A doctor who travels through two eras

Fusong, known as the hometown of ginseng, also has the world's largest ginseng trading market.

Countless wealth myths were born from this small county town at the foot of Changbai Mountain. Some people became rich overnight, while others went bankrupt and jumped off buildings.

In Manjiang Town, the most remote township in Fusong, Lin Sanqi and his delegation visited and inspected the environment accompanied by local township government officials.

The minibus has been turning around on the winding mountain road for almost an hour.

It cannot be said that there are no people along the way. From time to time, you can see many buildings on the roadside. When someone approaches, some people come out of the house to observe, appearing a little vigilant.

Yin Lianyi felt a little carsick and she leaned on Lin Sanqi's shoulder and vomited from time to time.

Lin Sanqi tried hard to suppress his nausea. Even if a fairy's shit was smelly, a beautiful woman's vomit would be disgusting enough to kill people:

"Mayor Luo, how far is the place we want to inspect?"

Luo Yongbo, the accompanying deputy mayor of Manjiang Town, turned around and pointed to a hill in front and said:
"We're almost there, we're almost there, Xida Mountain is just ahead, Boss Lin, please be patient."

Manjiang Town is very large, covering an area of ​​more than 600 square kilometers, which is as large as six Tianhe Districts, but its population is very small, with only 1499 registered residents.

It has jurisdiction over 4 administrative villages and there is only one ginseng primary processing factory in the whole town, which relies purely on the mountains and the water for its livelihood.

So now that a southern company is finally coming to invest, everyone in Manjiang Town is paying great attention to it and is hoping to keep the southern boss so that they can make things easier for themselves in the future...

Deputy Mayor Luo said we were almost there, but it took us another half an hour to reach our destination. It was really like trying to overachieve.

Lin Sanqi helped Yin Lianyi get out of the car. A gust of mountain breeze blew past, and they immediately felt refreshed.

Lin Hai also laughed: "Uncle Shi, the air here is so good, I'm a little oxygen intoxicated."

Deputy Mayor Luo quickly echoed:
"Boss, you have good vision. We have the endless Changbai Mountains here, and there is no industrial or domestic pollution within thousands of square kilometers. Therefore, our Fusong ginseng is the best in the country, and our Manjiang ginseng is the best in Fusong."

Lin Tianhua did some chest expansion exercises and asked casually:

"Mayor Luo, how much ginseng is produced in Manjiang now? Do you have any statistics on this?"

Deputy Mayor Luo smiled awkwardly:
"Well, we don't have specific statistics. After the ginseng is picked, it is usually transported to the county town for processing. If it is wild ginseng, who picked it will basically not be disclosed to the public, so we don't know how much ginseng flows out of Manjiang Town every year."

Lin Sanqi said softly to Lin Hai:

"No, you get it, right? Wild ginseng is a scarce commodity now. Not to mention ordinary ginseng farmers, even those companies are trading in secret, fearing that others will find out. I said our plan can work."

The people in Manjiang Town don’t know, but everyone in Lingnan Hall knows what this so-called plan is.

Only Lin Tianhua was curious

It stands to reason that Lin Sanqi's large amount of wild ginseng could only come from Changbai Mountain. However, as he observed along the way, he discovered that Lin Sanqi was not familiar with the Changbai Mountain ginseng producing area at all and it was definitely his first time here.

So where did he get so much wild ginseng?

Lin Hai didn't care at all and said with a smile:

"Okay, I'm more confident that I can be a game manager. If you ask me to do a good job, I really can't do it. If you ask me to pretend, then I am definitely qualified."

Although Deputy Mayor Luo could not understand what these Cantonese-speaking merchants were saying, it did not hinder him from attracting investment.

"As you have seen, we saw many houses along the way. They were the bases for the ginseng field guards. They were all foreign merchants who came to contract a few mountainous areas for 20 or 30 years at a time, and then closed the mountains for afforestation."

Lin Hai was a little puzzled: "Why do we have to close the mountain after we have contracted the land?"

Deputy Mayor Luo patiently introduced:
"This is mainly for the purpose of cultivating forest ginseng. After the ginseng seeds are sown in the soil, they are left to grow naturally without transplanting, fertilizing or spraying pesticides. They are then dug out after 10 to 20 years. This semi-wild ginseng is called forest ginseng.

The acres of ginseng fields you saw in Wanliang Town before are only garden ginseng, which has low nutritional value and needs pesticides when it is grown. The ginseng sold by the pound in the market is garden ginseng.

The value of forest ginseng is second only to wild ginseng, and it is very expensive in the market. In order to prevent people from stealing ginseng, we need forest protection teams to guard it. The mountain forests that have been contracted out in Manjiang Town have reached more than 300 square kilometers. After all, the environment here is good, haha. "

Lin Sanqi nodded: "The environment is indeed good, Deputy Mayor Luo, which piece of Feng Shui treasure land did you find for us?"

Deputy Mayor Luo pointed to the hills opposite and said:
"Noisy, it's in this direction. The highest mountain is called Xida Mountain. The ones next to it are Xixiao Mountain, Xier Mountain, etc. There are five mountains in total. We have measured the total area and it reaches 30 square kilometers."

