Great Power Technology

December 6, Yuhang, Liangzhu grain and oil spot trading market.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Yu Wenlong arrived at the grain trading market on time, and his purpose of coming this time was very simple, which was to purchase the huge amounts of spot wheat that kept appearing in the market at any cost.

Yes, with the cooperation of Sinograin and Louis Vuitton, the entire world's grain pattern has undergone earth-shaking changes in just half a month.

On one hand, Louis Vuitton took the lead in selling grain, and on the other hand, COFCO Group used small-package commercial grain to defeat the other three major grain sales channels. The recognition of China's gene editing technology to increase production in the international agricultural professional field is still increasing. Under multiple pressures , Ugly Country officials finally began to be unable to support themselves.

International food prices are falling at a speed visible to the naked eye, and this downward trend is unlikely to be reversed for a long time to come. Then, the situation they face becomes extremely clear:

The grains that were forced by various countries to sell off by raising prices in the early stage and are now lying in their warehouses are depreciating at an alarming rate.

If they don't cash out quickly, the losses they will suffer will be huge - even the Ugly Country officials are simply unable to bear such huge losses.

According to normal logic, they should go all the way to the dark side now, insist on holding these grains in their own hands, quietly wait for the next increase in grain prices, exchange time for space, and control losses to a minimum. , however, the latest news released by China completely made them give up this idea:

According to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China will provide high-yield grain seedlings and planting technologies to some friendly countries in the next five years to help the world overcome the food crisis and increase global grain production by about 10% in a short period of time.

A 10% increase in food production is enough to close the current food gap of less than 1%. Even if we include the 4% gap caused by the mismatch between supply and demand after speculation, there will be no difficulty in feeding everyone in the world.

As a result, the already extremely fragile alliance between the three major grain merchants fell apart in an instant. The stampede-style buying had not yet appeared, but the stampede-style selling had appeared first.

Those who were still thinking about how to rush to buy food suddenly discovered that from some unknown time, there was an endless supply of food on the market, and the price of food also began to drop off a cliff. At first, it was 5 euros a piece. The price of white bread fell to 3 euros on the second day, and then on the third day it returned to 1 euro before the food price increase.

However, this price drop is far from the end. A week later, the price of white bread has fallen below 50 cents and continues to fall at a slow rate.

If it continues to fall like this, will the price of bread also fall into negative numbers like crude oil before?

No, this is impossible, because at least the processing and transportation of bread still require costs. However, in some European granary countries, the price of wheat raw materials has indeed rushed towards negative numbers.

In China, such a situation did not occur.

The reason is simple. Sinograin will not allow grain prices to rise above the warning line, nor will they allow grain prices to fall below the warning line. They are very clear about the reason why low grain prices hurt farmers.

Balance is the most difficult thing to grasp, and now, what Yu Wenlong has to do is to grasp this balance.

He walked into the electronic trading hall, sat in his exclusive seat, and began to carefully observe the grain price trend on the screen. As long as there was a sharp downward trend, he would immediately place an order to increase the price, and the grain he bought would It will be transported through the freight terminal with extremely high efficiency to the giant grain warehouse of China Grain Storage.

However, recently, the warehouse seems to be a little overwhelmed.

Yu Wenlong was secretly worried in his heart. Although he was only a trader, he had always been very concerned about the overall situation and had put forward some very constructive suggestions in his previous work. Otherwise, his superiors would not Maybe let him handle such an important job.

As of today, the grain purchased through his hands has exceeded 10 million tons. This is just the purchase volume of one trading market. If the total volume of all trading markets in the country is counted, the grain recovered by China Grain Reserves this time is even More than what was released.

However, Sinograin has not suffered any economic losses at all.

Yu Wenlong was secretly amused, and he knew the reason very well.

He looked at the screen and placed another buy order. After the transaction was successful, he stretched out comfortably. As he glanced around, he saw a familiar person sitting next to him.

Lei Gang, his former colleague, later left Sinograin for unknown reasons and started working on his own, opening a small warehousing company.

He comes here.

Yu Wenlong was confused for a moment, but in an instant, the details that he thought were different suddenly all connected together.

For example, why did Lei Gang suddenly have money to start a company; for example, his son went to study in Chou Country; for example, why was his circle of friends always so happy some time ago; for example, why did he come to this grain trading company with a sad face today? market.

Oh, it turns out he was being treated as a dog.

A mocking smile appeared on Yu Wenlong's face, and he suddenly had the idea of ​​playing a prank in his heart.

