Chapter 151 Visitors (additional update)
While Jiang Miao continued to inspect the breeding base.
Lu Weibin's phone rang.
He went aside and listened to the call.
After a while, he came back.
"Boss, just now the soybean research team from the Zhelim City Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Science Research Institute came to our company for a visit. Do you want to meet?"
Jiang Miao raised his eyebrows: "That's fine. Anyway, we've pretty much looked at it here. Treat the root cause and Dasong. You should arrange the things I told you, especially those places where there are potential safety hazards, and they must be rectified as soon as possible."
"Okay boss!"
"We must complete the task as soon as possible."
Liu Zhiben and Wu Song stayed.
Jiang Miao took Lu Weibin and others back to the main base.
After driving 23 kilometers, we returned to the main base where the excitement was high.
The nearby villagers and herdsmen also looked at the convoy of Jiang Miao and others with curiosity. They had already found out that this was a project of a large company in the south.
Sun Boxin, who is eating melon seeds, can only eat melon seeds in front of his house in this lean season.
Baoyin, who was carrying a bag of condiments, looked at Sun Boxin who was sitting on a small stool eating melon seeds, and asked with a smile: "Old Sun, don't you know how to drive a tractor? Why don't you go work in the company opposite?"
"I can't take care of the sheep in my house, so why do I still go to work? Don't be ridiculous." Sun Boxin spat out the melon seed shells on the ground.
"Haha, just let your mother-in-law watch over your two hundred sheep."
"I don't trust her." Sun Boxin changed the subject: "Why are you buying so many bottles and cans? Are you going to open a restaurant?"
However, Baoyin really nodded: "Yes! I plan to open a kebab noodle shop."
"You don't have a fever, do you?" Sun Boxin stopped eating melon seeds and looked at the other party in surprise.
"You just have a fever. I have inside information. This big company will have a thousand employees in this base. They will definitely go out to eat and drink. My house is diagonally opposite their base and they will open a family noodle shop with barbecue skewers." You can attract them to eat," Baoyin said confidently.
Sun Boxin was shocked: "Real or fake? A thousand people? Our village doesn't have that many people, so they invested so much?"
"Haha, the farm where my cousin worked before went bankrupt and was acquired by this company. They contracted the Taminchakan Desert in the north. I heard that the contract covered 350,000 acres."
Click! Sun Boxin chewed a melon seed, his eyes rolling.
"Selling idiots?"
"Huh? It's nothing. I just don't think your skewers and noodle shop can attract the people inside."
"Hey! When did our old grandson become a business genius? Then tell me, why can't you attract customers?" Baoyin was immediately unconvinced.
Sun Boxin waved his hand: "I didn't say that your noodle shop can't attract people, but you didn't consider where the people in their company come from. Is it possible that their base is so big that they have a kitchen inside?"
"Huh?" Baoyin finally reacted: "Then do you have any good suggestions?"
"Five meals." Sun Boxin said with a smile.
Baoyin gritted his teeth: "Okay, if your suggestion is useful, I will treat you to five drinks. Are you satisfied? Say it quickly."
"Don't worry."
Baoyin grabbed the bag of melon seeds and said, "Don't wait too long."
"Okay, can't I say that?" Sun Boxin said with a smile: "Since you have internal connections, let people find out what the main dishes of the kitchen in this base are. If they are also our local dishes, your noodle shop and Don’t make skewers.”
"It makes sense." Baoyin was confused: "What else?"
"What else?"
"That's it?" Baoyin looked like you were teasing me.
"Look, you are in a hurry."
"Can I not be in a hurry? This is more stable than the tourists in that bullshit scenic spot in Yinshawan. There are thousands of them. Even if only a few dozen people come out to eat every day, they can support a fly restaurant."
Sun Boxin shook his head: "You go and find out first, otherwise how can I give you advice?"
"Yes." Baoyin hurried away.
Looking at the construction site where the sand was being leveled not far away, Sun Boxin's eyes flashed: "Catering is not important, daily necessities are the big deal. If you want to open it, open a grocery store." ’
Suddenly he looked at the pile of melon seed shells on the ground, and then at his empty hands, and couldn't help but cursed: "I owe you Deng Di Baoyin, and I also learned how to lead sheep easily. Just wait for me and see if I'm not ruthless." I’ll kill you hard.”
