Capital.

In a building, the foreign party concerned is discussing issues related to import and export commodities with the beautiful country.

This time, the main purpose is to discuss the volume and price of goods imported and exported between the two countries in the coming year.

In recent years, the export volume of beautiful countries to China has been increasing, and the main commodities are soybeans, semiconductors, aircraft parts, etc.

In the first quarter of this year, China's soybeans imported from the United States reached 13.3987 million tons, amounting to more than 51.4 billion soft currency, accounting for as much as 70% of China's total grain imports.

The annual cost of importing soybeans from the beautiful country is almost equal to the total expenditure on semiconductors plus aircraft parts.

Therefore, every year, Huaguo will hold such a special business negotiation with Meimei to negotiate the import and export of soybeans and other commodities.

If there are no surprises in this meeting, China will once again pay high prices to buy soybeans and other imports from the beautiful country for a whole year.

"Mr. Harold, I think the price of soybeans can be 2% lower, the price of soybeans that we imported in your country last year was 5% less than now, and now the price has risen so much, I think it's very inappropriate."

"Minister Shen, you must know that my country is now short of water resources, and soybean planting has been greatly affected, which is something that cannot be helped, and now it is only a 5% price increase, which is already very favorable."

"We can understand the water crisis in your country, but semiconductors and aircraft parts are not affected by water scarcity."

Shen Jianyuan frowned, the soybeans imported from the beautiful country to China are getting more and more expensive year by year, and the freshwater resource crisis that the other party said is indeed a reason, which is understandable.

Other commodities have nothing to do with fresh water at all, but they also have to raise prices, which is a bit unacceptable.

The beautiful country is determined that China needs these goods, so the price increase is getting faster and faster, and it is becoming more and more blatant.

Harold Tarbel smiled: "Our country has recently planned to spend a lot of money to solve the problem of freshwater resources, so other industries have been affected to a considerable extent. ”

When Shen Jianyuan heard this, he almost exploded.

Dealing with the scarcity of freshwater resources is an internal matter of your own country, so how can it be related to commodities such as semiconductors and aircraft parts?

If you want an excuse for price increases, you can't find a slightly reasonable one?

In previous years, it was like this, every time the import and export negotiations were held, it was completely a hall of words in the beautiful country, how they set the price, and how the Chinese country accepted.

"Mr. Harold......"

Shen Jianyuan was planning to continue to reason with him.

At this time, the door was pushed open, and the secretary walked in hurriedly and said a few words in Shen Jianyuan's ear.

After saying that, he simply left neatly.

Then, Shen Jianyuan said apologetically: "Mr. Harold, I'm sorry, let's continue to discuss in the afternoon, there are some emergencies on our side, I hope you understand." ”

Meetings like this often last for several days, so it's perfectly fine to delay the morning.

"No problem, Minister Shen, you go get busy first."

After hanging up the video conference, Shen Jianyuan walked quickly to his office.

"Shenbu, what's going on?"

The man who came out with him asked.

"There is an emergency from above, saying that it involves this negotiation, I will deal with it, you guys go and get busy first, and be ready for the meeting at any time."

After Shen Jianyuan finished speaking, he went straight back to his office.

Just now, the secretary told him that there was an urgent message from above, saying that the content of the negotiation was to be temporarily revised.

This is the first time he has encountered such a situation since he became a minister.

However, the stakes are serious, and there are no special circumstances, and the state will not modify the content of the negotiation in this way.

Shen Jianyuan opened the email he received on his computer, and he found that the email contained two biotech briefings.

After reading the introduction, Shen Jianyuan was shocked.

These two technologies can be used as heavyweight bargaining chips, allowing the beautiful country to reduce the price of various goods, and even put forward some other requirements.

This time it will no longer be a situation where what they say will be listened to by Huaguo.

He knows how scarce the freshwater resources are in the beautiful country.

The technology of desalination of seawater by sargassum is exactly what it wants, and for them, actinomyces nerves is not so urgently needed, but it is also a technology worth introducing.

In recent years, the beautiful country has become anxious, and they have elevated water scarcity to a national security issue.

The country's aging water infrastructure and the decades-long drought in the western region have put agriculture and people under enormous pressure on access to water.

Last year, the country invested heavily to tackle the country's lead pollution problem, increase the supply of drinking water, and want to improve its drought resilience in the coming years.

And the technology of desalination of seawater by sargassum is what they urgently need.

Shen Jianyuan took a deep breath and got up and came to a multimedia conference room.

He plans to start a video conference with various departments to discuss how to use the two technologies to maximize the benefits.

The secretary hurriedly helped to open the video conference, and after a few minutes, everyone was plugged in.

"Xu Suo, the authenticity of this technology is guaranteed, right?" Shen Jianyuan asked directly.

"No problem at all, when the experiment was verified, everyone was there, and Mr. Pei was also there."

Hearing Xu Zeming's words, Shen Jianyuan let go of his last worries.

"That's good, also, if this sargassum green algae is sold to the other party, will they steal the core secret?"

"Not at all, but you can only sell them seedlings, and the price description is also available, you set the export price yourself, but you must ensure that Chenyue Biology has enough benefits."

Shen Jianyuan nodded and said fiercely: "That's for sure, this time we must have a big blood in the beautiful country." ”

"Old Shen, it seems that you have been angry a lot."

Shen Jianyuan said helplessly: "You don't know how arrogant they are, what they import from the beautiful country, they have to be whatever price they want, there is no room for negotiation." ”

"With this desalination technology, we won't let them bargain this time!" A dignified old man in a military uniform said.

Shen Jianyuan nodded and asked, "Do you have any suggestions for this price?" In addition to the several goods imported this time, do you think there are any other benefits that can be obtained elsewhere? ”

The old man in military uniform shook his head and said, "This is not enough for them to make concessions in military action. ”

"Other aspects are okay, soybeans and other imported materials must be lowered to the death, tariffs, education and other aspects can also be discussed."

"How they oppressed us back then, how we will oppress back this time!"

Xu Zeming said at this time: "I don't care about the rest, but Zhang Chen's personal safety is very important, there has been a precedent for two gangsters to touch their company before, I hope that similar things will not happen again in the future, and the life safety of researchers must be guaranteed." ”

The old man in military uniform nodded and said, "I will send more people to protect him secretly." ”