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Chapter 68: Murdered just after inheriting Yiqing Farm (7)

After seeing off the staff from the Public Security Bureau, Ding Shui checked the safety of his farm.

And enable artificial intelligence real-time monitoring.

Only then did I feel at ease to carefully collect information, and then analyze the current fresh food market, land price fluctuations, and other closely related information based on the collected information.

Since the original body instinctively did not want to sell the farm and could not sell it, it was obvious that he had to find a way to run the farm, otherwise he would have to beg for food with a golden rice bowl. If he wanted to run the farm, he had to first investigate the information, inspect the market, and know himself and his opponent.

Only then can there be a glimmer of hope.

"It's horrible. The entire natural food industry is in mourning, as is the agricultural and animal husbandry sectors. Only a few agricultural or animal husbandry groups with patented species are still able to hold on. The new varieties they develop have a sixty-year patent protection period. Even the Wanwu Group cannot illegally manufacture and sell products that are still under patent protection.

Therefore, developing new species is barely a glimmer of hope.

This...are you kidding me? The super synthesis system from the previous world is great here. Creating new species is so easy! I'm speechless!

“Land prices have been falling!

Moreover, there are only properties listed for sale on the market, but not many people are buying them. Many people are still waiting and watching, thinking that prices have not bottomed out. Isn't this the same as falling housing prices?

The more it falls, the fewer people will buy it.

And the land price on agricultural planets is lower.

But you're also right. The main reason for the decline in land prices is the falling price of fresh food. Fresh food produced on agricultural planets has higher transportation costs than fresh food grown on habitable planets, especially for interplanetary transportation, which makes it less competitive. Even if the volume is large, it won't work, so land prices are lower."

Looking at the reports on the Internet and the market conditions, Ding Shui was really worried.

This matter is indeed difficult to handle.

If she wanted to start a price war, coupled with the cost of cross-planetary transportation, the cost price of many fresh products on her farm would be higher than the selling price of others. The more she sold, the more she would lose.

First, the Huaguang Agricultural Planet was only in the process of being transformed into an agricultural planet, and the transformation itself hadn't been completed yet. Only the 30 billion mu of land had been successfully transformed. The original plan was to continue expanding until the entire Huaguang Agricultural Planet was transformed into arable land, pastures for livestock, or even ocean and lake fisheries.

But doing so now is a pure loss. Even if the transformation is stopped immediately, because the transformation of the entire planet has not been successful, the existing arable land, especially those lands near the edge of the untransformed areas, will have to cost money to maintain every year.

Otherwise the land on the farm margins will degrade.

It even gradually becomes unsuitable for crop cultivation.

Secondly, even if the land that has been transformed currently belongs entirely to Dingshui, no additional payment is required.

Farming is not without cost.

Farming, buying seeds, planting, fertilizing, and using pesticides all cost money. If natural disasters occur, such as floods or droughts, human intervention is also required.

There are natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

It also requires large-scale capital intervention.

Finally, harvesting and storage also require money. The price of preservation is extremely high, the price of refrigeration is not low, and the price of freezing is even higher. Even though various advanced agricultural tools, even robots and artificial intelligence, are used, manual labor is rarely used.

Each one is very expensive, or in other words, even if the average price is lower, multiplied by the use of more than 30 billion mu of land, it is an extremely terrifying number.

I was struggling and scratching my head for a long time.

Ding Shuicai wrote down three solutions with great difficulty, which he himself thought were outrageous and difficult to implement.

The first is to cultivate new varieties. It would be best to cultivate some new varieties with great advantages that everyone wants to buy, or that everyone is willing to buy. That way, you can turn things around in minutes.

The difficulty level is five stars.

The second is to reduce costs or increase output, no matter what method is used, as long as the costs can be reduced enough to make money, don't ask for too much, even if it's just one or two yuan per acre of land.

Then it can be maintained.

The difficulty level is 4.5 stars.

The third is to address the low-concentration radiation problem near the Huaguang Agricultural Planet. As long as this problem can be resolved, the Huaguang Agricultural Planet has the potential to become a habitable planet. While significant investment in construction and renovation is still required, the Zhang family might consider the current good returns from the other two habitable planets and continue the renovation of the remaining land. However, they might convert the remaining land into a habitable planet, rather than an agricultural one.

