After Yan Yue and Wang Chaoliang reached an agreement, Zheng Xinhe rushed to Fengcheng the next morning.

He was holding the information Wang Chaoliang sent to him and was staring at the data on it all the way. His mood was up and down like a roller coaster. The complex emotions of nervousness, doubt, and expectation made it impossible for him to calm down.

As the most famous bamboo research expert in China, Zheng Xinhe has devoted half of his life to bamboo research. When he was a child, Zheng Xinhe was born in a remote village in Shuchuan. There was a mixed forest of bamboo and other tree species behind the village. At that time, the villagers were willing to go to the forest to cut a few bamboos to build a fence or a pigpen at home. Zheng Xinhe felt strange, why did everyone cut bamboo instead of trees? The villagers could not explain any big reasons, but just acted based on experience. The family told Zheng Xinhe that it would take more than ten years for a tree to grow so high after cutting it, while it only took a few months to grow the same height after cutting bamboo. Anyway, both trees and bamboos can be used, so it is cheaper to cut bamboo.

Zheng Xinhe has been interested in bamboo since this incident. As the first college student in his village, he chose Zhongjing Forestry University and began to study bamboo formally. Zheng Xinhe has made many research achievements in recent years. The more he studies, the more he finds that bamboo is full of treasures. Bamboo can play a role in almost everything, including eating, wearing, living, traveling, and using. Especially in recent years, the ecological damage has been severe, and many forests have been cut down. At this time, bamboo forests with fast growth and strong reproduction have become the best choice to replace forests, consolidate water and soil, and absorb carbon dioxide. People are increasingly aware of the practicality of bamboo, but this is not enough. Zheng Xinhe has greater ambitions.

He shifted his gaze to the information in his hand and squeezed it tightly. He had a vague premonition that this information might achieve his wish and completely change the entire industrial landscape of China.

With this passionate thought in mind, Zheng Xinhe met Lu Lingxi. He had already known from Wang Chaoliang that Lu Lingxi was not very old, but he never thought that he would be so young, even looking like a minor. Before Zheng Xinhe could get rid of the surprise on his face, Wang Chaoliang smiled and introduced them, "Xiaoxi, this is the friend I told you about, you can just call him Uncle Zheng."

"Uncle Zheng." Lu Lingxi was very polite.

Zheng Xinhe in front of him looked to be in his early fifties, not tall and a little fat. Perhaps because he overworked his brain, there were almost no hair left on his head, forming a Mediterranean hairstyle.

Zheng Xinhe came back to his senses after hearing Lu Lingxi's voice. He suppressed the surprise on his face and laughed at himself, "Young people are formidable. Only after seeing Xiaoxi did I realize how old I am." Although it was the first time they met, Zheng Xinhe naturally followed Wang Chaoliang and called him Xiaoxi in order to narrow the distance between them.

He was friendly and humorous, and Lu Lingxi had a good impression of him. Wang Chaoliang then introduced Yan Yue, who was beside Lu Lingxi. Zheng Xinhe perked up, knowing that compared to Lu Lingxi, who had little social experience, Yan Yue was the more difficult person to deal with.

After a brief greeting, the group quickly started talking about bamboo. Lu Lingxi knew a lot about flowers and plants, but when it came to bamboo, he was not completely ignorant, just a general idea. Zheng Xinhe saw that Lu Lingxi was interested in this topic and took the initiative to talk about it. He was an expert in this area and was very knowledgeable about bamboo. He talked about the deliciousness of bamboo shoots, bamboo papermaking, and the recent popularity of bamboo bicycles abroad. He finally got to the point after talking about everything. He hoped to make use of the characteristics of bamboo and turn it into a new type of industrial material to replace steel.

At this point, Zheng Xinhe was afraid that Lu Lingxi and Yan Yue would not believe it, so he specifically mentioned a mature technology that uses high pressure to glue multiple pieces of bamboo together multiple times, increasing the density of the bamboo's internal structure by a hundred times, making its strength reach the performance standards of building materials.

