"Dad, I miss you so much."
With a leap, Nan Ruoyin threw herself into Nan Yi's arms.
"I don't miss you, you little bitch. You spent 72 million U.S. dollars in three years. Explain to me how you spent the money later."
Nan Ruoyin pouted, "Humph, Dad is treating me like a fool again, how could you not know."
"Dad really doesn't know. I only care about whether you are safe. Although I know other things, I haven't read the report. You are a little girl who has grown up. You need some privacy."
Nan Yi pinched Nan Ruoyin's nose, then put her on the ground, "You've become a little fat pig, daddy can't hold you anymore."
"No, Dad, I have a standard body shape."
Nan Ruoyin stood there and turned around, showing off her figure.
"Okay, standard, but your skin has turned wheat-colored and looks healthy, but..." Nan Yi pondered for a while and said, "You've become uglier."
Nan Ruoyin said proudly: "It's not ugly at all. I believe this skin color will soon become a trend."
"Well, maybe you have a point."
Nan Yi remembered that there seemed to be a period of time when the black hot girl look was popular in Japan and South Korea, and wheat-colored skin was indeed popular among women.
"Ruoyin, talk to Wuwei first and show him what you have seen and heard. He is still too young, so don't say anything that shouldn't be said."
"I know."
Nan Ruoyin responded and walked to Nan Wuwei's side. The two siblings said a few words intimately, and then Nan Ruoyin took Nan Wuwei to the pavilion.
After handing Nan Wuwei over to Nan Ruoyin, Nan Yi ran to the backyard to take a bath to relieve his fatigue. After his tiredness was gone, Nan Yi took a report brought back from the Hokkaido dairy farm and started reading it.
Shennong Nanliang has always been an integrated company of breeding, research and production, and research has always been placed in a very important position. In addition to the Fan Shengzhi Research Institute system, each breeding base has its own junior researchers. These researchers not only provide data and observation reports to Fan Shengzhi's corresponding research team, but are also responsible for the implementation of research results.
As the global annual consumption is approaching the 200 million tons mark, milk has always been the focus of Shennong Nanliang and an important research topic of Fan Shengzhi.
This topic can be divided into three main research directions: desugaring, preservation, and artificial synthesis.
The milk of mammals contains an ingredient called "lactose", which is one of the main sources of energy for the growth and development of mammalian cubs. It provides heat energy and is also the driving force for the development and activity of organs, nerves, limbs, muscles, etc.
For humans, "lactose" can also maintain the water balance in children's bodies and provide galactose, which is related to the composition of the brain and important organs, and is very important for children's intellectual development.
Lactose is also used by beneficial bacteria such as lactobacillus in the small intestine to produce lactic acid, which has a regulating and protective effect on the gastrointestinal tract of children, and can also inhibit the growth of intestinal putrefactive bacteria and reduce the chance of illness in infants.
Lactic acid can also lower the pH value of the intestine. Under the action of acid, it can promote the absorption of nutrients such as calcium, iron, and zinc. It can also stimulate intestinal peristalsis, clean the intestines, and prevent constipation and getting angry in babies.
In short, lactose is a nutrient that infants and young children need to absorb, and this nutrient is contained in breast milk and cow's milk.
However, after infants and young children are weaned, the lactase activity in their bodies will decrease with age, eventually leading to "lactose intolerance".
Lactose intolerance refers to the fact that due to the lack of lactase, undigested lactose will remain in the intestines and cause discomfort, leading to diarrhea, bloating and other problems after drinking milk. In layman's terms, it means nausea and diarrhea.
Globally speaking, the incidence of lactase deficiency varies with different countries and ethnic groups: 75%-100% in Asia, 0-6% in white Australians, more than 30% in Europe, 90%-100% in Africa; 12% in white Americans and 70% in black Americans, 100% in Japan, 3% in Switzerland, 5% in white Americans and 75% in black Americans, and close to 90% in China.
According to different data, people with different eating habits have different amounts of lactase in their bodies.
For example, for white Australians, milk is an important source of nutrition and water in their diet. As generations drink it, their genes will be fine-tuned, so that they know to always maintain a digestive enzyme called lactase.
