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What projects does Zhutou International Trade invest in overseas?

The number of overseas investment projects led by Zhutou International Trade in the past two years is actually very complex and messy, but overall, they can be roughly divided into four categories;

The first category is about the hardware improvement of Zhutou International Trade's own trading system, such as plans including shipping, cold chain transportation, storage/sorting bases, etc.;

The second category is money-making projects, which are mainly based on Gongzhu.com as the main body of operation, and use the "sharing economy" as a gimmick to create a series of projects that are ready to be listed in Europe and the United States to make money;

The third category is the occupation of overseas resources, including overseas soybean planting bases in Argentina and Maoxiong Country, the acquisition of the Maple Leaf Lithium Industry Company and the purchase of mining rights for South American lithium mines, and...Maple Leaf Country and various countries including the Middle East Purchase of national gas and coal mining rights.

The fourth category is the difficult and slow giant corporate acquisition projects represented by Smithfield and Mengshan;

Of course, the various and industrial technology-based investment projects led by Lu Sisi are not within Yang Zhu's established scope, so they can be ignored for the time being.

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After thinking carefully for 5 minutes, Lu Sisi said hesitantly: "Boss, I can only see that you are planning to get involved in agricultural projects that mainly focus on soybean planting, food trade, and food processing industries, and you are now working hard Focus on logistics and end markets; but others..."

Speaking of this, Lu Sisi sighed somewhat dejectedly: "To be honest, the other investment projects are too messy. I really can't see why."

Seeing the bewildered look on this guy's face, Yang Zhu smiled slightly.

Indeed, after Zhutou International Trade made a fortune in the beautiful country stock market in 01, the things it invested in seemed very scattered and confusing, and the scope of investment was basically limited to the Americas—in fact, it was It was because the huge amount of funds invested by Zhutou International Trade and its small circle gang were all invested in the sphere of influence of the beautiful country, and it was a bit messy, which saved a lot of trouble; otherwise...

After thinking about it, Yang Zhu, who just took advantage of others, did not attack Lu Sisi like in the past, but pretended to comfort him: "You can see that we are focusing on agriculture, which is already very good... ...In fact, the nearly one hundred investment projects that we are investing now, which have exceeded 150 billion US dollars, are all without exception centered around the agricultural industry chain!"

When Lu Sisi heard this, she was in disbelief: "How is it possible!? With such a messy investment layout, you tell me that the ultimate goal of these projects is agriculture?"

Yang Zhu shrugged his shoulders habitually. After feeling the wonderful touch from his shoulders, he realized that something was wrong. He coughed quickly: "Comrade Lu Sisi, you need to have a wide field of vision when looking at problems!"

Field of view?

Lu Sisi looked at Yang Zhu who ate his own tofu twice in a row with a half-smile: "Oh? Boss, how do you have a vision-span method in these investment projects?"

Yang Zhu explained: "Although it is said that the secondary and tertiary production of agriculture has become the mainstream trend in the world, and it is a big fat that all major interest groups are rushing to, but you have to be clear...all of this is based on the primary industry. That is, on the basis of farming.”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhu sighed slightly: "If you carefully study all aspects of the planting industry, you will find that this so-called primary industry actually has only six core elements - capital, manpower, and land. , agricultural materials, logistics, technology.”

"Funding is okay. For us Zhutou International Trade, although the current financial strength is only a slightly larger miscellaneous fish compared with the major interest groups, but generally speaking, as long as you don't be stupid, we will It's barely enough;"

"As for manpower, since our layout this time is not in the country, and foreign countries are now using the large farm model mainly based on mechanical automation production, we will not consider it for the time being;"

"For the land, let alone the entry-level core demand of raw material production; I have always agreed that the future of world agriculture will either take the quality route dominated by cold climate zones, or take the black land as the core. The Lord’s safe and high-yielding route—the overseas planting bases we set up in Argentina and Maoxiong Country are based on these two considerations. In fact, in my plan, if everything goes well, by 2012 So far, the area of ​​high-quality cultivated land in the hands of Zhutou International Trade will be more than four times that of the current one."

