silent farm

Chapter 248 The More Questions, The More Thoughts (Bao Er)

This year's rainy season really came later than usual. At the end of November, it still didn't start to rain.However, according to the weather forecast, high pressure is moving northward in the Amazon rainforest area, and the rainy season should come soon.

The outdoor construction of Silent Farm has basically stopped, and the construction team from Huaxia is preparing to evacuate.And the farm is also planting a new crop of rice, which will probably be planted within a few days.All aspects are also doing a good job to welcome the rainy season.

Fernando also came to Silent Farm specially because the rainy season was coming.

Li Sheng took him to the pier to have a look.In the next few days, the farm will no longer deliver grass to the outside world.The only ones that are still busy loading the ship are cattle and fragrant pigs.Cattle and fragrant pigs can be driven directly onto the boat.

Workers are busy reclaiming the floating conveyor belt to avoid being swept away by the sudden flood.When the water level of the river rises to almost the same level, the conveyor belt can still be used again.

Fernando already knew Li Sheng's plan, and watched the cattle herd being driven to the river bed and then boarded a boat dedicated to transporting live animals.

He said with a smile: "Fortunately, the river has not stopped flowing, otherwise beef sales will also be affected."

Li Sheng also said with a smile: "The situation is better than I thought. My few hovercraft are for emergency transportation of goods in case the river is completely unnavigable. Fortunately, the water of Lake Siparu allows the river to return to normal." There is a certain amount of water."

The beef from Silent Farm has withstood the test of the market and has a certain brand effect in Europe and Asia.The cattle with the geographical indication of Silent Farm are now slaughtered, frozen and loaded onto the plane for transport.Absolutely no refrigerated meat.If there is no way to get cattle at the terminal, the markets in Europe and Asia will be out of stock.

The news that Silent Farm purchased several hovercraft also caused a heated discussion in Brazil for a while.Of course Fernando had heard of it too.Spend tens of millions of dollars to buy a few useless ships, and there is probably no one but Li Sheng.

But this is Li Sheng's private matter, and he doesn't want to comment on this kind of prodigal behavior.He smiled and said, "Why don't we take a look at the warehouse."

Li Sheng nodded and said, "Let's go." He knew that Fernando wanted to see the secondary packaging of the pasture.

The grass warehouse is downstream from the pier, not very far from the pier, so they didn't drive there.

There are fifty buildings in this warehouse, each covering an area of ​​nearly a thousand square meters, and each building has seven floors.Originally, Li Sheng planned to use all fifty buildings as warehouses, but five buildings were used to cultivate matsutake.There are also several buildings used to cultivate truffles.

Fernando is very clear about the increase in production and price reduction of matsutake in Silent Farm.However, the price reduction of matsutake is mainly in Asia.Prices in Europe have not dropped.

"Which are the factories for growing matsutake?" Looking at these huge buildings, Fernando couldn't help admiring Li Sheng's great craftsmanship.Without these warehouses, maybe there would not be enough hay sales during the rainy season.The increased production of matsutake also greatly increased his personal income as an agent of Silent Farm products.

The dozens of buildings are divided into two rows. Li Sheng pointed to the end of the row away from the river and said, "It's there. It's the furthest away from the wharf. No dock workers will go there rashly."

Fernando smiled and said, "I heard that the [Japanese] stole your technology, and it turned out to be very embarrassing."

Li Sheng laughed and said, "It's their own fault. But they've been doing it like this. For at least two years, their market will be controlled by us."

Jipan people hastily promoted the imitated medium on a large scale. In order to grow matsutake as soon as possible, many people bought matsutake mycelia at high prices.As a result, most of the mycelium died after the medium was deficient in nutrients.The blow to the matsutake planting industry in Jipan was almost crushing.There is no way to relax for two years.

Fernando smiled, and suddenly said: "The products of Silent Farm are almost saturated in Europe. I plan to promote them to the United States."

Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "Of course there is no problem. But the production capacity of various products on the farm is only so large for the time being." He paused and said seriously. "I suggest you discuss it with Chen Bo."

Both of them have the same share of supply. If Fernando wants to open up the American market, he will definitely need more supply. He is worried that Chen Bo may not be willing.So he hoped that the two of them could discuss it.

Fernando understood what he meant and said, "I will discuss market allocation with Chen." Fernando does not intend to monopolize the North American market either.

Hearing what he said, Li Sheng laughed.He said, "It's good that you understand."

Fernando also smiled and said, "I also hope you can understand me. I need more sources! Especially caviar and truffles. There is still a big market for those two things in North America."

Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "I will try my best to increase production capacity. But I don't plan to make too much investment." Now Silent Farm has too many civil engineering projects, and it doesn't look like a farm at all.

Fernando nodded, expressing his understanding: "Just try your best."

As they spoke, they came to a warehouse with an open door.Outside the door, a tractor was unloading several hay wagons.

Because the work over there is relatively busy, I just watched the workers busy.