Except for a small number of nomadic peoples, Asians have almost no access to milk, and it has no place in their diet. The body is only so big, but a lot of things have to be crammed into it. As the genes of capitalists, when their "enterprises" have passed the lactation period, the genes will naturally cause the lactase that has lost its function to roll away.
Instead of kicking him out, he is keeping him around. Which capitalist would keep an idle person?
Of course, some lactase enzymes have also heard "The Internationale" and are not the type to accept things passively. They will always choose to fight. Some can fight for a few years, some for more than ten years, and some simply take root.
From the perspective of the Creator, lactase will gradually disappear with age, which can also be understood as protection of the species. Milk is the source of energy for infants and young children. But some adults are so damn greedy that they rush to eat things that clearly should not be in their diet.
When the Creator saw that the thing he made was so shameless, he had no choice but to change the technique of making people so that the little clay figures he made could not drink milk when they grew up.
For Nan Yi, a capitalist who wants to enter the milk production industry, genetic modification is not something he should do. Instead of waiting for unknown generations to solve the problem of lactase, it would be more practical to directly study the desugaring technology.
There are two directions in sugar removal technology. One is the real sugar removal, which is to control the lactose content in milk. The other is relatively simple and crude, which is to add a little milk to pure water, and then add some flavoring to produce a beverage with the full name of "5% milk content, 15% flavoring content, and 80% fresh water content".
This kind of beverage can be simply referred to as "milk", or it can be called "fresh milk", "yogurt", "clay milk", or whatever you like. Anyway, it is some kind of milk, and consumers must be able to intuitively understand the selling point.
The first type of sugar removal technology still has a long way to go, but the second type of sugar removal technology will soon be able to develop a feasible solution. At present, Shennong Nanliang must first adopt the second type of solution and launch its own milk beverages, which can not only solve the problem of lactose intolerance, but also bring down the price of milk.
Consumers can get nutrition while spending less.
"I'm so fucking great, I have to give myself a thumbs up."
Nan Yi muttered to himself, flipped through the information, skipped the content about desugaring, and started reading the content related to preservation.
Milk is a fresh product and will go bad within a few hours at room temperature. The preservation of milk has been a problem that has plagued mankind for thousands of years.
According to archaeological discoveries by historians who may not be reliable, humans reduced lactose by making cheese 10,000 years ago, but until a long period before the modern scientific revolution, humans did not know how to preserve milk.
Preservation can be divided into two steps: sterilization and preservation.
Milk can provide almost all the protein needed by humans. It is a good thing and it is definitely not wrong. For milk, this thousand-mile horse, there are many people who can discover it and are willing to support it, including calves, humans, and various germs.
In order to solve the problem of germs in milk, humans have used various methods, such as putting frogs in milk. As long as the frogs are soaked in milk, the germs in the milk will be reduced a lot.
It is unknown when this method was invented, but the reason why it is effective was thoroughly studied by people about a hundred years ago - it turns out that the mucus on frogs has a bactericidal effect.
Anyway, year after year, various sterilization methods emerged one after another, but no matter what method was used, it was not as effective as boiling the milk before drinking it. However, in the eyes of people at that time, this could not be considered a method.
Raw milk and cooked milk can be said to be two completely different things. In the mouths of people who were used to drinking raw milk at that time, cooked milk was simply shit.
This perception did not change until pasteurization was developed, because people found that after pasteurization, milk became tasteless and unpalatable. This is a more polite way of saying it when someone asks them about it, but the real answer in their hearts is still "shit."
It was not until nearly fifty years after the invention of pasteurization that more and more people began to accept pasteurization, and the practice spread from educated people to prestigious people. It was not until people with the qualifications to legislate wrote on paper that "milk cannot be sold if it is not pasteurized" that people were gradually forced to accept the innovation in the taste of milk.
In fact, many people still don't take it seriously. After learning how pasteurization is done, some people mutter: "What's pasteurization? It's just boiling and high temperature. My ancestors eight hundred generations ago knew how to do it. Guess why I don't learn to do it?"
Whether people admit it or not, the problem of milk sterilization has been solved because of pasteurization.
However, pasteurized milk cannot be preserved for long and generally goes bad within two days at room temperature. The issue of preservation is the first half of the step, and we still have to take the second half.
