Chapter 181: Hit with one punch

Chapter 181: Hit with one punch

Chapter 181: Punch away
A large number of official accounts on the A B platform are reporting on what happened today.

The most popular accounts at that time were the social accounts of UP hosts in major media and current affairs commentary sections.

For example, the Animal Observation Network worked overtime within an hour, directly extracting a lot of information from the official website of Hailufeng Company and official media articles. They didn't even bother to do photo editing and modification, but just pieced it together and released a commentary news video around three o'clock in the afternoon.

"…According to the official information and the public information of Hailufeng Company, Senzu soybeans have passed the third phase of experimental planting and have obtained the qualification to be officially listed on the market. This is a good news…"

"But I think there are five very critical pieces of information in the relevant information. I will explain them to you one by one..."

"The first point is that it is widespread. According to the information just disclosed by Hailufeng, Senzu soybeans can adapt to the climates of Lingnan, Southwest, Jiangnan, North, Northeast, and Northwest. They can be planted in ordinary farmland, sandy land, desert, and medium to heavy saline-alkali land. This means that Senzu soybeans can be grown all over the country."

In the video, clips of climate change from all over the country flash by, followed by images of red soil, paddy soil, black soil, loess, desert, sandy land and saline-alkali land.

"The second point is drought tolerance. According to information disclosed by Hailufeng, Senzu soybeans can be grown in areas with an annual rainfall of about 50 mm. They only need to be watered two to three times during the germination stage. This means that planting this soybean variety in the arid northern regions can effectively save water."

"The third point is high yield. Judging from the planting situation of Hailufeng Company in Horqin Sandy Land, under rough management conditions, the average yield per mu can still reach about 310 kilograms, and it can be harvested twice a year. The winter soybean yield is estimated to be around 200 kilograms per mu, which means the annual yield per mu can reach about 510 kilograms."

"The fourth point is sustainability. The root system of Senzu soybeans can efficiently utilize fertilizers. At the same time, they have rhizobia that absorb nitrogen from the air. Within three to five years, the roots can be decomposed to rapidly increase the organic matter and various nutrients in the soil. This can turn sandy deserts into fertile soil similar to black soil."

"The fifth point is diversity. Senzu soybeans can be mixed with other crops. Hailufeng Company has carried out experimental projects such as soybean corn, soybean eggplant, soybean sorghum, and soybean wheat in Hongcao Town, Shanmei City, and has achieved good results. This has greatly expanded the application scope of Senzu soybeans."

Finally, the commentator added with a smile:
"However, Senzu soybeans are not without their shortcomings. I hope that farmers will not plant them casually because Senzu soybeans are easily infected with specific root rot fungi. Once infected, you may lose all your money. You need to buy seeds specially produced by Hailufeng. Regular seeds have a drug coating to prevent root rot infection, and you can also get technical guidance from Hailufeng."

In the comments section below the video.

[The Liver Emperor's Massager: Wake up! Everything is turned upside down! ]

[Akita Dog: Impossible! This must be fake news! ]

[Zhelimu Big Mouse: I just drove to the Taminchagan Desert in Jiayuan County. Guess what I saw, endless soybean fields (with photos)]

[Daily Niangyou: The offensive and defensive situation in the grain sector has changed. An hour ago, the international bulk agricultural product futures prices plummeted. ]

[Hayek's Hand: @DailyFuck, hurry up and update. According to gossip, an hour ago, ABCD lost tens of billions of dollars in the futures market.]

