Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 510 Fan Tao's Welcome Banquet, Food War

Dongyue Hotel, observation deck.

In a secluded corner, Wang Zheng spoke eloquently:

"My name is Wang Zheng, male, 23 years old, graduated from a second-tier university with a major in architectural engineering."

“My father was in charge of the urban construction system in a sixth or seventh-tier city. After I graduated, I interned at a local urban construction unit, where I was responsible for inspecting safety matters at construction sites.”

"At that time, the Western Development Strategy was in full swing, and construction in the west was in full swing. My uncle's construction company signed a contract with Sanyuan Construction and got many projects and funds. The company soared to new heights."

“My uncle made some money and bought me a BMW for blind dates. He said that although the girls in the community don’t care about family background, clothes make the man, so I need to dress up a bit to marry one. It will also help my uncle get more projects.”

"I'm not against it; after all, who wouldn't want to be part of a group?"

"That morning, I was eating breakfast and driving to the construction site when I saw a handsome guy walking on the sidewalk."

"At the time, I was thinking, how can there be such a handsome man in Tianshui? How am I supposed to pick up girls in the group if he's here?"

"So I just drove my car and sprayed the other person with water, and then I got beaten up."

And then...

The young lady from the Beijing elite circle chimed in, "Then you became like the male protagonist in a gangster novel, killing indiscriminately and shocking the Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong elite circles."

As he spoke, he looked on with admiration, as if the person in front of him was a great hero.

Wang Zheng said expressionlessly, "Don't be like that. Let's have a completely open and honest talk."

The young lady from Beijing's elite circles dropped her pretense and asked seriously, "Do you know why Liaocheng took off?"

"I know because of Liao Pengfei. He used to be in charge of investment promotion in Liaocheng, but later betrayed Liaocheng and followed Boss Yu to do business."

"Do you know why Puyang took off?"

"I know because Fan Tao's hometown is Fan County, Puyang."

"Do you know why the Ji River took off?"

"I know, because the chief steward of Jishui helped Chief Yu overcome the first hurdle, which was to lease 800 million mu of farmland under pressure."

"Then do you know..."

"I know, I know all of that. The reason why Heshi, the four southern provinces, Wudu, and so on have taken off economically is not accidental. It is because they have helped Boss Yu in business and politics, and demonstrated their own value. That is why Boss Yu values ​​them."

The young lady from the Beijing elite circle nodded solemnly, "To put it bluntly, you can't be considered a core member of the three systems right now, and neither can I. But together we can become core members of the three systems. For example, if you become the overseas head of Sanyuan Foods, you can't make a difference on your own. I can use family resources, and even resources from the Beijing elite circle, to help you realize greater value in this position. I don't want much, just to be able to protect my family in critical moments."

Wang Zheng scrutinized the young lady from Beijing's elite circle for a long time, then said, "It was a pleasant collaboration."

The latter breathed a sigh of relief, "It's a pleasure working with you!"

She then gave a playful smile, "However, perhaps we could try dating, after all, marriage is a lifelong commitment."

"I think so too."

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Observation Deck.

Yu Yang sat with his old classmate, glanced at the whispering Wang Zhengzhun and his wife, and looked at Fan Tao, whom he hadn't seen for three years.

In earlier years, he did not want to get involved in the affairs of the Fan family in Asia because it was too complicated, especially the people behind it, none of whom he could afford to offend.

Later, when his family was confronted by the world-class boss, Mrs. Smith, they fought a desperate battle and quickly rose to prominence. Yu Yang saw that Fan Tao was quite reliable and capable, and since he was short of manpower, he began to examine Fan Tao.

Fan Tao was extremely timid and liked to think three steps ahead before acting. No, he would take one step and see how he would die before reconsidering his next move.

But Fan Tao was neither indecisive nor afraid of death.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to lead his family members to hide and flee when his family was destroyed and he was being hunted down from all sides, eventually arriving at Shili Camp and successfully seeking refuge.

So Yu Yang began to reflect on Fan Tao.

This fellow has seen the world and witnessed the rise and fall of the Fan family.

Having a good mind allows one to know how to avoid misfortune and attract good fortune.

He was good at disguising himself and knew how to please people. In a very short time, he gained the trust of the boss and became close with key figures such as Lao Huang, and even had some contact with Lao Dong.

He is tactful in his actions, handling all matters and interpersonal relationships, as well as development and investment, and always does his job well.

At that moment, Yu Yang thought to himself, "Holy crap, isn't this the kind of talent a general should have?"
Therefore, once Shili Camp Shili Mall and Tianwaiqiao Underground Pedestrian Street were on track, he immediately sent Fan Tao to North America to take charge of the North American Shili Mall project.

