I saw everything

Chapter 92 Ready to Go (Medium Cup)
Inside Locke Manor.

The restaurant on the second floor of the villa.

After the servants placed the exquisite dishes on the table one by one, they tiptoed out of the restaurant.

James, who came alone, had a meticulously middle-parted hairstyle. His hair was slightly graying and there were wrinkles on his face left by the years, but his eyes were still as sharp as an eagle's.

Noah, who sat opposite, gently shook his red wine glass: "Uncle James, I'm very happy that you can come here in person. I toast you a glass!"

"cheers!"

Haruka clinked her wine glass.

Both of them just tasted it briefly.

"Noah, did David tell you what he's been doing lately?"

James, who was as cunning as a fox, naturally thought that someone was dealing with David and the Locke family, but he was also very clear that other local consortiums would most likely not be so reckless.

Hearing this, Noah shook his head in distress: "I have checked my father's important memorandum, and I didn't find too many abnormalities. Those who have motives don't have the strength; those who have the strength know the unspoken rules among our big consortiums."

"Is that so?" James paused slightly as he was cutting the steak.

Faced with this unknown enemy, even James felt a chill in his heart.

After all, if it was done by those big local conglomerates, we could be more vigilant in the future, but this kind of enemy that we don’t even have any intelligence about is simply impossible to guard against.

After thinking for a moment, James said, "I will inform other families about this matter, and we will investigate it together. I won't be able to sleep if we don't investigate it thoroughly."

"Thank you Uncle James for your help."

"As a member of the chaebol alliance, we should help each other. This is also the key to our becoming the masters of the world. Brutal internal fighting will only consume our strength and allow other external forces to profit."

Of course Noah heard the hidden meaning behind James' words.

That is to tell him not to be impulsive.

Faced with James who was willing to come alone to persuade him, Noah finally chose to believe him.

"Uncle James, please rest assured. I will try my best to exercise restraint, but I hope that all the major families can lend a helping hand to reduce the losses of our consortium around the world."

"No problem." This is also the purpose of James's visit this time.

Although the Locke Group is in crisis.

Where there are dangers, there are also opportunities.

As the second largest conglomerate among the top ten conglomerates in America, the Locke Conglomerate has enormous resources around the world.

Since he is asked to help, Noah must pay some price.

James made a rough estimate that in this sudden incident, the Locke Group would lose about one-third of its industries, and its comprehensive strength among the top ten groups would drop to fifth place.

However, James is also very clear that a large part of the industries lost by the Locke Group will be swallowed up by other forces around the world. After all, they have the home advantage.

It is estimated that only a small part of the resources left for other American consortiums will remain.

At the same time, James cannot have it all to himself, but must share the profits with other consortiums.

Noah was also very clear that this time the Locke Group would have to bleed heavily, but this price was necessary. If these prices were not paid, the losses of the Locke Group might be even more serious.

Soon Noah and James reached an agreement.

James also held a video conference with the owners of other consortiums at Locke Manor overnight, asking other consortiums to work together to investigate which force was targeting the Locke Consortium and David. At the same time, they also divided up part of the profits spit out by the Locke Consortium.

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at the same time.

Inside a large tertiary hospital in Pengcheng.

Li Rongyao, who had just been transferred from the intensive care unit to the general ward, was covered in bandages like a dumpling.

He was awake for five or six hours.

At noon, the nurse checked his ECG monitor, found nothing abnormal, and left the ward.

Not long after, in a daze, he saw his wife Yin Muhua who had flown back from Australia, but he found that there seemed to be a hint of gloom on his wife's face.

Seeing this scene, Li Rongyao's heart sank involuntarily.

Yin Muhua also saw Li Rongyao open his eyes, and then looked at him expressionlessly: "Lorenzo, everything at home has been arranged, do you have anything to say?"

"You..." Li Rongyao's eyes were full of bloodshot and unwillingness. He asked in a trembling voice, "What do you want to do?"

"Lorenzo, it's not that I want to be so heartless, but that's what they mean. If I don't do this, my son and I will disappear. Just think of it as doing this for my son, and you can go with peace of mind!" Yin Muhua took out a handkerchief and poured some unknown liquid on it.

