I See through Everything

They returned after about an hour of surveying Bamboo Mountain.

It happened to be lunchtime, so Jiang Miao took Han Zhendong and his team to a private dining room in the company cafeteria reserved for guests.

While they waited for the food to arrive.

Jiang Miao took a sip of tea, then announced decisively, "Manager Han, if the upcoming survey results meet our development expectations, the project will be contracted to your company."

"General Manager Jiang, you’re very straightforward! To a successful partnership!" Han Zhendong replied at once. He hadn’t expected things to be this simple. ’A client like this is truly a rare find,’ he thought.

Jiang Miao was straightforward, but that didn’t mean he was completely hands-off. "To a successful partnership. I only have one requirement: quality must be guaranteed. I can even accept a few hundred yuan more in cost per megawatt. I will be hiring a third-party company to supervise and approve the entire project."

Naturally, Han Zhendong had no objections to this. "Your request is very reasonable, General Manager Jiang. It’s only proper to have a third-party company for supervision and approval."

"By the way, Manager Han, I have another request. While the dam is being built, I’d also like to conduct a complete overhaul of the reservoir area."

Han Zhendong instantly got goosebumps. ’I should take back what I was just thinking,’ he thought. ’This is clearly going to be a complicated project, and a difficult client.’

Jiang Miao, who had come prepared, took a design sketch from Li Zixuan and spread it out on the dining table.

Han Zhendong looked closely at the sketch spread across the table. He realized it was a topographical map of the coastal, mountainous area they had just surveyed, but with several new locations planned out on it.

These included the Bamboo Mountain and Sea Reservoir dam, the Bamboo Mountain Reservoir indoor aquaculture facility, water transport and drainage pipelines, a reserved area for a six-lane coastal highway, and a beach aquaculture farm.

It even detailed the distribution of underwater reefs, the seabed subsoil, the sediment layer, and the bedrock layer.

"So, your company plans to enclose the beach area below as well? And turn it into a massive basin?" Han Zhendong’s brow furrowed. After a moment of thought, he felt compelled to offer a reminder.

"General Manager Jiang, if we increase the volume of earth and rock excavated from the mountain, we can certainly expand the reservoir’s capacity and use the excess for land reclamation. However, an investment of this scale would likely approach four billion yuan. The seawall alone could cost around two billion."

"Can you really recoup such a massive investment from just a beach aquaculture farm? General Manager Jiang, I admit I don’t know much about the aquaculture industry."

The beach aquaculture farm Jiang Miao had designed covered 600 mu—an area 2,000 meters long and 200 meters wide. With an average depth of 30 meters, its total water capacity would reach 12 million cubic meters.

Meanwhile, after its own modifications, the Bamboo Mountain Reservoir’s capacity would increase to around 8 million cubic meters.

"Manager Han, our company doesn’t do business at a loss. The reason we’re building the beach aquaculture farm is to make full use of our resources. I am definitely making this investment to turn a profit."

Faced with the almighty client’s insistence, Han Zhendong decided to just go with the flow. ’After all, only an idiot turns down money,’ he reasoned. ’If they end up losing their shirts, it has nothing to do with Jianfang Company. As long as we get paid for the work, I couldn’t care less if Hailufeng Company lives or dies.’

"Since you’ve made up your mind, General Manager Jiang, I will arrange for our surveyors to inspect the entire area. If all goes well, we can produce a feasibility report within three months."

"Then I’ll be counting on you, Manager Han."

"It’s no trouble at all. It’s what we do."

The reason for Jiang Miao’s elaborate plan was to make full use of cooling water. If they drew seawater directly, it would require secondary cooling.

After all, the ideal water temperature for raising salmon is between 13 and 18 degrees Celsius.

Therefore, the cooling water couldn’t be wasted.

Once the Bamboo Mountain Reservoir and the beach aquaculture farm were complete, the cooling water could be circulated between the two locations, only needing to be periodically replaced with fresh seawater. This would result in significant energy savings.

Furthermore, the combined water volume of these two sites would be 20 million cubic meters. Even by utilizing only half of that capacity, they could produce between 50,000 and 250,000 tons of salmon annually.

The country’s total salmon imports last year amounted to 97,000 tons.

This meant that once Hailufeng’s Bamboo Mountain farm was operational, its production capacity alone could nearly match the entire country’s import volume.

After lunch, Jiang Miao had Kong Guocai, the head of the logistics department, arrange for accommodations and daily meals for the Jianfang Company project team. After all, they would be working at Bamboo Mountain for over a month straight.

That afternoon, Jiang Miao immediately convened a small internal meeting with his senior executives.

This was something Jiang Haibo would normally handle, but he was away on a business trip in Gannan, so Jiang Miao, the boss, had to take care of it himself.

「In the conference room.」

His brother-in-law, Li Xinhua, Fang Yi, Lü Weibin, and Zhang Xinyi—the five division managers—were present, along with the department heads from headquarters. Everyone sat ramrod straight, waiting expectantly.

Jiang Miao didn’t like to waste words in meetings and got straight to the point. "The purpose of this meeting is to gradually adjust our electricity consumption schedules for headquarters, the factories, the aquaculture farms, and the crop farms. From now on, all departments are to concentrate their power usage during the daytime. Avoid night shifts and overtime whenever possible."

The first to speak was Kong Guocai, the logistics department manager. He considered it for a moment before saying, "Headquarters should be easy to manage. We rarely work overtime at night anyway. The only exception is the central kitchen, which has to operate at night. There’s no way around it—with the recent opening of our company-owned store in Hai Feng County, the daily production schedule is completely full."

"At the cannery, we can adjust the production line," Li Xinhua added. "Our night shift is only four hours long, so it can definitely be rescheduled."