From Arms Dealer To King of War

  Chapter 272 Prospects for Intelligent Agriculture

  Choga could never have imagined that his younger brother’s ideals were so ‘big’!

  'Who knows that every piece of Chinese food is hard work', the career of 'farming' is surprisingly in line with Qiao Liang's personality!

  Qiao Liang has a similar attitude towards money as Qiao Jia, they both like solid money.

   It’s just that because of the huge investment from China and Africa, Qiaojia had no choice but to step into the financial world and cooperate with Jamie to establish the “Pirate Fund”.

   And Qiao Liang wants to 'farm the land'...

   Qiaojia didn't know what to say. He just told his younger brother that he wanted to choose a meaningful career. It doesn't seem very good to throw him cold water now.

  Joga’s vision and mind have been completely opened in the past two years, and he has a little understanding of the underlying logic of the world’s operation.

  The intelligent farming that Qiao Liang wants to do also needs to be equipped with solar unmanned airships. This can't be intensive farming, it must be large-scale industrial planting, so he can't choose too many types.

  In addition to several kinds of grains, soybeans, and at most some vegetables suitable for large-scale planting, what else can there be?

  The business of 'farming', assuming there is no state support, subsidies or big capital behind it, is not a profitable industry in any country.

  Natural disasters and man-made disasters are only the two least harmful types of unavoidable difficulties in "farming", and these two have already cost you nothing.

   More importantly, you have no pricing power for what you grow.

  The most ridiculous thing in this world is that agricultural producers earn the least in the industrial chain.

  It’s like those giants in the dairy industry don’t raise their own cows, but share the risks and make the most profits themselves.

  The super agricultural giants in the world plant their own land, just to hedge the basic market of risks. Their profit lies in harvesting benefits from farmers and financial markets by manipulating prices and other means!

  Any political and financial capital knows the importance of food to the world, so no one has ever thought of making farmers a lot of money, because food price stability is the foundation of all stability.

  A conscientious government will provide subsidies to farmers because they know how hard farmers are and how important they are.

   And fall into a fully market-oriented agricultural market?

  Relying on the U.S.-Mexico trade agreement, the old United States completely destroyed Mexico’s agriculture by using industrialized planting methods, forcing Mexican farmers to grow marijuana, and then... Wall Street took away most of the profits.

   Individual farmers will never be able to compete with those monopolistic financial giants!

  Wishing their baton at will can cause fluctuations in world food prices, and you can only follow his rhythm.

   Qiaojia can free up a large area of ​​land in Central Africa for Qiao Liang to experiment with his ideas, but invest in unmanned airships, build intelligent networks, and purchase large-scale mechanized farm tools...

  This kind of agricultural investment must be scaled up if it wants to make money. Hundreds of thousands of acres are not worth the effort. When the land reaches millions of acres, how many years do you have to plant to get back the cost when these advanced things are added together?

  Furthermore, in the territory of Central Africa, grain cannot be sold at a price at all. There is no railway here, and road transportation is also in a mess. Can we still expect China and Africa to build several highways to sell grain?

  Land farming is such a high-input industry, but it can only be settled once a year, at most twice, may be the industry with the lowest cost-effective investment in the world.

  If Qiao Liang said that he farmed the land in order to have enough food and live a well-off life, then Qiao Jia must have said the same thing, but he also wanted to make a lot of money, what's the matter?

  Intelligence and informatization seem to be a panacea in the eyes of Chinese people. It seems that any business with these two will become a promising project. Even college students like Qiao Liang are a bit brainwashed.

  But in fact, there is no policy to open the way for you, and there is no large capital investment. The labor cost and management cost you save by using intelligent informatization will not support the day when you become bigger and stronger.

   But looking at the determined expression on Qiao Liang's face, Qiao Jia sighed and said, "Then let's do it, starting with the unmanned airship.

  At least this thing is very useful to me, and some small cheap goods from your farm should be enough in the future.

  You have to think about where is the most suitable place to plant the land. My suggestion is to find a way abroad. If you can’t get enough subsidies in China, doing so is burning money. "

   Qiao Liang looked at Qiao Jia with a slightly awkward expression, and said, "Brother, after hearing what you did just now, I actually think I can try it in Central Africa. As long as the industrialization can keep up, a large amount of food can..."

   "Stop!"

   Qiaojia waved his hand to interrupt the sudden whim of his brother. He himself has controlled the economic lifeline of Central Africa for the next ten years. You, a boy who has not graduated from college, still want to break in and control their grain market?

   This is not a profitable business. As a college student, you still want to control the lifeline of others to hedge against losses? Are you courting death?

  Although the agriculture here is hopeful, it also solves the problem of eating for most people.

  The central African government simply doesn’t have the ability to regulate the agricultural product market. No matter how hard farmers are now, as long as they don’t fight wars, they can still eat, and the surplus agricultural products can be exchanged for some supplies.

Unless you want to do pure charity, otherwise you target the grain sales market in Central Africa. When your industry scales up, your idea of ​​reducing expenditure a little bit will be accurately reflected in the market, and the wheels of the market economy will Afika's farmers are crushed with technological agriculture.

