Preface
As one of the "four pests", cockroaches can be said to be a very headache, if you find its whereabouts at home, you will definitely try to eliminate it.
But the cockroach is a thing, not only is it difficult to be hit when it runs fast, but even if its head is cut off, it will not die immediately, so the cockroach is also called "Xiaoqiang who can't be killed".
But this kind of thing that people hate is loved as a "baby", and they are willing to give up the "iron rice bowl" of civil servants, and raise cockroaches on the mountains alone with the eyes of not being recognized and understood.
He is Li Yanrong from Zhangqiu District, Shandong Province, and has been doing it for ten years, and now he is worth hundreds of millions of dollars by breeding cockroaches.
So how did Li Yanrong turn cockroaches into treasure? How did you get on this different Kangqiao Avenue?
Origin with cockroaches
Li Yanrong's encounter with the cockroach was all accidental.
Li Yanrong has a never-say-die perseverance since he was a child, no matter what he does, he will do his best, and he eventually became a civil servant in a pharmaceutical company with his own efforts.
At that time, this job was a proper "iron rice bowl", which many people could not envy, and Li Yanrong was also very satisfied with this stable job, and he worked hard every day and never slackened.
It is said that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared, and his excellent performance was quickly appreciated by the leadership, and it didn't take long to get the opportunity for promotion and salary increase.
If there is no accident, Li Yanrong's life will be spent in peace and quiet, but an accident came and broke his ordinary life.
Once when he came home from work, Li Yanrong found that his daughter was watching a movie about cockroaches at home, and he had nothing to do, so he sat next to his daughter and watched it with her.
But looking at it, Li Yanrong couldn't sit still, what he didn't expect was that this seemingly useless bug that everyone shouted at us could help us solve kitchen waste.
You know, kitchen waste is the most difficult to clean up, in addition to secondary recycling, the only thing left is to dig pits and bury, but in doing so, not only pollute the air, but also waste land.
And this little cockroach can easily solve this problem that has plagued us for a long time, and it has brought us such a big help, which is really "insects cannot be seen".
After watching the film, Li Yanrong was deeply touched by this, and wanted to re-acquaint himself with this insect and change his previous views on it.
I don't know if I don't check it, and I'm shocked when I check it.
Cockroaches have strong medicinal value and are the nemesis of some cancers, which have been recorded in the Pharmacopoeia and the Compendium of Materia Medica.
It can not only solve the problem of decomposing kitchen waste, but also use medicine to treat diseases. So since it can benefit mankind, can it maximize its capabilities?
Thinking of this, Li Yanrong put this idea into action, directly purchased a batch of experimental products, raised them, and the final result was not bad as he expected, and the success of this experiment confirmed to him that his idea was feasible.
So, despite the opposition of his family, he resolutely resigned from his job as a civil servant and devoted himself to a new field.
A tortuous entrepreneurial road
How can the road of entrepreneurship be so easy to pass, you have to go through the "ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulty" to reach the end, no, Li Yanrong's new challenge has quietly come.
Cockroach food is kitchen waste, the smell is relatively big, seeing that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the smell of home is unbearable, in desperation, Li Yanrong turned around and went to the mountain to choose a land as a breeding base.
Back then, Li Yanrong was the first person to eat crabs, although no one would join him to seize the market, but there was no information for him to learn from.
This also led to Li Yanrong's early days, but he really suffered a lot, because cockroaches like the warm, humid place, in order to make his "babies" live comfortably, Li Yanrong wasted most of his time on demolishing houses and building houses.
When his friends saw this scene, they were all persuading him to give up, don't waste his energy, it's better to stop losses in time than to empty the bamboo basket, but Li Yanrong's unyielding momentum since childhood came up again.
Opportunities are always fleeting, but fortunately, Li Yanrong successfully seized it.
With his unremitting efforts, he finally built a house of more than 100 square meters, in which more than 4 million aborigines lived, and his work gradually began to get on the right track.
