Jingwei . Jingwei was originally a man who was swallowed by the sea while playing on the beach. She especially hated the sea. After her unfortunate death, she turned into , a Jingwei bird, , and kept throwing stones into the sea, trying to fill it up.
This is a very old legend, but in real life, some people really keep throwing stones into the sea.
This person's name is Li Bolin, from Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, Northeast China. He started throwing stones into the sea in 2007, and successively lost 1.58 million tons, costing hundreds of millions of yuan. Why did he do this?
1. The rich second generation starts a business and easily obtains tens of millions of wealth
Li Bolin threw stones into the sea, not because he hated the sea, but because he wanted to use the sea to make money. At that time, many people said that Li Bolin was stupid and had too much money, and they were all waiting to see his jokes. How is he doing now?
It is reported that Li Bolin not only recovered his costs, but also earns 50 million per year, which is particularly enviable. How does he make money from the sea? It starts with his family background.
Li Bolin was born in the 1980s. His father, Li Zhigang, was a wealthy businessman. Li Bolin has lived a life of fine clothing and food since he was born, and has never worried about money.
Generally speaking, second-generation rich people like Li Bolin are particularly prone to squandering money and may even embark on the wrong path, but Li Bolin has not fallen.
Li Bolin has known since he was a child that although his parents have a lot of money, the money is not brought by the strong wind, but hard earned by the parents. He cherishes the fruits of his parents' labor and has been working hard to learn from them.
During his school days, Li Bolin studied hard and his grades were relatively good. He was also admitted to a relatively famous university.
When Li Bolin was in college, his parents were still in business, and their wealth increased as they seized some good opportunities.
When Li Bolin graduated, his family's assets exceeded 100 million yuan. Li Bolin was the only son in his family, and all the hard-earned money from his parents was left to him. Even if he did nothing, he could live a comfortable life.
But he did not choose to lie down, but chose to start a business and work hard. He knows very well that if a person just eats and waits for death, even if he is sitting on a mountain of gold and silver, he will spend it all one day.
Li Bolin does not want to rely on the protection of his parents, but wants to work hard on his own. His father recognized his fighting spirit and provided him with a large sum of money as start-up capital.
When Li Bolin was preparing to start a business, the stock market was doing very well, but he felt that playing finance was just a numbers game and it was better to use money to do business.
After careful research, Li Bolin finally chose the real estate industry. In 2003, Li Bolin took on a real estate project with his friends in Qinhuangdao.
After three years of hard work, 27-year-old Li Bolin earned more than 20 million through real estate projects. There is a lot of money in . Ordinary people may not be able to earn so much money in a lifetime of hard work, but Li Bolin is not complacent. He wants to continue to struggle and try to achieve greater success.
After he tasted the benefits of real estate projects, he originally wanted to continue to work in the real estate industry, but something happened that made him change his mind.
His father Li Zhigang went to the hospital for a checkup because he was feeling unwell. The report results showed that Li Bolin's father's physical indicators were abnormal.
The doctor suggested to Li Zhigang that your physical condition is very bad and you should not overwork yourself. It is best to rest for a while.
Li Zhigang felt that the doctor's advice made sense, so he put down the work at hand and handed over the company to others to take care of. He himself went to Qinhuangdao for a leisurely vacation.
At this time, Li Bolin was still engaged in real estate in Qinhuangdao. He was quite surprised by his father's arrival, but he was not overly nervous because he already had his own business and could be considered independent.
His father knew that Li Bolin was extremely busy with work, so he did not ask him to accompany him exclusively and rent a boat to go fishing alone.
Li Zhigang has been traveling around for many years. He has been working hard and rarely has any leisure time. This boat rental trip is a relatively rare life experience for him. He was very happy. He caught a lot of fish and shrimps along the way, and also caught some quite large crabs.
The captain smiled and explained to Li Zhigang, There are not only fish and shrimps here, but also many sea cucumbers, which are specially put in by others, but there is no need to feed them, the sea cucumbers will grow slowly in the sea, and they can be fished out after a while. It's really a good business to come and exchange money.
After returning, Li Zhigang shared his fishing experience with his son and happened to mention raising sea cucumbers.
It is not a secret to put sea cucumbers into the sea. Many people know it, but there are only fewer people willing to do it. Everyone thinks that raising sea cucumbers in the sea is relatively risky and difficult to control the effects, so they would rather do something safer.
Li Bolin used to travel around doing business. He knew that there were people in Shandong and Liaoning who were raising sea cucumbers, but he did not expect that there were people in Qinhuangdao doing such things.
