Chapter 602: Get the land and start working!
Maple Leaf Restaurant is the most prestigious hotel in the county. In the lobby on the first floor, there are nine large round tables, around which about a hundred people sit. It looks very grand.
On the round table, various seafoods were served directly in basins, which looked like a way of eating that was not short of money.
Li Jiahuang stood at his position, holding a megaphone, and said, "Dear fellow villagers, dear elders, thank you for giving me this honor to attend today's banquet. The New Year is coming soon, I hope everyone will eat and drink well, and don't go home until you are drunk tonight."
"The reason I invited everyone to dinner today is not only to take this opportunity to thank you for your support of our work, but I also want to say a few words to you. I'm sure you all know about Lu Yiming's statement in the past few days trying to distance himself from me, right?"
Someone said, "I know. The loudspeakers in the village are playing every day."
Li Jiahuang said angrily, "That's Lu Yiming's shamelessness! He came to me with the eel farming project and sincerely wanted to cooperate, but Lu Yiming turned around and found another expert, intending to kick me out. It really makes me sad that the richest man has such a shameless style of behavior."
After hearing what he said, many people started talking about it.
"I didn't expect the richest man in the world would do such a thing. He really has no shame at all."
"Yeah, that young man looks good, why is his character so bad?"
"No wonder he's the richest man . Let me tell you, the richer a person is, the more shameless he is."
"Really? Why do I feel like he's not that kind of person?"
"He's already the richest man, he wouldn't resort to such tricks, right?"
Some people sneered at and criticized Lu Yiming, while others were skeptical about what Li Jiahuang said.
However, it is clear that the majority of people believe in Li Jiahuang. After all, Lu Yiming did admit that he was optimistic about the eel farming project, but later there was news that he wanted to kick Li Jiahuang out and work alone. This is obviously a case of stealing other people's creativity and ideas.
Although it is not illegal to do so, the means are too despicable and the eating habits are very ugly.
Seeing that many people believed him, Li Jiahuang was very proud and continued, "Recently, there have been all kinds of rumors saying that I am a liar. This is simply lying with open eyes! What did I lie to you about? We are all from the same village. Am I not afraid of being stabbed in the back?"
Some people believed in Li Jiahuang's wealth-making project and put their money on the line. They immediately stood up to support Li Jiahuang: "Don't worry, you are doing the right thing, and we will definitely support you."
"That's right. Few people from outside come back to their hometowns to start businesses. Why? It's because these people have red eyes. They don't do anything practical themselves, and they can't stand seeing others do better than they should."
"If you are willing to return to China to support the development of rural economy, then we will all support you. Don't care what others say. Stick to your own ideas. We will get rich with you."
"You're right. Your plan is solid. Lu Yiming is just shouting slogans. I think he's just talking nonsense about being the richest man or not."
Seeing the atmosphere was heating up, Li Jiahuang was very happy. After all, these people had invested money in him, and all he wanted was to prevent them from regretting their investment. Now it seemed that his goal had been achieved.
"Everyone, thank you for your support! What I promised you will never change. An annual return on investment of more than 30%. One investment, lifelong benefits. All you have to do is wait for the company's dividends in the future."
The eel farming project does have a bright future, and the several experts from island countries invited by Li Jiahuang successfully dispelled everyone's concerns. In addition, when the slogan of dividends was shouted, these farmers who had little education naturally began to dream of getting rich overnight.
Among the crowd, there were several local media reporters specially arranged by Li Jiahuang, who faithfully recorded everything.
The next day, the news made the headlines of local newspapers.
Li Yiwen ran over to Lu Yiming with the newspaper in his hand and yelled, "Hey, we didn't bother them, but they got excited. Look at this report, it's so shameless! They are obviously the liars, but they turned the tables and said that we are jealous of their talents and deliberately excluded them? It's too much!"
Lu Yiming calmly ate his nutritious and delicious breakfast, and said slowly: "Alright, calm down, don't be so angry so early in the morning. Anyway, our money was not cheated. As for the fools who were fooled, they deserved it. I have already told them that they are liars, but they still rushed in. What is this called? This is called the God of Hell told him to die at three o'clock in the morning, and he ran to report at two o'clock in the morning."
Today, the economy of Xia State has achieved rapid development due to reform and opening up.
But after the country's doors were opened, it also attracted many evil spirits. These people took advantage of the fact that Xia was unfamiliar with the outside world, so they often used all kinds of means to cheat.
There are many business projects that seem very reliable, but are often big scams, and the breeding and planting industries are the hardest hit areas.
Many scams haven’t even changed their routines, they have simply moved to a different location and have deceived many people, leaving them with nothing but tears to cry.
For example, as early as ten years ago in 1990, there was a famous nutria scam that fooled people.
The nutria is native to South America, so it is called the American giant water rat locally.
In 1953, the country introduced nutria as an ornamental and special breeding animal.
The economic value of nutria is its fur.
However, nutria fur is small in size, and most of it can only be used as decoration for collars and hat brims. Moreover, its quality and appearance cannot be compared with mink or fox fur.
In 1980, the country's doors were just opened and wealth surged.
