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

Rumble... Rumble... Rumble.

The mushrooms deep in the mountains are still slowly blooming, while the entrance to the forest farm is already bustling with activity.

Several excavators roared and swung their huge shovels, slowly flattening a small hill near the entrance of the forest farm.

"Master Li, it's veering off course..."

"Did you understand the blueprints? The cold storage is located here, and the drying workshop is located here. We need to leave space for these lines..."

Wearing a safety helmet, Zhao Tie was giving loud instructions on the construction site, his tone exuding an unquestionable competence.

Returning to his old profession, his face was full of excitement, and his whole body was brimming with energy.

At this moment, Yang Lin got out of the car from a distance and slowly walked towards the location of the forest farm.

Upon seeing Yang Lin arrive, Zhao Tie hurriedly wiped the sweat and dust from his face and ran quickly toward Yang Lin's location.

"Boss, what can I do for you?"

"It's dangerous at the construction site, be careful," Zhao Tie patiently advised.

Zhao Tie had great admiration for this young boss.

When he was Yang Lin's age, he was probably playing in the mud on some construction site.

The ability to start from scratch, transform from a rural youth into a multi-millionaire with three major assets, is something not everyone can achieve.

The 800-mile forest farm is a major asset, as is Xianglong Biotechnology Co., Ltd., and its engineering team is also an industry invested in by Yang Lin.

I can hardly believe that a young man from the countryside could have such great courage.

"It's nothing, you go about your business."

"I'm here to deliver mushroom spawn to the village, and I also stopped by the forest farm."

Yang Lin did not delay Zhao Tie for long, so as not to affect the construction progress of the forest farm.

The soil within the construction area was already covered by his mycelium.

Each time the shovel falls, it cuts off a large patch of mycelium from the vast fungal network stretching over thousands of acres beneath its feet.

Yang Lin could clearly sense how much soil was excavated with each scoop of the excavator.

Only after the excavated soil filled trucks and was transported to designated locations to fill in low-lying areas did the severed mycelium re-integrate into the fungal network.

Yang Lin stood silently by the roadside, watching the excavator in the distance, shoveling soil out of the mountain.

To be honest, ever since he buried the mycelium in the soil of the forest, he has let it grow slowly and expand its territory little by little.

This was the first time he had ever encountered such a large-scale earthmoving operation, where the mycelium in the soil was dug out piece by piece.

So he was also a little curious whether anyone would notice anything unusual about his mycelium after it was dug out of the ground.

You should know that among all known life forms on the entire planet Earth...

The largest species is Armillaria mellea, a fungus.

The largest fungus on Earth is Armillaria ostreatus, a species that has survived for thousands of years in the National Forest of Oregon, the Kingdom of Eagles.

Its underground area is a full 9.6 square kilometers.

If you convert the unit to mu (a Chinese unit of area), it is approximately 14,000 mu.

It is equivalent to the size of more than 1,600 football fields.

Its size is far greater than that of giant animals such as blue whales and dinosaurs.

In addition, the world's second largest mushroom, Armillaria golus from Michigan, the United States, covers an area of ​​only 0.15 square kilometers, or about 220 acres.

Only about 1.5% of the first place.

As for the third largest fungus, there is still no consensus on the matter.

However, it is certain that the world's third largest mushroom is far inferior to the world's second largest by more than one level.

Ordinary mycelia can only grow to a length of a few tens of meters in the soil, which is basically the limit.

The mycelium covering more than a thousand acres at Yang Lin's feet is already the second largest in the world, leaving Gaul, which ranks third, by nearly ten times the size.

The mycelium is of the shiitake mushroom variety rather than Armillaria mellea, which is an unprecedented feat.

If it gets discovered, who knows what kind of sensation it will cause.

Fortunately, Yang Lin's worries were somewhat unnecessary.

The hyphae are thinner than a human hair, so how could the excavator operators sitting on the excavator possibly see the broken hyphae in the soil?

Even the workers standing next to the soil couldn't possibly spot the mycelium of the poplar tree with the naked eye.

Even in some individual areas, the mycelium is very dense and the concentration is very high.

The workers didn't even notice that the soil color had changed.

Who doesn't know that this forest farm was specifically developed for growing shiitake mushrooms?

There's nothing unusual about digging up a few clumps of shiitake mushroom mycelium from the soil.

After observing the construction site for a while and confirming that the workers would not discover the vast network of underground mycelium, Yang Lin stopped paying attention.

Anyway, he now has some influence, so even if the unusual area of ​​the mycelial network is discovered in the future, he can deal with whatever comes his way.

Not long after, Yang Lin went to the village cooperative's forest farm.

At this moment, the village chief and some cooperative members are busy tending to the mushroom logs in the forest.

People moved about in the woods, creating a busy scene.

It's clear that they all regard the cooperative as their own business and are very dedicated to the cooperative's understory mushroom cultivation.

Seeing this, Yang Lin gradually felt relieved.

As long as the villagers manage the cooperative diligently, it won't just run away after scamming a subsidy.

What's the big deal about letting the villagers make money using his mushroom sticks?

Even if he becomes incredibly wealthy in the future, he alone could never travel to every corner of the world or acquire all the land under heaven.

To extend his mycelial network further, he must ensure that others benefit from his products and actively use and promote the strains he produces.

Generally, after the shiitake mushroom spawn is inoculated, it takes one to three months for the mycelium to gradually spread throughout the substrate.

Only then can fruiting bodies gradually form and fungi grow.

For some late-maturing varieties, the mycelium growth period can even take three to four months.

Yang Lin defines the shiitake mushroom spawn produced by his company as an early-maturing variety.

In terms of the time it takes for the bacteria to grow, it should take about two months.

Considering that the company currently has no reputation, mushroom farmers in other places generally have their own familiar mushroom spawn companies.

I dare not easily switch to unfamiliar varieties.

Especially for strains of bacteria that have not been verified in the field, no one dares to try them easily.

Yang Lin decided to speed things up a bit for Qingshan Village.

The inoculum growth time for those 500,000 mushroom sticks was set at about one and a half months.

It was a bit fast, but it was still within the normal range.

A month and a half later, the Qingshan Village Cooperative will harvest a batch of high-quality shiitake mushrooms.

His Xianglong Biotechnology Co., Ltd. will also leverage this excellent case from Qingshan Village to make a name for itself in the microbial culture market.