Chapter 102 Building the Chain (Added update for leader Nuanyang 1314)
The weather has just improved. Although there is no strong wind, it is still drizzling and the cement road is wet.
After receiving the notice, Jiang Miao went to the town government in person to sign a series of contracts, including the purchase of a land parcel in Dongtian, Xinxiang, for real estate development; and preparations to purchase a land parcel in Xiaonanshan, Xinxiang, as the company's headquarters.
The town government promised to complete the expropriation of the Xiaonanshan land parcel within two months.
In fact, these days, Jiang Miao's father, Jiang Dahai, has come forward to negotiate with the village. Except for two companies that are asking for high prices, all other negotiations have been completed.
Therefore, when he came to the town government this time, he reconfirmed the area and delineated area of the Xiaonanshan plot with the land department.
After re-confirmation, the Xiaonanshan plot within the scope of land acquisition covers an area of 163 acres, which is all woodland and orchards.
The price is also based on the conditions negotiated before.
After negotiating the matter, Jiang Miao did not stay at the town government for too long.
Because several scientific research projects in his hands have now entered a critical stage, unless it is like signing an important contract, he will leave other matters to the company executives to handle.
He has dealt with two things in the past few days.
The first is to sign the relevant contract for land development.
The second was to take the time to interview 89 people who came to apply for the job, and a total of 39 people were recruited.
Of these newly recruited people, 15 of them are going to be dispatched to the southern Gansu region to set up a southern Gansu branch. The manager of this branch is Sun Keji, a manager who was hired from a camellia oleifera planting company in southern Fujian.
Another 10 people were dispatched to the durian farm in Pinghe Town to develop and manage this large-scale farm. The farm manager is Zhu Guobin, who was hired from a durian planting company in Qiongzhou.
4 people joined the Supervision Office due to the management of Li Haoran.
The remaining 10 people joined Hailufeng Real Estate Company, Yandunshan Feed Factory No. 2, Nanhu Farm and other departments.
In terms of personnel work, Jiang Miao has always done it personally. Such matters cannot be delegated to other executives casually, otherwise it is easy to form cliques for personal gain.
After dealing with these two matters, Jiang Miao returned to his daily scientific research work.
August 15th.
He confirmed in the laboratory the three Camellia oleifera varieties that will eventually be promoted, because after the germination and growth of these three Camellia oleifera varieties, the trait expression of the varieties is consistent with the gene expression of the previous seed state.
They are Oil King No. 7, Oil King No. 13, and Oil King No. 15.
The genetic data that can be observed for these three varieties in the seedling state are all very eye-catching.
Oil King No. 7, under ideal conditions, has a yield limit of 230 kilograms of tea seed oil per mu. It has excellent other characteristics, but has the disadvantage that it cannot be grown north of the Yangtze River. The oil quality is quite satisfactory.
Oil King No. 13, under ideal conditions, the yield limit per mu can reach 200 kilograms of tea seed oil. It is characterized by cold and drought resistance, and its oil quality is top-notch.
Oil King No. 15, under ideal conditions, the yield limit per mu can reach 270 kilograms of tea seed oil. The oil quality is quite satisfactory. The disadvantage is that it is not drought tolerant or cold tolerant. It can only be planted south of the Yangtze River, preferably in Lingnan, Guangxi and Fujian provinces.
After identifying these three Camellia oleifera varieties.
Jiang Miao gave them an official trade name, namely Youwang No. 7 - Fengcha, Youwang No. 13 - Hanxiang, and Youwang No. 15 - Nanwang.
He called Zhang Chengdong, who was also in charge of the team's seedling cultivation laboratory.
"Chengdong, please arrange the group cultivation of these three Camellia oleifera seedlings. Before next year, we will have enough Camellia oleifera seedlings to graft tens of thousands of acres of Camellia oleifera."
"Ten thousand acres?" Zhang Chengdong was very shocked: "Boss, if we need to tissue culture so many seedlings, I'm worried that the nursery in the laboratory will not be enough."
Jiang Miao had anticipated this situation: "I know that yesterday I ordered the Agricultural Planting Division to rent 300 acres of hillside near the reservoir in Nanhu Village as a seedling nursery. You can just raise seedlings."