Speaking of this, Yang Zhu, who had given up resisting, adjusted his posture slightly to make himself lie more comfortably: "Actually, from the operational level, although the first three points are very important, they are actually not very difficult—— After all, except for China and a few countries in this world, the land policies of all countries are not as strict as you imagine, and you must have seen the morality of officials in most countries in the world."

Thinking of what she had seen in Maple Leaf Country and South American countries, Lu Sisi nodded in agreement.

Yang Zhujian glanced at her, but his tone became serious: "Actually, the latter three elements are the barriers of the world's major interest groups in the planting industry - we have spent so much money at Zhutou International Trade Co., Ltd. To put it bluntly, the project is just to pry open a small gap in these three key links."

Taking a deep breath, Yang Zhu's eyes became sharper, and a trace of sarcasm appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Let's talk about logistics first!"

"Do you know, according to the data given by the World Food Organization, the food production in the world today is definitely enough to feed 70 billion people, and there is even a surplus-but the reality is that there are still a large number of countries in the world facing With food shortages, about 50 million people in more than 1.1 countries face chronic extreme hunger."

"In addition to long-term wars, weather disasters and other reasons, the industry segmentation of various countries under the global economic integration pattern also contributed. In fact, these are just academic explanations. The real reason is actually You've been abroad for so long, so you must be aware of it."

Lu Sisi nodded with a wry smile. In the western world where the pursuit of maximizing profits, those groups that hold the right to speak in the industry, out of interests, in order to be able to "bundle sales", and to make more money in the financial and futures markets, It is perfectly normal to play a little trick of demand creation on a real hard currency like grain.

Seeing her nodding and being a little puzzled, Yang Zhu smiled: "Although everyone knows the thoughts and tricks of those people, on the bright side, everyone must follow the rules of the market—so, in terms of grain output In the case of basic stability year after year, insufficient transportation capacity, inconvenient transportation, high transportation risk, and rising freight prices have become the most common excuses for these people to increase prices or control sales."

"Although we are not too idle to worry about Africa and Central Europe, we in China will certainly not have the problem of staple food being stuck-but other cash crops may not be."

Faintly feeling a crab staring at him, Yang Zhu stopped in time, and then sighed: "In any case, in the international primary agricultural product market, sufficient transportation capacity is an extremely important basic ability, and it is also the key to the industry's bargaining power. components—so even if the profits of sea and land transportation are getting lower and lower, and the impact of oil price fluctuations is also very obvious, but even if we will continue to lose money, we must give the international logistics network we have invested in China World Trade Center to us. Build it!"

Although Lu Sisi felt that Yang Zhu was making a big fuss, since Zhutou International Trade's main business was to engage in international trade, she didn't quite understand her boss' logistics network expansion plan that exceeded the standard, but she didn't say anything.

Yang Zhu caught the flash of disapproval in the eyes of the mixed-race beauty, and sighed softly in his heart—to be honest, if he hadn’t been a human being in two lifetimes, and had seen through relevant reports 20 years later, under the epidemic, including Maple Leaf Country and parts of Europe He will never realize how much strategic value a controllable and powerful international logistics network has in this global village that claims to be free and economically integrated—in fact , even if you don’t need to consider what will happen 20 years later, for developed countries in Europe and the United States where labor costs are getting higher and higher, logistics, especially terminal logistics, which is a tasteless industry, due to its huge volume, can often become The carrier and value exchange body of many gimmick concepts, in fact, this is the real reason why Yang Zhu is now going upstream to develop a logistics network.

"Then let's talk about agricultural materials - with the layout and cultivation of Western interest groups for hundreds of years, the six core materials that the planting and breeding industries of various countries in the world can never avoid are seeds/seedlings, fertilizers/feeds, pesticides/veterinary drugs- In contrast, those advanced agricultural tools and applied materials such as greenhouse films are not so important;”

"It can be said that these things are the lifeblood of the primary industry. Without these things, unless countries are willing to go back to the production level of agricultural and livestock products 100 years ago, otherwise they can only be obediently pinched by others—— In fact, even if they are willing to pay the price of famine, it is impossible for 70% of the countries in the world to return to the situation 100 years ago. It is impossible to sow seeds on a large scale, and there are not as many countries in the world that possess independent seed breeding technology as most people think."

