Chapter 268 8.7% (Ch 8)

“Depend on!”
A surprised voice was heard in a student dormitory of Lion Rock Agricultural University.
“What’s wrong?”
The student who made the noise was wrapped in a blanket, holding a cell phone and saying, “The dividend of Hailufeng Company this year is 5 yuan per share. I’m so envious of the seniors who have been recruited. Why do we have to graduate next year?”
“Five dollars per share? That’s not much!” another student wearing glasses who was playing games said casually.
A student holding a thermos cup and drinking hot water shook his head: “Your family has a farm waiting to be inherited, so of course I don’t like it.”
The student who was playing the game laughed and cursed: “Bullshit, my family’s farm only makes a few hundred thousand yuan a year, and my parents do most of the work. I mean, ordinary employees of Hailufeng don’t have many shares, and at most they get a few thousand yuan in dividends.”
“Old Liu, you must not be aware of the share distribution situation of Hailufeng. Even the grassroots employees have a minimum of about 6,500 shares.” The student holding the thermos explained.
“Fuck? Is this true?” Liu Meng’an suddenly stopped playing the game.
The student wrapped in the quilt replied, “Of course it’s true. Lao Liu, you didn’t plan to find a job so you didn’t check it out. I asked a few seniors about it. Hailufeng Company has a special recruitment at our Shizishan Agricultural University. If you want to work as an agricultural technician on a farm in the northwest or south of the desert, you basically start with C1.”
“C1? Gold, what does this mean?” Liu Meng’an didn’t know much about this.
Jin Zhekai explained: “This is the employee level of Hailufeng Company. It is divided into five major levels, DCBAS, and then further divided into twenty minor levels. C1 is the fifth level.”
“I see. How is the treatment for C1?”
Jin Zhekai sat up and continued, “The basic salary for C1 is 8,500 yuan. If you go to the branch offices in the south and northwest of the desert, you can get an additional 1,000 yuan subsidy on top of that. I heard this from a few of my seniors who went to work in Liangzhou.”
“Do you have five social insurances and one housing fund?”
“Of course there is!” The student holding the thermos breathed out white air: “Huh… After working for a year as a C1, you can get stocks worth about 10,000, which means the year-end dividend is about 50,000.”
Liu Meng’an calculated silently: “That’s not bad! Including the salary, it’s about 150,000 a year, right?”
“More than that.” Jin Zhekai shook his head as he took out a bag of dried black pearl tomatoes from the bedside table.
Liu Mengan’s plan to go home and inherit the farm began to waver. He asked, “More than that? Is there any other income?”
“Of course, there is a senior brother in Minqin, Lanzhou. He said that he is opening a new desert farm. There are high temperature subsidies in the summer, low temperature subsidies in the winter, and wind and sand subsidies throughout the year. In addition, there are performance wages and year-end bonuses. He said that this year, all in all, it is about 230,000 yuan.”
“Awesome! It makes me want to go to work at Hailufeng Company.” Liu Meng’an did have some ideas at this time.
“We are unlucky.” The student holding the thermos shook his head.
Liu Meng’an looked confused and uncertain: “Ah? What happened? Doesn’t Hailufeng Company want anyone anymore?”
“No, it’s Hailufeng that will adjust its virtual shares starting next year.”
“Is it not going to be distributed?”
Crunch, crunch… Jin Zhekai ate a few crispy dried tomatoes and said, “No, it’s because the shares have been diluted. Previously, Hailufeng’s virtual shares were 10 billion shares, and next year they will become 100 billion shares, which means they have been diluted 10 times.”
“Does the old employee have any objection?” Liu Meng’an stood up, took a small dried tomato from the bag, and crunched…:
“This small sun-dried tomato is quite delicious.”
“Because old employees can get ten times the stock at the same time! It’s equivalent to no dilution, while employees who join next year can only get two times the stock, which is equivalent to only one-fifth of the original.”
Liu Mengan looked a little regretful: “Is that so! That’s really a pity, but we won’t graduate until next year, so it’s definitely too late.”
“yes!”
The student holding the thermos cup looked at his laptop: “Jin Zi, Lao Liu, the 2027 financial report of Hailufeng Company is out.”
“oh?”
The two of them moved closer.
“Ah! Revenue of 857.9 billion? A year-on-year increase of 3075%? Damn!”
“Awesome!”
“Net profit of 201.7 billion yuan, net profit margin of 23.59%, this is too high!”
Creak…the door slowly opened.
A student came back carrying a bunch of lunch boxes.
