Chapter 661: Desert Transformation!

Immediately after the meeting, the news spread, and the countries of the world caused a sensation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

If all African countries join the "Weiyuan" system, won't they become another "EU"?

Europe and the United States do not want a strong alliance to be born! Therefore, they have extended olive branches to African countries and are not hesitating to provide them with financial loans.

Some African countries were overjoyed, thinking that American dads finally knew to help themselves!

However, at this moment, Wall Street collapsed because of a sentence made by Henry!

Henry said at the conference that the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has not yet reached its worst and will continue until at least 2009. As soon as these words came out, they immediately caused panic on Wall Street, and the stock market plummeted that day.

The leaders of some African countries were stunned, isn't it just Henry Williams' assumptions that can influence the situation on Wall Street?!

That's right, Henry has that ability!

Although Henry is not in the Wall Street, the legend of Henry has always been circulating on Wall Street. In the eyes of Wall Street, Warren Buffett is far less powerful than Henry.

The very next day, Citigroup announced its financial results for the first quarter, which still had a net loss of $11.24 billion, or $2.24 per share, after writing off losses of more than $18 billion, causing global panic. Immediately afterwards, Merrill Lynch announced its financial situation in the first quarter, with a loss of $3.42 billion!

The U.S. financial markets have worsened and have begun to plummet wildly.

Seeing that the subprime mortgage crisis is getting worse and worse, how can the United States give money to African countries, and what was promised before has now become a blank promise. As for the European financial markets, they are naturally not much better.

Henry turned off the TV and chuckled: "Hehe, Egypt, Libya and other countries want to get money from the United States and Europe!!"

Four days later, Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in the United States, fell into a serious financial crisis and announced that it had filed for bankruptcy protection, and an even more serious financial crisis came.

On the same day, Williams Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch, which was about to go bankrupt.

On April 9, the largest savings and loan bank in the United States, the Seattle-based Washington Mutual Company, was seized and taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Thursday local time, becoming the largest bank in the history of the United States.

At this time, the Bush administration formally submitted a bill to the US Congress to save the financial system, and the Treasury Department would be authorized to purchase up to $1 trillion in non-performing home mortgage assets. However, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a $1 trillion bailout plan, which led to a sharp drop in U.S. stocks, with the Dow plunging 777 points, the largest point drop in history, a single day drop of 7%, and the largest drop since the 1987 global stock market crash. Market confidence is weak, the Dow continues to sink to the bottom, and the 10,000-point mark is in jeopardy.

It was then that African leaders returned to the Williams Capitol.

Henry looked at everyone energetically, showed a warm smile, and said: "Welcome to everyone, after a week of consideration, I think you have already thought it through! Without further ado, countries that are willing to join the 'Weiyuan' system can immediately come to the stage and sign the agreement!"

As soon as the words fell, a large group of people stood up, and when Henry saw it, only the leaders of South Africa, Egypt, and Morocco were still sitting, and at this moment, the three of them looked at the rest of the people with heavy eyes.

The corners of Henry's mouth went up, revealing a vague smile. "Hehe, these three nail households are really insistent, in the future, the surrounding countries will use Weiyuan, see how long can your three countries last?"

In less than an hour, African leaders signed an agreement with Henry to officially join the "Weiyuan" system.

During this period, the leaders of South Africa, Egypt, and Morocco could not sit still and left their seats one after another.

As soon as they left, Henry was discussing things with the others.

First of all, how much money Henry lends to African countries, depending on their situation.

Subsequently, Williams Royal Investment Company will do its best to help them develop, especially in North African countries, which are located in the Sahara Desert, which is very water-scarce, and the desertification is becoming more and more serious, and the environment is extremely harsh!

"Africa is a desert and a harsh environment," Henry said. The Williams Empire is willing to buy these deserts and spend a huge amount of money to transform the desert environment! Which of you is willing to sell the desert to the Williams Empire?"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but hesitate.

The harsh environment of the desert is simply incapable of survival, and the desertification is serious, and the land is being encroached upon every day, and it is urgent to solve the desert problem! However, all African countries do not have the ability and funds to transform the environment, so they can only let the desert area become larger and larger, and the people's living area will become smaller and smaller!

If someone wants to buy a desert and is willing to spend money to improve the environment, this is naturally good for many African countries. However, the desert is not completely useless, and the desert may be rich in oil, and many large oil fields are found in the desert. If the desert is sold, it will be a big loss if oil is discovered later! Although Tesla cars are already available, it is impossible to popularize them in a short period of time. As a result, vehicles that use petroleum as fuel still dominate the market. In addition, petroleum has many other functions, and it is also a raw material for many chemical industry products, such as solutions, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics.

Henry looked at the hesitant expressions of the crowd, and after a little thought, he guessed their thoughts.

"I know why people are hesitant. Okay, I can sign an agreement with you, if oil is found in the desert, the Williams Empire only accounts for 4 percent, and you account for 6 percent, how about !!" Henry smiled and said, "The desert environment is harsh and not easy to survey. After the desert environment is successfully transformed, the detection will be much easier. Maybe you'll find a lot of oil then!"

As soon as Henry finished speaking, the presidents of some countries were a little moved.

Henry then continued: "If you want to make a large-scale transformation of a desert environment, especially like the Sahara Desert, it will inevitably cost a lot of money! The more popular artificial rainfall model is actually just artificial rainfall, and the amount of rain depends on the amount of water vapor in the clouds. As the saying goes, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and if there is not much moisture in the clouds, can she still create something out of nothing? It happens to be like the Sahara Desert, the cloud content above it is very scarce, and there is not much rain when it all falls. In addition, the temperature is too high and the water vapor is easily evaporated.

The only way to do this is to build pipelines to divert seawater into the desert! Traditional agricultural irrigation relies on freshwater resources, but Africa's freshwater resources are inherently scarce, so we have to use seawater.

Seawater is inexhaustible, and we can irrigate seawater in the desert and then breed plants that are resistant to heavy salinity and seawater! In this way, we can not only solve the desert problem, but also create economic value and solve the food problem in Africa. It is known that there are about 1,500 species of halophytes in the world, some of which can be used as food, pasture, edible oil, and some can be used as fiber, chemical and pharmaceutical raw materials. In addition, with the rapid development of cell and genetic engineering technology, the genetic engineering breeding of plant salt tolerance is moving towards practical use, and the molecular breeding of salt-tolerant varieties of cash crops and field grain crops is not far off, and it will also be possible to use genetic engineering to modify halophytes to make them bioreactors.

I think you also know about the research of gene umbrella company in cell and genetic engineering technology, so I won't say more. In short, if you agree to sell the desert to the Williams Empire, the desert will become the richest land, and all countries will no longer need to import grain from abroad at high prices! At the same time, after transforming the desert environment or turning the desert into fertile land, a large number of workers will be needed, and this will undoubtedly solve the employment problem of all countries......

In addition, the construction of the seawater pipeline will be accompanied by a huge investment in the construction of railroads along the way. All this will surely give a huge boost to the economic development of all countries!"

Hearing Henry say this, everyone couldn't help but nod their heads, their faces full of excitement!

(To be continued.) )