Yuechuan, a young man in Baodi District, Tianjin, creates a way to get rich with small earthworms.

In eight years, Yue Chuan, a retired youth in Baodi District, Tianjin, with a tenacity of not admitting defeat, completed his transformation from an unemployed youth to owning a farm and a cooperative, leading more than 17 farmers to start their own businesses and become rich.

A few days ago, just after signing a seedling supply contract with a total value of more than 170 yuan from Jingmen City, Hubei Province, Yuechuan, director of Tianjin Jinlong Earthworm Farm, began to plan for further cooperation with local farms.

"signing the contract is only one aspect," Yue Chuan said. "I plan to invest 30% in organic agriculture locally, not only to raise earthworms, but also to take advantage of the market space for additional products such as earthworm dung."

Eight years ago, Yue Chuan, who had just retired from the army, came up with the idea of starting a business after many failed job applications. But what can be done without money and technology? When he was in trouble, he was inspired by an experience of walking by the river.

Yue Chuan said: "found that there are a lot of people fishing by the river, the fishing gear industry is really hot in recent years." If I can do something in the fishing gear industry, then there must be money in it. A flash in my head: you can raise some earthworms. "

It was this fleeting idea that started his first entrepreneurial journey. But when he excitedly told his family what he thought, all but one of his father's support votes were opposed.

Yue Guangming, the father of Yuechuan, said: "I am not very optimistic, but it is rare for him to have this kind of idea and entrepreneurial spirit. I also let my child venture around and see what he can do."

Without knowing the breeding technology, Yuechuan collected all kinds of professional information from the Internet. When he had no money to buy transport vehicles, he and his father used agricultural tricycles to transport goods every day.

Yue Chuan said: "at that time, in order to pull the raw materials used for raising earthworms, we had to go to the west of Dakoutun Town to pull cow dung every day."

In order to find a market, Yuechuan rode an electric bike and carried two bags of earthworms to all the fishing gear stores in the countryside of the city.

Zhang Xiaoping, owner of Xiaoping fishing gear store, said: "he has been here many times and was moved by him." I said trust you for once, why don't you put it here first. "

In this way, with a burst of tenacity, Yuechuan opened the door of one fishing gear store after another. In order to allay the worries of customers, regardless of the wind and rain, cold and heat, he insists on delivering goods to customers on time, never breaking the goods, and always carries out the promise of "finding problems and compensating losses".

Zhang Yunhua, the owner of Yugong's outdoor shop, said: "anglers all report that his earthworms are very useful."

With the gradual opening of the market, the scale of breeding has also expanded. Yue Chuan said: "further improve the upstream and downstream industrial chain of earthworm farming, and deeply tap the market space of eco-organic agriculture."

In eight years, tricycles for initial delivery have become vans, transportation has expanded from a single logistics to train, sea and air transportation, and the market has expanded from urban and rural areas in Baodi to Jiamusi in the north, to Shanghai in the south, and even to foreign markets.