Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 436 Feng Zhe
The western suburbs of Tai City, the urban-rural fringe.

This area is one of the settlements established by Tai City and Sanyuan Agriculture at the boundary between the factory and outside the factory after the 'spontaneously formed shantytowns north of the Yellow River' were successfully transformed into the 'Tailai Industrial Area'.

A small number of areas are located inside the factory, and most areas are located outside the factory, and the whole area operates with the help of resources within the factory.

In addition, there are Nanmen urban-rural fringe, Pingdong urban-rural fringe, Pingyang urban-rural fringe, and Xintai urban-rural fringe.

As well as the urban-rural fringe of the entrepot trade zone built by Liaoshi, the urban-rural fringe of the electronic industrial park built by Puyang, and so on.

These areas are mainly intended to help the three surrounding industries and to place migrant workers (non-employees) outside the factories.

Among them, the urban-rural fringe area in the western suburbs of Tai City is the largest settlement.

It starts from the Olympic Sports Center in the west and ends at Dongyue Tianwai Bridge in the east.

It spans 21 kilometers, covering 3 towns and 75 villages.

The permanent population is about 25 and the floating population is about 57.

It has Taifei Highway (Tai City → Fei City), the Third Ring Elevated Road in the factory, the Third Ring Elevated Suspension Rail, Qinglan Expressway (Qinggang → Lanzhou), Qinglan High-speed Railway, the No. 1 rail car in the factory, Tailiaopu High-speed Railway, Tailiaopu Heavy-duty Railway...
Here, you can see migrant workers in groups of three or five.
You can see drivers parking their containers side by side on the road and playing cards together.
You can see small stools placed inside, waiting for the van to pick up passengers to go to school.
You can see diapers hanging outside the windows of the self-built houses.

You can see young people wearing fashionable clothes and smoking cigarettes.
You can see college students dragging their luggage and looking for houses everywhere.

You can see fake blind people setting up stalls to tell fortunes, beggars kowtowing non-stop,
You can see the rustic playground, farmers' market, clothing and shoes wholesale market.
You can also see Oriental Wal-Mart acquired by Wal-Mart Group, Oriental Jialefu acquired by the Faguo DeFleur family, and Oriental Dayunfa acquired by the Taiwan Province Ruentex Group...
It can be said that the interweaving of a myriad of things to be done and a prosperous city constitutes a microcosm of our current era.

Yu Yang left the Internet cafe and walked in the dingy alley, followed by the chattering MT manager.

"Brother, my name is Feng Zhe, I'm 23 years old, and my hometown is Xishanyun City."

"Seven years ago, I was admitted to Southwest Normal University, but my family couldn't afford it and my father needed money for his diabetes, so I sold my admission to a dog owner in the village for 7 yuan... From then on, I found that the world is not that simple."

"Six years ago, my father passed away and my mother also died of a heart attack. I sold my old house and farmland, and studied on my own while traveling on a budget."

"I helped people translate papers and made some money, but I was later cheated and lost all my money. Later, I tutored students, opened after-school training classes, and taught college entrance examination sprint classes for schools...Last year, I came to Shiliying for tourism and saw so many new things. I became more certain that the world is not that simple, so I simply quit everything and sneaked in to study."

"I spent a year attending classes, auditing, and searching for information, and I have almost mastered the basic principles and relationships of the Sanyuan Communication Network, Xintai Database, and AI..."

"Just like the three-series handheld game console that I disassembled and studied before, it has GPU graphics processor, NPU neural network processor, DPU deep learning processor, IPU intelligent processor, but no CPU. Why? Because the CPUs of the three-series handheld game consoles are concentrated in the Xintai data center."

"So, we can see from this that the most powerful function of the three series of handheld game consoles is image display and composition."

"Based on this, if we entrust three series electronic companies to produce a batch of mobile phone parts, we don't need a very good camera to use composition to generate 'photos that people want'."

"In other words, we only need a very backward camera to transmit the distant scene to the Xintai data center, which can generate an optimized high-definition photo for us based on the not-so-clear scene."

"The same goes for portraits, food, landscapes, astronomy... With the help of AI algorithms, Canon, Nikon, and Leica are all rubbish."

"Besides, women love beauty, and this mode is equivalent to direct beautification. We can also design female mobile phones based on female preferences."

