Chapter 196 Go with the flow
November 2nd.
It was the third day after Jiang Miao returned to Shanmei.
At around seven o'clock in the morning, he and Shuya took a walk at Yandunshan Farm.
On the mountain terraces divided into four steps, the first batch of grafted old branches of golden-naped durian have bloomed. Although the branches of golden-naped durian have fallen leaves, the canopy of the genetically modified kapok in the middle is still lush.
Even though the cold air from the north arrived earlier this year, the weather in the south, especially in Lingnan, is still very warm and humid.
The genetically modified kapok itself will not lose its leaves. They are desperately accumulating nutrients in preparation for the golden pillow durian to bear fruit next year.
From the perspective of biological classification, the transgenic kapok at this time is a parasite, while the golden pillow durian is a parasite.
Shuya observed these durian flowers carefully: "Durian flowers are very similar to kapok, except they are smaller and light yellow; kapok is larger and fiery red."
The eight side branches extending from the main trunk of the genetically modified kapok have all been grafted with golden-naped durian. With sufficient nutrient supply, these old branches of golden-naped durian have grown from two fingers thick to three fingers thick.
In order to reduce nutrient consumption, farm workers are already performing artificial flower thinning. Since it is the first year of flowering, only one durian is retained on each branch. Therefore, this time the flower thinning will remove other flower clusters and only retain one cluster.
The remaining cluster of durian flowers has about 8 to 15 flowers. After they have completed pollination and turned into small fruits, the fruits will be thinned. Finally, only one relatively good fruit will be retained on each branch.
At this time, not all the durian flowers bloomed at the same time. Some of the durian buds that have not yet opened are like small green peaches.
And on the stamens of the blooming durian flowers, there are already many little bees working diligently.
Durian is a hermaphrodite, with both pistils and stamens on the same flower. However, in order to avoid self-pollination, the pistils and stamens of the same flower will not bloom at the same time. Therefore, the flowering period of durian is relatively long and can reach one Two months.
In fact, durians in some regions or varieties have two flowering periods a year, namely the summer flowering period from June to August, and the autumn and winter flowering period from August to December.
Originally, the country was only suitable for blooming once a year, but because the genetically modified Kapok provides sufficient nutrients to the old durian branches, these grafted durians can bloom twice a year.
However, considering the problem of nutrient accumulation and the subtropical monsoon climate, the water and heat conditions are ultimately not as good as those in the tropics, so Jiang Miao did not allow these grafted durians to bear two crops a year.
Because if the water and heat conditions are not sufficient, forcing durian to bear two crops a year will reduce the amount of fruit each time and reduce the quality of the fruit.
The characteristic of blooming twice a year can actually be stimulated by growth hormones and specific nutrients to achieve regular flowering throughout the year. This is conducive to flowering and fruiting all year round and achieving a year-round supply of durian.
However, the first generation of transgenic kapok has poor controllability and is basically unable to bloom from February to April every year, which will create a small gap.
Fortunately, the grafted durians at the Qiongzhou branch currently use second-generation transgenic kapok as rootstock, which has better controllability. In addition, the heat in Qiongzhou is higher than that in Shanmei, so it can basically bloom throughout the twelve months of the year. .
The two strolled for half an hour, then passed through a valley in the middle of Yandun Mountain and returned to the Nanhu Village Reservoir.
Not far from the Nanhu Reservoir is the experimental planting base at the eastern foot of Magong Mountain managed by the Scientific Research Division.
As the sun rises over the mountains and sea, the cold dew in the morning also evaporates.
Jiang Miao, who changed into a set of work clothes, said goodbye to Shuya and came to the experimental planting area.
The experimental farmland, which simulates a sandy environment, is filled with a large area of sensu soybeans.
Jiang Miao has been researching new varieties of rubber grass and genetically modified rootstocks in the past few months.
Having just seen a dozen experimental new rubber grass seedlings planted under the soybeans, he began to record some situations in his notebook.
There are three directions for cultivating new varieties of rubber grass.
One is productive.
One is fast growing.
One is the ingredients.
There is nothing good to say about high yield and fast growth. It is to make the roots of rubber grass become larger and larger, contain more and more glue, and at the same time, the growth cycle becomes shorter and shorter.
