Chapter 340 Wushao Ridge

"That's not right!" Yu Qin also frowned, "When I heard Li Hui's report, there was clearly an item called whitening."

Guo Yang looked at the research report again, "It's not written here."

"Antioxidant can also whiten your skin."

A cold voice suddenly came from outside the laboratory, which was quite creepy in the night.

Guo Yang looked back and saw a girl in light yellow clothes appearing outside the door. By this time Yu Qin had already reacted.

"Li Hui!"

"It's almost nine o'clock, why haven't you come back yet?"

"Mr. Yu, I came back to get the drinks. I forgot to bring them when I left." The woman named Li Hui shook what she was holding in her hand.

Guo Yang felt something was wrong for a moment. After taking a closer look, he was surprised to find that it was a glass. What kind of drink could be in the glass?
After a pause, Guo Yang asked, "Anti-oxidation can also whiten the skin, does that mean the effect is better?"

Yu Qin introduced: "This is the chairman of the group company, Mr. Guo."

Li Huiming was surprised for a moment, and said: "Antioxidants can promote skin metabolism, remove oxygen free radicals, thereby delaying aging, avoiding various skin problems, and inhibiting subcutaneous pigmentation, thereby helping the skin to whiten."

Guo Yang understood, "How effective is this lavender extract?"

"Very good." Li Hui looked at the chairman's slightly dark skin and said, "But you still need to do a good job of sun protection."

"Otherwise, even the best whitening agent will be useless."

"..."

Can agricultural workers avoid the sun? Guo Yang's move is also for the benefit of agricultural workers.

Seeing this, Yu Qin said, "Li Hui, you should go home first. Please drive safely on the road."

After Li Hui left, Yu Qincai said to Guo Yang: "Boss, Li Hui usually has this personality, but her ability to develop these more special products is outstanding."

"Previously, the beverage made from a mixture of hops and valerian extracts, as well as the contraceptive for preventing willow catkins from drifting, were all developed by Li Hui and her team."

Guo Yang nodded, "I hope we can develop some good sunscreen and whitening products this time."

"It's definitely no problem."

I also spent some time in Quanwang's R&D center. The main focus of the research and development was plant extraction.

The in-depth application focuses on botanical pesticides and Chinese herbal plant feed additives.

But when Guo Yang looked at the distribution of Quanwang's revenue, he found that the majority of it came from the export of plant extracts, while the performance of plant-based pesticides accounted for a very small proportion.

Yu Qin said: "Plant extracts are generally a category of Chinese medicine exports, and have grown rapidly in the past two years."

"Last year, the country's export volume was about 4.76 million U.S. dollars, which is basically equivalent to Chinese medicine preparations and Chinese medicine drinks."

In the West, especially in Europe, herbal medicine is widely accepted.

Therefore, Chinese medicine basically enters the market as herbal medicine, but at least 80% to 90% of the market is in the hands of Japan and South Korea.

The domestic share is very small.

Fortunately, Jiahe’s focus is not on this, and it does not plan to export crude plant extracts in large quantities.

Guo Yang asked: "Where is the raw material base?"

"The pyrethrum bases in Honghe and Yuxi have been reorganized, and the outstanding payments to farmers have been settled. Normal production will resume this year, and the neem trees in Panzhihua will also bear fruit this year."

Yu Qin paused and said with a smile: "Qinghe's bitter grass can also be collected on a large scale this year. The local rough processing factory has also been built, and the production cost can be reduced this year."

Guo Yang summarized.

That is, the types of biological pesticides have increased, the costs have decreased, and they have begun to have a certain degree of competitiveness.

The two walked out of the door of the laboratory building.

The cold wind howled.

"It's still a bit cold in the middle of the night!"

"Lan City is like this." Yu Qin asked: "Boss, how about finding a place to have some midnight snack?"

"Okay, eat something warm."

In the late-night snack world of the Northwest, Lanshi undoubtedly occupies the top spot and is the hidden boss of the late-night snack world.

The Yellow River runs through the city, and late-night snack bars are found in every corner of the city.

The most important thing you cannot miss is the barbecue, especially the grilled lamb skewers here are more solid than the big meat skewers in the south.

Two lean pieces and one fat one, garnished with chili, it is very satisfying.

Yu Qin slapped his head and said, "I forgot to ask Li Hui for some carrot juice. It would be a great match with the barbecue."

"The Omni King also studied carrots?"

"Carrots have high medicinal value, and Tianhe's super red core is very popular, so Li Hui gave it a try."

Yu Qin said: "Now we have accumulated more than ten compound carrot juice drinks. At first, everyone liked to drink Yellow River beer when they went out to eat barbecue, then it became Jiahe beer, and now it has become carrot juice drinks again."

