Chapter 182: Lure and Lure (Additional Update)
"...I announce that the signing ceremony of the Horqin Sandy Land Comprehensive Development Project of Hailufeng Company has been successfully completed!"
Bang bang bang…
In Zhelimu City, the auditorium of a high school was temporarily borrowed as a venue for the press conference. At this time, the intense applause in the auditorium continued.
The pretty female host picked up the microphone and said with a smile: "Now I invite the general manager of Hailufeng Company, Mr. Liu Zhiben, to come to the stage to speak. Everyone applauds!"
Bang bang bang…
Amid warm applause, Liu Zhiben walked up calmly and took the microphone handed over by the staff.
He stood on the platform, patted the microphone, and then faced the media reporters and invited guests: "Thank you very much for this hard-won cooperation. Hailufeng Company's development project in Horqin Sandy Land will be fully implemented within the next five years. ”
"Mr. Liu, the reporter friends in the audience have just asked a lot of questions. I hope to get answers from your company. This is the question." The female host handed Liu Zhiben a list of questions.
"Okay, if they don't involve company secrets, I can answer these questions." Liu Zhiben took the stack of notes with a smile, glanced at the first question, raised his head and said:
"The question asked by the Xinjing News reporter is whether Sendou soybeans will cause environmental problems. My answer is that the application of any technology will cause problems, unless humans disappear from the earth."
Hahaha...many people lowered their heads and laughed quietly.
Liu Zhiben continued: "In the process of using Xiandou soybeans to transform desert sands, we will naturally not ignore local environmental issues, such as Horqin Sands, Hunshandake Sands, Mu Us Sands, Ulan Buh Desert, These places were grasslands and oases thousands of years ago, so their transformation into farmland and pasture will not cause environmental problems.”
"As for the Tengger Desert, Badain Jaran Desert, Taklimakan Desert, etc., which were deserts in ancient times, we will carefully consider the area and area of transformation. However, I personally think that even if the Tengger Desert and Badain Jaran Desert are transformed, ”
The reporters in the audience immediately started discussing in low voices.
Liu Zhiben explained with a smile: "Perhaps everyone will think that my statement is not rigorous enough, but everyone has overlooked one problem, that is, the area of deserts in our northern neighbors is increasing day by day, and the desertification in Central Asia is also increasing. It is becoming more and more serious, so I don’t think the domestic transformation of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of desert will have any serious consequences on the earth’s climate.”
Many people suddenly realized.
After thinking about it carefully, I felt that Liu Zhiben's statement did make sense.
From the perspective of the overall environment in northern Asia, desertification in Mobei and Central Asia is indeed becoming more and more severe.
According to relevant reports, in 2017, the desertified land area in the Mobei region accounted for 50.7% of its total land resources. By 2020, this proportion increased to 76.9%, of which the proportion of land with severe desertification reached 23.3%. %.
The area of Mobei is 1.56 million square kilometers, and nearly 460,000 square kilometers of desertified land have been added in recent years.
The desertification situation in Central Asia is not optimistic either. According to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the land degradation area in Central Asia is about 80 million hectares (1.2 billion acres), accounting for more than 20% of the total area of the region.
In other words, even if all the desert sands in Seris are transformed, it can only barely compete with the newly added deserts in Central Asia and Mobei.
Although the country will not promote such an extreme transformation plan, there is still no big problem after transforming most of the desert sand in southern Monan, plus nearly one-third of the desert sand in the Western Region.
"The second question was asked by a reporter from the Global Times about whether soybeans can be infected by root rot fungi and whether they can be changed through genetic modification."
Liu Zhiben smiled and shook his head: "Although I am not a technical person, our boss said that it is very difficult to use genetically modified technology to make Xiandou soybeans resistant to root rot fungi, because of the adaptability of fungi to the environment. It is very strong and mutates very quickly. Even if an antifungal variety is modified, it can only be prevented for a period of time.”
The reporter in the audience quickly typed this answer into his notebook.
