Chapter 156: Truffles
After speaking, Cheng Peng was a little worried that Li Gongzi would be angry, but Li Gongzi sat there without any expression, could it be that Li Gongzi didn't believe his words? Cheng Peng was anxious, "Li Gongzi, I really didn't lie to you, this thing is really not delicious." We have a name there, called pig arch fungus, which is specially used to feed pigs after being dug up" Cheng Peng's words are true, and his ancestors have always done this. In the western part of Yun Province and Sichuan Province in China, there has been a history of excavation of this thing for a long time.
Li Zhendong smiled and nodded to indicate that he had already understood. What Cheng Peng and others said is indeed true, and Li Zhendong understands it better than all people.
In the centuries-old history of European truffle culture, it was never thought that there would be such a top-notch ingredient in the world in mainland China. After the mid-80s, with the political and economic development of China, the number of foreign tourists visiting China increased. There was a French doctor who traveled to China, traveling in Yun Province, and accidentally stayed in a house in a mountain village. I accidentally saw the villagers cooking something to feed the pigs, only to find out that the black truffle, which is regarded as a treasure and coveted by the food industry in France and even on the European continent, is used by the locals to feed the pigs! Feed the pigs? The doctor was also a man of status in France, and he knew a lot about truffles, so he was frightened at the time.
The news reached the European continent and caused a stir in Europe. Many people don't believe it, and they have to admit that it is true only after the sample has been tested. Since then, Europeans have started buying black truffles from Yun Province in large quantities at low prices and shipping them back to Europe for sale. After tasting the black truffles of China, the proud Gallic rooster thought that it was far inferior to the French truffles in terms of aroma, taste and edible value, and gourmets even described it as 'Wei Tong Jue wax'.
However, in reality, the Yunnan Black Truffle is very similar to the famous Périguet Black Truffle. You can't tell the difference with the naked eye, you need a microscope to really tell the difference. After Huaguo's Yunnan black truffle entered the market, the customer's response was that its taste was really not bad. Also very popular in the market. In view of this situation, in the late nineties, France took the lead, and European legislation stipulated that truffles imported from China must be marked as produced in China. Despite this, the price of black truffles in China is clearly marked, the price is low, and the taste is the same. In the European market, it still poses a certain threat to the position of France's black truffle.
More than 70 species of truffles have been found in the world, and only three or four of them can be called delicacies. These are such as Italian Truffle, Truffle nigra, Truffle spp., Indian truffle, etc. The production in China is mainly Indian truffle, which is concentrated in the vast area north of the first line of central Yunnan in Yunnan Province. The Indian truffle produced in China and the European truffle black sporus are extremely similar in morphology and structure, and modern molecular biology research results have shown that. It is difficult to strictly divide Truffle indica and Truffle nigra into two species, and the average person cannot tell the difference between these two types of Truffle at all.
Huaguo's truffles are extremely low priced in the international market. Perhaps it had something to do with the foreign policy situation in the eighties at that time. There have been many Europeans who have ridiculed China's export policy. It is said that the food gold is sold for the price of rotten cabbage.
This was the biggest purpose of Li Zhendong's trip, in the early 80s, there was absolutely no one in the whole of China who knew that the things used by local villagers in Daoyun Province to feed pigs could be sold at such an incredible price in Europe. The Chinese ambassador to the European countries must have eaten it at the banquet, but no diplomat would turn his attention to the truffles, let alone bring them to Yun Province to compare the food that the villagers used to feed the pigs.
But. Just as the Chinese put ginseng, cordyceps and reishi on the altar, and the Japanese worship matsutake mushrooms, truffles also represent a unique food culture on the European continent.
"I know how to feed this thing to pigs, but. It has other uses, and you don't have to worry about that. In short, this is one of the goods I need to come to Yun Province. Of course, Li Zhendong would not tell them the truth from the bottom of his heart, telling them that this thing was actually Li Zhendong's only goal in coming to Yun Province! On the contrary, in order to dispel the risks, Li Zhendong will purchase all kinds of special agricultural products in Yun Province, for this reason, Li Zhendong has prepared a large amount of funds, and Li Zhendong will choose certain special products of Yun Province and purchase them in large quantities and transport them back to the deep area to cover up his real purpose.
Therefore, Li Zhendong is ready to start dispersing and completing his predetermined plan.
"In order to facilitate everyone's contact, Mingkun Hotel is our permanent point in Yun Province, because Lian is stationed here, I will send a telegram to Mr. Liu in Shenzhen District early tomorrow morning to inform Mr. Liu of the clear contact address here. And all of you have to write down the address of this place. ”
"Early tomorrow morning, I'll give you a few days, and you'll all go home and have a look, and then," Li Zhendong carefully explained everyone's tasks. First, they went home to visit their relatives, each of whom spent three or five days, and then, along the area that Li Zhendong divided for each person, they were responsible for investigating the situation of various goods. The first priority is to explore the pig arch fungus as soon as possible, this method of exploration can be asked by the old people in the local villages, as for the other goods, such as the ancient Chinese method, the mushrooms grown by the flower cutting cultivation method, fungus and other dry goods, as well as all kinds of famous products in Yun Province, this kind of can directly contact the supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels in the county and township where you are located, and the price problem will shoot the telegram back to this place, this period of time is to inquire about the situation, the more detailed the better.
"Got it?" Li Zhendong glanced at everyone. "I know it" Cheng Peng and Tian Xiaogang figured it out this time, and Li Gongzi had long known about this thing, and it was very useful to collect it, and he valued this thing more.
"If you don't have enough manpower, you can find one or two comrades you are familiar with, or fellow villagers and relatives to help, here I will also give you a permission, please ask one person to give a salary of fifty yuan a month, and each of you can find a maximum of three people to help, which is considered a team led by each of you" This is necessary, only the locals of Yun Province understand the local situation. Li Zhendong considered that the place that everyone is responsible for is too big, and if it is just one person, there are too many villages that need to be run, and it is impossible to take care of it anyway. It is much better to let Cheng Peng, Tian Xiaogang and others find someone to help by themselves than Li Zhendong to arrange people.
As for Li Zhendong himself, he will also take people to the west tomorrow to the western part of Yun Province. Since you want to make an appearance for people to see, the walnuts in Ningchang and Yangxian in Yun Province are indispensable, as well as the famous shiitake mushrooms in Yun Province and so on. It doesn't matter if the purchase price is a little higher, Li Zhendong has already negotiated with the transportation brigade of Hunan Province, if the train freight cannot be solved, contact the goods here, please send the train over there, Li Zhendong gives a very high freight. The purchase price is high, the freight is high, and the profits of these goods will not be too high when they are transported to the deep area or the port area, and if they are not high, they will not be high, and Li Zhendong did not pay attention to it at all. (To be continued......)