Chapter 833 Food Is the First Necessity of the People (4K)

"This must be due to the entry of the Daxia military and official scientific research institutions!

We can no longer rely on our own R&D capabilities! The military, Ivy League universities, world-class research institutes, and even Daxia's scientific research companies should all help us!

We can no longer stand still! We can no longer continue to dream of a closed ecological loop!"

What? Open ecology?

The directors looked at each other, thinking about how much risk and benefit Pingguo would bring to themselves if they took this step.

But Ku Ke couldn't care less.

He opened a document and threw the sales data of Pingguo's new phones and previous old models of mobile phones, tablets and other products in front of the directors.

"In addition to mobile phones, the global sales of our new Mac Studio, iOS ecological display and other new products have dropped by 25% compared with the same period in the past, and the largest drop has even exceeded 50%.

Even our overseas sales agents have reported that the products of Daxia enterprises on the market are cheaper and have better performance than ours!

If the lack of technical strength is not enough to make you sober, then I want to tell you that even though we are lobbying the North American Motor Vehicle Administration to adopt the electronic driver's license equipped with Pingguo products, it has been postponed for a long time.

Obviously, after our stock price fell last time, causing the US stock market to collapse, and the rescue of the Federal Reserve and Wall Street failed, we have been gradually marginalized.

And our attitude towards overseas markets such as Daxia, placing the data processing center in Daxia, has made domestic intelligence agencies very dissatisfied with us."

Ku Ke said here, with his hands on the table, looking at everyone in a low voice.

He knew clearly that most of these directors were people from positive and negative Wall Street and international capital, so what he said to them could be quickly conveyed to those forces.

"Gentlemen, no one can now investigate how many research laboratories Jiuzhou Technology has in action and how many factories are in production!

But what is certain is that Jiuzhou Technology will definitely use all its resources to rush to the place with the highest profit and the largest market.

In addition to Jiuzhou Technology, we also have to face challenges from companies such as Xia Wei and Xia Xing. In addition to the main business of mobile phones, it is also very difficult for us to get involved in the field of new energy vehicles!

If we do not open up global partners to join us, Pingguo's future will definitely be bleak."

When the last word was finished, Ku Ke closed his eyes and clasped his hands together as if he was accepting God's judgment.

"May God bless Pingguo."

Although these directors did not say a word, they followed closely and prayed for Pingguo.

As for the opening?

No one thinks this can be done.

Just like no one can clearly know how many products of intelligence agencies and research institutes are in Pingguo's industrial chain.

Pingguo is not Ku Ke's Pingguo alone, nor is it an enterprise exclusively owned by the forces behind these directors.

As the backbone of the US stock market, it involves too many factors.

Moreover, it is not so easy to make a large ship turn around and change its strategy instantly.

Many people even thought about helping to shovel more coal into the boiler when the ship was about to hit the iceberg.

Because the destruction of the existing economy, although facing the risk of economic crisis, can actually increase the benefits of vested interest groups several times in the short term.

The core technology industry is shifting towards Daxia, but the people of North America will not migrate.

North American consumers feel the pressure from rising gasoline, food and even housing prices, so shoppers will choose smaller packages of food, more canned food, instead of fresh meat and vegetables and fruits.

But even so, they have to consume.

The worse the economic environment, the greater the gap between the rich and the poor will be.

And the consumption downgrade will only be the common people and those in the middle defined by capital, and high-income consumers are actually not affected.

For example, the sales of imported high-quality beer in North America this year are still steadily increasing, and the sales of luxury goods have once again broken a new record. The N-hand dealers who resell Taoyao, SR1 glasses, Lingjing landers, and Jiaolong mobile phones in the black market have more revenue every month than the previous month.

Even some multinational trading companies are doing the business of reselling, focusing on reselling Jiuzhou Technology's products to those Guojia and regions where the official blockade has been pulled.

Although Jiuzhou Technology's products always have so many activation restrictions, many of these restrictions are really vulnerable to money.

Now there are even businesses that bring people to the vicinity of Daxia, then travel to Daxia, activate Jiuzhou Technology products in Daxia, and then send them back to the local area.

