Chapter 149 Sany Soybean Oil Factory
Phillips seems obsessed with painting.
In fact, he is using his identity as an artist to conceal his true purpose.
For example, in the name of "improving the earth painting series", he went deep into the soybean planting area of Hangai Township to understand the growth characteristics of the Trinity bean species.
For example, in the name of searching for materials, he observed the original bean seeds in the plastic greenhouse and had a pleasant conversation with the technicians of Sanyuan Agriculture. Through this, he learned that radar cultivation of soybeans must be supplemented by a spectrum of specific frequencies to promote embryonic development. development.
For example, in the name of mapping the Yellow River pasture, he visited the Gu cattle farm and learned that when playing the piano to cows, you must play it within the sight of the cows so that the cows can be immersed in it.
For example, in the name of drawing modern industry, he carefully observed the construction of ballastless tracks, and even recorded the production process of prefabricated modules in pictures and texts.
These findings from Phillips have proven to be very helpful to ADM-affiliated research institutions.
Although they failed to develop high-yielding seeds, failed to promote the growth of beef cattle, and failed to develop ballastless tracks, many papers published by scientific researchers were not only included in SCI, which increased the researchers' qualifications, but were also competed by many news media. Citations increase a researcher's reputation.
So the message conveyed by scientific research institutions to Mrs. Smith became: Phillips is great, madam, we need more funding!
Accordingly, in addition to receiving verbal commendations, Phillips also received dividend shares from DanielSmith Company.
And come the end of June.
With the 300,000 acres of soybeans in Hangai Township and the 100,000 acres of soybeans owned by Sanyuan Agriculture in Shiliying, all have a bumper harvest, and half of them are used as seeds for 8 million acres of cultivated land, and the other half are used for oil extraction and feed production. Or make soy products.
Phillips' mission became to investigate the Sanyuan Soybean Oil Factory.
In fact, squeezing soybean oil is not difficult at all.
For thousands of years, the same principles have been used, both in ancient times and in modern times.
Nothing more than hot pressing and cold pressing.
Hot pressing is to heat the soybeans, put them into a cylindrical container, and then press them into bean cakes (soybean meal) and squeeze out the soybean oil. The advantage is that the oil yield is high.
Cold pressing is to put soybeans directly into a cylindrical container and directly press them into bean cake (soybean meal). The advantage is that it retains the natural flavor and color.
But the oil produced by this process is called ‘crude oil’.
When processing soybean raw materials, it is difficult to filter out stones, metal powders, various types of feces, dead branches and leaves, and even "bad soybeans", so that the crude oil contains a large number of impurities, numerous toxins, and various heavy metals. element, so basically cannot be eaten.
Subsequent steps include dephosphorization, degreasing, decolorization, deacidification, deodorization, dehydration, and impurity removal.
The whole process is also called crude oil refining.
The more processes, the better the technology, the more advanced the equipment, the better the quality of the soybean oil obtained.
Therefore, there are first-level pressing, second-level pressing, third-level pressing, and fourth-level pressing from high to low in the market.
The most difficult part of oil extraction technology is refining.
This involves more than just the materials and manufacturing processes of dephosphorization boilers, deacidification boilers, and decolorization boilers.
It also involves the quality of the alkaline water used for deacidification and the quality of the food-grade clay used for decolorization.
It even involves the fineness of the filter, the quality of the vacuum pump, the quality of the deodorization pot...
Generally speaking, if the industrial level is not reached, you cannot make high-end soybean oil at all.
Of course, the consumption level in the East is not high, and people cannot afford high-end soybean oil.
However, Sanyuan Agriculture can mass-produce plant-based inks, which shows that Sanyuan Agriculture has mastered a set of special pressing, filtering, and refining technologies.
And before Sanyuan Chemical was built, they could produce "200 tons of ink, 15 tons of pigments, 350 tons of oil paint, and 300 tons of watercolor" in one quarter.
