Chapter 231
This year, because of the hot sales of Wugong tea from Wugong Mountain, the people of the second and third rooms can be said to have made a fortune, and this does not even include the Mingqian tea that was given away.
There is no profit from this year's Mingqian tea, as the tea has been given away as gifts and for publicity. However, next year's Mingqian tea has been pre-ordered by tea merchants from all over the country before it is even sold. The deposit paid by many people is enough to cover more than the money that local girls earn in a year working in factories.
Many of this year's Ming and Hou Wugong teas are put into Jiang Guotai's tea processing plant for frying and packaging. The exact selling price is still unknown, and the subsequent profits will not be distributed until the end of the year. But the deposit alone is enough to make those first and fourth wives who were dissatisfied with spending money to buy books on tea tree varieties and felt that they had too much tea to sell last year regret it!
Little did they know that Jiang Ning was so capable that he even invited the CCTV crew to come down and film their Wugong Tea in Wugong Mountain!
As soon as the TV series "Legend of the White Snake" was broadcast during the summer vacation, the Wugong Tea from Wugong Mountain became popular all over the country and became well-known throughout the country. Many tea merchants from all over the country called to inquire about Wugong Tea.
Of course, the first and fourth wives also have their own tea trees, some have two or three, and some have five or six. But how can these few tea trees be compared with the one acre of tea land that the second and third wives directly got?
They estimated that people from the second and third rooms could earn at least 10,000 or 20,000 yuan just from selling tea this year!
That’s 10,000 or 20,000 yuan!
I can only earn 10,000, which is enough to buy a house!
They wanted to go to the village chief to make trouble, but it was no use. The village chief said: "Now is the critical period for the development of our Linhe Brigade's tourism economy. If any of you want to let me down and make trouble at this time, don't say that I can't forgive you. See if Cathay Pacific can forgive you!"
Jiang Guotai's name is now the most famous person in the area!
Didn’t you see that even Wugong Mountain was contracted by him?
Is there anything else locally that he has not contracted?
There are three large sand factories, river beaches, mountain streams and hilltops in Shijian Township.
It feels like the entire Shuibu Town, Shijian Township, and the road leading to the neighboring city, almost belong to Jiang Guotai alone, not to mention that he also has a brick factory and other projects in the town and city.
It can be said that if he stomps his feet now, the area will tremble three times.
When they heard that Jiang Guotai would not forgive them, the people from the first and fourth rooms dared not make a fuss even though they were anxious. They could only wait, waiting with such anxiety that their hearts and lungs were burning with worry.
The reason why they are so anxious is that from August to November every year is the tea planting season. Once the tea planting season is over, they will have no share in the tea trading next year and they will have to wait until the year after.
The people of the Linhe Brigade are really busy this year. They should have tidied up the remaining hills in July and August, and were just waiting for September, October and November. But after November, it will be too late to plant tea trees. It's too late!
But throughout July, August and September, the people in Linhe Brigade were busy as hell. They were either busy selling tea, busy receiving tourists, or busy dancing in the square at night. Those who could cook snacks and meals at home were busy selling food.
For example, Aunt Jiang, who has a good cooking skill, opened a small restaurant. Every day, she takes her two daughters-in-law to work from morning to night without any time to rest. When Aunt Jiang can't handle it anymore, her second son and youngest son take over the cooking. Although the food is not as delicious as Aunt Jiang's, they have learned 70% of her skills.
Since no one had as good skills as Aunt Jiang, they bought a small cart and sold fried skewers, popsicles, large snails and small snails.
There was an old man in the village who didn’t know how to make money, so he went to the fields to pick snails every day. He picked up two full buckets of big and small snails, raised them for two days, then added all kinds of seasonings and marinades, cooked them, and sold them in plastic buckets. For five seconds, he could get two tablespoons of big snails and one tablespoon of small snails. They were spicy and delicious!
These fried skewers are everywhere now, especially next to schools in towns and cities.
Some people in Jiangjia Village sell fried skewers next to the village cinema. They sell lotus root slices, potato chips, ham sausage, orchid tofu, chicken fillets, etc. After being fried, they are brushed with spicy and fresh flavors. They are very popular among tourists. They can make a net profit of dozens of yuan a day just by frying skewers.
