Generally speaking, the shelf life of herbal Chinese medicinal materials can reach about two years, and the shelf life of Cistanche is similar.
However, because Cistanche has a lot of water before drying, the shelf life is related to its own dryness. If there is more water left in it, the shelf life will be shorter, and vice versa, the shelf life will be longer.
Not only that, Cistanche is also prone to mold and insects.
This requires great care in preservation, and it must be protected against mildew and insects.
With such precious Chinese herbal medicines, even the slightest mistake in the preservation process will cause heavy losses, so of course it is better to get rid of them as soon as possible, so as not to drop them in your hands.
Liu Dahai understands these things.
But no matter what, no matter how big the loss was, he would not choose to sell the autumn harvest that was about to be harvested cheaply.
Because as long as you make such a head start, you will imperceptibly admit that there is a problem with "the annual Cistanche in City X", and it will be very difficult to sell it at a high price in the future.
This is like Cistanche deserticola, which is produced in Aqishan, and the market price is higher than that produced in other places. The quality is not considered here, but the place of origin. This shows that the inherent impression is very important.
Moreover, Liu Dahai knows well that the quality of Cistanche in City X is indeed good, not worse than Aqishan's Cistanche. Just because of this, he will not choose to sell it at a low price just because of temporary difficulties. .
After Wang Cheng and Zhang Yun left, he had almost rested, took out his phone and dialed out, made an appointment with another friend, and prepared to continue to work hard tomorrow, and then sold out, if he could sell a little.
When Wang Cheng and Zhang Yun went out, they were still a little annoyed. Wang Cheng turned his head and took a look into the restaurant, and couldn't help saying angrily, "I don't know what's good."
Zhang Yun asked, "What shall we do next?"
Wang Cheng thought for a while and said: "It seems that if they are not completely convinced, they will not cooperate with us obediently."
After a slight pause, he snorted again: "The past few days Liu Dahai has been looking for people everywhere in Chengkou County, and he has said a lot that their cistanche is better than Aqishan's, as long as these words are passed on to Old man Liu, the rest... we don't need to worry about it."
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Liu Qiliang was born in Aqishan in the 1960s.
When he was a child, his family was poor, and what he faced every day was the wind and sand that filled the sky here, which made him always have an unimaginable aversion to the wind and sand.
When he was young, he was obsessed with sand control and tried to contract land to plant trees, but all failed. After all, it is too difficult to fight against nature with his own strength.
Liu Qiliang is a smart person. After several failures, he learned a lot of experience.
He found that the most important thing to control desertification is to plant trees, but planting trees does not give him enough food. Even with the help of the state, the survival rate of trees is low and the cost is too high, which still makes him unable to make ends meet.
Therefore, he began to look for a way out, hoping to find a tree that would not only survive but also generate economic benefits after planting.
In the end, he came into contact with Cistanche from a researcher at the Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, and began to plant Cistanche from then on.
Over the years, in the process of planting Cistanche deserticosa on a large scale, he had setbacks, failures, and hesitation...but in the end he succeeded.
The cistanche he planted not only earned him money, but also achieved great fame for him, making him a big celebrity in the area of Aqishan.
His success has been set up by the local government as an example, and many herdsmen from the Aqishan area have come here to ask him for advice on how to grow Cistanche.
Liu Qiliang discovered at that time that although he had planted Cistanche, the selling price was not stable. Those foreign businessmen often deliberately lowered his price when purchasing, so that he had no bargaining power at all.
Facing the visits of the herdsmen, he keenly thought that if the planting of Cistanche can be spread to the whole place, Cistanche will become a special product here. The larger the scale, the more he can hold the bargaining power in the transaction process, so He taught the herdsmen everything, without hiding anything, and quickly planted cistanche for many nearby herdsmen, making the Aqishan area an extremely large industrial scale.
Because of his "selflessness", Liu Qiliang's reputation in the local area has become even greater, which he never expected before.
At the same time, the scale of Aqishan’s industry continued to expand, and it quickly became the most important distributing center of Cistanche in the country. Many factories for processing Cistanche began to be built and put into operation in Chengkou County and Bazhuo City, making the local herdsmen who grow Cistanche rich.
Liu Qiliang, as the first person to plant Cistanche, needs scale and technology, and of course he has gained the most.
The output value of his cultivation of cistanche is in the tens of millions every year, and he quickly became the leading rich man in the local area.
When he got older, he no longer had the drive he had when he was young, and he no longer pursued desertification control.
Since the beginning of this year, the rat plague in the Aqishan area has been severe, and the forest farm of Liu Qiliang's family has also been ravaged by the rat plague, resulting in a sharp drop in income.
