On September 10, 2009, an unforgettable day for many Xi'an citizens, 30 black Mercedes-Benz drove into Xianyang Airport, and all of them were Mercedes-Benz S600 and S500 million-dollar luxury cars.
Cai Guoqiang, a local underworld boss who had been in a shootout with the police, introduced a male Tibetan mastiff named "Yangtze River No. 2" from Yushuhua, Qinghai, for 4 million yuan, and quickly spread throughout the country in this way.
However, Cai Guoqiang, who bought this dog, is not a dog lover, the surface is all hobbies, behind is business, Cai Guoqiang is to rely on luxury cars to make a momentum, at that time Xi'an could not make up so many luxury cars of the same model, many cars were invited from Beijing and Tianjin.
Cai Guoqiang also publicized everywhere, the Tibetan mastiff "Yangtze River No. 2" worth 4 million yuan, settled in his Tibetan mastiff breeding base, and later frequently took his dog everywhere, after a lot of publicity, Cai Guoqiang's Tibetan mastiff can be up to tens of thousands of pieces at a time, and earn tens of millions every year by breeding alone.
You think that others are stupid with money and show off their wealth, and he laughs at your lack of heart and eyes to see through.
This kind of story happened from time to time in the vast land of China 10 years ago, a Tibetan mastiff shouted tens of millions at every turn, earning all the eyeballs, and the most expensive Tibetan mastiff even shouted 50 million, and at that time it was able to change a building in Beijing.
In the past, it was often said that the Tibetan mastiff was the king of dogs, and many people even called it a snowy mountain beast, and many people made their fortune by stir-frying the Tibetan mastiff, but in the past ten years, no one has blown this bubble anymore, and even sold tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Tibetan mastiffs at every turn, have become stray dogs in Tibetan areas.
Some news reports have reported that in Guoluo Prefecture, Qinghai, with a population of only 170,000, there are 74,000 stray dogs, most of them Tibetan mastiffs, who come out in groups to find food at night.
From the pursuit of thousands of people to the bottom, what has happened in the past 20 years?
In fact, as early as the Han Dynasty, Tibetan mastiffs began to be paid tribute to the imperial court, and the aristocratic class has always had the habit of raising Tibetan mastiffs, plus the Tibetan mastiff itself belongs to a plateau dog breed and is not adapted to low-altitude life, so it is extremely difficult to raise, and the scarcity of breeds also makes it a luxury that symbolizes status.
In the Qing Dynasty, the raising of Tibetan mastiffs came to the peak period, because the Manchus started with fishing and hunting, so they loved to raise falcons and hounds, and the brave Tibetan mastiffs were also their favorites, and the Italian missionary Lang Shining also once painted a "Picture of Ten Horse Dogs" for Qianlong's ten famous dogs, including a Tibetan mastiff named "Cangxi".
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to economic difficulties and shortage of food supply, several dog fighting campaigns were launched, which directly led to the basic extinction of purebred dogs in mainland China, especially Tibetan mastiffs, which eat more than people and have little use, will naturally not be raised.
For a long time, there were almost no Tibetan mastiffs in Tibet and outside Qinghai, and even no one knew its existence, and the earliest modern promotion of Tibetan mastiffs was actually Americans, as early as 1958, the king of Nepal gave a pair of Tibetan mastiffs as gifts to Eisenhower, then the President of the United States, which was the first time Americans saw Tibetan mastiffs, and later some Tibetan mastiffs came to the United States through Nepal and India.
With the rapid development of the economy of the United States at that time, many Americans highly respected this breed that was "as big as a donkey, galloping like a tiger, and roaring like a lion", and also gave the Tibetan mastiff a domineering name: a divine dog from the roof of the world.
By the 80s, the recovery of the US economy after the oil crisis, coupled with the long breeding of Tibetan mastiffs and the import and speculation of speculators, the number of Tibetan mastiffs in the United States was increasing, and the price was becoming more and more expensive. The gradual saturation of the market also opened the way for American businessmen to reverse export.
