Inside the office of the President of Standard Chartered Bank.

George King was smoking a cigarette and pondering.

He was frightened by his own guess.

If that's the case, it's just terrifying.

What a long-term vision, what a treacherous calculation to calculate all this.

The more George King thought about it, the more terrified he felt.

Promote everything to bring down Thailand, and then use the net worth of tens of millions of people in Thailand to make wedding dresses for yourself.

This kind of scheming method, he feels awe when he thinks about it.

I don't know if it's because of the psychological effect, but George King found that cigarettes are really a good thing.

After a cigarette was finished, his heartbeat slowly calmed down.

George King spoke.

"Boss..."

"George. Are you snapping?"

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George King was stunned for a moment.

Before he could ask the guess in his heart, Zhao Jiangchuan suddenly spoke.

George King's mind was confused.

Bang bang?

Is there anything normal people don't snap in?

In shock, George King nodded subconsciously.

"Smack. ”

"How many times a day?"

Is it a meal?

This thing can still be used several times a day.

George King rolled his eyes and stopped talking.

He felt that he had overestimated his boss's purpose.

But Zhao Jiangchuan suddenly laughed.

For only he knows his true purpose.

Rubber tree, native to the Amazon forests.

The original meaning is derived from the Indian word cau-uchu, which means "tree of tears".

Because when the skin of the rubber tree is cut, a milky white gum will flow.

This gum came to be known as natural latex.

Long before Columbus discovered the American continent, the inhabitants of Central and South America began to use rubber.

It was transplanted to Kew Gardens in England in 1873, and 22 clover trees were shipped to Singapore in 1877 and to the Malay Peninsula in 1898.

Due to the environmental impact of rubber tree cultivation, the natural conditions of the subtropical rainforest climate make it the most suitable area for rubber tree growth.

Therefore, the most suitable places for global rubber planting are concentrated in Southeast Asian countries.

The five countries with the largest rubber production are Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India, which account for 90% of the world's rubber planting area and rubber production.

Among them, Thailand has the largest rubber planting area among the five Southeast Asian countries.

Thailand alone accounts for more than 60% of the world's rubber production.

With modern technology, latex produced from natural rubber trees can be processed into many products.

Among them, the most used by people, the most used, and many people have used, is a thin, transparent rubber product.

Available in mint, strawberry, and plain.

Although many people don't like this kind of thing, there are still many people who have to use this thin rubber product.

Because it prevents accidental pregnancy.

That's right, it's condoms.

Global data shows that more than 10 billion condoms are sold worldwide every year.

After this large amount of data, a generation of condom listed companies was born.

Due to the harsh texture required for condom processing, pure natural latex must be used.

In addition to the set, the properties of natural latex can also be processed into many rubber products.

Under the characteristics of latex, after the latex dries up and becomes solid, it can be processed into natural rubber.

This rubber can be used in a wider range of applications.

For example, rain boots, warm water bags, and elastic bands used in daily life, surgeons' gloves, blood vessels, and condoms used in the medical and health industry, and various tires used in transportation;

conveyor belts, conveyor belts, acid and alkali resistant gloves for industrial use;

Drainage and irrigation hoses and ammonia bags used in agriculture, sounding balloons used in meteorological surveys, sealing and shockproof equipment used in scientific experiments;

aircraft, tanks, artillery, gas masks used in national defense;

Even high-tech products such as rockets, artificial earth satellites and spacecraft are inseparable from natural rubber.

Among them, the use of natural rubber in tires is the largest.

After Dunlop made the first restart tire in 1888, rubber tires became the only option for car tires that could never be replaced.

In the manufacture of tires, more than 80% of the materials used in natural rubber are used.

That's a scary number.

But rubber can be used for much more than that.

Take, for example, scrapped rubber tires.

After high-temperature smelting, not a ton of waste tires can be refined into nearly half a ton of oil.

After separation, this oil can be used to become a refined oil product with a higher quality than that produced from light crude oil.

It is precisely because of the high economic value of rubber trees that rubber farmers in Thailand grow rubber trees as if they were rice.

It can be said that the rubber tree is the only thing in Thailand that can influence the pattern of the whole world.

However, this is Thailand twenty years later.

1989 year.

Thailand has overlooked a lot of things in order to become a financial center in Asia.

Even though they have the most precious rubber plantation, they don't know it.

In the eyes of the Thai people at that time, Hong Kong became one of the most prosperous economies in Asia by virtue of finance, and Singapore became the only developed country in Southeast Asia by virtue of its financial status and influence.

There are vivid examples in front of you, which makes Thailand's heart flutter.

This is why Thailand has fully opened up capital control after 1990.

Because in Thailand's eyes, the annual export value of rubber is only 60 million US dollars, which is nothing compared to the profits brought by the influx of foreign capital every year.

However, in the eyes of later generations, this thing is tantamount to a super nuclear bomb.

Especially in the eyes of Zhao Jiangchuan.

If he can control Thailand's rubber resources, then Jushi Capital will go to a point where he could not reach it in his previous life.

In the eyes of most people, the market is often a buyer's market.

As long as you have money, you can buy everything.

It's like the red beans of Huaguo.

Japan almost didn't wipe out the adzuki beans by cutting off imports alone.

But in fact.

The buyer and seller are not necessarily the buyer in the dominant position.

In the following two decades, no matter how much technology and industry developed, it still could not replace the dominant position of rubber in industry.

Especially in the automotive industry.

No matter how luxurious the car, rubber tires still have to be used.

Its performance cannot be replaced in a short period of time.

It can be said that if you can control the global rubber production, you can control the fate of the global automobile industry.

Knowing the rubber output of a region can determine whether the region's car companies will survive or stay.

Your family produces cars, what is the consequence of Lao Tzu making you unable to make a single tire?

That's not how much you want, you have to give as much as you want.

"Hey, hey..."

Thinking of the smugness, Zhao Jiangchuan couldn't help but laugh wickedly.

That laughter made George King feel creepy.

But this smile also made George King understand a lot of things.

With the current power of Jushi Capital, many things can already be changed.

Because, with money, you can do whatever you want.