Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 135: Changes in the World, Looking for a Loan

People who are busy making money are not willing to stop what they are doing and calm down to appreciate the scenery along the way.

Even when I occasionally take a train and stand by the window looking at the distant sky and earth, I am thinking about irrelevant things.

And now.

You don't need to be still or observe carefully.

With just a moment of distraction, the world before your eyes will make you feel different from before.

It is clear and thorough, as if the non-existent filter has been removed, making everything subtle, delicate, yet full of reality.

Its sky was swept away by the wind, and white and blue intertwined to form a huge vortex, reflecting the later sunrise. The eastern edge was mixed with light red and light gold, the western edge was mixed with light gray and light pink, and then blended into light purple and light orange, finally casting a brilliant light.

Its land is vast and lush, but with the changing winds and clouds in the sky and the rotating rays of light, the vast land sometimes looks like a grassland, sometimes like a desert, and sometimes like the sea...

At this moment, time seemed to stop, yet also seemed to be passing quickly.

...

Phillips is not the first to discover the charm of nature.

At this moment, the sparse traffic on the 385 section was actually filled with cars parked everywhere on the highway.

Countless people stood by the roadside, some were dumbfounded, some felt lost, some looked up at the sky, and some were moved to tears...

This was the scene Yu Yang saw when he arrived at the highway intersection.

Soon, I was also deeply attracted by the colors in the distance.

It was mid-April, and the soybeans in the experimental fields had grown to knee height, and the soybeans in ordinary farmland had also grown green leaves.

Normally speaking, apart from the vastness, there doesn't seem to be anything to see.

But can you see green plants 1000 meters away with your naked eyes?

Here you can not only see, but also see trees 5000 meters away.

Moreover, the land in the distance was not affected by the curvature of the earth at all. The entire venue was like a super sand table, completely presented before our eyes.

Then the wind and clouds intertwined, the light and shadow rotated, and everything seemed to be passing by.

'What a sea change!'

Yu Yang understood.

It must be the rain in the early morning, coupled with the weather changing from cloudy to sunny, that triggered the miracle effect...

Thinking.

On the northern highway, at the junction of Shiliying and Buddha Temple, a large group of monks suddenly appeared.

Thanks to the miracle of farsightedness, Yu Yang even saw a skinny old monk among the group of monks.

This appears to be the contemporary abbot of the Buddha Temple, who is said to be 121 years old.

Then Yu Yang saw the monks dispersed, found people who were watching the scenery, and began to spread Buddhism...

Grass!
Yu Yang took out his phone and contacted the security department, "Chang Lu, carry them as far as you can!"

A little bit.

Thousands of security guards, like a swarm of locusts, hugged, lifted, or carried away hundreds of monks.

Buddha Temple is not a small temple.

Its history can be traced back to the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Although it is not as well-known as the surrounding Jinshan Temple, Lingyan Temple, Xingguo Temple, Baoxiang Temple, etc., the bird that sticks out gets shot first. It is precisely because of its obscurity that it has gone through wars in various dynasties and even the invasion of the Japanese without suffering any losses.

Secondly, the monks believe in the Buddha Patriarch, who is famous for his fighting skills.

So the monks had guns in their hands and dug a lot of tunnels around the temple.

If you can beat them, then beat them. If you can’t beat them, then hide. Then fight again after hiding…

Otherwise, how could I save money for incense offerings in this lawless area?

Most importantly, when the Japanese invaders were being fought in all parts of the country, the contemporary abbot used the "records of the Buddhist ancestors resisting the aliens" to persuade the entire temple to take out gold, and used his connections to buy a large amount of weapons to support the local resistance.

Among the people who received this batch of weapons, one of them was Mr. Wan, who was from Pingdong County.

This is also the reason why the Buddha Temple is officially recognized despite being a non-traditional Buddhist temple.

Even if we don't give face to the host, we must at least give face to Mr. Wan.

Therefore, Yu Yang could only ask the security department to send the monks back to the temple, and he did not dare to charter a plane to send them to Hong Kong.

