How to sell 100000 yuan "planting" worms for 60 million yuan

Have you ever seen the golden cicada shed its shell? Did you know that golden cicadas can enter the earth when they are young, go to heaven when they grow up, and sell money when they are raised? Hu Yanhe in Yangxin County, Shandong Province, with farmers raising golden cicadas, has annual sales of more than 60 million yuan. And this wealth of more than 60 million yuan unexpectedly comes from such twigs.

The woods are calm, but beneath the surface, tens of thousands of golden cicadas are ready to move. Summoned by instinct, they plan to complete a transformation that can fly tonight.

They have dug tunnels to their respective holes. For this moment, they have been practicing their arm strength underground for more than three years, and in the last five or six days, they have broken through a 30-centimeter thick soil layer day and night.

If they succeed in transformation tonight, they will be able to live in a different way, and if they fail, they will have to pay the price of their lives.

Outside the grove, Hu Yanhe and these tourists are also looking forward to the appearance of the golden cicada. they are coming to catch the golden cicada tonight.

The Night Lands. The time has come for the golden cicada to get out of its hole. Only by climbing to the hiding place in the tree in the shortest possible time can they have a chance to survive. But there are a lot of difficulties along the way.

The army had just climbed the tree, when Hu Yanhe came with the man who caught the golden cicada.

The golden cicada is still struggling to run forward, but the people who catch the golden cicada are getting more and more excited.

Tourist: scared to death, scared to death.

The golden cicada, which was the first to climb the tree, was surrounded and suppressed by everyone. The golden cicada, which has not yet had time to climb the tree, is also at risk of being trampled.

Interviewer: this is flat.

Owner of the picking garden: this is flat.

Interviewer: is this dead?

Picking garden owner: trampled flat, trampled to death.

Only a few survivors who fled to the hiding place were shedding their cicadas as they wished. But there is still a risk of being captured. Only when the shelling is completed as soon as possible can we escape the flying apsaras.

In a natural environment without light, golden cicadas are usually shelled in half an hour after they are unearthed. But once affected by light, shelling will slow down to two or three hours. After shelling successfully, they become familiar with cicadas, which are called cicadas.

This is the whole process of the cicada shelling in about two and a half hours by the camera.

When the golden cicada comes out of its shell, it will crack a crack in its back and arch its upper body slowly. At this time, the body of the golden cicada is very delicate and completely defenseless, so it can only be shelled as soon as possible.

When the upper body is shelled, the delicate body of the golden cicada has to complete a difficult sit-up.

It wants to put the body down to the level in order to spread the wings of the cicada. After the cicada's wings spread out, it straightened up to take off its tail and let its body completely out of its shell, while its two front feet clasped tightly against the head of the coat it had just taken off, allowing the cicada's wings to fully stretch and feather.

After the golden cicada has been shelled, the scene in front of it is very confusing. From such a close distance, it is difficult to tell which is its Noumenon and which is its coat.

The shelling of the golden cicada not only confused us, but also in the night thousands of years ago, there were ancients like us now, staring intently at the golden cicada, puzzled by this scene in front of us.

In the twinkling of an eye, the ancients learned from the biological instinct of the golden cicada to use the illusion to confuse others and get out of it.

The strategy of getting rid of the golden cicada became one of the 36 tricks. This strategy has been used to fight against battlefield for thousands of years, and it has become a common idiom in life.

Shelling is not an easy thing. Cicada wings are the most vulnerable to damage. Once cicada wings cannot be formed, cicadas lose their ability to fly and die at most until the next morning. Of the tens of thousands of golden cicadas that want to fly together tonight, only 1/10 of them have successfully shelled.

This grove is a special golden cicada picking garden.

In the local area, raising golden cicadas is called growing golden cicadas. Catching golden cicadas is called picking golden cicadas.

The golden cicadas in the woods are all farmed golden cicadas. In this season, for more than 20 days in a row, tens of thousands of golden cicadas want to escape to heaven every night.

But every time a golden cicada escapes or dies, the owner of the grove loses one yuan.

A total of 5700 golden cicadas were captured alive tonight.

The annual picking can last for more than 20 days, and the golden cicada picking garden can earn more than one hundred thousand yuan.

Chen Yanli: 5700 yuan was paid tonight.

Reporter: it seems that raising golden cicadas makes a lot of money.

Chen Liyan: yes. It all lies in the wealth brought to us by our teacher Hu.

