1980s Sea-Harvesting: Catching a Ten-Thousand-Jin Monster from the Start

[Period Drama · Sea foraging · Fishing · Giant Creatures · Getting Rich · No saint]

In his previous life, Gu Chaosheng was a legendary captain of an ocean-going fleet, but he was set up by his partners and died at the bottom of the sea. When he opens his eyes again, he has returned to Salt Bowl Village on the southern coast in 1980, a dirt-poor place where the family can barely make ends meet.

The six of them are crammed into a leaky adobe house, and his mother’s medical bills cannot be raised. The whole village is waiting to laugh at the Gu family.

However, with forty years of ocean-fishing experience and modern fisheries knowledge, Gu Chaosheng begins a dimensionality-reducing assault on this stretch of sea!

While others forage the shore for snails and crabs, he digs up a century-old giant clam with one shovel, its pearls bigger than pigeon eggs!

While others cast nets close to shore for small fish, he sees through the currents with his own eyes and nets a school of thousand-jin yellow croaker!

While others fear storms at sea, he deliberately goes out after typhoons and hauls back giant catches that can feed the whole village for a year!

Starting from a broken wooden boat, he leases fishponds, builds a fleet, opens a seafood processing plant, and establishes foreign trade export routes...

Gu Chaosheng is going to use his own two hands and a head full of marine knowledge to turn this poor bay into the nation’s largest fishing empire, in an era full of gold!

The villagers marvel, "That kid Chaosheng must have sonar in his eyes!"

Gu Chaosheng looks at the deep blue sea in the distance and smiles faintly: in this life, I want my whole family to live the very best lives!