"Brother... No, Boss, you are an electrical engineer at MT Company, so you must be very familiar with the boss of MT. MT Company is a relative company, so it must be very familiar with Sanyuan Agriculture. With this relationship, if I hand over this technology to MT Company, no one outside can snatch it away."

Yu Yang didn't expect that the Xintai database could actually find a talent. "What do you want?"

"I want to become a formal worker at Sanyuan Agriculture."

"It's that simple?"

"Easy?! Do you know that no matter how much money you spend now, you can't get in?"

"After listening to you for so long, you should be a technical talent. Why don't you recommend yourself through Sanyuan Pharmacy and then take the special exam?"

"I said before that I was admitted to Southwest Normal University, but I sold my place... It's like someone else went to university for me. I am now an illegal resident."

"Grass!"

Yu Yang complained as he came to Zhang's Lamb Soup Restaurant deep in the alley.

The boss is the younger brother of Zhang Hai, the boss of Shiliying Bus Company and current chairman of Sanyuan Transport Group.

The other party came here to do business mainly because two new decisions were implemented in the factory in 04.

The first is to keep your job and transfer to another position.

The second is to suspend employment without pay.

The original intention of the two decisions is that employees in technical, management, and administrative positions who feel that it is difficult for them to make further progress can take the initiative to apply for transfer to public welfare organizations or apply for overseas affairs.

During this period, you can enjoy collective benefits and come back at any time, or you can wait until retirement age to come back and apply for collective pension.

The purpose is to make way for a new generation of young people, such as the 04 graduates of the Hundred Schools Alliance and senior technicians specially recruited from outside the factory.

After the decision was implemented, more than 30 employees applied.

Some were transferred to work as odd jobs at the staff activity center.
Some were transferred to work as waiters at Sanyuan Fast Food.
Some were transferred to municipal sanitation work.
Some, like relatives of employees, pass through the trade hall and come to storefronts outside to do business.

This move has added fresh blood to the team and made each department full of vitality.

At 5 pm, there were few customers in the mutton soup restaurant.

Yu Yang ordered a plate of lamb ribs, a plate of stir-fried lamb offal, and a plate of cold bean curd. "Would you like to drink wine or lamb soup?"

"What do you drink?"

"It's all right."

Feng Zhe hesitated slightly, "Would you like a bottle of white?"

Yu Yang immediately called out to the boss, "Brother Zhang, give me a bottle of the original brew from the factory."

"Okay!"

Feng Zhe was surprised and asked, "He actually sold you the raw juice from the factory?"

"You forgot that I am an electrical engineer at a related company."

"That's right, it seems that MT Company's connections are indeed very strong."

"···"

"Boss, what do you think of my previous suggestion?"

"You, an unemployed vagrant outside the factory, can come up with the 'composition camera'. Are the programmers in the factory just there to eat and do nothing?"

"You mean, Sanyuan Agriculture already has this kind of thing?"

"It has been developed a long time ago and will be used in the fourth-generation employee card."

"Damn, it turns out that no matter how smart a person's brain is, it can't compare to the wisdom of many people."

Feng Zhe picked up the chopsticks dejectedly, picked up a large piece of mutton offal mixed with green peppers and coriander, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it hard, "A chance to get rich quickly, just missed it like that."

"You joined the collective to get rich?"

“If it’s not for the sake of getting rich, then what’s the point of joining a collective?”

"That's right, come on, let's go."

Yu Yang picked up the wine glass, took a sip, then put on disposable gloves, picked up the lamb ribs and tasted them, "It tastes good."

Feng Zhe didn't seem to have much appetite. He lit a cigarette and said through gritted teeth, "I have another set of skills."

"Tell me."

"It's similar to the idea of ​​composing a camera... Just like World of Warcraft, we can imitate its engine, adapt it, and make an oriental fantasy game."

Feng Zhe said, using the example of water on the table, "In the past, we had nothing and we definitely couldn't do it."

"But based on the idea of ​​composition, if we make a fantasy game, put it in the Xintai data center, and then send it to the three-series handheld game console users in the form of data packets, users can present the game screen on their own devices through online data transmission."

