Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 157: Harvest Follow-up, Sany Blended Oil

In 99, foreign exchange was a very important thing.

It can introduce technology, talents, equipment and promote the development of a country.

under such circumstances.

Even though the East knows ADM's evil ambitions, it will inevitably relax a bit when faced with more important bargaining chips.

For example, the East introduced anti-aircraft artillery technology from Switzerland.

In exchange, ADM-controlled Wilmar International, using its investment in Eastern Yihai Kerry, imported 500 million tons of conventional soybeans from ADM.

The transaction price was US$85 per ton, equivalent to RMB 0.35 per catty.

This is why ADM soybean oil is cheap.

However, the cost for Sanyuan Agriculture to repurchase Sany soybeans was 1.25 yuan per catty.

Of course, the 50 billion blue giant bills spent on buying back soybeans were part of the 28 billion U.S. dollars in rewards from Mrs. Smith.

The actual cost of your own home is equal to 0.

Including the second repurchase cost, it is also 0.

There will even be an extra 131 billion blue giant banknotes, so the main road will be built for Shiliying.

But now that I have money, I have to spend it frugally.

Therefore, Yuyang strictly implemented the plan of "Sany soybean oil occupies the high-end market", resolutely refused to lower the price, and always maintained it at 5 yuan per liter.

Because it’s strategic.

“The question is how to get ADM to lower its prices and widen the gap in brand image between the two companies.”

Yu Yang thought of the 800 million acres of soybeans he had just repurchased.

What Mrs. Smith is most looking forward to now should be the price war.

The other party sells at a low price, and you sell at a low price at a loss. Both sides compete for the market and eventually exhaust your own company.

"As you wish, my dear lady."

Yu Yang decided to carry out a round of 'false propaganda'.

That is, 'there is a price but no demand'.

Sany Soybean Oil Factory is about to launch a 'blended oil' which has some of the characteristics of Sany soybean oil and can be used to make stir-fries and stews with a strong bean flavor. It is now sold for only 2 yuan per liter.

It is 50 cents cheaper than ADM soybean oil.

But in fact, the company does not have this kind of "blended oil" and will not supply this kind of "blended oil". It is just simply advertising and promoting Sany soybean oil to deepen consumers' impression of the high-end nature of Sany soybean oil.

Yu Yang picked up his pen and wrote down the plan. After perfecting it, he found the phone number of Oriental Channel 1 through Tai City TV Station.

"2 million blue Great Man notes to buy the advertising space for your hourly time announcement sponsors, as well as the advertising space before and after the news broadcast, for two weeks."

"Who are you?"

"Ask your person in charge to check with his superiors. I'm Yu Yang."

After a while.

The call came back, "Sorry, our leaders reported to their superiors that no one knew Yu Yang."

"I am Yu Sanyuan, Yu Sanyuan from Shiliying."

A little bit.

The advertising space was successfully secured.

"Spending money to pave the way is really cool!"

Yu Yang contacted the Publicity Department and asked them to design a "Sany Blended Oil" advertisement based on his own ideas that would meet the requirements of Oriental Channel 1.

At this time.

The factory secretary delivered several important documents.

"Mr. Yu, ADM's fourth quarter orders."

“Four million tons of ink, one million tons of pigment?”

"Yes, this time we settled the other half of the third quarter's raw material balance, 30 billion US dollars, and also paid half of the fourth quarter's raw material advance payment of 42 billion US dollars."

Yu Yang didn’t deduct much from the advance payment and final payment for raw materials.

First, continued large-scale acquisitions have caused a sharp increase in the prices of plant raw materials, and even the supply price of Chinese herbal medicines has doubled.

Second, ADM has an accounting firm in the East that does very strict auditing and does not tolerate fraud.

Third, the company gave up profits to the vegetable vendors who helped purchase raw materials, that is, the vegetable vendor subsidiaries under the trade hall.

So, in the second quarter, the third quarter, and even the fourth quarter, we didn’t take a penny.

But Yu Yang was very clear.

The soybean oil war has begun and Mrs. Smith's big plan has been launched. ADM will inevitably default in the fourth quarter, refuse to pay the additional US$42 billion balance, and no longer give itself orders in the first quarter of 00.

But what is supplied must be supplied.

Because we cannot breach the contract, otherwise the two parties will go to court and we will suffer losses.