“Brother Long, you’re back?” Jin Zhekai handed over the dried tomatoes: “Here, eat some dried tomatoes.”
“What are you looking at? Could it be…” Fang Yulong grinned evilly, put the lunch box on the table beside him and hurried over.
“What are you eating today?”
Fang Yulong replied as he looked at it: “Chicken chop rice and pork chop rice… Tsk, so you are looking at this. I was having dinner with my teacher just now, and he was also talking about this.”
Jin Zhekai searched in the bag: “Pork chop rice? Which one is pork chop rice?”
“Find it yourself.” Fang Yulong took the dried tomatoes and started eating them while sitting on the bed.
Liu Mengan was shocked after reading the financial report: “Did Hailufeng take hormones this year? The revenue has skyrocketed more than 30 times, it’s so exaggerated!”
“Haha, you’re surprised by what you’ve seen.” Fang Yulong is from southern Jiangxi, and he has specifically learned about Hailufeng’s investment situation: “They made more than 20 billion yuan from the durian industry alone, not to mention things like Senzu soybeans, Mike bananas, Senzu soybeans, and sponge batteries.”
While Liu Meng’an was taking his lunch box, he joked, “Speaking of durian, Jinzi, didn’t you buy a bag of dried durian a few days ago? Where did you hide it?”
Jin Zhekai, who was busy eating, took a big bite of pork chop and said, “Lao Liu, what do you want to do?”
“Good things should be shared with the brothers. You don’t want to eat it all by yourself, do you?”
“Haha, haven’t you heard that it’s hard to gain weight by eating alone? In order to maintain my figure, I have to eat alone reluctantly.” Jin Zhekai joked.
Liu Meng’an turned around and asked, “Brother Long, aren’t you going to intern at Hailufeng Company next year? Have you decided which branch you’re going to work for?”
“Gannan Branch, my hometown.”
“Gannan Branch? What kind of work do you do?”
“Herb cultivation technician.”
“Herbs? Hailufeng Company also deals in Chinese medicinal materials!” Liu Meng’an took a few mouthfuls of rice.
“No, it’s pesticide herbs, used to extract pheromone pesticides.”
Jin Zhekai interrupted, “Oh, I know, I know. It’s the red fire ant repellent that’s been very popular in Lingnan recently, right?”
“Um.”
“How much is the internship salary?” Liu Meng’an asked curiously.
Fang Yulong crossed his legs and said, “Of course it’s the minimum wage, 3,500 yuan a month, food and accommodation included, four-month internship period. If you want to stay, you have to perform well.”
“Is becoming a regular employee C1?”
“Crack, crack…hmm.”
“Brother Long, are there any internship vacancies left in our class?” Liu Meng’an asked.
“Of course! Don’t you want to go back and inherit the farm? Why do you want to do an internship? If you want to go, just tell your supervisor and you will have to report to the internship position after the Spring Festival next year.”
“Is that so? Then I’ll go talk to the teacher this afternoon.”
Jin Zhekai picked up the water bottle and took a big sip of boiled water, then asked in surprise: “No, Lao Liu, do you really want to go?”
“Let’s go and have a look! Anyway, my farm is managed by my parents now.”
Fang Yulong nodded: “I agree with Lao Liu’s idea. Give it a try while you are still young. If it doesn’t work, the worst that can happen is that you can go back and inherit the family business.”
Jin Zhekai picked up the lunch box again and said helplessly: “Yeah, I can’t do that. My family has less than one acre of land, and now it’s rented out to people in the same village. Even if I want to go back to farm, there’s not much land left.”
“Xiao Jin, why don’t you ask your teacher for an internship spot?” Liu Meng’an asked in surprise.
Jin Zhekai complained: “My dad used his connections to arrange an internship for me. It’s a job at a tea plantation in our town.”
“Tea plantation? As a technician?” Fang Yulong was also surprised.
“I’m just an ordinary employee. The tea plantation is run by a relative.” Jin Zhekai complained on the surface, but he didn’t tell his classmates the real situation, which was that this tea plantation was owned by his uncle.
Regarding this situation, the others didn’t know what to say.
After all, there are pros and cons to working as a relative.
If you meet a better relative, he can really take you flying.
If you meet those weird relatives, you will probably be exploited.
…
at the same time.
With the release of Hailufeng Company’s annual financial report.
Annual reports of other companies have also been released one after another.
Sure enough, the financial situation of the three e-commerce platforms, Taowang, JD.com, and Pinxixi, is very similar to the analysis of the market research department of Hailufeng Company.
