Chapter 520: Being Educated; Cerrado Grassland
"Come to the capital."

"It's New Year's Day, it's not convenient."

"Then I come to find you?"

"I'll do it."

After a few brief exchanges with the top leader, Guo Yang knew that things were developing in the direction he had expected.

Before giving that speech, Guo Yang was well prepared.

"Keqing, get ready. We are going to the capital to celebrate the New Year."

"What's wrong? Are you suddenly going to Beijing to celebrate the New Year?" Lin Keqing was playing with the baby and asked in surprise.

Guo Yang came over and picked up Guo Pengye, saying, "I have a few leaders to meet with, so I don't think they will be back."

Lin Keqing said dissatisfiedly: "The leader is also sick. He summoned you during the Chinese New Year. Can't we celebrate the New Year in peace?"

Guo Yang: “…”

When you know what I said, you will know who is sick.

However, he didn't dare to tell Lin Keqing yet. On one hand, he had a warm little family, but on the other hand, he was causing trouble everywhere, which was a bit inflated.

But Guo Yang had no regrets.

Lin Keqing went to pack her belongings, while Guo Yang played with Guo Pengye on the sofa. The little guy was full of energy at that time.

As long as there are people playing with him, he can keep playing.

That evening after the annual meeting speech, Guo Yang flew to Beijing, and Lin Keqing took Guo Pengye to his villa in Beijing.

Guo Yang went to visit the leader overnight.

In a heavily guarded courtyard, Guo Yang met his leader with an unhappy look on his face. There was no one else around.

"Tell me, Mr. Guo, what do you want to do? In just a few moments, the content of your speech has been leaked."

"Just an ordinary speech."

"Do you believe it yourself? Look at what you said. There was no food donation, only the right to survive that was snatched back. You also hunted down international grain traders and Monsanto. Why don't you just admit that you brought down Ahsan and Monsanto?"

Guo Yang felt a little guilty, mainly because the old man was a little scary when he got angry.

I have never seen this before, but now I understand what oppression is.

After calming down, Guo Yang took two deep breaths and his energy and spirit were lifted again.

"I don't think I was wrong!"

"We really have no way out." He deliberately emphasized the word 'we'.

"From the Yarlung Zangbo River, from the land leeches into India, and later into America, although we did it very cleanly, as long as we did it, we would be found!"

“Moreover, even if these incidents had not happened, the West’s technological blockade and targeting would never have stopped.

Within Jiahe, the EU has its eyes on Provimi and is also spying on the biotechnology that Jiahe possesses.

I must prepare early.

In fact, we have the initiative and can take the initiative and use biological means to dismantle the opponent's system."

Outside the window, the cold winter wind is still howling.

The room was filled with the aroma of tea.

Two figures confronted each other.

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

"So, you want to use this method to tie up the chariot you planned. Who do you think you are?!"

Guo Yang fluttered the teacup in his hand, but did not think of retreating.

"I don't mean to provoke anyone. If the higher-ups don't want to get involved, they can just push Jiahe out.

Anyway, Jiahe is fat now, and it’s the New Year, so slaughtering it can help to liven up the atmosphere.

This is a trillion-level agricultural enterprise that involves hundreds of millions of people. How can such a national important tool be in the hands of an irrelevant person?

Am I right? "

provocative!

A naked provocation!

The big boss looked at him with a murderous look. He felt that his authority was challenged. It was the first time in recent years that someone dared to speak to him like this.

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

"I know it very well." Guo Yang took over the conversation without any pause, "I also know the risks. I even brought my wife and children to the capital. If you want to do something to me, now is the best time."

After a pause, Guo Yang looked directly into the eyes of his leader, but drank the tea in the cup first.

"But I bet you won't."

"Actually, I'm a gambler. Do you know how I made my first pot of gold? You should know, yes, it was from the lottery."

The big boss suddenly said, "Just because I believe in your secret, I'm willing to risk everything?"

"Yes, because of it, because of my background, I always feel like I'm playing a game. Now I understand that if it's a game, I must complete it."

Guo Yang slowed down his speech and said word by word: "I want this nation and this country to stand on the top of the world and change the course of the entire civilized world!"