The first to introduce Tibetan mastiffs in the United States was Taiwanese Zhang Peihua, as a well-known traffic student at that time, Qiong Yao opera royal male advocate Peihua has liked dogs since childhood, when he first saw Tibetan mastiffs in New York in 1979, he was eye-opening, so he spent NT$1.2 million to buy a Tibetan mastiff from the United States.
This money can also buy a building in Taiwan at that time, and soon, Zhang Peihua's Tibetan mastiff was sought after in Taiwan, which was naturally inseparable from the two major social backgrounds of Taiwan at that time, on the one hand, economic development led to the consumption of luxury goods, on the other hand, martial arts novels were prevalent, and many people began to hype the concept of the Western Regions.
The popularity of Tibetan mastiffs in Taiwan has also brought new problems, high transportation costs for introduction, and a single pedigree. Therefore, many people think that if Tibetan mastiffs can be directly imported from the mainland, not only can the cost be reduced a lot, but they can also find Tibetan mastiffs with better quality.
Zhang Peihua has been to Tibet 21 times since 1988 to find purebred Tibetan mastiffs, and by the mid-to-late eighties, more Taiwanese came to the mainland to look for Tibetan mastiffs, helping the mainland to rediscover the ancient breed of Tibetan mastiffs.
In 1985, Fujian businessmen were entrusted by Taiwanese businessmen to find Wang Zhankui, who was later known as the "father of Tibetan mastiffs" in Henan, as one of the earliest individuals in China to set up a dog factory, when Fujian businessmen came to the door with photos of Tibetan mastiffs, Wang Zhankui himself had never seen this kind of dog, originally Wang Zhankui just felt fresh, but later Fujianese told him that a Tibetan mastiff can be sold for 200,000 in Taiwan, which instantly ignited Wang Zhankui's interest.
At that time, the per capita income of cities and towns across the country was only 1,300 yuan, and 10,000 yuan households were rich people in ten miles and eight townships, and if there were more than 200,000, they might not be able to spend it in a lifetime.
So Wang Zhankui excitedly left the contact information of the other party and started his dog hunting career, and later the kung fu paid off, and a labor prisoner who returned from the northwest brought such a dog and ran around pulling a millstone in his own countryside.
Wang Zhankui knew that this was the Tibetan mastiff he was looking for, and the other party also told him that this dog came from Tibetan areas, and in the spring of 1986, with a contract signed with Fujian businessmen, Wang Zhankui entered Tibetan areas for the first time to look for Tibetan mastiffs, and he bartered with Tibetans in exchange for 23 Tibetan mastiffs, he left 5 Tibetan mastiffs to breed, and the remaining 18 were transported to Fujian and smuggled to Taiwan.
On average, each Tibetan mastiff sold 7,000 yuan, Wang Zhankui earned more than 120,000 yuan, in the 80s when 10,000 yuan households could be in the newspaper, Wang Zhankui became a 100,000 yuan household, and later he went to Tibet, Qinghai and other places to find purebred Tibetan mastiffs, because the mainland market was not yet open at that time, he sold most of the Tibetan mastiffs to Taiwan.
But this kind of business soon came to an end, in 1990, the old thief Hui became a regional leader, cross-strait relations became increasingly tense, smuggling to the other side of the business naturally became more and more difficult to do, and at the same time more and more people ate this bowl of rice, from 7,000 yuan a piece at the beginning, to the early 90s can only sell for 500 yuan.
The Tibetan mastiff's huge food intake quickly ate Wang Zhankui, and at the worst time, he even had to owe two yuan with the store to buy something.
In 1998, under the guidance of a master, the desperate Wang Zhankui began to look for help from the media and told the "Dahe News" about his various experiences in Tibetan areas with mixed truths, and wrote an article "Thousands of Miles in Search of Tibetan Mastiffs in the Central Plains Listening to the Roar", in which Wang Zhankui established himself as a dog lover who has been obsessed with animals since he was a child and posted funds to save Tibetan Mastiffs.