There are also people selling roasted nuts outside the cinema, such as roasted melon seeds, roasted peanuts, roasted pumpkin seeds, spiced broad beans, cooked water chestnuts, etc. They can earn a lot of money in a day just like this.
Although watching movies in the cinema only costs 50 cents per ticket, by showing five movies a day, one can actually make a lot of money. The people who originally showed movies had to go out to work in the cinema after the Chinese New Year every year to show movies for people. This year, he was called back by Jiang Guotai before May Day, saying that people from CCTV were coming to their team to film, and asked him to come back to receive and learn from them.
When he heard that people from CCTV were coming, he hurriedly told their supervisor about receiving the CCTV crew. The supervisor immediately gave him a day off. As a result, when he came back, he couldn't go out. He was busy entertaining producer Li and other crew members. In fact, he was thinking of learning from them. After that, the GG that Jiang Guotai started to promote on the local TV station gradually showed results. By the end of June, tourists gradually came to Jiangjia Village in Linhe Brigade.
In fact, there were not many tourists at the beginning, and many things in Jiangjia Village were operating at a loss and did not make any money. Even the movies were shown free of charge outdoors at night.
Who would have known that after August, the Linhe Brigade would experience a small peak with more and more people coming. Even though his cinema sold tickets for almost free, it still made a lot of money.
It was not until the start of school in September that the number of tourists coming to Linhe Brigade began to decrease gradually. The people from the first and fourth rooms could not wait any longer and went to find the village chief. But how could the village chief have the time to take care of them? The construction of Jiangjia Village cannot be delayed.
So he told the people from the larger and fourth branches to organize themselves to prepare the land first. He asked Jiang Xin who was in the provincial capital to contact the experts and professors there. Once the land was prepared, they could then plant tea trees.
What can the people in the first and fourth rooms do? You can only do it yourself.
Last year, people living in the second and third bedrooms also leveled the land themselves.
However, last year, most of the land with good orientation was divided up by people from the second and third branches, and now only some tea plots in low-lying and shady areas are left.
The tea lands allocated now are still considered good. The further back in time you go, the worse the tea lands you get. Many people cannot feel the difference now, but after a few years, everyone will gradually feel the gap. But by the time they realize it, it will be too late.
For Jiang Ning's sake, Village Chief Jiang also called Jiang's father and asked him if he had any news about Jiang Song. If he had any news about him, he asked him to come back quickly so that he could catch up with this year's land distribution.
Father Jiang was so anxious that his mouth was covered with blisters. He wanted to divide the land first by saying that he had news about Jiang Song, but Jiang Song had to go back to his hometown first.
After all, the tea trees were planted in November and it was the end of the year. At the end of the year, all the young people went back and drew lots together.
Village Chief Jiang asked Jiang's father to contact Jiang Song as soon as possible: "You must come back for the New Year this year, and then we can draw lots to divide the land together!"
After hanging up the phone, Mr. Jiang had a bitter taste in his mouth.
He is now feeling annoyed and remorseful, thinking that he had spoiled his eldest son too much. If he had been stricter since childhood, he would not have allowed his eldest son to be so free-spirited. No matter how they called him to come back to repeat the grade, he refused to come back.
If he had come back to repeat his studies, he would have a share of the tea land now, and he would just sit at home and pick up money from then on.
Father Jiang could only comfort her by saying that the tea plantation was huge and even if she didn't get a share this time, there would always be next time and she would always be able to get a share of land.
Now he only prays that his son can come back soon!
Last year, Jiang's mother was reluctant to spend money to cultivate the tea field. Now, when she heard that the tea from her hometown was really sold, she stopped talking and worked in silence. She watched Jiang's father call everywhere and ask the teachers at No. 1 Middle School for the phone numbers of Jiang Song's former classmates. She called one by one, asked one by one, and looked everywhere.
Jiangjia Village not only has income from tea fields this year.
The influx of tourists this year has suddenly enabled the people of Jiangjia Village to develop a new way to make money, which is to open restaurants and B&Bs.
At this time, they realized how wise the big guy's family was. They had built such a big house early on. There was no need to rebuild it and it could be used directly as a B&B.
However, many families who have just built a new house, or who have built it only a few years ago, are in an awkward situation. They cannot tear it down, but if they don't tear it down, they will have to spend a lot of money to rebuild a bigger house. Otherwise, next year, everyone else will be making money, but you will have to watch them making money because you have too few rooms.
