Back to the Past to Become a Fishing King

Chapter 834 - 563: Spring Fishing for Jumbo Crucian Carp

With the several million in funds approved by the company, Yu Dong easily acquired new, more efficient equipment for the laboratory.

Thanks to the efficiency increase from the imported equipment, Yu Dong successfully isolated the core substance within the cricket gel low-temperature fermentation extract that showed a significant feeding stimulation effect for fish—a small peptide protein with a relatively small molecular structure.

It is precisely this inconspicuous substance that gives the fermentation extract a far superior feeding stimulation effect compared to similar substances, whether observed in the fish tank or through practical maze experiment tests. The results are extremely clear, especially for fish that have certain physical damage, such as return fish, old slippery fish, or weak fish, showing miraculous effects.

Zhang Yang personally witnessed in the laboratory’s observation tank a tank of experimental fish, intentionally weakened to the brink of death, struggle to swim to the bottom and feed after being given bait mixed with the substance.

After confirming the type and name of the core substance, the subsequent work had a new direction.

With the current level of biochemistry, it’s not particularly difficult to retrieve this substance at the laboratory level.

Setting aside advanced synthetic technologies, even using previous low-temperature fermentation and target substance extraction techniques can extract this magical small peptide protein with the prerequisite of spending some time and material costs.

Seeing this, some might ask, wasn’t the extraction liquid containing this substance already obtained earlier, and Zhang Yang tested it personally as soon as he received the information?

What fundamentally differentiates the current situation from before?

At first glance, from a practical usage standpoint, the difference isn’t significant, but from a scientific research perspective, the gap is huge, marking a significant advancement.

Once the molecular structure is determined, subsequent manufacturing and purification become merely a matter of time, with numerous different technical methods available in the biochemical research field to separate various substances. This will greatly increase the concentration of effective substances in the extraction liquid.

Additionally, knowing the structure of this substance makes subsequent synthetic possibilities achievable, though it’s far more difficult than separation and purification, with a long way ahead.

ended in a state of prosperity, with Zhang Yang’s career and life taking another big step forward. If it weren’t for not wanting to marry quickly due to his young age, he could have upgraded to become a dad without any pressure.

At the end of the year, with time off, Zhang Yang, unwaveringly, took his parents to the city’s top hospital for a comprehensive health check.

Following the regular timeline, in the previous life, at the start of spring in 2019, his father would be diagnosed with cancer due to health issues, a thorn in Zhang Yang’s heart, mandating biannual comprehensive check-ups.

But unexpectedly, in this life, his father’s comprehensive check-up results were very healthy, with no symptoms of chronic diseases common in older people like blood sugar or blood pressure issues, which allowed Zhang Yang to be at ease.

Thinking about it, it makes sense. In the past life, Zhang Yang’s father had to work tirelessly from early morning to late night for the family, taking on the heaviest and most demanding tasks in the construction team and even doing odd jobs in the town’s dirty factory when there was no work at the construction site, leaving his body’s potential severely depleted by the harsh reality.

But now? When Zhang Yang’s bait factory is busy, his father helps oversee core operations of materials and finished products going in and out; when not busy, he leisurely drinks tea at the store. With a successful son, he can take pride both physically and mentally, the situation is entirely different from the past life, and thus, the absence of such severe diseases like cancer is understandable.

The trivial matters at the end of the year are not worth detailing, nothing more than the usual preparations before the year-end and visiting relatives after the New Year.

Of course, unlike previous years, Zhang Yang now has a partner. Though he hasn’t brought her home for the New Year yet, he doesn’t have to endure parental pressure to go on blind dates.

On the eighth day of the lunar year, Zhang Yang Company officially started work, marking the beginning of a new year.

At the start of the new year, Zhang Yang introduced a new work plan.

Apart from existing operations, the initial phase of the TikTok account can be considered complete, and beginning after the New Year, all employees in the company’s media division will officially enter the dual-platform operation stage.

Last year’s platform "centralization" had a significant impact on Kuaishou. Influencers and livestream sellers who obediently signed contracts did not see a major impact on their overall traffic.

However, influencers like Chen Xiu, who have a large scale yet did not sign contracts with the platform, inevitably faced traffic sanctions from the platform.

Originally, a single live stream could attract hundreds of thousands or even millions of attendees, with tens of thousands of concurrent viewers. After being limited by the platform, the stream traffic shrank by over threefold.

Yet despite the pressure from platform limitations, Chen Xiu persevered, unwavering in the decision not to sign contracts, as advised by Zhang Yang, and prepared for dual-platform operation. Leading a team of over ten experienced seller hosts, he swiftly set up a matrix of accounts on TikTok.