The passionate years starting from the college entrance examination

Chapter 334, Game of Thrones (please vote for me at the beginning of the month)

August 1967, the African continent.

Several ocean-going giant ships successfully arrived at the port carrying many goods and workers. They came here to aid the construction of Africa.

According to Chen Guohua's suggestion, the economic forest suggestion was not accepted. Instead, it was a suggestion to plant rice, which they were very happy to accept.

African guests very much welcome mainlanders to plant rice in Africa and lead them out of poverty and backwardness.

If Chen Guohua knew that these African guests were doing this at the expense of others, he would probably be a little depressed.

These people are really unable to hold up a wall. Even if others want to help them, they will regard them as savage beasts and will not accept such kindness.

As for rice planting, they mostly hope that people from the mainland can be sent to help guide them. There is a high probability that people from the mainland will plant the rice, and the locals will enjoy the benefits.

One of the people who was sent to the African continent to work as cattle pioneers was Luo Feng.

Although he is a soldier, by chance, he was sent here as a small leader of the army to protect the rice planting technicians.

Teacher Yuan has not come to the African continent. He is also a technician, but his status is different. It is definitely not suitable for him to go abroad at this time.

"Made, in this hellish place, did the labor and management have their brains turned upside down? How could they even think of coming here?"

On his first day in Africa, Luo Feng still felt very fresh. After all, everything here was completely different from that in China.

As a result, I felt uncomfortable the next day because the weather conditions here were really bad.

The sun's rays were extremely strong, and with all kinds of black people around, especially those local people who were very black, they had a phobia of the 'abyss'.

It's a pity that he has already arrived in Africa. If he wants to go back, he can only wait.

On the African continent, while they are busy planting rice, far away in North America, Qianduoduo Supermarket is experiencing an unprecedented crisis.

The consortium headed by Lannister Morgan besieged Qian Duoduo Supermarket, forcing Chen Yuanchao to make a choice and agree to their shareholding agreement.

"BOSS, now all seven of our stores in New York are closed for rectification..."

In the conference room, Carl Bryan said solemnly:
"A total of five stores in Boston are affected and there is no way to work normally..."

"Several stores in other areas have also been affected. It has been going on for several days now, and our sales here have dropped a lot..."

Mevlut also talked about other things. Qianduoduo Supermarket has been affected far more than that, including reduced revenue, closure of operations, and so on.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the reality encountered by Qianduoduo Supermarket is very dangerous.

If you don't pay attention, you will be doomed.

In the past half year or so, Qianduoduo Supermarket has developed rapidly, reaching 78 stores in a very short period of time.

Although it has not yet exceeded 100 stores, the daily revenue of each store of Qianduoduo Supermarket exceeds 1.5 million US dollars.

Such strong revenue data has made many investors who are concerned about Qianduoduo Supermarket salivate.

After several months of contact and delays for several months under Chen Yuanchao's deception, Lannister Morgan finally lost patience and launched an attack.

For the consortium, if they take action personally, they will definitely use thunderous means.

Therefore, various types of firefighting failure are suspended for rectification, homeless people land on the beach, taxation is illegal and compliant, etc. In short, the official word is that if you say it is illegal, it is illegal.

Even if you are legal, you can also formulate a special law and regulations to target you specifically!

As an emerging form of retail industry, Qianduoduo Supermarket's low profit margins and aggressive expansion have seriously affected the ecological environment of traditional retail giants such as Sears and Macy's.

Therefore, if the consortium does not stop it, it is easy for retail giants to emerge that are difficult to control.

Chen Yuanchao, who was sitting in the conference room, frowned and listened carefully to the work reports of Mevlut, Carl Bryan, Jean Yakov, Firstenberg and others.

With the expansion of Qianduoduo Supermarket, the management position at this time is also expanding.

Seventy-eight stores is already a very, very large number.

Fortunately, the management skills in front of me are pretty good.

If it hadn't been for the strong impact of the consortium this time, with Carl Bryan's management capabilities, they could still manage these seventy-eight stores easily.

"Okay, I know all the difficulties. What you need to do now is, first, appease our employees and ask them to cooperate with the review and investigation of the relevant departments and make the rectifications that need to be made."