“No…Mu Hua, are you really going to be so heartless?…I don’t want to die…” Li Rongyao tried to struggle, but this high-end ward was not only for one person, but also had very good soundproofing. In addition, he had burns all over his body and was fixed to the bed.

"Lorenzo, don't blame me, just go with peace of mind!" There was only coldness and ruthlessness in Yin Muhua's eyes.

The handkerchief soaked with special medicine was moved closer and closer to Li Rongyao's mouth and nose in front of his horrified eyes.

Click!

"Don't move!"

The door of the ward was pushed open in an instant, and five or six plainclothes officers rushed in.

Yin Muhua's eyes widened, and he couldn't react at all, and he was pushed aside.

Li Rongyao, who was lying on the hospital bed, heaved a sigh of relief, and then shouted with all his might, "Catch her quickly, he wants to kill me..."

The square-faced middle-aged man in the lead raised his glasses and said, "Mr. Li, for your safety, we need to transfer you to another hospital. I hope you will cooperate with us."

"I agree! I will cooperate! I will tell you everything..." Li Rongyao had been frightened just now, and the boss behind the scenes wanted to kill him to silence him, so he chose to throw the jar into the air.

The middle-aged man wearing glasses smiled and said, "It's a pleasure to work with you."

In fact, they had received the notice from above a long time ago and had been secretly following Li Rongyao and others in the past few days. After the other party's wife flew back to China from Australia, she met with some people furtively and took some unknown small bottles. They knew that this woman had come with bad intentions, and they also knew that the opportunity had come.

If Li Rongyao is not allowed to face the reality, he might choose to remain silent out of consideration for his family.

And from the moment Yin Muhua chose to kill, Li Rongyao's inner defenses were completely destroyed.

In fact, after Li Rongyao woke up, he didn't know that the power behind Baishan Investment had suffered an unprecedented blow, but if Yin Muhua didn't take action, he would choose to keep his mouth shut.

Being betrayed by his relatives drove Li Rongyao completely crazy. He no longer cared about his son in Australia, and it didn't matter to him whether he was dead or alive.

After all, he is only 42 years old and has hundreds of millions of assets. As long as he has money, he can have another son. How could he be willing to die like this?

...

After dealing with the threat from thousands of miles away, Jiang Miao also secretly observed Li Rongyao's situation and found that someone was secretly monitoring him, so he chose to let it go. After all, whether the other party was dead or alive, he could not threaten him and Hailufeng Company.

So Jiang Miao resumed his daily work.

No one in the company knew that their respected and kind boss had made a significant contribution to reducing the burden on the earth's ecological environment in just three days.

After all, whether it is Li Rongyao, Edward, or David, the amount of greenhouse gases they produce every year may be something that ordinary people cannot produce in their entire lifetime.

The amount of aviation kerosene consumed by that row of private jets per flight is enough for an ordinary person to eat and drink for several years.

If there is an environmental guardian award or something like that, Jiang Miao should be given one.

However, the confidential document sent by Jiang Miao the night before had already caused a storm around the world.

There have also been a lot of actions in the country. Although ordinary people cannot feel them, Jiang Miao, the instigator, knew that someone was going to be in big trouble as soon as he saw a few news flashes this morning.

He read it once and then put the matter out of his mind.

These things have little to do with Hailufeng Company, so there is no need to keep an eye on them all day long. Just take an hour every day to check the dynamics of the various forces.

As long as it does not involve Hailufeng Company and his family, Jiang Miao is too lazy to care about the open and secret struggles between the major forces.

It just so happened that the tea seeds purchased by the purchasing department have arrived in the past few days.

Among them, a batch of large-fruited tea seeds from Zhongke had been induced by drugs and physically by Jiang Miao in batches.

Jiang Miao, wearing protective clothing and a helmet, checked the genetic mutations of a batch of tea seeds.

99% of gene mutations tend to be malignant mutations, and only about 1% of mutations are benign. Moreover, this 1% of benign mutations are also uneven or mixed with malignant mutations.

Jiang Miao was no longer surprised by this kind of situation.

Use tweezers to pick out the tea seeds with completely benign mutations one by one.

Of course, this so-called completely benign mutation is actually a definition given by humans.

For example, in terms of gene mutation, the high oil content and low oil content of tea seeds, for humans, high oil content is naturally benign, while low oil content is malignant.