More than a year ago, he invested in the establishment of a pharmaceutical company, preparing to launch a deep-processing project of Cistanche, including the production of a series of products such as Cistanche Oral Liquid, Cistanche Medicinal Wine, and Cistanche Capsules.
Among them, Cistanche Capsules is the most important product, and they expect the annual output to reach 500 million capsules.
Such a huge production capacity requires a very large investment, almost 200 million yuan.
Liu Qiliang has already invested most of his funds in the projects of the pharmaceutical company. He originally thought that after the harvest this year, his hand would become looser.
But he didn't expect that such a rat disaster would plunge him into a shortage of funds.
At the same time, a large number of cistanche from areas other than Aqishan flooded in to seize the local Cistanche market, which made him vigilant and worried.
He is very worried that even if Aqishan's harvest recovers in the future, the price of Aqishan's Cistanche will drop from then on.
During this period of time, there have been rumors in the market that a kind of "annual Cistanche" has appeared in X City. The quality is very good, and it can be compared with the best Cistanche in Aqishan.
Liu Qiliang also heard this rumor, and he was very disgusted by it. He felt that such a rumor was a kind of propaganda and hype by foreign suppliers, which would cause Aqishan to lose its original market position in Cistanche.
Although some people from the Academy of Agriculture and Forestry came out to question it later, and the matter was left alone, but he was concerned about the "annual Cistanche" in City X.
It was also because of this that when he heard that the boss of the Muya Forestry Company in charge of the "Annual Cistanche in X City" had an accident, he immediately published a "questionable" article.
Although Muya Forestry was not targeted by name, it is obvious who the "annual cistanche" mentioned in the article is referring to.
After publishing that article —
Liu Qiliang felt that with his right to speak in this industry, coupled with Chen Mu's news, the cistanche produced in City X should no longer be able to sell at a high price in the market.
Even after two or three years, the matter fades away, and the Cistanche in City X cannot be compared with Aqishan's Cistanche, Aqishan's Cistanche will always overwhelm them.
This is enough for Liu Qiliang.
But what he didn't expect was that in the past two days, he heard rumors in the market that people from Muya Forestry are trying their best to promote their Qiu Dayun, saying that it is of high quality, far better than the local Aqishan Qiu Dayun is better.
Liu Qiliang estimates from his own forest farm, and feels that the autumn harvest in the entire Aqishan area is not much better than the spring harvest.
More importantly, even if there is some harvest, the quality of this year's autumn dayun will be several levels lower than in previous years.
Gerbils eat the rhizomes of Haloxylon, and Haloxylon itself can't grow well, which will naturally affect the quality of Cistanche parasitic on it.
If the cistanche from City X is allowed to hit the market, those from the Aqishan area will definitely be inferior. In order to guarantee the brand of "Aqishan Desert Cistanche", Liu Qiliang gritted his teeth and wrote another article.
In the article, he directly named Muya Forestry and the annual Cistanche in City X, and also alluded to the Cistanche industry in Xinjiang and Qi Province. After all, Cistanche in Xinjiang and Qi Province is the biggest competitor of Cistanche in Aqishan.
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On the day Liu Qiliang posted the article, Liu Dahai knew about it.
After reading that article, only one word came out of Liu Dahai's heart: Fuck you.
This is completely groundless nonsense, and there is no science at all.
The previous article questioned at least from the nutritional value of Cistanche itself.
Now in this article, I will directly talk about impetuous people, hype and publicity, and finally come to the conclusion: fake!
Of course, although he was dissatisfied and his waist hurt from anger, Liu Dahai couldn't do anything about it.
After all, he has a mic in his hand, but he doesn't.
Therefore, he could only make a phone call to report the situation to Chen Mu, and then he worked harder to find friends and sell them.
"Brother Liu, it doesn't matter, you just need to relax. At worst, we will build a processing plant ourselves, produce and sell it ourselves, and it will definitely work."
Chen Mu comforted Liu Dahai on the phone.
He settled the accounts for Liu Dahai, built his own processing factory, and the products produced can digest a large part of the products just by Muya Tourism.
They can also put it on the Internet to sell, or if they can't, at most, they can be cheeky and ask Li Chenping to ask some supermarkets under the Xincheng Group to help them sell it, and they can digest it by themselves, so there is no need to worry.
After listening to Chen Mu's words, Liu Dahai was still angry, but he had some confidence and became calmer.
But calmness is calmness, but the market suddenly became very repulsed by the annual Cistanche in City X.
From the day Liu Qiliang's article appeared, Liu Dahai couldn't get even a little sales. Even some friends who had promised to help before called to cancel, which made Liu Dahai feel very frustrated.
This situation dragged on until the end of July, and it was not until the broadcast of one of the focus interview programs on China Central Air-Conditioning Television Station that a big reversal finally came...