If the house cannot be pushed down, you can only build it upwards, or continue to expand the house area in the yard based on the original homestead.
But whether you build upwards or expand the house area, it costs money. You can't expand it just because you want to. It's okay for those who have made money selling tea this year. They are planning to expand their houses at the end of the year to prepare for the arrival of tourists next year.
The people in the first and fourth rooms can only watch and wait for the tea trees to be planted this year so that they can get a share of the pie next year.
Although there are no student tourists at this time, there are still many tourists coming to Linhe Dian. Especially during the National Day, there is a peak period.
During the National Day holiday alone, Aunt Jiang and some families in the village who cooked delicious food made a net profit of more than 2,000 yuan, and those who ran movie theaters also made a lot.
Many people go to the movies in the city, and a movie ticket costs at least ten or fifteen yuan. But here, it’s only fifty cents during the day and one yuan at night, which is as cheap as free. Isn’t that worth it?
Almost everyone who has visited Jiangjia Village has a good impression of it.
However, there are still some shortcomings, namely the dry toilets in rural areas.
Jiang Guotai had originally overlooked this point, but after receiving feedback from tourists, he immediately asked the village's best bricklayer, Uncle Jiang's family, to build six public toilets in Jiangjia Village.
One of them was located next to the brigade headquarters, at the end of the village. It was directly modeled after the toilets in the city, with separate cubicles and flush tanks for squat toilets. Not to mention the walls, even the floor of the toilet was neatly paved with large floor tiles. Each toilet had twenty single cubicles.
After the toilet was built, for a while, the villagers stopped using the toilet in their own homes and came to visit the toilet next to the brigade headquarters.
This toilet is indeed more beautiful than many houses nowadays, and the materials used are better: "This doesn't look like a toilet at all, and people would believe it if they said it was a mansion!"
"Cathay Pacific has really become rich. Their toilets are better than other people's buildings."
There are also many jealous people in the village.
They all knew that Jiang Guotai had made a fortune, but they didn't know he was so rich!
It would cost at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan to build these six toilets.
Just building a toilet would cost twenty or thirty thousand yuan, they couldn't even imagine it.
After the first toilet was built, a large public toilet like this was built in the center of the village, next to the cinema, and then at the entrance of the village and another on the hillside.
This is prepared for many people who like to climb mountains and pick tea. Otherwise, they can't just find a deserted place on the mountain to solve the problem when the physical feeling comes like before.
In the past, there were fewer people on the mountain, so this solution was acceptable. But now there are more people on the mountain, and this solution is no longer acceptable.
There are also river beaches and piers.
The toilet on the river beach was the last one to be built, mainly because the river beach had not yet been completed.
There is a small island not far from the shore of Shahe Dam. Jiang Guotai built the leisure villa on this small island and fully developed it.
The artificial beach that Jiang Ning mentioned was built on a small island of less than 500 acres, very close to the Linhe Brigade. At the same time, some large amusement facilities suitable for children were also prepared.
From then on, the dry toilets in the entire village were idle, and everyone in the village went to the public toilet built by Jiang Guotai.
As more people went there, sanitary conditions could not be guaranteed, especially for the native locals who still had the habit of doing whatever they wanted anywhere. After a short time, Jiang Guotai realized that this was not feasible, so he invited the lonely elderly people in the village to clean the toilets every day and serve as the directors of the public toilets. It was also very simple to go to the public toilets. It cost one cent for urination and two cents for defecation. It was free for tourists.
For a time, many people wanted to abandon their own dry toilets, but because the people blocking the toilet door were the village elders, they could not force their way in, and they were reluctant to spend the ten or two cents, so they stopped going to public toilets. Public toilets became much cleaner for a while, and the lonely elderly in the village also had a stable income.
All the excitement was caused by the second and third wives, the first and fourth wives. Except for a few who got the benefits, the rest of the people watched the people from the second and third wives making money happily, but they felt very uncomfortable being excluded. So, as soon as the National Day holiday was over, they went to the village chief's house and asked why the tea varieties had not been delivered yet, with the first wife making the loudest noise.
