Spring Thunder Chapter 0277 Shennong's Roar
In a harmonious atmosphere, several people finished their New Year's Eve dinner together, and then went to the sky garden to set off fireworks for half an hour.
Just to set off the fireworks for half an hour, Nan Yi put a lot of thought into it. He contacted New York City Hall, the Central Park management, the apartment management company, and even reported to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives [ATF]. It was really a hassle.
This was done not only to give the two children a surprise, but also to allow Chen Feng and Xu Li to show off their muscles.
The control of this scale must be very precise. Nan Yi didn't want them to know his true background, but he also couldn't let them look down on him. Fortunately, the final result was not bad and everyone had a good time.
But after twelve o'clock, Nan Yi flipped through the bill and felt a pang of pain in his heart.
"It's okay, it's okay. I have one more line. It will be more stable in the mainland in the future." While comforting himself, Nan Yi closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Nanyi only had one day off during the New Year. On the first day of the first lunar month, those who were supposed to go to school went to school, and those who were supposed to work went to work. On the other side of Wenchangwei, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, the village welcomed an unexpected guest.
During the New Year's Day, a young man in his thirties was squatting in the threshing ground next to the village committee, glancing towards the village committee from time to time.
Life in Wenchangwei has become better now. The children no longer have to hide in the threshing ground to avoid the adults. Now they come in groups to visit the villagers and ask for profits. The threshing ground is now a production site for a straw weaving factory, and the villagers will not come here unless necessary.
The thirty-year-old young man has been squatting here for nearly two hours, but no one has come.
"Brother, I want to ask you something. Do you know where Secretary Xian lives?" A middle-aged man carrying two bags approached the young man and asked.
Just as I said there was no one, this person appeared.
"You're asking the wrong person. I'm not from this village." The thirty-year-old young man put out the cigarette in his hand and said weakly, "Are you here to collect a debt as well?"
"Debt collection? What debt? I'm here to build relationships. Our factory has been cooperating with the clothing factory in Wenchangwei for two years, and the cooperation has always been very good. It's the first month of the year, and the leaders of the factory asked me to come and give something to Secretary Xian." The middle-aged man said, showing the bag in his hand.
"Brother, what's your name?" When the thirty-year-old man heard the middle-aged man's words, he quickly stood up, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and handed him the cigarette while talking.
"Lin Wancheng, from Yucheng Textile Factory, what about you?"
"I'm Zhou Guanbao, from Zhoujia'ao Village. We have a carton factory in our village. We provided the packaging boxes for Wenchangwei Food Factory. Brother Lin, does Wenchangwei owe you money?"
"Haha, Brother Zhou, your factory has been cooperating with Wenchangwei for a short time, right?" Lin Wancheng said with a smile.
"Why, is there anything in it?"
"You'll know after you've worked together for a while. Do you know what the nickname of Wenchangwei's village chief Xian Yaodong is?" Lin Wancheng didn't keep the secret and revealed the answer right away, "Xian Banyan, I tell you, doing business with Wenchangwei is actually very worry-free. You bring the goods here, and they will definitely pay you in half a year, without delaying for even a day."
"How can they drag it out for half a year if they are so arrogant?"
"Hmm? That's not right. Didn't Wenchangwei tell you clearly when they wanted your goods? That shouldn't be the case. When they came to our factory, they told you clearly that the balance would be paid in half a year. We have been cooperating with them for two years. Secretary Xian is very trustworthy and has never missed a payment."
"Then I won't make it clear. I'm not the one who receives them when they come to discuss business." Zhou Guanbao said.
"You were really reckless. You came to collect the debt without knowing everything, and you chose the New Year as the time of year. Not to mention that you might not get a penny, you might even get beaten."
"Indeed, I was reckless, but since I'm here and the travel expenses are not small, I can't come here for nothing. I will change the debt collection to New Year's greetings, and I will also meet Secretary Xian before returning."
Zhou Guanbao was very smart. He realized that he might have made a mistake. It must be that bastard in the village who forgot to say something. So, instead of going to the enemy to question him, he had to change it to wishing him a happy new year.
