1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 220: Killing
Perhaps it was because the 817 broiler chickens were so popular during this period that they attracted the attention and interest of the academic circles in the province. Just when Diao Sigui and others were still happily worrying about the piles of chicks and feed orders, an article quietly appeared in the "Dazhong Daily", a newspaper with not very strong circulation but with mysterious meaning.

The title of this article is "Legal or illegal - what kind of breed is the 817 broiler chicken that has become so popular recently?"

This article, which obviously has a stitched-up tone, is structured in a way that is full of the seriousness and awkwardness that is unique to agricultural researchers, but is also mixed with the reserve and arrogance of other academic circles.

At the beginning of the article, the value of the 817 broiler chicken was affirmed, and the advantages and disadvantages of this broiler chicken were objectively evaluated from a fair perspective and from a horizontal comparison of technology and breeding. The words seemed to imply that it was regarded as "a model of independent innovation in my country's poultry technology."

But after evaluating the technology, the article took a sudden turn and pointed out the controversy surrounding the 817 broiler chicken: some experts believe that from a breeding perspective, the 817 broiler chicken is just a simple hybrid of different breeds and has nothing to do with the word "breeding" at all. If something so unrefined can become a new breed, it will not only be a huge joke for the poultry breeding industry, it will also greatly dampen the enthusiasm of breeders.

In fact, even if we don’t consider it from the perspective of breeding technology, there is still the question of whether this thing is compliant in the legal sense.

According to the clear provisions in the "Conditions for the Complementary Approval and Genetic Resource Identification of New Poultry Breeds", "new breeds that are eligible for certification must simultaneously meet the following four conditions: "basically the same pedigree, a clear breeding program, at least four generations of continuous breeding, and a core group with more than four generations of pedigree records."

However, the production of 817 broiler chicks is just a simple seed production process. It has no stable paternal and maternal sources, no fixed population, and no fixed supporting model, so it is impossible to carry out variety approval.

Then the biggest problem comes. According to the Animal Husbandry Law, "New breeds of livestock and poultry, supporting lines and newly discovered livestock and poultry genetic resources must be approved or identified by the National Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources Committee before promotion."

In other words, if it fails to pass the breed identification, pushing 817 into the market on a large scale is illegal from a legal perspective... But no matter how good or valuable the 817 broiler is, its breeding technology determines that it cannot meet the country's breed identification regulations.

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Although the article discusses whether the 817 broiler chicken is a new breed and whether it can be legally circulated in an academic tone, it even hypocritically mentions at the end of the article: "In view of the huge social value of the 817 broiler chicken, can we consider making special arrangements without changing the relevant provisions of the "Conditions for the Approval and Genetic Resource Identification of New Poultry Breeds"?

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is putting 817 Broiler Chicken, Momo Baizha, and even a number of roast chicken companies on the fire.

On the one hand, it is an indisputable fact that the 817 broiler is a superior breed whose various traits and economic value clearly surpass other domestic chicken breeds.

On the other hand, according to relevant regulations, it is an indisputable fact that 817 broiler chickens cannot pass the variety identification and cannot be circulated commercially in compliance with regulations... Although the country has been crossing the river by feeling the stones since the reform and opening up, and laws and regulations have been constantly improved and adjusted, it is obvious that such things cannot be achieved overnight, and it is unlikely to adjust relevant regulations for a new variety. Therefore, it can be predicted that, at least for a long period of time, 817 broiler chickens will indeed not have an "identity card."

But the problem is...

817 broiler chickens have in fact already flowed into the market on a large scale!
Although this thing was only bred last year, as of now, a number of companies including Momo Baizha, Momo Baichao and major roast chicken companies have consumed more than 817 million 2500 broiler raw materials!

Moreover, with the expansion of 817 broiler farms under various major units and the maturity of breeding technology, in the next year, the demand for 817 broilers in the B-end market alone will not be less than 1 million!

