Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 98 Soybeans in Hand
After the deputy chief steward of Jishui left.

The Jishui chief steward exhaled a long breath of alcohol, suppressed the churning in his stomach, lay back in his chair, closed his eyes and thought.

These days, life is very tight in every region.

It can even be said that they have to tighten their belts to make ends meet.

Even though the Jishui River ranks sixth among the rivers in Dongshan, expenditures in all aspects must be carefully calculated.

It is indeed incredible that 10 billion yuan is being invested in the tourism industry in one go.

But it’s like Yu Yang who starts talking after drinking Moutai.

"Leader, do you think we can make money by hosting the Olympics?"

"This……"

"Building so many venues, creating so many supporting facilities, and repairing so many roads and bridges, I would say that nine out of ten times, we won't make any money, and we may even lose money."

"..."

"Why do countries around the world rush to host the Olympics? Because it allows the world to know you, understand you, and then come to you and see you as you are now.

This sounds like it would be of no use.

But think about it, there are many differences between the East and the West.

A foreigner came and he brought stockings with him. Then he found out that Oriental people don’t wear stockings. What’s that?
This is a business opportunity, this is the market, so the foreigners decided to produce a batch of stockings and sell them to us.

But foreigners found that in their country, they have to pay 20 US dollars, about 160 yuan, a day to recruit a worker, while here, they only have to pay 16 yuan a day.

Moreover, the cost of factory construction and raw material costs are almost one-tenth of that in their country.

This is both the price difference and the profit.

So, foreigners built a factory here.

So change your thinking.

We are not hosting the Olympics. If you go out to attract foreign investors to produce and sell stockings in our country, will they be willing to do it?
Therefore, the Olympic Games is a grand event for business promotion and investment attraction.

By the same token, it is difficult to make money in the tourism industry.

But it can let the outside world know us, understand us, and even come here and like us.

What should we do at this time?
Transform!

Convert wealthy tourists into 'local investors'.

or encourage them to buy houses here,
Or encourage them to open a company here,

Or encourage them to invest in various industries here.

The problem is coming.

How to convert?

There is a word "lead" in "attracting investment", and what we need to do is to be the "introduction".

For example, Luxi Yellow Cattle.

I made hotpot and after the tourists tasted it, they said, wow, it’s really good.

But my supply is limited, not all tourists can eat real Luxi Yellow Beef.

Then, people with business acumen will take the initiative to understand the market's absorption capacity, the breeding costs, and our local industries.

For example, after pressing soybean oil once, we use soybean meal to produce feed.

This feed, in our local area, does not involve shipping costs or tolls, and the selling price is definitely much lower than that outside.

In this way, we have excellent beef cattle, a newly-started beef market, cheap feed, and factory tracks connecting major railway lines such as the Beijing-Guangzhou and Beijing-Shanghai lines.

At that time, if we give some preferential treatment, how can the bosses not build factories here?

Still the same principle.

Chicken, duck, fish, pig, sheep, donkey...

As long as I have a supply of soybeans, everything will be there.

And there will be a series of meat processing plants, food processing plants, transportation companies, packaging companies, financial institutions...

There are even edible oil companies, feed companies, and soy product companies...

So, what I am doing is not tourism, but a unique way of attracting investment.

When I succeed, you can look at the Central Plains.

The sky is still the same sky, but the earth is so wonderful!"

...

"I am a general manager, but I was invited to invest by a private enterprise."

The chief steward of the Jishui River must have understood the role of the Olympics.

Even most ordinary people can understand it.

But understanding is one thing, being able to learn from it is another, and being able to make changes after learning from it and put it into practical application is another.

Therefore, currently no region in the country can achieve what Yu Yang described.

Therefore, Yu Yang was like a big liar, painting a tempting pie for him.

The issue is.

The furnace has been set up, such as the industrial foundation of Shiliying.

Rice, flour, grain and oil are ready, such as plastic greenhouses, soybean industry and Pingdong Lake aquatic products.

The customer groups also have clear targets, such as Dongyue tourists.

Do you want to do it?

The Jishui chief will definitely do it.

But Jishui is not Tai City, and he is not the old boss.

In other words, Mr. Dong put all the money in Tai City into his pocket and did not hand it over.

Normally, the county finances should be managed by the city, and the city finances should be managed by the province.

Therefore, if Jishui City wants to come up with 10 billion yuan, it must get the approval of the province.

Coincidentally, the person in charge of finance in the province is Deputy Director Liu.

Some time ago, there was a conflict between the bean sprouts seller in Guangqu and Sanyuan Company, and the news had spread among the management circle.

The family members of Deputy Director Liu's wife, who accompanied First Officer Sun for tea, were arrested or executed. With the instigation of the pillow talk, could Deputy Director Liu swallow this?
In deep thought.

The deputy manager returned, "Leader, it's strange that the province approved it directly."

