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Thus, after Yang Fann and Yang Guoqing had reached an initial contract intention, he asked him to gather all of the Village Committee members and hold a collective meeting. The main topic of the meeting was to discuss the specific matters concerning Yang Fann's contract with Dispersive Flower Creek on both sides.
With the reason that he needed more funds to fix the road and his own prestige, Yang Guoqing quickly persuaded the other members of Village Committee to pass Yang Fann's contract.
From the beginning to the end of the village, within a range of 500 meters from both sides of Dispersive Flower Creek, as long as it was ownerless land, all of it was contracted by Yang Fann. The contracting period was 50 years and the annual sum was 300 thousand, which was used to develop ecotourism.
Every five years, there would be a need to negotiate a new price. According to the conditions of the contracts for the nearby lands, if there were no people contracting land, then the prices would be set according to the conditions of the contracts for the surrounding villages.
From the head of the village to the tail of the village, was a distance of several kilometers. In the area with a width of five hundred meters on both sides of Dispersive Flower Creek, it was at least a square kilometer. Including more than half of the fields on the northern shore of Dispersive Flower Creek, the remaining ones were at least a square kilometer or more.
Although 300 thousand a year didn't sound like much for such a big place, the contract clearly stated that these places could only be used for ecotourism and not for building houses.
Ecotourism, as the name implies, is a tourism activity that is oriented towards absorbing natural and cultural knowledge, minimizing the adverse impact on the ecological environment, ensuring the sustainable use of tourism resources, and integrating ecological environmental protection and public education with the promotion of local economic and social development.
Ecotourism is a kind of tourism in which the ecological environment is the main landscape. It refers to the ecotourism experience, the ecological education, the ecological cognition and the pleasures of the mind, which are carried out in a friendly way, based on the ecological environment and the unique human ecological system, and based on the premise of the sustainable development and the harmonious development of human beings and nature.
Alright, it sounds like an overbearing act. To put it bluntly, ecotourism is a natural tourism. It is a way of using nature to protect and develop nature.
Yang Fann prepared to conduct ecological tourism on both sides of the Dispersive Flower Creek. In fact, with the excellent nature environment of the Dispersive Flower Creek, there was basically no need for Yang Fann to develop much. All he needed to do was to build a few tourism facilities that would not destroy the natural environment.
For example, they could build a few beautiful little bamboo houses, build some special fishing spots with unique sceneries, and make a mountain drift. They could also specially use a piece of land to let the tourists create their own wishful thinking tree, or open up some small ecological fields to contract and give to the rich people, letting them grow their own playthings.
In short, Yang Fann will adhere to one principle, and that is no matter what he does, he can't destroy the natural environment on both sides of Dispersive Flower Creek. The more he develops the environment, the more beautiful it would be.
Maintaining the status quo on both sides of Dispersive Flower Creek was also a pretty good idea, because the environment on both sides of Dispersive Flower Creek was originally beautiful enough. Even if one didn't do anything, it would just be a beautiful painting.
After signing the contract, Yang Fann directly transferred 300 thousand of the contract money to the Poplar Gully account in front of all the Village Committee members. Then, he showed the transfer reminder to every Village Committee member.
As for the Poplar Gully account, that was not something that Yang Fann could look into. To require Yang Guoqing or the village accountant, Yang Tieliang, to look into the Qingshan Town account was no ordinary problem.
Signing a contract with Village Committee was not the end, Yang Fann still needed to follow Yang Guoqing to the Qingshan Town to make a trip, and the contract could only be considered approved by the Mayor with his seal. Such a large contract for land was not purely for farming, it had to be approved by the town.
Of course, Ecotourism projects that did not destroy the environment like this, were normally not opposed in the town. Most of the land on the two sides of Dispersive Flower Creek was wasteland, and Yang Fann did not plan to build a large number of trees and plants, so his ecological development was still primarily focused on farming.
Furthermore, Yang Guoqing had been very close with Alcalde Chen recently, and Alcalde Chen was also asking Yang Guoqing to find a way to repair the road. With an extra 300 thousand in Poplar Gully, Alcalde Chen was very happy, but the possibility of rejection was almost zero.
After completing the village's procedures, Yang Fann left the Village Committee. Yang Guoqing still needed to keep the other Village Committee members to discuss the specific details of repairing the road. As an outsider, he couldn't stay and listen in, and he didn't want to hear about it at all.
Looking at Yang Fann's back as he walked out, other than Yang Guoqing, the rest of the members of Village Committee all had complicated expressions on their faces. Most of them felt that Yang Fann really couldn't spend all of his money, and why wouldn't he have 300 thousand yuan a year? If he had to contract the barren lands on both sides of Dispersive Flower Creek, the riverbank and other places were not suitable for cultivation, and even if Yang Fann developed all of them, the annual crop of food and vegetables would not even be worth half of the contract.
Of course, the vegetables and fruits that Yang Fann grew on Pear Ridge were said to be sold for 100 yuan per catty, which made the villagers jealous and envious. There might be a few that hated Yang Fann, but the majority of the people still felt that it wasn't worth it.
The way Yang Fann planted the vegetables and fruits on Pear Ridge was known to everyone in the village. Admittedly, the seeds of those vegetables and fruits were indeed good, but the way they were managed was indeed abnormal.
Without fertilizer or pesticides, not only would they have to catch insects by hand, they would also have to raise two old eagle to protect themselves from birds. They would also have to use a circle of such tall thorny vines to prevent wild beasts from damaging them.
Just thinking about the wages Yang Fann gave to the helpers every day and to the regular employees every month, most of the people in the village had a headache, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of contracts and the amount of agricultural equipment he added every year.
In reality, only a small part of the land could be developed. With such a large price, and such a small amount of resources, even if one could sell for an astronomical price of one hundred dollars per kilogram, it was not certain that one would be able to earn money in the end!
Poplar Gully people were very poor, but they were not stupid, on the contrary, they were smarter than many senior citizens in terms of accounting, which was also why Yang Fann was able to sell the vegetables and fruits on the Pear Ridge for such a high price of one hundred yuan per catty. The other villagers were mostly jealous, and did not do anything irrational.
A few years ago, a portion of the villagers in Chenjia Ridge had responded to the government's call to cultivate the vegetables in the big shed. Just before the Spring Festival, they saw that a large number of vegetables were about to mature and go on the market, but in the end, all the big sheds were pierced with many big holes in the night sky. So many vegetables and fruits that were about to mature were frozen to death and rotten, causing all the villagers in the big shed to lose a lot of money.
Why is that?
What kind of enmity could cause someone to do something that would only harm others and not themselves?
To put it bluntly, there was only one reason — envy!