Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 123 An unexpected visit
Ten Mercedes-Benz cars with black license plates entered the parking lot one after another.

Six Western bodyguards in suits and leather shoes, escorting an old foreign lady holding a walking stick, followed the old boss over.

There were also twenty oriental men with bulging waists, who looked much more refined than their official bodyguards. They were like sentinels, scattered around in groups of two, shoulder to shoulder, one facing inwards and the other facing outwards.

Look at this posture, it looks just like the legendary inner guard.

Looking at this lineup, I’m afraid it surpasses the presidents of some small countries.

Yu Laoliu also received the report and came to the door of the hall. He saw the scene outside and said in surprise: "This old lady's identity is not ordinary!"

"nonsense."

Yu Yang said as he walked out of the hall and glanced at Old Dong.

The latter had a serious expression on his face and seemed to be in a very heavy mood.

"Xiao Yu, let me introduce you. This is Daniel Smith. You can call her Mrs. Smith. She is one of the investors of Adami Company of North America."

Adanmi?
ADM?

A in the four major grain traders ABCD?

The four largest grain traders include ADM, Bunge, Cargill and France's Louis Dreyfus.

Abbreviated as ABCD.

Although they are not very famous and are not even among the top 100 companies in the world.

But they control 80% of the world's food.

It directly determines the global food prices, indirectly dominates the global prices of edible oil, pork, chicken, duck and fish, and affects the supply of products such as seeds, pesticides and fertilizers.

Then, based on these, the allocation of resources in multiple regions is determined.

To put it bluntly, in the capital world, no one can sanction them except the capital forces that invest in ABCD, even the country is powerless.

After all, the countries in the capitalist world are made up of capital, and ABCD is the top capital.

Just like Reagan, the former North American governor.

When he was interviewed in the morning, he said: If they control food, they control all of humanity!

Then at noon that day, Reagan was shot six times by a homeless man in 1.5 seconds.

Although he did not die, he soon developed Alzheimer's disease.

From this we can see how terrible the four major grain traders are, especially ABC with a North American license.

The capital power invested in ABC is definitely more terrifying.

A small township enterprise was initially spied on by the Asia-Pacific giant Marubeni Corporation. After a series of operations, before they could figure out how to earn foreign exchange to fight Marubeni, they welcomed the world's ultimate boss.

Moreover, the ultimate boss did not arrange for his subordinates to help him gain experience, but directly appeared as an investor...

We can compete with Marubeni in importance, but I'm afraid we can only fight a war with the other party.

'Is this still playable?'

'Is it so difficult to grow crops?'

Yu Yang secretly took a deep breath and showed the high school version of Ingrid, "Hello, Mrs. Smith."

"Hello, Sanyuan!"

"???"

"Sorry, I went out of my way to get to know you a little bit, so maybe the pronunciation is wrong."

"That's right, but I didn't expect you to call me by my nickname."

Mrs. Smith smiled slightly, holding the crutch in her left hand and taking out a business card in her right hand.

The card is primed in black with a lucky clover printed on the front.

The grass leaves, two dark green and one scarlet, reflect the not-so-obvious cloud patterns on the black primer, making them look particularly high-end.

“Is this your business card?”

"Yes, ma'am." Yu Yang nodded.

"Then you've found the right person."

Mrs. Smith finished speaking, solemnly and cherishingly put away the business card, and motioned to Mrs. Elaine next to her, "You can go now."

The latter felt relieved, bowed, and ran away without looking back.

While Yu Yang was guessing the relationship between the two old ladies, he called the security personnel, "Arrange a car to take Madam Elaine to the airport."

He then led everyone into the office lobby.

at the same time.

Fujima, who stayed in the negotiation area, stood up in disbelief when he saw the old lady. After confirming the old lady's identity, he hurriedly saluted, "Hello, Mrs. Smith."

"Fujima?"

"Yes."

"Why are you here?"

"I, I'm buying a dog."

"???"

"Mr. Yu has bred a number of excellent hunting dogs. I love them so much that I spent 1000 million US dollars to buy one. I came here today and plan to buy another one."

When the old lady heard this, her expression froze slightly and she sat down on the sofa.

Fujima said again: "Mrs. Smith, Yu Sang, you guys chat, I'm going to the hotel to rest for a while."

Yu Yang nodded and signaled his sixth uncle to see the guest off.