"So soon? No meeting to discuss it?"

"No, and it was stamped by Deputy Director Liu himself."

"???"

After being stunned, the General Manager of the Jishui River thought about it and finally understood.

"Deputy Director Liu is about to retire. He probably doesn't want to get involved, let alone offend the boss, especially since First Officer Sun hasn't finished his tea yet."

"This old boss is really amazing." The deputy general manager exclaimed.

The Jishui chief shook his head and said, "Let's discuss the second question."

"Ok?"

"An investment of 10 billion yuan is equivalent to confirming the cooperation. Based on this, Yu Yang proposed that after the wheat harvest this year, farmers in the entire Jishui City will collectively plant the 'Sany Bean Seeds' launched by Sanyuan Agriculture. At that time, Sanyuan Agriculture will guarantee that the yield per mu is not less than 450 catties. If it is less, the bean seeds will be free and purchased at 450 catties. If it is higher than 450 catties, it will be purchased at 120% of the market price."

"This is a good thing, but I am worried that farmers will hide soybeans and say that the yield per mu is 10 kilograms. What should we do?"

"We in Jishui City cannot afford to lose that person. Besides, this is equivalent to Sanyuan Agriculture investing in Jishui City, so we must ensure their interests."

"Yes, leader, I will do a good job in this regard."

"But the 'Sany Bean Seed' launched by Sanyuan Agriculture is a product without any quality assurance, quality assurance or warranty. Currently, only a small amount of trial planting has been carried out in the plastic greenhouse of Shiliying, with an average yield of 500 kilograms per mu."

"Risks and opportunities coexist. Yu Sanyuan has a large family and a large business. Since he dares to give a guarantee, it shows that he is confident. Even if there is a problem, it is Sanyuan Agriculture that will lose money. For us, if we succeed, it means that all the arable land in Jishui City will be contracted out, giving farmers a guaranteed income."

"Yes, so I agreed without hesitation."

"I support your work, but Yu Sanyuan brought so many things, enough to keep us busy for a while. I'm afraid we won't have time to celebrate this New Year."

"Just get through it, and next year it will be easy."

……

The next day.

The twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Jishui Hotel.

Yu Yang got up and took a shower to get rid of the smell of alcohol.

By the time we arrived at the hotel's midnight area and ordered some food, it was already 10:30 in the morning.

Eating and drinking.

The Jishui chief brought three middle-aged and elderly men and turned from the hotel lobby into the dining area.

"Hello, leader!" "Brother Yu, continue eating. We'll sit down and leave soon. Let me introduce you. This is the person in charge of Yancheng Minerals."

"Hello Hello."

Jishui City firmly holds the sixth place in Dongshan, and its position remains unshakable.

Not only because it has Confucius' hometown Qufu, the garlic hometown Jinxian, and the thousand-year-old cities of Sishui and Weishan, etc.

Also because there is a mine at home.

Yanzhou Coal Mining Group is the largest mining group in Dongshan. Yanzhou, where Yanzhou Coal Mining Group is located, is the current railway hub connecting the north and the south in the east.

If you take a train through Dongshan, you will most likely stop in Yanzhou for more than ten minutes or even half an hour.

Because the train needs to turn around, and when doing so, it has to give way to other trains.

In other words, train traffic still exceeds capacity.

All these are the attributes bestowed by Yanzhou Mining on this city. Otherwise, Yanzhou would have fallen into decline like Zaoshi, another mining city in the south.

This shows how rich Yanzhou Coal is.

"Brother Yu, the 10 billion yuan that Jishui City is investing in Shuipo Liangshan will be allocated from Yanzhou Coal Mine. The main body of the investment in this project is a hotel service company under Yanzhou Coal Mine. It is relatively small in scale, so we just use it as a name to facilitate account reconciliation."

"no problem."

"In that case, let's wait until the project is finalized and then discuss it in detail."

"I'll take the two leaders."

Wait until you get back to the table.

The village head thought: "Is our trip too smooth? After all, this is a large project involving more than 10 billion yuan."

"For any big project, as long as it is in the interests of both parties, it is basically a matter of mutual consent. It can be done in a few words without so many twists and turns. Do you still want someone to jump out and stop it? Wouldn't that be making things difficult for you?"

"Makes sense."

"Of course, the details still need to be handled carefully, so our company's finance department and Jishui City will be busy next."

After Yu Yang solved the problem of food and clothing, he stood up and thought for a while, "Let's go and take a look around Jishui City before going back."

"Forget it. The streets are full of dead branches and rotten leaves. There's nowhere good to go. Let's go back and celebrate the New Year."

……

When we returned to Shiliying, it was already the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.

The streets were cold and windy. Although many street shops had been demolished to build the railway, and from a distance there were ruins everywhere, the atmosphere of the New Year was still strong.

It’s because many people come here to buy vegetables.

