Chapter 95 A big gamble (medium! More updates)
Although she decided to research the maximum mass production formula of morels, Lin Shuya was not too anxious.
After having dinner with Jiang Miao, she went to the lounge on the third floor, took out her mobile phone, found a name, and dialed the number.
Dududu…
After a while, the call was connected.
"Hello? Is this Shuya?"
"Senior Brother Luo, how are you?" Lin Shuya first asked about the other person's physical condition, expressed her concern, and deepened the relationship between the two parties.
In fact, Luo Yulin and Lin Shuya have a good relationship. After all, they once had the same problem and were both cheated by their doctoral supervisor Du Bolun.
And after she left quietly, among the several senior brothers and sisters, Luo Yulin was the only one who called and asked about the specific situation. The other senior brothers and sisters did not ask about her situation.
After all, there is a difference between closeness and distance.
Some people are dissatisfied with Du Bolun.
Naturally, there are people who flatter Du Bolun.
A somewhat hoarse response came from the other side of the phone: "It's okay, I just broke a leg and I'm still in the hospital."
"What did the school say?"
"The Teaching Office said that they would replace me with a doctoral supervisor, but I have no intention to continue studying now." Luo Yulin's voice was filled with a heavy sense of exhaustion and frustration.
When she heard that Luo Yulin had given up the idea of continuing to study for a Ph.D., her confidence in persuading him to come over instantly increased a lot, and then she persuaded him: "Brother, in this case, why don't you come directly to our company to do research! Anyway, senior brother I don’t care about the diploma anymore.”
"Shu Ya, are you serious?" Luo Yulin was a little surprised.
"Brother, my husband's and I's company is currently doing research on various edible fungi. Anyway, the underlying technologies of edible fungi and medicinal fungi are similar. I am optimistic about your ability. Senior brother should not be buried like this."< br>
"Okay, I don't want to stay here in Handong anyway. I want to make money to support my family as soon as possible so that my parents won't worry."
Luo Yulin, who comes from a peasant family, has always relied on his parents to farm and grow vegetables for support. Now that he is nearly thirty, he is still studying for a Ph.D., and his parents are getting older. It is because of family reasons that he was caught by his mentor Du Bolun and was forced to Several papers were given to Du Bolen's son.
What really made him collapse was that his report on Du Bolun was known by the other party. This not only caused two important papers to be taken away by Du Bolun, but also threatened that he would never graduate.
Luo Yulin couldn't think about it for a moment, so he jumped from the third floor. Fortunately, there was a small patch of bushes in the green belt below where he jumped. He hit the bushes, which cushioned the impact of his jump.
Now lying on the hospital bed, thinking about his elderly parents, he finally figured it out, gave up the idea of continuing to study for a Ph.D., and planned to leave the sad place of Handong.
Originally, Luo Yulin had not decided where to go, but Lin Shuya's call gave him a glimmer of direction in his confused life.
"Senior brother, after you recover your health, you will come to Lingnan. Just call me then."
"Thank you, I will go there as soon as possible."
"Then I won't disturb your rest. Goodbye."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Shuya sent 5,000 yuan to the other party via WeChat, saying it was for travel expenses paid in advance.
Luo Yulin, who was short of money, also knew that this was Lin Shuya's kindness. Maybe he was worried about his self-esteem, so he said that it was travel expenses paid in advance, which moved him deeply.
But he didn't have any wrong thoughts.
Mainly because Luo Yulin has a girlfriend.
In the ward.
Luo Yulin, who had plasterboard on his left calf, hung up the phone and looked at his girlfriend Fang Yunyun who was peeling apples. The other party was silent.
"Yunyun, I'm very sorry..."
"No, it doesn't matter, I respect your choice."
"I delayed you." Luo Yulin really felt that he was sorry for Fang Yunyun.
The two have been in love for more than five years. The other party graduated from Handong University three years ago. In order to be with him, Fang Yunyun refused her parents' proposal and did not go back to her hometown of Hangzhou to take the public examination. Instead, she studied in Handong University. I found an unstable English private tutoring job in Jingzhou.
"Don't say that. You can understand. I'm actually very happy. You still have a master's degree anyway. We can work hard together in the future."
"I... thank you, Yunyun." Luo Yulin had tears in his eyes.