At the same time, the Tibetan mastiff was widely hyped as a "unique to China" dog breed, and the status of the Tibetan mastiff was equivalent to the national treasure giant panda, and under the crazy reports of more than 20 media, Wang Zhankui turned into a righteous man who saved China's ancient dog breed.
Because the transportation and communication were not developed at that time, many people were very curious about the Tibetan mastiff, but they could not distinguish the authenticity of the information, so that the Tibetan mastiff quickly became popular throughout the country, and people from all over the country came to find Wang Zhankui to buy a dog.
In 98, a Tibetan mastiff with good quality could be sold for 10,000 yuan, and in 99, a Tibetan mastiff cub with the same quality soared to 50,000 yuan, and the Beijing Tiantongyuan opened that year only sold for about 1,000 yuan per square meter.
At that time, there was also a popular proverb in Shanghai, what kind of people are most proud: buy a house, find a wife, have a son, buy a car, raise a Tibetan mastiff.
Under Wang Zhankui's intentional or unintentional operation, the Tibetan mastiff was thus hyped, and the Tibetan mastiff economy began to explode, and the Tibetan mastiff after that also experienced a golden period of only ten years.
Before 2005, although Tibetan mastiffs were very expensive, Wang Zhankui's good quality Tibetan mastiffs were sold for up to 180,000, generally tens of thousands of pieces, and after 05, the price of Tibetan mastiffs rose rapidly, often selling for millions or even tens of millions.
Because a 61-year-old comrade sneaked up on the Tibetan mastiff industry and seized the position of the first speculator, he is the famous "long-distance running cancer" Ma Junren, after poisoning the long-distance running world, he set his sights on the Tibetan mastiff, as we all know, Ma Junren's biggest specialty lies in creating momentum and bragging, he once said that his athletes can easily break the world record, the original words are Aunt Sauce's: what the lock is broken, the lock is broken whoever breaks.
After the doping incident, he began to look for entrepreneurial projects, he found that foreign rich people especially like Tibetan mastiffs, especially Tibetan mastiffs have accumulated a certain understanding in China, the market space is still huge, so he began to do Tibetan mastiff breeding gardens, summing up Comrade Ma Junren in one sentence, that is, steel pipe barrel frogs, is really top croak.
It only took three axes to stir up the Tibetan mastiff, first putting on a nationalist big green hat for the Tibetan mastiff, saying that he was not short of money to raise Tibetan mastiffs, because Chinese dogs have no status in the world dog industry, can not let foreigners look down on, and want to export Tibetan mastiffs to earn foreign exchange for the country.
Subsequently, he began to emphasize the scarcity of Tibetan mastiffs, saying that it was a symbol of status, a real oriental divine dog, and its combat ability was bursting, "one mastiff fights three tigers, three mastiffs sink aircraft carriers, five mastiffs fight God, ten mastiffs Genesis".
The last is to set up an official association, hold various activities, and endorse the high price of Tibetan mastiffs, Ma Junren clearly knows that everything in China must have an official endorsement, so he founded the Chinese Tibetan Mastiff Association out of his own pocket and personally served as the chairman.
As a former Chinese gold medal champion coach, deputy director of the provincial sports committee, proper deputy department-level cadre, although there are stains on his body, but the fame and connections are still there, after getting the identity of the chairman of the association, he said everywhere to leaders at all levels and dog breeders, your dog is worth 5 million.
At that time, many people were laymen, everyone saw Ma Junren a chairman of the Chinese Tibetan Mastiff Association, all said that their dogs were worth five million, who was not willing to sell more money, so they pulled their throats and shouted upward, although the style of play is very dirty, but Ma Junren, as a master of creating momentum, knows the way.
In 2005, he took 30 Tibetan mastiffs to participate in China's first Tibetan Mastiff Expo hosted by himself, his Tibetan Mastiff Little Prince, shouted 40 million, it is said that someone on the scene came out of 20 million, he did not sell, shocked everyone present.
