Chapter 344: The Thousand Waves of Rice Shake the World, and the Extraordinary Monument Determines the Destiny
Li Xiang participated in global aid construction. Given his current status and position, he naturally did not go alone, nor did he fly there by himself, but took a special plane. There is a team following behind.
This team has more than thirty people, all of whom are the elite among the elite. Any one of them has emerged from the civil service examination and has been trained within the system, with outstanding abilities selected.
Although Li Xiang is approachable and humble, these elites who are capable of handling their own work are inevitably a little restrained and feel quite pressured when they are with him.
Wherever Li Xiang went, local embassy staff and overseas Chinese would come to line the streets to welcome him, waving small flags and shouting words of welcome.
As for the local people, there are naturally quite a few of them. Sometimes there are huge crowds of people.
There was one time that was even more exaggerated. When Li Xiang arrived in a city with many beautiful women, he had just stepped off the plane, and some beautiful women in the cheering crowd below were so excited that they fainted on the spot.
Li Xiang: “…”
He looked at the team members behind him, and a secretary said respectfully: "Don't doubt it, you are just so charming."
Another person said: "The last time this phenomenon occurred was at a Michael Jackson concert."
The fainted fan was carried into the ambulance by security personnel. Li Xiang used his spiritual power to check from a distance and found that the fan was not seriously injured. So he felt relieved and led the team members along the red carpet to the local leaders who came to greet them, shook hands with them and talked with them.
He was only responsible for meeting with the leaders, reaching a consensus, and using his magical powers to assist in the construction of the underground city. The rest of the specific matters would naturally be handled by the team members.
Because of the aid from the Eastern giant, there has always been a series of cooperation and agreements behind it, and these team members are specifically responsible for this. Well, pandas never suffer losses. If we were really as stupid as some people say, giving people this and that, how could we have grown into the second largest economy today, and most likely already the largest economy? Although there is a GDP ranking, the algorithms used by different countries are actually different.
The production method is used domestically, which means that the value obtained by deducting the cost of producing these products from the actual value of the products is the GDP of our country.
Da Piaoliang, on the other hand, prefers to use the expenditure method, which is a calculation method based on the overall expenditure amount of individuals, companies and national finances. Even many American media (such as the New York Times) believe that this calculation method will lead to an inflated GDP, and they will include consumption data of many financial industries and service industries in the statistical scope. In comparison, we often do not include data in this area.
Then some other countries, like India, include cow dung in their GDP calculations. You can't say that they are unreasonable. After all, cow dung is also wealth.
In addition to cow dung, market prices are also taken into account for the humble dwellings in the Dharavi slum in Bangladesh, which do not actually generate significant rental income. etc.
All in all, just use the GDP data for reference.
Li Xiang has traveled around the world, performed countless miracles, and gained even more fans.
Before, many people watched live broadcasts on their mobile phones or TVs, but how can it be as shocking as seeing it with your own eyes through the screen? …
In the imperial capital, at the headquarters of the Global Alliance Against Alien Beasts, Li Xiang held a press conference to answer some questions from reporters.
A reporter asked about some technical details about the lunar base: "You built a base on the back of the moon in less than an hour. Does this mean that the Saint-level extraordinary people have surpassed the existing aerospace technology? Will the lunar base be opened to other countries for scientific research in the future?"
Li Xiang: "The Saint-level capabilities have indeed broken through the limits of traditional engineering, but base construction still relies on scientific principles. For example, the 'Zhulong' radio telescope must comply with the laws of astrophysics. Before the Black Mist Star Region devours the solar system, the lunar base will give priority to serving our scientific research, but we welcome international academics to participate in research through cooperative proposals, provided that they comply with the principles of the Earth Safety Convention."
After all, the end of the world is still a few years away, so there is still some time to conduct some research on the moon.
A reporter also asked about the recent underground city construction: "When you help weak countries build underground cities, do you ask them to sign unequal agreements? Does the Eastern power's aid have geopolitical intentions?"
Li Xiang: "All aid is based on a framework of equal and mutually beneficial cooperation, such as resource exchange, technology sharing or security consensus. my country's aid is not unwarranted charity, but the practice of promoting a community with a shared future for mankind. If some countries think that 'mutual benefit and win-win' is geopolitical, then I am afraid that this is a misunderstanding of the nature of cooperation."
It has to be said that Li Xiang has grown up now. He can speak these polite words very well, and many bigwigs present at the meeting nodded secretly.
Of course, more people are concerned about the subsequent application qualifications for the breathing method.
A beautiful reporter stared at Li Xiang with fiery eyes: "Dear Li, in the qualification review of advanced breathing and physical training, how do you identify whether the applicant has undiscovered criminal behavior? For example, someone who secretly killed someone but did not file a case?"
