Homo sapiens.

But production cuts and layoffs are just drinking poison to quench thirst.

There is no problem in not mining iron ore, but those large-scale mining equipment, ore dressing and washing, sintering equipment, heavy-duty railways, iron ore transport ships, etc. are depreciated all the time, and these expenses cannot be cut off.

As long as the production is stopped for a year and a half, these devices will become waste products.

What's more serious is that once industrial workers are lost, it will be very difficult to train them again.

As long as an industry stops production for more than 10 years, the supporting industrial workers, as well as the supporting majors of the school, may disappear directly.

This is also the problem faced by North America at this time. The hollowing out of their industries for decades has caused North America to lose a large number of industrial workers and supporting training systems.

Chapter 332 The Wave ([-])

The head-to-head battle of the iron ore wars.

Let BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Vale fall into a situation of internal and external difficulties.

And the other side.

The four major international grain merchants, ABCD, also suffered heavy losses at this time.

After Tianzhu and Homo sapiens reached an agreement, Homo sapiens dumped 3750 million tons of grain to Tianzhu in less than a month, instantly breaking the trend of skyrocketing international grain prices.

Immediately afterwards, Egypt imported 50 million tons of prepared flour (not wheat) from Homo sapiens at the cost of a 500-year operating right of a railway at a port on the Red Sea.

All the oil tyrants in West Asia have also imported 1700 million tons of grain from Homo sapiens.

In the face of the large-scale release of water by Homo sapiens and the huge supply of low-priced food, the global food crisis seems to have disappeared all of a sudden.

For low-priced food, ABCD is rejected.

After all, their production of soybeans and corn has been severely reduced, and they originally planned to rely on high prices to recover their blood.

It's all right now, Homo sapiens directly smashed the market, and didn't even give them a chance to get back a mouthful of blood, it simply didn't give them a way to survive.

Bunge's branch in Sydney, Australia.

An emergency meeting is being held at this time.

The branch manager Helen Sachs, as well as the head of the marketing department, Lawrence, and the head of the storage department, Jack Smith, all looked very ugly looking at the data list on the projection screen.

Lawrence pointed to the inventory fan chart: "At present, we have 750 million tons of wheat in stock and 243 million barley in stock. There is no big problem with barley sales. Many breweries in Germany, Britain, and Italy have already sent us inquiries. "

But this so-called good news didn't make the manager Helen happy. She gritted her teeth and said:

"International wheat quotations have dropped to $330 per ton, and we have lost at least $40 billion, damn Homo sapiens!"

As the person in charge of the marketing department, Lawrence is even more aware of their company's current situation: "We have only two options now. One is to wait for next year to see if the price will rise; the other is to sell at a reduced price."

"No! I am opposed to waiting for the price to rise next year." Jack Smith said with a serious face: "Do you think Homo sapiens will reduce production next year? No, they will continue to increase production next year, and the price of wheat next year will only be lower."

Helen thought for a while, and asked, "Jack, why do you think Homo sapiens will increase production next year?"

"Didn't you find out? Mada Island has been controlled by Homo sapiens, and the savannah area in the west of Mada Island and the plateau area in the middle are more suitable for growing wheat."

While speaking, Jack Smith found the natural topographic map of Motor Island on his laptop.

"You see, with Homo sapiens' technology and development speed, it is estimated that Ma Da Island can reclaim tens of millions of hectares of wheat fields, which means that next year Homo sapiens' wheat production is likely to increase by hundreds of millions of tons."

Hearing this figure, Helen couldn't sit still: "Hundreds of millions of tons?"

This figure seems a bit fanciful, but Helen had to believe it, because Homo sapiens produced 4700 million tons of wheat based on the two tropical plateau areas of Medan Island and Shan State Plateau.

Mada Island is also a tropical area, with plateau areas and dry hot grasslands. The area of ​​cultivated land that can be developed is even wider, and the potential for agricultural production should not be underestimated.

What's more, Homo sapiens' agricultural technology is also very powerful.

When Helen thought of this, she bit her pen anxiously.

"Manager Helen, let's sell the wheat in stock as soon as possible! At $330 per ton, you can earn at least $30. If the price continues to fall..." Jack Smith quickly proposed.

But Lawrence smiled wryly: "Jack, your thinking is too naive. If we make a move now, the price of wheat will drop further."

Now the price of wheat in the international market can be maintained at US$330 per ton. This is because ABCD was reluctant to sell it before, hoping to drive up the price. Unexpectedly, Homo sapiens would be so cruel, and the price was suddenly lowered.

