Chapter 71 The End of the World
August 11, 2019.
It rained heavily in Dawei Port.
Liu Zhifan put down the document in his hand. It was a letter of intent for cooperation from Coca-Cola Company, which was sent by the other party through the comprador in Yangon.
"Haha...you're playing this again. Do you really think we're fools?"
Ma Chi shook his head and picked up a cup of Longjing tea: "There are many fools, and there are also many fake fools, but their purposes are different."
The cooperation terms in the letter of intent for cooperation listed by Coca-Cola Company are very generous. This is not because they have a change of heart, but rather they are testing the Aoba Group.
Apparently, through some channels, Coca-Cola has learned that Aoba Group supplies low-priced glass bottles to Venus and Shaxi.
Coca-Cola also feels the pressure and crisis behind such cheap glass bottles.
Therefore, they tried to use this letter of intent to cooperate to test the glass bottle production costs of Aoba Group, while at the same time planning to pull Aoba Group onto their own chariot through cooperation and try to annex Aoba Group in the future.
This is one of Coca-Cola's usual tactics.
Whether it was entering the Chinese market back then or building factories and investing in Annan, Lancang and Cambodia in recent years, they were all cooperating with local companies, then gradually destroying local brands and finally completely monopolizing the market.
They like to cooperate with compradors the most, not because the compradors are unaware of the other party's evil intentions, but because the interests of both parties are consistent.
The compradors just want to make money, and make money quickly and easily.
As for national brands, local industries and technological independence, they are not necessary for compradors who are keen on becoming international citizens.
Of course, if these "gimmicks" can bring them more benefits, they don't mind putting on a layer of skin.
In Liu Zhifan's management program, there is a lot of business development history in the huge business database . How could he not know what Coca-Cola Company is thinking?
"What a pity, we are in the same industry!" Liu Zhifan shrugged and smiled.
Ma Chi naturally understood the meaning of Liu Zhifan's words.
Giant corporations and compradors may become one family.
However, giant companies are destined to be sworn enemies.
Ma Chi and Liu Zhifan both believe in Li Qingye's "end of the world theory". Even with the deterrence and balance of nuclear weapons, the world will inevitably come to an end within the next fifty years. There are two possibilities for this end.
The first possibility is the end of human civilization in a biological sense, that is, the extinction of mankind.
The second possibility is that human civilization will achieve the first great unification in history and then enter the cosmic age.
This is an inevitable result of a choice between two options.
In other words, either perish or ascend.
So in what form will human civilization perish or unify?
Li Qingye's point of view is very clear. The extinction of mankind is likely to be caused by civil war, disease and environmental degradation; and the unification of human civilization will be accomplished by giant enterprises.
Why giant companies? And not other organizations?
The reason is very simple, because technology is advancing, the threshold of technology is rising, and the monopoly of technology is enriching.
Not to mention the biochip control technology mastered by Sapiens, just looking at the current electronic chips, artificial intelligence, big data, genetic engineering, etc. in various countries, ordinary people simply cannot resist the control of large companies.
In Li Qingye's opinion, ordinary people have lost their last chance to turn things around. Failing to completely transform the world before the technological explosion, ordinary people are doomed to fail miserably.
Of course, in the early 21st century, ordinary people still have one last half chance.
That is to use biological means to completely disrupt the order of the entire world, destroy the inheritance of large families and big capitalists (destruction in the biological sense) through natural selection of survival of the fittest, and strangle giant enterprises in the cradle.
But this chance only comes half way.
And once it gets out of control, human civilization will be completely destroyed.
As time goes by and as various technologies develop, the gap between ordinary people and superior people will only become bigger and bigger, as if there is a world of difference between them.
This gap is not reflected in the IQ and physiology of both parties, but in the resources they have.
To be precise, there is no longer any method that can destroy the foundation of superiors by just making a call from a high place.
Ubiquitous surveillance, a spider-web-like network, increasingly intelligent industry and society, and extremely terrifying weapons.
These things will become more and more powerful as technology develops.
These things are beyond the reach and control of ordinary people.
With a sharp weapon in hand, one will naturally feel murderous intent.
When you hold a weapon that can decide someone's life, and the other person is defenseless, will you care about his feelings? Do you think that the other person is equal to you?
You say you are a person with a very strong moral bottom line?
Maybe you can try asking yourself this.
After all, there are only a few people who can stick to the bottom line.
Whether it is Liu Zhifan and Ma Chi, or Li Qingye, they all understand that human nature is the most untrustworthy thing.
In the course of their work look at employees other than soldiers and spider web managers with tinted glasses.
This is also the reason why they are less and less opposed to implanting biochips, because when working with such true friends, there is no need for intrigue or worry about being betrayed by the other party.
They even want to implant biochips in everyone in the world. Perhaps by that time, most of the conflicts within humanity will disappear.
Therefore, in the eyes of Liu Zhifan and Ma Chi, as long as they are not forces or people within the company, they are their enemies, especially small giant companies like Coca-Cola, which are existences that the Intelligent Company must eliminate.
Only when there is only one giant enterprise left in the world can mankind avoid extinction.
They are saving the world.
As for why only giant companies and not other forces can save the world.
Because right now in this world, there are only two forces, one is ordinary people who are on the verge of extinction, and the other is giant corporations.
For example, the military-industrial complex disguised as a country called America and the Wall Street financial group.
It's the same situation everywhere else.
Since the future is destined to be an era of giant companies, why can't Sapiens be the final winner?
It was through this set of theories that Li Qingye established the theoretical foundation of the Intelligent Company and made each spider web manager become a believer in this set of theories.
Therefore, the Qingye Group managed by Liu Zhifan and Ma Chi is destined to be unable to cooperate with the Coca-Cola Company, and the two sides can only be enemies to the death in the future.
However, the comprador merchants in various regions are peripheral members that can be absorbed.
Ma Chi thought for a moment and asked, "Just reject the other party directly?"
"No, let's drag it out and give the other party an illusion." Liu Zhifan shook his head, and then the corners of his mouth rose slightly: "Also, we can take this opportunity to go fishing."
"Is that so? That's fine, just be careful."
Liu Zhifan suddenly glanced at him and said, "I heard someone is looking for you?"
"You're not looking for me, you're looking for my name." Ma Chi spread his hands.
Liu Zhifan's eyes flashed with murderous intent: "Wu Heguang's niece? The boss's childhood sweetheart? It looks like she's here to test the waters. What do you want, boss?"
"Don't worry, I didn't spend the past six months in vain. Even if the other party is very familiar with the boss, there is no way to see the big problem, not to mention that the two of us haven't seen each other for more than three years."
The reason why Ma Chi was so confident was because he was originally Li Qingye's substitute.
Their physical characteristics have been temporarily modified to be identical by means of harmless genetically modified parasites.
Moreover, he was very familiar with Li Qingye's memories from childhood to adulthood. Except for the memories without genetic modification and Jianmu factor, all other memories were there.
Combined with the character simulation software of the administrator program, it can achieve a lifelike effect.