This means that even if Sanyuan Agriculture loses Sanyuan Chemical, it still has strong oil production capabilities.
Sany soybeans, on the other hand, are full of bean flavor and produce better quality soybean oil.
I would like to ask, what does ADM do to contain three-dimensional agriculture in the field of soybean oil?
So finding the soybean oil factory and then finding a way to kill it has become what ADM must do now.
However, Phillips searched the entire Sanyuan factory area and could not find the soybean oil factory.
He even found Fan Tao, an investor in a soybean oil factory, by chance, taught him some painting skills, and then expressed his desire to visit the soybean oil factory...
"Mr. Artist, you may not believe it. I spent the money and I really don't know where the factory is."
"..."
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Brick kiln office area and practice room.
7am.
The old abbot of the Buddha Temple came on time to impart 'Zen Enlightenment'.
Thanks to the 'Gou' in the Buddha Temple, this method of cultivating the mind, which originated from the Patriarch of Buddha, has not changed much since ancient times and can be said to be original.
After getting along with each other for this period of time, Yu Yang also learned about the origin of the Patriarch of Buddha.
He was originally a Qi practitioner from Wangwushan. Due to the Taoism among the people at that time, after the Yellow Turban Uprising, only the Five Dou Rice Cult was castrated after Zhang Lu surrendered to the court.
However, the Five Dou Rice Cult retained only the magical arts that were suitable for the needs of the rulers, and did not have methods for maintaining health or golden elixirs. The Qi practitioner went to West Kunlun to find the way to immortality.
In this process, he was like Zhang Wuji in the film and television works, who picked up a piece of sheepskin cloth written with Sanskrit in a cave.
After more than ten years of translation, the practitioner finally understood that what was written on it was the Buddha Sutra.
The Buddha Sutra records many special physical characteristics of Sakyamuni, including thirty-two signs and eighty kinds of good qualities, which can be regarded as signs of Buddha.
If you use the system of cultivating immortals to explain it, if you achieve this, you can become a Buddha.
So the Qi practitioner changed his name to "Buddha", and spent ten years training to develop a black hair bun, a steel chest, and red copper finger claws... Finally, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, when the Turks marched southward, he became a Buddha in the middle of the military camp. , attained the status of Arhat in Buddha.
Yu Yang didn't want to become a monster.
He learned Zen enlightenment from his old host, just to calm his mind in order to cope with the next operation of ADM.
So every time you listen to the scriptures, it goes in through the left ear and out through the right ear.
I never thought that what I was going to talk about today was actually the herbal medicine skills that the Patriarch of Buddha mastered during his search for immortality when he was young.
"Old host, could it be that the old Chinese medicine doctor at the township health center learned it from you?"
"Him? His grandfather was a lay disciple I took in. He had some skills in seeing doctors and taking medicine, and was responsible for taking care of the Buddhist temple's property in the secular world. Later, it became dilapidated and the Buddha temple was closed for a period of time. His grandfather took over the temple's property. I took it as my own, and if something happened later, I didn’t pursue it anymore.”
"Good guy, so you have more advanced Chinese medicine skills?"
"It's not very profound. The main reason is that monks can also get sick. How embarrassing would it be to go out to see a doctor and get medicine? In addition, the Buddha Temple has been passed down from ancient times to the present. These experiences have been passed down. If you encounter some minor illnesses, It’s a small disaster and you can’t go wrong if you take the right medicine.”
"Grandpa, can you show me your experience?"
"this……"
"Somebody come!"
"Here!" Chang Fu, Chang Lu and others appeared at the door of the practice room carrying spears.
"Let's go to the Buddha Temple to learn Buddhist scriptures!"
Chang Fu Chang Lu immediately lifted up the old abbot with a spear and rushed towards the Buddha Temple tremblingly.
No, it is to rush to the pagoda temple located next to the wonders of the sea.
…
afternoon.
It’s still a practice room.
