Chapter 85: Respect the fate of others (additional update)
the next day.
Early in the morning, it was just dawn.
Jiang Miao acted as if nothing had happened and was going to a local durian plantation. However, he did not arrange for A Ming and A Yi to follow him. Instead, he asked Zheng Siwen to lead the way.
On the way to the plantation, Jiang Miao looked at the relevant information collected by Zheng Siwen and others.
The introduction of durian cultivation in China can be traced back to the 1950s.
Specifically, between 1956 and 1961, Qiongzhou Agricultural Reclamation introduced durian and other tropical fruit trees in 82 batches from Java, Malaysia, Khmer and other countries for trial planting. From that time on, durian was available in China. The scale of cultivation has always been very small, and it is cultivated by agricultural research institutions.
It was not until the past two decades that Qiongzhou Island's durian planting industry has made some progress.
Although Coconut City is located in the north of Qiongzhou Island, durians can still be grown, with several local companies and a dozen growers doing so.
The scale of several companies is relatively large, reaching several thousand acres; while the durian plantations of the dozen or so farmers are relatively small, with the largest one only having about 230 acres, and generally around dozens of acres.
The plantation they are going to this time is a small plantation belonging to a grower, with a planting area of 57 acres and a total of 814 durian trees, averaging about 15 trees per acre. Most of them are more than 8 years old.
Jiang Miao looked at the specific variety introduction and found that the varieties in this plantation were relatively mixed, including four varieties: Musang King, Black Thorn, Golden Zhen, and Jialun.
Among them, there are 124 Musang King trees, 71 Blackthorn trees, 484 Golden Pillow trees, and 135 Jialun trees.
Jiang Miao asked Zheng Siwen, the co-pilot in the front row: "Siwen, what is the situation of this planter? Why do you want to sell the plantation?"
Zheng Siwen quickly explained: "Boss, this farmer is a friend of one of my clients. He is in poor health. He was diagnosed with heart disease this year and is not suitable for strenuous physical labor. His son opens a seafood restaurant in Coconut City. He also has no energy to manage the plantation, so he plans to sell the plantation. ”
"And there are two hundred acres of pineapple fields and one hundred and twenty acres of mangoes?" Jiang Miao continued to ask while looking at it:
"How much does the other party offer?"
Zheng Siwen briefly explained the situation: "The contract period for his land is about 27 years. Due to his poor health this year, the pineapple pests and diseases are more serious, so we don't plan to ask for money for the two hundred acres of pineapples. Every mu The transfer fee is 3,000 yuan, but the mango trees and durian trees require us to pay additional acquisition fees.”
"What's the annual rent he signed?"
"It's 1,800 yuan per mu per year."
Jiang Miao calculated in his mind that the total area was 377 acres, the transfer fee was 1.131 million, and the annual rent was 678,600.
"How much is the price for mango and durian trees?"
"There are a total of 4,323 mango trees, all of which are Taimang. The trees are generally between 6 and 8 years old. The price quoted by the other party is 500 yuan per tree." Zheng Siwen continued: "The price for durian trees is relatively high, 3,000 yuan per tree. ”
After hearing these data, Jiang Miao calculated in his mind again.
814 durian trees cost 3,000 yuan each, which is 2.442 million yuan; 4,323 mango trees cost 500 yuan each, which is 2.1615 million yuan.
The total cost of purchasing fruit trees and land transfer fees is 5.7345 million yuan, and the annual rent is 678,600 yuan.
Jiang Miao can accept this fee.
After all, this is the market price, and there are certain discounts.
If the land was not relatively remote, surrounding agricultural companies would probably have merger and acquisition ideas.
The reason why Jiang Miao wanted to buy this plantation was not just to grow fruits, but to use it as a nursery base.
After all, most areas in Lingnan are not suitable for native durians to survive, and the genetically modified grafting technology he developed also requires old durian branches that are ready to bear fruit as raw materials for grafting.
If you buy branches from Malaysia or Siam, the other party may not care too much at first, but once the durian industry of Hailufeng Company develops, the other party will definitely become restless and deliberately block the export of old tree branches.