There were nearly 13 tea seeds in this batch, and in the end, only completely benign mutant seeds were selected.

Moreover, none of these 13 mutated tea seeds made Jiang Miao % satisfied.

Continue to take out the next batch of induced mutated tea seeds, expand the identification panel, and then select the tea seeds that may be useful.

Although these selected tea seeds may not be perfect, they still have some value.

For example, one of the tea seeds with a benign mutation has ordinary performance in other aspects, but its tea fruit contains about 76% seeds, which is very valuable. Even if it cannot be used as a variety for direct promotion, it can be used as raw material for hybrid breeding.

down one day.

Even Jiang Miao, who had eight-pack abs, felt sore in his back and waist, after all, he had picked 15 tea seeds in a row.

But the hard work is worth it.

Among these 15 tea seeds, there are 249 mutant tea seeds with certain cultivation value.

Among them, three mutant tea seeds performed very well in all aspects, at least in terms of genetic performance.

Jiang Miao gave these three mutant tea seeds a special name, which are:
Oil King No. 1, Oil King No. 2, Oil King No. 3.

The name "Oil King" also represents his expectation for these tea oil varieties. In the future, all tea oil varieties of Hailufeng Company will be named "Oil King" to form the "Oil King" series.

Among them, the advantages of Oil King No. 1 are fast growth, short plant, high disease resistance, high yield, many seeds and medium oil quality.

From the data of its gene expression, it can be inferred that Oil King No. 1 only needs about one and a half years, under the condition that all conditions are sufficient, to grow from a seedling to a height of about 1.8 meters, and then start to bloom and bear fruit.

According to the current planting density of tea oil trees, theoretically, the fresh fruit yield of Youwang No. 1 can reach the limit of 450 kilograms per mu, with a fresh fruit seed yield of 52~63% and a tea oil seed oil content of 53~55%.

That is to say, under the most ideal conditions, each acre of Oil King No. 1 can produce 156 kilograms of tea seed oil per year.

Some people may think that this output is too small.

However, if you really understand the cultivation of edible oil raw materials, you will be shocked by the production capacity of Oil King No. 1.

The current per-acre yield data of the world's five major vegetable oil raw materials are as follows:
Oil palm produces 200 to 300 kilograms of crude oil per mu, making it the undisputed yield leader. However, its oil quality is relatively poor and is only suitable as an industrial oil for food production.

Soybean yields 30 to 44 kilograms of crude oil per mu. Soybean is not intended to be used as an oil crop, but rather as a high-protein feed. The quality of its oil is also relatively poor.

Rapeseed produces 80 to 110 kilograms of crude oil per mu, and its yield performance is average. Among them, low-erucic acid rapeseed oil is one of the better types of vegetable oils.

Sunflower seeds produce 90 to 140 kilograms of crude oil per mu, with relatively good yield performance and good oil quality.

Peanut produces 150 to 200 kilograms of crude oil per mu, with a very good yield performance. It is the second largest oil crop in terms of crude oil yield per mu after oil palm, and the oil quality is average.

Let’s compare them horizontally.

It can be seen that the Oil King No. 1 selected by Jiang Miao has a yield that is roughly the same as that of sunflower oil, but its oil quality is much higher than other vegetable oils. In terms of oil quality, even olive oil is not a match for tea seed oil.

In addition to the high-yield king, Oil King No. 1.

Oil King No. 2 is a variety that tends to be more of an oil product. Its crude oil yield per mu is only about 1~70% of that of Oil King No. 80, but its oil quality is very good and is suitable as a high-grade edible oil.

Oil King No. 3 is a drought-resistant variety. If it is planted in the subtropical monsoon zone, it does not require artificial irrigation and can rely entirely on weather conditions. The yield is also about 1~70% of Oil King No. 80, but the oil quality is similar to Oil King No. 1.

These three oil tea varieties are considered by Jiang Miao to be the most valuable varieties, and naturally have their own advantages and characteristics.

Especially for Oil King No. 3, its real advantage is that it does not require manual watering.

Although the rainfall in the southeastern hilly areas is not small, the places where tea oil is grown are usually on hillsides and there is no way to retain water.

