Chapter 123 An Unexpected Visit
Ten Hutouben with black license plates entered the parking lot one after another.
Six Western bodyguards in suits escorted an old foreign lady holding a cane and followed the old Dong.
There are another twenty oriental men with bulging waists and who look far more refined than their official bodyguards. Like sentinels, they are spread out in groups of two, side by side, one facing inward and the other facing outward.
Look at this posture, it looks like the legendary inner guard.
And looking at this lineup, I am afraid it is not more than the presidents of some small countries.
Yu Laoliu also received the report, came to the door of the hall, saw the scene outside clearly, and said in surprise: "This old lady's identity is extraordinary!"
"nonsense."
Yu Yang said, walking out of the hall and looking at Lao Dong.
The latter's face was serious, and his mood was also very heavy.
"Xiao Yu, let me introduce to you. This is Daniel Smith. You can call her Mrs. Smith. One of the investors of North American Adami Company."
Adami?
ADM?
The A of the four major grain merchants ABCD?
The four major grain merchants include ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus of France.
Abbreviated as ABCD.
Although they are not very famous, they are not even among the top 100 companies in the world.
But they control 80% of the world's food.
It directly determines global grain prices, indirectly dominates global edible oil prices, pork prices, chicken, duck and fish prices, and affects the supply of seeds, pesticides, fertilizers and other products.
Then based on these, the allocation of resources in multiple regions is determined.
To put it bluntly, in the capital world, except for the capital power that invested in ABCD, no one can sanction them, not even the country can do anything.
After all, countries in the capital world are composed of capital, and ABCD is the top capital.
Just like Ronald Reagan, the then North American general manager.
When he participated in the interview in the morning, he said: If they control food, they control all mankind!
Then at noon that day, Reagan was shot 6 times by the homeless man in 1.5 seconds.
Although he did not die, he soon developed Alzheimer's disease.
This shows how terrible the four major grain merchants, especially ABC, which holds a North American license, are.
The capital power of investing in ABC is definitely more terrifying.
I am a small township enterprise. At the beginning, I was spied on by the Asia-Pacific giant Marubeni Trading Co., Ltd. After one operation, before I could figure out how to earn foreign exchange and fight Marubeni, I ushered in the world's ultimate boss.
Moreover, the ultimate boss did not arrange for his younger brother to gain experience, but directly appeared as an investor...
You can fight for importance with Marubeni, but you can't only fight for war with the other party.
‘Can this still be played? ’
‘Is it so difficult to plant a field? ’
Yu Yang secretly took a deep breath and showed the high school version of Ingress, "Hello, Mrs. Smith."
"Hello, Sanyuan!"
"???"
"Sorry, on the way here, I learned a little bit about you. Maybe the pronunciation is wrong."
"That's right, I just didn't expect you to call me by my nickname."
Mrs. Smith smiled slightly, holding a crutch in her left hand and taking out a business card in her right hand.
The business card is basecoated in black and features a lucky clover on the front.
The leaves of the grass, two dark green and one scarlet, reflect the indistinct cloud patterns on the black primer, making them look particularly high-end.
"Is this your business card?"
"Yes ma'am." Yu Yang nodded.
"Then you've found the right person."
After Mrs. Smith finished speaking, she put away the business card solemnly and cherished it, and motioned to Mrs. Elaine next to her, "You can go."
The latter was relieved, bent down to salute, and ran away without looking back.
While Yu Yang speculated on the relationship between the two old ladies, he called the security personnel, "Arrange a car to take Mrs. Elaine to the airport."
He immediately led everyone into the office hall.
at the same time.
Tengzhen, who was staying in the negotiation area, stood up in disbelief when he saw the old lady. After confirming the old lady's identity, he hurriedly saluted, "Hello, Mrs. Smith."
"Fujima?"
"Yes."
"Why are you here?"
"I-I'm buying a dog."
"???"
"Mr. Yu has bred a group of excellent hounds. I love them very much and spent 10 million US dollars to buy one. I came here today and plan to buy another one."
When the old lady heard this, the expression on her face froze slightly, and she sat on the sofa minding her own business.
Tengzhen said again: "Mrs. Smith, Yu Sang, you guys chat, I'll go to the hotel to take a short rest first."
Yu Yang nodded and signaled Uncle Six to see off the guests.