Taking a deep breath, Chen Yuanchao said in a low but extremely serious voice:

"Second, as management, the company has encountered difficulties now, and it has come to a time to test you. If we can successfully survive this crisis this time, then in the future, the management option stock pool will have one of your shares. portion"

"Third, in response to this consortium's attack, we ourselves must be stable, and the board of directors will not sit still and wait for death. I believe that even if the board of directors wants to introduce new shareholders, it will definitely hope to sell it at a good price."

Chen Yuanchao, who has grown one year older, has become much more mature and stable, and appears more calm and calm in dealing with such a crisis.

When Carl Bryan and other management members heard Chen Yuanchao's words, they were all excited and repeatedly stated that they would advance and retreat together with the company.

In fact, this crisis has already made Carl Bryan and others feel timid and have thoughts of retreat.

After all, they have lived in North America for many years and know how terrifying the power of the consortium is.

Now, the Morgan Consortium and the Rockefeller Consortium have launched an attack, and they will not stop until they achieve their goals.

The pride and greed of the consortium can make them lose their patience and take matters into their own hands, which actually explains a lot of problems.

Therefore, facing the menacing consortium, Carl Bryan and the others wanted to leave.

After all, in their opinion, Qianduoduo Supermarket is in danger this time.

But they did not expect that Chen Yuanchao, an eighteen-year-old boy, would be so steady and calm, and he would even offer the temptation of a management option stock pool.

With this temptation, of course Carl Bryan and the others will not retreat.

They say money makes a hero brave, and this is never true.

If they are shareholders of Qianduoduo Supermarket, they are willing to change their status from wage earners to bosses, even though they only hold a very small share.

No one knows better than the management of Qianduoduo Supermarket how good its development situation is.

Before being attacked by the consortium, the average daily revenue of each Qianduoduo Supermarket store exceeded US$1.5 million.

The profit margin still remains at 2.5% per thousand. Although it is very low, each store can earn an average of US$3,750 per day.

With seventy-eight stores, the daily net profit is US$292,500, and the monthly net profit is US$8.77 million, or even more.

A monthly net profit of nearly nine million US dollars, which company can do this?

The most important thing is that the expansion rate of Qianduoduo supermarkets has not slowed down, and is still expanding rapidly at a rate of about seven to eight to ten stores per month.

Just like this, it can already explain the problem.

When Qianduoduo supermarkets spread across the entire North American continent and open more than a thousand stores, based on its current revenue of US$1.5 million and a profit rate of 2.5% per thousand, its monthly net profit will be It will reach 112.5 billion US dollars.

It can earn a net profit of 1.1 billion U.S. dollars every month, which is 1.3 billion U.S. dollars for the whole year. It may not seem like much, but in fact it is a super cash cow.

The most important thing is that Qianduoduo Supermarket is very stable, and the products it sells are almost all daily consumables.

This means that as long as there are people, consumers will definitely go to Qianduoduo Supermarket.

After all, the products in Qianduoduo Supermarket are too cheap and suitable for poor people.

Even the poor and ordinary middle class, and even the not-so-rich rich, probably would not refuse Qianduoduo Supermarket.

With such a profitable and stable enterprise, Carl Bryan and others are not stupid, and of course they are happy to become shareholders of it.

As for confronting the consortium because of this, that's nothing.

As long as you can make money, let alone fight against the consortium, even if you kill people and set fires, that's not a problem.

In a country where capital is everywhere, in a free America, there are gun battles every day.

After appeasing Carl Bryan and the other management, Chen Yuanchao returned to his office and asked Xia Xinrui, Lu Qingqi and others to check the office, then activate the long wave, short wave and other signal jammers, and then turn on the satellite communication phone.

Chen Guohua, who was far away in the capital, soon received a call from his eldest nephew.

"Uncle, we are facing a crisis now, it's like this"

Listening to the other end of the phone, Chen Yuanchao described the current difficulties encountered by Qian Duoduo Supermarket. Chen Guohua responded from time to time to indicate that he was listening to the phone.

To be honest, the Morgan consortium's capital reacted so quickly, which was beyond his expectation.

No matter how strong Qianduoduo Supermarket is, it is surprising that its profit margin is so low that it can attract the attention of consortium capital.