If the 817 broiler chickens were nailed to the racks of "illegal breeds", it would be a lot of fun.

You know, we are already in an economic downturn, and all major companies are having a hard time. Everyone is trying to reduce costs and increase efficiency, so they have introduced 817 broilers and are willing to adjust production lines and production processes for this purpose. Once this thing becomes an illegal variety, not only will the production cost not be reduced... won't the initial investment and raw material procurement expenses be wasted?

Besides that, what about those chicken farms?
What about those breeding farms?
What about those feed mills?
What's even more terrible is... what should the farmers and the competent authorities who have already bought 817 broiler chicks from Laoliu Chicken Breeding Farm do? ?

A small move can affect the entire body. If you are not careful, there will be a big mess!

To be honest, although due to the special nature of Dazhong Daily, this article was not widely circulated, and the article was not very sharp, but everyone who read it felt a headache... Although everyone can guess that this article will most likely just be an article in the end, there are too many variables in this era, and no one wants a fire in the backyard.

so far so good!
Fortunately, due to the problem of carrier media, this article is not widely circulated, otherwise it would be really a headache.

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However, due to some well-known reasons, this article was not reprinted or fermented in public opinion. Most people in the outside world didn't even know about this incident. But as far as the drilling company was concerned, this article published in the "Dazhong Daily" was tantamount to setting off a huge storm.

As expected, the day after the article was published, Vice President Feng immediately convened a work meeting and, with an attitude that could not be refused, asked the Fifth Farm, Laoliu Chicken Breeding Farm, and Tianzheng Feed Factory to remit all funds from chickens and related bundling sales into a public account, which would then be uniformly supervised and allocated by Momo Baitou.

The reason is very simple. 817 broilers have now become a de facto illegal variety at the regulatory level. Although the relevant departments have not issued any documents and there has been no news of a ban on production and sales, risk plans must be made anyway.

The drilling company is a central enterprise and must assume its due social responsibilities. Once the relevant departments decide to ban the sale and circulation of 817 broiler chickens, the drilling company must recall the chicks that have already been sold and give corresponding compensation to the purchasers according to the standards.

This is an astronomical amount of money, which is even twice the revenue generated by the supporting links of the 817 broiler chicken chicks. Although the drilling company is an oil unit that is not short of money, if it bears all the compensation, it will be enough to hurt it badly. Therefore, units in each link must assume their own responsibilities and hand over all revenues to cope with the compensation that may come at any time.

During this period, all basic operation and maintenance expenses of each unit were allocated by Momobaitou from the public account. No matter what, everyone is a subordinate unit and a brother unit. Even if they make mistakes accidentally, it is impossible to let everyone starve to death, right?
Of course, considering that the orders for 817 broiler chicks have been scheduled for four months, and the composition of these buyers is relatively special and sensitive, it is not appropriate to return those orders before the relevant departments have officially issued a document, which can easily put the drilling company in a huge passive position.
Therefore, during this period, the production and sales of chicks will proceed normally. Even if the relevant departments do not issue official documents within three months and there is no news of a ban on sales, the expansion plans of the Laoliu Chicken Breeding Farm and related units can be carried out normally after obtaining the approval of Momo Baitou... But again, all expenses related to the 817 broiler project need to be handled through that special public account.

Although all the heads of the participating units were dissatisfied with Vice President Feng's almost coercive approach, no one dared to speak out in rebuttal.

There is no way. The most important thing for state-owned enterprises is their positioning. It is almost a foregone conclusion that the 817 broiler variety is an "illegal variety" according to current regulations. How can they have the confidence to say anything?
Besides, Feng Yuan is the vice president in charge of relations between workers and peasants. Not only is the matter concerning the 817 broiler project completely within his scope of responsibility, but based on the nature of the huge adverse consequences that this matter may bring, he can do it without Wang Yinuo's consent or convening a company meeting. He can just act first and report later... and Wang Yinuo has no right to deny his decision afterwards.