Yu Yang picked up the copy and looked at it carefully.

When I saw the purchase price of ink raw materials, I was slightly stunned.

The raw material of ink is 'vegetable oil', of which soybean oil accounts for 90%.

The supply price of this "vegetable oil" must be the cost price of Sany soybean oil, which is 5 yuan per liter.

Yu Yang thought about this, took out a cigarette, and was about to light it, but he was too excited and couldn't hold it steady.

The factory secretary asked worriedly, "Director Yu?"

"Don't talk, I'll sort out my thoughts."

The 'vegetable oil' of ink certainly has certain requirements for properties, but in the dock identification, it belongs to building materials.

Therefore, it is feasible to buy back ADM at 2.5 yuan/liter, or even lower due to price wars, and throw it into the dock to be refined into ink raw materials.

In this way, the family saves half of the raw material purchasing costs.

But we cannot tell ADM that what we buy is King Arowana, we still have to say it is 'Sany Soybean Oil'.

As for the lack of bean flavor...

As for the ink, it cannot be eaten and has no "bean flavor", which shows that the company's own refining technology is more advanced.

Therefore, at least US$42 billion can be deducted from the US$15 billion advance payment.

(It costs money to buy the golden arowana, and the cost of the pigment cannot be deducted)

Yu Yang lay back in the leather seat and said, "Allocate funds. When the price of Golden Arowana drops to 2 yuan per liter, let the vegetable vendors buy as much as they can. The upper limit is 300 million tons."

"Mr. Yu, should we buy it back and repackage it before selling it?"

"Am I that stupid?"

"..."

"Ask less, watch more, do more, and you will understand later."

"Okay, Mr. Yu, would you like to take a look at these documents?"

Yu Yang put down ADM's fourth quarter order and picked up the paper underneath.

The rush to harvest Sany soybeans caused a lot of trouble.

Even though the Zhongyuan prefecture-level city covered up the fact that the Xiaoqing River's giant sluice gates were opened, with the excuse that "the water level of Pingdong Lake has been dropping for half a year and is currently unable to meet the irrigation needs of surrounding areas, so the sluice gates must be opened to release water."

Even if the Dongshan Meteorological Agency took the blame.

Even though the boss obtained domestic airworthiness certificates and agricultural routes for the two Y8s used for artificial rainfall.

But the nature of the matter made his superiors very dissatisfied.

Or, you do have a lot of reasons and can explain everything, but you did it wrong. If other places follow suit, will your superiors still be superiors in the future?

As the instigator, Comrade Yu Yang spoke first.

Then came the Central Plains cities...

Perhaps soon, Taishi, Jishui, Liaoshi, Puyang and Laigang City will all have new general managers.

"Let's change it. Our family just happens to be short of management."

Yu Yang didn't need to say anything to his superiors, because everyone understood who Sanyuan Agriculture was facing.

Under such circumstances, who can manage 800 million acres of soybeans without any problems?
There is no one at all!
Fortunately, I have three yuan left.

Yu Yang held a cigarette in his mouth and walked to the French window. "Oh, it's raining?"

The factory secretary said, "The harvested soybeans have been protected from rain and water with the help of plastic sheets. According to the information provided by the meteorological agency, it will rain for at most three days."

"Is it really raining?"

"It's been a heavy rain. I heard that the Wei River in Weicheng has overflowed."

"Is there a big flood?"

"Well, the cities have been flooded."

"Draw materials used in flood control drills to support Weicheng."

……

It’s hard for Yu Yang to say whether he is a jinx or not.

Because Weicheng is indeed facing severe natural disasters.

Not only Zhucheng, Changyi, Gaomi, and Qingzhou, but even Shouguang was flooded.

It can be said that the 'waist of the road' leading to Jiaozhou Peninsula is full of storms and raging floods.

Even seawater flowed into Changyi along the Wei River under the influence of Typhoon No. 7...

Fortunately, Dongshan likes to build roads.

Countless flood relief supplies arrived in Weicheng as soon as possible along the Jiqing Expressway.

At the same time, the restarted Tailai Railway was connected with the Jiaozhou Railway thanks to the overtime work of Sanyuan Construction Group. Hundreds of Harmony, Enterprise and Pioneer trains loaded with flood-fighting supplies crossed Yishui one after another and headed for Shouguang, Qingzhou and Zhucheng.

……

8 month 13 number.