Lin Hai exclaimed, "Oh my god, our Shilou Village is only 1.5 square kilometers in size, but this place is 30 square kilometers in one go, that's Shilou villages."

Yin Lianyi was also a little surprised when she heard this. As for finance, the most worrying thing was how much the contract fee would be. Deputy Mayor Luo rolled his eyes and continued to fool around:
"The larger the area, the greater the chance of discovering good stuff. There are so many wild ginsengs in the vast mountains within your field of vision that have not yet been discovered. As long as you contract this piece of land, all the wild ginsengs within 30 square kilometers will belong to your Lingnan Hall."

Lin Sanqi thought, there must be wild ginseng, but the place where the car could drive was so large that even if there was wild ginseng, it would have been plowed several times by people. How could there be any good stuff?
Deputy Mayor Luo continued to promote:

"Mr. Lin, let me tell you, ginseng planting under the forest cannot be too dense, so the larger the area, the better. After ten or twenty years, you will have a good harvest, and you will really make a fortune."

Lin Sanqi is just here to pretend and shut up the people, and it doesn't matter whether there is any output or not.

"Uncle Shi, what do you think?"

As the general manager of Lingnan Hall, Lin Tianhua knew about Lin Sanqi's plan, but he had to put on a good show, so he naturally nodded in a serious manner:

"I think this place is great. Deputy Mayor Luo, if we want to lease it for 30 years, how much would this 30 square kilometers of mountain land cost?"

Deputy Mayor Luo was delighted, because Manjiang Town had no other income and was completely supported by the ginseng market. One more ginseng market would naturally mean more income.

"It's like this. According to the standards of our town system, if 30 square kilometers of forest are contracted for 30 years, it will cost a total of 3000 million yuan, hehe."

Deputy Mayor Luo felt a little guilty after hearing this. After all, 3000 million yuan was less than the annual fiscal revenue of Manjiang Town.

Farmers rely on the mountains for their livelihood, and the local government does the same.

Lin Sanqi, Lin Tianhua, Lin Hai and Yin Lianyi pretended to discuss for a long time and accepted the contract fee of 30 million.

Compared with the current ginseng price of Lingnantang Company, 30 million is really nothing. Once the problem of ginseng source is solved, formal invoices can be issued, and the tax deduction alone will be more than 30 million.

That afternoon, Lingnantang Company and Manjiang Town Government signed a forest contract, and the 30 square kilometers of Xida Mountain officially became the property of Lingnantang.

Coming out of the town government, Lin Hai felt a little worried:
"Qizi, how can I guard such a large territory by myself?"

Lin Sanqi rolled his eyes:

"Who asked you to guard the forest? How many wild ginsengs do you think there are in these 30 square kilometers? Besides, I'm not going to plant ginsengs in the forest, so why bother?"

Yin Lianyi felt sorry for the money: "Ah, if you don't plant the ginseng under the forest, then such a large forest will be wasted, right?"

Lin Sanqi explained:

"If you plant ginseng under the forest, you need to arrange full-time security guards to watch over it 24 hours a day. For 30 square kilometers, you need to arrange a forest protection team of at least 50 people, right? You also need to pay salaries every month and provide supplies. How much does it cost in a year?

The key is whether ginseng can be grown under the forest. We are outsiders, and I am afraid that the ginseng will be stolen as soon as it grows. Either the forest protection team steals it, or a few local hooligans come to steal it.

So instead of taking the trouble to guard it, it is better to throw 30 million here. Of course, you still have to pretend. Lin Hai, you should recruit a group of temporary workers to pretend to patrol regularly to cover up your tracks. "

Lin Hai sighed, "Wow, thirty million yuan is just thrown away like that. It's like a fucking dream."

Lin Sanqi thought that as his reputation for exchanging ginseng for grain in 1960 grew, he would have more and more ginseng in his hands.

Some people may worry that too much wild ginseng will cross over, causing a market shock in 2023 and a drop in prices.

People who have such concerns completely ignore the Chinese people's worship and superstition about ginseng. For rich people, if they don't have a few hundred-year-old wild ginseng at home, they will lose face in the circle of wealthy people in the future.

According to the Hurun Wealth Report, there are 13.3 families in China with assets of over million yuan. If we include Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as well as overseas Chinese, the number of billionaires will increase further.

With such a large group of wealthy people around, they can digest as much wild ginseng as possible.

Why is Lingnan Hall's ginseng in short supply? The reservation orders are scheduled for a year later. That's because there are too few wild ginseng on the market, and the price of wild ginseng is even rising every year.

Once Lingnan Hall becomes the largest supplier of wild ginseng in the country, it will definitely not be a problem to achieve annual sales exceeding 10 billion yuan.

Especially for Lin Sanqi, sales volume is equal to profit.

In the next few days, Lin Tianhua was busy recruiting ginseng packagers, and Lin Hai was busy looking for a location and license for the branch.

Lin Sanqi took Yin Lianyi to Changbai Mountain for several days.

The information of Fengshou Seed Company, together with more than 10 tons of additional grain seeds, were all packed and shipped to Huadu. After Lin Sanqi received the call, he knew it was time for him to go home.

Maybe I should go back to 1960 with hybridization technology and seeds and give everyone a surprise. (End of this chapter)