Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 117
After he finished speaking, the professor Liu in front of him looked at himself and Zhou Ming suspiciously, and Liao Weiguo said again: "You know that my previous research almost all focused on cotton's resistance to diseases and insect pests. The reason why I switched to soybeans this time In terms of disease resistance, it is because of what he said to me when I discussed academic issues with Zhou Ming last time..." Liao Weiguo began to tell the professor what Zhou Ming said to him when he chatted with Zhou Ming last time. Issues.

One of Liao Weiguo's research directions is about plant disease resistance, and his team produced a result in September this year, which not only cracked the attack and defense mechanism of soybean and soybean mosaic virus, but also greatly improved soybean disease resistance, thereby increasing soybean yield.

"I'm just giving some advice. Wasn't this specific research done by Dean Liao? How much role can I play." After Liao Weiguo and Professor Liu finished explaining, Zhou Ming also said modestly.

Liao Weiguo's research results came out last month. When it came out, it was reported in the news, but Zhou Ming was busy doing experiments in the laboratory at that time, so he didn't pay attention to them. Later, after the experiment was over, the popularity also went down. Of course he didn't know either.

Zhou Ming didn't know about it until he walked into the lecture hall and heard Liao Weiguo talk about the content of his academic report this time.

"You don't need to say the polite words. In fact, I came to you this time and there is one more thing I want to tell you." Seeing Zhou Ming being so polite, Liao Weiguo said again.

But when he said this, the expression on Liao Weiguo's face changed from a smile to a serious one.

"I don't know what it is?" Zhou Ming asked.

"This matter is more complicated, and there are many things to talk about. Let's find a place to sit down and chat slowly. I wonder if you are free?" Professor Liu said, "Does Professor Liu want to sit with us?"

"You guys talk, I have class later, so I won't be with you." This professor Liu probably guessed what Liao Weiguo wanted to say to Zhou Ming, although he was a little curious whether the higher-ups would really let a mathematician like Zhou Ming A professor and Ph.D. in biology who studies neurobiology was involved in this major project, but he didn't ask too much.

"If you had come a few days earlier, I really wouldn't be free, but I am indeed free today, so please sit down. I'm also a little curious about what you want to say." Zhou Ming also said to Liao Weiguo with a smile.

The two walked while talking like this, walked out of the lecture hall, and walked on a road with few people on the campus of the University of Science and Technology. Liao Weiguo asked Zhou Ming as he walked: "Before I tell you about this, I want to ask you Do you know anything about domestic soybeans?"

"Soybeans?" Zhou Ming looked at Liao Weiguo with a puzzled expression, not knowing what he was talking about about soybeans.

"That's right, soybeans. In fact, the soybeans I'm talking about here can be broader, food.

I guess I also don't know about the Public Law 480 Assistance Act.

The entire bill of "Public Law No. 480" was proposed by Ugly. Through this bill, Ugly can provide food assistance to food-deficit countries all over the world through sales, loans, and donations.The food will be settled in the currency of the recipient country, 25% of the proceeds will be used for food transportation and marketing, and 75% will be given to the recipient government in the form of loans or donations, but it will be supervised.

Let me give an example.

For example, country A has a food shortage of 200 million tons this year, and the ugly country provides food to country A. The food is not directly free, but the ugly country pulls its own grain to country A and sells it on the market at normal prices. After the sale, 25% of the income will be used to pay for the transportation and marketing of the food, and the other 75% will be handed over to the government of country A. "

When he was talking about this, Liao Weiguo looked at Zhou Ming who was looking confused, but continued to say to him with a serious face, "When I talked about this, do you think this bill is a very good thing? thing?"

"Yeah." Zhou Ming nodded because he didn't understand. Although he felt something was wrong, based on what Liao Weiguo said now, this bill is indeed quite good.

But Zhou Ming didn't know how Liao Weiguo would start with something that sounded irrelevant when he wanted to talk about soybeans.

“This sounds fine, but there are two differences in the implementation of this plan.

The first point is that if the food shortage of country A is 200 million tons, then the ugly country will not only send 200 million tons of food to country A, but will send 400 million tons to country A.

The second point is that the income from these food aids will be supervised by the U.S. country. If country A wants to use the money, it must obtain the U.S. country's consent.

This is equivalent to the ugly country using the market of country A to digest its own food, and then using the income from the food to hold the government of country A hostage.

However, the local grain producers in country A quickly went bankrupt under the impact of the low price of food in the ugly country, which further deepened country A's dependence on the food in the ugly country. When its own agriculture was fully hijacked, it was too late for country A to react . "

After Liao Weiguo said this, he looked at Zhou Ming again, and Zhou Ming probably knew the meaning of what Liao Weiguo said this time. He said to Liao Weiguo with some uncertainty: "You mean, this is the case with our soybeans? ? But, I really wish I had never heard of the ugly country helping us with food?"

"Yeah, there was no assistance, but they did stuff like that.

In 1995, Ugland Monsanto developed the world's first commercialized genetically modified soybean variety. The high yield of genetically modified soybeans further expanded the soybean industry in Uganda and South America. Large-scale subsidies, these subsidies make the cost of soybeans in Ugly Country far lower than those in Huaguo..." Liao Weiguo finally began to talk about soybeans to Zhou Ming.

When the two talked about this, they also found a place where there was no one to sit down, and stopped talking while walking.

It turns out that since the expansion of genetically modified soybeans in Ugland in 1994, Uggo soybeans, whose cost is much lower than that in Huaguo, have swept the domestic market.

In fact, in essence, it is a very rational choice for Huaguo to import soybeans.

After all, since joining the WTO, Huaguo's industrialization process has been placed in the first place, while agricultural production has been reduced to a secondary position. In this way, a large amount of agricultural land needs to be transformed into industrial land, and the reduction of various grain production in agricultural land will be will decrease. In order to ensure minimum food security, the government's decision is to protect food rations and sacrifice other crops that are not related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

At that time, soybean was indeed one of the crops that were strategically abandoned as unimportant economic crops.

However, sometimes things don't go as you imagined.

In 2003, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Ugly Country issued a statement saying that due to the weather, the soybean inventory had been reduced to the lowest point in 20 years, and they later stated that soybean production would not increase in 03.

That means soybean production will be lower and soybean prices will skyrocket.

If the demand remains the same, the supply will decrease, and the price will rise. This is a very simple common sense in economics.

Coupled with the deliberate speculation of Wall Street financial predators at that time, the price of soybeans was pulled to an unprecedented height.

Domestic oil traders worried that soybean prices would rise again, so they began to snap up soybeans overseas.

However, less than a month after Chinese oil companies collectively snapped up soybeans, the Ugly Ministry of Agriculture suddenly increased soybean production and raised soybean stocks.

However, those Wall Street speculators who had previously snapped up high prices immediately began to short sell soybeans before the Huaguo oil companies could react. This caused the soybean price to plummet and caused huge losses to the Huaguo oil companies.

(End of this chapter)