part 1
When visiting Chiayi Dongshi, it is hard not to notice the relationship between it and Yu. Going to the village, there are a series of shackles and piles of clam shells everywhere on the road. The women who are dissecting are busy in the middle of the road. Turning to the temple, trucks come and go, and the ice-making factory that produces ice is not far away. As the sun sets, the plastic bottles are parked next to the embankment, and the sparkling distance is faintly visible. This is the largest distribution center in Taiwan, with the most complete production chain.
It is the time of Chinese food, but there is no one to eat in the sea. Said to be a seafood production, in fact, is the home of the boss Xu Huizhong. In the three-story building, the right side is the home palace, the middle is the office and the home, the left is the parking area, Xu Huizhong’s family is working inside, the wife is sitting on the bench, washing, two, three The young man with ice and packaging is his wife.
Earn money, occupational disease
"This is a long-term injury to the family (khipu-Ku, hunchback), and the roads are open and open." Xu Zhizhong has an endless example of occupational disease. Regardless of the cutting and packaging, the worker sits on the low bench for a few hours, and the bones tend to be stiff and deformed for a long time. Even when you go out to collect meat, the seemingly harmless scales are also hidden.
When the meat is poured onto the sieve, in order to avoid hurting the meat and draining it, someone has to hold a pot of three or forty pounds of meat on the knee. The other hand is "a handful" and "one." Put the meat in the sieve. This position has been going on for many years, "Kawasaki head (Kha-thing-thâu, ass) is close to picking up." Finally, the meat is lifted at one end of the scale, and the scale hammer is adjusted at the other end. Will fall, the scale loses its center of gravity, Xu Huizhong was hit in the eyes, almost thought to be smashed.
It’s hard work, “Let’s leave Hong Kong people, there is a way to look at the three.” This is his mantra. Xu Huizhong’s parents used to raise their cockroaches. The first thing to get up when they were young was to cut into sections. After they finished the training, they could go to school. Sometimes, in order to cope with the tides, they also got help from the sea at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. After Xu Zhongzhong grew up, he ran to Taipei and his uncle to make clothes. When the performance was good, he was more than 100,000 a month. When he was finished, the soldiers insisted that he should pick up the temple at home and touch his nose and come back. Dongshi is the largest oyster collection center in Taiwan. He worked for two years under other disc dealers and then established himself.
Credit first, no contract purchase
To be a dealer, there must be funds, and even more important is credit. A disc trader is involved in hundreds of people from the tenant farmers, absenteeism, and trade. Although the transaction amount has accumulated from hundreds to ten million yuan, few people have signed contracts.
"Is there a fake way to use it? If you die, you will be a salty person, what will you do?" The transaction is based on inquiries. If the dealer sees who the meat is of good quality, he will ask Whoever buys, the tenant will also observe the style of the dealer to determine the transaction target. The same is true of the major markets, and everyone is afraid that one day they will fall and get no money. "Some people are prepared to do five million to do it. Some of them are not enough. The credit is not good. Today, when the clams are brought back, they will ask for money."
Climate and supply and demand price
The value of the claim is not determined by the quality or the price of the place of origin but is adjusted according to market supply and demand. Taiwan's oysters are mainly concentrated in the coastal area of Yunjia South, and the three real estate seasons are just staggered. Yunjia received the September from the lunar calendar in May, blowing up the north wind and too much will be raised by Tainan. Tainan received the following May from the lunar calendar in September, and the south wind was replaced by Yunjia. The island is out of stock and is transferred from Wuhu.
The colder the oyster, the slower it is. The winter opens the shell, and the squats are thin and thin, about half the weight of summer. In recent years, the warm winter is better, only one third. But in the summer, the typhoon will bring the sheds to the light, sometimes only one-tenth of the output. Xu Huizhong believes that the rainfall also has an impact. The seawater is too salty and the clams are not fast, and the freshwater can't live. The growth rate is completely regulated by rain. For example, in the first half of this year, the rainfall was too small, and the clams were generally thin.
If the output is small, and there is a large demand in the peak season such as festivals or winter and summer vacations, the price is naturally high, but it will fall down when it is abundance, so that the oysters often show the anti-indicators that are thinner, more expensive, more fat and cheaper. The discs will talk to each other about the price and follow the price, but individual tenants have room for bargaining. "Otherwise, this cage will be bought back. If you don't open it, you know whether it is thin or fat."
If consumers go to the market to buy a clam, what choices do you have? Xu Huizhong said that the clams are not as white as possible. Too white is sometimes too much freshwater, and the clams eat too much water and become white. The shape can be observed, and it seems that one grain is fresher. The more clear the water in the bag, the more turbid it is.
"to be continued in the next part"