Li Xiang ignored the look in the beautiful reporter's eyes that wanted to eat him. He had a plan in place, and he immediately talked about it: "The routine process is to check the criminal records, but this can only screen the evil deeds that have been recorded. For crimes that have not yet occurred, extraordinary people need to use extraordinary means to solve them. For example, in the future, underground cities in various places will establish a testing mechanism similar to the "Mind Image Trial", which uses supernatural powers to perceive the applicant's mental fluctuations and cause and effect karma. Of course, the specific details need to be formulated in combination with local laws and ethical frameworks."
Li Xiang's cousin Shen Wenqian has awakened a rather novel supernatural power called "judgment of mind", which can determine whether a person is lying. It is more advanced than a lie detector. Li Xiang plans to let his cousin take charge of this job in the future.
Of course, it is impossible for her to do everything by herself. There are so many extraordinary people in the world. If she has to run around for each one of them, transportation is inconvenient in the apocalypse and there are many crises. How can my cousin handle it?
Li Xiang has an idea to combine supernatural powers with modern technology and Irene's classical alchemy. Perhaps he can refine a supernatural item with the effect of "judgment of mind image".
He mentioned this to Irene and sent his cousin over, one to help take care of the children, and the other to study this thing with Irene.
Irene is alone in France. Although she is very strong, Li Xiang is somewhat worried. And his cousin going to France is a help to some extent.
The reason was very legitimate. My cousin went there to study and got an offer from the best university in France, Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL).
This school is ranked 24th in the world by QS (first in France) and 42nd by Times. Mathematics, physics, arts and humanities (top 10 in the world), the university has produced many Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners, and its alumni include 71 Molière Prize winners and 3 French presidents.
Shen Wenqian's grades were not actually very good, and the university she got into in China was just average. As for why she was able to get admission and a scholarship to Paris Sciences et Lettres, it was naturally because Li Xiang asked Irene to arrange this.
Li Xiang's grandparents were naturally very supportive and extremely happy.
Shen Wenqian was also very happy. After she came to France, she learned the truth and was shocked: "Oh my god, my cousin actually had an illegitimate daughter here, and the little lover is so beautiful."
There is no doubt about Irene's beauty. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is the first rose of France. If she were a little ugly, Li Xiang would not look down on her. The daughter she gave birth to is a mixed-race baby, as delicate as a porcelain doll.
"This matter must be kept confidential, don't talk about it." Li Xiang warned.
"Brother, you're such a scumbag!" Shen Wen Qian gave him a look of contempt.
Li Xiang: “…”
Of course Shen Wen Qian was joking. After all, her cousin was now the strongest man on Earth and had an extremely high status in the country. Relatives joked that the Li family's ancestral graves were filled with smoke and that he was so handsome. For such an outstanding man, having many women and a few illegitimate children was nothing.
If she and Li Xiang were not related by blood, she would definitely be tempted.
"Brother, I will take that matter to heart, but have you ever thought that the breathing method might be traded privately?" Shen Wen Qian asked.
Li Xiang shrugged: "Why would I care so much? I just hope that there will be less burning, killing and looting in the end times."
We really can’t control private transactions, because even in the brightest place, there are shadows.
…
Lijia Village, the underground city, the underground farm, is as bright as day.
Not only did the villagers of Lijia Village come to the scene, but many people from the surrounding villages also came to watch the fun. Fortunately, the farm was built very spaciously.
Erhuang, the little fox, and the little kittens were also playing on the farm, which was their patrol territory. As a result of catching mice every day, the kittens grew fatter and sleeker.
The hybrid rice in the underground farm of Lijia Village ushered in its first harvest. The rice waves were as golden as gold, and the villagers were very excited.
Zhao Xueqing was dressed like a farm girl, but with bright eyes and white teeth, she stood in the field with a bit of pride on her face. The rice ears were hanging down heavily, and the stalks were very tall, almost reaching her chest.
Yao Yao and Lei Xiaohui were naturally also present. The three of them have always been inseparable.
When the villagers bent down and swung their sickles, they found that the rice stalks were much stronger than ordinary straw and required a special alloy sickle to cut through. Since it was an experimental field, it only had three acres, and the villagers wanted to experience the feeling of harvesting this super rice with their own hands, so no harvester was used.
There are plenty of alloy sickles, all of which are gadgets made by Li Xiang using the "Crystal Gold Armor", and they are extremely sharp.
Naturally, CCTV sent reporters to film such a grand occasion.
In the end, an acre of rice field was harvested and piled into a small hill. When it was dried and weighed, the electronic screen showed "4866 kilograms", and the onlookers opened their mouths wide.
An old man murmured in a trembling voice: "When I was young, I was very lucky to have a yield of 800 kilograms per mu. This number... I'm afraid it must be a miracle from the gods! Zhao girl is amazing!"
