Chapter 123 Prepare for a rainy day (additional update)
After negotiating cooperation with Haid Group.
For Hailufeng Company, this cooperation is basically a matter of making money while lying down.
November 13th.
The Double Eleven that just passed was another year of relatively dismal performance for e-commerce platforms.
Fortunately, Hailufeng's products did not participate in Double Eleven, mainly because it is not necessary. After all, the platform has too many routines, so it is better for the company to organize some activities of its own.
at the same time.
The e-commerce division, which has moved to a self-built house in Nanhu Village, is also holding meetings intensively at this time.
Qin Xingzu, the head of the APP development office who just joined Hailufeng Company this month, introduced his project planning list to the manager Zhang Xinyi.
"According to the boss's request, we have already prepared a plan~"
Qin Xingzu, who is equivalent to a product manager, previously worked for a medium-sized Internet company in Pengcheng. He was headhunted to Hailufeng Company a month ago and was responsible for the development of shopping APP.
His job is to determine the functions, processes and user experience design of the APP, coordinate the resources of all parties, and control the overall progress of the project.
In addition, the other people in their office are:
Three UI/UX designers are responsible for interface design and interaction design to make the APP more beautiful and easy to use.
There are 7 Android system development engineers, responsible for developing the Android version of APP.
As for the development of the iOS system, it was directly rejected by the company. After all, the iOS version of the APP requires energy, and the company currently does not want to invest too much in this aspect.
Then there are 4 back-end development engineers, who are responsible for building and maintaining the server side, handling data storage, user authentication and other functions.
And 3 test engineers, responsible for checking whether there are loopholes and functional defects in the APP.
The entire APP development office has a total of 17 people.
"Team Leader Qin, how long will it take you to complete the APP?" Zhang Xinyi asked while looking at the project plan.
Qin Xingzu mentally considered the various arrangements for the project, and then replied: "The basic structure has been completed. If everything goes well, it is estimated to take four to five months."
The reason why the company wants to develop a shopping APP is mainly to prepare for a rainy day.
As Hailufeng's products are increasing, if they continue to sell on those e-commerce platforms, the product commissions and technical service fees charged will not be a small sum.
For example, white truffles and eel fry are listed as special products on several e-commerce platforms, with product commissions as high as 5%.
For eel fry alone, Hailufeng Company received a commission of 7.52 million yuan last month.
This was unacceptable to Zhang Xinyi. She reported the matter to Jiang Miao in September and planned to develop the company's own APP to avoid being sucked by the e-commerce platform.
After all, a dozen software development engineers only spend more than 500,000 yuan a month.
For Hailufeng, this is just a small amount of money, and it is nothing compared to the monthly commissions charged by the e-commerce platform.
Jiang Miao followed his good advice and approved the e-commerce division to advance this project, and gave the APP a name, "Hai Lu Feng Specialty Store".
For the time being, this APP only sells products produced by the company itself, with both retail and wholesale operations.
Zhang Xinyi is not worried about the source of her customers.
Because the company has accumulated a lot of customer resources in the early stage, such as eel farmers, Egyptian pond lice farmers, high-end catering companies, domestic Japanese food stores, boiled fish restaurants, etc., these customers are basically fixed, as long as the company makes progress Notice that they can only use the shopping APP of Hailufeng Company.
The remaining individual customers mainly buy fruits and canned products. These products have average profits, but they can continue to be sold on other e-commerce platforms.
However, the e-commerce division will definitely gradually attract individual users in the future.
After all, the company's future products will gradually diversify, and their appeal to individual customers will continue to increase.
As an agricultural company that wants to become the world's No. 1 agricultural company, Hailufeng will not stop here.
Zhang Xinyi felt heartbroken at the thought of being charged four or five more months of commission. She frowned and asked, "Four or five months? Can it be accelerated?"
After thinking for a while, Qin Xingzu gave a time schedule: "If five or six more people are added, I am confident that the time can be compressed to March."
