466. Beibu Gulf (5)
Yunwan City is nearly thousands of kilometers away from Hongyang, but there is a high-speed rail connection between them. It only takes more than four hours to take the train from Hongyang.
This is a city where mountains, seas, ports and cities are dependent on each other. It is located in the central and southern coastal areas of China. It has a long history. Although the total economic output is not as good as the Red Ocean, it is also a very developed coastal city in China.
Ao Muyang was decisive in his work. He could not go out to sea during the ban period, so he had nothing to do, so after contacting Lu Hu, he set out to Yunwan City the next day.
Lu Hu sent him a phone number. The farm he introduced was called Beibu Gulf Pearl Farm, which was located on the beach outside the suburbs of the city. The boss and Lu Hu were their own family, named Lu Mengzi.
Lu Hu and Lu Mengzi, both names are quite wild. Although Lu Hu did not introduce the specific relationship between them, he said that their relationship was extraordinary, so that Ao Muyang could feel at ease to buy pearl mussels.
Ao Muyang contacted Lu Mengzi in advance. The other party's style of handling things is like his name, and he is very generous and powerful: "Brother Yang is right? OK, Brother Hu told me about you, which pearl shell do you plan to choose?"
“I don’t know much about this industry…”
"Then, if you are not busy, come here first and come and have a detailed investigation. You are Brother Hu's brother, and that is my VIP, come here."
It was so satisfying that Ao Muyang led Zhong Cang all the way south to Yunwan City.
When they were on the train, someone contacted them. The other party claimed to be Lu Mengzi's assistant and came to pick them up as a guest.
Ao Muyang got off the train and was picked up by a young man and got on the Toyota Domino that the young man drove.
The off-road vehicle sped all the way out of the city and finally entered the suburbs.
The surrounding environment of Beibu Gulf Pearl Farm is very beautiful. It is located on the seaside and there is a long casuarina windbreak on the coast. This way, even if the sea breeze is shining, the sea breeze will not be blown by the sea breeze on the road next to the forest belt.
Although Yunwan City is close to the sea, it does not have a very good port, so it focuses on the development of marine aquaculture, and the Beibu Gulf area is full of breeding farms.
Seawater aquaculture is afraid of bad weather such as tsunamis and typhoons, so the government presided over the construction of a circle of embankments on the coast, and the windproof forest belt winds along the embankments, embracing the golden sand in its arms.
The driving assistant pointed to several small buildings that were looming in the windbreak belt and said, "That is the studio, seedling room, nucleation room, cage room and processing room of our farm are all inside."
Lu Mengzi gave Ao Muyang a lot of face, or Lu Hu a lot of face, and waited at the gate of the farm himself.
In terms of image, he and Lu Hu are quite fragrant. They are not tall and have a big belly. They don’t look fierce.
But as he showed on the phone, his temper was very "strong". After Ao Muyang got out of the car, he immediately grabbed his hand and shook it hard: "Brother Xiaoyang, I have been long-lasting and long-term!"
Ao Muyang said, "Brother Meng, why did you come out in person? I heard from Brother Hu that you are very busy now, so just have Assistant Liu accompany us, you don't have to come out in person."
Lu Mengzi laughed and said, "If I did that, wouldn't it be a slap Brother Hu in the face? Brother Hu told me that you must take good care of you and make you satisfied with this trip, otherwise he would not spare me!"
Although the value of pearls has declined in modern times, it is considered a luxury after all. People who can engage in pearl breeding are naturally worth a lot of money.
The layout of Lu Mengzi's farm construction is reasonable and brilliant. From the outside, it looks inconspicuous because it is covered by windproof forests, but after entering it, you will find that there is a different world inside.
There is a small building in the farm with a particularly gorgeous decoration, with marble floors, solid wood decorations, solid wood tables and chairs. The outside is steaming, the inside is cool and the air conditioner is refrigerating very well.
Ao Muyang and Zhong Cang were arranged to live on the second floor, and the first floor was the living room, where they were having dinner.
When they arrived, it was time to have lunch. Lu Mengzi prepared a table of fresh seafood, sea cucumbers, abalone, shellfish, shrimps and crabs, all of which were available.
"Brother Hu told me that Brother Xiaoyang, you are a little overlord in the sea, specializing in rare and expensive seafood, and you must have eaten all the fish in the sea. But he also said that you usually stay in Hongyang, so you may not have any contact with the seafood in Yunwan City. Today, if you try it, is there any difference?" Lu Mengzi said while picking up two bottles of Moutai.
Ao Muyang didn't know how Lu Hu introduced him, but the other party's reception was really strong. The table of meals and drinks had to be close to at least 10,000 yuan!
If he hadn't trusted Lu Hu, he wouldn't dare to eat this meal because he didn't buy too many pearl shells, and his profit margin was probably not 10,000 yuan.
But he also understood that Lu Mengzi was not entertaining him, but actually entertaining Lu Hu. All he did was to give Lu Hu face.
Lu Hu's Lu Jihai aquatic products do make money, but after meeting Ao Muyang, Ao Muyang made more money for him. So far, all the high-quality seafood produced in the Brick Island Fishery has been supplied to Lu Hu.
This is very important for Luji Sea Aquatic Products. Having a stable and rare sea cargo channel means Luhu can have more say in the industry, which is something that money cannot buy.
After lunch, Ao Muyang and the others went to rest first. In the afternoon, Lu Mengzi arranged for Assistant Liu to accompany the two to visit the breeding farm.
From the seedling room to the processing room, Ao Muyang observed one by one. The farm operated various pearl shells, including freshwater pearls and sea pearls, with a complete variety. In addition, he learned when he visited that the predecessor of this farm was Hepu Pearl State Nutrition Farm.
There is a saying in the pearl industry that Xizhu is not as good as Dongzhu, Dongzhu is not as good as Nanzhu. Among them, Nanzhu is Hepu Pearl, which is an expensive Haizhu.
Assistant Liu said: "If you are interested in humanities and history, then after the visit, I will take you to Bailong Town. It is very close to this place, and there are ruins of the ancient Pearl City there."
While speaking, he took Ao Muyang into the bead collection room, which was the last part of the farm visit and the most important place in the field.
The pearls were picked here, and some girls were busy working. A table with sky blue plastic tablecloth was placed in the wide room. The pearl-picking girls carefully opened the shells with stainless steel tweezers and took out brightly colored, solemn and round pearls from the shell meat.
The pearls fell into the plate and made a crisp sound. Ao Muyang smiled and said, "This is really noisy and mixed balls, big and small beads fell on the jade plate."
What is produced in the bead collection room is not ordinary pearls, but black pearls and gold pearls, which are almost the two most valuable pearls among sea pearls.
Ordinary pearls are mined in another bead mining room, and mechanized production has been completed. The machine opens the shells to collect the pearls and then classifies them according to their quality.
Assistant Liu explained to Ao Muyang: "These pearls must be collected manually. Each pearl will have the name and photos of the collector, and the time to collect them to prove their identity and bloodline."
Chapter completed!