I See through Everything

The weather had just started to clear up. Though the strong winds had died down, a fine drizzle lingered, leaving the concrete roads slick and wet.

After being notified, Jiang Miao personally went to the town government office to sign a series of contracts. The agreements included the purchase of the Xinxiang Dongtian plot for real estate development, as well as preparations to buy the Little Nanshan plot in Xinxiang to serve as the company’s headquarters.

The town government promised to complete the land acquisition for the Little Nanshan plot within two months.

In fact, over the past few days, Jiang Miao’s father, Jiang Dahai, had already stepped in to negotiate with the village. Aside from two families who were asking for an exorbitant price, all other negotiations had been completed.

Therefore, during this trip to the town government office, he reconfirmed the area and demarcated boundaries of the Little Nanshan plot with the land resources department.

After reconfirmation, the area of the Little Nanshan plot within the acquisition scope was determined to be 163 mu, all of which was woodland and orchards.

The price was also set according to the previously negotiated terms.

After settling this matter, Jiang Miao didn’t stay at the town government office for long.

This was because several of his research projects were currently at critical stages. Unless it was something as important as signing major contracts, he delegated all other matters to his company’s senior executives.

He had handled two things over the past few days.

First was signing the relevant contracts for land development.

Second was taking the time to interview 89 applicants, from whom he hired a total of 39 people.

Of these new hires, 15 were to be dispatched to the Gannan Region to establish the Gannan Branch. The manager of this branch was Sun Keji, a manager poached from a camellia oil company in the Min Nan Region.

Another 10 people were sent to the durian farm in Gongping Town to develop and manage the large-scale farm. The farm manager was Zhu Guobin, who had been poached from a durian cultivation company in Qionzhou.

Four people joined the Supervisory Office, to be managed by Li Haoran.

The remaining 10 joined various departments, including Hailufeng Real Estate Company, Yandun Mountain Feed Factory Two, and Nanhu Farm.

When it came to personnel matters, Jiang Miao always handled them personally. He couldn’t casually delegate such things to other executives, as it could easily lead to cronyism and the formation of cliques.

After dealing with these two matters, Jiang Miao returned to his daily research work.

「August 15th.」

In his laboratory, he confirmed the three camellia oil varieties that would ultimately be promoted. This was because after these three varieties germinated and grew, their phenotypic traits were consistent with the genetic expressions observed in their seed state.

They were Oil King No. 7, Oil King No. 13, and Oil King No. 15.

The genetic data observable from these three varieties in their seedling stage was outstanding.

Oil King No. 7: under ideal conditions, its maximum yield could reach 230 kilograms of camellia seed oil per mu. Its other characteristics were excellent, but its drawback was that it couldn’t be cultivated north of the Yangtze River, and its oil quality was average.

Oil King No. 13: under ideal conditions, its maximum yield could reach 200 kilograms of camellia seed oil per mu. It was characterized by its cold and drought resistance, and its oil quality was top-tier.

Oil King No. 15: under ideal conditions, its maximum yield could reach 270 kilograms of camellia seed oil per mu. Its oil quality was average, but its drawbacks were a lack of drought and cold resistance. It could only be grown south of the Yangtze River, preferably in Lingnan, Guangxi Province, and Min Province.

After finalizing these three camellia oil varieties, Jiang Miao gave them official commercial names: Oil King No. 7—Fengcha, Oil King No. 13—Hanxiang, and Oil King No. 15—Nanwang.

He called for Zhang Chengdong, who was concurrently managing the tissue culture and nursery lab.

"Cheng Dong, I need you to arrange the tissue culture propagation for these three camellia saplings. Before next year, we need to produce enough saplings to graft tens of thousands of mu of camellia trees."

"Tens of thousands of mu?" Zhang Chengdong was stunned. "Boss, if we’re going to propagate that many saplings through tissue culture, I’m worried the nursery area at the lab won’t be large enough."

Jiang Miao had already anticipated this. "I know. I already instructed the Agricultural Planting Division yesterday to lease three hundred mu of hillside near the reservoir in Nanhu Village to serve as a nursery. You just focus on propagating the saplings."

"I see. In that case, I have no other questions." Zhang Chengdong wasn’t overly curious about why the boss wanted to mass-produce camellia saplings.

After giving these instructions, Jiang Miao returned to his private laboratory.

He looked at the rows upon rows of genetically modified silk floss tree saplings on the display racks. Many of them had already been grafted with scions from old durian branches.

Through the identification panel, he could see a clear overview of the grafting status between these genetically modified silk floss trees and the old durian scions.

[...Rejection Rate: 37.66%... Silk floss tree gene segment 3624 conflicts with durian gene segment 557, causing an 86.74% decrease in the efficiency of magnesium absorption by the durian from the silk floss tree...]

[...Rejection Reaction: 7.68%... Silk floss tree gene segment 1208 conflicts with durian gene segment 441, causing the durian to secrete large amounts of bitter chemical compounds, which will affect the texture and taste of the durian pulp...]

[...Rejection Reaction: 0.82%... Silk floss tree gene segment 1141 conflicts with durian gene segment 3409, causing iron from the silk floss tree to be plundered by the durian...]

After being grafted with old durian scions, the more than 60 types of genetically modified silk floss trees exhibited a wide variety of outcomes.

These genetically modified silk floss tree saplings had undergone repeated iterative adjustments, and their genes were becoming more and more compatible with the durian genes.

Currently, the genetically modified silk floss tree with the lowest rejection reaction had a rejection rate between 0.75% and 0.94% when grafted with old durian scions.

The grafting rejection reaction between this same genetically modified silk floss tree and a normal silk floss tree was between 0.012% and 0.037%.

Based on what Jiang Miao was currently seeing, this type of genetically modified silk floss tree was ready for use.