Homo sapiens.

6 month 2 day.

As soon as the North American stock market opened, it was red and hot.

However, this kind of redness is definitely not what Wall Street financial groups and all North American stockholders want to see.

Because European and American stock markets are green up and red down.

The Dow Jones index fell 7.3% at the open, and the circuit breaker mechanism was triggered in an instant.

Even Buffett, who is known as the stock god, suffered heavy losses at this time. Medical and pharmaceutical stocks, insurance stocks, education stocks, sports stocks, and cosmetics stocks led the decline, followed by daily chemical stocks, electrical appliances, automobile stocks, and real estate stocks. .

Except for military stocks and a few companies involved in biochips and space exploration, the stocks of companies in other industries are bright red.

In fact, it is not just the North American stock market that has plummeted, but the stock markets of major economies around the world are plummeting. During the economic crisis two years ago, the continuous plummet seems to have returned again.

And this time, even if there is another plastic crisis, there is no way to stimulate the rapid recovery of the global economy.

Town of Omaha.

Headquarters of Berkshire.

Buffett is in his chairman's office, listening to the reports of five analysts, with a trace of fatigue and unwillingness on his face.

On the other hand, Desaro, who is in charge of Berkshire's insurance business, reported solemnly: "Mr. Chairman, our company's insurance business may be greatly impacted."

In fact, it doesn't need to be said by Desaro, Buffett is also very clear about the current situation.

However, Buffett didn't pay much attention to this. Even though his wealth has dropped a lot in the past two years due to high taxes and the economic crisis, his worth is still more than $427 billion.

What he cares most about now is not how much money he can make, but how to survive.

Buffett, who was born in 1930, was 94 years old at this time, and he had prostate cancer. Although it was cured with money, it must have damaged some body functions.

In the past few years, he felt more and more powerless, and his body was getting worse day by day. The feeling that could be extinguished at any time made him very uncomfortable.

At the inauguration ceremony of Homo sapiens yesterday, the technology that Li Qingye said could prolong life by 42% made Buffett very eager.

However, he found desperately that it was difficult for him to obtain what the ordinary employees of Homo sapiens had at their fingertips.

Unless he is willing to give up Berkshire and his wealth of $427 billion, and then go to Homo sapiens, he, the world's top three richest man, will not be able to buy that kind of life-extending symbiotic microorganisms.

In life, one cannot escape the four words of fame, wealth, power and sex.

For Buffett, these things have been enjoyed for most of his life, and now he can give up everything and become a retired employee of Homo sapiens, he can't do it.

He looked at Robert, the vice president: "Robert, I asked you to investigate the genetic biology company, how is the investigation going?"

"Mr. President, I have learned a little bit. Three gene bio companies are indeed developing drugs that can rejuvenate people." Robert took out a survey report from his briefcase.

Buffett took it and looked through it carefully.

The three biological companies are California's Aurora Genetics, Florida's Diga Biotech, and Britain's Windsor Pharmaceuticals.

"Windsor?" Buffett glanced at the company's shareholding structure, and immediately understood whose industry it was.

In fact, Aurora Gene and Dijia Bio are also behind large pharmaceutical groups such as Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer.

After all, life-prolonging drugs or technologies are definitely a sharp weapon for harvesting the rich, so how could the major pharmaceutical companies give up this field.

Buffett looked at the product development situation above, but his face showed a hint of disappointment.

These three companies have researched life-extending drugs or technologies in several directions, but none of them has high value.

Either the effect of prolonging life is not obvious, or the side effects are serious, and even directly eat back the human body, or the cost is extremely high, but the curative effect is impressively low.

He thought for a while, picked up the phone and dialed the chairman of Johnson & Johnson.

beep...

"Hi, Mr. Buffett, it's an honor to speak with you."

Buffett didn't exchange pleasantries, but cut straight to the point: "Anthony! Is that Tiga Biotech controlled by your company?"

"Dijia Bio?..." The other side of the phone seemed to be confirming something, and after a while: "Mr. Buffett is also interested in life extension technology?"

"Who isn't interested?"

