Chapter 53: "Calm Communication."

Li Sheng also smiled. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info Indeed, now that information is developed, Green and the organization will also promote its own ideas through Facebook. Recently, the focus of the Brazilian side of Green and Harmony is the Silent Farm, so the farm is famous. Although it has a notorious reputation for mercenary, it can be regarded as letting people know the name of Silent Farm.

But Silent Farm certainly won't let outsiders attack. As a Facebook expert, Thomas often posts his experiences in the Amazon jungle on Facebook, which also attracts a lot of fans. So posting a photo of the title deed on his Facebook page and citing Brazilian law is enough to prove that Silent Farm is not breaking the law.

Moreover, the land that has been cut down has grown to the knee height of an adult, and the comparison with the previous surface also proves that Silent Farm is not really just destroying the environment.

"We don't have any pressure right now. Let them go. Li Sheng said while eating. "With Babur and Zhang here, don't worry about them daring to mess around. ”

This land is his personal territory, and the security team led by Babur and Zhang Dingbian is heavily armed. If they dare to mess around, it makes sense to shoot. So the most they do is shouting slogans.

Silent Farm is not a big business, and there is no need to pay attention to the corporate image. The slogan was shouted by them. As long as he doesn't care, the pressure will naturally fall on the other person. To protest, they also have a cost.

That's not just the economic cost.

They were forbidden to drive up on the farm, and they were forbidden to bring animals up. Unless they send a helicopter to deliver supplies, they would have to walk at least thirty kilometers to get supplies. If they can make it to the end of the rainy season, Li Sheng can write them a letter.

Anthony laughed too. This incident will not have any effect on the farm for the time being. At the same time, his comrades-in-arms have already arrived at the farm, and although only eight of them came in the end, at least eight of them have higher salaries than American white-collar workers, which is already very good.

The rainy season continues, but the rain is not as abundant as before. At this time, the rain in the plain area mainly comes from convective rain, and the frontal rain is relatively small.

The Green Harmony organization still insists on protesting on the farm, and there are still cameras filming it -- it is the Green Peace organization. But everything is working fine on the farm. The trees that should be cut are still being cut down, and what should be harvested is still being harvested.

Large farm machinery from the United States rumbled in the paddy fields. Everything is in order. As the boss, Li Sheng certainly doesn't need to do it himself, otherwise what would he do with so much salary to the workers?

He is a farmer who is different from other traditional farmers. Many of the world's traditional farmers are constantly on the go. The most striking example of this is the Australian farmer. Maybe their farms are a few thousand square kilometers, or they may be tens of thousands of square kilometers. There were only a few thousand to tens of thousands of cows in it, but it was likely that there were only three or four workers, and then the whole family would have to work on the farm.

What kind of farm is a traditional farm? It is a farm that makes money from breeding and planting.

Now Li Sheng's Silent Farm is of course a traditional farm. The area used on this farm is not necessarily larger than that of the real big farms in Australia. But the number of workers recruited far exceeds them. There are nearly 100 Chinese workers alone. This salary bill may be much higher than the income of their entire farm.

After spending so much money and doing it himself, Li Sheng, the boss, was too much of a failure.

Of course, the Silent Farm will also be much more profitable than them. First of all, he hardly needs to spend much money on the animals he farms. The main cost is cattle breed and labor.

As for hydropower, electricity comes from wind and solar power. Will there be a shortage of water?

There are large agricultural machinery, and although Silent Farm has more than 80,000 acres of rice fields, he doesn't have to worry about it at all. Zhang Feng has experience in dealing with these things.

Fortunately, the construction company entered the site ahead of schedule and built a lot of warehouses - although it was a formwork room, it was better than nothing. These 80,000 acres of paddy fields are estimated to harvest nearly 400,000 tons of paddy. If it weren't for these warehouses, I wouldn't know where to put so much rice.

He was worried for a while at first, but he saw that nothing was wrong. He was relieved. On this day, he wanted to sleep in, but was woken up by the slogans of Midori and the organization.

Everyone has gas when they get up, it's just a matter of how much.

After Li Sheng finished washing, fried a few pumpkin pies and put them on a plate, then moved a chair and sat less than twenty meters away from the green and organization who shouted slogans, crossed Erlang's legs, and ate the pumpkin pie beautifully.

His provocative posture made it difficult for Midori and the people of the organization to calm down. The camera also went to his side. He also raised the plate in his hand, and then took a bite of the pumpkin pie he was holding in his other hand, looking intoxicated.

Midori and the people of the organization made him angry and laugh at this gesture. But they can't do anything about him. It's okay for them to protest, but if they beat people on other people's territory, then they are not a peaceful organization, but a terrorist organization.

The Green Harmony group has been protesting for almost two months. They came every day at first, and then every once in a while. Each time, he sent signatures collected from unknown places, asking Li Sheng to stop cutting down trees. But Li Sheng was too lazy to see them. So their so-called protest petitions are just talking to themselves.

Now that Li Sheng took the initiative to appear in front of them, they didn't know what to do.

The leader of the group is Santa Cruz Nadal, a middle-aged man with graying hair and beard, curly hair and a mustache that might look sexy to Western women.

He is the head of the Santarém Green and Organization. He had previously led protests against Cargill's construction of a terminal in Santarém. In the end, it did not stop Cargill's terminal construction. But it also forced Cargill to announce that it would not buy grain from farmers who had illegally cleared the forest – a promise that would be listened to, of course, and whoever was serious would lose.

That's a good result. Because the Green Harmony organization is worried that after the construction of the terminal in Santarém, the circulation of corn and soybeans will be strengthened, which will lead to more serious damage to the Amazon rainforest. With Cargill's commitment, they can be regarded as having an "explanation".