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"I see, then I have no problem." Zhang Chengdong was not too curious about why the boss wanted to mass-produce Camellia oleifera seedlings.
After giving this order, Jiang Miao returned to his exclusive laboratory again.
Looking at the display shelves, the rows of genetically modified kapok seedlings have been grafted with many old durian branches.
Through the identification panel, the grafting status of these transgenic kapok and durian old branches can be seen at a glance.
[…The degree of rejection is 37.66%…The conflict between Kapok gene fragment 3624 and durian gene fragment 557 will cause durian to reduce the efficiency of obtaining trace element magnesium from Kapok by 86.74%…]
[…Rejection reaction 7.68%…There is a conflict between Kapok gene fragment 1208 and durian gene fragment 441, which will cause durian to secrete a large amount of bitter chemical components, thereby affecting the taste of durian pulp…]
[…Rejection reaction 0.82%…There is a conflict between the Kapok gene fragment 1141 and the durian gene fragment 3409, which will cause the Kapok iron element to be robbed by durian…]
After grafting more than 60 types of genetically modified kapok and old durian branches, various situations have emerged.
These transgenic kapok seedlings have undergone iterative adjustments time and time again, and their genes have become more and more harmonious with those of durian.
At present, the genetically modified kapok with the smallest rejection reaction, after grafting and combining with old durian branches, the rejection reaction of the two is usually between 0.75 and 0.94%.
The graft rejection reaction between this transgenic kapok, which has the smallest rejection reaction with durian, and the normal beautiful kapok, is between 0.012 and 0.037%.
According to what Jiang Miao has seen so far, this transgenic kapok is ready for use.
Because he found that no matter how the genes are adjusted, the rejection reaction between the transgenic kapok and durian cannot be completely eliminated. Unless one is willing to sacrifice part of the functions of the transgenic kapok, the rejection reaction cannot be completely eliminated.
Sacrificing part of the functions of transgenic kapok is obviously contrary to Jiang Miao's purpose of studying transgenic kapok.
What's more, this part of the rejection reaction is not impossible to solve.
Just like the genetically modified kapok in his hand, the result of the rejection reaction between the two will cause photosynthesis to decrease by about 32% at the point where the genetically modified kapok cells and durian tree cells come into contact.
The problem is that the cells at the grafted site rarely participate in photosynthesis, which means there are no side effects.
He named this genetically modified Kapok strain "Sea King", which means it welcomes all comers, is energetic, and has two boats.
The genetic sequence of Neptune's transgenic kapok has been endowed with various functions by Jiang Miao.
To sum up, these functions can be divided into 4 systems, namely:
Immunografting system.
Efficient accumulation system.
Self-neutering system.
Ingredient filtration system.
The core function of the immune grafting system is to reduce the rejection reaction after grafting and improve the success rate of grafting.
The gene fragment of the high-efficiency accumulation system focuses on improving the photosynthesis efficiency of leaves, increasing energy and nutrient reserves, reducing water evaporation from leaves, maintaining an evergreen state in winter, efficiently recycling nutrients from fallen leaves, and forming special storage on the trunk. A bulge of nutrients.
Jiang Miao has calculated the energy and nutrient accumulation efficiency of "Neptune" and compared it with conventional durian trees. It is equivalent to about twice that of conventional durian trees.
This means that the old durian branches using "Neptune" as rootstock will bear fruit in the next year, and the fruit yield will be greatly increased. Although it cannot reach 2 times, 1.5 to 1.7 times can be achieved.
The gene for the self-sterilizing system is to prevent seedlings from leaking and to control durian growers.
Jiang Miao redesigned the genes of the self-sterilizing line so that the transgenic kapok would not bear fruit but would also enter a period of suspended animation for one month every year. This part of the gene came from the "Nine Death Resurrection Grass" and had been edited twice.
If no special chemicals are applied during the suspended animation period, the genetically modified kapok will change from suspended animation to real death.
In this way, it can be ensured that the transgenic kapok is under control.
Moreover, Jiang Miao also saved a trick: the maximum life cycle of transgenic kapok is only about 10 years. When the time is up, they will die automatically and must be replaced with new transgenic kapok rootstocks.
