Chapter 113 The Infinite Possibilities of Life (Additional Updates)
The affairs of the Du Bolun family have come to an end for the time being.
Hailufeng Company is still developing step by step.
In fact, in the past few months, the world has been undercurrents, especially the external tentacles of the Locke family being surrounded and suppressed by various forces.
This not only caused the Locke family's external forces to shrink significantly, but all parties also used those exposed secrets to follow the clues and found many problematic associates.
At the same time, this incident has also brought about another huge impact, that is, all forces have become more sensitive and nervous about various internal changes. Now, if someone does any small tricks, it is easy to be suspected of being America's fault. The hidden child was secretly investigated.
For example, the Du Bolun family is basically unable to turn over this time.
Because this time period is too sensitive, the matters involving his wife Tang Ke are enough to drag the entire Du family into an irreversible situation.
And Jiang Miao did not hesitate to take action, killing David A. Locke and leaking various secrets of their family at the same time, just to create a tense environment.
Now all the forces around the world are in trouble, and everyone is in danger. Especially those who have evil intentions in their hearts have become even more cautious.
At least in the past few years, everyone has stopped making small moves to bring trouble to themselves and their families.
This is also the relaxed environment Jiang Miao created for Hailufeng Company.
Perhaps for those powerful people, they have to walk on thin ice in recent years, but for Jiang Miao, who has no big stains, this environment is the most beneficial.
There is a saying that is very good.
Instead of improving your own strength, you might as well bring down your opponent's level.
For a novice Go player, don’t try to play against a Go master on the chessboard, because you are not familiar with the rules and tricks of Go. After all, he has been playing in the Go world for decades, and it will be difficult for you to win in Go. Play with the opponent within the rules.
At this time, one must imitate the Great Han Chess Master, directly pick up the chessboard and hit it hard on the opponent's Tianling Cover, letting the opponent know that the universe is the chessboard and all things are the chess pieces.
Who says you have to play chess within the chessboard?
I am a great chess master! He has reached the highest state where everything can be used as a chess piece, and he will fight if he doesn't accept it.
Jiang Miao, who is well versed in this, does not need to take any obvious actions at all, nor does he need to end it personally. He only needs to intensify the confrontation around the world. Through this tense atmosphere, all forces cannot focus on him. Just put it on your body.
After a few years, when the atmosphere eased, he broke up another America conglomerate family, once again forcing all parties to conduct internal cleansing, and gaining a few more years of stable development.
Others' uneasiness is his peace of mind.
Anyway, America's various consortium families have bribed or coerced a lot of secret agents around the world for decades. These Trojan horses can be used by them, and naturally they can be used by Jiang Miao.
It's just that Jiang Miao's use method is rather useless.
For example, this time, according to some information he collected, at least more than 80,000 people were directly affected, of which no less than 2,000 people directly received box lunches.
Anyway, among the forces of America's consortium, there are still nine that he has not used. When the time is up, just randomly select an unlucky one to sacrifice.
In this world, those who are likely to take action against Jiang Miao and Hailufeng Company are often not clean and accommodating people.
After all, if he was really a good person, he wouldn't take action against Jiang Miao and Hailufeng Company.
This kind of person is actually easier to deal with.
With just a slight touch, the flies and dogs on their bodies will emerge from under their bright coats.
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In the next two days, Jiang Miao cooperated with Webmaster Guo and others to complete the shooting of a series of videos.
On October 9, webmaster Guo and his team hurried to other areas for filming.
Jiang Miao was not in the laboratory at this time.
He is in the experimental greenhouse next to the strawberry greenhouse.
There is also a large area of red strawberries in front of me, but the smell of these strawberries is a bit "stinky". It is a typical example of a kind of fragrance that reaches the extreme, but turns into a stinky one.
It's a bit like the camphor tree.
The origin of these strawberries has something to do with a genetic mutation that appeared in a previous batch of tissue culture seedlings.
The characteristic of the genetically mutated vanilla strawberry is that its fragrance becomes extremely strong and even stinky. The farm workers originally wanted to dispose of this strawberry, but Su Zhiling, an agricultural technician who happened to be working on the farm, discovered this mutant. So I kept this strawberry.
