Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 124 Visitors from Pingyang
Multimedia conference room.

After Yu Yang understood Mrs. Smith's purpose, he made a decision immediately.

It's a good thing that people are not doing their proper job.

Otherwise, if they target Sany's soybean seeds, with ADM's influence, not to mention foreign trade, the seeds allocated to Jishui City this year may be destroyed by the "newly launched herbicide" before they even grow.

Will we guarantee the harvest at that time, or not?
If we want to guarantee a good harvest, we will have to pay farmers billions of blue giant banknotes, which will make them lose everything.

If you don't keep the money, your reputation will be ruined instantly and you will be involved in lawsuits.

And if we don't do our job properly.

Not only do they not want Sany bean seeds, they also throw money at us.

How can we refuse such a good thing?
"Mrs. Smith, I agree to cooperate, but you should know that products like ink are not Sanyuan Agriculture's business projects, and they are not even considered industries. We need time to integrate them before discussing them with you in detail."

"Yes, I understand. So, today I just want to explain my purpose and inform you of my intention to cooperate."

"Then let's talk again in three days?"

“No problem, but I hope that in three days, you can provide my two artists with enough ink so that they can create and let us appreciate the charm of natural ink.”

“What colors do you need?”

Phillips began: "The colors closest to nature."

Ron next to him nodded but said nothing.

Yu Yang didn't know anything about ink, let alone paint, watercolor, or food additives. He could only pretend to know a lot and agreed.

After the meeting.

ADM company staff moved into the brick kiln farmer’s yard.

It was the beginning of April in the Gregorian calendar. The weather was getting warmer, the flowers were blooming, and the scenery in the courtyard was quite unique with all kinds of fruits and vegetables planted by my sisters-in-law.

Mrs. Smith was very satisfied and even called out to her assistant, "We should build a swing over there."

The two artists even dropped their luggage and set up their drawing boards on the spot.

...

Yu Yang settled everyone down and asked the boss to return to his office.

Almost at the same time.

The boss's office secretary handed over the investigated information.

include:

Introduction to ADM company, the relationships behind it, and the investors behind it.

This is nothing to be concerned about.

As one of the four major grain traders, the companies under its control must be complex and intertwined, and each of them is among the Fortune 500.

The relationships and investors behind it...

Is there any need to think about it? It must be Judas.

Yu Yang flipped through the first few pages and found Mrs. Smith.

His real name is Alin Daniel, and he is from Judah.

After marrying John F. Smith Jr., he changed his name to Daniel Smith.

Her husband, John Smith, was an investment tycoon on Wall Street in its early years and a frequent guest of the Morgan Consortium.

His son, Daniel Smith Jr., is chairman of 'Daniel Smith Company'.

Daniel Smith Company is a North American company founded in 93, mainly dealing in inks, watercolors, pigments, etc.

Although the company was established less than 6 years ago, it has surpassed some of the century-old brands in the world with its 'truest colors' and the many famous artists it has recruited.

For example, Dickson in Japan, Mark Harding in England, and Winsor & Newton in England...

“This is for my son!”

Yu Yang probably understood what Mrs. Smith wanted, “As an investor in ADM, the Smith family is not short of money, but a successor.

Mrs. Smith would rather give up Sany's bean seeds than get her own ink formula and production process. She just wanted her son to be more capable and make a name for himself in the field of "color". Then she could retire and become the person behind ADM.

The old boss was thoughtful. "Since the official has confirmed Mrs. Smith's identity and her son controls Daniel Smith Company, then this cooperation should be real. It's just that for other places, foreign investment is a good thing, but for us, it may not be a good thing."

"I understand that letting ADM invest in Shiliying will not help to invite a wolf into the house, but we have no choice now."

The boss shook his head and sighed: "There are wolves in front and tigers behind, and now a Tyrannosaurus Rex has jumped out. It's really exciting to work with you."

"..."

"But, do we have ink technology?"

“Yes, but it is not taken seriously.”

Yu Yang took out his business card and lied, "Its surface ink is made using an ancient oil-pressing technology that has been lost in the East."

"Ancient method of oil extraction?"

"Yes, didn't you hear Mrs. Smith say in the multimedia conference room just now that plant-based inks are all plant oils, but they are mixed with plant fragments, which are pigments, to make the ink brighter and have covering power."

The boss seemed to understand, "Is this technology valuable?"

"Mrs. Smith got my business card and asked Dow and DuPont's agricultural technology companies to conduct tests. Although they found ingredients such as Sophora japonica and Sumac in the ink of the business card and deduced the relevant reaction formula, they still came to me.

This shows that Dow and DuPont failed to crack the ink ratio, let alone reverse deduce the ink production process.

And referring to what Mrs. Smith just said: You let ADM make more money in this field, so ADM naturally no longer needs Trinity soybean seeds.