"..."

Guo Yang felt that the Omni-King was indeed a little different from others.

"Well... we can do more joint research and development with the Qingdao Nutrition and Health Research Institute in the future."

While eating barbecue, the two chatted for a while about the development of the industry.

The global herbal medicine market is worth nearly $400 billion, but 80% of domestic plant extracts are exported at low prices.

For example, Chinese herbal medicine extracts and raw materials are exported to Japan and South Korea, and processed into Chinese herbal preparations and sold around the world.

Ginkgo leaf preparations, notoginseng saponins, salvia miltiorrhiza series, breviscapine...are growing extremely rapidly.

But the price… Ginkgo biloba extract dropped from $1995/kg in 500 to only $2008/kg in 25.

Homogeneity, low technical content, malicious competition... OmniKing Bio has no choice but to jump out of this quagmire.

In particular, my country has many raw materials that are not available or rare in other countries, such as jujube, sea buckthorn, linden, kenaf...

Among them, some are controlled solely by Jiahe.

This is the upper limit of the Omni King.

This is true whether it is biological pesticides or the nutrition and health industry.

Before departure the next day.

Guo Yang went to Quanwang R&D Center specifically to get a few bottles of carrot juice drinks.

Sea buckthorn juice, wolfberry and carrot, tomato, cucumber and carrot, red dates and carrot, carrot milk... the types are really rich.

Guo Yang looked at Li Hui, who was already wearing a white coat, and asked, "Can carrot juice whiten your skin?"

"No." Li Hui resisted the urge to laugh, "Actually, it's good for the boss to do this."

"You have discernment, I think so too."

...

When traveling from Lanzhou to Minqin, the first important place you pass is Wushaoling.

This is the easternmost end of the Hexi Corridor, and it can also be said to be the entrance. It is a natural barrier for the thousand-mile Hexi Corridor.

Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, Xuanzang's journey to the West to seek Buddhist scriptures, and Lin Zexu's demotion to the border... all left their footprints here
There are high mountains, snow, and severe cold, and it is an important transportation route, so the Wushaoling section is also called the "Gate of Hell" by truck drivers.

But for Jiahe, this is also a line of comprehensive management of the Shiyang River Basin.

Niu Hulin had worked here for more than a year, and Guo Yang still vaguely remembered the name of his supervisor's project: Research on Forest and Grass Vegetation Restoration Technology in Qilian Mountains.

Wushaoling is an important geographical dividing line.

The south of the Ling Mountains is a monsoon area, while the north of the Ling Mountains is a non-monsoon area, which means that the southeast monsoon containing water vapor from the ocean cannot cross it.

But the ice and snow and precipitation on the ridge converge into the Jinqiang River in the south of the ridge, and the larger one is called the Zhuanglang River and the Yellow River;
The trickles in the north of the ridge merge into the Gulan River. After reaching the Wuwei Plain for irrigation and infiltration, they flow downward from underground. As they flow, some water emerges from underground again and merges into the Hongshui River. A larger river is called the Shiyang River, which gathers at the Hongyashan Reservoir and finally flows into the farmland of Minqin.

In ancient times, the entire Qilian Mountain area, including Wushaoling, was covered with dense forests, lush vegetation, evergreen pines and cypresses all year round, and lush greenery everywhere.

The lush pine forests and white snow of the Qilian Mountains are known as the "source of life for the Gan people."

Scientific analysis of the ecosystem here has been conducted a long time ago.

“If there were no pine trees, the winter snow would melt in late spring, and the river would overflow and the canal would not be able to bear the water, causing a flood disaster. In summer and autumn, the snow would melt again, and the water would be weak and low, unable to flow into the canal to irrigate the fields, causing a serious drought.

The livelihood of Gansu people depends on the abundance of pine trees and the accumulation of snow. If the trees are cut down and snow cannot be accumulated, it will cause disaster to the people. We must protect them forever."

Therefore, Wushaoling is the water tower of the arid Gulang, Wuwei Liangzhou and Minqin.

The guardians of this water tower are alpine pines and cypresses, and shrub grasslands that conserve water resources.

In order to protect forests, there was a clear decree in ancient times: Anyone who cuts down a tree without permission would be guilty of the same crime as murder.

But by the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, and later...the virtuous cycle turned into a vicious cycle.

Until the vegetation on the barren mountains and hills shrank, the glaciers retreated, the snow line moved up, and the water storage capacity of the water tower decreased.

Today, the policies of returning farmland to forest and grassland, afforestation on barren hills, transformation afforestation and closing mountains for afforestation have begun to show results in this area, but it will take a long time for water sources to be restored.

