Chapter 161: Fame and fortune
"Sell."
Tang Shu's answer was unequivocal, "The development of Xiangmi Lake is too strong. Our newly established real estate company is just a little shrimp in the eyes of the other parties. It has really driven them into panic. They have conspired and conspired. We can't resist it."
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Therefore, Tang Shu's strategy is to stop when the situation is good while ensuring that he can make a huge profit.
Regarding Tang Shu's judgment, Zhong Hui agreed. Now the Shenzhen City Government has adjusted the land acquisition price of the Xiangmi Lake land, which has almost doubled. If it were sold at this price, it would only cost less than two yuan.
Within a month, the five hundred thousand in their hands had doubled.
"Okay, if we really start planning for the second phase, we will try to raise the price to 10,000." In this way, even the interest from the Hong Kong Island bank will be earned back.
"Sister Zhong, you can control the price, but you must not make the other party unhappy. After all, what we are looking for is long-term cooperation in the future, and we cannot kill the goose to obtain the eggs."
Zhong Hui nodded: "By the way, there is one more thing I want to tell you. There seems to be something wrong with the situation in South America."
Tang Shu frowned slightly. He knew the urinal nature of the world's four major grain merchants. This group of people were flying around the world like locusts. As long as they passed over a place, the local agriculture would be devastated.
Destroy, they can't just let Brazil, which produces millions of tons of wheat, go without any reason.
"Could it be that these people's conscience has discovered it? It's impossible."
Zhong Hui shook his head: "As you expected, after the harvest season, all the wheat in Brazil was purchased by grain merchants, and their food aid only lasted for two months. By the end of February, there was no flour for sale on the market.
Already."
"Then wheat with foreign trademarks was put on the market, and the price was three times that of local wheat. In fact, these were local wheat that had been purchased before and had not yet been shipped out of Brazil."
Facts have proved that all this was within Tang Shu's expectation, and the Shen family also took advantage of this opportunity that Tang Shu had anticipated and shipped eight dry tons of wheat purchased in advance to Rio de Janeiro at a price twice as high as the purchase price.
I sold it and made nearly double the profit from it.
Ronald, the mayor of Rio, is also a wise man. As early as when the four major grain merchants promised the government to distribute relief grains for a year, he realized that this was a trap.
How to effectively control a country and use economic, political and military hegemony? In fact, it is neither. If you really want to successfully strangle a country, the most effective and lethal weapon is to control its food.
In 1954, the United States officially promulgated Public Law No. 480, which allowed the United States to provide free food aid to countries in need of food in the form of sales and donations. This bill stipulated that food aid from the United States could be denominated in the currency of the aiding country.
Settlement is made, of which 25% is used for transportation and other various costs, and the remaining 75% is given to the government of the recipient country, but the recipient country wants to use the money
, must get the consent of Lao Mei.
It is through this despicable method that the United States creates a "moral image" in the global market, and gradually begins to control the jobs of people around the world by using so-called food aid, genetically modified revolution, and food financialization.
Look at the current fate of traditional agricultural countries such as Mexico, Argentina and Chile. The former large grain producers were not even able to be self-sufficient, and they were all forced to transfer their food lifeline to the hands of the United States.
But now, the Americans who have integrated Latin America have not stopped moving south, and have finally extended their evil hands to Brazil.
Although the agreement signed between the government and the four major grain merchants clearly stipulates that the grain aid must be distributed by the local government rather than sold, which is equivalent to distributing all 75% of the money to the people.
It will not become dead money sitting in the bank that cannot be used.
But the other party had obviously expected that they would take advantage of the free food aid to buy local wheat at high land prices. At this time, Ronald knew that the supply of aid food would definitely be cut off in the near future. This was the purpose of the four major grain merchants to deal with the Brazilian government.
plan drawn up by the agreement.
Even though he had taken precautions in advance, he still could not stop local wheat from being continuously sent to the warehouses of the four major grain merchants. Because it was the farmers who sold the wheat.
Now that there is free food aid on the market, the wheat in their hands is worthless. Instead of piling it up at home to get moldy, they might as well sell it all. The reminder from the city government is a piece of paper for them, because they have no fear that the supply will be cut off in the future.
, as the Brazilian bourgeoisie, how could they worry that they would starve to death.
In this food war caused by wheat, only ordinary people who don't have any surplus food in their hands suffer.
You can probably guess what happened to all this. Facing the menacing Americans and short-sighted farmers, all Ronald could do was to look up to the sky and sigh.
When the harvest season passed, all the local wheat on the market was sold out. After the supply was cut off, the civilians began to attack the government. Several shops selling wheat suddenly appeared in the city. Ronald knew that when the four major grain merchants showed their fangs
arrive.
Sure enough, the unified selling price they marked made everyone with their pockets ready to buy stunned on the spot, because the big red number on the notice placed in front of the door was actually three times the original price of the food.
As soon as such a crushing price came out, the whole city of Rio wailed, but in order to no longer go hungry, the citizens could only spend a lot of Cruzeiro (the name of Brazilian currency) to buy it, and at the same time, they would be
The local farmer who became a major source of resentment cursed him profusely.
The turning point that Ronald didn't expect came when a grain store suddenly opened. The price they offered was a full 30% lower than the four major grain merchants.
Although the price is still high, it is acceptable to most people. At least more than 80% of families in Rio will not go bankrupt because of food.
What surprised Ronald even more was that the grain stores did not pay too much attention to this store's behavior at first. They believed that their opponents' stocks would not be too much, and they took advantage of their own offensive to clear out their stocks.
But even though it was robbed by Rio residents, this store was still open on time every day.
After persisting for a while, the Americans who could no longer sit still began to lower their prices. The price of food in Rio actually dropped back to normal levels under the pressure of both parties.
Looking across the country, all other cities fell, and even the capital Brasilia was not spared. This caused people in other cities to use Rio to purchase wheat. In the next few days, the Shen family's grain store warehouse was instantly moved.
Although empty. Although it helped the city of Rio withstand the fierce attack of the Yankees for more than a month, the food war ended with the complete loss of Brazil.
But what is gratifying is that Brazilians should be able to realize through this incident that there is no free lunch in the world. It may not be that easy for the four major grain merchants to make a comeback next year.
Faced with the Shen family's generous help, Ronald was deeply moved and awarded the manager of the grain store the title of Honorary Citizen of Rio. After this wave of business war, the Shen family, who had made millions in tears, was indeed both profitable and famous.
, become the biggest beneficiary.
"But this incident also caused the other party to list the Shen family as their number one opponent. Perhaps we should prepare a response plan for the four major grain merchants to attack the mainland."
He obviously just wanted to take advantage of the situation, but he didn't expect that it would cause such a big trouble for the country. This was something that the old man of the Shen family did not expect, so Zhong Hui said that something was wrong with the development of this matter.
"Then let them do it. I can be sure that the four major grain merchants who have no understanding of the mainland's national conditions will definitely fail."
Looking at the slightly joking expression on Tang Shu's face, Zhong Hui suddenly realized a question: "Did you already know that this would be the case, so you asked the Shen family to go to Brazil to buy wheat?"
"Sister Zhong, you think too highly of me." Tang Shu explained with a smile, "Even if we don't go to Brazil to make this quick money, these bandits will still focus on this piece of fat in the mainland. The four major grain merchants are attacking the mainland grain market."
Chapter completed!