Chapter 92 Ready to Go (Medium Cup)
Inside Locke Manor.
The restaurant on the second floor of the villa.
After the servants placed the exquisite dishes on the table one by one, they quietly exited the restaurant.
James, who was visiting alone, had his hair neatly parted in the middle. His hair was slightly white, and there were ravines left over from the years on his face, but his eyes were still as sharp as the eyes of an eagle.
Noah, who was sitting opposite, gently shook the red wine glass: "Uncle James, I'm very happy that you can come here in person, and I'd like to toast you!"
"Cheers!"
Haruka clinked the red wine glass.
Both of them just tasted it.
"Noah, has David told you what he has been doing lately?"
James, who was as cunning as a fox, naturally thought that someone was dealing with David and the Locke family, but he also knew very well that other local consortiums would most likely not be so reckless.
Hearing this, Noah shook his head in distress: "I checked my father's memorandum on important matters, and I didn't find many abnormalities. Those who have motives, but no strength; those who have strength, know the unspoken rules between our big consortiums. .”
"Is that so?" James paused slightly with the knife he was cutting into the steak.
Facing this unknown enemy, even James felt a little chill in his heart.
After all, if it is done by the big local consortiums, then we can be more vigilant in the future, but this kind of enemy without even a bit of intelligence is simply impossible to guard against.
After thinking for a moment, James said: "I will inform other families about this matter, and we will investigate together. I won't be able to sleep unless we investigate clearly."
"Thank you Uncle James for your help."
"As a member of the chaebol alliance, we should help each other. This is also the key to us becoming the masters of the world. Cruel internal fighting will only consume our strength and instead allow other external forces to benefit."
Of course Noah heard what James was implying.
That is to let him not be impulsive.
Faced with James who was willing to come alone to persuade him, Noah finally chose to believe him.
"Uncle James, please rest assured. I will try my best to exercise restraint, but I hope that major families can lend a helping hand to reduce the losses of our consortium around the world."
"No problem." This is also the purpose of James coming here this time.
Although the Locke Consortium is in crisis.
There may be danger, but it also means there are opportunities.
As the second-ranked Locke Consortium among America's top ten consortiums, it has huge resources around the world.
Since he is asked to help, Noah must pay some price.
James made a rough estimate. In this sudden incident, the Locke Consortium is expected to lose about one-third of its industry, and its overall strength among the top ten consortiums will drop to fifth place.
However, James also knows very well that a large part of the lost property of the Locke Consortium will be eaten up by other forces around the world. After all, they have the home field advantage.
It is estimated that only a small part of the resources left to America's other consortiums remain.
At the same time, James cannot live alone and must share interests with other consortiums.
Noah is also very clear that this time the Locke Consortium must bleed a lot, but this price is necessary. If these prices are not paid, the losses of the Locke Consortium may be more serious.
Soon Noah and James were on the same page.
James also held a video conference with the owners of other consortiums at Locke Manor overnight, asking other consortiums to take action together to investigate which force was targeting the Locke Consortium and David. At the same time, they also divided up part of the benefits spit out by the Locke Consortium.
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at the same time.
Inside a large tertiary hospital in Pengcheng.
Li Rongrong, who had just been transferred from the intensive care unit to the general ward, was covered in bandages and turned into a zongzi.
He was awake for five or six hours.
At noon, the nurse checked his ECG monitor and found no abnormality before exiting the ward.
Not long after, in his groggy state, he saw his wife Yin Muhua, who had flown back from Australia, but he noticed that there seemed to be a hint of gloom on her face.
Seeing this scene, Li Guangrong's heart sank involuntarily.
And Yin Muhua also saw Li Rongrong's open eyes, and then looked at him expressionlessly: "Lorenzo, everything at home has been arranged. Is there anything you want to say?"
"You..." Li Rongrong's eyes were bloodshot and unwilling, and he asked in a trembling voice: "What do you want to do?"
"Lorenzo, it's not that I want to be so heartless, but it's what they mean. If I don't do this, my son and I will disappear. Just think it's for my son. You can go in peace!" Yin Muhua took out a handkerchief and poured it on it. Some unknown liquid.
"No...Mu Hua, are you really so heartless?...I don't want to die..." Li Rongrong tried to struggle. However, this high-end ward was not only for one person alone, but also had very good sound insulation. In addition, he had burns all over his body and was immobilized. On the hospital bed.