Although the little prince failed to sell at a sky-high price of 20 million yuan in the end, the little prince's son Little Prince actually sold 1.8 million yuan.
However, the real benefit of Tibetan mastiffs is not to sell dogs, but to breed, the breeding price of the Tibetan mastiff breeding male in Ma Junren's hands has also risen to hundreds of thousands once, the breeding male can be matched twice a day morning and evening, and if it is not worthy, it will not be returned, and some breeding males can match thousands of female mastiffs in a season, and earn tens of millions a year with the breeding fee alone.
Later, it was more exaggerated, in order to improve the efficiency of making money, but also to make the seed gong not overworked, people began to do artificial insemination, a seed male semen can be divided into ten parts, one stir-fry to 200,000, that is, if calculated according to twice a day, then the owner of the seed male can earn at least three or four million a day, the efficiency is comparable to a money printing machine.
A large amount of capital began to enter the market, under the momentum of various speculators, the price of Tibetan mastiffs is getting higher and higher, in 2007 a "mastiff king" settled in Wuhan for 3.9 million yuan, in 2010 a Tibetan mastiff named "the Emperor" in Zibo, Shandong Province sold for 10 million yuan, in 2011 at a Tibetan mastiff exhibition in Beijing, a Tibetan mastiff from Qingdao was priced at 30 million.
But the real transaction price of Tibetan mastiffs cannot be tens of millions, and these Tibetan mastiff farms claim to have a transaction price of hundreds of millions, but the prices are all false and are used to create momentum.
Because only in this way will someone come to buy a dog, willing to pay sky-high breeding fees, the craziest time, in order to increase the breeding rate, the owner of the female mastiff will ask someone to help the dog when mating, but it also costs 2,000 pieces to support one.
In order to make the Tibetan mastiff bigger, some places directly give the puppy a bib, do not allow eating, directly pour liquid milk residue, adult weight can be poured from more than 100 pounds to more than 200 pounds, looks very powerful, but because of the liquid food from childhood, these Tibetan mastiffs will not even eat, and some people in order to make the Tibetan mastiff look more majestic and powerful, directly inject silicone water on the legs and face of the Tibetan mastiff.
As the saying goes, let you perish first make you crazy, under this chaos, the Tibetan mastiff bubble quickly burst, in 2013, the Tibetan mastiff market began to collapse, this year tens of thousands of Tibetan mastiff farms collapsed, most Tibetan mastiff prices plummeted to several thousand yuan.
After the bubble burst, naturally left a field of chicken feathers, many abandoned Tibetan mastiffs in the interior were directly treated as meat dogs, or dealt with by professionals, did not cause much social problems, but in Tibetan areas Tibetan mastiffs have caused great damage to the local area, on the one hand, the number of Tibetan mastiffs itself is very large, plus the return of Tibetan mastiffs to nature will release nature and can breed wantonly.
In Lhasa alone, tens of thousands of new stray dogs are added every year, and there are countless other places, and these stray dogs gathered together not only spread rabies, hydatid disease, but also often cause injuries, and also besiege precious wild animals such as snow leopards, which seriously damage the local ecological environment.
Capital speculation has left a lot of chicken feathers, which not only brought huge trouble to the people in Tibetan areas, but also the stray dogs in Tibetan areas have endured unimaginable pain, and in the areas of Tibet, where the overall wealth is not abundant, lack of food, pain, and competition for territory have become the fundamental needs for survival.
A Tibetan once said that Tibetan dogs are suffering greatly, and I hope that everyone will treat them with compassion and compassion, which is my hope when I am alive and my last words when I die.
Those who hype Tibetan mastiffs have never taken the life of the dog to heart, in their eyes the dog is just a profit tool, their life is not important, death is not important, bitterness and happiness have nothing to do with themselves, only making money is the most important.
Today's capital does not fry Tibetan mastiffs, but you never know what will be fried tomorrow, although we know that it is difficult for us to change the direction of water, but I hope that the world can get better and get rid of the control of capital.
Just like the dilemma we face right now.