Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0436: Dog Owner
"Riding on horses, with lofty aspirations, one is a gentle and beautiful lady, the other is a handsome young man. Drawing a long sword, riding a divine eagle, with the beauty in mind, they travel a long way. With tender hands, they sever the bond of love. Who would pity their purity? They look forward to seeing each other again, no longer separated by life and death, hand in hand to bid farewell to the world, for eternity..."
After Catherine came back, Nan Yi dragged her to watch "The Return of the Condor Heroes" together. As soon as the opening song "Yue Ma Jiang Hu Dao" sounded, Nan Yi was immediately brought back to his memories.
Because it was dubbed in Taiwanese Mandarin, Catherine couldn't understand it at all. After watching for only a few minutes, she didn't want to watch it anymore; Nan Yi was a little better, he persisted for half an episode.
After this lesson, Nan Yi was completely clear - some things can only be kept in memory and are not suitable to be dug up and reminisced about.
This is just like the first love that didn't go to the last step. It's very sweet in the mind, but you really have to take action to make up for the shortcomings in your life... Hey, who is this old lady? Her waist is as thick as a bucket.
Or, so coquettish, this is not the Little Dragon Girl in my mind.
Nan Yi took the videotape out of the VCR and put it back into the box, thinking that it was a good thing he rented it, otherwise he would have wasted money again.
If you don't watch videos, watch TV. The sixth episode of the first season of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" "The Case of the Speckled Band" is being broadcast on TV.
"Adam, change the channel."
"Don't like watching?"
"No, it's a rerun. I've seen this episode."
"I haven't seen it. Watch it with me again." Nan Yi hugged Catherine and prevented her from getting the remote control.
"No, this is a suspense crime drama. If you already know the answer, there will be no sense of anticipation and thrilling feeling when you watch it." Catherine pouted.
"President, it's a phone call from Diesel." At this moment, Ueto Masami came over with the phone.
Nan Yi stood up, took the phone, and walked out of the castle.
Watching Nan Yi leave, Catherine breathed a sigh of relief and picked up the remote control to change the channel.
"Jin, what's going on?"
"Boss, someone wants to order 200,000 tons of wheat from us," Kim Diesel said on the phone.
As soon as Nan Yi heard this, he knew something was wrong. Although 200,000 tons of wheat was a lot, it was normal sales and there was no need to make a phone call to tell him. He only needed to write it in the report at the end of the month.
"Who is the buyer? Is he some terrorist organization?"
"No, the buyer is an ordinary Saudi businessman," Kim Diesel explained.
Nan Yi was delighted when he heard it.
"What a lousy businessman! How evil-minded he is! How much wheat did Saudi Arabia produce last year?"
“Less than 5 million tons.”
"Oh, one twenty-fifth." Nan Yi sneered, "What's the other party's offer?"
"It's 1.5 times the market price. If we can provide transportation, they can give us 5 times the price."
Nan Yi thought for a moment and said, "If we don't include transportation, we will ship it to the port of the Kingdom of Qin. Jin, remember, this is still a normal transaction for us. It's just that the buyer is nice and willing to pay more."
"clear."
"Let's make an assessment. If Scarlett Grain Group leases land in Saudi Arabia for ten years, will it be profitable for us? And what will be the profit margin?"
“We can only make an assessment after discussing conditions with the Saudi royal family.”
"Then make contact."
"OK." Kim Diesel said on the phone again: "In addition, the wild rice species of sea rice have been found, and Fan Shengzhi will start research immediately."
"Got it, anything else?"
"there is none left."
Nan Yi hung up the phone, remembering that last year a Middle Eastern customer bought tens of thousands of tons of wheat from Scarlett Grain Group. He didn't expect that there would be more greedy buyers this year.
Sure enough, there are smart people in every country who do things like cheating on subsidies.
Ever since Mobil Oil dug its first oil well in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia has entered an era of making money without doing anything.
But Saudi Arabia's King "Saud" is a visionary man. "Saud" feels that Saudi Arabia cannot just rely on selling oil to survive. He can use oil as a weapon against others, and others can also use food as a weapon against him.