The inventor of this technology is Zheng Xinhe. He said with a little excitement: "I have been looking for improvements to this technology, but due to the limitation of raw materials, the improvement effect is not obvious. Now with the bamboo you discovered, this technology will soon be promoted and applied in practice."

Lu Lingxi was infected by his tone and his emotions were also mobilized. He believed that Zheng Xinhe's enthusiasm in talking about all this was not fake, but he really regarded this as his career.

Zheng Xinhe was even happier to see Lu Lingxi listening attentively, and continued excitedly, "I hope bamboo can not only replace steel bars in construction, but also have many other uses. Of course, we may not be able to completely replace steel with bamboo in a short period of time, but as long as we are willing to take the first step and change people's usage habits little by little, in the long run we will eventually change the entire industrial landscape of China."

Zheng Xinhe at this moment did not look like the calm and composed man he had just appeared in front of them. He was filled with a fanatical aura. Lu Lingxi saw the shadow of Wang Chaoliang in him. Wang Chaoliang smiled bitterly and shook his head, "It's an occupational disease. There's nothing I can do about it."

Because of Zheng Xinhe's honesty, they quickly became familiar with each other. After personally following Lu Lingxi to the flower garden to see the bamboo, Zheng Xinhe formally proposed cooperation with Lu Lingxi. He hoped that Lu Lingxi would provide the raw materials and he would provide the technology to jointly develop a new material he named Bamboo Steel.

"how?"

Zheng Xinhe said as he looked at Yan Yue. As it was about cooperation negotiations, Lu Lingxi did not intervene and left it all to Yan Yue. Yan Yue did not reply immediately, but after a moment's hesitation, he tactfully asked Zheng Xinhe if he had found a suitable investor.

Zheng Xinhe laughed, "I have been researching this field for a long time and I know a few people. Mr. Yan, don't worry about the investment."

He thought Yan Yue was worried about not being able to find a suitable investment company, and was very confident about this. But Yan Yue shook his head and said, "That's not what I meant. I hope we can invest on our own."

"What?"

Zheng Xinhe was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at Wang Chaoliang, inquiring about the economic situation of micro-gardening with his eyes.

Yan Yue guessed his concerns and smiled gently, "If Director Zheng is worried about the funds, you can rest assured about this."

Zheng Xinhe looked at Yan Yue deeply and said, "This investment is not a small amount."

"I know." Yan Yue said lightly: "In fact, the Fengcheng government now has a technology support project. I think we are very suitable. With the background of the government, the promotion of Zhugang will be smoother."

Hearing that Yan Yue could get in touch with the government, Zheng Xinhe agreed to Yan Yue's proposal after only a little consideration. If they could really cooperate with the government, they could save a lot of trouble.

After the two of them reached an agreement, the matter was settled. Yan Yue was in charge of the government cooperation, and Lu Lingxi began to breed the evolved Nanzhu. Zheng Xinhe was more concerned about this than Lu Lingxi.

Generally speaking, bamboo is mainly propagated by traditional asexual reproduction such as burying whips, burying stalks, and burying nodes. However, Lu Lingxi only has one bamboo plant, and it is not known when it will grow into a forest through traditional methods. It happened that he had an expert named Zheng Xinhe by his side, so Lu Lingxi specially vacated the laboratory at Qiutian Flower Garden to carry out bamboo tissue culture seedling cultivation. According to Zheng Xinhe, through tissue culture seedling cultivation, one bud can produce at least 10,000 seedlings a year. This method of reproduction is fast, has a high proliferation coefficient, and is of good quality. In a short period of time, a large number of plants that are completely consistent with the excellent parent plants can be obtained for the construction of artificial bamboo forests.