Although he had previously learned that cockroaches were rich in protein, Li Yanrong did not know how much protein was contained in the cockroaches he farmed.
To do this, he grinded the cockroach carcass into powder after a series of processing, and finally brought it to the research institute, where he was finally told that there was no problem with using cockroaches as protein feed.
Although this result had long been within his expectations, Li Yanrong still raised chickens himself to do the experiment just in case.
When he took it for sale, his business was extremely hot, because every chicken he raised was shiny and very popular.
However, soon there was trouble to find him, that is, the manual efficiency was too slow, in this case, it was far from the result he had imagined at the beginning, in order to increase efficiency, Li Yanrong replaced the equipment with a fully automatic one.
But although the efficiency has gone up, the rations of the cockroaches are not in a hurry, which makes Li Yanrong sad, although there are countless restaurants of all sizes in Zhangqiu District, they are all widely scattered.
Trying to gather all the kitchen waste in a short period of time is not something that a small person like him can do.
Fortunately, at this time, someone told him that he could go directly to the people from the Environmental Sanitation Protection Center, and they must have a way to solve your trouble, so Li Yanrong hurried to the Health Protection Center again.
The person in charge of environmental sanitation was happy after hearing his intention, you know, Zhangqiu will produce 40 tons of kitchen waste every day, a day or two is good to say, but after a long time, this work has become a hot potato.
At present, there is a "wronged boss" who is willing to solve this problem for him, and the person in charge has set the matter down, and things are going smoothly, because both sides are afraid that the other party will regret it.
From that day on, Li Yanrong's most troublesome problem was successfully solved, not only to solve problems for the country, but also to receive state subsidies and subsidies, such a "zero-cost entrepreneurship" opportunity is really rare and unavoidable.
With cockroaches, he has a net worth of hundreds of millions
Although he is doing a good deed, not everyone can accept the existence of cockroaches, in order to give the surrounding villagers a reassuring injection, Li Yanrong made his cockroach base dense and unventilated, and made a lot of protective measures around.
In the end, a canal was dug around the base as a last line of defense, and a lot of cockroach-eating carp were placed inside.
Each of these carps grows larger than the rest of the country because of the small stoves that open from time to time, and when the time comes, these carps will be another income.
In order not to affect the waste of land, Li Yanrong planted some vegetables in the upper layer of cockroach breeding, so that the cockroach breeding was realized and an additional income was added.
Li Yanrong's career began to develop steadily, and those who once looked down on him and questioned him also invested in breeding cockroaches with him, and his reputation gradually became well-known to the public.
Many people have changed their views on cockroaches, and even gave Li Yanrong the title of "Mr. Cockroach".
In 2019, Li Yanrong cultivated 1 billion cockroaches in only 8 years and collected 50 tons of kitchen waste in Zhangqiu District alone.
Today's Li Yanrong has successfully gained a net worth of hundreds of millions with his unique vision and desperate courage.
In Li's plan, he will continue to breed cockroaches and strive to expand the number to 2 billion, so that he can eat 100 tons of kitchen waste every day.
This is only one factory that can do, and he plans to build two such factories, so that he can eliminate one-third of the food waste produced in Jinan in a day.
epilogue
Cockroaches have always lived in a harsh environment, but the hometown of bacteria and viruses is still living unharmed, even if they are accidentally infected by diseased cells, they are still alive and well.
Even CCTV has said that the medicine made of cockroaches has a special effect on women's internal bleeding!
It's really a big world, and there are no surprises.
I can't imagine that a small cockroach can bring us so many surprises, and I hope that we can continue to dig out other uses of cockroaches in the future.
Sources of information in this article:
[1] People's Daily, 2018-04-28. The man quit his job to raise 300 million cockroaches and can process 15 tons of food waste every day
[2] CCTV,2020-08-26. The annoying insects of "The Book of Getting Rich" make money
[3] Xinhuanet, 2018-09-21. "Mr. Cockroach" Taming of Insects