Chapter 6: Cordyceps

In broad daylight, the streets are still full of people.

Missing a door and Fan Yang, the two of them stared at each other on the road.

didn't say a word, but was blasted out by Fan Wei.

"Why is this man like this?"

"yes. Lacking a door nodded hurriedly: "It's too boring, at least eat and leave." ”

"Unlucky, it's not good to be out of school, forget it. ”

"What do you say?

"Forget it. He didn't even understand this, and Fan Yang didn't have the heart to explain it to him.

It seems that he has to go home to the old man, and his mother sues him to make him look good.

This thought suddenly popped out of his head, and Fan Wei himself shuddered.

I have never had this habit, and I have always persuaded people with reason.

I'm afraid this idea is the habit of the previous Fan Yang.

In addition, the previous Fan Yang is indeed not angry.

Although it's not a big deal, it's just a little fun, but people in those days were very disgusted with this kind of non-business, seventeen or eighteen years old, and the people who fought became the main labor force in the family.

He didn't give up when he lacked a door, and he came to the door of the leather store with a dead face, and called inside: "Brother, you see it's almost noon, entertain us to eat before leaving?"

"Get out of the way. ”

Fan Yang pulled a missing door: "Forget it, let's go, let's get down to business first." ”

Pulling the unwilling lack of a door to the street: "Lack of a door, do you know where to sell Chinese medicine on the street?"

"Wow at the pharmacy?"

"Hmm. ”

"It's there before, you want to grab the medicine?"

"Well, go over and have a look. ”

"You have money?"

"Nope. ”

"Lie to me, in this case, how about buying me a bun for two dimes first, and I will borrow you. ”

", there's really no money. ”

"Just lend me two dimes. ”

Missing a door, he stretched out his one arm to pull the corner of Fan Yang's clothes.

Such a big person still pretends to be coquettish.

Seeing this, Fan Yang had goosebumps.

Not far ahead, there is a Chinese patent pharmacy, which is next door to the health center in the town, two shops, installed or rolling shutter doors, and before approaching, I smelled a strong smell of Chinese medicine.

In the rural town of the 90s, Chinese medicine was still quite popular, treating rheumatism and bone pain, bruises, and the popularity was not bad, and the doctor was sitting in a silver-haired old doctor, wearing a white coat, wearing a pair of glasses, a brush on the table, and a few shaved pears in the bowl in front of him.

After waiting for a while, the two doctors grabbed the medicine and left.

Fan Yang leaned up and asked, "Doctor, is there any Cordyceps for sale?"

"Cordyceps?"

The old Chinese medicine doctor glanced at Fan Yang: "No, what kind of illness are you?"

When Fan Yang heard it, he was not surprised: "I'm not sick, I just want to ask, see if there is Cordyceps for sale, by the way, do you know where it is sold?"

"I'm afraid it's good to buy it in Chengdu, what are you buying it for?"

The old Chinese medicine doctor didn't raise his head, and replied casually.

"It's like this, a good friend of mine, a foreigner, wants to bring some back to give gifts, the amount may be a bit large, it may cost a pound, I don't know the price, I just want to inquire." ”

Hearing a catty, the old Chinese medicine doctor pushed down his glasses and looked at Fan Yang.

"A pound?

"Well, how much is a pound?"

The old Chinese medicine doctor thought for a while, probably because he saw that it was profitable, and changed his words and said: "If you want it for a long time, if you are not in a hurry, I can also help you get some, but it will take two days, the price is a bit expensive, about 40 yuan a tael, you really want a catty, and I will calculate 300 for you." ”

"300?

Although he exclaimed that it was so expensive, Fan Yang's face showed surprise.

He was right, the timing was quite coincidental, the price of 92-year-old Cordyceps was really cute, only 300 yuan a catty?

This is another purpose of Fan Yang.

Sell Cordyceps.

Fan Yang, who has been trading for so many years and is well versed in speculation and hoarding, how could he not know Cordyceps.

In essence, it is a kind of wild resource of the third category, in the 80s, it was liberalized, priced by the market, managed by the local government, and the state will also carry out some targeted purchases.

But this commodity is very, very unusual, and its hype value is comparable to another great scam in the world, diamonds.

Because its value has multiplied tens of thousands of times over the next twenty years.

By 2017, Cordyceps was sold in grams, known as soft gold, even more expensive than gold, and after increasing the price layer by layer, the general price was about 100 yuan, one piece.

One kilogram of Cordyceps, at its peak, was as high as two or three hundred thousand.

High-quality Cordyceps, seven or eight hundred thousand.

But in 1992, Cordyceps sinensis was far from reaching such a mythical point, because the development of modern medicine made Chinese medicine fall to a very embarrassing point, ginseng, deer antler velvet are better, after all, rare, but to be honest, even ginseng is hyped up by later generations.

Cordyceps sinensis, which is also the three treasures of traditional Chinese medicine, is really embarrassing, because strictly speaking, its yield is not low.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, as long as the altitude is above 3,000 meters, is full of mountain slopes in April and May every year.

Like Fan Yang in later generations, he still remembers that when he went to Tibet for a self-driving trip, thousands of people flocked out to dig Cordyceps on those meadows on the plateau at every turn, but each person could still dig a dozen or so many a day.

The Cordyceps dug by herdsmen in two months is worth tens of thousands, or even 100,000 yuan.

But it's completely inflated, frothy, fried.

If no one speculates, the real value of Cordyceps is really no different from other traditional Chinese medicinal materials, the big deal is that the origin is unique, and the price is slightly higher.

But it can never be so high that future generations will go crazy about it.

And at present, it is 92 years, and Cordyceps has not yet warmed up, it is just an ordinary medicinal herb, which is not worth anything at all.

If memory serves, in the early 90s, the price of a kilogram of Cordyceps in the market should have been in the hundreds of dollars.

In the source area, that is really cheap, I have heard people say before, in the eighties and nineties, many herdsmen can exchange a bag of cordyceps, a pack of cigarettes for one or two yuan.

There are also many herdsmen who don't know about this thing at all, and they can still sell it for money.

Those cordyceps dealers, many of them can buy them for one or twenty yuan a kilogram.

Transshipment to the secondary market, the first-line terminal market, it becomes a few hundred yuan a kilogram.

That's trade.

This is the middleman layer upon layer of markup.

But next year, it's different.

It is no coincidence that it was reborn in 1992.

Because next year, it is the year of Cordyceps' turnaround, because in 1993, there was an exciting event in the country, Ma Jiajun became famous in the world, in the 1993 Stuttgart Athletics World Championships in Germany, almost all the podiums of 10,000 meters, 1,500 meters, and 3,000 meters, and then in the fifth World Marathon, he won the top four in full, and broke the world record 66 times a year.

Famous all over the world.

But then it got into a doping scandal.

In the process of clarification, Ma Jiajun threw out health care products as his talisman.

Chinese soft-shelled turtle essence, Cordyceps sinensis, also gained a great reputation in this incident, thus starting a health care product boom that will last for more than ten years in the future.

And next year, after this matter has been fermented, especially in 1994, the price of Cordyceps has increased dozens of times.

In 95 years, a kilogram can be sold for seven or eight thousand, tens of thousands of yuan.

And what is the concept of 10,000 dollars in 95?