Technological Hegemony

The so-called hegemony in this world is to control something, or to control the military, to single-handedly attack the whole world, or to control finance, and the whole world will ask you for loans and use your currency, or to control technology and education, with the world's most A university that absorbs talents from all over the world to conduct research. The talents are cultivated by other countries, but the scientific research results belong to you.

A country or entity that can achieve any of the above is the hegemony class on the earth, and if it has several hegemonies, or masters all the most important hegemonies, it will become a well-deserved hegemony on the earth.

Now that the China-U.S. hegemony war has been going on, North America has fewer and fewer cards, especially the gradual loss of technological hegemony, which has made the entire West feel on pins and needles. After much consideration, they finally played the agricultural card, hoping to use dumping. supremacy in agriculture.

China is a huge country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, and Luo Jia also frantically hinted at different occasions that everyone should have more children in preparation for going to the stars and seas and colonizing other planets in the future.

If there are many people, we need to eat, and eating is inseparable from agriculture. Assuming that the West can consolidate its hegemony in the agricultural field, no matter how far the Chinese people go in the future, they will have shackles around their necks. They have to slow down, this is their wishful thinking.

However, they didn't expect that Luo Jia also turned his attention to agriculture. In Luo Jia's mind, agriculture is the foundation of everything. Headquarters, but when I turned around, I found that there was no food. That should be the most heartwarming thing for all the generals.

In short, in October of the seventh year of Star Technology's establishment, Western agricultural companies began to launch a fierce offensive against China, and the main battlefield was set in high-end agricultural technology.

Perhaps you have been confused, delicious but expensive cherries, juicy and plump raisins, huge bright red strawberries, why have you never seen these delicious varieties when you were young? However, in the last ten years, they have popped up one after another, and they are constantly introducing new ones. There are more and more types of fruits and vegetables on the market, and the taste is getting better and better?

The answer is very simple, because after joining the WTO, Huaxia joined the global trade system, and foreign agricultural giants began to expand their markets in my country one after another, so the product categories became more and more abundant.

Your grandparents may have never seen colorful peppers in their life, but you have long been accustomed to it. This is the power of agricultural technology. We can no longer simply think that agriculture is facing the loess and facing the sky. Modern agriculture has already It has evolved into a typical high-tech industry that is technology-intensive, capital-intensive, and land-intensive.

Everyone seems to be complaining recently that the price of fruit is getting more and more expensive, but have you ever thought about it, is the fruit we eat now the same as the fruit that our parents and grandparents ate?

Take apples as an example. Before 2000, the most important type of apple on the market was called Guoguang. You can tell by the name. The typical domestic variety once occupied 70% of the market share. As for the quality, it is hard to say.

The market is the touchstone of all technologies. Today’s young people have rarely heard of Guoguang Apple, which is enough to explain the problem. At best, the taste of the product is actually pretty good. At worst, the appearance of Guoguang Apple is just It looks like a colored potato, so ugly, it doesn't fit in today's appearance-based society.

Closer to home, what about the Western agricultural invasion?

Very simple, reduce the price of high-tech seedlings.

Many girls shouted for cherries to be free,

But do you know that cherries are simply high-tech cherries. The reason why they are expensive is not only the cost of planting and transportation insurance, but also the seedlings.

The number one sales of cherries is Earlise, the second is Sequoia, the third is Brooks, the fourth is Shenandoah, the fifth is Coral Champagne, and the sixth is Royal Dawn. Due to a translation error , domestically called Royal Taste, the seventh is Santina, the eighth is Rainier, the ninth is Bing, the tenth is Lapins, the eleventh is Kordia, and the twelfth It's Skeena, the thirteenth is SweetHeart, the fourteenth is Regina, and the fifteenth is Skato.

It is not difficult to see from the above rankings that none of the top 15 best-selling cherries in the world is produced in China, mainly North America and Canada control the cherries seedling market. The Czechs bred Cordia in 1991. Currently occupying the 11th place in global sales, it is already a strange color in the field of cherries.

Under such circumstances, if Chinese people want to realize the freedom of cherries, they will undoubtedly have to spend money. Even the most mediocre seedlings cost tens of yuan a plant, and high-quality varieties sell for hundreds of yuan. If you are willing to pay, others may not be willing to sell it to you.

This is where fancy fruits come from, and why they are so expensive.

To put it bluntly, the reason why China’s little cherries were not wiped out in the past was only because Western agricultural enterprises did not really spend their money to conquer cities and land.

However, it is different now. The horn of the agricultural general attack has already sounded. Western agricultural enterprises have brought cherries with high technological content and dozens of high-yielding varieties. The Chinese farmers or farms can choose, and the price is so low that they have no friends. In this case Under this circumstance, it won't be long before the land of Huaxia will be filled with cherry trees from North America and Canada.

Fruit trees also suffer from birth, old age, sickness and death. When the life cycle of this crop of seedlings is over, the Chinese people will go to the West to buy seedlings, and then all the people will eat them happily, and finally realize the dream of cherries freedom.

In this happy agricultural feast, the only problem is the loss of control. Suppose one day, the West refuses to sell seedlings, what should we do?

