"Mayor Guan, I just wanted to call you. I just heard about the Ginseng Festival."
Xu Shiyan guessed that Guan Enxue would definitely not be able to sit still as long as he heard the news.
He was planning to call Guan Enxue just now, but before he could call, Guan Enxue called first.
"Shiyan, tell me, is there any way to save the current situation?"
Guan Enxue was on the other end of the phone, as anxious as a headless chicken, not knowing what to do.
The first time we encounter this kind of thing, everyone will feel numb.
"I don't care about the mayor, I really can't do anything about this."
He, Xu Shiyan, is just an ordinary person. He just took advantage of being reborn. How can he have the ability to turn the tide?
What's more, he warned him a long time ago, but these people didn't listen.
Today's matter, on the surface, seems to be Wang Xicheng's work error, but in essence, it is still a game of capital.
The huge profits of the ginseng industry have been noticed by some chaebols, and they certainly cannot allow the domestic ginseng industry to continue to flourish like this.
The sickle is raised, and a wave of harvest is bound to come.
In the past few years, everything was fine. It can only be said that the leeks haven't grown yet, but now it's time.
Wang Xicheng has created such a good excuse again, why don't they give him a severe chop?
"If you can't even do anything, then there is really no way out.
This year, the provincial medicinal materials company and the health care product company will no longer implement guaranteed purchases. What will the ginseng farmers do now?
Alas, back then I wrote several reports and articles, suggesting that relevant departments control the rapid development of ginseng, but unfortunately no one listened.
This time, we have all suffered heavy losses. Can’t we just let the mallet rot in the ground and no one will want it?”
Guan Enxue was on the other end of the phone, so anxious that he almost cried.
Provincial medicinal materials companies and health care product companies no longer implement guaranteed purchases, and foreign businessmen are shouting that they will no longer place orders, and those that have already placed orders must also cancel them.
In this case, where will the sticks grown by ginseng farmers be sold? If they cannot be sold, can they all rot in the ground?
"Mayor, there won't be anyone who wants it. Ginseng is not like Clivia. Clivia has no use at all and is purely for ornamental purposes.
Ginseng is a precious medicinal material, and its efficacy lies here. There is definitely still a market for it, but many merchants will no longer purchase it in large quantities like before.
In the past, foreign businessmen stored goods for sale, but in the future they can only sell and buy now. All the stocks are in our ginseng production areas and in the hands of ginseng farmers."
On the one hand, ginseng production continues to rise, and a large amount of ginseng is backlogged in the production areas.
On the other hand, foreign businessmen no longer purchase goods in large quantities.
In order to sell their own goods as quickly as possible, farmers in the production areas and planting and processing companies can only lower the prices of each other. In the end, outsiders get a better deal.
Just like what Xu Shiyan and Xu Shixiang said, if a large amount of capital pours in at this time and directly controls the purchase of ginseng, the situation may be able to be stabilized.
If we can control the market and purchase the full amount of ginseng for several consecutive years, foreign merchants will have to be impatient and the price will be stable.
But just thinking about it, it’s simply impossible.
This year's ginseng output in the county is about three million kilograms. Based on last year's average price, the minimum investment is 200 million.
This is just a place in Fusong. There are many counties and cities that grow ginseng in the surrounding areas. How much is the output?
And this is not just one year, it will take at least four or five consecutive years. However, the output next year and the year after will be higher, and more money will be needed.
At present, in China, there is probably no company that dares to spend 18 billion at once.
If you have that kind of money, what can you do? Why don't you just throw it away? You might lose everything. That's what a fool would do.
"Can the life of a ginseng farmer still be easy?" Guan Enxue murmured after hearing this.
"What can I do if I don't have a good time? Don't we just have to get through life?"
Xu Shiyan sighed, wasn't it like this in his previous life?
I risked my life watching ginseng in the mountains and earned some money. I invested all of it in the ginseng field, but I lost it all at once.
Those years were really painful at home.
In addition to planting ginseng and cultivating the land, he went to the mountains to collect cattle, dig gastrodia elata, dig large soil for others, and go to the fields in autumn to stop the seeds with sticks and hammers.
It's okay if you meet someone who is nice to talk to. After they stop you once, they will let you in and stop you a second time.
If you encounter someone who is hard to talk to, you won't let him go, and he will even unleash a dog to bite you.
Later, Han Wenzhong still couldn't stand it, so he tried to find a way to use his connections to arrange for Xu Shiyan to attend, and asked him to go up the mountain to see the ginseng again.
At least you don't have to run around here and there, you can make money steadily in the mountains.
Xu Shiyan was looking at ginseng on the mountain, and Su Anying didn't dare to be idle at home, working for others everywhere.
In the summer, I picked fruits for others in the orchard and earned eight yuan a day.
After picking the ground fruits and weeds, we spent a whole day working under the bright sun, which cost us eight yuan.
In the autumn, whoever has more goods will go to work for others, such as planting ginseng, planting seeds, washing water, setting forks, picking seeds, and any work that can make money.
What can I do if I don't work? Who said that my family didn't save a living? There are seniors and juniors, and the family is waiting for food. What's the point of not working?
In winter, Su Anying and her mother-in-law grow bean sprouts together and then go to Songjianghe Market to sell them.
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, I stood at the open-air market all day long, and my hands and feet were frozen to the bone. When I came home at night, I was red and swollen, with excruciating itching and pain.
Su Anying's face can't even be tanned by the sun in summer, but in winter it turns black and red due to the cold wind and even cracks.
The two girls at home are sensible. When they come home from school, they help pick soybeans and filter bean sprouts.
It was winter vacation, so the eldest son went to the market to sell vegetables. He was such a girl, and his hands were as cold as carrots.
The family lived frugally and worked hard, and when they had some money, they invested it in the ginseng field.
At any rate, it took until 1995, when the market rose a bit, that I could finally feel relieved.
After two lifetimes and so many years, Xu Shiyan feels sad every time he thinks back to that time.
In that era, there were too many people like the Xu family.
Xu Shiyan at least got some help from Han Wenzhong, who found him a job as a ginseng examiner, where he could earn some money safely.
Some people didn't even have this job, and it was really hard at that time.
“It’s over now, the price of ginseng has dropped, the county’s economy has collapsed, and people’s lives have been difficult.
Alas, how can you explain this to the folks in Shenxiang?" Guan Enxue was on the other end of the phone, sighing incessantly.
The ginseng industry can be said to be the largest economic support in the local area. The impact of this collapse is really serious.
"Shiyan, I'm afraid your company will also be affected.
I have no other requirements for you. You must try your best to stabilize your company and never make any mistakes.
You have to know that the lives of thousands of employees and their families are affected by your business.
Your place is a key enterprise in our city, and if your place cannot be stable, it will be even more difficult."
The economic situation in the past two years has been bad, and this time it is undoubtedly worse.
Other companies in the city are also in recession. Now that the ginseng industry has been hit hard by this, it will become increasingly difficult in the future.
"If you have any good ideas, you must tell me and try to save it." Guan Enxue said it several times on the phone.
"Well, I will. If I come up with any ideas, I will report them to the leader."