Chapter 317 Unintentional intervention

Chapter 317 Unintentional intervention

Chapter 317 Unintentional intervention
Although Jiang Miao and his wife have been focusing on cultivating rice, wheat, corn, millet, sorghum and other grass crops that are resistant to leaf blight for more than six months.

But the two still took out a week every month to work on some other projects.

For example, bamboo is a relatively unique plant in the Poaceae family.

Bamboo, sugarcane and reed, three grasses with relatively high lignin content, are among the few grasses that can resist leaf blight.

The potential of sugarcane has been developed to the extreme by Jiang Miao, and wood sugarcane is his masterpiece.

As for reeds and bamboo, Jiang Miao has not yet conducted in-depth research and cultivation.

Although bamboo is mainly used in China as building material, wood, kitchen utensils and tableware, its bamboo shoots also have edible value.

But Jiang Miao feels that at this stage, global agricultural breeders have not yet fully explored the potential of bamboo.

In fact, many people have overlooked one thing, that is, bamboo will also bloom and bear fruit, and its fruit, namely bamboo rice, is also edible.

It’s just that the flowering and fruiting of bamboo is rather special. For most bamboos, once they bloom and bear fruit, it means that the end of this bamboo is near.

Therefore, Jiang Miao’s idea is to cultivate new bamboo varieties through new breeding technologies. He plans to cultivate dual-purpose bamboo varieties.

To be more specific, you can use the bamboo poles of the bamboo itself, and you can also grow a large amount of bamboo rice. Even if the bamboo rice is unpalatable, it can be used as feed.

In fact, Hailufeng Company has a laboratory dedicated to bamboo research, but it is not located at the headquarters, but at the Gannan branch.

The Gannan branch has the technology to use bamboo fiber to mass-produce artificial wood. Currently, a large amount of artificial wood is produced every year, and these artificial woods have become the new favorite in the domestic solid wood market.

Although Europe and the United States have essentially abandoned their previous environmental protection slogans.

But Seris continues to promote environmental protection.

This is not only for the global community, but also for leaving a better living environment for future generations.

In addition, as the living standards of ordinary people in China continue to improve, people have gradually shifted from pursuing output to pursuing high quality.

No matter how much the manufacturers of synthetic boards boast, they cannot change one problem, which is that synthetic boards require the use of glue, which can easily release all kinds of toxic and harmful gas components.

As the concept of environmental protection has become more popular in recent years, various solid wood furniture and wrought iron furniture have become popular.

Now, the southern Jiangxi region has formed two very distinctive industries solely by planting oil tea and bamboo, namely the comprehensive development industry of oil tea seeds and the comprehensive development industry of bamboo materials and bamboo shoots.

Compared with new varieties of tea oil trees that require at least one or two years to plant, bamboo grows much faster and can basically mature into timber in one year, making it an excellent economic forest tree.

Therefore, Jiang Miao plans to continuously increase the edible properties of bamboo through continuous cultivation and improvement. Not only does he want to cultivate varieties that can be used for large-scale production of bamboo rice, but it would be best if he could also utilize the bamboo leaves.

In fact, bamboo leaves can also be used as feed, but they cannot be used alone because their nutritional components are not comprehensive and are only limited to ruminant cattle and sheep.

If we want to make full use of the feed function of bamboo leaves, we must further improve the nutritional content and palatability of bamboo leaves.

At present, the bamboo leaves of Gannan Branch are mainly crushed and used as raw materials for biofuel cells, and then fermented to produce biogas, and finally returned to the fields as organic fertilizer.

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After Jiang Miao met Lao Zhang, he returned home.

Shuya, who had just returned from the laboratory, was sitting on the sofa and playing with her daughter.

"came back?"

"Yeah, I just finished my work."

Shuya handed her daughter to her mother-in-law and poured him a glass of water.

After putting away his coat and shoes, he changed into slippers and washed his face in the bathroom at the door.

"Shuya, how far have you progressed with that project?"

Shuya shook her head: "It's still not ideal, but there is an unexpected discovery."

"Oh?" Jiang Miao sat down, leaned slightly on the soft sofa, and rubbed his temples: "What did you find?"

"Do you remember that there was a team in Jiangcheng that developed a project to produce human serum protein rice?"

"I know." Jiang Miao raised his brows slightly, then put down the cup: "What does this project have to do with your research?"

Shuya did not try to be mysterious and directly stated her discovery: "Although the fungus of the leaf blight can infect human serum protein rice, it cannot kill this type of rice after infection."

