The first thousand and ninety-ninth chapters spawn new ideas
Everything has two sides.
Can there be a way to produce high-quality foie gras without letting the geese suffer such great pain? This is a sudden thought that came to Xia Rufei's mind.
Xia Rufei is not overwhelmed with sympathy, but he also has his own bottom line in doing things.
If he used the traditional method of breeding fat gooses as Old Black said, he would definitely not want to get involved in this industry, but if he could really improve the breeding method and bring a richer product line and greater profits to Taoyuan Company, why not do it?
Moreover, if it can really form a scale and control costs, it can completely impact this industry, leaving the traditional farms that breed fat geese without space for survival, which is equivalent to saving the poor fat geese in disguise. This is also one of the added value of Taoyuan Company's entry into this industry!
As for the Taoyuan Company's breeding of fat geese also needs to be slaughtered and harvested livers, Xia Rufei has no psychological burden and is natural for the sake of natural choice. Those fat geese are originally food by humans, which can allow them to spend their lives without pain. Even if it is a merit, even animal protection organizations cannot resist the farm. What they demand is only humane and painfully killing animals to be slaughtered.
Of course, whether this idea can work depends on whether Xia Rufei can find a more gentle breeding method.
Thinking of this, Xia Rufei became more interested in foie gras.
He asked, "Mr. Black, then...what kind of goose is better?"
Old Black was slightly surprised. He smiled and said, "I thought Mr. Xia would give up the foie gras product after listening to my story? In my impression, you orientals are relatively gentle and kind. In fact, the largest area of fat geese breeding is in Austria, Europe."
Xia Ruofei smiled and said, "I haven't decided whether to get involved in this industry yet. But it's always good to know more!"
Old Black nodded in agreement and said, "Yes! Although I am not an animal protectionist, I am also psychologically resistant to food like foie gras, but this does not hinder our Black family's business of French fat foie gras. In my opinion, personal feelings are one thing, and business is another!"
In fact, neither Lao Blake nor Xia Rufei knew. At first, the Chinese discovered that using forced feeding could make duck meat more delicious. Later, this method was introduced from ancient Egypt to Rome and to France, and became a common method for fattening foie gras.
It can be said that Chinese talents are the originator of this method.
Xia Rufei nodded with a smile and looked at Old Black quietly.
Old Black then said, "By the way, I haven't answered your question yet! As far as I know, there are three best varieties of fat foie gras, namely Lande, Strasbourg geese and Toulouse geese. The foie gras produced by these three geese are of good quality, large size, rich in nutrients, rich in aroma after cooking, and excellent taste. The most famous foie gras is Strasbourg geese, and Louis XVI tasted Strasbourg foie gras."
Strasbourg geese, Xia Rufei silently wrote them down in his heart.
Since we want to study the breeding of French fat geese, we naturally need to use the best varieties, which is also Taoyuan Company's business philosophy.
Next, Xia Rufei learned about some specific details about fat goose breeding from Old Black, but the Black family only operated the foie gras business and did not have their own farm, so Old Black was not particularly familiar with these details.
However, Old Black saw that Xia Rufei seemed very interested in French fat goose breeding, and he also enthusiastically expressed that he could introduce the farmers of a fat goose breeding farm they cooperated with to Xia Rufei.
Xia Rufei asked about it and found that the fat geese raised in this farm were Strasbourg geese, so he was naturally very happy to hear this.
Xia Ruofei asked: "Mr. Black, then... can you please help me contact the farmer and ask if he is willing to sell several geese and some young geese for me? I am willing to buy it at a high price!"
Old Black said: "It should be no problem! Although Strasbourg foie gras is known as the best quality foie gras in the world, the blood of this fat goose is not rare. Many European farms have pure Strasbourg geese, so there is no problem of technical blockade. I believe Eisen should give me this face!"
"That's great!" Xia Rufei said, "Mr. Black, please give me this matter! This is my personal contact information. If you have any news, you can contact me as soon as possible!"
Xia Ruofei said, while handing Old Black a business card.
"Okay! Xia, just wait for the good news!" Old Black smiled and put away his business card.
Then he stood up and said, "It's getting late. I have a date tonight, so I'll say goodbye first!"
Xia Rufei originally wanted to learn about the situation of caviar from Old Black, but now it is almost time for dinner. Old Black has a social event, and Xia Rufei himself made an appointment with Ma Xiong for dinner, so he had to give up.
However, after the auction is over, he will trade truffles with Old Black, and there will be opportunities to ask about these situations at that time.