Chen Guohua didn't understand which link caused the problem.

But now that something has happened, solving the problem is definitely an urgent matter.

After the eldest nephew explained everything in detail, Chen Guohua suggested this:
"To aid Korea, I will give you three suggestions. The first is to drive away wolves and swallow tigers."

On the North American continent, Lyndon Johnson is currently the most powerful class leader, and he is the biggest one.

If it were that time and space in later generations, it would definitely be a squad leader with a small consortium and a big consortium.

But in this current time and space, there is no doubt that the class leader and the consortium are small.

It is now 1967, and next year it will be 1968.

And 1968 is an election year in North America. The candidates that can be determined currently include Richard Milhouse, current deputy monitor Hubert Humphrey Jr., and former Alabama Governor George Wallace Jr.

There are three people in total, and the energy behind these three people is not small.

For example, Richard Milhouse had four televised debates with Kennedy in 1960, each of which lasted more than an hour.

From here you can see how awesome Richard Milhouse is.

Therefore, under this background of the times, Chen Yuanchao only needs to hold on to Richard Milhouse's thigh and let this man come forward to mediate in advance, which will definitely prevent Lannister Morgan and the others from the consortium from doing anything at will.

As early as when Chen Yuanchao went to North America, Chen Guohua told his eldest nephew that after arriving in North America, he must get used to doing things according to their local style of doing things.

To put it simply, it means learning how to bribe some local officials.

This is almost exactly the same as the Republic of China before 1949.

Although Chen Yuanchao was very resistant to this approach, he had to carry out the order.

Therefore, the list of relevant personnel such as Richard Milhouse became the target of Chen Yuanchao's frequent visits and friendship.

After supporting these people for so long, it is time for these people to contribute.

The so-called driving away the wolves and the tigers naturally involves not only asking people like Richard Milhouse to come forward, but also definitely needs to find some forces who are richer and are not afraid of the Morgan consortium.

For example, Kuhn Loeb Group, Mellon Group, Boston Group, etc.

Especially for the Boston Consortium, the place where Qianduoduo Supermarket emerged is the Boston area, which is the headquarters of this consortium.

"Uncle, how do we convince the Boston consortium? Is it possible to give them shares and let them buy in?"

Chen Yuanchao looked troubled, obviously unwilling.

Just because today’s Qianduoduo Supermarket is still young and its valuation is not high, if you let others take shares at this time, it will only be cheaper for others and you will suffer a big loss.

"Have you forgotten what you did at the Shike Supermarket before?" Chen Guohua smiled and said:
"This is the second countermeasure I want to tell you, which is to borrow a large amount of money to turn Qianduoduo Supermarket into a company with a high debt ratio, so as to dispel the consortium's attention to you."

"At this time, you have a lot of funds in your hands. Don't rush to develop new stores. Instead, buy farms, processing plants, etc., first branch the upstream raw material supply chain, and open up the upstream and downstream industrial chains."

Perhaps this confusing behavior will make the Morgan consortium feel confused, even regretful.

After all, the acquisition of farms and upstream processing plants may seem to reduce costs, but in fact it does not increase supermarket profit margins.

On the contrary, these financial expenditures will only make it more difficult for Qianduoduo Supermarket to operate.

"Uncle, in this case, if we fail to reduce costs, wouldn't it be easy to ruin this great situation?"

Hearing Chen Yuanchao's doubts, Chen Guohua immediately smiled and said with relief:

"Don't worry, I have already calculated all of this. This situation will never happen. Mathematics is very logical, and all economic behaviors are inseparable from mathematical models."

"Even if you take a step back, if the situation you mentioned really happens, I can still find a way to turn Qianduoduo Supermarket from a loss to a profit."

"Besides, this time is to dispel the consortium's greed for Qianduoduo Supermarket. The dangerous operation is a forced and risky move."

As soon as these words came out, Chen Yuanchao suddenly smiled and felt much more relaxed.

Just because he is very aware of his brother-in-law's mathematical ability, which is really very powerful.

Now that his brother-in-law has said that all economic behavior cannot escape mathematical models, and his brother-in-law also guarantees that even if something goes wrong, Qianduoduo Supermarket can be brought back to life.

