Homo sapiens.

a week later.

After getting off the Manila International Airport, under the leadership of Lin Ji and others, he came to Dart Harbor, a city on the east coast of Luzon Island.

It faces the Pacific Ocean directly, and about 200 kilometers to the east is the Luzon Trench.

The boss of Yada Company is an American, wearing big colorful pants, with strange tattoos on his arms, one of which is an old cowboy in his 50s.

"Hello, Paul." Lin Ji hugged the other party, and then exchanged a few words and introduced the situation of the two parties.

Li Qingye asked about some situations.

According to the introduction, this Daya company owns 5 fishing boats with a total tonnage of about 2.4 tons; in addition, it has an office building in Dart Harbor with 5 floors and 3000 square meters;

In addition, there is also a breeding base on the nearby Caragua Islands, which owns the property rights of an entire island with an area of ​​17.3 square kilometers.

There are 15 large-scale mariculture farms on it, and 82 cage farms in the shallow water coast of the island.

As for other infrastructure on the island, there are not a few.

Of course, the property rights of this island are not permanent, there are still about 14 years of property rights, and it is limited to the development of aquaculture.

After listening to Paul's asking price, Li Qingye shook his head: "It's too expensive. Those Jiwei shrimp farms and pomfret farms make less than $200 million in annual profits, and the fishing boats are even half at a loss. That's all. Not worth $3000 million."

"No, sir, you must know that those five fishing boats are worth 3500 million dollars..."

Li Qingye sneered: "Hehe, Paul, are you kidding me? 3500 million US dollars? That's a brand new price for you. How many years has it been used? Is there no depreciation fee? And with the current situation of ocean fishing, wouldn't you understand?"

Paul is very thick-skinned: "Those fishing boats are worth at least 2000 million."

"Hehe, the maximum value is 500 million. Of course, you can choose to send it to the ship breaking yard for scrapping."

"Uh..." Paul's face darkened, sending these ships to the shipbreaking yard is asking for trouble, but if it continues, let alone 500 million, no one may want 100 million.

After all, this is an old ship, so fuel consumption and maintenance are a problem, and now that the ocean fishing is sluggish, it is also a big problem. With the depletion of global marine fishery resources, the probability that this medium-sized fishing boat will lose everything once it goes out to sea is getting higher and higher. Big, otherwise he wouldn't have found someone to take over.

As for the farm, the profits throughout the year are not much, so they can barely maintain it.

And as he gets older, Paul doesn't want to continue in Luzon.

"One price, 1200 million U.S. dollars, sign if you agree, and goodbye if you don't agree." Li Qingye directly showed his card.

Paul frowned, but he knew the current market situation, this kind of remote area industry is really not worth much, and the price Li Qingye offered was already the highest among all interested parties.

In the end, Paul couldn't bear it anymore, and sold the entire Daya Company to Li Qingye for 1200 million US dollars.

Li Qingye used several offshore companies to cross-hold shares, and after taking over this company, he renamed the company Homo sapiens.

The three professional managers he recruited in Xiangjiang are responsible for managing the daily affairs of Homo sapiens company. These three managers are not very good, they can only be regarded as mediocre, and Li Qingye has no choice.

Caragua Islands.

Caragua Island, which is the largest island in the archipelago, is also the only island that can be permanently stationed, and it is also the island contracted by Daya Company.

There is a small wharf, the breeding base is nearby, and there is a staff dormitory building that can accommodate about 120 people; there is also a complex building with a staff restaurant, billiard room, medical office and daily necessities warehouse.

Then there was Paul's small villa before, which was still a sea view room with a private beach.

In the sea view villa.

Li Qingye summoned three managers, as well as two managers from the previous company.

"I just have one request, you just need to follow my instructions, you don't have to worry about other things, understand?"

"Boss, Paul hasn't been paid for more than two months..." Tashi, the person in charge of the breeding base, reminded.

"Reissue immediately." Li Qingye glanced at the other party, and then began to arrange the positions of the five people: "Jing Lan, as the general manager, is responsible for the overall operation of the company."

Li Jinglan, a skinny man with glasses, nodded: "No problem."

"Xincheng, you are in charge of financial management."

Fang Xincheng, a dull middle-aged man, stood up: "Yes, boss."

Li Qingye continued to order: "Jianxiong, you are in charge of security work and logistics management."

The tall and mighty middle-aged man was Chen Jianxiong, who had previously worked in a security company: "Thank you boss for your trust."

"Tashi, you continue to manage the breeding base and cooperate with the general manager's management."

The middle-aged man with dark skin was Tashi who was the first to speak just now. He is a native of Luzon.

Li Qingye looked at the last person, who was a middle-aged man close to 50 years old: "Kangnan, you still manage the fishing boat, but you don't need to go fishing in the near future, and transfer the boat to the port near Caragua Island to help transport some things. Then adjust the business."

