Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 150 Visit Sanyuan Chemical
Half a day ago.

Phillips failed to find the Trinity Soybean Oil Factory, so he contacted Mrs. Smith and told her the truth.

The latter immediately convened consultants for discussion.

Mrs. Smith is based at ADM's Asia Pacific headquarters and has not been idle during this period.

She not only found several psychology experts for Yu Yang, but also analyzed Yu Yang's various motives.

A communication team was also arranged for Lao Yu, Yu Ma, Yujia Village, and even Yu Yang’s relatives to launch a sugar-coated bullet strategy.

The next step is to draw up a business map.

From the industrial planning of Shiliying, to the details of the supply of Dongshan agricultural products, to the current status of many agricultural companies in the East...

It can be said that everything the competitors have is laid out in front of us.

After a while.

Business consultants discuss the results.

After listening to this, Mrs. Smith stared at the business map in deep thought for a long time, and continued talking to Phillips:

"The East is different from us. We have advanced technology and have been using the leaching method to extract soybean oil since the 1950s and 1960s."

(Extraction method: Soak soybean raw materials in oil solvents, such as n-hexane, cyclohexane, and No. 6 light gasoline, to separate the oil. The overall process is chemical extraction with low cost, high oil yield, and fast production speed)
"Eastern technology is relatively backward. Except for one or two state-owned grain and oil enterprises that cooperate with foreign capital, the remaining soybean oil factories almost all use pressing, and most of them are small workshops.

Our intelligence system conducted a visit and investigation. In the Jishui area, for example, there are 335 soybean oil workshops, large and small, some even using ancient manual pressing.

Furthermore, in poor southwestern Shandong and remote areas of Nanhe Province, people cannot even afford soybean oil, let alone peanut oil. They take out the cotton seeds left over from cotton bollard production, squeeze them, and produce crude cottonseed oil to improve their lives.

But they don’t know that this unpurified cottonseed oil is more harmful than extracted oil. It kills sperm, hurts the liver, and damages the nervous system…”

Mrs. Smith said this and got back to the point, "Sanyuan Agriculture can supply millions of tons of ink on time, which means it has enough oil pressing equipment and the scale of the factory must be not small.

Now we can't find any soybean oil factories, which makes me very suspicious. Yu Sanyuan used the oriental method of "breaking the whole into parts" to give the orders to small workshops like these in the surrounding areas.

Especially in the east, labor costs are very low, and the equipment in small workshops does not have much technical content, so Yu Yang can get the pressed oil at a low cost. "

Phillips understood, "Then Sanyuan Agriculture organized these simply refined inks or soybean oils together, and then used its own technology to perform secondary refining, thus producing high-quality inks and Sany soybean oil."

"Yes, for now, this is the only explanation."

"What about us?"

“In the past, we were worried that Yuyang would produce and sell its own soybean oil, and once it was on the market, it would compete with us on price regardless of cost, so we looked for a soybean oil factory.

Now that there is such speculation, it means that Sany soybean oil has a cost critical point. After all, no matter how low the labor costs of small workshops are, they still have to make money, so what we have to do now is to confirm this point.

Then we brought the Golden Arowana from Singapore to the East, and supported some local brands in the East, taking advantage of the invasive oil extraction technology with high oil extraction rate, high output and low cost to occupy the entire Eastern market.

If Yuyang lowers the price, we will lower it more than them, and even offer a buy a barrel and get a bottle free.”

"Good lady."

"In addition, since we suspect that Yu Yang is 'breaking the whole into parts', we must find out whether inks and pigments are also made in this way. After all, our strategy is to increase investment and expand production at Sanyuan Chemical."

"You mean, Sanyuan Chemical might be a shell?"

"I just doubt it."

"Then I'll go check Sanyuan Chemical now."

"Ok!"

Mrs. Smith nodded and ended the call.

Then, look at the business landscape again.

What she wanted was not only Sany's soybean breeding technology, plant-based ink production process, and food colorant dosage production method, but also the Eastern soybean market and soybean oil market.

To this end, ADM injected capital into Sanyuan Agriculture to make it expand, while weaving a capital cage in many fields.

For example, in the soybean sector, ADM has acquired all genetically modified soybeans in North and South America this year, with the aim of announcing a global soybean harvest in September, causing soybean prices to plummet and shorting the futures market.

For example, in the soybean oil industry, ADM took advantage of the Asia-Pacific economic crisis and, in addition to acquiring the Wilmar Group in Singapore, also took over many grain and oil companies in Malaysia and Indonesia.

For example, in the meat market, ADM reached an agreement with three other world grain traders to promote the East to join the WTO, with the aim of opening the East's trade door and facilitating the dumping of frozen meat.

We even made many backup plans.

For example, after Sanyuan Agriculture went bankrupt, Dongfang did not want it to be controlled by foreign capital. At this time, the Smith family would send John Smith, who controlled General Motors, to let the other party acquire Sanyuan Agriculture in a joint venture in the name of General Motors' investor.

and so.