This shows that the ink formula and ink production process on the business card are very valuable.

At least the profit potential exceeds that of Sany soybeans.”

The boss nodded slightly, "Then how much investment should we ask for from the other party?"

"10 billion US dollars."

"so much?"

"Not much, and this is the initial investment... What puzzles me is that the two parties are not equally powerful, but Mrs. Smith proposed that both parties accrue profits based on sales and split the profits 50-50."

"When the goods are delivered to them, isn't it up to them to decide how much they sell? They make 10 yuan, and they tell you they made 1 yuan, and then we split it in half, 0.5 for you and 9.5 for them."

"Makes sense!"

"To put it bluntly, they want us to agree to it as soon as possible, and then they will take advantage of the investment in Shiliying to steal the ink formula, ink production process, and Sany bean seed technology."

"Leader, are you very skilled in this kind of operation?"

"..."

At this time.

There was a burst of noise coming from the office lobby.

Yu Yang came to the office door curiously.

In the negotiation area, three men in cadre uniforms were trying to get close to Uncle Six.

One held her left hand, one held her right hand, and one sat opposite her wiping tears.

"Director Yu, we in Pingyang are suffering!"

"Just like Sun Decai from Sunzhuang, a family of seven with three elderly parents and two children, all depended on six mu of land for survival. After a flood last year, there was no harvest, and the whole family could only eat dried sweet potatoes. After eating them for half a year, Sun Decai felt uncomfortable in his stomach, but he didn't want to spend money and didn't go to the hospital. Finally, he couldn't stand the stomach pain and drank pesticides."

"And in Li Village, every poor household has only one or two rooms, and people live together with chickens, ducks, geese, cows, donkeys and mules. Is this how you live?"

"Look at this palace again. How many houses have good roofs? How many houses have clothes without patches?"

"We don't have high demands, just the same as in Pingdong County. The land contract fee will be borne by our county."

Yu Laoliu looked at the many photos on the table and couldn't help lighting a cigarette. "It's not that our company is unwilling to invest in Pingyang, but the cost of investing there is too high, far higher than Yanggu in the north, Liangxian in the south, and Taiqian in the west... Our company has only been established for three months, and now the business is already very large. For low-yield projects like this, we always have to slow down a bit."

"No need to delay. First, acquire the land, then build the track through the factory, and continue to grow soybeans."

Although Yu Yang was not sure whether ADM would invest 10 billion US dollars, he was sure that the other party's investment would be in the hundreds of millions.

Otherwise, spending tens of millions on such an important project would be a bit of a loss of face value and would also damage the title of one of the four major grain traders.

When the investment is in place and the exchange is received, the amount is X8.27, and the company's own funds are instantly sufficient. A portion of it will be enough to complete the Pingyang project. As for the ink factory, pigment factory, and food additive factory that ADM needs, what should we do?

The things are mass-produced at the dock, a number of plastic greenhouses are built, and a few sets of equipment called traditional oil pressing are installed. It's just a gesture.

As long as the relevant products can be supplied, ADM probably won’t care about these details.

Of course, we must ensure the quality of our products.

That is, the 'color closest to nature'.

Thinking of this, Yu Yang said hello to Old Dong, and also instructed his sixth uncle and the person in charge of Pingyang to do a good job in land acquisition.

Then I took the Harmony Express from the Brick Kiln Platform to the township compound.

Instead of making the ink directly, he contacted his own home economics teacher, Mr. Zhang, and asked him to help find a high school art teacher.

I never thought that the art teacher only had a basic knowledge of oil painting.

Fortunately, the other party recommended my mentor from Dongshan Academy of Fine Arts.

Then Yu Yang started to learn ink painting.

First up, the color cards...

Next is the color wheel, hue, complementary colors, brightness, saturation...

Then there are mixing, contrasting colors, similar colors…

Then comes blending, brushing, layering, masking, dry brushing, wet brushing…

Yu Yang understood.

The so-called oil painting is actually no different from whitewashing in construction.

No matter how you paint or what tools you use, as long as the result is close to nature, it means your skills are more advanced.

The so-called closeness to nature does not mean being exactly the same as nature.

It just makes it easier for people's eyes to accept this color and like this color.

Even from a psychological level, I believe that this is how things should be.

Therefore, oil painting is an abstract product with psychological implications.

If these two points are not met, it is called graffiti.

The factor that determines abstraction and psychological suggestion is the quality of the pigment.

Like blue paint.

In the field of oil painting, you don’t need to care whether it is dark blue, light blue, sapphire blue or azure blue.

You buy it, and if you want to paint a 'good mood' blue sky, dilute it according to your feeling, or don't dilute it, and then paint it with a brush. If the color it presents is what you want, then it is a good paint.

