Reborn? The Kind You Can Choose!

A few days later, Malibu, one of the richest cities in Los Angeles, USA.

This is a paradise for the rich.

Here, there are a large number of villa areas for wealthy people.

The Luciano ADM Estate is located here, and it is the best beach area.

Malibu Beach is one of the most famous beaches in Los Angeles, located north of Santa Monica Beach.

It is famous, firstly, because in addition to the typical blue sea and blue sky of Southern California, it also has rocks of different shapes and strange shapes, and the beach scenery is beautiful and unique; secondly, many Hollywood stars and business people live here, which is invisible. It has added a lot of popularity to the beaches here.

The Luciano family is one of the most famous people on this beach.

And all the villa areas are close to the sea, located on a beach by the sea, and it is a private beach with a five-kilometer-long coastline, covering an area of ​​more than 20 square kilometers of land along the coast. They all belong to Lu The Ciano family.

It has to be said that it is a miracle to be able to occupy such a large amount of land in Malibu, where land is at a premium.

This is proof of the wealth that ADM has achieved after more than 100 years of development.

Squeaky!

A Rolls-Royce slowly drove into the interior of the manor. Under the leadership of the butler, Jane Luciano stepped out of the car in formal attire, but his face looked like he had not slept well.

In fact, he did only sleep for a few hours last night.

"Where is my father?"

Jane Luciano asked the butler beside her, who said respectfully: "Mr. Abner is walking on the beach with Mr. Macmillan!"

"Um?"

Luciano's expression froze slightly: "When did Mr. Macmillan come?"

"Just now, 5 minutes before you arrived!"

The butler's voice was still very calm, but Luciano took a deep breath: "Okay, then I'll go see them!"

"this way please!"

The butler stretched out his hand, and Luciano followed him, and soon came to a private beach at the back of their family.

The sea breeze blew the sea level, making a roaring sound.

On a white beach along the coast, two old men wearing beach pants were walking along the beach talking and laughing.

"Father!"

Luciano shouted to an old man on the left. The old man was wearing a pair of sunglasses and a gray mustache. He was the previous president of ADM Group, Abner Luciano.

Next to him is Macmillan Cargill, the former CEO of Cargill, one of the four major grain merchants!

Grandson of William Cargill, co-founder of Cargill!

At first, ADM and Cargill were both companies based in Minnesota, USA. Later, due to different development concepts, the two companies took completely different development routes.

ADM began to expand its global footprint, while Cargill quickly encroached on the local industry in the United States.

Nowadays, ADM is known as the food giant, while Cargill is the food leader. In the United States, Cargill is even stronger than ADM.

All of this is the result of the old man MacMillan in front of him.

He served as CEO of Cargill for nearly 20 years, growing the company from 31 to 53 countries and tripling its headcount.

More importantly, Cargill has never been listed in his hands, but everyone in the world knows that Cargill is the largest private capital company in the United States and has ranked first among unlisted companies in the Forbes list for 29 years!

No one knows how much wealth Cargill has, but its annual sales of up to 50 billion US dollars make it clear to everyone how terrifying this company's heritage and strength are.

The saying that wealth can rival a country is definitely not false.

Many small countries may not have Cargill's ability to create wealth.

Now this old man has retired, but no one underestimates his influence.

"Hello, Mr. Macmillan!"

Luciano bowed to MacMillan in a gentlemanly manner, MacMillan nodded with a smile, and the three of them walked towards a lounge on the beach.

After sitting down, Luciano didn't dare to speak at all.

Although he is now the president of ADM, his cousin's power is still there.

And Macmillan was the talker before the grain circle, so he didn't dare to make any more noise.

"This plan to short soybeans in the Chinese market is indeed a good one!"

After the servant served coffee, tea and snacks, Macmillan said to Abner beside him. Abner took a sip of strong tea and nodded slightly: "Indeed, I am I was supportive from the beginning!”

"Jane told me that I told him to go ahead and do it boldly, and even called the Ministry of Agriculture!"

"You should have known this at the time!"