Through genetic screening and induced mutations, more than a dozen high-yielding and fast-growing varieties have been obtained.
The rubber grass planted under the soybeans in front of me is part of the experimental planting of more than a dozen varieties.
The yields of these new varieties are good. The root pieces can reach 2∽3 kilograms each, the gum content is between 10∽20%, and the yield per mu can reach about 4 tons.
In addition to these high-yield and fast-growing varieties.
Jiang Miao came to another experimental farmland, where more than a dozen rubber grass varieties were planted. However, the characteristics of these varieties are not high yield and fast growth, but disease resistance, drought tolerance, cold tolerance, and content of auxiliary ingredients.
The reason why two new breed populations are created is for cross-breeding.
The reason why many breeding companies prefer cross-breeding is that cross-breeding crops cannot save seeds. If seeds are saved, the offspring will have traits that will separate, thus gradually losing hybrid advantage.
Including fairy beans, Jiang Miao is already conducting cross-breeding and plans to improve the second-generation hybrid fairy beans that are more suitable in order to further control the outflow of seedlings.
As long as the second-generation hybrid fairy bean experiment is successful, he will release those special root rot fungi to wipe out all the first-generation fairy beans outside the laboratory.
Transgenic soybeans that change the protein type are also being worked on. Secondary cross-breeding of soybeans in this direction will also be carried out.
Now these new varieties of rubber grass are divided into two populations in advance to facilitate subsequent cross-breeding.
Among these newly cultivated rubber grass varieties, one of the characteristics that Jiang Miao is more concerned about is actually the content of auxiliary ingredients.
The main component of the rubber produced by natural rubber grass is cis-polyisoprene. Its structure is the same as the main component of the natural rubber produced by the Hevea Hevea tree. However, the rubber grass contains less non-rubber components, raw rubber and vulcanized rubber. The tensile crystallization properties are poor and the performance is similar to that of synthetic rubber.
The composition and properties of guayule rubber are similar to those of rubber grass.
Eucommia rubber is different from rubber grass, guayule, and hevea tree. Its composition is trans-polyisoprene, and its overall processing characteristics are similar to those of hevea tree. However, the yield of eucommia rubber is too low, and it is still a large tree. This is also the first variety abandoned by Jiang Miao.
Instead of cultivating Eucommia ulmoides, it is better to cultivate hevea trees.
Jiang Miao not only wants to increase the yield of rubber grass, but also wants the non-glue auxiliary components of the rubber grass roots to be similar to the rubber of the hevea tree, so that the rubber grass can replace the hevea tree.
Why the natural rubber of Hevea has not been replaced by synthetic rubber is because it contains non-glue components that make its properties better than synthetic rubber.
In fact, through chemical technology, polyisoprene can be synthesized on a large scale, but the non-glutinous proteins and fatty acids in natural rubber are more troublesome.
Even if specific proteins and fatty acids are added to artificially synthesized cis-polyisoprene, there is no way to make these components evenly distributed in the molecular chain of cis-polyisoprene.
The traditional human homogenization process is too difficult to reprocess colloid substances because colloid is very viscous and it is difficult to carry out all-round and in-depth homogenization.
The proteins and fatty acids of natural rubber are evenly distributed at the nanometer level, which ensures its excellent properties.
Without changing this, there is no way synthetic rubber, straw rubber, or guayule can replace hevea rubber.
If it cannot replace hevea rubber, it is useless to have the highest yield of rubber grass. After all, the characteristics of the previous grass rubber after processing are similar to those of synthetic rubber.
In this case, why do people buy straw glue?
Nowadays, synthetic rubber is generally around 15,000 yuan per ton, and natural clove rubber is around 16,000 yuan per ton.
Generally speaking, the price of natural rubber is a little higher than that of synthetic rubber, about 1,000 yuan per ton.
The market position of straw gum and inulin is too embarrassing.
In terms of performance and yield, it cannot beat hevea.
In terms of cost performance, it also loses to synthetic rubber.
The only point of interest is that it is environmentally friendly and renewable.
This is the stumbling block on the development path of the straw rubber industry.
At its realization stage, global natural rubber production capacity is relatively abundant. In recent years, global production capacity has been between 11 and 15 million tons, and domestic annual production capacity has been between 80 and 90 million tons.
