Speaking of aquaculture fraud, the nutria incident in the early 1990s and the scorpion incident in 2000 have made thousands of deceived people unforgettable. In these two breeding scams, farmers lost hundreds of millions of yuan. A few days ago, many farmers complained to this newspaper, and now they have encountered a "North Cordyceps" scam. It originated from a company named Chongqing Caojin Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Chongqing Cao Jin), which claimed in various advertisements that its head office Chengdu Cao Jin (Group) Company (hereinafter referred to as Cao Jin Company) had successfully developed an artificial planting project of Cordyceps militaris (also known as Cordyceps militaris, a fungus). Under normal circumstances, an ordinary grower, one year 1 0,000 bottles. However, many cordyceps militaris growers said that instead of getting rich, they lost money in a big mess or even lost all their money. Is planting Cordyceps militaris a way to get rich or a big scam? Investigation and Preliminary Exploration Faced with the temptation of advertisements, hundreds of people are busy planting Cao Jin, located at No.0/62, Dapingzheng Street. It was registered in the industrial and commercial department of our city on March last year 1. The company's description of the technical advantages of artificially planting Cordyceps militaris in the program Cao Jinhua Garden produced by a local radio station and the publicity materials provided to students are full of temptations: the technology is simple and mature, and beginners can fully master it in only two or three days; Less investment, quick effect, 3,000 yuan in the early stage, and it can be effective in about 30 days; Low investment risk; High added value; High return. If this is not enough, Chongqing Cao Jin further sensationalized that the cultivation of Cordyceps militaris is not affected by factors such as site, season, climate, environment and region, nor is it limited by gender, age and education level. It can be planted all year round, and it is a practical and efficient project tailored for farmers. Most importantly, in the advertisement before June 25th this year, Chongqing Cao Jin claimed to recycle products. According to the information provided by Cao Jin Company to the trainees, it is claimed that the cost of planting 500 bottles only needs 750 yuan, the profit of dried products reaches 975 yuan, and the profit of fresh products is higher: 4,075 yuan. However, high costs such as technology transfer, equipment depreciation, labor, water and electricity are avoided. At the same time, in order to increase the credibility, Cao Jin Company also reduced the relevant analysis and testing reports of various authoritative departments and printed them on publicity materials. All the information seems to indicate that the prospect of planting Cordyceps militaris is brilliant. It is under this temptation that hundreds of people were planting Cordyceps militaris from March last year 1 Chongqing Cao Jincheng to June this year. This data comes from the statement of employees in Chongqing: employees who claimed to come to Chongqing in April this year revealed (Wang didn't know the identity of the reporter at that time) that in less than two months from his arrival in the company to June this year, hundreds of students went to training and then planted Cordyceps militaris, and before that, more people went to the company to participate in training and plant Cordyceps militaris. When the reporter asked him how many people there were, Wang made a rough estimate and then told the reporter that at least hundreds of people were planting Cordyceps militaris. An in-depth discussion on four problems of "getting rich by lightning" How many people get rich quickly by this project that claims to be able to get rich quickly? Are hundreds of growers who plant Cordyceps militaris losing money or making money? Since you can get rich by lightning, are the employees of Cao Jin Company planting? Advertising has always claimed that the risk is small. Why are growers losing money? On July 4th, Liu Zhen, a resident of Jiangjin Jijiang, a suspicious grower, walked into the reception room of this newspaper with less than two kilograms of Cordyceps militaris before handing in dry goods. You know, he planted 3,000 bottles, spent 1.500 yuan's technology transfer fee, 600 yuan's strains and nutrition package 1.90 yuan, and ordered 3,000 glass bottles, sterilization pots and other expenses that exceeded 5,000 yuan, but according to the contract, his products could only be sold in 500 yuan at most (Liu finally sold only 339 yuan). Liu frowned and said that he was not bad, but the Shima farmers who were trained with him were even worse, and there was almost no harvest, which was later confirmed by the reporters. Lai Tianjun, Chen, Wang Dingcai, Sun Zujian and Sun Zu of Bishan Furniture Factory can encounter the same thing: Lai and Chen bought 2,500 bottles of various kinds, but Chen Hao sold them for more than 1600 yuan. Lai only sold about 700 yuan, and the others were even worse. Chen, who planted it twice, now loses more than 7000 yuan, and Lai Tianjun is not short of it: nearly 6000 yuan. Chen said that their four families had Cordyceps militaris in the same county, and they suffered the same loss. Even Wang Hongtai of Jiangjin, a model provided by Chongqing Jincao to reporters, complained: I planted it twice and lost four or five thousand dollars. If the company does not recycle 1 1,000 yuan of fresh products for sample promotion, the loss will be even greater. Growers are outraged: all our hard-earned money has been swallowed up by Cordyceps militaris, which is a complete scam. Why recycle hay now? On the afternoon of July 6th, when the reporter accompanied Liu Zhen to deliver dry goods for the second time (on the 4th, Chongqing claimed that Liu's hay was too wet to be collected), Wang Yuan Qing revealed to the reporter that the technology transfer fee of the company for planting Cordyceps militaris had been diving from 2,400 yuan last year: 1.8 million yuan, 1.5 million yuan, 1.2. What makes Liu Zhen desperate most is that Wang said that after June 25, the hay planted by new students will not be recycled, and the dry goods planted by old students will not be recycled when the contract expires. According to Wang, the company will gradually wean growers