Chapter 288 On the verge of collapse

Chapter 288 On the verge of collapse

Omar withdrew his envious gaze.

Ali, who was standing by, shook his head: "This kind of airship is very useful for extinguishing fires, but we can purchase it in Cairo in Egypt, so it is not very useful in other places."

Everyone naturally understood what Ali meant.

After all, there are not many high-rise buildings in Egypt except for the capital Cairo.

There are no dense high-rise buildings, and purchasing a firefighter for just a few buildings will probably be less than worth the cost.

Magic City Fire Department has capital to purchase firefighting airships, because Magic City's high-rise buildings are very dense, and the Hengsha Island Airship Base can provide maintenance, so there is no need to build a special airship base.

If there are no such convenient conditions and usage scenarios, purchasing firefighting airships will be a very big burden. The annual maintenance costs and supporting facilities of the airship base will be a very important burden.

Omar turned his head and asked, "Summan, do you have any recommended places to inspect?"

"I think about it..." Su Man thought while using his mobile phone to retrieve some of the situation in the Demon City. After all, his previous impression of the Demon City was still more than ten years ago, and the situation must have changed a lot now.

After searching on his mobile phone for more than ten minutes, he suddenly saw a more suitable place: "Manager Omar, since we are here to purchase grain, why don't we go and inspect the local agriculture?"

"Agriculture?" Omar also felt that this direction was good. Although they could take the opportunity to come to the Magic City to eat, drink and have fun, they always have some names: "What do you recommend?"

Suman smiled and said, "Go to the island opposite, there are a lot of farms on that island. We can examine the agricultural technology of Seris."

"Yes, you lead the way."

"No problem."

Through the tunnel and the Yangtze River Bridge in the Magic City, the group chartered a car to Chongming Island.

Soon they arrived at the destination of this trip: Chongming Island Branch of Hailufeng Company.

This branch mainly produces various vegetables and fruits that are not resistant to transportation, and also operates aquaculture on Chongming Island.

Since Hailufeng Company allows consumers to visit these areas that do not involve confidentiality technology, Omar and his group easily purchased the visiting identity card.

In fact, if a local or permanent resident in the Magic City can directly swipe your ID card after applying for a membership, or through facial recognition, fingerprint recognition, or phone number recognition, you can easily enter the farm or breeding farm.

The few crops and aquaculture projects that are not allowed to visit by outsiders are those that are easily disturbed by external factors or are infected with foreign bacteria and fungi.

These projects that are not allowed to visit are generally not close to metropolitan areas.

After getting the identity card, Omar and his group came to the first visit project.

"Is this a honey melon?" Omar was not too surprised when he looked at the honey melon that was specially used to cover the net bag on the shelf. After all, there are products such as honey melons in Egypt.

Suman introduced to everyone: "If you want to buy it, you can go to the catering area to buy it, where there are mature honey melons."

"Okay, Mr. Suman."

Although Omar and others want to eat, drink and have fun, it does not mean they really do nothing. They are understanding the crop varieties, yields, and agricultural technology here.

Suddenly Ali found a detail and asked in a low voice: "Brother Suman, what are the workers on these farms doing? Why do you change plastic mulch? I think these plastic mulchs have not broken either?"

"I'll ask."

A group of people approached the farm workers who replaced plastic mulch.

"Hello! I am Suman, a tourist from Egypt."

The worker who was working hard, listening to half-baked Mandarin, raised his head casually: "Hello, this is the homework area, please visit other areas."

Su Man asked with a dry smile: "I'm just curious. These mulchs should be good, right? Why should I replace them?"

"You said this mulch?" The worker recalled the confidentiality clause. The company did not require the confidentiality of the new mulch. After all, this is a product to be launched on the market, so naturally there is no need to keep it confidential. He slowly replied:

"This is a new type of mulch."

"Oh? Is there any difference?" Su Man touched the mulch curiously and found that there was not much difference between it and the old mulch.

"The difference is big, this is a degradable carbon source mulch."

Suman chatted with the farm workers for a while before he understood the situation of this new type of mulch.

