Chapter 182: Incentives

Chapter 182: Incentives

Chapter 182: Incentives (Additional update)
“…I declare that the signing ceremony of the Horqin Sandy Land Comprehensive Development Project of Hailufeng Company has been successfully completed!”

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In the city of Zhelimu, a high school's auditorium was temporarily used as the venue for the press conference, and the enthusiastic applause in the auditorium lasted for a long time.

The pretty female host picked up the microphone and said with a smile: "Now, please welcome Mr. Liu Zhiben, the general manager of Hailufeng Company, to the stage to speak. Please give him a round of applause!"

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Amidst warm applause, Liu Zhiben walked up calmly and took the microphone handed to him by the staff.

He stood on the platform, patted the microphone, and then said to the media reporters and invited guests: "Thank you very much for this hard-won cooperation. The development projects of Hailufeng Company in Horqin Sandy Land will be fully implemented in the next five years."

"Mr. Liu, the journalists in the audience have just asked a lot of questions and hope to get answers from your company. Here are the questions." The female host handed Liu Zhiben a list of questions.

"Okay, if it doesn't involve company secrets, I can answer these questions." Liu Zhiben took the stack of notes with a smile, glanced at the first question, raised his head and said:

"The question asked by the reporter of Heart Shocking News is whether Senzu soybeans will bring environmental problems. My answer is that the application of any technology will bring problems, unless humans disappear from the earth."

Hahahaha...many people secretly lowered their heads and laughed quietly.

Liu Zhiben continued: "In the process of using fairy beans to transform desert sandy land, we naturally will not ignore the local environmental problems. For example, the Horqin Sandy Land, Hunshandake Sandy Land, Maowusu Sandy Land, and Ulan Buh Desert were all grasslands and oases thousands of years ago. Therefore, transforming them into farmland and pastures will not cause environmental problems."

"As for the Tengger Desert, Badain Jaran Desert, Taklimakan Desert and other deserts that were deserts in ancient times, we will carefully consider the areas and areas to be transformed. But I personally think that even if the Tengger Desert and Badain Jaran Desert are transformed, there will be no major problems."

The reporters in the audience immediately started discussing in a low voice.

Liu Zhiben smiled and explained: "Perhaps everyone will think that my statement is not rigorous enough, but everyone has overlooked a problem, that is, as one thing grows, the other shrinks. The desert area of ​​our northern neighbors is increasing day by day, and desertification in Central Asia is also becoming increasingly serious. Therefore, I don't think that transforming hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of desert in China will have any serious consequences for the earth's climate."

Many people suddenly realized.

After thinking about it carefully, I feel that what Liu Zhiben said does make sense.

Judging from the overall environment in northern Asia, desertification in the northern Mobei and Central Asian regions is indeed becoming more severe.

According to relevant reports, in 2017, the area of ​​desertified land in the Mobei region accounted for only 50.7% of its total land resources. By 2020, this proportion had risen to 76.9%, of which the proportion of land with severe desertification reached 23.3%.

The area of ​​Mobei is 156 million square kilometers, and nearly 46 square kilometers of desertified land have been added in recent years.

The desertification situation in Central Asia is not optimistic either. According to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the area of ​​land degradation in Central Asia is about 8000 million hectares (12 billion mu), accounting for more than 20% of the total area of ​​the region.

In other words, even if all the desert sands in Seris were transformed, it could only barely compete with the newly added deserts in Central Asia and the northern desert.

Although the country will not promote such an extreme transformation plan, it would not be a big problem to transform most of the desert land in the south of the desert, plus nearly one-third of the desert land in the western region.

"The second question was asked by a Global Times reporter about whether the root rot fungus in soybeans can be changed through genetic modification."

Liu Zhiben smiled and shook his head. "Although I'm not a technician, our boss said that it would be very difficult to use genetic modification technology to make Senzu soybeans resistant to root rot fungi, because fungi are very adaptable to the environment and mutate very quickly. Even if we modify them to produce fungus-resistant varieties, they can only prevent them for a period of time."

The reporter in the audience quickly typed this answer on his notebook.

