A doctor who travels through two eras

"President Lin, look here. These are all 10-year-old wild ginsengs. They are the main sales force of our ginseng cooperative."

You Liqun and the two vice presidents introduced enthusiastically. Lin Sanqi looked at the large pottery jars in front of him with some surprise:
"President You, if you hadn't told me this was a ginseng warehouse, I would have thought it was a kimchi factory. These big jars are different from what I imagined a ginseng warehouse to be."

Nowadays, Lingnantang Company spent tens of millions to build a constant temperature and humidity warehouse specifically for storing ginseng.

At the same time, each ginseng is individually packaged in a vacuum box, and some insect-repellent herbs are placed in the warehouse. The Northeast wild ginseng is simply worshipped as an ancestor.

But when we went to the ginseng's origin place in 1961, we found that the ginseng was actually placed in ceramic jars?
This surprised Lin Sanqi a little, and then he wondered if it would be the same as Xinhui dried tangerine peel.

Sure enough, You Liqun laughed after hearing Lin Sanqi's question:
"Director Lin, you may not know that your hospital only sells as much as it purchases, and it usually doesn't keep it in the pharmacy for a long time, so there's no need to worry about it getting moldy or worm-eaten. At most, you can just put a layer of hay underneath it.

But we are a wholesale department here, and many ginsengs are kept for several years, and some are kept for decades, so of course we have to think of a perfect storage method, and sealing them in ceramic jars is the best and most economical method."

After saying that, You Liqun asked the staff to open a sealed ceramic jar, and a strong scent of ginseng wafted into the air.

You Liqun continued to explain:

"President Lin, look, this pottery jar contains 20-year-old ginseng. To keep the jar dry, we first put a layer of stove ash at the bottom, then sprinkle a layer of fried rice on top, and then a layer of red orchid hay. After putting the ginseng in, seal it again and replace it every five years so that it can be preserved for a long time."

Lin Sanqi nodded, thinking that the storage method was similar to that of tangerine peel, but in the Northeast there was an additional process of heating the room in winter.

"President You, it seems that it is really not easy to preserve this ginseng. This layer of fried rice alone is very expensive."

You Liqun laughed at himself:

"Now even fried rice is gone. It has all been replaced by rice husks, wheat bran or rice husks. So, ahem, whether it is purchased by the state or your hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, we dry the freshly picked ginseng and sell it directly to you. We dare not store it easily for fear that the ginseng will rot."

When Lin Sanqi heard this remark, he thought of a joke he had seen on the Internet.

It is said that a city dweller went to the countryside and saw farmers spraying pesticides on their crops, so he kindly reminded them: "My fellow farmers, you should use less pesticides, otherwise the crops and vegetables you grow will be unhealthy and eating them will be bad for your health."

As a result, the farmer smiled innocently and replied: It doesn’t matter, we won’t eat it anyway, so we will sell it all to you city people.

Thinking of this joke, Lin Sanqi laughed first. You Liqun and others saw that the young dean was in a good mood, so they took the opportunity to mention the transaction.

"President Lin, how much supplies have you prepared? How much ginseng do you plan to exchange?"

Lin Sanqi walked casually while pretending to be a bit cool:
"That depends on what kind of ginseng you are going to trade with me. If it is 10-year-old ginseng, I am not very interested. But if it is more than 50 years old, especially more than years old, then I am very interested."

You Liqun and the two vice presidents looked at each other...

"As for you, if you want to exchange for more food and penicillin, you need the best ginseng. I'm giving you convenience, so you should also give me convenience, right? Who should I recommend the inferior ginseng to when I take it back to the capital?"

President You nodded repeatedly:
"President Lin is right. Don't worry. Our Tonghua Ginseng Cooperative currently has the largest ginseng producing area in Northeast China. The ginseng we have here is not only the largest in quantity, but also of the best quality.

Dean Lin, let me tell you this. Whatever ginseng you want today, we will give you. We will supply you with whatever quantity you want. Even if you clear out our entire warehouse, we will thank Dean Lin instead. "

Lin Sanqi was shocked. He had been pretending for a long time, just to get more good ginseng.

