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Chapter 463 Darkness Chen Cang
There are three steps to hoarding soybeans, buying soybeans, transporting soybeans back, and finding a place to store them. If you buy hundreds or thousands of tons, these problems are easy to solve, but once it rises to [-] tons, [-] tons, or even millions Ton level, this is not an easy task, but to deal with the attack of the four major grain merchants, the soybeans that need to be hoarded must be at least one million tons, otherwise it will be useless at all.

So Li Lei found the leaders of several related companies, such as China Grain Storage, they have the most warehouses in China, and China COSCO and China Shipping, if they want to transport these soybeans back, they also need their ocean-going cargo ships, general bulk cargo The capacity of the ship is between 100 tons and [-] tons. To transport [-] million tons of soybeans requires the carrying capacity of more than ten to twenty ships. Without the cooperation of China Shipping and China COSCO, such a large order would be difficult to hide.

"Now that the price of soybeans has risen so much, it shows that the four major grain merchants have already planned to attack the domestic soybean industry. It is very irrational that the domestic oil-extracting plants are rushing to launch. The soybeans on the market cannot satisfy such a situation." In order to compete for raw materials, they will definitely increase the price and then push up the price of soybeans again; at the same time, the four major grain merchants will also release some false news to make the price higher, such as insufficient soybean reserves in the United States , Because of the weather and other reasons, the US soybean production has been reduced, etc.!"

"In this way, the price of soybeans will grow higher and higher. They first make a fortune by selling soybeans, and then suddenly release the goods and smash them on the market, which can completely smash our domestic soybean prices! Oil mills find that they spend high prices to buy The oil squeezed from soybeans cannot be sold at all, and the capital chain is also broken, so they can only sell the oil mills cheaply; farmers find that the soybeans they have worked so hard to grow cannot even recover the cost! They will definitely not Will plant again, so that our soybean gap will be even bigger in the next year!"

"If this battle is not won, we will be under the control of the four major grain merchants for several years in the future, and the pricing power of soybeans will be handed over to others. They can arbitrarily earn excess profits by manipulating the supply and purchase price of soybeans!" Not only imported soybeans are like this, domestic soybeans will also be controlled by them.

First, the price of domestic soybeans will definitely be affected by imported soybeans. If imported soybeans are cheap, domestic soybeans will not be able to sell at a higher price; second, most domestic soybeans are sold to oil mills. The price has caused a large number of domestic oil mills to go bankrupt before purchasing. This process can at least control more than [-]% of the domestic soybean crushing capacity, and it is easy to form a price alliance, agreeing on a unified purchase price in advance, so that the pricing power of domestic soybeans It is also in their hands.

This is not alarmist talk by Li Lei. These are real events. China suffered a crushing defeat in the soybean war and lost control of soybeans. It was not until the economic crisis broke out in Europe and the United States in 2008 that Sinograin took the opportunity to buy a large amount of soybeans at a low price. The national strategic storage, and then when the four major grain merchants want to continue to speculate on soybeans, they release the stored grain to stabilize the price, which can be regarded as a slight recovery of the situation.

However, it still cannot change the current situation that soybean oil is controlled by foreign capital. Yihai Kerry and ADM control more than half of China's soybean oil market, and COFCO's share of Fulinmen is far behind them; therefore, Li Lei has to keep the price of soybeans this time , but also to control the crushing capacity of vegetable oil, so he called the leaders of COFCO, and they will have to contribute to the acquisition of the oil mill.

"If you say that, I can also feel that the scale of this contest is definitely not small, and the funds that need to be used are even more astronomical. We still have some grain storage in the warehouse, but in terms of money, there is really no way! We have more than enough energy to build warehouses and store staple grains such as rice, corn, and wheat!" The leaders of China Grain Reserves looked embarrassed, and they are far from being as powerful as they will be in the future.

"In terms of funds, I have already raised part of them, and I am also operating in the Chicago futures market. The four major grain merchants will definitely increase the price of soybeans. Now that I know their purpose, it will be easier to make money!" This is the same as playing poker. Knowing the opponent's cards in advance will definitely take advantage.

