I have a debt of 3 trillion, and my creditors are begging me not to die.

“This is definitely genetically modified technology, it’s unreliable!” the bald eagle representative said again.

The engineer quickly explained, "No, no, no, this isn't genetic modification technology. Genetic modification involves transferring a specific gene fragment from one species to another, which increases the genetic non-specificity of the genetically modified species. No one can predict whether long-term use will be harmful to humans. Our technology involves hybridizing the crop itself and then editing its genes to amplify the genetic advantage. It neither increases nor decreases the crop's genetic composition. Therefore, humans can safely consume our improved crops. We were just worried that the market might have doubts about our products, which is why we quickly accelerated the ripening of some experimental fields to obtain seeds for testing. To put it simply, you're fine eating rice, and you'll be fine eating our agricultural products. Moreover, our crop seeds can only be used for one generation. Customers who want to use such high-yield seeds must buy our first-generation seeds every year before planting."

The Dragon Kingdom representative laughed heartily and asked, "Hey! Bald Eagle representative, what can you say? Can you come up with any other excuses?"

Bald Eagle representative: "..."

What's there to say? All this land is used to cultivate seeds and sell them all over the world. The annual net profit is tens of billions of Eagle Dollars. Over 50 years, the guaranteed net profit is at least 3 trillion.

The Russian representative asked in astonishment, "When will you be able to sell these seeds abroad? Will you sell them all over the world?"

Yang Chen replied, "Of course. I'm a good person who cares about all of humanity, how could I bear to see people going hungry in this era? However, I won't sell to all countries. I will absolutely not sell seeds to those countries that are always sabotaging me behind my back. Representatives of the U.S., EU countries, and Russia, do you think my approach is right?"

Bald Eagle representative: "..."

EU representatives: "..."

Big Mao's representative: "..."

Representative Er Mao immediately said excitedly, "Mr. Yang, we are good partners, we must be on your sales list, right?"

Yang Chen laughed heartily and said, "Of course. If you follow me, I guarantee you'll have enough to eat."

Er Mao laughed heartily.

This has given hope to countries with limited land area, backward production, and long-standing food crises.

The representative from the Sakura Kingdom immediately said, "Mr. Yang, as you know, we have always respected you and the Dragon Kingdom. It was only due to certain unavoidable reasons that we acted irrationally. Please, Mr. Yang, for the sake of our establishment of a free trade zone, sell us the seeds."

The South Korean representative quickly added, "Yes, yes, our situation is exactly the same as Japan's. We also have an unavoidable reason for acting disrespectfully towards our suzerain state. Please, Mr. Yang, understand our predicament. For the sake of the free trade zone and for the sake of Chairman Lee of Samheung, please sell us the seeds."

The representative from India then said, "Mr. Yang, representative of China, our situation is exactly the same as that of Japan and South Korea. We also have some unavoidable reasons for deliberately causing you trouble. Our country has little arable land and a large population, and many people starve to death every year. Please, Mr. Yang, sell us seeds to save the lives of those who are starving to death."

Subsequently, various African countries and Southeast Asian island nations all requested that Yang Chen sell them seeds.

Representatives from countries like the Bald Eagle realized something was amiss. They had originally intended to use the United Nations to suppress Yang Chen and Er Mao's cooperation, but it had turned into a sales pitch for Yang Chen.

"Hang up now! Hang up now! We're having the UN General Assembly, and irrelevant people shouldn't be here. Hang up now!" the bald eagle representative shouted.

The representative from the Dragon Kingdom asked with a smile, "Are you teaching me how to do things?"

Bald Eagle representative: "..."

The representative from the Dragon Kingdom continued, "What right does a country that doesn't even pay its membership dues have to make irresponsible remarks and issue orders here?"

Bald Eagle representative: "..."

The English representative immediately said, "I've paid my dues, so I have the right to speak, right? I also demand that the video call be ended immediately."

“You have paid your membership fees, but we are currently the rotating chair country, and I am the one presiding over this meeting. I do not accept your request,” said the representative from the Dragon Kingdom.

English representative: "..."

The meeting room fell silent. Representatives from countries like Baxi and Babayang looked at the Chinese representative with adoration, practically shouting "Awesome!"

