Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 440 Brazil
Now the era of blogging has not yet started, let alone Weibo, but there are already some influential forums, such as Tianya, which went to war in March this year, and then rose rapidly after the bombing of the Yugoslav embassy. So far, the number of Tianya registrations has reached six figures, and it is still growing rapidly.

Now those who have the ability to surf the Internet are those who are relatively well-off and have a certain level of cultural literacy. In other words, these people can basically be regarded as the elite class. First, they use platforms such as Tianya to arouse the attention of the elite class, and then publish physical books. It's a good choice right now.

In the future, there will also be many works serialized in Tianya and then quickly become popular, such as Ning Caishen's "Wulin Biography", Mingyue's "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", Lianpeng's "Lianpeng Ghost Tales", Murong Xuecun's "Chengdu, Please Forget Me Tonight" ", Kong Ergou's "Northeast Past" series, etc., it should not be difficult to add another "Food War" now, and Li Lei has invested money in Tianya before, doing publicity on his own site, and then let Ding Lei , Zhang Chaoyang, Brother Xiao Ma and the others help to stir fry, it seems that it is difficult not to be popular!

Zhang Xiu is also a young man, and he still has a certain understanding of the Internet. He even has an account on the Tianya Forum, so he is not disgusted with this plan. Write a few chapters.

These are the preparations made at the social level, and more importantly, the transmission of this information to the high-level. Li Lei has already started to do this work. He sent the sorted out materials to Tong Lao, Du Lao, Lin Yifu and others. Although they were a little surprised after reading it, they didn't react too much, because as their identities, they naturally had access to a lot of information, and they still had a relatively clear understanding of the strength of those multinational giants.

But some things have to be done. For example, the above must know that after the opening of the grain and oil market, they will definitely face the impact of foreign giants. However, in order to be able to join the WTO, they can only make concessions in the negotiations. After all, for China now, joining the WTO It is more important, but they have not made concessions in all links, and they are still stuck in the lifeline of the staple food, but unfortunately they are a little powerless in other fields.

After explaining to Li Lei, Elder Tong said, "The current situation is like this, so some concessions are a last resort! But the information you sent is still very useful. You can carefully analyze these big companies from a tactical point of view. Know what methods they will use to attack after we join the WTO, and what methods we can use to respond!"

"It's nothing more than those small tricks, first using their own advantages in public opinion, creating intimidating information, artificially pushing up or lowering the price of a certain crop, in order to crush our country's accumulation in this field, so as to achieve control of this crop The purpose of pricing power!" Li Lei is very clear about what they will do in the future, and even gave the main goal, "Because of the policy and sufficient reserves of staple food, they may not move at the beginning. Our country's demand for soybeans The volume is constantly increasing, and the total import volume is going to reach the level of tens of millions of tons every year!"

"According to the survey of Luhua Company, it is now possible to set up an oil extraction plant in the coastal area, and then use American soybeans to extract oil. The number of practitioners in this industry will also increase day by day." If the coastal area reborn in this era In a port city, it is indeed possible to make a good profit by setting up an oil mill a few years ago.

"As long as there are a few reasons for this, the first is that our country's consumption capacity continues to increase, and people's demand for edible oil is also rising. As long as the oil can be squeezed out, it will not worry about selling it! Second, soybeans in the United States are cheap. Even if it is shipped across the Pacific Ocean to China, the price is lower than that of our own soybeans; finally, the oil yield of American soybeans is also higher than that of our soybeans. The high-oil soybeans cultivated by Monsanto not only have high yields, The production cost is local, and the oil content is more than [-]% higher than our soybeans. Combining these reasons, it is a matter of course for those companies investing in oil mills on the coast to choose to buy a large amount of American soybeans. Who would be willing? Give up such an easy opportunity to make money? And there is indeed a big gap in the supply of cooking oil in our country!" Li Lei spread his hands, and now the domestic supply of cooking oil can no longer meet the demand.