Fang Yunyun smiled and cut off a piece of apple and handed it to Luo Yulin: "If you want to go to Lingnan to work, I will go with you! After all, it is inconvenient to be in a different place."
"Should we wait for a while before we talk? After all, I'm just going to check out the situation. Junior Sister Lin's company may not be suitable for me."
"Well, you make a decision as soon as possible. If you really plan to go to Lingnan to develop, there is no need for me to stay in Jingzhou."
"Okay."
In fact, when Fang Yunyun said she wanted to go to Lingnan with him, Luo Yulin secretly breathed a sigh of relief. This answer also meant that Fang Yunyun wanted to go with him. Once Fang Yunyun chose to stay, the fate of the two people was very likely. That's about it.
It is difficult to achieve success in a long-distance relationship.
However, this is also a choice Luo Yulin gave Fang Yunyun, mainly because he felt that his future was uncertain, and the two of them were old enough to discuss marriage. If the other party chose to stay in Jingzhou, he would not hesitate to break up. , let the other party find a more suitable partner.
After receiving this answer, Luo Yulin felt much relieved and felt that there was no obstacle in life that he could not overcome.
Maybe plain and simple is the truth.
In the past, I placed too much emphasis on my future and my doctorate degree, which was why I was manipulated by my mentor Du Bolun.
The moment he chose to give up studying for a Ph.D., everything changed.
…
The next day, Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya continued to immerse themselves in scientific research work.
In Lianhua County, Luoxiao Mountain District, Gan Province, it is a mountain village in the central part of the county.
Because today is the weekend, Li Hao took the opportunity to return to his hometown from the city.
This is Yanxi Village in Nanling Township, Lianhua County.
Looking at the old house covered with vines, I cleaned the stone steps under the eaves a little, and then sat down.
Look into the distance.
Those are the waves of the mountain.
That's the spray of the tree.
This is also his hometown.
After sitting for a while, he opened the rusty iron pipe door of the old house and took a straw hat, a hoe and a sickle from one of the rooms filled with miscellaneous farm tools.
He drove his electric car on the small cement road in the village.
The sun is already entrenched in the southeast sky, throwing light and heat to the earth.
The wind in the mountains still carries the coolness left over from the early morning.
After a while, his electric car parked on the side of a hillside beside the reservoir. On the hillside was the 25 acres of mountain land contracted by his family, on which navel oranges, camellia oleifera and peaches were planted.
Just looking at the overgrown fruit trees, I know that this orchard has not been well managed. In fact, many of the surrounding orchards have the same appearance. Some fruit trees have even been obscured by weeds and vines, making it impossible to see. It's a fruit tree.
Li Hao took a look at the situation in his orchard. Since his father would come back for a month or two every year, the weeds under the fruit trees were not too dense and were only calf-high.
Ignoring the navel oranges and peaches that looked like crooked melons and cracked dates, he waved his sickle and swept down the spider webs between the trees, arriving at the five acres of Camellia oleifera field.
Looking at the camellia oleifera trees with small fruits already hanging on them, he was not too happy, because due to the extreme weather this year, the fruiting situation of these camellia oleifera trees was very unsatisfactory. He made a little calculation in his mind that the five acres of camellia oleifera trees might not be able to be harvested this year. to two hundred pounds of Camellia oleifera fruit.
Li Hao has also been hesitant these days about his old classmate Jiang Miao's proposal.
As a native of Lianhua County, he is very aware of Camellia oleifera. The economic benefits per mu are too poor, and the planting process is too labor-intensive. If it were not for the continuous subsidies from the government over the years, it would not be able to attract the favor of farmers and small bosses.
Li Hao didn't have high expectations for the improved Camellia oleifera varieties mentioned by Jiang Miao.
After all, he works in the local Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, and he knows everything about promoting Camellia oleifera.
At present, the best varieties of camellia oleifera, under ideal conditions, can produce no more than 50 kilograms of tea seed oil per mu.
Regardless of the market, many people are selling tea seed oil for hundreds of dollars per kilogram.
In fact, the purchase price of Camellia oleifera seeds from oil-extracting enterprises is generally about 20 yuan per kilogram, which is equivalent to about 40 yuan per kilogram of crude tea seed oil.
In other words, under ideal conditions, one acre of camellia oleifera can be sold for 2,000 yuan.