After a chilling silence, the Chinese representative chuckled and said, “Let me take this opportunity to reiterate our stance. If even the most basic civilian commercial cooperation is denied to our companies, then we will take reciprocal action against companies from certain countries. Representative of the United States, BlackRock, Blackwater, and others are monopolizing mineral resources in Africa. Should we discuss this? Representative of France, you buy uranium ore from Africa at rock-bottom prices and then resell it abroad at exorbitant prices. Should we discuss whether this constitutes colonial exploitation? And what about the actions of the Russian Wagner Group in Africa? Does it involve military invasion? If you all enjoy the discussion, I will now add a temporary agenda item to discuss the legality of the actions of companies from various countries in other countries.”

The meeting room became even quieter; there wasn't even the sound of documents being turned.

After a moment of silence, the representative from China said with a smile, "Chairman Yang, thank you for your hard work. Keep up the good work; whether people all over the world can have enough to eat depends on you. Keep it up!"

Yang Chen replied with a smile, "Alright, everyone get back to work. I hope this is the last time I attend the UN General Assembly in this format. Goodbye!"

Yang Chen ended the video call, but the meeting room remained silent.

After a while, the representative from the Dragon Kingdom said, "Let's pretend the previous topic wasn't discussed. Now let's move on to the next topic. That's all!"

The representatives of the US, the EU, and Russia must be kicking themselves for trying to steal a chicken only to lose the rice instead, and they're incredibly annoyed.

Yang Chen was thrilled. He used the United Nations venue for the new product launch, and the effect was absolutely fantastic. Once the seeds hit the market, there would be no shortage of buyers.

Wheat is 1.8 yuan per kilogram. It's reasonable for such high-yield seeds to sell for 5 yuan per kilogram, right?
After all, one mu of land only needs about 20 jin of seeds, but can harvest at least 2000 jin of grain. The input-output ratio is too tempting.

Just by selling seeds to the whole world, it won't take more than a few years to recoup all the investment, and after that it will all be pure profit.

After the UN meeting ended, representatives from various countries called home to report that Yang Chen had developed super seeds. They suggested that their families rent land to Yang Chen for planting, as he would not only receive a huge sum of money immediately, but also receive a 30% dividend every year thereafter.

Don't be fooled by the mere 30% profit share. Based on Yang Chen's super seed yield, it's equivalent to them doing absolutely nothing and earning a net profit of over 600 jin of grain per mu. This yield is equivalent to the output of farmers in many underdeveloped countries who grow one mu of land themselves.

However, they have to deduct various costs when farming their own land, but by renting the land to Yang Chen, they receive a net profit with no costs involved.

With this comparison, even a fool would know which one to choose.

This is especially true for backward and lazy people in regions like Africa, it's like a windfall.

Guo Haizhou, president of Sihai Agricultural High-tech Group, excitedly came to Yang Chen's office to report on his work.

"Chairman Yang, we've struck it rich! I've received calls from over a hundred countries in the past two days. They're either inquiring about the super seed or want to lease land to us for development. I've compiled a detailed statistical table; please take a look." Guo Haizhou reported with a smile, quickly handing the table to Yang Chen with both hands.

Yang Chen nodded with a smile, took the statistics sheet, and began to examine it carefully.

Developed countries and countries with limited land are all looking to buy seeds, and in Africa, they are basically leasing land to Yang Chen.

The seeds definitely cannot be sold to outsiders for the time being. Yang Chen and the people of Longguo must use them first before they can be sold to outsiders.

Therefore, the countries that want to buy the seeds are temporarily not being considered.

Yang Chen then looked at the land available for rent or sale, totaling 560 million mu (approximately 37 million hectares). Of this, 90 million mu (approximately 6.67 million hectares) were available for sale, and 470 million mu (approximately 21 million hectares) were available for rent. Given that Africa's total arable land area is 29 billion mu (approximately 180 million hectares), this meant that one-fifth of Africa's arable land would be rented to Yang Chen for cultivation. Crucially, African land was extremely cheap, costing approximately 1500 Dragon Coins per mu (approximately 1200 hectares) and renting for only 250 Dragon Coins per mu (approximately 1600 hectares) per year. Giving Yang Chen this land to cultivate was practically handing him a money-printing machine for free.

"Take it all! And negotiate to buy it as much as possible. Only talk about leasing if the other party really refuses to sell. The purchase price can be raised to 5000 Dragon Coins per mu, and the lease price can be raised to 500 Yuan per mu. We need to acquire more land and control the global grain market!" Yang Chen instructed.