Abner glanced at MacMillan, who smiled: "I didn't expect that China would find out and do it so covertly. I didn't expect that the signing of the contract would fall short in the end. I didn't know that China would do it from the beginning." Got it, it’s better to have known it for a long time!”

"But these are irrelevant now. What we want to discuss now is how to minimize the losses..."

A glint flashed in Macmillan's eagle eyes, and Luciano, who had been silent, suddenly raised his head: "Mr. Macmillan, we haven't lost yet!"

"We just joined forces with Bunge and Louis Dreyfus to acquire 4 million tons of soybeans from China!"

"Their inventory probably won't last long!"

Luciano was talking there, but Abner suddenly stood up and patted his son on the shoulder: "Jane, actually we have already lost since China COFCO opened a warehouse to sell soybeans!

"Have you ever thought that China's soybeans are different from those in the United States?"

"Although its crushing rate is very poor, now China has made it clear that it no longer cares about the crushing rate issue. They can start a new round of sowing from April to May!"

Abner's words obviously touched Xiano's heart.

MacMillan, who was next to him, also sighed: "Chinese soybeans only take 4 months from sowing to maturity, or 3 months if faster. The current April-May is the sowing period, and then they mature from the end of August to the beginning of September. !”

"In southern China, it is necessary to plant 1-2 months in advance. Jiangnan should plant in February. If it is faster, it can be harvested in June!"

"That is to say, their new soybean harvest season is coming!"

"They just need to survive this wave, and they will have enough time to keep up with us!"

Macmillan was afraid that Luciano hadn't understood yet, so he said directly: "Moreover, we just received news from within COFCO that in the next week, China will sell 1 million tons of soybeans every day, with the price starting from 3,000 yuan/ton. Start decreasing by 100 every day!”

"To be honest, when I was at Cargill, I visited China. Their farmers' thirst for food is greater than any other country in the world!"

“Until now, I still don’t understand why every household collects grain!”

"And the country is also here!"

This is a question that Macmillan cannot figure out, because he has no idea how many people have starved to death due to natural disasters in the past three years.

This led to people of that era cherishing and storing food.

Abner next to him also sighed thoughtfully: "Jane, do you know how much soybean stock there is in China?"

Luciano shook his head.

"Yes, even you don't know how much strength an opponent has. Do you think you can defeat him?"

"There is an old saying in China, only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you be victorious in every battle!"

"You don't even know how many soybeans the other party has, how can you know that you can win with certainty?"

Abner smiled bitterly at MacMillan next to him: "How much food does China have in stock? I discussed this issue with Mike ten years ago, and I have no idea at all!"

"Until now, no country in the world knows how much food they have stored!"

"This is China's secret...so the food war will not defeat them at all, but will make them more vigilant!"

"Just like this time, we thought there were no soybeans available in China, but it is unimaginable to throw out 10 million tons in one go!

"Do you know how many soybeans will be waiting for us back there?"

"The more you collect, the more you will lose!"

"As for China, the price they sold it at is not a loss at all."

In fact, Abner had already analyzed it with Macmillan, and they just announced a final solution to Luciano.

If this continues, the four major grain merchants will only suffer more losses.

"Father, Mr. Macmillan, can... let's just forget it?"

The price of soybeans is falling and no measures are taken?”

Luciano stood up angrily and pointed to the other side of the beach: "I don't believe that the US government won't help us. This is an excellent period to solve China's food problem!"

"Jane, my child, calm down!"

Abner held his son's shoulders and said loudly: "The United States is not China. Those politicians only have interests in their eyes!"

"Compared with us and Wall Street, who do you think they prefer?"

Wall Street is now gearing up, just waiting for soybeans to fall so they can reap the benefits.

Soybean prices have been stuck there, and to be honest, these speculators are quite unhappy.

"The interests have begun to be uneven. The U.S. government will not step forward at all. If they step forward, they will harm the interests of Wall Street!"

"A bunch of narrow-minded bastards!"

Luciano cursed secretly.

In fact, Luciano was right. If he persisted, things might be different.

What they want to suppress is China's crushing group, which means that China will have no soybeans to use. As long as China collapses and the crushing groups are completely defeated, what awaits Wall Street is the harvest situation.