Regarding preservation, people have actually come up with various methods since very early times, such as storing ice in ice cellars, using stone slabs to preserve food, using deep wells to preserve food, and the Arabs also used pots and sand to make Zeer pots.
At first glance, all preservation methods are inseparable from "low temperature". Those who are determined to solve the preservation problem have a unified idea, that is, how to obtain or create low temperature.
There were so many bizarre ideas for solving the problem. Some said they should transport large amounts of ice from the North and South Poles, others said they should connect pipes to the snow-capped mountains of the Alps to bring cold air to every household. This idea was very interesting, and some people imitated it, but they solved the problem not with cooling but with heating.
Later, refrigerators were invented, and cold chain technology and transportation became developed, allowing people in cities to drink fresh milk from rural areas.
By the end of the 1950s, the wave of globalization swept in, and the people of Osaka, who had become rich first, clamored that they did not want to drink milk from Hokkaido, they wanted to drink milk from Australia.
After hearing the cries of the people of Osaka, Australian dairy farmers were not happy and stood up to criticize the company researching the fresh-keeping technology. "You rubbish, are you any good at what you do? Listen to the cries of the people of Osaka. Are you not ashamed?"
There is a saying that goes "Shame leads to courage". After hearing the criticism, the companies began to immerse themselves in research.
First, the United States proposed the UHT theory [ultra-high temperature instantaneous sterilization], and then the Dutch Stock Company announced the successful development of UHT sterilization equipment. In the mid-1960s, aseptic filling technology was combined with UHT technology, enabling the development of sterilized milk technology.
Now, both the sterilization and preservation steps are completed.
However, after high-temperature treatment, some heat-inlaboratory nutrients in milk, such as vitamins, will be destroyed, the lactose in it will also be caramelized, and the protein and lactose will undergo a certain Maillard reaction, causing the milk to brown and destroying the original flavor of the milk.
“If we want to find a new way to keep fresh milk, we only have less than ten years at most. After this time, the taste of the generation that grew up drinking high-temperature milk will be fixed, and they will not be used to drinking real fresh milk. Then one generation will influence the next. Is it possible to find a new way in such a short time?”
Nan Yi put the information down and fell into a dilemma.
If you want to carry out scientific research in a rush, you either have to use the human wave tactic or the money-spending tactic. The human wave tactic is only available at the national level, so Shennong Nanliang can only choose the money-spending tactic.
But at a glance, the probability of failure of the money-throwing strategy is over 99%, and there is only a 1% chance of success. Is it really necessary to take the risk?
Probability is actually a false proposition. It is only meaningful to bystanders. For people in the game, the possibilities are always positive and negative. It is either success or failure. The process is 50-50, but the result is 100% once it comes out.
"It's better to have someone make a budget first and assess the market capacity of fresh milk. If the investment is not large and the market capacity is large, then we can take a gamble."
Soon, Nan Yi made up his mind, changed into presentable clothes, walked out of the house and headed towards the pavilion.
In the pavilion, Nan Wuwei's eyes lit up as he looked at Nan Ruoyin with admiration, listening with great interest as she told him all kinds of wonders of the world.
Nan Yi was also very interested in world wonders, so he walked into the pavilion and sat down next to Nan Wuwei, accompanying him as a little fan, listening to Nan Ruoyin's nonsense with his eyes shining and his mouth opening in amazement.
"After I left Seoul, I crossed the 38th parallel and went to Pyongyang. Although not every place can be visited, you can get a glimpse of the whole picture. Compared with Seoul, Pyongyang is not much worse. There are many cars, most of which are Soviet-made. I feel that there are more cars than in Beijing."
"Which year in the capital?" Nan Yi interrupted Nan Ruoyin and asked.
“The year I left.”
"Oh, go ahead."
"At first I wondered if it was a deliberate attempt to create an illusion of prosperity, but after observing it later I realized it wasn't the case. I saw middle and high school students wearing white shirts and black trousers, and they looked very energetic.
I also saw elementary school students. Their clothes were not uniform, but they were all in good spirits. Adults had many styles of clothes. Jackets were popular among boys, while girls had more styles. Pants were the same for both boys and girls. Blue jeans were very popular now.