Yu Yang sat in the mountain of ancient books and carefully read through the various 'prescribed medicines' recorded by the monks.
At this time.
Fan Tao walked in while thinking about something.
"The boss?"
"What's the matter?"
"I have a question."
"If you fart, let it go." "What, where is my soybean oil factory?"
"Why, I didn't share the profit with you?"
"Divided, it is said that 300,000 acres in Hangai Township, plus 100,000 acres in Shiliying, will harvest a total of 110,000 tons of soybeans, half of which will be used for oil extraction, with an oil yield of about 46.5%, and a total of 24,000 tons of soybean oil will be obtained. Calculated based on the market price, if all are sold, the total sales will be about 100 million blue great man notes, and accrue 20% of the profit, and then divide it in half. Give me 10 million, which is equivalent to giving me 120 million a year. I can’t invest. 600 million, we can pay it back in 6 years, not to mention the production capacity will be higher in the future, so I am very satisfied.”
"Then why are you looking for a soybean oil factory?"
"Phillips asked me today, and I suddenly became a little curious."
Hearing this, Yu Yang put down his medical experience and asked, "What did Phillips say?"
"He was painting in the square of Shili Mall. I passed by there at work, so I chatted with him and learned some oil painting skills. During this period, he asked me how the mall was doing, and then asked me about the soybean oil factory. "
"ADM acquired a small feed factory from the Northeast, and then controlled some soybean oil factories through Marubeni Trading Co., Ltd. and Wilmar International of New Canada, and launched Arowana. It is said that Wilmar International approached Fulinmen of Oriental Food Systems to cooperate. We were rejected by Luhua for cooperation, but it didn’t go very well. If the other party is looking for our soybean oil factory, there is a high chance that something will happen.”
"So, Phillips wants to find the soybean oil factory through me?"
"Well, poisoning is a small matter, but burning it is a big deal."
"Ha, you want to trick me!" Fan Tao said, turned around and left.
"Why are you going?"
"Phillips is still painting in the square. I asked my second cousin to come out and run him over with a dump truck!"
"Come on, once you do this, I'm afraid the whole world will rush to report it, and you won't be able to survive."
"So serious?"
"ADM is eager for something to happen here and suppress our tourism industry, but now the superiors are not helping each other, or in other words, the two parties are on good terms, and ADM is considering entering the Eastern market, so it is not easy to make some small moves, otherwise it will definitely take the initiative to Let’s make news.”
"Then what should we do?"
"For now, don't think we are weak, in fact we have been winning."
Fan Tao thought about it and nodded, "Yes, after all, we made a lot of money."
"However, Phillips' search for the soybean oil factory shows that his obsession with painting is just an illusion, and he is actually performing the task given by Mrs. Smith. Maybe he will soon visit the chemical factory in the name of the chairman of Sanyuan Chemical to see what we have Have you increased production capacity?”
After Yu Yang finished speaking, he thought for a moment and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to see the soybean oil factory."
"No, Mr. Master, I can't hide things in my heart. Not only do I drink too much and talk a lot, I also often talk in my sleep. I'm worried that my specific location will be revealed."
"Then blindfold me."
"That makes sense!"
After a while.
Yu Yang took Fan Tao and got on the passenger train of Line 1 of the factory track from the entrance of the brick kiln.
At Tianwaiqiao, transfer to Line 3.
According to public information, Line 3 leading to Laigang City is still under construction.
But the track used by Line 3 is the ‘Laigang Railway’ that was declared abandoned by Lao Dong and Laigang City.
In other words, it is ready-made.
It's just that it's not a ballastless track, it's an old-fashioned stone + sleeper + rail.
Considering the transportation issues of ink and paint, we have not yet improved the track.
And when ADM fell out with itself, the chemical plant was abandoned and the raw material growing area was abandoned.
There is no need to build Line 3 at home.
‘It’s just a pain to the people of Laigang City. ’
Yu Yang thought about it and took the EMU of Line 3 provided by Laigang City to Sanyuan Chemical.
