"Of course, I am no stranger to the four major grain merchants of ABCD, they are all world-class giants." Andy nodded and said: "I control the agriculture of many countries in the world, and bully the farmers at both ends - when purchasing grain in the grain-producing areas, the price is lowered, and after forming a monopoly, the price is raised and sold in the grain-deficient areas; Most of the seeds and fertilizers needed by farmers are in the hands of the four major grain merchants. They control global food production, trade, including pricing power. ”

For example, Chile in 1970 exaggerated the extent of Chile's food shortage, doubling the gap of 2 million tons directly to 4 million tons, so that the United States used the pretext of rescuing Chile to enter its grain market, and sold low-priced American grain to the people at Chile's domestic price, causing a large number of local grain merchants in Chile to go bankrupt, and then they took the opportunity to merge and monopolize the Chilean grain market."

Bai Ye smiled and said:

"There is also Mexico, which was originally an agricultural exporter, but later under the so-called trade freedom agreement, American crops can flood into Mexico unscrupulously, but Mexico is not allowed to sell crops to the United States, resulting in Mexico's native crops cannot be sold, farmers and grain merchants go bankrupt, and then can only rely on imports for a long time, completely reduced to an agricultural importer. There are so many poisonous farmers in Mexico, and there is no blood debt from the four major grain merchants. ”

To put it bluntly, the four major grain merchants want to plant cash crops in underdeveloped areas, let them buy them, and then sell them in developed areas, and then buy cheap grain from developed areas, find underdeveloped areas to sell, and make a few profits.

In modern society, the reason why there are still so many famines and so many people starving to death is that the four major grain merchants have contributed a lot.

In places like Mexico, the ...... is grown It seems that cash crops do make more money than growing food crops, right? But it ruined Mexico's future.

The weapon of food, if used well, is more powerful than a nuclear bomb.

"So...... What are you going to do? Andy raised his eyebrows and said, "Agritech is an industry with a lot of investment and slow results, and it's hard work. Mercury Media, just throw money at it, Mars Military Industry, it's your luck to meet such a big fool as Tony Stark, Venus Energy, you just happen to have a scientific and technological breakthrough project in your hands, Saturn Creatures, you have Norman Osborne's father, if you want to play agriculture...... Do you have a father as good as Norman Osborne in the industry? ”

"It's really difficult to go to quality, and it takes a long time to make breakthroughs in agricultural science and technology, but we can go through the quantity first." Bai Ye smiled: "We can first set a small goal that can be achieved, for example, to become the largest landlord in the world." ”

"Landlord?"

Andy was confused by Bai Ye, didn't he say agriculture, why did he get involved with the landlord again?

"Of course, don't you know? Many of the top wealthy people in the United States are also top landowners. If we want to play Jupiter agriculture, it is difficult to overtake in a short period of time in pure agricultural technology, so we will first buy a large amount of land for planting and lay a good foundation. Whereas, grain is a real asset that can provide a stable return during a long-term holding period. Bai Ye said: "You can know after a little investigation, in fact, the return on investment of farmland can outperform U.S. stocks." The average annual rate of return on farmland investment in the United States is 11.2%. This compares with an average annual return of 9.6% for the S&P 500 over the same period. ”

In his previous life, Bai Ye paid attention to agricultural issues, in addition to the grievances between the four major grain merchants and China Grain Reserves, there was also the news that Bill Gates bought American land on a large scale and became the largest farmer in the United States.

In 2022, Bill Gates already owns more than 270,000 acres of farmland in the United States, which is equivalent to more than 1,090 square kilometers of land, which is almost the size of the entire New York City.

There is also Bezos, the founder of Amazon, who also owns a huge amount of land, which is a little larger than Gates, reaching 420,000 acres, becoming the 26th largest private landowner in the United States. It's just that the land he bought contains some forests and uncultivated land, which is qualitatively inferior to Gates.

Of course, while Bill Gates is the largest private owner of farmland in the United States, he is not the largest landowner in the United States. The largest landowner in America is billionaire John Malone, who owns 2.2 million acres of land across the United States!