【Teacher Shi: @Hayek's Hand, is this true or false? ABCD should be able to short in the opposite direction and then hedge, right?】

[Hayek's Hand: @Shi, my investment bank just lost more than 200 million US dollars. Even for ultra-low-priced grain futures, no one can be found to take over. Everyone is holding their money and waiting. Unless there is news that Serbia will not reduce the scale of imports, who would dare to buy at the bottom? ]

[Daily Niangyou: @Hayek's Hand, it should not continue to fall. The current soybean futures price is about 2800 yuan per ton, which has fallen by 33%. I estimate that ABCD should choose to withdraw spot goods and then sell physical goods. After all, the spot price has not been transmitted by futures. Even if it will fall in the future, the spot price will not be too low. After all, if pressed, ABCD can still use soybeans as raw materials for biodiesel. ]

[狗头萝汉: Damn! Zoomlion’s stock price hit the daily limit at the opening in the afternoon. I finally made my money back! Woo woo woo]

[Chief Economist of Tilanqiao: @狗头罗汉, not only Zoomlion, but also many agricultural machinery, engineering, agriculture and feed sectors have reached their daily limit. ]

[Husheng’s trumpet: Alpaca! My account just went bankrupt! ]

[Electronic pet remote breeder: @户圣小号, how much did you lose? Tell us and make everyone happy! (ω)]

[Please call me Queen: Does this affect my 1,800 yuan salary? ]

【Win Win Win: Okay! This time we really win win win. 】

And under another UP master’s video.

Today’s Topic asked a question himself: Can Jiang Miao, the developer of Senzu soybeans, win the Nobel Prize?

【Dr. Milk: I am not sure about the Nobel Prize, but I will definitely become an academician next year.】

[Da Lei Science: The Nobel Prize is not certain. After all, the Nobel Prize selection in recent years is too abstract. ]

[University student in South America: Even if he won the Nobel Prize, I suggest you not to go abroad. I just saw a dozen people flying around in Rio de Janeiro. His achievement caused a lot of people who played grain futures to go bankrupt.]

【Tumu Niuma: Thanks online, civil engineering is saved. 】

【Zhang Beihai: Academician is a must, but Nobel Prize is fine.】

[Ma Ni: Although this is worth celebrating, the shortcomings of Senzu Beans are still a problem.]

[Break the Wall: @马逆, is there a possibility that this shortcoming is intentional? ]

[Humanity will not be grateful to Luo Ji: The Nobel Prize is just a tool of the West. Jiang Miao basically has no way to go abroad now, let alone ABCD. If I were America, I would kill Jiang Miao even if I had to blow up the entire Stockholm.]

[Born to Love: @Humans won’t be grateful to Luo Ji, that makes sense, Jiang Miao should be in danger now. ]

[Jiao Jiren: You think too much. Now there are strict security checks at each entrance of Magong Town. It is difficult for you to get closer than 100 meters to Jiang Miao. Moreover, he is very low-key in his daily travels and his security is also very strong. ]

[Foreign language enthusiast Dean Chen: According to gossip, Handong is preparing to re-investigate the Du case. ]

[Dark Horse: @Foreign Language Lover Dean Chen, what is the Du case? ]

[Astronomy enthusiast Sun Liancheng: @黑马佬, just search for the Handong Du case. To put it simply, a doctoral supervisor forced Jiang Miao's wife Lin Shuya to leave, and even gave up her doctorate. If you go to the official website of Hailufeng Company and look at Lin Shuya's personal profile, you will find that there is no record of her studying at Handong University, and her honorary doctorate was awarded by Shizishan Agricultural University.]

There is a lot of discussion on the Internet in China.

The popularity of this topic also soared rapidly on foreign social networking sites.

For example, on YouTube, a blogger who often reposts Serious current affairs news quickly reposted the relevant news video.

However, compared with domestic comment sections, various offensive and conspiracy theories account for a very high proportion in foreign comment sections.

Of course, there are also many people abroad who look at this rationally.

I can only say that the comments in the comment section are mixed.

Below the forwarded news video.

[Caesar: Despicable thief, this Dr. Jiang must have stolen our America's technology. ]

[Andre Trucker: @Caesar, this is hilarious. You don’t even have this technology, so how can others steal it? I understand. The technology you are talking about is the technology of Amelica in the Marvel world, right?]

[Cuckold King: I object. If this technology is promoted, it will definitely be an ecological disaster. The earth's deserts are an indispensable part of the ecology.]

[AK Master from Iburg: I ​​hope we can introduce Siba to solve our food crisis. ]

[Kudo Ran: It doesn’t matter. Japan is my father’s colony anyway.]