Omar, looking forward to it, asked, "Summan, is there anything special about this kind of mulch?"

"This is a new type of biodegradable mulch, and I heard it is made of inulin."

"Berrible?"

"Slow down...what did you say just now? Is this kind of mulch made of sugar?"

Everyone was discussing each other.

Su Man was also very surprised just now, so he repeatedly confirmed several times: "Yes, it is made of sugar extracted from chrysanthemums."

Ali looked at a large number of plastic film coils not far away, and his eyes were a little unbelievable, and then muttered to himself: "Is Cyris rich enough to use sugar to make plastic film?"

"It seems that this kind of sugar cannot be absorbed by the human body, and with the by-products of industrial production, the cost is very low." Su Man also said something he asked just now.

In fact, incense is indeed very cheap. At present, Hailufeng Company has planted more than 3 million mu of rubber grass farms in the Zhelim area, and can obtain hundreds of thousands of tons of incense every year. Some of them are used as raw food materials, and most of the remaining ones are pulled to extract polylactic acid plastic.

Omar is still skeptical: "Summan, can this plastic film really degrade?"

"It should be possible?" Su Man was not sure, after all, he also heard about it.

Alibaba was also full of doubts: "But why did you replace this plastic film? It's just because it's degradable?"

Suman reorganized part of what he had just heard, and then slowly explained: "No, the main reason is that it is cheap, and there is no need to use oil and coal as raw materials. In addition, this plastic is decomposed into the soil and can replenish the soil's carbon."

"Oh? Cheap?" Omar became interested.

Although Egypt connects West Asia and North Africa, the two global oil and natural gas production areas, Egypt actually has very few oil and natural gas reserves, which are not enough for it to use.

If it weren't for the management of the Suez Canal and the number of remittances that are not in a small number of remittances every year, Egypt would have been more difficult. Of course, their economy is not much better now.

After all, the population carrying capacity of the Nile Valley and the Nile Delta is limited.

Currently, Egypt's population has reached 120 million, and it requires a huge amount of food every year. Even if it consumes 200 kilograms of food per year, it still requires at least 24 million tons of food.

However, Egypt can only produce 9 to 10 million tons of wheat, 7 to 8 million tons of corn, and about 5 million tons of rice every year.

Even in a good harvest, it is only about 23 million tons.

The more difficult problem is that the Egyptians mainly eat big cakes, and a large part of corn is feed.

This has led to Egypt importing at least 10 million tons of wheat each year to produce flour to fill the domestic flour gap.

It should be noted that according to the United Nations standards, the average annual per capita food line is the basic food line, which can only meet the basic survival needs; if the safety line is to be reached, it is necessary to reach at least 400 kilograms of food per capita per capita.

Egypt's own grain produces less than 200 kilograms of per capita food per year. If you don't import grain, you will be really over.

This is also the fundamental reason why Egyptian grain trading companies will face pressure to seek cheap food from Cyris in the face of rising international food prices.

Their foreign exchange reserves are limited, their income expectations are not high, and the food price fluctuates a little, which is very important for them.

Therefore, Omar et al. are very sensitive to the prices of agricultural products and agricultural input products.

"Oh! Unfortunately, that kind of fairy beans can be grown in the desert, but Cyris does not allow technology exports and seed exports." Omar sighed.

Ali also looked depressed: "Indeed, if the kind of fairy beans can be promoted and planted in Egypt, we might be able to get rid of the food dilemma."

"Manager, why don't you tell me that no one secretly brought the seed out of Cyris?" another entourage whispered.

Omar's lips sagged: "Haha, how do you know?"

"But there is no news of the cultivation of fairy beans in other regions?" Omar speculated: "After all, it is stealing seeds. How dare they plant them publicly? I guess those countries in Southeast Asia must have obtained the seeds and have been planted in secret."

His guess is not wrong.

Hongshawadi, Annan and Lancang, bordering Seris, were the first regions to obtain soybean seeds through smuggling, and then there are Siamese, Khmer, Malaysia, Java, and India that indirectly obtain soybean seeds.

