Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 144
"Now American universities are more welcoming to Chinese students. I will help you make a list. You write letters to each university, and I will help you find a way to see if you can get a letter of recommendation. This way the chances are greater. !” Li Lei told him the story of Hai Wen’s going abroad.

Recommendation letters are also easy to handle. New Century Investment Company has set up a branch in the United States, which is mainly responsible for the speculation of agricultural futures, the collection of agricultural related information, and the introduction of equipment and technology. It has established a certain relationship with the American agricultural community. It is still possible to write a letter of recommendation.

The big deal is to spend a little money. As long as you find the right source, it doesn’t cost much to get a letter of recommendation. Like the boss of Buchang Pharmaceutical, who spent 650 million US dollars to send his daughter to Stanford, it is purely taken advantage of. In fact, The intermediary swallowed all 600 million, and only spent 50 to do things.

Now is the honeymoon period between China and the United States. In order to expand its influence on China, the United States welcomes Chinese students to study in the United States. However, due to funding issues, it is not easy to open up, so public-funded students are not easy to win; self-financing is easy. More, as long as they can afford it, American universities welcome them.

"Among American colleges and universities, UC Davis, Cornell University, Michigan State University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison are relatively strong in the field of agriculture. I will ask someone to collect information about these schools and look at the fertilizer field. The professor is more suitable, try to help you win!"

"You sort out your thesis and transcripts, translate them into English, and send them along with the recommendation letter." In terms of experience in applying for foreign universities, Li Lei has much more experience than Jiao Gaoliang. He was a graduate student and Ph.D. When I was a student, there were too many classmates who went out around me.

When the list was first announced, Jiao Gaoliang felt as if the sky had fallen. Studying hard to study in the United States was his only ideal for the past three years of graduate school. People are in a state of collapse, thinking that there is no hope in life.

Now that Li Lei helped him rekindle hope again, Jiao Gaoliang's gratitude goes without saying, and he covered his face and cried on the spot, "Director Li, I really don't know how to thank you, don't worry, if If I can really go to the United States, after graduation, I will definitely go to work in your place!"

"You don't have to come back right away. You can work in the United States for a period of time. Whether it's a research institution or a manufacturing company, go and learn more about what the Americans do, and then go back to China!" Now Li Lei was not in a hurry anymore.

It will take until 1997 for the domestic chemical fertilizer field to be opened to private enterprises, and I will have to wait until after that if I want to make a big splash in the chemical fertilizer field. Jiao Gaoliang's return is too early to be of great use.

And don't look at what he said now, it's because he hasn't seen the prosperity of the United States, and he may not be willing to come back when he really goes. Although Li Lei can use money to force him to come back, he will become an enemy since then.

So it's better to put it nicely and let him stay in the United States for a few years, and when he encounters the glass ceiling, he will think about coming back.

Li Lei first took Jiao Gaoliang to eat something, then sent him back to school, told him to get ready, and then called Ma Tianyou to give instructions, Ma Tianyou prepared the materials within a few days, recommended The letter is about to arrive, and there is no money at all, just promise a few professors and give them some investment quota.

The profits of New Century Investment Company in the futures market have attracted the attention of some interested people. Many people want to ask them to operate on their behalf. Li Lei has never agreed, and this time is an exception.

Professors are also cannibals. Although writing a recommendation letter will cost a little favor, it is nothing compared to the expected benefits, so they all readily agreed.

With the recommendation letter and Jiao Gaoliang's good grades, he quickly got admission places from several American universities, and finally chose the University of California, Davis at the suggestion of Li Lei;,.

California is an important agricultural city in the United States. The University of California, Davis also has a strong accumulation in agriculture. It has long been ranked among the top three agricultural majors in global universities. If Jiao Gaoliang can go to such a school for further study, he will definitely gain a lot.

When he was leaving, Li Lei personally saw him off, "You study hard at school and don't need to think about other things. I arranged for someone to pay for your living expenses every month, so you don't have to wash dishes like other students!"