He originally didn’t have much interest in raising sea cucumbers. This time when his father talked about it, he suddenly became interested and thought of raising sea cucumbers instead.
2. Lease tens of thousands of acres of sea area and throw a lot of stones into the sea
It happened to be a coincidence that Li Bolin received a message just as he had the idea of raising sea cucumbers. In order to develop its economy, Funing County in Hebei Province has put aside more than 10,000 acres of sea area for public leasing. After the news came out, it attracted the attention of many people, and Li Bolin was one of them.
He thought this was a good opportunity and immediately participated in the rental project in Funing County. There were many people competing, but Li Bolin did not back down. After competing at all levels, finally rented more than 10,000 acres of sea area in Funing County for 8 million yuan. The lease period is 30 years.
On average, the number is more than 200,000 per year. This amount of money is a lot for ordinary people, but for rich people like Li Bolin, this price is actually not high. After Li Bolin succeeded in bidding, many people felt that he was wasting his money.
To raise sea cucumbers, you need to put some rocks into the sea to facilitate the sea cucumbers to cling to. When others raise sea cucumbers, they usually choose shallow water areas. The fluidity of the sea water is not particularly strong. Only a small amount of rocks are needed to raise sea cucumbers normally.
Most of the more than 10,000 acres rented by Li Bolin are deep-sea areas. Although they are more suitable for sea cucumbers to live in, it is difficult to build a breeding area suitable for fishing.
If you throw stones into shallow water, they can easily pile up. But if you throw stones into deep sea areas, they will most likely be washed away by the sea water. A large number of stones must be thrown in order to have a chance to pile up.
Li Bolin has been in the real estate business for many years, and is not particularly familiar with sea cucumber farming. He only knows the general principles of sea cucumber farming, but many details are unclear.
As a big boss, he does not always put on airs. Every time he finds something he doesn't understand, he will humbly ask others for advice and try to understand what he doesn't understand. He will never pretend to understand.
Because he always humbly asks others for advice, Li Bolin, who is already very smart, quickly mastered a lot of knowledge about raising sea cucumbers and also learned the secret of sea cucumber farmers throwing stones into the sea.
Ordinary farmers will use excavators to transport the stones to the ship bit by bit, and then throw them into the sea bit by bit, which is time-consuming, laborious, and very inefficient.
More experienced farmers will use a special catapult. The bottom of this kind of boat can be opened freely, and stones placed in the boat can easily fall into the sea, which is much more convenient than throwing stones into the sea little by little.
Li Bolin once observed a farmer's boat at close range. It was only about three meters long and could only carry a few stones each time. It had to go back and forth many times before it could create an area suitable for cultivating sea cucumbers in shallow water.The cost of building a boat like
is not very high and is suitable for ordinary farmers, but it is not suitable for large farmers like Li Bolin.
He had rented tens of thousands of acres of sea area before. If he used this small boat to drop stones bit by bit, it would consume a lot of time and seriously affect work efficiency.
When Li Bolin rented the sea area, he had already made a corresponding plan. He wanted to complete the launch within 5 years, and then achieve profitability as soon as possible and recoup the initial investment as soon as possible.
If an ordinary farmer uses a small boat to place stones, he will definitely not be able to complete the placement within 5 years. He must find ways to improve work efficiency.
Li Bolin discussed it with his father, and the father and son quickly reached an agreement. After making inquiries, they paid a lot of money to hire an engineer from a shipyard in Hebei to help design a large catapult. The designer of
is serious and responsible and has designed a good plan. The father and son were very satisfied and immediately had the catapult built.
After working hard for a while, they built two large catapults at a cost of 4 million yuan.
However, they did not directly launch the ship for release. Instead, they first found an expert who knew a lot about the ocean and used the satellite positioning system to screen the area and mark the appropriate places.
In this way, it can be put in more easily and an area suitable for sea cucumber cultivation can be built more efficiently on the seabed.
The output of cultivated sea cucumbers is closely related to the stones piled on the seabed. The higher the stones are piled, the larger the living area of sea cucumbers can grow better, and farmers can also get more rewards due to the continuous increase in output.
After comprehensive research, Li Bolin determined the specific placement location. The water depth in this place is about 15 meters and it is 9 nautical miles from the shore. It is very suitable for sea cucumbers to live in and is easy to salvage.
When Li Bolin first threw stones into the sea, the price of one ton was about 60 yuan. He planned to put about 100 million yuan of stones into it.
If the launch is successfully completed, sea cucumbers will be available for sale in five years. In just one or two years, he will be able to recoup the initial investment costs and make pure profits in the future.
