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Chapter 1606 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Second update, please subscribe)
For the land of the Middle East,

What is the biggest problem?
It was never Israel, and the so-called Arab-Israeli conflict was never important.

Even without Israel, there are only two possibilities for that land: secularization or extremism. There is no other way.

However, now that Riyadh is no longer exporting extreme force, there should be some good changes.

In fact, the Middle East at this time was still very secular, which was more or less due to the trusteeship of Britain and France.

To ensure SEA’s interests in the Gulf region, secularization is the only option now and in the future.

"They will move into cities, but problems such as the gap between the rich and the poor may drive them to extremes, and some people will take advantage of their ideas."

Facing Li Yian's reminder, Princess Addis sneered:
"I know that if someone wants to take advantage of them, then those people can go to hell, and I don't mind throwing them into the desert."

Because of the painful lesson of having her entire family wiped out, Princess Addis made her own decision for the sake of her son, to ensure that her son could sit firmly on the throne.

She didn't mind hanging out with the devil.

"You..."

Li Yian smiled and said:

"In fact, it is not necessary to kill them."

"If we don't kill him, what should we do?"

Addis asked back:

“Some things are actually not that complicated.”

Li Yian asked in a calm tone.

“Do you know the European Renaissance?”

Li Yian then told some jokes before the Renaissance one by one, and Princess Atis was completely stunned. She couldn't believe that there was such a connection between the two.

However, she seemed to have not figured out why Li Yian said this.

While she was thinking, Li Yian said:
"Well, before the Renaissance, there was a very popular novel in Europe called The Decameron, a collection of short stories by Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio. In the novel, 10 men and women told hundreds of stories in 10 days. They were all satirical... It was from then on that the sanctity of Catholicism was undermined.

When talking about the European Renaissance, Li Yian couldn't help but sigh.

"Before The Decameron, Catholicism was sacred and unquestionable. However, this novel, which is called the "Human Comedy" together with Dante's Divine Comedy, fundamentally undermined Catholicism. After that, some third-rate tabloids appeared in Europe. People used those newspapers to fabricate gossip about those people, but of course it was not necessarily fabricated.

They magnify some of the problems of priests, satirize priests and nuns, and do all kinds of other morally corrupt things.

Although these things are not necessarily true, when they become topics of conversation among people, those so-called sacred and unquestionable things become unbearable.

The reputation of the priests was destroyed. Without reputation, without prestige, they naturally had no influence.”

It was precisely with this ideological foundation that the Renaissance came about.

However, it took two hundred years for Europe to liberate its thoughts!

Many things are destroyed bit by bit.

In history, before the Renaissance, when priests and nuns became the topic of conversation after dinner, everything was doomed.

Ultimately, the sanctity of Catholicism was broken and destroyed in the gossip.

“Is this the secret of Europe’s rise?”

Li Yi stroked her long hair and said:
"It's not a secret, it's public, but rarely mentioned. People only talk about the liberation of European thought, but no one ever talks about how they were liberated and how they broke free from the shackles."

"It sounds a bit magical that their ideological shackles were broken by gossip."

Princess Addis sighed and Li Yian laughed:

"It's not surprising at all. This is human nature. People love gossip. No matter how righteous a person may seem on the surface, they will be very excited when talking about gossip."

Human nature is so simple... in one word - vulgar!

The more vulgar it is, the easier it is to spread.

Nodding and thinking for a moment, Princess Addis said in an extremely affirmative tone.

“I know what to choose.

What I need is someone who can threaten the throne of Shia, just like in Britain, Shia and his descendants should always be the king there, and no one can surpass him, whether in the world or in heaven. "

And so on this day they reached a consensus.

This is for the children.

It was also for the future. As for what this future would mean for that piece of land, no one knew it now. Even Li Yian, the initiator, could not predict that future.

The future is often like this, always full of various possibilities and uncertainties.

A week later, in Baghdad, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Kuwait, Hashemite Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates signed a treaty to create the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

When the organization was founded, almost no one paid attention to them. "It was just a tool used by a few countries to increase their bargaining power."

In New York, a commentator in the Wall Street Journal vowed that no one would take the organization seriously.

“What can they do?”

In a reading room of the Morgan Library, a man with a cigar in his hand looked at Jason in front of him and said.