"Lorenzo, don't blame me, just go in peace!" Yin Muhua's eyes were filled with coldness and ruthlessness.
The handkerchief stained with special medicine moved closer and closer to Li Rongrong's mouth and nose in his horrified eyes.
Click!
"Don't move!"
The door to the ward was pushed open instantly, and five or six plainclothes men rushed in.
Yin Muhua's eyes widened and he couldn't react at all, so he was pushed aside.
Li Guangrong, who was still in shock on the hospital bed, immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then shouted with all his strength: "Catch her quickly, she is going to kill me..."
The middle-aged man with a square face raised his glasses: "Mr. Li, for your safety, we need to transfer you to another hospital. In addition, I hope you will cooperate with our work."
"I agree! I cooperate! I'll tell you everything..." Li Ronghuan was frightened just now, and the boss behind the scenes wanted to kill people to silence him, which made him choose to break the pot.
The middle-aged man wearing glasses smiled and said: "It's a pleasure to cooperate."
In fact, they had already received the notice from above and had been secretly following Li Rongrong and others in the past few days. After the other party's wife flew back to China from Australia, she secretly met some people and then took some unknown small items. Bottle, they knew that this woman came with bad intentions, and at the same time they also knew that an opportunity had come.
If Li Rongrong is not allowed to recognize the reality, he may take care of his family and choose to remain silent.
And from the moment Yin Muhua chose to kill him, he completely destroyed Li Rongrong's inner defense.
In fact, after Li Guangrong woke up, he didn't know that the forces behind Baishan Investment had suffered unprecedented heavy losses, but if Yin Muhua didn't take action, he would choose to remain silent.
Being stabbed in the back by a relative, Li Guangrong completely fell into madness. He no longer cared about his son in Australia. It didn't matter whether he was dead or alive.
After all, he was only forty-two years old and still had hundreds of millions in assets. As long as he had money, his son could still be reborn. How could he be willing to die like this?
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After dealing with the threat thousands of miles away, Jiang Miao also secretly observed Li Guangrong's situation and found that someone was secretly monitoring him, so he chose to let it go. After all, whether the other party was dead or alive, he and Hailufeng Company could not be threatened. .
So Jiang Miao resumed his daily work again.
No one in the company knew that their respectful and kind boss had made a significant contribution to reducing the burden on the earth's ecological environment in just three days.
After all, whether it is Li Ronghuan, Edward, or David, the greenhouse gases they produce every year may be more than ordinary people can do in a lifetime.
That row of private jets alone consume enough aviation kerosene for one flight to feed and drink ordinary people for several years.
If there is an environmental champion award, one should be given to Jiang Miao.
However, the confidential document Jiang Miao sent the night before had already caused a storm around the world.
There are also many actions in the country. Although ordinary people cannot feel it, Jiang Miao, as the instigator, knew that someone was going to be in bad luck as soon as he saw a few news flashes this morning.
He looked at it once and put the matter behind him.
These things have little to do with Hailufeng Company. There is no need to keep an eye on them all day long. Just take out an hour every day to check the dynamics of all parties.
As long as Hailufeng Company and his family were not involved, Jiang Miao was too lazy to care about the overt and covert struggles between the major forces.
Coincidentally, the camellia seeds purchased by the purchasing department have been arriving in the past few days.
Among them, a batch of large-fruit camellia seeds from Zhongke have been induced by drugs and physical induction in batches by Jiang Miao. in the experimental area at this time.
Jiang Miao wore protective clothing and a protective helmet and checked the genetic mutations of a batch of Camellia oleifera seeds.
99% of genetic mutations tend to be malignant. Only about 1% of mutations are benign, and this 1% of benign mutations are uneven or mixed with malignant mutations.
Jiang Miao has long been used to this situation.
Use tweezers to pick out the tea seeds with completely benign mutations.
Of course, this so-called completely benign mutation is actually the definition given by humans.
For example, in the direction of gene mutation, the high oil content and low oil content of tea seeds, for humans, naturally, high oil content is benign, and low oil content is malignant.
There were nearly 10,000 tea seeds in this batch, and only 13 completely benign mutant seeds were finally selected.