On the surface, the North American Ten Miles Mall was a dumping ground for three series of products.

In reality, this was Sanyuan Agriculture's office and liaison office in North America, as well as its intelligence system, talent and scientists recruitment, and the acquisition of certain technologies and patents.

As it turns out, Fan Tao is a professional.

They successively established the Three Systems Americas Intelligence Network, acquired 3Dfx graphics card company, recruited tens of thousands of talents for the Hong Kong Sanyuan Technology Group, and laid the foundation for Three Systems Electronics.

Subsequently, after his family broke with Federal Capital, Fan Tao fled to Europe, secretly collaborating with the Morgan financial group to build a ten-mile-long shopping mall in Europe, establish a three-dimensional European intelligence network, acquire RAM company, and obtain manual polishing technology for lithography machine lenses from Zeiss...

After that, Fan Tao returned to North America, traveling to various states to be responsible for laying the Sanyuan Communications Network, promoting Agriculture 3.0, cooperating with the Clintons to purchase grain in the Americas, and taking advantage of political donations to befriend state legislators in order to maintain Sanyuan Agriculture's market in the Americas.

Therefore, although Wang Zheng is somewhat capable, he cannot replace Fan Tao. Sending Fan Tao to North America to promote Sanxi Foods is a genuine effort to expand the market.

This includes arranging a marriage between the other party and a young lady from Beijing's elite circles, all in order to leverage Beijing's resources and accelerate Sanyuan Foods' international expansion.

Fan Tao returned to China and has no plans to go abroad again...
After a moment of contemplation, Yu Yang contacted Yang Rong, the head of the Far East Trading Company, and asked him to replace Fan Tao as the agent for the Americas Three Systems.

Subsequently, Guo Xin, the head of the trade group, was transferred from the think tank to Vladivostok to take charge of all matters in the Far East.

Guo Xin was Yang Rong's superior in the think tank. Before joining Sanyuan Agriculture, he established the Integrity Fund and successively developed the "Method for Growing Rice in Severely Saline Soil", the "Cultivation Method of Tianqi Tianjiao Amaranth", and the "Cultivation Method of Feed Nutritional Sorrel (commonly known as Tall Spinach)", which obtained Oriental Patent and were included in the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

However, when it came to 'grain trade', he lacked the resources to 'become a township enterprise and follow the collective path', and was eventually arrested and imprisoned for contract fraud.

After joining Sanyuan Agriculture, Guo Xin was successively in charge of the oil country planting project, the Chad Basin development project, the Southwest Crop Cultivation Program, the South Vietnam Rice Planting Research Project, and the Far East Planting Research Project.

Now that Far East Trading Company is on the right track, our company will continue to focus on developing Far East in the future, and Guo Xin is the best candidate to be the person in charge of Far East.

Yu Yang had informed all the departments and handed over the personnel transfer to the factory affairs team.

After putting down the communicator, seeing that Wang Zheng and the young lady from the Beijing elite circle had entered a 'dating' phase, he simply left the two of them behind, chased away his old classmate, and then called his friends to give Fan Tao a welcome-back dinner.

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Everyone has their own circle.

Yu Yang may not know Fan Tao's friends.

Fan Tao may not know the friends in Yuyang.

Yu Yang hosted a welcome dinner for Fan Tao, and the people he invited were all people Yu Yang knew and who were also familiar with Fan Tao.

These people are basically all 'veterans' of Shiliying.

Besides the "Three Musketeers of Shiliying" and the old Party Secretary, there's also the former business supervisor of the county's agricultural branch, now the financial head of the trade hall; Zhou Xiaoguan, former officer of the city's armed forces department, now Captain Zhou, the security head of Shiliying; the former head of the city police, now the deputy chief of staff of Dongshan; the former head of the Sanyuan Restaurant at Tianwaiqiao, now the national general manager of the Sanyuan Restaurant...

Fan Tao hadn't seen everyone for several years, and their reunion was filled with emotion.

Some people have gray hair, some have climbed to high positions, and some remain the same...

We chatted for a long time.

At 3 p.m., everyone gathered at the staff canteen of Sanyuan High-Tech.

Find a private room, cook a small meal, order a few home-style dishes, some grilled skewers and hot pot, and then open two cases of the factory's own brewed liquor. Countless topics can be discussed over a glass.

During the banquet.

Let's talk about Shiliying, domestic development, and international events.

When talking about Federal Capital, Fan Tao shared some gossip.