"When we at Jupiter Agriculture become the largest landowners in the world, we can turn these farms into the largest experimental beds for agricultural, food and climate-related technologies to complete the huge agricultural technology investment map." Bai Ye smiled: "But there are too many things now, and the establishment of Jupiter's agriculture needs to be put to a conclusion." After I make a lot of money and make a lot of money, we will start running Jupiter farming. ”

“OK！”

Andy has no opinion, after all, Bai Ye's willingness to spend a lot of capital to invest in agriculture is also a good thing for the world.

With the resources that Bai Ye can mobilize, if he really makes a big move in agricultural technology, it is estimated that there will be fewer people in this world who starve to death due to famine.

After chatting with Andy about the group, Bai Ye temporarily left AIM and returned to Venus Energy to participate in the experiment of the second-generation Ark reactor with Ivan Vanke and Anthony Vanke.

……

After a day's experiments, Bai Ye was also quite satisfied with the progress of Ivan Vanke's experiment, this guy had some goods in his stomach, and the time for him to obtain the Ark Reactor technology was not far away.

After finishing work, Bai Ye walked out of the company building, stretched, and drove to AIM to have dinner with Betty.

Don't look at this chick's mouth that is ruthless, but Bai Ye can see that it is just tsundere, and when he comes to nine thousand and one, Betty will become honest even if she says no.

Halfway through.

Bai Ye received a call from Aunt Mei.

He laughed, but picked it up anyway:

"Hello?"

"White Night!" Aunt Mei said angrily: "What the hell are you doing with that kid Parker?" Why haven't I seen Parker home for so long? And also! During this time, I called you, but I couldn't get through, why? Are you blacklisting me? Damn, after the last incident, I didn't pull you into the blacklist of my phone, and you still pulled me into the blacklist? ”

"Uh-uh." Bai Ye hurriedly explained: "Aunt Mei, you misunderstood, it's not that I pulled you into the blacklist, it's mainly that I recently went on a business trip abroad for a while, maybe the mobile phone signal is not very stable, so you didn't get through." ”

Well, in fact, Bai Ye temporarily blocked Aunt May, because Aunt Mei knew that after being quarantined due to Parker's involvement in the incident of Kurt Connors, she has been worried, and she can't wait to call Bai Ye every day to report Parker's safety, which makes Bai Ye a little unbearable, he has a lot of things to do every day, there are many serious things, and there are many serious things, so you can't revolve around Parker and Aunt Mei every day, so I have no choice but to temporarily block Aunt May, and wait for Parker's control serum to be made.

Now that Aunt May is released from the blacklist, it is also because Parker's control serum is made, and the current Parker can always maintain his sanity as a human being, and he can also control his free transformation between human form and lizardman form, which means that Parker is now also a transcendent person with the same strength as Gwen, but Gwen is Spider-Woman, and Parker may become Lizard Man.

Bai Ye continued: "And Aunt May, Parker's matter has been settled, I can take you into the Osborne Group to see him at any time, but he personally needs to stay in the Osborne Mansion for two more days." ”

"Really?"

Aunt Mei asked in surprise.

She had been worried for so long, was the nightmare finally over?

"Of course it's true!" White Night said categorically, "So you're going to see Parker now?" I can pick you up right now. ”

Aunt Mei was no longer polite to Bai Ye, and reported her address.

If it was her own business, since the last embarrassing incident, she was not embarrassed to trouble Bai Ye at all, but when it came to Parker, she would be in a hurry and couldn't manage it so much.

When she saw Aunt Mei again in the white night, she was wearing a plain white shirt and denim blue straight-leg jeans, and the whole person revealed a refreshing and pure atmosphere.

The white shirt has a regular version and a folded neckline, which looks reserved and serious, but all of them reveal a unique playfulness and agility, which is very beautiful and charming, and people can't tell that she is close to 40 years old.

