RPAGF #447 - New Problem
#447 - New Problem
Originally, getting involved in the affairs of John Bull's family while they were in cahoots with the Rogue Eagle was difficult.
But now, because of the Suez Canal, Little Brother wants to turn the tables and secure his throne, naturally hoping to completely trample the former king underfoot, preventing any chance of a comeback.
Through the mists of history, Ren Zhong has decades of foresight to look at this matter from the beginning, so now, when John Bull is in trouble, he doesn't want to join in kicking the former king, hastening his demise.
Instead, he wants to see if he can give them a breather, and incidentally sow seeds of discord between the two kings.
This time, the Rogue Eagle's act of kicking them when they're down has at least left resentment in the eyes of contemporary John Bull politicians. As for how deep the wound is, it depends on how much the Rogue Eagle's actions deviate from their traditional understanding.
It's like Harold currently can't imagine the Rogue Eagle selling off the pound at John Bull's most critical financial juncture. Once this impossible thing happens, the rift will be irreparable.
The Ambassador Jin passed this information to Harold, not to force Harold to do anything now, but to spoil the ending before it happens, easily completing a truly insidious scheme.
Because he is very sure that even if he tells Harold about this now, Harold has no way to prevent it from happening.
The Suez Canal is too important. John Bull and Gaul have always jointly controlled the energy supply of the entire European continent and the exchange of goods between East and West. The tolls collected are just pocket money. The most important thing is controlling the trade artery between East and West.
For Dongda, this strategic location can't possibly be controlled by them, nor will it fall into the hands of the newly independent Pharaoh country.
Instead, it's only likely to fall into the hands of the stronger Big Bear and Rogue Eagle, making them even more arrogant.
If they can be prevented from achieving this goal unscathed, and incidentally sow discord within the Rogue Eagle, it's a win-win situation for Dongda.
Moreover, in this matter, the Qianlong Plan is prescient. When they take profits and then go long, aren't they helping John Bull while also making money? A double win, or even winning twice!
The results of Ambassador Jin's meeting with Harold are still unknown. Anyway, after the dinner party, Harold went home and didn't sleep all night.
Next, the so-called new bill stirred up by George and his gang began to attract commentary from many heavyweight parliamentarians, making it difficult to submit to a voting procedure.
It seems to be a normal phenomenon in John Bull's House of Commons, where a bill can be debated for years without a result.
But Ambassador Jin received a signal.
Harold's expectations for the Rogue Eagle have been shaken. He is working hard to delay the matter, waiting for some of the things Ambassador Jin said to come true.
The special envoy took Ambassador Jin's feedback back to Dongda, and after several twists and turns, the information also reached Ding Wei and Ren Zhong's ears.
"Old Ding, you can relax for the time being. Continue to boldly open up new plantations," Ren Zhong said with a smile. "Since we've stabbed those grain capitalists, how can they be honest if we don't stab them deeper?"
"However, the next strategy needs to be adjusted. We'll still grow the grain, but I think we need to change some strategies for selling it. Later, find a way to talk to the Rothschild family, so that EIC and LD can reach a strategic cooperation opportunity in the sales of grain and its processed products. Bring Barclays over to work together to make it bigger and stronger, and strive to become the world's largest grain supply company."
"We can't do it without our help," Ren Zhong didn't expect the opponent to make a move so quickly, and had to adjust the original strategy of completely hiding behind the scenes.
He didn't expect that the never-setting sun John Bull really couldn't hold on. If he didn't give it a hand, it would really sink.
"I didn't expect that the internal struggles of the great powers are not much different from the external ones," Ding Wei sighed, but he didn't regret it. "After we get on the bus by taking this opportunity, the grain business may reach the break-even point faster, but cooperating with the great powers like this feels a little weird."
"There is no permanent friendship between countries, only permanent interests. Old Ding, standing in your position, you can't think too much about feelings, but about Dongda's interests. When the new king is cleaning up the world, helping the old king not to die too quickly is a good thing for the developing Dongda. Peaceful rise in development is the only way for everyone to develop and grow in the future. The way of war and plunder to grow has completely died in World War II."
"In the next development, we must have enough military power to ensure ourselves, and even more technological innovation to lead the entire world."
"Food, energy, industrial products, the most important things in this world, we can't lack any of them."
Speaking of the source of hybrid technology, it can be traced back to the 19th century when Mendel began his research on plant and animal hybridization in the monastery's garden.
Unlike other pastors who are keen on preaching to solve ideological confusion, this monastery pastor became obsessed with doing science!
Mendel continuously conducted hybridization experiments by planting plants such as peas, pumpkins, morning glories, hawkweeds, strawberries, and corn. Through experiments, Mendel ingeniously deduced the basic principles of genetics: the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment.
However, this master with pioneering achievements allowed his achievements to be buried in the long river of history for more than 30 years due to his identity as a pastor before they were rediscovered.
Before Dongda carried out hybrid technology research, these genetic research works were not used in the selection of excellent grain varieties.
Before Dongda promoted hybrid technology, no one thought that hybrid technology could solve the world's food shortage potential.
Of course, everyone knows the answer now. Whether it's Jiaji or Banji, in fact, there have always been several teams searching for various wild grain and miscellaneous grain varieties in the Amazon and Latin America to carry out hybrid screening of new varieties.
However, their progress is much slower than Dongda's. So far, they have only obtained some new varieties with certain potential, but they are still far from Dongda's excellent varieties that can stably produce more than twice or even higher yields than the original varieties.
