There is no doubt that Link is already a super-rich man.

In the United States, the definition of super-rich roughly refers to the top 1% of households. Link's income is clearly above the average for this minority population. And the amount of assets far exceeds the average of this group.

In fact, he is already one of the top 50 richest people in the United States, and it is predictable that he will continue to rise in the rankings.

There are dozens of billionaires in the United States with assets of more than $10 billion. But the value of the assets of these billionaires fluctuates widely. And the richest man with more than 100 billion dollars has only appeared in a year or two. Now the richest man in the world, there is not much room for asset appreciation. The fastest time for those wealthy to increase their value is during the growth phase of their business. Once their enterprises mature, their asset growth rate will decline or even experience a significant negative growth.

Because their assets are mainly derived from their stocks.

Link is different from those people. He barely invests directly in stocks. There are also no listed companies. His assets, mainly cash. The amount of cash he holds is impressive, even for the world's No. 1 company. Since he owned those four wells, he has produced nearly 40 million tons of crude oil a year. This is probably the largest private oil field in the world.

Hundreds of millions of barrels of crude oil bring him billions of dollars in cash flow every year. As long as the reserves of that oil field are high enough, his assets will grow rapidly. So there are already speculations about how many years it will take him to become the richest man in the world.

The title of the richest man in the world is not necessarily a good thing for Link. He himself knows it. His status is not worthy of the assets he has. He was now a sheep with a thick pile of wool, and there were always people thinking about how to cut the wool off his body.

He also knew that he should raise his status to a level worthy of the wealth he possessed as soon as possible.

So he's been thinking about what he's going to do.

Now he has a preliminary plan, but he has not thought it through. And he felt that the conditions were not ripe enough.

On this day, he traveled from Ozette to Sacramento, the capital of California.

The headquarters of California Agricultural Services Corporation has moved to a newly built office location. It was in a newly built seven-story building on the outskirts of the city. The company's laboratory is also located here.

This laboratory cost him more than $50 million. Of course, the main cost is the instrumentation.

Jessica gave herself the title of president of the company, a company with assets of more than 100 million, and the operator can indeed claim to be the president, and of course, he is also qualified to have a secretary.

Her secretary was a woman in her thirties. It's not the first time Link has come to the office to find Jessica. So her secretary wouldn't be stupid enough to stop him: "Mr. Hans, Miss Benis is free now!"

After Link's thanks, he knocked on the door and pushed it in.

This president's office is not big. Nor does it take a completely transparent layout. However, the door behind it is facing a floor-to-ceiling curtain wall, which is very well lit.

"Link, why are you here?" she saw that it was Link who had entered, and stood up in surprise and walked quickly over to him.

He hugged her in his arms and kissed her between lovers before he smiled and said, "I want to surprise you!"

Jessica pulled him to the couch and sat down, saying, "Pleasantly surprised. I thought you were busy preparing for the ISC. ”

"That's nothing to prepare. All I have to do is get the drinks ready for the competition, and I'll leave the rest to Snapton and Martha. He sat down on the couch and stretched comfortably around her waist.

The ISC competition is a blind competition, and I don't know who the judges are yet, so I can't do it even if I want to.

"Did you come by the way? ”

"Of course, I came here on purpose. I miss you!"

Sweet words, no matter how strong and independent people are, no matter how hard-hearted people will like to listen to them. As for whether you believe it or not, that's another story. But Jessica was willing to believe him.

After the two of them were on the couch for twenty minutes, before they turned into a raging fire, Jessica pushed him away and said, "Not now, I still have to work!" She said as she tidied up her disheveled clothes.

Link took two deep breaths and said in a hoarse voice, "How's the company's business now?"

Jessica is also willing to distract herself from work matters: "So far, we've negotiated 26 wineries in California, and we're serving them. The number of new customers has increased every month. Abroad, our main business comes from Australia and South Africa. In those two countries, we were qualified for the export of live cultures. A total of 38 customers have been developed. But even with these customers, our turnover this year is less than three million. We need to continue our efforts. ”

Link listened to her and nodded, "That was a great start. "Before May, he was the only customer of the California Service Company.

He asked, "Is there any progress in the research in the laboratory?"

"There has been some progress, but it is not yet ready for mass production. The isolated live bacteria and viruses are not yet stable in shape. There is still the possibility of infinite reproduction. Until we do that, we can't sell to the outside world. Otherwise, there is a risk of an ecological crisis. ”

Link agrees with this attitude. Bacteria and viruses are very tenacious creatures. Once there is a mutation in nature, it is almost impossible to completely kill it.

"If I invest more, will Floryn's research be accelerated?"

