Volume 8 Final Chapter Chapter 1070 Water War
"Okay, okay, I just hope you can consider Jiatong a little more."
Nan Yi turned his face back and looked back at the page of the book, "Don't worry about it. Ruoqi is the youngest, and what father doesn't favor the youngest?"
"oh."
After a brief chat, Nan Yi and the other person went back to reading their own books.
In the morning, before Nan Yi's biological clock rang, he felt his pants being pulled off and a pig sitting on him.
Being forced to open for business reduced his morning exercise a little.
At nine o'clock, Nan Yi arrived at Kwai Tsing Cargo Terminal to inspect the first batch of ingredients delivered by Shennong Nanliang to Master Fan.
In addition to the trademark Master Fan, Master Fan also has four other trademarks: Sister Fan, Uncle Fan, Grandma Fan, and Mom Fan, as well as a series of other trademarks related to relative terms and with similar characters. Even the chance to skirt the rules is not left for others. Only the "Fan maggot" trademark, which makes people feel sick at first sight, is kept, and anyone who wants can register it.
Initially, before Wenchang Food Factory was established, Nan Yi had already made a plan in mind. Hawthorn and biscuits were just entry points. With the passage of time, the product line would be gradually enriched. Later, Wenchang Wei was no longer effective, so Master Fan was born as an extension of Wenchang Food Factory.
According to his plan, the Master Fan brand will involve three types of products: instant noodles, candies, and sausages.
Uncle Fan specializes in marinated products, including chicken legs, chicken wings, chicken feet, duck legs, duck wings, duck feet, duck necks, pig feet, pig skin, braised beef, etc. Any scraps that Shennong Nanliang is able to supply and cannot sell at a high price will be developed into products.
Grandma Fan specializes in pickled vegetables, including mustard tubers, snow vegetables, kelp shreds, dried radish, and the like.
Sister Fan specializes in snacks for women. The categories are quite diverse, including dried fruits and chocolate snacks. The packaging is as gorgeous and exquisite as possible, but in small quantities. The goal is to make it high-end and classy, so that the ladies can have face and style, while at the same time controlling the amount of food consumed and maintaining a good figure.
Of course, the price of Sister Fan’s products is generally a little bit more expensive. Maybe some young ladies need the support of their boyfriends to realize the freedom of eating Sister Fan’s products.
Fan Mama specializes in "hunger-filling" snacks such as sachima, pies, biscuits, and bread. She will develop several of her own flagship products and then expand to products with roughly overlapping raw materials but different production processes.
This time, Shennong Nanliang sent 30 freezers full of pig's feet. The reason why they chose to start with pig's feet is that they are cheap. Many Western countries do not eat pig's feet or rarely eat them. For example, in the UK, the British believe that animals' feet walking around on the ground are unclean and almost no one eats them. Therefore, pig's feet are often used as a bonus in the UK. When you buy a pound of meat, you get two or three pig's feet for free.
The second reason is that there is a good profit margin. Compared with cheaper chicken and duck offal, pig's trotters can be sold at a higher price.
A few years ago, Shennong Nanliang started to participate in the trade of livestock scraps, purchasing them at low prices. They can be used as raw materials for pet food or processed into deep-buried fertilizer. In the past two years, meat prices in Asia have begun to rise, and Shennong Nanliang has also begun to import such products into Southeast Asia. Although the absolute profit is not very high, the profit margin is high, and nearly 70% of the cost is in transportation.
Third, because of the existence of pork trotter rice, in a few years, a saying will become popular: "Endless overtime work and endless Longjiang pork trotter rice."
In the early 1980s, a large number of Chaoshan people went to Shenzhen to make a living. Following closely behind them, Longjiang Pig Trotter Rice called out to its local accent, first to attract acquaintances, and then to attract strangers who came south to make a living to walk into the store and have a bowl of pork trotter rice that was meaty, cheap, and without guangzhang and fish cakes.
Pork trotter rice without the word "Longjiang" in it became the earliest popular catering culture for foreigners in Shenzhen. Stores opened all over the urban villages. Following it like a prairie fire, there were also "Xianxiang wooden barrel rice" and "Xian×× wooden barrel rice", all of which had the word "Xiang" in their names. But if you ask Xiaoxiang boys where in Funan the wooden barrel rice is from, they will definitely shake their heads in confusion and say they don't know.
The reason why the pig's trotters are shipped to Xiangkeng instead of directly to the mainland is because the import quota is not enough. It is still unknown whether Uncle Fan's braised pig's trotters can sell well, and it is difficult to calculate how many pig's trotters will be consumed in a year.
However, Shennong Nanliang's supply capacity is already too strong. It is a waste to use pig's feet to make pet food or compost. It is more cost-effective to feed them to people. The import quota is tight for Master Fan to use himself, and the indigestible parts are left in Xiangkeng, waiting for the gods with hidden talents, space rings or brain space to come and buy them. Or, to be worse, someone who dares to grit his teeth and install eight motors on Dafei, who can also be a good customer.