On the A B platform.
Many bloggers who specialize in business analysis and interpretation have already prepared the copy in advance, fine-tuned the data, and completed the production of a long video in less than a few hours.
In one of the more famous bloggers’ videos, not only was the financial report of Hailufeng Company analyzed in detail, but also a prediction was made for the development of Hailufeng Company in the next year.
The video is titled: “The third largest e-commerce platform? No, it’s the world’s second largest agricultural group!”
That’s right, Hailufeng Group is currently the second largest agricultural group in the world.
Among the current global agricultural companies, the top ten in terms of annual revenue are:
First place, Company C, one of the four major grain traders, has a total revenue of US$159.6 billion this year, equivalent to RMB 1,149.1 billion.
Second place, Hailufeng Company, with cumulative revenue of 857.9 billion yuan this year.
The third place is COFCO Group, with a total revenue of 679.1 billion yuan this year.
Fourth place, China National Grain and Oils Reserves Corporation, with a total revenue of 549.1 billion yuan this year.
Fifth place: Company B, one of the four major grain traders, has a total revenue of US$58.8 billion this year, equivalent to RMB 423.8 billion.
No. 6: Company A, one of the four largest grain traders, has a total revenue of US$53.5 billion this year, equivalent to RMB 385.3 billion.
Seventh place, Bayer AG, with total revenue of US$52.1 billion this year, equivalent to RMB 375.7 billion.
Eighth place, New Hope Group, with cumulative revenue of 340.9 billion yuan this year.
Ninth place, John Deere & Company, with total revenue of US$38.1 billion this year, equivalent to RMB 273.6 billion.
Tenth place, Beidahuang Group, with cumulative revenue of 254.4 billion yuan this year.
Company D, one of the four largest grain traders that previously ranked relatively low, only had a total revenue of US$28.2 billion this year, equivalent to RMB 203.1 billion, and its ranking dropped to eleventh.
Following closely behind in twelfth place is Syngenta, which is controlled by a domestic enterprise. Its total revenue this year is US$20.6 billion, equivalent to RMB 146.2 billion.
Among the top ten agricultural companies in the world in terms of revenue, five are domestic enterprises.
In other words, Company D, one of the four major grain traders, has officially fallen out of the top ten.
At the end of the video, a financial blogger who analyzed Hailufeng’s operating conditions said with certainty: “As Hailufeng’s business continues to expand and its industrial chain becomes increasingly complete, it is expected that Hailufeng’s revenue will exceed one trillion yuan next year, and it is basically just around the corner to beat Company C and become the world’s top agricultural company in terms of revenue.”
There are also a lot of comments in the comment section.
Agent 007 of the Geborg: [Awesome! Take off! God!]
Boudoir Walking: [Did you take hormones? Wasn’t it only over 20 billion last year? ]
Boston Garden Face: [This year, domestic agricultural companies have improved to varying degrees, but Hailufeng is still the best. ]
Mount Everest Elevator Maintenance Worker [@Boston Garden Face, if you look at the rankings outside of this year’s top ten, you will find that other domestic companies have almost rocketed in the rankings. ]
Donuts are delicious: [What does this have to do with my monthly salary of 3,000? (¬_¬)ﾉ]
Tamagotchi keeper: [@The donuts are really delicious, and it really has nothing to do with your monthly salary of 3,000 US dollars (｡･ω･｡)]
Goblin Slayer: [Why is this company growing so fast? I think there is something going on.]
Meteorite Bullet: [@Goblin Slayer, what’s the inside story? Academician Jiang and his wife have great skills, and everyone has seen it. What inside story do they need? It’s simply inexplicable. ]
Reader Anonymous Author: [Haha, net profit of 201.7 billion, but he only gave tens of thousands of employees a few billion. He is another black-hearted boss.]
Audebiao Road Cycling Champion: [@Reader Anonymous Author, they can give you nothing, but don’t forget that Hailufeng is owned by Academician Jiang alone. He is willing to distribute dividends to employees, which is better than 99% of other companies. What else do you want from a bicycle?]
Star Enterprise: [Come on! Let us move towards a glorious evolution! Long live the giant enterprise! ]
Eating 18 pounds of pineapples a day: [It’s really far ahead, ▼(´ᴥ`)▼ I wonder what the chip technology is like now? No way? It hasn’t been developed yet? 】
Unreasonable Professor: [@Eating 18 pounds of pineapples a day, do you dare to bet? Before 2035, let’s look back at this comment and see if you can laugh? ]
Eating 18 pounds of pineapples a day: [@Unreasonable professor, come on! Who is afraid of who, running dog! ]
Black Monkey Player: [We just signed a cooperation agreement with Hailufeng Company. We will supply apples exclusively to them in the future.]