In fact, if it were only the actions mentioned above, the heads of these units headed by Diao Sigui would appear panicked on the surface, but they were not very nervous inside.

We are not fools. Although if we are serious about it, 817 broiler chickens are indeed an "illegal breed" that cannot pass breed identification, but if you say that the relevant departments will officially issue a document to prohibit the breeding and circulation of 817 broiler chickens, that is basically impossible.

Braised chicken is one of the pillar industries in Dezhou and Yucheng. Given the established facts, it is unlikely that the authorities will watch those braised chicken companies fall into huge difficulties due to the cost of raw materials.
Moreover, in the current economic environment, do you think the authorities will deny a new chicken breed that can bring huge value to the people's livelihood and economic potential just for the sake of unwarranted "face"?

Besides, the 817 broiler was originally a new variety developed by the Qilu Academy of Agricultural Sciences to optimize the raw materials for roast chicken. Do you think that at the beginning, people didn't know that the variety of this thing could not be determined programmatically?
You should savor the meaning behind this carefully!

In fact, they all knew very well that Yang Mo's main purpose in launching the 817 chicken seedling supporting project was to transfer the nearly 2000 million special funds in the account of Qingfeng Food, and to save some money for the future industrial chain expansion plan; therefore, as long as the ownership of these revenues still belongs to these units, there is nothing wrong with you managing them for three or four months... There are still four months to the end of the year, and once the competition is over, these funds will naturally be unfrozen.

But the terrible thing is that Vice President Feng not only froze the huge revenue brought by the various supporting projects of 817 broiler chicken chicks, but also directly ordered Qingfeng Food to seal up the existing 817 broiler raw materials for the same reason.

That is to say, in the next three or four months, the Momo 817 fry and Momo stir-fry projects are not allowed to use broiler chickens as raw materials!
This is really hot!
You know, Momo Baizha already has a serious shortage of raw materials. All the previous blockades by Vice President Feng were aimed at this link... He even wanted to take the special funds in the account of Qingfeng Food. Now he has frozen the revenue funds of various units. To put it bluntly, he is afraid that the other party will embezzle this money to solve the raw material problem of Momo Baizha.

Now, as soon as this order, which sounded righteous at first glance, was issued, the only 15 portions of 817 chicken fillet ingredients left in the Qingfeng Food warehouse and the hundreds of thousands of 817 whole chickens just collected from several village collectives could no longer be used, and the company could only purchase other varieties of broiler chickens from other channels at high prices.

God have pity on us. Even if Qingfeng Food has good performance, it has only been more than half a year since its establishment. After various investments and consumption, the funds in the account are only about two to three million at most... Considering the current hot sales of Mo Mo Bai Zha, and the fact that funds are already insufficient, a large amount of 817 broiler raw materials have suddenly been sealed up. How can they survive for three months without adjusting the price?
Although the internal fighting of the drilling company is none of outsiders' business, and everyone knows that Feng Yuan did not actually kill them, otherwise if he ordered them to cancel the chicken seedling orders now and compensate the purchasers according to the standards, then they would be finished.

But since he was called by Vice President Feng to attend the work meeting today, the heads of the participating units are naturally all from Yang Mo's group.

For example, the deputy manager of the biological company that specialized in producing chicken embryo vaccines was Luo Yong, a cousin of Su Yu's uncle;
For example, the director of the feed factory that produced the first and second stage chicken feed was an uncle of the fat boy Zhang Jianjun;
For example, another feed mill that produces third-level chicken feed is a sub-unit of the fifth farm;
As for Diao Sigui, the general manager of Laoliu Chicken Breeding Farm, he was the first henchman to surrender to Yang Mo.

Therefore, it is very important for them whether Yang Mo will fall flat on his face and what the final outcome will be... There are many issues involved here, not just the direct benefits such as unit revenue, which cannot be explained in just a few words.