"You're going to increase your investment?" Jessica didn't show her joy, but frowned. She said. "Link, we don't have the money to increase the capital at the same time. ”

She is in the tens of millions. But the other 25 percent of the company's shares actually belonged to Flolin, not hers. So she can't use her own money to help her dad increase his capital. Unless it's a loan. Otherwise, the opportunity is seen as a gift. That's more than half of the tax.

And she didn't want Link to increase his capital and let Florin's share be reduced.

Link understood her concerns. He smiled and said, "I plan to invest 150 million this time, all for the laboratory." You contribute 30 million yuan for the promotion of the company's business. My stake ratio remains the same, and Florin's stake will be divided into half for you. What do you think?"

"Deal!" Jessica did not shake hands after the negotiations were completed. Instead, he was given a deep kiss. "I'll talk to my dad. She knew that Link was very attentive to her psychological feelings.

Link certainly added more than his shares. But he didn't care about any of that. Jessicado gets the part she gets for running the company.

Link glanced at her office and said with a smile, "I'll go to the lab and talk to Flolin." ”

"Good. I'm going to get back to work!"

Link left the president's office and went four floors above the building. The lab is located right on this.

Florin was working in a lab, and he was waiting outside the door.

When Florin learned that he was coming, she gave her assistant a few words before coming out. He took off his mask and said with a smile, "Have you seen Jessica?"

"Yes, I talked to her for a while. He also talked about the intention to continue to increase the capital of the laboratory. ”

Florin paused and asked in surprise, "You plan to increase the capital of the laboratory?"

"That's right, I plan to increase my capital by 150 million, all for experiments. I hope your experiments are progressing faster. Maybe you need more equipment and experimenters. But do you have enough space in your lab?"

"Honestly, it's not enough. We, the experimenters, in order to ensure space in the laboratory. We, the experimenters, are going to hit the office. Florin said. "Maybe we can come to my office and talk. ”

Although Florin's office is separate, it is only about a dozen square meters, and it is also full of experimental data files, which shows that he just said that there is not enough space in the laboratory, which is not a lie.

However, that made Link a little worried: "If I increase my capital and buy new equipment, do I need to build a new laboratory?"

"Not at all. Florin said with a smile. "We still have enough space for that equipment in our labs. The problem we have now is that some of the equipment can't be housed in the same lab at the same time. But there's plenty of space in every lab. ”

He thought for a moment and then said, "Of course, if we have enough money, we can buy more advanced equipment." That might require new space. However, there are also some new laboratories that can be opened on the fourth floor. ”

Link nodded and said, "It would be nice if I could arrange the space." You know, my purpose in increasing my capital is to speed up the experiment. ”

Florin said, "I will invite more experts and experimenter assistants." Together with the equipment purchased, it will only cost up to 50 million US dollars to maintain the operation of the laboratory for a year. Another 100 million, I plan to spend 30 million to start a new study. The remaining 70 million, I think, can be used to build new factories. ”

"What does new research mean?"

"High-yield genetic studies of major crops. We had this plan for a long time, but the lab couldn't handle it. If only there were more manpower and experimental equipment. We can reconcile two different projects. ”

"High-yield genes?"

"Yes. But that's just our internal name. Through this study, we hope to find out the genes in crops that control yields, and then complete them to maximize the yield of those crops. If such crops were to appear, their yields could even be doubled if the supply of nutrients increased. ”

Link felt that the research seemed to have a better impact on his future plans. He nodded hurriedly and said, "This project sounds very interesting. But when will you be able to produce results?"

"Link. You know it's not something we can control. The researchers in our lab have a certain amount of research and understanding of the DNA of crops. This will make it easier for us to find the gene segment of interest. But how to fix their genes needs to be explored slowly. Because we don't know how their base pairs are arranged optimally. ”

Just listen to him continue: "The yield of those genetically modified crops now is indeed higher than that of ordinary crops. So we have to research new high-yielding crops as well. We're also using genetic technology. But we are tinkering with the original genes and will not replace or add other genes. Almost zero in harmfulness. That's where our technology and GMO technology come in. ”

"How much do you expect this project to take and how long will it take?"

"It's definitely a long-term plan, and every crop needs to be re-studied. ”

"Wheat, corn, soybeans and rice. I hope that you will be working on all four crops at the same time. They are now the four most important crops in the world. I hope that they will complete their studies soon. ”

"If we were working on four crops at the same time, we wouldn't be able to do it in our lab. ”

Link said arrogantly, "Then build another laboratory." Isn't there still a place for the land we bought? I'll add another 100 million dollars. I guess that's enough. ”

Florin blinked and said, "I like a boss like you!"