After traveling through seven continents, I finally returned to China. After running for the past six months, Johnson felt like he was suddenly a different life.

When I returned to the capital, I had a good rest for a few days, but suddenly I felt a little uncomfortable. I lay on the bed and browsed my friends circle and found that Ling Na posted a message saying that she was going to Qiongzhou for a business trip recently, so she called and turned out to go into the mountain to find agarwood?

We met at Haikou Airport. We had never been there anyway, so there was a beautiful woman with us. When we met, we found that Ling Na was also accompanied by two men in black. Sister Chen was domineering in doing business.

The car was ready, and everyone got on the expressway, and the journey took more than two hours. When they left the city, they were basically villages and towns, some were wealthy and some were poor.

Qiongzhou has many specialties and a good environment. The government has been vigorously developing the planting and tourism industry. Agarwood is one of the main varieties of cultivation. Nowadays, as long as farmers plant agarwood seedlings, they have subsidies and technical support. Gradually, many people have begun to plant agarwood.

Today I went to inspect the market. Ling Na introduced: "In the past, there were a lot of wild agarwood in Qiongzhou, but no one knew what it was? It was impossible to sell at all. It was because the boss in the south had the vision and came to the local area to collect incense in advance and sold it to Southeast Asia and Europe."

"You can earn a lot of dollars by collecting it cheaply. In recent years, agarwood has become more and more popular, and the public knows it is a good thing, so they pay attention to agarwood investment."

Johnson Johnson has also paid attention to the news. In the past few years, it was indeed very profitable, with few people working, and the threshold was high. However, business has not been easy to do in the past two years, and more and more people have started to dry agarwood. Many foreign-producing areas have entered the market, with mixed fish and dragons, mixed quality, and the market is very chaotic."

Chinese people like to follow the trend in everything they do, and sell everything they can. As a result, the market is easy to be saturated and business is not easy to do. This is the case with agarwood, and the cultural and entertainment market is even more obvious.

"In fact, people who really like incense are very fixed, with high thresholds. First, they must have strong economic strength to support them; second, they must have a considerable cultural and aesthetic taste. It takes at least ten thousand yuan for an ordinary incense game. If it weren't for real players, few people would burn money."

Ling Na said helplessly: "Now a large number of agarwood from Vietnam and Brunei have entered the market, which has a great impact on Qiongzhou agarwood. Qiongzhou agarwood is the best, but the output has always been low and the price is also expensive. Other Southeast Asia's climate and environment are similar, and the incense material is not bad, but the price is much cheaper. Naturally, you have to consider the cost when doing business.

"After all, it is difficult to detect the subtle changes in spices. As long as it is agarwood, it is fragrant, and everyone has their own preferences. It is difficult to adjust everyone's mouths, and there is no unified standard."

At noon, they arrived at the village, a typical Qiongzhou village and town, not rich, but medium-level. Ling Na contacted Lao Han, and the other party was waiting at home. She went directly to the largest and most luxurious house in the village. After knocking on the door, a man in his forties greeted him.

"Thank you hard, please come in quickly." Lao Han enthusiastically asked everyone to enter the yard, a four-story building, and a Honda SUV parked in the yard. It seems that growing agarwood is a profitable money and has a good living standard.

"Drink tea quickly, this place is not easy to find?" Old Han said in a good Mandarin. He should have dealt with outsiders often. After filling the tea, he sat down and said, "I heard that you are coming to inspect the market, thank you for your hard work, right?"

Ling Na smiled and said, "It is worth it to be hard-working to meet you, the president of Qiongzhou Green Bank!"

Old Han laughed loudly and said proudly at the title: "What president? He used to be a fisherman. His ancestors relied on the heavens for generations. More than ten years ago, he followed a southern boss to dry agarwood, and slowly touched the way. Without agarwood, nor the current Lao Han, it was all fate!"

Lao Han is very refreshing and invites everyone to have a meal first and chat while eating. Qiongzhou people like to eat seafood hotpot, and the whole family gathers together, which is very lively.

After drinking for three rounds, I learned that Lao Han used to make a living by fishing and his family was very poor. Later, he went out for transportation and met a boss from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and asked him to collect agarwood locally. At that time, he didn't understand, but only knew that there were many in the agarwood mountain, and the villagers sometimes used it to cook. What's the use of collecting that?

In order to make money, several villages ran to collect incense and sent it to the boss every month, which could earn several thousand yuan more. After working for a few years, I realized that agarwood was so valuable. The boss heard that he had made several hundred million yuan, and later gave him 100,000 yuan in cash at one time, but the other party refused to leave.

