Chapter 225 Bird's Nest 80 Yuan per ounce
No, this abandoned salt pan should not be used for free!
It's free now, but when he makes a lot of money raising shrimps, the village will definitely charge a fee next year.
When we talk about the contracting at that time, the village will definitely raise the price, and the contracting fee will no longer be a bargain.
You must take the initiative to offer to contract this entire piece of worthless wasteland this year, use the lowest price, and contract it for more years. This is equivalent to booking the Artemia for many years to come at a super low price!
Thinking of this, he quickly told his father about his plan.
At first, my father glared at me and objected: "Are you stupid? This is obviously a large piece of wasteland that costs nothing. You can use the Artemia in it as you like. No one is competing with you for it. Why are you paying rent to the village?!"
After hearing Liang Ziqiang's complete plan, Liang's father fell silent...
What a calculation! Is this called playing the long game to catch a big fish?
It turns out that I was the fool! "Dad, brother, do you two want to contract a pond and raise prawns with Artemia? You see, prawns are 1.5 yuan this year, and they may go up in price in the future. If you raise them well, you can really make money!"
Whenever there was an opportunity to make money, he would think about lobbying his father and brothers to let them get rich together.
Liang's father was somewhat moved by what he said this time: "If what you said is true, this little thing called Artemia can really make the shrimps so fat, then we can give it a try! But Artemia can't be the only thing, right? There must be a lot of techniques for raising shrimps. Your brother and I don't know how to do it, so how can we raise them!"
"Why don't I teach you?" Liang Ziqiang quickly found an excuse to explain, "Didn't I go out to sell fish a while ago? I made some friends there who are experts in raising fish and shrimps, and I learned a lot from them!"
"Is that so?" Hearing this, the eldest brother Liang Tiancheng could no longer hold back, "Dad, Aqiang knows the technology now, and there are many free insects in the salt fields. Why are you still hesitating? Just follow Aqiang and do it!"
Liang's father finally made up his mind: "Your brother and I will give it a try. We won't raise too many. We don't want to make a lot of money anyway. We just want to make some money!"
As for how much to raise, Liang Ziqiang is not sure.
To be honest, he couldn't raise too many shrimps. After all, even with Artemia, raising shrimps still required a lot of investment in other aspects. Under his current conditions, the funds he could invest were really limited.
Furthermore, risks must be controlled. The technologies in your head are just information on paper. You have to accumulate practical experience before you are qualified to expand your investment.
In addition, he must focus on fishing in the sea. The distant and vast deep sea is the place he yearns for most.
"Then it's settled. By the way, Dad and Brother, I will teach you the technology when the time comes. Don't tell anyone else in the village for now. Also, don't let anyone know that I want to use Artemia to raise prawns. If the villagers knew about this in advance, they wouldn't be willing to contract that large piece of wasteland to me at a low price!"
"Did you hear that?" Father Liang gave his eldest son a look, "The main thing is, don't tell your wife when you go back. Wait until you get the land contract before you decide on anything else!"
After the three of them finalized the plan, Liang's father and Liang Tiancheng no longer had any interest in renting land to dry salt, and they decided to put their energy from drying salt into raising shrimps.
That day, the three of them went to see several ponds closest to the sea. They planned to contract these ponds, make some modifications, and replace the fresh water with normal sea water so that they could raise shrimps.
When walking in the east of the village, I gradually saw more and more other villagers coming, all of whom came to select salt fields and consider drying and making salt.
The father and his two sons did not stay too long and went home respectively, waiting for the village to officially promote the contract in a few days before implementing today's plan.
After returning home, Liang Ziqiang told Chen Xiangbei about his plan to raise shrimps, but did not go into details about the Artemia.
I'm not worried about my wife telling everyone about it. She's pretty tight-lipped, much better than my sister-in-law. I just feel like I can't explain it clearly in just a few words now, so I'll tell her the next time she sees Artemia.
There was nothing to do the next day, so Liang Ziqiang called Deng Zhaocai, and they each carried half a bag of bird's nests and went into the city.
Arriving at Yuehai Restaurant, Du Ziteng first noticed a new face and asked, "Who didn't come this time?"