"Yaodong, it's time to go out. Lin Wancheng is coming, we still have to entertain him." Xian Yaohua and Xian Yaodong said in the village committee.
"Go, get out."
Xian Yaohua found that Xian Yaodong had changed recently. He had become "smarter" and would always resort to tricks. Take the matter of Zhou Guanbao for example. No matter what the other person came for, why didn't he just entertain him first? Why did he have to leave him out first?
Besides, Nan Yi has an accurate eye for people, and his new wife who just got married is really not someone you can easily deal with. She's already jumping up and down in just a short time.
Fortunately, Nan Yi had left some words for Zhang Yuyou long ago, and he knew what to do.
After welcoming the people to the village committee, Xian Yaodong and Xian Yaohua entertained them well and explained the matter of the Wenchang payment period to Zhou Guanbao. Zhou Guanbao's worries and grudges were put aside.
The Wenchangwei was not plotting any conspiracy. The conditions were made clear before the cooperation. The payment period was half a year. If they could accept it, they would cooperate. If they could not accept it, they would not cooperate. It was like Zhou Yu fighting Huang Gai, one willing to fight and the other willing to be beaten.
After a chat, Zhou Guanbao developed a liking for Xian Yaohua and thought he was a trustworthy person, so he followed Xian Yaohua back to his home, had a good drink with him, and also met Xian Yaohua's son Xian Weimin.
No one knew what Xian Weimin was doing. He made one phone call after another. He mumbled something in his mouth, but he didn't understand a word he said.
But there was one word he understood, "Baga". Isn't this what the Japanese said in the movie? It turns out that the son of Village Chief Xian was dealing with the Japanese.
"Village Chief Xian, what does your son do?" While Xian Weimin was answering the phone again, Zhou Guanbao asked Xian Yaohua.
"He is doing some small business outside." Xian Yaohua said with a smile on his face.
At the beginning, although Xian Weimin followed Nan Yi and made a lot of money, Xian Yaohua still couldn't get used to it. He felt that Nan Yi was just helping him and it was not his son's real ability.
But now it's different. I hear my son speak English and Japanese, and he manages a large company and can stand on his own. Most importantly, my daughter-in-law has found a husband, and she comes from a wealthy family.
These days, I finally have hope.
"It should be a big business, right?" Zhou Guanbao asked in disbelief.
He saw the car parked in front of Xian Yaohua's house. Although he couldn't recognize what kind of car it was, it looked much more impressive than their county magistrate's car.
"Not big, not big. Really not big. Come on, come on, let's continue drinking."
After Xian Weimin finished his call, he walked back to the dining table, toasted Zhou Guanbao and apologized, then said to Xian Yaohua: "Dad, I'm leaving tomorrow. I have to go to Shanghai first."
"Just go and do whatever you need, Village Chief Zhou. Or you can stay here for one night and leave with Weimin's car tomorrow."
"Okay, sorry to bother you, Mr. Xian." Zhou Guanbao said politely.
"It's no trouble, but I'm leaving a little early tomorrow."
"It's okay, it's up to you."
After drinking, Xian Yaohua took Zhou Guanbao to the food factory and then to the farmland area.
The food factory was nothing special, but he was shocked by the farmland around Wenchang. It was so vast that he couldn't estimate its size at once. The soil in the fields was so fertile that it was oily.
"Village Chief Xian, the land in your village is very good." Rubbing his hands, Zhou Guanbao rubbed the black soil in his hands back into the field, without letting any of it fall out.
"This land was not so good at the beginning. This piece of land is covered with 20 centimeters of black soil, which was transported from the Great Northern Wilderness. It cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy the soil, transport it here by train, and flatten the land.
Village Chief Zhou, come with me and take a look..." Xian Yaohua led Zhou Guanbao to the place where the farm machinery was stored and showed him a warehouse full of farm machinery. "These belongings cost more than one million yuan to buy, all for the purpose of taking care of the land outside."
"Village Chief Xian, this adds up to two million. Although your land is large, even if all these machines are worn out, you can't find two million from the land, right?"