"The third question was asked by a reporter from Monan Daily about our company's industrial planning in Horqin Sandy Land." Liu Zhiben took a sip of the mineral water and continued:
"In the future, our company will focus on the cultivation of soybeans, alfalfa, corn, pasture, cherries, pistachios, and rubber grass around the Horqin Sandy Land, and at the same time develop related supporting industries."
The female host interjected: "Mr. Liu, can cherries and pistachios be grown in Monan?"
"Yes, but it requires improved varieties or the use of special technology. The specific technology involves the confidentiality of our company, so it is inconvenient to answer you."
"It doesn't matter." The female host once again handed the initiative to Liu Zhiben.
"The fourth question was asked by a BBC reporter. Will Hailufeng Company transfer technology to poor areas around the world for free?" Liu Zhiben smiled and shook his head: "Whether the technology will be transferred requires our company to evaluate it. For some modern agricultural technologies, There are no areas where it is popularized. I suggest that we should consider agricultural modernization first, and don’t go too far.”
However, the BBC reporter stood up and shouted loudly: "Mr. Liu, I think the Tianzhu region has the foundation to inherit your Xiandou soybean technology. There are many hungry and poor people in the region. If you can transfer the technology for free, it will save millions of people." billions of poor and hungry people.”
Liu Zhiben asked with surprise on his face: "Is the Tianzhu you are talking about the Tianzhu that exports tens of millions of tons of rice every year?"
"Uh... But this cannot change the fact that there are hundreds of millions of poor and hungry people in Tianzhu. Your technology can change this. I think every conscientious company will disclose this technology without hesitation." The BBC reporter quibbled. .
"I think the reporter should go to Tianzhu and stop the more than 10 million tons of rice first. This can directly alleviate the hunger of hundreds of millions of people and then talk about other issues." Liu Zhiben directly started the next topic.
"The fifth question is from an ABC reporter, about whether Sendou soybeans are safe to eat."
His eyes were calm: "If the ABC reporter thinks there is something wrong with the Sendou soybeans, they can go get tested. There is no need to waste time asking questions here."
"The sixth question was asked by a reporter from Sing Tao Daily. Will the soybean oil produced by Hailufeng Company enter the international market in the future?" As soon as Liu Zhiben saw this question, he knew what the other party was thinking, and he did not panic. He was not busy and replied:
"Our company has no plans to export soybean oil for the time being because we intend to use our self-produced soybean oil to refine biodiesel."
Obviously, this reporter's question was deliberately to sow discord. The other party wanted to get an answer from him, that is, Hailufeng Company will export soybean oil in the future.
Why did the other party want to get this answer from him.
The reason is to create a sense of crisis in the two palm oil exporting countries in Southeast Asia, thereby making them hostile to Hailufeng and Seris.
Although Hailufeng Company does have plans to export soybean oil in the future, how could Liu Zhiben tell a foreign reporter about such a plan.
Answered more than a dozen questions in a row.
Liu Zhiben also completed the question and answer session of this signing ceremony.
Today, in addition to Hailufeng Company, a signing ceremony was held in Zhelim City.
United Mining also formally signed a memorandum of cooperation on the comprehensive development of the Hunshandake Sand Land with the local area. It also subcontracted the Tengger Desert to Beidahuang Group and the Badain Jaran Desert to COFCO.
The intensive announcement of these things is to show the official attitude towards desert development and utilization.
From the official planning report.
It has been planned to transform and build 120 million acres of high-standard farmland and 80 million acres of high-standard pasture before 2030.
By around 2035, this number will be increased to 350 million acres, and preparations will be made to expand 1∽200 million acres of high-standard farmland at any time.
At the same time, soybean production capacity will be increased to a relatively high number around 2030. The specific amount depends on external factors and changes in internal demand.
This is a hint to other grain exporting regions around the world that if they want to get a share of grain exports to Seris, then come and negotiate!
Many forces have already reacted and started booking air tickets and preparing to fly over for negotiations.
Even ABCD had to make a difficult decision.
Huang Changqing, who had been lying down in Pengcheng for a day, received a notice from the head office.
He breathed a sigh of relief. Apparently the head office did not immediately remove him from his position, but instead ordered him to use his previous connections as soon as possible to minimize the company's losses.