Naturally, he couldn't miss the opportunity. He had known that there was a good fragrance there for a few years, and used all his savings to start planting agarwood trees. He didn't understand technology at first, but he failed several times, but he did not give up and persevered. Now he has more than a few hundred acres of agarwood gardens. There are more than a dozen households in the village who followed him and became the largest agarwood supplier in the local area.

It is not easy to make agarwood fragrant. It takes at least ten years for a seedling to start to make fragrance, and it takes another seven or eight years for a seedling to form. It takes twenty years for the worst Qiongzhou agarwood to form!

At around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Lao Han drove them to visit the plantation. It was not far from the back mountain, and it was within ten minutes. It was surrounded by tall cement courtyard walls. It was very large when you entered. There were greenhouses in the distance, and there were workers working.

The group got out of the car, and Lao Han took the two of them to see the agarwood seedlings. The seedlings were planted in the greenhouse, which were very cute. Johnson picked up one, smelled it, and the fragrance was very light. He asked, "How much does this seedling cost?"

"This seedling will take at least five or six hundred yuan. It will take three years to grow to the size of the bowl, and it will start to bear incense after ten years. Let's take you to see the trees."

He took the two to see the adult fragrant trees. Johnson went deep into the agarwood growth environment for the first time and was very curious. When he arrived at the large fragrant forest on the hillside, Old Han pointed to a fragrant tree as thick as a bowl and said, "This is a tree that is about ten years old. The fragrant mouth that just opened this year will almost produce fragrance in seven or eight years."

"How much can this cost?"

Lao Han looked at Ling Na and explained: "This one costs at least 20,000 yuan. Now the wild agarwood trees are protected by the government, and the wild agarwood is rare. They are basically artificially bred. We have begun to introduce seedlings and reproduce themselves. Now the technology is mature and we can basically be self-sufficient."

Continue to walk back to the mountain, he wrapped the entire hill and planted seedlings in the greenhouse. Once they mature, they will be transplanted to the wild. After ten years of natural growth, they can be manually cut incense.

"This is the incense I cut in the past two years. Now the wound has begun to turn incense, but the grade is still low and the oiliness is not good. It takes at least seven or eight years to produce incense."

In front of me is a fragrant tree with a diameter of more than 30 centimeters. A large wound was cut near the root. Plastics were protected around it, allowing the tree to naturally secrete oil and condense into spices bit by bit. This is the most natural environment of agarwood, which will last for more than seven or eight years, and the time cost is very high.

"Then you can just take it down and sell it?" Ling Na lowered her head and smelled the fragrance. The smell was very light and the oiliness was not enough.

Old Han smiled mysteriously and said, "No, just sell incense under the tree!"

"What does it mean?" Johnson asked in confusion.

"Fake incense is rampant on the market now. Since ancient times, Qiongzhou agarwood has been the best, and the prices and Nha Trang goods are the most expensive. Therefore, some unscrupulous merchants use inferior products as good ones and use cheap production areas to pretend to be Qiongzhou agarwood to make profits."

Speaking of this, Lao Han hated it very much. In recent years, agarwood has become popular and the prices have risen. There are bad merchants selling fake goods and using Sin Chew-type spices as Qiongzhou agarwood. The price difference is several times, and the quality is not good. People who make agarwood take the blame and their reputation is getting worse and worse.

Ling Na suddenly realized and admired: "So you found out that selling incense directly under the tree? Let's watch the agarwood fall into the tree with your own eyes?"

Old Han sighed: "There is no way. If you don't do this, how can the customer spend a lot of money to collect incense? Alas, it's also a helpless move!"

The three of them chatted and talked. It has only been seven or eight years since planting agarwood. The longest one in the garden has only produced agarwood for about ten years. Now it is mainly based on the sales of agarwood seedlings. It takes several years to wait for the agarwood to fall into the trees. This is also the main reason why locals are unwilling to plant agarwood. The cycle is too long and the cost is slow, so Lao Han has been practicing to promote the benefits of agarwood.

"The government also supports us agarwood growers, and we are fully supporting both funds and technology. Now there are more than a dozen households in the village who follow me, and more and more people are engaged in the agarwood industry. In a few years, I, the president of the green bank, will be worthy of my reputation."

Lao Han was very pleased that agarwood was his lifelong career, which not only brought wealth, but also a fate. People always had to do something meaningful to future generations in their lives, otherwise they would be in vain.

Johnson Johnson respects a simple but persevering businessman like Lao Han, saying that the cultural heritage is a bit big, but it deserves to protect local characteristics. Qiongzhou has many rare treasures, agarwood, sea yellow, giant clams, corals, and the new popular stars and moons and coconut shells.

I have been persisting for decades, and no matter what the result is, this spirit is worthy of admiration. I have the opportunity to cooperate in the future and vigorously support the agarwood cause.
Chapter completed!