"Why are you barking outside? You drank horse urine again."
A strong voice came from inside the room.
Suddenly, Sun Boxin jumped up from his chair.
After sweeping the dust off his body, he quickly opened the door and walked into the house. When he saw the woman making noodles, he rubbed his hands with a smile on his face:
"My dear, let me discuss something with you."
Tana, who was making gnocchi, glared at him: "If you fart, hurry up."
"My brother doesn't make groceries in the city. I also want to open a grocery store in the village. You can call him and chat with us to give us directions."
Tana frowned: "You want to do business again? Haven't you compensated enough? I don't agree."
"Damn it, don't be like this! I really have a way to make a fortune this time." Sun Boxin was anxious, scratching his head and ears like a monkey.
"Haha, when did you not say that?" Tana looked like I believe you, you bad old man.
"Really, this is what I think..." Sun Boxin quickly told about the situation of opening a grocery store and the Hailufeng Company opposite.
After hearing this explanation, Tana began to think seriously: "Are there really so many people?"
"I heard from the guy Baoyin that his cousin's breeding farm was acquired by this company. Their company also contracted 350,000 acres of desert. For such a large area, even if there are machines, thousands of people are needed for other tasks." Sun Boxin quickly explained.
Tana still has lingering fears about Sun Boxin's previous loss-making businesses: "I'm still worried. If their company runs away within a few days of opening, what will we do?"
"So, I want you to ask my brother. He works in the city doing groceries and knows the ropes. Plus our house is right across the street, so we don't have to rent a store, which saves us a lot of money."
Finally, with Sun Boxin's eloquent skills, Tana was convinced and reluctantly agreed to ask her brother about opening a grocery store.
Just when Sun Boxin was complacent.
Just two hundred meters across the river from his home, a large B&B-type bathhouse opened quickly amidst the sound of firecrackers.
The owner of this bathhouse is Wu Song's brother.
Obviously the other party was instructed by Wu Song.
In Jelim City, due to limited water resources and dry weather, many people do not bathe every day like people in the south.
As for the Kulun base of Hailufeng Company, due to insufficient initial infrastructure, many employees can only use fire trucks to haul water for bathing, which is very inconvenient.
Wu Song saw this business opportunity and asked his brother to open a large B&B-type bathhouse that provided accommodation, bathing, catering and sold some drinks.
There are smart people everywhere.
In the past, the local tourism industry was half-dead, and naturally it could not bring about any stimulating effect. But now that Hailufeng Company has entered, smart people have discovered the opportunities, and bold people have already bet on it.
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Jiang Miao returned to the main base.
As soon as I got off the car, I saw two pickup trucks painted with "Zhelimu City Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Science Institute" parked in the temporary parking lot. Came to the office area.
An employee in charge of logistics ran over and showed Jiang Miao the way.
In the office where he was received before, Jiang Miao saw six strangers with rough and dark skin. These people were most likely members of the soybean research team of the Zhelim City Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Science Institute.
The two parties introduced each other.
I heard that in addition to being the chairman of Hailufeng Company, Jiang Miao is also an honorary doctorate, a distinguished professor, and a doctoral supervisor at Lion Mountain Agricultural University. He is also the vice president of the Seris Feed Association.
Zhang Zhiyong, director of the soybean team of the institute, was shocked. He had only heard that a large company had come to Jiayuan County and had enclosed hundreds of thousands of acres of desert and was preparing to launch a desert planting project here. He was still wondering if he could come over. Cooperate.
I didn't expect that the other party had such a big background.
Several other researchers and research assistants in their team were also shocked.
"Jiang Bo, you are really young and promising. The only thing I am better than Jiang Bo is probably my age." Zhang Zhiyong joked with himself.
Jiang Miao smiled and shook his head: "Zhang Bo is too humble. There are specialties in the field. Everyone shines in their own fields. There are high and low levels of scientific research projects, but our researchers do not."