"Little guy, surrender!"

……

Ten-mile Camp.

Yu Yang took Fan Tao and took the high-speed train back to the brick kiln office area.

Phillips had been waiting in the negotiation area for a long time. Seeing this, he stood up and greeted them.

"Mr. Yu, you know I like painting. If Daniel Smith's headquarters hadn't asked for a quarterly summary, I would definitely not exercise my rights as the chairman of Sanyuan Chemical. I would paint and play at the same time until I completed my term and left."

Yu Yang smiled sincerely, "Yes, Mr. Artist, I think so too, but who makes us just workers?"

"terribly sorry."

"It doesn't matter, let's go to Sanyuan Chemical now."

As Yu Yang spoke, he called the security outside to lift the AMG Benz onto a flatbed rail car, and then mounted it on the rear of the passenger train.

Then he took Phillips and took a passenger train to the terminus of Line 1 at Tianwaiqiao.

Then get off the bus and take the AMG Mercedes-Benz to Laigang City.

The reason for this is that according to public information, the Tailai Railway has been abandoned, while Line 3 to Laigang City is under construction.

If you want to go from Thai City to Laigang City, you can only take a car now.

This also applies to transportation.

So there were many transport vehicles on the road.

Including semi-trailers, muck trucks, tank trucks, various engineering vehicles...

"Mr. Yu, with the strength of Sanyuan Construction Group, Line 3 should be put into use soon, right?"

"It's difficult. Look at the surrounding terrain. To the north is the southern mountainous area of ​​Dongshan Prefecture, to the south is the Yimeng Mountain area, and to the east is the Yishui Mountain area. To put it bluntly, Laigang City is just a poor mountain valley.

Even if we lay ballastless track based on the Tailai Railway, the difference in the roadbed structure between the two means that we have to dig the track foundation pit again, and the bottom is full of rocks, which makes the operation more difficult. It is estimated that Line 3 will not be fully connected until after the new year. "

"This is really bad news."

"No problem. We have enough tank trucks. Although the transportation cost is much higher than that of railways, we will ensure that every order can be delivered on time."

"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Yu."

"It should."

Chatting along the way.

AGM rushed forward on the suddenly crowded road and it took two full hours to finally reach Sanyuan Chemical.

Just as Yu Yang said, Laigang City is indeed located in a mountain valley.

The valley is about 20 kilometers wide from north to south and 60 kilometers long from east to west.

Except for the flat road leading to Tai City, whether going north, east, or south, you have to travel through mountains and rivers.

And each mountain is forty to fifty kilometers long and wide.

In other words, if Laigang City wants to develop, the best way is indeed to embrace Tai City and then become one with it.

However, due to the narrow ravine, the limited land has long been covered with farmland and urban areas.

In order to avoid polluting residential areas, Laigang, a steel-making enterprise, has continuously developed its factory area towards the southeast corner.

Thus was born the ‘Steel City’.

Sanyuan Chemical is located in the southern part of the steel city.

In the future, this place will be called 'Xintai City'.

The vast mountainous areas to the east and south are currently planned as "plant-based raw material cultivation protection areas", and a small amount of improved farmland and a large number of experimental fields have been laid out.

Yu Yang brought Phillips to the factory gate.

Upon seeing this, the security department quickly lined up.

The first two rows are 200 farmers who are responsible for cultivating plant-based raw materials. They were temporarily transferred here to serve as the store's facade.

The 20 people in the lead are spearmen who protect the factory area and are also security team leaders.

Further inside, there was a group of "old monks" who were obscured by the sturdy bodies of the men.

And even more old monks carried by dozens of small sidecar patrol cars.'

Of course, Phillips couldn't see behind.

He only saw "Maozi" who were more majestic than Europeans and Americans.

In order to welcome the chairman, the security department specially prepared several performances.

For example, breaking a large rock with bare hands.

For example, throwing metal spears.

For example, real-life fist-to-flesh fighting.

Phillips was amazed. "Yu, where did you recruit so many special forces?"

"They are not special forces. They come from a legendary place, Shaolin Temple."

Phillips was slightly stunned, then began to sing: "Shaolin~Shaolin!"

"Oh~, by the way, I didn't expect you've seen Shaolin Temple."

"I just started watching it recently, it's very exciting, but I don't know who is better at fighting, them or Bruce Lee?"

"That's not clear."

Yu Yang said as he led Phillips into a small rail car and began to tour the factory along the criss-crossing feed tracks within the factory.

First the watercolor module, then the oil module.

These two are real industries. Not only do they have many equipment shipped from Japan and South Korea by ADM, they also have water purification systems, packaging workshops, etc. purchased from Sanyuan Agriculture.

Coincidentally, the director of the Pingdong County Carton Factory, the company's gift box packaging supplier, was reviewing several outer packaging design drawings sent by Daniel Smith Company with the person in charge of the watercolor module.

