Chapter 325 Vacation and Gel

Chapter 325 Vacation and Gel

Chapter 325 Vacation and Gel

In a small town near Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.

It is peaceful and tranquil here, with lush vegetation.

Jiang Miao and his group did not go to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain scenic area to join in the fun. After all, that kind of over-commercialized scenic area does not have any interesting projects to see or do.

This small town has only more than 8,000 residents. Hailufeng Company has built a special secret seed bank here, which is managed by the Southern Yunnan Branch.

The seed bank is hidden in a formerly abandoned third-line factory. After modernization, the abandoned factory in the mountainside has been transformed into a brand new high-tech seed bank.

Li Ou, the director of the seed bank management station, introduced the seed bank in front of Jiang Miao and his wife: "Boss, Boss Madam, this is one of the 12 seed banks built by our company in China, the Yulong Seed Bank."

The gate of the seed bank is embedded in the rock wall of the mountain. The thickness of the rock layer above it is several hundred meters. As long as it is not directly hit by a high-yield hydrogen bomb, it can rest assured.

"As I recall, seed banks all have scientific research departments, right?"

Hearing the boss' question, Li Ou nodded: "Yes, boss. Our Yulong Seed Bank has Yulong Farm and Yulong Breeding Station. Currently, there are 57 related scientific researchers."

This is also to make the best use of people's talents.

As a private enterprise, although Hailufeng Company is wealthy, it cannot waste manpower and material resources recklessly.

The seed bank project is a special strategic backup. Even if the government provides millions of subsidies every year, it is still a drop in the bucket for such a huge seed bank.

This is not only due to the maintenance costs of equipment and base facilities, but also the salaries and benefits of the personnel stationed there.

There are specific educational requirements, and even gender and age requirements for employees who can work in the seed bank.

That’s right, even age and gender have special requirements.

This seed bank is only called a seed bank in name. In fact, the functions of the entire base are very comprehensive. In extreme cases, it can be used as a doomsday base.

In addition to storing the seeds and cultivable tissues of most of the world's plants, it also stores the eggs of insects such as bees, crickets, and mealworms.

Therefore, all employees stationed here must pass a specific protein allergy test, that is, to ensure that they are not allergic to most edible insects.

After all, if a doomsday crisis really happens one day, the base can only supplement animal protein and fat by cultivating edible insects, which requires that the employees here must not be allergic to these insects.

In addition, there are microbial power generation systems and technologies, simple mechanical machine tools and manufacturing technologies, medical equipment and drug production technologies, etc.

Basically, most of humanity’s basic technologies and equipment are stored here.

Therefore, the employees working here are all professionals in agriculture, machinery, chemistry, biology, and metallurgy.

The ages of these people are between 24 and 32, half are of each gender, the total number is 200, and they are not related by blood.

The 12 secret seed vaults of Hailufeng Company in China are all configured in this way.

This type of seed bank also has another function, which is a sanatorium for pregnant women.

When female employees of the Southern Yunnan Branch become pregnant, they can directly apply to come here to work and give birth, which is actually equivalent to paid leave.

After all, there is really not much work to do at the seed bank.

This is also to ensure the sustainable development of the hospital within the seed bank, especially the gynecology department of the seed bank hospital, which has a total of about 10 people, plus 20 other medical staff. The entire medical system accounts for 15% of the staff here.

Therefore, many female employees choose to go to the nearby seed bank hospital for recuperation after becoming pregnant.

In this way, on the one hand, these medical staff are provided with a lot of experience; on the other hand, it also provides great benefits to the employees' families.

Jiang Miao and his group were in front of the gate of the seed bank, and on the small hill on the left was the maternity sanatorium open to the public.

“…Currently, there are 47 pregnant women waiting to give birth in the sanatorium, and another 13 female employees who have just given birth and are still recuperating in the sanatorium.” Li Ou continued to introduce to the two.

The maternity leave at Hailufeng Company is 15 months, calculated from the start of pregnancy, and you can apply for 15 months of paid maternity leave.

Generally speaking, female employees like to apply for maternity leave starting from the third month of pregnancy, because this is the most cost-effective time to apply and they can rest for about eight months after giving birth.

Shuya thought about it and said, "A Miao, I'll go to the nursing home to visit the employees!"

"Okay." Jiang Miao turned his head and looked at Li Ou: "Stationmaster Li, please arrange it."

