In front of Yang Fei's car, there was a car leading the way, and Wang Ji and his cars followed behind Yang Fei's car.

The mouse drove the car and suddenly stopped.

Fortunately, the car was not fast on the country roads, so the people in the car just rushed forward.

"What's wrong?" Yang Fei asked.

"Master Fei, the car in front of me has stopped."

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

The north wind outside the car is cold.

Chu Qian was wearing a thin light blue cotton coat and twisted her waist and ran 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 very simple: a tractor parked on the side of the road, blocking the way forward.

Chu Qian and others searched everywhere, but there was no tractor driver.

This is a ridge road, with weed-floating farmland waiting for spring plowing, and only in the distance can I see the village.

Wang Ji waited for a few minutes, couldn't help but get out of the car and walk over. When he saw this scene, he couldn't help but feel angry: "Who parked the car? The road is wide in total, who parked the tractor on the side of the road? Chu Qian, find the driver immediately and move the car away!"

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

Chu Qian was even more anxious than Wang Ji. She didn't care about the cold and hard work, so she had to go 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 this place from Shitou Village?"

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

"Let's go over, anyway, I'll come down and take a look. It's pretty good to see the whole way."

"Boss Yang, this weather is too cold, right?" Wang Ji said.

Yang Fei smiled and said, "It will be warm after walking."

Seeing that Yang Fei had said this, Wang Ji had no objection, so everyone got off the car and walked towards Shitou Village.

Next to the rice fields is a river, and the water is not very deep. Occasionally, I saw a peasant woman cleaning clothes on the stone slabs by the river.

Wang Ji was with Yang Fei and said, "The countryside is vast, but it is not as convenient as the county's transportation. Boss Yang, I would like to suggest you build a factory in the county's industrial park. 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 will ensure that the expropriation is in place."

Yang Fei did not doubt the truth of his words at all.

However, Yang Fei just smiled and didn't say anything.

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

But the locals are really poor.

Before Taohua Village developed, it was better than the current Shitou Village.

Yang Fei saw the house from afar and then the villagers were dressed. He didn't have to go in and knew what it looked like inside.

Wang Ji and others really didn't understand why Yang Fei had to work hard to go to this countryside for investigation?

To be honest, even the leaders of these people don’t know what they can inspect in this countryside?

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

There is no industry, no employment opportunity, except digging food from the soil, or growing vegetables in the fields. Today, when hybrid grains are popular, farmers plant two or three acres of land, earning thousands of kilograms of grain a year and two seasons. They still have enough food for themselves, but they are only enough to eat. Don’t think about selling it. One reason is that the grain price is low, and the other is that the grain collected in the fields is also limited. Unless you feed a few pigs and raise a few cows, the time and energy you spend is about the same as working outside, and the money you earn is not the same.

Yang Fei is not an official, he is not here to examine the sufferings of the people.

He probably looked at the terrain of Shitou Village, then shook his head.

Even if he is willing to build a factory here, it is not suitable here.

However, the scenery of this countryside made Yang Fei linger.

When passing a valley, Yang Fei saw a thick layer of small fruits at the foot of the mountain, bent down and picked them up to see.

Chen Mo asked curiously: "What is this?"

Yang Fei pinched the dried fruit and smiled, "This is a castor bean."

"Castor beans? Can they be eaten?" Chen Mo asked.

Yang Fei said: "It's not eaten, it's toxic. The seeds contain numb protein and ricinine, especially numb protein, which can cause poisoning. Two or three seeds can kill a child!"

Chen Mo said in surprise: "Ah? So poisonous? There are so many at the foot of this mountain, isn't it very dangerous?"

Chu Qian smiled and said, "Every country kids know that this thing cannot be eaten, so there will be no danger."

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

Chu Qian said: "There are many, there are many trees everywhere on the mountains. This kind of tree grows easily and there are many wild ones, so it is very fast."

Yang Fei said: "Only this area exists, or is it in the entire county?"

Chu Qian said: "I don't know much about this, but there are a lot of castor trees in the villages I have been to."

Wang Ji didn't know why Yang Fei was suddenly interested in such an ordinary thing, and said, "Boss Yang, come to the county town again?"

Yang Fei smiled and said, "Wang Ji, I have an idea. I want to open a castor oil processing factory in your county. But I have one condition, that is, I would like to ask you to help promote it. My factory will collect a large amount of these castor beans."

Wang Ji was stunned and said, "This thing is everywhere in the mountains and fields, and it is rotten on the mountain every year without asking for it. What are you doing for?"

Yang Fei said: "Refining."

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

Yang Fei laughed and said, "It's not for eating. Castor oil is a raw material for daily cosmetics. This is a very important plant-based oil."

Wang Ji said: "Is that so? We don't even know."

Yang Fei said: "Castor oil has a high viscosity and low freezing point. It is both resistant to severe cold and high temperatures. It will not freeze at minus ten degrees Celsius, nor will it solidify or denaturate at 600c. It has characteristics that other oils are not as good as those of other oils. It is an important raw material in industries and medicines such as chemical industry, light industry, metallurgy, mechanical and electrical, textile, printing, dyes, etc. At the same time, this is also a kind of flavour medicine, which can cure diseases if used well."

"Your daily chemical factory needs such raw materials?" Wang Ji understood.

"Yes, our current castor oil is mainly imported from India. The raw material of castor oil was not in large demand before. After entering the 20th century, due to the need for a large amount of high-quality lubricating oil in modern industry, castor production developed rapidly. Since the 1990s, domestic demand has increased sharply, making my country a net importer."

Wang Ji said incomprehensiblely: "This thing still depends on imports? There are many mountains here on our side!"

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

After hearing this, Wang Ji asked, "Then how big can this business be?"

Yang Fei said: "It depends on the production of castor beans in your county. I can produce as much castor oil as you can give me! The more you have, the better!"

Wang Ji said: "I only collect wild ones, but I don't know if they are enough?"

Yang Fei said: "It is definitely not enough. Castor is a deep-rooted crop and can also be cultivated and transplanted. As long as the soil temperature is right, it is easy to cultivate. I have a raw material base in Jixi. Unfortunately, there are few castors on the mountain over there. I asked people to try planting them, but the yield is still limited, so I have always relied on imports. Unexpectedly, I found the soil for castor to grow here! "

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