Although the fee is a bit expensive, it is actually providing various high-quality services, "driving the development of the surrounding economy", and the Guojia around Daxia will turn a blind eye to it, and sometimes help these people to "travel" in Daxia.

November is an extremely busy month.

The reduced-configuration version of the mecha is still under development, and it is expected to be launched in December.

The robot project that the aerospace project is vigorously developing is also looking for "learning" from the mecha project while developing it. After all, everyone's projects overlap in many fields.

Although this learning was directly pulled over, it was still a gain.

In this picture of the struggle of steel and industry, Gu Qing learned a good news about future food.

The first batch of seeds sent into space by Jiuzhou Technology have taken root in the experimental fields of Xinke District.

Although the family is well-off in this life, how can a pig farmer not go to the fields to grow vegetables?

Therefore, Gu Qing is not a scholar who has his feet wet in the mud. Strictly speaking, he is also a person who came out of the village.

Xinke District was a suburb within the suburbs of Chengdu back then. Therefore, when this district was designated, except for the large number of residents around Jiuzhou Science and Technology Community, the rest of the area was basically plain farmland and Tianfu granary. Due to many restrictions, commercial real estate development is also not allowed.

After the zoning, Jiuzhou Technology, as a consulting company for the new district planning, also "recommended" not to develop real estate, so many fields were reserved.

Some of these fields are used as experimental fields, and there are dedicated personnel and Jiuzhou security personnel in charge to prevent uncles and aunts from taking advantage of the experimental results.

In the aerospace breeding corn base, a row of corn germplasm material with a plant height of about 1.2 meters is particularly distinctive, because the corn plants surrounding it that look the same are all about 1.6 meters tall.

In November, can this thing still grow?

Yes, as long as the temperature and fertilization are properly controlled, you can eat the freshest watermelon in the coldest winter.

Zhang Quanhai, the vice president of the Jiuzhou Institute of Science and Technology Biotechnology, was hunched over in front of the row of low corn plants, pointing with both hands, and introduced to Gu Qing with excitement on his face as if he had found a treasure: "Mr. Gu, this is a corn plant. Corn seeds have mutated in the space station. Now one seed has grown into a plant, and one plant has multiplied into an ear row.

After two rounds of careful selection and testing, we found that its growth rate has been greatly improved, and at the same time, it has large fruit sticks, a compact plant shape and is resistant to dense planting.

Moreover, they have strong disease resistance and lodging resistance, and the accumulated temperature required is not as high as that of other corn species. This means that if these seeds encounter a season with many continuous rainy days, the leaves will not be easily infected with rust and stem rot, which can at least reduce the number of growers. More than thirty percent loss. "

Gu Qing nodded. Although he looked happy, he did not touch the plants. He was even afraid that he would step too hard and trample the soil tightly, which would adversely affect the roots of the plants, so he just leaned forward and looked at them.

Food is the most important thing for the people. Even scientists, engineers, royal families and nobles must eat food.

Therefore, Gu Qing has always attached great importance to space breeding.

Space breeding, also known as space mutation breeding, is a comprehensive mutagenesis of crop seeds or test tube seedlings by carrying returnable spacecraft or space capsules, using special environments such as cosmic rays, microgravity, and high vacuum in space. , causing the organisms themselves to generate genetic mutations, and then return to the land, where they will be screened and cultivated by scientific researchers for many generations to form new varieties with stable characteristics.

"I sent so many seeds, and finally some results came out." Gu Qing sighed with emotion.

Zhang Quanhai sighed: "Yes, so many seeds were sent, but not every seed will necessarily change. What can be changed may only be a few thousandths or even a few thousandths.

If it were not for special equipment like nuclear track plates, which can be used to detect whether seeds are hit by cosmic particles, the time and resources we need to consume will increase geometrically. "

"Besides corn, how many space seeds do we have that have benign mutations?" Gu Qing suddenly asked.

As the vice president of the Jiuzhou Institute of Science and Technology Biotechnology, Zhang Quanhai replied almost without thinking: "There are three varieties of wheat, four varieties of soybeans, three varieties of rice, two varieties of potatoes, and pumpkin, There are two sweet potatoes each.

