Qi Zheng's idle move made Zhongsheng Capital panic.

And after he signed an investment agreement with JD.com, he slowly returned to the company's headquarters.

At this time, it was the end of 2005, and the group's year-end operating data summary was released one after another.

Wang Yuye, the big housekeeper of the group, was so busy that he didn't, no, as soon as Qi Zheng came back, he came to the door to report on this year's business situation.

"I heard that you personally invested in an e-commerce company, is the prospect of this company very good?" Wang Yuye was not in a hurry to get to the point after sitting down.

Because it was Qi Zheng's personal investment rather than a group project, Wang Yuye only thought that Qi Zheng was happy at first, but finally learned that he had invested tens of millions of dollars but only got 15 shares, and realized that Qi Zheng was optimistic about Jingdong.

"The company's prospects...... Qi Zheng muttered and nodded, "The company invested this time will become one of the best in the e-commerce industry." ”

Wang Yuye is accustomed to Qi Zheng's confident and powerful words, and he has no doubts, but this is also because he can't imagine how the e-commerce business will change society when the Internet era arrives.

But Qi Zheng knew and experienced it himself.

Therefore, investing in JD.com, in a sense, is also a foreshadowing for the future online business of Jiagu Group.

Qi Zheng knows that the combination of online and offline is the future. But the Jiagu management team, including himself, is not good at playing the Internet.

In many cases, it doesn't mean that you know what is going on and you can do it to the corresponding extent - the development of Internet business and agricultural production management are completely two different fields. If Jiagu wants to embrace the future, it is best to form a professional team focusing on Internet + agriculture.

For a long time, Jingdong, as one of the two poles of the domestic e-commerce industry, is a well-deserved "Whampoa Military Academy" in the e-commerce industry.

For example, the founder of Hema Fresh, who carried the banner of "unbounded retail" in later generations, was a former executive of JD.com, but after he proposed the prototype plan of Hema and was vetoed by Liu Qiangdong, he joined Ali and received support to establish Hema Fresh.

Therefore, the significance of investing in JD.com is not only to increase the value of its shares, but also to find suitable talents for the future strategic transformation of Jiagu Group after stepping into the circle of the Internet.

Of course, Qi Zheng did not explain these ideas to Wang Yuye, and everything will be known in the future.

After a brief chat about JD.com's investment, Wang Yuye's topic returned to Jiagu's current year's business conditions.

The focus is on the two major commodities businesses of the Jiagu Group.

"This year, after we launched the staple food strategy, the group's self-owned rice production base reached 700,000 mu, and the rice cooperative production base reached 4.5 million mu. Among them, the planting area of Xianming rice is stable at about 1.8 million mu, and the output exceeds 1.2 million tons; the planting area of 'Jiadi No. 1' is 3.4 million mu, with an output of more than 1.7 million tons; in addition, 2 million tons of high-quality japonica rice have been purchased after the autumn harvest; the current annual rice processing capacity of Jiagu grain and oil has reached 3.5 million tons, and the remaining rice is stored in our own grain depot and cooperative grassroots grain depots. ”

"Overall, the Group's high-quality rice planting base in China is expanding, and the total output continues to increase. The sales volume of rice from Jiagu Grain and Oil also maintained rapid growth, and the prices of Xianming rice and Jiagu rice generally maintained a stable and rising trend. ”

Wang Yuye didn't need to look at the information, and blurted out a series of data, which fully showed his mastery of the group's operation status.

Qi Zheng nodded again and again, this year is the first year of Jiagu's staple food strategy, the group's self-operated rice output can reach about 3 million tons, plus the additional purchase of high-quality japonica rice, nearly 5 million tons of rice storage and processing, has been one of the top rice production and processing enterprises in China.

Next year, Jiagu's rice production, collection and storage scale will continue to expand, and it will surely become the largest rice production and processing grain enterprise in China.

After saying that, Wang Yuye's voice changed: "If the group's rice business can be self-sufficient, most of the oilseeds, mainly the soybean business, rely on imports. ”

"The group's annual soybean processing capacity exceeds 9 million tons, but the domestic soybean planting area we support is only more than 5 million mu, and the output is only 1 million tons, even if we add other high-quality domestic soybeans purchased in addition, it can only exceed 1.5 million tons, and even the domestic soybeans planted by the group are more expensive than imported soybeans. ”

Qi Zheng frowned slightly: "The yield of domestic soybeans is still a little low. ”

Wang Yuye nodded first, and then shook his head, "In addition to low yields, soybeans are land-intensive crops and are suitable for large-scale mechanized planting. However, soybean production in Northeast China, except for state-run farms, faces the dilemma that farmers' land is too small and the degree of mechanization is low, and it is difficult to achieve economies of scale. ”

"This year, farmers have more than three times the income per mu of corn planting soybeans, and next year there will inevitably be more people inclined to choose to plant corn. ”

Despite the need for dryland rotation, the soybean planting area in Hei Province has always been the highest in the country. However, even if Qi Zheng has the help of the Spirit Array, he will not be able to start with such fragmented planting, and without scale, the cost will naturally not be reduced.

