Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 417 Catcher in the Rye

12 month 8 number.

The heavy snow that lasted all night turned the Meihekou Development Zone into a blanket of white.

Eight in the morning.

The second staff dormitory.

Jingle Bell···

The sleepy girl reached out to turn off the alarm clock, then reached for her underwear, ready to get up for work.

In a daze, he caught a glimpse of the unusually bright light outside the curtains, and immediately lifted a corner of the curtains with his foot.

On the vast land, endless factories and communities were all covered with a layer of snow a foot thick.

"It's raining so hard?"

Based on past experience, such heavy snow would definitely hinder traffic and affect production, and the entire development zone would then stop production and all employees would take leave.

The little girl sat up happily, and was surprised to find that the snow on the road had been cleared away, and even the distant land revealed the criss-crossing railway tracks.

"No way, the snow is cleared so quickly this year?"

The girl screamed as she put on her underwear, but she saw the car of the company's general manager, Yang Rong, already entered the parking lot.

It was a Mercedes-Benz jointly produced by Mercedes and Sanyuan Heavy Industries.

The price exceeds that of the discontinued Mercedes-Benz and the currently sold Mercedes-Benz, reaching 280 million, and is specially allocated to senior executives of the Series.

It is said that there are some particulars in it, saying that the boss drives the Tiger King and his subordinates drive the Tiger Guards...
The little girl was thinking wildly, wrapped in her down jacket, and rushed out of the dormitory in a hurry.

···
Far East Trading Company.

The re-entered Hutouben slowly drove into the parking lot.

Yang Rong, who is nearly fifty years old and at the peak of his career, pushed open the car door wearing the same winter clothes as the three-series executives.

The snow in the parking lot has been cleared by the cleaning company, so no work is required on the part of the staff.

Including the glass in the lobby and the floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides of the podium, they were also polished to a shine, again without the need for any help from the employees.

This is a professional matter, leave it to professionals.

Yang Rong got out of the car and looked at the office building, which was not very impressive but exuded high-end and formality everywhere. He suddenly felt emotional.

When I was first sent here, I thought it was just a temporary secondment.

Who would have thought that a year would pass like this.

What’s even more frightening is that this small company, which used to only have to undertake commissions from three series of enterprises, has grown into a leader spanning several industries in just two years.

Resources, food, smelting, IT, aerospace...

“This is the power of the collective!”

It's not that Yang Rong has a high level of awareness.

It’s that biopharmaceuticals are too scary.

He was so horrified that he didn't even dare to think about it...
'As long as you work hard, the results will definitely be completely opposite to what you see.'

'At least now the whole family has no worries and has various welfare benefits.'

Yang Rong lit a cigarette to dispel the fear in his heart, and checked the time on his wrist: 8:35.

Five minutes have passed since work time.

However, he still followed the boss's instructions and continued to wait.

Sure enough, a dozen young girls, some carrying bags, some wearing slippers, and in disheveled clothes, hurried over from the surrounding staff dormitories.

When the other party saw him, he lowered his head and quickened his pace, heading straight for the check-in counter in the lobby.

Yang Rong had a blank expression on his face. He waited until 8:40 before throwing away his cigarette butt and walking into the hall.

"The follow-up is considered late."

The clock-in robot saluted, "OK, the clock-in mechanism has been suspended. 2 hours is considered late, and 4 hours is considered absent."

Following the instructions, Yang Rong took the elevator to the general manager's office.

The assistant immediately delivered today's work arrangements.

8:45, Negotiated satellite channel leasing with South Korea KS Group.

8:55, negotiated with Wajima Electric NEC on the export of three-series electron tubes (3G mobile phones use dual-network mode and need to install three-series RF chips).

9:10, negotiate with Ice Bear officials on the supply and demand of the three series electron tubes in the first quarter of next year.

9:25, negotiated with South Vietnam Television on the satellite signal support project.

9:30, negotiate with China Eastern Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation on sharing of manned space technology.

10:05, contacted Ice Bear Federation Transportation and obtained the list of Far East Railway security personnel.

10:20, negotiate cooperation with NASA in North America on commercial satellite launches.

At 10:35, the boss came to inspect.

