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"No, Huinong has always been law-abiding at home and abroad, so how could he do something illegal? And take a step back, even if there was, it was committed in Brazil. What does it have to do with the Americans? Why can't Canada The police have to cooperate with the U.S. to arrest people?" The news spread back to China, and the leaders of COFCO, China Grain Storage, China Shipping, COSCO, Bank of China and other related companies were stunned.

On the one hand, they really sympathize with Huinong’s employees. After all, they are on the same front now. On the other hand, they often go abroad in their daily work. Now that the Americans can arrest ordinary employees, they may be arrested in the future. This matter Who is not afraid.

"Is it the long-arm jurisdiction of the Americans!" Li Lei explained to them, "This is a concept in American civil litigation. When a right or interest arises, the courts have jurisdiction over actions arising out of that act, initially for courts whose jurisdiction over persons extends to outsiders outside the state, and primarily for transactions and torts; later, not only Applicable to interstate litigation in the United States, it also extends internationally, including long-arm jurisdiction over foreign nationals."

"It is matched with the "Foreign Bribery Act" of the United States, which is the same as the long-arm jurisdiction. At the beginning, this act mainly restricted the use of individuals by American companies to bribe foreign government officials, and imposed restrictions on companies listed in the United States. China’s financial and accounting system has made relevant regulations, and later it became more concerned about foreigners than Americans, and American companies often use this method to deal with competitors in overseas competition!”

The most famous case is the Alstom incident. Alstom is one of the core multinational giants in France. Its business covers more than 70 countries and regions around the world. They built the fastest and most environmentally friendly railway trains in the world. At the same time, they produced The gas turbine is the most important power heart of aircraft, carrier aircraft and natural gas power plants, and can be said to be the leader of global transportation and power infrastructure.

Alstom has also gained tens of billions of dollars in annual sales by virtue of its technological advantages in this field, and has repeatedly defeated American companies in the international market to win big orders; even if normal business competition can beat Alstom in some projects, But he couldn't completely control the company, so the conspiracy came.

Americans arrested then-Alstom executive Frédéric Pierucci in New York and charged him with bribing Indonesian officials to win a power plant contract in violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act In the end, Alstom was forced to pay a fine of $7.72 million and had to sell control of the power division to its biggest competitor in the United States, General Electric.

Later, in the business competition with China, the Americans also used this method many times. Now that they have arrested the employees of Huinong, Li Lei is both angry and thankful. The anger is because this shameless method has fallen on him. On the head, fortunately, I had prepared for it long ago, and Huinong was not directly involved in these matters. These employees will suffer some hardships, but they will return safely in the end.

More importantly, this will also remind the country in advance, so that they can see the bad methods of the Americans, and they will be more prepared when they go to sea in the future, so as to reduce losses as much as possible; and the Americans are using this method now, It can also show that the four major grain merchants are running out of cards. This is a tactic that will only be used after conventional methods fail, and it is not necessary to show it at all in normal times.

"I have already asked people to contact lawyers in the United States, and I will bail them out as soon as possible. They are working hard outside, and I can't let them be wronged; after they come out, let the lawyers deal with these things slowly. In the end, there is a high probability that it will be nothing." Li Lei said that those American lawyers are more optimistic about this case, and it is nothing more than a waste of time, and they will definitely be fine.

"That's good, we can't let our comrades sweat and cry! Now that the Americans have started to use means other than business, we can't just watch, we have to go to the leadership to respond." That's what it said. , but considering the current national power comparison between China and the United States, and China's entry into the WTO, it needs more strategic arrangements for development. In the end, it is estimated that there is a high probability that there will be only a few protests, but it is better than nothing.

"In fact, this is a good thing. The four major grain merchants have used these methods, which means that they have no way to achieve their goals in the commercial field, so they have to resort to out-of-the-box tricks! Our diversification strategy has already Initial results!" Seeing that everyone's morale was a bit low, Li Lei began to cheer them up.

Huh?What he said seems to make sense!Hearing this, other leaders instinctively thought of themselves. When we compete in business, we don't use our status and status to suppress people from the beginning. If normal business competition can achieve its goal, there is really no need to touch these things, because This is also costly.

The leaders immediately cheered up, "Mr. Li, if you say that, we will win this battle?"

Li Lei shook his head, "It can only be said that the prelude battle has come to an end, the temptations of both sides have been completed, and it is time for the final tit-for-tat decisive battle. Only by defeating the opponent in the decisive battle can we win. Now it is at most a slight It’s just a small bargain!”

Now the price of soybeans is far from meeting the expectations of the four major grain merchants, and Li Lei and the others have made a lot of money in the futures market, and have also achieved certain results in overseas procurement, so they currently have the upper hand.

However, the four major grain merchants still have advantages. "Although some results have been achieved, the core problem has not been resolved. There is still a shortage of soybeans, we still need to import a large amount, and at the same time, we still lack sufficient reserves; the four major grain merchants will definitely not let go. Once this opportunity is passed, once other methods fail, they will adopt a more direct strategy, which is to snap up soybeans with us in the domestic market!"

In the soybean war in the original history, the four major grain merchants won the victory without any effort, and they did not use this finale method; After frying up the price of wheat and then making a profit, Sinograin immediately made a move to stabilize the price of grain by selling the reserve grain in the market, suppressing the increase in wheat price.

Every time Sinograin throws it out, the four major grain merchants eat it all. They just want to see how much grain China has; what makes them helpless is that China’s wheat reserves are far more abundant than soybeans. At the beginning, Sinograin was cautious In the first ten days and a half months, it was thrown away once a week, and then once a day or two later, no matter how much the four major grain merchants bought, China Grain would continue to produce wheat.

