Returning to the mountain village, starting with mushroom picking to get rich

Excluding public welfare forest areas, basic farmland areas, and some areas with rugged terrain and high risk factors.

There are approximately 2,000 mu of land around Qingshan Village suitable for developing understory economy.

Of the 2,000 mu of forest land, Yang Lin has already contracted 800 mu and has priority rights to contract it in the future.

After seeing Yang Lin make money, some of the wealthier families in the village, such as the Wang butcher's family and the village chief's family, started to take action, contracting areas ranging from tens to hundreds of acres.

Some families with great influence and many friends also cooperated with their relatives and friends to lease mountain forests of varying sizes.

They want to contract all the remaining forest land in Qingshan Village.

This angered the other villagers.

Although they lacked the technology and capital to contract the mountain forests.

Even if they managed to scrape together the money, they had no way of understanding the various aspects of understory planting.

But they knew that if they let the few wealthy families in the village continue down this path...

The mountains and forests of Qingshan Village will have nothing to do with them anymore.

Aside from the meager contract fee that can be received each year.

These people will have no income anymore and will continue to live in poverty in the village for the rest of their lives.

We can only watch helplessly as others get rich.

As the saying goes, it's not that I'm afraid of my brothers suffering, it's that I'm afraid of my brothers driving a Land Rover.

They're all from the same village, so why don't they get a share of the village's woodland?

If the contracts have already been subcontracted, fine, but why shouldn't those contracts that haven't been subcontracted be given a chance as well?

As a result, the crowd caused a huge disturbance at the village committee.

He threatened that he would never agree to any more forest land contracting in the village.

Even without obtaining the consent of a sufficient number of villagers, the contracting procedures may still be completed.

However, if most villagers object, the procedures definitely cannot be completed.

The remaining thousand mu of woodland in Qingshan Village was thus left unused.

Only after the town government and the county poverty alleviation office intervened and mediated were they able to give the villagers a response that most of them could accept.

The county leaders decided to use Qingshan Village as a pilot area.

The Qingshan Village Collective Cooperative was established, with a planned investment of five million yuan in poverty alleviation funds.

We will develop key industrial poverty alleviation projects and transform them into a demonstration park for under-forest economy that can benefit the entire county.

The remaining 1,000 mu of forest land that has not yet been contracted out will be incorporated into the assets of the village collective cooperative.

It is developed and operated by the village collective.

The villagers of Qingshan Village invest according to their household registration.

The collective cooperative is supervised by the Hongyan Town Government and the County Agriculture Bureau.

After the cooperative becomes profitable, 20% of the profits will be distributed as dividends to each villager household every year.

10% of the profits are used for village collective construction, such as digging irrigation ditches, repairing roads, and maintaining tap water and other public welfare projects.

70% of the profits are used for the development of the cooperative.

The village head serves as the head of the cooperative, while the Party branch secretary and several resident cadres serve as supervisors and stewards, respectively.

The finance department was hired from outside.

The funds from the county's poverty alleviation office have been received.

However, the five million yuan in poverty alleviation funds was not directly deposited into the cooperative's account.

Instead, the cooperative submits the project application, and only after approval can it receive a portion of the funds at different stages of the project.

The only project the village chief could think of was growing shiitake mushrooms.

It was only after seeing Yang Lin's success that the county's poverty alleviation office realized that Qingshan Village had a good geographical environment and was willing to increase its support.

The five million yuan was allocated to Qingshan Village to grow shiitake mushrooms.

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"Here's the thing: I'm a complete novice when it comes to understory planting. Ultimately, the village's development depends on you..."

After explaining the whole story, the village chief kept praising Yang Lin, insisting that Yang Lin was the savior and lucky star of their Qingshan Village.

"Don't worry, village chief. Poverty alleviation industries are a good thing, and since I also have shares in the cooperative, I will definitely help out."

After a brief consideration, Yang Lin agreed to the village chief's request.

The plan is to help the villagers develop the understory economy on those thousand acres of land.

As for competition from his peers, Yang Lin doesn't care at all.

Because for others who grow mushrooms, the cost of the spawn is always the biggest expense.

And his bacterial strains are practically free.

This huge cost advantage alone means that no competitor can rival him.

Moreover, he had a little ulterior motive.

That is, to let the mycelium you create cover the entire earth!

It would be very difficult for him to achieve this goal on his own.

The reason his forestry business was able to operate so smoothly and easily earn him a million dollars was because...

It's because his strain has unparalleled advantages.

Since the villagers wanted to learn from him how to cultivate mushrooms under the forest canopy.

Then he'd lend a hand and let them help him cultivate the mycelium.

"That's right, village chief, you've participated in the training, so you should know the importance of the strains."

"I definitely know that," the village chief said. "I also wanted to ask you where you bought the mushroom strains, and how they grew so well."

"Well... that's a trade secret, but don't worry, village chief, we're all from the same village. I can get you some bacteria for just the cost price, and the results will definitely be better than what you buy in the market!" Yang Lin said.

"Xiao Lin... that's not fair of you. You want to make money off the village's poverty alleviation funds too? Tell me about the mushroom company, and I'll sell it myself. You'll get a referral fee afterwards," the village chief said.

"No way!" Yang Lin refused decisively.

"That's all I ask for. I can get you the bacterial strain, but I need to keep its source a secret."

"But don't worry, village chief, the price of your mushroom spawn will definitely not be higher than the market price."

"If that doesn't work, then we'll each do our own thing."

"I don't care about your cooperative, and you shouldn't cause trouble in my forest farm. Let's all rely on our own abilities and compete fairly in the market!"

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After several arguments, the village chief finally gave in.

Yang Lin could simply stop selling mushroom spawn to the villagers and earn less money, but the village chief dared not gamble on the villagers' skills or whether the mushroom spawn bought from outside would be suitable for the environment of Qingshan Village.

Yang Lin's forest farm is right in the village; he watched the mushrooms grow from scratch.

It is known that the people Yang Lin hired were unemployed people from the county who had switched careers; they were not planting experts.

The only possible reason for success is the superior quality of the bacterial strain.

Therefore, he also wanted to obtain the strain of bacteria that Yang Lin used.

When you need something from someone, you have no choice but to compromise.

"Um... will the mushrooms you gave us have the same effect as what you described?" the village chief asked.

"I can only guarantee that the strains are all the same. Whether it succeeds or not depends on your operation and management. If you get the strains but don't water them or provide any sunlight, and you only work sporadically, and the mushrooms don't grow, don't blame me," Yang Lin said.

"I know...I know, I definitely won't do anything reckless," the village chief said.

"Alright, let's leave it at that for now. We can discuss the other issues face-to-face when I get back to the village, so that we can clarify things clearly."

After a brief chat with the village chief, Yang Lin hung up the phone and began to consider his next steps.

"So, how do we sell the mycelium to the village?"