The richest man

Chapter 306 Food
In fact, many sections of the Hongqi River project have already been opened to water ahead of schedule. The land on both sides of the canal is irrigated by the river water, which ushers in new opportunities for agricultural development and solves the water problem of people in the surrounding areas.

The Hongqi River project has not yet been fully completed, and China has already benefited a lot.

Not to mention anything else, only grain production has been greatly improved.

Although China still needs to import soybeans, corn and other grains, it has more grain reserves, and will be able to deal with various challenges in the future, such as epidemics, and become more calm.

Seeing that the Hongqi River project will be completed this year, Zhang Jun began to increase the development of the west.

You know, Zhang Jun spent 3000 billion U.S. dollars to help the country build the Hongqi Grand Canal, and some of the rewards he got were used to offset taxes, and some were exchanged for a large amount of land on both sides of the Grand Canal.

On the one hand, these lands are used for commercial development to build legendary squares, commercial buildings or residences; on the other hand, they are used to establish planting bases to grow food, vegetables, fruits, Chinese medicinal materials and other economic crops...

To a certain extent, money is just a bunch of cold numbers, and Zhang Jun prefers these real things.For thousands of years, land has been a symbol of property. The ancient people used it to buy land as soon as they had money. The more land, the more wealth.

Technology companies may go bankrupt, but as a resource, land is closely related to food, and its importance is self-evident.At present, the global population is increasing, which will drive the growth of global food demand.This also means that in the future, food supply may be in short supply.In this context, as the upstream of food - the value of land resources will therefore become more prominent.

And there is nothing wrong with being a big landlord, which is also one of Zhang Jun's dreams.

However, different from the development of traditional agriculture, what Zhang Jun wants to build is an ecological chain of future high-tech agriculture, using plant science, robotics, artificial intelligence and other technologies to increase the output of food and cash crops.

Moreover, Zhang Jun is particularly interested in the research and development of "super crops" and "super livestock", such as using genetic technology to modify species to produce weird crops, such as white cucumbers, vermicelli pineapples, white gemstone strawberries, etc...

Since 2017, Zhang Jun has spent huge sums of money to build various planting bases and research future agricultural science and technology, with an estimated investment of more than US$500 billion.

In the previous life, rich Americans also bought and farmed land one after another. Among them, Bill Gates owned about 27 acres of land, Amazon e-commerce tycoon Jeff Bezos owned 42 acres of land, and media tycoon Turner owned land The area is about 200 million acres.

These rich people are not stupid, and they know the importance of land.

Even if a very serious economic crisis occurs in the future and the currency depreciates wildly and shrinks, they own land, food, and various cash crops, and they will still be super rich!
Those who do not plan for the world are not enough for a moment; those who do not plan for the overall situation are not enough for one area.

Zhang Jun is planning for the future, which can be described as far-sighted.

In the future, these lands will be managed by the family foundation and cannot be traded privately.

But Zhang Jun's descendants can only receive a certain amount of money every month.

Of course, the family foundation will still be controlled by the best people in the family, and professional managers can also be hired. In short, Zhang Jun's family has absolute control over both the family foundation and the company.

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"The Hongqi River has not been fully watered yet, but it has blessed most of the places on both sides of the river. It is really comforting to see these golden ears of rice!"

"Yes, and what is even more unexpected is that rice is planted in the northwest region. In our impression, the Chinese people usually have 'south rice and north' on the dining table. The northwest region, which is arid, rainless and Gobi desert, seems to have no connection with rice. Get up. However, the agricultural company under the name of Zhang Jun did it."

"Hehe, in fact, rice can also be grown in the Northwest. In Ming Dynasty Guo Shen's Poetry on Mowing Rice, it is said: 'Shuiyun Township in the north of Ganzhou City, every autumn, you can see the yellow. Fragrant.' This describes the scenery of continuous paddy fields and abundant rice harvest in Zhangye, GS Province at that time. Wujiang Town, ZY City, Gansu Province also won the reputation of 'Land of Fish and Rice' and 'South of the Great Wall' for its rich high-quality rice, and Wujiang Rice was once listed as ' Gongmi', for the imperial palace." A colleague who has been working in the northwest all year round introduced with a smile.

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help being surprised.

Later, another colleague said with emotion: "The west has plenty of sunlight, large temperature difference between day and night, increased organic dry matter, and fertile soil. It is an excellent production place for high-quality agricultural products. In the past, it was reduced to a desert because of the lack of water resources. Now, the Hongqi River has arrived. Here, the water source is abundant, irrigation is convenient, and the desert has turned waste into treasure, but it has become fertile soil!"

"Hehe, have you ever seen Zhang Jun's desert greenhouse? It's so spectacular. There are all kinds of food, vegetables and fruits planted in it. Some greenhouses use soilless cultivation technology, which makes people marvel at the technology. advanced."

This year, China's grain production has another bumper harvest. Because of the Hongqi River, China has added a large amount of land that can be planted.

The national food price has dropped slightly, but not too much. I am afraid that the price of grain will hurt farmers, but I have reduced the import of food from abroad.

The four major international grain merchants export a large amount of grain to China every year. It is conceivable that China's reduction of the share of imported grain will hit them hard.

African countries are very short of food, but they cannot afford food.

The four major international grain merchants would rather burn their grain than sell it to Africa at a low price, deliberately creating panic about a "food crisis" and thus increasing grain prices.

At present, what these people are doing is not obvious enough, but once the price of crude oil rises for some reason, the United States and Europe will choose to "burn food" in order to solve the problem of oil shortage, thereby expanding the sales of biofuels.Biofuels include bioethanol and biodiesel. Bioethanol is mainly processed from corn or sugarcane, while biodiesel is mainly processed from palm oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, etc.

Once the price of crude oil exceeds 70 US dollars / barrel, it will be more economical to burn food.

The "hunger alarm" sounded in Africa, and Europe and the United States were crazily burning food, and the four major international grain merchants took the opportunity to make crazy profits.

So, who will bear the blame?
Of course it comes down to "Chinese demand".

Right now, China is barely self-sufficient in grain, not only cannot export it abroad, but still needs to buy grain from abroad.When China no longer needs to buy food, and even exports food instead, then we will see what "crimes they want to impose"...

(End of this chapter)