"Jiang Bo, I'm very curious about your company's project in Jiayuan County. I wonder what crops you plan to plant? Maybe we can cooperate." Zhang Zhiyong asked curiously.
"Our project is to grow soybeans."
"Planting soybeans?" When Zhang Zhiyong heard that it was his main business, he immediately became excited: "Will hundreds of thousands of acres of desert be transformed into farmland?"
"Yes, 200,000 acres of it will be leveled into standard farmland that is convenient for mechanization; the remaining 150,000 acres will be sown with soybeans and alfalfa as pasture."
One of the researchers wearing glasses scratched his head when he heard this, and reminded with some confusion: "Jiang Bo, you should know the local rainfall, and the water in the livestock river is basically useful. I'm afraid the local groundwater cannot support it. , such large-scale soybean cultivation.”
"This is really inappropriate. Even with shallow drip irrigation that integrates water and fertilizer, each acre of soybeans requires 90 cubic meters of water, and 350,000 acres requires pumping 31.5 million cubic meters of groundwater. This is a huge scale of water use. It is estimated that it will not take a few years. , the strata of the entire Taminchakan Desert began to sink rapidly." Another researcher with a large black mole on the bridge of his nose also frowned.
Jiang Miao smiled and shook his head: "Don't worry, everyone. Our company will only pump 21 million cubic meters of groundwater in the first year, and if there is rainfall, this amount can be further reduced."
"Huh?" Zhang Zhiyong was confused: "Jiang Bo, you won't plant next year? But if you don't plant next year, then you have invested so much money to level the land, and there is no way to get back the money!"
Jiang Miao explained casually: "Our company has developed three new varieties of perennial soybeans. After planting, they do not need to be watered. They can maintain normal growth by relying only on natural precipitation and night dew."
Hearing this, Zhang Zhiyong remembered some of what he had learned before: "Perennial varieties? Is it a trait obtained by crossing wild soybeans from the south? Can this variety be adapted in the north?"
"We have simulated northern weather in the laboratory and there is no problem."
The researcher wearing glasses asked curiously: "Jiang Bo, I wonder what the yield per mu of your company's new varieties can be?"
The black mole researcher also persuaded: "Jiang Bo, your company should think twice! It is difficult to make money from soybeans now, so it is best not to invest so much at once."
These researchers just saw a large number of facilities being arranged in this base, and more than 200 construction vehicles working not far away. This scale requires an investment of at least several hundred million, and they really feel sorry for the money.
Zhang Zhiyong also reminded him with some worry: "Jiang Bo, you may not understand the current domestic soybean market. Recently, the market purchase price of third-grade soybeans with a protein content of 36% is only 3,600 yuan per ton, while the soybeans in Zhelimu City The average yield per mu is only about 150 kilograms. You may think that I am studying soybeans, but experimental fields and ordinary farmland are two different things.”
What they said does make sense.
After all, Zhang Zhiyong’s team participated in the sub-topic of the national key R&D plan project: “Spring corn and soybean dense planting water and fertilizer precise control high-yield and high-efficiency cultivation model in the western irrigation area of Northeast China.” The results of its experimental field test in 2024 showed that the theoretical yield of soybeans reached 390.93kg/mu (moisture content rate of 13%), setting a new high-yield record for a small area in the Monan region.
But this was of no use, at least it did not play a decisive role.
The key lies in the three words "small area".
If farming is done intensively, with sufficient water, fertilizer, light and heat, without extreme weather, and with better seeds, it is not difficult to achieve this figure in the experimental field.
But moving from a small area to a large area is the real problem.
Jiang Miao first thanked Zhang Zhiyong's team for their kindness: "I am very happy for your kindness, but our company's investment in this project is naturally to make money. I will definitely not do a loss-making business."
Facing Jiang Miao who insisted on going his own way, Zhang Zhiyong sighed in his heart, but he also knew enough was enough. After all, this was an investment from Hailufeng Company. He just reminded him. Whether others listened or not was not something he could decide.
Several other researchers also hesitated to speak, but seeing that their boss remained silent, they also chose to remain silent.
Zhang Zhiyong changed the subject: "Jiang Bo, how many kilograms of soybeans can you produce per mu?"