At the technological development briefing of the Scientific Research Department at the end of May, Jiang Miao saw the research status of this strawberry.
That's why we have these stinky strawberries in front of us.
These stinky strawberries are divided into two types, one type is the third generation tissue culture seedlings of the mother plant, and the other type is the seed culture seedlings of the mother plant.
Those were third-generation tissue culture seedlings of smelly strawberry. They were in similar condition to the mother plant. They were both fragrant and smelly.
As for the seedlings grown from the seeds, due to mutation induction and secondary selection by Jiang Miao, their behavior showed all kinds of strange characteristics.
At this time, Jiang Miao had already set his sights on one of the seedlings, because this was the special mutant variety he found among thousands of seeds.
The fruit of this smelly strawberry contains high concentrations of vanillin.
What is vanillin?
Vanillin is divided into synthetic and natural types. It was originally a natural flavor extracted from vanilla beans.
The vanilla ice cream we often eat actually used vanilla beans at first, but later it was replaced with synthetic vanillin.
However, natural vanilla beans are still one of the important raw materials for high-end desserts, because the flavor of natural vanilla beans is very complex and cannot be summarized by simple vanillin.
When Jiang Miao was cultivating vanilla strawberries before, he selected varieties with vanillin in them, and this is how the vanilla strawberry variety came into existence.
However, he did not expect that this variety would mutate into this type of strawberry.
The flavor substances of the strawberry in front of me overlap with those of vanilla beans by 96%, and the concentration is about 3.7 times that of vanilla beans.
This also resulted in the strawberry's fragrance being overly fragrant and smelly.
Jiang Miao put the strawberry plant into a special cultivation area and picked three ripe strawberries at the same time.
He brought the strawberries to the laboratory, used the freeze-drying equipment to freeze and dehydrate three strawberries, and then beat them into powder.
Take out a little bit and add it to a bucket of white ice cream prepared in advance. After thorough stirring, these stinky strawberry powder is completely integrated into the ice cream.
Jiang Miao scooped up a spoonful, put it into his mouth, and tasted it carefully.
A strong vanilla flavor lingers on the tongue, followed by a hint of strawberry in the aftertaste.
Comparing the taste of ordinary artificial vanillin ice cream, natural vanilla bean ice cream, and stinky strawberry ice cream, it is 90% similar to the taste brought by natural vanilla beans. The remaining 10% difference is actually that one point. Strawberry flavor comes to the impact.
During lunch.
Jiang Miao brought three large buckets of ice cream on a trolley to the restaurant.
He clapped his palms and said: "Come on, come on, everyone, come and have a taste."
"Ice cream?" Shuya was confused: "What are you doing with ice cream?"
While giving Shuya three scoops of ice cream balls, Jiang Miao explained: "These are three types of ice cream, using different flavors. After you taste them, write down your specific feelings, especially the taste."
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"That's it! Okay." Shuya took the box and evaluation form.
Others came over to get ice cream and evaluation sheets.
Shuya took a bite: "Isn't this just ordinary vanilla ice cream?"
After rinsing her mouth with mineral water, she tasted another ice cream ball: "Huh? This No. 2 ice cream has a stronger vanilla flavor and a richer flavor."
"Sister Shuya, this No. 2 ice cream should be made of natural vanilla. I have eaten Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream before, and it has a similar taste. It is rich yet soft, with rich layers." Li Wenna took it. Cut the No. 3 ice cream balls with a spoon. "I see." Shuya doesn't like to eat ice cream, so she doesn't know much about vanilla ice cream.
"Eh? The taste of No. 3 ice cream is almost the same as No. 2!" Li Wenna closed her eyes and felt it. As the stamina increased, she felt a faint strawberry flavor: "Is it ice cream made with natural vanilla and strawberry? ”
Shuya was the same as Li Wenna. She also felt the vanilla flavor similar to No. 2 ice cream at first, and then a faint strawberry flavor emerged afterward.