A vice president in charge of the feed business looked at the email sent by the head office with a very strange face: "Mr. Huang, the head office wants us to negotiate with Hailufeng Company? Sell the industry in South America to the other party?"
"Yes." Huang Changqing's eyes were calm.
Although being humiliated by Jiang Haibo yesterday made him feel very uncomfortable, in order to fulfill the orders of the head office, he could only endure the humiliation and bear the burden.
Jiang Haibo, who was at the Magong Town headquarters, was reporting something to Jiang Miao.
Suddenly an assistant knocked on the door and came in with a document.
"Boss, Mr. Jiang, just now Bunge sent an email saying that it wants to cooperate with our company to develop South America."
After taking the document, Jiang Haibo looked at it and handed it to Jiang Miao.
Jiang Miao took a casual look, then smiled and shook his head: "You are really evil-minded."
After Jiang Miao said this, Jiang Haibo also came to his senses: "I guess they are asking you to put yourself in a urn, introduce us to South America, and then use their local chess pieces to deal with us." Jiang Miao ordered the assistant: "Reply them directly and tell them to get lost. ! ”
"Okay!"
It is obviously not a wise move for Hailufeng Company to rush abroad without even completing its domestic layout.
Compared with COFCO, which has been overseas for many years, Hilufeng is still a little too young. What's more, ABCD dares to do something even to COFCO, let alone Hilufeng.
Going to South America, ABCD's home field advantage is too obvious, and they have many ways to deal with Hailufeng Company.
For example, they deliberately sold some better farms to Hailufeng Company, and then after Hailufeng Company invested a large amount of money, they secretly encouraged the locals to cause trouble, or even directly funded some rebels to carry out an armed confiscation.
A few years ago, Zijin Mining was robbed of several tons of gold in South America. Behind the scenes, European and American capital forces secretly funded the armed forces to cause trouble.
Jiang Miao is not so arrogant as to think that Hailufeng Company can go smoothly abroad. It is too dangerous to go to sea at this stage.
He doesn't want anything to happen to his employees overseas. If such a thing happens, it will have a serious impact on morale within the company.
Therefore, he did not hesitate to reject Bunge's sugar-coated bullets.
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Huang Changqing and others who were still in Pengcheng were already prepared to be humiliated by Jiang Haibo again, but they did not expect that the other party did not even want to see them, which directly frustrated Bunge's little plan.
When Huang Changqing saw the reply email from Hailufeng Company, his face turned red.
[Our boss tells you to get lost! 】
The assistant didn't think it was a big deal and directly sent Jiang Miao's original words.
After calming down, Huang Changqing felt that he had been humiliated again, but there was not much anger in his heart. Perhaps he was used to the rudeness of Hailufeng Company, or perhaps because his mentality had undergone a subtle change after ABCD was hit hard.
He calmly edited an email and replied to the headquarters, saying that Hailufeng Company refused to cooperate.
Since Hailufeng did not take the bait, Bunge could only tell Huang Changqing to find COFCO and other companies.
The other three companies of ABCD are also looking for ways to sell part of their South American properties, both to survive and to ensnare them.
Of course, COFCO Group will definitely not be afraid of the other party. They have already been deployed in South America for many years and have a certain strength foundation.
Now they have the king of celestial beans and soybeans. If the other side dares to cause trouble and directly cut off the region's import share, their industry will be in chaos.
Hailufeng Company did not accept this sugar-coated bullet because it did not have the strength to take it, but COFCO was different.
But Jiang Miao didn't care.
He and Jiang Haibo were listening to Zhang Xinyi's report.
Zhang Xinyi's face glowed: "Due to yesterday's news, the number of registered users of our store APP has surged to nearly 5 million, and the current total number of users is 36.13 million."
"Sales should have increased, right?" Jiang Miao looked at the report from the Qiongzhou branch.
"Strawberries, ginseng fruits, and tomatoes have been out of stock and were sold out almost as soon as they were put on the shelves. Fish products, honey, and Hero Pure Milk, which were recently put on the shelves, yesterday's sales increased 10∽15 times compared to usual."