Hu Yanhe set up a professional golden cicada breeding cooperative in Yangxin County, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, leading more than 1000 farmers to raise golden cicadas to make money, with annual sales of more than 60 million yuan. Yangxin County has also formed a national unique golden cicada wholesale market. In the more than 20 days since the golden cicada was unearthed, the daily trading volume has reached more than 20 tons and the daily trading volume has reached more than 3 million yuan.

Fried golden cicada is a famous delicacy in Shandong. Every summer, people catch wild golden cicadas and make fried golden cicadas and steamed golden cicadas with pickles, which are used as specialties to entertain guests at the banquet. A plate of fried golden cicadas can be sold for more than 50 yuan in a restaurant.

However, in the market, wild golden cicadas are caught year after year, and the number is getting smaller and smaller, and the price of golden cicadas has been rising.

In 2005, Hu Yanhe was a contractor for ground heating projects. On a business trip, Hu Yanhe saw a billboard for golden cicadas. The discovery made him very excited. He felt that an opportunity to make a fortune had come.

These flowerpots were the key sites where Hu Yanhe tried to raise golden cicadas at that time. The life cycle of golden cicada is three to five years. But I didn't expect that the golden cicada was not as easy to raise as I thought. Hu Yanhe raised it for two years, and all the golden cicadas died.

Hu Yanhe: I think this thing is in the right direction, but there are one or another small difficulties in the process that need to be overcome and need to be explored through our practice.

In 2007, Hu Yanhe stopped contracting the project and moved his family back to Yangxin County from Jinan.

He took out all his savings of 100,000 yuan and contracted five mu of land to grope for golden cicadas in the field. Hu Yanhe believes that as long as the golden cicada is raised, it will certainly earn a lot more money than the project.

Hu Yanhe: I want to raise the golden cicada well. I have a nickname for myself called Hu Da Bug. I insist on making this bug bigger and stronger.

In 2009, Hu Yanhe married and became a family, and his son was born in 2010. But he has been raising golden cicadas without a job, and his family savings are about to be bottomed out. At this time, the golden cicada, which he had raised for more than 3 years, was unearthed in bulk.

Hu Yanhe: when I saw the cicada for the first time, I felt the same as finally seeing the birth of the child. My heart, hanging heart, which had been hanging for several years, suddenly fell to the ground.

In 2010, Hu Yan and the technical conditions for raising golden cicadas were ripe. One mu of land can produce more than 1000 cicadas per night, which can be sold for more than 500 yuan. The golden cicada can give out more than 20 days a year, with an average annual sale of about 10,000 yuan per mu of land. And it does not hinder the growth of fruit trees.

But Hu Yanhe only had 5 mu of land, could not raise many golden cicadas, and still could not make a lot of money. But Yangxin County has ten thousand mu of pear orchards, which is a good place for raising golden cicadas. Unexpectedly, his mouth was almost broken, and no pear farmer was willing to cooperate with him to raise golden cicadas.

Hu Yanhe: I feel very sad. I go out and walk excitedly every day. I come back like a rooster who has lost the fight, because we can't talk about one game at a time.

No one wants to raise golden cicadas with Hu Yanhe, because the golden cicada Hu Yanhe wants to raise is a well-known pest in the area.

Villager 1: I said this is a pest. I dare not raise this thing. I am afraid that there are so many trees in my land that they will be killed.

The golden cicada has a mouthpiece shaped like a straw. It has to hold the roots tightly and suck the sap from the roots for three years underground. Fearing that the pear trees will be damaged, pear farmers are determined not to raise this kind of pest.

Hu Yanhe: very frustrated, but not discouraged. Because I think this thing is right, I will stick to it.

Hu Yanhe insists that raising golden cicadas will make money. Hu Yanhe said that whether the golden cicada will endanger the trees in the end can be seen at a glance.

Hu Yanhe: I got it. I really dug it up.

Interviewer: you dug out this hole along this root. It's shrunk in this hole.

Hu Yanhe: you are so lucky. Have you seen the peeling?

Interviewer: this is the only piece of leather.

Hu Yanhe: the mouthparts are still there.

Golden cicadas shed their skin once a year when they grow up. After a few shovels, all the golden cicadas, large and small, were dug up. Although the golden cicadas dug up all hold the roots, they are all very thin roots. It won't destroy the main root.

Hu Yanhe told everyone that controlling the number of golden cicadas will not cause harm to trees.

