Chapter 235 Derivatives

Chapter 235 Derivatives

Chapter 235 Derivatives
The next day, noon.

It was rare for Jiang Miao to come to the headquarters cafeteria to eat.

Liu Kaifu, who was invited, seemed a little reserved.

"Mr. Liu was planning to go to Qiongzhou to buy a durian plantation?"

Liu Kaifu quickly replied like a chick pecking at rice: "Yes, our boss originally wanted to cooperate with your company to see if we can produce and sell our own products."

Jiang Miao took a sip of the soup, then smiled and said, "It's not impossible to produce and sell by yourself. How many channels does your company have?"

Hearing this, Liu Kaifu was ecstatic, but he did not lose his composure. Instead, he quickly replied: "Our company has its own exclusive stores on major e-commerce platforms, and we also have 184 physical stores in first-tier cities."

“You’re quite capable!”

"We are just small businesses and cannot compare with your company." Liu Kaifu spoke the truth.

His boss was very envious of Hailufeng Company's wealth and its method of directly purchasing properties.

You have to know that the trouble their company faces with its physical stores across the country is the rising rent every year, and only a few of the stores they have purchased can maintain high profits.

"You can plant them yourself. How about this? It just so happens that we found a lot of shady operations in durian and banana planting quotas in Qiongzhou this time. I plan to give part of the quota to your company, but your company's headquarters is in Leizhou, right?"

Hearing this big pie, Liu Kaifu nodded: “Yes, Mr. Jiang, our company’s headquarters is in Leizhou.”

Jiang Miao directly granted special approval to Southeast Fruit Industry: "Then grant the planting area to Southeast Fruit Industry in Leizhou. You can plant it in Leizhou by yourselves! Of course, you should understand the rules."

"I understand, I understand. We will definitely abide by the rules." Liu Kaifu of course agreed, and at the same time he was very grateful to Jiang Miao.

Because he knew very well that if Hailufeng Company gave the planting share of Qiongzhou to Southeast Fruit Industry, it was highly likely that the employees within the Qiongzhou branch would secretly target Southeast Fruit Industry.

Moreover, these problem shares must involve local bullies. Southeast Fruit Industry grows durian and bananas locally, and it will definitely be troubled by these local bullies.

Now that the batch has been transferred to the Leizhou Peninsula, the Qiongzhou branch and the local tyrants are naturally out of reach.

At the same time, Liu Kaifu did not know that Jiang Miao's other purpose in doing this was to threaten the local people in Qiongzhou.

Now a small portion of the planting quota is granted to Leizhou Peninsula, while the planting quota of Qiongzhou is reduced, which is to tell the local people in Qiongzhou:
Don't think that you can do whatever you want just because I allocated durian and Mike banana to Qiongzhou. If you don't deal with this matter seriously, the Hailufeng Company will continue to reduce the scale of planting in Qiongzhou and switch to planting in Leizhou and southern Guangxi Province.

Chatted with Liu Kaifu for half an hour.

That afternoon, Hailufeng Company’s official website announced the results of the handling, and at the same time gave a special reward to the whistleblower Southeast Fruit Industry, approving it to grow durian and bananas in Leizhou.

As soon as this announcement came out.

The local authorities in Qiongzhou handled the relevant personnel very quickly and the results came out that evening.

Obviously, the local people have already felt the intention of Hailufeng Company. If the issue is not handled clearly, they will have to move to another place. In front of two industries worth tens of billions of dollars, anyone who dares to treat them carelessly will definitely not want to do the job anymore.

Stimulated by this incident, the number of reports suddenly increased a lot.

In just one week, there were as many as 109 reports of various types, involving a wide range of issues, with the focus being the approval of durian and banana planting in Qiongzhou.

On the contrary, there are no serious problems at the headquarters. In fact, this is normal. After all, the headquarters is under Jiang Miao's nose and is often paid attention to by the company's senior management. After being beaten so many times, they naturally dare not act recklessly.

