RPAGF #444 - The first signs of confrontation
#444 - The first signs of confrontation
Sawasdee krap, Ban Pa Muang.
Village Chief Badiwa looked at the yield per mu of the new hybrid rice seeds, feeling a bit unreal. The entire village's more than 3,000 mu of hybrid rice, after drying, had an astonishing yield of 430 kilograms per mu, nearly 40% more than the previous two seasons!
This yield increase was much better than the data promised by the experts from Dongda Agriculture!
"Village Chief, this year's hybrid rice is really too good. Can we still get free hybrid rice seeds next year?" Villager Boding asked excitedly.
According to the agreement between Dongda and these newly promoted areas, Dongda subsidized half of the cost of the hybrid rice in the first year, and the local government subsidized the other half, which was equivalent to giving it to the villagers for free.
However, starting from the second year, this preferential treatment would be reduced. Dongda's subsidy would be cancelled, and the local government would continue to subsidize half. By the third year, the subsidy would be completely cancelled.
This was to promote the cultivation of hybrid rice in the local area.
But after this year's yield per mu exploded, the mountain villages applying to plant hybrid rice sprang up like mushrooms after a rain, rushing to submit their applications to the local government, completely eliminating the need for local officials like Supa to painstakingly persuade them.
The hundreds of thousands of mu of hybrid rice demonstrated in Sawasdee krap all achieved bumper harvests, with increases similar to those of Ban Badiwa Village. After all, from planting methods to topdressing, everything was now standardized.
With the demonstration of these hundreds of thousands of mu of bumper harvests, the surrounding areas that saw it directly boiled over, and other villagers who received the news from newspapers and brochures now also had a strong desire to plant, causing the hybrid rice in the Southeast Asian promotion area to increase several times over in one fell swoop, reaching the early target of 30 million mu ahead of schedule in the second year.
For Ding Wei, who was in charge of this business, this was certainly extremely encouraging good news.
However, after the news spread, it was like an earthquake for farmers in North America. The sharply reduced wheat futures prices for the following year on the Chicago Exchange made these farmers instantly hostile to Dongda's hybrid rice.
York Daily: "The idea that these developing countries in Southeast Asia should feed themselves is out of date. They should grow crops with better economic benefits such as coffee and rubber trees to develop their economies. As for food, they can completely rely on North American agricultural products to better ensure food security. In most cases, North American agricultural products are cheaper."
Wall Street Review: "Dongda's hybrid rice is a kind of destruction to local agriculture in Southeast Asia. Hybrid rice seeds that cannot reproduce themselves are undoubtedly a sword hanging over the heads of Southeast Asian farmers!"
Hua Post Daily: "The safety of hybrid rice has not been fully researched and tested. Scientists have not yet found any evidence of its impact on the human body."
Strange and absurd arguments that had never appeared in the Bright Sword world began to emerge. They were afraid that after the people of Southeast Asia had enough to eat, they would be able to sell their grain to the international market.
"Director Ding, this is a summary of recent international agricultural intelligence information. Among the news received today, there are several pieces of news from North America that are worth paying attention to." The secretary sent the newspaper briefing collected today to Ding Wei. As Ding Wei, who is now engaged in international affairs, has developed the habit of watching the mainstream media information of major countries in the world.
This information is naturally collected and sorted out by reporters from China News Agency stationed locally, and then sent back to China for reference via telegram. This briefing is still just an informal publication of "Overseas News Summary", which is generally only distributed to major ministries and commissions and major foreign trade companies in China.
As for private foreign trade companies, if they need this information, they can also subscribe after being certified and approved by the local commercial department.
It is considered an informal external window.
Ding Wei flipped through it for a while and saw the information slandering hybrid rice, and couldn't help but frown.
Love what you do. Now Ding Wei is not only a battle-hardened general, but also a business tycoon in international agriculture who has opened up his horizons. His every move can affect the nerves of the entire international agriculture industry.
Whether it is the York Daily or the Wall Street Review, these opinions are not aimless. The release of this news means that they have begun to act, but how will they act next, and how should we respond?
Ding Wei pondered for a while, but still had no clue, so he simply stopped thinking about it.
"Headache, I'd better find someone who understands to talk about it. These things are really too troublesome, even more troublesome than fighting a war." Ding Wei shook his head, packed his things, and prepared to find someone who understood.
"This group of redneck old hooligans are really shaken, and now they can't hold on." Ren Zhong smiled softly after reading the news.
No one is more sensitive to market changes than capitalists.
The huge yield increase of hybrid rice has now gone abroad. If it is purely in Dongda, there are hundreds of millions of people there. No matter how much the production increases, it is almost all self-produced and self-sold. After all, in terms of per capita arable land area, Dongda's arable land area is relatively small in the world, and it is difficult to eat enough on its own. It is not yet possible to sell agricultural products to the international market on a large scale.
The wheat they sell internationally for popular convenience foods and puffed foods is now mostly made from North American wheat.
But now hybrid rice has made achievements overseas, and the yield in Southeast Asia is surprisingly high. Then, after expanding the scale, there is no doubt that it will have a serious impact on future grain prices.
Because after these countries have a bumper harvest, they will definitely sell it to the international market.
"Brother Ren, I think they will destroy it. I just don't know how we should deal with it." Ding Wei asked, "I especially want to know how they will destroy it in the face of such things?"
"There are many ways to disrupt the situation, and they are difficult to prevent, which is very headache-inducing." Having seen a lot in the main world, Ren Zhong is too clear about these things.
"First of all, they will try to destroy the area we plan to cultivate. They will tell the local government through aid or other means that if they do not use our Dongda hybrid rice for planting, they will get benefits. This is a common method and will basically be used. Although this method is old-fashioned, it is effective quickly and difficult to prevent. We obviously cannot compete with the rogue eagle in terms of financial resources."
