Chapter 532 A Place to Survive
The Spring Festival has just passed, and it is time to pay respects to the deceased in old age.

After all, China's underworld is not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships and worldly wisdom.

While studying at Hunan University, Zhang Yunqi took time to visit the home of President Jiang Ruqin and also went to Ji Ling's home for dinner. The standard for gifts was the same: 20 kilograms of tea oil produced in Yunxi Village plus 20 kilograms of local bayberry wine.

One day at the end of February, when Zhang Yunqi was having breakfast in the morning, Yang Jin came to report on his work as usual, as well as to confirm and arrange his itinerary for the near future.

There were a lot of things to do, including those related to Aihua, Liansheng, Lianzhong and Zhangji Catering. Zhang Yunqi was eating, signing reports and listening to Yang Jin talk about work. Among them, Yang Jin emphasized that Li Jilin had gone to Yang Jiarong's office a few days ago. The two talked about the project in Qiaoku Town. After Li Jilin conveyed his hope that Yang Jiarong could attend their project launching ceremony on the day of Jingzhe, Yang Jiarong suddenly proposed to go to Qiaoku Town in advance to investigate and understand the construction status of the base.

The time is set for the day after tomorrow.

After Yang Jin finished his report, he said, "Boss, are you going to accompany Secretary Yang on the inspection? However, Liu Jinshi will go to the DVD player production base in Jiangchuan the next day, and he strongly expressed his hope to meet with you."

Time was very tight. He had to rush back to Jiangchuan after accompanying Yang Jiarong on the inspection in the middle of the night. Zhang Yunqi thought for a while. Yang Jiarong should have established a certain prestige in the city by using Liu A Sao's "smashing bowl incident". What did he think of the Qingwu South Road Pedestrian Street project? This was the key. Of course, it would be great if he could use this opportunity to ask Yang Jiarong for some subsidies for the agricultural benefit policy.

In fact, crayfish, a specialty food that only came to consumers' tables in the mid-90s, has low market popularity and is still a long way from being truly on the tables of ordinary Chinese people. Yang Jiarong heard about this project from Zhang Yunqi last year. After Li Jilin talked to him that day, he looked through the information and learned more about it. He was also surprised that Zhang Yunqi invested huge sums of money to choose this thing to develop Lijin's specialty industry.

The weather was clear and sunny on the day we inspected Qiaokou Town.

After Yang Jiarong got off the car, he said to Zhang Yunqi who was walking towards him, "You always do things that are unexpected."

Zhang Yunqi smiled. He understood Yang Jiarong's doubts. At that time, crayfish did not have a very good reputation. There were rumors in the market that crayfish could cause rhabdomyolysis and Haff's disease, etc. In addition, crayfish were omnivorous, grew fat quickly, had strong adaptability, and caused great damage to the ecological environment. Their reproductive ability was so strong that they would kill any Buddha or god that stood in their way, sweeping all over the world, so they were regarded as pests.

However, who could have imagined that after the 2000s, crayfish suddenly became a specialty food in every place, slowly becoming popular all over the country, even in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Fujian and Anhui, which do not like spicy food.

Of course, at this time, crayfish had already become popular in some areas of China, and had appeared on the dining table and was deeply loved by local people, such as Lanjie in the capital, Qianjiang in northern Hunan, Xuyi in Jiangsu, and various places in Sichuan. However, most of the breeding was done by small individual businesses, and had not yet moved towards industrial scale.

This time, Yang Jiarong came to Qiaoku Town for inspection with a dozen accompanying personnel, followed by four or five cars. The local authorities were out in full force, including Secretary Shao Min and District Mayor Wang Linjun of Wangcheng, Director Zhou Chunhua of the Agriculture Bureau, and Mayor Liao Jian of Qiaoku Town.

Zhang Yunqi was set up by this group of people for the Qiaokou Town project. But when they saw Zhang Yunqi again a few months later, they called him "Mr. Zhang" in a particularly friendly way. When they heard the first sentence Yang Jiarong said to Zhang Yunqi, they could feel that the relationship between the two was not ordinary. It was very meaningful.