The self-employed individuals supported by the sisters-in-law have all made progress. They use raft carts to pull various products from handicraft workshops and set them on the roadside, shouting and selling them.

In addition, after the plastic factory expanded its production, it produced various plastic products.

After the glass factory expanded its production, it produced various glassware.

And the iron beds and iron tables welded by the company's electric welding team...

The market stretches from the street to the highway and then connects to the temple fair in Hangai, making it look particularly lively.

The AMG car rushed down the highway and was not sent to the roof of the small western-style building, but was dropped into the parking lot.

The old party secretary and my grandfather who were guarding the south gate were tinkering with an iron thing that looked like a chariot.

Fortunately, the two brothers did not install the anti-aircraft gun.

Therefore Yu Yang didn't care much about it.

He walked out of the parking lot, along the market, and arrived at the township compound amidst the greetings of "Boss".

The third-level village and town center has been moved to the Pingdong County compound, but the previously built military camps, docks, and blacksmith shops remain here.

In addition, under the operation of the third brother Zhou Wu, the blacksmith shop purchased a batch of modern die-casting forging equipment.

For example, the blacksmith shop produces steel sheets, and modern equipment is responsible for making fruit plates, carts, etc.

Even metal boxes, metal tubes, etc. can be made.

Unfortunately, the material of the rails is not food-grade 304 stainless steel and cannot be used to make tableware.

After being upgraded to a third-level village center, the blacksmith shop also added a new function called the steel pouring method.

The general meaning is to burn pig iron into juice, pour it on red-hot wrought iron, and use it to make blade steel.

But given the material of the rails, this technology is also useless.

Yu Yang checked the production of hot pots, fruit plates, and carts, and then set up the production of farming equipment.

It was originally intended to be a plowshare.

That is, first use a four-wheel tractor to pull a plow to plow the land, then use a four-wheel tractor to pull a harrow to break up the large lumps of soil, and then sow the seeds.

But now is the age of mechanization.

It's far better to make a 'scratch board'.

That is to make a metal cylinder, weld some crescent blades regularly on the cylinder, and then set a transmission shaft at the end of the cylinder.

Once it starts, press the roller with crescent blades on the ground surface. The crescent blades rotate rapidly in the ground, cutting and breaking the ground.

In this way, the land cultivation stage can be completed.

At the same time, a fertilizer spreading device is set up in front of this equipment.

A sowing device is set at the back.

As long as the tractor has enough power, spreading fertilizer, plowing the land and sowing can be completed in one trip.

The land in Shiliying, Hangai Township and Jiuxian Township were all contracted by their own families.

No need to worry about ridges or ditches.

It is entirely possible to make this set of equipment larger.

At that time, we will prepare several diesel tankers and more than a dozen large tractors, and run them side by side from Shiliying to Hangai Township, and then run side by side along the railway to Jiuxian Township.

Perhaps soybean planting can be completed in one day.

Such efficiency, cost...

“It’s still too small.”

Yu Yang recalled the North American farmer in another time and space.

The per capita land area is 600,000 to 700,000 hectares, which is equivalent to tens of millions of acres.

Even millions of hectares, equivalent to hundreds of millions of acres.

Including the arable land along the railway, there are about 100 million acres, plus about million acres in Jishui City.

It's only 800 million acres.

“So, we need to define our own soybeans.”

“Domestic sales or export?”

"If we sell it domestically, we won't make much money."

"Exporting can earn foreign exchange, which is what the boss hopes for."

"But if we export such pure soybeans, wouldn't that be cheap for foreigners?"

Yu Yang pondered and thought of the struggle of soybeans.

In other words, international soybean pricing power.

The war started as early as 94.

The East suddenly changed from a pure soybean exporter to a soybean importer.

And it increases year by year...

It seems to be this year, 99.

The import volume increased from 400 million tons to 1000 million tons.

The import volume increased from US$10 billion to US$22 billion.

"We have 800 million mu of crops, and the average yield per mu should be 500 kilograms. We can harvest 200 million tons in spring and 200 million tons in autumn."

"That is to say, if we work a little harder, we can keep the soybean import volume unchanged at 400 million tons last year."

"If the import volume remains unchanged, the soybean price will definitely be lower. After all, overseas countries have planted so many soybeans as planned, but have not sold them, so they can only reduce the price."

"So, international soybeans are cheap, soybean oil prices are down, soybean meal prices are down, feed prices are down, pork prices are down..."

"All of our businesses will be affected."

Yu Yang pondered for a long time, and then changed his mind, "Everything is reduced abroad, and wages will definitely be reduced, but our wages here remain unchanged!"

“So, the East made a profit.”

"So, we will sell our soybeans domestically first to ease the overseas soybean offensive, and then switch from defense to offense and start exporting when the planting scale is further expanded."

"When the time comes, we can seize the pricing power of soybeans and perhaps become a small new world grain trader."

(End of this chapter)