Farms on habitable planets receive certain government subsidies.

Agricultural planets do not have this.

In addition, the main reason why there is no wormhole on the Huaguang Agricultural Planet is because the radiation has an impact on the wormhole, which not only increases the construction cost but also increases the probability of accidents. After the application was submitted, it was not approved.

Once the radiation disappears, the wormhole can be built.

With wormholes, transportation costs can also be reduced.

When the two are combined, there is certainly no hope of making a lot of money, but it should still be possible to avoid losing money.

The difficulty level is also five stars.

The Zhang family had struggled with this very thing before, and the government had offered suggestions and conducted research, but ultimately, none of them succeeded. It was clear that either the cost was too great for them to bear, or there was simply no way to do it, at least not with the technology they had at the time.

Nowadays, there is probably no way.

After all, there has been little technological development in the past few decades.

The biggest breakthrough is the machine that makes everything.

Regardless of whether these three methods are actually feasible, at least there is a direction, and it is the only method Ding Shui can think of at the moment, which is barely reliable.

As for unreliable methods.

That is undoubtedly more.

For example, if the Wanwu Group goes bankrupt and all the Wanwu manufacturing equipment is destroyed or unusable, the entire natural food market will definitely recover; for example, if the government rescues the market and issues an order to ban the sale of artificial food, it can also have a similar effect and save the natural food market.

Otherwise, it is revealed that there is a problem with artificial food.

It can also give life to the natural food market.

In addition, if they can find another civilization to dump their agricultural products, and that civilization is not as good as theirs but has the resources they need, it is estimated that they will also be able to make a living for these practitioners.

However, these methods are undoubtedly even more unreliable. After all, if the government wanted to save the market, it would have done so two years ago.

Why has it been delayed until now?

If there were problems with artificial food, the major agricultural and livestock industries, as well as fresh food groups, would have united two years ago to expose the problem and hype it up.

Capital is not a little sheep.

In the past two years, I have tried every possible method and done everything I could, but it's all useless and I have to accept my fate.

If you don't accept your fate, you will die.

Nowadays, in the entire agriculture and animal husbandry industry, only some old brands that focus on high-end organic products can barely guarantee a good profit by relying on wealthy families and people who only recognize natural organic products. The second largest group of brands are those that own patents for unique species, which can also maintain profits by relying on patent protection.

Of course, total revenue has certainly declined, and some have even been halved, but at least they are still profitable.

Further down is the Habitable Planet Farm.

They rely on government subsidies and low transportation costs, and can maintain a small profit as long as they do not encounter natural disasters or other accidents that may cause costs to rise.

But profits are already too low for some small farmers.

It’s better to go out and work.

A large number of small farms were sold off, and medium and large farmers were barely able to survive. Some even had to rely on a series of activities beyond the scope of farm management, such as running farm stays and renting them to film crews for filming, to subsidize farm income.

To sum up, although the situation is very miserable, at least I am not starving to death, but I earn far less than before.

There is no special feature to make extra money.

They have even started selling at low prices.

The worst off, of course, are the farmers like Ding Shui who live on agricultural planets far away from habitable planets.

There are no subsidies and shipping costs are high.

The storage cost is also higher than others, and if the price is not lowered due to large quantities, people are unwilling to buy. Farmers who have their own characteristics or patented species can have a better life.

If you have nothing, you're like Ding Shui. A habitable planet proves that it can be inhabited by humans. Some habitable planets have a large population, at least tens of billions, so they can operate farmhouses and the like, but Ding Shui doesn't even have a single person.

She is the only living person on the farm covering more than 30 billion mu. The other employees are working remotely, remotely controlling various robots on the farm to manage the farm.

After all, there is radiation here. Even if the farm where they live has professional equipment to block radiation, people are still unwilling to come.

Or if you come, you will get triple the salary.

Anyway, even if they came, they would be operating machines and robots to work. The original great-grandfather was unwilling to spend that money, so they have been working remotely.

In this case, we can operate something like a farm stay.

There's no way I can make money!
"Alas, compared to investigating the problems that the original body couldn't understand and helping the original body to avenge himself, it feels more difficult to keep this farm running normally and healthily. What should I do?" Ding Shui looked at the three newly-made but extremely difficult to achieve plans, and he really had a headache!