"They have brought benefits to consumers to a certain extent by doing so, but it has also allowed American giants to officially intervene in the production of edible oil in our country! I estimate that they will spend a few years cultivating the market. During this period The price of soybeans will not be greatly increased, and we will continue to attract more merchants to enter the oil extraction industry with the advantages of high quality and low price, so as to expand the proportion of edible oil extracted from imported soybeans in the domestic market!"

"When more and more oil mills are built along the coast, and the soybean oil extracted from American soybeans accounts for an increasing proportion of the edible oil market, and we cannot do without American soybeans, they can do it! Release first False news such as production cuts push up soybean prices, making the owners of these oil mills invest a lot of money to buy soybeans! Then use this to drive more farmers to plant soybeans!" Li Lei talked about the four major grain merchants in the soybean war tactics.

"After the oil mills spend money and the soybeans planted by farmers emerge, they will release news that the previous reduction in soybean production was a misunderstanding. In fact, the U.S. soybean harvest this year has been bumper. Since then, the price of soybeans will be quickly dropped. , so soybean farmers will suffer large-scale losses, and oil mills will also go bankrupt due to repeated construction and competition, and the purchase of high-priced soybeans will not make a profit!"

"Then those multinational giants can take the opportunity to control these oil mills at extremely low prices. At the same time, because confidence has been hit, there will be fewer and fewer farmers willing to continue planting soybeans, so that our soybean production will continue. If it declines, the proportion of American soybeans in the Chinese market will become higher and higher, and will eventually be completely controlled by American agricultural giants!"

Tong Lao, Du Lao and the others had grim expressions. Although this was only Li Lei's guess, they could definitely tell from their ability to distinguish that these situations were very likely to happen, "Xiao Li, what you said may indeed exist. , but if we can successfully join the WTO, we have to act in accordance with the original agreement and the rules of the WTO, so there is no way to restrict the attacks of American grain merchants from the policy level. You can only use commercial means to deal with it, but you are No. 1 in the field of domestic agricultural enterprises, so tell me, what commercial means can you use to resist their attack?"

"The strength of the four major grain merchants is not comparable to that of our small start-up companies. The resources they can mobilize are far better than ours! To resist their attacks, we have to step in from big companies such as COFCO and China Grain! Especially China Grain , it is best to start stockpiling soybeans in advance from now, and when the four major grain merchants raise soybean prices, they will release reserves to stabilize grain prices, and at the same time implement soybean purchase protection prices, so that farmers can still grow soybeans profitably, so that It can maintain their motivation to plant soybeans! So as to delay the reduction of soybean planting area!" Li Lei proposed the first plan.

Huinong and Luhua both have soybean reserves, but their reserves are far from comparable to those of the four major grain merchants. It will be good if they can meet the needs of their own companies for oil extraction and feed production. It is difficult to take out a large amount of soybeans and put them in Of course, Li Lei also started the procurement and storage of soybeans in advance, but his private company wants to purchase soybeans in large quantities, and it is definitely not as convenient as Sinograin.

"This problem is not easy to solve!" Both Mr. Tong and Mr. Du were not very optimistic, "We will put forward suggestions in this regard, but it is hard to say whether we can do it, let alone the problems that are prone to occur in the food system. Even if they are asked to purchase and store in advance now, they will not be able to spend so much money. The core task of China Grain Storage is to maintain the safety of staple food, and most of the funds will be used for this!"

"Even if it's better to stock up a little more! One more ton of soybeans is equivalent to one more bullet, and it will cause them a little trouble when fighting in the future!" Li Lei sighed, but he also knew that now It is indeed embarrassing for China Grain to purchase soybeans in large quantities. Today's state-owned enterprises are not as strong as they will be more than ten years later, even for central enterprises like China Grain.

