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And that’s not all. Like Expert Li who is in charge of raising chickens, Expert Hong who is in charge of growing rice also gave Ning Weimin two pieces of very good news.

The first thing was brought up by Hong Yingfang.

He said that in fact, ordinary Jingxi rice is of very good quality. Although it cannot compare with rouge rice, it is high in oil content, has a good taste and a strong aroma.

Farmers who grow Jingxi rice usually only put rice made from Jingxi rice on the family dinner table during the three major holidays: Spring Festival, May Day and National Day, so that everyone in the family can take the opportunity to taste it.

On weekdays, I don’t even want to use it to cook rice, I just use it to make porridge.

The rice porridge made with Jingxi rice is also quite extraordinary.

The rice soup in the bowl is green in color. The rice is rice and the soup is soup, and a thin layer of transparent skin will form in an instant.

Therefore, from this point we can see that the colorless Jingxi rice is also a kind of rice with very high quality.

If Ning Weimin wants to improve the quality of the restaurant's ingredients, he may not be completely obsessed with the rouge rice called "Purple Gold Hoop". It would also be a good idea to buy this ordinary Jingxi rice as a supplement.

Although it is not available on the market, basically all of this Jingxi rice is harvested and directly supplied to large government agencies and units.

However, as the technical support unit, the Agricultural University has been in charge of this project all year round and has connections that can be introduced to Ning Weimin to open up an opportunity for him as an investor.

As long as he tells the school leaders, it should be no problem for the purchasing department to allocate 10,000 kilograms to him every year.

The only problem is that the price is expensive. The official purchase price is RMB 1.5 per kilogram. If Ning Weimin wants to get the goods, he will probably have to pay RMB 2.1 per kilogram.

  Ning Weimin certainly didn't care about the price. The dual-track pricing system was too common these days. How could he compare with public institutions?

Although ordinary rice on the market is only 30 cents per pound, rice that costs 1.5 yuan or 2.1 yuan per kilogram is already a sky-high price.

But compared with the selling price of the Altar Palace, this cost is nothing.

Besides, it’s just a matter of more than 20,000 yuan.

In fact, what Ning Weimin really cares about is whether the quality of the rice is as good as Hong Yingfang said, and whether he can taste a clear difference from ordinary rice.

What's more, when he stayed in the local area for dinner that day, Hong Yingfang, who was responsible for entertaining him, really remembered this matter and specially prepared a pot of Jingxi rice for him.

In the end, even before he ate it, Ning Weimin decided to buy this ordinary Jingxi rice as soon as he smelled it while cooking.

Because it is really good and it smells so good that the fragrance can not only spread beyond the kitchen, but people on the street can smell it.

Moreover, the fragrance of this rice is definitely not the same as that of Thai fragrant rice, it is just the natural rice fragrance of pure good rice.

Of course it feels better when you eat it.

It smells fragrant, tastes sweet, is refreshing and chewy. In our words, it is called "genjiu".

To put it bluntly, it is sticky and elastic, and the southern indica rice does not have this characteristic.

According to Ning Weimin's personal experience, the taste of this rice is better than Japan's most famous Koshihikari rice, and the quality is not much different from the more advanced Kyoto Onxia rice.

This is the kind of rice that you can eat without any vegetables and still taste good.

As far as our domestic scope is concerned, Heilongjiang Wuchang rice and Tianjin Xiaozhan rice are also famous high-quality rice. These rices, like Jingxi rice, have a history of tribute rice and are of similar quality.

They can all produce shiny rice oil with a sweet aftertaste that leaves a lingering fragrance in your mouth.

But under the current circumstances, don't forget that Ning Weimin can't get Wuchang rice at all, and he didn't have a way to buy Jingxi rice in the past.

Xiaozhan rice was the only rice he could buy, so it had always been the only choice for cooking in Tan Palace.

But Tianjin is a foreign place, so of course people focus on local supply.

Although Tan Palace is certainly not afraid of spending money, due to problems with the current supply system, logistics and storage conditions are limited these days. The rice that Tan Palace buys from Tianjin is actually not enough, and the rice is often stale and has been stored for who knows how long.

This can't be compared with the taste of the bowl of Jingxi rice he is holding now.

So in this case, Ning Weimin felt that Jingxi rice was still his best choice.

He immediately made the decision and decided to take the Jingxi rice, no matter how expensive it was, as long as it was new rice.

Apart from anything else, as long as he could export this kind of rice to Japan, he would make a lot of money.

Because the price difference is too big.

In Japan, the cheapest Koshihikari rice costs 500 yen per kilogram, which is more than 20 times the price of Keisai rice.

The price of one kilogram of Wengxia rice is equivalent to 600 to 700 RMB, which can buy 300 kilograms of Jingxi rice.

Although Japan has extremely high tariffs on imported food, rice is a specific variety and the tariff is as high as 500%.