Based on these reports, Jiang Miao's secret investigation, and the quick intervention of the Supervisory Department, Hailufeng Company quickly dealt with 46 employees with serious problems, which was a ruthless act of killing the chicken to scare the monkey, and deterred the increasingly impetuous atmosphere within the company.

Among the employees who were dealt with this time, not only those in Qiongzhou, but also middle-level employees from the headquarters, Gannan Branch, and Mo'nan Branch were dealt with.

A week later.

The official website of Hailufeng Company issued another announcement.

It was announced that the shares of 8700 acres of durian and 16400 acres of bananas that were illegally handled by employees and related personnel of the Qiongzhou branch would be completely cancelled.

At the same time, any person or company that obtained shares in violation of regulations will have their cooperation cancelled and will no longer be able to cooperate with Hailufeng Company in the future.

Except for three companies and six self-employed individuals who managed to keep their shares by reporting the incident in time, all other people and companies that obtained planting shares in violation of regulations were blacklisted.

At the same time, these shares were transferred to Leizhou. In addition to Southeast Fruit Industry, 38 other whistleblowers or companies also obtained these shares.

Among them, Southeast Fruit Industry, which played a leading role, obtained a franchise, that is, to produce and sell by itself. It only needed to pay a patent fee of 2 yuan per kilogram of durian to Hailufeng Company and a patent fee of 1 yuan per kilogram of banana, and then it could sell it by itself.

Southeast Fruit Industry has obtained a total quota for planting 1000 acres of durian and 3000 acres of banana.

The shares obtained by other whistleblowers are all exclusive acquisition shares of Hailufeng Company and cannot be used for self-production and sales.

Seeing this kind of reward, many people became jealous.

The employees within Hailufeng Company have also become more cautious, and many employees who had various ulterior motives have given up the idea of ​​taking risks.

After all, in the current situation, if the company discovers any illegal operations, not only the employees will be in trouble, but the partner who obtained benefits through illegal means will also be affected.

In addition, there are rewards for reporting, and there is a risk of being blacklisted if not reporting. It is estimated that most of the collaborators who come into contact with such things will choose to report secretly.

...

Jiang Miao didn't pay too much attention to this matter. After all, the company had a handling mechanism, and he just needed to focus on grasping the key information.

He took time out these few days to conduct a secret investigation, and then handed the materials to the company's supervisory department through "a friend".

Then determine the general direction of the process.

There is no need to worry too much about other things.

However, this incident also inspired the Ministry of Supervision.

5 month 28 day.

Early in the morning, during breakfast time.

Li Haoran, the head of the Supervision Department, reported the results to Jiang Miao, and then he proposed:
"Boss! There are still some loopholes when relying solely on internal supervisory personnel for supervision. For example, this time, it was because the local employees colluded with the local bosses that the supervisory personnel were unable to discover the problem."

Jiang Miao put down his chopsticks: "What do you think?"

"My idea is to set up a new office, pretending to be a cooperative enterprise, cooperative farmers, consumers, etc., and contact various departments of the company. In this way, we can see if the people in these departments have violated any regulations."

Jiang Miao thought about Li Haoran's proposal for a while, then nodded:

"Okay, go ahead and implement it! Considering that there are too many people in the head office and other branches, you can set up training centers in Yangcheng, Shanghai, and Tianjin Port, which are completely independent of other departments. The relationship backgrounds of the personnel must be investigated clearly, and it is best not to have any relationship with the personnel in other departments of the company."

"Yes, I will implement it as soon as possible." Li Haoran wrote down these instructions.

After breakfast, Jiang Miao held a video conference with other executives.

He plans to increase the rotation of management teams across regions and will no longer allow middle-level managers to work in their hometowns.

From now on, middle and senior managers of local branches will be given two choices: either continue to do grassroots work or get promoted to another location.

This is also one of the key issues exposed in this Qiongzhou durian quota incident, that is, many middle-level managers have many relatives in the local area, which led to them being dragged into the incident.

Faced with this culture of personal connections, the only way to suppress it is to appoint someone to a new position in another place.