  At that time, this place will no longer be the concept of Mexico. The industrial system in Central Africa cannot accommodate so many farmers. At that time, those farmers who cannot afford food will make this place the bottom of hell.

   At that time, people like Qiao Liang will become the target of their crusade, and when forced to do so, the local government will push him out to block the knife.

   Resolutely rejected Qiao Liang's idea, Qiao Jia hesitated and said: "I don't know how to farm, but I can give you some advice on where to plant.

  Don’t take it for granted that controlling the agricultural market in a place is a powerful thing. In fact, in some places, controlling food is more dangerous than controlling arms.

I have met many agricultural experts in Huaguo in South SD. In the past, they only helped the local people how to farm. They never thought of helping them upgrade their agriculture to the level of industrialization, because if they are small, they will not make money, and if they are big, the local people will suffer. Can't control it.

  Do you think you are the only smart person in this world?

  If you want to farm, you should do it in a down-to-earth manner, and if you want to develop intelligence, you should do it in a down-to-earth manner.

   It’s really done, let’s go to those developed countries to sell your set of products. After all, saving manpower and management costs are two concepts in developed countries and Afika. "

  Qiao Liang is only 20 years old. He actually doesn’t understand many things. It should be available in the University of Political Science and Economics, but how many people can really learn it?

  Essentially, Qiao Liang is an expert in computer technology, and now he plans to apply this technology in the field of agriculture.

When the conversation between the two brothers reached a stalemate, Chris, who did not know when he appeared next to them, suddenly said: "Germany should be the best place for intelligent agriculture, but Eastern Europe should be the most promising place." , because there is a large flat land there.

   Unmanned agricultural machinery already exists in Germany, and Sweden's Atlas Copco Group also has similar products.

  If your brother's intelligent management system can really be established, then this project is still valuable. "

   Chris whistled and said with a smile: "Sitting in front of the computer and farming, this is a very advanced concept.

   This should not be an agricultural company, but a technology company.

  I have played a farm game before, assuming that this game is realized, let people use their mobile phones to manage their own farms in their spare time, and finally harvest the output on the rented land..."

Seeing that his younger brother’s eyes lit up, as if he had found a bosom friend, Qiao Jia shook his head and said, “Don’t listen to him, let people pay for renting land online, buy fertilizer and seeds, and then plant the land by yourself. The price of the obtained agricultural products will be much higher than the market, and the value gap will offset people's desire to play.

   What he said to make money is to find the place with the lowest land price, attract users with ultra-low land rent and game-style agriculture, use a method similar to a Ponzi scheme to quickly accumulate capital, and then seek financing to go public, and withdraw after a wave of money. "

   As Qiaojia looked at his younger brother’s eyes that were still glowing, he shook his head and laughed and said, “Playing a realistic farm game will definitely end in a mess, but if you really make up your mind, it’s not impossible to operate it.

   This guy is a broker, I can ask him to help find the right land in the right place, and then you try it.

  If you can really attract a group of players, as long as you standardize the rules of the game, you can offset part of the initial investment, which is also in line with your feeling of smart agriculture.

   But blowing up balloons to collect money is not suitable for us brothers, we don’t want to do such unconscionable things, and this is not a meaningful cause. "

As soon as Chris heard Qiao Jia let go, he took a bottle of beer and sat down, said with a smile: "I'm really interested, I have a farm in Sweden, if this intelligent management system can really work, I will be the first I've always wanted to be a farmer, but my feet aren't used to the mud."

Speaking of which, Chris looked at Qiao Liang who still had a green face, he hesitated, sighed and said: "If it's just to make money, I should recommend you to go to Ukraine to buy land, because your brother has arms Channels, we can easily get cheap land from Dongwu.

  But I have seen your brother's stubbornness, and the situation over there is not very good recently.

  Actually, if your brother is willing to venture into Ukraine to take part of the food reserves there... Forget it, he won't do it!

  So I recommend you to consider Brazil or Bolivia. If your brother is willing to send someone to support you, Peru is not impossible.

  The land in these places is very cheap, and the environment is also great. If you really want to do this business, I can consider investing a part of it.

  Even in the worst case, this system still has prospects in Northern Europe. "

  Qiao Liang doesn't know what's wrong?

I just mentioned the development of modern agriculture in Central Africa, but I was taught a lesson by my brother. Now this career that has no clue, unexpectedly in this Chris's mouth, there is a shadow of crossing the agricultural company in an instant. .

  God knows, Qiao Liang planned to try it at the home of a classmate in the Northeast at first, and he left half of the money his brother gave him, just to use it as funds for renting land.

  Why is it East Uganda and South America now? Is it so easy to buy land abroad?

  Why does my brother seem to be omnipotent when he is with Chris?

  Compared to Qiao Liang's innocence, Qiao Jia was much more sober. He looked at Chris, who looked like he was holding a wisdom pearl, and shook his head and said, "My brother's career, I don't need you to invest, just talk about it..."

  (end of this chapter)