In this kind of planting environment, watering is very troublesome without a pump or a well. Many high-yield tea oil varieties require sufficient watering. If there is not enough irrigation, it will lead to reduced production.

Therefore, the emergence of Oil King No. 3 can enable the cultivation of tea oil on hillsides, reduce infrastructure investment, and also reduce manpower and material resources.

In the future, the following combinations can be made: Oil King 2 can be planted on good low-lying land to maintain its advantage of high oil quality; Oil King 1 can be planted on sloping land close to water sources to maintain its advantage of high yield; and Oil King 3 can be planted on sloping land with inconvenient water access to obtain relatively high yields at low cost.

These three tea oil varieties are of great significance to areas with many mountainous areas.

For example, Fujian Province, which is known for its eight mountains, one water and one piece of land, has great advantages in developing the oil tea industry.

Of course, the same is true for the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the southeastern hilly areas.

At present, the domestic oil tea planting area has reached 9000 million mu. If all of them are grafted with Oil King No. 1, under ideal conditions, 1404 million tons of tea seed oil can be produced annually, which is equivalent to about 46% of the country's annual consumption of edible oil, instantly becoming the largest oil crop.

But this kind of thing is just something you can think about.

After all, there is no way for grafted seedlings to maintain all their characteristics, and the domestic oil tea planting scale of 9000 million mu is also very watered down. Many of them are subsidy scams. After planting, there are a lot of oil tea gardens in a semi-wild state.

If production capacity is really expanded to this high, the price of tea seed oil will also plummet.

This is a dilemma.

If we want to have production capacity, we are destined to not be able to maintain high prices.

If the price is high, there is no way to produce it on a large scale.

The two are incompatible contradictions.

However, Jiang Miao still prefers large-scale production, but the production capacity should be controlled at around 500 million tons, accounting for about one-sixth of the domestic edible oil market. The price of first-grade tea seed oil should be maintained at around 15 yuan per kilogram of crude oil, and the output value per mu is around 2000 to 2340 yuan, and the purchase price is about 70% of the output value per mu.

Of course, maintaining this production capacity is based on the premise of Oil King No. 1. If a variety with a higher yield than Oil King No. 1 appears among the genetically mutated tea seeds in the future, the production capacity can continue to expand.

After all, the yield per mu has increased, which means there is more room for compression in the purchase price of tea seed oil.

However, judging from the current situation of the vegetable oil market, RMB 1 per ton of crude tea seed oil is basically the bottom line.

Why is this price the bottom line?

Because the current market price of imported first-grade sunflower oil is 9000 yuan per ton, and the domestic first-grade pressed peanut oil is 1.3 yuan per ton.

There is no reason why the price of tea seed oil, which is of better quality, would be lower than that of sunflower seed oil. In fact, it is difficult for the price of tea seed oil to be lower than 1.3 yuan per ton.

However, if the production capacity of tea seed oil really exceeds 500 million, the country will probably soon carry out industrial adjustments and adjust part of the rapeseed and sunflower production areas to other crops.

As for why rapeseed and sunflower?
The answer is obvious. Soybeans and peanuts are dual-purpose feed and oil, and their production capacity cannot be reduced at will.

However, rapeseed and sunflower are different. The proportion of their oil meal in feed is not high, so they can be replaced by camellia oil.

In particular, rapeseed oil, which occupies 23% of the domestic edible oil market share, is expected to be directly replaced by tea seed oil.

On the one hand, the production capacities of the two are too close.

On the other hand, the per-acre yield value of rapeseed is not high. The current market purchase price of rapeseed is about 5400 to 6500 yuan per ton, and the national average per-acre yield of rapeseed is 135 kilograms.

In other words, farmers can't make any money at all.

If it weren't for the advantage of mechanization in rapeseed, those farmers wouldn't grow it at all.

Jiang Miao could almost foresee that once Hailufeng Company's Oil King series came out, the scale of sunflower and rapeseed cultivation in the country would suffer a severe blow.

This situation actually has more advantages than disadvantages for the country.

Because the land for growing rapeseed and sunflower is often flat and is also convenient for irrigation, the value of this land is very high. In addition to growing sunflower and rapeseed, other cash crops can also be grown.

For example, the soybean planting industry in the country, which has been difficult to recover, can take this opportunity to regain some market share.

(End of this chapter)