"Tell me the truth, Mr. Buffett, the research results of Dijia Biotech are very mediocre, and can't achieve the 42% life extension effect of Homo sapiens." Anthony explained with some helplessness.

If it was other investors, then Anthony would definitely fool the other party, but Buffett is different. His network is too strong, and Anthony does not want to offend this kind of old fox.

Hearing about Homo sapiens' life-extending technology, Buffett asked, "Anthony, do you know how that symbiotic microorganism prolongs life?"

"According to our researchers' guess, there is a high probability that it is some kind of artificial microorganism that can combine with organelles. As for what it is, no one knows now, because we have not obtained any samples."

"I think your company should be doing related research?" Buffett, who is mature and sophisticated, asked with certainty.

"...As expected of a stock god, our company has actually received a lot of special funding today, all of which require us to research life extension technology."

"Is the investment of 50 billion yuan enough?"

Anthony on the other side of the phone was also very shocked by Buffett's generosity: "Mr. Buffett, I can't promise to produce results within 10 years."

The implication is that if you die before the life extension technology is successful, they Johnson & Johnson will not be responsible.

"Don't worry, I know."

"OK, then I wish us a happy cooperation."

"Pleasant to work with."

Buffett hung up the phone. Although he didn't join the City on a Hill council, he still knew Thomas Morgan.

He knew that the major families of the council would definitely not be reconciled, and would definitely increase investment in research on biochips and life extension technologies.

As for subduing Homo sapiens, this is not the first choice of these rich people, unless they are forced to do so in the end.

Ordinary people can go to Homo sapiens company to work, but these rich and powerful families obviously will not give up everything easily.

It's more painful than killing them if you can't be a dragon.

For the plunge of global stock markets, although Wall Street financial groups are hurting, it will not hurt them.

After all, in financial games such as stocks and futures, no matter how you play, the dealer will make a steady profit without losing money, but the leeks for ordinary people will become more and more difficult to cut in the future.

Now the global pharmaceutical stocks are basically showing a polarized situation.

Some pharmaceutical companies that produce common drugs and medical equipment are basically falling and falling.

However, a small number of pharmaceutical companies that are related to life-prolonging technology bucked the market and rose.

At this time, after a night of discussions, the City on the Hill Council finally came up with a set of plans to deal with Homo sapiens.

Including completely prohibiting Homo sapiens companies from entering the market of free associations, and at the same time establishing an internal market exclusively for free associations, and at the same time cutting off most of the non-governmental external optical cables.

In other words, from now on, the civilian Internet within the free association will not be connected to other places.

Obviously, the Council of the City on a Hill made a forced choice.

In order to avoid being poached by Homo sapiens, they finally took out their housekeeping skills - unplugging the network cable.

Chapter 453 The New Era ([-])

After entering the first year of Galaxy.

The world pattern has undergone fundamental changes.

The symbolic event of this transformation is the founding ceremony of Homo Sapiens.

The global stock market crash followed, and then the free association headed by America announced a physical disconnection from other regions.

Various editorial experts called this event the beginning of the "era of anti-globalization".

Indeed, at this time the world no longer has the conditions for economic globalization.

The free association is running its own coterie, and the Europa Commonwealth, Lucia and the Far East are also making their own coterie.

They don't engage in their own closed circles, and in the free market, they can't compete with Sapiens companies at all.

For example, in the international trade market at this time, small shrimps in Africa usually exchange minerals for gold dollars, and then use gold dollars to purchase food, daily necessities, and household appliances.

As for why not to purchase from other economies, but from Homo sapiens companies, the reason is also very simple.

At this time, the Port of Colombo on Ceylon Island was the largest trading city in the Ceylon Ocean region.

The commodity trading center relocated from Yangon, the internal trading hall is crowded with people.

Curry, the new head of the Persian International Trading Company, is leading his subordinates to make various purchases.

He looked at the price scrolling panel on the trading floor, on which there were product quotations from various city-level branches of Homo sapiens.

For example, Chiang Mai fragrant rice is 123 gold dollars per ton, Red Sea detoxified broken rice is 53 gold dollars per ton, and Ganges super long-grain rice is 84 gold dollars per ton.