She had never encountered such a difficult situation.

It turns out that she is not very suitable for using her brain.

A little later, the deluxe ad-free smartwatch that the original owner had purchased yesterday arrived. After Ding Shui signed for it, he decisively decided to give himself a break for now, just to change his mind. He immediately transferred all the accounts linked to the original smartwatch to the new one and started playing games.

It's quite fun and I got addicted to it before I knew it.

Then I was so sleepy that I couldn't stand it anymore and had a good sleep.

The next day, Ding Shui got up, took a shower, and had breakfast. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he finally came up with his first feasible money-saving plan.

That is to go to the major fresh-keeping warehouses and put all the newly picked fruits and vegetables, poultry eggs, slaughtered and cut animal meat, and even some aquatic products into the thatched house of the super farm, and they were all put in smoothly.

“I’m so touched, I shouldn’t have complained about your tastelessness.

This warehouse alone can save a lot of money. Fortunately, it is not too expensive. There are also quantity and type restrictions on the Penguin Farm warehouse. The design of the unlimited warehouse in Super Farm is really great. I am so touched! ! "

Ding Shui was particularly excited today precisely because of yesterday's headache. He watched as over 300 million tons of supplies were stored in the Super Farm's warehouse, automatically categorized and displayed by name and quantity, with no time limits or risk of spoilage.

Ding Shui was really touched.

I want to give a thumbs up to the planner of this thing.

This alone was enough to relieve her of a significant amount of stress. After all, the highest costs for everything she produced on her farm were preservation and transportation. For example, for a pound of vegetables, other costs might only be around 10 to 20 cents, but with preservation and transportation, that would rise to at least 30 cents.

This is also why people say that the more you sell, the more you lose. If you don’t sell the vegetables and they rot in the fields, the loss per pound of vegetables is only ten cents, or even less than ten cents.

Because picking also costs money.

But if you sell it, even at cost price, you will still lose a few cents on preservation and transportation costs.

Of course, the situation is better for some expensive vegetables, fruits or meats. The preservation and transportation costs will not be higher than the planting and breeding costs, but the total cost is still not low. Now there are warehouses in super farms.

It is impossible to reduce these two costs to zero, but it is enough to reduce them to one billionth of the original cost, or even lower.

But Ding Shui will probably be busier in the future.

For example, the preservation function of the fresh-keeping warehouse can be turned off directly, leaving only the normal storage function. Then Ding Shui goes to the warehouse once a day to put all the things into the super farm warehouse, which can save a lot of money.

The cost of electricity is an extremely large number.

As for transportation, once a certain quantity is gathered or a buyer is found, Ding Shui just needs to take a spaceship for a trip.

The cost of one person traveling on a spaceship is much lower than transporting hundreds of millions or trillions of tons of goods in a cold storage room, and it can save a lot.

However, when Ding Shui delivers the goods, her farm warehouse has to turn on the fresh-keeping function again, unless the person buying the goods lives nearby and can go back and forth in one day.

Therefore, the reason why the preservation and transportation costs cannot be reduced to zero is mainly because Ding Shui has to pay for a spaceship ticket to deliver the goods personally, and when she delivers the goods over long distances, the preservation warehouse of Huaguangxing Farm needs to activate the preservation function again. However, this expense is much lower than the original cost.

Insignificant, a drop in the bucket.

Next, Ding Shui of course hurried back to the farm management center to start modifying the program, such as turning off the preservation function of the fresh-keeping warehouse, and adjusting the picking time of some crops to ensure that he can put all the things picked or slaughtered that day into the super farm warehouse at a more appropriate time, so as to avoid the trouble of making several trips a day.

Of course, the acid removal process for some livestock, such as beef, still needs to be retained, and this money cannot be saved.

Otherwise, the quality will decline further and the product will not be sold.

Before Ding Shui finished his work, the newly launched farm monitoring program sounded an alarm, indicating that a stranger was coming.

To be precise, a strange spaceship arrived.