10:40, Oriental Industrial Information System came to inspect...
Yang Rong put aside his work arrangements and picked up the bid submitted by South Korea KS Group.

Suddenly.

Another assistant led a factory secretary wearing headquarters work clothes into the office.

Yang Rong quickly stood up and walked forward quickly, "Hello, Comrade Secretary."

"Hello, Manager Yang Rong, this is the latest appointment letter from the headquarters."

"I'm going to be transferred?"

Yang Rong took the paper with both hands, but found that he had been promoted to the chairman of the Far East Trading Company. "This? The boss is not coming back?"

"I probably won't be back to work here. From now on, everything here will be handed over to Director Yang."

The factory secretary said this and placed the password box on the desk.

After unlocking the four layers of fingerprint, iris, face and employee card, an electronic terminal similar to an IC card is taken out.

Yang Rong was slightly stunned when he saw this.

He had met Liao Pengfei once before, and when the two exchanged business cards, the other party had an identical card in his business card holder.

The factory secretary explained, "This is an electronic terminal with high-level permissions. It can be used to dispatch five fat black security guards domestically, call for military assistance overseas, call on the West Tower satellite, and command the military of some countries. If an emergency occurs, it can also contact the nearest North American base, international mercenaries, and international gangs."

Yang Rong was stunned and asked, "Is my current situation dangerous?"

"No, after you become the vice president of the Far East Trading Company, you need to visit Wa Island to learn about our grain industry, visit Ice Bear to learn about the Far East Railway, visit Aynak to learn about metal production, visit the Caucasus to learn about the Eurasian high-speed railway, visit Africa to learn about immigration conditions, visit North America to learn about grain competition... Of course, everything is up to you."

"Are there any special requirements? For example, profit, sales, market share?"

"No, everything is for the collective!"

"Yes!"

Yang Rong nodded heavily.

Wait for the factory secretary to leave.

He just picked up the high-level authority electronic terminal again.

Once unlocked, a monochrome green screen displays several icons.

Helmsman → Big boss.

Helmsman's funds → available balance of US$2300 billion outside of corporate finances → scattered across more than 3000 offshore accounts.

Helmsman resources → Meihekou Development Zone, Wajima Three Industries, Aynak Copper Mine, Amur Farm, Fujima Farm, Happy Farm, Far East Railway...

Emergency call → proximity principle → Meihekou Development Zone Factory Security Office.

Military assistance → proximity principle → Jilin Province Tiger and Leopard Commando Team.

Theta satellite → proximity principle → 3 available.

Dirty and tiring work → proximity principle → Meihekou Development Zone Law Department.

When Yang Rong saw this, he murmured to himself in confusion, "Why does the Law Department do the dirty work?"

The electronic terminal suddenly responded: "Are you stupid? This is China."

"···"

"I thought I was following a smart guy, but he turned out to be a fool."

"···"

At this time.

There was a knock on the office door.

"Please come in."

The HR director of Far East Trading Company pushed the door open and walked in, "Congratulations, Director Yang!"

"Thank you."

"It's like this, these dozen girls have collectively applied for resignation." The HR manager said, putting down a page of names.

Yang Rong frowned and asked, "What's the reason?"

"She said she wanted to start a business with their former boss."

"Previous boss?"

"It's Director Yu."

"It's just that they don't like me. Tell them to pack up and report to Shiliying." Yang Rong knew that employees in collective industries could apply for job transfers, so he immediately picked up the pen and prepared to sign.

The HR manager said again: "They don't know Mr. Yu's identity and want to resign."

Yang Rong pondered for a moment, "If formal employees voluntarily resign, their collective shares will be taken back, collective dividends will be cancelled, employee housing will be taken back, collective security will be terminated, their household registration will be returned to their place of origin, and their related rights and interests will be converted to social security in the place of their original household registration. A resettlement allowance of 1 to 5 yuan will be issued based on their years of employment. This needs to be made clear to them."

"I've made it clear that I've decided to leave. I said I'm not happy working here."

"You are still young and have not been beaten by society. Where can you find such a good job outside? What's more, you only have a high school diploma. In our group, you don't have to worry about food, drink, and expenses..."

Yang Rong said this with a look of disappointment, and suddenly the words of the factory secretary flashed through his mind.