Through Southeast Asia, it has further spread to the whole world.

However, they did not find a serious problem.

That is this batch of smuggled fairy bean soybean seeds, which are very large in scale.

Because all this is all Hailufeng Company secretly exported tens of thousands of tons of fairy beans and soybean seeds to Southeast Asia through several vest institutions.

These "secret outputs" began in October last year and were sold every month. Hailufeng Company made more than one billion through this method.

Of course, making money is just by the way.

Because these seeds were all fed by Hailufeng Company, as long as the other party planted them locally, the specific root rot bacteria hidden in the seed medicinal clothing will quickly spread in the local soil.

Obviously this was intentional by Hailufeng Company. After all, Jiang Miao knew very well that if the border was so strict, there would always be someone who could carry a few seeds out.

Instead of defending passively, it is better to take the initiative.

The method of Hailufeng Company is to send the seeds out first, because these seeds have been added. However, in areas where these seeds are planted, there is no specific medicinal clothing used. When the soybeans grow to bloom, they will be infected by root rot bacteria and die on a large scale.

What's even more terrifying is that these root rot bacteria will exist in the local soil for a long time, specifically targeting the genes of fairy beans and soybeans to form a special attack effect.

The first batch of "foreign users" who planted celestial beans and soybeans were completely destroyed, and only a large area of ​​withered and rotten celestial beans and soy vines were harvested.

The Hailufeng Company's vest organization is also exporting this kind of soybean supplement to Southeast Asia in Guizhou and Yunnan Province.

Those guys who have been cheated to the point of losing money have no choice but to those vest institutions. After all, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer such a thing.

This has also successfully ruined the underground market for the private sector to smuggle seeds into Southeast Asia. After all, the "customers" in Southeast Asia now don't know if there are any problems with these seeds.

This is a bit like the flowers, plants and seedlings in Suxian back then.

Those who were cheated had almost unforgettable memories of the flowers, plants and seedlings marked with Suxian production areas and shipped from Suxian.

Hailufeng Company is deliberately smuggling traffickers, leaving them with no way out. The purpose of this malicious issue with problems is to smear the entire underground smuggling channel.

Anyway, if you dare to ask for it, I will dare to ship the goods.

As for the goods?

Sorry, our company does not provide after-sales service, so if you have the ability, come and sue me.

After cheating more than one billion, there were fewer and fewer customers in Southeast Asia. Of course, there were some novices or guys who had no information channels, who still ran over one after another and were harvested by those offline sales staff of those vest companies.

Hailufeng Company is not ruthless when it comes to these customers.

However, I guess I was cheated a few times, and these people reacted and probably wouldn't be fooled again.

This operation can be said to be a kill of three birds with one stone. It not only earns money, but also suppresses underground smuggling, and spreads special root rot bacteria to soil around the world.

Even if you no longer have any trouble with the fairy beans and soybeans in the future, those ordinary fairy beans and soybeans without special protective seeds will be a rhythm of death.

Of course, this root rot fungus has another major purpose, which is to accelerate the rotten speed of the underground roots of fairy beans and soybeans.

If the soybeans in a region do not plan to continue planting, you can spray specific root rot bacteria inhibitors to allow the root rot bacteria to quickly rot these buried roots buried underground to achieve the purpose of quickly making artificial black soil.

Omar and others didn't know these inside stories, thinking that if they got the soybean seeds, they could be planted abroad.

But this matter will probably not be hidden for long.

After all, many people or companies who have been cheated will definitely be furious and then deliberately expose the matter.

But it doesn't matter, because the purpose of Hailufeng Company has been achieved.

As for secretly studying the ingredients of planting clothes, there are indeed people who are doing it, but unfortunately they are destined to be difficult to succeed in a short period of time, because Hailufeng Company’s planting clothes are specially made based on the soil and climate of various places.

Unless someone can plant celestial beans and soybeans in the fully disinfected greenhouse, they will not be able to withstand the special root rot bacteria everywhere.

