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I have mentioned the domestic situation in Egypt before. With the collapse of shipping, Egypt's foreign exchange has been basically exhausted, but it still cannot feed the people, resulting in a large increase in domestic food prices. Although the government also intends to regulate domestic agricultural production and produce large amounts of food. .

But the problem is that domestic food production is basically in the hands of foreign capital.

As a result, it is useless even if the government wants to guide farmers on what to grow. Food is always the foundation of a country. Only by ensuring the supply of food can you develop other areas. Otherwise, if people don't have enough to eat, what can you do to ensure production and life?

The multinational grain merchants monopolize global grain pricing power and reap huge economic profits. The four major "ABCD" grain merchants, namely ADM, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus, monopolize more than 80% of the world's grain transactions, three of which are American companies. When international grain prices are high, the four major grain merchants rely on their global monopoly and strong capital strength to dominate the grain futures market, buying low and selling high, and harvesting the grain wealth of various countries. Western countries, led by the United States, use food to consolidate hegemony and reap political "real benefits." The United States took advantage of the panic of the international community, especially the food-deficient developing countries, to weaponize the "food crisis".

"As long as you live, you cannot escape the world's four major food giants."

Most of the rice, flour, grains and oils, sugar, chocolate, meat and seafood that people eat in their daily lives are in the hands of the four major grain merchants. When the war broke out, the international grain merchant giants were busy making "war profits" and took advantage of the shortage of food supply to drive up food prices. The "killer trump card" of the four major grain merchants in controlling global grain prices is to control the progress of global grain transportation. Taking Cargill as an example, the company controls the world's largest waterway transportation fleet (including inland waterway transportation and ocean transportation). It has a dry bulk transportation fleet composed of more than 500 ships and loads cargo at nearly 1000 ports around the world. work, with annual transportation volume exceeding 20 billion tons.

Perhaps most people have never heard of these four unfamiliar names, but they have dealt with these four major grain merchants almost every day in their lives, from Western-style fast food restaurants such as KFC to cooking oil in daily kitchens. Grain merchants have deeply penetrated their hands into the daily necessities of every country on the planet. To put it simply, in the field of agriculture, there is nothing they can’t do except what you can’t think of. From a vertical perspective, the strong presence of these four companies can be seen from crop seed development and fertilizer production to grain processing and transportation, storage and logistics, and finally terminal sales. Horizontally, crops such as soybeans, corn, wheat, rice, oil crops, meat, bioenergy, coffee, rape, cocoa, etc. have all been infiltrated by them, focusing on genetically modified crops. Even if a country does not purchase grain from the United States and instead purchases it from other countries, it will almost never be able to escape the dragnet laid by the four major grain merchants.

Take soybeans as an example. Although China has reduced its dependence on U.S. soybeans through tariffs and imported more from Brazil, what is intriguing is that the vast majority of Brazilian soybeans are still controlled by the four major grain merchants.

According to statistics, at their peak, four companies jointly accounted for four-fifths of the world's food production. The dominance of these four companies over food even far exceeded the dominance of the United States in the world's military field. Rome was not built in a day. The four major grain merchants are all time-honored brands with more than 100 years of history. Their rise is inextricably linked to the rise of the United States. Take Cargill as an example. The company founded in the 19s was just a small grain depot that resold farmers' grain. By the early 60th century, the new railway network Cargill invested in failed to make profits as expected, putting the company in financial crisis and once on the verge of bankruptcy. Fortunately, a gunshot in Sarajevo changed the course of history, giving many American companies, including Cargill, a shot in the arm with unprecedented effectiveness.