Everything is for the collective!
Just six short words may seem simple, but they contain so much.

Yang Rong looked at the high-level authority terminal device on the desk that represented the identity of the helmsman, closed his eyes and lay back in the reclining chair.

Obviously, he, a 'non-third-series original shareholder', was highly valued.

In time, his status will be comparable to Liao Pengfei.

That’s Liao Pengfei.

The sky of Nanyang!

But it is precisely because he understands this that he must figure out what "everything for the collective" means.

Otherwise, if he messes up, no one can save him.

Yang Rong picked up the pen and signed, signaling the HR manager to leave.

He immediately put the high-level authority terminal device into his personal business card holder, picked up the third series of senior staff cards, and walked out of the chairman's office.

When he arrived at the parking lot, he looked up at the office building again.

At the same time, everything I experienced at work in the think tank came to my mind.

Walk into the front hall.

If it is the headquarters, no one will greet non-important guests at the front desk. Even if you meet the boss, the front desk will only say hello and chat for a few minutes unless your eyes meet.

At the Far East Trading Company, the receptionist stood straight, smiling without showing his teeth, and welcomed everyone collectively.

"Hello, Mr. Yang!"

As a senior management talent, Yang Rong had founded and operated some of the best companies in the East. Hearing the fake smile, he immediately understood where the problem lay.

The mainstream corporate culture in today's world is indeed the one in front of us.

Regularization, militarization, wolf-likeness, template-based, no one is irreplaceable...
But this is the management method of the capital system.

In a collective, every member of the collective is closely related to the rise and fall of the collective.

He should promote collectivist thinking and raise the enthusiasm of employees.

Instead of using management methods to force everyone to work.

So there is no oppression in the collective.

Some people may say that if there is no oppression, there will always be people who are not proactive.

Yes, no one wants to be lazy.

Therefore, the 'four-hour work system' was collectively implemented.

The general meaning is that in 24 hours a day, I just need you to focus all your attention on these 4 hours and complete what you should do, and then you can enjoy the collective treatment.

If you still can't do it, you might as well get out of here as soon as possible.

However, 99% of people will not discover the trap of the 'four-hour workday'.

At first, the workers thought that they only needed to stay energetic and focus on their work for four hours.

However, as time goes by...
For example, Group B spent half an hour after finishing their work to discuss their experiences and how to do better tomorrow.

Wouldn't this allow them to reap more fruits of their labor than 'Group A who follows the rules'?

For example, Group C makes plans half an hour before work starts and discusses their experiences half an hour after work ends.

Is this better than Group B?

For example, Group D will come half a day in advance to review materials, optimize today's work details, and then improve the work plan.

Is this better than Group C?

For example, Group E will study the plan a week in advance, consult the Alliance of 100 Schools, and then work hard after starting work.

Is this better than Group D?

The final working time of Group E is definitely not four hours.

You should be on duty for 4 hours and off duty for N hours, and you may even have to sacrifice your rest time.

At this point, Group A, who has been working step by step, will be collectively transferred because they are lagging behind.

This is the collective enterprise system.

This is also the characteristic of the three series of enterprises.

The purpose is to quickly convert means of production into welfare benefits and social security.

In order to avoid excessive pressure on employees, the group will often take holidays and force them to rest, so we have built employee activity centers, various cities that never sleep, and supporting sports centers.

This is also called strengthening the construction of spiritual civilization.

So to sum up, the collective core idea is: improve welfare benefits, improve social security, and strengthen spiritual civilization construction.

Yang Rong finally realized where he was wrong.

In the past, he deliberately pursued profits by relying on the high welfare, high treatment and excellent social security of the three series of enterprises.

They have neglected the continuous improvement of welfare benefits, the continuous improvement of social security, and even completely neglected the strengthening of spiritual civilization.

All of this goes against the collective.

Yang Rong looked at the girls at the front desk who greeted him and smiled, "From now on, if you are not an important guest, you don't need to greet me. By the way, I heard that you like to play Three Kingdoms?"

"???"

"I took the wrong medicine some time ago, and changed it back today."

"???"

"Go back and give me the game you like to play, Three Kingdoms Kill, and help me to rank higher tomorrow."

