Unconsciously, more than half a month passed, and before the Spring Festival of 18 years, Li Jinglan led people to travel to China, Dongying and Southeast Asia.

In the process of selling eel fry, he followed Li Qingye's instructions, dressed in different vests, and even hired several agents in various regions to avoid the direct appearance of the Homo sapiens company.

Dongying.

Kagoshima Prefecture, Naha Island.

It is one of the three major eel breeding production areas in Dongying, with an annual output of about 3000~7000 tons.

However, during the eel fry fishing season from December '17 to January '18, the Dongying Fishery Company caught a total of about 121 kilograms of eel fry, which is a pitiful amount even if you add more than 400 kilograms of eels caught by Chinese fishermen.

Last year, there were still dozens of tons of catch, and this year it is a cliff-like plummet.

In the face of such a huge gap, many eel farming enterprises are anxious to sleep.

Kagoshima Eel Co., Ltd., Kagoshima's largest eel farming company, is feeling even more pressured at this time, and this year the company has only grabbed 16 kilograms of fish fry, which is not even a fraction of last year's number.

Just when they were in a hurry.

Li Jinglan came here with a few subordinates and directly found more than a dozen local eel breeding enterprises, saying that his company had caught a batch of eel fry.

Hearing this, the eel farming enterprises in the entire Kagoshima Prefecture immediately heard the news.

A small trade fair, soon held in a local hotel.

Li Jinglan looked at the entrepreneurs around him like flies, and he had an unprecedented pleasure in his heart, just like being in Lingnan, being fascinated by the sound of beautiful boys and beautiful girls.

Naoto Saito, the president of Kagoshima Eel, seems to be a playboy, but in fact he is very shrewd, holding a red wine glass, and after a while, he and Li Jinglan will be called brothers.

"Li Sang, I must take care of my little brother more later, this is the VIP card of Kagoshima Eel Restaurant, please don't dislike it." Saito smiled and shoved a gold card through.

Seeing the style of the card, Li Jinglan accepted the gold card with a smile: "How embarrassing is this." ”

Other entrepreneurs immediately accused Saito of being cunning.

Soon, more than 2,000 fish fry prepared by Homo sapiens to the Dongying market were quickly snapped up by the entrepreneurs present.

In particular, Saito, who was stuffed with a gold card, won 850 eel fry for Kagoshima Eel Co., Ltd., and although he paid more than 20 million US dollars, it would be good to be able to buy fish fry in this year's market.

After all, eel fry are becoming scarcer and scarcer on the market at this stage, and their farms need maintenance costs, utility bills, employee salaries, and money for not raising eels every day.

And the facilities of the farm, over time, will gradually depreciate until they are completely scrapped, which is almost irreversible.

Although Dongying has fixed the production volume of each company due to the agricultural association, there is still room for maneuver.

For example, Kagoshima Eel Co., Ltd. has a rated production capacity of 3,000 tons, but due to the decline in the production of wild eel fry in recent years, Kagoshima eel produced nearly 1,000 tons last year, which is not up to the rated capacity at all.

In this way, the limited number of eel fry is very important.

Whoever grabs it and grabs it more can naturally dominate the Dongying market.

This kind of seller's market allowed Homo sapiens to sell more than 2,000 eel fry to Dongying, and obtained more than 50 million US dollars.

And this is not counting the various gifts received by Li Jinglan and others.

Li Jinglan, who was full of harvest, planned to strike while the iron was hot, so he quickly flew to the southern Fujian Province and Lingnan Province in China with people non-stop, and these two places are the main ones for selling eel fry.

After all, the local eel production accounts for about 70~80% of the world's perennial production, although the price of eel fry has increased by two or three times this year, but it is still profitable for farmers.

Aquaculture companies and farmers in Huaguo also quickly ate 15,000 eel fry.

In addition to the share of other regions, Li Jinglan and his entourage sold a total of 20,000 glass eel fry to eel breeding enterprises in various places, with a single glass eel serving of about 5,000 pieces, and the unit price of each fry reached 24,000 US dollars.

This batch of fry alone generated $480 million in revenue.

In fact, this is due to the sharp decline in the catch of wild eel fry this year, which quickly raised the wholesale price, and as one of the few suppliers with a source of fry, there is no need to even conduct commercial negotiations, and the eel fry are quickly sold out as soon as they are taken out.

Luzon.

Port of Manila.

The five vest companies set up by Homo Sapiens here are here to deliver eel fry to Southeast Asia, Dongying, and South Korea.

In addition, there are five vest companies set up in Xiangjiang, which are responsible for delivering goods to China, including the eel breeding company on Dayuan Island, which all deliver goods on the Xiangjiang side.

At this time, the port area of the Port of Manila.

Li Jinglan, who had just returned to Manila, had not had time to catch his breath when he met Naoto Saito, the president of Kagoshima Eel Co., Ltd., who had flown over from Toei.

In a few words, the fluttering Li Jinglan accepted the other party's invitation and came to the Takasugi sushi restaurant together.

Inside the box.

While pouring wine for Li Jinglan, Saito introduced the five people present: "Li San, this is Takasugi Taira, the owner of Takasugi Sushi Restaurant, and this is Furong Investment Company, Watanabe Motochi ......"

"Li Sang, there aren't many companies that can catch eel fry this year, so you shouldn't have discovered a new wild eel spawning ground, right?" Motochi Watanabe asked half-jokingly.

Although Li Jinglan drank a few glasses of sake, he didn't have a head in the water, and he replied with a smile: "Haha, how can there be, your country is the earliest country to study eels, where are the eel fry, don't you know?" Our company's fishing vessels were lucky enough to encounter the fry. ”

"Haha, I'm kidding." Motochi Watanabe changed the topic with a smile.

The others also hurried to toast while chatting.

The wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have passed five flavors.

Li Jinglan was helped away by his secretary, and Saito was also very concerned about the fish fry supplier and personally sent him to the car.

The second floor of the sushi restaurant.

Takasugi Taira and Watanabe Gentochi, who were still drunk just now, were not drunk at this time, and after brewing a pot of tea.

Watanabe's eyes showed a hint of thought: "According to our intelligence in various places, most of the eel fry sold in the market recently come from 11 companies, including 6 in Manila and 5 in Xiangjiang. ”

"Drink tea." Takasugi filled the two of them's teacups.

"And there's a very interesting phenomenon in this, which is that these companies were founded in the past two years, and many of them still can't find offices and fishing boats."

Takasugi raised his eyebrows: "What do you think?" ”

"I suspect that someone has mastered the artificial propagation of eels, and it is a low-cost technology." Motochi Watanabe quickly spoke out his reasoning.

But Takasugi shook his head: "It's not enough to speculate alone, and further information is needed." ”

Watanabe Motochi took a sip of tea: "I know, so I will focus on this Homo sapiens company next, because this company is the only company that has fishing boats and breeding bases. ”

"Then please Watanabe-kun, if you are sure that the other party has low-cost eel breeding technology, the headquarters will definitely not treat you badly." Takasugi said solemnly.

Motochi Watanabe immediately bowed: "Hi! ”