His soft-shelled turtles are very ferocious; once they bite, they will not let go. Ferocious soft-shelled turtles are hard to catch, attracting many tourists to jump into this mud pond. Five years ago, how to sell soft-shelled turtles gave him a headache. Relying on one clever trick, annual sales reached 40 million yuan. How did he win his turnaround battle in the mud pond?

In Fenshui Town, Chun'an County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, an thrilling competition is being held intensely. The contestants are all tourists visiting this town. The content of the competition is very simple: within the specified time (20 minutes), catch soft-shelled turtles in the mud pond. The one who catches the most wins!

Soft-shelled turtles are very ferocious, so be careful when catching them

Hey, do not think the soft-shelled turtles in this mud pond are so easy to catch. They are very ferocious. Someone finally caught one, but it struggled free with all its strength and fell back into the pond. These soft-shelled turtles look clumsy, but in fact they move very swiftly, and once they get the chance to bite down hard, they will not easily let go! Look, they even bite each other and will not let go! Seeing these soft-shelled turtles as fierce as tigers, the female contestant nearby began to tremble...

People say soft-shelled turtles are not fish, but he treats them as brothers

These soft-shelled turtles are so ferocious. Could it be that the whole pond is full of wild soft-shelled turtles? No, no! These are soft-shelled turtles raised under special supervision. Their owner is Zheng Tuanjian. Although we say he is the owner of these soft-shelled turtles, he himself does not say so. He says he is the brother of the soft-shelled turtles! Just because his name is Tuanjian, and the soft-shelled turtle is also called tuanyu, he believes he is destined to be tied to soft-shelled turtles, and he even calls them brothers.

His fate with these soft-shelled turtles dates back to 1998 (at that time the editor had not yet started elementary school). That year he graduated from Zhejiang Fisheries School, majoring in aquaculture. After returning to his hometown, he began raising soft-shelled turtles in greenhouses, and the small business was doing fairly well. However, ten years later, Zheng Tuanjian suddenly made a decision: he abandoned all the previous greenhouses and switched entirely to open-air farming!

Open-air farming is high-risk, and people are afraid even when they encounter "thieves"

It turned out that he discovered someone in the same industry was farming soft-shelled turtles in the open air, and the soft-shelled turtles sold were several times more than those he had raised in greenhouses before. Why not try this open-air farming himself and build his own brand? The returns would surely double as well. So when Zheng Tuanjian raised a new batch of soft-shelled turtles, he raised them in the open air from a young age, precisely to increase their wildness. But before long, Zheng Tuanjian discovered that problems with open-air farming had appeared. Within three months, he lost fifty or sixty thousand small soft-shelled turtles, and they disappeared mysteriously out of thin air.

Fifty or sixty thousand soft-shelled turtles quietly ran away? This seems unrealistic. After several days and nights of continuous observation, Zheng Tuanjian finally discovered that it was actually some water birds such as egrets and herons near the soft-shelled turtle farm that came to steal and eat them! After learning the truth, he began setting traps to catch the water birds. But after catching these "thieves," he was in a dilemma, because herons are national second-class protected animals, and killing them without authorization is illegal. There was no way out, so he had to release them and spend more money to set up an inescapable net over the soft-shelled turtle pond to prevent water birds from invading.

Find the right method before acting; one look and you know whether it works

Because they were raised in the open air from a young age, after natural selection, Zheng Tuanjian's soft-shelled turtles all became ferocious. But this was not enough. Later he discovered another trick that could make the soft-shelled turtles even more ferocious. He put 500 river mussels into each mu of soft-shelled turtle pond to raise them, intending to purify the water body and simulate a wild environment.

Besides river mussels, Zheng Tuanjian also raised some silver carp and bighead carp in the soft-shelled turtle pond. Because this kind of fish generally moves in the middle and upper layers of the water, they can feed on plankton formed after the decomposition of soft-shelled turtle feces, and they also contribute a lot to purifying water quality. The fry produced by this kind of fish can also serve as the best bait for soft-shelled turtles. Soft-shelled turtles that prey on fresh fish can double their wildness. With wildness, the meat quality of the soft-shelled turtles will also be firmer and lower in fat.

Since raising soft-shelled turtles in 1998, Zheng Tuanjian has dealt with these soft-shelled turtle brothers for 20 years. Although the road has not been smooth, he firmly believes that he must do this business, so he is also full of confidence about the future.

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