Chapter 113 The Infinite Possibilities of Life

Chapter 113 The Infinite Possibilities of Life

Chapter 113 The Infinite Possibilities of Life (Updated)

The matter of the Dubolen family has come to an end for the time being.

Hailufeng Company is still developing step by step.

In fact, over the past few months, there have been undercurrents all over the world, especially the Locke family's external tentacles being besieged by various forces.

This not only caused the Locke family's peripheral forces to shrink significantly, but also various forces were able to track down many problematic associates through those exposed hidden players.

At the same time, this incident also brought about another huge impact, that is, all parties have become more sensitive and nervous about various internal changes. Now if someone makes any small moves, it is easy to be suspected of being America's hidden agent and thus be secretly investigated.

For example, the Du Bolun family has basically no chance of recovery this time.

Because this period of time was too sensitive, the things involving his wife Tang Ke were enough to drag the entire Du family into an irretrievable desperate situation.

Jiang Miao did not hesitate to kill David A. Locke and leaked all the secrets of their family in order to create a tense environment.

Now, all forces around the world are caught in a predicament where everyone is in danger, especially those who have something to hide, who have become even more cautious.

At least in recent years, everyone has kept quiet and dared not do anything small that would bring trouble to themselves and their families.

This is also the relaxed environment that Jiang Miao created for Hailufeng Company.

Perhaps for those who are powerful, they need to tread on thin ice in the next few years, but for Jiang Miao, who does not have any major stains, this kind of environment is actually the most favorable.

There is a very good saying.

Instead of improving your own strength, it is better to lower the level of your opponent.

For a Go novice, don't try to play Go with a Go master on the chessboard, because you are not familiar with the rules and tricks of Go. After all, the other person has been in the Go world for decades, and it is difficult for you to compete with the other person within the scope of Go rules.

At this time, you should learn from the chess master of the Han Dynasty, pick up the chessboard and smash it hard on the opponent's crown, so that the opponent will know what it means that the universe is the chessboard and all things are chess pieces.

Who says you have to play chess on a chessboard?

I am the chess master of the Han Dynasty! I have reached the highest level where everything can be a chess piece. If you don't agree, come and fight me.

Jiang Miao, who is well aware of this, does not need to make any obvious moves or take any action personally. He only needs to intensify the confrontation around the world and use this tense atmosphere to prevent all forces from focusing their attention on him.

After a few years, when the atmosphere eased, he busted up an American consortium family, forcing all parties to conduct internal cleansing again, and gained a few more years of peaceful development.

Other people's anxiety is his peace of mind.

Anyway, the various consortium families in America have bribed or coerced a large number of hidden agents around the world over the past few decades. These Trojan horses can be used by them, and naturally by Jiang Miao.

It’s just that Jiang Miao’s way of using people is rather destructive.

For example, this time, according to some information he collected, at least more than 8 people were directly affected, of which no less than 2000 people received boxed lunches directly.

Anyway, there are still nine forces in America's consortium that have not been used by him. When the time comes, he can randomly pick an unlucky guy to sacrifice.

In this world, those who may take action against Jiang Miao and Hailufeng Company are often not people who keep themselves clean.

After all, if he was really a good person, he would not have taken action against Jiang Miao and Hailufeng Company.

This kind of person is actually easier to deal with.

With just the slightest touch, the filthiness of their bodies will emerge from beneath their shiny coats.

...

In the next two days, Jiang Miao worked with Stationmaster Guo and others to complete the shooting of a series of videos.

On October 10, Stationmaster Guo and his team hurried to other areas for filming.

But Jiang Miao was not in the laboratory at this time.

He is in the experimental greenhouse next to the strawberry greenhouse.

There is also a large field of red strawberries in front of me, but the taste of these strawberries is a bit "stinky". It is a typical example of something that is extremely fragrant and becomes smelly.

It's a bit like the camphor tree, where everything will turn into its opposite when it reaches its extreme.

The origin of these strawberries is somewhat related to a genetic mutation that appeared in a previous batch of tissue culture seedlings.

