Chapter 505

The United Nations report on water resources in South Asia almost sentenced India to death.

As many as 50 cities have exhausted their groundwater resources within a year, which is absolutely a catastrophic number.

This means that hundreds of millions of people in India are worried and struggling for drinking water every day.

The impact on industry and agriculture was also devastating.

After entering October, India's cotton entered the harvest period, and the yield was so low that it was despairing.

Most of the traditional cotton-producing areas have fallen.

After one or two years of super high yields, the land and water resources were overwhelmed, and eventually the cotton production collapsed, with large tracts of land leaving no harvest.

Even farmers who did not grow super-high-yield varieties were affected by the water shortage and saw widespread reductions in production.

Even so, more people are eager to try the super high-yield varieties.

As one of the major cotton producing and exporting countries, India's sharp drop in cotton production is a huge shock to the global cotton market.

Ikam, a giant company that uses India as its main raw cotton base, released a report that India’s cotton production has dropped by nearly 50% this year!

And I don’t know when I can recover.

Ikam suffered heavy losses from this disaster, but one company made a fortune.

It's Monsanto!

In October 2014, India's environment ministry filed a lawsuit against Monsanto in the Supreme Court of Bangalore, the capital of the southern state of Karnataka.

The charge is that Monsanto caused the disaster.

Monsanto is required to pay compensation, otherwise India will completely ban and confiscate Monsanto’s property in India.

In the materials submitted by the Ministry of Environment, Monsanto secretly committed bioplagiarism on Professor Satnam's breeding.

They steal the genes from the seeds.

It also amplifies the characteristics of the seeds, making them extremely high-yielding while also having extremely strong negative effects.

The purpose is revenge and profit, because Monsanto's sub-licensing sales model of Bt cotton and Bt eggplant has encountered judicial obstruction in India.

The sublicensing fees collected dropped significantly, causing Monsanto to suffer financial losses.

In order to make up for the losses, Monsanto frantically cultivated new seeds.

And with the help of its market channels covering 1.5 million mu of cotton-producing areas in India, it covered almost all cotton-producing areas in a very short time!

Monsanto made amazing profits from this!

Financial reports from the past two years show that Monsanto’s operating income and operating profits have increased significantly, especially cotton seed sales in South Asia, with an average annual compound growth rate of more than 200%!

Extremely crazy!

Monsanto has also fully digested Syngenta, and its stock price performance in the past two years has been extremely dazzling, with a market value of over 100 billion US dollars!

At the lawsuit, a representative from the Ministry of Environment of India denounced: “Monsanto is an unethical company that will do anything to gain profits.

It has no respect for anything and this company will end up committing serious crimes against nature and humanity.

No, it has been committed!

And whoever stands in the way of this company making money will be destroyed!"

The lawsuit received worldwide attention.

Monsanto also defended itself, saying that the original seed genes were not cultivated by them but by someone else.

But no one believed him.

Monsanto has committed too many crimes.

Royalties for Roundup Ready soybeans, sublicensing models, biopiracy, suing farmers for patent infringement…

It can be said that every seed Monsanto plants is making a political statement.

Moreover, Monsanto is indeed the largest marketer of this super high-yield seed and the biggest beneficiary.

Everything can be faked, except huge profits.

Monsanto can be said to have no way to defend itself.

Perhaps it did not even think about arguing, but just tried it out, and finally chose to completely abandon the Indian market.

The international community has put the final nail in the coffin of this lawsuit, which was a robbery that drained the pond to the point of exhaustion.

When Bi Qiang explained the whole story to Guo Yang at the manor, Guo Yang was also amazed, "Monsanto is really a professional scapegoat!"

Lin Keqing at the side asked in confusion: "Isn't this caused by Monsanto?"

Guo Yang and Bi Qiang looked at each other and smiled. "Who knows? It doesn't matter. What matters is that Ah San is in chaos and everyone wants to kill Monsanto."

"Monsanto's GMOs have always been condemned by everyone, right?" Lin Keqing said, but then he quickly rejected the idea. "No, Monsanto's reputation in America has changed. Now it is the savior and hero of American farmers."

Guo Yang laughed and said, "The peerless hero, it's a bit ironic."

Although Monsanto was also blamed for the American caltrops and red fire ants, they were actually manufactured by Guo Yang.

Eventually Monsanto found a solution: an upgraded and improved version of dicamba that can kill resistant weeds such as Tribulus terrestris.

However, for the sake of profit, Monsanto chose to implant the new resistance gene into seeds.

