Ye Yaodong shook his head, "Am I so free? I go to sea every two days and I can't even finish the work at hand, and I even work on kelp."

"Seeing how relaxed you said it was, didn't you think it was also very simple?"

"It also needs to be managed, and it also depends on the sea temperature. Not all places can raise it, but if it can be raised, it is very simple. As long as there is a rope clamped to hang it in the sea, and a foam ball to float it, you will not be afraid of being caught.

The waves are gone. If you are interested, I can teach you. If you can raise this, it will drive the whole village and allow some villagers to earn more money."

When everyone heard that they could earn more money, their eyes lit up.

"Okay, okay, this can be raised and sold, right?"

"You can sell it for money, hang it up in the sun, and dry it. Can't it be stored for a long time? And it is also easy to transport. Unlike the seafood we catch, transportation is very inconvenient and can only be transported to a few nearby towns. If this is done

If so, wouldn’t it be possible for large trucks to transport people all over the country?”

"Yes, yes..."

"Yes, we just caught so much. Everyone is thinking that after drying it, we can eat it on the boat for a few days without fear of spoilage. It would be better if we can sell it for money."

"Someone should want it. People in the city have to pay for the vegetables grown in the fields. The vegetables in our sea are also vegetables..."

Ye Yaodong looked at the kelp floating everywhere on the sea, and thought that if he couldn't do it, he could let the villagers do it, and then he would take it back and sell it in the shop.

I can make money myself, and it can also bring hope to my fellow villagers to earn a living.

Although kelp at this time is very cheap, it is the lowest-end seafood, and is commonly used as feed. The feed for sea cucumbers and abalones is kelp, but now few people raise abalone and sea cucumbers. What everyone eats is purely natural and wild.

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Therefore, no one bothers to raise low-end products such as kelp. It grows randomly on rocks. No one picks it up when it falls into the sea. No one wants it, and people on the beach don't care to eat it.

When you want to eat, you can pick up some from the sea and ask for two slices if they are drying at the door. You can have them, and the folks in the village are happy to share them.

Even if you stop at the door to take a few more glances, people will ask you if you want it and enthusiastically let you take some back to cook.

He thought about it and felt that it was indeed feasible to lead the entire fishing village to cultivate kelp. In his previous life, their village also had kelp cultivation, and in the offshore base field further away, there were also laver cultivation, hair lettuce cultivation, and oyster cultivation.

We have boats, we have everything, and now we are just developing ahead of schedule.

For seaside fishing villages with few mountains and little land, their hope of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich lies entirely in the sea. Building fishing boats to go fishing requires a certain cost. Some fishermen with no financial conditions at all do not have this capital.

There are more than 400 households in their village, and most of them can only do part-time jobs, doing odd jobs to earn a small amount of money to make ends meet, or they can just open up some land and grow some food to ensure that they don't starve to death.

There are still very few people who really make money, and most of them are around him now.

If these kelp seedlings fished back from the sea are taken back and raised, they might as well be a way out for the fishing village, or a way for the whole village to become rich.

If this is really grown, there will be no need to worry about selling it. Why do people in inland areas eat iodized salt? It is because they consume too little seafood and lack iodine.

Kelp is rich in iodine, so seafood is not easy to eat. It will be convenient if the kelp is dried and transported.

Therefore, the salt eaten by people at the beach does not contain iodine because they are worried about consuming too much iodine.

Drying kelp is much easier than drying dried fish. You can just find a place to spread it out and hang it.

After everyone discussed it, they all looked at Ye Yaodong.

"Can you afford it, A Dong?"

Ye Yaodong turned his head and said, "Okay, find a suitable sea area where you can raise them. When I went to sea last month, I occasionally saw some floating on the sea. At that time, I didn't think about catching them..."

"If it hadn't been caught in a fishing net, why would you want to fish for it? There is nothing rare about common things."

"If you want it, we'll catch some with a hand net and dry it in the sun. It probably grew on the rocks on some island. Now that the elders have grown up, they've been thrown into the sea by the waves, and no one wants them."

"Yeah, no one is fishing for it, no one wants it, that's why it's floating in such a large area."

"It's up to you. If you are done with the sorting work, you can just catch some and dry it in the sun. The work at hand must be more important. It doesn't matter whether you catch the kelp in the sea or not, because now is not the time for the kelp to grow.

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Kelp grows in low-temperature seawater. If the water temperature is above 20 degrees, kelp will not grow but will rot. Therefore, January to April every year is the best season for kelp growth.

After the Qingming Festival, the temperature begins to rise, which is a good season for kelp harvest.

Some of the ones on the ground are indeed rotten, and they are also in their mature season.

Wild kelp grows on rocks, and its roots are firmly attached to the rocks. It has grown for too long, and it can be easily knocked off when it gets a little rotten. I don’t know how long it has been floating.

Otherwise, it grows in hot sea areas with strong currents and small waves. The faster the tide, the larger the kelp.

There are indeed kelp growing on the rocks on the islands near them. Last year, he and Ah Qing got a lot of them to dry in the sun. If they really wanted to raise them, the surrounding sea area would also be suitable for growing them.