After saying this, Yang Rong raised his thick eyebrows, leaving the receptionist staring in amazement, and walked upstairs with a relaxed mind and body.

At the front desk on the second floor, the deputy manager in charge of the online sales platform was instructing a new batch of online store managers. When he received the assistant's reminder, he quickly stood up and said, "Boss Yang."

"Call me Director Yang from now on. Sit down. Do you have any melon seeds?"

"???" "Don't be nervous, I want to find out whether the employees are willing to increase their salaries."

"???"

Yang Rong’s idea is very simple.

Everything is for the collective.

Take care of the small group first and make everyone happy at work.

Take good care of the collective and make more people happy at work.

At the same time, don’t fall behind.

·
in the afternoon.

After a year, Far East Trading Company held an outdoor event again for the first time.

Snowball fights, sledding, making snowmen, barbecue in the snow...

The former general manager and current chairman Yang Rong even took the initiative to sing and dance.

·
That night.

The employees of the Far East Trading Company collectively applied for emergency rescue from the Futu Temple and Dongyue Taoist Sect.

"Oh no! Mr. Yang is possessed by an evil creature!"

···
the other side.

A dozen young girls who resigned from the Far East Trading Company embarked on a journey south.

First of all: the G03 high-speed railway line opened to traffic in mid-7.

Meihekou→Shenyang→Shanhai Pass→Beijing Olympic Sports Center.

Next is: G1 high-speed railway line.

Beijing Olympic Sports Center→Beihe Fucheng→Liaoshi Transit Trade Zone→Hangai West Transportation Hub, Shiliying Street.

Finally: Line 1 inside the factory.

Hangai West Transportation Hub → Shiliying → Xiaoqing River → Feishi North Suburb → Taishi West Suburb.

"Ding Dong~ International Olympic Sports Center Station has arrived. Passengers, please get off in an orderly manner..."

Following the prompt, a dozen young girls carried their suitcases and walked out of the station in a foolish manner.

"Train tickets are so expensive. I'm almost regretting quitting my job."

"I don't know if Boss Xiao Yu will reimburse us."

"He should not need this little money. When he went to Afu to look for Erye, I borrowed 3000 yuan from my family for his travel expenses. He later gave me 3 yuan."

"At that time, many people said that he sold the Far East Trading Company and ran away with the cash."

“That’s even more money.”

"Do you think Boss Xiao Yu will cheat us? I heard that the scammers in the south specialize in swindling pretty girls and sending them to Dongguan."

"With the boss lady here, there's nothing to be afraid of."

"Women are more ruthless when they strike."

"It's like you're not a woman."

Amidst the chatter, everyone took out their employee cards that had not been recycled and found the agreed meeting place based on the text messages inside.

After a while.

A semi-trailer transporting cattle and sheep drove over.

The driver leaned out of the window and waved his hand downwards, indicating that everyone should get in the car.

The little girls were stunned at the dirty and messy carriage and the piles of sheep dung.

"It's over, it's over. They're treating us like fat sheep!"

“It stinks~~”

"Are we really going to go?"

"Be patient, and we'll talk about other things after we meet Boss Xiao Yu."

Suddenly, the driver jumped out of the car angrily. "What are you guys doing? Why are you climbing on my car? Get out of the way! Didn't you see the words under your feet? The entrance to the underground garage is for trucks only. Do not occupy it!"

"···"

"Hurry up, if you delay any longer, I will lose points."

"···"

A dozen little girls saw the truck driving into the underground, and their bodies were all messy in the wind.

At this time, a message came from the employee card of one of the girls.

"Where have you been?"

"It's near the landmark."

"Come in!"

"where?"

"Sanyuan Hi-Tech!"

Everyone turned around at once.

In the square behind him, a building resembling a genetic chain spiraled up into the sky.

At the bottom of the building, four metal characters built with magnetic levitation technology come into view: Sanyuan Hi-Tech.

"Fuck, Boss Xiao Yu's company is so big?"

"Bulls ratio!!!"

The little girls dragged their suitcases and ran happily towards the main entrance of the building.

Then···
At the corner on the left side of the podium building, at the door of a dilapidated two-story self-built house, Mr. Xiao Yu, the dreamer who lives in the night, was riding an old 28-bar bicycle and waving to everyone.