Moreover, none of the 13 mutant tea seeds were of a variety that made Jiang Miao 100% satisfied.
Continue to take out the next batch of tea seeds that have been induced to mutate, expand the identification panel, and then select the tea seeds that may be useful.
Although these selected tea seeds may not be perfect, they still have some value.
For example, one of the tea seeds with a benign mutation has mediocre performance in other aspects, but its tea seed content can reach about 76%, which is very valuable. Even if it is not a variety that can be directly promoted, it can As raw material for cross breeding.
At the end of the day.
Even Jiang Miao, who has eight-pack abs, felt sore and backache, after all, he picked 150,000 tea seeds in a row.
But the hard work is worth it.
Among these 150,000 tea seeds, there are 249 mutant tea seeds with certain cultivation value.
Three of the mutant tea seeds performed very well in all aspects, at least genetically.
Jiang Miao gave these three mutant tea seeds a special name, namely:
Oil King No. 1, Oil King No. 2, and Oil King No. 3.
The name "You Wang" is also his expectation for these oil tea varieties. In the future, Hailufeng Company's oil tea varieties will use the name "You Wang" to form the "You Wang" series.
Among them, Youwang No. 1 has the advantages of fast growth, short plants, high disease resistance, high yield, many seeds, and medium oil quality.
From the data on its gene expression, it can be inferred that Youwang 1 only needs about a year and a half, and under relatively sufficient conditions in all aspects, it can grow from a seedling to a height of about 1.8 meters, and then begin to flower and bear fruit. .
According to the current planting density of Camellia oleifera trees, theoretically, the fresh fruit yield of Youwang No. 1 can reach the limit of 450 kilograms per mu, with a fresh fruit seed yield rate of 52~63% and an oil content rate of Camellia oleifera seeds of 53~55%.
In other words, under the most ideal conditions, each mu of Oil King No. 1 can produce 156 kilograms of tea seed oil per year.
Some people may think that this output is too small.
However, those who have truly understood the cultivation of edible oil raw materials will be shocked by the production capacity of Oil King No. 1.
The current per-mu yield data of the world's five largest vegetable oil raw materials are as follows:
Oil palm can produce 200 to 300 kilograms of crude oil per mu, making it the undisputed king of yield per unit area. However, its oil quality is relatively poor and is only suitable for industrial use in food production.
The yield of soybeans per mu is 30 to 44 kilograms of crude oil. It does not exist as an oilseed in itself, but as a high-protein feed. Its oil quality is also relatively poor.
The yield of rapeseed per mu is 80 to 110 kilograms of crude oil, and the yield per unit performance is quite satisfactory. Among them, canola oil with low erucic acid is a relatively good category among vegetable oils.
The yield of sunflower seeds is 90 to 140 kilograms of crude oil per mu. The yield per unit performance is relatively good, and the oil quality is also good.
Peanuts produce 150 to 200 kilograms of crude oil per mu, and their yield per unit performance is very good. They are the second largest oil crop after oil palm in terms of crude oil per mu. The oil quality is quite satisfactory.
Compare it horizontally.
It can be seen that the yield of Oil King No. 1 selected by Jiang Miao is about the same as that of oil sunflower, but its oil quality is much higher than other vegetable oils. In terms of oil quality, even olive oil is not a rival of tea seed oil. .
Except for the high-yield king Oil King No. 1.
Youwang No. 2 is a variety that prefers oil. Its gross oil yield per mu is only about 70 to 80% of that of Youwang No. 1. However, its oil quality is very good and it is suitable as a high-grade edible oil.
Youwang No. 3 is a drought-tolerant variety. If it is planted in a subtropical monsoon area, it does not require artificial watering and can rely entirely on the weather. The yield is also about 70~80% of that of Youwang No. 1, but Youwang No. The product is almost the same as Oil King No. 1.
These three varieties of Camellia oleifera are considered by Jiang Miao to be the most valuable varieties and naturally have their own advantages and characteristics.
Especially for Oil King No. 3, the real advantage is that it does not require manual watering.
Even though the rainfall in the southeastern hilly areas is not small, the places where Camellia oleifera is grown are usually on hillsides and there is no way to retain water.
In this kind of planting environment, if there is no pump or well, watering is very troublesome. Many high-yielding Camellia oleifera varieties require sufficient watering. If there is no sufficient irrigation, it will lead to reduced production.
