"Boss, this is the black wolfberry project plan that is easy to spell. The project planted 150,000 mu of black fruit wolfberry, including 10,000 mu of core test base, 40,000 mu of standardized demonstration area, and 100,000 mu of radiation driven area. The total investment of the project is 500 million yuan, of which 90 million yuan is raised by Yipin, 200 million yuan is won by the Agricultural Development Bank, and 210 million yuan is applied for financial subsidies and other construction funds......

In the chairman's office, Qi Zheng was flipping through the documents, and in order to reduce his workload, Wei Ming, the general assistant, reported orally while sorting out the approved documents.

"Have we arranged the agricultural research team stationed in Yipin?" asked Qi Zheng without raising his head.

This time, Qi Zheng did not give it some golden fingers as in the past.

After all, Jiagu is not the "father" who unconditionally supports Yipin, he has provided a technical and guidance team, and even has a learning object, if Yipin still can't stand, don't expect to be able to pick up a heavier burden in the future.

And Yi Pin is not a halo of gold fingers at all, after all, the black wolfberry seedlings are ordered from the Jiagu breeding base, and every breeding base in Jiagu is surrounded by aura. The seedlings that have been cleansed by the aura are not bad.

"It's all arranged. Our agricultural research team, training team, easy-to-spell working group, and processing plant team are stationed at the same time. After Mr. Yan learned from Jialan Fruit Industry, the upstream of the entire black wolfberry industry was upgraded, and he also guided the midstream upgrade of the industrial chain that was only weakly connected with the upstream before. If there is no accident, a modern agricultural industry demonstration project integrating production, marketing, research and processing is taking shape rapidly. Wei Ming spoke very quickly, but he reported clearly.

Qi Zheng signed a document and nodded slightly: "How is Yipin's Series B financing going?"

Wei Ming's words were succinct: "It is still under negotiation, but judging from the current contact and negotiation progress, the most likely to lead the B round of financing is Tencent Industrial Investment Fund." ”

Qi Zheng sighed, but he was not surprised.

In the final analysis, it is the way of social e-commerce. In this era of high customer acquisition costs for mainstream e-commerce units, the most important thing for Yipin in the early stage of its rise is to gain more users with a lower unit customer acquisition cost.

There is nothing more suitable than WeChat, which has hundreds of millions of users, to become a diversion artifact of easy spelling. With the "blessing" of WeChat, there is no obstacle to the grouping and sharing of easy-to-spell.

Even if it is Qi Zheng, he will give priority to cooperating with that penguin.

It's not that there is no VC capital to offer a higher price, but what VC capital hopes to do most is to mature the company as quickly as possible like KFC ripening the white feather chicken, and then pull up the valuation and quickly find a new takeover to get rid of. And BAT itself starts from the enterprise, and it is easier than VC to ride the same boat with the enterprise, rather than short-sighted.

With Jiagu's support in hard conditions, and choosing to stand in the big penguins, in the short term, Yi Pin's attention is not needed for Qi Zheng to bet more attention.

Wei Ming easily packed the easy-spelling materials into the blue document bag, which means that "there is no objection to its handling, but a certain amount of attention needs to be maintained".

"Russian Far East Development Minister Trutnev sent an invitation through the Kagu Far East Branch, hoping to further strengthen business cooperation with Kagoku. Wei Ming opened another document.

Qi Zhenghu raised his head suspiciously and asked, "What kind of cooperation should be strengthened?"

Wei Ming quickly opened the supplementary information of the affiliated Ministry of Information, swept his eyes, and said: "The Ministry of Information has found out that the Russian side hopes that Jiagu will help promote a higher degree of Sino-Russian agricultural economic and trade cooperation, such as lifting the ban on wheat imports to Russia. ”

"Why didn't you bring it up through official contact?"

"The Russian side has already raised it, but it may feel that the official is not positive enough. Naturally, they hope that Jiagu will contact and promote the mediation on their behalf through private channels. Wei Ming said solemnly.

Qi Zheng rubbed his chin and thought.

In March of this year, after the events in Crimea, Russia unsurprisingly began to be subject to Western economic sanctions. Russia's financial, energy and military sanctions are particularly restrictive.

