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Chapter 259 Going Short
Hearing the prompt from the narration, Guo Yuan's eyes lit up.

What Guo Yuan hated most were human traffickers. One of Guo Yuan's cousins ​​was abducted by human traffickers when he was very young.

More than 30 years have passed, and Guo Yuan's second grandfather is still looking for his son.

After the rise of small videos such as Douyin and Kuaishou in recent years, Guo Yuan’s second grandfather would post a video every other day with photos of Uncle Guo Yuantang’s childhood, in order to spread these videos and let more people see them.

Guo Yuan also came across this video by chance. At that time, the narrator reminded him that his cousin had passed away. Guo Yuan hesitated to tell his second grandfather the news. There is always something to look forward to in life.

And Yang Shaofeng and his wife have also been tortured for so many years, one is in prison, and the other looks like 40 years old when he is less than 50 years old.

Thinking of this, Guo Yuan decided to help Yang Shaofeng.

"Mr. Yang, what's your daughter's name? How old was she when she was abducted?"

Yang Shaofeng was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously gave an answer.

Guo Yuan pretended to call 02, and then flipped his fingers on the keyboard.

Yang Shaofeng also knew that the company had a powerful artificial intelligence module called 02.

Can artificial intelligence find his daughter?
Yang Shaofeng's heart beat faster and faster.

A few minutes later, Guo Yuan said to Yang Shaofeng: "Mr. Yang, I have screened all the orphanages in the country for you. There is only one child who fits your daughter's situation. It is in Baiyin, Gansu. You can go and have a look."

"Thank you boss, I'll go right away."

"Wait! Mr. Yang's operation of 02 just now actually violated some domestic laws. No matter that child over there is really your daughter, don't disclose anything about 02 to anyone outside the company."

"Boss, don't worry, I understand." After speaking, Yang Shaofeng turned and left.

Two days later, Zhuge Chuang rushed into Guo Yuan's office.

"Brother Chuang, you are the CFO of the company after all, so pay attention to your demeanor." Guo Yuan put down his work and said.

"Old boss, Yang Shaofeng found his daughter."

"Found it? That's a good thing!"

"Boss, does 02 still have this function?" Zhuge Chuang asked.

"02 just selected 12 to 14-year-old girls named Yang Mengyue in the orphanages across the country. It happened that there was only one eligible in the orphanages across the country. I let Yang Shaofeng go. I didn't expect it to be his daughter."

"If the child is not in the orphanage, or if the name is changed, will it be impossible to find it?"

Guo Yuan nodded.

Zhuge Chuang was a little disappointed when he heard this: "Boss, can 02 evolve in this area? If 02 can help find the abducted children 100%, it will be a great merit, and our company's corporate image will become even better because of it."

"Brother Chuang, this is impossible." Zhuge Chuang was interrupted by Guo Yuan before he finished speaking.

"Aside from legal issues, moral and ethical issues are enough for us to drink a pot, and some people are sold to places that are too remote, and these places don't even have internet access. How do you find them?"

Hearing this, Zhuge Chuang scratched his head and stopped talking.

That afternoon, all the high-level executives of Future Technology knew that Yang Shaofeng had found his daughter.

When everyone was discussing this matter, Guo Yuan turned his attention to Argentina.

Guo Yuan has actually been paying attention to the domestic economic conditions of Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina during this time.

Because the lithium mine he wants to buy is in South America, and these three countries are the countries with the richest lithium reserves.

Although Guo Yuan is now more inclined to buy lithium mines in Bolivia, if there are any economic problems in the other two countries, Guo Yuan will be given a chance to take advantage of it, and he does not mind temporarily changing countries to buy lithium mines.

Argentina's economy has indeed been in a recession for more than a year.

Guo Yuan asked 01 to investigate the economic situation in Argentina.

I don’t know if I don’t check it, but I’m shocked when I check it. In the month of February this year, Argentina’s inflation rate reached a terrifying 2%.

In the past year, Argentina's cumulative inflation rate reached 104.3%, the highest level in 30 years.

What is 100% inflation rate?Looking at all countries and regions in the world, only Zimbabwe, Lebanon, Venezuela and Syria have higher inflation rates than Argentina.

According to the data of 01, there are several categories with relatively high price increases, such as catering, hotels, food, tobacco and alcohol, daily necessities, etc., with year-on-year increases of more than 100%.

The highest is still food. Compared with the price during the Chinese New Year in 2022, the price of milk has increased by 320%, edible oil by 456%, and sugar by 490%.

Because it grows too fast, the public's perception of food prices has become disordered.

The most direct reason for Argentina's high inflation rate is that it suffered a drought last year, and the rainfall in the main grain-producing areas was reduced by 50%.

In the past five years, the country's soybean production averaged 4500 million tons, but this year it may only be 2500 million tons, wheat production has been halved, and corn production has been reduced by 1/3.

01 Combined with the data given by a large number of economists, the drought will cause a loss of 200 billion yuan to Argentina, while Argentina's current foreign exchange reserves are only more than 300 billion yuan.

What's more, grain is one of Argentina's main export products, and they count on selling some grain throughout the year to pay off their debts.

Now that the grain receipts are not only reduced for exports, the domestic people will soon be unable to eat.

Affected by inflation, the income of Argentines has been shrinking. In 2018, the poor population accounted for 25%, and by the second half of 2022, it has risen to 40%.

With incomes falling, Argentines can no longer even afford to eat their own cattle.

Argentina's beef consumption has been declining for a long time. In 2019, Argentina's per capita annual consumption will be 62 kilograms, and by 2022 it will only be 47 kilograms. The consumption of cheaper poultry and pork is rising significantly.

One of the most popular ways to fight inflation is to raise interest rates.

The Fed is raising interest rates now, by dozens or dozens of points.

But compared with Argentina, it is quite stingy.Argentina is a few hundred plus.

At the beginning of 2022, the benchmark interest rate of the living room was only 38%, and now it has reached a terrifying 81%.

To give a simple example, if you save 100 yuan now, you will be able to harvest 181 yuan by this time next year.

But under such a high inflation rate, saving money in Argentina is tantamount to losing money. Although it can increase by more than 80%, but 180 yuan, the purchasing power may be only 60 yuan by then.

And when the country raised interest rates frantically, some speculators had already set their sights on Argentina.

According to the analysis of 01, the main reason for the high inflation in Argentina is the drought.

But apart from the main reason, there is also a very important secondary reason, that is, some foreign short-selling capital has their eyes on Argentina and wants to short this country, and now they have already started to act.

(End of this chapter)