"He didn't come. This is Deng Zhaocai, you can just call him Ah Cai, he's also my friend, we're close friends, we've been friends since we were kids!"
Du Ziteng: ???
Fighting since childhood? He scratched his ears, not paying much attention to these details. His eyes quickly moved from their faces to the snakeskin bags in their hands, and he said in surprise:
"I didn't see you guys bringing a bucket this time. You just brought a bag. The bag was so empty that it looked like there couldn't be any fish in it, right?"
Liang Ziqiang smiled and said, "There are no fish, but you might be more surprised when you see it this time!"
As he spoke, he had already brought his snakeskin bag in front of Du Ziteng and opened the bag to show him.
After Du Ziteng took a look, he took a deep breath:
"Bird's nest, or white bird's nest?! You can get this stuff? There are no more than ten places in the country that produce bird's nests!"
Deng Zhaocai chuckled: "We are both lucky!"
Liang Ziqiang instinctively thought of the miserable state of this guy that day. He was unlucky, but the smell was really bad! As for which island the bird's nest was collected from, neither of them mentioned it. This was agreed on the way here.
Du Ziteng glanced at Liang Ziqiang and said, "If you get this kind of stuff, you should come to me! Our hotel will definitely accept it, and we can also find someone to purify it!"
Liang Ziqiang quickly followed up his words:
"Ours is not difficult to purify. Brother Teng, you have seen it. This is the first round of bird's nest. It is mainly saliva, with only a few feathers mixed in, so the color is quite white. If you pick the second round of bird's nest, it will be full of feathers and leaves. That kind can't be called white bird's nest, but only hairy bird's nest or black bird's nest. It is much more difficult to purify than mine!"
"You know a lot about bird's nests!" Du Ziteng looked at him with admiration.
He took out two bird's nests and examined them for a long time before saying, "I have always been straightforward with you. White bird's nests like this are indeed top-grade. The price is not low now. It is not calculated by kilogram, but by ounce. I can give you 80 yuan per ounce!"
Deng Zhaocai seemed to have obsessive-compulsive disorder. He calculated the price on his own and then exclaimed, "800 yuan per kilogram?!"
Liang Ziqiang wanted to kick him to death. How could anyone complain about the high price in front of the buyer? In fact, in the 1970s and 1980s, bird's nests were highly praised in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, pushing the price of bird's nests to soar.
In the 1990s, the price soared even higher, increasing tenfold. It was not until some time after the new century that people's enthusiasm for bird's nests gradually faded and the price began to fall.
But Deng Zhaocai didn't seem to realize one thing. This thing didn't weigh anything, it was as light as nothing, and the total weight of what they had in their hands definitely didn't even reach a pound!
After the price was agreed, they went to the warehouse to weigh the goods. This time, unlike the previous times, they used a very delicate small scale.
I weighed Liang Ziqiang's nests first. Thirty-five bird's nests weighed only 320 grams, or six taels and four cents, or just over half a pound. On average, each bird's nest weighed a little over nine grams, because it was contaminated with a small amount of feathers. If it were a purified bird's nest, some would only weigh six or seven grams each.
It weighs six taels and four qian, and one tael costs eighty yuan, which makes a total of five hundred and twelve yuan.
Deng Zhaocai had less, as he only collected a dozen sticks before they broke. He weighed them and found they were 115 grams, or 2 taels and 3 qian, which came to 184 yuan.
When the amount was calculated, Deng Zhaocai was speechless and no longer exclaimed at how high the price of bird's nest was.
There is no way, bird's nest is so light, those who can become a millionaire by picking bird's nests all pick bird's nests on the large bird's nest island in Coconut Province, picking thousands of bird's nests...
But when he followed Liang Ziqiang out, he originally only planned to help out and earn three yuan. Now he didn't help out, but he picked up more than 180 yuan. Thinking about it this way, it was a huge profit.
As for Liang Ziqiang, holding the more than 500 yuan in his hand, he felt that this trip to Longjuling was not in vain. Although there was no fishing season, he made more money than a fishing season! His empty wallet was bulging again in the blink of an eye...
Burst
(End of this chapter)
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