However, since hevea trees have some characteristics, that is, their long periodicity and tree age affect production capacity, once they enter the peak period of rubber formation, production capacity will increase a lot.
Domestic rubber planting is mainly concentrated in Qiongzhou and Dian Province, with sporadic planting in Lingnan.
Originally, the country's tropical area was not large, and a large area of land had to be allocated to plant rubber. In addition, the cycle of rubber was too long, and domestic farmers' enthusiasm for planting has become less and less.
Especially with the aging of the population, young people are developing and settling in cities. There is an increasing shortage of young labor force in rural areas. Rubber tapping is very labor-intensive. It is necessary to go to rubber plantations to tap rubber every night or early in the morning before dawn.
If there is no way to fully mechanize this kind of crop, it will definitely decline more and more in the future.
Rubber grass is different.
This thing is the same as beetroot, especially the rubber grass that has been improved by Jiang Miao. The root size is about the same as that of beetroot. There is no need to develop a separate harvester. You can just use a beetroot harvester.
If large-scale mechanized production is possible, manpower and material resources can be reduced a lot. Moreover, the improved varieties of rubber grass can basically be harvested once a year, and the shortest planting cycle is about 9 months.
Since rubber grass is a perennial plant, it can also be harvested continuously for more than half a year by adjusting the growth cycle and extending the planting time. This is conducive to production arrangements and can ensure the operating rate of the refining factory. It can also be harvested with a small amount. machines and manpower to maintain the entire production system.
As long as straw rubber can replace hevea rubber, it will not only change the results of the global natural rubber industry, but also further optimize domestic tropical agriculture.
In recent years, the domestic hevea rubber planting area has been about 17 million acres.
The places where rubber trees can be planted are tropical areas with abundant water and heat. It is too wasteful to grow rubber in these places, and it is really not profitable to grow rubber.
The yield of rubber trees per mu in Qiongzhou is about 60 kilograms, while the yield of rubber trees in Yunnan Province is higher, around 90 kilograms per mu. This is the average yield per mu. The annual yield limit of rubber trees entering the high-yield period is about 200 kilograms per mu.
The domestic purchase price of raw rubber is 12∽15 yuan per kilogram.
Working from dawn to dusk for a year, one acre of rubber plantation only earns 2,400 to 3,000 yuan in revenue. Even if he taps the rubber himself without hiring workers, he will not make much profit.
Such an industry is chicken ribs.
Without any profit, farmers have little enthusiasm for planting.
Jiang Miao uses rubber grass to replace the hevea trees, and then uses durians and bananas to replace the hevea trees in Qiongzhou and Yunnan provinces. This will not only increase the income of farmers, but also make him a global leader in natural rubber, durians, bananas, and abaca. .
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As long as the 17 million acres of tropical rubber plantations are released, there will be enough planting space not only for durians and bananas, but also for the development of more types of tropical fruits and off-season fruits.
The prices of tropical fruits in China are relatively high, especially tree-type tropical fruits. Due to their seasonality, growing years, and transportation difficulties, the market prices in areas north of Lingnan are relatively high.
The market price is relatively high, which means it is profitable.
Therefore, the rubber grass industry is a relatively key industry that can leverage 17 million acres of tropical plantations in the country.
Just when Jiang Miao was immersed in studying rubber grass and other crops.
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The only security department that has not been moved to the new headquarters is in the manager's office of the Nanhu Scientific Research Base.
Ke Yong frowned and stared at the document in his hand.
Opposite him is Wang Ke, deputy manager of the security department, who is also the head of the security department and one of the few security personnel within the security department who can directly carry a gun.
This document was brought over by Wang Ke.
Ke Yong put down the document and said solemnly: "Deputy Manager Wang, we need to conduct a comprehensive review of the loopholes in this area so that we can protect the boss and his relatives."
Wang Ke nodded: "Well, I have been authorized to use part of my internal authority to conduct in-depth investigations of visitors. In the future, strangers must try to avoid close contact with Mr. Jiang."
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"It's troublesome! We have too many favors here. It's not an option to make the boss not socialize at all." Ke Yong had a headache. After thinking for a while, he looked at Wang Ke and asked:
"Deputy Manager Wang, what contents in this document can be made public?"