If you dilute it based on your feeling, or don't dilute it, and the color you apply feels too light, too dark, or even ugly, then it is definitely not a good paint.

This may seem normal.

But what if the paint you bought is already a mixed product?
In other words, whether you want a blue sky that makes you feel good or a gloomy blue sky, it can give it to you.

The reason is that your eyes accept this blue color from the beginning, and then make you accept this blue on a psychological level.

It sounds incredible, but that's what Daniel Smith's company does.

For example, there is a cat sketchbook on the market, which contains 12 kinds of paint. After parents buy it, they can let their children aged 7 to 13 learn painting.

Daniel Smith followed suit but made some adjustments to 12 of the pigments.

The result is that no matter how hard the children using the first drawing board draw, they cannot draw as well as the children using the second drawing board.

Which one do you think parents will buy in the future?
So the company recruited many artists and crushed many old companies in less than 6 years.

If it extends to the field of food.

Which one would you buy, a traditional cheese or a cheese with psychologically suggestive colors?
If you had to choose between a regular bacon and a bacon with psychologically suggestive colors, which one would you buy?
A pizza, a grilled wing, a drink...

If it extends to the printing field...

If it extends to the field of dyeing...

Especially, it is a non-toxic and harmless pure natural plant color...

“This is indeed an industry with huge potential.”

Yu Yang finally understood why Mrs. Smith came here in person, and then used the dock to try to mix the 'blue paint' and make it close to nature according to its characteristics.

Worked until midnight.

Continue the next day.

Until noon.

The office called and said that Jiang Quan had sent a batch of medical equipment, but demanded payment of 4300 million US dollars.

Yu Yang understood.

If the old leaders in the compound work together with Marubeni Corporation, which dominates foreign exchange investment, they will know that their company has no foreign exchange and can prevent themselves from getting foreign exchange.

This would then result in the inability to settle accounts for this batch of equipment, and would eventually be used by the old leader to invest in other hospitals.

If after a while the company comes up with its own money, the old leader can transport the equipment from other hospitals and hand it over to the company without having to withdraw investment from the hospital.

Of course, this is just speculation.

Yu Yang thought about it for a moment, and remembered that his own hospital didn’t even have an address, let alone install equipment, so he simply let the other party do it.

When the two sides fall out, maybe they can use this as evidence to fight the tiger.

And not long after I hung up the phone.

In the 3D bird's-eye view, Pingyang County, east of Pingdong County, may have had a very smooth land acquisition process, or Pingyang had already made preparations, and sentry towers had begun to be built in many places.

Then it expanded from villages to towns, and then to counties.

[You occupy 5% of the land in this area...]
[You occupy 7% of the land in this area...]
[You occupy 11% of the land in this area...]
Unfortunately, Pingyang has a large population, and in some areas the size of villages is even larger than the arable land area.

It is difficult for the family to occupy more than 50% of Pingyang's land.

Unless all the villages and towns are razed to the ground.

But this is not realistic, after all, the family cannot accommodate so many people.

Yu Yang thought about it and planned to turn off the 3D bird's-eye view.

However, it was discovered that the prefabricated box girders built based on ballastless track technology years ago had been transported to Xiaoqing River using steel rails.

In the Xiaoqing River, above the three large bridge piers, when Taishi Road and Bridge was contracted to build the Beijing-Kowloon Railway Bridge across the Yellow River, the JQ130 bridge-erecting machine allocated by the superior had already started operations.

The winch at the rear lifts the prefabricated box girder from the flatbed car on the rails, slowly moves it forward, and then places the box girder between two bridge piers.

Workers welded the box beams and tested the prestressing. The bridge erection machine moved forward as a whole. The rails continued to be laid forward. Soon, the second prefabricated box beam was transported in...

Yu Yang calculated the time and thought that perhaps the railway bridge across Xiaoqing River would be open to traffic tonight.

But this construction speed is not fast. In another time and space, the beams of Sanyuan Bridge in Beijing were replaced, and an overpass was built from scratch in just 43 hours.

Therefore, we still need to work hard.

After the Xiaoqinghe Railway Bridge is opened to traffic, the prefabricated ballastless track concrete components can be continuously sent to the east until the tracks in the factory are laid to the Tianwai Bridge.

While the project takes time, building the sentry tower is fairly simple.

therefore……

Yu Yang looks at the Dongyue Scenic Area in the 3D bird's-eye view.

Including the western suburbs of Tai City, this place, and then the arable land in Pingyang County, they occupy almost 60% of the land in Tai City.

It's time for Lao Dong to return to the place where his dream began.

So Yu Yang took out his cell phone and made a call.

"Leader, after much thought, I feel that moving the city compound to Shiliying will be more suitable for you to continue your advancement."

"???"

(End of this chapter)