…Please give me flowers…

But these guys obviously can't wait any longer.

They don't care whether the four major grain merchants are successful or not, they only have money in their eyes.

"So, this incident was lost after China didn't sign the contract!"

MacMillan also stood up and looked at Luciano who looked unwilling: "Jane, give up. If we continue to waste time with China like this, it will not be a good thing for us, Cargill and Nima ADM!"

"China is a huge market. If we completely turn against each other, our industries in China will be affected!"

"While the losses are not high now, if we reduce the soybeans as soon as possible, we may still make a lot of money!"

"China is waiting for this soybean emergency!"

MacMillan said, but Luciano clenched his fists, really feeling miserable and unable to express his feelings.

Cargill's losses are indeed modest.

However, ADM's losses are huge.

After all, Cargill is not listed, so what they have lost is the price difference of the acquisitions in the past few days, as well as the previous layout expenses; but in addition to this, ADM also suffered huge losses from short selling in the stock market.

This is the reason why Luciano doesn't want to admit defeat at all.

Because once you give in

Their ADM stock price will collapse in an instant.

Even being cut in half is possible!

And Luciano finally figured it out. MacMillan came here just to be a lobbyist, to convince his father to support his opinion and let ADM give up the purchase of soybeans sold by China.

Huge differences have begun to arise among the four major grain merchants on the matter of treating China.

And ADM alone cannot actually consume 10 million tons of soybeans.

0

Let alone 10 million tons, 5 million tons is enough for ADM to eat a pot.

"Jane, think about it!"

"Think about it, call Azahi!"

Azahi Kargill, Macmillan’s nephew, is now Cargill’s CEO.

Seeing Macmillan leaving, Luciano withdrew his gaze angrily. His father, Abner, looked at his son and couldn't help but wonder: "What's wrong? Are you still unwilling to give in?"

"Father!"

Luciano said angrily: "Someone shorted our ADM stock price a week ago!"

"If I give up, in addition to the price difference of this acquisition and the impact of the previous layout, billions will also evaporate from the stock market!"

"As for Cargill and Louis Dreyfus, they only lost a few hundred million at most!"

"What did you say?!"

Even the old Luciano, who had always been strategizing in a calm and unconventional manner, his eyes darkened after hearing the news, and he almost fell down on the beach.

Billions of billions!

This is already the profit of their ADM company for nearly a year.

boom!

Luciano sat down on the chair, then pulled his collar, his voice was hysterical: "And the person who shorted us is none other than the bastard who wrote that article!"

"I can't take this breath!"

Luciano really felt aggrieved.

An ant that he didn't take seriously before was now trying to steal billions from their stock market.

How could this not make Luciano vomit blood.

Old Luciano next to him was obviously shocked. To be honest, this was the first time he knew about this.

In his opinion, shorting ADM is already very unrealistic, and now it is actually being shorted by a Chinese. No matter how you look at it, there is also a sense of repaying the other person with his own way.

They were shorting China's soybeans before, but now...the other party has shorted their company's stock price.

"So, I must never admit defeat!"

"Even if Cargill and Louis Dreyfus withdraw, we and Bunge will still eat the soybeans in the Chinese market!"

"Now, there is no way out!"

"If you persist, there may be hope; if you just give up, you will lose everything!"

Luciano's eyes were filled with the determination to go all the way.

Next to him, Abner seemed to recognize his son clearly for the first time, and he was completely dumbfounded.

Because he didn't know how to deal with this matter.

If his son gives up, their ADM will definitely be severely damaged this time. Let alone being the world's number one grain merchant, it is already good to maintain its status as one of the four major grain merchants; and if he supports the acquisition to the end, he has no idea that Huaxia has How many soybeans are waiting for them.

"Why.....…"

With a long sigh, Abner realized that he might really be old.

"Jane, do what you want to do!"

"Perhaps, there really is still a glimmer of hope!"

Old Abner could only comfort his son in this way, although he knew that such persistence might not have a high winning rate.

But, what if?!

What if China really can’t handle it anymore?

He still retains a glimmer of hope in his heart; and Luciano is obviously just as big!