Homo sapiens.

As one of the Big Three, the person in charge of the Luzon branch, Garfield is in charge of public affairs, while Xu Yingming is in charge of economic work.

And the last person in charge, Zhang Jerry, is in charge of force and dirty work. He was rescued by Li Qingye from the Manila gang before, and then he changed his face and appeared as Zhang Jieke's younger brother.

At this time, in Neihu Manor.

The three of them secretly appeared here through a temporary disguise.

On the surface, this manor has nothing to do with the three of them, but an industry owned by a small rich man in Manila.

Even in Luzon, they still maintain extremely high vigilance in their daily activities. Whether the enemy will find out is one thing, and it is another thing to keep vigilance themselves.

The underground meeting room.

Zhang Jerry informed the two of Li Qingye's instructions, and then reminded them: "Recently, ABCD has secretly sent a lot of people over, plus the lurking converts in Manila, and they are investigating our food stocks."

"How about the reserves in the grain depot?" Garfield asked.

Xu Yingming directly called up the database and projected the data on the wall: "Currently, we have already stockpiled 1327 million tons of rice, 625 million tons of corn, and flour factory The 183 million tons of wheat in stock can basically meet the grain consumption of the entire population of Luzon for a year."

"In addition, in the strategic reserve of the Hongshawadi branch, there are 837 million tons of rice, 278 million tons of corn, 66 tons of wheat, and 153 million tons of soybeans."

Garfield immediately felt relieved: "With the grain from the second quarter, we can start the storage rotation."

"Yes, I plan to replace half of the old grain and increase the purchase of new grain." Xu Yingming nodded.

"Can the funds still hold up?" Garfield asked with concern.

Xu Yingming replied with a smile: "It's okay. The assets accumulated by the five major families over the years are more than 400 billion US dollars in funds hidden overseas alone. Adding in the profits of various companies, the funds are not a big problem."

Although he and Garfield are members of the five major families, in their hearts at this moment, Li Qingye is the first, then the company, and finally the family.

This kind of mandatory "faith" and "loyalty" makes Homo sapiens highly united within the company, and every spider web manager seems to have the belief of "iron will" and "selflessness".

If this condition is manifested in only one person, he will only be isolated from the world.

But when this happens to a group of people, and this group of people also has an absolute core, then they will inevitably become extremely powerful and terrifying existences.

You must know that the internal operation of human society has never been efficient.

Why can't human society run efficiently?

The core reason lies in the natural greed and selfishness of human nature. When every individual that constitutes a society is full of selfish ideas, the internal operation of this system must be inefficient.

For example, the soldiers and natural workers in the Homo sapiens company.

When the company issues a task, the soldiers will execute it meticulously, but the natural person will steal, play tricks, engage in petty tricks, and fill his own pockets during the execution process.

The same is to purchase a batch of office supplies. Soldiers only need 500 yuan to do it, while natural persons may need thousands of yuan to achieve the same quality if they are not strictly managed.

In the process of social operation, human nature will cause unavoidable internal friction and waste.

No matter how sophisticated the social operation model is, it is difficult to eradicate this kind of human inferiority.

If it is in those operating models whose system design is already very poor and in disrepair, then this kind of internal friction and waste of human nature will show a cancer-like development.

For example, America’s operating model has been entrenched, and internal friction and waste are extremely serious during the operation of various “tasks”.

The Homo sapiens company’s operating mode has already innovated a part of the operating core through technical means, reducing various internal friction and waste to the lowest level in human history, and reaching the highest efficiency.

It is also more than 400 billion U.S. dollars, in the hands of America, and in the hands of Homo sapiens, the effect it can achieve is completely different.

Even if the Homo sapiens company has imperfect industrial chains and defects in local resources, its utilization rate per unit of funds can still reach about 5 to 7 times that of America.

Now ABCD is doing its best to suppress Luzon's agriculture, but the effect is still not obvious.

The reason is that ABCD thinks their opponent is Luzon, but in fact their real opponent is the Homo sapiens company with extremely strict interior.

These are two different concepts.