After all, if a middle-level employee who deals with local business on a daily basis is a local, his relatives and friends will definitely have some concerns.

If you are a principled person, then there won't be much of a problem.

However, if they are less principled and are seriously influenced by their parents at home, they may not be able to resist their parents' "earnest persuasion" and agree to help their relatives and friends.

In this incident, nine employees were dragged into the water by their parents and relatives and friends. Therefore, Jiang Miao made up his mind to strictly promote the appointment of middle and upper-level managers to other places to get them out of the social circle in their hometown.

This is for the good of both the company and the employees, so that they don't succumb to the various requests and favors from their parents, relatives and friends, and end up in jail.

After arranging this matter, Jiang Miao asked all departments to make preparations and gradually complete the adjustments to the relocation positions before the end of the year.

Jiang Miao resumed his daily scientific research work.

However, he did not continue his breeding research these days.

Because the team led by Shuya has once again improved the process of sponge batteries.

In the laboratory.

Jiang Miao looked at a brand new sponge battery.

Shuya introduced the situation to him: "I discovered some defects in sponge batteries a few months ago, and have been working on improvements over the past few months. This is one of the two results of these months."

"It's a problem of uneven structure!" In fact, Jiang Miao had known it for a long time, but he didn't remind him. After all, the sponge battery was enough at this stage.

Shuya looked at him speechlessly: "Yes, it seems that you have discovered it a long time ago."

"What's going on now?"

"Due to the influence of the earth's gravity, the first generation of sponge batteries repeatedly generated sponge structures, and the sponge batteries at the bottom became dense and chaotic, resulting in a decrease in power storage and affecting the number of cycles."

This is the case with the sponge structure of the sponge battery, which needs to be generated by three stacking steps to ensure that the energy density meets the standard.

The previous processing technology was to first crush the sponge structure generated by the first generation, and then add it to the culture solution generated by the second generation. By repeating the operation twice, a sponge battery cell with an energy density of 400 kilowatt-hours per cubic meter could be obtained.

However, this process has a fatal flaw, that is, the sponge-structured powder will quickly be affected by the earth's gravitational potential energy when entering the culture solution, and will quickly settle at the bottom of the reaction vessel, resulting in an uneven sponge structure.

“How do you solve it?”

"I adjusted the particle size of the sponge powder and at the same time adjusted the process sequence..." Shuya introduced the improved process to him in detail.

The new process adopts a three-in-one method.

The crushed particle size of the sponge structure is controlled to a very precise size, which can just pass through the fine pores of the sponge structure but is not easy to fall out.

Then the sponge structure powder is placed into a complete primary sponge structure, and the powder is fully distributed in the sponge structure through homogenous vibration treatment.

Finally, by injecting nutrient solution, a secondary structure is generated, and the newly generated structure will fuse the sponge powder and the complete sponge structure together.

Production time was shortened, the internal structure was more uniform, and the number of defective parts was reduced by 90%.

“What changes have there been in performance?”

"The storage density has increased to 623 degrees per cubic meter, the maximum discharge density has reached 607 kilowatt-hours per cubic meter, and the average discharge density can reach 602 kilowatt-hours per cubic meter."

Shuya continued, "The maximum charging and discharging power reaches 112 kilowatts. The most critical number of cycles is that if it is extreme charging and discharging, that is, long-term charging and discharging power reaches more than 100 kilowatts, it can still only maintain 500 to 600 cycles."

“如果放电充电功率在80到100千瓦之间，则可以循环600到800次；如果功率在60到80千瓦，则可以循环800到1000次；如果功率低于60千瓦，循环次数可以达到1500次左右。”

Jiang Miao was quite surprised by this result: "Not bad, but there is no need to launch this technology in a short time. Let's update it in a few years! We can make technical reserves first."

"I know." Shuya knew that the performance of the first generation of sponge batteries was sufficient and there was no need to rush to launch the second generation product.

"What about the other result?"

"Didn't you cultivate rubber grass before? How is it now?"