The characteristic of the genetically mutated vanilla strawberry is that its fragrance has become extremely strong, even a bit smelly. The farm workers were originally going to dispose of this strawberry, but Su Zhiling, an agricultural technician who happened to work on the farm, discovered this mutant and kept the strawberry.

Jiang Miao saw the research progress of this strawberry in the technical development briefing of the Research Department at the end of May.

This is why we have these stinky strawberries.

These stinky strawberries are divided into two types, one type is the third-generation tissue culture seedlings of the mother plant, and the other type is the seed-cultured seedlings from the mother plant seeds.

That is the third generation tissue culture seedling of stinky strawberry. It is similar to the mother plant, both of them have a fragrant and stinky smell.

The seedlings grown from those seeds, having undergone mutation induction and then secondary selection by Jiang Miao, showed a variety of strange characteristics.

At this time, Jiang Miao had already locked his eyes on one of the cultivated seedlings, because this was the special variant he found among thousands of seeds.

The fruits of this stinky strawberry contain high concentrations of vanillin.

What is vanillin?
Vanillin is divided into artificial synthetic and natural types. It was originally a natural flavor extracted from vanilla beans.

The vanilla ice cream we often eat actually used vanilla beans in the beginning, but later it was replaced by artificially synthesized vanillin.

However, natural vanilla beans are still one of the important raw materials for high-end desserts, because the flavor of natural vanilla beans is very complex and cannot be simply summarized by vanillin.

When Jiang Miao was cultivating vanilla strawberries before, he selected varieties that contained vanillin, which led to the creation of the vanilla strawberry variety.

However, he did not expect that this variety would mutate into this type of strawberry.

The flavor substances of this strawberry in front of you have a 96% overlap with those of vanilla beans, and the concentration is about 3.7 times that of vanilla beans.

This also caused the fragrance of this strawberry to be too fragrant, and it appeared to be smelly.

Jiang Miao placed the strawberry plant in a special cultivation area and picked three ripe strawberries.

He brought the strawberries to the laboratory, used freeze-drying equipment to freeze-dehydrate three strawberries, and then ground them into powder.

Take out a little bit and add it to a bucket of white ice cream prepared in advance. After thorough stirring, the stinky strawberry powder is completely integrated into the ice cream.

Jiang Miao scooped a spoonful with a spoon, put it into his mouth, and savored it carefully.

The strong vanilla flavor permeates the tip of the tongue, and there is a hint of strawberry in the aftertaste.

Comparing the taste of ordinary artificial vanilla aldehyde ice cream, natural vanilla bean ice cream, and stinky strawberry ice cream, the taste brought by natural vanilla beans is 90% similar. The remaining 10% is actually the influence of the strawberry flavor.

During lunch.

Jiang Miao came into the restaurant with three large buckets of ice cream on a cart.

He clapped his hands and said, "Come on, everyone try it."

"Ice cream?" Shuya was confused: "Why do you make ice cream?"

Jiang Miao gave Shuya three scoops of ice cream and explained, "These are three kinds of ice cream, using different flavors. After tasting them, please write down your specific feelings, especially the taste."

"Oh! That's good." Shuya took the box and the evaluation form.

Others also came over to get ice cream and evaluation forms.

Shuya took a bite and said, "Isn't this just ordinary vanilla ice cream?"

After rinsing her mouth with mineral water, she tasted another scoop of ice cream: "Huh? This No. 2 ice cream has a stronger vanilla flavor and a richer taste."

"Sister Shuya, this ice cream No. 2 should be made of natural vanilla. I've had Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream before, which tastes similar, rich yet soft, with a rich texture." Li Wenna was cutting a ball of ice cream No. 3 with a spoon. "I see." Shuya didn't like ice cream on weekdays, so she didn't know much about vanilla ice cream.

"Huh? This ice cream number 3 tastes almost the same as number 2!" Li Wenna closed her eyes and felt it. As the aftereffects came, she could smell a faint strawberry flavor: "Is this ice cream made with natural vanilla and strawberries?"

Shuya was the same as Li Wenna. She first felt the vanilla flavor similar to the No. 2 ice cream, and then a faint strawberry flavor emerged in the aftertaste.