Fernando saw the workers put the hay that was pressed into a rectangular shape in the carriage into transparent film bags piece by piece, and then threw it on the movable conveyor belt.The conveyor belt is sent to the end, falls into a machine, and when it comes out, the film bag has been pumped out of the air and sealed.

And over there, workers put the sealed hay on another conveyor belt and sent it to another machine.When the hay came out, it had already been taped several times on the outside.

"Where did you get this set of machines?" Fernando saw that there were two sets of machines, and the efficiency was still very fast. "What's the use of the machine behind?"

Li Sheng smiled, pointed to the sealing packaging machine and said: "Those are two second-hand fertilizer packaging equipment, which have been slightly remodeled. The latter two are ordinary large packaging machines, and many factories that need packing have them." .In order to make it more convenient for the workers when loading the ship."

Fernando understood as soon as he heard it.Without those packing tapes, the transparent film packaging is not slippery, and if you are using a conveyor belt to load the ship, it will be very difficult for the workers.

"How much packaging can you pack in a day?"

"If it runs at full speed, it can pack about 24 cubic meters [-] hours a day."

Fernando nodded and said, "That should be almost the case."

Li Sheng said with a smile: "One floor of the warehouse can hold about 24 cubic meters, so it is impossible to rotate [-] hours a day. Recently, the main thing is to pack the pastures that have been stored. And in the dry season, do these pastures need to be packed? It’s time to think about it.”

After the hay is compressed, a cubic meter is about [-] tons, and a warehouse actually only stores about [-] tons of pasture.

Fernando also knows this, and he also knows that the current reserve of Silent Farm's grass is only about 30 tons in total.And this amount is obviously not enough to meet his needs.Now they estimate that the customer will maintain a scale of about 300 million fattening cattle, which is only enough for [-] to [-] days in Silent Farm.

He hesitated for a moment, thinking that Li Sheng would not be offended by this suggestion: "I think Silent Farm should be able to build more warehouses. Otherwise, it will be difficult to guarantee the market demand during the rainy season."

Li Sheng thought for a while and asked, "Can't the company build more reserves?"

"But you also need to have enough transportation capacity here." Fernando spread his hands and said. "By our estimates, next year we are likely to have a fattening market with an average of over 600 million head of cattle. Even more. The depletion of stocks outside will only get faster and faster. I am afraid that the loading and unloading speed of your ports here cannot keep up .”

Li Sheng felt that what he said was not unreasonable.He thought for a while and said: "The rainy season is coming soon, even if we want to build, we need to wait until next year's dry season. I will think about it during this time."

They looked around in the warehouse for a while, and Fernando proposed to watch the harvesting of Mo pastures.

Li Sheng took him to see it.Seeing that the farm is trying its best to harvest pastures, Fernando can't say too much, but he said with a little regret: "The speed of harvesting is still relatively slow. Maybe next year the speed will not keep up with sales."

Li Sheng could only smile wryly and say that manpower would be increased to speed up harvesting.

Thinking of large-scale recruitment again, Li Sheng couldn't help thinking about the placement of workers.Now many temporary workers are actually sitting in sheds, and Li Sheng is unwilling to build new worker dormitories everywhere.That's too much trouble to manage.

He prefers to gather workers to live together. Although he said that it will take a certain amount of time for workers to commute to and from work, he thinks that is not the most important issue.In terms of transportation, he can find another way.

In fact, there are not many workers working scattered, and more of them are working on pasture harvesting.And the location of this work is not fixed, the entire playground is their work area.In the future, the large number of workers will be located in hilly areas.He can definitely get some cars or let the workers buy the cars themselves.After all, his salary is not low, and it is not difficult for workers to buy a car.

After seeing the grass harvesting situation, Fernando didn't continue to ask to see other things.The two drove back to the management area.

In the car, there were only Li Sheng and Fernando.When the car passed the completed football school, Fernando praised again: "It's hard to imagine that this school was actually built on a farm."

The football school covers an area of ​​several hundred acres, with three teaching buildings, an indoor stadium, and three other courts.According to the design, the football school can accommodate about a thousand students.Of course, these students are not necessarily boys, he will also recruit girls.

When passing by just now, Fernando also gave a bad compliment, but Li Sheng just smiled and didn't speak.The school cost him at least $8000 million, and if it's not good, it's a joke.

"By the way, didn't you plan to cooperate with Sporting de Portugal last time? I am acquiring Sporting de Portugal. Now I have acquired more than 30% of the shares. After I take control, I want to hear about your plan."

"You bought Sporting Portugal?" Li Sheng didn't expect to hear such news. "I heard it's hard to make money playing football."

"Fans' love cannot be measured by money." Fernando said with a smile. "Before I didn't have that capital, even if I bought it, it might not guarantee my investment in the team. But now it's different. As for the income, if you just look at the sponsorship, ticket sales and player image management, it's really difficult. make money."

He smiled and continued: "But a stadium can completely drive a business circle. In addition, training players is also a kind of income."

(End of this chapter)