As European countries were caught in the quagmire of war, their fields were barren, and their prime-age labor force was mobilized for the battlefield. The food supply in countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Austria was declining rapidly, and at the same time, food demand was skyrocketing. Cargill, which had a mountain of food on the other side, naturally refused to let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a fortune. During the four-year war and the post-war famine period, Cargill delivered a steady stream of life-saving food products from the North American continent to old Europe, putting the country on the verge of collapse. The financial situation has improved significantly. Twenty years later, the outbreak of World War II also caused Cargill to copy this path and further grow into a world-class grain company. It was promoted to the world's largest grain merchant and the largest private company, forming a hidden grain hegemony within the American hegemony. a cornerstone of

The four major grain merchants are not willing to work quietly behind the scenes. Their prosperity and wealth are closely related to the rise and fall of the United States. They often jump to the front when necessary and directly intervene in major U.S. national policies. As mentioned at the beginning, William Pierce, the former vice president of Cargill, one of the four major grain merchants, grandly entered Nixon's presidential team as the spokesman for the interests of the grain merchant group, served as a trade negotiator, and planned a plan to influence the United States. Decades of national food policy. Pierce believes that the goal of the United States should be to become the breadbasket of people all over the world and to hold the jobs of people all over the world in the hands of Wall Street. To this end, the United States must try its best to break down all the unsightly tariff and trade barriers that countries have set up to protect their own agriculture.

In other words, under the banner of "free trade", with the four major grain merchants as white gloves, with the help of food aid tools, Wall Street's abundant financial capital, and the unique technological and scale advantages of American agriculture, the United States can It is easy for the fragile agriculture of third world countries to launch dimensionality reduction attacks and occupy their industrial chains. When these countries become deeply dependent on the seeds, fertilizers, and capital provided by U.S. grain companies, the United States, which has control over food pricing, will be able to make these countries bow to it.

The four major grain merchants' method of controlling global grain is not to personally handle every link. Instead, they collect the most valuable parts of the industrial chain and leave the most laborious and risky links to others. In other words, in agricultural production, the four major grain merchants are responsible for providing high value-added seeds, fertilizers, processing and sales, but leaving the most vulnerable farmers in developing countries to bear the riskiest and hardest part of the planting process.

At the same time, it is worth noting that under the wind of the genetically modified revolution, the seeds sown by farmers can no longer be reused as in the past. In the second year, they have to continue to purchase seeds from seed companies to ensure that these seed companies can monopolize the huge market. share.

In addition to these, these companies have also prepared many means for farmers in various countries.

It just focuses on one control.

I provide your seeds, I provide your fertilizers, and the crops you grow have to be sold through me.

So the pricing power is mine, and you have to listen to me whatever you plant.

The infiltrated countries have no ability to dictate what farmers should grow, because once you grow it, they will make it impossible for you to sell it.

With the collapse of shipping, a large amount of grain has accumulated in grain-producing countries. If Egypt grows grain, how will they make money? The prices of other cash crops have also become higher. If you don’t grow cash crops, how can the four major grain merchants make money?

Therefore, Egypt has no control over what its domestic farmers grow and what price they sell it for.

What can Egypt do in this situation?

This is the helplessness of small countries.

But this time, Apocalypse took back the initiative! Do you think food is a problem for domestic people to eat?

Do not!

It’s also an economic issue!

As large quantities of cheap grain arrived, the first thing Tianqi did was to sell the grain at a loss!

Without any middlemen, the country is sold directly at a very low price!

Who loses the most?

Of course they are domestic compradors and international grain merchants!

Don’t forget what price they gave Egypt for food before.

Now Apocalypse has directly driven the national food prices to an outrageous level at an extremely low price, and even the loss of blood is considered a profit. After all, the freight is there.

As a result, many speculative compradors and international grain merchants lost all their money.

Relying on this move, Apocalypse directly took the power of food pricing back into his own hands through means! After all, when he negotiated terms with those Western countries, he asked for a lot of things. It just so happens that those things actually don’t mean much to Western countries.

But it is important to Egypt.

Of course, this doesn't change anything. Egypt is still a small country.

What's the use of having the right to price food? As long as you are still within the international framework, then they will have plenty of opportunities to 'recover lost ground' from Apocalypse!

After all, Egypt cannot produce its own fertilizers and seeds... they can still get stuck.

But Apocalypse never thought about ascending to heaven in one step. What he wanted was to give the people a hope, an illusion, an illusion that would allow Egypt to defeat the West!

In fact, people really do this.