And planting fairy beans and soybeans in the greenhouse after complete disinfection is probably not too much money.

Of course, there is indeed another way to obtain celestial bean soybeans, that is, through genetically modified technology, it can transform genetically modified soybeans that can resist special root rot bacteria.

This is also something that many European and American agricultural companies are doing secretly.

After European and American agricultural companies found that the roots of directly grown soybeans were rotten on a large scale, they changed their strategies and planned to obtain second-generation soybeans withered wither through hybridization and genetically modified methods.

However, they obviously underestimated Jiang Miao's horror.

It’s not that genetically modified and hybrid breeding cannot be carried out.

However, Jiang Miao selected many problems that have special defects but have not shown in the protein genes of Xiandou soybean. The defects represented by these recessive genes can easily turn them into dominant genes in hybrid breeding, and there will be many defects at that time.

If the other party uses genetically modified technology, he has a way to deal with it.

Because defect recessive genes are mainly concentrated on soy proteins, generally speaking, inserting anti-fungal transgenic fragments also needs to be inserted into the gene group of that part of the protein.

As long as they insert genetically modified fragments, they will destroy the framework of the original gene group, causing some hidden genes to begin to have problems, such as rapid decline in soy protein content, decreased photosynthesis efficiency, inability to form pods, cannot bloom, and root blocks cannot develop.

At the beginning, Jiang Miao deliberately selected varieties with hidden defects, with the purpose of avoiding the use of fairy beans as the parent and cultivating second-generation fairy beans.

If agricultural companies in Europe and the United States are willing to continue researching for more than ten years and continue to adopt genetically modified and gene editing technologies, they may be able to transform some barely available varieties.

I don’t know if they can withstand the wave of the times that will come.

After all, the climate change in Europe and the United States is becoming more and more severe, and extreme weather is frequent, so it is difficult for ordinary crops to withstand this mutation of climate.

The reason why the domestic planting area of ​​celadon soybeans has increased rapidly is that on the one hand, the excellent performance of celadon soybeans and on the other hand, it is also to deal with the climate crisis.

Although the climate change in East Asia is not as severe as North America and Europe, it does not mean that the future can be smooth sailing.

After all, in the history of East Asian countries, the multiple incidents of the Little Ice Age have had serious consequences.

For example, the recent incidents in the late Ming Dynasty, the North China Plain and the Loess Plateau lasted for more than ten years, and the Yangtze River freezing also occurred from time to time. In addition, floods and typhoon disasters on the southeast coast, there were basically not many places that did not encounter natural disasters.

Therefore, after observing the climate mutations in North America and Europe in China, I felt that I should not take it lightly and began to increase my efforts to promote the cultivation of agricultural products such as fairy beans and fairy soybeans.

After all, fairy beans and soybeans can be left unwatered. If wheat and rice do not have water, it will basically be a rhythm of no harvest.

If you really encounter large-scale drought and cooling for several consecutive years, then crops such as celery beans, which are grain-based, oil-based and fed, can at least maintain domestic food supply and do not need to seek imports from the outside.

As the world's second largest population country, if the world really encounters a once-in-a-million-year climate disaster, it can completely suppress the soaring global food prices by not importing food.

Although agricultural companies in Europe and the United States have never been human, Cyris still needs some face.

For example, this time Omar and others came to seek food imports. COFCO Group did not intend to cheat them. As long as they were willing to purchase and showed sincerity, let alone 1 million tons of wheat per year, there would be no problem even 10 million tons of wheat per year.

In West Asia and North Africa, countries with relatively rich oil and natural gas resources can also be discussed if they come to buy food.

As long as they are willing to barter, COFCO Group does not mind getting their gas and oil shares and then reselling those shares to domestic oil companies, or other areas in need.

This special trade model that avoids the US and the euro may become the choice for many regions in the next period of time.

After all, the value of US dollars and Euro is not very stable now, and the global trade system they have built is on the verge of collapse. Many regions are really worried and dare not reserve US dollars and Euro at will. Instead, they continue to acquire precious metals internationally as a strategic reserve.

(This chapter ends)