"No problem." Li Ou quickly called his deputy and hospital director Wang Liyun over.

After a while, Wang Liyun, wearing a white coat, hurried over.

"Boss, Madam Boss..."

"Director Wang, my wife wants to visit the staff of the nursing home. Please make arrangements."

"Okay, Madam Boss, please follow me."

Led by Wang Liyun, Shuya and others went to the sanatorium.

Jiang Miaoze, Li Ou and others entered the seed vault.

Passing through layers of heavy iron doors.

Everyone came to the interior of the mountain where the temperature and humidity were constant. The first area they entered was a long corridor with large iron gates on both sides.

He took a look at the base's spatial structure diagram embedded in the rock wall of the corridor.

The entire base is divided into three floors, they are now on the first floor, and there are two more floors below.

Moreover, this base has not just one entrance and exit, but three entrances and exits on each floor: a main entrance, a backup main entrance, and a hidden small entrance.

Walking along the corridor, many facilities of the base seem somewhat retro.

To be precise, it is not retro, but it has to be retro for the sake of durability.

Many intelligent management systems that are commonly used outside are less used here. This is mainly because the more sophisticated the equipment, the greater the probability of failure. In addition, modern industrial products need to consider planned scrapping, so their product life is often not too long.

Therefore, many things here are custom products that are not produced outside.

After all, the purpose of building this base is to take into account future crises, so we naturally cannot use planned scrapping products on the market.

Even if it is a specially customized product, the reserve materials and equipment in the base must be replaced regularly to ensure that the reserve items are within a usable lifespan. Of course, updating inventory items at any time is also to keep up with the times.

After all, domestic technology is developing rapidly. For example, the Qinghe hormone discovered by Shuya before has entered the comprehensive research stage, and its main research direction is human hibernation technology.

Another laboratory is researching biological hibernation chamber technology, hoping to use genetic modification technology and genetic engineering to transform towering trees that can highly adapt to harsh environments. These trees can then be transformed into biological hibernation chambers, and combined with green hormones, humans can hibernate for a long time inside the trees.

The purpose of developing this self-sustaining biological hibernation capsule is to avoid the complex and delicate electronic systems of traditional hibernation capsules.

After all, as a hibernation capsule, the first requirement is to ensure long-term stable operation while meeting low maintenance requirements.

If humans really have to enter a hibernation capsule, it is probably because they either have physical problems, or the Earth's environment is no longer suitable for human survival, or they need to conduct long-term interstellar travel in outer space.

Among these three possibilities, if the first possibility is not a big problem, if there is a problem with the body, it is most likely a terminal illness that cannot be cured in a short period of time, or facing death from old age. In this case, there must be other humans who can maintain the hibernation capsule.

But if it is the latter two possibilities, then it will be troublesome.

At this stage, the biological hibernation chamber will definitely not be put into use, so there is no need to consider the first possibility.

After all, human beings have not really encountered a doomsday crisis, nor have they entered a true cosmic era.

However, there is actually not much internal demand for developing hibernation capsule technology to avoid death from old age, and it also faces ethical issues.

The cryonics technology that was popular more than a decade ago has now been widely proven to be a scam. The bodies of many subjects who underwent cryonics are no longer recoverable.

Those PPT scientific research teams in Europe and the United States have come up with many new projects, but Jiang Miao can see at a glance that these projects are just scams.

In fact, many people's idea of ​​extending their lifespan through cryonics technology is basically wishful thinking.

The reason why these projects are difficult to succeed is not just because the technology is unreliable, but also because of the sustainability and maintenance difficulty of the projects.

You know, once the human body enters the frozen state, it cannot be thawed at will. So how can the subjects guarantee that the company that takes over the business will honestly follow the contract?
Well, even if this enterprise implements the contract honestly, how can we guarantee that the enterprise can "live a long life"?
If the company goes bankrupt midway, what will happen to these frozen subjects?

The end result is that they are like garbage, completely forgotten and abandoned by the whole society.

Even a country will eventually perish, let alone those companies that rely on hype concepts.

Unless the biological hibernation chamber envisioned by Jiang Miao is developed, which can work stably for a long time under low maintenance conditions, it will be possible for human hibernation to enter the stage of widespread application.

Took a walk around the base.

Jiang Miao came out from another exit and saw a small valley in front of him. Except for a small gap on the south side that was passable, the rest of the valley was surrounded by towering mountains several hundred meters high.