Guo Haizhou quickly replied, "Okay, I'll talk to them right away!"

Sihai Agriculture High-Tech has recently spent a lot of money. The 4000 billion Eagle Coins invested by Yang Chen personally have been spent, as has the 1 trillion invested by Sihai Investment. Now, it needs to prepare a large amount of funds to acquire land in Africa.

Fortunately, Yang Chen also has profitable companies such as Sihai Electronics, Sihai Intelligent, Xingchen Military Industry, and Sihai Medical as financial reserves. In any case, Yang Chen owns 100% or more of these companies, so he can decide how to use their funds.

Through Yang Chen's manipulation, companies such as Sihai Electronics lent 1000 billion Dragon Coins to Sihai Agricultural High-Tech. After a few transactions, Sihai Agricultural High-Tech had 5000 billion Dragon Coins available in its account.

A week later, Guo Haizhou finalized a contract for 7 million mu of land, of which 1.5 million mu were for sale and 5.5 million mu were for lease. All of these lands came from Africa, and the total cost was 9000 billion dragon coins.

Holy crap, the 5000 billion Dragon Coins we just raised aren't enough yet.

However, a difference of a mere 4000 billion dragon coins was no problem for Yang Chen.

Yang Chen posted a Weibo update.

"Recently, Sihai Agriculture High-Tech has contracted some land in Africa, totaling 700 million mu (approximately 46.7 million hectares) through purchase and lease. We are still short 400 billion Longyuan in our accounts. I plan to take out a loan of 600 billion Longyuan to supplement the land purchase payment and subsequent development costs. Banks with sufficient funds can contact us to lend us some money."

Not long after the Weibo post was published, the heads of major banks personally contacted Yang Chen to offer him loans, and the branch managers of these banks in Jiangcheng went directly to Sihai Group to discuss loan matters with Yang Chen in person.

With the current economic downturn, many banks have too much outstanding loan balance. Yang Chen needs a loan of 6000 billion yuan. If this project can be negotiated, the loan task can be completed in one go.

"Chairman Yang, our China Construction Bank will cover everything. You only need to pay 3% interest, and we'll even return 20% of the total interest to you. How about it?"

"Chairman Yang, of course we should use the Agricultural Bank for agricultural development. We can cover all of your 6000 billion yuan, and we don't need to charge you much interest. Just give us the interest rate for a one-year deposit."

“For cross-border business, you definitely need to use our Dragon Country Bank. It’s convenient for things like foreign exchange settlement. We’re different from them. We don’t monopolize things. We only need 5000 billion in loans, and we’ll share the remaining 1000 billion with them. We also only need the one-year deposit interest rate, and we can also give all of Chairman Yang’s companies some preferential treatment when settling foreign exchange.”

……

All the banks offered very favorable prices, and now it's up to Yang Chen to choose.

Now these banks are begging Yang Chen for loans, so Yang Chen has the upper hand.

"The annual interest rate is 1%, the loan term is 5 years, and we also want to offer you a foreign exchange settlement discount. If you can accept this, you can stay and discuss it in detail; if you can't, you can leave," Yang Chen said.

The bank is offering depositors a 1.8% interest rate for 5-year terms, but they can only charge Sihai Agricultural High-Tech 1% interest. This means they are losing 0.8% in interest, and they also have to offer foreign exchange discounts. This deal is a loss.

Many banks gave up, and in the end only the president of the powerful Dragon Kingdom Bank stayed.

Of course, Dragon Country Bank wasn't willing to do this deal, which was theoretically unprofitable. It was because their superiors instructed them to fully support Yang Chen's funding needs for acquiring land overseas that they stayed to discuss the details.

Even if Yang Chen hadn't given them a single cent of interest, they would still have done everything in their power to help him, let alone pay him 1% interest.

The rest is up to Guo Haizhou, president of Sihai Agricultural High-Tech Group, to negotiate with Longguo Bank. Yang Chen won't get involved in such trivial matters.

After the two parties finalized the agreement, Sihai Agricultural High-Tech received the money the next day, and then Sihai Agricultural High-Tech exchanged foreign currency through Longguo Bank to pay various African countries.

7 million mu of land acquired!
Sihai Agriculture High-Tech issued an announcement.