Xia Ruofei stood up, shook hands with old Black, and said, "Mr. Black, I'll give you it!"
He personally delivered Old Black to the door.
Old Black walked out of the presidential suite, then stood still and said, "Summer, please stay! By the way, the deposit of one million euros can be transferred to your account as soon as tonight. Please check it out!"
"Okay, I hope we can cooperate happily!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile.
After seeing off Old Black, Xia Rufei did not change to home clothes because it was about to be dinner time, so it was even more troublesome to change it.
He sat on the terrace and smoked a cigarette. He was not thinking about the matter of tomorrow's auction, but how to raise fat geese in normal ways and harvest fat foie gras.
But after thinking about it, he had no idea. He decided to wait until he had time to go to the space to discuss with Xia Qing. In addition, even if he had ideas now, it would be useless. At least he had to wait until Old Black helped to contact the import of some Strasbourg geese before he could conduct a breeding experiment.
There is a time acceleration function in space, and the growth cycle of French fat goose itself is not long. It can turn from a young goose into a fat goose to be slaughtered and harvested livers in about fifteen weeks. Using the double-superized time acceleration array, it only takes a few hours.
A pleasant doorbell rang.
The one who came in was Tony, the exclusive butler of the Presidential Suite.
"Mr. Xia, Chairman Ma and his guests have arrived at the hotel. He told me to take you down to the banquet." Tony said respectfully.
Xia Ruofei nodded, stood up and asked, "Where are my friends?"
"He was notified to go directly to the banquet hall," Tony said.
"Okay, you can wait outside for a while and I'll come out immediately." Xia Ruofei said.
"Okay!" Tony bowed slightly and exited the presidential suite.
Xia Rufei came to the bedroom and used his mental power to sweep the entire bedroom. After confirming that there was no monitoring equipment, he thought and took out a bunch of things from the space.
Among them, there are two bottles of precious rotten dessert wine he brewed himself. They are matured into such wine in the space. The taste of the precious rotten wine is a little better than when it was just brewed. It is just right for you to bring it to Ma Xiong as a gift. You can also taste it directly at dinner.
In addition, Xia Rufei also took out several jade bone creams, which is the highest-end jade bone ice muscle series mass-produced by Taoyuan Pharmaceutical Factory, and is sold to the public at 3,888 yuan per bottle.
Xia Rufei mainly thought of Ma Xiong saying that there were other guests he invited tonight. He was going to take two bottles, one for Ma Xiong's wife and one for Tian Huixin. Now there may be other female guests, so Xia Rufei simply took a few more bottles out.
Although this mass-produced version of jade scent is still difficult to buy in the outside world, Xia Rufei wants it as much as he wants. A batch of it is stored in his space all year round, and it will not deteriorate anyway. It is mainly used to give it to others.
Although the effect of his handmade jade cream is much better than that of the mass-produced version, after all, the mass-produced version has a pricing standard, and there are also ready-made packaging, so the mass-produced version is better if you give gifts.
Finally, Xia Rufei took out a pink hellokitty little doll. This was bought by Ling Qingxue, who also likes hellokitty, from a franchise store before he came to Hong Kong Island. This small doll costs thousands of yuan.
This doll was naturally prepared for Xiao Huanhuan.
However, this is not the gift that Xia Rufei really wants to give to Huanhuan. He loves Xiao Huanhuan very much, just like his own daughter. He had already thought about giving Xiao Huanhuan an opportunity before coming to Hong Kong. This doll is just a superficial article. After all, Huanhuan is so young. If he saw Uncle Xia sending a gift to his grandparents and parents but didn't prepare her, he might even get angry!
Xia Rufei found a paper bag to pack all these things, then sorted out his clothes, and walked out of the presidential suite with the paper bag.
Tony took Xia Rufei downstairs in the exclusive elevator. When they arrived at Ma Xiong's private room, Feng Jing and others were already in the private room, chatting and laughing with Ma Xiong, and there were a few familiar figures around Ma Xiong.
Hong Kong real estate king Guo Hongjiang, Hong Kong super rich man Zheng Jianian...
There were three or four people in total, all of whom were stomping their feet, and the entire Hong Kong Island would shake three times. Moreover, at the last auction, these tycoons had already met Xia Rufei, especially Guo Hongjiang, who was full of gratitude to Xia Rufei because of his love for Asia Star, and even gave Xia Rufei a thousand-foot mansion.
Ma Xiong was the first to see Xia Rufei, and immediately greeted him with a smile and said, "Everyone, Xia Sheng is here!"
Chapter completed!