He had grown up listening to his brother-in-law's stories since he was a child, and he had already admired his brother-in-law very much.

Even now, Chen Yuanchao doesn't know how powerful his brother-in-law is.

Anyway, from the respect and attention Qiu Zongyue and other leaders had for his brother-in-law, Chen Yuanchao knew very well how high his brother-in-law's status was.

A high status is naturally due to strong strength.

It's just that Chen Yuanchao didn't have a very specific concept about this.

But what does this have to do with anything?

As long as his brother-in-law is good, that's enough.

"Okay, uncle, I understand, what about the third strategy?"

Chen Guohua said with a smile:

"You are still not stable enough. Don't worry. I will definitely make it clear to you. Qianduoduo Supermarket is not only your hard work, but also my hard work."

"The last strategy is to surround Wei and rescue Zhao."

The words "siege Wei and rescue Zhao" are easy to understand. Since the Morgan consortium and others want to build Qianduoduo Supermarket, Chen Yuanchao can also build their own business and make them exhausted.

Although with Chen Yuanchao's shallow foundation in North America, even if he wanted to cause trouble for capitalists like the Morgan Consortium, it would be extremely limited.

But in this country where capital is everywhere, having money is enough.

Even though they can't do anything to the Morgan Consortium, they still have no problem disgusting them.

What's more, in addition to Chen Yuanchao, there are also white glove companies like Zheng Zhigui and Chen Guohua who can use these methods.

Of course, unless absolutely necessary, Chen Guohua would not easily use Zheng Zhigui and others to help Chen Yuanchao.

The final solution is for Chen Yuanchao to be able to overcome the current difficulty.

After having more detailed countermeasures, Chen Yuanchao suddenly became confident.

In California, North America, Chen Yuanchao came here and met Richard Milhouse.

"Mr. Milhouse, nice to see you again"

After meeting, Chen Yuanchao immediately exchanged greetings with the other party.

At this time, Richard Milhouse was just a very ordinary lawyer, but his past experience was quite rich and exciting.

In 1942, Richard Milhouse left his law firm and came to Washington to join the federal government, working for a period in the Price Administration. And in the summer of the same year, he joined the Navy. In four or five years, that is, after the end of World War II, he was promoted to colonel.

He retired the following year, and by the end of that year he became a California congressman.

By 1952, Richard Milhouse ran for election and in 1953, he successfully became deputy squad leader in the Eisenhower administration.

This year, Richard Milhouse was only forty years old and one of the youngest deputy squad presidents in North American history.

In 1956, Richard Milhouse was easily re-elected, but in 1960, he was defeated by Kennedy and missed the position of monitor.

Not being the squad leader was a bit of a blow to Richard Milhouse.

So in 1962, he returned to California from Washington, resumed his practice as a lawyer, and wrote his first book, "Six Crisis," which chronicled several major events he had experienced since entering politics.

And that same year, he ran for governor of California, losing to Edmund Brown.

Why did it fail?

After all, Richard Milhouse was a former deputy monitor, and his political capital was directly filled up, but it still failed.

But if you know a little bit about California's upper class, you will know very well who is behind Edmund Brown.

Behind them is the very powerful and prestigious Brown family in San Francisco, and Edmund Brown has held the office of governor since 1959. This time in 1962 was just a re-election.

With the Brown family's prestige and power in California, as well as Edmund Brown's previous political actions, he certainly has a good chance of being re-elected.

As for Richard Milhouse, haha, he was once the deputy squad leader, but he was a deputy after all, and the resources here in California are extremely limited. He can't beat Edmund Brown, which is normal.

Even so, no one dares to underestimate Richard Milhouse.

Richard Milhouse quite liked the young man Chen Yuanchao.

Just because Chen Yuanchao was generous, he was very impressed.

After some simple greetings, Chen Yuanchao took the initiative to inform him of his intention. After Richard Milhouse learned about the matter, he immediately said that there was no problem.

Of course Richard had heard of the emerging enterprise Qianduoduo Supermarket, and he had even been to this supermarket many times to shop.

And he has never had a good impression of those financial groups in New York.

That year, in 1964, Richard worked hard for Barry Goldwater, hoping to help him defeat Lyndon Johnson and help Barry Goldwater ascend to the position of class president.