Jiang Guotai has been extremely busy this year, and has been so busy that he has no time to take care of them. He was also unhappy with the take-it-for-granted attitude of the people in the first wife, saying that last year they bought tea seeds for their own tea fields, and also bought some for the second and third wives as well. This year, the money for inviting experts and professors, their travel expenses, food and accommodation, and the travel expenses of Jiang Xin and others to invite experts and professors, etc., all had to be paid by the people in the first and fourth wives themselves.
The people in the fourth room are always as silent as quails, but the people in the first room are not happy about it. Why should they pay more than the people in the second and third rooms?
Jiang Guotai was very single, "If you want to divide it, then divide it. If you don't want to divide it, forget it. Last year, I asked you to divide it together, and you all thought that I, Jiang Guotai, was taking advantage of you. You are so ignorant! This year, you, the first and fourth rooms, can divide the tea land among yourselves. It doesn't make sense for me, Jiang Guotai, to pay for you, right?"
Jiang Guotai's temper has become more and more aggressive now. He will spend the money that should be spent, but he will not spend a penny of the money that is being used as a sucker.
The people from the first and fourth wives had no way to deal with him and could not afford to offend him.
The people in the fourth room didn't say anything. When Jiang Guotai and Village Chief Jiang said they should pay, they also felt that they should pay, so they paid.
The people in the first house were also afraid of Jiang Guotai. They knew that Jiang Guotai was as shrewd as a fox. They originally wanted to take advantage of Jiang Guotai, thinking that Jiang Guotai made so much money and being such a big boss would not care about such a small amount of money. However, they didn't expect that Jiang Guotai was so stingy that he was unwilling to let them take advantage of such a small amount.
It was only at this time that the second and third rooms realized that although the money for hiring experts to buy tea seeds last year came from the public treasury, Jiang Guotai had paid for all the work that Jiang Xin did, such as running around to hire experts, out of his own pocket. He hadn't said anything to the second and third rooms yet, when they heard about the extra money paid by the first and fourth rooms. Although the money was not much when spread out equally, it was still money. Naturally, they realized that Jiang Guotai was taking care of the second and third rooms.
Therefore, Jiang Guotai only spent a little more money, but he tied the second and third rooms more closely to him. The first and fourth rooms were not in solidarity either. Seeing that Jiang Guotai could bring them benefits, they followed Jiang Guotai closely with all their strength and did whatever Jiang Guotai said.
After all, following Jiang Guotai means they can eat meat, and they are not fools. They know who brought about the changes in their hometown today.
Yes, the idea was proposed by Jiang Ning, and the people from CCTV were invited by Jiang Ning. But without Jiang Guotai's initiative, financial resources and courage, Jiangjia Village would still be the poor and backward village it was last year. It would not be like it is now, suddenly becoming the number one village in the surrounding area, and developing rapidly as if it had formed a barrier with the surrounding villages.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just say that it was the first village to have a cement road. If people spread the word, wouldn’t everyone in Jiangjia Village be proud and hold their heads high in front of people from other villages?
At the same time, while the people from the first and fourth houses were busy cleaning up the mountains, Jiang Guotai also hired many people to clean up the mountains and temples of the real "Wugong Mountain".
Speaking of which, the terrain of Wugong Mountain is also very peculiar. It has a very high altitude. The five highest peaks are shaped like human palms, somewhat like the Five Finger Mountain in "Journey to the West". From a distance, they look like the five fingers of an immortal, standing tall in the clouds.
Among them, the three peaks in the middle are the highest, and the temple of Wugong Mountain is located on the highest peak.
Jiang Guotai did not plan to move the highest peak, but instead invited experts to inspect the land to see where it was suitable for growing tea. He planned to plant tea all over the real "Wugong Mountain". From then on, this would be the real "Wugong Tea".
The mountains are too high and are actually not suitable for growing tea. Among the five mountains, the two shortest peaks are more suitable for growing tea. So Jiang Guotai hired people to take care of these two mountains.
As for the renovation of the temple on Wugong Mountain, it is secondary, as there are people inside after all. The main thing is that the mountain road needs to be renovated and developed, which is really not a small amount of money. Now in the whole Wujiang City, and even in the neighboring cities, there is really no one else except Jiang Guotai who is rich and willing to spend money to build his hometown.
This is a huge investment that no one would be willing to spend nowadays, but he did it anyway.