If it weren't for the strawberry flavor, she would think that ice cream No. 3 and No. 2 were the same natural vanilla ice cream.
As others finished their tastings one after another.
Jiang Miao then asked with a smile: "Which one of the three ice creams do you think tastes better?"
"No. 2."
“Let’s go to No. 3! The taste is richer.”
"I also think it's No. 3."
"No. 1, no other odor."
"No. 2 is better, but I don't like the strawberry flavor of No. 3. It's a bit hard to tell whether it's vanilla ice cream or strawberry ice cream."
"I like the rich layering of No. 3."
Jiang Haibo smiled and asked: "Boss, is No. 3 related to the company's new product?"
Jiang Miao nodded: "A few months ago, I discovered a mutant stinky strawberry. After secondary breeding, I screened out this strawberry. Its taste is 90% similar to natural vanilla. You are eating No. 3 The ice cream uses stinky strawberry powder instead of natural vanilla.”
"Is this made of strawberry powder?" Shuya was a little surprised.
Qin Hanming from the Market Research Department immediately considered how to develop it: "If this is the case, maybe we can consider growing this kind of strawberry to replace vanilla beans, and maybe there will be a big market."
"Can we cultivate another variety that removes the strawberry flavor, so that we can imitate natural vanilla beans?" Jiang Haibo suggested.
Jiang Miao shook his head: "I'm afraid it's difficult, after all, this is the original flavor of strawberry, but we can use this strawberry powder as a characteristic symbol to distinguish the vanilla flavor between stinky strawberries and vanilla beans."
Qin Hanming, who was already checking relevant information on his mobile phone, said while looking at his mobile phone: "Currently, the world's largest natural vanilla bean production area is Madagascar, with an annual output of about 1,200 to 3,500 tons. In terms of price, each producing area is different. The highest price is around 220,000 dollars per ton in Gaul, and the lowest is 40,000 dollars per ton in Java.”
"The output is a bit small! And the price is too high, right?" Jiang Haibo thought about the market situation.
Qin Hanming mentioned another point: "You can indeed consider planting this kind of strawberry. After all, planting vanilla beans is too troublesome, especially artificial pollination, which makes it difficult to expand production."
The company's technology for growing strawberries is certainly more mature than growing unfamiliar vanilla beans.
"Actually, I have two ways to remove part of the strawberry aroma from smelly strawberries." Jiang Miao added: "One is to use a specific nutrient solution, which can reduce the accumulation of some flavor substances in the strawberries; the other is to use a specific temperature The rapid processing, similar to the high-temperature flash evaporation technology of milk, can instantly destroy some of the ester compounds that give off the strawberry flavor.”
"Boss, can these two plans be combined?" Jiang Haibo asked curiously.
Jiang Miao nodded: "Yes, one is to reduce the synthesis of strawberry flavor substances in strawberries, and the other is to destroy strawberry flavor substances. A two-pronged approach should be able to remove 90% of the strawberry flavor. Unless you have a particularly sensitive taste, it will be difficult to taste that. Not much strawberry flavor left.”
"Boss, I think we can invest in this project, but we should start on a small scale. After all, this strawberry powder has not yet been recognized by the market." Qin Hanming suggested somewhat cautiously.
After thinking for a while, Jiang Miao also felt that the company currently had sufficient funds and there was no need to be timid, so he made a decision: "Then rent another piece of land in Hongcao Town and build a planting base dedicated to growing this kind of strawberry. , by the way, we acquired a factory nearby as a processing plant for strawberry powder.”
"Boss, how many acres are needed for planting?" Jiang Haibo asked quickly.
"The yield of this kind of strawberry is similar to that of vanilla strawberry. Each acre can produce 4,000 to 5,000 kilograms of strawberries per year. Let's plant 100 acres to test the water first!"
"Okay."
Suddenly Jiang Haibo thought of the name of this variety and quickly asked: "By the way, boss, what should this strawberry be called?"
After all, Stinky Strawberry is just an internal name and is definitely not suitable as a product name.
"Vanilla strawberry has been used." Jiang Miao touched his chin and thought.