However, although they were very convinced of Yang Mo's ability, they had to admit that in terms of strength, background and ability to mobilize social resources, Yang Mo and Vice President Feng were really not on the same level. Facing Feng Yuan's "killer" move, no matter how confident they were in Yang Mo, no one thought he had the ability to resist.

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In fact, even as a reborn person, Yang Mo had no way to deal with Feng Yuan's dimensionality-reducing killing tactic except feeling deeply powerless.

"Feng Yuan~! Very good, very good!... I will remember you!"

Yang Mo, who was the first to learn about the content of today's work meeting through other channels, had a sullen face and spoke word by word. The cold air emanating from his body made not only Bai Mengmeng but even Zhang Wenshun who was sitting next to him shiver.

The internet of later generations often jokes that the business wars on TV are all about using extreme means, but the real business wars are all about "burning the opponent's money tree", "stealing the official seal", "stalking the comment section", "kidnapping the opponent's employees", "drawing paper dolls to curse" and other extremely childish means. The contrast is so strong that it almost makes people think they are living in a fake world;

But leaving aside the factor of "just letting you see what you can see", everyone seems to have forgotten that the reason why many business warfare methods in later generations seem so childish is entirely due to the extremely developed self-media... In that era when everything could become a hot topic in two hours, the sunk cost of some things was too high. Over time, the methods of many business owners naturally softened.

In fact, if you really understand the history of the period from 1981 to 2008, you will know that even the plots in Hong Kong and Taiwan film and television dramas are played too gently... Especially before the millennium, the phrase "do whatever it takes" was fully demonstrated in the business world.

Of course, the situations of different natures, sizes and industries are different. As far as state-owned enterprises are concerned, under the rules, everyone will naturally not use overly drastic or too shameful means.

But this does not mean that the confrontation within this circle is gentle.

In fact, everyone is using every possible means, but the rules and gameplay are different. It is difficult for people who are not in this group to understand the tricks and the dangers involved... But you only need to know that sometimes, once you fail, the actual consequences are no less severe than those you have seen in movies and TV shows.

Precisely because of this, since his rebirth, Yang Mo has been trying his best to avoid direct confrontation and conflict with others unless it is official business. Otherwise, in many things, he actually adopts the attitude of "making friends"; even if he has to, he will at most show his thorns and make a threatening gesture... There is no way, state-owned enterprises, especially central enterprises, are too complicated, and the cause and effect involvement between them is too complicated. No one knows whether the stone you want to kick away may actually be a bump on the forehead of a prehistoric giant crocodile.

But he didn't expect that even though he, who was a humble man, had done his best to act like a harmless little shrimp, Vice President Feng was still so persistent.

And the key point is that, strictly speaking, Vice President Feng's current move has gone beyond the scope of internal confrontation and is completely a move to strike foreign enemies!

This was the main reason why Yang Mo had such an ugly expression…Within the rules of the game of internal confrontation, he might still be able to maneuver, but once the intensity rose to the level of external confrontation, facing a monster with abundant resources like Vice President Feng, a white-collar like him would have no power to resist at all.

No wonder you were always suppressed by Wang Yinuo in your previous life. Even though you took the position of acting general manager, you couldn’t get a permanent position... Judging from your anxious look, your energy-cultivation skills are far worse than Wang Yinuo’s!

After complaining viciously in his heart, Yang Mo took a deep breath and then pinched his eyebrows hard.

Complaints may be made, but Vice President Feng's move not only hurt his foundation, but also made him completely unable to resist.

You know, even for ordinary enterprises, if the macro environment does not change, the cost of raw materials will increase by 10%, and the operating cost will increase by 40%, but correspondingly, the market share will shrink by 20~30%... This only applies to the blue ocean field. If it is the red ocean field, the chain reaction will be even more terrifying.

For a project like Momo Baizha, which is already considered a large-scale chain, the chain reaction caused by cost changes is even more fatal... Generally speaking, for a mature, large-scale C-end chain project, a 2% increase in raw material costs is already a major event worthy of alarming the board of directors, and a 5% cost increase is a super problem that may affect the life and death of the project.

