Unexpected business opportunities heard over tea

What to watch on the program: these black-looking fish have changed their appearance underwater. They swim fast and grab food fiercely. This is the grouper. Yang Guobin earned more than NT $20 million in five months and quickly lost money, and he also suffered from illness and recuperation for several years. After decades of starting a business, he won or lost, went through all kinds of hardships, but was finally attracted by this grouper, even far away from home. See how Yang Guobin in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, relies on grouper to spell out tens of millions of wealth.

Employee: the umbrella will fall.

The storm poured down before the typhoon made landfall. When the rain was a little weaker, Yang Guobin began to organize people to pull the net, and the treasure he wanted to see was in this fish steak.

These fish, with an average length of one meter and weighing about 80 jin, are called gentian grouper, which is the largest kind of grouper. It will take at least 4 years to raise 80 jin.

This kind of gentian grouper sweeps the tail so badly that it can even hurt people.

Yang Guobin: we need to cooperate. I want (buy) fish eggs.

Yang Guobin came to the fish steak to order gentian mother fish. Before I finished reading, suddenly it rained heavily again. Afraid of being trapped by the typhoon, Yang Guobin quickly placed an order and left the fish steak.

Yang Guobin: I hope to earn several million a year.

Reporter Li Chen: just rely on this?

Yang Guobin: relying on this fish egg alone, the cost of self-cultivation is relatively low.

Yang Guobin has two such large farms in Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, with a total area of 60 mu. In 2011, he began to breed grouper and gained a firm foothold in Fujian fishery industry in only three years, earning 10 million yuan a year. Local breeders of grouper all praised him for his ability and courage.

Yang Sizhao, a farmer: praise him. First, it is more pioneering. He dares to be one step ahead of others on something new.

Chen Dingping, an aquatic product dealer: he has done quite well in this industry. In the past few years, he has raised a relatively large scale and developed to Hainan, and we have always worked together.

Yang Guobin has now made money by raising grouper, but in the eyes of the locals, what people like to talk about is not the wealth he has earned now, but his roller coaster experience.

If you want to tell his story, you must start with this plant.

Yang Guobin: this is the rose eggplant.

Interviewer: is this it? Is that what you relied on?

Yang Guobin: yes. That's how I used to get rich.

In 1996, 30-year-old Yang Guobin earned more than 20 million from this kind of rosette in only five months. At that time, Zhangzhou was rich in rose eggplant. The most valuable thing in the whole plant is these flowers. It can not only be used to make tea, red wine, but also the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine.

Yang Guobin: it was quite beautiful at that time. Because at that time, fewer people made a lot of money.

Yang Guobin, who made a lot of money, began to lead a life of leisure and money. Soon he found another business opportunity for canned exports, so he invested tens of millions of savings. Unexpectedly, all this money was wasted in only a few months because of misjudgment of the market situation. Then there was another bolt from the blue. Young Yang Guobin was diagnosed with a tumor in his lung and needed surgery immediately.

Yang Guobin: open all the bones at that time. Opening has a great impact on the body, like a car, the machine is overhauled.

The physical illness made Yang Guobin grow up rapidly. During the six years from 2005 to 2011, Yang Guobin saved nearly 20 million yuan by doing wine import business. Seeing that the business had just stabilized, he was restless again.

This is the place where Yang Guobin grew up. In 2011, many of his friends raised grouper here. Seeing the large scale and high profits of his friends, Yang Guobin was moved.

Yang Guobin: because at that time we saw that the profit was so high over there, the profit of making wine was also very thin, and the profit of breeding was 50% to 60%.

But Yang Guobin did not expect that this seemingly simple grouper culture, but let him encounter a bigger problem in life.

This was taken underwater with a waterproof camera. This kind of grouper is called tiger spot. After a year of breeding, they can grow to an average of 40 centimeters and are covered with brown dots. Most of the time they wander around quietly, and once they hear a sound, they move as fast as a tiger.

The speed of swimming is also very fast.

When they grab the food, they don't give way to each other.

In 2011, Yang Guobin built a factory in Zhangzhou and began to raise the ferocious grouper. But as a layman, he knows nothing about fish farming and doesn't even know how to feed the fish.

Yang Guobin: I'm not good at that boat. Ask the master to come and get it later.

Interviewer: why are you afraid?

Yang Guobin: I'm afraid of falling.

Yang Guobin is afraid of falling for a reason. He uses this kind of sieve to feed grouper. The whole pool is covered with Internet cables. On the one hand, it provides convenience, on the other hand, it also increases the difficulty of ordinary feeding.

Due to the dense network cable, the whole process of feeding fish is like doing something to break through the game. Yang Guobin's pond is large and dense, and this method can also achieve the effect of uniform feeding.

Employee Chen Hongzi: I'll put it away like this and show it to you, take a picture, and shoot it like this.

Interviewer: did you finish eating so soon?

Employee: it was more than seven taels a few days ago, but now I have grown up about a kilo. I'm telling you, you don't know.

Interviewer: is this fish good to eat?

Employee: very good to eat. I like to eat it best when the weather is hot. If the weather is cold, don't eat anything.

Grouper eats fast and eats more. In order to control their diet, they can pick up the basket like this when they can't finish it.

When the factory was first built, Yang Guobin knew nothing about this. He can only double the consultation and study with the staff. Ten months later, the first batch of grouper will soon be available for sale. But in September 2011, Yang Guobin ran into big trouble.

During the interview, Yang Guobin saw two dead fish in the pond and immediately took the fishing net to catch it. It's normal to die one or two fish once in a while, he said. But it's easy for him to recall something that happened in 2011.

One morning in September 2011, Yang Guobin was dragged to the edge of the pool as soon as he arrived at the farm. He saw a scene that made his heart ache.

Yang Guobin: eighty to ninety percent of them are dead, and there is not much left. They are almost dead.

At that time, Yang Guobin was still in the trial cultivation stage, and there were not many ponds in use, but the density was high. There are nearly 50,000 groupers in several ponds. And this death, the direct loss is 2.1 million.