"Is that so? It seems that after this genetically modified rice was added with the human serum protein production gene, it inadvertently developed resistance to Graminoides australis." Jiang Miao touched his chin and expressed his opinion.

"That's right, but if that were all, I wouldn't have to mention it specifically." Shuya handed him a document from her briefcase: "You'll understand when you read it."

Jiang Miao took the document and looked through it carefully for a few minutes, with a hint of surprise in his eyes: "After being infected with the fungus, was the protein synthesis expression of the transgenic human serum protein rice disturbed in some way? These proteins synthesized a plant hormone that can inhibit the proliferation of the fungus?"

"Well, I named this hormone Qinghe hormone."

"This hormone..." Jiang Miao saw the latter part of the content, which described in detail the various studies on Qinghe hormone.

Including extraction, preservation, usage concentration, shelf life, toxic and side effects, etc.

"You saw the last chapter, Chapter 12. That's a special effect of Qinghe hormone that I discovered."

After Shuya's reminder, Jiang Miao quickly skimmed through the book until the twelfth chapter, when he slowed down.

Because the above content is a bit unexpected.

Although green hormone can inhibit the yellow fungus and prevent the outbreak of leaf blight in a short period of time, its effect in vitro is relatively poor. It must be sprayed at high concentrations and with very short intervals to suppress the outbreak of leaf blight.

However, only about 18 to 22 grams of green rice hormone can be extracted from every ton of genetically modified rice. The extraction cost is too high, and it is very uneconomical to use it as a pesticide.

This is another reason why Shuya discovered this thing more than two months ago but only brought it up today.

Because a few days ago, during an unintentional experiment, she discovered that this hormone had a previously unknown property, which is that it could produce special effects on animals.

The specific situation was that Shuya used mice as experimental animals. After injecting the mice with about 0.05 mg of Qinghe hormone, the mice fell asleep.

"At first, I thought the mice were poisoned, but later I found that this hormone has a very strong inhibitory effect on the activity of brain cells and neurons in vertebrates."

"At low doses, it can achieve the effect of falling asleep quickly without harming brain cells and neurons."

Jiang Miao carefully browsed through the above studies.

He saw that the mice in the high-dose control group did not die after being injected with the drug, but instead entered a state similar to hibernation.

That’s right, it’s a state similar to hibernation.

"Can it make mice hibernate?" Jiang Miao felt that this special effect was interesting. Shuya poured him a glass of water and said, "I think this kind of hibernation is because the hormone stimulates the hibernation-related genes of mice, so I want you to study it and see if it is true."

Jiang Miao nodded to Shuya's judgment: "It does look a bit like it. I will take some time to study this hormone next time."

"Okay, I'll sort out the information then."

Huang Qiuyue, the mother, complained unhappily: "Okay, you two are still talking about work when you get home, come over for dinner!"

Jiang Miao put down the documents and stood up embarrassedly: "I'm used to it, let's eat now!"

The family had a simple meal.

Just after dinner, the doorbell rang.

Ding Dong!Ding Dong!
The housekeeping aunt hurried to open the door.

"It's my uncle, please come in."

My father, who was watching TV, also stood up and put his arm around my uncle Huang Chunming's shoulders: "Brother Ming, what wind is blowing over here?"

"How do you keep in good shape?" Huang Chunming, who had a noticeable beer belly, looked envious at Jiang Dahai's muscular body.

"Haha, Brother Ming, if you don't drink and eat fatty meat all day, and exercise regularly, you can be like me."

"Uncle." Jiang Miao wiped his mouth, then came out holding his daughter: "Call me uncle."

"Great uncle."

"Xiaodou, you've grown up again."

Huang Qiuyue put down her bowl and chopsticks with a puzzled look on her face: "Brother, didn't you say you wanted to go to Chaozhou to see the tea plantation?"

"Oh, don't mention it." Huang Chunming shook his head helplessly. "I was planning to go to Chaozhou yesterday, but the high-speed train I booked had an accident. I planned to drive there myself, but the car broke down just after I got on the highway. I hurried back to Fengshan Mazu and got some holy cakes. They told me not to go out recently. I was just worried, so I came to sit with you guys."

After hearing this, Jiang Miao also subconsciously glanced at his uncle, then smiled and said: "Since you have failed to go out twice, you should stay in Shanmei for the time being!"

"A Miao, I have something to trouble you with." Huang Chunming said directly.

"Oh? What's the matter?" Jiang Miao poured a glass of Phoenix Dancong for his uncle and father.