If it weren't for the strawberry flavor, she would have thought that ice cream No. 3 and No. 2 were the same natural vanilla ice cream.

As others finished tasting.

Jiang Miaocai smiled and asked, "Which of the three ice creams do you think tastes better?"

"number 2."

"No. 3! It has a richer taste."

“I think it’s number 3.”

"No. 1, no other smell."

"No. 2 is better. I don't like the aftertaste of the strawberry flavor of No. 3. It's a bit hard to tell whether it's vanilla ice cream or strawberry ice cream."

“I like the rich layering of No. 3.”

Jiang Haibo asked with a smile: "Boss, is number 3 related to the company's new product?"

Jiang Miao nodded and said, "A few months ago, I found a mutant stinky strawberry. After secondary breeding, I selected this strawberry. Its taste is 9% similar to natural vanilla. The No. 3 ice cream you eat uses stinky strawberry powder instead of natural vanilla."

"Is this made of strawberry powder?" Shuya was a little surprised.

Qin Hanming from the market research department immediately considered how to develop it: "If that's the case, maybe we can consider growing this kind of strawberry to replace vanilla beans. Maybe there will be a big market for it."

"Is it possible to cultivate another variety and remove the strawberry flavor so that we can imitate natural vanilla beans?" Jiang Haibo suggested.

Jiang Miao shook his head: "I'm afraid it's difficult, after all, this is the original flavor of strawberry, but we can use this strawberry powder as a characteristic mark to distinguish the vanilla flavor between stinky strawberries and vanilla beans."

Qin Hanming, who was already looking up relevant information on his phone, said as he looked at his phone: "Currently, the world's largest natural vanilla bean production area is Madagascar, with an annual output of about 1200 to 3500 tons. In terms of price, each production area is different. The highest is in Gaul, at about $22 per ton, and the lowest is in Java in Southeast Asia, at $4 per ton."

"The output is a bit small! And the price is too high, right?" Jiang Haibo was thinking about the market situation.

Qin Hanming mentioned another point: "It is indeed possible to consider growing this kind of strawberry. After all, growing vanilla beans is too troublesome, especially artificial pollination, which means it is destined to be difficult to expand production."

The company’s technology for growing strawberries is certainly more mature than growing the unfamiliar vanilla beans.

"In fact, I have two ways to remove part of the strawberry aroma from stinky strawberries." Jiang Miao added: "One is to use a specific nutrient solution, which can reduce the accumulation of some flavor substances in the strawberries; the other option is to use a specific temperature for rapid processing, similar to the high-temperature flash evaporation technology of milk, which can instantly destroy some of the ester compounds that will give off the strawberry flavor."

"Boss, can these two plans be combined?" Jiang Haibo asked curiously.

Jiang Miao nodded: "Yes, one is to reduce the synthetic strawberry flavor substances in the strawberries, and the other is to destroy the strawberry flavor substances. With these two methods, 90% of the strawberry flavor should be removed. Unless you have a very sensitive taste buds, it will be difficult to taste the little strawberry flavor left."

"Boss, I think we can invest in this project, but we should start on a small scale. After all, this strawberry powder has not yet been recognized by the market." Qin Hanming suggested cautiously.

After thinking for a while, Jiang Miao also felt that the company currently had sufficient funds and there was no need to be timid, so he made a decision: "Then we can rent another piece of land in Hongcao Town and build a planting base dedicated to growing this kind of strawberry. By the way, we can also acquire a factory nearby as a processing plant for strawberry powder."

"Boss, how many acres of planting area are needed?" Jiang Haibo asked quickly.

"The yield of this kind of strawberry is about the same as that of vanilla strawberry. Each acre can produce 4000 to 5000 kilograms of strawberries per year. Let's plant 100 acres first to test the waters!"

"can."

Suddenly Jiang Haibo thought of the name of this variety and quickly asked, "By the way, Boss, what should this strawberry be called?"

After all, stinky strawberry is just an internal name and is definitely not suitable as a product name.

"The vanilla strawberry has been used." Jiang Miao touched his chin and thought.