Flash Sponge: [╥﹏╥Wow, why did I come to Edinburgh to study? Durian in China is so cheap! The fruit here is too expensive. ]
Mo Yu Xian Ren: [Hehehe, you must be envious! I have successfully joined Hai Lu Feng Company. ]
Deliveryman Xiaofei: [@摸鱼仙人, ah! So envious! But if I join now, will the virtual shares be allocated like this next year? ]
Mo Yu Xian Ren: [@ Takeaway Xiao Fei, of course it is calculated based on this year. ]
The financial report of Hailufeng Company is still being discussed online.
Relevant domestic departments also quietly released GDP statistics for the fourth quarter of this year.
Many financial bloggers discovered this incident within a few hours, and then after quickly browsing the content, they used AI to extract the core content and quickly edited videos and articles.
Among them, the official media were more well prepared. For example, CCTV News, Global Times, Xinhua News Agency, etc. released relevant reports at the first time.
This piece of news instantly caused a huge uproar.
Because the domestic GDP growth rate reached 8.7% in the fourth quarter.
Combined with the GDP growth in the first three quarters, the GDP for this year increased by 6.6% year-on-year, and the total GDP reached 151.23 trillion yuan.
The year-on-year GDP growth rates in 2025 and 2026 were 5.2% and 5.8% respectively, and this year it has re-reached 6.6%.
Judging from this trend, the GDP growth rate next year is estimated to exceed 7.5%.
151.23 trillion yuan is roughly equivalent to 21 trillion US dollars.
However, the currency value of the US dollar has been seriously inflated. After all, America’s GDP has reached 30.85 trillion US dollars this year.
However, if calculated based on actual purchasing power, America’s GDP would have to be cut by about 50% to reach a more reasonable level.
Especially with the emergence of Senzu beans and sponge batteries, Huayuan’s purchasing power has soared a lot.
In other words, the current exchange rate of the US dollar to the Chinese yuan is actually seriously distorted.
But there was no way, America was still holding on.
As soon as this financial report came out.
Domestic netizens have not yet been shocked, but foreign netizens are already exclaiming.
A European and American financial blogger on YouTube immediately forwarded a more comprehensive video report.
The comment section of this video was filled with screams and howls.
Kevin: [Are you kidding? The GDP of Serbia is 21 trillion US dollars? Haha, this joke is not funny at all. ]
Powell Smith: [7.2 exchange rate? Man, stop kidding, you should adjust the exchange rate to 3, which is more reasonable.]
Peter Lee: [A place that still eats tree bark and bugs has a GDP of 21 trillion US dollars? Fake news! ]
Andrew’s Cabin: [@Peter Lee, you are the maker of fake news. It’s you people who have been making all kinds of fake news. Do you really think I haven’t been to Seris? ]
Klein Juliet: [OMG, if we calculate based on an exchange rate of 3, then Seris’ GDP will be 50.41 trillion US dollars? ]
Ma Changgong, who has a lot of imagination, said: [Yes, my friends, if you calculate based on an exchange rate of 3, then the phenomenon you think is unreasonable will become reasonable. ]
Ron Howard: [Another world that is hard to imagine.]
Eat grapes without spitting out the skins: [I don’t understand why everyone is saying…]
Arkham’s Psychiatrist: [Fake! All fake! ]
Cromwell Edward: [Denominated in US dollars? The value of the US dollar is now seriously inflated, which will cause the economic data of Seres to appear to be smaller, but their real economy is very strong. How can a financial empire defeat an industrial empire? This is simply a talk show. ]
Mendel’s Pea: [@Cromwell Edward, man, this world is a stage play, and a funny one at that. The two main actors are acting. A muscular man keeps putting on clothes to cover his explosive muscles; a fat man keeps pouring Coke on himself to make himself look bigger.]
Ichiro Yamada: [Here we go again, the annual disguise competition has begun. 】
Truck driver: [Okay, America wins again. This is the charm of statistics! ]
Obviously, many Europeans and Americans have realized this at this time. They no longer believe in the so-called statistics, but want to obtain real data through various channels.
For example, Internet reconciliation has become increasingly popular in recent years.
It has become the main channel for many open-minded Europeans and Americans to understand the true situation of Seres and America.
As for the various European and American media in the past, they were directly put into the untrustworthy list by these people.