At this time.

Mrs. Smith said, "Mr. Yu, what we are going to talk about next requires the use of a projector. I wonder if your company has one?"

"Yes, let's go to the next meeting room to talk."

After Yu Yang finished speaking, he led everyone out, turned left, and came to the brick kiln meeting hall.

This is a large auditorium made up of 26 three-level houses.

Load-bearing columns are retained in the middle area for holding collective meetings of the entire factory.

The outer houses were given to the 18 village chiefs of Shiliying, and used for offices or village meetings.

Some other rooms are equipped with fax machines, computers, speakers, projectors, microphones, printers, etc., and have been transformed into "multimedia conference rooms".

Yu Yang arrived at Hall 1, where the office staff had already started up the computers and turned on the projection equipment.

Mrs. Smith's assistant walked to the computer, took out a stack of CDs and two floppy disks, and operated them.

Mrs. Smith looked at the two middle-aged and elderly Western men beside her.

"Mr. Yu, this is Richard Phillips, and this is Ron Di Scenza."

"Hello." x2, Yu Yang nodded.

Mrs. Smith continued, "Phillips is good at ink paintings in the form of commercial advertisements. His level is almost unmatched in our area. His works are popular and sexy, and can express a variety of ideologies, such as capitalism, socialism, militarism, and N."

“Ron is good at realism and his style tends to be traditional. He can present grand and vast scenes in his works without losing details.”

"Overall, these two are among the best contemporary artists in North America."

Yu Yang was a little confused when he heard this.

If you want seeds, let’s talk about seeds, what’s the point of talking about art?
Are you bullying me because I didn’t go to college?
in silence.

Phillips took out an ink drawing, on which the apples, bottles, windows, tablecloths... were clearly colored and the lines were smooth.

But Yu Yang couldn't tell what was good or what was bad about it.

Because I don’t understand.

Phillips explained: "The artist of this work has only half the painting skills, or even just started painting. However, his work, whether viewed from close up or from a distance, is better than that of ordinary oil painters, even better than that of painters with seven or eight years of experience."

Yu Yang nodded.

Maybe they are trying to get close to you.

Phillips continued: "The reason for this result is actually related to the ink. If you look at the surface of this apple, its oil paint is very delicate and very close to the original color, or in other words, it shows the color that the apple should have without much mixing."

After hearing this, Yu Yang looked at the ink painting again and felt that it made sense, so he nodded vigorously.

Phillips said again: "Including white porcelain bottles, wooden windows, brown tablecloths, all the oil paints are the same. If we put it another way, we make this oil painting into a blank board, then configure the relevant oil paints and sell them in a package. Even a 7-year-old child, as long as he is patient enough, can draw similar works."

"I see. Pre-made drawing board."

"No, it's oil paint." Another artist, Ron, also took out a work.

On it, there is a little girl, a white gauze skirt, a headband made of flowers, blue sky and white clouds, and the vast land...

"In the past, the world of ink painting relied entirely on imagination and drawing skills. Now the times are moving forward. Although industry has no impact on this field, as Phillips said, excellent oil paints can determine the final quality of a work and can also surpass experienced old painters."

Ron said, taking out another work.

On it, there is still a little girl, a white gauze skirt, a headband made of flowers, blue sky and white clouds, and a vast land...

But after Phillips' explanation, Yu Yang could almost understand it.

The oil paint particles and viscosity of the second work are obviously not uniform.

Therefore, the effect of the second work is far inferior to the first one.

Ron: “I painted both of these works myself, and I put all my effort into them.”

Suddenly.

Mrs. Smith began: “In the world of color, pigments are divided into natural and synthetic, which are further divided into edible, textile, neutral, leather, and active.

The ingredients used to make ink can be either plant-based or chemical.

But high-quality inks are basically pure vegetable oils, including linseed oil, soybean oil, and sunflower oil. Because they contain unsaturated fatty acids, they can form a soft and smooth film after the ink dries, with good gloss and adhesion.

Then there is the plant wax, which is used to increase the viscosity of the ink and improve the fluidity and wettability of the ink...

Then there are pigments, which are used in relatively large quantities and are mostly made of natural minerals or natural plant powder, which make the ink bright in color and have strong covering power.

Finally, there is the desiccant, which is usually silica, alumina, etc. ”

Mrs. Smith's voice fell.