At present, the operating entity of the large lotus shrimp breeding production base in Qiaoku Town has been established and is wholly owned by Liansheng Group. Its full name is Lijin Dafeng Agriculture Co., Ltd.

Li Jilin is the chairman and Wang Jingshan is the general manager. He is fully responsible for the operation of this project. Today, he is also responsible for the reception and explanation. This was done frequently in Yunxi Village before. Leaders from the ministry, province and city have all received us. He is familiar with the process and is not afraid of the stage.

After Yang Jiarong and his group of leaders got off the car, they went directly to Tuantou Lake in Qiaokou Town at the invitation of Wang Jingshan.

At present, the operational personnel of Liansheng Group have already moved in, and the communication work with thousands of local farmers has been carried out for more than half a year. If Qiao Zhiwu had not interfered, the land acquisition and storage would have been completed long ago. Now that Qiao Zhiwu has admitted defeat and withdrawn, Liansheng Group has re-entered the market, which has saved the cost of communication and coordination. The land transfer has been promoted very quickly, and at the same time, the high-standard remediation of breeding ponds has been promoted.

In order to cooperate with the launch ceremony of the Jingzhe base, the release of the first batch of shrimp fry has been in full swing. The farmers on site are busy releasing 10000 lobster fry into the lotus pond. At that time, there were no civilian drones, and the feeding method was relatively backward, and everything was done manually.

In early spring, the sun is shining brightly.

The waters of Tuantou Lake were rumbling with waves. Yang Jiarong and his group of about ten people were walking along the ridges of the fields while talking. At this time, the fields were gradually showing a vitality. Under the setting sun, the sky was green, the water in the pond was clear, and the crops in the fields were lush.

It is a busy time for farming.

Most crops have been planted. In the endless dry fields, peas are already dotted with pink flowers. In the surrounding mountains and fields, farmers are shouting and whipping their cows. In a dozen or so contiguous breeding ponds, farmers wearing bamboo hats are working hard under the spring sunshine. Tiny but lively shrimps are jumping on the water, reflecting a colorful and vibrant luster.

Yang Jiarong sighed, "This is a wonderful scene. It is really a pleasure to see the rice and beans growing in waves, and heroes everywhere in the evening smoke. How big is the pond you have built now?"

Wang Jingshan, who was standing by, replied: "At present, we have leveled 3800 mu of breeding base, with 1100 breeding ponds in rice fields and waters. This is the first batch of shrimp seedlings released. We will continue to release them while renovating the ponds. We plan to raise 5000 mu of the first batch in spring, and strive to reach 10000 mu in summer."

Yang Jiarong nodded, turned around and asked Qian Qian, director of the Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau: "This should be the largest private agricultural production base in Lijin, right?" Qian Qian was not sure, but he nodded with certainty: "Yes, Secretary Yang, and it is the first agricultural company in Lijin that specializes in breeding crayfish. Once the market is opened, it will be very competitive."

Yang Jiarong added: "I heard that this crayfish has an impact on the ecological environment?"

Wang Jingshan immediately explained: "Our experts at the Agricultural Research Center have given full consideration to this issue. There are two main aspects of the damage that crayfish cause to the aquatic environment. One is their strong reproductive ability, and the other is their feces. In our opinion, strong reproductive ability is the core advantage of crayfish in becoming an economic crop. Once it becomes an economic crop, it can be turned into a delicious dish and served on the table. Then its impact on the ecology will be minimal, because hundreds of millions of Chinese people will definitely eliminate them completely."

Everyone laughed at this remark.

Yang Jiarong asked again: "How do you think about the feces problem?"