"At the same time, we give users a coordinate system based on the device to support the user's character. In other words, the user's character is attached to the game screen built by the database through AI. In this way, can the user's character move and interact at will?"

"Boss, do you know what this is?"

"This is the brand new Turing technology, a completely new game engine that is different from Flash games."

“It represents the birth of a new industrial chain.”

"With this engine, we can provide countless CPU-free games for three series of devices, including horizontal version, 2D, 3D, first-person, stand-alone, casual, card... and the picture quality and fluency are far better than those in the West."

Yu Yang was thoughtful. He secretly operated the SY handheld and sent the recording to his upper and lower bunkmates who were responsible for network security and hacking the system. He then said, "You are an unemployed vagrant outside the factory, but you can come up with these things. Are the programmers in the factory just eating for free?"

Feng Zhe's chopsticks trembled slightly, "Boss, do you mean that Sanyuan Agriculture has also come up with a similar game?"

"We have already made them, such as Plants vs. Zombies, Temple Escape, Connect the Dots, Candy Crush, 3D Fantasy Online Games, Audition, and Cartoon Speed... However, although the three-series electronic industry has made three-series electronic tubes in red, blue, and green, it is difficult to form an RGB three-color combination, and it is currently impossible to produce color screens, so they have not been launched."

"Cio!"

Feng Zhe was like a deflated ball, he slumped and leaned back, then straightened up again and picked up the wine glass: "Boss, you see, I actually have ideas, but I was born at the wrong time... But I believe that after entering MT, in the new environment, I will shine!"

"You can't make it with a composition camera, and you can't make it with a game. You have to come up with some unique skills, otherwise the boss will look down on you."

"I'm also confused. I know a lot and can do a lot, but I'm not good at anything. I don't know what people like about me."

Yu Yang raised his glass and clinked it with the other party. "How about this, MT Company is planning to open a flagship store to showcase AI products. I have some say in the company. I will help you apply for a job as a clerk. How about that?"

"Standing at the counter?"

"Tsk, you still don't like it? This is MT Company, we have connections, it's already great that you can get in."

"Yeah, then I'll do it first?"

"But you're the only clerk at the moment."

"what?"

"You have to handle store affairs well. If you perform well and recruit new employees, you can become a team leader. Then, if there are more teams and three shifts, you can become a team leader and then a store manager."

"What about above the store manager?"

"A city manager is responsible for managing several stores; a regional manager is responsible for managing several cities; a provincial manager is responsible for managing several regions; a district manager is responsible for managing several provinces; an overseas manager is responsible for managing several countries; a headquarters manager is responsible for managing MT companies..."

"Then what level am I at to be able to join the group?"

"If you work hard, you will definitely have a chance."

"At present, it seems that this is the only way to at least get an identity and resume."

"Where do you live now?" "A self-built house in the nearby alley, 80 yuan a month, very expensive."

"Then why do you smoke such good cigarettes?"

"The facade, otherwise how would I know you?"

"···"

The two chatted until late at night and agreed to meet at Sanyuan Hi-Tech tomorrow and then go back to their respective homes.

···
Dongyue Hotel.

Yu Yang sat in front of the all-in-one computer in the living room, checking Feng Zhe's specific information.

Chen Xi held the cut watermelon and fed it to the fish, while curiously saying, "This guy is quite capable."

"The Xintai database has selected talents from dozens of urban and rural fringe areas and millions of people. How can it be bad?"

"What are you going to ask him to do?"

"It takes more than one or two companies to develop high-tech. For example, Federal Capital has countless companies they have invested in, held, and supported in the East, and the related industries and services are also diverse. Although we cannot win in terms of quantity, we can package several leading companies, including Zhu Hua's SY handheld game console and Chinese code, Robert's North American Obi and Android, Feng Zhe's MT company and AI, someone's Facebook, someone's short video... Then let them fight each other to death, and in the process, kill other similar companies, and finally we can become the only one."

···
The next day.

The snow melted and the weather became cold and freezing.

However, Sanyuan Construction has accumulated a lot of construction experience in high-altitude and cold areas, and MT Company's reconstruction projects have not stopped.

Overnight, the main building, built with quick-drying cement, prefabricated modules and steel structure technology, has risen from the ground.