Shuya was also looking at the information on her phone. Suddenly, she saw the introduction of vanilla beans, and an idea suddenly occurred to her: "Why not call it Vanilla Strawberry! After all, vanilla beans come from vanilla orchids."

Hearing this, Jiang Miao's eyes lit up, and he thought this name was very good: "Vanilla strawberry? This name is good, so let's just call it that. From now on, this variety will be called Vanilla strawberry."

Since the decision was made to mass-produce pandan strawberries, Jiang Miao instructed the tissue culture laboratory to start cultivating tissue culture seedlings of pandan strawberries.

At the same time, he promoted Su Zhiling, the agricultural technician who discovered the first generation of pandan strawberries, and made him the person in charge of the red grass strawberry planting base. Of course, Jiang Miao would not forget his contribution in discovering the first generation of pandan strawberries and decided to give him a product commission.

Product commission is also a kind of treatment for technical personnel. As long as the research project produces results and is suitable for commercial mass production, the relevant technical personnel can obtain a certain product commission.

This is equivalent to the internal information fee, and the commission is generally between 0.1% and 1% of the product's gross profit.

Considering that Su Zhiling discovered the first generation of Vanilla Strawberry, Jiang Miao gave him a commission rate of 0.3%.

If the sales of Pandan strawberries can reach several hundred million a year in the future, Su Zhiling can get hundreds of thousands of commissions every year, or even one or two million.

This product sharing is also intended to encourage researchers to work hard.

When Su Zhiling heard the news, he was in disbelief at first. After all, he was the only one who discovered the mother plant, and the subsequent research and breeding were not his credit. He originally thought that his boss would only give him a bonus of a few thousand yuan at most.

Unexpectedly, he got a share of the product profits and was appointed as the person in charge of the red grass strawberry planting base.

When Su Zhiling came back to his senses, his body began to tremble uncontrollably with excitement.

Other colleagues also looked at him with envy and jealousy. This was simply a meteoric rise, no wonder others were jealous.

But there is no use being envious and jealous.

After all, discovering new species sometimes depends on luck. If you are lucky, you can easily come across good things; if you are unlucky, you may get nothing for more than ten years.

Don't think that the mother plant left by Su Zhiling is not important.

If there was no mother plant, there would be no subsequent seeds, and no pandan strawberries. It can be said that the mother plant is the origin of the entire pandan strawberry lineage.

Jiang Miao has actually rethought some breeding directions.

Especially spice crops, many spices are expensive. In essence, the production plants of these spices are restricted by various conditions, which leads to their production capacity not being able to be increased, resulting in very high prices.

If we can use other crops that can be produced on a large scale and contain the same flavor substances to cultivate highly similar spice crops, we can replace the original expensive spices.

Pandan strawberries are an example.

This thing is a substitute for vanilla beans, and the flavors are highly similar, almost to the point where they are indistinguishable from each other.

Among other high-end spices, saffron is also a target worth conquering. The core component of its fragrance is safranal.

In nature, there are many plants that contain safranal, such as cornflower, gardenia, green tea, etc.

In addition, among some of the current medicines, many of the organic high-molecular compounds extracted from animals and plants are difficult to synthesize artificially and can only be extracted by collecting crops.

Therefore, by breeding, we can obtain varieties with particularly high content of a certain ingredient and thus increase the value of the variety.

In fact, Jiang Miao has made special attempts to increase the protein content and adjust the proportions of various types of fat in Egyptian catfish breeding.

只要使用了4号饲料的埃及塘虱，其鱼肉之中的蛋白质含量可以从22%，提升到了24%～25%；其鱼油之中的不饱和脂肪酸含量会从45%，提升到了50%～53%。

This increase will cause the value of Egyptian catfish to rise. After all, every one percentage point increase in protein content means more fish meal can be produced.

Similarly, a higher content of unsaturated fatty acids also means a higher value after refining, and the price of crude oil will also increase.

And this improvement can be achieved simply through scientific feeding.

If breeding is carried out in a specific direction, the new varieties bred may have certain characteristics that are more prominent.

(End of this chapter)