Upon seeing this, Phillips stepped forward to take a look, then exercised his authority as chairman, gave some instructions in American English, and then asked the translator to convey his message.

Sanyuan Agriculture's Human Resources Department helped with the watercolor and oil paint modules. Corporate executives recruited from related fields, some in suits, some in scientific research outfits, and some in workshop uniforms, gathered around and listened attentively.

In this situation, it does look like a big factory.

But, this is also nonsense.

The investment amount is so huge, and the construction has just begun. Its initial scale exceeds that of Laigang. How can it not be a big factory?

Therefore, after visiting the watercolor module and the oil paint module, having a working lunch and interacting with the workers, it was already the early hours of the morning.

Because of the three-shift system and construction going on on the other side, the entire factory was still brightly lit.

Yu Yang had planned to continue tomorrow, but Phillips was in high spirits.

"Yu, I have a few paintings that need to be completed as soon as possible in order to retain inspiration. Why don't we finish the quarterly report tonight? After that, I will no longer come here and focus on painting."

"You are such a painting geek."

Yu Yang smiled slightly, but he knew in his heart that Phillips wanted to investigate the strength of Sanyuan Chemical.

He brought the other party to the commercial secrets area without any hesitation.

That is the Sany soybean oil factory, no, it is the ink production module.

Phillips will definitely come here. Instead of shirking responsibility, it is better to bring him in openly.

Anyway, there are real devices inside, and they are really squeezing out "ink".

When Phillips walked into the ink production workshop, he didn't dare to say anything because he didn't understand.

So the two of them, one introducing and the other listening, finalized the ink module.

At this time, it was already 4 o'clock in the morning.

Yu Yang originally planned to take the other party to visit the grinding workshop that was started up overnight, which is the "pigment module" assembled using stone mills and stone rollers.

Phillips yawned and said, "Yu, we have worked very hard and have completed the quarterly report. We should call it a day."

"Really?"

"real."

……

Hong Kong, ADM Asia Pacific headquarters.

In the early morning hours, Mrs. Smith received the report prepared by Phillips.

Then I got a call from Phillips.

"Madam, Sanyuan Chemical is a real chemical plant with complete equipment, sufficient personnel, and even security guards are highly paid Shaolin monks whose kung fu is no less than Bruce Lee's."

"Monk?"

Mrs. Smith lived in Shiliying for more than half a month. She also saw the monks of the Buddha Temple working out from dawn to dusk. "So, the Sanyi Soybean Oil Factory is indeed broken down into countless small workshops."

"What's our next step?"

"We will launch a publicity plan and use Fujima's resources in the East to popularize the harm of crude oil, including semi-finished oil simply refined by small workshops. We will then push the East to introduce new edible oil standards. We will then take the opportunity to launch Golden Arowana and Orchid."

……

Brick kiln office area.

When Yu Yang woke up, it was already evening of the next day.

There are still piles of documents on his desk.

Just pick up a few and flip through them, and you'll find that they're all related to soybeans.

For example, the price of soybeans has finally stabilized, but the price per ton is as high as 2300 yuan, which is more than one yuan per kilogram, which is ridiculously expensive.

But futures prices are even more outrageous, reaching as high as 3800 per ton.

“I don’t know how many people will jump off buildings after August.”

Yu Yang knew that once American soybeans were on the market, the price of soybeans would definitely plummet.

At this time, if you short futures, you will definitely make a profit.

The problem is that even the East doesn’t dare to enter the game, so where does the confidence come from?

What's more, apart from the US$30 billion advance payment for plant-based raw materials, the company does not have any foreign exchange in its pocket.

"No, I need to continue cultivating my character."

"Otherwise, if they can't help but bomb ADM's Asia Pacific headquarters, the matter will become a big deal."

Yu Yang took a deep breath and walked out of the office.

Passing by the negotiation area, I happened to see Fan Tao and Village Chief Huang, each holding a bowl of Chinese medicine juice and eating it for dinner.

"Tao, after much thought, I think you are the most suitable person to be the... helmsman of the Sany Soybean Oil Factory."

"what?"

"I believe you. If you are not satisfied with the title of helmsman, you can also call yourself a trader to counter ADM's edible oil strategy."

"This……"

"Your two brothers were killed by capital, and we are now confronting capital head-on. Don't you want revenge?"

"Of course I want to. Then I'll give it a try?"

"It's not just a try, it's using all your strength!"

"it is good!"

Fan Tao drank a whole bowl of medicine with great generosity.

Then he walked to Yu Yang and whispered, "Boss, please help me transport a few boxes of wooden-handled iron hammers to Hong Kong. Once I boom the ADM Asia Pacific headquarters, this will be easy to handle."

"???"

Who are these people!
Yu Yang raised his foot and kicked, "Do your job properly. This is a serious business confrontation."

(End of this chapter)