Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 242: Enron Incident, Lease of Land to Foreign Parties

Indian Ranch is located in Wyoming.

On the surface, it is jointly invested by large groups such as ADM and DuPont Seeds.

But in reality, the entire farm was used only to capture natives from the Indian reservations.

It is also a shell company used by the Smith family to cover up the 'genetic experiment project'.

This information has already spread throughout North America.

It also became a scandal for ADM and DuPont Seeds.

But old Smith was unlucky.

While capturing the Indians, they unexpectedly found five shamans with ancient heritage.

Not only are they extremely powerful, like genetic warriors, they also possess extraordinary veterinary skills and can treat diseases suffered by birds and animals.

So old Smith used this group of 'veterinarians' to clarify the scandal: We built the farm to protect our precious historical heritage!

Afterwards, the veterinarians were registered for medical qualifications and began to treat patients.

It turns out that veterinarians can really heal people.

Because the Smith family relied on shamans and genetic technology authorized by Sanyuan Agriculture, they quickly created the fat black Indian.

When Old Bu thought of this, his head ached slightly.

In order to create genetic warriors, the Carlisle Group has invested more than 3 billion US dollars, but has gained nothing so far.

Why can others do it?
and so……

Even though Old Bush understood that once the Old Bush family attacked the Smith family, it would most likely destroy the two sides' encirclement of Sanyuan Agriculture in the Eastern market.

But he decided to do it anyway.

He was unable to sleep or eat because of the speed at which the Smith family was growing.

As a result, a series of new regulations targeting industries such as the US Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, North American financial supervision, and North American financial services were submitted to the Senate by the Bush family think tank.

At this time, the Bush family almost controlled the two houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, the military, the Marine Corps under the vertical management of the General Manager, and the Texas National Guard, almost making it difficult for the democratic faction to breathe.

Therefore, many bills were just formalities, and in just three days, they were signed by Bush and officially came into effect.

Simultaneously.

In order to restrict the development of Sanyuan Agriculture and destroy the land leasing cooperation between Sanyuan Agriculture and Far East Oil Company, the Bush administration issued a bill to further restrict Sanyuan Agriculture's purchase of graphics cards.

The bill stipulates that no company or individual, including countries, regions, and major organizations, may provide graphics cards, display chips, memory particles, or operating systems to Sanyuan Agriculture.

Otherwise, war!
The Bush administration is so domineering.

After Lao Bu finished all his work, he suddenly remembered something.

"Those two 8000-ton destroyers were nearly destroyed by the main guns of the sailing battleships. This was done by Old Smith. Let him donate some military funds or find a way to repair them!"

The USS Jones and USS Russell are North American Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

It is also the new generation of guided missile destroyer in North America.

It is equipped with four General Electric LM4 gas turbines with a power of up to 2500 horsepower and a maximum speed of 10.5 knots.

It is equipped with the world's first-class 'Aegis' system and is also the world's first destroyer to use vertical launch of missiles.

The staff strength is 303 people, including 23 officers.

The cost in 88 was approximately US$7 million.

The cost in 01 was approximately US$22 million.

There is no way. After North America’s deindustrialization, global procurement was implemented, causing construction costs to rise sharply.

So much so that the B2 stealth bomber began to have difficulty in production.

In this context, in order to reduce fiscal expenditure, the Bush administration will definitely let Smith Sr. bear the high maintenance costs.

……

the other side.

Tijuana Shipyard.

Captain Jones, the dark-skinned Colonel Paul, and the captain of the Russell breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the looming dock and the American flag fluttering in the wind.

The experience of these three days can be described as a nightmare.

Weird sailing battleships, outrageous fat black Indians, out-of-control weapons systems...

When I think about it, it's like a ghost attack.

Fortunately, at dawn, they encountered a strange sea transport fleet consisting of six ironclad ships, which rescued two destroyers that seemed to be in tatters but actually did not suffer too much damage, as well as two transport ships that were transporting self-destructive drones.

Afterwards, the ship received an order from the Ministry of Navy to follow the other side to the Tijuana Shipyard for a six-month repair and rest.

"on vacation!"

Dark-skinned Colonel Paul and the captain of the Russell stood on the deck, watching the ships entering the port one after another and lighting a cigarette each.

Suddenly.

The two saw the familiar black fat man and boarded the battleship.

No, it was the same fat black man who walked up to the two of them.

Colonel Paul even recognized the leader as the one-eyed Indian pirate who had slapped him on the back of the head.

"What?!"

"Fuck you, get ashore! If you don't train 3000 qualified marines within six months, I'll hang you all from the mast!"

"..."

...

New York, American Stock Exchange.

When Old Smith received the news that the drone had self-destructed, he thought all his work had been in vain.

After receiving the conditions from Old Bush to repair the two destroyers, I was stunned, but suddenly I felt like another piece of pie fell from the sky.

Drones are nothing. The two 8000-ton destroyers are the unexpected surprise!

Just imagine, if they could crack various devices and even copy entire battleships, wouldn’t the Smith family have real naval combat capabilities?

If combined with the capacity of the Tijuana shipyard...