"It's definitely not profitable. Shencun is undergoing a massive construction program right now. If you go to the city and find something to do, you can earn three or four yuan a day. So, a strong laborer in our village is worth at least a hundred yuan a month.
If it is planted manually, one acre of land from seed preservation to harvesting will take at least a month of work in the field, but can you earn 100 yuan per acre?"
"Of course not. It's great that you can find twenty dollars."
"Yes, farming is definitely a loss, not to mention that we have invested so much money in Wenchangwei, so the loss is even greater. But we are farmers, and farming is our duty. We have to farm even if it means losing money."
"Village Chief Xian, if it's such a loss, why do you still use so many farm machines, and they are all big ones."
"We have no other choice. Farming doesn't make money. We can't keep the villagers here. We have to free them up to make money. So we bought these big guys. It's okay for the village to lose a little, but we can't let the villagers suffer. Village Chief , I'll take you to see our canteen. Let me tell you..."
Except for things that should not be told to outsiders, Xian Yaohua took Zhou Guanbao to see everything in Wenchangwei that could be seen.
Zhoujiaao Village is in Shandong Province. Logically, if Wenchangwei Food Factory wants to find a carton factory as a supplier, it should look for one in the surrounding areas. Why would it go all the way to Shandong Province?
If the reclamation group wants to expand outward, especially to other provinces, it needs bridgeheads. Zhou Guanbao led Zhoujiaao Village to develop the collective economy in Shandong Province first, which naturally caught the eyes of Ge Cuizhu and Nan Yi.
Xian Yaohua's enthusiasm for Zhou Guanbao is not inexplicable.
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Before the end of the first month of the lunar year, Nan Yi started to become very busy. He stayed in New York, while Ueto Masami flew around with her secretary and the secretary's assistant.
In Paris, a Houji Agricultural Company was registered under the name of Sophie Holdings; in Bodhiya, a Wangmu Fruit Company was registered; in Assam, India, Luban Wood Industry Company was registered in the name of Dawan Lahja; and in Guangzhou, Luyu Tea Company was registered in the name of Fang Group.
In addition, there is a Nuwa Animal Husbandry Company to be registered in London, but it has been put on hold for the time being until the Eagle Country’s white gloves are done.
Houji Agriculture, Nuwa Animal Husbandry, Wangmu Fruit Industry, Luban Forestry, Luyu Tea Industry, Jiangshang Fishery, Shiva Chemical Industry, Fan Shengzhi Research Institute, and Food Guard, seven companies, a research institute, and a guard team form the Shennong Nanliang Group.
A large group that is not registered in any country in the world, but only circulated within the Nan family, spanning the entire field of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, breeding, transportation, and sales .
Shennong Nanliang Group is a component of the Agriculture Group of the Information and Strategy Committee, which also controls Scarlett Grain Group.
Of course, the cunning Nan Yi would never use words with strong regional characteristics such as Hou Ji and Nu Wa as the official name of the company. These names will only be circulated within the Nan family, and there will be an English company name to the outside world. For example, the official name of Hou Ji Agriculture is "HJ Agriculture co., Ltd."
February 27th, Lantern Festival.
Nanshi Holdings invested US$1 billion in Shennong Nanliang Group, of which US$400 million was allocated to Fan Shengzhi Research Institute to establish N branch research institutes in various places around the world. At the same time, several projects were also launched within the institute, including GMOs.
Then another 30 million US dollars were allocated to purchase islands. Many islands that were worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions of US dollars decades ago are now useless to all countries. Nan Yi bought them for a price ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands or even millions of US dollars.
Among them, the ones worth mentioning are Lanai Island in Hawaii, Macap Island in California, Lang Yai Island adjacent to Phuket, and Round Island in the Caribbean Sea. The prices of these islands will rise to sky-high prices in the future.
It would be a waste of resources if these islands fell into Nan Yi's hands. Nan Yi purchased the islands not for vacation or to create a tourist area. He simply wanted to build a "Shennong Island Chain" to serve as an off-island transit station for the future transportation and warehousing of Shennong Nanliang Group.
Of course, if someone offers a very high price in the future, Nan Yi will definitely make a move. As for the islands with high tourism value, the value of the island chain is not too high and they can be completely classified as speculation.
