The young man's name is Li Wenjun, and he is the director of this fox farm. He has been engaged in fox farming and fur sales for only four years. But now, his farm has developed into a large fox farm with more than 4,000 adult foxes and an annual output value of more than 3 million yuan. He has also become one of the best fox breeders in Liaoning Province.
Li Wenjun is from Jinzhou District, Dalian. He graduated from Dalian University of Technology, majoring in real estate. So, how did he get hooked on these foxes and love aquaculture?
Li Wenjun was a restless student when he was in college. When other students fully enjoy the colorful campus life, he always thinks about how to make money in his spare time. In the fourth year of college, Li Wenjun borrowed money from his parents to open an Internet cafe.
Li Wenjun: "I often go to Internet cafes at school. I thought this thing was quite profitable, so I did it.
Yang Cui, a college classmate in Li Wenjun: Before I graduated, I just thought it might be cheaper to go to his Internet cafe. "
Li Wenjun employs people to be in charge of management, and the business of Internet cafes is booming, earning 40,000 to 50,000 yuan a year. Try a little and succeed. It is right to learn to make money, and he has become the envy of his classmates.
Graduated from Li Wenjun University in 2000. At this time, there are more and more internet cafes in Dalian, and the profits are getting less and less, so the business of internet cafes can't go on. Li Wenjun is unwilling to look for a job. He still wants to start his own business as a boss.
Li Wenjun: "When I opened an Internet cafe, it was easier to get money. I'm still working. What am I doing? At this time, I am a little arrogant. "
Li Wenjun's father Li said, "After all, you have little experience. If you go into the sea, after all, you say that you are in the sea and you can't swim, then where can you do it? "
As it happens, a friend of my father is in the fox feed business. Seeing that his son insisted on not taking part in the work, his father decided to let Li Wenjun sell fox feed, which was a tiring and dirty job. The father wanted his son to experience the hardships of doing business, and took the opportunity to give up Li Wenjun's idea of starting a business.
Li Wenjun's father, Li, is a cadre of Jinzhou Science and Technology Bureau. In order to study and popularize the artificial breeding technology of foxes, 16 years ago, he and his wife raised foxes at home, and now it has grown to more than 300. It is convenient for research and promotion, and it can also earn nearly 654.38+10,000 yuan every year. But Li Wenjun never cared about his father raising foxes.
Li Wenjun: "I always said that I looked down on this thing and thought the fox was dirty."
Li Wenjun's father Li: "He is very unhappy. I made him do it. "
Li Wenjun tried his best to sell feed. In just one year, he not only opened the market, but also earned more than 65,438 yuan. At this time, his desire to start a business was even stronger. Li Wenjun offered to raise foxes himself. My son's attitude towards the fox took a 180 turn, and my father's mind couldn't turn around for a while. What he can't tolerate is that his son has to be his main business.
Li Wenjun's father, Li, said, "I also hope that he will be a national civil servant, and it will be a little glorious when he gets there in an upright manner. How did this industry do it, so I was very angry at the time. I used violent means against him. "
Li Wenjun didn't keep foxes on impulse. During the year of promoting fox feed, he made a full investigation on fox breeding and market situation.
Li Wenjun: "At that time, I went to many places, went to the Forestry University to talk about these things with professors, then went to other scale farms, and then went to the fur market. I went to Chongfu, Zhejiang, and studied in Hebei. Therefore, after reading it all, I am quite confident about the market prospect of this thing. "
At this time, even Dapeng, a college classmate in Li Wenjun, wanted to start his own business, but he never found a suitable project. Li Wenjun's analysis of fox breeding prospects aroused Lian Dapeng's interest. The two hit it off and decided to raise a fox in partnership.
In the summer of 2002, Li Wenjun and Lian Dapeng raised funds everywhere and each invested 600,000 yuan. They rented 20 mu of land from Yingzhen, Jinzhou District, and raised 700 foxes.
Lian Dapeng, a college classmate in Li Wenjun, said, "We have a farm in the countryside, and I am proud of it. After all, it is also a career. "
Li Wenjun's girlfriend Han Fang also quit her job as a museum lecturer and went to the countryside to help Li Wenjun start his career. Li Wenjun chose to keep foxes, but his father was reluctant. Now, his girlfriend has resigned, which makes Li Wenjun's father even more angry.
Li Wenjun's father Li said, "I am very angry. I'm not talking about 100 jobs that many girls yearn for. It is a job that more than 1000 girls yearn for. You quit. "
Li Wenjun: "When I say I want to do it anyway, I will do it as a career, not as a sideline. It must have a high starting point, which is different from ordinary people. "
Dalian has always had a tradition of breeding foxes, but the farmers are scattered, and foxes are peeled and sold to fur traders who come to the village to buy them. Farmers do not understand the external market and are often maliciously depressed by fur traders.
Sun Chao, a fox-keeper, said, "The ox came here to press, and the ox came here to press. After the pressure has passed, the price of this leather has been rising. "
In the spring of 2003, Li Wenjun, who had just been breeding foxes for one year, decided to set up a breeding association.
Li Wenjun: "I hope the association can unite these farmers, let the association develop and benefit this farmer."
Sun Chao, a fox keeper, said, "At that time, we can sell foxes at a good price, which is especially helpful to the people.