But compared with domestic grain prices, Ning Weimin can still make huge profits even if he pays more tariffs as long as the rice quality is up to standard.

  This is almost as good as selling powder, why wouldn't he do it?

He sells a bowl of rice like this for 2,000 yen at his Dangu branch in Japan, and even the Japanese would say he is generous.

Isn't this just like money falling from the sky, another 100 million yen?

  What does this mean?

This shows that being a grain dealer still has a bright future!

As for the second thing, it was a bit of an accident.

You know, we are not the Japanese who can eat white rice without any preparation.

No matter how delicious the food is, it's still tacky, isn't it?

Anyone who entertains guests has to prepare some hot dishes and some wine to be considered a decent host.

Hong Yingfang knew yesterday that Ning Weimin was coming, and she also knew that a distinguished person like Ning Weimin would eat too much fine wine and food.

What's more, he is the boss of the most famous palace cuisine in Beijing, so he would never be interested in the delicacies that are considered delicious by ordinary people.

So he had no luxury of fish or meat.

In order to entertain his guests, he took a different approach and asked someone to get some things that could be caught in the rice fields for Ning Weimin to try.

These things have been kept in the water since yesterday. We fished them out today, and they were still very alive when we were ready to take them away.

In the net bag there were several pounds of lively river shrimps, dozens of frogs, a dozen loaches, and a dozen river crabs, all of which were creatures that originally lived in this rice field.

Ning Weimin liked it and said, "That's great. After eating so much seafood, I miss these things from the fields."

That's true. Even after going to Japan, he can still enjoy any high-quality seafood.

Not to mention that bluefin tuna is nothing, he eats king crab whenever he wants, and he also eats a lot of whale meat and puffer fish.

But people are like this. After eating too much seafood, they crave river food. Ning Weimin's taste coincides with Hong Yingfang's idea.

Not to mention that in addition to this, Hong Yingfang also asked someone to get some wild vegetables and mushrooms.

I also made two extra dishes of cold wild vegetables and a plate of stir-fried meat with mushrooms. They used local ingredients, were delicious, inexpensive and economical.

As a result, the second good thing happened because of that inconspicuous dish of fried meat with mushrooms.

Even though no one who was drinking with him took it seriously, Ning Weimin himself also focused on river fish at the beginning. But when this dish was really placed in front of him, he was a little stunned when he saw the appearance of the mushrooms clearly.

Without waiting for others to let him, he picked up a bite with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth. He was even more surprised when he smelled the special and familiar fragrance, and asked hurriedly, "Where did this mushroom come from?"

For no other reason than that the mushroom is ripe.

He had eaten it many times in Japan, and Matsumoto Keiko always bought it and fried or boiled it for him.

It is a kind of fungus that is said to have been enjoyed only by the Japanese royal family in the past. It is a high-end food ingredient called "Grifola frondosa" or "Maitake" in Japan.

A small pound can be sold for 3,000 yen, equivalent to more than 100 RMB, and that's for fresh goods, and dried goods are even more expensive. Ning Weimin never dreamed that he would see this thing in the suburbs of Beijing today.

  Is this thing also available in Beijing?

Isn't this a unique product of Japan?

Naturally, he couldn't help but dig deeper.

Don’t tell me, he actually guessed this.

Seeing his reaction, Hong Yingfang naturally did not dare to neglect him and hurriedly told him that he had gone to Liangxiang two days ago to investigate the farmland there and bought it from a local villager.

Very cheap mushrooms, said to grow on chestnut trees, and a lot of them will pop up when it rains.

He bought more than ten kilograms of mushrooms and distributed them to his neighbors. Everyone thought they tasted like chicken and were very good.

Someone even asked him to go back to Miyun and bring some back.

In fact, the price was not expensive. He only spent one dollar and fifty cents in total. He brought it today just to let Ning Weimin try something new.

If Ning Weimin likes it and he has some left at home, he can give it to Ning Weimin.

To Ning Weimin, this news is more attractive than this meal.

Of course, at this time he was not completely sure that the mushroom on the chestnut tree was the Japanese "Grifola frondosa".

So he didn't hesitate, had a simple meal and didn't drink much, then took the mushrooms back to the Ma family garden. In the evening, he put the mushrooms in front of Qingzi and asked the real "expert" for advice.

Hey! I didn't expect this to be right!

Ning Weimin clearly learned from Qingzi that the Japanese "Grifola frondosa" is actually the mushroom that grows on chestnut trees.

Qingzi said that this kind of gray tree fungus is actually chestnut mushroom. Because of its special shape and special smell, she would not make a mistake.

As a result, Ning Weimin's trip to the Agricultural University, which was originally supposed to be completed in two days, was disrupted again.

He couldn't refuse the treasure God had given him.

So, the next day Ning Weimin turned around and drove to find Hong Yingfang, asking him to take him to Liangxiang.