Wang Jingshan adjusted his glasses and said, "In fact, before the project was launched, our General Manager Zhang Yunqi and the experts from the Agricultural Research Center discussed and decided on the strategy of lotus + crayfish co-cultivation, that is, the lotus and shrimp symbiotic farming model. This model is the first agricultural co-cultivation model in the country created by our Liansheng Group. The advantage is that we can use crayfish in the water to eat harmful insects, reduce the pollution of pesticides to the environment, use ecological methods to control weeds and pests, and strictly control agricultural non-point source pollution. At the same time, by planting aquatic plants such as lotus, the excrement of crayfish can be resolved, the water will become clearer, and the water quality can be guaranteed to be stable without affecting the ecological environment."

Yang Jiarong nodded: "Yes, your Mr. Zhang has always been a man with a lot of ideas."

Wang Jingshan smiled and replied, "Of course. Qiaokou Town has a large area of ​​water and good water quality. The pH value is 7.2 and the water temperature is maintained between 10 and 30 degrees all year round, which is suitable for lobster growth. This is why our Liansheng Group chose this place to build this characteristic industry."

Yang Jiarong asked: "How many batches of this shrimp can be produced per year now?"

Wang Jingshan replied: "Using the advantages of water resources and soil quality, we can raise crayfish twice a year in spring and summer and harvest lotus seeds once a year, thus achieving three harvests from one pond."

Zhang Yunqi heard this and added: "We are also studying how to breed crayfish in autumn and winter, so that we can have shrimp all year round."

Yang Jiarong was quite surprised: "Can we still raise shrimps in autumn and winter?"

Wang Jingshan said: "This is the next key plan for our production base. I have read a lot of relevant resources and have two ideas. One is to adopt a factory-based farming model and use three-dimensional water tanks to breed and test in the factory, so that we can produce five batches of shrimp a year. The second is to focus on paddy fields and ponds. We can create a growth environment for crayfish in different seasons, and use aquatic plants, water quality control, feed feeding and other technologies to achieve the production of four batches of shrimp a year. It is estimated that the annual per-acre output of large shrimp can be increased to about 50%!"

Yang Jiarong laughed and said, "If this is realized, it will solve the problem of seasonal restrictions on crayfish. In the future, we can have fresh crayfish available for sale all year round. Looking across the country, this should be the only one, right? The idea is very advanced. We should speed up technical research and strive to come up with innovative typical experience."

Wang Jingshan was about to speak when an old farmer who was walking over from the paddy field suddenly snorted. He said, "We have a typical experience and a face-saving project, but what if we can't sell all these shrimps?"

These words attracted everyone's attention. Everyone looked at the old farmer. The old farmer had just plowed the field. His skin was dark, his face was wrinkled like knife cuts, and his body was covered with mud. At this moment, he was leading an old cow in his hand, walking towards them barefoot and smoking a pipe. Facing a group of neatly dressed and clean city people, he did not show any stage fright.

Yang Jiarong smiled and asked, "Brother, do you have any specific explanation for your opinion?"

The old farmer seemed to think that Yang Jiarong and his team were the big bosses who invested in this project. Wang Jingshan, the general manager of Dafeng Agriculture, knew this. After hearing Yang Jiarong's question, he took two puffs of his dry tobacco and said, "We are doing this on such a large scale, and we have invested tens of millions of dollars in it. What if the products are unsalable? You should know that now the village has jointly set up some village collective enterprises, and they are bragging about how good this project is, asking those farmers who are obsessed with getting rich to invest in it with their land, and there are also some strange methods of investing in it by taking out loans. But have you ever considered the situation that the shrimps cannot be sold at a good price and the village company cannot collect the money? These are the lands that the farmers depend on for their livelihood. Alas!"

These words are simple and profound.

The relaxed and harmonious atmosphere in the inspection team was broken.

The smile on Yang Jiarong's face disappeared.

He asked, "Brother, are you so pessimistic about this project? What's your reason?"

The old farmer got excited and said, "These crayfish used to be discarded by the sewers, but now they can be sold for a lot of money? What a joke! Not to mention these crayfish that no one eats, even the fruits and vegetables that people usually eat have a lot of problems! Do you really understand agriculture? You rich people in the city will never understand the despair of seeing the crops you have worked so hard for rotting in the fields!"

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PS: Sorry, I’m busy.

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