If ABCD is also sold off now, it will definitely lead to a further drop in international food prices.

At that time, as long as the price falls below $300 per ton, it means that their wheat has exceeded the cost price.

This was also the reason why Helen had difficulty making up her mind. She estimated that the headquarters was also having a headache at this time.

The same price as Homo sapiens means that the market will have a chain reaction, and they may lose money when they sell food.

If the price is not the same as that of Homo sapiens, other food-importing countries will turn to Homo sapiens, and their grain can only continue to be stored in warehouses.

For continued storage, Jack Smith also has something to say.

Grain storage warehouses in Australia are divided into levels. There are strategic storage warehouses that can be stored for about 5 years, medium-term warehouses that can be stored for about 3 years, and short-term warehouses that can only be stored for 1 year.

Since Australia produces a lot of grain, it is natural that there is no need for a large number of strategic warehouses for long-term storage. After all, the construction and maintenance costs of long-term warehouses are relatively high, and capital will certainly not build a large number of long-term warehouses.

Therefore, most of the warehouses in Australia are simple short-term warehouses that can only be stored for about one year.

This situation was not a problem in the past, after all, Australia's high-quality wheat is often in short supply.

But this time it became a big problem.

750 million tons of wheat is not a small amount. If it cannot be sold as soon as possible, there are only two ways to go, either in the rotten warehouse, or upgrade the warehouse to increase the grain storage period of the warehouse to two or three years.

Now Bunge is caught in a dilemma.

Selling will cause the market price to fall further, and eventually it will become a loss-making business.

If you don't sell it, it will rot, or pay to upgrade the warehouse.

Either choice is not a good choice.

Jack Smith, who had no other choice, asked with troubled eyes: "Lawrence, what can you do?"

Lawrence spread his hands, his expression very helpless: "I have no choice. The key now is that Homo sapiens dumps food at low prices, and we are forced to a corner."

Jack Smith racked his brains, and suddenly he thought of an idea: "Can we go to the WTO and ask Homo sapiens to stop low-price dumping?"

Lawrence shook his head helplessly at this: "Homo sapiens is not a member of the WTO, and they don't need to abide by WTO trade rules. What's more, Homo sapiens has always been domineering, and they don't care what the WTO thinks."

Helen, who had a tooth mark on the tip of her pen, sighed, "Huh... let the headquarters decide! We can't do anything about it."

Lawrence nodded: "This kind of matter should indeed be handed over to the headquarters. We have no way to make a decision now."

Soon Helen wrote the report.

ADM, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus, which were also suppressed by Homo sapiens, also had high grain stocks due to previous reluctance to sell.

Looking around, there are few buyers in the world who can eat up their grain stocks.

Of course, if they sell at low prices, then the Far East will definitely import a lot.

The problem is that ABCD is not reconciled now!

Once they sell the stored grain at a low price, there will be a lot of losses, which is more uncomfortable than killing them.

It could have profited tens of billions of dollars, but now not only can't make money, but it is very likely to suffer losses. Not to mention that ABCD can't accept it, no one can bear it.

But time was not on their side.

The longer the time drags on now, the more unfavorable it will be for ABCD.

Chapter 333 The Wave ([-])

Dayuan Island.

Hsinchu Industrial Park, TSMC headquarters.

Even after retiring, Zhang Zhongmou still has a strong influence in TSMC.

At this time, he participated in the management meeting as a special consultant.

Listening to the discussion of the management, Zhang Zhongmou has been silent. Why can't he understand TSMC's troubles today.

Taking advantage of the stock market crash, North American capital forces bought a large number of TSMC shares at low prices. At present, the shareholding ratio of Wall Street financial consortia has risen to an absolute holding level of 67%.

At this time, the Wall Street financial consortium asked TSMC to open a chip factory in North America, which is already a certainty.

After all, the Wall Street financial consortium has absolutely controlled TSMC at this time. Even though they have repeatedly explained the difficulty of relocating to North America, Wall Street still does not let go.

Now the management has no choice but to hope that Zhang Zhongmou will come forward to persuade Wall Street.

But who is Zhang Zhongmou?He is the old coin that broke the backbone of SMIC with one hand. The conspiracy of Wall Street has been clearly revealed, and it is useless to oppose it now.

'Globalization is dead. ' he sighed inwardly.

Flipping through another document in his hand, it was news about the cooperation between Glory and Homo sapiens.