The assistant, who was operating the computer at a distance, turned on the projector.

On the huge blackout cloth, Yu Yang’s trefoil business card was first displayed, and then the picture was continuously enlarged and finally fixed at the granular layer.

Mrs. Smith continued, “Three days ago, I met Mrs. Elaine at a party in New Zealand. She was holding your business card and selling a rare breed of hound to some noble ladies.

I didn't care about it at first, but when I saw the business card, I always felt that with the current level of inkjet printing, printing, or even ink drawing, it is impossible to produce such color.

So I asked for your business card and took it back to the company to study it.

After testing and analysis by a professional team, we can confirm that the colors on the business cards are all plant-based inks that have never appeared on the market, including rutin extracted from Sophora japonica seeds and a gray-green color obtained with chromium mordant.

It also includes extracting colorless basidiomycin from hematoxylin, oxidizing it to obtain basidiomycin, then dyeing it with tin mordant to obtain light red, and then catalyzing it to dark red, and finally scarlet.

And the particles of these pigments, whether scarlet, dark green, or pure black, are all made of bean straw powder.

Mr. Yu, do you know what this means?

This is edible ink.

It can also be called food coloring.

In other words, this technology can not only be used to make inks, but can also be used as a harmless food additive to change the original color of food.

It means a trillion-dollar market.”

Yu Yang understood.

The other party came this time not for Sany bean seeds, but for business cards.

When I first made this business card, I went to Pingdong County to visit my mother last year and asked a printing house to make it.

But these days, a printing shop in a small county has no printing technology or design skills, and the business card layout it produces is unlikely to meet the vision of a future person.

So, after getting a dock at home.

Yu Yang used the building materials of the dock to mix the colors he wanted.

After all, ink is equal to paint, and paint is definitely a building material.

Then I loaded the inks into the office printer, designed and made them myself, and thus the clover business card in front of you was created.

This is also how the business cards of Uncle Six, Liao Pengfei and others came about.

Yu Yang hesitated and asked, "You mean, you want this kind of ink?"

"Mr. Yu, if you say you want to transfer the formula, I definitely don't believe it, because producing this kind of ink requires a certain level of technology, and it can even be made by hand."

Mrs. Smith was quite confident and continued, "I just don't know how much the production of this ink or pigment can reach?"

After Yu Yang realized what was happening, he felt relaxed and his mentality changed.

Although we don’t have much ink at home, we can exaggerate that we do have it.

"Mrs. Smith, you can see that my family is just a township enterprise. We don't have much production capacity. It's good enough to have three or four kilograms a day, and we don't sell it to the outside."

"Mr. Yu, what I mean is that we invest and you increase the scale of production. We ask for as much as you want and you provide as much as we want. We will split the final sales and the final profit equally."

"That's it..."

Yu Yang is an engineer who is not familiar with farming and has no idea about producing ink.

Hearing this, he fell into deep thought.

In other words, when it comes to areas you don’t understand, talk less and listen more, and you’ll never go wrong.

Mrs. Smith smiled slightly when she saw this.

"A few days ago, ADM reported to investors that a soybean variety had appeared in the East, and the yield per hectare... According to what you said, it should be 450 kilograms per mu.

According to analysis by the agricultural research teams of Dow AgroSciences and DuPont Pioneer, the previous generation of this seed had a yield of at least 500 kilograms per mu.

This means that if ADM's agricultural company adopts Sany soybean seeds, the output of ordinary soybeans this year will increase by one third.

If we refer to last year's soybean production and include soybeans, soybean oil, feed, and various agricultural and sideline products, ADM's revenue will increase by two-fifths.

Mr. Yu, do you know how much more money ADM can make?
I’m not afraid to tell you, it’s at least 300 billion US dollars!

So, ADM definitely needs Trinity soybean seeds.

The vassal seed dealers will definitely regard you as a strong rival and may even resort to some tricks against you in secret.

But if we can cooperate in the field of ink, I can help you exempt from all this.

In other words, you have made ADM earn more money in this field, so ADM naturally no longer needs Sany soybeans.”

Yu Yang understood.

It seems that ink is more profitable than food.

The question is, is it too unprofessional for one of the four major grain traders to suddenly start an ink business?
And you want to drag me, a rookie grain merchant, into doing something else?
(End of this chapter)