Shoes... well, leather shoes are the most common, and some women wear them. I can’t really tell what they are called, but they look a bit like basketball shoes.”
"It should be travel shoes. They are becoming popular in China."
"Maybe." Nan Ruoyin said uncertainly.
"Have you seen the fat man?"
"Yes, but not many. Most people have a standard figure." Nan Ruoyin replied.
"Have you seen the Ryugyong Hotel?"
"I have seen it. The outer frame is almost ready. I also saw the May Day Stadium, which looks like a mushroom. I have seen residential buildings with more than ten floors, connected in a row. There are also traditional buildings between the high-rise buildings. They are well maintained. They should not be lived in by ordinary people..."
Nan Ruoyin told Nan Yi and his son every detail of what she saw and heard in Pyongyang, and also told them what could be bought in the stores, what food could be eaten in the restaurants, and so on.
"It's a pity. I could visit more freely in Pyongyang, but there were only a few places I could go in other cities. There were always people following me, so I found it boring and flew to Bhutan." Nan Ruoyin said with regret at the end.
"Is the person you see dull?"
"I can't say I'm dull, Dad. I feel like the people there are very disciplined. How they laugh, how they run, how they walk, it seems like there are rules and you can't cross the line."
"They are all produced on the same assembly line, so there is no difference?"
Nan Ruoyin nodded. "Almost. The people there are very similar. It seems that they don't have much of their own personality."
"Um."
"Dad, do you want to hear about what I saw in Bhutan?"
"Go ahead, describe the scenery. It's the scenery that's worth seeing. Don't talk about the weird temples there."
"Hehe, Dad, you know this too?" Nan Ruoyin said with a laugh.
Nan Wuwei asked, "Dad, what strange temple?"
"You ask your sister, Dad hasn't been there." Nan Yi replied but gave Nan Ruoyin a look.
"Hehe, Wuwei, sister will tell you..."
Nan Wuwei listened to Nan Ruoyin with great interest for more than three hours, until the fatigue of the journey overwhelmed him and his eyelids could no longer hold shut.
After sending Nan Wuwei back to his room, Nan Yi returned to the pavilion.
“Have you gained much in these three years?”
"It's very big. I saw all kinds of different parts of the world. It also taught me to think. Dad, there are still many questions I can't figure out and don't have answers to. I plan to visit all the countries again in the future."
"Haha, now Dad doesn't even dare to ask you what problem you can't figure out. You are more knowledgeable than Dad, and Dad is really afraid of showing weakness in front of you." Nan Yi said with a smile.
Nan Ruoyin sat next to Nan Yi, lay in his arms, and murmured, "Dad, you can go and have a look too."
"You are luckier than me. I don't have a rich father to support me in traveling around the world."
"Hehe, Dad, you are just selling melons like Wang Po."
"Tsk, little girl." Nan Yi stroked Nan Ruoyin's head, "You have really grown up this time. Do you blame your dad for making you grow up too fast?"
"No, I feel very happy. Those my age are still doing homework in the classroom, but I can run around the world. What I have seen and heard, I can never learn even if I read textbooks for a lifetime."
"Of course. Not many textbook editors have as much knowledge and experience as you do. They may not even be able to imagine the things you have come into contact with. As for the ways of the world in life, you have plenty of opportunities to come into contact with them.
Things that require age to settle, you just need to settle them slowly as you get older. Dad is also in the process of settling down. The perspective of looking at the world and considering issues at the age of 50 or 60 is not something we can imagine out of thin air. We need to experience it ourselves.
Adding up the time he has spent in his two lives, Nan Yi has already had more than fifty years of experience, but in fact, he has not really crossed the fifty-year-old hurdle in his life, and he has not yet truly obtained the Eye of Destiny.
There will be a day when he sees the world with the eyes of destiny, but he hopes that day will come later.
"Dad, is it like the growth rings of a tree? No matter how fast I grow, I will only add one ring a year?"
"Well, that's not a bad analogy. Some things are given by age. Just because you have more experience than others doesn't mean you can understand them more deeply than others. When the Creator created us, he probably set time as a very important parameter. Do you often want to grow up quickly?"
"Yes, if I have grown up, I can do many things that I can't do." Nan Ruoyin nodded and said.