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Jiang Haibo often presides over daily management. He understands the problems of the e-commerce division better than Jiang Miao: "Xinyi, how is the inventory pressure of fish and meat products?"
"Currently, the monthly inventory is not large. The wholesale channel can sell 2∽30,000 tons of fish and meat products every month, and the retail channel only sells one or two thousand tons per month." Zhang Xinyi answered truthfully.
"I have read your feedback, and there is feedback from customers who hope that we can increase the category of fish and meat products. Yesterday, the breeding department gave several plans based on your suggestions. I have looked at them all, and I haven't decided which one to use yet. , you should also take a look." Jiang Haibo handed the three plans to Zhang Xinyi.
Zhang Xinyi sat down and looked through the contents of these plans carefully.
At present, Hailufeng's fish and meat product categories are indeed not rich enough.
Canned fish: four kinds.
Fish balls and fish eggs: four kinds.
Add fish floss, fish sausage, fish tofu, fish cakes, and fish skin dumplings.
There are 13 products in total.
"The first option is to introduce spicy and other flavors. I think it can be considered, but it is best to have product samples."
"The second plan is to develop new categories, such as fried fish skin, fish skin jelly, etc., and add new production lines if necessary."
"The third option is to produce fish-type prepared dishes, which also requires the addition of new production lines."
Zhang Xinyi thought for a while: "The first option only needs to confirm the product and use the existing production line for production. I think this can be done first. The next two options will develop the product first, and then consider whether to add production lines based on the product situation."
"Okay, I've written down your idea." Jiang Haibo said while writing the other person's idea on the memo.
At this moment, Jiang Miao raised her head: "Xinyi, go back and study the business of purchasing agricultural products for retail."
Zhang Xinyi asked with some surprise: "Purchased agricultural products? Are you putting on the shelves agricultural products that are not produced by our company?"
"Well, we purchase agricultural products from nearby branches, package them, and sell them to customers through our platform."
"This matter requires the cooperation of the purchasing department."
"You discuss it with Wang Feng and come up with a reasonable plan."
"Okay."
Jiang Miao thought of this mainly because he had just heard the conversation between Zhang Xinyi and Jiang Haibo and knew that he could not let go of the problem of too few product categories in the online store.
At this stage, Hailufeng Company cannot produce all types of agricultural products, and it will not be possible to produce all types of agricultural products in the future. Therefore, the introduction of agricultural products produced by ordinary farmers has become a necessary supplement.
For example, lotus root, daylily, oleracea, and green plum are grown around the headquarters of Hailufeng Company.
Another example is Gannan navel oranges, bamboo shoots, blueberries, Guangchang white lotus seeds, and Taihe black-bone chickens near the Gannan branch.
There are also all kinds of tropical fruits where the Qiongzhou branch is located.
Hailufeng Company will definitely not produce these things by itself, but local farmers do not have many channels, so Hailufeng Company can sell them through its own channels.
Of course, sales belong to sales, and the quality control of these agricultural products cannot be relaxed.
For example, many farmers cannot resist the temptation to use acid-reducing agents on citrus. Under the inducement of dealers, they choose to use acid-reducing agents in order to allow citrus to be released in advance.
This cannot be blamed on farmers for being greedy, but on dealers disregarding the market for profit.
Although the current acid reducer has been replaced by a safe and non-toxic version, this does not mean that it can be used frequently.
What Hailufeng Company needs to do is to break the channel monopoly of those who dominate fruit and vegetables, bring better benefits to farmers, and supply consumers with cheap and high-quality agricultural products.
He didn't start this business before because Hailufeng Company did not have its own online channels. Another reason was that Hailufeng Company was not strong enough to suppress those local snakes.
For example, why can't Fat Donglai leave Xinxiang?
It's not that the vested interests in other places are too stubborn, they don't welcome Fat Donglai's arrival.
With Jiang Miao's strength and influence at this time, those local cowards would not dare to make any mistakes.
After all, they are just some brats in the vegetable and fruit industry. Facing the giant Buddha of Jiang Miao, if they dare to cause trouble, they will be wiped out in a matter of minutes.
(End of chapter)