Industrial Layout

February 19th, Year 19.

Not long after the Lantern Festival.

After training for over ten days in the Calamian Islands, the Soldier, Yang Tiancheng, finally completed his training and became a qualified custom Soldier.

He quickly took his bodyguard, who had gotten a bit chubby, to Manila to catch a flight back to Borneo, Malaysia.

Meanwhile.

The Managers of Qingye Group, led by Ma Chi, Liu Zhifan, and Yang Mengjiao, were also learning relevant knowledge.

Ma Chi, in particular, had to impersonate Li Qingye. Although his appearance could be adjusted with Parasitic Artificial Skin, he still needed to know professional knowledge and interpersonal relationships.

These days, they had been studying and adapting.

Furthermore, some of them needed to forge fake identities. For example, Yang Mengjiao was disguised as a Brazilian-Chinese and learned Portuguese and American English.

Fortunately, the continuously updated Biochip possessed increasingly powerful data processing and storage capabilities. Skills like language posed virtually no difficulty for Managers and Soldiers.

Yang Mengjiao could even speak authentic Brazilian-accented Portuguese and was intimately familiar with Brazilian customs and traditions, making it difficult for even Brazilians to detect any anomalies during conversations.

On the same day Yang Tiancheng returned to Malaysia.

Liu Zhifan, Ma Chi, and Yang Mengjiao, each leading a portion of their people, departed in batches for Yangon, a southern coastal city in Hongsawad.

The Security Department also dispatched a Deputy Department Head to lead a team to secretly support Qingye Group in Hongsawad.

Of course, the Security Department had its own mission: to infiltrate various parts of Hongsawad. For instance, in the areas where Qingye Group established a presence, it would be best to turn local powers into "our own people" to reduce many troubles.

Limanan Bay, in the southern part of Luzon.

Of the 100,000 mu of seaweed farms previously invested in by Haitian Agriculture, about 60% could now be put into production. The supporting refining factories were also partially completed, with the carrageenan refining factory already finished.

With the increase in the company's cash flow, and the complete control over the Fernando family, the Lopez family was also mostly integrated.

Homo sapiens Company once again increased its investment scale, planning to construct 600,000 mu of seaweed farms in three bays in southern Luzon by the end of this year.

In addition, they planned to build three large insect farms: a cricket farm, a locust farm, and a mealworm farm.

The reason for establishing insect farms was naturally to ensure Luzon's food supply.

Luzon's population had already exceeded 100 million, and such a massive population required enormous amounts of food.

Even though Luzon's tropical climate allowed for three rice harvests a year, the rice cultivation area, devastated by the combined efforts of ABCD, was very small and could not meet internal demand.

This situation did not significantly affect the various family powers, as they had their own plantations and the money to import food.

However, it was disastrous for the common people. Any fluctuation in international grain prices would cause Luzon's food prices to surge, and by a massive margin at that.

Even Old Du was helpless. He wanted to achieve food self-sufficiency, but he didn't have many options.

As soon as Old Du pushed for relevant policies, either opposition forces would stir up trouble, or ABCD would engage in low-price dumping.

To directly confront ABCD, there were only two options.

One was to find other Southeast Asian countries and purchase large quantities of grain from them to counter ABCD's grain monopoly in Luzon. However, this method only addressed the symptoms, not the root cause.

The other method was to first build up sufficient grain reserves, then quickly close the borders, and simultaneously significantly increase subsidies for rice cultivation.

Clearly, both these measures required very strong authority and substantial financial reserves. Old Du was indeed stretched thin.

Although Homo sapiens Company did not intend to confront ABCD head-on, it also had no intention of passively waiting for disaster.

The earlier arrangement in Hongsawad was also for Luzon's food security, as Hongsawad was a major rice exporter, complementing Luzon perfectly.

On the other hand, Li Qingye also planned to use technological means to increase Luzon's food production.

One of his strategies was the insect farming industry.

It was known that among currently farmable animals, insects had the highest feed conversion rate.

For the same amount of feed, insects produced about 12 times more protein than cattle.

Insects also emitted far less methane and carbon dioxide than pigs, cattle, and sheep.

Of course, broiler chickens also had good feed conversion rates, but they came with two problems.

First, the broiler chicken breeds were controlled by Western companies, posing a risk of being strangled. Second, broiler chickens were too fragile, requiring antibiotics during farming. Moreover, poultry suffered from many epidemic diseases that could wipe out an entire farm once an infection occurred.

Insects, however, did not have these issues.

Homo sapiens Company could cultivate its own breeds. During insect farming, antibiotics were rarely needed, significantly reducing costs.

Furthermore, insect farming had low feed requirements. Even cellulose and lignin, which were difficult for pigs, cattle, and sheep to digest, could be processed by some insects.

This expanded the sources of feed. Luzon might lack other things, but it had plenty of wild grass and trees.

Moreover, Li Qingye planned to modify some algae and use genetically modified seaweed, with its more comprehensive nutritional value, as the primary feed source for insects. Combined with the dead branches and leaves from Luzon's various plantations, the feed for insect farms could be completely self-sufficient.

Homo sapiens Company also invested in mushroom cultivation factories, which served as a food supplement and could also be used as insect feed.

The garbage recycling plants and methane plants could supply fuel gas and some fermented fertilizer.

By using insects for protein, seaweed for starch and sugar, mushrooms as a substitute for some vegetables, along with rice from Hongsawad and Luzon's local grain and plantations, meeting Luzon's internal supply would be more than sufficient.

Once Homo sapiens Company's plan was completed, what could ABCD do? At worst, they could continue engaging in price wars.

Li Qingye was even preparing to flip tables; if ABCD dared to play dirty, he wouldn't mind learning a trick or two from the DuPont family.

The recently established sea farms, insect farms, mushroom farms, processing plants, and methane plants were all serving Homo sapiens Company's security strategy.

Through this interconnected industrial layout, the plan was to spend the next two years completing the construction of these industries, creating a dedicated industrial chain for Homo sapiens Company.

As long as grain and energy were under their control, even America couldn't shake Homo sapiens Company's foothold in Luzon through conventional means.

Unless America intended to completely tear down the facade. If that happened, Li Qingye would make Hongsawad his headquarters and turn Luzon into a meat grinder, making America bleed the last drop of blood on the Philippine Islands.

What's more, it wasn't like he didn't have a trump card.

If Li Qingye was pushed too far, he could easily unleash a dungeon like "Umbrella" upon North America.

He didn't use those trump cards casually because he still had some bottom lines, but that didn't stop him from researching them. Technical reserves were always better to have more of.

Whether to use them was one thing; whether to possess them was another.

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