Volume 1, 1st Pot of Gold, Chapter 805, Acquisition Blocked

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Three days later, the number of applicants exceeded 10 million.

Immigrants without barriers were first welcomed by the poor people in Africa and the Middle East. Those who have more or less been exposed to the Internet and are eager for a better life in the outside world are particularly enthusiastic when they sign up.

However, Jiang Chen obviously lived up to these people's expectations.

Transwarp is extremely cautious about volunteers from underrepresented regions, with almost no applicants from Africa and few from the Middle East qualified for interviews.

It is not because of racial discrimination, but entirely because of public security and other considerations. In order to mitigate the risks of lifestyle, religious practices, and even food culture, which could pose a risk to colonization, any applicant who has a negative opinion of secularization will not be eligible for an interview.

After the interview results came out, Liu Qingpeng couldn't even believe that he was successfully selected with only a high school degree? !

Happiness came too suddenly, he excitedly pulled a few well-connected workers out for a drink that day, resigned to the person in charge of the factory the next day, and then went to the new embassy with his identity information to get a work visa to Koro Island.

Dragging his suitcase, he got off the plane at the airport on Koro Island, and soon he saw the minibus that was responsible for picking up and dropping off the volunteers.

Most of the people on the bus are of the yellow race, and there are even his fellow villagers. There were also many people from Europe, the United States, and Russia sitting in the car, but because of the language barrier, he just looked at these foreign devils curiously and did not communicate with them too much.

The minibus boarded a ferry, which then took them to Anga Island, where they were taken to the volunteer community next to the training center.

From now on, they will live here, receiving 4 hours of in-venue training every day, as well as 4 hours of VR training.

After six months, they will be divided into different types of work for specialized training according to their respective training schedules. A year later, their status will be changed from temporary workers to regular workers, and although they are still volunteers, they can already be considered prospective astronauts.

The construction of the space elevator will coincide with the lunar colonization project, and a year later, 200 volunteers will be selected from these volunteers to take the first step in this shocking interstellar colonization as the first colonists to go to the moon!

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After the completion of the space elevator, a large number of astronauts will be needed in the space station.

Construction of the astronaut training center began long before the launch of the space elevator program. On the one hand, it is to provide space station staff to the Star Ring Trade, and on the other hand, it is to provide basic space training for the citizens of the new country, at least to adapt to the gravity-free environment.

"So far, 30,000 volunteers have arrived in the new country for training, and although we have cooperated with Future People Tourism, the entire space training center is still in a state of loss. According to estimates by the Ministry of Finance, the deficit of the Space Training Center this month is about between $8 million and $10 million. ”

"Do you lose 100 million a year?"

When he heard Xia Shiyu's report, Jiang Chen's expression didn't change much.

The aerospace project is a bottomless pit, he has long been prepared to lose money in the early stage, more than 100 billion have been lost, does he still care about this 100 million?

"The budget of the training center remains the same, but let Wei Yun think more about it to see if he can make this aerospace training center play more in terms of tourism. Don't ask for self-financing, just don't lose too much, and I don't have any other requirements. ”

"I'll talk to him. Xia Shiyu nodded.

"In addition, how is the negotiation progress with the Australian Sunri E Company?" Putting the astronaut training aside, Jiang Chen asked another issue he was concerned about, that is, the food supply of the future space elevator space station and the lunar colony base.

"Sunri rejected our offer to buy a farm in northern Australia, even though we offered an 11% premium. According to the person in charge of negotiating with us on the side of Sun, this decision was made by the parent company Cargill of the United States. ”

As we all know, 80% of the world's grain market is controlled by the four major ABD companies. The four companies are ADM of the United States, Bunge of the United States, Cargill of the United States, and Louis Dreyfus Company of France. It can be said that global food prices are basically determined by these four companies.

It is not difficult for those who are interested to find that three of these companies belong to the United States, and it can be said that the global grain market is basically under the control of the United States. Although the United States has never announced that the grain market must be settled in US dollars, the rice in the bowl of the world's people has never left the control of the United States.

In 2004, the soybean crisis and the collective collapse of China's crushing enterprises gave the Americans a painful "trade lesson" to the Chinese people who had just joined the WTO for less than three years. Until today, more than 10 years later, China's soybean planting industry has not recovered from the crisis of that year.

You know, before 04 years, Huaguo was one of the major soybean producers.

It is no longer the barbaric Victorian era, and the battlefield between countries has long been no longer dependent on the brutality of real swords and guns, and the invisible lever of the market can be used to do things that even nuclear weapons can't.

Whether it's an orbital space station or a lunar base, the only industry that is difficult to achieve self-sufficiency is food production. Even if hydroponics and aeroponics are achieved, it is difficult to control the high production cost.

With the space elevator, the cost of delivering food to outer space will be greatly reduced, but it is still difficult to get rid of the control of the four ABD companies from the source.

At present, the grain of the new country is basically dependent on imports from Australia, and if Jiang Chen moves the knife against the dollar at that time, the United States, which has torn its face, will undoubtedly start to beat the new country in the grain market.

The new country, which is entirely dependent on imports for its production from cereals to dairy products, is defenseless in the food market.

There is only one way to minimize price fluctuations in the international market, and that is to produce it ourselves, and to change from an importer to an exporter! Even if the rice does not grow from the land of Koro, it must grow from the overseas farms controlled by the company's own enterprises in the new country.

Achieving self-sufficiency in grain production is of utmost importance to Transwarp's future development! Therefore, Jiang Chen instructed Xia Shiyu to put forward an asset acquisition plan for Sunri E Company, which has a monopoly on Australia's grain exports, hoping to acquire 400,000 acres of farms in northern Australia from it.

Unfortunately, Cargill of the United States, which holds the controlling stake in Sune, is not willing to give up its farm, even though the 400,000 acres of farms account for only a small part of the farmland held by Sune.

"What about contact with Cargill?"

"They don't want to talk at all. Xia Shiyu shook her head and said. "My Jianyì is a registered subsidiary in Australia, and the Tongguò subsidiary buys farms from Australian farmers...... While the cost and efficiency of doing so are not proportional, it is certainly much less difficult than extracting a tooth from a tiger's mouth. ”

As one of the breadbaskets of Asia, the Australian agricultural market is quite mature, and there are no farmers willing to sell their farms, after all, many Australian farmers have made a living from this for generations, and they can't find other jobs if they lose their farms.

Unless the Future People Group offers a high premium, they won't nod their heads at all.

Jiang Chen was also in trouble for a while.

Everything is good in Xinguo, but the area is a little smaller. At that time, when he chose the base area, he didn't think so far, thinking that anyway, the economy is globalized, and he can buy everything if he has money or shortage, but now that the plate is bigger, he realizes that things are far from being as simple as he imagined.

It would be nice if only he could exchange thousands of square kilometers of territorial waters for land...... Wait a minute!

Thinking of this, Jiang Chen's eyes suddenly lit up.

Wouldn't it be enough to cover the farm at sea?(To be continued.) )