At that time, special breeding was very popular, such as colorful pheasants, mallard ducks, blue foxes, silver foxes, miniature pigs, guinea pigs and other animals, including nutria.
However, at that time, nutria farming was only part of the breeding craze.
A man named Li Tianguo discovered the code to personal wealth.
He compiled a book on nutria breeding techniques under the name of "Zhengda Breeding Farm".
In the book, he praised the nutria to the skies, saying it was a treasure: Abroad, nutria fur was in short supply and extremely expensive.
Nutria meat is also very popular among foreigners. It is called "dragon meat of the sea" and is rich in fatty acids, as well as vitamins A, E, K, etc.
Then, he sold the nutria to the "hooked" people at the price of 500 yuan each. He then promised that if the nutria gave birth to pups, he would buy them back for 1,000 to 2,000 yuan, and he would also return the money if they returned the pups.
Of course, he also gave the sweetness faster and more vigorously.
Whenever someone from outside the city bought nutrias, he would send someone to follow them secretly and pretend to buy them for 700 yuan. Before they even left Ziyang, they would make a profit of several hundred yuan from the first sale!
Outsiders often buy them again when they see that there is profit to be made. But this time, Li Tianguo asked for 1,000 yuan per piece.
He would also ask his agent to buy it back and offer a higher price, such as fifteen hundred yuan.
This money came too quickly and too easily!
You have to know that in 1993, the average monthly salary of Zhonghai was only 470 yuan, which means that you could earn more than a month's salary by just going around Ziyang City.
There's a nutria craze going on here.
From rural areas to cities, almost half of the families have built ponds at home to raise nutrias.
The city of Ziyang was filled with the smell of money, and the people of Ziyang became extremely wealthy. Even a pound of lettuce was sold for 50 cents.
At that time, there were reports calling Li Tianguo "the man who sows the money tree."
Li Tianguo's breeding mice are becoming more and more expensive, one thousand yuan, two thousand yuan, three thousand yuan...
Soon, nutria fever spread across the country.
According to the chronicles of Lezhi County, the price of nutrias skyrocketed every day. A pregnant female nutria could be sold for as much as 30,000 yuan, and a golden baby nutria could only be sold for 10,000 to 20,000 yuan each. The whole city was "proud to have nutrias at home."
This was 20,000 or 30,000 yuan in 1993!
In 1994, Focus launched a blockbuster program called "Nutria: Re-investigation of Myth and Reality". At that time, Focus was undoubtedly the most influential news investigation program in the country.
For a moment, the game of passing the flower came to an abrupt end.
All breeders began to compete to sell their nutrias. The price of nutrias went from tens of thousands to two or three thousand, then to a few hundred, then to tens of thousands, and finally no one was interested in buying them.
Li Tianguo's Charoen Pokphand Farm is no longer willing to buy back nutrias.
Many people who originally dreamed of getting rich finally woke up, and many people were cheated out of all their wealth.
Let’s get back to the topic.
Unlike Professor Jiang Weichen's low-key inspections, Li Jiahuang's work style emphasizes a high profile. Every time he takes a few experts from island countries to the beach, he invites a large number of reporters to accompany him, take different photos, and then listen to him brag about how amazing the annual rate of return will be once the project is put into production, and how it can also create a large number of jobs locally and boost the economy.
The local authorities were alarmed and sent people to contact and negotiate, and they were obviously very interested in Li Jiahuang's plan.
An investment of six hundred million!
Moreover, after it goes into production, it will be directly exported to the island country, and the foreign exchange earned will be!
With such huge benefits in front of us, who can refuse?
The local official Xu Lian found Li Jiahuang to discuss the investment.
Li Jiahuang told Xu Lian: "According to our previous plan, I will invest 300 million yuan in my personal name, accounting for 50%, which means I still need to borrow 300 million yuan from the bank."
Xu Lian's eyes lit up. A project worth 600 million yuan was unique in the county, and even in the city, there were only a handful of such projects.
"As long as the project is implemented, I will definitely find a way for you to get a bank loan."
Li Jiahuang was proud in his heart, but said calmly: "After the breeding base is built, the eels exported to the island country will be worth more than 1 billion every year. It will take less than two years to make back the investment, and then we can start to make a lot of money."
"Total export value of one billion!"
Xiong Yanhua's breathing became rapid. This was a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. Every year, a considerable amount of foreign exchange was sent back from abroad. But who would complain about having too much foreign exchange?
With Li Jiahuang's in-depth explanation and analysis, the county magistrate increasingly felt that eel farming was a good project with great potential!
As for the 300 million yuan loan, it is nothing compared to the huge profits that can be obtained in the future.
All of a sudden, with Xiong Yanhua's support, everyone in the county went crazy. Those who worked outside and came back to celebrate the New Year invested all the money they had earned hard outside.
Su Da'e invested all her savings for coffins over the years. After returning to the village, she showed off everywhere, thinking that she had made a profit by buying a share.
Although Ning Xuehua disliked Su Da'e, she didn't want her lifelong savings to go to waste, so she reminded her, "Why are you still investing? Didn't Xiao Ming say this is unreliable? Be careful not to be deceived."
