In front of Yang Fei's car, there was a car leading the way, and Wang Ji and their cars were all following behind Yang Fei's car.

The mouse was driving the car and suddenly stopped.

Fortunately, the country road was not fast, and the people in the car just threw themselves forward.

"What's wrong?" Yang Fei asked.

"Fly less, the car in front stopped. ”

Chu Qian said: "I'll get out of the car and see what's going on." ”

The north wind was blowing outside the car.

Chu Qian was wearing a thin light blue cotton coat, twisting her waist and running forward.

The cars behind also stopped one after another, and the secretaries got out of the car and ran forward to check.

The reason is simple: a tractor, parked on the side of the road, blocks the way forward.

Chu Qian and the others searched around, but they couldn't see the driver of the tractor.

This is a stretch of field road, flanked on either side by weedy fields waiting for spring ploughing, and villages can only be seen in the distance.

Wang Ji waited for a few minutes, couldn't help it, and got out of the car and walked over, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but be furious: "Who parked the car? The road is wide in total, and who parked the tractor on the side of the road?" Chu Qian, immediately find the driver and move the car away!"

The road only allows one car to pass, and on the country road, there are almost no vehicles passing by, who would have thought that a convoy would come today, or the leader's car?

Chu Qian was more anxious than Wang Ji in her heart, and she didn't care about the cold and hardship, so she had to run to find the driver of the tractor.

At this time, Yang Fei got out of the car and walked over and asked, "Director Chu, how far is it from Stone Village?"

"It's not far, just ahead, two miles away. ”

"Let's go over it, anyway, let's come down and have a look, it's good to see the way through. ”

"Boss Yang, this weather, it's too cold, right?" Wang Ji said.

Yang Fei smiled: "It's warm after a walk." ”

Wang Ji saw that Yang Fei said this, of course he had no objection, so everyone got out of the car and walked in the direction of Stone Village.

Next to the rice fields, there is a river, and the water is not very deep. Occasionally, peasant women were seen washing their clothes on stone slabs by the river.

Wang Ji accompanied Yang Fei and said: "The countryside is vast, but it is not as convenient as the county. Boss Yang, I still suggest that you build a factory in the county's industrial park, and I promise you that no matter how much land you use, we will ensure sufficient supply. If the existing park land is not enough, we guarantee that the expropriation is in place. ”

Yang Fei had no doubts about the truth of his words.

However, Yang Fei just smiled and did not speak.

The stone village is not full of stones as imagined, but the green mountains and green waters, and the scenery is very pleasant.

But the locals are really poor.

Before the development of Peach Blossom Village, it was also better than the current Stone Village.

Yang Fei saw the house from afar, and then saw the clothes of the villagers, so he didn't need to enter the house, and he knew what it was like inside.

Wang Ji and the others really didn't understand, why did Yang Fei go to this rural place to investigate?

To be honest, even these leaders don't know what they can inspect in this countryside?

In addition to being poor, it is still poor, poor from the roots!

There is no industry, no employment opportunities, except for the soil to dig food, is to grow some vegetables in the field, in today's popularization of hybrid grain, farmers plant two or three acres of land, two seasons a year, hit thousands of catties of grain, their own food is enough, but only enough to eat, don't think about selling money, one grain price is low, the other is the grain collected in the field is also limited, unless you feed a few pigs, raise a few cows, but the time and energy to go in, than the time to work outside, the money earned is not the same.

Yang Fei is not an official, he is not here to investigate the suffering of the people.

He roughly looked at the terrain of Stone Village, then shook his head.

Even if he had the heart to build a factory here, it wouldn't be suitable here.

It was the scenery of this countryside that made Yang Fei a little forgetful.

When passing through a mountain col, Yang Fei saw a thick layer of small fruits at the foot of the mountain, and bent down to pick it up.

Chen Mo asked curiously, "What is this?"

Yang Fei pinched the dried fruit and said with a smile: "This is a castor bean." ”

"Can you eat castor beans?" asked Chen Mo.

Yang Fei said: "You can't eat it, it's poisonous." The seeds contain narcotic protein and ricin, especially narcotic protein, which can cause poisoning, and two or three seeds can kill a child!"

Chen Mo was surprised: "Ah, it's so poisonous, isn't it very dangerous to have so many at the foot of this mountain?"

Chu Qian smiled: "The children in the countryside know that this thing can't be eaten, so it won't be dangerous." ”

Yang Fei looked at the mountain and asked, "Do you have a lot of castor trees here?"

Chu Qian said: "Many, there are everywhere in the mountains, this kind of tree grows very well, and there are many wild ones, and they grow quickly." ”

Yang Fei said: "Is there only this one, or is it in the whole county?"

Chu Qian said: "This, I don't know very well, but in the few villages I have been to, there are a lot of castor trees. ”

Wang Ji didn't know why Yang Fei was suddenly interested in this kind of ordinary thing, and said, "Boss Yang, let's go to the county seat and have a look?"

Yang Fei smiled: "Wang Ji, I have an idea. I want to open a castor oil processing plant in your county. But I have one condition, that is, please help me publicize that my factory will collect a large number of this castor bean. ”

Wang Ji was stunned and said: "This thing is all over the mountains, and it is rotten on the mountains every year, so what are you using it for?"

Yang Fei said: "Oil refining." ”

Wang Ji said: "Didn't you just say that this kind of seed is poisonous, and the refined oil can be eaten?"

Yang Fei smiled and said: "It's not for eating, castor oil is a raw material for daily cosmetics, which is a very important vegetable oil." ”

Wang Ji said, "Yes? We don't even know. ”

Yang Fei said: "Castor oil has high viscosity, low freezing point, is resistant to severe cold and high temperature, will not freeze at minus 10 degrees, and will not solidify and denature at 600 °C, which has the characteristics that other oils and fats cannot match." It is an important raw material in chemical, light industry, metallurgy, electromechanical, textile, printing, dyes and other industries and medicine. At the same time, it is also a kind of flavor medicine, which can cure diseases when used well. ”

"Your daily chemical plant, do you need such raw materials?" Wang Ji understood.

"Yes, our castor oil is mainly imported from India. Castor oil is a raw material that was not in high demand before, but after entering the 20th century, castor production developed rapidly due to the need for a large number of high-grade lubricants in modern industry. Since the 90s, domestic demand has increased dramatically, making our country a net importer. ”

Wang Ji said incomprehensibly: "This thing still depends on imports?

Yang Fei said: "The global production of castor oil is about 500,000 tons per year, of which India accounts for more than half. China is also one of the major importers. ”

Wang Ji listened and asked, "Then how big can this business be?"

Yang Fei said: "It depends on the production of castor beans in your county, how many castor beans you can give me, how much castor oil I can produce!

Wang Ji said: "I only collect wild ones, and I don't know if it's enough?"

Yang Fei said: "It's definitely not enough." Castor beans are a deep-rooted crop that can also be transplanted from seedlings and are easy to cultivate as long as the soil temperature is suitable. I have a raw material base in Jixi, but unfortunately, there are very few castor beans in the mountains over there, and I asked someone to try to grow them, but the yield is still limited, so I have always relied on imports. Unexpectedly, I found the best soil for castor beans to grow here!"

When Wang Ji heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Boss Yang, then your daily chemical production base is also built in our county?"