Then you told me that as long as I had demand, you could empty out the entire warehouse and give me as much as I wanted.

This is just like the stock market in later generations. You want to buy a company's stock and wait to get rich.

As a result, I found that I bought more and more, and in the end I became the major shareholder, as if the old shareholders were giving the company to me.

This was indeed good news for Lin Sanqi, but the other party surrendered so easily. Lin Sanqi always felt that there might be some conspiracy.
After all, a warehouse full of ginseng is full of treasures. How can you give it to someone else so easily?
In fact, Lin Sanqi still underestimated the torture that long-term hunger would cause to ordinary people.

For a bite of food, the old and young in the old city took out the gold buried in the corner of the toilet to trade, and they were desperate for a bite of food. For the people in Northeast China, what is ginseng compared to food?
The world is big, but the most important thing is not to starve to death.

"President You, how many ginsengs do you have in stock now? Tell me the total number and see if I can eat it."

If it were someone else, You Liqun would still think that the other person was bragging, but the other person was able to become the director of the Capital Hospital at such a young age, and was able to transport grain safely to the Northeast across thousands of miles. Who would believe you if you said that the other person did not have a strong background?

You Liqun, who firmly believed in it, shouted excitedly:
"Xiaoqin, come quickly and report to Dean Lin how many ginsengs we have."

Xiaoqin is the accountant of the ginseng cooperative. She knows exactly how many ginsengs there are in the warehouse, so she ran over quickly holding the account door:
"Dean Lin, hello. I would like to report to you that we currently have a total of 24983 wild ginsengs in our warehouse."

Lin Sanqi was shocked, thinking, so many? This is the number after multiple purchases by major units.

It seems that it has not experienced the crazy era of ginseng harvesting more than ten years later, and the area is still in its original forest state, so there are indeed a lot of wild ginseng.

"Among them, there are 50 ginsengs aged between 99 and 8902 years old, 856 ginsengs aged over 50 years old, and the majority of the rest are under years old."

"and many more!"

Lin Sanqi's eyes lit up. Ginseng that is over a hundred years old can be sold at a sky-high price for each one. 856 ginsengs, wow!!!
"There are so many over a hundred years old. Can you tell what year they are?"

Accountant Xiaoqin turned to one of the pages and continued to report:
“林院长，是这样的，100年份到200年份的有698支，200年份到300年份的有123支，300年份以上有35支。”

“How many hundred years is the oldest?”

You Liqun interrupted at this time: "Dean Lin, come here."

Several people took Lin Sanqi to a small independent room:

"President Lin, we don't lie in front of real people. The 35 ginsengs in this room are all our treasures. The youngest ginseng is 300 years old, and the oldest ones are estimated to be 400 years old. In our industry, they can be called thousand-year-old ginsengs."

So this is how the reputation of thousand-year-old ginseng was hyped up.

But even if it was 300 years old, it was enough to make Lin Sanqi drool:

"Can I see it?"

You Liqun was a little embarrassed, or maybe he was just trying to figure it out:

"Well, I'm afraid that won't work. This ginseng is still sealed. Unless you, Dean Lin, want to eat it right now, it's best not to touch it."

Lin Sanqi looked at the old pottery jars in front of him and asked directly:

"President You, I'll take all of your ginseng. Let's discuss how much food and penicillin you want. Let's make it clear first. You can't calculate based on the market price, otherwise I won't be able to eat it."

Previously, 200 tons of grain were given for 200 ginsengs, which meant that Lin Sanqi wanted to subsidize the ginseng cooperative.

But if more than 500 ginsengs were taken out, they would need more than tons of grain, and at least train cars would be needed to transport it. That would be simply crazy.

Even if Lin Panax notoginseng is able to obtain it, would the ginseng cooperative dare to accept it? The local government would intervene in no time.

In fact, You Liqun is a little scared now. He said that he was going to clear out the inventory, but that was just talk. He doesn't think that President Lin will really take them all.

As a result, this wealthy man from the capital went all in. He was a little trembling. What if an unplanned purchase task came from his superiors and he couldn't come up with ginseng? Would he be doomed? (End of this chapter)