At that time, Richard Milhouse was facing off against the Morgan consortium.

Barry Goldwater was from Arizona, the Southern Consortium.

The South is dominated by the Texas consortium, and this Texas consortium has always been very difficult to deal with the major consortiums in the Northeast.

After Richard Milhouse learned about this, in addition to being willing to accept Chen Yuanchao's benefits, it was also because he wanted to cause some trouble to the consortiums in the Northeast.

After leaving Richard Milhouse's home, Chen Yuanchao rushed back to Boston without stopping, and then personally contacted Ronald Lawrence, the head of the Boston Consortium.

The Boston Consortium is mainly a large combination of interests composed of the Nowell family, the Lawrence family, the Adams family, the Lodge family and the Kennedy family.

It is not difficult to find from these names that the most powerful thing about the Boston Consortium is their political resources, not their wealth resources.

Faced with Chen Yuanchao's proactive approach, he immediately proposed a loan equivalent to almost 60% of the value of Duoduo Supermarket, as well as loans to trading companies, service companies, etc. The total loan amount directly exceeded one billion US dollars.

This is a huge benefit!
Therefore, Ronald Lawrence was shocked for a while.

"Mr. Lawrence, we will use this billion-dollar loan to acquire farms, processing plants, etc. In other words, we will need to continue to borrow money after our subsequent acquisitions are completed."

The translation of Chen Yuanchao's words is: Labor and management are sending you money, not only interest on loans, but also labor fees for acquisitions, etc.

Most importantly, these loans are used for the acquisition of farms and processing plants, which means that these loans are unlikely to disappear for no reason.

why?
Because farms in North America are still relatively valuable, unlike the financial market in the New York area, as long as you invest money, it is likely to become waste paper soon.

Based on this, it is not so much a loan as it is sending money to the Boston Consortium.

Next year will be an election year. Whether it is the Kennedy family or the Adams family, they need funds, resources and votes.

The workers and waiters under Qianduoduo Supermarket are still very impressive.

Therefore, in this case, facing the active approach of Qianduoduo Supermarket, Ronald Lawrence felt that this was a sure-profit deal.

Of course, Ronald Lawrence did not agree immediately, but discussed it with the Nowell family and several others.

It stands to reason that Ronald Lawrence would just take advantage of this transfer of benefits.

But Ronald is not a fool. How could he not know that Qianduoduo Supermarket is currently facing the threat of being pursued and intercepted by the Morgan consortium and the Rockefeller consortium?

Now that he knows, he cannot easily take risks.

After all, there is no love without reason in this world, and there is no hate without reason.

Everything is just an exchange of interests.

A party is being held at a luxurious villa in the Boston area.

In North America, almost all North Americans are party creatures. It is normal to have a party every three days.

The party in this luxurious villa was obviously a high-end party, and the people who came were not ordinary people.

Even top celebrities are just foils and have no chance to go to the second floor.

At this time, in the living room on the second floor, Ronald Lawrence and others were gathered together, discussing the loan submitted by Chen Yuanchao.

Faced with such an act of giving money, everyone present had no reason to refuse.

In addition to the value of Qianduoduo Supermarket itself, it is more because they all want to teach the Morgan consortium a lesson.

Since the 1950s, the banking industry in North America has developed rapidly. They have developed so fast that they have seriously affected national policies.

Against this background, the Adams family and the Kennedy family all wanted to get involved in these consortiums.

After all, they are too arrogant.

Now, because of profit, he is eyeing Qianduoduo Supermarket and wants to steal it. This kind of behavior is tantamount to angering people like Adams and Kennedy.

Therefore, after the party meeting that night, they decided to accept Chen Yuanchao's loan application, and the Adams family and the Kennedy family also joined forces to actively seek trouble for the Morgan consortium.

Chen Yuanchao had no idea that a simple transfer of benefits could achieve such an effect.

It’s just that!

Over in New York, Lannister Morgan and the others quickly received the message, and their eyes suddenly became clear.

"Farke Adams, Farke Kennedy, are they all pig brains?"

Qianduoduo Supermarket is obviously a company with many Chinese people. It is obviously controlled by Chinese people behind this company, and it is not a pure North American McKinsey.