There are no shortcuts in the research of hybrid technology. Dongda is also fast because Ren Zhong found those wild varieties that may cultivate excellent offspring for the team in advance after reading a lot of research materials. This is doing this with God's perspective, so in a few years, he came up with the first generation of original seed varieties with stable yield increase. These are the first generation of seeds that are constantly bred in strict secrecy. For outside users, they can only get the hybrid seeds produced after the first generation of seed sources are hybridized.
It is almost impossible to reverse deduce the seed source of the first generation of original planting land.
Therefore, Jiaji's competitors are making moves behind the scenes, and now they can only resort to discrediting it from the perspective of food safety.
Of course, they won't do it so directly.
Instead, they are very insidious, raising some sharp questions and research directions about the safety of hybrid varieties in scientific and authoritative journals like Nature. These areas are indeed lacking in research now, or rather, in Ren Zhong's view, these are all things that the main world has fully demonstrated to be safe, and there is no need to conduct research in this area.
Therefore, these research gaps have become the areas where Jiaji's designated researchers can make things difficult. The various safety issues they raise are clearly still preliminary topics and questionable conjectures, but after being published in newspapers and magazines by competitors in summary form, and after being embellished with selective reporting, the food safety of these hybrid rice and hybrid wheat suddenly becomes a type of popular science article that scientists seriously question!
Relying on their advertising expenses, they began to continuously promote it to the public in numerous articles!
Unlike the small-scale initial explorations, this time, the three monopolistic giants joined forces to invest money and resources to launch a full-scale attack. In the mainstream media of the great powers, grain produced using hybrid technology suddenly became very unsafe.
Like pressing down a gourd only to have a dipper float up, George and the others, after seeing the provocation from the Johns stall, chose to continue launching new offensives in other areas. Ren Zhong also had no good way to deal with this type of attack, after all, Dongda basically has very little control over global public opinion now.
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"What we need to solve is the hunger problem in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. For the people in these places, being able to fill their stomachs is already a blessing. They don't have so many picky demands. To put it bluntly, not many of them are even literate, and the competitors' smear campaigns can't penetrate these areas."
This is Jiaji's biggest weakness. These truly hungry places in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have no choice at all. All they need is cheap and plentiful grain, no matter what it is, as long as it can fill their stomachs.
"But we can't always be so passive," Ding Wei said worriedly, "Brother Ren, you have a flexible mind and many ideas, see if there is any way we can fight back against this evil trend."
"Let me think about this later. To be honest, our influence on world public opinion is far from being established. Next, we should indeed take action to seize the initiative in the public opinion battlefield."
The formation of control over world public opinion is not something that can be achieved overnight. Even hidden giants like the Rothschild family have spent nearly a hundred years gradually forming their intricate relationships in the great powers, including having shares and board seats in some mainstream newspapers, giving them strong public opinion influence.
Don't think that the current Rothschilds are cooperating tacitly with Dongda in the mining industry, but that is just a tacit understanding between them, and there is no friendship that can push them to clash with the strength behind the global top three giants like Jiaji in terms of public opinion.
Even if we want to bring a European family like the Rothschilds into a new world grain giant, that is a matter for the next step. This matter has not yet taken shape, and whether it will use hybrid grain varieties as the main force to impact the international grain market is still unknown.
Ren Zhong returned to the main world and, after studying the possible strategies he could take, found that he didn't have many trump cards at his disposal.
He had no choice but to summon Wolong and Fengchu to discuss countermeasures, but of course, he didn't directly ask for advice.
However, Liang Xiaofeng is in charge of overseas business in Black Africa, Zhao Lidong is in Hong Kong, and only Wang Wenhui, a Fengchu who can be called upon at any time in Jincheng, is left.
"Lao Ren, the problem you're talking about is a bit unsolvable. You don't have any public opinion tools at all. You want to reverse the direction of public opinion. Aren't you kidding me?" Wang Wenhui said with a bitter face after thinking hard for a while, "It's not that I don't want to help you, brother, it's just that your hypothetical conditions are too difficult."
"No newspapers, magazines, or public opinion tools, no internet, what about television? Although television and radio are declining, there are still many people who learn about the world through television."
Wang Wenhui said to himself, as if the boss had something to do, and he, as the left and right hand of the company, couldn't solve anything, which would somewhat affect his image as a member of the senior management team. Now, with the expansion of Ren Zhong's various businesses, Wang Wenhui and the others have also improved.
They have truly sat in the position of business operators of a company with sales of hundreds of millions, and their annual salaries exceed one million, making them gold-collar workers.
Although they don't say it in their hearts, everyone knows that the success of these companies comes from Ren Zhong's sales work through unknown channels, which has injected a lot of research and development funds into the company to continuously launch new products.
"It's not like we don't have anything, we still have television," Ren Zhong suddenly had a thought when he heard Wang Wenhui's example.
There really is television media.
The current satellite television is the strongest in his family!
After a period of networking, the globalization of satellite television and broadcasting in the Liangjian world has now been completed. The mainstream television media in the Liangjian world basically rents Dongda's satellite television channels to carry out business.
Moreover, overseas, there are also two strong allies, Mr. Chen and Mr. Situ, who have cable TV networks and satellite coverage networks all over Asia-Pacific in their hands!
Using television media to fight back seems to be a bit of a dimensionality reduction attack, but if you use television media, what way is suitable for television media to fight back?
Reading long papers is definitely not possible! Even if it's our own people, if we really do this, we'll ruin a TV channel in two days.