and put them on the market. Since the contracts signed by most students will expire on September 30th this year, in other words, Cordyceps militaris will go to the market to find its way out after that. If not, it is a dead end. As for how much we invested and how much we recovered, it has nothing to do with Cao Jin Company. Interestingly, according to the contract, the moisture content of dry goods is measured by a moisture detector, but Chongqing Cao Jin Company has no moisture detector at all. If you want to test, you need to pay the test fee, otherwise it will be decided by the dry product collector after visual inspection. Someone asked the winner. Why didn't the telephone company make it public? What puzzled the reporter and Liu Zhen was that on the 6th, the reporter wanted to ask Wang Yuanqing for the telephone numbers of some successful growers. Wang said that the information had been sent to the head office, and the grower didn't leave his phone number, and the person in charge of the information was not there. There is really no way. However, Wang and several other employees in Chongqing repeatedly stressed that on the same day, an old farmer in Qianjiang planted 500 bottles and earned several thousand yuan. However, when Chongqing Finance gave Liu Zhen a receipt of 339 yuan, the reporter found that a man named Wan Shuli did pay hay in Qianjiang that day, but he only sold 15 14.8 yuan, and with all kinds of costs, Wan also suffered a serious loss. On this receipt, the reporter found that most of the proceeds from grass donation were below 1000 yuan, and none of them exceeded 3,000 yuan! If you can get rich quickly, why don't internal employees plant it? Growers wonder: since planting Cordyceps militaris is so profitable, why don't these employees plant it? Are these people in charge of training technically qualified? Are the strains they sell qualified? Faced with a series of problems, the reporter repeatedly tried to find Jin Dongri, the legal representative of Chongqing, to give a statement, but everyone said that Jin was not there. But for other issues, Wang said that employees don't plant because the company wants to avoid risks. The reporter found that the technical data of Chongqing Cao Jin was actually handwritten and sold to 10 yuan, and only to students. Poor cultivation by growers is not the problem of bacteria and technology itself. Several employees who stayed in Cao Jin said categorically that it is the key for growers not to master the technology themselves. Investigation and statement: The Science and Education Department of Agriculture Bureau of our city doesn't know what Cordyceps militaris is in the Vegetable Department, Cash Crops Department and Science and Education Department of Agriculture Bureau of our city. Relevant comrades say that they don't know what Cordyceps militaris is, let alone evaluate its economic value. Chief Ou and Chief Ju of the Market Contract Supervision Department of Yuzhong District Administration for Industry and Commerce said that the contract signed in Chongqing was suspected of violating the principles of fairness, justice and voluntariness. (According to Liu Zhen, the grower, he didn't see the contract before the training that Chongqing Cao Jin had little responsibility according to the contract. It was not until the seeds were purchased that the other party took them out, but at that time the technology transfer fee had been paid. Wouldn't it be 1500 yuan if he didn't buy it? ) Director Zhang of Daping Industrial and Commercial Office also said that advertisements in Chongqing are misleading. Zhang revealed that as early as the afternoon of March 25th last year 10, the Economic Investigation Department of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Economic Inspection Corps of the Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce and the Daping Industrial and Commercial Office conducted a joint investigation after receiving the report. This statement has been confirmed by relevant persons of the Economic Inspection Corps of the Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce. Investigation and explanation: Cao Jin Company, the Achievement Department of Sichuan Science and Technology Department, exaggerates and publicizes it as an appraisal unit for the technical achievements of artificial cultivation of Cordyceps militaris. Ms. Shi from the Achievement Department of Sichuan Science and Technology Department told reporters yesterday that the company's publicity was greatly exaggerated. It is actually a very small private enterprise, although it has eight Cao Jin companies in Jinan, Shenyang and Nanjing. They also received many questioning calls from growers inside and outside the province, all of which were wrangling. Regarding the company's promotion under the brand of Sichuan Science and Technology Department, Ms. Shi said that the Science and Technology Department had greeted the company several times since last year, but it didn't want to be ineffective. Mr. Luo of Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, who has worked with Jincao Company for some time, also said yesterday that although this technology is mature, the market is far from mature, and the indicators stipulated in the contract are too high, so it is impossible for growers to meet their requirements. In other words, recycling is a loss, and it will be even worse if it is not recycled. It is not the first time that Cordyceps militaris has become a money-making tool for some people. Since March 2002, Nanjing Bioengineering Co., Ltd. named Golden Firebird has been advertising in local radio stations, evening newspapers and other media for three consecutive months, saying that they have successfully developed the artificial cultivation project of Cordyceps militaris, which is called "the gold industry of 2 1 century". It is an ideal scientific and technological project for laid-off workers, retirees and farmers to get rich, not only for the social development of growers, but also for the comprehensive recovery of finished products. Attractive advertisements lead hundreds of people to spend thousands of dollars on "technology transaction fees" and contingency fees. As a result, there were problems after planting and it ended in failure. On July 18, "Golden Firebird" suddenly went short, and * * * defrauded growers of more than 3 million yuan.