After traveling all over the seven continents and finally returning to China, SC Johnson felt like he was suddenly separated from the world after running down for half a year.

When I returned to the capital and rested for a few days, I was a little unaccustomed to suddenly being quiet. Lying on the bed and brushing the circle of friends, I found that Ling Na posted a message saying that she was going to Qiongzhou on a business trip recently, and she called over, and it turned out that she was going to go into the mountains to look for agarwood?

Meet at Haikou Airport, I haven't been there anyway, and I happen to be accompanied by beautiful women. When they met, they found that Ling Na was also followed by two men in black, and Sister Chen was domineering.

The car was ready, everyone got on the highway, the journey was more than two hours, and the departure from the city was basically villages and towns, some rich and some poor.

Qiongzhou has many specialties and good environment, and the government has been vigorously developing planting and tourism, and agarwood is one of the main varieties to be cultivated. Now as long as farmers plant agarwood seedlings, they have subsidies and technical support, and gradually many people have begun to plant agarwood.

Today, I went to inspect the market, Ling Na introduced: "In the past, there were many wild agarwoods in Qiongzhou, but no one knew what it was? ”

"If you collect it cheaply, you can make a lot of dollars. In recent years, agarwood has become more and more popular, and the public also knows that it is a good thing, so they pay attention to agarwood investment. ”

SC Johnson has also paid attention to the news, and in the past few years, it was indeed very profitable, but there were few people doing it, and the threshold was high. However, in the past two years, the business has not been good, more and more people have begun to dry agarwood, and many foreign production areas have entered the market in a big way. ”

Chinese people like to follow the trend in everything they do, and sell everything that is good, but as a result, the market is easy to saturate, and business is not good. Agarwood is like this, and the cultural entertainment market is even more obvious.

"In fact, people who really like incense are very fixed, and the threshold is high, one is to have strong economic strength to support, and the other is to have a considerable cultural and aesthetic taste. Ordinary incense tasting will cost at least 10,000 yuan, if you are not a real player, few people will burn money. ”

Ling Na said helplessly: "Now a large number of agarwood from Vietnam and Brunei have entered the market, which has a great impact on Qiongzhou agarwood. Qiongzhou incense is of good quality, but the output has not been high, and the price is also expensive. The climate and environment of other Southeast Asian countries are similar, and the level of incense materials is not bad, but the price is much cheaper, so it is natural to consider the cost of doing business.

"After all, it is difficult to detect the slightest changes in spices if the level is not enough, as long as it is agarwood, it is fragrant, radish and cabbage have their own love, and it is difficult to adjust everyone, and there is no unified standard. ”

At noon they arrived at the village, a typical Qiongzhou village and town, not wealthy, but moderate. Ling Na contacted Lao Han, and the other party was waiting at home. I came directly to the largest and most luxurious house in the village, and after knocking on the door, a man in his forties greeted him.

"Hard work, everyone, please come in. Lao Han enthusiastically let everyone into the yard, a four-story building, and a Honda SUV parked in the yard, it seems that planting agarwood is making money, and the standard of living is good.

"Drink tea, this place is not easy to find, right?" Old Han Mandarin said well, he should often deal with outsiders, and after pouring a full cup of tea, he sat down and said: "I heard that you are coming to inspect the market, and you have traveled thousands of miles, have you worked hard?"

Ling Na smiled: "I can meet you, the president of Qiongzhou Green Bank, and I should work hard!"

Old Han laughed, and said proudly of this title: "What is the president? I used to be a fisherman, and my ancestors relied on the sky for food, and more than ten years ago, I followed a southern boss to make agarwood, and slowly touched the doorway." There is no agarwood, and there is no current old Han, it's all fate!"

Lao Han was very cheerful, beckoning everyone to eat first, and chatting while eating. Qiongzhou people like to eat seafood hot pot very much, and the whole family gathers around, which is very lively.

After three rounds of drinking, I chatted and learned that Lao Han used to fish for a living, and his family was very poor, and then he went out to run transportation, met a boss in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and asked him to collect agarwood locally. At that time, he didn't understand, he only knew that there were a lot of them in Agarwood Mountain, and the villagers sometimes used them to burn the fire for cooking, so what was the use of collecting that?

In order to make money, several villages began to run to collect incense, and sent it to the boss every month, which could increase the income by thousands of yuan. After working for a few years, I knew that agarwood was so valuable, and the boss heard that he had earned hundreds of millions, and later gave him 100,000 cash at a time, and people didn't do it and left.

Naturally, he couldn't let go of the opportunity, and after running for a few years, he knew that there was a good fragrance, and used all his savings to start planting agarwood trees. At first, he didn't understand technology, and he failed several times, but he didn't give up, persevered, and now he has more than hundreds of acres of agarwood garden. There are more than a dozen households in the village who follow him, and he has become the largest supplier of agarwood in the local area.

