Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 159 Speak (1010)

"Is the news reported by the Flower Club true this time? Is it a fraud, or is it true? Why have you never heard of it before?
And isn't this Zhou Ming mainly studying artificial intelligence and mathematics?Why did you come here to study soybeans again?
Agronomy, artificial intelligence, and mathematics are completely irreconcilable, and there is a distance of hundreds of thousands of miles. Even if there is a change, it is impossible to have no signs at all. If you have any news, tell me. "

It was already past eleven o'clock in the evening, Huaguo time, but in a conference room in an office building in Shanghai, a gray-haired old man who looked to be in his 70s or [-]s was sitting at the conference table in the conference room. directly in front of.

The appearance of this old man is not that of a Chinese, one can tell at a glance that he is a foreigner.

In addition to the old man, there were many people sitting around the conference table, including men and women.

The old man with white hair and beard who was frowning and asking others about Zhou Ming's specific situation was Ge Ren, chairman and president of Cargill Investment (Huaguo) Co., Ltd.

The people who are sitting below and being trained are all other leaders of the company, but none of them have the same status as the chairman and president Ge Rengao.

Cargill Investment (Huaguo) Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned investment company of Cargill. Her parent company, Cargill, is an international food, agricultural and risk management product and service provider, headquartered in Minnesota, USA.

At the same time, Cargill is also known as one of the four major grain merchants that controls the global grain transportation and sales.

ADM, Bunge, Cargill of the United States, and Louis Dreyfus of Fargo, the four world's top [-] multinational companies known as the four major grain merchants in the industry, cooperate with each other to set world grain prices and perform their duties , each responsible.

Among them, the English name of Bunge Limited is Bunge Limited, which was established in 1818 and is headquartered in Westchester County, New York State, USA.

This is an integrated global agribusiness and food company, famous for its emphasis on the whole process from the farm to the terminal. It is also the world's leading oilseed processor and owns a large farm in South America. While selling fertilizers to farmers, it also acquires The grain in their hands is then exported to other countries or further processed.

Cargill focuses on the logistics link. It has 400 flat-bottomed grain tugboats and 2000 large container trucks. It also advocates open free trade, and its development strategy is mainly to develop potential markets in the third world. Open free trade is just right for Cargill. Develop his main strategy.

ADM is one of the world's largest oilseed, corn and wheat processing companies. About two-thirds of its revenue comes from the processing of soybeans, peanuts and other oilseeds.

In addition, ADM has always been known for its emphasis on research and development, and it continues to support its development through chemical research.

As for the Louis Dreyfus Group in Faguo, it was established in 1851 and is the world's leading agricultural product trading and processing enterprise.

The group's global trade in agricultural products is mainly in the charge of the group's commodity department.

Ge Ren, who is frowning now, once said that there is a competitive relationship among the four major grain merchants, and there is no cooperative organization like OPEC among them, and it is difficult to form a unified interest trend.

But is this really the case?

From one point alone, it can be seen that what Ge Ren said is somewhat credible. The four major grain merchants are all operating in a one-stop group. From the production links such as seeds and chemical fertilizers to the establishment of their own transportation channels and other distribution links, they have already Complete control of the entire chain.

Cooperating so closely and seamlessly, are they really pure competition?

In addition, they also control 80% of the world's grain trading volume, and it is true that only they can set the world's grain prices.

It is clear at a glance what the actual situation is.

So how do the four major grain merchants do this?
Their method is nothing more than to invade the grain market and control the grain market through futures to gain an absolute advantage for themselves and occupy most of the international grain market. This is how China's soybean market is occupied by them.

"Why don't you talk, are you dumb? This meeting was called urgently, and I asked you to come here in the middle of the night not to let you come here to be in a daze.

After this meeting is over, the results of the meeting will be reported to the headquarters soon!
Tell me everything you know. "

Seeing that after he finished speaking, none of the people present responded, which made Ge Ren very angry.

Everyone present understands why Ge Ren is so angry. After all, Zhou Ming's Super Beans can be said to be a blow to the soybean industry of the four major grain merchants in China.

If this is okay in other countries, they can use the relationship of the United States to suppress the local government, let them still plant their genetically modified soybeans, and make the new super soybeans fall into the dilemma of no one to use, so as to suppress.

In addition, they can even buy directly and hold the super beans in their own hands.

Once they do this, the production cost of soybeans will be reduced again for them, which is a good thing for them, but it is not a good thing for those countries whose soybean industry and prices are controlled by him up.

Because this means that those countries where they control the pricing power of soybeans will have a harder time regaining their domestic soybean industries.

And based on what their four major grain merchants have done in Huaguo, it is impossible for Huaguo to let them continue to control Huaguo's domestic soybean market with Super Beans.