"Okay, I will ask the human resources department to recruit as soon as possible. You will make a list of the professionals you need and give me a list."
"No problem."
Suddenly Zhang Xinyi remembered something: "There is another thing. The boss specifically ordered it yesterday. The digital Huayuan wallet needs to be added to the APP, and digital Huayuan payment should be used first. Is this difficult? Will it affect the progress?" < br>
"This won't happen. After all, we have to access the payment system ourselves. An additional digital Huayuan wallet will not have any impact."
"That's good."
Obviously, Jiang Miao didn't trust the payment systems of large Internet companies such as Taobao and Penguin. Just in case, he decided to recommend the digital Huayuan wallet as the main payment method.
After Qin Xingzu, Zhang Xinyi and others finished the meeting, they hurried back to the self-built house next door.
This 4-story self-built house covering an area of 120 square meters is the office building of their APP development office.
He returns to the office.
The delivery person in the canteen has delivered today's dinner.
Glancing out the window, where the setting sun reflected the cactus beside the window, Qin Xingzu stretched.
Come to the lounge and restaurant on the first floor.
Several colleagues are already having dinner.
Qin Xingzu opened the incubator and found his own portion. He wrote his name because the engineers in their APP development office all had customized meals.
This was because Jiang Miao saw their hard work. After all, they had to work overtime in the past few months. Considering that these software development engineers were more or less in poor health, Jiang Miao took the time to check their health and then formulated a special plan. FOOD.
Although it doesn't have the same brain-strengthening effect as what he and Shuya took, it can at least keep them energetic and clear-headed, and it can also reduce liver and kidney damage and hair loss.
Qin Xingzu ate special meals for a month and walked for an hour in Nanhu Village in the evening. He could feel obvious changes in his body. The panda eyes before had become much lighter, his face was rosy and shiny, and he could not walk without a few steps. Just out of breath.
The expressions of other colleagues also improved visibly.
They had also heard from colleagues in other departments that the boss's dietary medical skills were very powerful, but they were still doubtful.
But this month's personal experience made Qin Xingzu and others know that the boss's dietary medical skills are indeed powerful, and the effect is much better than the health supplements he used to take.
Had a meal.
He went for a walk with some colleagues.
By this time it was getting dark.
Nanhu Village is very quiet, except for the occasional TV sound coming from the houses on both sides of the road, which is the sound of leaves blowing in the wind.
Unknowingly, the group of people arrived at the door of Nanhu Farm’s office building.
I met a dozen middle-aged women after get off work.
A Shunfeng Express container truck slowly drove out from the side of the road, and another container full of express delivery was sent away.
There was a container truck loading goods behind.
"The company's business is not bad."
"It goes without saying that our company can cultivate white truffles artificially."
“White truffles are just like that.”
"Haha, you can eat it every three days, so of course you think it's common."
"But the company's catering benefits are really good, much better than the takeaways we used to eat."
"I heard that the company has allocated virtual shares. I wonder if we have any?"
Qin Xingzu took a sip of black coffee from the thermos: "Of course, but it will take one year of employment before virtual shares will be allocated. Our office will not have them until October next year."
"It's good to have it."
As they walked, they came to the end of the cement road and started walking back.
In a brightly lit office in a quiet and peaceful corner of the village, a group of passionate and creative programmers are working day and night on a brand new shopping APP project. Compared with those start-up companies that can only draw the pie, the treatment of Hailufeng Company is already better.
The employee responsible for the interface design and interaction design of this project is senior programmer Lao Li. He looked firmly at the computer screen in front of him, which was full of complex codes and architecture diagrams.
He is actually only 41 years old and was working in a major factory five years ago. However, as he reaches 36 years old, he has naturally become the target of optimization by major manufacturers.
"Brother Li, help me take a look..."
"Wait a minute."
Lao Li saved the previous files, then moved his chair and came to the side of his colleague Xiao Gao. Xiao Gao had only graduated two or three years ago, so his experience in programming was not as good as that of Lao Li, a veteran.