In response to Europe and the United States' blockade of Huawei in the chip industry, Huawei has sold Honor mobile phones before.

The so-called cooperation this time is that Glory uses its strength to force Europe and the United States to unblock semiconductors, thereby introducing optoelectronic chips to replace some traditional electronic chips.

According to the cooperation agreement announced by the two parties, Honor plans to hand over at least 33% of mobile phone chips to Nanyang Electronics for production, including the most important mobile phone CPU and memory.

Zhang Zhongmou has already seen a huge crisis, and in the style of Homo sapiens, he must be planning how to attack the chip system in North America.

Although he is retired, he is not deaf to what is going on outside the window.

Recently, Homo sapiens has launched a heavy blow in the iron ore-steel industry, grain-feed-edible oil industry, but it has launched an all-round suppression against ABCD, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Vale.

That fierce style is not at all the kind of business war with hidden needles in the cotton, but slashing wildly with a butcher's knife.

At this time, the semiconductor industry is precisely one of the advantageous industries of Homo sapiens. After the launch of optoelectronic chips by Homo sapiens, he has been paying close attention to the related technologies of optoelectronic chips.

From the purchased pineapple mobile phone, they disassembled the optoelectronic chip on it and conducted a comprehensive research.

Through these researches, Zhang Zhongmou discovered that Homo sapiens' optoelectronic chip technology, although the manufacturing process is only 100-120 nanometers, but its hexadecimal switching mechanism, coupled with the speed of photons, energy consumption, single-channel mixed light and other technologies, are all Bring qualitative changes to optoelectronic chips.

Although Homo sapiens' optoelectronic semiconductors are not compatible with traditional electronic semiconductors, this incompatibility is relative.

For example, Honor's mobile phone chips, Nanyang Electronics can design a compatible converter for Honor mobile phones.

Of course, Google can also honor the company through the Android system card.

It's just that Zhang Zhongmou knows that Google will never dare to get stuck with Glory now, because Glory now has two backup plans.

One is to find the old club Huawei and use the old club's Hongmeng system.

The other is to find the Yemai company of Homo sapiens and use the other party's Fuxi system.

In fact, Honor is already using the Fuxi system, and the 33% of mobile phones that plan to use Nanyang Electronics chips will be equipped with the Fuxi system.

In this way, once Google is in a hurry to honor the company, the other party will directly replace it in a comprehensive way, and Google will cry without tears.

This is why Zhang Zhongmou felt helpless and bitter.

North America is now in a dilemma. On the one hand, it is trying to hope that the manufacturing industry will return to North America to revitalize the manufacturing industry in North America.

On the other hand, North America also knows that once the semiconductor industry in the Far East is taken away, the semiconductor market here will become the world of Homo sapiens.

Zhang Zhongmou has already felt the hesitation in North America. He wants to bring back the manufacturing industry without losing the market in the Far East. How can there be such a good thing in the world.

The current industrial war has entered a new stage.

Homo sapiens, America, the Far East, the European Union, and Lucia are all fighting in this industrial war.

He looked at the management and sighed: "I will have a talk with Citigroup, let's do our best and obey the destiny!"

"Old President! You must save the company! Once you move to North America, the company will be finished." The person in charge of the marketing department showed a miserable face.

Zhang Zhongmou calmly ordered: "I will do my best, you should appease the technical workers of the company first."

But the person in charge of the personnel department smiled wryly: "Old President, many grassroots employees are already getting emotional when they hear the news that the company will be relocated to North America."

Then he said another more troublesome thing: "Nanyang Electronics, Sing Tao Semiconductor, and Manila Optoelectronics have recently recruited our technicians. This month, 372 technicians have left for Southeast Asia."

Hearing this data, everyone gasped.

The next words of the person in charge of the personnel department poured cold water on them even more.

"As soon as the news that the company will relocate to North America comes out, it is estimated that the scale of resignation will further expand. These technicians are the essence of the company. It is difficult for us to retrain so many semiconductor technicians in a short period of time."

As for recruiting semiconductor technicians in North America, it's not that everyone present is ignorant of the status quo of the North American semiconductor industry.

Since the industry was hollowed out in the 90s of the last century, a large part of the North American semiconductor industry has flowed to the Far East.

Companies such as Texas Instruments and Intel have also transferred their North American manufacturing departments to the Far East and Southeast Asia.

The semiconductor manufacturing industry in North America, after more than 30 years of continuous hollowing out, can no longer find a large number of supporting industrial workers and technicians.