When Huaguo opened its soybean market to the outside world in 2001, foreign-funded enterprises continued to pour into Huaguo, and multinational giants began to get involved in Huaguo's soybean industry.

By 2004, after being frantically suppressed by international investment funds, Huaguo's small and medium-sized soybean processing enterprises and local oil extraction enterprises could not bear the burden, declared bankruptcy one after another, and were annexed by foreign capital at low prices.

In 2008, 90 of the more than 64 major domestic oil extraction companies in Huaguo had become wholly foreign-owned or joint ventures. They had already controlled 85% of Huaguo's actual processing volume, and the pricing power of soybeans was basically left behind.

Once Zhou Ming's super beans are widely promoted in Huaguo, the cost and price of domestic soybeans will be much lower than those of foreign genetically modified soybeans. return.

In the final analysis, all these are technological issues, and technology is the primary productive force.

"We found out that this Zhou Ming has always been interested in biological research. Before he was hired by HKUST last year, he was a bioengineering major in the School of Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering of Jinling University of Technology.

Although he later became a professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences at HKUST, he was also a doctoral candidate at the School of Life Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, in the Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics. "

The person who spoke was a young man in a suit. He looked like he was only in his 30s and wore a pair of nearsighted glasses. Unlike Ge Ren, he had an Asian face.

Hearing that someone finally spoke, Ge Ren looked at the person who spoke with satisfaction. He had an impression of this person. His name was Zhang Hongchang, and he was recruited only a few years ago.

This Zhang Hongchang is very capable. When he came to Cargill, he was recruited as a middle-level manager. After joining Cargill, he was promoted to his current position in just a few years.

Ge Ren looked at Zhang Hongchang, nodded in satisfaction, and motioned for him to continue.

"However, it only took two months for Dr. Zhou Ming to get his graduation certificate and degree certificate from the beginning of his graduation.

In these two months, he completed two experiments in only one month and wrote two papers, both of which were later published in the journal "Nature". "

When Zhang Hongchang said this, Ge Ren couldn't help asking, "Which two papers are they?"

"The two papers [Enhanced Dendritic Separation in Human Cortical Neurons] and [Natural Killer Cell Degeneration Intact Sensory Afferents After Nerve Injury] are both in the category of neurobiology.

In addition, he has also published papers on biology before, including "Several New Cell Culture Methods" published in the "Cell" journal, and "Counting Biomolecules with Bayesian Inference" published in the "Nature" journal.

Some time ago, he also published an article on "Protein Structure Prediction Algorithm and Application of Protein Design" in the journal "Science", which is the field of combining artificial intelligence and biology. "

Zhang Hongchang went on to say that this is all public information, not a secret. As long as you usually follow Zhou Ming, you can easily know about it. .

The others are almost all foreigners. Their previous majors were neither biology nor artificial intelligence, nor mathematics. They are all in the field of financial investment, and they don't know much about domestic academia.

Therefore, although some people have heard of Zhou Ming's name, they don't know much about Zhou Ming.

I just don’t know why Zhang Hongchang from Cargill knew these things about Zhou Ming.

After Zhang Hongchang finished speaking, Ge Ren nodded in satisfaction again, but what Zhang Hongchang said still didn't mention agriculture, let alone soybeans, and he didn't say with certainty that the news about the Flower Club was true. Still fake.

Therefore, Ge Ren soon turned stern, looked at the others, and said to them: "Apart from these? No more?
Judging from the information Zhang Hongchang said, this Zhou Ming is indeed a genius, but what we are going to discuss today is not about whether he is a genius, but about his super bean this time.

Although his previous research field also involved the biological field, it did not involve agronomy. Why did he suddenly have research results related to soybeans?And it is still such a shocking result, which is what we need to figure out first. "

"Speaking of agronomy, there are indeed, but these are the results of the laboratory of the future technology company that Zhou Ming founded last year, not Zhou Ming's results.

This future technology company was later renamed as Future Biotechnology Company, which was founded by Zhou Ming like the very popular Future Smart Technology Company some time ago.

As for the biological research results of the future technology company, this is because their company’s research and development speed is too fast. By now, there should be more than 100 biological research results. So it's not very clear.

Moreover, the scope of their research involves various fields of biology, including environmental protection such as water pollution, soil pollution, and air pollution, as well as those related to people's clothing, food, housing, and transportation, as well as industrial aspects.

In terms of agriculture, they are also involved, including corn, sweet potatoes and various livestock. "

This time it was still Zhang Hongchang who spoke. When he mentioned the future biotechnology company founded by Zhou Ming and the many research results of this company, Ge Ren's expression gradually became gloomy.

"Do the rest of you have anything to say? Is Zhang Hongchang the only one to speak?" Ge Ren continued to say with a straight face.

