Liu Jun's voice was filled with pride.
But that pride quickly turned to helplessness.
"It's a shame... but greed knows no bounds. Once the prices went up these past few years, everything fell into chaos."
He sighed. "The truth is, many of the merchants who come to buy the jujubes know perfectly well that these unripe ones have practically no medicinal effect."
But they're crooked.
Think about it. They spend three yuan per pound to buy up huge quantities of unripe jujubes and haul them back to put in cold storage.
Then, when the ripe red jujubes hit the market, they spend ten yuan per pound to buy a batch of those.
Finally, they mix the unripe and ripe jujubes together according to a certain ratio.
When they turn around and sell the mix to pharmaceutical companies, the value instantly multiplies several times over.
As long as the volume is large enough, the profit margin is terrifyingly huge!"
