20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3658 Three Directions
Ye Ziyu made a phone call and said to Zhao Chang'an, "It's ready. I'll have him put it in the security room at the entrance."

Zhao Chang'an and Ye Ziyu walked towards the entrance of the pharmacy. There was a winding road nearly a kilometer away from the entrance, but they decided to go over the mountain to save three or four hundred meters of road.

They wanted to walk alone, otherwise walking on the flat main road would definitely be more comfortable than climbing the mountain.

A winding stone path leads to the mountaintop, which is covered with various medicinal plants that remain lush even in winter, though most of the leaves have withered and are densely packed, obscuring the two people's view.

It was nearly four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was beginning to set behind the western mountain ridges, with a slight chill in the air.

As the two approached the summit, they came to a flat meadow where the withered grass shone golden in the sunlight.

"I'm tired, let me rest for a while."

Ye Ziyu looked at the grass, took off her coat, bent down and spread it on the grass. Her figure looked graceful from behind, which could make men fantasize.

Zhao Chang'an naturally understood Ye Ziyu's meaning, so he hugged her from behind and did what he had to do.

The two packed up and continued climbing. Half an hour later, the sun had already set below the western ridgeline. The sky was still azure, and the sunlight gilded the white clouds, but it had already darkened on the mountain.

"Ye Yiyi's father, my fourth uncle, died a few years ago while fighting with the Lu family over a phosphate mine in Morocco. My fourth aunt passed away a long time ago, and now they only have these two siblings."

Although Ye Ziyu did not explicitly tell Zhao Chang'an not to have any issues with Ye Jinghao, Zhao Chang'an naturally understood what she meant.

"Understandable."

Zhao Chang'an didn't know what to say at this moment. In fact, each person's stance determined their behavior and attitude. In Ye Ziyu's eyes, the brother and sister were pitiful, but in other people's eyes, they might not be pitiful at all.

The saying "He who kills will be killed by others" illustrates this principle.

Ye Henian's group first invested in the agricultural fertilizer industry in China. They purchased a phosphate fertilizer production line from Bavaria. Morocco is the world's largest phosphate rock reserve holder, accounting for 70% of the global phosphate rock reserves of 780 billion tons, or about 540 billion tons. Moreover, the phosphate rock has a high grade (PO≥34%) and is shallow and easy to mine.

Although China's phosphate rock reserves rank second in the world, at approximately 36 billion tons, the grade is too low, mainly consisting of sedimentary phosphate rock (accounting for 85% of the global total), with an average PO content of only 16.9%, and high-grade ore (PO≥30%) accounting for only 7%.

Moreover, the overall transportation cost of a 20-ton cargo ship from a port in Morocco, which travels through the Suez Canal to Mingzhu, enters the Yangtze River system, and unloads at the phosphate fertilizer plant dock located on the riverbank, is 30% lower than the cost of transporting phosphate mines from China by land.

Moreover, the purchase price of this rich ore is more than 10% lower than that of sedimentary rock-type phosphate rock rich ore, which is more difficult to process and has higher smelting costs in China.

Moreover, the import of such mineral resources enjoys tariff preferences in China, and since Yip's Agricultural Fertilizer Plant is a foreign-invested enterprise, it also enjoys some policy benefits.

Therefore, this rich mine, which was acquired with Ye Yiyi's father's life, can bring considerable profits to the entire Ye family.

However, after the life-or-death struggle between Ye Jingtian and Ye Bai more than two years ago, Ye Henian took the initiative to cut off this supply chain. As a result, Ye's European phosphate mine in Morocco still had no trouble selling in China, but Ye's agricultural fertilizer plant, which switched to using domestic sedimentary rock-type phosphate rock, suffered repeated defeats in subsequent domestic competition. Now, the large enterprise that was originally among the top three in domestic phosphate fertilizer sales has long been squeezed out of the top ten and is in a state of semi-shutdown.

Therefore, Zhao Chang'an always believed that the entire Ye family, and the Lu family's Tianyue Group, could not be considered a truly modern enterprise; they were more like old-fashioned family businesses and branches from the feudal era. Zhao Chang'an and Ye Ziyu got into the car and drove towards the entrance of the pharmacy. They stopped at the entrance, and the security guard pressed the button to open the sliding gate. Ye Yiyi then walked out of the security room carrying a cardboard box.

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"Why are you two so slow? I've been waiting by the car for ages, it was so cold that I only came to the door to wait for you."

Ye Yiyi seemed to be implying something.

"I took Zhao Chang'an inside for a while. Some workshops were not so strict and allowed women to bring outsiders in for a visit."

As a result, Ye Ziyu's words, spoken out of a sense of concealment and defensiveness, made Ye Yiyi's pretty face turn red.

"My brother and I had a huge fight. He spends all his time at the pharmacy, constantly stirring and frying in the wok until he's completely confused!"

Ye Yiyi said to Zhao Chang'an apologetically, "I'm sorry."

"It's nothing, he just cares about you."

Zhao Chang'an said, "Just like you said, this ancient martial arts manual seems to be useless in this day and age. No matter how powerful the kung fu is, can it compare to a gun? As for strengthening muscles and bones, its backlash is like using the future to prematurely deplete the present strength."

"It's alright, my third grandfather and Ye Pingbai are doing very well, they are both over eighty years old this year."

Ye Yiyi comforted Zhao Chang'an.

“I’m not worried,”

Zhao Chang'an frankly said, "I think your Ye family may have been practicing wrong for the past two hundred and forty or fifty years, and has gone in the wrong direction."

"This has not been studied in the last few decades, but for the previous two hundred years, countless people have been researching it, trying to find a feasible path. In the end, it was my third grandfather and his colleagues who took a different approach, starting from the perspective of Western medicine, which gave them some hope and led to some achievements."

Ye Ziyu said while driving, "Moreover, I think that in addition to the many achievements in the field of bones, there should also be some achievements in the field of the corpus cavernosum. Otherwise, why would Ye Pingbai, who is over eighty years old, still have to change female secretaries every year? If this problem can really be solved, then things will be much easier."

Ye Yiyi stared at her cousin in surprise, wondering if it was necessary to be so blunt.

"The research direction of the White Dragon King's side should be very different from yours decades ago and in recent years. I feel that their progress is quite good, and they have also broken the restriction that women cannot practice. Ye Ying, this should be your side's attempt in that direction."

“My brother told me that after the Bai family arrived in South China, they came into contact with some schools of thought that came from Southeast Asia. Later, they even migrated to Southeast Asia and may have integrated with some local groups. However, if the direction the Ye family took in the past two hundred years was wrong, then the direction they are pushing forward now does not seem to be right either. It’s just that they are too big to manage, and the cost of completely overturning and remodeling is too high, so they have no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to push forward in the direction of the ultimate.”

Ye Yiyi, who had been silent for a while, picked up where Zhao Chang'an left off and said, "If we're talking about right and wrong, I feel they're not as good as Third Grandfather and his group in their current Western medicine approach."