Homo sapiens

Unconsciously, more than half a month passed. Before the Spring Festival of 2018, Li Jinglan took people to various parts of China, Japan and Southeast Asia.

In the process of selling eel fry, he followed Li Qingye's instructions, wearing different vests, and even hired several agents in various regions to avoid the direct appearance of the Homo sapiens company.

Japan.

Kagoshima Prefecture, Naha Island.

This is one of the three major eel breeding areas in Japan, with an annual eel production of about 3,000 to 7,000 tons.

However, during the eel fry fishing period from December 2017 to January 2018, the Japanese fishery company caught a total of about 121 kilograms of eel fry. Even if the more than 400 kilograms caught by Chinese fishermen are included, it is still pitiful.

Last year there were still dozens of tons of catch, but this year it has plummeted off a cliff.

Faced with such a huge gap, many eel farming companies are so anxious that they have trouble sleeping and eating.

Among them, Kagoshima Eel Co., Ltd., the largest eel breeding company in Kagoshima, is feeling even more pressure at this time. This year, their company only grabbed 16 kilograms of fry, which is not even a fraction of last year.

Just when they were running around in a hurry.

Li Jinglan came here with several subordinates and directly found more than a dozen local eel breeding companies, saying that his company had caught a batch of eel fry.

Upon hearing the news, eel farming companies throughout Kagoshima Prefecture immediately took action.

A small trade fair was soon held in a local hotel.

Li Jinglan looked at the entrepreneurs around him who were like flies, and felt an unprecedented pleasure in his heart, just like a foreigner in Lingnan, who was fascinated by the beautiful boys and girls.

Naoto Saito, the president of Kagoshima Eel, seems to be a playboy, but he is actually very shrewd. He held a red wine glass and soon became brothers with Li Jinglan.

"Li Sang, please pay more attention to me later. This is a VIP card for Kagoshima Eel Restaurant. Please don't dislike it, Li Sang." Saito smiled and pushed a gold card over.

Seeing the style of the card, Li Jinglan accepted the gold card with a smile: "How embarrassing."

Other entrepreneurs immediately scolded Saito for being cunning.

Soon, more than 2,000 pieces of fish fry prepared by Homo Sapiens Company for the Japanese market were quickly snapped up by the entrepreneurs present.

In particular, Saito, who had a gold card, even bought 850 eel fry for Kagoshima Eel Co., Ltd. Although he paid more than 20 million US dollars, in this year's market, it is good to buy fry. .

After all, the eel fry on the market are becoming increasingly scarce at this stage, and their farms require maintenance costs, water and electricity bills, and employee wages every day. Even if they don’t raise eels, they have to pay these costs.

Moreover, farm facilities will gradually depreciate over time until they are completely scrapped, which is almost irreversible.

Although Japan has fixed the production volume of each company due to the agricultural association, there is still room for maneuver.

For example, the rated production capacity of Kagoshima Eel Co., Ltd. is 3,000 tons. However, due to the decline in the production of wild eel fry in recent years, Kagoshima Eel only produced nearly 1,000 tons last year, which was not able to reach the rated amount at all.

In this case, the limited eel fry are very important.

Whoever grabs it and grabs more will naturally dominate the Japanese market.

This kind of seller's market allowed the Homo sapiens company to earn more than 50 million US dollars in revenue from the more than 2,000 eel fry sold to Japan.

And that’s not counting the various gifts Li Jinglan and others received.

With a full harvest, Li Jinglan planned to strike while the iron was hot, so he led his people non-stop and quickly flew to the Minnan and Lingnan provinces of China. These two places are where the majority of eel fry are sold.

After all, local eel production accounts for about 70 to 80% of the world's production all year round. Although the price of eel fry has increased two or three times this year, it is still profitable for farmers.

Breeding companies and farmers in China also quickly consumed 15,000 portions of eel fry.

Including the shares from other regions, Li Jinglan and his team sold a total of 20,000 glass eel fry to eel breeding companies in various places. A single portion of glass eels is about 5,000, and the unit price of each fry reaches US$24,000.

This batch of fry alone generated revenue of US$480 million.

In fact, this is due to the sharp decrease in the catch of wild eel fry this year, which has quickly raised the wholesale price. As one of the few suppliers with a supply of fry, there is no need to even conduct business negotiations. The eel fry are quickly sold out as soon as they are taken out. .

Luzon.

Port of Manila.

The five vest companies set up by the Homo sapiens company here transport eel fry to Southeast Asia, Japan, and South Korea.

There are also five vest companies set up in Xiangjiang, which are responsible for shipping to the Chinese region, including the eel breeding company on Taiyuan Island, which all ship from Xiangjiang.

At this time in the port area of ​​Manila Port.

Li Jinglan, who had just returned to Manila, met Naoto Saito, the president of Kagoshima Unel Co., Ltd., who flew over from Japan before he could take a breath.

After a few words, the cheerful Li Jinglan accepted the other party's invitation and went to Takasugi Sushi Restaurant together.

In the box.

While pouring wine for Li Jinglan, Saito introduced the five people present: "Li Sang, this is Gao Shanping, the owner of Takasugi Sushi Restaurant, this is Motomomo Watanabe of Furong Investment Company..."

"Li Sang, there are not many companies that can catch eel fry this year. Have you discovered a new wild eel spawning ground?" Watanabe Motomo asked half-jokingly.

Although Li Jinglan drank a few glasses of sake, he didn't have water in his head. He smiled and replied: "Haha, no way. Your country is the first country to study eels. Don't you know where there are eel fry? We don't know. The company’s fishing vessels were just lucky and happened to encounter fish fry.”

"Haha, I'm just kidding." Watanabe Motomochi changed the topic with a smile.

Others quickly toasted and chatted.

After three rounds of wine, the five flavors of food are gone.

Li Jinglan was helped away by his secretary, and Saito was also very concerned about the fry supplier and personally sent him to the car.

The second floor of the sushi restaurant.

Takasugi Taira and Watanabe Motochi, who were still drunk just now, were no longer drunk at this time. After making a pot of tea.

Watanabe Motomo's eyes showed a trace of thought: "According to our intelligence from various places, most of the eel fry sold in the market recently come from 11 companies, including 6 in Manila and 5 in Xiangjiang."

"Drink tea." Gao Shanping filled their teacups.

"And there is a very interesting phenomenon in this, that is, these companies were all founded in the past two years, and many are still leather companies that cannot find office space and fishing boats."

Gao Shanping raised his eyebrows: "What do you think?"

"I suspect that someone has mastered the artificial breeding technology of eels, and it is a low-cost technology." Watanabe Motomoji quickly expressed his reasoning.

But Gao Shanping shook his head: "Just speculation is not enough. Further information is needed."

Watanabe Motomochi took a sip of tea: "I know, so next I will focus on this Homo sapiens company, because this company is the only company that owns fishing ships and breeding bases."

"Then please leave it to Mr. Watanabe. If we are sure that the other party has low-cost eel breeding technology, the headquarters will never treat you badly." Takasugi Ping said seriously.

Watanabe Motomo immediately bowed: "Hi!"

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