The oil industry has been the most affected by sanctions, and the agriculture and food industries have become the beneficiaries - the bulk commodities exported by the Mao family are not only oil, but also grain, especially wheat. Against the backdrop of the food embargo imposed by the Russian authorities as a counter-sanction measure, it is making every effort to increase grain exports, such as zero tariffs on wheat exports, and strongly advocate strengthening ties with Asia.

Relations with the West have deteriorated, and financing in the form of foreign direct investment has become scarce, making the developing Far East more dependent on Kagok. At this stage, Jiagu and the Russian Far East have entered an unprecedented "honeymoon period".

So, should you respond to the request of the Russian side?

In 1996, the country imposed a ban on the import of Russian wheat, when quarantine authorities found traces of Indian smut in Russian wheat. This fungus is a dangerous disease regulated by the state, which can survive in the soil for many years and is difficult to eradicate once introduced.

It is said that after so many years, it is reasonable to lift the ban.

From the perspective of interests, it does not seem to be unprofitable.

Qi Zheng knows that in the next few years, Russia is replacing the United States and the European Union as a new generation of leaders in the international wheat market. The country is busy regaining its position as the "hegemon" of world wheat exports during the tsarist rule.

Moreover, the depreciation of the ruble and the limited storage space in Russia have caused most of Russia's crops to be sold shortly after harvesting, further driving down export prices – cheap raw materials that are loved by everyone.

But officially because of this, Qi Zheng finally shook his head and said: "Let the Russian side negotiate with the official, we will not wade into this pond of troubled waters, and there is no need for Jiagu to use this to make any political capital for himself." ”

Wheat is different from soybeans.

In order to ensure the effective supply of edible oil and feed protein, Jiagu is willing to invest heavily in the Far East and promote the import of soybeans from Russia in order to ensure the effective supply of edible oil and feed protein in the context of increasing domestic demand and limited land.

However, wheat is related to the security of staple food, and the country must have taken it into account, and Jiagu rashly inserted it, and it may be thankless.

"Just refuse, aren't you afraid of offending the Russian side?" Wei Ming couldn't help but remind.

Qi Zheng did not hesitate: "Sino-Russian cooperation, now the most urgent is the Russian side." With the investment of the Far East in Jiagu, we refused and refused, and they were disappointed at most, not to mention that they could not be offended. ”

Wei Ming quietly looked up at Qi Zheng, only to feel that the mountains were standing up.

Jiagu's influence in the Far East is not small, and many people in China know it. However, not many people know how big the influence is.

After Wei Ming became the chief assistant to the chairman, he came into contact with a lot of highly confidential information, so he had a general idea.

Anyone with a little vision can see that the way out for the Russian Far East lies in deepening cooperation between the Northeast and the Far East.

Of course, it's one thing to be able to see, not many people dare to think like this, and even fewer dare to do so.

No matter how backward it is, the Russian Far East is an area of several million square kilometers with an environment that is absolutely not pleasant, and it goes without saying that the risks of development are huge.

But Jiagu is not only stained, but also deeply integrated.

Jiagu has become the largest foreign investor in the Far East, and its soybean industry has also driven domestic investment in Russia in many fields such as logistics and transportation, agricultural processing, infrastructure construction, and tourism, and has continuously expanded the scope of opening up in the Far East.

At the same time, echoing the "soybean revitalization plan" in the northeast of China, it has quietly improved the business environment in the northeast and loosened the dilemma of "investment in Shanhaiguan".

Regardless of how Jiagu is "colluding" with interest groups in the Far East, it is a fantasy to think that a private company has greatly affected the economic situation of the two regions.

"Speaking of wheat, I remember that the planting area of high-quality wheat in Jiagu this year should be more than 900,000 mu. Qi Zheng thought for a moment, turned his head and asked.

Qi Zheng's question dragged Wei Ming out of admiration.

Wei Ming suddenly woke up and subconsciously said: "Yes, Jiagu has a total of 960,000 mu of self-grown high-quality wheat, including 640,000 mu of high-quality strong gluten wheat and 320,000 mu of high-quality weak gluten wheat......

In absolute terms, the wheat planting area in Jiagu is really less than a fraction of the rice planting area.

But it can't be counted that way.

On the whole, the domestic wheat supply is in excess of demand, and there seems to be no problem in saying that it is completely self-sufficient.