"Director Li, don't say thank you for your kindness, just wait for me to come back!" At least for now, Jiao Gaoliang has not changed his mind, and he wants to repay Li Lei's kindness.

"I still say the same thing. It's good for you to stay outside for a few more years. It's not enough to just study in school. It's better to go to research institutions and production companies to accumulate more experience! It's getting late, so hurry in and wait. When you arrive in the United States, someone will pick you up, and he will send you to the school and introduce you to some professors."

Since you want to sell favors, then just sell to the end. Li Lei has prepared everything. I believe Jiao Gaoliang will understand how much Li Lei has helped after meeting other international students in the United States.

After sending Jiao Gaoliang away, Li Lei set off again and began to inspect his own industry city by city. Now the chicken farms and feed factories in Shaanxi, Chongqing, and AH have been completed and put into operation, and several responsible persons are the first. Li Lei was still a little worried about being alone, so he could only run around more.

After running down from several places, Wang Feng, Sun Chengping, and Li Xinwang all said the same thing, "The business is doing well now, and we don't have to worry about selling our eggs and feed at all. We can sell as much as we produce, and almost all the ready warehouses are empty. It's useless at all!"

If you don't consider policy and other risks, and consider it purely from a commercial point of view, the 80-year business is really easy to do.

In the past, China, like its neighbors to the north, had the problem of unbalanced economic structure. The long-term emphasis on the development of heavy industry led to industrial imbalance, distorted economic structure, prominent market contradictions, and progress in supply and demand of commodities.

In this context, as long as you can produce products, you don't have to worry about sales at all. The huge demand market will soon eat up these products.

At the same time, household production contracting has indeed increased farmers' income, and opening up has also made the urban economy more lively. People want to consume when they have money, and eggs are a daily necessity, so the demand will naturally rise.

Moreover, the policy has also provided convenience to Li Lei. First, the state has liberalized the purchase and sale of eggs and the price. Otherwise, even if Li Lei can produce eggs, he has to sell them to the state. The price can only be arranged by the state. How much does the state say? How much money is charged, there is no room for bargaining.

In addition, in the past two years, the long-distance trafficking and bulk sales of agricultural and sideline products have been liberalized, and obstacles to egg transportation and wholesale have been removed, allowing Li Lei to sell eggs to other cities; Sales, how many people are there in Heyang?How many eggs can you digest?
In the countryside, market trade has resumed. Every time the market comes, farmers from the surrounding villages will come from all over the world to gather at the market to sell their own agricultural products in exchange for some daily necessities.

Every time around this time, Li Xin'an will arrange staff from the sales department to buy eggs and sell feed at the market; the rural market has always been the place where news spreads the fastest. After receiving the money, I heard that pigs grow faster with Huinong brand feed, and someone will imitate it.

Once they come and go, more and more people come to buy chicken chicks and feed. They will buy more chicken chicks and feed when they earn money, and drive their relatives and friends to buy. Therefore, the sales of farms and feed mills have developed like a snowball. stand up.

In cities, last year's National People's Congress clearly proposed "to set up wholesale markets for agricultural products extensively." Since then, cities across the country have started to build wholesale markets for agricultural products, and a large number of wholesale markets have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

This provides great convenience for the sale of eggs. In the past, when going to sell in other cities, you had to ask units one by one. Now it’s good, you only need to put up a signboard at the largest wholesale market of agricultural products in the local area, and someone will come to buy it.

Coupled with the development of the individual economy, there are more and more small businesses and hawkers. Many people are interested in egg trading, and they come to the sales point to wholesale eggs and sell them to others.

In this way, the production and sales links of eggs have been completely opened up, and eggs produced by chicken farms can be delivered to consumers unimpeded.

Moreover, there are not too many competitors. The small-scale farming economy cannot raise chickens on a large scale, and the uniformity of cost and quality is not as good as that of Li Lei. As for other farms, their technological content and production efficiency are not as good as Li Lei. It is almost invincible in the market.