There are all kinds of people and voices in Luzon, but Homo sapiens company only has employees and bosses. The former cannot guarantee that everyone is obedient, but the latter can make every employee obey the company's arrangements.

Homo sapiens companies can use coupons and internal prices to allow employees and relatives to purchase the company's products, which is equivalent to internal subsidies in disguise.

But this kind of behavior will not trigger the rules of the WTO. After all, it is not an official subsidy, but the internal welfare of private companies.

This is also one of the advantages of giant companies.

If you formulate strategies to deal with giant companies with the eyes of ordinary private companies, you will suffer a lot.

Chapter 148 Combination Fist

After learning about the specific situation of inventory and funds, Garfield asked Jerry Zhang:

"Jerry, we can't be passively beaten all the time, but have to take the initiative to attack. Is there any way for you?"

"Of course, in fact, the security department and I have been communicating and preparing for the past six months, and we are going to give a big gift to ABCD in the near future." Zhang Jerry clenched his fists, his face full of viciousness.

"Oh? Are you going to invite them to fly again?" Xu Yingming joked.

Zhang Jerry shook his head: "It's okay to take the dirt plane once, but it's easy to be exposed again, this time we'll play a little new."

"Then I'll wait and see." Garfield was looking forward to the company's methods.

Jerry Zhang looked as if he wanted to choose someone to devour: "Come on, the early stage layout has been completed, this time I want ABCD to spit out the profits of decades, including the profits."

……

Britain.

London, here is the world famous financial industry.

Of course, bulk commodities in international futures are indispensable, such as wheat, sugar, sunflower oil, palm oil, rice, soybeans, soybean meal and other bulk agricultural products, which are also popular in the futures market.

ABCD has set up a special office here, which is responsible for the futures trading of agricultural products and risk hedging.

Due to the smooth planting of soybeans in North America in May and June this year, the weather is relatively good, and Chinese buyers are turning to South America and Lucia, all major institutions believe that the prices of soybeans and soybean meal in the second half of this year will be low.

David, the head of the futures trading department of Louis Dreyfus, is looking at the market at this time.

Suddenly, he found that on today's trading page, there were many long orders, adding up to tens of millions of dollars.

In fact, in the past six months, there have been many long orders for North American soybean and soybean meal futures delivered in August and September this year.

David secretly estimated that the accumulated long-term funds probably amounted to more than 30 billion US dollars.

He secretly ridiculed that the other party was a fool. The expectation of a bumper soybean harvest in North America is obvious, and the international soybean and soybean meal prices are not high, and there is even room for further decline. If you go long now, you will definitely lose money.

After discussing with several colleagues, David contacted the heads of the futures trading departments of Bunge, Cargill, and ADM.

The futures analysis conclusions of the four companies are quite consistent, that is, the prices of soybeans and soybean meal will continue to decline in the second half of the year, and now they can jointly short soybeans and soybean meal to hedge their company's losses in actual soybean transactions.

Therefore, David and others began to lead ABCD futures traders to orderly issue short orders for soybeans and soybean meal to the market.

It's just that the empty orders they sent out were quickly picked up.

David and the others didn't pay too much attention to this, but secretly lamented that there are a lot of idiots with stupid people and rich money this year.

This kind of long-short game seems to only have a transaction volume of tens of millions of dollars each time, but the total transaction volume accumulated is not a small number.

Because ABCD is the overlord in the agricultural field, coupled with the background of America, the leverage authority given to them by investment banks in various places is quite high.

Once the international soybean and soybean meal prices reverse, ABCD is very likely to be unable to bear it and directly liquidate its position.

It’s just that David and others are too optimistic. They feel that soybean prices have no chance to rise in the second half of the year. After all, their owner is the world’s largest soybean producer. Whether soybean prices will rise or not is up to ABCD to decide.

Therefore, when they saw a long order, they did not hesitate to follow up, and they continued to open short orders, which caused their leverage ratio to continue to increase and risks to accumulate secretly.

David and others fantasized about making a fortune.

But the crisis is hitting them.

……

North America.

