Chapter 154: Changes in Situation
With the end of the Southeast Asian Rice War.
Hongsavady suddenly surpassed Annan to become the world's third largest rice exporter, while also suppressing the rapidly rising international rice prices to a certain extent.
This even leads to a certain degree of premium for the gold yuan in international trade.
In fact, Jinyuan has been performing very strongly in the past six months.
Mainly, Hongsavadi's rapid test strips and new drugs are in short supply in the international market. Many regions and companies now don't care whether the gold yuan can be exchanged for gold, but hope to purchase more new drugs and test strips.
Aoba Bank is also continuously issuing more gold coins.
From January to September, there were eight consecutive months of additional issuance, with a total of 31 billion yuan issued. The largest increase was in September, with 12 billion yuan issued in a single month.
The reason for issuing so much additional money was mainly because Luzon promised that all of this gold would be taken up by the Zhiren Company, and guaranteed that it would not be exchanged for gold, but would be used to purchase rice and soybeans from Hongsawadi.
Therefore, this part of the gold is actually pegged to rice and soybeans.
Through the signing of this trade agreement, Luzon directly surpassed China and became the country holding the most gold and foreign exchange.
at the same time.
Grain merchants in Siam, Annan and India also suffered considerable losses as a result of this rice speculation.
Previously, they cooperated with ABCD to lower the price of rice just so that they could harvest Luzon together with ABCD in the end.
Now that Luzon has defeated the ABCD offensive and gained Honsawadi as a stable food supplier, rice prices in other regions can no longer be driven up.
I couldn't eat meat and ended up starving myself.
Another powerful competitor has been added.
The grain merchants in Siam, Annan and India are now in tears.
Of course, the price of rice did not fall, after all, there is an overall food shortage in the world this year.
This is mainly because the soybean production in North America has decreased by more than 50 million tons, and it is not known whether planting can be resumed next year. After all, after the fungus infects the crops, the land has not been disinfected and there is a risk of secondary infection.
What is even more terrifying is that after the outbreak of soybean downy mildew in North America, researchers discovered that this newly mutated soybean bacterium seemed to have a special liking for genetically modified soybeans.
Even if natural soybeans are infected, as long as they are sprayed with fungicides and pesticides in time, the yield will only be reduced by 30% at most, unlike genetically modified soybeans which will be completely wiped out.
Therefore, the soybean producing areas in South America, which are worried about the spread of soybean downy mildew in North America, have planned to temporarily stop growing genetically modified soybeans and switch to natural soybeans, or simply switch to other food crops.
The disadvantage of natural soybeans is that the yield per mu is relatively low.
In this series of chain reactions, corn and rapeseed, which are soybean substitutes, have seen the highest increase.
Other types of grain are also rising in price. The price of rice will definitely not fall, but it will be difficult for it to rise.
After all, the global rice consumption market is relatively small. Except for Asia, other regions rarely use rice as a staple food. Even if regions outside Asia purchase it, it is estimated that it can only be used as feed.
This is also why a group of rice speculators felt like the sky was falling when they saw that the grain situation in Luzon had stabilized.
Because Luzon is one of the few regions in the world where rice is the staple food, but the local rice production is insufficient and a large amount of imports are needed.
Without this market, the impact on the rice industry will be extremely serious.
As for Japan and South Korea, although the food self-sufficiency rates in these two regions are very low, they have food distribution networks all over the world, and many procurement contracts are long-term.
To take a cut of the meat from these two regions, they must get the consent of their father America, otherwise small grain traders like Siam and Annan will not be able to shake the entire rice market.
Without an easy target to bully, these small rice traders seemed to lack confidence when negotiating with various buyers.
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Manila.
After this rice war, a lot of people went bankrupt again.
It doesn’t matter if ordinary people go bankrupt, because the Homo sapiens companies and the various families that secretly control them will quickly absorb these labor forces.
However, many of those small wealthy people fell into poverty.
For example, Jollibee, once the largest Western fast food chain in Luzon.
The Chen family behind it not only lost their reputation due to their involvement in rice speculation, but also exhausted the family's working capital.
Ike, the manager of Manila Commercial Bank, personally brought people to the headquarters of Jollibee and directly confronted its chairman Chen Ming.
"Mr. Chen, can your company repay the 4.2 billion loan before the end of the year?"
Chen Ming, with pale hair, showed a bitter expression: "I lost, I lost completely, Jollibee is on the verge of bankruptcy."
He originally didn't want to get involved in this rice war, but unfortunately, under the temptation of a few friends and the persuasion of his son, he was bewitched.
In fact, Chen Ming had no choice.
Because Jollibee's Western fast food not only faces competition from KFC and McDonald's, but has also been strongly suppressed by Foong Chau Fast Food in the past two years, and its market share has continued to decline.
The number of Jollibee fast food restaurants has decreased by 32% compared to two years ago; annual turnover has decreased by 48%; and in the first two quarters of this year, it suffered a loss of 1.2 billion pesos.
Faced with such a predicament, Chen Ming finally decided to take a gamble and take out a loan to speculate in rice.
Then he was targeted by the Sapiens company and fell into a trap.
Ike took out a document and said, "Mr. Chen, since your company cannot repay the loan, I can only follow the contract and freeze all your company's assets, and then auction them off for liquidation."
Chen Ming just remained silent in response.
Business war is so cruel.
If you are not careful, the results of decades of hard work may vanish in an instant.
There are many wealthy people who have encountered the same situation as Chen Ming.
Some people could not accept this cruel reality and committed suicide; some people seemed to have their spines pulled out and were dejected; some people went hysterical and tried to retaliate against the bank's debt collectors, but were shot dead by security guards.
Through this harvest, the wealth within Luzon was further concentrated in the hands of the Homo Sapiens Company.
In the underground meeting room of Neihu Manor.
"Cheers!" Garfield shook the champagne in his glass.
Xu Yingming took a sip of champagne and said, "We have won a great victory this time. ABCD will definitely not dare to underestimate us in the future."
"I'm almost done here. With the help of this favorable wind, I have eliminated a lot of converts and external forces." After saying this, Zhang Jieri put a piece of charred lamb chop into his mouth.
Garfield put down his glass and said, "The boss is very satisfied with our campaign this time, but this time we also broke off relations with America, so we have to be careful of them causing trouble."
Zhang Jierui wiped his mouth and sneered and reminded: "They are already making trouble."
"Oh? Any information?" Garfield asked with concern.
Zhang Jierui nodded. "The Security Department has received accurate intelligence. It is planned by the Southeast Asian Black Ship managed by Victor. The target is Medan Island. They have also mobilized seven deeply hidden converts to cooperate. By then, 200 SEALs will infiltrate."
"What arrangements does the boss have?" Xu Yingming asked.
Zhang Jierui replied calmly: "The boss asked Blood Blade to cooperate with me and keep them in Medan."
Hearing the news of Blood Blade's attack, Xu Yingming joked, "Blood Blade's attack? Looks like they're going to become nutrients for the rainforest."