[Open Source Iron Man: Great technology, maybe it can be used in the development of Mars in the future. ]

Thomas Fan: Are our scientists asleep? Does Europe still have a future?

[Desert Tycoon: The flight ticket has been booked and will arrive tomorrow. ]

[Environmental protection girl: Oh my god! This is evil technology. The person who invented soybeans is so evil. His invention is just like Leo Hendrik Baekeland who invented plastic. It is definitely a bad invention.]

[Nile River Cake: @Environmental Protection Girl, you hypocritical guys waste a lot of food and resources, but you keep talking about environmental protection. If you have experienced the feeling of hunger, you won't fart here! ]

[Shepherd in the Hindu Kush Mountains: We should be able to grow this soybean here. If we can introduce it, we can be self-sufficient in food. ]

[A rage for silicone: Smecta, this soybean is a product of genetic modification, there must be safety issues, I will not eat this kind of thing, Seris's things are garbage. ]

[Hometown of Kimchi: @冲冠一怒为硅机, you can go and see where the kimchi you often eat is produced. 】

[Johnson Keynes: South America's soybean industry is finished. It is worthy of being called the crusher of developed countries. Now even South America is going to be crushed, hahaha!] [Antonioni Hook: @Johnson Keynes, haha, don't you have any problems in America? Moreover, much of South America's bulk food production is controlled by ABCD. What does it have to do with ordinary farmers like us? It would be better if ABCD is finished.]

[Liu Zi who lost his hair: Fortunately, technology is in the hands of civilization. 】

If it is on the Internet, it will be a chaos of demons.

The performance of various forces in reality is no less impressive.

ABCD held a video conference overnight.

Not only did they hold it within their company, but the four companies also communicated quickly and even contacted their respective behind-the-scenes financial forces.

Noah A. Locke, the new head of the Locke Group, which had been hit hard before, frowned at the internal video conference of the top ten American Groups.

Robert McCormick Jr., the rotating leader of the Chicago consortium, said solemnly: "ABCD and major investment banks have suffered a serious blow. The estimated losses may exceed 500 billion US dollars."

As one of the major American conglomerates, the Chicago conglomerate with many industries in the agricultural field, Robert Jr. has already felt the pain.

Of course, other consortiums were not much better off, especially the Morgan Consortium, the Locke Consortium, and the First Bank Consortium. These consortiums with huge businesses in the financial industry were all severely slapped in the face.

"What does Cargill say?" George DuPont sneered while smoking a cigar.

Robert Jr. conveyed Cargill's conditions to everyone: "They said they are willing to accept the investment and can give up 49% of the shares."

“Haha, that’s too little.”

"That's right. Now it's not just a matter of the futures market, but a matter of whether Cargill can survive in the future."

Other consortiums that did not suffer serious losses would not give up the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

"I'll tell them." Robert Jr. did not agree immediately. After all, this matter still required the consent of the Cargill family.

John Morgan, the leader of the Morgan Consortium, did not care about the division of Cargill's shares, but began to discuss more important things: "Let's talk about how to deal with Seris!"

"Now that ABCD has lost the initiative, we have no way to stop Seris from promoting that soybean variety." Little Robert was very troubled.

"Huh..." George DuPont did not speak, but continued to puff out smoke.

"Can we strike Seris through other realms?"

The person in charge of the California consortium sneered: "Haha, haven't we tried in the past few years? They can already mass-produce chips. Even if it's only 7 nanometers, it's actually enough."

"Damn it!" Ryan Mellon gritted his teeth.

Rogers Hunt of the Texas consortium looked helpless: "There is no way. We could limit the opponent through food and iron ore before, but now we can't play the food card, and we can't play the iron ore card casually either."

Everyone at the meeting is smart.

As the chip cards became less effective, the food cards changed their offense and defense, and the only remaining iron ore card naturally could not be used casually.

Since we used the Iron Ore card, the opponent will definitely counterattack with the Food card.