At the beginning, he only thought about fishing and breeding, and he didn't have the energy. But seeing how interested everyone is now, he directly asked the village cadres to come forward and start collective breeding. If he collects it, he can also make the whole village rich.

The most important thing is that the sea near them is really suitable for breeding, and his shop is on the right track. The fish raised in the village can really be eaten, and there is no need to worry about sales.

Wealth first drives wealth later, personal wealth drives collective wealth, everyone gets rich together and responds to policies.

That is, the current kelp has not been carefully cultivated from generation to generation, and the yield and growth may not be as good as in the future. However, it depends on people. As long as he gets started and can see some results, it will be considered a success.

Professional things require professional talents. As long as some results can be seen, the village committee can think of ways to make it bigger, and the government can also take the lead in inviting technical personnel to vigorously develop it. This is beyond his control.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, but as long as he can see results at the beginning, he doesn't need to worry about the rest.

Everyone was confused when they heard that it was not the growing season for kelp, and even asked questions.

"These are the two months every year that have the most kelp, right?"

"Yes, it doesn't grow when the temperature is high, so it matures and is blown into the sea by the waves. It is more suitable to clip kelp in winter."

"If we catch more now, can't we take back the tender ones and raise them?"

"Didn't you just say you could take it back and raise it?"

Ye Yaodong thought for a moment about what he just said, and seemed to have said, "I just saw it, and it was so smooth, so I said you can take it back and raise it. It can be raised, but it is easy to rot at this temperature. If you want to raise it well, you can't

We have to wait until winter, now is the harvest season, not the time to plant seedlings."

In winter, go to a nearby island to collect seedlings, and then clip them with a rope to grow them directly on the nearby island.

"Oh, now these can only be eaten."

"Let's dry it in the sun. All the fishing nets have been caught. Don't waste it. Hang it up with a rope and let it dry in the sea for two days. Then you all can share it and you can take it home to make soup. Anyway, let's leave it there.

It won’t break.”

"Then let's dry it."

"There are quite a few floating in the sea. I wonder if they fell off one of the surrounding islands. Do you want to fish them out?"

"Let's fish. It happens that it's not dinner time yet. Everyone is in good spirits. Let's divide it into two people to help fish it out. It won't delay the work on the boat."

"Then let's do it... let A Dong teach me how to plant it in winter..."

"Yes, the vegetables grown in the ground cannot be sold for much. Does anyone want the vegetables grown in the sea when they are dried?"

"Vegetables grown on the ground can be sold for money. People in the city don't have land, so they have to spend money to buy the vegetables they eat. Who is like us in the countryside, where the vegetables are worthless and we can't even grow them ourselves."

"Then there should be some people who want this..."

"Let's fish it out first. Fish out what's within reach and forget about what's out of reach."

They themselves said it was lively, so after discussing it, two people were divided into fishing. Anyway, the fishing boat was not moving very fast.

Ye Yaodong also squatted in the corner of the pile of kelp and picked through it. If it was partially rotten, he would cut it off with scissors. If it was too big, he would throw it away. He also picked out the old and tender ones. Today's kelp is not as big as that of later generations, and the kelp looks wild.

Especially young.

To be honest, no one wants natural products now, and no one would even think about breeding them. What is really lacking is the inland mountainous areas, and it is not just the lack of these. The poor areas in the inland mountainous areas are lacking everything.

But how can people’s minds think so far now? Everyone is just in their own one-third of an acre of land and has no knowledge. Not even 1/10 of the people in the village have been to the county seat. Very few people can think forward.

If you want to farm, you won’t be able to eat all the fish you catch from the bottom of the sea, so you have to feed the livestock.

Everyone had so much confidence in him. They immediately believed that he could make money when he said he could sell it. This was because they saw how successfully he sold dried fish and made so much money.

Otherwise, who would believe him?

Those fish products that no one collects at their beaches can be turned into treasures, and kelp will certainly do the same.

Everyone picked and picked, salvaged and salvaged, divided labor and cooperated, and did not forget to chat and discuss a few words.

Father Ye watched them suddenly start salvaging the kelp from the cockpit, and he was a little confused. What was the purpose of fixing that thing?

He didn't have time to ask. He only asked casually when Dongzi came to take his place while waiting for dinner.

"Why are they picking up so much kelp?"

"When I said it could be sold for money, I quickly salvaged it."

"Sell it for money? How much can you sell it for? There is it in the sea when the season comes."

"Of course you can make money by drying it and selling it. Dried fish is easy to sell, but there is no reason why kelp is not easy to sell."

In an era when supplies are scarce, people want everything, especially things that don’t require tickets, and they are even more frantic to grab them.

In his previous life, he had seen a large truck pull a load of defective cloth, and women from the entire village surrounded it and tried to get it, as if they didn't want any money.

Father Ye was doubtful, "Does anyone really want it? It's floating on the sea and no one can catch it. Is there anyone who cares about it?"

"Why is there no one who wants something that is edible? In many places, the problem of food and clothing is still to be solved or has just been solved. It is so cheap here, and the things that no one wants can be snatched up in other places. Otherwise,

Where did there come from so many treacherous people and smugglers?"
To be continued...