Straight-leg jeans perfectly outline the curve of her slender legs, and the high-waisted version enhances the waistline, and can lengthen the leg proportions, showing height and thinness, just the right way to show the charm of a mature woman.

"It's beautiful!" Bai Ye praised: "Aunt Mei, you are getting more and more beautiful, when you walk on the street, people you don't know still think you are my sister!" ”

"Don't be poor!" Aunt Mei gave him a white night and said, "You better drive." ”

“OK。”

White Night started the car and headed for the Osborne Building.

"You really went abroad on a business trip during this time, didn't you block me?"

Aunt Mei asked again in disbelief.

Well, in addition to the anxiety of not being able to contact Parker, Aunt Mei is also a little resentful, because last time Bai Ye secretly kissed her, and if she turned her head and blocked her, she would feel like no matter what she wanted...... The feeling of running away when you lift your pants in the white night.

"I knew you didn't believe me!" Bai Ye smiled helplessly, put the ticket and other things in front of Aunt Mei, and said: "I'm really a little busy during this time, and it's very important to deal with a biological laboratory in North Africa, I didn't mean to ignore you." ”

Aunt Mei took a look, it was true, she went to North Africa during the white night.

This made Aunt Mei feel a little more comfortable, it turned out that he didn't block me: "What about Parker's matter?" It's been so long, isn't there a verdict yet? ”

"Parker's fine." Bai Ye drove the car and said, "If Parker wants to, he can go home immediately, but Parker himself doesn't want to go home for the time being." ”

"What?"

Aunt Mei's willow eyebrows are upside down:

"I'm so worried about him at home, he actually has the opportunity to go home, but he doesn't come back?"

In fact, it's because although Parker has developed a control serum, but it can't be 100% guaranteed to be effective, don't look at him for the time being, what if he returns home, an uncontrolled person transforms into a crazy lizardman again, and then hurts Aunt May?

So Parker decided to observe for a few more days, and then go home to reunite with Aunt May after making sure that the genetic mutations in his body were stable.

But in order to prevent Aunt Mei from taking her resentment out on herself, Bai Ye has only grievances Parker.

So Bai Ye nodded without hesitation: "Yes!" During this time, Parker's scope of activities was limited to the Osborne Building, but he was not locked in a prison and did nothing, he used this time to conduct scientific research in the biological laboratory in the Osborne Building. So although the restrictions on his freedom in life were lifted, he said that his experiment had reached the most critical stage, and it was about to succeed, and he couldn't be distracted for the time being......

"Parker!" Aunt Mei's anger was successfully ignited by Bai Ye: "This kid has reached the period of youth rebellion, right?" I'm so worried about him at home, he's still addicted to detention and doesn't want to go home? ”

"Today's children, it's all like this, it's too much to play, and they don't know what it means to go home when they play. Harry is the same, it's hard to care! Bai Ye instigated: "Aunt Mei, for this situation, my suggestion is to beat!" Beat to death! After my many beatings, Harry is now noticeably more well-behaved and sensible. ”

Aunt May didn't speak, but looking at her wrung eyebrows, she knew that Parker's later days might not be easy.

Osborne Building.

Bai Ye took Aunt Mei into the company building by brushing her face, took the elevator, and came to Parker's biological laboratory.

When Bai Ye came downstairs to the company, he quietly sent a message to Parker, so of course he knew that Aunt May had come to see him.

"Aunt May."

At the door of the lab, Parker greeted with a smile.

He looked rather awkward in a lab coat and his emaciated figure.

"Stinky boy!"

Aunt May walked up to Parker's side and looked at him carefully:

"Didn't you eat well during this time? How did you lose so much weight? ”

"Aunt Mei, I'm fine."

Parker smiled a little awkwardly.

In fact, Parker is really thinner than before, I don't know if it's because of the research and development of control serum that he has been too sleepless during this time, or the result of the genetic mutation itself.

"Alright, stop standing in the doorway, do you want to go in and see what Parker has been up to all this time?"

Bai Ye said with a smile.