If this year is a year with frequent extreme weather, just look at the condition of the camellia oleifera in front of Li Hao. From five acres, he can only harvest about 200 kilograms of camellia oleifera fruits. This is not even enough for himself, and the money to sell them is ridiculous. . This current situation has caused many Camellia oleifera plantations around Lianhua County to be in a semi-abandoned state.
Many times, if you want to rent this kind of Camellia oleifera plantation, you can get a large area of Camellia oleifera plantation for only 30 yuan per mu per year.
The main reason why it is so cheap is that local villagers also know that it is difficult to make money from camellia cultivation, so they can only attract some scammers through cheap prices.
As long as someone is willing to take over, the more they take over, the less likely they are to maintain the Camellia oleifera plantation on their own. Local people must be hired to weed, spray, fertilize, water, prune and pick. This is where the real money comes from.
Local villagers want to make some money by working, so the rental price of camellia plantations is very cheap.
If Li Hao wanted it, he could rent hundreds of acres of Camellia oleifera plantation in the village just by asking.
But no one in the local area is willing to take over this kind of investment that cannot be profitable, except for people who don't know the business.
Now he faces this choice.
The 5 acres in my own home, plus part of my relatives' homes, make up about 50 acres.
Although this area is small, it cannot be managed by one person; if it is large, it is definitely incomparable to those large gardens that often cover hundreds or thousands of acres.
The scale of 50 acres is indeed a bit embarrassing.
To expand the scale, the hundreds of thousands of dollars he had saved in the past few years could not afford a large area. The rent was indeed cheap, but labor costs were the real expense.
After much thought, he decided to start 50 acres of Camellia oleifera first. With his own money of more than 100,000 yuan, he should be able to sustain it for two to three years.
However, for daily management, we can only entrust the uncle's family in the village to help look after it, and then take time to come back every weekend to do it, so as to reduce labor expenses.
Although he has made up his mind, Li Hao is still unsure: "I hope Amiao's new varieties will be more powerful, otherwise my money may be wasted."
He then informed Jiang Miao of his decision via WeChat.
However, Jiang Miao was still in the laboratory at this time and did not bring his mobile phone in, so he did not reply immediately.
Until 11:30 noon.
Jiang Miao patted her sore and numb back. After coming out of the laboratory and opening her locker, she saw a lot of unread messages on her phone, including messages sent by Li Hao.
Then he made a phone call back.
"Hey, Mouse, I'm sorry, I was in the laboratory just now and I didn't have my mobile phone with me."
"Haha, I knew you were busy."
"Have you really decided?"
"Well, I plan to try out 50 acres of Camellia oleifera first. How is the situation there?"
"50 acres? That's okay, let's do it! Your camellia oleifera garden can be used as our company's experimental field. I will subsidize you one thousand yuan per mu per year for three consecutive years."
"Sanshui, don't be like this! I know you are worried about me, but I can persist on my own in two or three years."
"No, I'm serious. After all, this is a new variety. Experimental planting definitely requires careful attention. Just take this subsidy and don't be polite to me."
"Okay then!"
"By the way, the first batch of tissue culture seedlings that can be grafted will not be sent until next spring."
"I know." Li Hao majored in agriculture after all.
Previously, Jiang Miao said that he discovered a new variety from a wild camellia tree. It is definitely impossible for all the grafted strips to come from that mother tree. Especially if it is to be promoted on a large scale, the only way to cultivate seedlings is through group cultivation. .
It takes more than half a year, which is actually very fast.
According to Jiang Miao's estimation, after the mutant tea seeds take root and germinate, the plant will reach a height of 1 meter. Under laboratory conditions, it will take about three months.
However, for secondary tissue culture, it is not necessary to grow to a height of 1 meter. It only needs a height of more than ten centimeters to collect buds and leaves for secondary tissue culture.
In other words, in the next eight months or so, through laboratory group cultivation of seedlings, with one generation every two months, it is completely possible to produce four generations of tissue-cultured Camellia oleifera seedlings.
Each generation can increase the scale by 50 times.
That is 1-50-2500-125000.
By March next year, the number of fourth-generation tissue-cultured camellia oleifera seedlings will reach 125,000.
This scale is enough to graft 125,000 camellia trees next March, which is equivalent to about 2,500 acres.
If it is not enough, tissue culture expansion can be continued.
It is not a problem to produce hundreds of thousands of acres of grafted seedlings a year.