Now, Li Lei's eggs have been sold to several surrounding provinces, and the price has risen from one yuan and ninety-eight cents to two yuan and one, and depending on the market, it can rise further next year.

It can be said that as many eggs as the chickens in these chicken farms can lay, the market can eat as many eggs, and there is almost no time when they cannot be sold.

Originally planned products such as preserved eggs and preserved eggs can only be produced on a small scale. There is no other reason, but because eggs sell quickly and there are not many raw materials for them to process.

As for feed selling well, the reason is even simpler. When people see that raising chickens and pigs can make money, more people will naturally raise them.

Through advertising, let farmers and breeding enterprises know that with our Huinong brand feed, chickens lay more eggs and faster, and pigs grow more meat. Can they not buy it?Buy feed for a few yuan now, and sell the eggs and live pigs after a while, and you can earn more than ten or dozens of yuan.

There is no need to mention chemical fertilizers. The effect of using chemical fertilizers on crops is too obvious. As long as your chemical fertilizers are of qualified quality, ordinary people are willing to buy them, so the Heyang Fertilizer Factory has also turned losses into profits.

Of course, there are also objective problems, such as the shortage of raw materials. Now that the business is so good, there must be a lot of people squeezing in, so the competition for raw materials has become more intense.

Many people took advantage of the opportunity of the dual-track system to hold the batches in their hands and started to speculate continuously. Some raw materials were in the same place in the warehouse, and the price doubled several times, but the production enterprises that needed raw materials were unable to get them for a long time.

It has also become troublesome for these feed factories and farms to purchase raw materials. In many cases, they have to increase the price to get the raw materials they need, and the cost has increased a lot invisibly.

There is also the problem of food and card requirements. The economy is active, and many negative factors have also come. Many people with a little power in their hands, seeing others getting rich, can only get dead wages, and their mentality will inevitably become unbalanced, so Start looking for opportunities to benefit yourself.

As well as the issue of social security, when Li Lei first crossed over, the country carried out a major rectification, which achieved good results.

But now more than two years have passed, and many things have begun to revive again, such as blocking roads, robbery, and bullying the market.

As a result, each factory arranges people to deliver goods, and besides the driver, they always bring two more people, and there are guys in the car, ready to fight with people at any time; fortunately, Li Lei has recruited many veterans, and they do this It's professional, but nothing major happened.

All in all, although there are various small problems, the development momentum of Li Lei's various industries is very good, and his income is also soaring. This year alone, even if the futures income is excluded, the profit has reached tens of millions. level.

In this era when ten thousand yuan households are still rare, it is estimated that few people can achieve the annual income of tens of millions across the country.

However, most of the money was turned into investment. After seeing that these branches were developing relatively well, Li Lei immediately started investing in surrounding provinces such as Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Hubei.

Affected by that internal reference, those provinces were inviting Li Lei to set up breeding farms and feed factories in them. Li Lei also went to investigate and chose a few good places. It was only because of the shortage of management talents that he delayed. hands on.

Now, during the construction of the previous branches, a group of good talents have been cultivated, and the process specifications for the establishment of new companies have also been formulated, so this shortcoming does not exist.

A group of talents were transferred from Heyang, Chongqing, Hefei, Tonghe and other places to be responsible for the start-up of the new project. Li Lei's Hailan laying hens and Huinong brand feed will soon occupy the entire Central China, North China market and Half Northwest Market.

When a new batch of talents is cultivated next year, they will be able to enter the Northeast and South China markets, and even go to the Southwest to meet Brother Chao, friendship is friendship, and business matters still cannot be let go.

After walking around in a circle, it was the end of the year. Li Lei returned to Heyang County, stayed in the fertilizer factory for two days, and then found Xing Shuwang. It was time to hand over this year's profits.

(End of this chapter)