"Yami, look at this."
After a series of operations, on the Waking of Insects Day, Ueto Masami returned to New York.
Ueto Masami took the newspaper handed over by Nan Yi and saw the headline news in the newspaper at a glance. After reading the content, she said: "Pran Devi is a pitiful woman. Fortunately, she will not be sentenced to death."
"Whether she lives or dies has nothing to do with us . Your focus is wrong. You should pay attention to her caste, Malla. When she was a child, her family had a valuable sandalwood tree. There are bandits in India. After being oppressed and persecuted, Dalit women formed their own armed forces to protect themselves.
Putting all these together, you still haven’t figured out what to do?”
Ueto Masami connected what Nan Yi said, and then thought of the fact that Luban Wood Industry was registered in Yin'an, and her thoughts gradually became clear.
"President, is it a red sandalwood tree?"
"Well, since India has not restricted the felling of red sandalwood, Luban Wood Industry will cut down as many red sandalwood trees as possible and transport them out of India for storage.
In addition, we can also set up a company in Sri Lanka to purchase red sandalwood. As long as there are formal Sri Lankan customs procedures, we will accept it and settle the bill immediately when we see the wood.”
Nan Yi doesn't care whether the red sandalwood was smuggled out from Yinxian or not, as long as it is legal when it reaches him. He is a law-abiding small businessman and he doesn't want to make dirty money.
The Indians are very smart and should be able to quickly figure out a transportation channel from smuggling -> confiscation -> auction -> low-price bidding -> selling to Nan Yi. The blame can be borne by their younger brothers, and the death can also be left to them. The big boss can just wait in Dibai's villa to collect Nan Yi's money.
By the way, they were all brand new, bacteria-free stacks of beauty products.
"Understood, I will arrange it as soon as possible."
"Dalit women are quite pitiful. We should try to assign more logging work to them and pay them higher wages, not less than 10 cents a day."
"Okay, I'll pay attention."
Ueto Masami agreed and immediately returned to the South Office.
The North Loft opposite the Columbus Apartment and the South Loft was also bought by Nan Yi and converted into an office headed by Masami Ueto that specifically serves Nan Yi personally, referred to as the South Office.
The Southern Office includes Masami Ueto, who is Nan Yi's direct secretary, and 7 special assistants serving Masami Ueto. Each special assistant will be assigned 5 to 20 assistants depending on the complexity of the content under his jurisdiction.
In other words, the staff of the South Office has not been fully staffed yet, otherwise the North Attic would not be able to accommodate them . When the South Office is fully staffed, the staff should not be less than 100 people.
After Ueto Masami left, Nan Yi picked up a farm market report and started looking at it. The report contained information on the sale of farms in Europe and America.
There is no need to collect the information in the report by yourself. Farm and ranch intermediaries in various countries will proactively fax the latest farm and ranch sales information to Scarlett Grain Group. After all, its acquisition activities are large. Faced with such a potential big customer, every intermediary company would curry favor with him.
Flipping through the report pages one by one, Nan Yi drew a few circles on the report.
The farm or ranch he circled indicated his interest and he needed someone to go for an on-site inspection. If the price/performance ratio was good, he could take it over.
It is very cost-effective to buy a farm now. For example, the Carrot Valley Farm in northern Manitoba, Canada, is about the same size as Vancouver, with an area of 104.8 square kilometers, but its listing price is only US$1.75 million, which means that one square kilometer is less than US$20,000.
Since it can be called a farm, the land cannot be too barren, and it must be cultivated land, not virgin land. Farms in the United States and Canada basically adopt crop rotation, and the fertility of the land is not too bad. As long as this is not a trap set by others, you will not lose money if you buy it at this price with your eyes closed.
Of course, this no-loss policy is based on not pursuing short-term returns. Nan Yi does not value short-term benefits when running a farm. He always considers the time span to five, ten, or even twenty years. He does not care about temporary losses at all.
Besides, if agriculture and animal husbandry want to have high returns, they need to have a certain scale. As long as the scale reaches a certain level, it can basically influence supply and demand as well as pricing power.