"Haha, Dad hopes that he will never grow up, and time will stay in 1977. You want to grow up quickly, but I don't want to grow up. This difference in thinking is given by age. No matter how smart you are, you can't figure out why Dad doesn't want to grow up."
"Because of pressure?"
"Don't think about it. You can only analyze the surface. When you reach your father's age, you will understand without thinking. For the next two years, you will stay in Xiangkeng. There are some things that it is not convenient for your father to communicate with you. Let your grandmother tell you."
"Hehehe, Dad, even if it's inconvenient for you to tell me, I can guess what it is."
"Even if you guessed it, don't tell me. We shouldn't discuss those topics. Also, don't be curious about things that you shouldn't know at your age."
"Huh, Dad still treats me like a child."
"Nonsense, even if you are eighty years old, you are still a little girl in my eyes."
Nan Ruoyin rolled her eyes and said, "Dad, let's not talk about this, let's talk about the Artist Care Fund."
"Okay, let me tell you about my idea. You see, those movie stars, singers, and sports stars have to spend all their energy on their professions, and it is difficult for them to take care of their assets, so we have to think about them selflessly and for them..."
"Dad, we are our own people."
"Oh, sorry, I'm used to pretending."
After Nan Yi apologized, he changed the way he spoke.
"Most of these people are poor people who have suddenly become rich. They only know how to squander their money and have no idea how to manage it. It's easy to fool them. We raise their money for investment, and we take the lion's share of the profits, leaving them with a small share.
This is the first step in wealth management services, and it must be done well so that they can benefit.
Our family is going to invest heavily in the plastic surgery and beauty industry, and we're going to have locations in Seoul, Bangkok, and New York. Female celebrities will get older, but they don't want to get older, so this creates a potential market.
Have you ever thought about being a star? "
Nan Yi waved his hand right after he asked, "Forget it, dad didn't ask. You've been to Los Angeles, and there are many girls chasing their dreams there. Most of them are pretty, but some are not so pretty. If a girl wants to be a star, it's very difficult to stand out if she's not pretty. What should she do?"
"Plastic surgery."
"Yes, plastic surgery. We help them become beautiful and help them realize their dream of becoming a star."
"Dad, can they afford it?"
"Little girl, you have a beautiful appearance, so you naturally don't understand how much some mediocre girls can pay to become beautiful. If you don't have money, you can find a way to earn it, and come to us when you have enough money.
If they are relatively reputable clients, we can also provide them with installment services; if they have the potential to become big stars, we can also be their driving force and help them succeed quickly.
Of course, we pay more, so our charges will naturally be higher, but we are definitely not vampires. This is not a one-time deal, and we must maintain our good reputation.
This is the second service that the Artist Care Fund will launch, appearance management, which includes not only plastic surgery but also beauty treatments.
Beauty is divided into two parts. One is beauty products. The research institute is still studying this, so we won’t talk about it for now.
The second area is healthy eating. Dad plans to launch products or ingredients with weight loss, beauty, and body shaping functions based on organic food. You can also bundle fitness coaches and nutritionists into it and package it into a complete set of solutions. As long as it is really effective, our customers can accept a higher fee.
I won’t talk about the rest for now. Dad tells you that the Artist Care Fund is not an independent project, but a project that will drive many plans. The first step of wealth management must be done well, even if it means putting money into it. "
"Dad, why don't you tell me your future plans?" Nan Ruoyin said with a blink.
"Haha, the plan behind this is flexible and needs to be adjusted based on the execution of the first two steps. I won't tell you about it for now. When , use your brain to see if there's anything else you can do."
The Artist Care Fund is indeed very important. It involves a series of subsequent plans, and the time span will be very long. Nan Yi has even included fake socialites and internet celebrities in his plans.
"Oh, I see, Dad. This project doesn't seem too difficult and won't take much effort. Why don't you assign me to do something else?"
"Come on, Dad won't arrange anything else for you, and you shouldn't start any new business. In the next two years, you should focus on studying and playing. Before you go back to Xiangkeng, you can fly to Seattle and go to Boeing to see the airplanes."
"Hey, Dad, are you going to give me a plane?" Nan Ruoyin said with his eyes lighting up.