Once again, a sales system of seeds + pesticides is formed.

However, dicamba is a highly volatile pesticide, forcing other farmers to purchase Monsanto's resistant seeds.

For the sake of profit, people will do anything.

Therefore, Guo Yang was not surprised at all that Ah San once again put the blame on Monsanto.

Monsanto is so professional in taking the blame.

"I don't understand what you are talking about."

Lin Keqing didn't understand the twists and turns, so he muttered something and took Guo Pengye to play somewhere else.

Guo Yang leaned on the sofa. The room was heated and warm. He made a cup of tea and said, "Monsanto is almost over."

Bi Qiang laughed and said, "It looks like we are going to attack the Americans again."

Guo Yang glanced at him and said, "You are talking nonsense. I don't understand."

Bi Qiang smiled and drank his tea. Guo Yang didn't know how much Bi Qiang knew, so he said, "Monsanto has been too arrogant in the past few decades. Farmers all over the world can no longer tolerate this situation."

"I understood."

Bi Qiang poured himself a cup of tea and said, "Monsanto is taking the blame again."

"You kid." Guo Yang snorted and said, "Monsanto is to blame for this."

Bi Qiang stood up and clapped his hands. "I have said everything I need to say and have finished my tea. I will go and get busy so as not to disturb you from staying at home with your wife and children."

Guo Yang: "Sit for a while."

"I can tell from the looks of it that you're not sincere. You're sitting there without moving at all." Bi Qiang raised his eyebrows, then walked out of the manor.

Lin Keqing came in again holding the child. Guo Yang took Guo Pengye over. The little guy kept jumping in his arms, and his little hands and feet were quite energetic.

"What happened recently?"

"Nothing." Guo Yang teased Guo Pengye gently.

Lin Keqing said: "Grandpa called and asked me to advise you to put the overall situation first."

"Yeah, I understand." Guo Yang nodded with a smile, and then said, "It's so hard to rest at home, so let's not talk about work."

"I was just chatting enthusiastically with Bi Qiang." "..."

Beijing, Weiguang Company.

Lian Jie hurriedly found Yang Rui, "Bao Zhenghao is in trouble."

Yang Rui calmly closed the futures interface and the market closed. Today was another harvest day. Life was so relaxing and wonderful.

"What could possibly happen to him? I heard he changed jobs to an investment company, and the salary is very generous!"

Lian Jie said: "That happened more than half a year ago. Less than half an hour later, Bao Zhenghao jumped off the roof and committed suicide."

"Oh...what! Fuck, what happened? Why are you so depressed? At worst, I can start over again!" Yang Rui's face was full of disbelief.

Working in finance is stressful, but one can also withstand a lot of pressure. Moreover, they have a brilliant track record in finance, so they are in high demand wherever they go!
How could I be so depressed!
Lian Jie shook his head. "I don't know either. Zhang Ziqian called me and he wasn't in a good mood. I asked him to have dinner with me in the evening."

Yang Rui: "I'll come too."

In a barbecue restaurant, Zhang Ziqian, Lian Jie and Yang Rui sat together again.

Lian Jie opened three bottles of cocktails, and the three of them took a big sip each before Yang Rui asked Zhang Ziqian, "Brother Hao, what's going on?"

Zhang Ziqian drank more wine, and after waiting for a while, he said with red eyes: "I regret it, I shouldn't have left Weiguang!"

Zhang Ziqian then said, "After leaving Weiguang, Brother Hao and I have been doing futures, especially sugar and cotton..."

Lian Jie and Yang Rui understood more the more they listened.

This is a pitfall.

Zhang Ziqian and Bao Zhenghao also contributed to the huge profits that Weiguang made in the futures market.

Yang Rui sighed and said, "The cotton and sugar markets have changed too much in the past two years. Sometimes there is a serious surplus, and then there is a shortage of supply.

The original cycle is completely messed up. Not to mention you, even if you look at the world, few companies have figured it out, and most of them have fallen into it without knowing why.”

Zhang Ziqian added: "But Weiguang has made money again. Now the industry is saying that Youngor, Guannong, Xinnong and other companies have made a fortune from cotton and sugar futures following Weiguang!"

"Twenty billion! Some people say Youngor's net profit is close to twenty billion!"

“Even if Youngor sells suits for another 20 years, it won’t make this much money!”

"Have you paid attention to the stocks? Youngor, Huafu Fashion, Guannong, Xinnong, and Yasheng are all rising like crazy!"

“It’s rising like crazy!”