Facing the microphone handed over by the reporter, Zhao Xueqing smiled and explained: "Mr. Yuan's hybrid rice is the foundation. I used the plant system's ability to accelerate the breeding iteration, and combined with the controllable light of the underground farm and the fertility of the 'Xirang' (the black soil moved by Li Xiang), I broke through the limit."
The villagers were singing and dancing. Li Jinyu, Li Yucheng and others could not help but start to perform Sichuan Opera. Unfortunately, one Sichuan Opera enthusiast, Jiang Jianguo, was not there as he had gone to Tsinghua University to take care of his grandson.
Almost all the villagers of Lijia Village have now returned to the village. No one goes out to work anymore, and almost all the able-bodied laborers are involved in the harvesting work.
Children were playing among the rice stacks, and the golden rice fields and the crowds captured by the drone formed the Chinese character "丰", which quickly became a hot topic on the entire Internet.
The world was shocked.
The international agricultural organization initially questioned the authenticity of the data, but shut up after learning about Zhao Xueqing's extraordinary abilities. He is a high-level extraordinary person, what else is there to say?
An Associated Press reporter rushed to the scene and grabbed a handful of rice in Lijia Village and found that the grains were much fuller than those of conventional varieties, and the grains were particularly large, four or five times the size of conventional rice grains, and almost the size of small peanuts!
Chinese netizens call it "Xianmi" or "Xianmi". It is also called "spiritual rice". But in fact, it does not contain any spiritual power, it just focuses on one big word.
When the BBC live broadcast the weigh-in session, the comment section was flooded with "China NO.1" and "Please save hungry Africa".
Indian netizens ridiculed themselves: "Our 'cow dung GDP' should be changed to 'rice GDP'!"
At an emergency meeting of the Global Alliance Against Alien Beasts, representatives of African member states burst into tears: "If this kind of rice is promoted in our dry land, famine will become history!"
Many Southeast Asian countries signed the "Food Security Mutual Assistance Agreement" on the spot, and the Pakistani representative even shouted in Chinese: "Pakistan is always here!"
Li Xiang participated in a series of meetings, and finally, the meeting decided that China would provide basic rice seeds to the alliance member states free of charge, but they had to promise three points:
Prohibit gene patent monopoly; give priority to ensuring food rations for the poor; accept planting guidance from Chinese agricultural science teams.
Well, the chief person in charge and chief agricultural scientist of this agricultural science team is Zhao Xueqing.
Now, among the three women, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui, Zhao Xueqing has the most official positions and the biggest titles. Yao Yao and Lei Xiaohui were naturally envious, but Zhao Xueqing's plant-related abilities were too practical and they really couldn't compare.
Yao Yao secretly thought that the right thing to do was to use all means to make my brother happy and hold on to his thighs tightly.
Agricultural giants such as Brazil and Argentina, which had been waiting and watching, were hesitant due to concerns about the impact on their soybean exports, but the public launched a petition #WeWeWantToSurvive# on social media, forcing the government to submit applications for membership overnight.
A Japanese netizen sarcastically said that "rice seeds are a symbol of East Asian co-prosperity", but was retorted by a Korean netizen: "Why don't you share your high-end wagyu beef?"
In a CCTV special program, Grandpa Yuan's image was juxtaposed with Zhao Xueqing's experimental field data, with the subtitles saying: "Predecessors laid the foundation, and successors climbed the cloud."
A reporter asked: "If Mr. Yuan had plant-related abilities, would the yield be higher?"
Zhao Xueqing replied solemnly: "The combination of scientific spirit and extraordinary ability can create miracles. What Mr. Yuan left behind is not only rice seeds, but also the belief of 'holding your own rice bowl' - this is more precious than any supernatural power."
This statement was quoted by agricultural scientists around the world, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences lamented: "The Orientals have once again proved that the key to the survival of civilization is not plunder, but symbiosis."
After this incident, Zhao Xueqing became even more famous.
At night, Zhao Xueqing curled up in Li Xiang's arms. Although she had done this with Li Xiang many times, she was still shy every time.
"Congratulations on achieving such a brilliant achievement." Li Xiang stroked, praised, and was very pleased. After all, there is such a capable assistant.
The success of super rice can be called a milestone and is equivalent to a food revolution, which is not much weaker than the previous helium-3.
"Brother, without you, there would be no Qing'er today." Zhao Xueqing was very emotional. If she had not met Li Xiang, she would still be a low-level working girl. It’s nothing like now, when I’m a global celebrity.
On the Internet, many netizens respectfully call her "Shennong Fairy", "Heling Fairy", "Rice Fragrance Goddess" and so on.
In the past, she envied Yao Yao for having a nickname, "The Magic Queen of Change". Well, she has one now, and it sounds more advanced than Yao Yao's.
The two girls have always been secretly competing with each other and never get tired of it, but it does not affect their harmony.
(End of this chapter)
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