"The report of the Flower Club is true. We consulted on the phone before coming here." Finally another person said.

……

The meeting in the Cargill meeting room didn't last long. After the not-so-long meeting ended, Ge Ren finally reported the content of the meeting and various information about Zhou Ming to the higher-ups.

This kind of thing didn't just happen to Cargill tonight. ADM, Bunge, Louis Dreyfus, and the heads of the four major grain merchants in China all worked overtime this night and summoned people to make a report about Zhou Ming and his being reported by the flower agency. The matter of being able to produce 3000 catties of super beans per season, and they all reported the content of the meeting to the headquarters after the meeting.

In fact, it was not just the four major grain merchants. There were not a few people who stayed up all night because of Zhou Ming's super beans. Even the upper echelon of Huaguo held a related meeting overnight because of this incident.

When Zhou Ming woke up the next day, the four major grain merchants already knew everything about Super Beans, and by the way, they also collected a lot of information about Zhou Ming.

The four major grain merchants have already begun to discuss how to deal with this matter, and the upper echelon of Huaguo has also ended the emergency meeting about Zhou Ming.

On the morning of the 17th, when Zhou Ming was still reading at his residence in order to complete the task of being able to use the life simulator again as soon as possible, the Ministry of Agriculture of Huaguo had issued an urgent notice.

"Soybean Planting Industry Structural Adjustment Plan (2016-2017) and Super Bean Trial Planting Situation"

This is the full name of this notification.

As for the specific content in this notice, the most important thing is the super beans at the back. The previous ones are not much different from the ones released before. If there is any difference, it will only be changed after the super beans are trial planted.

It turned out that the higher-ups attached great importance to Zhou Ming's super beans. In order to verify the feasibility of its promotion, the higher-ups decided to find a large test field in the north to plant this super beans mechanized.

Anyway, Zhou Ming's super beans can also be produced seasonally. From planting to harvesting is very fast, and it won't take long for the experiment to produce results. If it is suitable for national promotion, then it will be directly promoted at that time.

If it is not suitable for promotion, find out why it is not suitable for promotion, and promote it after improvement.

This high-protein, high-fat soybean that can produce 3000 catties per season, no matter what its shortcomings cannot be promoted, the higher authorities will definitely invite to overcome these difficulties so that it can be promoted.

However, the above concerns that Super Bean is not suitable for promotion will not become a reality. After all, it has been improved by countless scientists in the simulated world.

Boom, boom, boom.

While Zhou Ming was staying at home reading a book, someone knocked on the door of his room.

"The school hasn't started yet, why did someone come here?" Zhou Ming picked up a bookmark and put it where he saw it, closed the book and put the bookmarked book on the table, stood up and walked to the living room to open it. Door.

Now when he heard the knock on the door, the first thing Zhou Ming thought of was Dean Li Mingming of the Number Academy.

"Hey, Dean Zhang, Dean Xue, why are you here? Please come in, please come in." As soon as he opened the door, Zhou Ming saw a familiar face and an unfamiliar but recognized face.

The two who came were not Dean Li Mingming of HKUST School of Mathematics, but Zhang Mingjie, honorary dean of HKUST School of Life Sciences, and Xue Tian, ​​​​executive dean.

Honorary dean, as the name suggests, is actually a name that the school finds someone who is either a political figure or an academic leader. The purpose is their fame. Under normal circumstances, they have no real power, and of course they have no responsibility.

Some responsible honorary deans will give reports and give lectures to students, impart a little of their own experience, and do something to increase the school's popularity and influence.

Zhang Mingjie, the honorary dean, belongs to the latter group. He is a very responsible honorary dean. Otherwise, he would not have participated in the graduation defense of Zhou Ming’s doctoral dissertation. Just looking for Zhou Ming in such a hurry.

However, Zhang Mingjie felt very lucky, if not for this, he would not have had the chance to get acquainted with Zhou Ming.

The executive dean, as the name suggests, is in charge of all kinds of affairs in the courtyard. They have related obligations and need to perform their duties, but at the same time they can also get a certain amount of remuneration.

Xue Tian, ​​the executive dean of the School of Life Sciences of the University of Science and Technology, and Zhou Ming have met several times before, but they have never talked.

But Zhou Ming also knew a little about this Dean Xue, which he knew when he was preparing to come to HKUST.

Dean Xue was born in 1977, 11 years younger than Academician Zhang Mingjie. He is only 39 years old this year. He has long been engaged in research on light signal transduction, neural circuits, and visual regeneration and restoration of photoreceptor neurobiology. In 2012, he was awarded the National Innovative Talents Program. In 2013, he was awarded the Excellent Youth Fund. In 2013, he became the Chief Scientist of the Major Scientific Research Program Youth 973 Project. In 2014, he became the backbone of the "Brain Science Center" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences...