It is not easy for agarwood to form incense, a seedling can start to form incense for at least ten years, and it will take seven or eight years to form incense, and the worst Qiongzhou agarwood will take twenty years to form!

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Lao Han drove the car and took them to visit the plantation. It's not far from the back mountain, ten minutes away. It is surrounded by a tall cement courtyard wall, and it is very large to enter, and in the distance are patches of greenhouses, and there are workers working.

The group got out of the car, Lao Han directly took the two to see the agarwood seedlings, there are seedlings planted in the greenhouse, the green is very cute, Johnson picked up one, smelled it, the fragrance is very light, and asked: "How much is this seedling?"

"This seedling needs at least five or six hundred, and it takes three years to grow to the thickness of the bowl, and ten years to begin to bear fragrance. Let's go, I'll take you to see the trees. “

Taking the two of them to see the adult incense tree, Johnson went deep into the agarwood growing environment for the first time, and was very curious. Coming to the large incense forest halfway up the hillside, Lao Han casually pointed to a fragrant tree with the thickness of a bowl mouth and said: "This is a tree about ten years old. ”

"How much can this sell for?"

Lao Han looked at Ling Na and explained: "This one is at least more than 20,000, and now the wild agarwood tree is protected by the government, and wild agarwood is scarce." Basically, it was all artificial, and we started to introduce seedlings and propagate them ourselves. Now that the technology is mature, it is basically self-sufficient. ”

Continuing to walk towards the back mountain, the entire hill was covered by him, and seedlings were planted in the greenhouse. Once mature, transplant into the wild. After ten years of natural growth, you can artificially cut the incense.

"This is the incense cut in the first two years, and now the wound has begun to form incense, but the grade is still low, the oiliness is not good, and it will take at least another seven or eight years to produce incense. ”

In front of me is a fragrant tree with a diameter of more than 30 centimeters, which has been cut out of a large wound near the root, and the surrounding area is protected with plastic, so that the tree naturally secretes oil and condenses into spices little by little. This is the process of incense formation in the most natural environment of agarwood, which has to continue for more than seven or eight years, and the time cost is very high.

"Then you will take it down and sell it directly when the time comes?" Ling Na lowered her head and smelled the fragrance, the smell was very light, and the oiliness was not enough.

Lao Han smiled mysteriously and said, "No, sell incense directly under the tree!"

"What do you mean?" asked Johnson, a little puzzled.

"Now fake incense is rampant on the market, and since ancient times, Qiongzhou agarwood is the top grade, and the price and Nha Trang goods are the most expensive. Therefore, some black-hearted merchants use shoddy products to pass off as Qiongzhou agarwood with cheap production areas to make profits. ”

Speaking of this, Lao Han is very disgusted, in recent years, agarwood has become popular, the price has risen, and there have been unscrupulous merchants selling fakes, using Xingzhou spices as Qiongzhou agarwood to sell, the price difference is several times, and the quality is not good. The person who really makes agarwood carries the black pot, and his reputation is getting worse and worse.

Ling Na suddenly realized and admired: "So you invented the invention of selling incense directly under the tree? Let people watch the agarwood go down the tree with their own eyes?"

Old Han sighed: "There is no way, otherwise, how can guests rest assured that they will spend a lot of money to collect incense?

The three of them chatted and turned, agarwood has only been planted here for seven or eight years, and the longest in the garden is only about ten years old. Now it is mainly maintained by the sale of agarwood seedlings, and the agarwood tree will have to wait for a few years, which is why the local people are reluctant to plant agarwood, the cycle is too long, and the return on investment is slow, so Lao Han has been promoting the benefits of agarwood.

"The government is also very supportive of our agarwood growers, both in terms of capital and technology, and now there are more than a dozen households in the village following me, and more and more people are engaged in the agarwood industry. In a few years, I'll be the president of a green bank. ”

Lao Han is very pleased that agarwood is his life's work, not only bringing wealth, but also a kind of fate. People must always do something meaningful to future generations in their lives, otherwise they will come to the world in vain.

SC Johnson respects Lao Han, a simple but persevering businessman, and says that the cultural heritage is a bit big, but the protection of local characteristics is well deserved. There are many rare treasures in Qiongzhou, such as agarwood, sea yellow, clams, coral, as well as the newly popular stars and moons and coconut shells.

Decades of perseverance, regardless of the outcome, this spirit is admirable. In the future, there will be opportunities to cooperate and vigorously support the cause of agarwood.

After a trip, she basically understood, Ling Na smiled: "Old Han, you have been making agarwood for more than ten years, and you should have a lot of excellent products in your hands, can you let us open our eyes?"