"The third question is from a reporter from the Monan Daily. It's about our company's industrial planning in the Horqin Desert." Liu Zhiben took a sip of mineral water and continued:

"In the future, our company will focus on the Horqin sandy land to plant soybeans, alfalfa, corn, forage grass, cherries, pistachios, and rubber grass, and develop related supporting industries."

The female host interrupted, "Mr. Liu, can cherries and pistachios be grown in Mo Nan?"

"Yes, but it requires improved varieties or the use of special technology. The specific technology involves our company's confidentiality, so it is inconvenient to answer you."

"It doesn't matter." The female host once again handed the initiative of the topic to Liu Zhiben.

"The fourth question was asked by a BBC reporter: Will Hailufeng transfer technology to poor areas around the world for free?" Liu Zhiben smiled and shook his head: "Whether to transfer technology requires our company to evaluate. For some areas where modern agricultural technology is not yet popular, I suggest that they should first consider agricultural modernization and not aim too high."

However, the BBC reporter stood up and shouted, "Mr. Liu, I think the Tianzhu region has the foundation to accept your Senzu soybean technology. There are many hungry and poor people in the region. If you can transfer the technology for free, it will save hundreds of millions of poor and hungry people."

Liu Zhiben asked in surprise, "The Tianzhu you are talking about, is it the Tianzhu that exports tens of millions of tons of rice every year?"

"Well... but this cannot change the fact that there are hundreds of millions of poor and hungry people in India. Your technology can change that. I believe every conscientious company will not hesitate to make this technology public." The BBC reporter argued.

"I think Mr. Reporter should go to Tianzhu and stop the more than 10 million tons of rice first. This can directly alleviate the hunger of hundreds of millions of people and then talk about other issues." Liu Zhiben went straight to the next topic.

"The fifth question is from an ABC reporter, asking whether Senzu soybeans are safe to eat."

He looked calm and said, "If the ABC reporter thinks there is something wrong with the Senzu soybeans, he can go get them tested. There is no need to waste time asking questions here."

"The sixth question is from a reporter from Sing Tao Daily. Will the soybean oil produced by Hailufeng Company enter the international market in the future?" As soon as Liu Zhiben saw this question, he knew what the other party was thinking. He replied calmly:
"Our company has no plans to export soybean oil for the time being, as we intend to use the soybean oil we produce to refine biodiesel."

Obviously, the reporter's question was intended to sow discord. The other party wanted to get an answer from him, that is, Hailufeng Company will export soybean oil in the future.

Why did the other party want to get this answer from him.

The reason is to create a sense of crisis in the two palm oil exporting countries in Southeast Asia, so as to make them hostile to Hailufeng and Seres.

Although Hailufeng Company does have plans to export soybean oil in the future, how could Liu Zhiben possibly tell a foreign reporter about this plan?

He answered more than a dozen questions in a row.

Liu Zhiben also completed the question-and-answer session of the signing ceremony.

Today, Hailufeng Company held a signing ceremony in Zhelimu City.

United Mining also formally signed a memorandum of cooperation on the comprehensive development of the Hunshandake Desert with the local authorities. It also subcontracted the Tengger Desert to Beidahuang Group and the Badain Jaran Desert to COFCO Group.

The intensive announcement of these things shows the official attitude towards the development and utilization of the desert.

From the official planning report.

It has been planned that by 2030, 1.2 million mu of high-standard farmland and 0.8 million mu of high-standard pastures will be transformed and built.

By around 2035, this number will be increased to 3.5 million mu, and preparations will be made to expand 1 to 2 million mu of high-standard farmland at any time.

At the same time, soybean production capacity must be increased to a relatively high number around 2030. As for how high it will be, it will depend on external factors and changes in internal demand.

This is a hint to other grain exporting regions in the world that if they want to get a share of grain exported to Serbia, then they should come and negotiate!

Many forces have already reacted and started booking plane tickets, preparing to fly over for negotiations.

Even ABCD had to make a difficult decision.

Huang Changqing, who had been lying down in Pengcheng for a day, received a notice from the head office.

He breathed a sigh of relief. Apparently the head office did not dismiss him immediately, but instead instructed him to use his previously established connections as quickly as possible to minimize the company's losses.