After Zheng Xinhe had cultivated the seedlings, he asked Lu Lingxi where he planned to build the bamboo forest. He meant that the origin of southern bamboo was mostly in the Shuchuan area. Although Lu Lingxi found a mutated southern bamboo, the growth environment would not be too different. It would be best if they built the bamboo forest in Shuchuan. However, Lu Lingxi was reluctant to leave Fengcheng and wanted to build the bamboo forest directly in the suburbs of Fengcheng. When he said this, Zheng Xinhe thought he was just kidding.

"Southern bamboo has higher soil requirements than other tree species. It needs sufficient moisture and cannot tolerate waterlogging. How can Fengcheng be suitable for growing bamboo forests?"

"The bamboos transplanted in the flower garden are growing well now. The soil in Fengcheng may not be unsuitable for the growth of southern bamboo." Lu Lingxi said seriously. He knew Zheng Xinhe was a bamboo expert, but he was very confident about the purified soil. Besides, if the bamboo forest was really built in Shuchuan, it would be too far away from Fengcheng and many things would be inconvenient.

Due to Lu Lingxi's insistence, Zheng Xinhe had to follow him to the outskirts of Fengcheng several times to personally measure the soil composition nearby to determine whether these soils are suitable for the growth of southern bamboo. The measurement results surprised Zheng Xinhe, not only because these soils are suitable for the growth of southern bamboo, but also because these soils are rare and have no pollution, unlike other soils he has seen that have too many heavy metals and chemicals deposited in them.

"Near here..." Zheng Xinhe looked around in confusion. In his mind, Fengcheng has always been a heavily polluted area. How could there be such clean soil? He was puzzled by this phenomenon and looked at Lu Lingxi hesitantly for several times, but then he thought about Lu Lingxi's age. He didn't think Lu Lingxi would know these things, so he suppressed his doubts and said nothing.

"Uncle Zheng, is it okay?" Lu Lingxi saw Zheng Xinhe staring at the soil composition test results for a long time and couldn't help but ask.

Zheng Xinhe suppressed his confusion and nodded.

After confirming that the soil nearby was suitable, Lu Lingxi and Yan Yue returned to Lingshui Village. They were attracted by two small hills to the north of Lingshui Village. Because they wanted to build a bamboo forest, bamboos could grow in valleys, foothills, and mountainsides, so there was no need to occupy the arable land in the village. Moreover, the contract price of the hills was cheaper than that of cultivated land. Lu Lingxi had already checked that the two hills were just within the purification range of the willow ecological community, just right for planting bamboo forests.

When he told Uncle Li this, Uncle Li immediately became worried. "It's a good thing that Xiaoxi wants to grow bamboo, but can we grow it here? It would be bad if it doesn't grow and we lose money."

"It can be grown." Lu Lingxi said affirmatively, "I have seen it all."

Uncle Li heaved a sigh of relief and took the two to find the village chief, Li Dalei. When Li Dalei heard that they wanted to contract a hill to plant bamboo, he was stunned for a long time. Then, his first reaction was, "Can we plant it here? If we don't, we will lose money." After more than half a year of getting along, Li Dalei treated Yan Yue and Lu Lingxi as his own people in the village. The first thing he thought about was not that the two of them contracted the hill to generate income for the village, but what if they lost money?

Yan Yue knew that Li Dalei meant well, so he took the initiative to explain, "It's okay. We asked an expert from Zhongjing to take a look. The land nearby can be used to grow bamboo."

When Li Dalei heard that it was an expert who looked at it, he immediately felt relieved. The villagers were like this, they had a blind faith in the experts from Zhongjing.

After the two of them completed the formalities, they asked Uncle Li to find a few honest and kind people in the village. The maintenance and care of the bamboo forest requires manpower, and it is definitely not enough to rely on just a few of them.

"Okay, leave this to me."

Uncle Li agreed immediately. Micro Gardening pays a lot of money, and many people in the village want to come, so it is not difficult to recruit people.