Enemy with rats
The name "Man Dun" shows his parents' blessing: "The warehouse is full of food", but mice also like to hide in the warehouse to steal food, which seems to indicate that Qiu Man Dun will struggle with mice all his life.
When Qiu Mandun was a child, his family was very poor. After studying for two and a half months, he dropped out of school. When he was a child, he began to wander and compete with mice for food. 1953, he went to the army and recovered four years later, just in time for the four pests movement. He stared at the mouse, determined to invent a way to destroy this nasty thing.
He keeps dozens of mice and squats in their nests every day to study. The work of the production team is rare. He also fed the only food in the family to the mouse, which made his wife yell: "Qiu Mantun, you mouse, I want to divorce you!" " Qiu Mandun, who was alone, had to wander around, selling rat poison on the street to earn some money, and at the same time exploring the preparation method of rat poison.
Enjoy a high reputation
198 1 year, 48-year-old Qiu Mandun spent more than ten years screening out nine formulations of rat attractants, which were appreciated by local leaders and achieved remarkable results. The press officer of Dali County wrote an article "You won't believe it unless you see it with your own eyes", which vividly described Qiu Mandun's miracle of killing rats. The article has aroused widespread concern in the whole country, and is called "the king of killing rats" and "the nemesis of rats" in Autumn Manton.
1987 Qiu Mandun returned to his hometown Wuji County with his remarried wife. The county gave him high courtesy, arranged accommodation for him, and the leader let him concentrate on production. The government will be responsible for his technical appraisal. Two years later, the technical appraisal results of Hebei Science and Technology Commission announced that his mousetrap was the first in China and the effect was very good. As soon as the news spread, the farmer won various scientific and economic awards and was invited to guide the national rodent control work, so Qiu Mandun wore rubber shoes that leaked everywhere and traveled all over the country to catch rodents.
In the rodent control campaign organized by Nanning, Guangxi, 350,000 rodents were hoarded in autumn, and their carcasses weighed 82.6 tons. Bozhou, Anhui Province used 10 ton of drugs, and the rodent control rate was as high as 9 1.9%. Now the farmer calls himself the mouse king, "because all the mice listen to me."
1990, China Most Mouse Pharmaceutical Factory with government investment of1900,000 yuan rose in Wuji County, with Qiu Mandun as the director. With his growing fame. His rodenticide deeds have spread abroad, and many countries and manufacturers are willing to pay millions of yuan to buy Qiu's rodenticide formula or ask Qiu Mandun to go abroad to guide rodenticide, with a maximum amount of $2.7 million. He refused everything.
He also hung the essay given to him by the technical consultant in the toilet, but he didn't think he was complacent. "I haven't read many books and don't know how to make a living. The discussion outside has nothing to do with me. I care about what the villagers think of me. It is very helpful for me to say "good people", Qiu Mandun said.
good times don't last long
The mouse pharmaceutical factory has just been established for two years. Qiu Mandun was a hit because of an article, and fell down because of an article. Wang Chengxin, the technical consultant of his factory, and four other technical experts published the article "Calling on the news media to publicize and kill rats scientifically". He said that when he was a consultant in Qiu Mouse Pharmaceutical Factory, he found fluoroacetamide in rat poison, which was remarkable. At that time, it was a highly toxic substance banned by the state. He also said that more than 7,000 cattle were poisoned in Anhui at that time, which was related to Qiu's poison.
A stone stirred up a thousand waves, and Qiu's rodenticide was banned all over the country. Qiu Mantun refused to accept it. "I killed the mouse and didn't kill anyone. Is it still illegal? " In a paper book, Wang Chengxin and others were sued for libel. The court heard the case in public. The Second Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security and Beijing Agricultural University made the identification of rat poison, and no fluoroacetamide was found. Qiu Mandun won the case.
But Qiu Mandun, an uneducated farmer, actually defeated the scientific experts. Isn't this a joke that ignorance trumps science? Therefore, at the 1994 national CPPCC meeting, more than 290 CPPCC members demanded a retrial of the case to restore scientific dignity.
The arm couldn't twist the thigh, so Qiu Mantun naturally lost the lawsuit, although no toxic substances were detected this time. Sitting in the dock, Qiu Mandun held his head in his hand. Obviously, he is not interested in legal terms. "Today is the Year of the Rat," he told a crowd of reporters after the verdict. "I won't complain about my abnormal death."
Where does the theory of fluoroacetamide come from? According to a reporter who later visited Wuji County, Qiu Mandun actually talked about where he thought when he was investigated, saying that fluoroacetamide was used in begging in the past, and there should be a little phenomenon. It turns out that I bought fluoroacetamide from Jinan Chemical Plant, and there are many poisons at home. After losing the case, Qiu Mantun's products were destroyed and the factory was closed, but he did not suffer. It comes from nothing, so why ask for more?
Re-appear in public life
In 2004, Liu Bin, then the chairman of Hebei Qiushi Science and Trade Company, met with Qiu Mandun. When he saw this 70-year-old man, he was also taken aback: Qiu Mantun was wearing a red shirt, and his hair was shiny and meticulous. Qiu Mantun didn't regard the trial of 10 years ago as misfortune, but also laughed at himself and said, "I am a dangerous person with a Grenade tied to my ass."
In this meeting, the two talked about the broad prospects of the sticky mouse board and decided to cooperate. Soon after, Qiu Mantun showed him his mouse-sticking board, and seven or eight mice were stuck in a few minutes. Liu Bin was dumbfounded and full of admiration. He immediately signed a contract to buy out the invention technology.
Qiu Mandun is full of confidence in the newly established Qiu's sticky mouse board factory. At a live rodenticide exhibition, he tore open a pack of rodenticide on the spot, grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth, saying, "Who can say that what I did was poison?" The rat-sticking board uses physical rodent control, so it won't suffer from rat poison any more.
He is also cold enough. The newly established factory announced that it would not be an official, regardless of management or marketing, but only be a technical shareholder, and his son was only responsible for the technical part. He is hard-working and determined to get rid of mice when he was young, so he devoted all his energy to research. Although he is over 70 years old, he still has new achievements. Not only that, but the pesticides he and the company later developed to kill mosquitoes, cockroaches and flies were also widely praised.
He also knows how to be content. He has lived a hard life since he was a child. After becoming famous, he didn't fall into the eyes of money. He knows how much he weighs, and he won't sell China's patents until he goes abroad. When the business is hot, he goes to court, and he doesn't insist. "As long as he can live," he knows how to stop when he comes back from Jianghu. It is this down-to-earth, cold-hearted mouse king that the legendary story of his life is worth savoring.