Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 438 Banana War
So far, the soybean seeds developed by Lin Weimin and the others are not much worse than those of Monsanto, but Monsanto does not only have seeds. Their seeds and pesticides are matched. The effect of using new seeds alone is still not as good as that of Monsanto. Fortunately, Huinong We also have a pesticide research and development department. According to the characteristics of this seed, we can research pesticides that can kill weeds and insects without harming soybean seedlings. Monsanto has gone too far.

At the same time, Li Lei’s reminder to Academician Gai and others also played a role. It is not so easy for Monsanto to continue to obtain valuable wild soybean resources from China, but wild soybeans grow in a wide range in China. They can get it, but whether they can get the kind of female parent that can breed high-oil soybeans depends on luck.

After finishing this trip, Li Lei returned to Heyang again. At this time, the secretary had already contacted Gulfstream and got detailed information, so he took the album to discuss with his family to see what to choose. Such a decoration plan is more suitable.

"Now private individuals can buy airplanes?" Li Qiyun felt a little unbelievable. It has only been 20 years since the reform and opening up, and the changes have been so great now?

"Someone bought it two years ago, and now the stalls are getting bigger and bigger. It would be a waste of time to take civil aviation. If you happen to make some money in the US stock market, then buy one yourself!" Li Lei told them about Yuanda. Zhang Yue of the group, and then explained why he did this, "Actually, it's nothing in the end, just like buying a car back then, mainly for work! After the plane arrives, wherever you want to go, you can drive for an hour. If you can go to Zhongzhou Airport, you can basically go to any city with an airport in China within four hours, and the time saved can be used for other work, so that precious time will not be wasted on the road.”

"Anyway, it's all your money, so you can buy it if you want!" Li Qiyun still couldn't get used to it, "We don't care about the decoration, you and Jing Shu can discuss it, anyway, we won't sit too often. many!"

"Why not? In the future, when we go out to play during the holidays, we can just sit on it! We cooperated with Vanke and took a piece of land on XSBN to build a resort. The winter there is also warm. We go to Hainan a lot, so we can change it this year. A place to stay!" Now that the resort has been built, Li Lei has reserved two villas for himself, and he can go there to stay when the weather is cold.

The two elders still didn't intend to express their opinions, but the two children were very excited. After looking at the renderings and yelling for a long time, they finally went back to their room to rest when they were really tired. Only now can Li Lei and Yu Jingshu have a good discussion, discuss and finally decide After making a good plan, Yu Jingshu was about to rest when Li Lei mentioned another matter, "I want to find someone to write a book recently, do you have a suitable candidate?"

"Writing a book? What book? Could it be writing your autobiography?" Yu Jingshu felt a little unbelievable. Isn't her husband such a person?
In recent years, some people who got rich first were no longer satisfied with simple material enjoyment, and began to pursue spiritual enjoyment. One of them was to find a gunman to help them write their autobiography. Replace it with all kinds of legendary stories, making it seem like he is rich now thanks to his intelligence and daring to fight hard. Most of these things have been forgotten in the future, and the remaining few have become Internet jokes , It was brought out every now and then.

Some people started thinking about compiling a family tree and finding a great ancestor for themselves. It seems that only in this way can they have a bright face. Those with feet quickly admired it, and then repaired the ancestral house, repaired the ancestral hall, built bridges and paved roads in the hometown, and occasionally went back to enjoy the admiration and gratitude of the fathers and villagers. At this time, the boss was very happy.

There are many people who choose these two solutions, so that specialized practitioners are even derived, forming an industrial chain. Whenever the boss has needs, as long as the money is in place, he can write books, publish, hype, research, compile family trees, The plan for the construction of the ancestral hall was made, and it was properly handled by the boss in a one-stop manner.

However, Li Lei is not interested in this, and the book he is looking for someone to write is not these. "This is about to join the WTO. As far as I know, in order to pass the negotiation, our country has made a lot of concessions in the agricultural field. Although this is something that must be done, it also poses a certain threat to our country's food security. Those multinational giants will definitely reap a wave, but there are very few people in China who can realize this, so I plan to Writing a book and exposing the evils of those international giants in the past can remind some people!"

Li Lei told Yu Jingshu about the history of the United Fruit Company brazenly launching a war to control South American fruits. Since the 19th century, sweet and delicious bananas have become the favorite fruit of the American people, and their sales are very large in the market. Most areas are not suitable for growing bananas, so the price is relatively high and the market space is huge; therefore, the big capitalist and railway tycoon Cooper-Keith joined hands with fruit king Andrew Preston to establish a monopoly fruit company—— United Fruit Company.

The United Fruit Company is buying up land in Central America suitable for growing bananas.They colluded with the dictators of Central American countries with huge sums of money, annexed land at a low price, but built a large number of banana plantations; many small countries in Central America fell into their control, especially Guatemala, nearly half of the country's arable land was It is owned by the United Fruit Company, and the remaining industries, transportation, electricity, and energy are also controlled by them. It can even be said that the manager of the United Fruit Company is more effective than the president in Guatemala.

Under the pressure of the United Fruit Company, Guatemala's local industry and agriculture suffered a devastating blow.Under the crowding out of the Americans, Guatemalan factory owners and farmers went bankrupt one after another, while bananas, pineapples and other fruits produced in the country poured into the American market in large quantities; Day by day, anger is accumulating in this small Central American country.

During World War II, as the United States focused its energy on the European and Pacific battlefields, its control over Central America was loosened, so the Guatemalans rose up to overthrow the comprador government and abolished many unequal terms, which threatened the interests of the United Fruit Company. .

