Zhang Tie's idea was not complicated. It was merely a variation combining the first and third plans Shopkeeper Du had proposed.
As for Shopkeeper Du's second plan, Zhang Tie felt that it was absolutely unacceptable.
If Zhang Tie were not the manager of the White Dragon Bay fishery, that plan would naturally have posed no problem. Zhang Tie could not force others to do anything. But now that he held such an identity, if he still went about it that way, wouldn't there be something wrong with his head? White Dragon Bay was his. Others came to fish in his fishery for free, then he paid to buy what they had hauled out of the sea, released it back into White Dragon Bay, and waited for others to come haul it out again...
No matter how he looked at it, it resembled children playing house. And the role he played in it was the most foolish one of all.
So naturally, that plan would not work. Even if Zhang Tie did not care about that little bit of money, he did not want Bian Heng to laugh at him once he found out.
Zhang Tie's idea was simple: from now on, the catching of pistol shrimp in White Dragon Bay would be forbidden. At the same time, Shopkeeper Du was to organize people to go to several major ports outside Wa Emperor City and buy large quantities of pistol shrimp to release.
The region where Wa Emperor City stood was, in fact, merely a landmass of over fourteen million square kilometers. Wa Emperor City occupied its center. To the west of this land lay the Jade Sea, and White Dragon Bay was only a tiny, insignificant portion of the Jade Sea reaching into Wa Emperor City—not all of it, of