Volume 3 Chapter 61 An Unpredictable Move
When he went to the study, Li Sheng opened his email and found the email sent by Zhang Dingbian and downloaded more than a dozen documents. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
After opening them one by one, he closed his eyes and did mental arithmetic. Monin and they collected Cargill's sixteen large warehouses in Brazil. These warehouses are mainly used to store purchased soybeans. There are also fertilizers for soybean seeds.
He did a simple calculation, and those warehouses stored about 6 million tons of soybeans, 120,000 tons of soybean seeds, and more than 1.4 million tons of fertilizer.
After a long time, he got up and walked over to the map of Brazil hanging on the wall, and looked at it with a frown for a long time before he returned to his chair and sat down.
His face changed, and his heart seemed to be fighting. He sat motionless until Tia came to bed and said goodnight, and he regained his usual look. However, when Tia returned to her room, he sat back in his chair in a daze.
It wasn't until about four o'clock in the morning that he seemed to have finally made a decision, took out his phone and dialed an international number.
In Huaxia, Chen Bo was in the office and explaining the work of the employees, frowned, immediately connected, and waved a few employees to go out first. He turned into the phone and asked, "What's going on?" He had been keeping an eye on the time difference between the two places. It's past three o'clock in the afternoon, and if I'm not mistaken, it should be four o'clock in the morning on the Brazilian side. Li Sheng never called him at this time.
He heard Li Sheng say on the phone: "It's not a big deal. I just want to take out a loan, and you have acquaintances in that bank. ”
Chen Bo immediately said, "Let's talk about what happened first!" It is normal to take out business loans, but Li Sheng is an exception. He probably knew that Li Sheng was not short of money now, and it was impossible to ask for a loan if he had nothing to do.
"I want to speculate on soybean futures. I'm going to use Silent Farm as collateral, you can say hello for me. I'm going to borrow as much as I can. ”
"You're crazy!" If others didn't know the current value of Silent Farm, Chen Bo did. The current Silent Farm, even the market price, is worth at least $3 billion. If the forage business is really opened, the value will increase more than tenfold. And Li Sheng is now using the farm mortgage to speculate in futures.
"Not crazy. Li Sheng on the other end of the phone seemed to have a smile in his voice. "Do me a favor. I'm not very relieved about other national banks. ”
Chen Bo calmed down for a while before asking, "Why do you suddenly want to fry soybeans?"
"If I say, I can make soybean futures go up. Do you believe it?" said Li Sheng on the other end of the phone with a smile. "Don't worry, I've thought it through. I'm not going to joke about the farm. ”
Chen Bo knew how much Li Sheng cared about the farm, and he really wouldn't joke about the farm. He was just worried that Li Sheng was hot-headed. Hearing Li Sheng say that, he knew that Li Sheng must have some plan in his heart. Li Sheng didn't say anything, and it was inconvenient for him to continue to ask, so he had to say, "How much do you need?"
"The more the merrier!"
Chen Bo pondered for a while and said, "Wait for my news." ”
After the two hung up the phone, Chen Bo estimated in his heart how much loan he could help Li Sheng get. If Li Sheng wants to make a physical investment, it is not difficult to get a loan. But Li Sheng wants to take out a loan to speculate in futures, which is more difficult. Speculating in futures is too risky, and the bank will not accept this loan reason. Therefore, even if Li Sheng uses the Silent Farm as collateral, the bank may only end up lending about half of the appraised price.
And he was not very capable in this regard, so he made a call to Luo Zheng.
When Luo Zheng heard that Li Sheng wanted a loan, he thought for a while and said, "I'll ask first." But I think it's better to find a couple of banks to syndicate the loan. Several banks cooperate, and their risk is lower. ”
"Okay, I'm waiting for your news. ”
Chen Bo was still waiting for Luo Zheng's news, when an employee suddenly knocked on the door and came in, reporting and saying, "Mr. Chen, something happened." The United States, Chicken Plate and Stick have all announced a ban on the import of caviar, beef and beef products from Silent Farms, citing concerns that beef contains ******. Now there are people openly questioning the quality and safety of our products on the scarf. Say that the beef from the Silent Farm we represent may contain highly toxic substances. ”
Chen Bo was stunned for a moment, thinking of what had happened recently at Silent Farm, and he knew that it was aimed at Li Sheng. As far as he knows, the United States does not import much beef from Silent Farm, that is, Li Sheng sells some of it directly to the restaurant chain in which Mo Jingran has a stake. But that amount is also very small, no more than 200 tons per month. Mo Jingran is more about snails and caviar. But imports are also very small. Chicken plates are more imported with beef and caviar. But the lack of sticks barely imported anything from Silent Farm.
Three countries have issued import bans like this after Silent Farms has clarified that even Brazil has no restrictions on the sale of Silent Farms products. It was clearly an attempt to hit Silent Farm.