Huang Chunming looked very disappointed. "It's because of your idiot cousin. He and some of his friends are planning to go to Southeast Asia to do business. I'm worried that he's been cheated. The money doesn't matter, but I'm worried about his safety. I want you to investigate the place he's going to."

"Cousin Tianhua?" Jiang Miao asked immediately, "What business did he go to Southeast Asia for?"

"It's said that we are going to Mindanao Island south of Luzon to develop gold mines. That doesn't sound reliable." Huang Chunming looked conflicted and worried.

"Mindanao? Gold mine?" Jiang Miao frowned. This place is not a good place because the locals have always been at odds with the Luzon officials, and there are many kidnappings, extortions, drug-related incidents, etc.

Even though Seres’ companies are now going overseas in large numbers, Mindanao is still a high-risk area.

Although Jiang Miao did not allow these relatives to join Hailufeng Company, he still provided some financial support, which totaled nearly 80 million over the past few years.

Among them, my uncle's family bought two street-side shops and a durian plantation for their family.

With these industries, even if my uncle's two sons just stay at home and wait for death, they can still live a life without worries about food and clothing.

But he did not expect that his eldest cousin Huang Tianhua would have the idea of ​​​​going overseas to start a business. It was not that he looked down on him, but he had lived in his uncle's house for a few years and knew that this eldest cousin was a man with great ambitions but little talent.

The other party had started a business before over the years, but after two attempts, he reduced the more than 2 million yuan that my uncle had saved with great difficulty to less than 800,000 yuan.

Now he is planning to open a gold mine in a high-risk area in Southeast Asia. Jiang Miao is worried that he will lose all his uncle's savings.

At the same time, Jiang Miao was also very troubled, and he sighed secretly: "Isn't it better to just stay at home and wait for death? Do you have to start a business? You have no idea of ​​your own ability. "

Dad suggested: "Ming brother, you let him manage the shop, so that Tianhua won't be worried all the time."

"Do you think I didn't let him manage the shop? That idiot threw the shop to his wife and spent all day bragging and drinking with those bad friends." Huang Chunming looked depressed.

My mother also looked worried: "Brother, why don't you stop giving Tianhua money? Otherwise, it will be too dangerous to start a business in Southeast Asia."

"Ah! I didn't give him any money, but he would go and borrow it."

"How about this! Uncle, after you go back, don't mention this matter for now. I'll have someone investigate the specific situation. If there is really a problem, I'll let the Luzon branch use local connections to teach them a lesson and let them know how sinister human nature is." Jiang Miao made such arrangements because he knew that his eldest cousin was a person who would not cry until he saw the coffin.

If you don't teach him a lesson, he will continue to commit suicide.

Huang Chunming also said angrily: "Okay, you can arrange it according to the situation. As long as no one is killed or disabled, and he suffers a little physical pain, I can accept it."

"Brother, where is Tianyu?"

"He is a law-abiding person. He now runs a clothing store on Sanma Road and his business is pretty good."

At this moment, Jiang Miao's cell phone rang. He looked at the number and then went up to the study on the second floor.

Press the answer button: "Hello, Lao Lu, what's going on?"

"Boss, there's something going on at the Mobei branch. I need to report to you. Are you free?"

"You say." Jiang Miao sat down.

"Here's what happened. We recently discovered some valuable mineral resources while digging a well on our farm in Mobei."

Jiang Miao had anticipated this: "Go on."

"We have discovered a coking coal reserve of about 4.6 million tons, a hematite reserve of about 5.3 million tons, and a copper mine of about 840 million tons. The copper mine also contains a certain amount of gold and silver."

Lv Weibin on the other end of the phone continued, "These are nothing. The most important thing is that we have discovered a huge potassium salt mine in the underground brine near a salt lake. It is located in the ancient Heihe River Valley in the vast Gobi Desert. According to preliminary estimates, there are about 30 billion tons of potassium salt reserves."

"so much?"

"Well, this is just the preliminary exploration result. We may make adjustments after a comprehensive exploration in the future. But, boss, do we need to develop this potash mine?"

Jiang Miao thought for a while, then ordered: "Okay, but there is no need to mine on a large scale, just build a small-scale production base."

"Ok."

If it were before, the country might have considered large-scale development of this potash mine.

Now that Southeast Asia has become Seres' core control area, the potash reserves in Siam, Lancang and Cambodia are increasing after comprehensive exploration. The current resource reserves have reached about 320 billion tons.

The population of Mobei is small, and now even if it relies solely on agriculture, it can still be rich. The mining industry should be left to the populous countries in Southeast Asia!

(End of this chapter)