Under the guidance of experts from the Agricultural Bureau, the wolfberries planted by Aunt Jiang have begun to bear fruit.
The wolfberries planted by Aunt Jiang and her colleagues are not seedlings. Seedlings take five or six years to bear fruit. However, what Aunt Jiang and her colleagues plant are cuttings, which are also classified and labeled by the professors from the agricultural college.
Two professors from the Agricultural College simply brought their students and settled down in Jiangjia Village to observe the wolfberries planted in Jiangjia Village this year and record various data on their growth.
Since it is a transplanted seedling, it will bear fruit in the autumn of the first year of planting, but the number of fruits is not large and the yield seems to be similar to that of wild wolfberries.
The professor picked some wild wolfberries and artificially cultivated wolfberries, recorded the data, and took the berries back to test the differences in their nutritional content.
In order to make the local wild wolfberry a part of the local tourism promotion project, Jiang Guotai ordered people to cut down all the deep wormwood on both sides of the embankment, leaving only the wolfberry and some ornamental plants suitable for growing on both sides of the embankment.
Wolfberry is a type of plant that requires a lot of light. After all the wild wormwood that was more than two meters high and deep on both sides of the embankment were cut down, the amount of wild wolfberry fruit produced suddenly increased dramatically.
Generally speaking, wolfberry trees will enter their peak production period after growing for five or six years. Wolfberry trees that are ten to twenty-five years old will be their golden period for fruiting, and this is also the time when the yield is the highest. However, these wild wolfberries have been unattended for a long time, and there are various weeds and wormwood that compete with them for nutrients and sunlight. Under such circumstances, these wild wolfberries are in their golden period for fruiting. The fruits are like small red lanterns, hanging on the branches, with strings of red fruits, and their vitality is very tenacious.
After the wormwood that blocked their sunlight was cut down and the surrounding weeds that competed with them for nutrients were cleared, these wild wolfberry trees, which were tenacious and in the golden period of fruiting, began their era of wild growth. The experts who came to guide Aunt Jiang and others in planting wolfberry trees directed the aunts and daughters-in-law in the village to insert bamboo poles next to these wild wolfberry trees and use thin wires to make the paper strips that were originally hanging on the ground grow upwards. In this way, by next year, these wild wolfberries will probably enter a new round of crazy growth.
Jiang Guotai did not let them work for free. He paid each of them 15 yuan a day and asked them to follow the experts' advice and build racks for all the wild wolfberry trees, move the branches onto the bamboo racks, and give them more growing space and sunlight.
These wild wolfberries can all be picked for free by tourists, but the prerequisite is that the wolfberry branches must not be damaged. Breaking branches will result in a fine. For this reason, signs reminding tourists to protect the seedlings are placed next to each wolfberry tree.
The taste of fresh wolfberries is actually average, with just a light sweetness, which cannot be compared with very sweet fruits. However, the sign next to it praises the nutritional value of wolfberries, saying things like "promoting salivation and quenching thirst, improving sperm quality and improving eyesight." Jiang Guotai does not expect to make any money from these things, but they are just a way to retain tourists, just like picking mulberries for free.
In fact, the entire Jiangjia Village is making money this year, and he is the only one losing money.
Perhaps it cannot be said that it is a loss of money, but rather an investment in construction. The money invested is long-term and cannot be returned immediately in the short term.
Jiang Guotai was really grateful to Jiang Ning for this. If she had not suggested to him to plan the sand factory in advance, he would never have had so much money to develop the economy of his hometown and bid for projects in neighboring cities or even larger markets.
In particular, the timing of his choice to contract the sand factories was so clever, as it happened to be during the flood in 1998. At any other time, it would have been impossible for him to monopolize the three large sand factories.
He was ready to eat the meat himself and leave some for others. However, the flood submerged the river sand, and when the brother-in-law of the city leader came to see the sand factory, he saw nothing and was almost left in the river because of the electric wires on the river. He was so scared that he never came to Shahe to see the sand factory again. This led to him swallowing up three sand factories that made a fortune every day by himself.
It is because of these three large sand factories that he has such confidence.
While Wucheng's tourist city construction is in full swing, at the end of September, the movie "The King's Guards" won the "Best Foreign Language Film Award", "Best Art Direction Award", "Best Photography Award" and "Best Screenplay Award" at the International Venice Film Festival.
