I Have a Mansion in the Post-apocalyptic World Chapter 805: Acquisition blocked

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Three days later, the number of applicants exceeded 10 million.

The immigration without threshold is first welcomed by the poor people in Africa and the Middle East. Those who are more or less exposed to the Internet and longing for a better life in the outside world appear extremely enthusiastic when signing up.

Jiang Chen apparently failed these people’s expectations.

For volunteers from backward areas, Xinghuan Trade is extremely cautious. Few applicants from Africa are selected, and few people in the Middle East are eligible for interviews.

It ’s not because of racial discrimination, but because of security and other factors. Lifestyle habits, religious customs, and even food culture may all bring hidden dangers to colonization. In order to reduce the risk in this regard, any applicant who takes a negative opinion on secularization will not be eligible for interview.

After the interview results came out, Liu Qingpeng could n’t even believe that he was the only one with a high school education. !

Happiness came too suddenly. He excitedly took a few co-workers in the factory out for a drink. The next day he resigned from the person in charge of the factory and took his identity information. The embassy of the new country got a work visa to go to Koror Island.

Dragging the suitcase and getting off the plane at the airport of Koror Island, he soon saw CMB, who was responsible for picking up and dropping off volunteers.

There are mostly yellow races on CMB buses, and even his fellow villagers. There are also many people from Europe, the United States, and Russia sitting in the car, but because of the language barrier, he just looked at these foreign devils curiously, and did not communicate with them too much.

The CMB bus drove a ferry, and then the ferry drove to Anga Island, and then the CMB bus took them to the volunteer community next to the training center.

From now on, they will live here, receiving 4 hours of on-site training and 4 hours of VR training every day.

After six months, they will be divided into different types of jobs for specialized training based on their performance in training. A year later, their status will be changed from temporary workers to regular workers. Although they are still volunteers, they can already be regarded as quasi-astronauts.

The construction of the space elevator will be synchronized with the moon colonization plan. One year later, the star ring trade will change back to select 200 people from these volunteers. The first step in colonization!

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After the space elevator is completed, a large number of astronauts are needed in the space station.

The astronaut training center started construction long before the Space Elevator Program was launched. On the one hand, it is to provide the staff of the space station to Xinghuan Trade; on the other hand, it is to provide basic aerospace training to the nationals of the new country, at least to adapt to the gravity-free environment!

“At present, 30,000 volunteers have arrived in the new country for training. Despite the cooperation with the future tourism, the entire aerospace training center is still in a loss. According to the estimation of the Ministry of Finance, the deficit of the aerospace training center this month Probably between US $ 8 million and US $ 10 million. “

“Did you lose 100 million a year?”

When hearing Xia Shiyu’s report, Jiang Chen’s expression did not change much.

The aerospace project is a bottomless hole. He has already made preparations for losing money in the early stage. More than 100 billion yuan have been lost. Will he still care about 100 million in this area?

“The budget of the training center remains the same, but let Wei Yun think of ways to see if this aerospace training center can make more use of tourism. Do n’t ask for your own profits and losses, do n’t lose money. It ’s too powerful, and I do n’t have any other requirements. “

“I will talk to him.” Xia Shiyu nodded.

“In addition, how is the negotiation progress with SunRice Australia?” Putting the astronaut training aside, Jiang Chen asked another question he cares about, that is, the future space elevator space station and the moon colonization Food supply at the base.

“SunRice rejected our proposal to acquire farms in northern Australia, even if we offered an 11% premium. According to SunRice ’s person in charge of negotiating with us, this decision was made by Cargill, the parent company. Of. “

As we all know, 80% of the global grain market is controlled by the four major ABCD companies. The four companies are American ADM, American Bunge, American Cargill, and French Louis Dreyfus. It can be said that the global food prices are basically determined by these four companies.

It is not difficult to find that all three companies belong to the United States. It can be said that the global food market is basically under the control of the United States. Although the United States has never declared that the food market must be settled in US dollars, the rice in the bowl of the global people has never left the control of the United States.

In 2004, the soybean crisis caused the collective collapse of Chinese squeezing enterprises. Americans gave a painful “trade class” to Chinese who had just joined the WTO less than three years ago. Until today, more than a decade later, China’s soybean planting industry has not slowed down from the crisis that year.

Know that before 2004, China was one of the major soybean-producing countries.

It is no longer a barbaric Victorian era. The battlefield between nations has not depended on the brutality of real swords and guns. By using the invisible lever of the market, even nuclear weapons cannot be achieved.

Whether it is an orbital space station or a lunar base, the only industry that is difficult to be self-sufficient is food production. Even if it is done by hydroponics and air cultivation, it is difficult to control its high production cost.

With the space elevator, the cost of delivering food to the outer space will be greatly reduced, but it is still difficult to get rid of the control of the four ABCD companies from the source.

At present, the food of the new country basically depends on imports from Australia. If Jiang Chen strikes the US dollar by then, the United States, whose face is torn, will undoubtedly beat the new country in the food market.

New countries that rely entirely on imports for the production of cereals and dairy products are undefended in the grain market.

There is only one way to minimize the price fluctuations in the international market, that is, to make their own production, from the importing country to the exporting country! Even if the rice is not grown from the land of Koror Island, it must be grown from overseas farms controlled by the new country’s own enterprises.

Self-sufficiency in food production is crucial for the future development of Xinghuan Trade! So Jiang Chen ordered Xia Shiyu to propose an asset acquisition plan to SunRice, a company that monopolizes Australian grain exports, hoping to acquire a farm of 400,000 acres in northern Australia.

However, it is regrettable that Cargill, which owns SunRice, is not willing to give up the farm in its hands, although the 400,000 mu farm only accounts for a small part of the cultivated land held by SunRice.

“How about contacting Cargill of the United States?”

“They don’t want to talk at all.” Xia Shiyu shook his head. “My suggestion is to register a subsidiary in Australia and purchase a farm from an Australian farmer through the subsidiary … Although the cost and efficiency of doing so are not directly proportional, the difficulty is certainly much smaller than the extraction of teeth from the tiger’s mouth.”

As one of the granaries in Asia, the Australian agricultural product market is quite mature, and no farmer is willing to sell the farm in his hands. After all, many Australian farmers have lived on this for generations. No other work can be found.

Unless the future group has a high premium, they will not nod at all.

Jiang Chen also had a hard time.

This place in Xinguo is good, but the area is smaller. When he chose the base area at that time, he didn’t think so far, thinking about economic globalization anyway, he could buy anything with money and lack of it. However, when the plate was now larger, he realized that things were not as simple as he had thought.

Jenima ’s troubles, if only thousands of square kilometers of territorial sea can be replaced by land … wait!

Thinking of this, Jiang Chen’s eyes suddenly lighted up.

Is it enough to cover the farm at sea? (To be continued.)