Yu Yang arrived at the building complex of Sanyuan Hi-Tech and found Feng Zhe who was looking at the girls in the rest area.

"Have you had breakfast?"

“I’m losing weight.”

"You really don't want to eat?"

Yu Yang said this and walked towards the cafeteria of Sanyuan Hi-Tech.

Feng Zhe was a little dumbfounded, "MT Company can have a meal here?"

"I have connections, so I have privileges."

"Can I come in?"

Yu Yang swiped his card and used his advanced privileges to apply for a dining quota for a friend who was visiting. "Do you want to eat?"

"Of course I eat it. It's my dream."

There is nothing special about the breakfast in the cafeteria. In fact, most employees are tired of it and would rather buy fried buns, pancakes, etc. from the stalls outside.

But from the outside, the breakfast buffet in the cafeteria is richer than that in a five-star hotel.

Sea cucumber millet porridge, bird's nest white fungus osmanthus porridge, mushroom shrimp salty porridge, peanut chicken porridge...
Stir-fried scallops, stewed squid with chicken, steamed cordyceps with vermicelli and garlic sauce, emerald sea bass, spicy swimming crab...
Crab roe dumplings, scallion and ginger oyster cakes, pork and scallion pan-fried dumplings, beef curry rice, shrimp and egg noodles, clam and minced meat seafood noodles, abalone and egg seafood noodles, Tom Yum Goong seafood noodles...

There is a wide variety of constant temperature cabinets, you can take whatever you want and choose whatever you want, with large quantities to satisfy your hunger.

Feng Zhe ate with tears in his eyes, "It's just like what the outside media said, extravagant and decadent, wasteful, extravagant, and squandering. One meal is as much as working hard for a whole year!"

Yu Yang shrugged. "Is there anything wrong with using the surplus production capacity to make delicious food?"

"That's right, so I like it. I really want to join the group. Woohoo, another bowl of sea cucumber millet porridge."

"···"

Eat and drink enough.

Yu Yang did not take Feng Zhe to MT Company, but took the underground passage and entered the 'Tianwai Bridge Underground Pedestrian Street'.

This commercial venue started to be built in 01, extending from Tianwai Bridge to the western suburbs of Tai City.

The entire project is invested by Fan Group.

The Tianwai Bridge area in the east belongs to Shili Shopping Mall and is 5.6 kilometers long.

The western suburbs of Tai City here is a national shopping mall, 15 kilometers long, including a furniture city, food city, stationery city, entertainment city, etc. It is the favorite place for young people outside factories in the urban and rural fringe areas.

There is nothing else to it, there is heating and air conditioning, and companies such as Sanyuan Beverages, Sanyuan Fast Food, Sanyuan Daily Chemicals, etc., and they launch people-friendly activities from time to time.

For example, when you walk into the underground pedestrian street, you will see rows and piles of Sanyuan drinks on both sides of the entrance.

In addition to the previous screams and roars, there are also Pulse, fruit tea, green tea, black tea...

As long as you register with your non-factory employee card, you can get a bottle for free.

And four hours later, you can do it again.

In the same way, you can eat fast food for free once a day, get toiletries for free once a month, and get clothing, shoes and hats for free once every three months...

Of course, all of these items are "trial products" and reselling is prohibited, otherwise you will be banned from participating for life.

Yu Yang took a bottle of Pocari Sweat, unscrewed the lid and took a sip, then walked around with his hands behind his back.

Feng Zhe asked puzzledly: "What are we doing here?"

"The boss asked me to check you out. After all, if you want to let an outsider run a flagship store, you have to know everything about it."

"I confessed that my grandfather was a bandit and my ancestors participated in the Nian Army..."

"Coincidentally, my father was a South Vietnamese veteran, my grandfather crossed the Yalu River, and my ancestors died on the Long March."

"···"

"But I'm a bandit now."

"Grandpa, please accept your grandson!"

"Where's your face?"

"You can't eat your face, and it can't make you rich and powerful."

The two chatted and walked into Wanmin Supermarket on the pedestrian street.

The boss is not a member of the collective and has no relationship with the collective, and is not even considered a third-line peripheral industry.

It is an external enterprise that is invested and operated spontaneously.

The goods inside are varied, including factory specials, three series peripherals, and foreign-controlled...
Among them, the factory special supply is not discounted and the price is slightly higher.

