After chatting with Li Zhenghai for more than ten minutes, Li Yan walked out of the courtyard and looked at the scenery in the distance.

This place is very close to the foot of the mountain, and there is a small medicinal field not far away, and Li Yan recognized it at a glance that the field was planted with prince ginseng.

Before entering the door, Liu Cheng told him that in addition to going up the mountain to collect medicines, Li Zhenghai's other major source of income is to plant prince ginseng.

The soil of Qingshui Town is more suitable for planting this herb, and there are not a few people who have made a fortune by planting prince ginseng, and Li Zhenghai has also planted a few acres of land.

"In the past few years, there were few people growing ginseng, and the business was relatively easy. In recent years, almost every household in the town has planted it, and the market has not been as good as before. Li Zhenghai shook his head again and again.

This situation is very common, one family makes money, other neighbors follow suit, the market is so big, the production is more, the competition pressure is great, the sales volume will naturally decline, and the buyer will also reduce the price.

Liu Cheng smiled bitterly: "I used to grow prince ginseng, but then I almost lost all my money, so I had to change to car repair." ”

Li Yan was very surprised, even if the market was limited and the output increased, it would be impossible for the prince ginseng to be sold at the price of cabbage. It's an exaggeration to lose all your money, right?

Li Zhenghai sighed and said: "Little brother doesn't know, in the early years, there were few growers of prince ginseng, and what those medicinal herb buyers said was better than anything else, desperately encouraging us to plant more, and promising that no matter how much we planted, they would harvest as much as they wanted." The price was only high, not low, and then everyone saw that it was profitable, so they used the fields where other crops were planted to grow prince ginseng, and the result...; …;”

"As a result, there is too much production, and the medicinal herb buyers can't eat so many goods, so it causes hoarding, right?" Li Yan asked.

Similar situations are not uncommon. It is no longer news, as long as it is the harvest season of agricultural products, it is common to hear the news that a large number of unsalable crops in such and such a place.

"It's nothing if you just hoard some, the most annoying thing is that those black-hearted medicinal herb dealers say that the supply is greater than the demand, and the purchase price must also be lowered, otherwise they will go elsewhere to buy them, so that our medicinal materials can only be piled up at home to grow worms. ”

Listening to Liu Cheng's words, Li Yan frowned and asked, "When the other party encouraged you to plant prince ginseng, did the two sides sign a contract agreement or something?"

"Nope. Liu Cheng shook his head and smiled bitterly: "We are all uneducated people, where do we know that, and a few years ago, the price of prince ginseng rose, and many people in the town made a lot of money, and no one expected that the price would plummet." ”

"If you don't reduce the price, won't there be a medicinal herb buyer coming to the door?" Li Yan then asked.

Lighting a cigarette, Li Zhenghai said: "The local buyers colluded together one by one to force us to lower the price, and then I heard that the leaders of the county helped introduce foreign medicinal material buyers, but the result was somehow, the business was about to be negotiated, and the other party suddenly said that they would not buy it, and all the personnel were withdrawn, and the county leaders had no choice." They can only play the role of a matchmaker. ”

Li Yan lowered his head and pondered, there are a lot of tricks in this, and the biggest possibility is that local medicinal material buyers are colluding to suppress herbal herb growers and foreign buyers, which is a kind of monopoly to put it bluntly.

Growers have no other sales channels, and if the medicinal materials are transported to other places for sale, the labor cost and transportation cost will be greatly increased, which is obviously not cost-effective.

As long as the foreign buyers are not allowed to intervene, the growers must sell the prince ginseng at a low price in order to stop the loss.

"I heard that those local buyers form a consortium, and any buyer who does not want to join will be squeezed by their peers, and the purchase price of prince ginseng is set by this federation. Liu Cheng said.

This practice is clearly to pit growers, treat them as cattle and sheep to be slaughtered, squeeze oil and cut meat from them, buy prince ginseng at a low price, and then sell it to pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies at a high price to earn a high price difference.

"Since you know that the other party is a ghost, why does Brother Li still plant prince ginseng, and change it to some cash crops. Li Yan asked puzzled.

"I thought the same thing before, but then my son said not to grow too much, and he contacted a few Chinese pharmacies in Funing. Willing to buy some prince ginseng, the price is higher than the local buyers, there is a certain amount of profit, and when the ginseng is mature, find a logistics company to transport it to Funing. ”

Li Yan nodded slightly, this is a good way, if the output is not large, it can be sold directly to the pharmacy, eliminating the intermediate link of the buyer, and the profit is naturally higher.

However, the purchasing power of pharmacies is limited after all, and even if they can make money, it is only a small profit.

Li Yan was willing to help, and immediately called Liu Tianxiang, he is a well-known medicinal material tycoon in Jiangnan Province, and he must have purchased this common medicinal material.

As expected, Liu Tianxiang's demand for prince ginseng is not low, but he rarely buys from Suzhou and Hangzhou, and mostly goes to Yunnan and Guizhou to buy, which is a famous prince ginseng production area in the country.

After hanging up the phone, Li Yan asked Li Zhenghai: "In addition to you, does the Li family have any other prince ginseng growers?"

"Yes, several cousins and uncles have planted some in their families, and after suffering losses, everyone's output has dropped a lot, and they dare not grow more. ”

"I helped you contact a medicinal herb buyer in Funing, and the purchase price given was 90 yuan per kilogram, can you accept this price?" asked Li Yan.

