After having their fill of wine and food, the experts stayed in the VIP building. I was very satisfied with this meal, nothing too expensive. But the ingredients and drinks are all produced by ourselves, which is absolutely green and healthy.
And many of them are precious ingredients that are not available outside, and they taste very good. The level of the chef's work is very high.
In order to entertain the leaders and customers who came to inspect, Monkey specially asked Chef Du to introduce several good chefs in the industry to cook here.
When Chef Du heard this, he wondered how such a good thing could be made easier for outsiders. He has a large group of disciples and grandchildren.
The key is that they have ingredients that are not available outside, which is very important for some cuisines that cannot be passed down due to shortage of ingredients. He simply sent his close disciples and apprentices here, mainly because they would have the opportunity to practice here.
When his three senior brothers heard about this, they also came to the door and scolded the fourth brother for being unreasonable. How can you eat alone when you have such a good thing? Besides, many lineages also need to give their disciples opportunities to practice.
Chef Du had no choice but to find Monkey, and he got a dozen more people. Now, the chef of the VIP building has become a star.
This also resulted in the food in the VIP building being highly praised by the guests. They say it is no worse than the best in the country. Monkey has no plans to expand its business here. Golf courses and racecourses each have a membership limit of 1,000 people. A newly built racing track is also expected to have no more than 3,000 members.
Those who play horses are the top rich. The horses here in Yang Fan are good, and there are also many rich people from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East who come to order and foster horses. For a time, members were Arab oil princes, Russian financial oligarchs, and European and American bankers.
Therefore, not many people know this place, and it mainly entertains leaders, experts, customers, etc. who come to inspect it. The rest are just social resources for protection.
The next day, they spent a day playing in the factory area. Before leaving, Monkey and Sun Xing personally put the old experts in the car, and each gave them a piece of ham made from the black pig they produced last year. Plus a case of home-produced wine.
After seeing off the experts, the monkey said to Sun Xing mysteriously: "Mr. Sun, I have to go on a long trip. I will not be in the factory during this period, and my phone may be turned off. If you have anything, please wait until half a month to find me. .”
Sun Xing asked strangely: "Mr. Hou, why are you so mysterious?"
Huang Qiong also took the opportunity to act coquettishly and said, "Brother Monkey, are you hiding something from us?"
Several little girls also took the opportunity to act coquettishly and asked him what he was doing.
The monkey looked around and saw no one, and said: "It's nothing. Fanzi got some species that have been declared extinct in the Yangtze River. In fact, they are not extinct. We bought some from fishermen before. We secretly bred them, and now there are more of them." , intending to put it back into the Yangtze River."
Lin Miao immediately asked warily: "Brother Monkey, what species is it?"
He knew that Yang Fan had a lot of things going on. This little Mr. Yang was usually invisible, but occasionally he showed up. When he makes trouble, there is no small matter.
The monkey glanced at her and said, "Fanzi is afraid of trouble and doesn't want the media to know, so it's best to put them in secretly. They are Yangtze white sturgeon, white dolphin, and Yangtze shad."
Lin Miao gasped and said in shock: "What did you say? Say it again."
The monkey glared at her dissatisfiedly. He said, "What are you shouting for? You're afraid that no one will hear you."
"It's Yangtze paddlefish, Baiji dolphin, and Yangtze shad."
Sun Xing and others had no idea what these animals meant. They were all as dumb as ducks listening to thunder. Only Lin Miao knows how precious these things are.
The paddlefish is a fish of the genus Plutodonidae and the family Plutonidae. The body length is 2 to 3 meters, the weight is 200 to 300 kilograms, and the maximum body length can reach 7.5 meters. White sturgeon is a large carnivorous fish that lives in the Yangtze River and is unique to China.
The ancient Chinese paddlefish was called tuna. In spring, Shuojiang spawns. It is mainly produced in the trunk and tributaries of the Yangtze River in China from Yibin to the Yangtze River Estuary. It is also found in the Qiantang River and the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It is a rare and precious animal specializing in China. It is a national first-level wild protected animal and is known as the "Giant Panda in the Water".
According to news on January 2, 2020, the Yangtze River paddlefish failed to enter 2020 and was announced on December 23, 2019.
extinct. On the evening of July 21, 2022, the International Union for Conservation of Nature released a global species red catalog update report, declaring the paddlefish extinct.
It is believed that the dam blocked the Yangtze River paddlefish from migrating to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to spawn, leading to their extinction.
Any large-scale project has pros and cons, and there is no way around it. However, every species has been evolved by nature for tens of millions of years, and it is heartbreaking to be extinct at our hands.
Lin Miao asked: "Mr. Monkey, how many fry are you going to release?"
Monkey said: "We have prepared 100,000 fry. These fry will be released in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and then they will migrate to spawn when they grow up. Now the Yangtze River has been closed to fishing for two years. The aquatic environment is very friendly, and it is estimated that more than 5,000 fry will survive." "
Ma Xiaoxiao asked: "Brother Monkey, how do they migrate to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to lay eggs when they become adults?"
The monkey said: "If these fry can survive successfully, they will migrate back to the upper reaches of Chongqing to lay eggs in seven or eight years when they grow to two meters in length. At that time, they will gather in large numbers at the bottom of the dam and will be discovered. At that time We don’t need to worry about it. Experts and the fishery administration department will find ways to help them go upstream.”
The little girls all have stars in their eyes, which is really great. This work is so meaningful, they are all clamoring to follow.
The monkey was unable to beg, and said: "The release site is near Yangzhou, in a Linjiang compound we rent for a long time. If you want to see it, I will give you the time and place. You fly to Yangzhou, and then I will send a car. Pick you up. You don’t need to follow the transport truck, you don’t have to suffer that fate.”
Lin Miao immediately said: "Xingzi, let's arrange this activity for our team building in the first half of the year. How meaningful it is."
Sun Xing was also very tempted and said with some embarrassment: "Mr. Hou, I have caused trouble for you."
Monkey smiled and said, "We are all brothers, so don't worry about anything. If any of the anchovies die this time, I will treat you to steamed anchovies."
Seeing that Sun Xing and others don’t know what anchovies are. Lin Miao gave them a popular science guide: "Anchovies are the most precious fish among the three delicacies of the Yangtze River. Premier Zhou once invited Puyi and his wife to dinner, and Puyi's wife saw a steamed fish served without any scales. She hesitated for a while and did not dare to eat it. chopsticks."
Seeing several people looking at her attentively, she continued: "Pu Yi introduced him that this is anchovy, which is eaten with fish scales. It is an extremely precious dish."
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When everyone heard this, their mouths immediately dropped. That's Puyi. A man who has been an emperor has never tasted anything good, so he is really knowledgeable.
Lin Miao said leisurely: "In the Tang Dynasty, anchovies were a tribute. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yangtze River anchovies became a must-have dish at palace banquets. At that time, the supply was even insufficient. In 1998, the Yangtze River Basin finally One shad was caught, and no trace of the shad has been found since. The fish was flown to the capital that same day.”
Huang Qiong said, "That's not right. I remembered that at my high school class reunion last year, at a high-end hotel, they had steamed anchovies."
Lin Miao touched her head and said: "Our efforts in artificial breeding of shad have never stopped. However, the rewilding ended in failure. Later, my country introduced American shad, whose genes are 99% similar to Chinese shad. %. Therefore, the shad we see in the market are not actually Yangtze River shad. Although they look similar, their meat quality is much worse than that of Yangtze River shad. They are not the same thing at all."
