silent farm

Chapter 306
After rushing back to the farm, Li Sheng approached Feng Xiaoting immediately to learn about the experimental progress of the stone frog extract.

In this experiment, Li Sheng has agreed to allow researchers from Huaxia to fully participate.There are many people, and there is no mistake in the direction of the experiment, so Feng Xiaoting gave him an optimistic result: "For the time being, the extracted substances can have an effect on the experimental animals, but it will take some time before we can confirm whether it will cause repercussions."

That is to say, everything is normal in the experiment.He also felt relieved.This thing is no longer just a medicine, nor is it just a tool for making money.More importantly, it may bring about qualitative changes in the human medical system.Li Sheng didn't want this project to fail.Of course, he also hopes that the interests of this project can be monopolized.

As soon as Li Sheng returned to the office, Zhang Dingbian was already waiting outside the door.It turned out that there were already more than 50 Chinese veterans hoping to join the security team of Silent Farm.

Li Sheng thought for a while, then asked, "Can you trust me?"

This time Zhang Dingbian couldn't give a definite answer.He hesitated and said, "It doesn't feel like a few of them are veterans."

Li Sheng twitched the corner of his mouth and said with a smile: "Let these people come. You observe."

Zhang Dingbian knew what Li Sheng asked him to observe.He nodded and said, "Boss, don't worry. I will pay attention."

"Also, don't let them go to the laboratory and the production area in the north for the time being."

Zhang Dingbian knew that the "temporary" in his mouth meant before confirming that the newcomers really trusted them.He nodded and said, "I understand." He paused. "The boss and the American team also introduced six people. These people have been investigated by Mourning. There is no problem with their identities."

Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "Treat them the same as the new players from Huaxia."

After Zhang Dingbian left, Li Sheng called other responsible persons to the office one by one to understand the situation.He was really relieved to know that everything was going well.

But that night, he received a call from Finn, saying that his team's analysis of the recent international crude oil market had been sent to his mailbox, and he hoped that he could take a look at it as soon as possible.Their team will be in action in early April.

Li Sheng downloaded the analysis report and read it absently.He looked at the information on the computer, and thought to himself that it was indeed the small lake in the space that could produce oil.

Before dawn the next day, Li Sheng entered the space.When he flew over the small lake, there was a strong smell of oil and gas in the air.The volatilization of oil and gas is very serious here.If the terrain of this small basin is still open, maybe it will be an extremely dangerous area, and a little spark can turn the air here into a [bomb] bomb.

The small lake is pot-shaped and almost circular.There is a layer of viscous crude oil less than half a meter floating on the water hundreds of meters deep.He wanted to find out where the oil was leaking at the bottom of this lake.It turned out he couldn't find it at all.

Although he did find a few springs at the bottom of the lake, there was still a lot of water.Several springs add up to at least fifteen cubic meters of water per second.It's just that he was wondering where did the water go?

He spent two days carefully sensing the entire bottom of the lake, and found no underground water outlet.Moreover, the surrounding groundwater level is equal to the water level of this lake, so there is no need to replenish groundwater around.

And the only outlet of this lake will not flow more than three meters per second.Where did the remaining ten cubic meters of water go?

He had a vague guess in his mind.

When he could not sense the crude oil gushing from the spring, but found some tiny oil droplets at a certain depth, his judgment was basically confirmed.

His previous guess was wrong.The crude oil on the surface of this lake does not come out of the ground, but is produced by the lake water.He speculated that there is a kind of bacteria in the lake that uses the nutrients brought by the groundwater to metabolize, and their metabolites are hydrocarbons that form petroleum.

The synthesis of these hydrocarbons requires carbon and water.Therefore, the water in the lake is constantly replenished, but not enough water leaks out.Some of the hydrocarbons produced by the lake water are directly gaseous and dissipate in the air, and some easily volatile components also dissipate into the air.Therefore, a lot of petrochemical products may be generated in the lake every day.There is also a lot of dissipation.

A technology that makes it possible to artificially produce crude oil is certainly more valuable than an oil field.If so, this should be a big surprise.It's just that everything is still speculation until it is confirmed.

It is not difficult to verify his guess.But this is not something he can do alone.Feng Xiaoting is still his first choice.

He took some water out at the depth at which small oil droplets were produced from the small lake, and then called Feng Xiaoting to the villa.

Feng Xiaoting was not very excited when he first heard that he might have discovered a way to artificially produce crude oil.He just said to Li Sheng: "Are you planning to do that kind of experiment? When I was still in the United States, I went to a factory that used cow dung to produce crude oil. I still have some understanding of this aspect."

Cow dung?