The girls all stopped, first looked at the sci-fi skyscrapers, then looked at the low self-built houses, and then looked at the figure who was dressed ordinary and seemed even more downtrodden than the one who started a business in Meihekou... They all burst into tears immediately.

Half an hour later.

Located in the western suburbs of Tai City, the urban-rural fringe area on the edge of the Olympic Sports CBD (Central Business District).

In a slightly dingy alley.

"Why!"

Sixteen little girls sat on small stools around a low square table, slurping rice noodles and crying in grievance.

"We gave up our bright future to start a business with you."

"I never thought that the conditions would be worse than when I founded the Far East Trading Company."

“There’s no heating even in the residence.”

“It’s still a rural yard!”

Yu Yang listened to the complaints, lit up a White General cigarette, and felt very melancholy. "There is nothing we can do. We have no people, no background, and no guns. But we made so much money all of a sudden. We will definitely be robbed."

"Then Boss Xiao Yu, what are you going to do?"

"They stole my things, which means they owe me a favor. I plan to use this favor to start a second business and make smart products."

"Ah? You know computers?"

"I understand a little bit."

"That's not right. The Third Series Technology Newspaper once said that artificial intelligence has nothing to do with current computer technology."

“It depends on personal understanding.”

Seeing that everyone had almost finished eating, Yu Yang took out a red note and looked at the stall owner who was stationed abroad for retirement and actually took care of entrepreneurs outside the factory, "Aunt Zhang, check out."

"Hey, San... Yangyang, are these all your classmates?"

"Yes... Come on, girls, this is Aunt Zhang who watched me grow up. When I was a child, she would give me a portion of delicious food every time she made one. When we eat here in the future, please take care of Aunt Zhang's business."

"Hello, Aunt Zhang!"

"Alas, in those days, there was nothing delicious to eat. There were only pancakes made from wasp grass, noodles mixed with various flours, and uru cattle (small snails) caught in the river."

"I like to eat these." The two little girls raised their hands.

Aunt Zhang happily gave the change, "Then I'll make it for you tomorrow."

Yu Yang whispered secretly: "What season?"

"We have some in the greenhouse. Just bring it over tomorrow."

“I want to start a business with hard work.”

"Okay, I'll bring you some steamed bread and pickled cabbage tomorrow."

"···"

After eating and drinking enough.

Everyone returned to the side of Sanyuan Hi-Tech's podium building.

The self-built house in front of you has 12 rooms on each floor. Vehicles can enter and exit the leftmost side. There is a yard the size of a football field at the back, and there are several bungalows outside.

"Boss Xiao Yu, is this your home?"

"No, it was a holdout who asked for 2000 million yuan, but the developer thought it was not worth it and offered 100 million yuan at most. The two sides could not reach an agreement and the situation became deadlocked. Later, he couldn't stand it anymore and sold the house to me."

“Why can’t you bear it?”

"An Arhat came and said the place was haunted. The stubborn tenant moved out that day and the price of the house was slashed. Unfortunately, no one in the country wanted it. In the end, I bought it for 10 yuan."

"···"

"Hey, hey, hey, why are you leaving?"

“We’re scared!”

"What's there to be afraid of? I've asked the Taoist priest to perform a ritual for me."

Another half hour later.

Everyone walked into the self-built house.

Except for the room on the far left that is open to traffic, all the other rooms on the first floor are connected.

In order to increase the building area, the nail house expanded the building more than ten meters backwards, making it look like a parking lot.

After Yu Yang got the house, he had wooden boards, tiles, artificial turf and glass walls laid in different areas.

In the yard, we created sand, mud pits, gravel, slopes, puddles...

"Boss Xiao Yu, aren't we making smart products?"

"Yes."

As Yu Yang spoke, he took out a mechanical device from the corner. It was made of many kinds of wires, various circuit boards, numerous sensors, many three-series vacuum tubes, and multiple radar modules. It was about fifty centimeters in diameter and looked like a giant turtle.

It has two independent wheels at the bottom, two robotic arms on the sides, and a palm-sized monochrome green screen display on the front.

"Look, this is our partner who will help us grow bigger and stronger and create greater glory, the Catcher in the Rye. You can call it wheat, wheat, or Amai."