After reading the code again, Xiao Gao asked Xiao Gao to explain the purpose of several codes. Lao Li used AI to debug and finally found two problems:
"The quantity setting of your code is wrong, there is an extra zero."
"Oh? I thought I could just use the previous set of codes..."
"And here you have to add one more..."
Team members quickly got to work.
Xiao Wang, another person responsible for interface design, focused on designing the user interface. He racked his brains according to the boss's requirements.
The boss hopes that users can feel the freshness and nature of the company the moment they open the APP, while also having a certain sense of technology.
"This interface should be concise and clear, highlighting the characteristics and technological sense of agricultural products, while allowing users to quickly find what they want." Xiao Wang said to himself while operating the mouse.
Xiao Zhang, who is responsible for database management, is working hard to optimize data storage and retrieval functions to ensure that a large amount of product information can be presented to users accurately and quickly.
After all, the company's future agricultural products will have more and more types, which requires the data to be accurate and not allow users to see wrong information. Even if it is not used now, it will be used in the future.
Xiao Zhao, who is responsible for the security and payment system, put on his thick glasses as he carefully built a secure internal firewall to protect users’ transaction security and privacy.
Although the programmers in the APP development office have worked very hard, they have just begun to officially develop the software, and even the prototype of the software has not yet been completed.
After Qin Xingzu and others returned.
He clapped his hands and said: "Thank you for your hard work, let's go eat and take a walk! Although work is important, you must also balance work and rest."
"It's so late?"
"Let's go and eat."
After a while, most of the people went down to the first floor.
Qin Xingzu and others also came to their work stations and started working overtime tonight.
…
Although APP development is related to the company's revenue.
But Jiang Miao didn't pay too much attention, just leave this kind of thing to the employees.
November 14th, early in the morning.
It was just dawn, and the weeds on the roadside were still covered with dew.
Jiang Miao and Shuya came to the Yandunshan Farm behind the Yandunshan Feed Factory, which is also the terraced field of the durian plantation.
After more than a month of transformation, Yandunshan Farm has completed the construction of nearly 700 acres of high-standard terraces with the efforts of two construction teams.
These transformed terraces are all planted with beautiful exotic kapok.
Shuya wore a peaked cap and breathed the fresh morning air: "Can these beautiful foreign kapoks be grafted?"
"Not yet, not until February next year."
Jiang Miao squatted down and looked at the lush alfalfa under his feet. He had harvested three crops of seeds from the 5 acres of alfalfa he cultivated before, and harvested a total of about 600 kilograms of seeds.
Planting alfalfa through broadcasting requires about 2 kilograms of seeds per acre. In other words, these 600 kilograms of seeds are only enough to sow 300 acres.
Fortunately, through laboratory tissue culture, hundreds of thousands of alfalfa seedlings can be produced every month, and seedlings can also be grown by cutting. Moreover, after the next 300 acres of alfalfa are harvested, 12,000 kilograms of seeds can be obtained.
With the climate in Lingnan, alfalfa can bloom and bear fruit twice a year in the open air.
It only takes about a year for the seeds to become self-sufficient.
Shuya also squatted down and looked at the alfalfa that had been growing for more than a month: "Is this the new variety of alfalfa you cultivated?"
"Well, this variety is relatively shade-tolerant. Even in this forest environment, the growth cycle can be compressed to 100 days. If there is sufficient sunshine, it will only take about 85 days to harvest; if there is sufficient light, water, and fertilizer, , this kind of alfalfa can bloom and bear fruit three times a year, and it is estimated that it will bloom about twice in the forest.”
"That's not bad, but what do you plan to use these alfalfa for? For feed?" Shuya picked a large handful of young alfalfa leaves and prepared to take them back to taste them.
Jiang Miao smiled and nodded: "It can be used as feed. After all, this variety of alfalfa has a crude protein content of up to 24% when made into hay. It is also a high-quality variety among alfalfa."
