golden ear

Chapter 342 Gold in Wood
"We came to Hainan this time to monopolize Chenxiang? What's the background of that old Han?"

"I heard from Lao Ren that he was the first person to grow agarwood in Hainan. He has more than ten years of experience. He has more than 100 acres of plantations. He is very strong and is known as the president in the local area!"

Liu Meizi was surprised: "President? So rich?"

Wu Tianyuan smiled and said: "Haha, the president doesn't mean that he is rich, but that the agarwood tree is called a green bank, and Lao Han has planted a lot, so he is naturally the president of the green bank."

A group of people left the airport, got on the highway, and the destination took more than two hours. They left the city and were basically villages and towns, some rich and some poor.Hainan has many specialties and a good environment. The government has been vigorously developing planting and tourism, and agarwood is one of the main varieties supported.Now as long as farmers plant agarwood seedlings, they have subsidies and technical support, and gradually many people start to plant agarwood.

"There used to be a lot of wild agarwood in Hainan, but no one knew what it was? It couldn't be sold at a high price, or the boss in the south had a vision. He came to the local area in advance to collect the incense, and then sold it to Southeast Asia and Europe. It is very cheap to collect, and you can make a lot of money. U.S. dollars. Agarwood has become popular in recent years, and the public knows that it is a good thing, so they pay attention to investment in agarwood.”

Agarwood has been mysterious since ancient times and has been monopolized by the royal family.Most folks have heard of its benefits, but few people can really touch it.Even now, the cheapest price per gram costs hundreds of dollars, which is definitely not a high-end product that ordinary people can consume.

"Doing agarwood in China should be very profitable, right?" Liu Meizi asked curiously.

"I heard that it was very profitable in the past few years. There were few people doing it and the threshold was high. But in the past two years, the business has not been good. More and more people have started to dry agarwood. It's messy."

Wu Tianyuan shook his head, Chinese people like to follow suit in everything they do, and sell everything that is good for sale. As a result, the market is easily saturated and business is not easy to do.This is the case for Chenxiang, and the Wenwan market is even more obvious.

"Isn't business supposed to be better with more people?"

"In fact, the people who really like incense are very fixed, and the threshold is high. First, they must have strong economic strength to support them; the two must have certain cultural and aesthetic tastes. It costs tens of thousands of dollars to come down for any incense tasting meeting. Not a real player, would you burn money like that?"

"So the Xiangdao circle is the most high-end, but also the smallest. Anyone who can enter is a senior player, regardless of strength or taste. Of course, those landowners spend money for arty, only buy the most expensive, and don't understand the best situation. Calculate."

Now a large number of agarwood from Vietnam and Brunei has entered the market, which has a great impact on Hainan agarwood.Hainan incense is a good top grade, but the output has not been high and the price is also expensive.The climate and environment in other Southeast Asian countries are similar, the level of fragrance is not bad, and the price is much cheaper. Naturally, cost issues must be considered when doing business.

It is difficult to detect the slightest changes if the level is not enough. As long as the agarwood is fragrant, everyone has their own taste, and it is difficult to adjust to everyone. Who may like what smell?

The purpose of Wu Tianyuan's visit to Hainan this time is to monopolize the agarwood planting industry in Hainan and support Liu Meizi's incense business in Japan.

"Is it Lao Han? I'm Wu Tianyuan, yes, I've arrived in the village now, okay, I'll be there as soon as I inquire."

They arrived at the village at noon, a typical Hainan village and town, not rich, but middle-level.Wu Tianyuan contacted Lao Han, and he said that he could find it by just asking around, and he would wait for Wu Tianyuan at home.

Sure enough, after asking a villager, it turned out that the largest and most luxurious house in the village was Lao Han. He walked along the road and found a place after a while. After knocking on the door, a man in his 40s came out to welcome him.

"It's been hard work, Director Wu, right? Please come in."

Lao Han enthusiastically let the two of them enter the yard, a small four-story building, and a Honda SUV parked in the yard. It seems that growing agarwood has made money, and the standard of living is not low.

"Hurry up and drink tea, isn't this place hard to find?" Old Han speaks well in Mandarin. He should often deal with outsiders. After pouring tea, he sat down and said, "Old Ren told me a long time ago that you are coming to inspect the market. Let me say hello."

"He often mentioned you, the president of Hainan Green Bank, to me. It's better to meet you than to be famous."

Old Han laughed, very proud of this title, and said with a smile: "What president? I used to be a fisherman, and my ancestors depended on the sky for generations. I worked with a boss in Zhejiang more than ten years ago, and slowly got my hands on the door. .Without Chen Xiang, there would be no Lao Han now, what a fate!"

Lao Han was very straightforward, and he invited the two of them to have dinner at home and chat while eating.Hainanese like to eat seafood hot pot very much, and the whole family gathers together, which is very lively.

It turned out that Lao Han used to fish for a living, and his family was very poor. Later, he went out to do transportation and met a boss in Zhejiang who asked him to collect agarwood locally.At that time, he didn't understand either. He only knew that there were a lot in Chenxiang Mountain, and the villagers sometimes used it for cooking. What's the use of collecting that?

However, in order to make money, he started collecting incense in several villages, and sent it to the boss every month, which could earn thousands of dollars more.After working for a few years, I realized that Chenxiang is so valuable. The Zhejiang boss heard that he had made hundreds of millions, and later gave him [-] in cash at a time, and he refused to leave.

Naturally, he couldn't let go of the opportunity. After running for several years, he knew that there was good incense there, so he used all his savings to start planting agarwood trees.He didn't understand technology at first, and failed several times, but he didn't give up and persisted. Now he has more than 100 acres of agarwood garden.There are more than a dozen households working with him in the village, and he has become the largest local supplier of agarwood.

"Brother Wu, take a break. I'll take you to the Chenxiang Garden and see the Chenxiang tree with my own eyes later, okay?"

Wu Tianyuan and Liu Meizi naturally agreed. I heard that it is not easy for agarwood to grow fragrance. It takes at least ten years for a seedling to start to produce fragrance, and it takes another seven or eight years. The worst Hainan agarwood takes 20 years to form!
After two o'clock in the afternoon, Lao Han drove the car and took them to visit the plantation.It is not far from the back mountain, and it will be there in ten minutes.Surrounded by tall concrete courtyard walls, the entrance is very large, and there are large sheds in the distance, with workers working.

The three got out of the car, and Lao Han took the two of them directly to see the agarwood seedlings. There are seedlings planted in the shed, which are very green and lovely. Wu Tianyuan picked up one and smelled it.

"Haha, there is no fragrance now, and the tree will have some fragrance in a few decades. It is mainly agarwood, where the oil is concentrated."

Seeing that Wu Tianyuan wanted to smell the seedlings, Lao Han laughed and explained that the smell of agarwood trees is very light, and the tree secretes oil to be fragrant. After being injured, it is secreted to heal the wound, and the result is agarwood.

"How much is this seedling?"

"It takes at least two or three hundred for a seedling. It will be as thick as a bowl in three years, and it will start to produce fragrance in ten years. Let's go, I will take you to see the tree."

Wu Tianyuan nodded, and followed Lao Han out of the shed to look at the trees.

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