It benefits from the steel structure technology of Sanyuan Construction Group, the prefabricated partition walls of Sanyuan Building Materials Company, and the existing resources of Laigang.
Sanyuan Chemical's factory construction was extremely rapid.
It can even be said that multiple world records were created.
After all, it is ADN Investment, one of the four major grain merchants, and the largest general engineering contracting company in Dongshan. It always has to come up with some gimmicks.
At present, although only one-fifth of the factory construction has been completed, the scale has surpassed Laiwu Iron and Steel.
And it is not an empty shell as imagined.
It has a complete water and electricity system, a complete transportation system, a complete oil color configuration module, and a complete watercolor configuration module.
Even the ink and pigment production areas, which are commercial secrets, are equipped with corresponding second-hand refining equipment purchased from the Northeast.
These refining equipment can actually be used to refine soybean oil.
After all, plant-based inks are inherently crude oils.
Make the ink more fine, without odor and harmful substances, which is equivalent to filtration, degreasing, dephosphorization, deodorization...
Therefore, Sanyuan Chemical’s ink production module can be used to produce soybean oil.
What's more, storage tanks and transportation equipment for holding ink can also be used.
We also have a plastic factory that produces food-grade plastic containers, which can produce plastic bottles and barrels of various capacities.
In general, with the addition of Sanyuan Restaurant, Sanyuan Fast Food, Jingcheng Nursing Home, and many vegetable vendors, we can completely integrate everything from production, processing, packaging and sales.
This is why Yu Yang purchased oil pressing equipment from Puyang but did not set up a soybean oil factory.
No, it has been established and put into use.
It’s just that outsiders don’t know.
After taking off his blindfold, Fan Tao saw the shiny oil-pressing equipment and the raw material processing area filled with soybeans. He then followed Yu Yang on a small rail car in the factory and went to the factory next door to take a look at the rows of rows. Brand new refining equipment...
"Master, is this our Sanyi Soybean Oil Factory?"
"Yes, in another week, you will be able to buy Sany soybean oil with high quality, low price and pure taste at various fast food restaurants in Tai City."
"Master, we should send the soybean oil to the vegetable store in Beijing first. If the leaders eat it, will they eat other soybean oil in the future? In this way, our brand image will be improved immediately."
"You're too licky."
"No, this is brand operation. Do you think it would be difficult for a low-end brand to become a high-end brand?"
"It's hard."
"On the other hand, if we turn a high-end brand into a people-friendly brand step by step, and gradually expand its market share, would it be simple?"
"It's very simple."
Although Yu Yang has never done retail, he has bought many famous brands.
Just like some famous brands bought before 2010, after 2020, which one will not be a bad street?
Fan Tao said proudly: "You also said that ADM is encircling us from all walks of life. If we launch high-end soybean oil based on the characteristics of Sany Soybean, they will definitely not be able to defeat us. In this case, we will Avoid price wars and have a place in the market.
Furthermore, the amount of soybeans we can use now is relatively small, which is the best approach.
When Jishui's 8 million acres of soybeans are put on the market, we will rely on our production capacity to develop downward overwhelmingly, directly encroaching on the mid- to low-end market. What will ADM do to fight us? "
Yu Yang looked at Fan Tao in surprise, "Tao, you are indeed a talent!"
"This is what my third brother taught me. Just like the restaurants in Shili Shopping Mall, they say they are creating Oriental first-class service standards, but in fact they are cultivating the brand image. When people know more about it and are impressed, they all praise these restaurants. If I don’t stop talking, I can develop a chain that can spread all over the country like a thousand villages.”
Yu Yang patted Fan Tao on the shoulder to comfort him.
Which of the things that can leave traces in history can be simple?
Asia Mall does have some tricks up its sleeve.
At this time, Phillips called.
"Mr. Yu, I want to go to Sanyuan Chemical now. Do you have time?"
"Definitely!"
(End of chapter)