For example, Smith's nephew, Clyne, is said to be the illegitimate son of the modern-day Morgan.

For example, the Bush family has a tradition of having extramarital affairs. George H.W. Bush had an affair with his assistant for 12 years, Neil Bush and Condoleezza Rice had the "Clint Zipper" scandal, and Neil Bush had a child outside of marriage. For example, Cheney's wife, the deputy chief of staff for North America, accompanied Cheney to the CIA's Asia-Pacific headquarters last Christmas. After dinner, she casually took a group photo and uploaded it to Yahoo. It was then seen by their own side, and subsequently, the CIA's Asia-Pacific headquarters was raided by their own side, and the CIA headquarters in West Asia was also completely destroyed. After the incident, Cheney's wife was sent to prison, and Cheney himself was also brought down.

Old Huang exclaimed in surprise, "It really is a makeshift operation. What kind of mess has this woman gotten herself into?"

"Therefore, North America lost the first island chain, and even the second island chain is in jeopardy."

"It turns out there was something else behind the sudden changes in the situation in Southeast Asia."

Everyone finally understood why the higher-ups were willing to exchange gold mines for three 10,000-ton destroyers within two years.

Because opportunities are fleeting and once lost, they may never come again.

Fan Tao raised his glass and said, "This is equivalent to a woman casually slapping someone and ruining the North American Asia-Pacific strategy. I'm so scared that I don't dare to have any contact with women now."

Old Huang patted him on the shoulder, "That won't do. You're almost thirty, and you're the only one left in the Fan family. We need to hurry up and have an heir."

Fan Tao shook his head. "This time I've come back with nothing to worry about, and I've decided to donate all of my assets, including the shares of Sanyuan Soybean Oil Factory, Fan's Shili Shopping Mall, and Fan's Underground Pedestrian Street, to the collective."

Yu Yang stopped the conversation, "No, you are the private representative of the collective... The capital company is already worried that if they invest in Sanyuan Agriculture, we will confiscate their assets. If you suddenly donate, it will not be good for us to attract investment."

"But I really want to retire early now."

"I'll give you two years off to get married, have children, and then take some time to think about how to promote the development of private capital in Shiliying."

"Boss, our collective industry has good benefits and is booming, while Shiliying has high cost of living, high housing prices, and many fines. If we try to start a private business in Shiliying, we might not even be able to recruit enough workers."

Old Huang chimed in, "That was before. Now, the Third Ring Road covers many villages and towns, giving rise to a large number of urban villages. Collective enterprises and Shiliying government enterprises can no longer absorb so many people. Promoting the development of private enterprises has become the top priority in the next few years."

"The question is, how can private enterprises compete with collectively owned enterprises?"

"Why compete? We can complement each other. Take clothing, for example. Sanyuan Garment Factory is a support-oriented factory, mainly producing uniform work clothes, shirts, shoes, hats, and underwear. Private garment factories can follow the trend, with one trend every year, or even multiple trends a year. They can also take a niche route, or take advantage of the rise of Buddhism and Taoism to produce traditional costumes, modified costumes, cosplay costumes, and sexy lingerie. The street office has already conducted research and has been supporting a number of individual business owners. With the development of the online shopping economy, the future looks very promising."

Fan Tao nodded. "I'll give it a try."

Then, the group changed topics several times in succession, and they chatted until late at night before gradually dispersing.

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The next day.

Dongyue Hotel, Xiao Yu's exclusive suite.

Yu Yang woke up in his room, while Fan Tao, who was sleeping in the guest room, was eating fried buns in the living room.

"Boss, big data is amazing! I went downstairs to get breakfast and ran into seven or eight girls who caught my eye."

"Goodness, this is a matchmaking agency targeting you, a high-quality, older single man, and starting to create chance encounters."

"But I refused them all."

"Oh?"

“I know that AI Matchmaker is creating opportunities for me, and I also know that AI Matchmaker has no ill intentions towards me, but I always have a feeling that I am being schemed against, and I can’t help but reject this, and even reject any woman who appears in my life. Of course, I am definitely not gay.”

"Therefore, knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing."

Yu Yang washed up, ate breakfast, and watched the news on TV while scrolling through his phone.

6 month 13 number.

Sanyuan Foods and North American Foods Company lent each other money and transferred goods to each other, cooperating seamlessly. Within just one week, through acquisitions, mergers, equity investments, and capital injections, they respectively controlled 27% and 62% of the global food market.

Thus, in the context of economic globalization, the monopoly of large capital has become increasingly apparent.

Beverages on the market can be broadly categorized into three main types.

