Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 139 Terrible Capital
Brick kiln office area.

Yu Yang personally received the leaders of Puyang Machinery Manufacturing Plant.

The other party knew that this side was very busy, so he exchanged a few polite words and got straight to the point.

"Mr. Yu, what do you think of this cart?"

Yu Yang glanced at the sample that the other party had carefully prepared. "To be honest, it's not very good. When I first saw it, I thought of the window ridges welded with iron strips in the big tile-roofed classroom in the junior high school."

In 99, Dongfang was still lagging behind in the manufacturing sector.

Like aluminum alloy.

This cheap metal, which was very common in another time and space, is extremely rare now.

Because the raw material for its manufacture - alumina, needs to be imported on a large scale, and the domestic electrolytic aluminum industry was in a state of serious losses before 05.

To put it bluntly, the industrial base cannot keep up.

This also applies to stainless steel.

This has resulted in most of the existing doors, windows, guardrails, metal components, etc. on the market being made of pig iron or wrought iron.

Items such as stainless steel basins, stainless steel chopsticks, and aluminum alloy photo frames are almost nowhere to be seen nowadays.

Ultra-light and thin panels used in manufacturing automobiles, lightweight bicycles, and aircraft shells are currently difficult to mass-produce.

Even the thermally-insulated aluminum technology introduced around 85 has not yet been widely popularized today, 99.

Therefore, the trolleys of Puyang Machinery Factory are made of iron pipes + iron plates in consideration of cost and load-bearing issues, and welding technology is used at the joints of many components.

The end result is that the imitation cart weighs about 8 kilograms, and its appearance and texture are far inferior to the cart assembled by the family using steel rails as raw materials, using the blacksmith shop to produce ultra-light thin plates, then using processing equipment to make pipes, and then installing metal prefabricated parts.

And the two products are put together.

One looks like an iron fool, and feels like nothing to the touch.

A highly technological device that feels like holding a door handle that has been polished. Although it is slippery, it will not fall out of your hand. Although it is cold, it is not piercing. Although it is hard, it has a certain toughness...

Which one do you like, old man or old woman?
"Mr. Yu, the purchase price is only 15 yuan."

"Too high."

Yu Yang shook his head. "According to the rules of my family, if you buy 100 yuan worth of vegetables and fruits, you will get a cart for free. How much profit do you think you can make from 100 yuan worth of vegetables? Let's assume 20%, which means you make 20 yuan. Your cart takes up 15 yuan. Am I selling vegetables or a cart?"

“Orders from North America?”

"People have requests."

Yu Yang asked the clerk to deliver ADM's purchase contract.

The content inside not only has requirements for materials, but also lists the numerical ranges of yield point, tensile strength, etc.

Puyang Machinery Manufacturing Plant, including other speculative manufacturers, knew that the carts were gifts, but when it came to the unlimited repurchase at 30 yuan, they did not consider the profit from selling vegetables at all.

I just want to manufacture it quickly and then sell it to Sanyuan Agriculture.

Now after listening to Yu Yang's analysis and looking at the purchase contract, I suddenly realized that these two or three days of overtime work were in vain.

"Mr. Yu, it can be cheaper, 12 yuan."

"Sorry, I don't even want the 5 bucks."

Although Yu Yang didn't like Tiehanhan, he didn't have such high requirements for the shopping cart as a gift.

Whether it's your own or from outside, you can give it as a gift.

As for the old men and women, it’s up to them to decide whether they want it or not.

What's more, they can even come up with new rules. For example, if you buy vegetables worth 50 yuan, you will get a railway cart for free, and if you buy vegetables worth 100 yuan, you will get a steel rail for free.

It’s just that the supply price of Puyang Machinery Manufacturing Plant is a bit high.

But the other party’s cost is there, and it is unrealistic to ask them to reduce it to one or two yuan…

After a brief moment of contemplation, Yu Yang said, "To be honest, my family and Shantui have had a very close cooperation..."

Previously, Sanyuan Agriculture commissioned Shantui in Jishui City to help optimize and improve its independently developed and designed large-scale farming equipment.

It seems like a simple thing to do.

But the body, pipes and accessories of large-scale farming equipment all need to be manufactured separately.

In this process, when pressing the car shell, a set of "high-precision molds" that meet the specifications of the car shell must be equipped. When making pipes, a set of "high-precision molds" that meet the specifications of the pipes must also be equipped...

When the plastic factory produced food-preserving boxes, it spent 6 blue giant banknotes to customize a set of molds.

Manufacturing an unprecedented large-scale farming equipment is no different from building a new car. How many high-precision molds are needed and how much money is needed?
Therefore, Shantui simply cannot handle it, and will not help its own company.

