Chapter Eighty-Seven: Careful Preparations

  I certainly know she's very good. Liang Sanping sighed in his heart, his wife was the eldest at home and had been sensible since childhood. At that time, there were five children in the family, and they also had to support their elderly grandmother, so food was definitely not enough to eat.

  So, every time I cook, I have to add some miscellaneous grains to the rice. My younger siblings, who don't understand the situation, would pick out those miscellaneous grains, such as sweet potatoes, and only eat white rice when they serve themselves.

  As the elder sister, she would stand out at this time and make sure each person gets a certain amount of sweet potatoes. Otherwise, the kids would finish all the white rice, leaving only sweet potatoes for mom and dad to eat.

  The old man and his family were also quite stubborn, belonging to the type that didn't like to ask others for help. Although they had five children, the elderly couple never borrowed money from anyone. Relying on their own strength, they sent all the children to school.

  His wife is the eldest daughter and is more sensible. After graduating from high school, she did not ask to continue studying or take the college entrance examination, but instead took her graduation certificate and went home to work for a living.

  She knew clearly that there were still three sisters and a brother at home to go to school. Her parents were old, it was time for her to come out and earn money to support the family.

  With this idea, the wife who was not yet eighteen years old left school. She started working in the production team to earn work points for her family, just to alleviate some of the burden on her parents.

  "Brother, since you think so highly of this girl, I'll get to know her then." Liang Sanping smiled slightly and raised his wine cup: "If she's really suitable, I'll get married. Dad and mom are getting old now, they must be looking forward to me getting married..."

  "It's fine if you know! Father and mother are not in Qiong Island. This task of taking care of you naturally falls on me. Can't I be anxious?!" Da Ping sighed to his younger brother, "Don't blame your older brother for urging you. You're not young anymore..."

  If Liang Sanping hadn't come, the little salary of Da Ping would have been enough to support the four children in his family. However, with Liang Sanping's arrival, things wouldn't be that simple.

  Sanping did not use the power in his hands to exchange a good position for his brother, but only transferred him to the vegetable trial base. Then let Da Shu Qing become a formal worker and work in the cafeteria.

  With both husband and wife having a salary, their family life was finally getting better. Moreover, the vegetable testing base received a significant amount of foreign exchange bonuses due to this successful export, which was not a small sum.

  And there's meat, which has greatly improved the situation in the Dai Ping household. At least a few children have seen some meat for this period of time. Normally, it's hard to smell the smell of meat until New Year's.

  They didn't finish dinner until after eight, and finally, after much persuasion, Brother Three agreed to go on a date with the girl. Da Ping got drunk in the process. With Ah Qing's support, they managed to send Liang Sanping back home before heading back to rest.

  Liang Sanping, on the other hand, was walking quietly back to his dormitory under the moonlight. This place is at the foot of Qixianling, where the air is so good that it makes people feel refreshed. Even in later generations, the air here remains fresh and clean, as this land has hardly been polluted by any industry.

  After authoritative investigation, even after the year 2000, the average negative ion concentration in the air of the six main forest tourism areas of Bawang Ridge, Jianfeng Ridge, Wuzhi Mountain, Qixian Ridge, Diaoluo Mountain and Tonggu Ridge were 8261, 5093, 5463, 6478, 4248 and 2641 per cubic centimeter respectively.

  The air anion content in all these areas is more than 2100 per cubic centimeter, with most exceeding 4000 per cubic centimeter. This far exceeds the World Health Organization's standard for fresh air of 1000-1500 per cubic centimeter.

  The sky here is azure as the sea when it's clear. Occasionally, a few white clouds can be seen, gently dotted on it. In the evening, the sunset will dye everything below the mountain into golden yellow.

  Liang Sanping now stepped into the night, looking up to see a vast expanse of starry sky. Liang Sanping smiled. Although it was many years ahead of schedule, this starry sky remained unchanged from later generations. It was just that his later self no longer had time to gaze at this starry sky.

  Under the starry river. The green grass is lush. Liang Sanping, with a wine intention in his arms, smiled and stepped on his way home. He had thought about how he should meet his wife this life. Thought of countless scenes, just didn't think that his elder brother would come to introduce him to his wife.

  In this life, we meet again. Liang Sanping wanted to smile, but thought of his future mischievous and troublesome son who would make him extremely headache and proud at the same time. Liang Sanping suddenly didn't know what to do.

  "Seniors, are we resting overnight at Qiongzhoukou?! Driving during this time period is extremely dangerous. There are many places in the mountainous areas of Hainan Island that are extremely dangerous, and driving at night with poor visibility can be even more hazardous..."

