Chapter 234: Unexpected Gains From The Agricultural Products Draft Meeting
Monday, on the campus of Agricultural University Affiliated High School.
Xiang Chuan arrived in the classroom on time holding fruit milk and freshly baked pork buns from home. The domineering aroma of chopped scallions and minced pork made everyone in Class 8 Classroom, whether they had eaten breakfast or not, subconsciously swallow hard several times. Their gazes toward Xiang Chuan instantly became resentful.
Xiang Chuan: Blame me?
To resist this aroma impact, the people in Class 8 could only find ways to quickly buy two more buns to fill their stomachs before the first class. Half a minute later, Qing Ke and Labor Committee Member Fu Chengkai, who lost at rock paper scissors, honestly ran errands for the whole class. Of course, as compensation, the class would split the cost of their consumption at A Bite of China Club Small Restaurant that afternoon.
“You actually managed to come to school on time today? Seeing how you were on Saturday, I thought you’d take the whole week off,” Nancy teased, leaning close to Xiang Chuan.
“I wanted to take leave, but the homeroom teacher wouldn’t allow it.” Xiang Chuan felt very depressed mentioning this.
She had lain at home for two days to barely recover her strength. Xiang Chuan, who was already reluctant to leave the comfortable bed and sofa at home, had even decided the night before to ask the homeroom teacher for three to five days off, taking the chance to experience the days of eat and wait for death in advance at home.
Now the warehouse at home had soy sauce, tofu, pork, and white rice. As long as Xiang Chuan didn’t suddenly crave seafood like cheese-baked lobster or grilled oysters, these ingredients and seasonings could basically satisfy her picky 21st century tongue.
And Homeroom Teacher Zhu Bingwen seemed like a worm in her stomach. Just as Xiang Chuan had the thought of asking for leave, that evening she received a message from Homeroom Teacher Zhu Bingwen:
[Classmate Xiang Chuan, tomorrow is the day to return to school for classes. Please make sure to arrive in the classroom on time. The classmates in the class are all waiting to do the visit summary with you.]
He even bolded the last sentence for emphasis.
When Xiang Chuan received this message, her cheeks twitched. But seeing that emphasized last sentence, thinking of the enthusiastic young students in Class 8 who actively participated in cooking, stir-frying, and butchering pigs during the three days of teaching visit, her sympathy as an (previous life) adult with no resistance to upwardly enthusiastic youth ultimately defeated the decadent lie flat desire.
Bringing pork buns into the classroom in the morning was already her biggest protest against this matter.
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Class President Lu Daiqing, who often dealt with Homeroom Teacher Zhu Bingwen, roughly guessed what message the homeroom teacher had sent to Xiang Chuan. He smiled wryly and comforted her:
“Just think of it as Teacher Zhu caring about you. After all, besides the visit summary, you still have to organize the ancient crop information for the three… oh, four managers.”
Ainuo walked over holding his uneaten beef bun from the morning and happened to hear this, so he asked:
“Speaking of this, have you applied to the Information Turbulence Processing Office for our temporary assistance authorization? If not, hurry up and do it, otherwise they might not have time later.”
“It won’t be that bad. Xiao Wang said my application there is the highest priority,” Xiang Chuan said proudly with a hum. “I submitted the authorization application yesterday morning. It should be approved within this week.”
As for what the Information Turbulence Processing Office was too busy to handle, even if Xiang Chuan was indifferent to modern news and current affairs, she had learned the general situation through the class group chat, family internal group, and other channels.
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While the students of Nongda Affiliated High School were resting during the weekend, centered on the Agriculture Bureau, the six production escort ships of the Third Fleet officially held the “first meeting on the Draft for Agricultural Product Increased Production Ratio Adjustment.”
Last month, other government departments of the Third Fleet had successively received news that crop and agricultural product increased production ratio adjustments would soon be carried out, which immediately attracted the attention of all agricultural product import and export enterprises and agricultural product processing enterprises.
It must be known that the current production proportions and land proportions of staple food crops, vegetable crops, and animal husbandry had not changed for nearly thirteen thousand years. The production escort ships of other fleets also followed the Third Fleet’s agricultural three major industries proportion decoration.