"Secondly, they will threaten, of course, not directly targeting planting, but using other things as an excuse to instigate these local opposition factions to make trouble. They are familiar with these methods. If you are not careful, it is really troublesome, because these opposition factions are instigated After being bought, if they come forward to instigate local farmers to resist planting, we have no good way to deal with it."
"These people are really disgusting," Ding Wei couldn't help but curse after listening to some of the other party's methods that Ren Zhong said. He was a little numb. To be honest, if he faced these methods, he really didn't have many ways to fight back.
Clearly, it's a great thing to solve the global food shortage, but it's very difficult to execute smoothly.
The capitalists in the entire grain industry cannot tolerate people and countries that want to fill everyone's belly.
"Brother Ren, facing so many problems, how do we solve them?" Ding Wei asked.
"The first thing we need to do is to widely publicize the entire process of hybrid rice production, explaining that our entire process is very safe and does not fundamentally change the rice variety. We are only selecting better and superior varieties. At the same time, we must increase publicity about the complete safety of hybrid rice for the human body. We must not let these capitalists smear its safety. This is fundamental." Ren Zhong didn't have too many brilliant ideas for these either, and could only react to the situation and defend the safety of hybrid rice or hybrid grain for consumption.
"Secondly, we must do a good job in signing contracts and providing explanations with the local government regarding planting. This part can only be done in cooperation with people on the diplomatic front. Although we will not force anyone to do anything, there must still be a price for breach of contract. We can't think of getting benefits from both sides. If there is a breach of contract, we must consider opening up new planting areas, and in the international arena, we must carry out a lot of publicity and expose the rogue eagle's despicable attempts, and firmly place the label of destroying international food security on its head!"
Ren Zhong recalled how they dealt with similar matters in the main world and began to analyze and guide Ding Wei one by one. Although these methods may not be able to eradicate the rogue eagle's destruction, they can undoubtedly increase the cost of their destruction.
After all, in this matter, we don't want to seek much profit. Overall, it is to help agricultural countries improve their grain production to a higher level so that international grain prices can stabilize or even decrease a little. This is naturally a great thing for countries lacking food.
The evolution of the Suez Canal War has completely demonstrated that two of the five permanent members are completely going to be silenced. The triangular relationship between the two superpowers and Dongda, and now Dongda is going to be much weaker. Such an unbalanced world is very unfavorable for Ren Zhong to use developing countries to find a third sales market for his strategic goal.
Now it is very obvious that the largest markets for Dongda's industrial products are the rogue eagle and Europe. The sales to the Great Bear and the Third World combined are not as good as the previous two markets.
There is no way, the Third World is really poor now. Airplanes and cars are only affordable for a few powerful local classes, and the population they account for is less than one percent of the local population.
"Brother Ren, after listening to you, I feel even heavier. I really can't handle so many methods." After listening to Ren Zhong's words, Ding Wei's mind was even more buzzing. He couldn't have imagined many ideas before. However, Ding Wei still had no doubt about Ren Zhong, just like Staff Officer Ye.
"Lao Ding, the world is so complex. Nothing can be easily solved.
Faced with the counterattack of these capital groups, we can only react to the situation and constantly respond.
Moreover, we must also prepare for the worst. We will talk more with Lao Li over there and speed up the matter of the rapid response force. Our opponents will not give up simply. Faced with the interests of the entire international grain market, they will never surrender. They will definitely instigate some things. We must ensure the existence of the rapid response force so that we can deploy our troops to any place we need at any time." Ren Zhong said.
"What we encountered before was just the greed of the tribes themselves. What we will encounter next may be the instigation of various forces behind the scenes. No matter what, we must have a strong force to deal with their challenges."
"Now our rapid response force is a fist. Next, our naval task force will also take shape. With the help of Xiao Pingban's naval task force's routine cruises in the world, we can also deter many villains who attempt to cause trouble!"
In addition to benevolence, there must also be the assistance of force. For some forces, it is better to give them a punch than to tell them the truth ten thousand times.
Ren Zhong is very clear that the war in this Bright Sword world is almost impossible now. The faster-rising Dongda, although it cannot achieve a three-legged balance now, will not be too bad. Under this comparison of power, no one dares to easily start a new world war!
Even the rogue eagle can't do it. Although they now have the strongest navy in the world, it is useless. In terms of the air force, Dongda already has a superior combat force within its territory.
When the J-9 is massively commissioned, the air superiority will be further expanded. At least in Asia, Dongda can already be invincible!
Therefore, Ren Zhong doesn't think there is anything wrong with sending military forces overseas to protect Dongda's interests.
Xiao Pingban and large supply ships are nuclear-powered, which greatly reduces the dependence on logistics. This gives Dongda's soon-to-be-formed task force the ability to carry out special missions globally. Facing the challenges of local warlord forces, a task force is enough.
"The tree wants to be quiet, but the wind doesn't stop. It seems that my old partner can't stop either." Ding Wei said with a wry smile, "I originally thought I would have a few easy days, but now it seems we are thinking too much. Some people don't want us to rest."
"Life is endless, and the fight never stops. We can now be considered to have some strength to go out." Ren Zhong said with a smile, but couldn't help but sigh at the difficulty of the main world. In this world, relying on his ability to bring goods to master the big killer first, no matter what, few people dare to completely turn their backs.
"We can also do something about helping others when we see injustice on the road. If we are really provoked, we are not soft persimmons to be manipulated. We dare to take action when we should!"
The things the two were talking about were obviously a bit shocking in this world, but the two of them were unscrupulous. For them, they already have the strength to influence the current world.
After Xiao Pingban succeeds, Da Pingban will be put on the agenda in full swing. The future world will only be more exciting for them. (End of this chapter)