Moreover, not only did the two of them go together this time, Ning Weimin also asked Hong Yingfang to help him arrange an appointment with a professor from the Agricultural University who was familiar with the local conditions and understood chestnut planting to do on-site research together.

And this time they visited several villages in succession. When they entered a village, they first looked for the village head and then for the production team leader.

Sure enough, the trip was not in vain.

Since Liangxiang's chestnuts are very famous, all the villages that rely on chestnuts as an economic crop for their livelihood know about the chestnut mushroom called Grifola frondosa.

But unlike the Japanese, our Liangxiang farmers hate this thing very much, and even call this chestnut mushroom "depressed ghost".

For no other reason than that the chestnut tree is a famous economic tree species and chestnuts have high economic value.

In China, fresh chestnuts can currently be sold for 50 or 60 cents per pound, and sugar-roasted chestnuts can be sold for more than one yuan per pound. They are the main economic pillar of several local villages in Liangxiang.

To local farmers, the chestnut mushroom is just a strange-looking mushroom that grows on chestnut trees.

Its appearance is too peculiar, not as pleasing to the eye as those traditional famous mushrooms, so it cannot be sold at a high price, causing it to be misunderstood as a useless thing. It is usually only eaten by villagers themselves, or at most dried to enrich the variety of winter vegetables.

But on the other hand, this thing is quite destructive and will destroy the growth of chestnut trees.

Local farmers all have the experience that chestnut trees infested with chestnut fungus are more likely to die.

And you can clearly feel that the chestnut trees are rotting.

If you leave chestnut mushrooms alone, the area where the mushrooms grow will rot after a while, and the wood will rot!

So needless to say, farmers regard this thing as a scourge.

Usually they destroy it without mercy when they see it, wishing to eliminate it completely.

But if the Japanese saw this practice, they would undoubtedly feel distressed.

Because this thing is very valuable in Japan. Although it is not as valuable as Matsutake, it is also not comparable to the price of chestnuts.

This is the gap of information asymmetry. Those you like are treasures, and those you don't like are troubles.

However, because of Ning Weimin, the matter became different from then on.

Ning Weimin invited village cadres from several villages he had visited to a restaurant in the county town, held a grand banquet, and laid his cards on the table.

He said that he would buy this kind of mushroom at two yuan per pound for fresh goods and three yuan per pound for dried goods.

We can establish long-term cooperation through the village committees of each village, and the money can be settled on the spot when the goods are transported together. If you are willing, you can sign a contract with the villages after the meal.

People living in the mountains are relatively simple and honest. When they heard about such a great thing, they were so happy that they almost fainted.

  It is raining now, and the things that worried them the most in the past can now be exchanged for money. Isn't this turning waste into treasure?

Take dry goods for example. Which village can't gather several hundred kilograms of dry goods? At this price, it's absolutely suitable.

No one would have thought that the pest that everyone looked down upon would one day be more valuable than chestnuts.

So the cadres of each village responded with full approval and raised their glasses to toast Ning Weimin, treating this big boss who drove from the city in a car as if he were the God of Wealth.

No one does not believe what you, Ning Weimin, say. These days, cars are the best proof.

Not to mention that it was an imported luxury car that they had never seen before.

The county magistrate has a jeep to ride in, which is more useful than any letter of introduction.

That’s not all. Ning Weimin also discussed the matter with two professors from the Agricultural University on the spot.

He hopes to start another project with the Agricultural University. He is willing to invest 300,000 RMB to support the Agricultural University in artificially cultivating this mushroom in Liangxiang.

This made the village cadres who were listening in regard to Ning Weimin as a great figure.

Because if this can be accomplished, it will mean that these villages will have an additional economic pillar, and getting rid of poverty and becoming rich will be just around the corner!

Moreover, they don’t have to worry about sales, transportation, and price; they just have to do their job well.

  Using labor to exchange for food is what farmers like to do most, so who wouldn’t be happy about that?

So, someone immediately called the village chief to inform him, and he arrived within half an hour.

After figuring out Ning Weimin's identity, he was treated as a noble person.

In the end, Ning Weimin was drunk by these simple local cadres, and he didn't even know how he got back to the capital.

He was supposed to treat everyone to a meal, but he didn't pay for it and put it all into the village's public account.

Moreover, when they left, the trunk of their car was filled with local specialties by cadres from several villages, including a large sack of high-quality local chestnuts alone.

Millet, red dates, walnuts, peanuts, melon seeds, and candied fruits of all kinds filled two boxes, and various fruits filled two cardboard boxes.

He was also given twenty kilograms of dried chestnut mushrooms for free.

When Ning Weimin came to his senses, he was stunned. He didn't go to the countryside to do business at all. It turned out that he was going to purchase goods for the wedding.

These fellow villagers are so generous. They haven't even seen a penny yet, but they have already given him so many good things.

He couldn't even blame Luo Ren anymore.

Of course, this is enough to show that what he wants to do is exactly what these ordinary people need and is of vital importance to them. (End of this chapter)