A vice president in charge of feed business looked at the email sent by the head office with a very strange expression on his face: "Boss Huang, the head office wants us to negotiate with Hailufeng Company? To sell the South American industry to them?"

"Yeah." Huang Changqing looked calm.

Although he was humiliated by Jiang Haibo yesterday, which made him feel very uncomfortable, he had to endure the humiliation in order to complete the order of the head office.

At the headquarters of Magong Town, Jiang Haibo was reporting some things to Jiang Miao.

Suddenly an assistant knocked on the door with a document.

"Boss, Mr. Jiang, Bunge just sent an email saying they want to cooperate with our company to develop South America together."

Jiang Haibo took the document, looked at it, and handed it to Jiang Miao.

Jiang Miao took a quick look, then smiled and shook his head: "You are such a thief with such a heart."

After hearing what Jiang Miao said, Jiang Haibo came to his senses: "I think they are trying to lure us into South America and then use their local pawns to deal with us." Jiang Miao ordered the assistant: "Reply to them directly and tell them to get out!"

"Ok!"

It is obviously not a wise move for Hailufeng Company to rush abroad without even completing its domestic layout.

Compared with COFCO Group, which has already had a presence overseas for many years, Hailufeng Company is still a little too young. What's more, ABCD even dared to take action against COFCO Group, let alone Hailufeng Company.

When they went to South America, ABCD's home advantage was too obvious, and they had plenty of ways to deal with Hailufeng Company.

For example, they deliberately sold some better farms to Hailufeng Company, and then after Hailufeng Company made a large investment, they secretly instigated local people to cause trouble, or even directly funded some rebels to carry out an armed confiscation.

A few years ago, Zijin Mining had several tons of gold robbed in South America. Behind the scenes, European and American capital forces were secretly funding armed forces to cause trouble.

Jiang Miao is not so arrogant as to think that Hailufeng Company can have smooth sailing abroad. It is too dangerous to go out to sea at this stage.

He doesn't want his employees to get into trouble overseas. If such a thing happens, it will have a serious impact on morale within the company.

Therefore, he rejected Bunge's sugar-coated bullet without hesitation.

Huang Changqing and others who were still in Pengcheng were prepared to be humiliated by Jiang Haibo again, but they did not expect that the other party did not even want to see them, which directly made Bunge's little plan fail.

When Huang Changqing saw the reply email from Hailufeng Company, his face turned red.

[Our boss wants you to get out! ]

The assistant didn't mind the trouble and directly sent Jiang Miao's original words.

After calming down, although Huang Changqing felt humiliated again, he did not feel much anger in his heart. Perhaps he was used to the rudeness of Hailufeng Company, or perhaps it was because after ABCD was hit hard, his mentality had a subtle change.

He calmly edited an email and replied to the headquarters, saying that Hailufeng Company refused to cooperate.

Since Hailufeng refused to take the bait, Bunge had no choice but to instruct Huang Changqing to contact COFCO and other companies.

The other three companies of ABCD are also trying to sell part of their industries in South America, both to cut off their tails and survive, and also to lure others into a trap.

Of course, COFCO Group will definitely not be afraid of the other party. They have been operating in South America for many years and have a certain strength foundation.

Now they have the trump card of Senzu beans. If the other party dares to cause trouble, they can directly cut off the import share of the region and cause chaos in their industry.

Hailufeng Company did not accept this sugar-coated bullet because it did not have the strength to take it, but COFCO Group was different.

But Jiang Miao didn't care.

He and Jiang Haibo were listening to Zhang Xinyi's report.

Zhang Xinyi's face was full of smiles: "Due to the impact of yesterday's news, the number of registered users of our franchise store APP has skyrocketed to nearly 500 million, and the total number of users is currently 3613 million."

"Sales volume should have increased, right?" Jiang Miao looked at the report from the Qiongzhou branch.

"Strawberries, ginseng fruit, and tomatoes have been out of stock for a long time. They are basically sold out as soon as they are put on the shelves. Fish products and honey, as well as the recently launched Hero Pure Milk, saw their sales yesterday increase by 10 to 15 times compared to usual."