Another moment of silence.

Neither of them flinched from looking at each other, and the air seemed to be filled with the sound of electricity.

After an unknown amount of time, the tea had already cooled down.

"Then try it, but don't do it again."

"It's all up to you."

……

Its daybreak,
On such a festive day, the chairman of Jiahe poured cold water on all employees at the annual meeting.

Even though Luochuan from the Security Department made many remedial measures, there were too many people participating in the annual meeting.

The details of Jiahe’s annual meeting eventually leaked out.

quickly,

There have been many reports about Golden Harvest on portal websites, Weibo, forums, as well as traditional television and print media.

Because there is so much to write about.

The largest agricultural enterprise in China.

A pioneer in botanical pesticides,

A leader in bioenergy forests,
The first private enterprise with revenue exceeding one trillion yuan.

Every achievement is worthy of praise, and Jiahe’s existence also involves all aspects of people’s daily lives.

however,
On such a day worthy of being written about in great detail, Jiahe's chairman Guo Yang poured cold water on all Jiahe employees.

It is to be prepared for danger in times of peace.

Or is it inhumane?

In short, Guo Yang caused a lot of controversy. The popularity of national entrepreneurs has not completely cooled down yet, and he has once again stood in front of the public.

Especially his murderous words, which caused a lot of discussion.

Most people think he passed.

"No matter how long the sentence is, their good days are over, and their wives and children will have to live the rest of their lives in fear!"

"Listen, what is this talking about? Who does he think he is, a judicial authority?"

Of course, there are also people who support him and believe that corruption should be dealt with severely, just as those who oppose the death penalty often have problems themselves.
Some people have also guessed a lot of things from the words in Guo Yang's speech, such as "we have no way out", "regaining the right to survive", "hunting international grain traders", etc.

Jiahe may be the real culprit behind the Ah San 'vampire' leech tragedy.
Are India’s super-high-yield varieties of sugarcane and cotton necessarily from Monsanto?

What about America’s biological disaster?
How did Golden Harvest develop?

It is by relying on many incredible seeds that today's agricultural empire has been created step by step!
Therefore, this conspiracy theory is very popular.

Once it spread, it could not be stopped and quickly caused many responses in various places.

In response, Golden Harvest issued a statement saying that this was a rumor and that those who spread the rumor would be held accountable.

But by now the word had spread.

However, Golden Harvest's reputation in China did not get worse because of this, but got better instead. Some people even became die-hard fans of Golden Harvest.

The world is that crazy.

The related conspiracy theories quickly spread abroad and were more popular overseas than in China.

However, in today's chaotic India, the first priority of those in power in the government is to make money.

This can be seen from the speech of the Indian Minister of Agriculture.

“When federal farmers discovered that super-high-yielding varieties of cotton and sugarcane were frantically draining groundwater during the dry season, their ancestral water storage systems had collapsed.”

"And places like Assam in the northeast are also suffering from drought leeches, and the country is even unable to launch a war in the region because of this."

“Whether it’s Monsanto or Golden Harvest, there’s a possibility that they’ve created biological invasions.

The technology it possesses is more covert and dangerous than the plundering of the East India Company. The government will use relevant laws to seize all its assets in India."

Soon after, Jiahe’s small investment in India was also confiscated.

Judging from the scale of investment alone, many people think that it is unlikely that Jiahe did this, but he must be among those who take the blame.

In Europe,

The EU Commissioner for Environment even held a press conference for this purpose.

It wants to investigate Jiahe's industries in Europe, especially seeds and various imported products.

But they entered Provimi as soon as possible, and their purpose was self-evident.

In the old United States,

Its Secretary of State issued a statement.

"It is possible that Jiahe caused the agricultural crisis in the Federation. Intelligence shows that Jiahe has cultivated many grass species with strong characteristics, such as Alfalfa No. 1 and Ligusticum chuanxiong. They have the ability to cultivate super weeds.

The White House will join hands with allies to launch an emergency investigation mechanism, and any behavior that endangers federal food sovereignty will face the most severe sanctions! "

For a while, the Western world was in a state of panic and Golden Harvest's overseas business was facing a crisis.