In his opinion, this transaction is a very good deal. If it can be completed, it may even be more profitable than real estate. Therefore, he attaches great importance to this matter and has been looking forward to the completion of the investment.
He drifted on the sea with the ships that dropped stones every day, and slept in the open air every day. Most of the time, he ate and slept on the ship. Only when he was really tired, he would go ashore to rest for a few days.
3. Perseverance for many years, the capital chain is about to break
Because he is always floating on the sea, Li Berlin inevitably delays his real estate business. He knows that you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want to do both, you may not be able to do both well. After repeated consideration, Li Bolin decided to give up the real estate business completely and concentrate on sea cucumber farming.
As of April 2008, Li Bolin had dropped a total of 500,000 tons of stones on the seabed. This is a quite huge number. If 500,000 tons of stones were piled on land, they could even pile up a small mountain.
He felt that enough stones had been put in, so he started to buy sea cucumber seedlings and put them in.
Although sea cucumbers and fish are both aquatic products, releasing sea cucumbers and releasing fish are two different things. When farmers put fish in, they can just sprinkle it in directly, but they cannot do that when putting in sea cucumbers. They need divers to go into the sea in person and place the sea cucumbers next to the rocks on the seabed.
Sea cucumbers will use these rocks as a place to live. They will use suction cups to firmly adhere to the rocks. They will not run around when eating. They only need a little auxiliary oil and seaweed to continue to grow.
In order to recoup his initial investment as soon as possible, Li Bolin purchased tens of thousands of kilograms of sea cucumber seedlings at once, and hired more than a dozen experienced divers to help him release sea cucumber seedlings.
The divers followed Li Bolin's request and brought professional diving equipment. After dived into the seabed, they quickly came to the area designated by Li Bolin. However, they did not find the reef, not even a single one.
What's going on? Without the reef, even if they put in sea cucumber seedlings, they would be washed away by the sea water, unable to create any return for Li Bolin.
The divers all felt that the position given by Li Bolin was incorrect. Taking advantage of the fact that and had sufficient oxygen, they hurriedly went ashore to find Li Bolin to explain the situation.
Li Bolin himself was also puzzled. He had been busy at sea for more than a year and dropped 500,000 tons of rocks. These were all real things. He had seen it with his own eyes. It was impossible for someone to cheat under his nose. Why? Maybe not a single stone.
Could it be said that they were all washed away by the sea? Li Bolin knew that the sea water might wash away some of the stones, but it was impossible for all the 500,000 tons of stones to be washed away by the sea water. A lot could definitely be left behind.
He firmly believed that the stone he dropped was near the designated location, but it was washed away by the sea water when he dropped it. In order to prove this guess, he asked divers to go into the sea to check the situation.
The divers went into the sea again and looked around with the help of diving equipment. They searched around in the sea for a while, and finally found a large number of stones not far from the designated location.
These stones should have been thrown into the sea by Li Bolin before. They were not completely piled together and looked a little scattered, so they were easily washed away by the sea water.
These stones are the means of production that Li Bolin uses to make money. If they are all washed away by the sea, he will be in a big loss.
In order to completely solve this problem, Li Bolin thought hard. Finally, he came up with a seemingly fanciful plan. Since it would be easy to be washed away if dropped directly, he would simply build a stone wall in the sea.
In this way, it should be able to effectively resist the impact of sea water, more sea cucumbers can be put in, and more money can be earned in the future.
In theory, this is indeed the case, but in practice it is particularly troublesome. The sea water is always flowing, and if you want to build a stone wall on the seabed, more manpower and material resources must be invested.
Because two years have passed, the prices of various commodities have increased significantly. Take throwing stones as an example. Before Li Bolin, it only cost 60 yuan to throw a ton of stones into the sea. In just two years, the cost of throwing a ton of stones has soared to 100 yuan, an astonishing increase.
Even so, Li Bolin decided to increase investment again and throw more stones into the sea. He insists that the more the initial investment, the greater the subsequent output. If you are not willing to invest, it may take a long, long time to get a return.
Li Bolin was afraid of long nights and dreams, and did not want to wait for so long. No matter what others thought, he decided to build a stone wall in the sea. His father supported his idea and spent more money to help him start his career.
Li Bolin threw stones into the sea while looking for someone to throw sea cucumbers into the sea. He persisted for several years. The money he had saved in his hands became less and less. Not only did he spend all his savings, but he also invested his father's hard work for many years. .
In total, Li Bolin spent hundreds of millions of dollars. The sea was like a bottomless pit, constantly devouring Li Bolin's wealth.
4. Running around to borrow money and turning the corner by fishing for sea cucumbers.
Seeing that the capital chain was about to be cut off, Li Bolin became anxious. If he doesn't get enough funds, his career that he has persisted for many years may be in vain.