"I see, you go out first. Chen Bo asked the employees to leave first, and then he checked the Internet to check the scarves that the employees said questioned the safety and quality of Silent Farm's products, and found that they were all big V scarves with a large number of white-collar fans. He read a couple of blog posts.
After thinking for a while, I called Luo Zheng again.
Luo Zheng heard that someone in China wanted to ruin his way to make a fortune: "This matter can't be counted. ”
"Something might be going on over there on Li Sheng's side. We've got to hold it up here. Chen Bo's mind spun quickly, and he said while thinking about it. "Now that there is freedom of speech, we can't do anything about it. I'll have the sample tested. After the results are in, I plan to hold a press conference. You talk to two leaders who can stand up to the scene. ”
"Hmm. They're definitely going to the media too. I'll do it for the media. I know a lot of people in this area. Luo Zheng thought for a moment and said. "I can't tell you on the phone, I'll go to you right away. ”
Chen Bo put down the phone, still thinking about how to solve the credit crisis of this product.
Don't look at just a few people questioning the same product. In fact, many people know that such a method may be fake, but if these people are experts or the like, this name can make consumers have a kind of psychology that would rather believe in it, and there will be a pimple in their hearts when they see this kind of questioned product.
Consumers have a strong habit of consumption, for example, if they are used to using a brand of toothpaste, they will give priority to this brand as soon as possible. If consumers have a pimple with one brand's product, they are likely to develop a habit of consuming another brand.
The market that was finally opened, Chen Bo certainly didn't want to suffer losses because of a few blog posts. He immediately called the company's employees and asked them to send the products of Silent Farm to the authority for testing.
After the things were done here, he made another call to Li Sheng to explain what happened in Huaxia.
Li Sheng heard that there were also people in Huaxia who were playing ghosts, so he was not too surprised in his heart. He smiled and said, "I knew they had a trick." ”
He can be regarded as seeing the other party's entire plan clearly. First poisoning, then slandering the image of the product. If it weren't for Feng Xiaoting's presence, if it dragged on for a few more days, the Brazilian side might have imposed some punishment on Silent Farm. When the time comes, the whole world will reject the products of Silent Farms. At that point, even if it is clarified, the impact has already been done.
Now that the Brazilian side reacted quickly, it is impossible for the Brazilian side to do any more punishment, and there is no reason for the European side to ban the products of the Silent Farm. The United States, a country that largely does not import Silent Farms, was the first to issue a ban. The purpose is also to influence the decisions of other countries.
This effect cannot be said to be absent, but it is not the worst.
There are celebrities who have been bought in China, and there must be some in Europe. However, Li Sheng doesn't want to care about these things for the time being. What Chen Bo could think of, he believed Fernando would not be able to think of. If Fernando doesn't want to make a move. No matter how much he paid attention, he couldn't help it.
In less than a day, Chen Bo and Fernando held press conferences in China and Europe. An authoritative quarantine and quality inspection report was presented to confirm that there were no quality and safety problems in the products of Silent Farm. And promised to strengthen the testing of Silent Farm products in the future. And Li Sheng also received the A350-1000 private jet on this day.
In the next few days, Li Sheng took Mo Ning and Bai Qin to leave the farm early every day by plane, and would not return until late at night. None of the people on the farm knew where Li Sheng was going. Only Mo Ning found that the places Li Sheng went to these days were near the warehouse of Cargill, which had a relatively large storage capacity in the information he submitted to Li Sheng. But he didn't understand what Li Sheng was going to do in those places.
Every day, when they arrived at the place, they drove to the vicinity of the warehouses and stopped. Li Sheng closed his eyes in the car to recuperate. They go to two or three places a day. This is true everywhere.
A few days later, because of the poisoning incident, the world's doubts about the quality and safety of Silent Farm's products slowly dissipated. And Li Sheng received several guests who came from Huaxia. They are representatives of several large domestic banks.
They negotiated for a day and finally signed several agreements in the presence of their lawyers.
After that, Li Sheng left the farm again, this time for several days in a row. When he returned to the farm, Tia noticed that he seemed to be tired, with faint dark circles under his eyes.
After returning to the farm, Li Sheng calmed the worried Tia and began to stay in the study again.
He first opened several accounts on exchanges in Chicago, London, and Frankfurt. He checked his account and found that the billion-dollar loan had arrived.
He told Chen Bo that the loan was for soybean futures speculation, and he really planned to do so.
As a result of the emergence of the WW-X virus last year, some countries have reduced wheat planting and increased soybean planting, such as the United States and Argentina, and a bumper soybean harvest has led to a sharp increase in the price of other food grains while the price of soybeans has been declining due to reduced wheat production. All forecasts predict that the total area planted in the world will increase by about 5% next year. Soybean production is also expected to increase by between 5% and 7% next year. It can be said that the price of soybeans will continue to decline next year.
But Li Sheng is betting on rising soybean prices. (To be continued.) )