Chapter 83: Storms Gathering
Just as the Homo Sapiens Company was busy encroaching on Luzon and Hongsawadi , and preparing to deal with Du Shuping, Wu Heguang and others.
In Borneo, Chen Jianxiong reported several very important things to Li Qingye via submarine optical cable.
Three days ago.
October 18th.
Southeast Asia, Star Island in the Strait of Malacca.
Lee Wei Xing, president of Temasek Investments, appeared in a low-key manner in the VIP lounge of the airport. In addition to him, there were Xu Yingming of the Xu family of Luzon, Cairns Aquino of the Aquino family, and Guo Zihao of the Guo family of Malaysia.
Xu Yingming chatted with this group of people like brothers, as if they were a family.
"Keynes, I heard that the Fernando family and the Lopez family put a lot of pressure on you?" Li Weixing asked with a smile.
Keynes did not hide it. After all, such things could not be hidden from the people present. He gritted his teeth and replied, "Yes, they have been very active recently. My family has suffered a lot of losses. They even want to launch a food self-sufficiency plan. If they succeed, Garfield will definitely be elected. We must disrupt their plan."
The Guo family, who were wearing the same pants as ABCD, would naturally not object to such a thing. After all, this was damaging the interests of their family. Guo Zihao said with a smile:
"They are very angry about this incident. The Fernando family and the Lopez family are courting their own destruction."
Seeking one's own death? It was still unknown who would win. Xu Yingming sneered in his heart.
Everyone present had their own thoughts. Some thought they had a sure win, while others were thinking about how to profit from it. But no one would have thought that ABCD might fail in Luzon.
After all, in their view, Luzon is not China and has no qualifications to compete with ABCD. If they stand on the side of the winner, they will definitely get a share of the spoils.
More than an hour later.
Someone from Temasek Investments trotted in and whispered a few words in Li Weixing's ear.
Li Weixing smiled and said, "Our friends are here, let's get ready!"
The low-key Xu Yingming stood up and adjusted his collar in front of the fitting mirror with a confident and calm smile on his face.
The others quickly got dressed as well.
After a while, a middle-aged white woman with short blond hair appeared at the door of the VIP room first.
Li Weixing immediately greeted her with a smile on his face: "Hello, I am Max (Li Weixing's English name), the president of Temasek Investments. It's a great honor to meet you, Ms. Catherine."
The capable Catherine extended her hand: "Hello, Max."
Then another fat Mediterranean man appeared at the door.
"Hello, I am……"
Both sides introduced themselves to each other.
Katherine Adams is the vice president of ADM, the fat man in the Mediterranean is James Benjamin, the vice president of Cargill, and the last one to arrive is Webb O. Henry, the vice president of Bunge.
As for Louis Richard, the representative of Louis Dreyfus, he had already arrived at Sing Tao last night. The reason why he didn't come with us was because Louis Dreyfus' headquarters was in France.
Of course, America is actually behind ABCD, even Louis Dreyfuss is the same, it’s just that the shareholders behind them are more hidden.
Under the leadership of Li Weixing.
They arrived at a business hotel that had been prepared long ago, and ate, drank and chatted for the whole afternoon.
At around eight o'clock in the evening, all the people participating in this secret meeting arrived.
In addition to representatives from ABCD, there are also representatives from large families in Sing Tao, Malaysia, Siam, Luzon, and India.
Among them are not only large Chinese business families, but also royal groups like those in Siam, large Malay families, and wealthy businessmen from Annan and India.
Without exception, these people are all involved in the food and agricultural products industry in Southeast Asia and South Asia. Only ABCD has the ability to connect so many forces together.
Xu Yingming, who was hiding among them, remembered all these people.
As ADM is the company with the most comprehensive involvement in the rice industry, Catherine was the leader of this secret meeting. She spoke with murderous intent:
“We want all our friends to make money, but if someone prevents us from making money, he is our enemy.”
"Luzon, Malaysia, and Java grow cash crops, and Siam, Annan, and India supply rice. This is a plan where everyone can make money, but there are always people who don't believe in the free market. Then we have to let them know the power of the free market."
Li Weixing chimed in: "Ms. Catherine has spoken the voice of all of us. The actions of the Fernando family and the Lopez family are betraying and undermining the rules of the free market. They are trying to use evil models to destroy the interests of everyone. This is immoral."
Others also quickly expressed their opinions.
To sum up their words in one sentence, the Fernando family and the Lopez family are extremely evil and deserve to be killed by anyone.
"You have brought the hypocrisy of mankind to life," Xu Yingming said sarcastically to himself.
Catherine was very satisfied with the performance of these guys. She smiled and continued:
“There is a saying that I like very much: Treat your friends as gently as spring, and treat your enemies as coldly as winter.”
"Now let us use the rules of the free market to teach these disobedient children a lesson and make them regret their actions."
Then Catherine put forward a plan.
The plan is very simple, which is to temporarily increase the price of food supply in Luzon to increase the enthusiasm of Luzon farmers for food production.
On the other hand, the prices of fertilizers, pesticides and agricultural machinery supplied to Luzon were gradually raised, and the Aquino family's banks were allowed to lend to farmers so that they could obtain pesticides, fertilizers and agricultural machinery.
When the rice harvest season comes in the next quarter, large-scale shipments are immediately made, which depresses the market price of rice, causing the local rice production cost in Luzon to be higher than the retail price, and quickly bankrupting Luzon farmers.
This could also hit the rice industry of the Fernando and Lopez families.
On the other hand, people spread the news on the Internet that the Fernando family and the Lopez family indiscriminately guided farmers to grow rice, causing widespread bankruptcy of farmers in Luzon.
While dumping rice at low prices, the Xu family, the Marcus family, and the Aquino family also joined forces to buy food from farmers in Luzon at low prices.
In the next quarter, it will promote a cash crop planting boom, attracting the remaining farmers to plant cash crops and greatly reduce the rice planting area.
Then, they can artificially create scarcity, causing a global rice supply crunch and pushing up food prices in Luzon.
By this means, Luzon was repeatedly harvested.
This plan had been used by ABCD in Luzon in the past, and everyone present knew the inside story. Although doing so would lead to the people of Luzon suffering, what did it have to do with them?
As long as they can make money, they are willing to .
The wealthy and big families in Siam, Annan and India are even more eager to take action.
Because they also don't want to see Luzon achieve food self-sufficiency, which would cause their rice export prices to fall.
In the face of interests, let alone the tens of millions of hungry people in Luzon , even ordinary people in their own country are nothing more than a group of consumables and cattle and sheep in the eyes of these people.
Following ABCD to harvest Luzon, they felt no psychological burden at all and were even very excited.
The next step is the specific division of labor and cooperation.
Among them, the Aquino family, Xu family, and Marcus family in Luzon are very critical, because they must work together inside and outside to ensure accurate harvest.