Su Da'e glared at Ning Xuehua fiercely and said through gritted teeth, "Even the city is very optimistic about this project. A loan of 300 million yuan was approved just like that. How could it be a scam? 300 million yuan, do you know how much money that is? I think you just can't stand seeing others getting rich!"
After saying that, Su Da'e ignored Ning Xuehua and turned to chat with other people.
Lu Yiming, who was eating fruit in the living room, heard the conversation between the two and immediately said to Ning Xuehua with a smile, "Mom, why are you talking so much? No one is listening to you now."
Ning Xuehua said anxiously, "It seems like more and more people are being fooled. What should we do? Didn't you say you were going to expose them?"
Lu Yiming said helplessly: "They are too fast. Our project requires research, investigation, and analysis of various objective factors, but they don't have to do anything. They just start the project as soon as they think of it. We can't compare with them."
Soon, Li Jiahuang, who had obtained a bank loan, selected a place on the seaside and started construction immediately, as if he was really going to build an eel breeding base here.
Lu Yiming was quite interested in this and wanted to see what tricks they could come up with.
The year was spent in this strange atmosphere.
Time quickly arrived at the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Although Lu Yiming did nothing during this period, Jiang Weichen ran almost all the way across hundreds of kilometers, and also carefully investigated the water quality and topography of the nearby sea areas, and handed a thick investigation report to Lu Yiming.
"Here are the research results. I have to say you are lucky. The local hydrological and climatic conditions are very suitable for eel farming. As long as the management is done properly, the output is estimated to exceed Shunde, the eel hometown of Xia Country, within a few years, and the scale of exports will exceed 2 billion."
Lu Yiming was overjoyed and said, "What are you waiting for? Let's get started!"
Li Yiwen has been secretly counting the number of people and the amount of money that have been deceived recently. This is the task assigned to him by Lu Yiming. Seeing that Jiang Weichen finally got the job done, he was relieved and hurriedly urged: "Get started. The earlier we get started here, the fewer people there will be deceived."
The technical content of aquaculture is not low at all, especially the farming of eels is known for its extremely high difficulty. It is not something that can be done by simply throwing a few breeding boxes into the water and then releasing the fry.
The selection of fish fry, the choice of terrain, and even factors such as temperature and hydrological conditions must be taken into consideration, which means that in order to build and maintain an eel breeding base, Lu Yiming needs a professional technical team.
Lu Yiming once again used the "money throwing" method and said to Jiang Weichen: "Professor Jiang, how about this? You will be in charge of the team. You can apply for a project at school, and then bring students to me for scientific research. I will pay for it, but you will be responsible for the breeding. When the time comes, I will make money and you will produce research results. It's a win-win situation. What do you think?"
Jiang Weichen hesitated for three seconds and then agreed.
Although the school gives him a certain amount of scientific research funding every year, aquaculture technology is not a pillar industry, so one can imagine how much money he can get.
Compared with a generous sponsor like Lu Yiming, the school's annual funding is completely insignificant.
Jiang Weichen spread out the map, drew a few circles on it with a pencil, and said, "The water in these bays is not that turbulent. If we set up fisheries here, the skin and bones of the eels cultivated will be softer, more suitable for cooking, and will definitely become delicious dishes on the table. These three places are the most suitable. Although other places can also raise eels, the quality cannot be guaranteed."
In this regard, Jiang Weichen's professional knowledge is much better than that of Li Jiahuang's gang of scammers. He was afraid that Lu Yiming would not understand, so he continued: "Common eels are divided into river eels and sea eels, and the type of fry I recommend is sea eels. But living in the ocean, sea eels are often impacted by water flow, and their skin is harder than that of river eels. As a seafood, sea eels with soft skin are more favored by the feed market, so the most suitable area for breeding is a natural harbor."
Lu Yiming nodded slightly and said, "No problem, I will definitely take care of these areas. As expected of a professional, he has even considered the taste of the product in advance. With Professor Jiang in charge, I feel completely relieved."
Jiang Weichen said: "We are agricultural scientists, and that's what we consider. You go to these three places to build fish farms, and I'll go find a batch of high-quality fish fry."
"good."
After reaching an agreement with Jiang Weichen, Lu Yiming immediately found Xiong Yanhua. In Xiong Yanhua's office, Lu Yiming said seriously: "I plan to invest 1 billion yuan to build eel breeding bases in these three places."
"real?"
When Xiong Yanhua heard that Lu Yiming was going to invest 1 billion yuan to build an eel breeding base, she felt so happy that she almost fainted.
First, the returned overseas Chinese Li Jiahuang invested 600 million to build an eel research base, and now Lu Yiming wants to invest 1 billion to build an eel breeding base. What happened this year? Could it be that this is the year of good luck for me, Xiong Yanhua?
However, when Xiong Yanhua saw the place Lu Yiming pointed to on the map, she was in a dilemma and said, "Other places are easy to choose. Half Moon Bay has been approved to Li Jiahuang. Although the documents have not been officially issued, the procedures are almost complete. How about we change to another place?"
