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

In the Wuyou County Development Zone, Yang Lin stood on the roof of his company building, gazing out at this small, third-tier county town in Nanzhao Province.

There are very few companies and factories in the development zone.

There are many empty spaces around Xianglong Biotechnology Co., Ltd.

To facilitate the company's future development, Yang Lin used the 600,000 yuan payment from the Qingshan Village Cooperative to rent a lot of land near the company.

During this period, Yang Lin also recruited some sales representatives for the company.

Their job is to promote the bacterial strains produced by the company.

Help Yang Lin sell the mushroom spawn to more places.

However, just as Yang Lin had predicted, the mushroom farmers in the surrounding areas who were already engaged in shiitake mushroom production all had their own familiar channels for mushroom strains.

Upon learning that Xianglong Biotechnology was a newly opened company with no mushroom-producing clients, they were immediately surprised.

The mushroom substrate sold is made primarily of straw, and the mushroom farmers are even more disgusted by the straw substrate, which is not even made of miscellaneous wood.

No matter how well Yang Lin and his salesmen described the strain, no matter how much they embellished it, they were completely oblivious.

Mushroom farmers also dare not use Yang Lin's cheap mushroom spawn.

Better safe than sorry.

In agricultural production, experience is especially important, and the worst thing to do is to be greedy for small gains.

Yang Lin's salesman traveled to several surrounding counties, but almost none of the established mushroom farmers were willing to switch their spawn to Xianglong Company's varieties.

Fortunately, the company's sales staff did not come away empty-handed.

Among the surrounding cities and counties, there are many new individual farmers who have not yet reached cooperation agreements with other mushroom companies.

There is no habit or dependence on other companies' strains.

Seeing that Yang Lin's mushroom strains were cheap and the company seemed legitimate, with premises and buildings in the Wuyou County Development Zone, I wasn't worried about the company running away.

With the mindset of saving costs and giving it a try, I ordered the bacterial strain from Yang Lin's company.

They were all newcomers to the market, and each person's order quantity was not large.

One business only needs a few thousand sticks, and the most doesn't exceed 20,000 sticks.

Most of them are people who own several acres of woodland or several greenhouses.

The capital is not much, and the number of mushroom spawn that can be placed is also very limited.

All of the dozens of customers combined ordered a total of just over 400,000 mushroom spawn sticks.

It's not even comparable to the quantity purchased in the first batch by the Qingshan Village Cooperative.

However, for Yang Lin, these individual farmers have one advantage that the Qingshan Village Cooperative can never match.

Their greatest advantage is that they are distributed quite widely.

Even some of the closer customers are scattered across several counties and districts surrounding Wuyou County.

Other customers, located further away, placed their bacterial cultures near the mountainous forests along the border between Nanzhao and northern Myanmar.

One of them was a grower from Yelang Province in the east. He thought the mushrooms in Nanzhao were delicious, so he made a special trip to Nanzhao to buy mushroom spawn.

No matter how large the number of cooperatives in Qingshan Village is, their scope is limited to the vicinity of Qingshan Village.

There is a significant overlap between his forest farm and his.

For customers who bought the spawn and then cultivated it in greenhouses, Yang Lin let nature take its course, allowing the spawn to grow for about two months before making any intervention.

His attention was entirely focused on the customers who cultivated fungi under the trees.

The way mushroom logs are placed in greenhouses is completely different from the way they are placed in woodlands.

The sensations transmitted by mycelium when it comes into contact with the shelf are completely different from those when it comes into contact with the ground.

By observing the positional arrangement of the fungal strains and their different responses when the mycelium comes into contact with the outside world, Yang Lin can know his customers' cultivation methods without leaving the office.

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As night fell, Yang Lin, who had been conserving his energy, slowly closed his eyes.

Countless clusters of spiritual light suddenly appeared before my eyes.

The most powerful burst of spiritual light was naturally located at the site of Qingshan Village.

In the distance, about fifty kilometers from the company, sections of the mushroom sticks, emanating a spiritual light, were arranged like a matrix, forming a neat rectangular prism from five thousand mushroom sticks.

These are small-scale greenhouse growers; we don't need to worry about them.

One hundred and twenty kilometers away, there are eight thousand mushroom sticks of varying heights, forming a curved surface.

The sensation emanating from beneath the mushroom logs is the unique familiarity of the soil.

Without a doubt, this is a small-scale farmer engaged in understory planting, located in a rural area of ​​the neighboring Xuanwu City.

With a thought, Yang Lin immediately caused the mycelium in the eight thousand mushroom sticks to enter a state of rapid reproduction.

Under his control, the growth of the mycelium is directional.

Tiny mycelia, like the roots of a tree, keep burrowing into the soil.

Before long, the mycelium broke through the boundary of the substrate.

It seeps into the ground little by little, following the point where the mushroom stick contacts the soil.

Subsequently, the mycelium in the mushroom log returned to normal.

In return, the incubation time for this batch of mushroom spawn was shortened to one and a half months.

They can recoup their investment and make money half a month earlier than greenhouse growers.

The mycelium in the mushroom sticks returned to normal, but the mycelium that had seeped into the ground multiplied wildly under Yang Lin's control.

Little by little, it spreads out in this unfamiliar mountain forest.

The appearance of the mountains and forests gradually began to emerge in Yang Lin's mind in fragments.

Of course, the main function of these mycelia is to pave roads and conduct reconnaissance.

Without Yang Lin's permission, these mycelia would not grow into mushrooms, which would attract attention.

The exact yield of shiitake mushrooms for a mushroom farmer depends on the quantity of spawn he/she purchases.

After successfully spreading a mushroom network in the mountains of the neighboring city, Yang Lin was also a little tired.

The following evening, after a good rest, Yang Lin continued his work of laying the mycelial network on the ground.

This cycle repeats itself, one after another.

Several days later, even the furthest stretch of border forest was covered with a mushroom net by Yang Lin.

The amount of shiitake mushroom mycelium in his hand had reached an alarming level.

At this moment, Yang Lin also had a realization.

Continuing to increase the quantity of a single strain will bring him negligible improvement.

Moreover, continuing to expand the scale of shiitake mushroom cultivation and accelerate the production speed may affect the market supply and demand balance.

This has led to a sharp drop in the price of shiitake mushrooms, which may result in more losses than gains.

Whether it's to earn more money or to further improve his skills, he needs to develop more strains of bacteria.

The next day, Yang Lin, who woke up naturally at noon, felt much more refreshed.

Upon arriving at the company, Yang Lin was told by Manager Su that Wang Youcai, a fellow villager, had been waiting for him at the company all morning.

"Uncle Wang, what's the matter?" Yang Lin quickly came to Wang Youcai's side and asked.

Wang Youcai timidly called out "General Manager Lin" and explained his purpose.

"Um... I've acquired a few acres of land in the village and would like to buy some mushroom spawn from you, but... I don't want shiitake mushrooms."

"There are too many shiitake mushrooms growing in the village. I'm worried they won't be worth much later. Do you have any other mushroom varieties here?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Lin's eyes lit up.

Unexpectedly, he was able to consider the crop production cycle and the risks of blindly following trends in planting.

He underestimated the villagers.

"Uncle Wang, don't worry, our company is researching new varieties of button mushrooms. At most, we'll be able to produce other strains within a week."

"I definitely won't let Uncle Wang down then."

Yang Lin said with absolute certainty.

For other teams, researching a new bacterial species often takes years.

But for Yang Lin, as long as it's from the Tricholomataceae family, he can handle it in a day.