Li Sheng knew he had misunderstood.The United States had invented the use of cow dung to produce crude oil, and he had heard of it.But the water he found from that small lake obviously does not need to use cow dung.As for how much the unit output is, he cannot evaluate it.

He simply said, "There doesn't seem to be any obvious organic matter in the water. But the bacteria in this water seem to have to be at eight to twenty atmospheres to form oil." He was still able to determine the depth of water that produced small oil droplets.

Feng Xiaoting became interested when he heard it, and asked, "Are you sure it only takes eight atmospheres of pressure to form oil?"

Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "It's basically certain. Also, the bacteria in this water body should be anaerobic bacteria, and they don't need light."

Feng Xiaoting nodded and said, "I'll take this water back to the laboratory for some analysis." If the bacteria in this water can really metabolize crude oil, then it must use some substances.Matter cannot be created out of nothing.Carbon atoms in hydrocarbons must have a carbon source.And organic matter is a very good carbon source.Of course, it could also be carbon dioxide.As long as these are analyzed, we can probably know what the carbon source that needs to be used in this water body is.

He went to the southern district with Feng Xiaoting, went to his office, found Zhang Feng and his wife, and told them about the formula of medicinal wine for treating rheumatism.

"Old Zhang, Aunt Luo, that's the way it is. We plan to buy your formula." Li Sheng said. "I don't know what you mean?"

Zhang Feng glanced at Aunt Luo who was smiling so hard that her teeth could not be seen, and knowing that his wife had no objection, he said, "Boss, we are willing to sell the formula."

Hearing what he said, Li Sheng nodded and said slowly: "Then let's talk about the price of this formula. I have two plans here. One is that I will pay you a one-time buyout fee, which is more expensive than money." After signing the contract, I will transfer it to you immediately. The other is that my company in Huaxia will give you a certain percentage of the sales of this medicinal wine as a patent royalty. And this money will not be released until the annual sales statistics are over. For you guys."

He paused and asked, "Do you think that's the right way?"

Without thinking about it, Zhang Feng said, "We choose the latter method."

Li Sheng smiled and said, "Okay. Let's talk about this share now. I plan to give 2% of the sales as royalties. What do you think?"

Zhang Feng and Aunt Luo looked at each other and nodded at the same time.Zhang Feng nodded and said, "Okay."

Li Sheng was a little taken aback. He smiled and said, "I still want to bargain with you."

Zhang Feng also said with a smile: "If it wasn't for you, the boss, maybe we would use this formula ourselves. Now we can get some income from this thing, why are we still not satisfied?"

Aunt Luo also said: "No, young people don't believe in traditional Chinese medicine anymore. Maybe this prescription will disappear after use."

"That's not what you said." Li Sheng shook his head and said.

"Boss, this recipe may be very good. But I think the bees here are the most important. I have also brewed this medicinal wine in my hometown before, but the effect is not as good as that brewed here." Zhang Feng said with a smile. "The boss is giving us a 2% share now, and we've earned it."

Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "Then I will not be polite. But this matter still needs to adjust Aunt Luo's work. You see what medicinal materials are needed besides bees, Aunt Luo, you have to be responsible for bringing someone to help me Found it. I plan to plant it on the farm, and I will leave this matter to Aunt Luo in the future. Do you think it is okay?"

When Aunt Luo heard this, she glanced at Zhang Feng, saw him nodding, and hurriedly said, "Boss, don't worry. I will definitely find all the medicinal materials for you. But I don't know how to use this kind of herbal medicine. Look..."

"There is no difference between Chinese herbal medicine and planting grass." Li Sheng said with a smile. "You take some young men who have studied agriculture. It will be no problem to ask them to help."

The most important thing about planting this thing is to observe carefully.As long as the law is observed and summed up, there will be no problem in planting herbs.

After negotiating this matter, Li Sheng asked the farm's legal counsel to visit, and he signed a patent licensing agreement with Zhang Feng and Aunt Luo.

After finishing this matter, Aunt Luo's work was adjusted immediately, but Li Sheng didn't need to worry about these matters himself.He replied to Finn first.

In Finn's plan, he hoped that Li Sheng would agree to use his funds to go long with eight times or even ten times the leverage.But he felt that the risk was too great.Although he feels that OPEC may reach an agreement to cut crude oil production.But no one knows when this agreement will be reached.

So he asked Luo Zheng to help him see how to operate, all with quadruple leverage.If Finn is allowed to operate with a leverage of more than eight times and leave 20 billion US dollars as a reserve to prevent liquidation, as long as the oil price falls by 20 US dollars, he will lose all his funds.

He didn't want to take that risk.So he asked Finn to operate with up to five times the leverage.And he also told Ali his thoughts.As for how Ali will judge, he can't control it.

(End of this chapter)