After leaving Yongdeng and entering Tianzhu, Luo Xiu rarely spoke and concentrated on driving.

It is normal for Wushaoling to snow, and the road is slippery after the snow. Some trucks with trailers on the mountain road crawl up the mountain like old oxen carrying heavy loads.

Some people couldn't climb up and started to slide down.

It was slow all the way.

This also gave Guo Yang more time to observe.

Grass, shrubs...Oh, Guo Yang suddenly remembered that barley was also grown here, but the altitude was too high.

When you get to the north of Wushaoling, you will see large tracts of Picea crassifolia, Juniperus chinensis, and Pinus tabulaeformis, but the main species is the artificially cultivated Picea crassifolia. I heard from Niu Hulin that the trees planted are all 5-year-old seedlings, and the survival rate is not high if the seedlings are small.

Because the annual average temperature of Wushaoling is only -0.2℃.

Guo Yang vaguely saw the figures of sea buckthorn, spirea and honeysuckle in the bushes beside a small watershed.

Further ahead is a large artificial pasture filled with large numbers of purple arrowroot and alfalfa No. 1.

Only then did Guo Yang confirm that this was the project area that Niu Hulin and others had been responsible for.

Sea buckthorn, spirea, honeysuckle, purple arrow pea, and Alfalfa No. 1 are all varieties of Alfalfa and Tianhe.

The best growing one is the purple arrow pea.

This was the first time Guo Yang actually saw his appearance on the plateau.

Compared with other legume forages, purple arrow pea has stronger cold resistance and adaptability, can produce seeds, and has an inhibitory effect on poisonous weeds.

Either way, it would be a great supplement to the alpine grassland.

Especially in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it can be used as forage or reseeding in natural grasslands, and its high protein content makes up for the energy needs of livestock.

Jiahe’s projects in Wushaoling only account for a small part.

After descending Wushaoling, we entered Gulan.

Guo Yang actually saw a weathered Xanthoceras sorbifolia tree on the side of the road. It must be at least several decades old.

"Jingle Bell……"

When I was thinking deeply, the phone rang. Li Zhaohui actually called me at this time.

"Boss Guo, I have set up the team and invited a few friends from the entertainment industry, including Jackie Chan... The meeting will be tomorrow night."

If you mention Jackie Chan to me, I only know “duang”.

Although Jackie Chan had already endorsed BAWANG shampoo at that time, the fact that BAWANG shampoo contained dioxin had not yet been revealed by the media.

“Duang” didn’t become popular either.

Hmm... the Omni-King's shampoo will be available soon.

Guo Yang said: "Mr. Li, I'm sorry, I had something urgent to do and I went back to Long Province yesterday."

Li Zhaohui said somewhat displeasedly: "Hmm? Didn't we agree on the organization of the party? This time I specially invited several coal bosses who are interested in agriculture."

Guo Yang was surprised for a moment. He didn't expect this person to be so attentive.

"Next time, I'll organize a meeting next time. This time I really need to accompany an important leader on an inspection tour."

"That's fine."

The richest man in Shanxi Province is quite easy to talk to.

As a coal boss interested in agriculture, Guo Yang also developed a great interest in it.

Now the coal industry in Shanxi Province is about to face major changes, and the closure, rectification, merger and reorganization of coal mining enterprises are about to begin.

Coal bosses have 4000 billion yuan in funds in their hands and no one knows where the funds are going. Even if 10% of it flows into agriculture, it would still be a considerable sum.

Guo Yang thought of the Xanthoceras sorbifolia tree.

Shanxi Province also has a long history of cultivating Xanthoceras sorbifolia trees, and there are many thousand-year-old Xanthoceras sorbifolia trees in the Taihang Mountains.

Letting coal bosses switch to planting Xanthoceras sorbifolia trees may be a good way to go...

In fact, in the 1970s and 1980s, Xanthoceras sorbifolia trees were planted in large numbers in the north.

However, they were cut down and abandoned due to various reasons such as low yield and poor efficiency.

Due to the high crude oil prices in the past two years, the Xanthoceras sorbifolia tree has become popular again.

Once crude oil prices fall sharply, the business will probably be shut down again. However, Jiahe’s Xanthoceras sorbifolia variety, Golden Snail, not only has a very high yield, it is also the best among woody edible oils.

In the future, in addition to biodiesel, it can also be developed as a high-end product of Jiahe Grain and Oil.

The efficiency is not low.

It seems that it is worth giving it a try once the saplings are planted in large numbers.

It doesn't have to be limited to the northwest.

Is it possible to grow Xanthoceras sorbifolia in Wushaoling?
The ordinary Xanthoceras sorbifolia tree is very cold-resistant and can safely survive the winter even in Harbin where the lowest temperature is -44.4℃, but it cannot bloom and bear fruit.