Alas, he wanted to see Aunt May beat Parker violently, it seemed impossible, after all, Aunt May was not Parker's biological parents, and the discipline was too harsh and hurt feelings.

And Parker is not good at words, and he doesn't have a clever change like White Night, so he still has to White Night to liven up the atmosphere.

"I'm going to see what you've come up with, Parker."

Aunt Mei snorted lightly and walked into the laboratory.

In the back, Parker whispered, "Brother White Night, why did you bring Aunt Mei over?" ”

Bai Ye said: "It's not that I want to bring her, but she has to force me to bring her to see you, it's not that you don't know what your Aunt Mei's personality is, and her personality is also very stubborn, where can I beat her." ”

Parker said, "So what now? Aunt Mei, she wants to see the results of my experiment...... Isn't what I'm researching during this time is the control serum of lizard serum, where are the experimental results? ”

Bai Ye said: "Anyway, Aunt Mei can't understand scientific data, if you fool around casually, she must be unconscious, what are you afraid of?" ”

Parker: "Fooling Aunt May? Isn't that good? ”

White Night: "Then you are willing to tell Aunt May directly, you were turned into a lizardman by Kurt Connors during this time, attacked the Osborne Mansion together, and were imprisoned?" ”

Parker: "Forget it...... I'll think about it a little. ”

"What are you two muttering behind my back? Did you mean something bad about me? ”

Aunt Mei paused, turned around, and looked at the two of them with a frown.

"Nope!"

Bai Ye immediately said:

"Parker just blames me for bringing you here at this time and causing him a lot of trouble."

"Huh!?"

Aunt May looked at Parker with a sharp gaze.

Parker: "......"

He opened his mouth wide and looked at the white night in disbelief.

Brother Bai Ye, you are really Gou!

So you sold him?

And when he thought about it, Bai Ye didn't seem to be talking nonsense, but just adding fuel to the matter and exaggerating it.

"Aunt Mei, I was wrong."

Parker can only honestly admit his mistakes.

"Humph!"

Aunt Mei snorted coldly.

Next, Parker honestly introduced the laboratory situation to Aunt Mei, as for the scientific research results...... When he listened to Bai Ye, he casually made up a biological research direction that "let people who are mentally abnormal and easily go crazy recover their senses".

In a sense, Parker is not making up nonsense, because he does this kind of work, but to Aunt May, it sounds like Parker is participating in the research of developing drugs to cure mental illness, which makes Aunt May nod as if she doesn't understand, feeling that this kid is doing a good job, at least doing good things for the country and the people.

Visited for half a day.

Aunt Mei is also satisfied.

I asked Parker if he would go home in the evening, and Parker refused, because his current condition was not suitable for leaving the laboratory immediately.

In case something out of the ordinary, he can still be controlled here.

Aunt Mei didn't force her too much, after all, the child grew up and had her own ideas, and she couldn't control Parker's life, so she asked Parker to take good care of herself, and followed the white night down the Osborne Building.

"Thank you for today's events."

Aunt Mei thanked Bai Ye.

"Where, where, it's just a matter of raising your hands." Bai Ye smiled and waved his hand: "Parker's kid is very talented, in the Osborne laboratory, it has been undoubtedly revealed, and in the future, he has a great future!" ”

"Really?" Hearing Bai Ye say good things about Parker, Aunt Mei was also very happy: "Parker, this kid, he is smart when he is young." ”

"Hmm." Bai Ye nodded: "Are you going home now?" I'm fine, I'll send you? ”

"Ah, this ......" Aunt Mei immediately glanced at Bai Ye vigilantly, but when she thought that Bai Ye had brought her to see Parker and run back and forth, Aunt Mei was a little embarrassed: "It's too much trouble for you, right?" ”

"No trouble, drop by."

Bai Ye smiled slightly.

He worked tirelessly to run back and forth for Aunt Mei, and he didn't help in vain, and now it's time for Aunt Mei to give him a chance to cast Baoli, right?

(End of chapter)