The four major grain merchants couldn't hold on and exploded one after another, and China Grain took the opportunity to recycle the wheat at a low price. Not only did it not reduce the national reserve, but it also made a lot of money, bloodletting the four major grain merchants.

Sinograin was able to win the wheat war because China is the world's largest wheat producer and has massive wheat reserves. Any force that wants to speculate on wheat with China will definitely lose everything; but in the field of soybeans, China does not have such a big The advantage is that China Grain Reserves, which is still relatively weak, is already struggling to keep its staple food safe, and there is no way to buy soybeans by itself.

So if the four major grain merchants really start buying soybeans in China, they may not be able to withstand it, so they quickly panicked, "Or should we introduce policies immediately? Restrict foreign-funded enterprises from operating soybeans in China? They can use off-the-board tricks, so can we!"

"No!" Li Lei and several leaders said at the same time, "We have managed to drive down the price of soybeans. If such a policy is introduced, isn't it telling others that our soybean reserves are not enough? Since then, the price of soybeans has remained low. Can't go to the sky?"

This is considered from the perspective of the market, and some people analyze it from the perspective of policy, "We have only joined the WTO for a few years? Now the whole country is attracting foreign investment. If we have such a policy now, isn't it against the country? Such a policy Can we pass? What will the superiors think of us?"

Most of the people present were leaders of state-owned enterprises. They nodded repeatedly when they heard these words. Yes, we cannot go against the country's major policies.

"It's like Zhajinhua stealing chickens. The more confident you are at this time, they want to buy us and sell them! The more they sell, the more they believe that we have enough inventory, and they will The more we dare not continue to invest money! But if we hesitate a little, a lot of money will pour in immediately!" Now that we don't have enough reserves, we can only steal chickens and scare the enemy away with bluff.

Now, all the bells and whistles of the two sides have been exhausted, so there is only the simplest contest left. The four major grain merchants buy soybeans to raise prices, and Li Lei and China Grain Storage and other institutions sell soybeans to lower prices. Winning in the end depends on how much reserves they have.

"While selling, release false news. Today it is said that it has signed a 200 million tons order with Brazil, and tomorrow it will say that several shipments of soybeans from Argentina are already being loaded! Two-pronged approach, first stabilize the domestic oil extraction companies, as long as they do not participate, How much money can the four major grain merchants spend?" Does this mean that the four major grain merchants have no money? This is the advantage of playing at home.

"At this point, there is only this way! Let's fight them with real swords and guns! Let's fight for a few years of peace!" The leader of China Grain Storage punched the table. He felt very aggrieved, but he couldn't help it. He didn't have enough cards in his hand, so he could only deal with it like this.

It will be fine in a few years. According to the current speed, China Grain will definitely be able to make basic oil crop reserves in a few years. At that time, with the cards in hand, it will not be easy for the four major grain merchants to attack.

A decision was made at the meeting, and the next steps are all kinds of meticulous preparations. Some people are responsible for collecting information and paying attention to abnormal fund movements, some are responsible for coordinating the selling, and some people plan to use the short-term price changes in the futures market to cause losses to the four major grain merchants. Everyone up and down was in a tense and busy situation.

Finally, the funds of the four major grain merchants began to flow into the futures trading market, and they were extraordinary as soon as they made a move. They directly wiped out the sell orders in the market, and immediately attracted the attention of other speculators and buyers. What happened?How can someone be so generous?Has anyone heard the news that the price of soybeans is about to increase?So what are we waiting for?Hurry up to keep up, so some retail investors also rushed into the market.

"They've started! Ship the goods immediately and lower the price!" Everyone realized that the time for the decisive battle had finally arrived.

Sinograin left and held a press conference, announcing that they would be selling the soybeans they had in their hands. The first tranche was 50 tons. Seeing such a large sum of money from Sinograin, the price of soybeans in the futures market suddenly fell. The four major grain merchants lost a lot, but Huinong, China Grain Storage, COFCO and other institutions made a lot of money.

But the four major grain merchants are not in a hurry at all, it is only 50 tons, what is the use of it?This year, China's soybean shortage is at least 2000 million tons. Let me see how much reserves you can spare to stabilize the price?So they made a decisive move, directly took over all the sales of China Grain Reserves, and continued to sweep goods in the futures market.

"Toss it again!" Another 50 tons of storage was thrown out. At the same time, COFCO also announced in the media that they had reached an agreement with a Brazilian company and purchased 200 million tons of soybeans from them. Purchase 300 million tons.

China Shipping and COSCO also stood up, announcing that several of their bulk carriers have completed loading soybeans and are preparing to return home from Argentina and are expected to arrive in Shanghai next month.

Huinong also held a press conference. Li Lei and the leaders of relevant departments attended together, announcing that Huinong's salt-alkali-resistant soybean project has been approved as a national key support project. From next year, relevant state departments will work together with Huinong , large-scale planting in many parts of the country, the situation that China's total soybean imports have remained high for a long time is expected to be improved.

As the news spread, companies such as the Hope Department, Dongfang Department, Wanxiang Sannong, etc. who have been friends with Li Lei have also expressed their support. They have also announced their own salt-alkali-tolerant soybean planting plans. These companies will also invest a lot of money in Contract saline-alkali land, plant soybeans and then produce soybean oil and soybean meal.

These companies all have a very large demand for soybeans, and they don't want to see the price of soybeans soar, so when Li Lei called, they agreed to help.

With so many companies speaking out at the same time, the attack of the four major grain merchants was repelled again, and domestic soybean prices fell again.

Domestic soybean prices have gone up and down like a roller coaster in the past few days. Speculators and oil extraction companies sometimes cheer and sometimes cry, not knowing how to deal with it.