But it is not without risk. The four major grain merchants do want to push up prices, but it does not mean that they will not create some price fluctuations in the process, and harvest a wave of speculators. How to prevent price fluctuations from making them explode warehouse, which requires a fairly high level of operation.

So regardless of whether it is COFCO or Sinograin, although the two companies also have futures departments, they do not have the courage to try their skills in the Chicago futures market. We are in the country, Li Dong, you have to be careful!"

"The domestic futures market is also a very important battlefield. If the speed and magnitude of the price increase can be delayed, it will also deal a big blow to the four major grain merchants!" Ability, if you go to Chicago, you will definitely be eaten alive.

The New Century Company under his control has also undergone more than ten years of tempering, and has fought fierce battles before it has the ability to compete with the four major grain merchants; for this contest, they have prepared for a long time and registered a lot in advance With vest companies, vest accounts, and abundant funds, it may not be so easy for the four major grain merchants to easily achieve their goals.

"It's easy to talk about ships. Mr. Li sent us the information in advance of when to use the ship, how many ships to use, and which route to take, and we will make arrangements for you immediately!" The leaders of COSCO and China Shipping are much more relaxed. Well, anyway, it's profitable to ship goods to anyone, and now they have the opportunity to receive big orders, which must be a good thing for them, and it's not too big a problem as for confidentiality.

"Shanghai, Dalian, Qingdao, Ningbo, Xiamen, and Guangzhou are not very convenient ports. Most of the American soybeans go to these ports. There are many oil mills near the ports. If there are whole ships of soybeans coming in and out, it will definitely be To arouse their vigilance, so we have to choose less popular ports, and warehouses are best kept away from these places!" Li Lei will not underestimate the intelligence capabilities of the four major grain merchants.

So although doing so will definitely increase costs, he did not choose the more mature soybean transportation and storage solutions at present. It is better to spend more money than to fail in the future.

"This is a bit difficult!" The leader of China Grain Storage frowned. He originally planned to lend Li Lei the warehouses near the port, but now, it seems that he has to find another place. Not only must it be not far from an unpopular port, but it must also have massive storage capacity, which really takes some effort.

However, as long as the problem can be solved, a solution can always be found. The warehouses of China Grain Storage are all over the country. I asked the secretary to look through the list, and finally found a place that can meet Li Lei's needs. Only a little preparation is needed to free up enough warehouses to secretly store these soybeans.

At the same time, the procurement team sent by Li Lei also began to go to soybean exporting countries other than the United States and Canada. When they went to contact local suppliers, most of them presented their identities as coming from Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. Huinong There are branches in these countries, and it is easy to find a few local people to come forward. This is also done for the sake of confidentiality.

Southeast Asia is densely populated, and there is also a great demand for vegetable oil and feed. It is reasonable for businessmen from these places to come to purchase soybeans, and Huinong has registered many companies in these countries in advance, and did not purchase directly in the name of Huinong Branch. Another layer of insurance.

Chen Guangxing is the younger brother of Chen Guangjun, the head of Huinong Vietnam Branch. Huinong helped him register a company called Hanoi Xingwang Feed, and then he took people to the port of Odessa, Ukraine, to contact soybean suppliers here. Ukraine is a major food exporting country. Every year, a large amount of soybeans are exported from here, and then cross the Black Sea, or sell westward to Western European countries through the Mediterranean Sea, or eastward through the Suez Canal, and sell them to West Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Not too unusual here.

By inquiring good information in advance, Chen Guangxing quickly found a suitable supplier, went to his warehouse to check the specific grade and quality of soybeans, signed a formal purchase contract after confirming that it was correct, and then the supplier arranged for someone to transport the soybeans from the warehouse When the soybeans arrive at the port, the captain of the bulk carrier starts to clean up the warehouse. When the soybeans arrive at the port, there will be special loading and unloading equipment to suck the soybeans in and then spit them out into the bulk warehouse.