What really does the greatest harm to the trees is not the golden cicada that lives underground, but the adults of the golden cicada, which is often said to be cicada.

In summer, when we are suffering from high temperature and dry heat, the cicadas also quarrel loudly. Although the cicada is so noisy, it is actually a mute and cannot bark with its mouth. And not all cicadas make a sound.

The male cicada has a pair of semicircular covers longer than the female cicada. The vocal muscle under the cover plate is like a tympanic membrane, and the male cicada makes sound by the muscle under the vibrating cover plate. When the male cicada makes its voice, it vibrates its vocal muscles more than 10,000 times per second.

The male cicada is noisy and torturing in summer, but it is actually trying his best to show his love to the female cicada.

Although the female cicada can not bark, it is the most destructive to trees.

When female cicadas lay eggs, many spawning holes are drilled in the branches, cutting off the ducts that provide nutrients to the branches, causing the branches to wither.

In Hu Yanhe's warehouse, the reporter saw many withered branches.

Hu Yanhe: both sides are our secret weapons to make money.

Interviewer: are branches your secret weapon to make money?

Interviewer: I haven't heard of it.

Hu Yanhe: of course, it's not only weapons, but also gold bars. Take a look, it's dense, it's all.

In the reporter's opinion, withered branches are useless. But in Hu Yanhe's eyes, every withered branch is a gold bar. Hu Yanhe said that each twig can produce the benefit of 50 yuan.

Hu Yanhe: do you think my twigs can be called gold bars?

Reporter: can it produce the benefit of 50 yuan?

Hu Yanhe: yes. Such a small thing produces 50 yuan.

Reporter: how much is this branch?

Hu Yanhe: fifty cents.

Hu Yanhe said that this small room is his vault. In this small room, there are 1.8 million branches. Three years later, if it goes well, it will grow into a golden cicada worth 90 million yuan.

In 2010, Hu Yanhe told everyone that raising golden cicadas could make money and wanted everyone to raise golden cicadas with him. No one has ever raised golden cicadas before, and only more than 100 farmers are willing to follow him to raise golden cicadas.

There is a strange saying in the local area that the management of golden cicadas is called a kind of golden cicada. At first the reporter thought it was a slip of the tongue. But it was only later that I learned that the word "species" of growing golden cicadas is not only appropriate in image, but also mysterious.

The seeds of this golden cicada are hidden in this twig.

Interviewer: is this a worm egg?

Hu Yanhe: yes, these are the eggs. For us, this is a gold bar, and our eggs will eventually turn into cicadas.

Female cicadas choose soft and flexible twigs to lay eggs. The damaged place on the branch is the spawning hole of the cicada. There are about 50 egg holes in a branch, and each egg hole can contain about 7 to 8 eggs.

Hu Yanhe's unique skill is to grow golden cicadas like crops. But unexpectedly, growing golden cicadas can not only make money, but also very simple to operate. Farmers only need to throw the dried branches containing cicada eggs into the ground. What is the secret of growing golden cicadas?

Hu Yanhe specially found a handful of branches to tell the reporter the secret of his growing golden cicadas.

Hu Yanhe: there are 20 minutes now, and you will see an amazing phenomenon of worms crawling.

Sure enough, 20 minutes later, the eggs changed.

Under the macro shot of the camera, the larvae are very clear. It's actually only half the size of a sesame seed.

The newly hatched larvae are transparent. After hatching, the larvae crawl around on the ground, and the body hardens quickly in the air. More than ten minutes later, the first two digging feet have the ability to dig earth. The larvae must be in a hurry to dig holes and bury them. If the roots are not found in time within the next half an hour, the larvae will soon die. 350 eggs in a branch can finally be buried in the ground and survive about 100 golden cicadas.

Hu Yanhe found that the hatching of eggs needs to meet both temperature and humidity. First, the cicada eggs are heated until they are about to hatch, then the dried branches are transported to the cooperative members, and the young cicadas can be hatched by pouring water. In this way, Hu Yanhe led more farmers to raise golden cicadas to make money.

When the reporter interviewed, it was the peak season when the golden cicada was unearthed. Hu Yanhe wants to take the reporter to see how much money he can make from raising golden cicadas.

The reporter saw that on this pear tree, all the golden cicadas were stopped halfway by duct tape.

Blocking the golden cicada with smooth tape can not only catch it easily, but also delay its shelling time.