But now it seems that both the Adams family and the Kennedy family are selectively blind.

It seems that they just used Qianduoduo Supermarket as an excuse, or a reason, to deal with their Morgan consortium.

In addition to the Adams family and the Kennedy family of the Boston consortium, Richard Milhouse is also working on this.

Richard persuaded the people from the California and Texas consortiums to take action from their side and put pressure on the Morgan consortium.

It was just a simple corporate acquisition, which extended the exchange of interests and conflicts in the power game. This drama seemed calm, but in fact it was turbulent.

No one will ignore this drama, just because Qianduoduo Supermarket is just an excuse and a trigger. The most important thing is the power game next year.

Since this is the pinnacle game of power, no one will choose to back down.

At the executive meeting at Qianduoduo Supermarket headquarters, Carl Bryan and the others all looked at Chen Yuanchao with flushed faces. The admiration and admiration in their eyes could not be concealed.

"BOSS, you are so powerful. I never expected that you could actually invite the California Consortium, the Texas Consortium, and the Boston Consortium to take action. These people are all from the North American continent, standing in the clouds and overlooking the gods on earth."

"God, I feel like I must be crazy. Only now do I know that there are so many gods standing behind our Qianduoduo Supermarket, and I actually thought about leaving before? I'm really crazy."

"If we had known that our shareholders were so powerful, BOSS, you should have informed us before."

Mevlut, Jean Yaakov, Festenberg and others were all extremely excited and excited, and their words were incoherent when they spoke.

In fact, not only them, but even Chen Yuanchao did not understand why people like the Boston Consortium agreed to his loan application so easily, and the trouble they caused to the Morgan Consortium was really unspeakable.

A top-level game at the pinnacle of power, this level of struggle is naturally not something that ordinary wealthy people at Carl Bryan's level can understand.

If Chen Guohua didn't say it, Chen Yuanchao wouldn't understand it very well.

In fact, even if he said it, Chen Yuanchao still had only a partial understanding.

"Okay, don't flatter me anymore. If you flatter me again, rainbow farts will come out."

Chen Yuanchao in the conference room was very happy at this time. He looked at everyone with a smile and said:

"Now that we have money, I already have a plan on how to arrange the money. Next, we will spend the money well and start laying out the upstream industry chain of our Qianduoduo Supermarket."

Carl Bryan and others don't know much about the development direction of these enterprises, and they can't interfere in these matters, so they can only follow orders.

According to Chen Yuanchao's order, they began to take action after finishing the meeting.

The main purpose is to acquire farms and processing plants, and the specific requirement is to be close to Qianduoduo supermarket stores, and it is best not to be too far from the logistics warehouse.

Farms are easy to talk about. The most indispensable thing on the North American continent is farms.

As for processing plants, even if they are lacking, you can still invest in building them yourself. This is not a problem at all.

One billion US dollars is a huge amount of money, and all of this money has been invested in the acquisition of upstream farms and processing plants.

Such a huge sum of money seemed like a lot, but it was quickly gone after acquiring the farm and processing plant.

Whether these farms or processing plants, they originally had their own customers, but now these customers are gradually canceling cooperation, because Qianduoduo Supermarket needs a lot of raw material supplies.

Milk, milk powder, beef cattle, chicken, grain, etc., these are the most consumed raw materials in supermarkets every day, bar none.

"BOSS, why do we want to acquire such a large corn farm?"

On the way to the Kimberly Farm in Long Island, New York, Festenberg looked at Chen Yuanchao next to him with great confusion and raised his own questions.

If you are buying a farm that raises beef cattle, dairy cows and other livestock, then Firstenberg can understand.

But there seems to be no need to purchase so many farms that grow corn, right?

Because Kimberley Farm is already the fifth farm to grow corn, wheat, etc.

And Chen Yuanchao has not stopped the pace of acquisitions. He seems to want to acquire these farms in large quantities at once.

It seems like some big move is brewing.

"There is no reason. I can't tell you now, but you will definitely know later."

Chen Yuanchao said pretending to be mysterious.

It's not that he wants to give it away, but his brother-in-law hasn't told him about it yet.

In fact, Chen Guohua has arranged for the biopharmaceutical laboratory of Zhenhua Research Institute to conduct research and development of high-fructose corn syrup, a cheap sweetener, and has successfully developed it.