Cargill's terminal plans were not stopped because they did not violate Brazilian law. It's the same as cutting down forests on Silent Farms. They can protest, but Silent Farms are still cutting down because Silent Farms are not breaking the law.

Santa Cruz knew that if this continued, the Green Harmony organization would be like a clown among the discerning people in this protest. So he has always wanted to find an opportunity to have a good talk with Li Sheng. It's just that Li Sheng has always refused—without any excuses, he just refused.

Now that Li Sheng finally appeared in front of him, he knew that this was a rare opportunity. He walked up to Li Sheng and stretched out his hand: "Li, it's a pleasure to meet you." I'm Santa Cruz Nadal. ”

Although Li Sheng was not very satisfied with the other party's protest behavior, he still had to be polite on the surface. He stood up and took out a tissue to wipe his hands clean before shaking hands with the other party: "Hello, I also want to say that it was a pleasure to meet you." But you quarreled with my good dreams. ”

"Well, I'm sorry. But if you're willing to stop deforestation, I don't think we're going to bother you. ”

"I think we are doing things according to the law, and you have no right to bother me. Li Sheng said with a smile. "Or did the United Nations give you the right to interfere with the laws of sovereign states?"

Santa Cruz made a gesture for the person filming to stop shooting, and then said to Li Sheng, "Li, I think we have to communicate well." ”

Li Sheng also knew that although they had not really made trouble, it was not a problem for them to shout slogans from time to time, and nodded and said, "We do lack communication. ”

"I'm glad we had the first consensus. Santa Cruz said with a smile.

Li Sheng made a gesture of invitation and invited him to his wooden villa: "Actually, we have a lot of consensus. For example, environmental protection. ”

Santa Cruz looked at him and said, "If that's really the case, I think our communication will be pleasant." Can I join a few members?"

Li Sheng said with a smile: "Of course, there are many people sitting in my living room. ”

Sheng Cruise didn't let all the members go in together, but called a middle-aged woman, a young man and a young woman. Young men are photographers.

After entering the villa, Li Sheng took everyone to the living room, invited them to sit down, and said, "Do you want coffee or tea." ”

There are wooden sofas in the living room, green and organized people sitting together.

"Coffee, thank you. ”

"Tea. ”

"Please give me a glass of water. ”

After Li Sheng made his drink, he sat down across from them.

Santa Cruz took a sip of coffee and said, "Very good coffee." ”

Li Sheng smiled and said, "It's wild coffee that I found by accident." ”

"This is Linda, the deputy secretary general of the Santarém Green and Organization, this is Jenny the clerk, and this is our officer, Jack. Santa Cruz introduced several of his companions.

Li Sheng shook hands with them one by one and greeted them.

Santa Cruz quickly shifted the conversation to the point: "Lee, I think we need to talk about your deforestation. ”

Li Sheng knew that the subject of their protest was the deforestation of Silent Farm, so he nodded and said, "Of course." I also hope that we can reach a consensus. ”

"Good. Can we record it, though?"

Li Sheng glanced at Jack and said with a smile: "I hope you can make me more handsome." ”

The atmosphere seems to be a lot more harmonious. Jack stood up and found an angle from which everyone could be shot, turned on the camera, and gestured to Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz smiled and said, "Lee, we know that your Silent Farm has a large area of land, including a large area of grassland and rainforest. ”

Li Sheng nodded and said, "Yes, according to my title deed, I own more than nine thousand square kilometers of open land, but now it has become a grassland. There are also 15,000 square kilometers of rainforest. ”

When Santa Cruz heard him say this, he knew that the other party wanted to grasp the topic of legality, so he said: "According to our understanding, your grassland is very fertile, and the pasture is very delicious, and it may even be the best grassland in the world." Plus, you have 80,000 acres of arable land, all of which is used to grow grains. No less than 40,000 pigs are also raised. ”

"You know a lot about Silent Farm. Nothing wrong with what you say. ”

"But why aren't you satisfied?"

Li Sheng smiled and said: "Because dissatisfaction is the driving force for development." Just like your home country, Portugal, it is because you are not satisfied that you can become a world power. So it's not a bad thing to be dissatisfied. ”

"Just like Portugal back then, dissatisfaction destroys a lot of things. Portugal did benefit a lot from greed, but the conquered regions suffered greatly. This is a lesson from our previous experience. ”

Li Sheng shook his head and said, "You are very honest. But, that's because Portugal is greedy, and I'm just not satisfied. If Portugal were to run well, instead of expanding endlessly, looting precious metals. I don't think Britain will have a chance to rise. So the sun never sets on Portugal at that time, and the decline of the empire, greed is the root cause. And I developed it in a planned and measured way. 20% of the rainforest, I don't think it's going to be devastating to the rainforest I have. ”

"But that will cause a chain reaction?" Santa Cruz didn't know how to argue with Li Sheng's words. Because Li Sheng actually didn't say anything about his farm.

"The so-called chain reaction, I don't quite understand. ”

Santa Cruz knew he was pretending not to know. But it was exactly what he wanted, because it gave him a chance to make his claim clear: "You plan to cut down 3,000 square kilometers of rainforest this time. It's going to be a very bad lead. It is likely to cause severe damage to private rainforests across the country. ”

Li Sheng laughed and said: "I have fulfilled my duties as a citizen by keeping my duty and operating legally." If other people are illegally cutting down rainforests because of my example, shouldn't there be legal regulation? If it's legal, what can you blame? Or is the Brazilian law based on your green and organizational will?"