You know, if Senzu soybeans are promoted on a large scale, it will not only be a matter of Seres not needing to import food, but it will be able to export it in the opposite direction. This will be a disaster for the three food exporting regions of Australia, North America and South America.

Unless a market larger than that of Celestine can be opened up to consume the extra 200 million tons of grain.

There is indeed another big country in the world with a population of 14 billion.

The problem is, that damn place is not only a food importer, it's also a food exporter. Every year, despite the fact that people are starving to death in the country, it still has to export tens of millions of tons of rice. It would be better to let the main food-producing areas reduce production than to expect this place to consume 200 million tons of food.

In other regions, although there are many regional powers with a population of over 100 million, the consumption power of these regions is too poor. Unless they sell or give away half of the grain, it is difficult for them to digest such a huge grain production capacity.

Faced with this situation.

The Amerika Consortium, which previously thought it had the upper hand, no longer had any composure, and was now only filled with deep worry.

It is very likely that you will not be able to win if you flip the table.

If you don't turn the table over, you can't control the other person.

Now both sides hold economic cards that can severely damage each other's core industries. Unless they want to perish together, they can only maintain a fragile balance in mutual fear.

As for finding an opportunity to kill Jiang Miao, the instigator, these consortium leaders did not mention it. Although they really wanted to kill this scourge, the matter is now a fait accompli. Even if they killed Jiang Miao, it would not change the world pattern.

Of course, small matters like assassination do not need to be mentioned at such meetings, as they will definitely be arranged afterwards.

The top priority now is to find a way to preserve ABCD and avoid a major collapse of the entire European and American food industry.

John Morgan opened his eyes. Although there was anger and reluctance in his eyes, he still expressed his thoughts: "Let ABCD give up part of South America's grain industry and bring in the grain companies from Seris. They will not miss this opportunity."

"But this will greatly increase their influence in South America." George DuPont frowned.

John Morgan shook his head. "No, South America is closer to us, and our other layouts in South America are still there. The other side has no way to control South America. In order to protect the agricultural industry in South America, they can only import food from South America, otherwise South America will become their enemy."

"This is a way, but I really don't want to do it!" Robert McCormick Jr. was very unwilling.

John Morgan, an old fox, is clear about the current situation: "We must give up part of the South American food industry, otherwise we will not be able to keep the food industry in our home country and Australia."

"That's all."

"We can't give up completely either. We have to keep at least a small part. Otherwise, it will be difficult to suppress the other side's development in South America in the future."

William Mather of the Cleveland Consortium suggested: "Should the iron ore industry start a secret operation to paralyze the iron mines they have invested in Africa?"

"It's useless. Have you forgotten that they put into operation a 100 million ton flash steel plant some time ago?" Ryan Mellon reminded.

Hearing this, William Mather fell silent again.

Although this so-called flash iron smelting technology is not as efficient as the rumored 3600 times, it has improved a pain point in the Seres steel industry, which is the cost issue of low-grade iron ore.

In other words, even if there is no high-grade iron ore from Australia, Brazil and Africa, the Seres steel industry can use local low-grade iron ore to make iron, and the cost is slightly lower than the current oxygen-blown furnace that uses high-grade iron ore.

With the iron ore reserves of about 200 billion tons, plus the large amount of scrap steel stored by the private sector, it can enter the steel cycle at any time.

Therefore, the iron ore card can only temporarily increase the cost of Seris' steel industry, and this card will become invalid in a few years.

This time the food war is at stake.

Europe and the United States can only retreat to South America. Unless they have the ability to take over South America's huge production capacity, they can only abandon the car to save the king.

Noah A. Locke, who did not speak during the entire meeting, had a thoughtful look on his face after the video conference ended.

He looked at the document in his hand, which contained an investigation report on Jiang Miao.

"There's something wrong with this person! All the forces hostile to him have been attacked in various ways..."

Originally, he had never doubted Jiang Miao. After all, his father's death was not something that a small entrepreneur could control.

But everything that happened now forced him to re-examine this person.

(End of this chapter)