Shuya was also looking at the information on her mobile phone. Suddenly she saw the introduction of vanilla beans, and an idea suddenly flashed: "Why not call it pandan strawberry! After all, vanilla beans are produced from vanilla orchid."
Hearing this, Jiang Miao's eyes also lit up and he thought the name was very good: "Pandan strawberry? This is a good name. That's it. From now on, this variety will be called pandan strawberry."
Now that he decided to mass-produce pandan strawberries, Jiang Miao ordered the tissue culture laboratory to start cultivating tissue culture seedlings of pandan strawberries.
At the same time, he promoted Su Zhiling, the agricultural technician who discovered the first-generation pandan strawberry, and made him the person in charge of the red grass strawberry planting base. Of course, Jiang Miao would not forget his contribution to discovering the first-generation pandan strawberry and decided to give him a product commission. .
Product commission is also a kind of treatment for technical personnel. As long as the research project produces results and is suitable for commercial mass production, the relevant technical personnel can obtain a certain product commission.
This is equivalent to the internal data fee, and the commission is generally between 0.1% and 1% of the product's gross profit.
Considering that Su Zhiling discovered the first generation strain of pandan strawberry, Jiang Miao gave him a 0.3% commission rate.
If pandan strawberries can sell hundreds of millions a year in the future, Su Zhiling can get hundreds of thousands of shares every year, maybe even one or two million.
This product sharing is also to encourage researchers to work hard.
When Su Zhiling heard the news, he was in disbelief at first. After all, he had discovered that the mother plant, and the subsequent research and breeding were not his credit. He originally thought that the boss would give him a bonus of several thousand yuan at most.
Unexpectedly, he actually received a share of the product and was appointed as the person in charge of the red grass strawberry planting base.
When Su Zhiling came back to his senses, his body was shaking uncontrollably with excitement.
And other colleagues also cast envious and jealous glances. This was soaring to the sky. No wonder other people were jealous.
But there is no use in being envious and jealous.
After all, the discovery of new varieties sometimes depends on luck. If you are lucky, you can encounter good things casually; if you are not lucky, you may not find anything for more than ten years.
Don't think that the mother plant Su Zhiling left behind is unimportant.
Without this mother plant, there would be no subsequent seeds and no pandan strawberry. It can be said that the mother plant is the origin of the entire pandan strawberry lineage.
Jiang Miao has actually rethought some breeding directions.
Especially for spice crops, many spices are expensive. Essentially, the spice-producing plants are limited by various conditions, resulting in the inability to increase their production capacity, which leads to very high prices.
If other crops that can be produced on a large scale and contain the same flavor substances can be used to cultivate highly similar spice crops, the original expensive spices can be replaced.
Pandan strawberry is one example.
This thing is the substitute of vanilla bean, and the taste is so overlapping that it is almost indistinguishable from each other.
Among other high-end spices, saffron is also a worthy target. The core component of its fragrance is sacrosanal.
In nature, there are many plants containing sacrosanal, such as cornflowers, gardenias, green tea, etc.
In addition, among some of the current drugs, many of the organic polymer compounds extracted from animals and plants are difficult to synthesize artificially and can only be refined by collecting crops.
Therefore, through breeding, obtaining varieties with particularly high content of certain ingredients can increase the value of the varieties.
In fact, Jiang Miao has made special attempts to increase the protein content and adjust the proportion of various fats in Egyptian pond lice breeding.
As long as Egyptian pond lice using No. 4 feed are used, the protein content in the fish meat can be increased from 22% to 24% to 25%; the unsaturated fatty acid content in the fish oil will be increased from 45% to 50%~ 53%.
This increase will make the value of Egyptian pond lice rise with the tide. After all, every one percentage point increase in protein content means that more fishmeal can be produced.
Similarly, a higher content of unsaturated fatty acids also means a higher value after refining, and the price of crude oil will also increase.
And this is an improvement that can be achieved simply through scientific feeding.
If it is through breeding in a specific direction, some of the characteristics of the new varieties developed may be more prominent.
(End of chapter)