Mistakenly believed that the expert had been miserable for five years. He said it was not shameful to rely on his father.

This is the age of consulting experts on everything. It took the young man five years to learn from the experts that "it is better to be an expert than to trust an expert." and, "it is not shameful to rely on your father, who is more reliable than an expert."

Fang Zhenglun, a 37-year-old youth of Zou nationality, majored in electronics. He just left the army more than 10 years ago and returned to his hometown to manage his father's newly planted coffee plant. it happened that an agricultural official with a professional background visited Alishan. "he pointed me out from the standpoint of an expert. Coffee grows well under trees, and I quickly planted five rows of red poplar."

"after the trees grow and begin to shade, there are overgrown trees, fewer fruits and lower sweetness, and some uncovered, short coffee trees have high yields and sweetness." He kept doing research and found that tropical coffee trees needed shade. "our environment is already half-sunny, and there is not enough light in the shade, so the coffee trees try their best to grow up, but they do not like to blossom and bear fruit."

It was four or five years after Fang Zhenglun discovered that something was wrong. At that time, many people followed the advice of experts and planted coffee under the dark plum tree. "as a result, they all died!" Fortunately, my father grows orchids for a living and his income is stable, so I can afford to keep groping. "

He said with a wry smile that at that time, there were not many people growing coffee in the high mountains of Taiwan, and agricultural experts would only bluff with book knowledge, without considering the difference in latitude and height at all. If those who rush forward blindly listen to the experts, they will go astray and die halfway.

Ten years ago, Zheng Lun won the championship of Taiwan's boutique coffee competition, and the first time he participated in the competition, he showed the outside world the advantages of high-altitude coffee. "A large temperature difference between day and night is the key, just like growing apples and cabbages. As long as they can be planted, the ones on the mountain must be better than those at the foot of the mountain. There is no need for experts to teach them, and everyone knows it."

Now he has become what other people call an expert, teaching people how to grow coffee everywhere. "I haven't read too many books, and I don't teach dead knowledge by exchanging experience. People say that believing in books is better than having no books at all. My father reads even less, and he is the ruthless man who gropes for most of his life." (article: Yan Xingru / Photo: Tang Xinghan)

Grow these full coffee beans, not by expert guidance, but by dad! Photo by Tang Xinghan

Fang Zhenglun (right) said that because he relied on his father, he was not killed in battle with other people, and his father Fang Longfu on the left. Photo by Tang Xinghan

Coffee trees don't have to be planted in the shade, and it took him five years to dispel expert myths. Photo by Tang Xinghan