The Great Lakes Plain and the Great Plains of the Mississippi River are famous large-scale mechanized agricultural areas in North America. A total of 7 million mu of soybeans are planted in the entire territory of America.

This is the world's largest soybean-growing area and the region with the largest soybean production.

While 94% of soybeans in North America are genetically modified soybeans, especially the genetically modified soybean varieties of Monsanto Company are among the best.

Decatur, Illinois.

The ADM headquarters building, which was bombed beyond recognition before, has been emptied after more than half a year of demolition.

Fortunately, ADM still has many office buildings in the local area, which can be used as temporary headquarters.

Hook, who still runs a pet shop here, ended his road trip for more than half a month, took his beloved pet mouse, and returned to the pet shop after a long absence.

"Welcome home! Mr. Hook!" the clerk Jessica greeted with a smile.

Hook waved his hand: "Jessica, are there any problems in the pet store recently?"

"No."

Hook opened the back door of the pick-up truck and carried out several boxes of bees.

"Is this a bee?" Jessica asked curiously.

"Well, I bought them in the south. I need to build a greenhouse for them quickly, otherwise they won't be able to support them in winter." Hook said while carrying the beehives.

Jessica was not surprised by the strange hobbies of the boss, or that Hook's performance in America was already considered normal compared to some mavericks and strange species.

Just when the two were chatting.

Soybean farms on the Great Lakes Plain are also facing a fatal crisis.

In ADM's No. 15 soybean farm on the shore of Lake Michigan, the farm manager, Old Hall, is planning to sow the soybeans with chemical fertilizers for the last time.

It's just that he just started spraying the heavy truck and driving in the soybean field when he noticed something was wrong.

"Huh? Why are there so many yellow leaves?" He couldn't stop to check, so he picked up the walkie-talkie: "Bob...you go to the field to check the soybean situation, I seem to see a lot of yellow leaves."

"Zizi...OK."

Bob, who is in charge of spraying pesticides on the farm, appeared in the middle of the farmland driving an all-terrain vehicle.

He took a closer look and found that many soybean leaves were covered with yellow spots, and there were signs of sickness.

"Frost mildew? What's the matter? This variety is very disease-resistant." Bob took off his cowboy hat and scratched his sweaty head.

He felt that the disease in front of him was already very serious, and the farm did not have any pesticides designed to kill the fungus, so he could only report to the headquarters as soon as possible.

Just waiting for ADM, Cargill, and Bunge to react, the downy mildew caused by Phytophthora soybean has already broken out in all parts of North America.

The confirmed infected area alone has reached about 8000 million mu.

According to the previous experience of fungal infection, as long as a farm appears, there is a high probability that the surrounding farms in the same water system will not be spared.

Obviously, the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River have a large area of ​​soybean downy mildew, which means that soybean farms in these two regions are basically at risk of infection.

Now if you want to spray pesticides to kill fungi, it is basically impossible to recover. Usually, they use seed disinfection and soil disinfection to achieve the purpose of prevention.

Sure enough, in the next week, the downy mildew continued to attack the city and plunder the land. As long as the farms planted genetically modified soybeans were basically doomed.

This situation shocked the researchers of ADM, Cargill, and Bunge.

After testing and experimental testing, they quickly discovered the problem. The bacteria Phytophthora sojae appeared to have "evolved" the ability to specifically target genetically modified soybeans.

An exogenous gene in several of the genetically modified soybean varieties was "taken care of" by Phytophthora sojae.

North American soybeans were directly hit hard by this sudden downy mildew.

Chapter 149

20, April 7.

The night when large-scale downy mildew appeared in North American soybeans.

Britain.

London Stock Exchange.

David looked at the market, and the prices of soybeans and soybean meal took off instantly. His hands were shaking. He no longer dared to place short orders:

"Quick, throw away all empty orders..."

"That's too late!"

In fact, ABCD has secretly notified David and others, but they were still one step too late. The bullish forces in the market are attacking today as if a dam has burst.

David, who was still answering the phone just now, watched the prices of soybean and soybean meal futures on the market skyrocket.

In less than 10 minutes, the price surged 2.3 times, and the upward trend has not stopped.