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"So, that's why I asked you to fight for those natural gas fields and coal mining rights; these two things are not only energy sources, but also the main raw materials for making fertilizers, but these things are very sensitive, so Now we can only target small and medium-sized gas fields and coal mines—even so, it is very difficult to get them, so we must throw out the bait and borrow other forces to help us solve these problems through the form of interest replacement.”

"In fact, the acquisition of Mengshandu is also facing related problems-even if the reputation of Mengshandu is bad, the seed technology and genetically modified technology in its hands are extremely sensitive, and it has not borrowed enough external force to pry open that layer. Even if we are willing to spend all the money, we will definitely not be able to acquire this company."

"As for Smithfield Foods... Hehe, in the eyes of outsiders, this is the world's number one pork producer that does not have patents on pig breeding technology and concentrates on raising pigs and producing meat products. It’s just to balance and reduce the production cost of meat products—in fact, if you only look at a single industrial link, this view is not wrong.”

"However, if it is placed in the entire industrial layout that Zhutou International Trade intends to build, then the value of this company is far from that simple-you know, this is a super pig that can slaughter more than 1500 million pigs a year. The size of the enterprise alone is enough to support a series of small closed-loop operations and technology promotion attempts of Zhutou International Trade + Zhutou Trading on feed, logistics, breeding, and veterinary drugs."

"And you have to know that the upstream related industry of feed is the planting of crops such as corn, soybeans, wheat, and silage crops-in terms of Smithfield's size, it can definitely affect the price trend of these crops to a certain extent and feed development tendencies;”

"And the upstream link of these crops is related to elements such as seeds, chemical fertilizers, organic fertilizers, pesticides, and yield-enhancing technologies—even if the conversion ratio of grain and meat is not 1:3.5, it is calculated according to the conversion ratio of 1:2.7."

"The average standard for a pig to be slaughtered is 170kg, and 1500 million pigs equals 255 million tons of meat. If converted into feed, it is 688.5 million tons of soybeans/corns—this still does not include the death loss rate of pigs during the feeding process;"

"If calculated according to the long-term loss rate of 8%, the annual feed demand of Smithfield Company alone is as high as 740 million tons! ——Such a huge demand is enough to serve as a starting point, through successive chain reactions, to operate many Something happened!"

When Lu Sisi heard the words, she was startled at once——Is this my boss's kung fu outside of poetry?

This kind of behavior that seems to be a bit of buying and returning pearls is hard to imagine in the Western world. After all, everyone is rushing for money. If it is not the main body of the state or there are other subsidies, no one is willing to do this. It is absolutely difficult, but it is not necessarily pleasing things;

But his boss has always been an alternative cynic with a clear mind, and this guy has never cared much about money. It is really possible for him to do crazy things like throwing tens of billions of dollars in for the possibility of squeezing the door open. come out.

With Yang Zhu's previous words as the foreshadowing, many things suddenly became clear to Lu Sisi. In horror, she blurted out: "According to your intention, those spin-off projects that you designed with the main body of Gongzhu.com and went straight to the market, In fact, the purpose is to create a batch of cakes that can be used for profit replacement, so that you can borrow your strength?"

Yang Zhu nodded: "That's right, but these projects also have other purposes - at least, they can also raise enough funds for us, after all, our tens of billions of dollars may seem like a lot, but if everything goes well, , In fact, at most, it is enough to last for five years."

Lu Sisi looked at the smirk on the corner of this guy's mouth, and knew that her boss must have other bad intentions besides these purposes. Looking at him seriously: "Boss, you let Tan Guocong and the others go all out to fight for the mining rights of those lithium mines in South America... Isn't it just for profit replacement?"

Unlike the impression of most people in later generations, the concept of new energy has been proposed as early as the beginning of the millennium, and is regarded by China as one of the potential tracks that can overtake in curves. Therefore, these lithium mines The meaning it represents is of great significance to Lu Sisi.