However, in this case, Li Hao's camellia oleifera garden will definitely not be able to digest such a large number of camellia oleifera seedlings, and Hailufeng Company will have to run the camellia oleifera garden on its own.
As for why it is not sold to other Camellia oleifera growers.
There are many reasons.
One of the reasons is that the sale of new varieties of seedlings requires a series of procedures. At present, Hailufeng Company must register the genetic pedigree of the new oil tea varieties of the Youwang series as soon as possible, and then apply for other procedures with the local Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau.
With Hailufeng's local influence, this kind of application would not be too difficult.
But getting the legal procedures does not mean that you can sell directly.
After all, farmers are not fools, and they will not mindlessly purchase Hailufeng Company’s new varieties of camellia oleifera seedlings after just one or two words of introduction from you.
Therefore, from the beginning, Hailufeng Company could only grow camellia oleifera on a small scale.
Of course, the small scale mentioned by Jiang Miao is at least tens of thousands of acres, which can reflect the production capacity advantage of the Youwang series of Camellia oleifera.
With this idea in mind, he took the time to come to the headquarters office and called the deputy general manager Jiang Haibo.
"Haibo, the company plans to add a branch company specializing in Camellia oleifera cultivation in southern Jiangxi, and at the same time set up an agricultural planting division within the company. In terms of manpower, you can conduct preliminary screening as soon as possible, and I will take the time to conduct interviews and assessments."
While Jiang Haibo was writing down this matter, he asked: "Boss, how many people are needed for the branch and the new department?"
Before coming here, Jiang Miao already had a draft, so he stated his requirements directly: "The branch office needs at least 50 people, and the new department needs 10 people. The manager of the agricultural planting division will be Lu Weibin, the manager of Nanhu Farm. Lu Weibin will be in charge for the time being, and I will select a new manager to take over Nanhu Farm as soon as possible.”
"Boss, in that case, why not reorganize part of the production department!" Jiang Haibo took the opportunity to suggest.
"Tell me about it." Jiang Miao took a sip of tea.
"The Agricultural Planting Division can manage Nanhu Farm, Qiongzhou Branch, Gannan Branch, and the new agricultural planting industry in the future. Considering the need for differentiation, I suggest that the executives of specific industries be collectively called factory directors. The department managers at the company headquarters are uniformly called managers.”
Jiang Miao put down the teacup and thought for a moment: "That's okay. In that case, your title of deputy general manager is not suitable anymore. Change it to the general manager of the company!"
"Okay." Jiang Haibo had no other ideas about this. After all, his current job scope was general manager.
No matter how the name is changed, the power will not change much. The company will still be Jiang Miao's voice. This is the congenital nature of a sole proprietorship.
Then Jiang Miao gave some instructions.
As long as the agricultural planting division is established, he will carry out large-scale expansion and acquire a large number of plantations in the mountains.
Among them, all the plantations in Gan Province are Camellia oleifera gardens.
The plantations in Qiongzhou and eastern Guangdong will all be used for the future durian planting industry.
If you want to rapidly expand production capacity in the short term, you must make preliminary preparations. Fortunately, Hailufeng's capital reserves are large enough and there is a steady flow of cash flow, so there is no need to worry about funding problems.
Just a simple plantation is not enough.
In the future, large-scale production of Camellia oleifera and durian must be prepared in advance, including supporting processing plants, which must keep up.
This is also the only way for many crop raw material production companies.
Hailufeng Company must have its own oil pressing factory, edible oil factory, durian puree factory, and even further deep processing factory.
For example, tea seed cakes after extracting tea seed oil also contain a large amount of protein, fiber, vitamins, polysaccharides and other ingredients, which can be further refined.
Hailufeng Company has this condition and can certainly not stop extending its industrial chain.
However, there is no need to rush into these supporting processing plants. There is still time to start the layout next year.
The most critical thing at the moment is to purchase a large-area orchard in Shanmei and transform it into a beautiful plantation of kapok. Then, when the genetically modified kapok becomes available, it can be grafted immediately, and finally durian can be grafted. Old branches.
This can greatly shorten the time for the first batch of durians to be put on the market. It is expected that the first batch of durians will be available in August of the following year.
In order to open up the situation, Jiang Miao does not plan to plant only a few hundred acres of durian, but to launch tens of thousands of acres at a time to create a scale effect.
(End of chapter)