Isn't the Smith family going to become the ocean overlord of the new era?
"Thanks, Old Bu!"

Old Smith was ecstatic and quickly took on the task of repairing the two destroyers.

But soon after, we received various regulations from the Bush administration restricting securities across the United States.

There are definitely various loopholes in the financial system. For example, there are currently no laws that clearly define whether it is legal to affiliate, borrow, bridge loan, loan to repay loan, or advance payment for others.

In the past, financial institutions could use these to turn 1 US dollars into 100 million.

Now that there are various regulations, 1 US dollars is 1 US dollars. Although this has regularized the financial market, where can we make up the 99 US dollars that was originally owed on credit?
The first thing that came to Smith Sr.’s mind was the subprime mortgage crisis.

However, the Bush administration and the Bush family started out in the military and real industries. Although they understand the dangers of the subprime mortgage crisis, they do not necessarily understand that "a subprime mortgage crisis has now occurred."

In other words, the Bush administration has not yet realized that these bills will deal a severe blow to the North American financial system.

The problem is that even if old Smith asks the financial elites of the Democratic faction to warn the other side, the other side will most likely not believe it.

Strictly speaking, this is a good thing for old Smith.

Because if the Bush administration makes a mistake, the democratic faction can make a comeback and introduce a new North American governor.

But European capital is ready to move, European Jewish capital is eager for revenge, and Sanyuan Capital may also launch a sneak attack. Who knows whether North America will be shattered after experiencing this crisis.

So after much thought, Old Smith decided to take action against the Bush family.

The Carlyle Group, controlled by the Bush family, owns a natural gas company called Enron.

The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas. It initially engaged in the real economy and later entered the financial sector, eventually becoming the world's largest natural gas and electricity supply company.

If it were someone else, it would be difficult to find the loopholes of this behemoth and it would also be difficult to kill the opponent.

But who is Old Smith?

He is the helmsman of the North American financial system and the leader of the world financial system.

In his opinion, Enron's financial system was full of loopholes.

In particular, the other party used a North American Jewish audit team and modified the bank data controlled by the Smith family.

In other words, few of those who deal in finance are legal.

If the person in control wants to kill the other person, all he needs is one sentence.

and so……

1 month 30 number.

Enron was exposed for financial fraud by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, which listed a series of names of executives who violated laws and regulations and their actions.

The North American Taxation Bureau, FBL, and the Supreme Court have successively intervened in this case.

2 month 3 number.

The Smith family threatened to exterminate the entire family, forced the Walton family, who were the head of the family, to death, and put pressure on Enron's European branch, causing Enron's European branch to file for bankruptcy in France, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Spain.

2 month 4 number.

Enron's African branch was attacked by indigenous warlords.

A group of African version of fat black men occupied Enron's African headquarters, dismantled a large amount of equipment, and drove away a large number of employees.

This led to Enron's African division declaring bankruptcy.

2 month 5 number.

Soros raised 150 billion US dollars and Buffett raised 170 billion Australian dollars and announced their attack on the Australian financial market.

That afternoon, Australia forced Enron's Australian branch to file for bankruptcy.

2 month 7 number.

The Oriental Lantern Festival.

Enron Corporation of North America announced that it had entered bankruptcy protection.

The company owns many power plants with total assets of US$340 billion, 3.2 miles of gas pipelines in North America, and the largest energy service company in North America...but it has a heavy debt of US$312 billion.

As a result, the North American financial system had a subprime mortgage gap that was 312xN times larger.

This is a bit like a triangular debt.

I owe you, you owe him, and he owes me. We could have offset each other's debts, but if there was no 312 billion as a turnover, it would be equivalent to the three of us owing 312 billion x 3, a total of 936 billion.

Old Smith hopes to use this incident to serve as a warning to the Bush family.

Never imagined.

In order to reduce debt, the Bush administration actually ordered the Federal Reserve to start raising interest rates...

The general meaning is that the increase in deposit interest rates has led to the return of US dollars, making people more willing to deposit money.

At the same time, the increase in loan interest rates has increased borrowing costs, reducing people's desire to borrow and reducing the risk of loan defaults.

When the two are combined, with the printing press running at full power, the number of US dollars in circulation in the market will decrease and the purchasing power of the US dollar will increase, which can reduce inflation and stabilize prices.

It looks like a good thing.

But the Oriental printing press was also running at full power, and the exchange rate remained unchanged.

In the past, one red note was used to make a roll of toilet paper, which was sold to North America for $1.

Now it takes 2 red notes to make a roll of toilet paper, sell it to North America, and take away 2 US dollars.

It seems that there is no change, but the interest rate in North America has increased, and the increase in interest is equal to the loss.

This is good for Eastern exports.

The most important thing is that Yu Sanyuan has been producing so much for so long, preparing so many beverages, soy products, blended oil, trolleys, Lao Tou Le, toilet paper, textiles...

Aren’t they just waiting to sign an equal trade agreement with North America and then dump massive amounts of products over there?
To use a metaphor.

Before the interest rate hike, Yu Sanyuan sold goods worth 1000 billion US dollars to North America. After North America deducted the tariffs and gave interest, Yu Sanyuan received 1000 billion.