At this time, Guo Yang still stayed in the capital.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to go back to Jiuquan, but his leader is worried about his safety and asks him to stay in Beijing for the time being.

At the same time, the two have been communicating about the future and have each made their own ideas on "how to conquer the world".

The bustle of the outside world seemed to have nothing to do with them.

this day,
The two were discussing enthusiastically when a phone call suddenly came in. Guo Yang took a look and saw it was Qu Yang, who should be in Brazil at the moment.

"This is a call from Brazil. It seems that Jiahe's situation in Brazil is not good either."

"Isn't this exactly what you wanted?" The big boss was ready to watch the show leisurely, "Go ahead."

Guo Yang turned on the speakerphone.
Qu Yang's rough voice came over, "Boss, the acquisition of Monsanto's seed bank has fallen through."

……

A month ago,
Qu Yang came to the Cerrado grassland, which is located in the central part of Brazil and the core area of ​​Brazil. The capital Brasilia is also located here.

It is also the center of Monsanto's Brazilian seed empire.

The Cerrado is a tropical savannah.
The land has long been considered unsuitable for agriculture.

One of the reasons is that the land is too barren.
As well as being covered with dense scrub, 'Cerrado' means dense in Portuguese.

however,
In the 20s, the soybean varieties developed by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation turned this seemingly barren land into a golden area.

The Cerrado is hot and humid, and daylight hours in tropical regions are shorter than in temperate zones, where soybeans have flourished for thousands of years.

For farming to succeed in the Cerrado, soybeans must be able to thrive in the tropics, where temperatures are higher and daylight periods are shorter.

Furthermore, the soils of the Cerrado are not suitable for farming.

This means that soybeans that are adapted to this environment must be hardy varieties that can cope with the highly acidic soils of the Cerrado grasslands that lack essential plant macronutrients.

This remarkable achievement was made in 1975 at the Soybean Research Institute established by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation in the southern state of Paraná.

The first tropical soybean varieties were developed to be suitable for cultivation in Brazil's vast hinterland.

Embrapa seeds are essentially super germplasm.

Not only can they survive the harsh conditions of the Cerrado, but they also produce higher yields than varieties grown in the more temperate south.

Over the next two decades, Embrapa helped develop dozens of soybean varieties uniquely suited to the Brazilian environment.

What's even more rare is that

It is an open source model.

Embrapa shares its germplasm with local breeders, who in turn improve it year by year.

It was during these twenty years that Brazil's soybean yield per acre doubled, making it the region with the highest soybean yield in the world.

then,

Because of the Brazilian government's extremely high interest rates, Monsanto acquired the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation and the two largest seed companies.

The germplasm resources that had reached perfection fell into the hands of Monsanto.

However, soybean seeds are only part of Monsanto's lucrative returns from Brazil. To this day, Monsanto also controls about 40% of Brazil's corn seed market.

It's almost like a monopoly.

Because in the Cerrado, the warm climate and year-round sunshine allow farmers to have two harvests each year.

Soybeans and corn are usually rotated.

There is no winter fallow here like in Northeast China.

The gap between harvesting a soybean crop and planting a corn crop may be as short as 15 minutes.

After the soybean combine harvester, the corn planter will follow into the field.

Monsanto earns billions of dollars in revenue each year from this seamless seeding system.

Even more shameless is that Monsanto added Roundup Ready technology to germplasm that had been hand-selected by Brazilian breeders for decades, and then claimed that it was Monsanto's genetic modification technology that made the crops achieve high yields.

In fact, it just steals the results of breeders. Genetically modified seeds do not necessarily have higher yields than traditional breeding seeds.

But Monsanto’s Roundup Ready technology does make farmers’ lives easier and save them money — at least in the short term.

Because farms in the Cerrado are so large, in the 90s 60% of farms were larger than 2400 acres.

Today, the data is even more exaggerated, with farms of 50,000 to 60,000 acres common.

When Qu Yang arrived here, what he saw was an endless expanse of commercial crops.

After years of hard work, Tianhe Seeds has only made a small breakthrough in the corn seed industry through Dow Brazil.

But this is still Monsanto's private territory.

Even though it is battered now.

(End of this chapter)