"There's nothing they can do. The oil never belonged to them. The oil belonged to the oil companies,"

“Yes, the oil companies will never allow them to harm their own interests.”

Jason took a sip of whiskey and said:
"Just like we will never allow Brazil to confiscate our iron ore."

Our iron ore!
The world's largest iron ore mine belongs not only to Universal, but also to more than a dozen other shareholders.

These shareholders, like the Mellon family, are the rule makers of the game in the United States.

Now for Jason, who has become one of them, all he needs is to participate and become the maker of the rules of the game.

"Yes,"

The man sitting in front of Jason nodded, then looked at him and said:
"Congratulations, my friend. I heard you had another child in Brazil, is that right?"

"It's just a show."

Jason shook the whiskey glass in his hand and looked at him and said.

"After all, she is Miss Universe."

When talking about "Miss Universe", Jason deliberately emphasized his tone, as if to remind the person in front of him that he was just greedy for beauty.

"You have a very generous wife."

The man smiled and said:

“Few women can tolerate that.”

"They will get used to it. Even the king has a lover."

Jason's answer made the man burst into laughter. He said while laughing:
"Well, you are lucky. I invited you here this time because I want to talk to you about your company's investment in South America. We noticed that in the past few years, Universal Company has acquired a number of salt mines in South America. As a shareholder of the company, I want to know what the significance of these investments is.

I really don't understand what's so important about those salt mines, but Universal's investments are scattered in Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia. The company has acquired almost all the local salt mines. Salt mines? Are they important?"

In response to his question, Jason did not give a direct answer. In the eyes of many people, the salt mines there are not important at all, and can even be said to be not worth mentioning.

But what they don't know is that those salt mines are the most important part of the South American "Lithium Triangle", which is the region with the most lithium resources in the world. The South American "Lithium Triangle" consists of three countries: Bolivia, Argentina and Chile, and gathers 65% of the world's lithium resources.

Lithium is a "metal" that belongs to the future. In SEA's laboratories, a number of lithium batteries have been launched, which are likely to replace oil as the source of power for automobiles in the future.

Jason certainly didn't need to explain this, he just said casually:

"It's just an investment. You know, those salt mines are extremely cheap. I need to deepen my ties with the local dignitaries through some cheap investments."

This explanation is undoubtedly the simplest and the most deceptive.

"Because the salt mines have no value, they can buy them at a very low price, and then we buy them at a premium. In this way, they can legally get some returns, and in this way, we will be able to cooperate in more aspects in the future."

In fact, it is a bribe. Sometimes it is an inevitable part of doing business.

The man naturally understood this very well. He nodded and said:

"Indeed, the biggest problem we encounter when doing business in those places is how to deal with local politicians. The easiest way is to bribe them. Whether in South America, Africa or Asia, this is the most effective and simplest way in those countries. Your method is very good, even impeccable."

"What's important is not that they are impeccable, but that they will actually do the job after receiving the money,"

Jason continued:

"What I need is that they give me the right return at the right time in the future. This is the real purpose of this investment,"

Then he took another sip of whiskey and said,

"So, there are some more salt mines in the company's assets, but the important thing is not the salt mines themselves. On the surface, those silver mines seem to be worthless, but they are a kind of commitment between us."

When mentioning the promise, Jason deliberately emphasized his tone, and then he said:

"Sometimes this kind of commitment is priceless and may play an unexpected role at some point in the future. I think that's the case."

Is what Jason said true?
To a certain extent, this is true. In the past few years, in order to acquire the salt mines more quickly, they did use this as an excuse to acquire the salt mines with the help of those politicians. As for the premium purchase, it was a kind of economic exchange between them and those politicians, or part of the bribery.

During this process, the company also received quite a number of promises, and the value of those promises to the company was far greater than the salt mines themselves. After all, the lithium in those salt mines has not yet been truly developed and applied, so naturally there is no commercial value to speak of.

But what about the future?
Will lithium become an extremely important mineral resource in the future as my father said, and can it replace oil to a certain extent?
Jason didn't understand this, but he was just carrying out his father's plan step by step.

By firmly grasping the world's largest "lithium triangle" in their own hands, and controlling the supply of lithium, the company can ensure that in the future when the new energy era comes, it will be able to control the world's "oil pipeline", just like...

OPEC?
Thinking of this, Jason frowned and said to himself:
"Can this organization really control the world's YouTube?"

(End of this chapter)