It took four full days to load [-] tons of soybeans. During the loading process, the grain mountain was covered with various birds. The birds in the grain import and export seaport are lucky, because they often meet people who eat the free buffet time; as lucky as them are the fish in the port, because grain must have fallen into the sea during the loading process, and there were hundreds of tons of soybeans that could not be loaded in when the cabin was finally closed. High, so it was thrown into the sea directly. After all, the fish eat more than the birds.

After loading, the cargo ship departs from the port of Odessa, crosses the Black Sea, enters the Mediterranean through the Turkish Strait, enters the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal, the Mandeb Strait, and finally enters the South China Sea through the Strait of Malacca. This process takes about 25 to [-] hours. Days, the error depends on the sea conditions and the queuing of the Suez Canal, and then the cargo ship did not arrive directly in Vietnam, but berthed in Xiangjiang.

The reason Chen Guangxing gave was to change boats here and go up the Red River directly to Hanoi, which is much cheaper than unloading in Vietnam and then changing to trains or cars, because Xiangjiang is a famous international duty-free transit port, and this operation is relatively normal. So it didn't arouse other people's suspicion.

After unloading the soybean cargo ship and leaving, Chen Guangxing did change to a small boat, and then sailed around the Qiongzhou Strait to the Beibu Gulf. However, after entering the Beibu Gulf, he did not head west to Haiphong Port at the mouth of the Red River, but turned around and headed north to anchor at FCG City in Guangxi.

With the help of COSCO, China Shipping and China Grain Storage, all the procedures are completely legal. After the unloading is completed as quickly as possible, this batch of soybeans will be sent to a nearby warehouse for storage. It stands to reason that since the batch of soybeans came in through customs Yes, it must appear in this year's import and export statistics list, but in order to catch the four major grain merchants by surprise, China Grain has used some means to hide it for the time being.

As for the storage data of Sinograin itself, it is highly confidential and will never be released to the public. Only a small number of people know about it, so there is basically no need to worry about leaks in this regard; moreover, Guangxi is neither a soybean import port nor a soybean-produced area. Being here is even more confidential.

The only bad thing is that the weather in Guangxi is relatively hot and humid, which adds a certain cost to the storage of soybeans, but it is still the same as the previous sentence, as long as it can successfully resist the attacks of the four major grain merchants, these costs are worthwhile, and in the soybean war The extra storage and shipping costs are nothing compared to the losses from the fiasco.

Similar situations are happening in many soybean-producing countries around the world. Chen Guangxing went to Ukraine to purchase soybeans in the name of Hanoi Feed Company; while an Indonesian businessman named Huang Meilan went to Argentina to communicate with local suppliers in the name of Jakarta Meilan Feed Company. The merchant contacted and placed an order to purchase 15 tons of soybeans. When the soybeans arrived in Southeast Asia, they were also converted into cargo ships of domestic shipping companies at the transit port and continued to be sent to Guangxi for storage. Huang Meilan’s passport showed that she was indeed Indonesians, but in a place like Indonesia, as long as you are willing to spend money, buying a passport is too easy.

Another Thai businessman named Zhang Libo also went to Bolivia in the name of setting up a feed factory and bought [-] tons of soybeans from here; a Malaysian businessman named Liang Jingyun successively placed [-] tons of soybean orders in Paraguay and Uruguay.
For a while, businessmen from various countries in Southeast Asia placed orders to buy soybeans from soybean exporting countries around the world except the United States and Canada. In fact, their actions were relatively scattered, and each purchase was not particularly large, so they did not arouse the suspicion of the four major grain merchants.

Li Lei himself attracted firepower in Brazil. He appeared in Brazil openly and bought farms and soybeans everywhere. Of course, the four major grain merchants would not allow him to do so. The two forces were fighting fiercely in Brazil, but unfortunately the four major grain merchants did not It is clear that Li Lei is just building plank roads in Brazil, and he does not pin his hope of buying soybeans on Brazil. The real killer moves are Chen Guangxing, Liang Jingyun and other subordinates who are building plank roads in other countries.

Both sides of this soybean war are secretly preparing, but other soybean practitioners have not yet realized the danger. In this way, the time has come to 2003 without knowing it.

(End of this chapter)