Chapter 477 The real shortcoming (third update, please subscribe)
York County, Scott Manor
Bankrupt!
Sir Scott must face this reality whether he likes it or not.
He is bankrupt!
In fact, companies, like individuals, when faced with a crisis, first consider survival, and then other things. But even such a simple request can sometimes be extremely difficult.
For Scott Company, after surviving the most difficult stage of the war, it was inevitable that it would come to an end.
As a high-quality breeding company, Hunt Company is one of the first companies to breed Yorkshire large white pigs. From the original farm to the current company, it has been operating for hundreds of years. In the past hundred years, due to the breeding A new type of breeding pig has emerged. They have won many awards. But what if it is glorious? Now, it is finally on the verge of bankruptcy.
“Damn corporate income tax.”
Once again, Scott complained that the 99.5% corporate income tax was the root cause of the company’s bankruptcy – because there was not enough profit, the business A slight accident can cause the company to go bankrupt.
And he was the unlucky guy - a few months ago, he bought a batch of corn futures in the United States. As a result, the corn harvest in the United States was bumper and the price was much lower than last year.
So all the bad things followed - in the face of losses caused by futures, banks came to collect debts, went bankrupt, and soon the banks would be liquidated.
Now the lawyers sent by the bank are visiting the company. Can’t they wait for a few more days? Those banks are like vultures, greedily looking at the company's corpse. Be ready to pounce and bite at any time.
After visiting the breeding pig breeding room for more than an hour, Ian Thorpe had seen enough, or rather smelled enough, and smelled enough of the stench there, so he knocked on the door that was already open. , and then walked in. Scott looked up.
“Oh, hello!”
"I guess you must be a lawyer sent by the bank."
Ian Thorpe shook his head and said,
"Although I am a lawyer, I do not represent the bank. I represent another company."
"Oh, really? What company do you represent, sir?"
"My name is Ian Thorpe. . Mr. Scott, I represent Doug & Co. in London, and Doug & Co. are interested in your company.”
When introducing his identity, Ian Thorpe felt a little entangled in his heart. The dignified royal barrister actually went out to buy a pig farm himself?
God, if it weren’t for Li, I would never have done such a dishonorable thing. Of course, what he couldn't figure out even more was why Li Yian, as a king, was so interested in raising pigs. How could this kind of business be a business that nobles should be involved in?
A nobleman runs a pig farm?
If word of this comes out, others will definitely laugh out loud.
But, there is no way. As Li Yian's lawyer, Ian Thorpe must personally come forward to negotiate this business. And he must satisfy His Majesty the King. After all, His Majesty the King is now his signature.
"Very interested?"
Scott frowned: Why this company is interested is meaningless to him. However, what matters is the other party's bid.
“This is our bid.”
Scott glanced at the note on the table curiously.
“200,000…”
Looking at this bid, Scott didn't know whether he was sad or happy. He was happy that the money was enough to pay off his debts, but sad that he would not have any money left.
After thinking about it, Scott said.
"250,000 pounds!"
"210,000 pounds." "245,000 pounds!"
Finally, after Ian Thorpe made a quotation of 223,000, Scott finally agreed, and soon the two parties signed a contract. This century-old breeding pig breeding company became a company under Li Yian's name.
Soon, a telegram was sent from Yorkshire.
"The pig farm is yours!"
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Li Yi'an was in the hospital when he received the telegram from Ian Thorpe, the Queen's Counsel. On the way to France.
"Okay, the neck-stuck technique is solved!"
When he was proud, he even couldn't help but whistle.
The reason why we are so proud is that Sterco is not just a pig factory. It is also a founding member of the British National Pig Breeding Federation and one of the first breeders of Yorkshire Large White pigs.
Thanks to the "African Swine Fever" in another world, Li Yian learned that until the 21st century, China will still need to import a large number of breeding pigs.
The largest of them is the Yorkshire white pig, which is an excellent pig breed that British livestock experts began to cultivate in the late 19th century. After being finalized in the early 20th century, it grew meat quickly and had strong fertility. Well received by the market. Many countries have introduced Large White pigs, and combined with local specific conditions, have successively developed pig breeds adapted to their own countries, such as German Large White pigs, Dutch Large White pigs, American Yorkshire, Canadian Yorkshire, etc.
In another world, after the 1980s and 1990s, the white pigs that crowded out China's native black pigs were also large Yorkshire pigs introduced from the UK.
The scientific and technological content of agriculture and animal husbandry is no less than that of industry. Even in the 21st century, Tangshan still relies on the introduction of breeding pigs from Europe and the United States to solve the problem of breeding pig degradation. The leading advantage of Europe and the United States in agriculture and animal husbandry is extremely obvious. !
Why is this?
Because pig breeding is like breeding crops, you need to select a series of pigs with excellent quality. The most critical thing is that it is undoubtedly very difficult for these breeding pigs to inherit all the excellent traits such as high lean meat rate, high farrowing rate, and fast growth, and concentrate them on a few breeding pigs.
In terms of breeding pigs, we not only need to rely on scientists’ logical deductions, but also rely on luck. Only by gathering all the success factors can we find the genes for high litter rate, high lean meat rate and fast growth.
Breeding a new breed of high-quality breeding pigs is a long process. From finding suitable parents to breeding offspring that meet breeding standards, it may take more than ten or even decades, and even if it takes this long, it will not last long. May not succeed.
Take the Soviet Union as an example. Although Yorkshire large white pigs were introduced for breeding as early as the 19th century, and in the 1920s and 1930s, large white pigs were introduced from the UK five times to update the bloodline. . It seems that the "Subai pig" was bred, but in fact, until the fall of Soviet Russia, no "Subai pig" with a low feed-to-meat ratio and a high litter rate could be bred.
What’s even more terrible is that during the Cold War, high-quality breeding pigs were even included in the “embargoed list.” In order to improve Subai pigs, the Soviet Union even used the KGB to use various methods such as “kidnapping” to import pigs from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Waiting for Western European countries to obtain original breeding pigs to solve the problem of degradation of "Subai pig" breeding pigs. The corresponding Western intelligence agencies even deliberately provided genetically defective breeding pigs to Soviet Russia in the hope of affecting Soviet Russia's pork production, so that it could not obtain enough pork or consume more drinks.
In a word, the issue surrounding breeding pigs during the Cold War could have made for several thrilling spy movies.
This shows the importance of breeding pigs.
For this reason, while introducing Yorkshire Large White pigs and investing in the construction of large-scale modern breeding farms, Nanyang also established a breeding pig research institution and introduced experts from Germany to cultivate pig breeds adapted to Nanyang.
But breeding breeding pigs is too metaphysical. The initial investment is large and the project cycle is long. Once the direction is deviated, the success may fall short in the end. For an ordinary enterprise, let alone making profits, it is considered good if it does not go bankrupt. This is why Tangshan enterprises need to continuously introduce breeding pigs to improve their bloodlines and avoid degradation, because this is the simplest path.
To put it bluntly, the road is too tortuous and difficult.
“It only cost more than 200,000 pounds!”
While feeling emotional, Li Yian even felt that this was the most worthwhile investment - after all, this is related to the meat-eating of Chinese people. Freedom!
"Well, with these breeding pigs, Nanyang has almost solved the problem of freedom to eat pigs!"
(End of this chapter)