There are no promotions for the 3 Series peripherals, and occasionally there is a 20% discount, and the selling price is in line with the market.

Foreign-controlled companies are having a promotion with a 30% discount, so the selling price is slightly lower.

When Yu Yang arrived at the grain and oil area, the salesperson immediately started promoting golden arowana.

"I like Xiwang blended oil."

"Hey, brother, eating too much blended oil is not good for your health. Why not try grade 3 pressed soybean oil? It's newly launched and the price is almost the same as blended oil."

“Do you have triple soybean oil?”

"That one? It's very expensive and may not be available."

“Why are you promoting the Golden Arowana?”

"There's nothing we can do. The manager called a meeting for us. There are targets for Golden Arowana, but not for the others."

"Good boy, it looks like your manager took the money."

"It's not that... the manufacturer gives rebates, and there is also a subsidy for supermarket renovation costs."

Yu Yang nodded, signaling the other party to go and do his work while he was just taking a look around.

The business of Golden Dragon Fish has expanded to soybean oil, peanut oil, blended oil, corn oil, rapeseed oil, salad oil, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, aged vinegar, sweet vinegar, and Weidam...
Even the high-gluten flour and low-gluten flour have been subdivided from the "three levels of refinement" into dumpling flour, bread flour, cake flour, steamed bun flour, etc.

This shows how fierce the food war is.

But even though the three grain and oil companies made concessions, in 03, Wilmar International → ADM → Wilmar still suffered a loss of 130 billion red cash in the East.

And as Sanxi Grain and Oil also made concessions in the field of online sales and even helped the other party to attract traffic, the other party suffered even greater losses. In January 04 alone, it lost 1 billion red cash.

Because if you don’t lose money, you can’t survive in the market.

If they lose money and have a market, they can raise the stock price and make back the losses several times or even dozens of times in the financial field, and then subsidize companies like Wilmar International.

In this process, the three grain and oil companies did not lose money, the people in the East benefited, and old Smith made a lot of money, and everyone was happy.

So although the food war in 04 was very fierce, it was not as tit-for-tat as in previous years, and no one died.

As for who loses...

Maybe it’s only those who buy US stocks.

Yu Yang came to the grain distribution area and used a shovel to dig up some ingredients for homemade eight-treasure porridge from the wooden tank. "Golden Dragon Fish is selling so cheaply, it must be losing money. How come they haven't closed down?"

Feng Zhe curled his lips and said, "Boss, please don't test me. Look at this grain and oil section. There are golden dragon fish everywhere. You can't even see other brands. I think other supermarkets look similar.

If this scenario is publicized by the news media and an extremely high market share is fabricated, wouldn't Jinlongyu's stock price soar?
If the capital behind it goes long in advance and then cancels these sponsorships, causing the Golden Arowana to disappear from the shelves, and then goes short in advance, it will make money both ways.

By making money from the financial market and then subsidizing Golden Arowana, the capital behind it can continue to play and make money, and Golden Arowana can continue to exist.

In general, the real economy is a toy of financial capital... Of course, collectively, except for the group, if Mr. Yu Sanyuan takes action, such a large scale is enough to kill financial capital. For example, if wheat production is reduced, US stock futures will fluctuate. Then if the mining farm is announced, US stock futures will also fluctuate. In this process, you can make money by going long or short in advance. "

"Then why doesn't Mr. Yu Sanyuan play it this way?"

"Wall Street will pull the plug. It's not like they haven't played this game before, and they all went back to their original positions. As for A-shares, the higher-ups have issued a clear ban on collective participation... No, A-shares have been connected to the Xintai database, and the old man has become the GM of A-shares. If you were a GM, would you stare at the game coins in the game? Of course not. You would use this game as a tool or a platform to trick the players into paying more money, or even let the players take out loans to help maximize the profits of your other industries. That's why the Trade Hall, Agriculture 3.0, and the New Third Board have been very popular in the past two years, and the economy related to them has also developed rapidly, which can be said to be unprecedented."

"My goodness, you are so insightful and can come up with a composition camera and a composition game engine, why haven't you become rich and famous?"

"It doesn't matter, that's why I'm begging you to join the relationship."

"···"

(End of this chapter)