"Between 290 and 332 kilograms." Jiang Miao told the truth.
"This yield is not bad." Zhang Zhiyong was not too surprised because he subconsciously thought that this was the data from the experimental field of Hailufeng Company.
And many farmers that their research team works with can also reach this level under small-area cultivation.
Zhang Zhiyong talked about another thing: "Jiang Bo, if possible, we would like to leave an observation field in your planting base. The area does not need to be too large, 10 acres is enough."
"No problem. The soybeans at our base will be sown in mid-to-late June and harvested in mid-October. At that time, you can directly contact Wu Song or Liu Zhiben, the person in charge of our branch."
"Okay." Zhang Zhiyong smiled and nodded.
"It seems that Jiang Bo's new soybean variety is a short-growing soybean variety." The glasses researcher was not surprised by this. Because of the climate here, long-growing soybean varieties are not suitable.
Zhang Zhiyong talked about the promotion of seedlings: "Jiang Bo, if the soybeans in your planting base perform better this year and next year's perennial experiment can guarantee a 60% yield per mu, I can help you recommend it to some local growers. Your company should sell seeds, right?”
"This is nature."
Speaking of seeds, Zhang Zhiyong thought of another thing and quickly reminded: "Jiang Bo, have your soybean varieties been registered for patents? If not, register them as soon as possible. If you think the varieties are valuable, it is best to register international patents to avoid being used abroad. Seedling companies have rushed to register. ”
"Thank you for reminding us that we have registered domestic and foreign patents, and we have also registered patents for some special gene fragments." Jiang Miao paid great attention to this point.
Zhang Zhiyong was a little surprised to hear that Jiang Miao had even registered the gene fragment, and he also became interested in the three varieties of Hailufeng Company.
After all, even if ordinary seed companies register patents, they usually register domestic variety patents. Even international patents are rarely registered, let alone special gene patents related to varieties.
Unless the breed is really special and has a very high economic value, it will be registered like this.
Because registering a patent costs money, and registering a patent for a gene fragment is not just a matter of money. You also need to provide a genetic testing report to confirm that the submitted gene fragment belongs to a newly discovered gene fragment before you can obtain a patent for the gene fragment.
In the past, China did not pay attention to this kind of thing, and donated wild soybean seeds to Monsanto. However, the other party took part of the unique gene fragment of wild soybeans to register a patent, and in turn sued domestic seedling companies, requiring domestic companies to pay for the use. Royalties on special gene segments.
This is the consequence of not paying attention to intellectual property protection.
Zhang Zhiyong came back to his senses: "It's better that Jiang Bo is prepared, so as not to be taken advantage of by those vampires abroad."
"When I was studying at Shizishan Agricultural University, my teacher often reminded us to be wary of foreign seedling companies." Jiang Miao took a sip of salty milk tea.
"Yes! We have no experience in the country before, and many of our unique seedling resources have been stolen by foreign seedling companies." Zhang Zhiyong said this with sadness.
Unknowingly, after talking for more than two hours, Zhang Zhiyong remembered that he was going to the desert research station in Bashi County today when it was almost noon. He hurriedly said goodbye to Jiang Miao.
Jiang Miao originally planned to invite them to lunch, but Zhang Zhiyong declined as he was in a hurry.
As Zhang Zhiyong left in a hurry with his team.
Liu Zhiben and Wu Song also handled some matters at the breeding base, returned to the main base, and reported the situation to Jiang Miao.
While several people were talking, Li Zixuan knocked on the door and came in.
"Boss, these are some documents that President Jiang just sent."
Taking the document, Jiang Miao quickly flipped through it.
Just three things.
One is that the acquisition of Yangcheng Xinlekang Pharmaceutical Company has been negotiated, and the price is 17 million yuan cheaper than previously expected.
The second thing is the Pearl River Delta development project that my sister is responsible for. Currently, she has completed the purchase of shops and residences in Pengcheng and Echeng.
The last thing is that someone tried to sneak into the company's Egyptian pond lice breeding base last night and was caught on the spot by security personnel.
(End of chapter)