"Yes, there are both Qiong and Wuwei, and of course you and Hongdou must have some, and you should also return the Gulfstream to me."
"Take it away, take it away. I'm tired of riding on this crappy plane." Nan Ruoyin said with disdain.
"Little girl, you pick up the chopsticks to eat, and when you put them down you curse your father. Dad only flew the plane less than ten times before handing it over to you. How dare you say it's a broken plane?" Nan Yi grabbed Nan Ruoyin's cheek and said viciously.
"Dad, I fly a lot, and my flight time is quite long. I can even say that my plane is broken."
"Well, forget it, let's find a buyer to sell it."
Nan Yi knew how often Nan Ruoyin flew. He could continue to drive a car even if its parts aged, but forget about the plane. There would be no regret if it crashed, so he should just get a new one.
"Dad, I don't want it anymore. I have feelings for that plane and I can't bear to sell it." Nan Ruoyin rolled her eyes and said with reluctance on her face.
"If you don't move your little eyes, Dad will take it seriously. Don't even think about the money from selling the plane. It's not Dad's private property, and the money won't go into Dad's hands."
"Hehehe, dad found out again."
"You."
Nan Yi was very moved. Nan Ruoyin's pettiness was getting worse and worse. If it continued, he would have to think hard to figure it out.
The heart-to-heart talk between father and daughter lasted until late at night. At around ten o'clock in the evening, while the two were watching a variety show on TV and chatting idly, on the other side of the ocean, Scarlett, the leader of Pan American Holdings, which invested in many semiconductor companies, attended an internal meeting of SIA.
SIA, the Semiconductor Industry Association, is an association that can only cheer itself up in China, an association that was once repeatedly beaten to the ground by VLSI, and an association that Intel is trying to find a way out of its predicament when it is considering how to go bankrupt gracefully.
In the 1950s, the Soviet revisionists launched a large satellite. Yes, they really sent a satellite into the sky. When the White House saw it, it thought, this is unacceptable. We are backward, and if we lag behind, we will be beaten.
So, at one command, electronic companies across the country worked together to help launch the satellite.
After a year of hard work, the satellite was sent into space, but this is still lagging behind others. No, we have to keep working hard, and electronics companies have to continue striving to launch satellites.
But if this happens, all electronic companies will serve the military industry, what about civilian use?
"Don't worry, big brother has something to do, I'll do the hard work for you." The Japanese cunningly jumped out, "It's okay, big brother, you go on with your work, I'll take care of the civilian work."
The pressure from the Soviet revisionists was too great, and China really couldn't spare any effort. After thinking about it, it decided to let Japan help it solve its civilian needs first.
In this way, Tokyo Communications introduced Westinghouse Electric's most advanced transistor technology at a very low price, and Sony was born thanks to the introduction of this technology; NEC bought planar lithography technology from Fairchild, allowing Japan to have the ability to manufacture integrated circuits.
Afterwards, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry established the Industrial Technology Institute and called NEC before leaving work: "Ah, you should have a sense of the overall situation and always remember that the whole country is a chessboard. Don't just focus on the jars and cans in front of you. If you send out a seed today, others will give you a forest tomorrow."
NEC understood immediately that this was a way for them to open up the Fairchild technology they had bought to electronic companies across the country.
The situation is stronger than people, so just open up.
In this way, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry established the Industrial Technology Agency to take the lead in technological research; at the same time, it promulgated the "Electronic Industry Revitalization Measures" to restrict foreign investment and protect the domestic market.
In 1964, Texas Instruments wanted to enter the Japanese market. After four years of hard bargaining, it only got an unequal treaty - it could only establish a joint venture, hand over core technology, disclose all patents, and the market share could not exceed 10%.
Texas Instruments suffered a big loss outside, and immediately went home to cry to his parents, "Dad, someone stole my toy..."
The White House thought, "Yeah, damn it, I watched the rocket launch and manned moon landing live on Sony TV. No, we can't do this anymore."
As a result, China and Japan met in an atmosphere of fairness, friendship and harmony. After negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement that Japan would open its market.
As soon as the market opened, Big Blue rushed into Japan with its flag waving, and in just one year it occupied more than 40% of the market.
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