The storm in Shiliying had stopped long ago.

But the storm in Weicheng lasted for a week and there was still no sign of stopping.

Because Typhoon No. 7 has not yet turned towards the Japanese islands.

During this week, the rainfall in Weicheng has exceeded the highest level in nearly a hundred years.

However, this world is too big.

Not many people pay attention to this little corner.

Ten-mile Camp.

Sany Soybean Oil Factory Sales Company.

Yu Yang didn't pay much attention to Weicheng, because he had done everything he could and could only hope that man would conquer nature.

Its focus now is on the soybean oil price war.

After a week of promotion, Sany blended oil has become popular among the people.

It has to be said that these days, the influence of Oriental TV 1 is truly unmatched by any other TV station.

Unfortunately, out of stock.

But no one doubts that there is a moron who spent 2 million blue giant banknotes to run "false advertising" on Oriental Channel 1.

Therefore, all edible oils under ADM have seen a sharp drop in price.

The effect is indeed very good. Golden Dragon Fish sold 60 tons in a week, and Orchid's peanut oil also sold 5 tons. In addition, some rapeseed oil and blended oil flowed into the market.

"1.8 yuan per liter... Madam, can you lower it further?"

Yu Yang contacted the Publicity Department and asked them to adjust the advertisements for Oriental Channel 1 for the following week to buy 6 liters and get 1 liter free.

That is, hang two mineral water bottles on the handle of a large plastic bucket.

Wait until you finish these.

It began to study how Sany soybean oil could be downward compatible and capture the mid-range market.

This problem is not easy to solve.

Because the price cannot be reduced.

Yu Yang thought hard for a long time without any result, then he stood up and left the office to get some fresh air.

“It’s time to form a think tank.”

"At least you can make a suggestion."

"But where can we find trustworthy people, especially when we are fighting against capital."

Yu Yang pondered over it and took the elevator to the sentry tower on top of the brick kiln chimney.

His superiors haven't bothered him recently and seem to have forgotten about the rush to harvest.

So good.

And without any interference from higher authorities, Shiliying did a good job of settling the "refugees" in Xiaoqing River and assigned them a series of jobs related to planting, breeding, and construction.

Among them, the soybean oil factory has achieved a daily output of 50 tons with the complement of a large amount of manual labor and automated equipment. It has 360 production lines and an annual output of million tons.

In addition, the "M"-shaped plastic greenhouse planting area has completed its outward expansion plan, expanding the planting area tenfold to have 10 steel-structured plastic greenhouses.

If the planting areas on the west bank of Pingdong Lake and Jiuxian Township are included, the total number of plastic greenhouses of Sanyuan Agriculture will exceed 10.

Correspondingly, with the help of automated packaging lines, shipments of vegetables, fruits and melons have increased tenfold.

If the shipments of soybean oil, seeds, precast concrete structures and steel structure materials are included, Sanyuan Agriculture's daily turnover exceeds 10 billion yuan.

It can be considered as a large enterprise.

Yu Yang held up a cannon-shaped telescope, looked around the factory, and then returned to the ground.

After the trade hall was put into use, the brick kiln office area was no longer so busy.

There are only various packaged vegetable gift packages, fruit gift packages, semi-finished vegetable gift packages, hot pot gift packages, as well as newly launched bean product gift packages, frozen seafood gift packages, etc., which are sent to all directions via the factory’s in-house tracks.

Yu Yang was planning to return to the office when he saw the semi-finished vegetable packages on the flatbed rail car and an idea suddenly came to his mind.

He suddenly had an idea to change the current situation of the edible oil market.

It's just that this idea is a little vague...

"Package Sany soybean oil into plastic bags and sell it together with semi-finished vegetables like a seasoning."

"In this way, the shelf life of soybean oil is extended, and people do not need to buy cooking oil specifically anymore."

“The problem is, not everyone eats semi-processed vegetables.”

“There is also a sizeable portion of people who buy regular vegetables.”

"So, how can we make people who buy regular vegetables recognize the 'Sany Soybean Oil' in the form of seasoning packets and be willing to buy it?"

"Plastic bags are scattered all over the place, which is obviously not as convenient as oil drums. Especially when frying, you can't remove them one by one."

"But this method can indeed change the edible oil market."

"If handled properly, it could even take ADM's grain and oil companies in the East two years to recover."

(End of this chapter)