In the future, we can try to introduce Jiahe's golden snails to other places, so that we can make a lot of income just by selling the seedlings.

The Xanthoceras sorbifolia tree nursery was built in Zhangye for the convenience of management. You can stop by to visit it when you return to Jiuquan.

There were quite a few phone calls along the way.

April was a busy time when Qu Yang called me and the seed deck was revived again!

Tianhe’s peppers and Tianyu No. 1, similar seeds have recently appeared on the market.

The counterfeit seed production bases are scattered throughout Xinjiang Province, and the anti-counterfeiting team is no longer able to investigate them all.

This is bound to have an impact on Tianhe's sales this year, but there is nothing that can be done about it. The practice of counterfeiting cannot be stopped, and the company has made enough profits in the past two years.

It also cannot change the fact that Tianyu dominates the market.

But we cannot relax in the fight against counterfeiting. If we catch one, we must beat him to death. We will only show some restraint when we make him pay the price.

After handling several work calls in succession, I have arrived in Wuwei.

At this time, Yang Guocheng called again.

"Boss, I have completed my resignation procedures. When will I leave for Laos?"

Guo Yang first explained the situation here, and then said: "You wait in Beijing for two days and accompany your family, and then leave from Beijing."

"Okay, do you want me to recruit a few more people?"

"Of course." Guo Yang paused and said thoughtfully, "Let's study the information again when we have time. We will try to get it right away."

"Then we need to prepare the agreement documents and so on."

"I'll give you a contact number."

After the communication, Guo Yang sent Ning Xiaojing's phone number to Yang Guocheng.

In just a short while, the Shiyang River could be seen.

The management of the Shiyang River Basin includes three aspects: water conservation in the upper reaches, management and scheduling in the middle reaches, and water conservation and restoration in the lower reaches.

The upper reaches are Wushaoling, which conserves water and restores vegetation;
The middle reaches are Wuwei, which is developing water-saving and efficient industries, but we have not seen any of them yet;
The dividing point between the middle and lower reaches is the Hongyashan Reservoir. The key areas of agriculture and animal husbandry in the sand sea are in the lower reaches, and the situation has improved a lot.

Guo Yang went straight back to his elder brother's home in Minqin.

The meeting with the big leader should be at Qingtu Lake, and he doesn't need to worry about the middle and upper reaches for the time being.

After parking the car downstairs in the community, Guo Yang and Luo Xiu went upstairs carrying the gifts.

Because I called in advance, the house was already filled with fragrance when I arrived.

Guo Yang went to the kitchen and asked, "Sister-in-law, what are you cooking? It smells so good!"

Tian Ying smiled and said, "I didn't do anything. You were in a hurry because of the phone call. So I made some mutton offal and cooked some mutton and rice noodles. You loved eating this when you were a kid."

"Hey, I'm thinking about this now too."

"Haha, then I'll eat more later."

Perhaps because they were so nervous all the way, their appetites were indeed much higher. Guo Yang and Luo Xiu both gulped down a large bowl of food.

“Delicious, still the same taste!”

Tian Ying said, "You didn't realize it when you tasted it, but the wheat seeds used in this flour are from Tianhe. Now everyone in the county knows that a big boss has emerged in the local area."

Guo Yang laughed twice, and seeing that his elder brother seemed a little bored, he chatted with him for a while.

Guo Shan said: "You are busy all year round. When will it stop? Why do you earn so much money? Now the county often asks me for investment."

Guo Yang thought for a while and said, "Why don't you two go travel and visit more places across the country while you are still young."

"This person is unfamiliar with the place..."

"Then let's put it this way." Guo Yang made the final decision and said, "It just so happens that I want to buy a house. If you find a good place, just tell me."

"This this……"

"That `s a deal."

"That's okay too."

After having lunch and sitting for a while and chatting for a while, Guo Yang prepared to leave and transferred another 500,000 yuan to the two elders.

According to the style of the two old people, this money is enough to last for a long time.

After leaving the county town and heading north to the project area, the changes along the road are more obvious.

Two water diversion channels extend from the Hongyashan Reservoir, with kenaf, forage grass and other plants planted on both sides of the channels.

Although it didn't grow well, it managed to turn green.

During the dry season, there should be no water in the canal, but perhaps because a senior leader was coming, the reservoir had apparently started supplying water several days in advance.

Make the vegetation condition better.

Even when we arrived at the project site in Shahai, it was still green and the surrounding Haloxylon ammodendron forests had sprouted new buds, which was a good sign.

"Boss, you picked a great day. This year's Cistanche deserticola is incredible!"

(End of this chapter)