Cutting off people’s money is like killing their parents. This principle is common throughout the world, so the United Fruit Company responded decisively. They passed Secretary of State Dulles, who had worked as a lawyer for United Fruit Company, and Assistant Secretary of State Capo, who owned a large number of United Fruit Company shares. He specially lobbied President Eisenhower, saying that Guatemala was in danger of becoming red and must be eliminated as soon as possible.

Therefore, the U.S. government instructed the CIA to cooperate with the United Fruit Company, intending to subvert the democratically elected Arbenz government in Guatemala. First, with the help of the CIA, the United Fruit Company obtained a large number of firearms, and then colluded with the defected Guatemalan officer-Colonel Armas, Organized a rebel army of 150 people, entered Guatemala at the right time, and had the United Fruit Company as an internal response. This coup was easily successful. Guatemala was once again reduced to an economic colony of the United States. Domineering, the American people continue to enjoy the sweet and cheap fruit.

Similar incidents have not only happened in Guatemala, but also in small countries such as Nicaragua, Honduras, and Haiti. If the Castro brothers in Cuba were not powerful enough, it is estimated that their sugar industry would also be controlled by large American companies, but Cuba has also suffered a heavy price for this.

Because South America is slightly farther away from North America, the situation is slightly stronger, but it is still deeply influenced by the United States. This can be seen from various details. Once Brazil and Argentina get too close to China, political turmoil will break out in the country. Needless to say who is the main messenger behind the storm?
Due to the strong ability to control public opinion in the United States, these histories have long been forgotten by later generations. Even Baidu Encyclopedia is only a simple overview, and more detailed content is simply invisible.

Even so, the United Fruit Company also suffered a great loss of reputation due to many bad incidents in Central America. At the same time, it was unable to prevent the changes in the international situation after World War II. The company first merged with the American Machine Company in 1970 and changed its name to the United Trademark Company. , then changed its name to Chiquita Brands International in 1990, and was eventually acquired by a Brazilian consortium for $2014 billion in 13.

"There is also the Bhopal tragedy. You should have heard of this, right? Union Carbide Corporation of the United States mainly produces pesticides such as carbaryl and tridicarb. In the 60s, Indian agriculture developed rapidly, and the demand for pesticides increased rapidly. Many Multinational pesticide companies poured into India in large numbers and launched fierce competition. In order to save costs and win the competition, Union Carbide established a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, thereby gaining a competitive advantage and making a lot of profits! It stands to reason that highly toxic pesticide factories should not be built in densely populated areas, but in order to make money, Union Carbide ignored this principle and laid hidden dangers for the ultimate tragedy."

"After more than ten years, the sales of the Bhopal pesticide factory began to decline sharply, and the factory's operating conditions became increasingly poor, so they greatly reduced the number of employees, and at the same time stopped safety inspections and other maintenance inputs, which led to the safety of the factory. The system is on the verge of paralysis, and the pesticide factory produces highly toxic chemical products. This situation is very dangerous; in the early morning of December 1984, 12, 3 tons of highly toxic methyl isocyanate stored in the Bhopal pesticide factory leaked. The poisonous gas quickly permeated the densely populated urban area."

"Soon covered an area of ​​25 square kilometers, hundreds of people were quietly killed in their sleep, and more than 25000 people were killed within a few days; this tragedy eventually caused 2.5 direct deaths and indirect deaths There are 55 people, and more than 20 people are permanently disabled."

"However, what makes people angry is that this incident has not yet been judged, and the perpetrators of this tragedy are still at large!" In fact, the verdict was not pronounced until 25 years later, and the Indian court only sentenced a few Indian executives For the charge of dereliction of duty, they only need to receive a maximum of two years in prison. As for the boss of Union Carbide, they will not be affected at all.

"So, these multinational companies are not good people. In order to avoid domestic enterprises and consumers being fooled, they should be informed of this earlier!" The two cases mentioned by Li Lei are just the tip of the iceberg. What European and American agricultural giants have done There are many bad things.

"That should be true. What style of author do you need? Let me think about the suitable candidates, and then I will find out their representative works and show you, and then you can choose the right person for an interview based on these!" After Yu Jingshu was shocked Said.

"Our book is not a serious literature, it must have a certain degree of dissemination and arouse readers' interest! Therefore, it is best to be an author who knows how to write best-selling works!" In fact, Li Lei already has a template in his heart. He provides information, and then the author writes in the same way as "Currency War". The gossip of big companies and conspiracy theories, these things can definitely touch the G-spot of readers.

"Like the "Snow Millie" series?" The "Currency War" has not yet been written, but there are already many best-selling books that have become popular through gimmicks, and Yu Jingshu immediately gave a very suitable example.

The Xue Mili series are novels written by a few big guys from Sichuan. They mainly use female detectives, female drug lords and other protagonists who are very easy to arouse people's interest in reading to attract readers, and then use the name of Xiangjiang female author Xue Mili , as soon as it was released, it became a big hit in the market, and Xue Mili became a best-selling author like Jin Yong, Qiong Yao and other writers, and these big guys made a lot of money because of this.

"Don't tell me, these few people have a grasp of the reader's psychology, so it's really suitable for them to write this set of books! I just don't know if they are interested, they are not short of money now!" Xue Mili These creators are also very interesting. They became famous through low-quality best-selling novels, and after realizing financial freedom, they began to pursue their dreams and engage in pure literature.

This time they also achieved some success. They published articles in many literary magazines such as "People's Literature" and "Guangzhou Literature and Art", and won several awards. I have participated in the creation of film and television works such as "The Long Song of Zhenguan", "Princess Wencheng", and "Dongfang Shuo".

Of course, Li Lei can also use his personal connections to make them feel embarrassed to refuse, but there is no need for this, let's see what kind of person Yu Jingshu can find first!
(End of this chapter)