And what about after today?

With Vice President Feng's ban, so many raw materials were sealed, and 817 broilers could not be purchased and used in the future. They had to use other chicken breeds purchased at high prices as raw materials. The increase and decrease would bring about a cost fluctuation of more than just 10%.

More importantly, this ban period of only three or four months at most may not be so fatal to other projects. After all, the domestic market is still immature, and the commodity economy of the entire society is actually in an incremental trend, and the tolerance rate is actually very high. But for Momobaizha, this three or four month ban period will definitely be the end of it!
You know, 817 broilers grow very fast and can be slaughtered every two months. If there is a gap in procurement, all links in the industry's value chain will be severely hindered. However, with Qingfeng Food's current capital pool, it is difficult to maintain the supply of high-priced raw materials for the next month, and it is impossible to effectively deal with this kind of bottleneck.

By then, the value chain and trust will collapse, and the supply chain prototype that Yang Mo has worked so hard to build will be destroyed. This kind of loss cannot be measured by simple money!

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"Boy, how about...if it doesn't work, I can make an appointment with Vice President Feng and we can go meet him?...Anyway, the cooperation between the two sides was pretty good in the past."

Looking at Yang Mo, whose expression was so gloomy that water seemed to be dripping out of it, Zhang Wenshun struggled for a long time before speaking softly.

Fish is what he wants; bear's paw is what he wants too. You can't have both, so you give up fish and take bear's paw.

Yang Mo was very important to him, even more important than he had previously thought, so he could tolerate losing the little initiative he had fought so hard for, temporarily giving in and then enduring for a year or two.

There is no way. This is no longer the era of state-owned enterprises 1.0. Under the veil of tenderness, the law of the jungle is even more naked than those in private enterprises. If your fists are not strong enough, even your fart will be wrong.

It was obvious that human power was limited. No matter how capable this kid was, he could not resist the fatal blow that Vice President Feng had delivered using the "power of rules". Now he had no other choice but to surrender.

Unexpectedly, after hearing what Yang Mo said, he just glanced at the slightly depressed Zhang Wenshun and sneered: "Submit to Feng Yuan? Is he worthy? "

"If it really doesn't work, won't I, Yang, ask Wang Yinuo and Mu Liya for help... Who the hell is Feng Yuan!?"

After saying these arrogant words, Yang Mo's expression became a little ferocious: "I admit that I can't stand Feng Yuan's trick... but if you want me to surrender, you are not qualified!"

"Humph, don't be fooled by his tricks, but he is actually much more anxious than me... If he wasn't forced into a corner, do you think he would use such an offensive killing move because he actually needs my help!?"

"Hey~ Since time is on my side and not his, let's just have a good argument and see who can outlast the other!"

"Isn't it that he doesn't allow me to use the low-cost 817 broiler chickens? Isn't it that he knows that I won't let him go and silently bomb them? He wants to use the expensive raw materials to exhaust our capital pool, and then beg for mercy from him?"

"Hehe, you wish! Can't we just hold on for another two or three months at most? I want to see who surrenders first!"

Yang Mo, who was completely irritated, returned to his appearance at a certain period in his previous life. He stood up from the bed in a stiff and cold manner, turned his head and looked at the stunned Bai Mengmeng: "Xiao Bai, aren't you good at cooking? Have you finished the things I asked you to help prepare last month?"

Bai Mengmeng stared blankly at the completely unfamiliar master in front of him, swallowed his saliva, and then said with a stammer: "Master, Master, it has been adjusted."

Hearing this, Yang Mo nodded, then picked up the thin coat that Miss Mu had forced upon him from the coat rack: "That's good, go tell Dean Tian that I want to go home for recuperation, and help me with the formalities!"

Go home to recuperate?

Hearing these four words, Bai Mengmeng almost bit her tongue...

(End of this chapter)