Fortunately, although our own blacksmith shop has a low production capacity and cannot produce complex mechanical devices, it is very good at making things that are not very complicated in structure but require high precision.

Therefore, Shantui received a complete set of "high-precision molds" for large-scale farming equipment from Sanyuan Agriculture for free.

In this day and age, its specific value is difficult to estimate.

Therefore, no matter what power unit they need, such as rail engineering vehicles, wheeled engineering vehicles, and rail gantry cranes, Shantui will unconditionally give priority to supplying them free of charge.

He even gave 20% of his shares to Jishui Sanyuan Construction Group.

It is said that recently, after hearing that Yu Da Dang Jia and San Youyuan were destined to be together, Shantui decided to change its name to Santui...

The director of Puyang Machinery Manufacturing Plant understood.

"Mr. Yu, don't worry. As long as the molds are in place, we will move here tomorrow and change the name to 'Sanyang Machinery Manufacturing Plant'."

"???"

Yu Yang's original intention was to exchange a set of molds for a steady supply of iron carts, just like the cooperation with Shantui to reach a strategic partnership. He never expected that the other party would be so decisive and relocate the factory on the spot.

"Leader, this is not good, right?"

"We have longed for the Shiliying Sub-district Office for a long time!"

"..."

……

That night.

The Puyang Machinery Manufacturing Plant, which had more than a thousand employees, was deserted; even the insulating rings on the electric poles were taken away.

Unfortunately, the municipal compound in Puyang, including the provincial compound in Nanhe, has not discovered this matter yet.

And the next morning.

The Bac Ha Provincial Government issued a notice, offering a reward of NT$50 for a wanted criminal gang that had stolen more than rare green plants from the botanical garden.

Dongshan Taishi Compound responded positively and offered an additional reward of 100 million.

Deputy General Manager Lao Dong even held a press conference and expressed his intention to reinforce Beihe in order to stabilize the surrounding security situation and create a good tourism environment.

at the same time.

The University of California research laboratory published eleven SCI papers in a row, using various data and real-life cases to prove the "harmfulness of volatile paints to the human body."

Including the impact of odor on the sense of smell, this causes at least 3.5 million people worldwide to suffer from rhinitis every year, and 0.35 million people to suffer from sinus cancer.

As well as the impact of dust on lung function, this results in at least 7.3 million people suffering from irritating cough symptoms every year, and 0.15 million people dying from lung diseases, especially lung cancer.

The chemical components in volatile paints corrode the skin, causing 11 billion people to suffer from various eye diseases, nervous system dysfunctions, blood system diseases, etc., including leukemia.

Most importantly, scientists have discovered formaldehyde in volatile paints. This is a colorless, odorless, highly carcinogenic gas...

For a time, the entire scientific and health communities were shocked.

Soon, the MIT scientific research laboratory confirmed this.

It also lists the hazards of current inks, pigments, and watercolors, as well as their irreversible negative impacts on children.

4 month 27 number.

Faced with overwhelming public opinion and a joint proposal from the House of Representatives and the Senate, North American Administrator Klin had to sign an order requiring relevant companies to produce products that are in line with public health.

Unfortunately, there is no harmless paint or ink in the field of inorganic chemistry.

So, that afternoon, the stocks of paint companies, ink companies, watercolor companies, and even Daniel Smith's company, which had been growing continuously, all plummeted by 30%.

On the morning of the 28th, the London Stock Exchange in England was affected, and the Berlin Stock Exchange in Germany was also deeply affected. Later, the French Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange were infected...

On the 29th, supermarkets and libraries in North America, England and other countries successively removed painting tools, painting products, spray tools, etc. from the shelves, and removed outdoor advertisements in most children's playgrounds.

On this day, the world printing industry entered the Ice Age.

On the 30th, the world's electronics industry recovered. IBM launched a large outdoor LED screen, Dell launched an e-book, and HP launched an electronic drawing board...

For a time, it seemed that electronic products were about to replace traditional industries such as printing and painting.

……

Ten-mile Camp.

A week later, the vast deserted streets were now covered with green plants.

And rare varieties are also cultivated in many places.

It includes not only Metasequoia, Cathaya, Vajra Bodhi, and Camellia chrysantha, but also several branches of the mother tree Dahongpao that Old Dong and his men broke through the guard blockade from Mount Wuyi.

In order to ensure the continuation of these life forms, Mr. Yu generously provided some improved farmland and experimental fields to cultivate the seedlings of these green plants.

I believe that it won’t be long before the yellow and crooked streets of Shiliying will turn green.