……

The commotion caused by the taking away of the monk and the gradually clearing sky brought the people who were admiring the scenery back to their senses.

Some look for people with cameras, hoping that after the photos are developed, they can sell them one.

Some asked where this place was, and then asked why there was a crossroads on the highway.

Some people also watched Phillips painting...

Unfortunately, the scene was quickly cordoned off by security, who then set up roadblocks to guide the car in and built a simple plastic shed to prevent Phillips from being disturbed.

Although Mrs. Smith valued Phillips, investing in ink and pigments was more important. She talked with Yu Yang for a few words, then got into the Mercedes-Benz and continued on her return journey.

Yu Yang stood in a simple plastic shed, watching Phillips paint, and apart from feeling that it was slow, he didn't gain anything else.

Wait until noon.

Seeing that Phillips could not finish the painting in a short time, he looked up at the changes in the world and saw no effect. He simply got off the highway and returned to the brick kiln office area to deal with the investment plan for the chemical plant.

A little bit.

The medical examiner's sister brought lunch.

One serving of minced meat and eggplant, one serving of braised potatoes, one serving of pork, cabbage and vermicelli stew, two steamed buns, and one serving of salty porridge.

Yu Yang picked up the chopsticks and tasted it. "Strange, why did the taste change?"

“Isn’t it not as delicious as before?”

"Correct!"

"I heard that these ingredients are all purchased from outside."

"Why not use the ones we grow ourselves?" Yu Yang said, dialing the secretarial team's internal line.

The latter replied: "The price of potatoes grown by us is 3 yuan higher than the market price per kilogram, and the supply is insufficient to meet the demand when we send them to Beijing. After discussion, we think that if we sell the potatoes grown by us and purchase potatoes from outside, we will have three times the number of potatoes. This will not only reduce the expenses of the big pot meal, but also maintain the market share."

"I grow such delicious potatoes, but I sell them to others at a low price, but I suffer myself?"

"You don't run a household, so you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are."

"Ok?"

"Director Yu, do you know the company's expenses?"

"I really haven't calculated it." "As of mid-April, Shiliying, Hangai Township, Jiuxian Township, the area around Xiaoqing River, the northern part of Fei City, and the western suburbs of Tai City have all been transformed into enterprises, and the population in the factory area has reached 4.

In addition, after the land acquisition in Pingyang County is completed, if the local farmers are included in the factory area and the urban population is not calculated, there will be an additional 55 people.

A total of 82 people, with a daily communal meal expense of 5 cents per person, which is 123 million.

Our Sanyuan Agriculture, Sanyuan Construction, Sanyuan Building Materials, as well as the Sanyuan Cattle Farm, Sanyuan Soybean Oil, Sanyuan Hospital, Shili Nutrition Nursing Home, Shiliying Care Center and other companies under construction have 3 regular employees and 15 contract employees, with an average salary of 860 yuan and monthly expenditures of 1.6 million yuan.

Then there is the most important labor dispatch in our industrial zone, which is temporary recruitment of people to unload, load, and handle other sundries. Although the number of people doing so is small, the monthly expenditure is as high as 2 million.

Construction expenditures not only exhausted the 10 billion invested by Jishui City and the 11 billion borrowed by Deputy General Manager Dong, but also exhausted the 2000 million US dollars from you and the 5 million funds that the county branch helped to circulate.

Although our vegetables, fruits, hot pot and fast food make money, it is far from enough to keep up with consumption.”

Yu Yang knew about this a long time ago, but he didn't expect that his own management would tighten their belts.

The reason why the funds ran out was mainly because the company's main industry changed from vegetables to soybeans.

The soybean industry takes time, and is now in a stage of investment and negative returns.

However, once 800 million acres of soybeans come on the market, everything will get better, or even explode.

Soybean oil, soy products, feed, breeding, aquatic products...

It is like activating a giant industrial chain, killing gods and Buddhas who stand in the way.

