After waking up after getting rich overnight

This is Daisong Island, Zhangpu County, Fujian Province. From September to February of the following year is the prime time for fishermen on Daisong Island to catch swimming crabs.

This young man, Yang Huashan, went out to sea with the fishermen today to see what happened to the batch of swimming crabs he was going to buy in the past two days.

The fishermen on the island have a wealth of experience. Where there are many crabs, they have their own methods of judgment.

Yang Huashan: he happens to have some hidden reefs here, and there are more swimming crabs on this side of the reef.

With luck, a fishing boat like this can catch hundreds of jin a day. Fishermen throw cages made of iron frames and nets into the sea, and the crabs will climb into the cages and steal bait.

Yang Huashan: there is feed in the middle here. It goes in through this hole.

Interviewer: and then you can't get out?

Yang Huashan: I can't get out, and then I hide under here, just like this, I can't get out.

Interviewer: is it in here?

Yang Huashan: yes.

Reporter: when was this net put in?

Yang Huashan: I cast it yesterday, and then I came to catch it today.

Interviewer: how many cages do you have to put down this night?

Yang Huashan: he put more than 2000 cages like this. He is in batches, for example, catch these today, put them down today, and catch another one tomorrow. We are collecting 700 or 800 today, like the boat next door. This area is full of these swimming crabs.

There are many fishing boats fishing for swimming crabs in Daisong Island. Fishermen told reporters that they are also swimming crabs, but the price is very different. Yang Huashan immediately ordered more than 5,000 jin of swimming crabs and thought he had picked up a big bargain.

Yang Huashan: if it is soft and hard, touch it with your hand and pinch it. This one is hard, but this one is relatively soft. This color is lighter, it is darker, (hard) this one has meat, (soft) this one has no meat. In this case, the price of the soft shell is relatively cheap. if the hard shell is used, it costs 50 or 60 yuan per jin, while the soft shell only costs more than 20 yuan per jin.

But fishermen all said that Yang Huashan suffered a great loss, and the hard-shelled swimming crab was very popular in the market, and the selling price on the land reached more than 50 yuan per jin. On the other hand, swimming crabs with soft shells can not sell at a high price.

Yang Guoxiang: almost all of us pull to the market is hard (swimming crab), soft (swimming crab) generally no one wants. Because the red paste has a taste when eating it, soft (swimming crab) it generally does not have red paste, it will not taste good, not delicious.

In the eyes of many fishermen, Yang Huashan is an ignorant boy who knows nothing about the sea. Even go fishing at sea, when the wind and waves are stronger, they will get seasick.

Yang Huashan: I'm seasick.

Yang Muqiang: he can't fish, this is necessary, and then he can't raise fish, it's also necessary.

Yang Wenhui: there must be no way to have theory without practice. People also read him and said, not even this one, nor that one.

Since Yang Huashan returned to Daisong Island to start a business five years ago, his approach has been controversial. Yang Huashan said he first returned to Daisong Island because he found something on the island that could make him rich overnight. What's going on?

This is the first cross-sea highway built on Daisong Island in 2000. Daisong Island, located in the east of Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, is a pure fishing island, which used to be separated from the land, inconvenient transportation and very closed. Almost all the villagers on the island make a living by fishing. Fishing early in the morning and late at night is very hard, so young people generally do not want to come back.

Lin Xiaobin: most of the young people in the village, especially some who are studying in college outside, do not like to come back, because after all, the outside world is more wonderful.

Yang Gusong: young people generally don't want to come back when they go out. They usually have to venture outside, because the world outside is wider.

In 2010, Yang Huashan, who majored in food engineering from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, returned to Daisong Island from Xiamen and threatened to find something on the island that would make him rich overnight.

Yang Huashan: because it can make money in one or two months. If it grows well and develops well, it can see benefits in a short period of time, so that is to say, this kind of thing is suitable for your state of mind that you are eager to succeed and get rich overnight.

Yang Huashan's statement seems impractical to his wife Li Zehong. His wife thinks that Yang Huashan went back to the island to look for opportunities because she couldn't find a job she wanted after graduating from college.

Li Zehong: at that time, I thought he was a little too high to be low, so he finally gave up looking for a job and decided to start his own business.

The villagers do not believe that Yang Huashan can come up with anything on the island. Everyone knows Yang Huashan, who was born and raised on Daisong Island, and he is not good at dealing with the sea. But Yang Huashan didn't care. he felt that he had found an opportunity to be famous.

Yang Huashan: if this industry becomes bigger, it can drive more than a dozen or twenty households to breed. Because your college students have come back, if you do the same as these villagers, you will not be able to reflect your value. The power of example.

Interviewer: was it that you really wanted to be a role model?

Yang Huashan: yes.

So what exactly is the kind of thing that Yang Huashan said can make him rich overnight? This is called asparagus, also known as abalone. It can be used to feed abalone or to serve as a side dish in the hotel.

Yang Huashan: I like it, that is to say, for example, a kilo of seedlings bought is two yuan, then it only takes 20 days for it to grow up so much. For example, if this is one or two, it can be turned into a kilo, it can be increased 10 times, and it can be changed into 20 yuan. I can see that this is an industry that can get money quickly.

In October 2011, Yang Huashan saved 30,000 yuan with his work and entered a batch of asparagus seedlings. He believes that at that time, there were hundreds of abalone farms in the town of Gulei, not far from Daisong Island, which needed asparagus, and the market was not a problem. If he can be the first to cultivate asparagus on Daisong Island and turn it into an industry, he will certainly be able to convince everyone.

Yang Huashan recognized asparagus and was determined to be a role model in the village. as a result, soon, asparagus made Yang Huashan a joke in the village.

In October 2011, the island was hit by a typhoon, but Yang Huashan has been buying asparagus seedlings for two or three days. If they are not put into the offshore farm in time, they will rot. He could only go out to sea with clenched teeth and throw seedlings.

Yang Huashan: then we have no choice but to go out. If we go out, the waves are too big. If the waves are too big, we will get seasick and seasick, so I will be really dizzy at that time. In the sea, because it takes six or seven hours for it to go out to plant seedlings, if you want to jump down and swim back to the shore, it will certainly not work. The waves are so big that they are swept away. My father came back because he couldn't watch it, the boat came back, and the seedling was not finished.