When this news reached China, the entire domestic film industry was shocked.
It won four awards at one of the most influential international film festivals.
Just like when "The King's Guards" was suddenly released during the Lunar New Year holiday and received sudden publicity, before that, there was no news about "The King's Guards" participating in the Venice Film Festival, and the news of its sudden award was then reported back to China.
For a time, the movie "The King's Guards" suddenly became a film that attracted the attention of many Chinese people. At the same time, "The King's Guards" was also released in America, and the box office was also rising steadily.
Jiang Ning only learned about this matter belatedly after it spread to China.
After the movie "King's Guards" raked in more than 100 million U.S. dollars at the box office in America, the total global box office of "King's Guards" set a record for the highest box office of domestic movies!
Last year, "White Snake" earned 42 million yuan at the domestic box office, which was already the annual box office champion. This year, "The King's Guards" has a box office of more than 100 million in America alone, which is equivalent to more than 700 million yuan, and this does not include the subsequent income from various VCD discs.
Even if the profits are shared among the various companies, each investor and cinema chain can get tens to hundreds of millions of yuan in revenue. Such a high rate of return shocked and stimulated domestic film companies and investors.
Now, not only the director and leading actors of this movie have doubled their net worth, countless investors are holding up large sums of money, wanting to invest in this director's film, and the value of the copyright of Jiang Ning's works has doubled!
Many film companies and TV stations have extended olive branches to Lemon Meng, wanting to buy other copyrights of Lemon Meng's works. Even the "Glengarry", which was originally ignored, has many people expressing their desire to buy it. Even if the domestic special effects technology cannot produce the special effects of "Glengarry", it doesn't matter. It is still possible to make some money by relying on the reputation of Lemon Meng's works.
Originally, Tong Jingang said that Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai had been very lucky since childhood and had a natural aura of good fortune. The second generation who bought the copyright of the film "The Song Dynasty" did not believe it, but now their eyes widened when they heard about the global box office success of "The Imperial Guards".
Looking at the film rights of "The Song Dynasty" that he bought, and then looking at the box office of "The Imperial Guards", he couldn't stop smiling.
Especially after knowing that countless people in the market are holding up large sums of money and want to buy the film and TV copyrights of other works of Lemon Studios, the second-generation investors feel like they have picked up a great bargain.
It's not a big bargain. When they bought the copyright of "The Song Dynasty" from Ningmeng, the price was only a few hundred thousand. Now it has more than increased five or six times.
Moreover, they heard from insiders that Lemon Tree's "Star Trek" sold for nearly eight figures in copyright fees. In comparison, the movie they invested in hasn't even been released yet, but they've made a fortune, right?
So they also went to inquire about other copyrights of Ning Meng's works, and the news they got was that the copyrights of all of Ning Meng's works had been sold out, including TV series copyrights, movie copyrights, children's drama copyrights, animation copyrights... Even the movie copyright of "Star Trek", which many people thought no one was interested in, was bought by one of the largest film companies in the United States at a high price.
As for how high the price is, they didn’t find out the exact price, but it is said that it is higher than the total price of all the copyrights of Ningmeng’s works!
Everyone who heard the news was shocked. How high must that be!
Then some people asked about the TV drama copyright of "Star Trek".
The copyright of the TV series "Star Trek" does exist, but Lemon Studios refuses to sell it.
Firstly, Ning Meng is really not short of money now. The publishing royalties from her three works alone have brought her more money than she can spend in her lifetime, not to mention the film and television copyright fees for "Star Trek" that she just sold. Although it has not reached the eight-digit level, it is close to it.
Although investing in the stock market at this time will not maximize profits like investing before 519, there will still be a 50% return until next year, which is considerable.
Just like before, she did not put all her eggs in one basket. Even though she knew which stock had the best performance among all stocks, she still bought in a diversified manner. The ones that rose higher could increase by 300%, and the ones that rose lower could also increase by 50%.
This is an overall bull market brought about by national policies. Anyone who has invested in the stock market in the past two years will make a profit. Even if her profits are a bit exaggerated, it does not seem so conspicuous under the overall market conditions brought about by the national policies.
Of course, this is only in the eyes of people who don't pay attention to her. In the eyes of people who pay attention to her, they just think that the speed at which this girl makes money is simply terrifying.
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