Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 428 Hybridization Technology

With the unexpected and rapid rise of Dongda, the world map and balance of power in the Sword of Legends has undergone a profound reconstruction, among which Dongda's status has leapt to become the most eye-catching focus. This change not only marks the effective expulsion of the Japanese forces, but also prompts Dongda and Daxiong to establish a delicate and complex cooperative relationship. Although they have not formally formed an alliance, they have achieved mutual reliance and checks and balances to some extent.

It is precisely by virtue of the successful mastery of the "peace bomb", the deep-diving breakthrough of the Blackfish submarine, and the first launch of rocket technology that the status of the University of the East on the international stage has undergone earth-shaking changes, which is very different from the historical trajectory in the main world. The rapid acquisition of these cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements has not only built a solid defense barrier for the University of the East, but also allowed it to occupy an unprecedented height in the international discourse power. Therefore, those forces that once intended to blatantly oppress the University of the East now have to think twice and choose to respect its borders and maintain a delicate state of peaceful coexistence.

With the continuous advancement and popularization of science and technology, the whole world seems to have been accelerated and is moving towards a prosperous stage at an unimaginable speed. In this process, cooperation and exchanges between countries are becoming increasingly frequent, and the sharing and application of scientific and technological achievements have greatly promoted the development of social productivity and improved people's quality of life.

Compared with the historical time and space of the main world, the current world of Bright Sword has undoubtedly shown a more vigorous development trend and a broader future prospect. It seems that everyone has their own things to do in the world that has been opened up, and they feel deeply inadequate and have no way to cover the sky with one hand.

Among the industries exported by Dongda, light industrial products have gone abroad, electronic products have gone abroad, and now the automobile industry is also beginning to go abroad. The situation is very good.

However, what is even better is that after more than ten years of unremitting efforts by the scientific research team, Tongji University has successfully developed a number of new grain hybrid varieties and basically mastered the full set of grain hybrid production technologies. After large-scale promotion in the country, it has achieved self-sufficiency in grain supply in the country for many years, allowing Ren Zhong to put his mind at ease.

After all, food is very important and everyone is afraid of losing their job. Hybrid technology is a key technology to increase grain yield per mu. Now that the breakthrough has come, Dongda’s shortcomings in this area have been made up.

Although the per capita arable land area is much smaller than that of other countries, now that the per capita grain index has increased by more than 800 kilograms, it can reach a safe level.

Although there is still some distance to go before we can achieve grain abundance, the situation is much better than before and it is still growing every year. In addition, the cultivated land area is also expanding, reaching an unprecedented 167745 million mu. After the hybrid planting technology is fully promoted, it is estimated that it will not take long for the per capita grain to exceed 1000 kilograms.

"Brother Ren, thanks to your initial proposal and continued support for the research on hybrid technology, our food problem has finally been basically solved. Now many countries and regions are coming to us to ask for this technology, which makes us very confused. Do you decide whether to give it to us or not?" Staff Officer Ye came to him and threw another difficult question to Ren Zhong.

"Give it to them for free? They have to accept it even if it's free. We can train them on the process and principles of hybridization, but they can forget about the core parent seed resources." Ren Zhong shook his head. If it happened in another time and space, someone might give it to them on impulse.

But who is Ren Zhong? He is not a saint, so it is impossible for him to get something for free.

Hybridization technology is simple. It is to continuously hybridize similar but different types of crops to obtain new varieties. If the new varieties show stronger environmental adaptability and yield advantages, then this is basically a very important link on the road to success. Then repeated experiments are carried out to obtain the best generation.

The two first-generation varieties that produced excellent varieties are the "parents" of hybrid crops and the first-generation seeds used in hybrid experiments. The retained seeds will not cause trait separation and affect yield. The genetics of the parent seeds are more stable and consistent in the hybrid offspring, and can produce hybrid varieties with hybrid advantages that can adapt to different ecological and cultivation environments.

Therefore, the first-generation parent seeds of high-quality hybrid varieties are important germplasm resources and the core secrets of hybridization technology.