Once this idea arises, it is difficult to suppress it. After hesitating for a long time, and after confirming that today's trading task was basically completed, he stood up and walked behind Lei Gang and patted him on the shoulder.

"Hi! Lao Lei! Where did you get rich recently?"

Hearing his voice, Lei Gang looked back at him in surprise. After recognizing his face, Lei Gang's expression suddenly became a little unnatural.

"Uh-huh, what's the point of getting rich? It's just to earn some living expenses. Wenlong, long time no see. How are you? Are you doing okay?"

Yu Wenlong smiled and replied:

"It's just like that, simple, unremarkable, and doesn't do much."

A wry smile appeared on Lei Gang's face.

Yes, you didn't do anything.

That is to say, along with the company, they played a trick on the Chou people and bankrupted themselves and a large number of small traders who followed the Chou people.

A wave of resentment arose in his heart, but there was absolutely no way he could say it in front of Yu Wenlong.

After hesitating for a moment, he finally said:

"Wenlong, you are still too humble. You don't know that your name has been spread in our Yuhang grain and oil circles recently. You are a big spender. What about you? Got promoted? Started to manage big projects?"

"No, no, I'm just obeying the organization's arrangements. How are you? Looking at your circle of friends some time ago, you were very proud of yourself. You are financially free?"

This sentence suddenly touched the painful spot of Lei Gang, and his expression became painful.

Yes, some time ago, even half a month ago, he thought he was about to achieve financial freedom and reach the top of his life, because the prices of the grains he had hoarded had increased several times in the international market. As long as If he waits patiently, when the country relaxes food exports, Chou's relationship with the country can help him transport the food out of the country as quickly as possible and transport it to Europe and Africa for cash.

However, just half a month later, the situation has undergone earth-shaking changes. Now he not only has no money to make, but his previous leverage operation has also burdened him with huge debts.

The only solution for now is to sell these inventories as soon as possible and recover as much loss as possible.

He was really lucky that the country still had a minimum purchase price policy, otherwise he might have lost everything.

This made him feel a little ridiculous. A man who vowed to make him a rich man ran away, but the one who saved his life in the end was the one he betrayed.

After a moment of silence, he answered:

"Financial freedom, what about Wenlong, don't laugh at me, you know what my situation is now."

"I did something wrong, but I just wanted to make a little fortune."

"Make a little fortune?"

Yu Wenlong interrupted him without hesitation, and the teasing expression on his face disappeared.

"Lao Lei, when you took other people's money to open some warehousing company, you didn't want to make a small fortune, right?"

"What nonsense are you talking about! I thought it was investment, investment!"

Lei Gang's expression instantly changed from pain to panic. What he was most worried about now was that this matter would come to light. If even Yu Wenlong already knew the inside story, then I'm afraid he would have really been put on the list.

Is it really impossible to save your life?

Seeing his expression, Yu Wenlong shook his head and said:

"Admit that you took the money?"

"Lao Lei, when we were colleagues, I told you that some people can't make money and some people can't follow you. You didn't listen at that time. What about now?"

"You thought that food could bring down our market and our country, and then let you profit from it. What now?"

"You think it's an investment, and you think they treat you as a partner, but in fact, they just treat you as a dog."

"You don't have to be so nervous. I just said it casually. It might be too late to look back now."

"However, I still give you a piece of advice."

"In the future, don't cooperate with those ugly people."

"Now the strong and the weak can change their position, attack and defense, and all the things you do because you are smart are just making wedding clothes for us."

Hearing Yu Wenlong's words, Lei Gang nodded dejectedly and did not answer.

He sat quietly on the chair and watched Yu Wenlong leave with relaxed steps. Then, with a pained face, he clicked the sell button and emptied all his spot positions.

After doing all this, he almost collapsed. He leaned back on his chair, opened his circle of friends with a numb expression, and then deleted those high-spirited contents one by one.

All is gone.

His so-called glory and so-called pride are all fake and just castles in the air.

It took half an hour for Lei to delete all the content in the Moments. After exiting, he glanced at the Moments and happened to see a video that Yu Wenlong had just posted.

After hesitating for a moment, he clicked on the black and white video, but the content of the video made him more and more frightened.

It was a man with a phone in his hand and most of his hair bald. He was issuing his orders to the phone with a solemn expression:

". Take No. 7."

"Felix Edmundovich."

"Those grain speculators arrested in your place, we will shoot them immediately and inform the people widely about this."

"It should be noted that in the future, any speculators caught creating famine are like the worst enemies and will be shot immediately."