Song Ziyu was stunned when he heard this: "So, Mr. Chen, what else are you hiding?"
Chen Youping nodded and said: "This matter is very important, and I don't dare to tell anyone casually, but it seems that I can't hide it this time... everything started many years ago."
"It seems the story is a bit long, so let's talk while drinking."
Song Ziyu ordered people to serve the food, then took out a bottle of good wine and waited for Professor Chen Youping's next words.
After three glasses of Wenjun wine and two cups of Wenjun wine, Professor Chen said, "I told you before that the development of Liangshu No. 1 was all due to the work of my teacher. Do you still remember this?"
Song Ziyu nodded.
Professor Chen's teacher, the old man who brought peace to all generations, still had the world in his heart when he was being fought in the bullpen... He was a very respectable sage.
Song Ziyu once remembered that someone made this comment about Mr. Chen's teacher: If this person had been born in ancient times, he would be ranked alongside Fuxi and Shennong, and he would be an outstanding person who would be considered a god.
It's just a pity that I was born at the wrong time and had bad luck. There is a way, Feng Tang, Yi, and Ruan Ji fell down and cried, all because the time was not with me.
In this age where animals are not allowed to become sperm, what can humans do?
Mr. Chen remembered the late teacher for a while, and then continued: "I told you before that there is a mother seed in Liangshu No. 1. All the first-generation and second-generation seeds of Liangshu and the subsequent secondary seeds developed are all in It is bred and cultivated based on the mother species.”
Song Ziyu continued to nod.
"After iteration, when inferior seeds are put on the market, they generally only last for three seasons. The effectiveness of the seeds will disappear, eventually leading to no harvest... This is the characteristic of Liangshu No. 1 that I told you before."
Mr. Chen said.
Song Ziyu finally interjected: "I remember this. It is precisely because of this characteristic of seeds that Monsanto Company very much hopes to master this technology. This will help them master the global seed market and thereby control Food security.”
Song Ziyu understood that this thing that had reached the national level was at least a strategic level existence.
"Monshan can easily subvert some countries by mastering this kind of patent..."
Song Ziyu said.
"Actually, that's not the case." Mr. Chen waved his hand and said: "Monshan Company already has many excellent varieties of sterilized genetically modified seeds, and has even developed corresponding pesticides. In fact, is there any mother seed of Liangshu No. 1, which is good for theirs? Strategic layout is not that important.”
"Then why is Monsanto targeting you?" Song Ziyu was curious and recalled the previous conversation with Marcus and the "meaning" of Monsanto's existence that Marcus explained.
really!
Mr. Chen said with the help of Jiu Jin: "The reason why they want the mother seed of Liangshu No. 1 is ultimately due to the teacher's research!"
Then Chen Lao said: "The existence of life has its own greatness."
"There was a natural disaster in Yuxia that year, and it was unbearable to see people starve to death."
“Tens of millions of people lose their lives every year due to famine.”
"Hundreds of millions of people are struggling to survive."
"Those of us students who have just walked out of the agricultural school are all so hungry that our bodies are swollen."
"In order to save the people from disaster, the teacher is committed to researching crops with high yield and stability."
"Agricultural research is based on crops, so we must select and cultivate better seeds from excellent crops across the country and even the world."
"This process is very long. Improving a crop often requires dozens or even hundreds of generations of hybridization and cultivation, which requires a lot of time."
Chen Youping looked at Song Ziyu and said: "The domestication of a crop often takes thousands of years or even longer. Moreover, this domestication relationship is mutually restrictive."
"While humans are domesticating wheat, wheat has also completed the domestication of humans."
"According to the progress of our work, when the crops are improved, I'm afraid everyone will starve to death."
Having said this, Mr. Chen looked directly at Song Ziyu and said: "For us, if we want to achieve rapid progress, there is only one way to go."
"What way?" Song Ziyu sat up straight.
Mr. Chen said slowly: "That is to find extremely superior seeds, seeds that can change the pattern of crops."
Seeing this, Mr. Chen sighed: "The teacher is lucky... His luck is that although he is engaged in biological science research, he is also a scholar with extremely profound literary skills."
"When the scientific research project encountered a dead end, he thought of the mythical texts passed down from ancient times." "The teacher found an allusion in the Northern Wilderness Scripture, which recorded, 'The mountains in the north of Xinjiang are full of grass and trees.' There is a tree named Dixiu. Its leaves are like poplars, its branches are five-cornered, its flowers are yellow and its flowers are black, and those who obey it will not be angry.'"
"Look at this sentence... a hundred grasses and trees make a difference."
Chen Lao analyzed: "This is the first time records of crops appear in ancient classical books."
Song Ziyu listened attentively, feeling as if he was about to come into contact with some great secret.
Sure enough, Mr. Chen whispered: "The teacher went through many classics and found several records about the plant 'Dixiu'. Gradually, the teacher discovered a great secret!"
"What secret?"
Song Ziyu came up to Mr. Chen, looked at Mr. Chen and asked.
"The teacher discovered that the plant Dixiu often grows with another sacred tree, and that plant called 'Dragon Blood Tree' was something that was forbidden by the gods in ancient times."
"Teacher glimpsed its secrets from the fragments of ancient books... The Dragon Blood Wood is responsible for hair growth, breaking reincarnation, accessing the heavens, and asking for immortality."
"What do you mean?" Song Ziyu was stunned.
Mr. Chen simply said: "You can simply understand that if you eat the fruit of the Dragon Blood Tree, you will become immortal and live forever."
Song Ziyu smiled: "Isn't this a joke? If someone really can live forever, then what are we talking about?"
Chen Youping smiled bitterly and said: "Originally, the teacher and I didn't think this was true, but the teacher decided to go to Northern Xinjiang to find out. Then after three months of trekking, we came to the vicinity of Kongshi Mountain in Northern Xinjiang, and then …”
At this point, Chen Youping's breathing suddenly became rapid.
He took a sip of wine and said: "We saw a strange plant on the empty corpse mountain, with an eagle and a poisonous snake fighting each other!"
"At an altitude of 5,700 meters, there are venomous snakes!"
"That in itself is an anomaly!"
"The teacher and I paid attention for a long time, and then the sky suddenly cracked with thunderbolts, and a bolt of lightning fell from the sky and bombarded the ancient trees, directly turning the poisonous snakes and eagles, as well as the ancient trees, into powder."
"None of us thought of the word 'blood sacrifice' at the time, but we saw a blood-red plant sprouting from the dust of ancient trees struck by lightning."