If we want to give away the hybridization technology, we also have to give away the parental seeds. How is this possible?

"But now these countries are our friendly countries and our international partners. It would not be a good idea to reject them directly." Staff Officer Ye said with a bitter face, "This food issue is no different from other issues. If we are not careful, we will be accused of something. Although we can keep ourselves out of it, we have to consider our image in the international community. It is not a good idea to completely accuse them."

Ren Zhong understood it as soon as he heard it. Isn't this just the traditional skill of some shameless people in the main world - moral kidnapping?
According to this statement, why don't the great powers give their industrial technology to backward countries for free, and sell the electromechanical products they produce at low prices? They don't do any of these things, and now they are using their people's livelihood to get our hybrid technology for free. This is quite a calculation.

"Staff Officer Ye, I'm afraid that behind this, it's not just the intentions of these poor brothers in Asia, Africa and Latin America, but also the sinister intentions of some big grain growers with ill intentions. Because we have solved our own food problem, it has affected the pricing of food in the whole world. This is not good news for farmers in the main producing areas of North America. Now they want to use the hands of these poor brothers to take over our army.

If we give it to them, we will suffer a loss; if we don’t, they will criticize us morally. This attack of the Virgin Mary is quite good.”

Ren Zhong slowly sorted out his thoughts. "More importantly, if they get the parent seeds, they can study their genetic characteristics in depth. If they have bad intentions, they can find ways to destroy the quality of these parent seeds, or even study new biological pests and diseases to destroy our seed sources. It's terrifying to think about it!"

"So this technology must never be given out like this."

Ren Zhong gave the conclusion directly.

"However, we may be able to use this opportunity to export our hybrid technology and expand our influence. On the contrary, we will gain the initiative." At this point, Ren Zhong thought of the rogue eagles in the main world who had used food to stir up trouble and deceived many countries. Even a super power like the big bear had suffered a great loss, not to mention the Latin American countries and the Asian and African countries.

Even the University of Tokyo was often tricked by them and suffered a great loss on soybeans.

Once a South American country encountered a food shortage problem, the Rogue Eagle pretended to provide aid to it in accordance with the law, but their aid was not charity. The Rogue Eagle's staple food dumped here would be sold to the local area at market price, 25% of the income would be used to pay for transportation costs, and the remaining 75% would go to the local government. It sounds good, but if the local area wants to use this money, it must obtain the consent of the Rogue Eagle, and it must not be used for the construction of its own food security production system. In this way, under the impact of the Rogue Eagle's low-priced food aid, local grain traders quickly went bankrupt and became a country deeply dependent on the Rogue Eagle's food. From then on, they had to eat the Rogue Eagle's high-priced food for a long time.

Although the Rogue Eagle's trick may seem simple, relying on their strength, they have been successful in many countries around the world.

To be fair, Ren Zhong is not interested in making money from food, because food is almost the only livelihood for many local farmers. Destroying the local agricultural system would be as lethal to the local people as a bomb.

Thinking of this, Ren Zhong suddenly had an idea and caught some inspiration.

"Wait, Chief of Staff Ye, let me think about this matter carefully. I'll talk to you after I come up with a plan." Ren Zhong said.

"Brother Ren, we are really in a dilemma. We are in a passive position now. I can only trouble you again." Staff Officer Ye said a little embarrassedly. "It's okay, I will help!" Ren Zhong said domineeringly.

He turned back to the main world and posed this question to his own agricultural expert consultation meeting. Of course, the question would not be so obvious.

Instead, it is divided into several related sub-topics, specifically studying how Tokyo University's hybrid technology can address macro issues around the world.

A few days later, Ren Zhong came up with a preliminary plan based on the received suggestions and his own search and thinking, and from historical experience and lessons.

The first is demonstration fields in thousands of villages and households. No matter what new thing it is, it needs something tangible for everyone to see in order to be convincing.

This is especially true for farmers. It would be best to have living examples around them so that they can serve as role models for everyone to learn from.