Kang Nan, who is of Chinese descent, did not show anything about changing the boss, and immediately agreed.

After the others left, Li Qingye asked Chen Jianxiong to recruit a batch of security personnel and purchase a batch of firearms as soon as possible.

Guns are not banned in Luzon, but a gun license is required.

Finally, the general manager Li Jinglan was arranged to let the other party purchase a batch of scientific research equipment for the biological laboratory in the name of the company. He planned to build an aquaculture laboratory on Caragua Island.

Chapter 11 Laboratory

After more than half a month of integration and adjustment, Homo sapiens has finally entered a state of normal operation.

And Li Jinglan also contracted the overall construction of the laboratory to a company that specializes in building laboratories through the relationship with Xiangjiang.

At the same time, it also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get through the official relationship of Luzon and obtain the relevant certificates for opening a laboratory.

These days, Li Qingye has been living in seclusion, studying biochemistry and other theories on the island.

Suddenly the doorbell of the villa rang, and the security guard in charge of the security of the villa brought Li Jinglan and a refined middle-aged man in.

"Boss, this is Mr. Fang Wensi, the business manager of Xinhai Engineering Company."

The elegant middle-aged man quickly stretched out his hand: "Boss Zhang, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm in the room, Wen Si, and I will take care of you in the future."

After shaking hands, Li Qingye said with a smile: "Please sit down, Jia Na, and make a pot of tea."

After sitting down, they chatted for a few more words, and then Li Qingye got into the topic: "Manager Li should have told your company that my company needs to build a biological laboratory, and the total investment is 5000 million US dollars."

Fang Wensi took out a thick catalog of scientific research equipment and handed it over: "Well, I have already learned about it. This is our company's scientific research equipment configuration catalog. Please check if there is anything that needs to be supplemented or adjusted."

Li Qingye looked through the catalog and the list of recommended instruments from Xinhai Company.

Common instruments include: tissue homogenizer, ultrafine pulverizer, separatory funnel, Soxhlet extractor, solid phase microextraction device, rotary concentrator, centrifuge, refrigerator, liquid nitrogen tank, pure water instrument, etc. , each of these equipments has more than ten sets.

And the next equipment is some mid-range equipment.

Including: Gas Chromatograph, High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Supercritical Fluid Chromatography, High Performance Capillary Electrophoresis, Protein Purification System, UV-Vis Spectrophotometer, Infrared Spectrometer, Molecular Fluorescence Spectrometer, Photosynthetic Instrument, Open Oxygen Analyzer, Implantable physiological signal wireless telemetry system, IKA-C2000 oxygen bomb calorimeter, microplate reader, biochemical analyzer, polymerase chain reaction instrument, etc.

Further advanced instruments include atomic emission spectrometers, atomic absorption spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, mass spectrometers, laser confocal scanning microscopes, flow cytometers, genetically modified instruments, gel imaging systems, gene differential systems, semi- Dry transfer apparatus, hybridization furnace, ultraviolet crosslinking apparatus, electrotransformation apparatus, sequencer, bioreactor, fermentation engineering equipment and cryo-electron microscope.

There is also a set of computers.

Li Qingye's laboratory in Jiangcheng did not have many advanced experimental instruments.

Of course, he didn't have too high aspirations, and he directly kicked out many instruments that needed the cooperation of manufacturers to use them from the purchase list.

After all, in his laboratory, there are many things that are not visible. If the manufacturer's technicians are often required to cooperate, it will increase the possibility of leaks.

As for Fang Wensi's proposal to use computing services from other commercial computing service companies, he also refused without hesitation.

Just kidding, borrowing the computing services of these commercial companies is no less than self-destruction. As for the so-called spirit of contract, just listen to it.

He would rather use the server he built himself than use any equipment on the public network, and even asked Xinhai Company to strengthen the network isolation facilities when designing the laboratory.

After selecting the equipment and discussing some details of the laboratory, the two parties quickly signed the contract.

After Fang Wensi left.

Li Qingye explained some things to Li Jinglan, and then he took a dozen bodyguards to the office building where he was transferred to Dart Harbor.

After all, the engineering team from Xinhai Company and the technicians from the instrument manufacturers will come to Caragua Island. He doesn't want to appear in a crowded environment.

The entire project is expected to be completed by the end of 17.

Li Qingye didn't want to waste this half a year. After his brain was developed, he has been studying all kinds of knowledge without sleep or food.

After all, there is not much time left for him. Whether it is revenge or survival, it is the most important thing.

Now he still has a cash flow of nearly US$[-] million. Compared with physics research, material science research, and mechanical research, the cost of biochemical research is still lower. This money can last at least two or three years.