Therefore, the emergence of Youwang No. 3 can allow the cultivation of camellia oleifera on hillside areas, reducing investment in infrastructure and manpower and material resources.
In the future, you can plant Oil King No. 2 on good low-lying land to maintain its high oil product advantage; plant Oil King No. 1 on sloping land but close to water sources to maintain its high yield advantage; and plant Oil King No. 1 on sloping land but where water is inconvenient. Land, planting Oil King No. 3, can obtain relatively high yield at low cost.
These three Camellia oleifera varieties are of great significance to areas with many mountainous areas.
For example, Fujian Province, which is known as having eight mountains, one water and one field, has huge advantages in developing the camellia oleifera industry.
Of course, the same is true for the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the southeastern hilly areas.
At present, the domestic Camellia oleifera planting area reaches 90 million acres. If all of them are grafted with Oil King No. 1, under ideal conditions, 14.04 million tons of Camellia seed oil can be produced every year, which is equivalent to about 46% of the domestic edible oil consumption every year, instantly becoming the largest Oil crops.
But this kind of thing can only be thought about.
After all, there is no way for grafted seedlings to maintain all their characteristics, and there is also a lot of moisture in the country's so-called 90 million acres of Camellia oleifera cultivation, many of which are subsidized. After planting, there are a lot of Camellia oleifera gardens that are in a semi-wild state.
If production capacity is really expanded to such a high level, the price of tea seed oil will also plummet.
This is a dilemma.
If we need production capacity, we are destined to be unable to maintain high prices.
If the price is high, there is no way to mass-produce it.
The two are incompatible contradictions.
However, Jiang Miao still prefers large-scale production, but the production capacity should be controlled at about 5 million tons, which accounts for about one-sixth of the domestic edible oil market. The price of first-grade tea seed oil should be maintained at 15 per kilogram of gross oil. The production value per mu is about 2,000 to 2,340 yuan, and the purchase price is about 70% of the production value per mu.
Of course, maintaining this production capacity scale is based on the premise of Youwang No. 1. If the next genetically mutated tea seeds have varieties with higher yields than Youwang No. 1, the production capacity scale can still be expanded.
After all, the yield per unit mu has increased, which means there is more room for compression of the purchase price of tea seed oil.
However, judging from the current situation of the vegetable oil market, 10,000 yuan per ton of crude tea seed oil is basically the bottom line.
Why is this price the bottom line?
Because the current market price of imported first-grade sunflower oil is 9,000 yuan per ton, and domestic first-grade pressed peanut oil is 13,000 yuan per ton.
There is no reason why the price of tea seed oil, which is a better oil, will be lower than that of sunflower seed oil. It is even difficult for tea seed oil to be lower than 13,000 yuan per ton.
However, if the production capacity of tea seed oil really exceeds 5 million, domestic industrial adjustment is expected to be carried out soon, and some rapeseed and sunflower production areas will be adjusted to other crops.
As for why rapeseed and oilseed sunflower?
The answer is obvious. Soybeans and peanuts are dual-purpose feed and oil crops, and production capacity cannot be reduced casually.
Rapeseed and oil sunflower are different. Their oil meal does not account for a high proportion in the feed, so it can be replaced by camellia oleifera.
In particular, rapeseed oil, which accounts for 23% of the domestic edible oil market share, is expected to be directly eliminated by tea seed oil.
On the one hand, the production capacities of the two are too close.
On the other hand, the value of rapeseed per mu is not high. The current market purchase price of rapeseed is about 5,400 to 6,500 yuan per ton. The national average per mu yield of rapeseed is 135 kilograms.
In other words, growers cannot make any money at all.
If it weren't for the mechanization advantages of rapeseed, those farmers would never grow it.
Jiang Miao could almost predict that once Hailufeng Company's Oil King series came out, the scale of domestic oil sunflower and rapeseed cultivation would be severely damaged.
This situation actually has more advantages than disadvantages for the country.
Because the land where rapeseed and oilseed rape are grown is often flat land, and it is also an area that is convenient for irrigation. This kind of land is of very high value. Instead of growing oilseed rape and oilseed rape, there are also other cash crops grown.
For example, the domestic soybean planting industry, which has been difficult to recover at present, can take the opportunity to regain some market share.
(End of chapter)