However, after it is developed, it cannot be put into use immediately.

It will definitely still require a lot of experimentation, as well as patent applications.

This alone requires a lot of time.

Therefore, Chen Yuanchao can take action first. In addition to purchasing farms, he can also purchase large amounts of corn.

Not only Chen Yuanchao was taking action, but Zheng Zhigui and other white-glove business managers also received similar orders and took action.

The specific follow-up effect will depend on the follow-up.

Therefore, it is normal for Chen Yuanchao not to know the truth behind this matter.

The company that applied for a patent for the sweetener high-fructose corn syrup is definitely not a white-glove company, but Bristol Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Francis Biological Laboratory, headquartered at the University of Cambridge in London.

The shareholders behind Bristol Pharmaceuticals are complicated. On the surface, it is an industry of Francis Biolabs, but in fact, it is a company located in the Cayman Islands.

As for the real shareholders behind it, it is definitely difficult for the outside world to investigate clearly. In fact, this is a small company created by China Resources Corporation behind the scenes.

Now, Chen Guohua needs to borrow the skin of Bristol Pharmaceutical Company, so it is up to them to apply for a patent for this high fructose corn syrup sweetener.

In this way, there is no need to worry about being dug deep and finding flaws.

After all, the brand name of the Francis Biological Laboratory of Cambridge University is still very easy to use.

It’s not incomprehensible that such a laboratory has developed a cheap sweetener, right?

Chen Guohua does not feel the least bit guilty about unleashing the sweetener capital demon.

why?
In the original history of time and space, corn syrup was originally invented by chemists in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 19th century. It was actually produced by mixing corn starch with dilute hydrochloric acid and then heating the mixture under pressure.

High fructose corn syrup sweetener, in the history of the original time and space, was an ultra-low-cost sweetener synthesized in Tokyo, and was later widely used in the beverage industry.

It was introduced to North America in 1975 in the original time and space, and has been widely used in various foreign fast food such as happy fat house water, chocolate, hamburgers and so on.

And this is one of the main reasons why high-fructose corn syrup, a cheap sweetener, has become a capital demon.

Just because Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Louis Dreyfus and Cargill, the world's four major food giants, have forced ordinary small farmers to death for the sake of profit, and concentrated most of the farms and agricultural land in North America on them. Under the four major grain giants.

The centralized production and planting of grains, coupled with the widespread application of technology, productivity, large-scale planting and other related technologies, have resulted in bumper harvests of corn, wheat, etc. year after year.

With so much grain, even if it is sold to Moscow at ultra-low prices, and even if corn is used to produce ethanol fuel on a large scale, there is still a lot of surplus.

With the emergence of cheap sweeteners such as high fructose corn syrup, capital has no choice but to take advantage of ordinary people in North America.

In the history of the original time and space, taking the hamburger fast food that ordinary people in North America love to eat most, the beef is corn-fed, the French fries are fried in corn oil, corn syrup is added to ketchup, and corn syrup is also added to the bread. , the corn syrup in the drink seems to be free.

Anyway, wherever syrup can be added, syrup has been added, and wherever more syrup can be added, more syrup has been added.

Because the price of syrup made from corn is one-third lower than that of cane sugar.

With such a cheap sweetener, capital will of course find ways to get ordinary people in North America to eat more corn syrup.

This is how the low price strategy comes about.

But even so, North America only has a population of more than 300 million, and it cannot consume more food.

Therefore, in order to make more money, Big Mac burgers, extra-large sodas, extra-large buckets of popcorn and French fries have appeared in restaurants and supermarkets in North America.

The sweetness in various foods is overwhelming, as if sugar is free and can be fed to ordinary people until they vomit.

The air in North America is fresh and free, the tap water is sweet, and the food is super sweet.

Therefore, in the history of the original time and space, after the reform, many mainlanders went to North America, and everything they came into contact with was sweet. Of course, they thought it was all very beautiful.

Coupled with the propaganda of the media and the brainwashing of newspaper articles, anyone will be immersed in this dream spun by capital for the first time.

But in this time and space, Chen Guohua felt that it was better for him to do it himself.

(End of this chapter)