Chapter 683: Seven Sisters
Because every time they met with Jerome before, they were in their own Magnolia Manor, which made Zhou Dashan of Hongmen guess that he was the boss behind the Third International Bank, so now Chen Dahe has learned to be obedient, and asked Lao Theo to buy a whole floor of apartment here two days ago, as a place to meet with others secretly, and every time he enters and exits from a closed underground garage with a special elevator, so that no one will find out.
In the future, including Jerome, they will be put here to meet, and Liu Jianjian, who was summoned back by him thousands of miles away, became the first visitor here.
Sitting at the large dining table by the window, Chen Dahe held a cup of hot milk, looked at him and asked, "Lao Liu, how is your progress over there?"
Liu Jianshe swallowed the barbecue slices in his mouth, took another sip of hot milk, and then said softly, "It's okay, some are going well, and some want to regret it, but it doesn't matter, anyway, this famine still has to be endured, if you don't agree today, you will agree sooner or later, hum, it won't be the current condition when the time comes." ”
"Still disagree?" Chen Dahe was a little surprised, "They just believe that they can survive?"
"Hey, what can their natives who don't even have the habit of storing food do," Liu Jianshe pursed his lips, his face full of contempt, "It's not that the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agency has repeatedly said that it will raise relief food for Africa, they all point to relying on free food to survive." ”
"Ho, ho," Chen Dahe couldn't help but laugh dryly, "relying on free food to survive? How much food has the United Nations raised so far to send to Africa?"
"Tens of thousands of tons," Liu Jianshe shrugged, "It's not that the United Nations doesn't care, it's really a lot of things that need to be ripped off, they are nothing more than a coordinating organization, and all resources rely on donations from Member States.
In fact, in the past 83 years, if it were not for the support of more than 4 million tons of grain from the Five Continents Food Group, the number of deaths due to famine and malnutrition in Africa would have exceeded 15 million, and now, the number is also more than 10 million, the Food and Agriculture Agency has tried its best to coordinate the work of various Member States, but according to our speculation, it will not be until the second half of this year at the earliest, there will be a large amount of food into Africa, and these African tribes who refuse our good intentions cannot wait so long, on the one hand, there is food that can be available at any time, and on the other hand, the aid that stays on the slogan, I believe that in a few months, they will make a wise choice!”
"More than four million tons?" Chen Dahe was a little surprised, "Isn't the harvest in the second half of this year more than seven million tons?"
"That's right," Liu Jianshe picked up two pieces of bread, sandwiched a bunch of barbecue meat in the middle, took a hard bite, and said vaguely, "More than four million tons are released by us, part of it is used to recruit mercenaries, part of it is exchanged for mine resources, and the rest is about the same, part is ready to be traded, and part continues to recruit people." ”
"Oh," Chen Dahe nodded, and rolled his eyes, "Lao Liu, you said, where does the grain raised by the Food and Agriculture Administration come from?"
"Where else can there be, Western countries," Lao Liu swallowed what was in his mouth and said with a smile. The Soviet Union was too busy to take care of itself, and it was eager for the Food and Agriculture Administration to donate to them, where could they get the grain, of course, the meaning still had to be meaningful, or how could they show the status of the boss, but the amount of hundreds of thousands of tons to support the death, no matter how much they could not bear, the other big heads, must still be dominated by the United States and Europe, here the United States accounts for the majority, their country's grain group controls more than half of the world's grain trade, when to donate, how much to donate, the United States does not speak, no matter how much the Food and Agriculture Administration tosses, it is useless. ”
Chen Dahe nodded thoughtfully, "Do you estimate, when will the United States have a large-scale operation?"
"The small batch will follow a little bit this year, but the large-scale one will have to wait until at least next year," Liu Jianshe smiled coldly, "If such a big thing happens, most of the social camp will move first, plus some Western countries, it shouldn't be a big problem to get together three or four million tons, and the Yankees are notoriously stingy, they will definitely not give up their wealth until the last moment, and another one, until the last moment, how can they show their importance?!" Judging from the current situation in Africa, without our involvement, the United States should have taken action by the beginning of next year at the latest, but now, it is estimated that it will be half a year later."
Speaking of this, Liu Jianshe smiled, "Of course, this prediction is based on our previous inference that the drought in Africa will last until eighty-five years, and if the drought ends early, they will naturally not move again." ”
Chen Dahe squinted his eyes and his mind spun rapidly, constantly sorting out the relations between Africa, the United States, food, oil, finance, and other aspects.
After a while, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Liu Jianjian, who was wiping his hands after eating, "Old Liu, have you understood the distribution of power in various countries in Africa?"
"Of course," Liu Jianshe said with a sigh as he threw the towel in his hand onto the plate, I have been collecting intelligence on Africa since the first day, how to say, if there is no martyrdom to build one after another, maybe our country is now Africa, it seems that since the sixties, African countries have continued to gain independence, but in fact, they have never been free from the grasp of the great powers, here, the biggest force is France, France's penetration into Africa is omnipresent, in Africa, the vast majority of people who have gone to school can speak French, followed by the United States and Britain, Britain and France, are all traditional forces, and the United States is after World War II, gradually eroded the power of other powers。 ”
Chen Dahe suddenly knocked on the table, "Tell me about the situation in the United States." ”
"Compared with the complicated relationship between France and Britain, the United States is much simpler," Liu Jianshe said with a smile, "In a word, it is oil plus dollars!"
Seeing that Chen Dahe seemed a little puzzled, Liu Jianshe explained, "Oil is very well understood, and the oil fields and oil transmission equipment of most oil-producing countries in Africa are under the control of several major oil companies, and these companies basically belong to the Seven Sisters Group of Oil, uh,"
Speaking of this, Liu Jianshe paused, looked at Chen Dahe and asked, "Boss, do you know the Seven Sisters of Oil?"
Chen Dahe smiled lightly, "Rockefeller, Standard Oil!"
"Yes, that's it," Liu Jianshe smiled regretfully, a little regretful in his heart, he wanted to pretend but didn't pretend, how could the boss know everything?
Although Chen Dahe doesn't know much about the oil industry, and what he hears the most is nothing more than the two barrels of oil, he still hears of the famous Seven Sisters, about the beginning of this century, Standard Oil was split into 34 oil companies of different sizes by the U.S. federal court because of its involvement in the antitrust Act, of which the largest three are still among the top three in the world, while the rest are married and reorganized with several major European oil companies, and finally form seven companies that monopolize the world oil market, which are angrily called the Seven Sisters by the Italians.
Later, several of them went through acquisitions and reorganizations, merging into five companies, and the seven sisters became five sisters, the problem is that although Standard Oil was dismantled, through decades of marriage and reorganization, the Rockefeller family's control over oil not only did not weaken, but through these marriages, the impact was more far-reaching.