So, he invited a large number of internationally renowned agricultural experts to Saudi Arabia to conduct research and study why Saudi Arabia could not grow crops.
After some research, experts came to a unanimous conclusion: Saudi Arabia cannot grow crops because of water shortage and drought.
Nan Yi thought that this money was really easy to make, and he could come to this conclusion without doing any research.
Saudi Arabia thought, "No water? Then find water."
So, he found a large number of geological experts, traveled all over Saudi Arabia, and finally came to a reliable conclusion: Saudi Arabia lacks surface water, but has very abundant groundwater. As long as the groundwater is pumped up, the problem of farmland irrigation can be solved.
Saudi Arabia has money, and “Saudi Arabia” also has money. Since Saudi Arabia has the conditions for farming, let’s do it.
Then, he invited the agricultural experts back again. The experts felt guilty for having received the money last time but not coming up with a reliable plan. So they used their real skills and responsibly designed a plan suitable for Saudi Arabia.
We have the water and the plan, but where are the people who will farm the land?
Saudis have been relying on buying food from outside for thousands of years, and there is simply no gene in their genes to grow food.
"Saudi Arabia" believed that money could make the world go round, so he waved his hand and announced a policy: to distribute land to the Saudi people for free. As long as the people planted food on one quarter of the land allocated to them, the land would become private property of the people.
Saudi Arabia can find oil by drilling anywhere. If they have land, can't they extract oil?
So the Saudi people enthusiastically joined the "farming" army, wielding hoes and digging for oil.
A year passed, and "Saudi" saw that not many grains were grown in the country, but there were many more oil wells. He thought that this was not acceptable and he had to increase people's enthusiasm for farming.
So, he waved his hand again and raised the purchase price of grain. The price of grain purchased by the Saudi government from farmers began to increase rapidly, first several times the international price, and then slowly increased to more than ten times. For some categories, it was even dozens of times the international price.
From 1963 to 1982, Saudi Arabia leapt from a 100% food importer to one of the world's six largest food exporters.
Although Saudi Arabia has become a major grain exporter, it is actually confused. It will suffer a huge loss for every pound of grain it sells. The grain it buys back at several U.S. dollars per pound can only be sold for a dozen cents when it is sold outside.
If it weren't for the support of oil dollars, Saudi Arabia would have gone bankrupt long ago.
As for why they continue to export even though they are clearly making a loss, it is because every Middle Eastern person has a "dream of becoming a great power" and a slogan in his or her heart - Arabs all over the world, unite!
Saudi Arabia's grain is mainly exported to other Middle Eastern countries. As for the purpose, it is self-evident.
To be honest, Saudi Arabia's move is much more clever than Saddam's third military power. If a vacuum zone that international forces cannot enter is formed in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia's dream of becoming a great power may come true.
Unfortunately, there is no "if". Saudi Arabia's claim to be a major grain-producing country is nothing more than a mirage and a castle in the air. It cannot last long. Other major grain-exporting countries do not want to see Saudi Arabia's rise in grain, and Saudi Arabia's groundwater cannot sustain such consumption. Soon, an orange warning will be issued for Saudi Arabia's groundwater resources.
Let’s not talk about the big picture, let’s first get down to earth.
Saudi Arabia’s grain purchase price is so high that business opportunities arise. Hey, why do we have to work so hard to grow grain? Can’t we buy grain from outside and sell it to the government?
With dozens of times the profit, even tough men are willing to take the risk. Therefore, every night in the Persian Gulf, cargo ships loaded with food approach Oman and Yemen.
If Nan Yi didn't want to take root in the grain industry, he would have already had red eyes, carried an AK and an RPG, and gone to the Persian Gulf to be a pirate. He wouldn't kill or burn people, and he didn't want gold or silver, but fucking food.
Unfortunately, there is no if, so he can only stare and watch others put money into their pockets.
"Oh, what a pity. Saudi Arabia is a wealthy country with huge wealth. And they are so lucky that they can even pick up firecrackers in the desert." Nan Yi complained in his heart, handed the phone back to Ueto Masami, and went back to the castle to watch the commercials with Catherine.