Seeing Lu Sisi being so sensitive, Yang Zhu rolled his eyes: "Don't worry, these lithium mines are of great value, and I can't directly use them as bargaining chips for profit replacement... But the lithium metal produced is a piece of lithium metal in my plan. Very important chips!"

When Lu Sisi heard the first half of the sentence, he breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that his boss really knew the general idea; but when he heard the second half of the sentence, his almond eyes widened.

"Boss, how could you do this!?" Lu Sisi looked at him in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe that his boss really planned to use this absolutely scarce strategic metal as a bargaining chip.

When Yang Zhu saw this guy, he looked a little annoyed, so he couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "I understand what you mean, but... in my conscience, even if I export the metals extracted from the purified lithium mines to China, I can't help it. Now our domestic technology and OEM-based business, can these treasures really play their due role? - If it is only used for technical research and industrial exploration, it is not that there is no such thing in our country, and there is no need for it at all. Put a lot of money in the country now."

When Lu Sisi heard the words, she was stunned for a moment, unable to speak.

Seeing this, Yang Zhu sighed: "Comrade Lu Sisi, there are some things you need to understand—weakness is the original sin! The relationship between countries has always been so naked."

"Therefore, before our country is really strong, some things are really not something you can do as you want - you have to know that South America is the back garden of a beautiful country, and now everyone has vaguely smelled the importance of lithium mines. Sex, this kind of baby, do you think it's really a good thing to ship it directly to China now?"

Speaking of which, looking at the dimmed light in Lu Sisi's eyes, Yang Zhu effortlessly broke free from her soft arm locks, and gently rubbed her head: "Sisi, don't worry, your boss is not that The kind of person who can do everything for money, I promise you—be patient for 7 years, and after 7 years, I will definitely bring back ship after ship of lithium metal and a lot of patented technologies to China!"

After 7 years?

2009 years?

Lu Sisi stared blankly at her boss, although she didn't know why he gave such a deadline, but seeing his rare serious expression and the straightforward hints in his words, out of trust in Yang Zhu, She believed it, and then became inexplicably happy.

"That... Boss, where are we going later?" Feeling that she had roughly figured out the overall plan of her boss, Lu Sisi regained her spirits and locked Yang Zhu on her chest again. Whispering charmingly in Yang Zhu's ear.

"I know there is a good hotel near the company headquarters, how about we go there directly... I heard that the bed there is very soft!" The reddish face of the mixed-race beauty was full of temptation.

To be honest, the longer she gets along with Yang Zhu, the more she feels that her boss, who seems to have an extremely bad character, is a deadly poison that makes people unable to extricate themselves. If she planned to sacrifice herself at Christmas last year, at least half If there is another picture, then now, she really can't wait to take the initiative to send it to her door, and let Yang Zhu make her do it.

As for the fact that Yang Zhu is already married, it is impossible for me to have a relationship with him...

Come on, she grew up abroad. Although some things still retain Chinese customs, she has a proper western style in terms of feelings - if there is no result, there will be no result. As long as you like Yang Zhu, Yang Zhu Zhu also likes himself, and those who are famous and not famous are considered wool!

Seeing this guy staring at a certain part of himself with a bit of ridicule, Rao had seen his embarrassment more than once when he was in South America, but seeing this guy's almost molesting style, Yang Zhu still couldn't help it. Immediately stretched out his hand and gave her a head: "Hey, hey, you have to have a limit when joking...you give me enough!"

Seeing that her boss was a little bit annoyed, Lu Sisi glanced at this guy in disbelief, then turned her head around Yang Zhu's head fiercely, and printed a pair of tender red lips on it.

Feeling the cold and greasy mouth and the somewhat clumsy posture, Yang Zhu was startled—even if he doesn't understand women, he also understands that a woman's willingness to sleep with you and willingness to kiss you are two completely different attitudes.

At that moment, he carefully stretched out his hands to support Lu Sisi's face.

Just when Lu Sisi thought he was going to take the initiative and waited with her eyes closed, Yang Zhu gently pushed her head back.

"Hey, hey, Sisi, if you don't know how to kiss, go back and practice hard, you've knocked my mouth out!" Yang Zhu joked in a joking tone.