After picking up a few pig's trotters at the dock, Nan Yi rushed to the Information and Policy Committee to attend a business discussion meeting of the Tamsui Group.
Participants included Yefim Zelman, president of Freshwater Group, Patti Lynn, president of its Flathead Company, Christopher, deputy director of its Freshwater Research Institute, Vikram Pandit, president of Freshwater Investments, the founder of India's Shockwave team and former executive of Scarlett Funds, and representatives of the strategy team.
Zelman served as the moderator of the meeting. As soon as the meeting started, he let Christopher speak first.
“Boss, and everyone present here, since its establishment, the Freshwater Research Institute has been conducting research in the fields of seawater desalination, air water, and biological water purification. It has also conducted research and data collection on the earth’s freshwater resource reserves and regeneration capacity.
After a period of observation and data comparison, the Freshwater Research Institute concluded that clean fresh water is being lost at an accelerated rate, and in 100 years, nearly one-third of the world’s population is likely to face a fresh water crisis.
As Christopher finished his brief speech, Zelman took over, "Everyone, there is one thing you need to pay attention to. The conclusion drawn by the Freshwater Research Institute is based on the premise that in the next 100 years, there will be no large-scale wars on Earth, no nuclear weapons will be launched, and there will be no sudden changes in the speed of the Earth's continental plates and no natural disasters with a wide range of impacts.
However, this foundation is difficult to achieve. There are too many uncontrollable factors in nature, and the world's political landscape is constantly changing. If we think from the perspective of the United States, many issues need special attention.
1. How long can the petrodollar hegemony based on military hegemony last?
Second, if the petrodollar hegemony faces challenges, how should we contain the enemy?
Third, if the petrodollar hegemony weakens, how should the United States continue to maintain its hegemony?
Zelman obviously didn't need anyone to answer his question. He didn't stop after asking the question, but continued: "If we expand the perspective, not just to the United States, but to the entire Western camp proposed by Eastern countries, how should it restrict the challenges posed by the rapidly developing 'developing countries' to itself?
Under the current premise that oil is the main energy source, the Western camp can use oil to restrict and attack its potential enemies, but it is difficult to achieve accurate and effective attacks on potential enemies with oil alone. It also needs an auxiliary tool... water, fresh water. The regeneration time of clean fresh water in some countries and regions is extended, and it is infinitely tending towards non-renewable, causing some countries to fall into a fresh water crisis.
The Freshwater Research Institute has conducted a simulation based on this view. To achieve this effect, a series of measures can be taken:
First, take advantage of the WTO terms to allow some countries to open up access to foreign capital in tap water companies. By entering the country and acquiring the right to produce and supply tap water in some cities at high prices, we can not only increase the price of tap water and reap economic benefits, but also do something about water pollutant emissions and water purification measures if necessary.
Second, by dumping wastewater and waste that will pollute the ocean in specific sea areas, the seawater is polluted, and the growth environment of marine fish is destroyed. When marine resources cannot be caught, the fishing industry is hit, the protein intake pathway is changed, and the breeding of carnivorous livestock can only be increased, which requires more feed and crop planting on land.
Water resources will be lost in large quantities due to crop irrigation, and the manure produced by excessive livestock breeding will also pollute land freshwater resources. Combined with other reasons such as industrial pollution, it will eventually lead to a shortage of clean fresh water resources.
If radioactive wastewater is dumped into the ocean, it is likely to contain a large amount of the isotope "tritium", which is not easily absorbed by marine animals and seabed sediments. In addition to the difficult-to-remove tritium, there are likely to be some radioactive isotopes, including carbon 14, cobalt 60 and strontium 90.
Unlike tritium, they take longer to degrade, and they easily enter marine sediments and are easily taken up by marine life.
These isotopes are potentially toxic to humans and can affect the marine environment in more lasting and complex ways. For example, the physiological concentration of carbon 14 in fish can be as high as 50,000 times that of tritium, while cobalt 60 can be enriched in seabed sediments and the concentration may increase by 300,000 times.
Where are the potential enemies in the Western camp?
Without a doubt, it is in Asia, and the staple food of Asian countries is rice. This crop requires a lot of fresh water for irrigation. Once water resources are reduced, rice production will definitely decrease. "
Zelman clicked the remote control, turned on the projector, and a topographic map highlighting the river appeared on the screen.
"If you look at this map, you will find that the sources of most of the rivers in Asia's main rice-producing areas, India and Southeast Asia, are within China's borders. You can imagine that if China is short of water, will the course of the rivers be artificially changed so that the end of the river also remains within China's borders?
If this speculation becomes a reality and someone instigates it, will a major regional conflict occur in Asia?
Skipping this conjecture, let's extend this question. Once Asian countries are short of food, they can only buy from the major food producing countries in the West. In this way, the Western camp controls Asia with strategic food and water resources, and also restricts the development speed of potential enemies..."