Now that North America is raising interest rates, Yu Sanyuan is estimated to get 1100 billion.

Coincidentally, Neil Bush actually went to the East to beg Yu Sanyuan to sign the agreement.

“You don’t understand finance at all!”

Old Smith suddenly felt that Old Bull was the so-called bad teammate.

Fortunately, Yu Sanyuan was busy, and even if he got the arable land in the Far East, he was unable to develop it.

Because Sanyuan Agriculture had run out of money due to investing in communications networks.

Even the year-end bonuses and dividends were exchanged for cars and houses, and no cash was available.

……

International Conference Center, northern suburbs of Fei City.

Amidst the hustle and bustle, with the sky filled with fireworks, the Spring Festival of 01 passed by quietly and unnoticed.

"Seven years old!"

Yu Yang stood in the square, looking up at the starry sky.

His mature back doesn't look like that of a young person.

Instead, he seemed like a strange existence that had experienced many vicissitudes of life and all kinds of human relationships and was more stable than his boss.

The old boss coughed and shook off his wild thoughts. "Neil has promised to give us equal trade status, but we must sign the 'Agreement on Restricting the Use of Graphics Card Matrix'."

"Sign it. We are already at the end of our rope."

Sanyuan Agriculture does not have the ability to independently manufacture graphics cards.

Therefore, most of the graphics card matrix of Xintai Data Center is office computer parts dismantled by Fujima from bankrupt enterprises in Tokyo Bay, as well as electronic components secretly purchased with the help of Igawa Keiko, and then bulk graphics cards that are welded by themselves.

In this era of computing power competition, our country is inherently lagging behind North America.

Especially in a few years, dual-channel graphics cards with 64M video memory, 128M video memory, and even 1G video memory will be available one after another.

Iterations and updates are too much for us to afford.

So Yu Yang decided to take advantage of the high price of graphics cards and dismantle two-thirds of the existing graphics card matrix and sell it to Bingxiong.

As for the decline in computing power, how can we fight against US capital...

Capitalist imperialism is a paper tiger.

Having hurt the NSA themselves, American capital will not dare to make any small moves for at least two years and can only shout and show off its power.

Besides, old Smith's takedown of Enron made the bad debts in North America increasingly obvious. It is estimated that in this time and space, a plane will also crash into a building and destroy the account books.

Then, Old Bull took advantage of this opportunity to take action against the Harden family, the second largest shareholder of the Carlisle Group, and then went to Afghanistan to fight Harden.

Therefore, in order to obtain more resources for balancing accounts and to stop the development of the euro, attacking Iraq became inevitable.

At this time, American investors were busy opening champagne to celebrate and had no time to pay attention to the East.

And two years later.

The company secretly acquired ARM from England. With its massive talent pool, Hong Kong Sanyuan Technology Group should be able to develop a Soc graphics card based on the ARM architecture.

The graphics card is also called the 'chip that integrates the system into the hardware'.

The design is similar to integrated graphics.

But integrated graphics cards integrate the graphics card into the CPU module, with an external storage and memory stick.

The Soc integrates the CPU, memory stick, and storage into the GPU.

It is equivalent to making the graphics card into a microcomputer.

It is helpful to enhance the speed and accuracy of the graphics card matrix selecting answers from the database and improve the level of intelligence.

It is also equivalent to tailor-making a set of servers and databases for the communication network, which is conducive to speeding up the conversion of domain names to IPs.

By then, the company will be able to achieve mass production with the three 3nm process lithography machines obtained with the help of Fujima, as well as the self-produced scientific research lithography machines that Dongfang cannot put into commercial use due to patent issues.

Then form a new intelligent graphics card matrix.

Although the company's own 180nm process technology and Oriental's self-produced 280nm process technology are very backward compared to North America's 90nm this year, being able to manufacture and being unable to manufacture are two different things.

Yu Yang thought about many things in an instant and looked at the old director. "Leader, after the signing of the agreement, I'll leave the export issues to you. After all, the US capital is suppressing Sanyuan Agriculture, and there is a high probability that they will delay the payment."

"I'll think of a way."

The old boss nodded and said, "Besides, we are short of funds right now. I am afraid it will be difficult to develop the nearly 3 million mu of arable land in the Far East this year."

"What do our farmers in the East only like?"

"land?"

The boss understood what he meant immediately, "Are you planning to enter the farmland in the Far East into the trade hall?"

"No, we're going to hang an enlarged map of the Far East in the trade hall. Regardless of whether it's mountains and rivers, endless swamps, or 3 million acres of ordinary farmland, we're going to rent them all for 10 yuan per acre per year. The contract is for 10 years, and we're going to be required to use only three types of seeds, three types of fertilizers, and three types of pesticides."

"Wow, if we rent them all out, and add in the revenue from selling seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, we'll probably make hundreds of billions every year... The question is, is there anyone willing to go?"

"Don't worry, leader. Whether it's farming or developing swamps, Sanyuan Agriculture has prepared cash crops in advance. For example, have you heard of crayfish in swamps?"

“I’ve heard of lobster.”

"Come on, I'll show you some spicy crayfish."

(End of this chapter)