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Setting up an association to raise the price of hides is something that everyone supports, but farmers hope to get cash from selling hides. That winter, during the skinning season, Li Wenjun bought the fox skins of the member farmers in cash. He was dumbfounded when he took the fox skin to the southern fur market. The price of fox fur on the market is even lower than that of its own acquisition.
Li Wenjun: "This market is hard to grasp. After I received it, the market has been falling in price these two days. "
Li Wenjun's wife, Han Fang: "You can't put the skin on your hand, because it's all about money. No way, you can buy it cheaply. "
Li Wenjun: "I have to pay for this loss myself."
The market has changed, and Li Wenjun, who thought he could make money by the strength of the association, suddenly lost more than 500,000 yuan. At this time, his partner Lian Dapeng proposed to quit.
Partner Lian Dapeng: "If the family's funds can't turn around, I will say quit."
Li Wenjun: "My friend said something happened at home and needed to take some money home."
Selling leather lost more than 500,000 yuan, and the partners have to withdraw their funds, which is undoubtedly worse for Li Wenjun. In order to pay off his friend's investment, Li Wenjun borrowed money from the bank and disposed of the fox at a low price in advance.
Sun Chao, a fox keeper, said, "At first, in order to repay his share capital, he put the fox skin. Sell at a reduced price. If you wait another month or two, the price may increase. "
At this time, the farm has just bred more than 2,000 foxes, and it is difficult for Li Wenjun to eat with his mouth open every day.
Li Wenjun: "Basically, one word is money, that is, raising money everywhere."
In desperation, Li Wenjun sold the new house in the city that his parents prepared for his marriage.
Li Wenjun's wife, Han Fang: "There is no way. We've come this far. We can't give up halfway. If we want to do it, we must stick to it. "
With the money raised, Li Wenjun expanded the number of foxes to 4,000. With the painstaking efforts of him and his wife, the farm has formed a certain scale.
In August, 2004, relying on the strength of fox breeding and foreign language advantages, Li Wenjun got the opportunity to study in Finland organized by Northeast Forestry University. Li Wenjun was deeply touched by this trip to Finland.
Li Wenjun: "broaden your horizons, that is to say, you have seen what it is like to really raise a fox."
Li Wenjun's father Li: "When he came back, he said that the fox could not be kept. What happened to foreign foxes? "
After returning to China, Li Wenjun put forward a new concept of fox breeding that was refreshing and even incomprehensible to domestic farmers.
Li Wenjun: "My main feeling is that the domestic feed is not good and I don't want to invest. We want to make this thing into something with high input and high output. "
Feeding foxes with corn, soybean meal and other raw materials is a traditional feeding method in China. Li Wenjun prepared feed with complete feed, chicken soup and fresh fish. Ordinary farmers don't understand this kind of investment, and they are even more unwilling. But look at fox skin, the difference between them is a world of difference.
Li Wenjun: "Leather like this is up to standard. The size, color and length of hair meet the standards. Such a piece of skin is now more than 500 yuan. This kind of leather is now more than 400 yuan. The same foxes also need to eat feed, and this is the gap between them. The cost of feed, this fox will not grow up to be 50 yuan more than this fox. You said that raising this may cost 50 more, but its income will increase 100. "
High input and high output is a new word for local farmers. Then, Li Wenjun put forward a breeding concept that everyone had never heard of-elimination system. Let farmers who regard foxes as treasures destroy foxes, which is undoubtedly to dig their hearts, but Li Wenjun has his reasons.
Li Wenjun: "If you find something wrong with it, give it an injection. Just like people, the more treatment, the more treatment. And the disease is contagious, and it is contagious, contagious. Because of this fox, you can't bear to part with these hundreds of dollars. You infected all the local foxes with this disease. Cure a fox 20 cure a fox 20, you might as well get rid of it at the beginning. "
Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. Introducing the elimination system into fox breeding not only ensures the quality of imported foxes, but also helps Li Wenjun achieve a new breakthrough in fox breeding-cultivating pure foxes.
Li Wenjun: "I want to carry this gene, the original seed of Finland, from generation to generation, and strive to cultivate my own purebred, so in this long process, you are constantly eliminated. There is nothing false about science. You can't cultivate your purity, you can only spend this high price every year to buy Finnish foxes. "
Sun Chao: "When we import this kind of fox in Finland, it needs 3,500 yuan and 4,000 yuan. If we really cultivate ourselves, it will cost us two or three thousand dollars, and we will lose sperm cheaply. "
Now, Li Wenjun has bred pure foxes by himself, and has always followed the principle of high input and high output in the process of breeding. His foxes are not only numerous, but also of high quality. Fox farmers and fur traders from all over the country came here.
Liang Chuanqiang, a fox farmer in Shandong, said, "I came from Weihai to catch a male fox and go back to be a male fox for artificial insemination."
Huang, a fur dealer, said: "Their fur is first-class in southern Liaoning."
Farmer Sun Chao: "Individual farming can raise so many, that is to say, there may be few in the country."
Seeing his son's career getting better and better, his father Li showed a satisfied smile and often came to the farm in Li Wenjun to help.
Li Wenjun's father Li: "In retrospect, these things were ahead of schedule, so I basically began to support him later."
Li Wenjun has become a father, too. Looking at his lively and lovely son, he realized more and more his father's good intentions for his ambition.