And now, this layout that had lasted for over ten thousand years was about to be broken. The residents of the Third Fleet knew the reason behind it well.
Of course, not everyone could accept the breaking of traditions that had lasted over ten thousand years. Some government personnel backed by traditional food processing enterprises questioned this draft, and there were also concerns in society that this ratio adjustment would cause imbalance in the agricultural product market.
To quell these doubts, the Agriculture Bureau jointly with the Cultural Affairs Bureau officially announced on Saturday noon: they decided to broadcast this meeting in the form of a live stream.
This decision caused a huge uproar in society.
Although to date, every government meeting result, newly promulgated legal provisions, and meeting records were publicly disclosed to the public with zero preservation, having the public watch a major meeting on huge agricultural reform measures was still a first in the history of the Third Fleet.
This gave many residents special expectations for this meeting. For a while, from large and small chat groups across the entire Third Fleet to daily chats between colleagues and classmates, the topic was inseparable from this draft meeting.
On Saturday evening during dinner, Xiang Weiguo excitedly mentioned this to Xiang Chuan. Xiang Chuan was also very surprised: domestic meeting live streams were already standard government configuration in the 21st century, so how come modern people were regressing in this aspect?
When Sunday morning arrived, residents across the entire Third Fleet clicked into the Agriculture Bureau official website. At that time, a very conspicuous live stream page was visible on the website, and that interface could only be said to be exactly the same as Xiang Xue Live Stream Room. When Xiang Chuan saw this interface while eating breakfast and watching the live stream, she almost spat out the minced meat steamed egg in her mouth. She looked worriedly at Xiang Xue and asked with concern:
“Did the Information Bureau pay you copyright fees?”
Hearing this, Xiang Xue and Lin Ming didn’t know how to react. They really wanted to say: we’ve been using the Information Bureau’s server without paying usage fees, so them using our interface once is just returning the favor.
The Information Bureau of course didn’t know Xiang Chuan’s little thoughts. They were also very excited right now. When they received the notice from the Agriculture Bureau and Cultural Affairs Bureau yesterday morning, saying they hoped to build a platform similar to Xiang Xue Live Stream Room to live stream the upcoming major meeting, everyone at the Information Bureau boiled over.
In the three months of cooperating with Xiang Xue Live Stream Room, they had secretly learned some tricks, but there was no formal live stream platform on the market yet, and the technology copyright was still held by Xiang Xue and Xiang Chuan, so they had no chance to show off.
This time could be considered sleep sending a pillow.
Thus, the Information Bureau once again demonstrated the efficiency unique to high-level intellectuals pumped with chicken blood: the platform was built and the server connected in three hours, and the stress test for ten billion visits was completed in six hours.
On Saturday evening, the Agriculture Bureau received this freshly baked live stream platform.
Most Third Fleet residents who had never visited Xiang Xue Live Stream Room found this live stream room very novel. The text bullet comments even allowed them to learn others’ insights and ideas while appreciating the meeting, making them exclaim over this live stream form.
And the viewers of Xiang Xue Live Stream Room took the opportunity before the meeting started to explain the origins of this type of live stream room to others in the comment section. This made other Third Fleet residents who were learning about Xiang Xue Live Stream Room for the first time very curious: live streaming TV series? Ancient TV dramas? What is that? It sounds so interesting.
This directly led to Xiang Xue almost crashing the server again during her Sunday evening live stream, with viewer numbers rushing toward the critical point, scaring the Information Bureau into directly connecting Xiang Xue Live Stream Room to their own live stream server.
On Sunday evening, over a hundred million Third Fleet residents, because of the Agriculture Bureau’s first bullet comments live stream meeting, first contacted the entertainment form of “TV series” through Xiang Xue Live Stream Room. From this point, TV series formally entered the public view.
The TV series video website built by Xiang Weiguo and Xiang Xue also targeted this opportunity. If all goes as expected, next Saturday noon, this TV series website with only Empresses in the Palace will be launched in the modern era.
Xiang Chuan, who witnessed everything: The big shots at the Agriculture Bureau probably didn’t expect such a result either, right?