  The equipment was finally installed and dismantled, and the person in charge of Wan Hong Corporation said to Aoki. The latter nodded: "You are more familiar with the situation on Jeju Island. Let's just arrange everything."

  "Ah, yes! Please, Dr. Aoki and everyone else, let's head to the restaurant we've decided on for a break." However, the employee from Wan Hong Corporation expressed his gratitude and said: "But due to the limited environment of Qiongzhou Port, there aren't any good restaurants. I hope you can forgive us for this, Dr. Aoki..."

  "We're just resting for one night, it can't be worse than the train, right?" Aoki smiled and waved his hand, saying: "Let's go! We'll hurry up and rest, and head to Botting early tomorrow morning."

  "Hooray!!"

  Liang Sanping returned to the dormitory, but saw Xia Zhendong lingering at his room door. Seeing him like this, Liang Sanping smiled and went up to say: "Old Xia, how do you have time to find me?! Aren't you busy?!"

  Xia Zhendong has been very busy lately, as the coordinator of both parties, he needs to work with Professor Liu and others to finalize the list of people coming to the vegetable base. He also needs to arrange for the workers from the previous batch to come and train new people.

  Moreover, he also had to take out the time to select a batch of management personnel. Liang Sanping did give him some lists, and Zhou Fugui, who had resigned, could also help a lot.

  Ke Liang almost handed everything over to him, making him so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground. However, he also understood Sanping, who was now busy coordinating with agricultural reclamation institutions and local cooperation issues.

  This matter can now only be handled by him because he is the only one who can contact Ge Tai, the person in charge of the autonomous prefecture. Others do not have this condition.

  "The Japanese have arrived at Qiongzhou Port, news just came in. They've finished unloading and will bring the equipment to Baoting tomorrow." Xia Zhendong said to Liang Sanping: "Our laboratory is about to be set up, and both academies have confirmed that Professor Liu will be in charge of this matter."

  Liang Sanping nodded, and just now on the way back blowing some wine had sobered up more than half.

  "This is a good thing, and the establishment of this laboratory also has its benefits for us. After all, our current research level is still at a relatively low standard compared to Japan." Liang Sanping paused, saying: "Of course, in terms of tropical crop research, we are ahead of them."

  "We cooperate with them, and there are some things that can be said. I think the Japanese have had few opportunities to study tropical crops, after all they don't have this natural environment. Moreover, their investments in Southeast Asia have all failed."

  Li Sanping said to Xia Zhendong, "As long as you pay attention, we can still cooperate. After all, this time it's an agricultural expert from Waseda University who has come over, and many of the instruments are ones that we don't have. Using them to do some experiments would be quite good."

  Xia Zhendong couldn't help but sigh and say, "This is exactly what I'm worried about. The confidentiality issue, it's easy to talk about but hard to do. Especially in joint research, the equipment belongs to the Japanese. We need to use it for experiments, and ultimately, we will leave traces."

  "Some experimental traces, they only need to check and can guess what experiments we have done and how the results are. In this case, it is very difficult to keep secrets."

  He said, "However, there is some good news. The ministry has issued a notice requiring us to summarize the results of our agricultural experiments and then apply for patents internationally with national funding."

  "This thing seems to be your proposal, right?! I remember you mentioned it at Qiongzhoukou, and it's estimated that it has attracted the attention of the higher-ups. That's why they issued a document asking us to summarize the materials and report them."

  Liang Sanping smiled, he himself didn't have such great abilities to make the top attach importance to this matter. Without a doubt, Ye Jianwen had made a report to the top and evaluated this matter from a safety perspective.

  This is why the country has made such a decision. But in any case, this is a good thing. At least for now, there is no perfect patent system or copyright system domestically.

  Even many people do not have the concept of patents and copyrights, but with the deepening of reform, these are things that must be paid attention to. Because we will have to deal with many foreign companies, at this time if we don't pay attention to this, we will suffer a lot.

  "It's not just our agriculture, the industrial mouth also needs to pay attention to this situation!" Liang Sanping said to Xia Zhendong: "Since the country has already paid attention to the agricultural situation, I think the industrial aspect should be more attentive."

  "There are also some traditional industries that need to be protected, some techniques and formulas that we have mastered. All of these need to be taken care of, absolutely cannot let them take advantage of our negligence!"

  Liang Sanping can clearly remember that many industrial insiders later scolded Japan, Europe and the United States for plundering China's patents. At the beginning of the reform, some of the "visiting" experts were actually industrial spies.

  They took advantage of China's almost complete lack of defense and concept in this area, plundering a large number of our technologies and formulas. And registered patents internationally, resulting in us having to pay patent fees to them when we use our own developed technologies and formulas later on!

  Otherwise, it would be impossible to export. This has to be said, is a huge shame...