This is just fruits and vegetables. According to the data, a huge amount of our country's staple food seedlings are also imported, among which soybeans and corn are the hardest hit areas.

Well now, Luo Jia decided to personally participate in the fight for agricultural hegemony, and with the help of the secret net, invited super reinforcements, a great plant civilization, and a magical family that manipulated plants to perfection.

According to the current information, Luo Jia speculates that the Golden Dome he inherited is likely to be a mechanical civilization, or a branch close to it. That is to say, the plant technology provided by Lan Yu is likely to be more advanced than the Golden Dome.

Early in the morning, the Department of Agriculture, a subsidiary of Xingchen Technology, rarely welcomed the boss Luo Jia, which made all agricultural researchers very excited. As an inseparable group, the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Life Sciences have focused on agriculture since last month. The Ministry dispatched troops and sent their elites to the Ministry of Agriculture to support the work of the Ministry of Agriculture. They had already had a hunch that the company might make big moves in agriculture next.

Du Wei, the director of the agricultural department of Star Science and Technology, has average undergraduate grades and studied at Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, but he graduated with a Ph.D. from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, which ranks first in the world in agriculture and forestry.

In Xingchen Technology, where there are so many geniuses, Du Wei is considered an outlier. His talent is excellent at best. If he can reach half of Enron's level, he will probably wake up laughing at night from his dreams.

Du Wei worked hard step by step to achieve today's achievements. Perhaps in this materialistic society, children who are willing to learn agriculture all have a simple stubbornness. Du Wei's talent is average, but his spiritual attributes are almost full , never know what it is to admit defeat, what it is to be tired, and good at studying.

In fact, the entire Ministry of Agriculture has a down-to-earth temperament. On this day, Luo Jia walked in and summoned Du Wei and several other principals for a meeting.

After a while, the Wen family brothers from the life science department also came, and brought with them several experts from the life science department, as well as their proud student, Yinghui.

The meeting was chaired by Luo Jia. He smiled and announced on the spot: "Before we start, I would like to inform everyone that from today onwards, the Ministry of Agriculture is no longer an independent research institute, but will be managed by the Ministry of Life Sciences."

After announcing the matter, Luo Jia asked with his eyes, and the Ministry of Agriculture, from Du Wei to other researchers, was not displeased at all. It seemed that they were quite happy to be merged into the Department of Life Sciences.

The reason why Du Wei is happy is because the life science department is very powerful. The company only has three first-level departments, hardware, software, and life science. The rest are a bunch of second-level research institutes, third-level laboratories, and fourth-level departments. Research project team.

The Ministry of Agriculture is the company's second-level independent research institute, and it is included in the Life Sciences Department, which is equivalent to hanging out with the two legendary bosses, the Wen brothers, and leaning against a big tree to enjoy the shade.

Second, being included in the Ministry of Life Sciences is equivalent to the selection of the final route of agriculture. The Wen brothers are engaged in genetic research, which also means that the Ministry of Agriculture will take the route of gene editing in the future.

Du Wei and others agreed that agriculture will not have a future if it does not enter the level of gene editing and transformation, or even rewriting, so they are very happy to follow the Wen family brothers in the future and do things that are not so just and politically correct. , but it can really solve the problem and be beneficial for generations to come.

"I see everyone is so excited today, but I really can't be happy." After Luo Jia glanced at the dozen or so people present, he slammed his lips and said: "We who are engaged in science, when we talk about genetically modified Organisms, genetically modified foods, their eyes are shining with excitement, and their whole bodies are trembling with excitement."

"However, have you ever thought about how difficult it is for us to convince the common people to trust and gradually accept genetically modified foods?"

"Using an online novel terminology, the difficulty of what we are about to do is simply beyond heaven!"

"In the past, there was a man named Cui Yongyuan. He made a documentary and scolded genetically modified food. As a result, it was widely supported by the people across the country, which caused great difficulties for related scientific research."

"Cui Yongyuan opposes genetically modified food. I will not say anything, because it is his right to oppose. However, he must not spread rumors everywhere because of his opposition."

"In traditional breeding methods, one is soaking seeds with dimethyl sulfate. Ordinary people will never know that dimethyl sulfate has strong carcinogenic properties. The reason why breeding research is done is to make seeds Getting cancer, to put it bluntly, is for the pursuit of genetic mutations! How can there be high-yield good breeds without genetic mutations?"

"In addition, there is another breeding method that has been widely publicized, which is to take the seeds for a walk in space, and then plant them in geography, and the crops will have high yields."

"The people are so happy to hear that, this thing is good, space technology! Cosmic breeding!"

"Actually? The reason why breeding research is done this way is to let cosmic rays irradiate the seeds, or to promote genetic mutations!"

"And what is gene editing?"

"In simple terms, gene editing is to throw seeds into space to irradiate cosmic rays. This simple and crude, non-directional gene mutation is replaced with an adjustable and directional gene mutation."

"This world is always so ironic. Scientific researchers are doing great and arduous work for the most basic survival needs of human beings, but in the end they are stigmatized and abused by a group of ignorant people."

"Take a step back, if genetic modification is harmful, it's not something people like Cui Yongyuan can see. He knows the gene of a hammer!"