May 5st, Labor Day.

The Sanyuan factory area is on holiday. Some people go to a plastic greenhouse-style movie theater to watch the tunnel warfare during the most difficult period of Shiliying. Some people go to a plastic greenhouse-style home to enjoy themselves with their wives and children. Some people go to a plastic greenhouse-style Internet club to surf the virtual world...

Yu Yang was escorting 2000 million carts, as well as the first batch of inks and pigments produced at the dock, which the chemical plant had to deliver before May. He took the factory train from Shiliying and, with the help of the "outgoing certificate" issued by his superiors, used the state-owned railway line and arrived in Dongshan Yancheng after two days.

After the train is unloaded, all containers, ink cans, and paint cans will be sent to Incheon, South Korea through the foreign trade company under the Oriental Foreign Trade Bureau.

Once there, ADM took over, the carts were shipped, and the inks and pigments were flown to North America in two groups on military transport planes.

Yu Yang waited for two days before he received the news that ADM had received the goods.

Soon after, we received the second batch of orders from Daniel Smith Company.

210 million tons of inks and 15 tons of pigments.

This is one third higher than the previously negotiated amount.

This is definitely a good thing for our family.

But after purchasing raw materials for this period of time, Yu Yang saw another side.

For example, extracting the traditional red madder and extracting the oriental characteristic red safflower.

These two plants were very common in ancient times, because all the textiles at that time were dyed with madder or rendered with safflower.

In modern times, the rapid development of industry has replaced plant-based raw materials with inorganic chemistry, resulting in madder and safflower having only medicinal value, and their related production is no longer as large as it was in ancient times.

Now that Sanyuan Chemical has restarted the production of plant-based inks and pigments, considering the production issue, it is necessary to find some areas to grow madder and safflower on a large scale.

At this time, Dongfang had two choices. One was to reduce the amount of crop planting and expand the planting area of ​​madder and safflower.

The second is to find a remote area and hand over the project to local poor farmers, supplying plant-based raw materials while helping them get rid of poverty and become rich.

But no matter which one it chooses, Dongfang will fall into ADM's trap.

Because you chose the first one, food production will decrease and you will be more dependent on me in the future.

If you choose the second one, my next batch of orders will determine whether your farmers who have escaped poverty and become rich will continue to be rich or return to their previous state of poverty.

This is true for madder and safflower, and the same is true for extracting other colors from sophora japonica, gardenia, locust flower, orchid, turmeric, perilla, lithospermum, yam, gallnut, etc.

The raw materials worth 30 billion US dollars, converted into blue giant banknotes, are equal to 247.5 billion.

How many farmers will be drawn into the Eastern market with this money?

If orders decrease, how big a negative impact will it have?

Yu Yang finally understood why the soybean oil, beverages, snacks, etc. in another time and space were completely wiped out.

Because you have no other choice, you have to choose one of the two.

Yu Yang took the second batch of orders and flew to Yaoqiang Airport.

After getting off the plane, he saw two large transport planes painted with Sanyuan Agriculture's logo, Y8, parked in the distance.

That was a gift from the tiger of the Air Force compound to his family.

Unfortunately, there is no airport at home, so I can only leave it here.

"Internal and external troubles!"

Yu Yang got into the ADM Hutouben and returned to Shiliying, but some things about the ancient dynasties emerged in his mind.

The East has a long history, and there must have been things in ancient times that were similar to our own situation.

We can definitely copy homework.

However, after thinking all the way, Yu Yang could only think of Water Margin.

……

Brick kiln office area.

Upon hearing that Yu Yang had returned, the newly formed Development and Reform Group of Shiliying Sub-district Office hurried to visit him.

"Boss, the ranch is located on the embankment between the Xiaoqing River and the Yellow River, running east-west, or in other words, along the embankment. We will plant grass to strengthen the embankment and to feed livestock."

“Can pasture grass strengthen embankments?”

"Sure, isn't that the case with the Hetao Plain?"

"I don't have much education, so I just listen to what's said."

"Okay, then, although Sanyuan Chemical produces plant-based products, it still has certain pollutants. In order to protect the water quality of Pingdong Lake, the Yellow River, Xiaoqing River, and the Grand Canal, the superiors asked you, what do you think about putting the chemical plant in Fog City?"

"Fog City? Cqing next to Bashu?"

"Yes, there is no limit to the raw materials needed for plant-based products that can be grown there."

"This is too far from Shiliying. Could it be that the higher-ups also agree that I can build the factory track there?"

"I haven't heard of this."

"Go and ask. What if they agree?"

"..."

(End of this chapter)