This is not something that can be changed by Jiagu's increased support, after all, the state also tends to sacrifice soybeans to ensure the yield of staple foods, especially corn.

The Northeast China Corn Belt starts from the southern part of Hei Province, includes all of Kyrgyzstan Province, the eastern part of Mongolia Province, and extends to the northern part of Liao Province, and is known as the world's "three golden corn belts" together with the American Corn Belt and the Ukrainian Corn Belt at the same latitude.

Relying on the fertile black soil of this region, the average yield of corn is more than 1,300 catties per mu, and individual areas with abundant water and soil can reach the level of 2,000 catties per mu without relying on artificial irrigation - compared with the yield of two or three hundred catties per mu of soybeans, hanging is not enough to describe the gap between the two.

In terms of climatic conditions, the frost-free period in most parts of the Northeast Corn Belt is about 140 days, which coincides with the natural maturity period of corn.

These are the best quality lands and the most suitable climates to produce the highest yields and the best quality of corn.

For so many years, the corn produced in the core producing areas of Northeast China has been first-class grain and second-class grain, and has never been third-class, with a high gum rate. If a different crop is changed, there is no guarantee of yield or benefit.

The most important support is output, and only output is the "bottom" of national food security. Only with this "bottom" can a large country with a population of more than one billion people not "panic".

Qi Zheng's fingers unconsciously tapped on the tabletop.

After thinking for a while, he raised his head and said, "In the foreseeable future, the group's demand for soybeans will continue unabated, and the domestic soybean planting area is difficult to meet even the needs of our group, let alone the country." ”

"The support for domestic soybeans should still be maintained, and the scale of cooperative planting bases should continue to expand, but we must also take into account overseas 'foraging', and we must do it as soon as possible. After all, domestic land development is a potted dish sooner or later, but the competition for land overseas is becoming more and more intense......

Wang Yuye laughed: "It seems that we want to go together!"

Qi Zheng also laughed.

In fact, this is an inevitable result. The limited arable land in China must strive to ensure grain production, Jiagu's small arm cannot withstand the thigh of the national strategy, and soybeans can only rely on imports to meet domestic demand.

But for Jiagu, although they are all imports, the imports that can be controlled by themselves and the imports that are controlled by others are completely different things - who made Jiagu offend the four major international grain merchants who control the soybean industry chain?

On the global food supply map, countries such as the United States and Brazil are the "old world" of food production.

In terms of the entire industrial chain of soybean planting, processing, production and transportation, the United States and Brazil are basically irreplaceable - more than 7 million tons of soybeans imported by Jiagu this year are from these two countries.

There are still a few countries that can import large quantities of grain from China or have great potential, such as the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Russia and Ukraine.

Fundamentally speaking, the feed grain of our country is completely inseparable from the United States and American capital. Nor will there be any other country that can replace and share the burden for a long time to come.

But for a company in Jiagu, Ukraine, Russia and other countries can be used as a "new world" for grain production.

Among them, Ukraine owns about one-third of the world's black land, which is equivalent to the combined black land owned by Brazil and Argentina, and was once called the "breadbasket of Europe".

In addition to the advantages of land resources, Ukraine's agricultural products also have the advantages of low freight costs and no genetically modified organisms. If the infrastructure is improved, Ukraine's agricultural output can at least double again.

"But so far, our attitude towards investing in Ukraine has been wait-and-see. In Ukraine, land cannot be bought and sold, and various legal rules are also frequently changed; in addition, Ukraine is really far away, and it is located in the hinterland of Europe, and all parties are concerned, and the whip is beyond the reach of the whip......" Wang Yuye first denied Ukraine.

Qi Zheng also agreed, and turned his gaze to the northeast, "Then, our best choice is Russia." ”

"To be precise, it should be the Russian Far East. After Wang Yuye finished speaking, he laughed as if he remembered something, "Zhang Zehong's kid went to explore the way, I guess he couldn't miss it......"