"Ninety per kilogram?!" Li Zhenghai's eyes widened suddenly.

Li Yan did not know the specific market of Radix ginseng, but only knew that the overall price of Ginseng had plummeted due to the impact of production in the past year or two. But to what extent he didn't pay much attention.

After thinking about it, he said: "If I think the price is too low, I can talk to the buyer again, maybe it can go up a little more." ”

"No, no, no, it's not too low, it's too high!" Li Zhenghai said excitedly: "Do you know what purchase price the local buyer offered us?"

Li Yan shook his head, but it was not difficult to guess from Li Zhenghai's tone that the price must be less than ninety yuan a kilogram.

"Forty, those guys whose conscience has been eaten by dogs only give the price of forty a kilogram!" Li Zhenghai stretched out four fingers and said indignantly.

"We asked people to check on the Internet, and when the prince ginseng was hot, it was sold for 400 per kilogram, and the lowest was more than 40, but to put it mildly, the buyers refused to raise it by half a dime. Liu Cheng looked very helpless.

"In this way, if you can trust me, notify the other Li family members to come over, and I will be the middleman to help you sell the hoarded prince ginseng to the Funing medicinal herb merchant. Li Yan pursed his lips and said.

Liu Cheng and Li Zhenghai glanced at each other, and the two nodded and agreed after a little hesitation, and called their relatives in front of Li Yan.

The Li family's descendants are not prosperous, but there are many people in the side lineage, and there are as many as five families who grow prince ginseng.

Li Zhenghai briefly introduced Li Yan's identity to everyone, and learned that he could contact the medicinal herb dealer in Funing and give a purchase price of 90 yuan per kilogram, and the Li family was skeptical.

Someone pulled Liu Cheng aside and said in a low voice: "There will be no pie in the sky, I always feel that this young man is unreliable, maybe he is a liar." ”

Liu Cheng turned his head and glanced at Li Yan, frowned, and said, "I don't think so, there is no need for people to deceive us, what do we have to deceive?"

"In case he wants to empty the gloves of the white wolf. What about the medicinal herbs that tricked us into hoarding?"

was told by this relative, and Liu Cheng couldn't make up his mind.

"My intentions have been made clear, and if anyone questions my purpose, that's okay, I don't force everyone. Li Yan stood in the hall and said loudly: "If you can trust me, you can take me to see your prince's ginseng, as long as it is properly preserved and has not deteriorated, I can help sell it." ”

Seeing the hesitation of the relatives, Li Zhenghai was the first to stand up and take the lead and said: "I believe that Little Brother Li really wants to help us, so let's go to my warehouse first." ”

Li Zhenghai has been growing prince ginseng for several years, and the price has plummeted in the first two years. Some of them were not sold, they were all stored in warehouses.

I walked into the warehouse and looked at it, the preservation measures were done properly, the prince ginseng did not deteriorate, and with Liu Tianxiang's sales, the goods could be sold clean in less than a month.

"I don't have much capital, and I don't grow much, which adds up to more than 200 catties. Li Zhenghai said with a smile.

Li Yan picked up a piece of prince ginseng, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, patted off the dust on his hands and said: "These ginseng are of good quality, you weigh them on an electronic scale, I will buy them all, and one kilogram will be calculated at the price of 90 yuan." ”

Li Zhenghai was taken aback and said, "Didn't you say that the medicinal herb merchant who sold it to Funing, don't you have to pay for it yourself?"

Li Yan smiled indifferently: "I have two restaurants in Funing, and the business is not bad, and there are several catties of prince ginseng used every day, so it's no problem to digest these." ”

He is not exaggerating. There are several dishes in the fake taste restaurant that require prince ginseng as an ingredient, especially a few nourishing soups, which sell hundreds of servings every day, and consume a bag of prince ginseng.

On the electronic scale, a total of more than 200 kilograms, Li Zhenghai erased the fraction, according to the calculation of 200 kilograms, a total of 18,000 yuan.

Without saying a word, Li Yan transferred money directly to the online bank, and the money arrived on Li Zhenghai's account in less than half a minute.

Staring at the text message sent by the banking system on the mobile phone screen, Li Zhenghai was overjoyed, and the money had arrived. Prove that Li Yan is not a liar.

The most important thing is to sell the hoarded prince ginseng to end a piece of his heart disease, and his previous hard work was not in vain.

After coming back to his senses, Li Zhenghai asked in surprise: "Little Brother Li, is your restaurant really in such a big demand for prince ginseng?"

Li Yan said disapprerovingly: "My restaurant has just started, and after a while to open the third and fourth branches, the demand will be greater and greater, according to the current consumption rate, you will use these two hundred kilograms of prince ginseng for a month and a half at most." ”

Looking at Li Yan with burning eyes, Li Zhenghai's heart was pounding violently, and he asked with expectation: "Then can I still sell you the prince ginseng I will grow in the future?"

"Of course no problem, isn't your son studying in Funing, let him be in charge of being the liaison. Li Yan walked out of the warehouse and said, "By the way, my restaurant is called Fake Taste, and one of the stores is near Jiangnan Normal University. ”

Li Zhenghai was overjoyed, his son was a sophomore at Jiangnan Normal University, and he had called home before and mentioned the fake taste restaurant, but he didn't expect Li Yan to be the owner of that restaurant.