"What can you do?"

“It can hide itself, can cut grass accurately, can attack flying birds, and can track people who steal wheat.”

"I'm afraid Sanyuan Agriculture won't buy this stuff?"

"This is the mother machine. Once we train it, we can separate the small models from the comprehensive large model, inject them into the independent database, and then develop a series of advanced products."

"for example?"

"Robot cleaners, glass cleaning robots, automatic lawn mowers, drone catchers, automatic trackers, pipeline detectors, deep well explorers, smart mine-clearing machines, underwater robots..."

The girls were stunned. "What can we do?"

"We train it. We divide it into four groups, and each group trains for four hours. I record the data and peel off the small model in the background, and then go to get sponsorship. When we have money, we will ask three series companies to produce it and then sell it."

"Really?"

"Believe me!"

After Yu Yang finished speaking, he saw his old deskmate coming back and waved, "Come on, let's take a photo with Xiaomai to record the difficult entrepreneurial environment."

···
The next day.

Yu Yang took the little girls with him, eating steamed buns and pickled vegetables, and once again recorded the difficult entrepreneurial journey of enduring hardships.

Then start work.

Intelligent robots must be very difficult to deal with.

However, if you want to develop intelligent robots based on AI, as long as you understand the development logic, you can basically do it even if you don’t understand the program.

Like Keeper of the Rye.

First build an empty room and let it run.

If you hit a wall, ask AI to match a set of sensors, load them into the original model, and avoid collision.

If you brake in advance, you can find AI to match a set of radars and perform distance braking.

If you want it to turn automatically when it is about to hit the wall, let AI design a drive and then add a transmission and a turning system.

In this way, the original model can run freely in the empty square room.

Then change the apartment type, copy the apartment type commonly used by real estate developers in proportion, and continue letting the robot run.

Or add sensors, or add radars, or make related adjustments.

During this period, the control chip was redesigned with the help of AI to increase logic, and the motor drive was iterated to improve functionality.

Then arrange the commonly used TV cabinets, commonly used sofas, tables and chairs, commonly used household appliances in the room in an orderly manner... and continue to let the robot run.

During this period, AI was used again to redesign the chip...
Wait until mature, change terrain, and continue training.

In this process, most of the training scenarios can be simulated by AI, thereby reducing the amount of training and speeding up research and development.

So AI is a cross-era product.

Some people may say that all the training scenarios are very common, but what about some of the more portal-oriented ones?
This involves the 'User Experience Improvement Program'.

In other words, these common training scenarios are designed to meet the usage requirements of the vast majority of people.

The purpose is to boost sales and encourage people to buy and use the products, thereby filling the robot database and further improving the professional model.

If a customer whose needs are "unable to be met" buys the robot, as long as the robot is running and the relevant data is uploaded, the whole process is equivalent to a new training, which is beneficial to the growth of the robot.

And the more such customers there are, the faster the data will expand, the more perfect the professional models will be, and the smarter the robots will be.

Therefore, no matter what the Catcher in the Rye is used for in the future, whether it is harvesting wheat, hunting birds, or even used in war, it must have a large enough user group.

These groups include customers of sweeping robots, glass cleaning robots, automatic lawn mowers, automatic trackers, and pipeline detectors...
Ultimately, all users’ data are superimposed, screened, and optimized to form a large database, and numerous small models are integrated, spliced, and optimized to form a large model, which is then assisted by AI control.

A multi-purpose intelligent robot was born.

Of course, this will take a very long time to develop.

Just like the smart cars we considered before, it will take 5 to 10 years.

"Boss Xiao Yu, what is the name of our company?" the girl who was training the prototype asked loudly.

"The Catcher in the Rye, or MT for short."

Yu Yang was sitting in front of the computer, attacking the sand with his brothers, and responded without even raising his head.

As for recording data and stripping off small models...
Leave professional matters to professionals.

We are the boss.

At this time, two urgent notifications came from the communicator.

[Mad cow disease broke out in North America, and countries such as the East, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Australia, and EU members announced a ban on importing North American beef.]
[A strong earthquake struck Persia, killing more than 3 people and leaving more than 10 homeless. Persia requested assistance from the international community.]
“It is true, God bless Sanyuan!”

(End of this chapter)