Curry ordered: "Purchase 50 tons of Red Sea detoxified broken rice."

"Got it, Manager Curry." The trader quickly asked about the inventory status of the Red Sea Rice Company through the communication software that comes with the system.

This Red Sea detoxified broken rice is very popular in the international market, not only for human consumption, but also as fodder.

The key is very cheap.

Persia is the second largest trading partner of Homo sapiens, and Homo sapiens purchases a large amount of oil and gas from Persia all the year round, and Persia, which has obtained a large amount of gold and foreign exchange, naturally buys it with banknotes.

Although Persia has a large amount of gold and dollar foreign exchange, it does not mean that they spend money lavishly.

Why are there so many places willing to cooperate with Homo sapiens even though they know that Homo sapiens has evil intentions?

The reason is very simple, that is, the price is fair, cheap and good quality.

When Homo sapiens purchases local minerals, the prices are very reasonable and relatively stable.

The other party purchases the materials produced by Homo sapiens, and the price is also lower than the international equivalent products.

For example, the detoxified broken rice in the Red Sea is only 53 gold dollars per ton, which is equivalent to 106 dollars per ton.

It is simply wishful thinking to buy broken rice at 53 gold dollars per ton in the international grain market. Even if ABCD dumps the rice into the sea, it will not sell it at this price.

After all, the price is 53 gold dollars per ton, and after removing the production cost and transportation cost, there are still dozens of dollars to pay.

This is not a business, this is charity.

However, the Red Sea Rice Company, a subsidiary of Homo sapiens, can still earn about 8 gold dollars per ton. This is mainly because the production capacity is too large, and with various high-tech assistance, the overall cost can be kept so low.

Therefore, as the person in charge of the Persian Trading Company, what he pursues is cheap and good quality. He can't just leave the cheap ones alone and buy ABCD high-priced grains, right?

The same goes for other products.

Many regions are earning gold and spending gold. If you purchase products from other forces, not only will the prices be inflated, but the quality of the products will not be as good as the same type of products from Homo sapiens.

In the context of anti-globalization, these backward regions can only rely on selling mines to make money and then feed their internal needs.

The reason why another economy with a very strong manufacturing industry is not accepted by backward regions is also very simple, that is, the price/performance ratio is not high.

Selling ore of the same quality, Homo sapiens will produce some price differences although the purchase price will fluctuate according to the price of the international market.

However, the currency value of gold dollars is very high, so many people prefer to use gold dollars for consumption because it is very cost-effective.

However, if the products of other economies or large companies want to compete with Homo sapiens, they must lower their prices.

But this is not Gazi’s live broadcast room. Philips mobile phones that cost 8900 yuan can be easily charged to 1800 yuan.

The selling price of Homo sapiens company's products needs to pass the research and analysis of the marketing department before it can be officially listed for sale.

Usually, the marketing department will deliberately lower the price below the cost price of similar products, so that competitors' products cannot compete with Homo sapiens.

This is why companies like ABCD, BHP Billiton, and Rio Tinto are being suppressed by Sapiens.

Homo sapiens' products are cheap and high-quality, while other companies' products can't even match the cost of Homo sapiens, so what are they going to compete with?

Not to mention that they are still engaged in a closed circle, playing with the internal circulation of the internal market.

In this case, the competitiveness in the international market will naturally decline rapidly.

The reason why the competitiveness of international trade has declined is that after each region is closed, their currency will inevitably be confined to a certain area, losing the possibility of being a world currency.

Including the free association led by America, after they announced that they would cut off the communication cables of the people and enclose the land for themselves, the American knife began to lose its qualification as a world currency.

Many small forces are worried that the dollar will suddenly depreciate, let alone other mainstream currencies.

The only strong currency in the world right now is the gold dollar.

Therefore, those small powers, or businesses started in small places, require the use of gold dollars in trade and do not accept other currencies.

This situation is the cause of the rapid decline in the international trade of major economies.

They have secretly demanded that all internal companies cannot cooperate with Homo sapiens, so they have no gold dollars in their hands.