He was unwilling to give up and felt optimistically that he was about to succeed. In order to raise funds, he looked for help everywhere and tried to borrow some money to make ends meet.
He used to be in the real estate business, and when he was prospering, many banks took the initiative to extend an olive branch to him. They often sent people to ask him diligently, if he wanted a loan?
At that time, Li Bolin still had a lot of liquidity in his hands and did not have much demand for funds. He did not need to borrow large amounts of money from banks, so he did not cooperate closely with banks. Now he really needs money, but the bank is unwilling to give it to him for fear that he will not be able to get it back.
Li Bolin went to several banks one after another, but did not get a penny. Such a gap made him very uncomfortable.
Li Bolin's grandmother was very distressed after learning what happened to her child, and spent 70,000 yuan to support his career.
This is the savings that the old lady has kept for many years, and she has never been willing to spend it. Now that her grandson is encountering difficulties, she knows that the money may not be of much help, but she still spends it all, hoping to help relieve him a little pressure.
Grandma’s strong support moved Li Bolin very much. He was still a little disappointed, but he worked hard to adjust his mentality and face difficulties positively.
After that, Li Bolin ran for another month. He visited banks and institutions that he thought were promising, but he still didn't get funds.
Li Bolin was forced to have no choice but to make a decision. It is better to ask for help than to ask for help from others. Since others are not willing to lend money, let's fish out the sea cucumbers and see how much money they can exchange for them.
Li Bolin’s first batch of sea cucumbers was launched three years ago. During this period, he never salvaged once and had no idea what sea cucumbers looked like.
In order to solve this confusion, Li Bolin asked a diver to take underwater equipment to the seabed to shoot videos, and then fished out some sea cucumbers as samples.
The divers quickly dived into the seabed and found the place where the sea cucumbers were released in a short time. They successfully completed the filming and brought back many sea cucumbers.
The sea cucumbers brought back by the divers looked very fat, weighing at least half a catty. Even people who are not very knowledgeable can tell that such sea cucumbers are of very good quality.
Li Bolin was very satisfied with this and hired an expert to help identify it. After careful study, experts concluded that although the sea cucumbers released by Li Bolin were artificially cultivated seedlings, they all grew naturally in the sea and were almost the same as natural sea cucumbers.
Sea cucumbers like this are extremely valuable and very popular in the market. In order to prevent the capital chain from being completely broken, Li Bolin ordered people to fish sea cucumbers on a large scale.
Before he had finished fishing, some dealers with keen information came over to check the situation of sea cucumbers up close. The dealers are very satisfied with these sea cucumbers and basically buy as much as they want.
In just two months, Li Bolin sold 50,000 kilograms of sea cucumbers, with cumulative sales reaching 9 million, completely solving the financial problem.
Li Bolin took the money and continued to buy sea cucumber seedlings and stones, and continued to put them into the sea. In his opinion, the sea area he contracted has become a submarine bank.
The fry and stones he put into it will be converted into cash in the future, which will make his life better and better.
In fact, the sea area contracted by Li Bolin can not only produce sea cucumbers, but also a large number of fish, shrimps and crabs. These seafood can also create a lot of income for Li Bolin.
Someone once made statistics. From the sea area contracted by Li Bolin, 300,000 kilograms of sea cucumbers can be fished out a year. When the market is good, a kilogram of sea cucumbers can be sold for 180 yuan.
Calculating based on this data, Li Bolin can earn 50 million a year just from selling sea cucumbers. Adding in other seafood, his annual income will only be higher. Judging from the results, his original investment can be said to be a huge profit.
Li Bolin's great success not only improved the lives of himself and his family, but also completely silenced those who once laughed at him.
He used practical actions to prove that his judgment was correct. He overcame all difficulties and relied on effective plans to reverse the situation when others thought there was no chance, and won gratifying rewards.
Some people think that Li Bolin is just a lucky person. He can succeed because he has a relatively high starting point and has strong support from his family. Even if ordinary people have thoughts like his, they don't have hundreds of millions to squander.
Some people also think that although having a better background is Li Bolin's advantage, this cannot completely negate his efforts.
In order to successfully cultivate sea cucumbers, he struggled at sea for more than a year. From building ships to releasing sea cucumbers, he participated in every step. He is not a capitalist who just sits and collects money, but a person who truly dares to fight and fight. of entrepreneurs.
html The long investment period of 2005 without any return was a very painful time for most people, but Li Bolin survived in the end. He did not change his mind because of the doubts from outsiders. Not everyone has this perseverance.
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