"You came here specifically today, didn't you just come to climb the mountain with me?" Shuya asked curiously.
"Don't you think the alfalfa all over the mountains and fields is beautiful?"
"Talk like a human being." Shuya ignored him and kept picking the young leaves.
Jiang Miao smiled and shook her head: "I'll take you to relax and take a look at the bees."
"Bees?" Shuya stood up and found a small square on the earth wall not far away, with a beehive displayed inside. She took a closer look and said, "Why are these bees a bit small?"
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"This is a native bee species."
"It turns out to be a medium bee. I heard that few people keep medium bees now. Why is that?"
Jiang Miao explained: "The main reason is that the Zhongfeng swarm is relatively weak and easy to divide into groups. Moreover, during the period of heavy honey flow, the honey production efficiency is lower than that of Italian bees, and they are also prone to attack people."
"Then why do we need to breed medium bees?"
"There are disadvantages, but naturally there are advantages. The advantage of the Chinese bees is that they can collect sporadic nectar sources around them. They are highly adaptable to the domestic environment and can be immune to Varroa mites."
Moreover, Jiang Miao also has a way to solve the shortcomings of weak bee colonies and easy swarming. As long as the bee colony is expanded, the efficiency of honey collection will naturally increase.
His solution was to regularly feed these bees with specially prepared artificial nectar, thereby suppressing the gregarious nature of their genes that evolved for survival.
In fact, the nature of grouping brought about by genes like Zhongfeng is essentially for survival and ensuring the continuation of the group.
As long as they are continuously suppressed for more than ten generations, their genes will be readjusted and they will become less and less fond of grouping, thus forming a new mid-peak group.
At present, the 300 acres of alfalfa in Yandunshan Farm are in flowering state one after another, and the flowering period is expected to be around February.
Together with the nectar of surrounding wild flowers, 300 boxes of bees are placed here, which can produce tens of thousands of kilograms of honey in two months.
Jiang Miao had already ordered Lu Weibin to set up a honey production office a month ago to manage the bee fleet. These medium-sized bees were also purchased from professional bee farms in the province this month.
The reason why the honey production office was established is that the company invested more than 50,000 acres of durian plantations in Shanmei, which means that more than 40,000 acres of alfalfa can be planted.
Together with the clovers and durians that are planned to be mixed in the future, these plants will produce a lot of nectar, and so much nectar cannot be wasted.
After all, by adjusting the flowering period, these more than 40,000 acres of alfalfa and clover, plus durian and surrounding wild flowers and trees, are enough to breed 10,000 boxes of bees.
The camellia oleifera plantation at the Gannan branch will also grow alfalfa and clover, and will also be able to breed bees.
However, Camellia oleifera nectar is poisonous to bees, especially Italian bees. There is basically no way to collect Camellia oleifera nectar. Bees are somewhat resistant, but after collection, Camellia oleifera nectar may cause allergies and mild poisoning to the human body, so it must Avoid the Camellia oleifera blooming season.
Fortunately, the Camellia oleifera flowering period is from October to December every year. By adjusting the water and fertilizer, the flowering period of alfalfa and clover can be completely staggered with the Camellia oleifera flowering period, thus preventing bees from accidentally extracting Camellia oleifera nectar.
The Gannan branch can breed 40,000 boxes of bees, plus the 10,000 boxes at the headquarters, a total of 50,000 boxes. If planned well, under ideal conditions, 8,750 tons of honey can be produced a year.
This is one of the advantages brought by the industrial chain.
It is difficult for ordinary beekeepers to have such a large fixed honey plantation, and it is also difficult to adjust the flowering time.
Jiang Miao observed more than a dozen beehives and found that the special nectar he used was indeed effective. The colony of these little bees had obviously grown larger, but there was no obvious sign of swarming.
If the bees are not suppressed, let alone 10,000 hives nearby, even dozens of boxes will cause the bees to run away from home.
(End of chapter)