These are the successful experiences gained from the promotion of hundreds of millions of acres of hybrid high-yield farmland at Dongda University.

For these demonstration fields, we directly export hybrid rice seeds to help local farmers plant according to our planting standards and increase the yield per acre.

The area chosen for this demonstration field is naturally the countries neighboring the Asian server area.

Their natural climate resources are similar to those in our south, so it would be almost the same if we just adopted our methods.

There is absolute confidence in this demonstration.

In terms of specific operations, the local area purchases hybrid rice seeds and distributes them free of charge to villagers for cultivation. The seed money is recovered from the increased tax revenue from land production, and the money to buy the seeds comes from an interest-free loan provided by the Dongda International Development Professional Fund.

This is equivalent to using the funds and technology of the University of International Business and Economics to leverage a sharp increase in local rice production, and then realize the return of the University of International Business and Economics funds from the bigger pie.

After the demonstration, the local people saw the huge benefits of hybrid rice and returned to the normal model of farmers purchasing hybrid rice seeds for planting.

Compared with grant aid, this model is more focused on effectiveness. It helps local areas grow bigger and stronger through new technologies and external resources, and then forms a new virtuous business cycle, which is equivalent to the International Development Fund being an incubator.

This is how demonstration and promotion is done in mature farming areas.

But for areas where farming is not mature, it is necessary to start from scratch from the farm.

This model is much more complicated. What you receive first is not even arable land, but wasteland, which must be reclaimed before it can be cultivated.

However, this model also has its advantages, which is that it is easy to form a large-scale farm model, which is more conducive to our mechanized farming.

Through negotiations with the local people, we obtained arable land or wasteland suitable for farming, and an estate of at least 100,000 acres. Such an estate was built in a mechanized manner, with the investment entirely provided by Northeastern University, and even most of the farm staff were sent by Northeastern University. Then we recruited some local people to pass on their knowledge and teach them step by step, turning the farm into a learning place for the team to teach agricultural production technology.

After teaching the locals how to grow crops, we slowly withdrew and handed over the farms to the locals. We sold seeds. Since we charged for seeds, we did not need to invest unilaterally in this area. We could achieve a perfect cycle by charging for seeds. Although we did not make much money, we were able to guide them to truly promote hybrid varieties. In the future, the seeds charges would be a very stable long-term income, and we would not lose anything.

From the other party's point of view, by switching to a cheaper seed and increasing the cost a little bit, combined with a complete set of planting technology from Dongda University, the yield can be more than doubled. The profit is far greater than the investment, so this business is naturally very cost-effective. More importantly, the grown food is still in their own hands.

After this transaction is completed, no party loses anything, and it is truly a win-win situation.

Of course, the Heilongjiang-Nanjing area may be more troublesome. Considering the local conditions, they cannot master this planting technology on their own. Therefore, in this regard, a number of demonstration farms need to be built to provide them with technical guidance. Relatively speaking, it will take a longer time to cultivate this market. But it doesn’t matter. Dongda is not in a hurry and can take advantage of this plan to boost the sales of agricultural machinery products.

At the same time, food is the most important livelihood project. We do not intend to rely on it to make a profit. We just simply want to reduce the cost of food, do some public welfare, and help local people solve the problem of food. Apart from anything else, if we succeed in filling the local people's stomachs, our influence will probably be significant.

This is much better than giving them a sum of money as aid and not knowing who will get the money in the end.

What's more, we are not spending money in vain in this matter, but recovering all the investment costs through a big cycle.

Staff Officer Ye watched and pondered, and found that this matter was indeed promising. It was both righteous and practical. If it succeeded, when people in these places picked up their bowls to eat in the future, they would probably remember that it was Dongda who helped them achieve the freedom to eat. This would be much more useful than any advertisement.

"Have you finished reading it?" Ren Zhong saw that Staff Officer Ye's expression changed with the chapters of the proposal, and knew that he had roughly understood what he wanted to express. Although there were still some things he might not have thought of, it didn't matter. The plan in front of him was enough to impress the higher-ups to push forward this matter.

(End of this chapter)