"Why do you ask this?" Jiang Miao talked about the situation of rubber grass: "According to the harvesting situation of the experimental field, the best performing variety can produce 4300 kilograms of rubber grass root tubers per mu. The rubber content of the root tubers is about 16.7%, and the rubber produced is 718 kilograms."

"Where's the inulin?"

"Inulin? This stuff contains quite a lot of sugar. The sugar content of rubber grass root is about 3.9%, and the sugar content of leaf stem is about 1.2%. One acre can produce 200 kilograms of inulin."

Shuya took out another document: "You will know after you take a look."

Jiang Miao took it and took a look. He soon knew what the other technology was and why Shu Ya specifically asked him about inulin.

This technology is another variation of microbial fuel cells.

Compared with using cow dung, sheep dung and straw as biofuel, this technology directly uses more direct raw materials: sugar and protein powder.

Shuya knew that the company would most likely have overcapacity in protein powder and sugar in the future.

Especially the tea seed cake protein and inulin.

The cost of extracting protein from tea seed cake is higher than that from soybean meal, because tea seed cake contains a large amount of saponins, which are toxic to aquaculture and livestock farming. It cannot be directly processed into feed protein and must be refined. The cost is definitely higher than that of plant protein extracted from soybean meal.

However, the application range of inulin is very limited. At present, it is only used in low-sugar foods. This is because humans cannot digest inulin directly. It is fermented and decomposed by intestinal microorganisms, and the energy absorbed by the human body is only equivalent to between 10% and 30% of sucrose.

Therefore, inulin is used as an additive and auxiliary material in health foods to enhance the low-sugar properties of foods and increase dietary fiber.

Obviously, this characteristic of inulin makes it difficult to be widely used like sucrose.

Once the Mo Nan branch starts to plant rubber grass on a large scale, the millions of acres of rubber grass can produce at least hundreds of thousands of tons of inulin every year. The country cannot digest so much inulin production capacity at once, and it cannot be used as feed, so it can only be sent as biofuel for microbial fuel cells.

Therefore, Shuya has been studying how to use these raw materials to develop a more special microbial fuel cell in the past few months.

Now she succeeded.

"Is this the high-energy fuel cell you are researching?" Jiang Miao put down the documents and looked at another box in the laboratory.

Shuya smiled and said: "I use 15% inulin, 6% tea seed protein, 18% tea seed cake residue and straw powder, 60% water, 1% inorganic salts and trace elements, which can bring the power generation per cubic meter to a new level."

According to the experimental report provided by Shuya just now.

Currently, this variant of microbial fuel cell can generate an astonishing 621 kilowatt-hours of electricity per cubic meter, with a stable power generation capacity of 3982 watts and a stable power generation time of about 156 hours.

This battery is designed specifically to consume inulin and tea seed protein.

Of course, if that were all, this technology would not be worth mentioning. After all, no matter how cheap inulin is, the market price of one ton is at least half of that of sucrose, which is about 3000 yuan per ton.

Such a cubic meter of biofuel requires 225 kilograms of inulin to generate 621 kilowatt-hours of electricity, which is obviously extremely uneconomical.

That’s what really makes this technology valuable.

In fact, Shuya adds yeast to carry out joint fermentation, which allows inulin to be decomposed by electric bacteria and then quickly fermented into alcohol by yeast.

Inulin, tea seed cake cellulose, straw cellulose, etc. can be fermented together to produce about 144 kilograms of alcohol.

At present, the market price of industrial alcohol or edible alcohol fermented from cassava is about 5000 yuan per ton, and 144 kilograms of alcohol is worth 720 yuan.

While generating electricity, it also produced 144 kilograms of alcohol and about 100 kilograms of organic fertilizer.

This business can still be done.

Alcohol has more uses than inulin. Even if it is not used as food, it can also be used as gasoline.

Following biodiesel, Hailufeng Company plans to add an ethanol gasoline business.

After all, at least hundreds of thousands of tons of inulin are produced every year, and these things must be sold somehow. Selling them directly would collapse the market, so the only way is to find another way, producing alcohol through fermentation and selling derivative products to make money.

(End of this chapter)