The local people like to eat fresh golden cicadas. As long as there is a crack, you will not be able to survive after being caught, and the price will become lower. A golden cicada can be sold for 50 cents without cracks, while those with cracks can only sell for 20 or 30 cents.

Despite the fact that you have grown an extra pair of wings, your price will drop by almost half.

There are gluttonous people will also catch freshly shelled golden cicada fried to eat, called fried silver cicada. But if the cicada turns black completely, no one will eat it.

In the pear tree field, the reporter also tried how to catch the golden cicada.

Interviewer: there is one.

Hu Yanhe: the two are fighting.

Interviewer: I dropped it.

Hu Yanhe: take this one below.

Interviewer: is that it?

Hu Yanhe: yes.

Soon, after a circle around the two trees, the reporter caught a small half of the golden cicada.

Interviewer: when is there more?

Hu Yanhe: usually our side is from the first ten days of July to the end of July.

Interviewer: how many will come out of a tree at the most?

Hu Yanhe: at most, there were 30 or 40 trees per tree.

Reporter: thirty or forty?

Hu Yanhe: yes.

Reporter: how much will this one cost?

Hu Yanhe: one is now fifty cents to fifty-five cents.

Reporter: 50 cents to 55 cents, market price?

Hu Yanhe: market price.

A golden cicada can be sold for 50 cents. One mu of land can produce about 1000 golden cicadas per night, and one mu of land can earn five or six hundred yuan. Most of the golden cicadas raised by farmers are directly exchanged for money on the ground as soon as they are picked.

Reporter 4: collecting cicadas, right? How much have you collected? How many of these are there?

Hu Yanhe: more than 1000.

Reporter: more than 1000?

Merchant: how much is this? it's more than 2000.

Interviewer: you have collected more than 2000 yuan?

Merchant: yes.

Seeing that gold cicadas can make so much money, even some farmers in Henan and Hebei provinces have come to join cooperatives to raise gold cicadas.

Henan farmers: there are nearly 20 people around us, 18, join our group and do it with us.

Led by Hu Yanhe, the number of farmers in golden cicada farming cooperatives increased from 100 in 2010 to more than 800 in 2014.

In Yangxin County, Shandong Province, due to the large amount of golden cicada, it has also promoted the formation of a large-scale golden cicada wholesale market. At the peak of summer trading, the daily trading volume of golden cicada can reach more than 20 tons.

During the interview, the reporter saw a very abnormal phenomenon. The golden cicadas in the market were motionless, but Hu Yanhe told reporters that local people like to eat live cicadas. What's going on?

It turns out that the golden cicada has a super ability, it is a master of pretending to be dead. The golden cicada will die as soon as it is soaked in the water, and it will not shed its shell immediately.

Hu Yanhe's golden cicada sold in this market has always been kept fresh by the traditional method of soaking in water.

Woman: she came back to life in a moment. For a moment.

Interviewer: will you be alive for a while?

Woman 5: I'll be back in a minute.

Twenty minutes later, the golden cicada really came alive.

Woman 5: alive, it's not alive.

Interviewer: alive.

The golden cicada will fake its death when soaking in the water. at the beginning, Hu Yanhe's cooperative transported the golden cicada to all parts of Shandong Province. But the method of soaking in water cannot be used for long-distance transportation. The golden cicada will be soaked and stink if it takes too long. The output of the golden cicada in Hu Yanhe's cooperative has been increasing year after year, and he is also thinking about how to sell the golden cicada to the distant market.

After soaking more than 1000 golden cicadas in many experiments, Hu Yanhe finally came up with a wonderful way to transport golden cicadas over a long distance. Soak the golden cicada in water and add ice to slow down the metabolism of the golden cicada. Then keep changing the water along the way to clean up the metabolic excrement of the golden cicada.

Hu Yanhe's golden cicada has also been recognized by Guangdong, Fujian and other markets. In places such as Guangdong and Fujian, golden cicadas are also sold for twice as much as in Shandong.

At present, in Hu Yanhe's cooperative, more than 1000 peasant households follow him to raise golden cicadas. The farming area has reached more than 8000 mu.

Now, Hu Yanhe also wants to lead more people to raise golden cicadas to make money, he is determined to call his Hu big bug name louder.

Leader: Golden cicada farming is a characteristic breeding project in Yangxin County, which has formed a certain scale so far, opening up a new way for fruit farmers to increase production and income.