At this time.
Mrs. Smith said: "Mr. Yu, what we are going to talk about requires the use of a projector. Does your company have one?"
"Yes, then let's go to the conference room next door to chat."
After Yu Yang finished speaking, he led everyone out and turned left to the Brick Kiln Meeting Hall.
This is a large auditorium made up of 26 third-level houses.
Load-bearing columns are retained in the middle area for holding factory-wide collective meetings.
The outlying houses were given to the eighteen village chiefs of Shiliying, either for offices or for village group meetings.
There are also some rooms that are equipped with faxes, computers, speakers, projectors, microphones, printers, etc., and have been built into 'multimedia conference rooms'.
Yu Yang came to Hall 1. The office staff had already started the computer and turned on the projection equipment.
Mrs. Smith's assistant walked to the computer, took out a stack of CDs and two floppy disks, and started operating them.
Mrs. Smith looked at the two middle-aged and elderly Western men beside her.
"Mr. Yu, this is Richard Phillips, and this is Ron Di Scenza."
"Okay." x2, Yu Yang nodded.
Mrs. Smith continued: "Phillips is good at ink paintings in the form of commercial advertisements. Among us, his level is almost unmatched. His works are popular and sexy and can express a variety of ideologies, such as capitalism, socialism, and militarism. ism, Nazism and the like.”
"Ron is good at realism and his style tends to be traditional. He can present grand and vast scenes in his works without losing details."
"Taken together, these two are among the top contemporary artists in North America."
Yu Yang was a little confused when he heard this.
If you want seeds, let’s talk about seeds. What kind of art can we talk about?
Bullying us for not going to college, right?
In silence.
Phillips pulled out an ink drawing. On it, apples, bottles, windows, tablecloths...the colors are clear and the lines are rounded.
But Yu Yang couldn't see what was good or bad about it.
Because I don’t understand.
Phillips explained: “The author of this work is only half-level at painting, or even just getting started, but his work, whether viewed from a close or a distance, surpasses that of ordinary oil painters, even those with seven or eight years of experience. Painter."
Yu Yang nodded.
Maybe they were trying to get closer.
Phillips continued: "The reason for this result is actually related to the ink. Look at the surface of this apple. The oil paint is quite delicate and very close to the original color. In other words, without much mixing, it shows the appearance of an apple. Some colors.”
When Yu Yang heard this and looked at the ink painting again, he felt that it made sense and immediately nodded sharply.
Phillips said again: "Including white porcelain bottles, wooden windows, brown tablecloths, all the oil paints used are like this. If you put it another way, we made this oil painting into a white board, then configured the relevant oil paints and packaged them for sale, even for a 7-year-old doll , as long as he is patient enough, he can also draw similar works."
"I understand, prefabricated drawing board."
"No, it's oil paint." Another artist, Ron, also took out a work.
On it, there is a little girl, a white gauze skirt, a headband made of flowers, blue sky and white clouds, and the vast land...
"In the past, the world of ink painting relied entirely on imagination and drawing skills. Today, the times are moving forward. Although the industry does not affect this field, as Phillips said, excellent oil paints can determine the final quality of the work. Beyond the veteran painters who have a lot of experience.”
Ron said, taking out a piece of work again.
On it, there is still a little girl, a white gauze skirt, a headband made of flowers, blue sky and white clouds, and the vast land...
But after Phillips’ explanation, Yu Yang could almost understand it.
The oil paint particles and oil paint viscosity in the second work are obviously not uniform.
Therefore, the effect presented by the second work is far inferior to the first one.
Ron: "These two works were all drawn by me myself and I gave my best effort."
Suddenly.
Mrs. Smith said: "In the color world, pigments are divided into natural and synthetic, which are further divided into edible, textile, neutral, leather, and reactive.
The ingredients for making ink can be plant substances or chemicals.
But the best inks are basically pure vegetable oils, including linseed oil, soybean oil, and sunflower oil. Because they contain unsaturated fatty acids, they can form a soft and smooth film after the ink dries, with good gloss and adhesion.
After that, there is vegetable wax, which is used to increase the viscosity of the ink and improve the fluidity and wettability of the ink...
Then there is the colorant, which is used in a relatively large amount. Most of its ingredients are natural minerals or natural plant powder, which makes the ink brightly colored and with strong covering power.
