced and mature, and they no longer made any fuss on the boat.
The difference is, these are things you can’t learn no matter how many classes you take at the Maritime University.
"Brother Gu is so experienced. This business came from licking blood from the blades of swords at sea."