Everyone is as happy as the Chinese New Year.

Defeating the enemy is a joy.

Defeating the West is another joy.

The key is that food prices have reached their lowest point in recent years, and there is even a feeling that they will return to the era of the founding fathers decades ago.

The people, the nationalists, the government elites are all happy. What else are you dissatisfied with?

……

Unlike next door, the atmosphere here at Little Overlord is much different.

Being beaten up by the surrounding people... naturally I couldn't be happy. This is not the key point. The key point is that these surrounding forces were all little Kalami who the little overlord didn't take seriously in the past! In the previous war, they were not the ones who destroyed everything and beat them until they screamed.

What now?

The blow was too big, too big.

I was a bit shocked to the point of losing my energy... It's really not an exaggeration at all. After all, this is not a normal country to begin with. The establishment of a modern normal country is basically based on the awakening of nationalism, and then relies on resistance to oppression to establish a country of its own on the land where one has lived for generations.

Many modern countries were born in this way, especially the countries established after World War I and World War II.

But Little Overlord is different.

It is a country created from scratch.

So in order to ensure cohesion, he naturally had to take the wrong approach. Religious thoughts and ultra-nationalist sentiments naturally emerged.

Because otherwise, there is really no way to ensure cohesion.

After all...they are the invaders!

Otherwise, it is impossible to eliminate the negative impact. After all, no one likes their country to be a negative role in everyone's eyes, right?

But whether it is religious thoughts or extreme emotions, victory is needed one at a time to ensure rationality.

Otherwise, who would believe you?

But the little bully did a good job and kept winning, so much so that they didn't even think about what would happen if they failed?

After all, the whole country is being driven by a kind of fanatical emotion. Who would pour cold water on it at this time?

That would be rejected by everyone.

So, now it's like this, with too much chicken blood. When the heat subsides, people will naturally start to reflect... Well, that's the reflection, why did we fail? Why does everyone hate us? What did we do?

This reflection doesn't matter, the problem comes next.

This is not the past era when there were few channels for receiving information. Although Atlantis destroyed the global shipping industry, it did not cut off the Internet for the whole world. A little look on the Internet will tell you how many evils they have done in these years.

What follows is what the government does not want to see.

Someone is protesting against the government.

There was no way, so many people died, so much money was spent, not only did they not win, but they also lost a lot of money to others.

There has to be an explanation, right?

The most direct thing is to cause trouble with the government.

Especially the many affected families, they are the most emotional. Their houses and relatives were lost in the war, so it is normal for them to want an explanation.

Followed closely by domestic opposition.

It is very normal for any country to have opposition within it, even for an abnormal country like Little Overlord. Their interests in some aspects are consistent with those in power, so they will not come out to cause trouble during war.

But now that the war is temporarily over, they will naturally fight for power and profit!

This is not bad. If you look at the Donglin Party, you will know that these people still have integrity. They have to wait for the war to stop fighting for power. If you meet the Donglin Party, they will be traitorous in order to fight for power and profit. .

So a massive wave of protests emerged. The war had failed, and someone was responsible for stepping down. Isn’t that too much?

But for those in power, this is excessive, quite excessive!

Who the hell is willing to give up their power? A saint will not run away to be in power.

So in order to maintain their position, those in power naturally do things.

How to do it?

Of course, call back! It doesn't matter if I lose this time, as long as I win the next one, it will be fine.

Is it similar to betting on dogs?

In fact, sometimes the thinking of politicians is no different from that of betting on dogs.

Don't take them too seriously. After all, if they step down at this time, they will be completely screwed. That means they admit failure. How can a loser still have a future?

So they can't admit defeat!

They are going to make a comeback!

What should I do?

At this time, an archaeological discovery came into their sight.

News about the Atlantis artifact!

……

"These murals... these murals must be thousands of years old! This can't be fake! This may be the greatest archaeological discovery in modern times. Our ancestors once communicated with the Atlanteans! Even our nation may come from Atlantis! We come from greatness!”

A fanatical archaeologist frantically promoted his theory to a group of high-ranking officials.