"No problem. From now on, vegetables will be supplied to the internal department first, so that the employees can not only eat enough, but also eat well."

"But my family doesn't have that much money..."

"Loans? With so many large companies and ADM's investment, I don't believe that there won't be banks lending money."

"Indeed not."

"Ok?"

Yu Yang was slightly stunned, then he understood.

I guess it’s the tiger in the Air Force compound and Marubeni Corporation who are behind this.

One dominates the inside, the other dominates the outside.

Domestic banks dare not lend, and foreign banks cannot lend. With both ends blocked, they cannot get loans either.

Yu Yang hung up the phone and contacted the boss, "We have no money left, let's think of a way."

Then the boss's voice was heard coming from outside the office.

"How much is the difference?" Before he finished speaking, someone walked into the office.

"It's not bad actually. It's mainly because the investment from ADM will take some time to arrive... We need to prepare 20 billion first and pay it off in three months."

The boss nodded, picked up his phone and dialed the number.

A little bit.

"Hello, I am Liu Xianli, deputy director of the National Assembly."

"Hello, leader. I am Dong Zheng."

"Oh? Hello, Comrade Dong Zheng."

"Leader, Sanyuan Agriculture is out of money. Everyone in the company is waiting for lunch. It's already one o'clock, and we still can't open the pot. Many people have started to make trouble, and the city can't control it anymore."

"Ah? You have to report this to the province."

"I'm communicating with the provincial government, so what's your business?"

"That's right..." Deputy Director Liu said, a little embarrassed. "What I mean is, we should solve it ourselves first. If we can't solve it, we can ask the provincial government. We can't always trouble our superiors."

"Then can you help me solve it?"

"Can't Yu Sanyuan suppress it?"

"You know, he's discussing investment with ADM and can't be busy at all. Besides, is the problem of food something that humans can solve? If it could be solved, why would there be so many peasant uprisings in history?"

"Comrade Dong Zheng, don't describe the problem as so serious."

"There are countless precedents here. Otherwise, why would you split up Datai?"

"..."

Deputy Director Liu was silent for a moment, then went silent, as if he was busy with something.

After a while.

"Comrade Dong Zheng, how much do you need?"

"50."

"so much?"

"You can't let this place have one meal and no next meal, right?"

"Fuck, what do you usually eat, sea cucumbers and abalone?"

"Did I come to you to discuss food? Don't play dumb with me."

"..."

Deputy Director Liu said no more, put down the phone, and went back to work.

The application he submitted previously for "Shiliying's incorporation into Changqing" was shelved by the chief steward. Then he received the news that Shiliying Subdistrict Office was established and obtained special approval from the capital. He knew that he could not defeat the old boss.

In other words, he couldn't defeat the boss who had developed the mayor of Tai into his own man.

Now the other party is giving us a way out and extending an olive branch...

Deputy Director Liu gritted his teeth and mobilized all his connections.

"Have Yu Sanyuan make a copy of ADM's investment agreement and send it to Qilu Bank and Huaxia Bank respectively. After signing the foreign exchange, temporarily keep the agreement between the two banks. Each bank will provide a loan of 25 billion."

"Not enough."

"Dong Zheng, how much power do you think I, an old man who is about to retire, have?"

"It is precisely because you don't have much power that I came to you. Otherwise, how could we be short of money to make peace with that fierce tiger in the Ministry of Space Affairs?"

"Since you know there's a tiger blocking the road, you should also know how difficult it is for me to get around it."

"Please think of another way."

"I don't want any fucking thoughts, that's all, take it or leave it."

After Deputy Director Liu finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

The boss put down his phone with a reluctant look on his face. "Five billion is enough. Maybe we can even build some roads."

"You are making more friends and fewer enemies."

"Deputy Director Liu is not an enemy. He just wants to make progress. As for me, I am able to get to where I am today because I am surrounded by people who are motivated. Otherwise, if they were all parasites and had no achievements, I would have been in jail long ago."

(End of this chapter)