Therefore, as the Qiongzhou area where most durians are planted in China, Hailufeng Company must establish its own seedling base here.
At the same time, Jiang Miao's preliminary research work also requires many old durian branches to cooperate with the experiment.
Just in contemplation.
The pickup truck turned from the main road onto a rural road and passed through many twists and turns.
Half an hour later.
The car stopped in front of a low hill.
Looking at the lush mountain forest not far away, and a large pineapple field in very poor condition at the foot of the mountain, it was obvious that we had arrived at our destination.
Zheng Siwen quickly called and informed the plantation owner that he was waiting for someone to come over.
Everyone got out of the car. Although it was morning, Qiongzhou was already very hot in June. Fortunately, it didn't rain in the past few days. Otherwise, when the air humidity increased, it would feel even hotter.
Jiang Miao stood under the big banyan tree on the roadside.
He subconsciously used the identification panel to observe the surrounding mountains.
Jiang Miao had previously tested the limit distance of the identification panel, which was about a radius of 1,360 meters. Beyond this distance, information could not be obtained through the identification panel. This may be due to the coverage of the dimension fragment, which is about a radius of 1,360 meters.
‘Hey, this is it? ’
Jiang Miao saw the three-dimensional strata analyzed by the identification panel and discovered that there was dense gold in the mountain on the left.
Soon, through multiple branching directions, some detailed information was finally obtained.
That mountain was a small gold mining site 53 years ago. The last time it was mined was about 37 years ago. After that, the small gold mine stopped large-scale mining due to the depletion of gold resources.
This is Jiang Miao's guess based on the analysis of the information about the rock being blasted.
However, the owners of this gold mine did not realize that the gold they mined was actually a small section of a vein.
‘Is it because there have been many major earthquakes in Yecheng’s history, causing dislocation fractures in the strata here? ’
Looking at the three-dimensional analysis of the strata and the deposition time of each stratum, I quickly pieced together the location of these strata.
At a depth of 800 meters below the feet, there is a gold vein extending out of the coverage area of the identification panel. The identified area alone contains more than 70 tons of gold.
However, he turned his head and looked into the distance. Where the mineral vein extended, there was a large flat land, which was either farmland or orchards. There was also a village in the direction of the mineral vein.
Jiang Miao shook his head gently.
Private enterprises like him cannot develop it at all. At least at this stage, Hailufeng Company is not qualified to lead the mining of such large-scale gold mines.
Then he put away the idea of finding out.
Right now.
"Who are the people from Hailufeng Company?"
A young man opened the large iron gate of the plantation and looked at everyone and asked.
Zheng Siwen walked over with a smile: "Hello, I am Zheng Siwen. Boss Mao introduced me here. This is Mr. Jiang Miao, the boss of our company."
The young man looked at Jiang Miao with a forced smile on his face: "Hello, I am Shang Yingze. This farm belongs to my grandfather. Please come with me!"
"Hello, nice to meet you." Jiang Miao followed and walked in.
A simple cement road was also built in the farm, leading directly to a house at the foot of the mountain. The frame brick house was five stories high, and there were two large iron houses next to it.
As I walked, I looked at the pineapple field on the left side of the cement road. Although many pineapples had already grown, the fruits were very small and many of them were rotten.
On the right side of the cement road is the 120 acres of mango trees. The situation of the mango trees is also not optimistic. The mangoes on them are sparse and the fruits are small and have not been bagged.
After walking for ten minutes, we arrived at the door of the house at the foot of the mountain. Halfway up the mountainside behind the house, there were more than fifty acres of durians.
There are three large ponds not far from the house, which are probably used for water storage.
Shang Yingze took them into the house.
"Grandpa, there are guests visiting the farm."
An old man with a bad complexion walked out of the room inside and asked helplessly: "Are you just here to see the farm? Did Lao Mao introduce you here?"
Jiang Miao smiled and nodded: "Yes, I want to buy this farm. Hello, old gentleman, I am Jiang Miao, from Hailufeng." "Hello, Boss Jiang, please sit down." The old man said in front of his grandson Shangying With the help of Ze, he sat on the mahogany bench beside him. He turned his head and looked at his eldest grandson:
"Yingze, go make a pot of tea."