However, in the main wheat producing areas in China, ordinary wheat is still mainly cultivated. High-quality wheat has always been in short supply in China, mainly because of the strict requirements for high-quality wheat planting and the lack of professional management personnel and technical level in field management. In addition, the cost of growing high-quality wheat is relatively high, making it difficult for individual growers with small planting scale to stick to high-quality wheat.

The quality of wheat is the most complex among all crops, and the quality requirements for bread, biscuits, noodles, and steamed bread are different. For the domestic wheat industry, the adjustment of the industrial structure is to plant high-quality strong-gluten wheat, or high-quality weak-gluten wheat - in addition to making high-quality bread, strong-gluten wheat can also be used with ordinary wheat to make very good noodles, good dumplings or good steamed buns.

Don't look at the small number of grains, but in the high-quality wheat market, the amount is not light.

"The harvested wheat is on the market, how is the market reacting?" Qi Zheng glanced at Wei Ming.

Wei Ming, who has worked hard, doesn't need to look at the information, he just opened his mouth: "Half of this batch of high-quality wheat is put on the market in the form of raw materials to see the market acceptance." As a result, it also inadvertently drove a rapid increase in the price of high-quality wheat. ”

Qi Zheng was stunned for a moment: "How do you say this?"

"Probably because of our reputation, some companies even rushed to buy the wheat we put on the market at a high price, making the wheat transaction price hundreds of yuan per ton higher than the normal market price. Originally, compared with ordinary wheat, the price performance of high-quality wheat has been relatively strong in the past two years.

Qi Zheng smiled and said, "What now?"

"Now it's back to normal, but it is clear that the follow-up impact is not small. At the beginning of the year, in order to compete for the share of imported wheat, some milling enterprises did not hesitate to take the risk to obtain import quotas, and they already had the idea of refunding wheat import quotas. Wei Ming replied.

Qi Zheng understood and said with a smile: "Are you afraid that our production capacity will affect the market?"

"It seems so. ”

To be honest, Wei Ming was inexplicably satisfied with such a market reaction.

What about the wheat market, which seems to have little presence in Jiagu, as soon as Jiagu made a move, he was almost scared to pee.

What is the concept of nearly 1 million mu of high-quality wheat? To put it bluntly, this can meet at least 10 percent of China's demand for high-quality wheat.

But because of this 10% demand, how many milling companies are crazy and willful in order to compete for import quotas feel helpless and embarrassed?

That's deterrence!

Wei Ming once thought that this deterrent only existed at the Internet level.

——The head enterprises of the Internet are all proper super companies, and their every move has a huge imagination space, and the problem that entrepreneurs once couldn't get around was what to do if BAT plagiarized you, and now the problem that can't be bypassed is what to do if BAT doesn't vote for you, which is a concrete manifestation of this deterrent.

The reason why the Matthew effect is particularly prominent in the Internet is because in the Internet field, step by step leading. To put it seriously, the Internet industry itself is a highly monopolistic industry, and the second child must die.

But in the field of grain and oil, this "Matthew effect" is not obvious - although the eldest is strong, the second can also live with taste.

However, Kaya breaks that boundary.

The market's reaction to Jiagu is only one million acres of wheat, and the only explanation is that everyone believes that Jiagu has entered the market, and the market pattern will be reshuffled.

The most obvious is the reaction of direct competitors.

Wei Ming continued to report: "Probably also affected by this, large milling enterprises such as Guoliang and Yihai Kerry, including Wudeli, have begun to carry out the industrialization and operation of high-quality wheat, and formed a high-quality wheat industry consortium with wheat farmers, and have encircled the land. ”

Qi Zheng couldn't help but sit up straight and asked, "Enclosure?"

"Yes, in Hebei Province, Lu Province, and Henan Province, patches of high-quality wheat bases have been divided......"

It is important to know that the cultivation of special wheat has relatively strict environmental requirements. First of all, the planting area is a very important aspect.

Only some planting areas in China are suitable for extensive cultivation of high-quality wheat seeds. For example, Hebei Province is one of the main wheat producing provinces in the country, and it is also the dominant producing area of strong gluten wheat. Its geographical location and climatic characteristics are suitable for the growth of high-quality strong gluten wheat, which can ensure higher yield.

When the seizure of grain sources evolved into a real "enclosure", Qi Zheng couldn't help but murmur: "This is really a big change in wheat." ”

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