"What are your plans?" Wang Ke was a little confused.
Ke Yong expressed his thoughts: "I plan to announce part of the content to the boss's relatives to make them more conscious, not to bring strangers to visit casually, and to be wary of foreigners."
"Is that so? Let me make a call and ask." Wang Ke picked up the custom-made business jet and dialed a number.
Communicated for half an hour.
Wang Ke hung up the phone: "Manager Ke, you heard it too. A small part of the content can be released, but it will take a while. There are some things that need to be dealt with over there."
"I understand, let's discuss what can be disclosed."
"Okay."
The two carefully reviewed the various contents of the document sentence by sentence. Some words that might be leaked were blurred, replaced, and deleted; even a single word of some content was not allowed to leak out.
Just as the two were reviewing the contents of the document.
Li Wuhuang, who was preparing to return to Malacca County at Yangcheng Airport, was using the toilet in the airport bathroom. The moment he finished using the toilet and opened the door, he was suddenly caught off guard by the situation in front of him.
"Mr. Li Wuyang, please come with us."
Li Wuxu, who quickly pretended to be calm, squinted his eyes and asked, "Excuse me, what can I do? I'm going back to Po County for business soon, and my flight is about to arrive. Can you tell me here?"
"Do it!"
"What?" Li Wuxu was shocked.
In an instant, he was pinned to the floor with both hands behind his back, and his belongings and the contents of the suitcase were quickly separated to the side.
"You..."
Just when Li Wuxu was about to shout loudly, his mouth and nose were covered with a piece of cloth. A special smell entered his body with his breathing, and his body began to feel heavy. His eyes narrowed: 'This method...Am I exposed? …how is that possible? …’
However, his eyelids began to fight, and within two or three minutes, he fell into coma.
"Take it away!"
Li Wuyang, who was wearing a black hood and being held up by a clamp, was taken away quietly.
On the other side, in the mid-level villa area of Xiangjiang.
Root Brooks, who had just returned from working at the bank, had just opened the door of the villa when he was suddenly pushed from behind and fell onto the carpet in the living room.
"Ugh...Fake..." Lute Brooks cursed before he could react. The next moment, his back was pressed and his wrists were tightly clamped, making it impossible to get up.
"Huhu... Do you know who I am? Fake Squid..."
"Rut Brooks, the head of the Hong Kong branch of the Morgan Financial Group, is also the behind-the-scenes manager of Greater China. Am I right?"
At this time, Root Brooks had calmed down, because he knew that things might have gone beyond his imagination. There were four professional bodyguards in his villa, but these bodyguards did not move at this time.
"What do you want? How much does it cost? How about ten million. As long as you leave here, I will pretend that nothing has happened."
"Haha, do you want me to remind you?"
"Remind me?"
"Liu Tonghai."
"..." Rut Brooks' pupils shrank sharply: "You..."
Bang bang bang…
Seven bullets penetrated Root Brooks's back instantly, and he stopped struggling with a look on his face.
No traces of the scene have been cleaned up.
By the next morning, Root Brooks' secretary couldn't get through to his phone, so he also called the villa. However, there was no response from the villa, which had always had Filipino maids answer the phone before.
noon.
Liu Tonghai, who had just driven home, saw a police car parked at the door of a villa in the Mid-Levels villa area, and a cordon was drawn up. He subconsciously slowed down.
Suddenly his eyes widened: "This villa is not..."
He quickly parked his car on the side of the road, got out of the car quickly and pulled a melon-eater along with him and asked: "Young man, what happened over there?"
"There was a fatality, it seemed like a shooting."
"Gulu...who died?"
"The owner of that villa, an American, seems to be an executive of an investment bank."
Cold sweat broke out on Liu Tonghai's forehead.
The young man he was questioning looked at his change, something seemed wrong in his eyes, and he quickly distanced himself.
Liu Tonghai, who was belatedly aware of the situation, explained with a dry smile: "Don't get me wrong, pretty boy, I knew the victim. I didn't expect such a thing to happen in the Mid-Levels villa area, so I was a little worried for a while."
"Haha..." The young man became more and more convinced that this guy had something up his sleeve and hurried away on his bicycle.
(End of chapter)