"Okay, grandpa." Shang Yingze got up and went to boil water to make tea.
After Jiang Miao sat down, he took a look at the old man's physical condition.
Through the identification panel, he found that the old man's health was indeed not optimistic. Two stents had been placed, but his coronary artery stenosis continued to worsen.
Taking into account the presence of atorvastatin in the other party's blood, it is obvious that he has taken medicine to lower blood lipids, but the coronary artery stenosis is still getting worse, which can only mean one problem, and that is that his diet has not been adjusted and controlled.
This situation is the most troublesome. After all, the patient takes medicine but does not change his living habits, so it is impossible to fundamentally cut off the root cause of hyperlipidemia.
Regarding the old man's situation, Jiang Miao didn't have to guess. He knew that the old man was an extremely stubborn person in his daily life.
And this kind of person often has a bad temper. He will not change unless he hits his head and breaks his blood.
Therefore, Jiang Miao gave up the idea of persuading.
Letting go of the complex of helping others and respecting the fate of others is also a kind of self-awareness. When you see others are not good, you want to help them. That is a typical people-pleasing personality.
Jiang Miao often helps others for his own benefit. He is not someone who treats others well without any reason.
Now that he has guessed the old man's character, he will naturally not bring the topic to physical health to avoid making the other party angry, but will quickly get to the point.
"Old sir, I can accept your offer, but I don't know if this piece of farm land includes the house, tin house, pond, etc.?"
The old man didn't expect Jiang Miao to be so happy. He immediately gave up the idea of rambling and started to explain the situation of the farm: "The land of this house is agricultural land, but I have a relatively good relationship with the village. It was converted into a homestead a few years ago.”
The old man paused, panting slightly, and continued after a while: "The two iron houses have not been converted into homesteads. They can only be used as agricultural facilities and no more houses can be built."
Hearing this situation, Jiang Miao thought for a while: "Can the land deed of the homestead be confirmed by the local village committee?"
"Okay." The old man may know that Jiang Miao has doubts.
In fact, it is not surprising that Jiang Miao is so cautious, because many homestead sales in rural areas are private transactions that are not legal, which makes the market very chaotic.
In his hometown in Shanmei, he had heard a lot about homestead buying and selling. Many urban people who were not familiar with the local rural situation came to the countryside to buy homesteads. They were manipulated by some undercover agents and bought some. Forged homestead land deeds, or multiple land sales, or homesteads containing fruit trees, simple houses, and graves belonging to other villagers.
In this case, even if you file a lawsuit against an intermediary, it will be difficult to investigate and collect evidence.
Therefore, if you want to buy a rural homestead, it is best to go to the local village committee to issue relevant certificates, and then announce it on the local bulletin board for a period of time. At the same time, send someone to clear the land, but do not pay the full price immediately.
Under normal circumstances, you just need to clean up that piece of land. If there is a problem, the relevant stakeholders will quickly jump out.
At this time, you should immediately let the intermediary and the seller handle it. If the other party can't handle it, don't have any illusions and ask for a refund immediately.
After all, even local snakes like intermediaries and sellers can't handle it, and you, a foreigner, most likely can't handle it. This kind of homestead will definitely involve many problems, as well as conflicts and disputes among local villagers.
In other words, the initial testing cost of one to two thousand yuan must be invested.
Instead of looking at the agent holding the homestead title and pointing to a piece of land, thinking that there is no problem, and then buying it on a whim.
The land in rural areas often looks like a wasteland overgrown with weeds, and maybe there are several large pickle jars buried underground.
Jiang Miao asked to go to the local village committee to get a certificate just in case. He knew that the old man was not lying, but it did not mean that the title deed of the other party's homestead was true.
After all, according to Zheng Siwen, the old man was not a local, but a resident of Yecheng.
Chatted for a while.
Shang Yingze also boiled water and made a pot of tea.
The two parties then talked for more than an hour, and finally set the overall transfer price at 6 million, and the annual rent was paid to the village committee, which is usually paid once a year.
After negotiating the price, Jiang Miao did not sign the contract immediately. Instead, he asked Shang Yingze to take a few people to observe the durian trees in the back hill.