Moreover, Li Qingye has a huge advantage that others do not have, that is, his brain has been developed, and super-analysis and super-derivation can quickly calculate a large number of theoretical models, while he only needs to do verification experiments.

In addition to the building wood factor, it is a huge treasure in itself.

In the next six months, Li Qingye will settle down and learn new knowledge as much as possible.

Anyway, now is the information age, and a large amount of scientific research information can be found through the Internet.

Of course, Li Qingye didn't fully believe in the papers and knowledge on the Internet. After all, the fraudulent things in the academic world are not just Hua Guo, but a common phenomenon all over the world.

In the process of studying for more than a month, he found more than 300 papers with problems through super-analysis.

For example, Greg Semenza's papers: "Anthracycline Chemotherapy Inhibits HIF-1 Transcriptional Activity and Tumor-Induced Mobilization of Circulating Angiogenesis Cells", "Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Mediates Coordinated RhnA-ROCK1 Expression in Breast Cancer Cells" and Signal Transduction", "Hypoxia-Inducible Factors...", "Breast Cancer Stem Cells..." and other papers, there are serious problems.

This guy is also one of the nominees for the Nobel Prize.

Because of the problems in these papers, the papers that cited these papers were also affected, which is simply a catastrophe.

After all, if the wrong knowledge is used, the result will naturally be more mistakes.

Facing the vast database of papers, he can only extract the cocoons from it, extract relatively correct knowledge, and fill it into his memory palace.

In this learning process, he also found a lot of useful knowledge and information.

This is like a Qi trainer who has achieved the effect of eliminating the false and preserving the true during the process of cultivation.

In addition, he did not only study biochemical knowledge, other mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, machinery, paleontology, geology, etc., he would spare three hours every day to learn these knowledge.

After all, modern disciplines are not isolated systems, but intersect and influence each other.

By learning other subjects, there are even effects such as understanding by analogy and achieving the same goal by different routes.

At the same time, he is also learning about instruments and equipment. In order to reduce the possibility of leaking secrets in the laboratory, he can only rely on himself now.

There is no luxury to imitate these devices, but at least they must be able to repair and debug.

Through the relationship of Xinhai Company, he asked the instrument manufacturers to provide some detailed maintenance and operation information. Those manufacturers had no opinion on the surface, but secretly they would deliberately obscure some key data.

But they underestimated Li Qingye's learning ability.

In the process of understanding the equipment, he taught himself software programming, electronic maintenance, electrical maintenance, computers and so on.

As time went by, Li Qingye's knowledge structure became more comprehensive and in-depth, and all kinds of knowledge were also rapidly integrated.

For example, in terms of computer technology, he has been searching for new knowledge for more than half a year, and sometimes he has to dig out the deep network information hidden under the surface network, which has exercised his hacker ability.

Chapter 12 Completion

17, April 11.

The Caragua Islands in Luzon are still hot, and the personnel of the professional acceptance company have completed the final acceptance work of the laboratory.

Li Qingye, who did not find any major problems, asked Fang Xincheng to pay the completion payment to Xinhai Company, but according to the contract, there was still 5% of the final payment that had not been paid.

In fact, this is also an industry rule. The final payment is usually settled after a period of time after it is officially put into use.

The contract between Homo sapiens and Xinhai Company stipulates that after the final payment is officially put into use, if there are no major problems within 18 months, the payment will be settled to the other party.

Li Qingye, who returned to Caragua Island, convened a group of management.

"The company made a total profit of US$42 from breeding shrimp and pomfret this year. Although it is not too much, fortunately there is no loss. Tashi, thank you for your hard work."

Tashi showed his big white teeth, and said with a smile: "This year's weather is better, and we have better luck."

Li Qingye turned to Li Jinglan and said, "Jinglan, discuss it with Tashi and give some bonuses to the employees of the breeding base."

Li Jinglan, who stopped taking notes, nodded immediately: "OK, I will arrange it as soon as possible."

"Then let me talk about the second thing." Li Qingye became serious: "You should understand that the company cannot continue like this. We must find new businesses, otherwise we will go bankrupt sooner or later."

Li Jinglan and others deeply agree with this.

Connan, who was taciturn, was worried that his department would be laid off, and it was rare for him to speak: "Boss, why don't I take a boat to the Solomon Islands in the south?"

Li Qingye waved his hand: "There is no need for that, I have my own arrangements for the fleet."

Hearing that Li Qingye had an arrangement, the others didn't speak, but waited for him to speak.

"You should understand that wild fishery resources in the Pacific Ocean, especially in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, are becoming increasingly scarce, and ocean fishing is a dead end. Therefore, turning to aquaculture is the new direction."

Li Jinglan, who stopped taking notes, worked hard before, and understood Li Qingye's thinking very well, but aquaculture is not easy.