Information Security

Jiang Miao didn't pay much attention to Wang Da Fu's Xihai Company. After all, no matter what choices the other party made, it wouldn't have much impact on Hai Lu Feng Company.

Moreover, Ryukyu and the mainland were not only separated by a vast sea, but also by a reversal of people's hearts. Even if Jiang Miao wanted to deal with the other party, it wouldn't be easy to start immediately.

If it weren't for borrowing the hand of Kagoshima Eel Company this time, it would be very difficult to sue the other party in Ryukyu.

Of course, Hai Lu Feng Company also took this opportunity to quickly advance the security and confidentiality rectification work for the eel farming base.

Now, opposite the door of the ingredient room is the monitoring room, with at least one security guard watching 24 hours a day. Several sets of surveillance cameras with independent power sources have also been installed, along with face recognition and fingerprint unlocking access control, plus mechanical locks. There will definitely be no problems in the short term.

The company's eel fry sales this month did not decrease due to the theft incident.

Especially in Ryukyu, due to Xihai Company's recent large-scale purchase of nearly 300,000 kilograms of mature eels, the local eel prices have further soared. Many eel farms in Ryukyu felt it was profitable and also purchased fish fry from Hai Lu Feng Company.

However, with the increase in eel fry supply in February, the price in the domestic market did see a slight decline, with the average price per tail dropping to around 2.37 Hua Yuan.

After all, many well-informed industry insiders knew that Xihai Company was purchasing mature eels on a large scale, thus inferring that Xihai Company would soon sell eel fry on a large scale. Therefore, some farms felt it was unnecessary to purchase large quantities of Hai Lu Feng Company's high-priced eel fry.

Even many eel farms in Ryukyu have already pre-ordered eel fry from Xihai Company. According to information obtained by the sales department through their connections in Southern Fujian, the wholesale price set by Xihai Company is likely around 22,000 Hua Yuan per kilogram of elver, which is 2.2 Hua Yuan per elver.

This naturally made some eel farm owners tempted and chose to become "wait-and-see parties."

Jiang Miao also expressed indifference to this.

Anyway, the real show will begin in a few months when Xihai Company's bubble bursts, they are unable to fulfill contracts, and those eels directly die.

The spring breeze in February is like scissors.

Inside the plastic greenhouses of South Lake Farm, the lush strawberry seedlings have reached a scale of 6 mu.

A cold drizzle fell on the plastic film.

Drip, drip, drop...

Jiang Miao accompanied Shu Ya. Both of them were wearing protective suits and gas masks. When they entered the plastic greenhouses, they also passed through an area for spraying disinfectant.

For plastic greenhouses cultivating fungi, without such strict disinfection procedures, it would be impossible to isolate contamination from external miscellaneous bacteria.

Inside the experimental greenhouse for edible fungi.

Shu Ya glanced at the situation in the first greenhouse and found no white truffles emerging.

However, Jiang Miao saw the specific situation of each material bag. He seemed to wander around the greenhouse casually.

Shu Ya, who also walked around, shook her head: "It should not have been successful."

But Jiang Miao stopped and pointed to one of the culture medium bags: "This material bag seems to have some mycelium."

Shu Ya quickly walked over and picked up a magnifying glass to look at the surface soil of the culture medium. Sure enough, she found many tiny white mycelium: "It really is. A Miao, you have such good eyesight."

"Let's take a sample!"

"Okay, you help me record it."

The two divided the work and quickly extracted five test tubes of samples, while also recording some conditions that could be seen with the naked eye.

They continuously checked the situation in 10 experimental greenhouses.

Jiang Miao's experimental logbook was already filled with 37 pages of content.

Returning to the container laboratory, the two of them took off their protective suits and helmets, then put on masks and gloves.

Jiang Miao patted the logbook in his hand: "From the 200 control groups in these 10 experimental greenhouses, I believe groups 63, 72, and 95 have greater potential."

Shu Ya took the logbook and carefully reviewed the data, then asked with some confusion: "I understand groups 63 and 95, but the results for group 72 are very ordinary! Did you discover something?"

"Because the culture medium in those 10 groups was mixed with pine needles and pine cones, not pine wood sawdust, yet mycelium still appeared. This means that pine needles and pine cones also contain the necessary nutrients that White Truffles need."

Shu Ya suddenly understood: "Your idea is that certain specific components in pine needles, pine cones, and pine wood sawdust affect the reproduction of White Truffles."

"That's right. From the preliminary results, the content of these components should be highest in pine wood sawdust, followed by pine cones, and lowest in pine needles."

"By comparing them, we can roughly know what those components are."

Shu Ya nodded: "That makes a lot of sense. I will determine the components as soon as possible."

"Let's wait a bit longer! Once the laboratory is built, testing in our own lab will significantly reduce the possibility of leaks," Jiang Miao said with a smile, while sorting the sample test tubes into racks.

In fact, Jiang Miao had already seen several special components in pine trees that are important for the reproduction of White Truffles through the identification panel earlier.

If it were just that, Jiang Miao wouldn't have specifically reminded Shu Ya.

During his observation just now, he found that although pine wood sawdust all contained those three components, the content of one oily component was less than one percent of that in pine cones; another mineral component had the highest content in pine needles.

Therefore, from the perspective of the three specific components, the content in pine wood should be superior in terms of balance, but it is still not the optimal ratio.

This is actually very normal. Some symbiotic fungi that are picky about their environment and symbiotic partners sometimes cannot guarantee that all conditions are optimal.

In agricultural production, alternating years of high and low yields is a common situation.

And Jiang Miao happens to know the optimal growth conditions for all organisms.

What he needs to do now is to guide Shu Ya step by step to discover and experiment, letting her find all the "growth puzzle pieces" for White Truffles, and then piece these puzzles together. This is the artificial reproduction technology for White Truffles.

After more than half a month of guidance, Shu Ya has successively found more than half of the "growth puzzle pieces" for White Truffles. The vast majority of these are studies on trace elements, minerals, soil pH, and specific components of symbiotic plants.

Environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, and light have only been partially experimented with so far, mainly because the laboratory equipment and supporting facilities are insufficient. Full-scale experiments can only be carried out after the laboratory construction is completed.

Shu Ya also understood Jiang Miao's caution, especially since there was a theft incident not long ago.

And the so-called business reputation is just because the profit is not enough.

If they were to send samples to a third-party laboratory for testing now, when Hai Lu Feng Company launches White Truffle products, the people at the third-party laboratory would definitely recall the items they tested before.

When there is no profit, the other party certainly won't study the data left from the tested samples.

But when the profit is large enough, they will not hesitate to study that data, or package and sell this data to other related companies.

Profit moves people's hearts; this is a truth throughout history.

As long as enough money is given, most people find it difficult to resist the temptation of money.

Jiang Miao instructed Shu Ya that the experimental records and information left during the experiments should preferably be written in a cipher that only she can understand, and not to record important information on computers or mobile phones.

After all, on today's computers and mobile phones, those apps are like rogues, even secretly collecting various user information without the user's consent.

Although Jiang Miao replaced all the company's employees' computers and laptops with domestic Hua Yuan brand ones, he still required that the company's core data not be stored on networked devices.

Even for devices that are not connected to the internet, he required the company's programmers and computer repairmen to completely isolate these devices physically and through software.

This included removing network cable interfaces, related components of wireless routers, and disabling various apps that automatically open in the background.

These computers storing core information only retained file editing and management functions; other apps were removed.

Jiang Miao did this to be on the safe side.