The final ingredient filtration system, the genetic fragment of this system, is to prevent the special ingredients produced by genetically modified kapok and beautiful kapok from "contaminating" the durian.
Therefore, an ingredient filtration system was designed to absorb those special ingredients that may affect the quality of durian through genetically modified kapok. These are the four gene lines that constitute the "Neptune" transgenic kapok.
As Jiang Miao completed his final observation, he knew that Neptune's transgenic heterokapox could start large-scale group cultivation of seedlings.
Since the transgenic kapok has a fast-growing gene, it only needs tissue culture from the young shoots, and each generation of seedlings only takes about a month.
The genetically modified kapok saplings can grow about two centimeters per day under good growth conditions, and can grow to about 1.8 meters in three months.
The Neptune transgenic kapok that reaches 1.8 meters can be grafted for the first time. Its tree stem is grafted onto the beautiful kapok rootstock. It only takes about a month to complete the wound healing and the two will merge into one.
It only takes another three months for Neptune's transgenic kapok to grow to about 4 meters, then stop growing upward and start growing horizontally. At this time, you can start using the transgenic kapok as rootstock and graft onto old durian branches.
The entire cycle is two months for seedlings, one month for healing, three months for growth, another month for healing, and six months before they can bloom and bear fruit.
There are 13 months in total. This time is the initial preparation time. After that, it blooms in January every year, and the fruits mature in July, August, and September and are ready for harvest.
While Jiang Miao ordered Zhang Chengdong to take the tissue culture of Neptune's transgenic kapok saplings, he also took Ke Yong and Li Zixuan to the back of the Yandunshan Feed Factory.
Behind the Yandunshan Feed Mill.
It is a series of barren hills contracted by Hailufeng Company.
Several excavators, bulldozers, and dump trucks are working on the hillside. Cut down trees are piled at the foot of the mountain, and stones are piled up to form earthen dams, forming four-level terraces similar to terraces.
At the foot of the mountain is an 8-meter-wide gravel road.
A row of iron towers were cast on the top of the mountain using concrete and steel bars. This is a cable car system used to pull things up and down.
Jiang Miao stood on the mountain. At present, more than 100 acres of mountain terraces have been transformed under her feet. The humus, shrubs and weeds pulled down from the mountain surface were crushed again and spread on the terraces for use. Increase soil nutrients.
Moreover, some specific soil and minerals are added to these soils, with the purpose of turning the soil of these terraces into an environment most suitable for the growth of beautiful kapok.
A dozen middle-aged migrant workers are planting beautiful kapok.
Plant according to the standard of 15 trees per acre.
The wholesale price of these beautiful kapok trees, which are about 3 meters high, is quite high. Each tree costs 300 yuan, and one acre costs 4,500 yuan for seedlings.
In addition to transforming the terraces, improving the soil, and building supporting facilities, the investment cost per acre is tens of thousands of yuan.
However, this kind of investment also has huge benefits.
For Magong Town, Hailufeng Company's large-scale construction projects in the area will create hundreds of jobs at once. After these people earn wages, they will further boost local consumption.
After all, the basic necessities, food, housing and transportation of these migrant workers will definitely have to be solved around Magong Town in the near future.
No wonder everywhere likes to build infrastructure.
Magong Town has become prosperous this year.
After standing at the top of the mountain for a while, two foremans wearing hard hats ran up with smiles on their faces.
"Mr. Jiang, you are welcome to guide our work." The contractor who spoke was Lin Taihao, who was responsible for transforming the terraces. He knew from his name that he was from Shioding Village.
"I'm very relieved about Boss Lin's work." Jiang Miao was indeed not lying, because he had just passed the appraisal panel and carefully observed the more than 100 acres of terraced fields that had been renovated. All of them were qualified and there were no quality problems.
"Mr. Jiang is satisfied, I'm relieved." Lin Taihao said with a smile on his face.
Jiang Miao took a sip of mineral water: "Boss Lin, how many acres of terraced fields can be transformed every day?"
Lin Taihao explained: "We have three teams working together. If the terrain is not too steep or there are not many rocks below, we can work more than ten acres a day."
“The speed is good.”
Although only four to five hundred acres of terraced fields can be transformed in a month, the engineering team is not alone.