"Our company has purchased 1.5 million mu of arable land and leased 5.5 mu of land in Africa. We urgently need a large number of employees to work in Africa. We are now recruiting 200 million employees. Requirements: high school diploma or above, proficient in using or able to use intelligent machines, and in good health. Agricultural professionals and recent graduates in the agricultural field will be given priority."

This announcement immediately ignited a frenzy on the Chinese internet.

"My goodness, 7 million mu? 200 million employees, that's an average of 350 mu per employee? That's a bit exaggerated, isn't it? Are they treating people like cattle?"

"At first glance, I thought it was a mistake to say 2 million employees. But after looking more closely, I still think it's a mistake to say 700 million mu of land. Even cattle and horses can't manage 350 mu of land per person."

"Two million jobs, surely it's my turn this time? Some people shouldn't play with abstract concepts. When Mr. Yang collaborates with foreign companies, he always reserves half of the jobs for the local people. The job requirements clearly state that applicants must be proficient in using intelligent machines. Do you think that's just for show? Of course, we'll use intelligent management for everything. Drones for planting, drones for spraying pesticides, seeders, rice transplanters, harvesters—we'll use them all. Managing hundreds of acres of land by one person is no problem at all."

"If you think you can't do it, you don't have to apply. We think those who are capable should be hired. It's just that there are a lot of viruses and such in Africa, and people with poor health might not be able to handle it. But we're not afraid of being poor, so why should we be afraid of this? We must get this job this time."

After seeing the news online, the leaders of the relevant departments laughed heartily.

Guo Benchang, the head of the agricultural department, called Yang Chen.

"Chairman Yang, congratulations on acquiring 7 million mu of land. You're going to become a big landowner! Haha..." Guo Benchang said with a smile.

"Haha...no, no, I'm the son of a farmer, not a landlord. My family background is very clean," Yang Chen joked.

Guo Benchang laughed heartily and said, "Chairman Yang is too humorous. We are both sons of farmers. Haha... The leader asked me to contact Chairman Yang to see if there is anything we can do to help him."

"There's nothing I can help with for now, but I'll definitely contact Director Guo if I need any help in the future," Yang Chen said.

Guo Benchang quickly replied, "Okay! Chairman Yang, remember to contact me anytime if you have any problems. The country will provide you with all the support you need. I won't bother you any longer, Chairman Yang. Bye."

Yang Chen smiled and nodded, then hung up the phone.

For the time being, we don't really need any help from the government. We just need to expedite the approval process by various departments once the seeds are available.

The news that Yang Chen had acquired 7 million mu of land in Africa spread to the international internet, also igniting international public opinion.

A netizen from Japan commented: "What?! 7 million mu? Are you sure you didn't miscount the decimal point? Our country only has 6500 million mu of arable land. He acquired 7000 million mu in Russia, and now he's acquired another 7 million mu in Africa. The arable land he owns is 12 times the size of our entire country. Is this reasonable?"
A South Korean netizen commented: "Damn it! We only have 3000 million mu of land nationwide, while he alone owns 7.7 million mu, more than 25 times ours. This is completely unfair. Why do African countries lease their land to him? They should be leasing it to our Great Korean Empire! We are a developed country and can achieve high grain yields. He, a person from a backward developing country, only knows how to waste that land and can't realize its true value at all."

A netizen from the "White-headed Eagle" forum commented: "Has a new round of land grabbing begun? They've recently seized 770 million mu (approximately 58 million hectares) of land, exceeding one-third of their native arable land. Why isn't anyone stopping them? If they continue like this, they'll soon control global food supplies. They can raise or lower food prices at will. Food is unlike any other product; even developed countries are powerless if their development is hampered by food shortages, leaving them with only war as a solution."

A French netizen commented: "Outrageous! Africa has always been within France's sphere of influence, and now those African countries want to drive us out of Africa and sell our land to Yang Chen. Didn't Yang Chen sign a cooperation agreement with the EU? Why is he infringing on our interests? I think we Western countries should join forces to deal with Yang Chen and not let him so recklessly seize land around the world."

A netizen from the Sand Kingdom commented: "Great! Our idol is acquiring land on a massive scale. Then we can buy cheap and delicious food. Only countries that don't have a good relationship with Yang Chen will be afraid; countries like ours that have a good relationship with him will just be happy."

Soon, the top brass of the Bald Eagle family also saw the news online. Unsurprisingly, they were about to hold another emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures… (End of Chapter)