"Is this a new alfalfa variety?" Wu asked, taking a close-up photo with his camera.

The view of the vast meadow in the distance is shocking, but when you look closer, there seems to be nothing unusual.

"Yes, don't underestimate this grass, it contains a lot of scientific and technological innovations. Wei Ming introduced.

"Can you elaborate?" Wu Lei took out his voice recorder.

Wei Ming shrugged: "There's nothing bad to say." You may not know that China has led scientific and technological innovation in basic crop research and molecular design breeding, especially in the theory and practice of molecular module design breeding of important crops such as rice and wheat. However, a major breakthrough has not been made in the breeding of forage varieties. ”

"We at Jiagu are certainly not the first unit to learn from the idea of crop molecular module breeding, but it should be the unit that produces the fastest results. ”

"When growing in the desert, the first thing is to be super drought-tolerant and water-saving. We excavated the extreme drought resistance genes of the wild grasses in the Alashan desert steppe, so that the transpiration of the new drought-tolerant alfalfa was reduced by nearly half compared with the common species, and the wintering rate in the desert steppe was increased by more than 60%. ”

"In addition to this, another major innovation is the inoculation of endophytic fungi. Our researchers found and isolated ideal rhizobia and other endophytic fungal strains, and artificially inoculated them into the leguminous alfalfa, which increased the nitrogen fixation efficiency of the new strain by 40%, and the root system was terriblely developed, and it was easier to decompose to form organic colloids after death, so that the soil formed stable aggregates and improved the physical and chemical properties of sandy soil......"

This progress also makes China the second country in the world after New Zealand to successfully use the technology of inoculating endophytic fungi to create a new strain of forage, ranking in the forefront of the world in the same field. ”

Wu Lei recorded Wei Ming's introduction very carefully, and after listening, he naturally looked at Wei Ming and asked the question that many people wanted to ask: "Jiagu, why can you always make breakthroughs in technological innovation?"

Without waiting for Wei Ming to answer, he added: "Many people say that the Jiagu research team is like having a temperament, no matter what research they do, they can make new results, while other research teams lack this temperament. ”

How else to say it?

Just looking at the past two years, "Jiadou No. 13", new hops, super purified aquatic plants, super energy trees, plasticizing bacteria and plasticizing plants...... He understands that the previous investment in scientific research will focus on the results at a certain point in time, but the light of Jiagu is too strong.

Like the new strain of pasture in front of me, it doesn't even get much attention.

Wei Ming smiled: "Well, I'm not a researcher, and I don't know much about technology, so I can't explain whether the temperament of the researcher Jiagu you said exists." ”

"But there are always some unusual elements that cause such a phenomenon to happen, right?" Wu Lei also smiled and followed the temptation.

"My understanding ......"

"Hmm. ”

"Probably because there is a good concept of 'valuing agriculture and suppressing business' in the Jiagu system. ”

Wu Lei was dumbfounded.

He looked at Wei Ming blankly: "Heavy agriculture and suppress business......?

"Derogatory terms, right?" Wei Ming said calmly: "I understand." In the eyes of many people, isn't valuing agriculture and suppressing business the reason for China's poverty and backwardness in modern times? ”

Wu Lei opened his mouth, he was one of the "many people".

"You can't be trapped by the literal meaning, but you have to understand the essence of the importance of agriculture and business. ”

"Hmm, essence, what do you mean?" Wu Lei's thoughts were a little confused for a moment.

Wei Ming looked at the pasture and said: "This involves a seemingly shallow and deep question, what is agriculture? My understanding is that this is a production process from scratch, and the core process occurs between people and land. And what is business? To put it mildly, it is the calculation of people against each other. ”

Economics textbooks say that business and exchange can also create wealth.

But if you think about it, you can see that the "wealth creation" of commercial exchange is not the same thing as the wealth creation of the peasants who grow food from the land—the former cannot create wealth "from nothing". It is true that business can take advantage of people's desires and "grow from small to big" wealth through exchange, but no matter how the trick changes, someone must first create the basic wealth, and then the whole business game can be played.

Going deeper, the problem faced by merchants and robbers is actually very similar: how to get their hands on the wealth they already have - well, for a long time in history, merchants and robbers were inseparable, and the most famous one was the British "pirate royal".

"In fact, today our country is still firmly implementing 'heavy agriculture and suppressing business', but the scope of 'agriculture' has become broader, such as manufacturing, which is the largest 'agriculture' under modern technological conditions. But the essence is the same – to create new wealth from nothing. Of course, the scope of business has also expanded, with the emergence of investment, finance, and so on, but the essence remains largely a business-robber hybrid. Wei Ming said lightly.

As for countries like Britain and the United States, they were first founded on production and created the world's number one power, with unlimited scenery, but gradually turned to playing finance, and then began to decline - how can the commercial civilization of the West compare with the wisdom of the Chinese civilization, which is the most resilient and vital human being?

Wu Lei understood it now, but he was stunned, he only felt that he had learned history in vain.

"Okay, but what does this have to do with the frequent research results of Jiagu?"

Wei Ming was surprised: "Why is it okay?"

"It is precisely because the Jiagu system attaches importance to production from top to bottom and attaches importance to creating wealth from scratch that new technologies can continue to appear. I don't talk about investment, I don't talk about the system or anything, I just talk about the job structure. Among the more than 100,000 employees in the Jiagu system, there are only more than 10,000 researchers, but more than 50,000 are engaged in technical work. ”

"Oh?"

"Don't underestimate the technicians who only do technical guidance, they don't usually work directly on something, but they can optimize the production process and feed the data back to the research team in real time, and the stronger their technical ability, the stronger their ability to promote scientific research. ”

When Wu Lei heard him say this, he felt that it made sense.

"Take this new strain of forage as an example, if you encounter someone who doesn't even understand what the concept of genetic fitness is, he can still guide others to grow good forage? ”

Wu Lei was stunned, pondered for a long time, and didn't understand what the specific concept of "genetic fitness" was, and couldn't help but feel sad, daring to come to Jiagu, and even had no qualifications to be a worker.

Wei Ming said it well: "Our China is based on 'agriculture', and the essence is to be independent and self-reliant, and there is no need to rely on other production centers - China is the largest production center, and itself is the biggest mountain." In the same way, Jiagu is essentially only taking the road of independence, why do you say that the results are frequent? Because they are all forced out......"

"Forced, what else can stop you?" Wu Lei muttered.

"Technology? Nothing should be able to stop us. The only thing that can stop us is the relationship between people. Qi Zheng didn't know when he came to them, and he just took Wu Lei's words.

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