"Boss, this is the gel tree you cultivated last year." Li Ou said as he patted the pine tree next to him.

This small valley is full of pine trees, but these are not ordinary pine trees. Instead, they are new genetically modified gelatin trees grafted onto ordinary pine trees as rootstocks.

The gel tree is a genetically modified variety of pine tree, which can also secrete glue. However, the glue of ordinary pine trees is different. After the glue of the gel tree solidifies, it can be melted by high temperature. After adding clay powder and water, it can become a high-viscosity biological glue.

However, this melting and re-sticking property can only occur once. Once it solidifies again, the gel will no longer be able to regain its viscosity.

This biological glue is non-toxic. If hay, mud, and pebbles are used as aggregates and a certain amount of gel glue is added, it can achieve a strength similar to that of special cement.

In addition, if the glue is added with sawdust and wood powder, it can be pressed into high-strength synthetic boards, replacing toxic and harmful artificial synthetic glues.

Each acre of gelatin tree can yield about 1.7 tons to 2.4 tons of glue per year. After dehydration, about 0.85 tons to 1.2 tons of dry glue blocks can be obtained.

Gel tree is currently being promoted and planted on a small scale in various regions of the country.

The reason why Yulong Seed Bank has this kind of thing is mainly because the gel tree is a very good plant for producing infrastructure materials. The gel dry glue it produces can complete the construction of many engineering projects without steel bars and cement.

Therefore, a lot of gelatin trees are planted near each seed bank.

However, the economic value of the gelatin tree also makes it a very good cash crop.

The market price of each ton of gel trunk glue is about 1.2 yuan. After adding water and other ingredients, one ton of dry glue can produce about 3 tons of glue, which is about yuan per ton of glue.

Its performance is much better than the urea-formaldehyde glue commonly used in synthetic boards, and it does not release harmful ingredients such as formaldehyde. The price cost of both is about the same, more than 4,000 yuan per ton.

Therefore, many domestic board manufacturers now use gel gum instead of urea-formaldehyde glue.

Gel glue has another major use, which is to fill cracks in concrete structures. For example, when cracks appear on the ceilings of many houses, the gaps can be quickly repaired by using a sealant based on gel glue.

In addition, this gum can also be used as a waterproof coating for the floor. By directly pouring a layer of adjusted glue on the concrete foundation, a high-strength integrated floor similar to epoxy resin can be formed, which can not only achieve a waterproof effect, but also improve the overall strength of the building.

If you feel that the floor built by the real estate developer is not solid, you can lay an extra layer of steel bars and pour thicker glue before pouring the mixed glue to form a new layer of high-strength floor.

This stuff is cheap and easy to use. It is also an agricultural and sideline product of crop production. The prepared glue can also be produced in small workshops. It has a wide range of uses and is indeed a very good doomsday building material.

In Japan, where wood consumption is relatively high, several local construction companies are already investigating synthetic boards made from gel gum.

However, the gelatin tree is still a specialty crop with restricted export in China. Even in Japan, which has joined the Asian Union, it still does not have the qualifications to plant it. The companies there do not have any expectations in this regard. They only hope that the companies in Seris can quickly complete the research and development of the new technology so that they can get the new material.

After all, most of Japan's synthetic boards were imported from North America or Serbia. The synthetic boards they imported were more expensive because they used more stringent environmentally friendly glue.

Because environmentally friendly glue costs about 30,000 yuan per ton, while non-environmentally friendly urea-formaldehyde glue costs more than 4,000 yuan per ton, the price difference between the two is very obvious.

Since there is cheaper, environmentally friendly and better quality glue, they naturally hope to use this new glue.

At present, the Northeast Forest Farm and Southeast Hills in China are two relatively large gelatin tree planting areas, while other areas have sporadic plantings.

Jiang Miao did not stop. After all, he was the one who cultivated this thing, and he knew the specific situation better than anyone else.

Go back to the exit on the other side.

He saw Shuya who had been waiting for a long time.

"How's the situation at the sanatorium?"

"Fortunately, I chatted with a few female employees and they were satisfied with the nursing home's services, but it was not very convenient sometimes because their families were not around."

Jiang Miao shook his head: "There are pros and cons. Since you have chosen the company's benefits, you have to accept the reality."

(End of this chapter)