Jiang Haibo often presided over the daily management. He understood the problems of the e-commerce division better than Jiang Miao: "Xinyi, what is the inventory pressure of fish products?"

"Currently, the monthly inventory is not large. The wholesale channel can sell 2 to 3 tons of fish products each month, and the retail channel only sells one to two thousand tons each month." Zhang Xinyi answered truthfully.

"I've read your feedback. Some customers have told us that they hope we can expand the categories of fish products. Yesterday, the breeding division gave us several plans based on your suggestions. I've taken a look at them all, but I haven't decided which one to use. You can take a look at them too." Jiang Haibo handed three plans to Zhang Xinyi.

Zhang Xinyi sat down and carefully looked through the contents of these plans.

At present, Hailufeng Company’s fish and meat product categories are indeed not rich enough.

Canned fish: four types.

Fish balls and fish eggs: four kinds.

Add fish floss, fish sausage, fish tofu, fish cakes, and fish skin dumplings.

There are 13 products in total.

"The first option is to introduce flavors like spicy. I think it's worth considering, but it would be better to have product samples."

"The second option is to develop new categories, such as fried fish skin and fish skin jelly, and add new production lines when necessary."

"The third option is to produce fish-based prepared dishes, which also requires adding new production lines."

Zhang Xinyi thought for a while and said, "As long as the product is confirmed, the existing production line can be used for production. I think this can be carried out first. For the second two options, we will develop the product first, and then consider whether to add production lines based on the product situation."

"Okay, I've taken note of your idea." Jiang Haibo said as he wrote the other person's idea on a memo.

At this moment, Jiang Miao raised his head and said, "Xinyi, go back and study the business of purchasing agricultural products and retailing them."

Zhang Xinyi asked in surprise: "Purchasing agricultural products from outside? That means putting agricultural products on the shelves that are not produced by our company?"

“Well, we buy agricultural products from the vicinity of each branch, package them, and then sell them to customers through our platform.”

"This matter requires the cooperation of the purchasing department."

"Talk to Wang Feng and come up with a reasonable plan."

"can."

Jiang Miao thought of this matter mainly because he had just heard the conversation between Zhang Xinyi and Jiang Haibo, and knew that he could not allow the problem of too few product categories in the online store to remain unchecked.

At this stage, Hailufeng Company cannot produce all types of agricultural products, nor will it be able to produce all types of agricultural products in the future. Therefore, introducing agricultural products produced by ordinary farmers becomes a very necessary supplement.

For example, the lotus roots, day lily, oleifera, green plums, etc. around the headquarters of Hailufeng Company.

For example, there are Gannan navel oranges, bamboo shoots, blueberries, Guangchang white lotus seeds, Taihe black chickens, etc. near the Gannan branch.

There are also various tropical fruits located in the Qiongzhou branch.

Hailufeng Company certainly will not produce these things by itself, but local farmers do not have many channels, so Hailufeng Company can use its own channels to sell them.

Of course, sales are sales, and the quality control of these agricultural products cannot be relaxed.

For example, many farmers cannot resist the temptation of using acid reducers on citrus fruits. Under the inducement of dealers, they choose to use acid reducers just to get the citrus fruits on the market earlier.

This cannot be blamed on the farmers' greed, but on the dealers' disregard for the market for the sake of profit.

Although today's acid reducers have been changed to safe and non-toxic versions, this does not mean that they can be used frequently.

What Hailufeng Company needs to do is to break the channel monopoly of those fruit and vegetable giants, bring better returns to farmers, and supply consumers with high-quality and low-priced agricultural products.

He did not start this business before because Hailufeng Company did not have its own online channels. Another reason was that Hailufeng Company was not strong enough and could not suppress those local tyrants.

For example, why Pang Donglai cannot go beyond Xinxiang.

It’s because the vested interests in other places are too stubborn and they don’t welcome the arrival of Pang Donglai.

With Jiang Miao's current strength and influence, those local tyrants dared not act rashly.

After all, they are just some small devils in the vegetable and fruit industry. If they dare to make trouble facing the big Buddha like Jiang Miao, they will be wiped out in minutes.

(End of this chapter)