Chapter 406: The First Harvest Settles the People’s Hearts

Chapter 406 -189: The First Harvest Settles the People’s Hearts

Academician Jiang calmly replied, “Immortal Soybeans will increase our country’s soybean self-sufficiency rate and effectively counter price fluctuations in the international market. They are the bulwark of our food security.”

“Academician Jiang, can you elaborate on the specific impact?”

“To be specific, the prices of animal feed, cooking oil, and plant-based protein will drop significantly. A tangible effect you can see is the recent decline in meat prices. Cooking oil prices will also fall in the future. These are things the general public can easily observe.”

The host smiled and nodded. “Thank you for enlightening us, Academician Jiang.”

“You’re welcome.”

Finally, the host came over to interview Jiang Miao.

At that moment, Jiang Miao was placing the soybean stalk he had just cut into a custom-made display box.

The host asked with a smile, “General Manager Jiang, are you planning to keep this as a souvenir?”

“Yes, this soybean plant is very commemorative. I plan to take it back to be displayed in our headquarters’ product showroom as a testament to Hailufeng Company’s growth,” Jiang Miao replied with a nod.

“It certainly is highly commemorative. It’s not just incredibly significant for you and Hailufeng Company, but it’s also an agricultural milestone for our country.” The host’s eyes were filled with joy as they looked at the soybean stalk under the box’s transparent cover.

As the host spoke, tears welled up and streamed down their face. In a heavy, slightly hoarse voice, they began to recount an ineffable story of the nation’s agriculture:

“Someone might ask me why my eyes are filled with tears. It’s because I’m overwhelmed with emotion. Any viewers who know the history of our country’s soybean industry would probably feel the same way I do right now.”

Wiping the tears from the corners of their eyes, the host continued, “Around the year 2000, when we joined the WTO, we had to open our markets. At that time, the international agribusiness giants set their sights on our soybean industry…”

As the host’s emotional voice narrated the dramatic ups and downs of the “Soybean War” to the camera, the viewers watching the live stream were completely captivated.

When the host spoke of the complete collapse of the domestic soybean industry and the falsified soybean production reports from America, many viewers cursed ABCD and America for being despicable and shameless.

At the same time, these viewers also came to understand the true significance of Jiang Miao’s Immortal Soybeans for the country.

“…Therefore, everyone who gets to enjoy cheaper meat and cooking oil in the future should say ‘thank you’ to General Manager Jiang. Let’s also give a round of applause to the tens of thousands of agricultural researchers. It is precisely because of their decades of tireless, dedicated work that we can eat our fill and eat well today.”

The live stream chat flooded with a wave of scrolling comments like “Go for it!”, “Clap clap clap,” and “Thank you.”

The host finally composed themselves and looked at Jiang Miao with a smile. “My apologies, General Manager Jiang. I got a little carried away.”

“I understand how you feel,” Jiang Miao said with a slight nod. “When I was in college, my professors at Lion Mountain Agricultural University often lamented the devastating defeat in the Soybean War.”

The host smiled and asked, “Getting back on track, is there anything you’d like to say to the viewers across the country, General Manager Jiang?”

Jiang Miao faced the camera, his gaze softening slightly. “I’ll just say one thing: I hope everyone can eat their fill.”

“Excellent! Everyone, let’s not disappoint General Manager Jiang’s wish!” the host added, smiling supportively.

With the interview concluded, the Immortal Soybeans First-Cut Ceremony also drew to a close.

The follow-up yield report from the harvest was released that same evening.

A total of 27,000 mu of soybeans were harvested during the day, yielding a total of 8,451 tons of soybeans, for an average yield of 313 kg per mu.

This yield was not only inspiring, but it also forced ABCD and its affiliated companies to accept reality and start behaving themselves.

Based on these yield figures, even without reclaiming deserts, sandy areas, or saline-alkali lands, simply by switching to the Immortal Soybean series on Cyrus’s current 155 million mu of soybean farmland, the annual output could increase from 21 million tons to 48.51 million tons.

And that 48.51 million ton figure was based on planting only a single crop of Immortal Soybeans per year.

If they switched to a double-cropping model, given the existing water and heat conditions of the soybean fields, the annual output from those 155 million mu could reach 97.02 million tons.

Furthermore, thanks to the high oil and protein content of Immortal Soybeans, this would be roughly equivalent to 130 million tons of imported genetically modified soybeans.

This fundamentally shattered the illusions of Western Influence.

Now, they were the ones praying that Cyrus wouldn’t massively expand the cultivation area for Immortal Soybeans. Otherwise, the soybean industries in the regions that originally exported soybeans would face a devastating blow.

Moreover, the impact of soybeans extended far beyond soybeans themselves.

Just like the global soybean futures flash crash in mid-August, it wasn’t just soybean futures that plummeted. The futures prices for corn, wheat, alfalfa, rice, sorghum, sunflower seeds, rapeseed, and palm oil all collapsed along with them.

The principle of a single action affecting the whole situation was perfectly embodied by the Immortal Soybeans.

And with the extensive coverage on the evening news broadcast, many viewers were introduced to Immortal Soybeans, Jiang Miao, Hailufeng Company, the Soybean War, and ABCD for the first time. In connection, the relationship between Golden Fish Company and ABCD was also dragged out for another public flogging by various clout-chasing bloggers.

These topics quickly came to dominate the internet’s top ten trending list that night.

The buzz around Jiang Miao once again drove up registration numbers for the Hailufeng Specialty Store app.

Although there were still all sorts of trolls and weirdos on the internet who were dismissive of Jiang Miao or even made passive-aggressive remarks about him in secret.

But this background noise couldn’t make a single ripple.

Of course, this series of events also triggered a lot of people, especially those infatuated with the West, the ones who treated it as their spiritual motherland. They all acted as if their own parents had died.

On the other hand, a segment of the “public intellectuals” quickly saw which way the wind was blowing and began to sing the praises of Jiang Miao, Immortal Soybeans, and Hailufeng Company.