Zhang Ziqian shouted at the top of his lungs, tears streaming down his red eyes, which attracted the attention of the customers around him. Well, another stock trader has gone crazy.

Yang Rui and Lian Jie picked up the wine bottles and clinked glasses with Zhang Ziqian.

"You two are celebrities now."

Yang Rui pondered and said, "In fact, you should know that Lian Jie and I are just executors, and the trading strategy is in accordance with the company's plan."

“How much money did you make this time?”

"I can't say. Anyway, it's a lot."

Zhang Ziqian drank his wine sip by sip, regretting his decision. "Do you think I still have a chance to come back?"

Yang Rui hesitated for a while and said, "You know the company's rules. There is no precedent for this, but I will ask for you."

Zhang Ziqian said, "I am really at my wit's end. I don't have a penny left."

Yang Rui thought for a while, took out a card from his pocket and placed it in front of Zhang Ziqian. "It's not much money, I'll give it to you for emergency. It was you and Brother Hao who brought me to Weiguang for the interview. Alas, Brother Hao shouldn't have thought so hard."

"He had no choice but to embezzle client assets and ended up losing everything..."

That night, Zhang Ziqian was drunk, but Yang Rui and Lian Jie were still a little lucid.

Zhang Ziqian would ask Wei Guang how much money he had earned from time to time, but both of them kept silent.

Although all kinds of news were flying around, the company requested confidentiality and the news could not be revealed from the two of them.

It’s also because the benefits are too shocking.

Li Rucheng of Yageo was also at a dinner party with Zhejiang businessmen, and was in high spirits.

During the dinner, someone asked whether Yageo had made 20 billion yuan in futures, and Li Rucheng did not deny it.

The same scenario also happened to companies such as Huafu, Guannong, Xinnong, and Yasheng.

Eventually the news spread more and more widely.

Soon, the news that the state-owned cotton enterprises had made a fortune in domestic and foreign futures spread throughout the country.

The specific amount has also frequently caused people to speculate, some say it is 80 billion, some say it is 100 billion, and some say it is 150 billion...

No matter which number it is, it will make people remember this feast of wealth.

Two months later, the sugarcane in the northern hemisphere entered the harvest season again, and sugarcane in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong and other places all had a bumper harvest.

The Northwest also had a bumper harvest of sugar beets.

Before this, sugar beets in Northeast China and North China had been harvested one after another, but the Northwest has longer sunshine hours and a larger temperature difference between day and night.

Not only does the per-acre yield of sugar beets increase, but the sugar content is also much higher.

This year, thanks to the promotion of new varieties, domestic sugar production is expected to increase significantly by 30%.

At the same time, due to the strong rebound in prices, the output value of the sugar industry is expected to increase by 50%, which will be a huge benefit to farmers and industry enterprises.

While enjoying the sweet harvest, domestic sugar farmers and the general public also cast gloating glances at a neighboring country to the southwest.

The ones who suffered the most serious losses were definitely the Indians. A small number of people became rich, but in the end it was the entire nation that paid the price.

The trend of land damage has not decreased.

Driving Monsanto out of India did not calm the farmers' anger, and small and medium-sized farmers' organizations in various federations organized meeting after meeting.

To no avail.

Finally, when the sugarcane harvest came, civil unrest gripped the country.

Assam and Nagaland in the northeast declared independence one after another. The Indian government army sent troops to conquer them, but once again fell to the "vampire" leeches.

Instead, the locals gradually adapted to how to survive.

The success of the Northeast also made other states restless. Some wanted independence, some fought for autonomy, and all kinds of evildoers jumped out.

In northwest India, conflicts over water resources with Pakistan have intensified, and the war is showing signs of expanding.

Independence, autonomy, division, war, food crisis, pestilence... trapped both internally and externally, it looks like the end of a dynasty no matter how you look at it.

Finally, one day, a post appeared on the Internet, which described another Hongqi River route.

There are still mountains and valleys to cross.

However, the steepness of the mountain canyons has been reduced several times, and they may not even be considered mountains, but can only be called hills, and there are existing rivers that can be used.

The only drawback may be that it is too close to the two countries in the south, and some sections of the river are still outside the country.

However, if you think about it carefully, considering India is in such a mess right now, it doesn’t seem impossible!
Netizens are excited!

The media were excited!

Everyone expressed their opinions, and a route with less difficulty, lower cost and higher feasibility emerged.

Hurry up and repair my country!

Only Guo Yang knew that the higher-ups still wanted to see the US fireworks.

(End of this chapter)