For example, the Yandun Mountain area was subcontracted to two engineering teams. One was Lin Taihao, who was responsible for the western section near Yanding Village, and the other was Jiang Dahu, who was responsible for the eastern section near Xinxiang.
This kind of project is usually done by local people, which can reduce a lot of trouble.
However, Jiang Miao found a more professional company to contract for the construction of supporting facilities. After all, these facilities have certain requirements, and the local small engineering team is not very skilled.
Standing not far from Lin Taihao, another person who had been silent just now was Chen Dongxin, the project leader of Jianhua Engineering Company in charge of supporting facilities.
Jiang Miao turned around and asked: "Mr. Chen, has your cable system been tested?"
"We have tested the angle, speed, pulling force, stopping, passing, etc. several times. We have also taken into account the situation of the fruit trees being four or five meters high in the future. Mr. Jiang can rest assured that our company is professional." Chen Dongxin hurriedly replied.
The man in front of him was not only the God of Wealth in Magong Town, but also a rising star in Shanmei. Chen Dongxin did not dare to fool him.
The cable system is mainly for the convenience of getting up and down the terraces. However, these terrace cable systems are not allowed to carry people and are only used for freight.
This regulation is mainly to prevent some employees from being greedy for convenience and directly riding up and down the cable system. If it is not prohibited in advance, many migrant workers will operate it regardless of safety risks, just for convenience.
"What about the water pipeline?"
"We have also tested some of them. We have also built many reservoirs on the mountain and down the mountain."
After watching for a while, Jiang Miao felt that there was no big problem, so he led everyone down the mountain.
Halfway through, I saw Lu Weibin and others not far away who were inspecting the planting situation.
Lu Weibin came over quickly: "Boss."
Jiang Miao took a look at the bare terraced fields and felt that this was not good, so she said, "Old Lu, although it hasn't rained these days, there is still a risk of landslides and soil erosion in this kind of terraced fields. Please arrange for employees as soon as possible." , buy a batch of sorrel seeds and a batch of alfalfa seeds, and fill these open spaces to avoid soil erosion in the terraces. ”
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." Lu Weibin also felt that Jiang Miao was right. The bare surface of these terraces was indeed not good, and it was easy to raise dust.
Suddenly Jiang Miao stopped. He remembered that there were several varieties of alfalfa cultivated before in the Nanhu Experimental Greenhouse, and then added: "Especially alfalfa. There are also several new varieties of alfalfa in my laboratory. For alfalfa, just let the tissue culture laboratory cultivate a batch and plant it on the mountain here.”
As soon as he heard that it was a new variety, Lu Weibin became cautious: "Is it a new variety? Boss, do you need to send someone to take care of it?"
"Well, two people will take care of it and record the specific growth situation."
The alfalfa varieties that Jiang Miao recalled were all high-yielding and high-protein types that he specifically selected.
In the Lingnan area with excellent water and heat conditions, even in mountain terraces, the yield of these new alfalfa varieties can reach 5,000 kilograms of fresh grass per mu, and 3 to 4 crops can be harvested every year.
As a legume grass, alfalfa has many advantages, such as preventing soil erosion, increasing the organic nitrogen content of the soil, and being extremely high in plant protein.
The open space under the forest where durian is planted is used to grow alfalfa, which can make full use of land resources, increase soil fertility, and conserve water and soil.
Moreover, durian plantations have a fixed harvest season every year, which results in the difficulty in fixing the number of employees in durian plantations and wastes part of human resources.
If the more than 60,000 acres of open space under the durian plantation are utilized, approximately 50,000 acres of alfalfa can be grown. Considering the understory environment, two crops can be harvested a year, and 500,000 tons of fresh alfalfa grass can be harvested. , produced into alfalfa hay, which can reach about 130,000 tons.
The price of imported alfalfa hay is about 2,300 yuan per ton.
High-protein alfalfa can be directly used as feed for pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, and fish. Especially dairy cows require high-quality alfalfa.
Whether Hailufeng Company uses it in its own farms or sells it directly, this is a considerable amount of income.
However, the top priority is to register the gene patents for these new alfalfa varieties as soon as possible to avoid being preempted by other agricultural breeding companies.
(End of chapter)