She immediately became nervous. This was a strange spacecraft, and it hadn't landed at the docking station thousands of miles away from her farm. Instead, it had flown directly over her farm's management center. No matter how you looked at it, it seemed like it had malicious intentions. So, the next second, she activated the farm's surveillance system to issue a warning, noting that the spacecraft was now in her private airspace, which was illegal.

And ask the owner of the spacecraft to reveal his identity.

Otherwise I will report it to the police!
When Butler Zhang, who was in the cockpit of the spaceship, heard Ding Shui's threat, he immediately rolled his eyes. After all, he had never received any education from a noble family and had such a narrow vision. He reported everything to the police. Did he think that reporting crimes was an honor or something?

"I am the chief steward of the Zhang family's Patriarch. I came to discuss something with you. Please come up and have a chat."

Rolling eyes and looking down on others are one thing, but the job must be done, and at the same time, Ding Shui cannot be allowed to report the case, so Butler Zhang quickly revealed his home, opened the spaceship cabin, and lowered the ladder to the door of the management center.

Invite Ding Shui to come up and talk.

"Zhang family steward seems to have an impression!"

Ding Shui did not agree immediately because she had to think it over. Who knew if it was dangerous to get on the spaceship? Even though Qian Yin had analyzed before that the Zhang family would not dare to kill her openly or let others know that she was dead, it was only a matter of should, not absolutely not dare.

So after thinking about it for a while, she refused:

"No, you're the one who needs to talk to me, not me. If you want to talk, just tell me directly, or come down to my farm management center and talk. Don't worry, I absolutely abide by the law and won't commit crimes like you guys did!"

Ding Shui said this directly. After all, she was honest and had nothing to feel guilty about, so she was not afraid.

Butler Zhang thought about it and ultimately decided that what he was about to say wasn't suitable for public discussion. However, he also felt it would be a loss of face if he were to go down and discuss it in person. After all, he was the family steward. As the saying goes, a seventh-rank official is a prime minister's doorman, while this girl was just an ordinary Zhang family member who had gotten lucky.

So he still insisted on letting Ding Shui come up, and said a series of confusing words, saying that she came here on the orders of the head of the Zhang family, that she was a member of the Zhang family and must obey.

Then Ding Shui simply ignored him.

And report the case immediately.

Agricultural planets and mining planets are different from habitable planets. Habitable planets, even if they were purchased from uninhabitable planets and later artificially transformed into habitable planets, will eventually cede a large portion of management authority to the imperial government unless the Galaxy Empire's population is not migrated to habitable planets.

The income of habitable planets without large populations may not be as much as that of agricultural planets, so the owners of those habitable planets can only agree to give up most of the management authority.

Only ownership of land, minerals, etc. is retained.

After all, only with a large population can we build houses and sell them for money, and make money from business. The population is a consumer group.

Therefore, habitable planets are still under unified management by the government.

The private attributes will not be too high.

But it is different for agricultural planets and mining planets. They are absolutely private property, including the airspace above them. Entering without permission is considered illegal trespass, even if the crime is not serious.

That is also completely illegal.

The Huaguang Agricultural Planet belongs to the Zhang family, but Ding Shui’s more than 30 billion mu of land does not belong to the Zhang family, including the airspace above it, so there is no problem for Ding Shui to report the case.

Immediately afterwards, Butler Zhang received a warning, not from Ding Shui, but from the Public Security Bureau.

In addition to warnings, there are also fines and punishment requirements.

If he obtains the forgiveness of the person involved, Ding Shui, and gives him 300,000 yuan in compensation, then he can just receive a ticket and pay a fine, and the matter will be over.

If forgiveness is not obtained, not only compensation must be paid.

He will be detained for another seven days.

Seeing the freshly issued ticket, Butler Zhang's face turned black and he almost exploded with anger. It was really too much. He couldn't understand how someone could be so shameless as to report the case for such a small matter?

But he had no other choice, and it was even more impossible for him to use the Zhang family's name to cancel the ticket for such a small matter. If he did so, the head of the family would probably feel ashamed first.

Let him disappear quietly.

It was only then that he realized that he and the girl were not on the same page, and that he couldn't talk to her with his usual thinking. He could only grit his teeth, swallow his anger for the time being, and take out a robot to go down and negotiate with Ding Shui on his behalf.

(End of this chapter)