They have to spend a lot of money every year. To complete the collection and storage tasks assigned by the state, to build various modern warehouses, and to purchase various modern equipment, these all cost money, and it is not a small amount of money. The construction cost of 2500 to 3000 yuan for the storage capacity of 300 catties is calculated. A modern warehouse that can store [-] tons of grain will cost [-] million yuan in construction costs. The storage capacity required by China Grain Storage can be calculated in units of [-] million tons. It will cost tens of billions of funds to make up for it.

What's more, this is calculated based on conventional grain storage requirements such as rice, wheat, and soybeans. If cotton, oilseeds, and other types that require higher storage capacity are added, more funds will be required. , logistics, maintenance and other expenses, it is really unrealistic for China Grain to spend a large amount of money to purchase and store soybeans. Maybe it will be the same after more than ten years. Yes, a large amount of soybeans can be purchased and released every year to stabilize the price of soybeans.

Next, Li Lei talked about other plans, mainly the issue of diversified channels for oil crops, the most important of which is to point out that China's current soybean import channel is too single, and it is extremely dependent on the United States. From a commercial point of view It is not safe to hand over most of the procurement quota to one supplier, so more channels should be selected for procurement, such as Brazil and Argentina, which are also rich in soybeans.

Li Lei also said his plan, "I am planning to go to Brazil this time to see if I can sign a supply contract with Brazil and let them provide soybeans for Luhua. It would be even better if I can rent a local farm and grow soybeans myself." Okay! But I have hardly done business with Brazilians before, so I would like to ask some of you to introduce me to the channel.”

"This is easy to handle. I will call the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ask the staff in Brazil to cooperate with you; in addition, if I remember correctly, it seems that some domestic companies have invested in Brazil, mainly China Construction. Yes, they have undertaken a lot of construction contracts in Brazil. In addition, Minmetals, Baosteel and other smelting companies need to import a large amount of raw materials from Brazil every year, and have also made some investments in the local area! Oh, yes, I almost forgot Zhonglin, Brazil’s Timber resources are very rich, and the China Forestry Group is also actively approaching there, and I can introduce you to these companies.” The connections of these people should not be underestimated, and they helped Li Lei solve a big problem in one fell swoop.

"Actually, I have also made some preparations here. I have a good relationship with Mr. Ren of Huawei. They have been working in Brazil for several years and have a certain influence in the local area. They can help introduce them." Huawei has been in the past few years The development is also very fast. Not only has it defeated many foreign communication companies in the country, but it has also expanded its influence overseas. It is going to start with the markets of developing countries and eventually enter the European and American markets.

"However, the scale of Huawei is definitely not as large as that of Baosteel, Minmetals, Zhonglin, and China Construction. With their help, my work here will be much easier to carry out!"

In the next few days, Li Lei visited the headquarters of the above-mentioned companies in the capital one after another. Since there was no conflict in the business scope of the two parties, and Li Lei is now quite influential in China, they were basically more willing to work with him. Forging a good relationship, the cost paid belongs to the company, but the favor sold is your own, so why do you disagree with such a good thing?
It just so happened that Zhonglin's team was going to Brazil recently, and Li Lei happened to go with them. Li Lei was also very generous. Although our private jet has not arrived yet, can we choose to charter it?So Li Lei asked them to refund their tickets, and chartered a flight to take them to Brazil with him.

"I have traveled abroad so many times, and this is the first time for me to take a chartered flight. This is an eye-opener because of Dong Li's honor!" The leader of Zhonglin is very happy. He is worthy of being the richest man in the country.

After several days of preparation, when the agreed time was reached, the two parties went to the airport together. When they arrived at the airport and got off the bus, the leader of Zhonglin saw a special guest in Li Lei's entourage. The relatively young translator took a look. He recognized it, "Isn't this the captain of the Brazilian team, Dunga? Why is he here?"

"Deng Jia is now the captain of our Central Plains Panpan team. It happens that there is no game recently, so come home with me to have a look!" Li Lei has done a lot of preparation work.

(End of this chapter)