This Dean Xue's research direction is the same as Zhou Ming's supervisor, both are neurobiology, but this is a general direction, if it is more specific, it will be different, after all, even neurobiology can have many directions.

Seeing the two deans of the School of Life Sciences of the University of Science and Technology of China appear at his door now, and the school has not yet started, Zhou Ming naturally felt a little strange.

After inviting Xue Tian and Zhang Mingjie into the house and closing the door, Zhou Ming guessed that their coming to find him must have something to do with yesterday's Chaodou incident.

"Professor Zhou, when you published [Enhanced Dendrite Segmentation in Human Cortical Neurons] and [Natural Killer Cells Degenerated Intact Sensory Afferents After Nerve Injury], I also read them when I was in school. At that time, I thought you were a rare biological wizard.

It was only later that I heard that you did not join our School of Life Sciences, which made me feel very sorry.

I also know that this has something to do with the treatment we give you. After all, the School of Mathematics will directly give you the title of professor as soon as you come up. We have nothing here, and no one will be happy.

However, there is nothing we can do about it. We really couldn't apply for a professor in your situation at the time, and I hope you don't take it too seriously. "

As soon as Dean Xue came up, he first mentioned the previous time, and explained the conditions they put forward when they hired Zhou Ming at the School of Biological Sciences.

Regarding this point, Zhou Ming felt that it was completely unnecessary, but he didn't say anything.

"Academician Zhang told me everything about you yesterday, and I'm glad you agreed to it.

Yesterday, after you agreed to Academician Zhang and signed the electronic contract, we applied to the higher authorities overnight to specially hire you as a professor of our School of Biological Sciences, and also submitted your application to be rated as a second-level professor.

Originally, we thought that if the application was approved, it would have to be after the school started, but we didn't expect to receive a notification of approval this morning, so we came here to find you. "

Xue Tian continued to talk to Zhou Ming, and finally revealed the purpose of their coming to Zhou Ming this time. It turned out that they did not come for the matter of Chaodou as Zhou Ming thought, but for the idea proposed by Dean Zhang and him yesterday. It is necessary to directly hire him as a second-level professor of the School of Life Sciences.

"The application for employment and the application for the second-level professor are passed so quickly?"

Zhou Ming looked at Xue Tian and Zhang Mingjie with a look of surprise, and asked them in disbelief, the second-level professor is not a bad job title, the administrative level of the second-level professor is the main hall level, and enjoys the main hall level treatment, One step further is a first-level professor, and a first-level professor is an academician-level existence.

"That's right, it's really fast. I was quite surprised when I received the news." This time it was Academician Zhang Mingjie who spoke. When he said this, he first looked at Xue Tian, ​​and then looked at Xue Tian with a serious expression. Zhou Ming.

"Actually, there are some special reasons why your application was approved so quickly this time.

Yesterday, the Flower Club reported that your super beans, which can produce 3000 catties per season, caused a sensation all over the world.

And just after yesterday's experts reported the results, a meeting was held overnight last night. At that meeting, the person above specifically named your name. He not only praised you, but also said that we treat young Scholars should be rewarded more according to merit, and should not engage in the system of ranking seniority according to seniority.

He said this specifically for you, who dares to neglect you? "

Hearing what Zhang Mingjie said, Zhou Ming realized why the matter of hiring him as a professor and appraising him as a second-level professor at the School of Biological Sciences of HKUST was so fast. The top one has spoken. Can you be unhappy?
"We came here together this time and brought the letter of employment. Although the contract has already been signed, there are still some things that cannot be missed."

With that said, Zhang Mingjie asked Xue Tian to take out the beautifully packaged letter of employment and handed it to Zhou Ming.

"One more thing, that is, you are now a second-level professor, so the school is also planning to increase your salary. It is going to give you a house of more than 100 square meters. You can choose this house. When you have time, you can Tell the school, the school will arrange someone to take you to see the house." Zhang Mingjie said again.

Although the house that Zhou Ming lives in now is provided by the school for free, and there is no need to pay for water and electricity, but it is not his own after all, and the property rights do not belong to him.

In order to win over Zhou Ming, the school is now giving Zhou Ming a house.

However, the school also knew that giving away a house was just an expression of their wishes. If Zhou Ming really wanted to leave, with his current net worth, a house was really not worth it.

　The update in April has been completed.

　　Chapters that need to be updated in May are 5 chapters.

　　I was planning to write [-] characters today, but the internet is out during the day, and this is a rented house, so I can only wait for the agency to pay the internet fee.Then wait until evening to start writing.

　　Everyone forgive me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)