After all, these durian trees were the fundamental reason why Jiang Miao bought this farm.
The durians are planted halfway up the mountain, and weeds grow under the trees.
Jiang Miao carefully observed each durian tree.
The results were quite satisfactory. At least the other party didn't lie. The durian trees were of the same variety and age, but the planting technology was average.
Most of the durian trees have fruits hanging on them, but the fruits are small and in small quantity.
Due to climate reasons in China, durian fruits generally do not reach a mature state until August.
In other words, it is mid-June now, and the fruits of these durian trees are only about a month and a half away from maturity, and the fruit size has not expanded much.
The golden pillow durians in front of us are only as big as a palm, and many trees only have a few fruits.
Generally speaking, depending on fertilizer, management, planting density, and climate, the number of fruits a single durian tree can produce is about 50 to 100, and generally around 75.
If it is a durian orchard that pursues quality, the fruits will be thinned to about 50 per tree.
Of course, Jiang Miao was also mentally prepared for the situation of the durian trees in front of him. After all, the old man who had been managing the farm had been recuperating for more than half a year. During this period, he had not managed these durian trees, so naturally there would be no good harvest.
However, Jiang Miao's goal is not these fruits, but the old durian branches that have already produced fruit.
You should know that if durian seedlings are cultivated through natural seeds, it will take about 15 years from the time they are planted to when they can bear fruit; and even through artificial top dressing and grafting, the fruiting period can only be compressed to about four years.
Unless the grafted rootstock is also an old tree and both grafting parties are very compatible, it is possible for the tree to bear fruit the following year.
This is also one of the purposes of Jiang Miao's development of genetically modified grafting technology, which is to allow grafted durians to bear fruit the following year, thus ensuring that growers can quickly recover their costs.
After observing the durian trees on the mountainside, Jiang Miao discovered several interesting things.
The first case is that there are gene fragments related to cold resistance in the gene series of four durian trees.
He soon thought of a possibility, which was the origin of these durian tree saplings.
You must know that durians have been introduced in small batches in China a long time ago. The durian seedlings on this farm are most likely not directly introduced from Siam and Malaysia, but second- and third-generation seedlings purchased from other first-generation durian plantations in Qiongzhou.
After decades of cultivation, in order to adapt to the local climate, the second and third generations of durian trees may undergo genetic mutations.
However, this kind of mutation is too difficult for ordinary farms and agricultural companies to identify, and even professional agricultural research institutions may not be able to detect it. Only Jiang Miao can discover the mystery.
The second situation is that there are some problems with the varieties of 173 golden pillow durian trees. It is estimated that after the second and third generation hybridization between local farms and agricultural companies, these durian trees can no longer be regarded as traditional golden pillow trees.
Although most of these durian trees with golden pillow varieties perform unsatisfactorily, life is always full of miracles.
Among them, the genetic sequences of 6 hybrid golden pillows showed very impressive data on the identification panel, including fruit shape, sweetness, aroma, and meat yield.
He is most optimistic about one tree, which has extremely strong cold-resistant genes.
Although transgenic kapok can be used to provide shelter for old durian branches through genetic modification technology, this cold-resistant characteristic is ultimately given to the old durian branches by kapok, rather than the cold-resistant properties of the old durian branches themselves.
If the durian tree itself has good cold-resistant characteristics, then after grafting onto the transgenic kapok, its cold-resistant characteristics will be further enhanced. By then, it may be possible to extend the planting latitude line from near the Tropic of Cancer to the north. A latitude or two.
This discovery was an unexpected surprise.
The third thing is that he found that these durian trees have a relatively high demand for some trace elements, and can even enhance their fruit-bearing ability, fruit sweetness and flavor, and most importantly, cold resistance and disease resistance by increasing the intake of specific nutrients. ability.
In fact, this is very normal.
Humans have not even fully understood their own bodies, let alone other species.
Durian is a fruit that is native to Southeast Asia and is very resistant to climatic conditions. At the same time, it does not have large-scale mechanization. European and American breeding companies generally do not conduct in-depth research.
Research on Southeast Asian countries alone is, after all, very limited.
(End of chapter)