There are currently thirteen varieties on the space station, with a total of 1,300 seeds undergoing the baptism of the universe.

Moreover, going to space is only the first step. After landing, we still need to observe whether the seed genes have changed, and then go through breeding, multi-point testing and cross-breeding.

If nothing unexpected happens, stable and qualified space agricultural products will be produced in three years. Of course, it is only for our agricultural products for commercial and civilian use.

As for our progress on the lunar base, it depends on how much lunar soil the company can provide in the future and how many seeds can be sent to the base in the first wave. What our institute can guarantee is that we will be able to provide safe and high-quality edible space food within two years. Produce for astronauts! "

What Zhang Quanhai said was categorical, but Gu Qing did not agree.

He shook his head and said: "For seeds for commercial and civilian use, we still follow official regulations. The seeds are mature enough and the risks borne by the growers are small. Our company is not one of those seed companies and does not need to rely on space seeds to make profits.

Although I am not an expert in this field, I have also learned that it will take at least 8-10 years to cultivate more mature space varieties. Breeding requires four to five years of mutation screening, and three years of regional variety trials and production trials.

People's dining tables must not be careless. For the lunar base, we will ensure the supply of food and drinking water for the astronauts in the early stage, so there is no need for your research institute to take a big step to conduct experiments.

Anyway, there is only one principle, and that is stability and security. Our future is destined to be in the sea of ​​stars. When we go out in the future, it will not be easy for us to eat the food on the Blue Star, so we must care for every seed as a child and don't act too hastily. "

Fearing that the other party would misunderstand his meaning, Gu Qing emphasized: "Don't worry about the funding and the quota for sending seeds to space for experiments. Our company has always had a close relationship with the government. You can report it as long as you have a need. As for the test site, we have good cooperative relations with Anxi Province, the three northeastern provinces and some provinces in the coastal areas, so if you want a test site, just apply boldly.

Anyway, the principle is the same, to ensure the safety and health of seeds, and then to pursue yield, nutrition, and disease resistance."

Hearing Gu Qing's words, Zhang Quanhai sniffed.

Looking around, among so many companies in the industry, even those Xia-funded enterprises, there should be no company that would treat this space breeding project in this way.

After all, genetic modification, which artificially introduces genes with certain excellent traits into plants to change their comprehensive traits, is currently the most widely used and "cheapest" technology in the world to produce results.

And space breeding, which uses the space environment to accelerate the genetic mutation of seeds themselves, expand the range, and increase the frequency, costs too much and takes too long. Although it is a cutting-edge technology, the benefits created are really not as fast as genetic modification, and the profits are not as much.

Gu Qing talked a lot with other researchers from Jiuzhou Biotechnology Research Institute in the experimental field, and had a meal at noon, which was said to be the doctoral thesis of a certain person in charge.

Well, papers related to agronomy generally refer to plants and organisms such as fruits, grapes, chickens, ducks and fish.

During the dinner, an old man from the Institute of Biotechnology looked at the crops outside the window and said, "I remember that in the 1950s and 1960s, scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union began to use various spacecraft to carry out hundreds of plant experiments. Some of them even completed the entire life cycle in space and produced some fresh food supply.

And we are still on the ground, digging for food in the fields.

In the blink of an eye, decades have passed. I heard that there are many problems with the International Space Station, and even astronauts deliberately destroyed the equipment of the space station. It's really a waste."

After Gu Qing brushed the chicken leg in his mouth clean, he wiped his mouth with a tissue, and then said to the old man: "Now our Tiangong in Daxia is much better than the International Space Station. Astronauts can grow their own lettuce.

In a few years, our space station will be built in orbit, and you can also see our company's astronauts eating the food we cultivate."

PS: Space breeding and space cultivation are two technical projects. One is to take seeds out and fly a circle, and then let them grow on the ground.

The other is to take seeds to the sky and let them grow in space.

But they are all time-consuming projects, so I won’t describe them in detail.

Good night.