Finally, there is the desiccant, which generally uses silica, alumina, etc. "
Mrs. Smith finished speaking.
The assistant operating the computer from a distance turns on the projector.
On the huge shading cloth, Yu Yang's clover business card was first displayed, and then the picture continued to be enlarged, and finally settled on the granular layer.
Mrs. Smith continued: "Three days ago, I met Mrs. Elaine at a party in New Zealand. She took your business card and sold an out-of-print breed of hound to some noble ladies.
I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but when I saw the business card, I felt that it was impossible to achieve this kind of color with the current level of inkjet printing, printing, or even ink painting.
So I asked for your business card and brought it back to the company for research.
After testing and analysis by a professional team, we can confirm that the colors on the business card are all plant-based inks that have never been seen on the market, including extracting rutin from Sophora japonica and combining it with chromium mordant to produce a gray-green color.
It also includes the extraction of colorless hematoxylin from hematoxylin, and oxidation to obtain hematoxylin, which is then mixed with tin mordant to obtain light red, and then catalyzed to deep red until scarlet.
And the particles of these pigments, whether scarlet, dark green, or pure black, are all made of soybean straw powder.
Mr. Yu, do you know what this means?
This is edible ink.
Also known as food coloring.
In other words, this technology can not only make ink, but also be used as a harmless food additive that changes the original color of food.
Means a trillion market. "
Yu Yang understood.
The other party came this time not for Trinity bean seeds, but for business cards.
When I first started making this business card, I went to Pingdong County to find my mother and a printing company to make it.
But these days, a printing store in a small county town has no printing technology and no design level at all. The layout of the business cards produced is even less likely to satisfy the vision of a future person.
Therefore, after getting a dock at home.
Yu Yang used the building material ratio of the dock to easily adjust the color he wanted.
After all, ink equals paint, and paint must be a building material.
Then I put the ink into the office printer, designed it myself, and made it myself, so I had the clover business card in front of me.
This is how the business cards of Uncle Liu, Liao Pengfei and others came from.
Yu Yang hesitated: "You mean, you want this kind of ink?"
"Mr. Yu, if you say you want to transfer the formula, I won't believe it, because the production of this kind of ink requires a certain amount of technology, even manual production."
Mrs. Smith was quite confident and continued: "I just don't know how much production this ink or this pigment can achieve?"
After Yu Yang reacted, he relaxed and his mentality changed.
Although I don’t have much ink at home, I can blow it up.
"Mrs. Smith, you have also seen that my family is only a township enterprise and does not have much production capacity. It is good to produce three or four kilograms per day, and it is not sold to outsiders."
"Mr. Yu, what I mean is that if we invest and you increase the scale of production, we will share how much we want, how much you will provide, the final sales, and the final income."
"That's it..."
Yu Yang is an engineer who is an outsider in farming, and he doesn’t know much about producing ink.
Hearing this, he fell into deep thought.
In other words, in areas you don’t understand, speak less and listen more to ensure you are correct.
Mrs. Smith saw this and smiled slightly.
“A few days ago, ADM Company reported to investors that a bean seed appeared in the East, with a yield per hectare...according to your statement, it should be 450 kilograms per acre.
According to analysis by Dow AgroSciences and the agricultural research team of DuPont Pioneer, the previous generation of this seed had a yield of at least 500 kilograms per mu.
This means that if ADM's agricultural companies adopt Sany bean seeds, the output of ordinary soybeans this year will increase by one-third.
If we refer to last year's soybean production and include soybeans, soybean oil, feed, and various agricultural and sideline products, ADM's revenue will increase by two-fifths.
Mr. Yu, do you know how much more money ADM can make?
I’m not afraid to tell you, at least 30 billion US dollars!
Therefore, ADM definitely needs Trinity bean seeds.
The vassal seed merchants will definitely regard you as a strong enemy, and they will even use some tricks secretly.
But if we reach cooperation in the field of ink, I can help you exempt from all this.
In other words, if you allow ADM to make more money in this field, ADM will naturally no longer need Sany Bean Seed. "
Yu Yang understood.
It seems that ink is more profitable than food.
The question is, if one of the four major grain merchants suddenly started the ink business, is it too unprofessional?
And you want to drag me, a rookie grain merchant, away from my business?
(End of this chapter)