One type is Federal Capital, which owns brands such as Coca-Cola, Best Express, Master Kong, and Uni-President.

One category is Sanyuan Foods, which owns a range of functional beverages including herbal tea, pureed fruit juice, freshly squeezed fruit drinks, special-supply milk, electrolyte soda, and "Roaring Scream" drinks.

One category consists of local brands from various countries, such as Wahaha, Nongfu Spring, and Red Bull.

Like ham.

Following this, the Sanxi-10,000-head pig breeding base, built upon the Nanyang industry, occupies 58% of the global pork market; the Sanxi-Heshi chicken farm, also built upon the Nanyang industry, occupies 65% of the global chicken market. Both parties are not only raw material suppliers for Tyson, Mars, Nestlé, Lay's, Mondelez, Pepsi, Hershey's, and Kellogg's, but also suppliers for chain stores such as Walmart, Walmart International, Carrefour, and RT-Mart, and supply 85% of the world's ham raw materials.

In other words, the three meat series almost monopolizes the global ham market.

Like rice cakes, rice noodles, and shrimp crackers.

After this battle, the production capacity of the five major seaports of the three major Vietnamese states was fully released, supplying 60% of the world's puffed food products. In the future, they will also become contract manufacturers for multinational companies such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Lay's.

However, the peaceful coexistence and joint development between Sanyuan Agriculture and North American food companies inevitably arouses jealousy and envy, and also makes some people feel threatened.

This led to outbreaks of swine fever in Africa, avian influenza in Southeast Asia, rice yellow leaf disease in South Vietnam, corn leaf blight in North America, and corn root rot in South America...
Statistics show that global pork slaughter volume may decrease by 40% in the future; chicken slaughter volume may decrease by 70%; global rice production may decrease by 20%; and global corn production may decrease by 50%...
In response, the World Trade Center urgently established a research team, commissioning more than 30 institutions, including Sanyuan High-Tech, Sanyuan Chemical, Monsanto, Bayer, DuPont Pioneer, and Dow AgroScience, to study countermeasures and ensure a stable supply of grain and meat.

Of course, there were also some discordant voices.

For example, companies that went bankrupt during the food wars.

"This is a conspiracy. First, they lowered prices to hurt us, then they used swine fever, avian influenza, and crop diseases to create the illusion of reduced production, and took the opportunity to raise prices."

"The evil world grain merchants! Oppose monopolies! Oppose trade hegemony!"

Unfortunately, the global internet and the Sanyuan Communication Network have all blocked these kinds of posts, so no one can voice a similar opinion.

All they received were positive reviews and praise.

"科普：Trade Hall is a non-profit international trade platform with branches in the Asia-Pacific region, North America (California), and Europe (Italy). Its aim is to boost trade volume, accelerate trade speed, and improve local development. Any country can adopt it without any fees."

"I'm so touched that the Trade Hall actually commissioned seed companies from around the world to deal with swine fever, avian influenza, and crop diseases at its own expense!"

Why doesn't our country have a trade hall?

"I praise Sanyuan Foods for letting me eat the most authentic shrimp chips."

"Wow, Lay's potato chips taste so much better than before! Did they change the recipe?"

"No, we changed our raw material supplier."

After reading the news, Yu Yang browsed the forum for a while and then consulted with the factory management team about the situation of swine fever, avian influenza, and crop diseases.

Thanks to the combined efforts of the three beauties, controlling the spread of disease is not difficult.

The difficulty lies in finding the 'mastermind' behind it all.

Therefore, J.P. Morgan and the oil tycoon proposed that they release 4.6 staff members from the CIA's Asia-Pacific and West Asia headquarters.

Taking into account the significant role that the nearly 50,000 highly skilled professionals play in the development of the Vietnam-Hong Kong-Macao economic circle, Yu Yang decisively rejected the proposal from Federal Capital.

They declared, "No, no, we have absolutely no CIA agents in our possession."

After we finish this busy work.

Fan Tao handed over a thin cigarette. "Boss, I'm going out for a walk. I won't be staying here for a while."

Yu Yang thought for a moment. Although the international situation has been changing rapidly recently, it is all the result of negotiations between big capital and is an inevitable trend. In addition, there are think tanks and factory management teams, so he usually doesn't need to be involved.

"I haven't been shopping in a long time either, let's go together."

Fan Tao looked troubled. "I'll go to the sauna."

"Come on, the last time I went to a sauna was a year ago with Lao Dong."

"I'm going to make a greatsword."

"I haven't done it in a long time either."

"I'm going to find a girl!"

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(End of this chapter)