America's Big Hero Chapter 368

Chapter 368: The Controversy of Phosphate Mine

Morocco, not Monaco.

One in Africa and one in Europe.

Of course, in the impression Africa is all black, but North Africa is actually white...

In Morocco, 90% are white.

As soon as Sean returned to Newark, he asked people to bring information about Morocco, Algeria, and Western Sahara, go over it, and pay attention to a few key points.

Morocco, in 1986, had a GDP of US$19.462 billion and a per capita GDP of US$840. Most of the people were white people, ysl taught Sunnis, and phosphate was the main resource. The reserves were 110 billion tons, accounting for 75% of the world's reserves, ranking first in the world. Other mineral resources include iron, lead, zinc, cobalt, manganese, barium, copper, salt, magnetite, anthracite, oil shale, etc. Among them, the reserves of oil shale are over 100 billion tons, containing 6 billion tons of crude oil.

The resources are extremely rich, but the poor are constantly fighting.

Algeria, in 1986, has a GDP of 63.692 billion US dollars, with a per capita GDP of 2,756 US dollars. It is also dominated by white people and the same ysl Sunni. The oil reserves are about 1.7 billion tons, accounting for 1% of the world's total reserves, ranking 15th in the world. Natural gas recoverable reserves 4.58 trillion cubic meters, accounting for 2.37% of the world's total reserves, ranking 10th in the world. The reserves of iron ore are 3 billion to 5 billion tons, the reserves of lead and zinc are estimated to be 150 million tons, 50,000 tons of uranium ore, and 20 million tons of phosphate. 100 million tons, 73 tons of gold.

Extremely rich in resources, rich, and constantly fighting wars.

Western Sahara is more interesting here. It is a disputed area with unknown sovereignty. It was a former Spanish colony. Spain withdrew its troops in 1975. Mauritania announced to give up its territorial sovereignty over Western Sahara in 1979. The Saharan People's Front does not think so. The two sides have been exchanging fire. At present, Morocco has an absolute advantage.

The reserves of phosphate mines that adm is concerned about are extremely rich, accounting for about 20% of the world's reserves. The reserves of Bukhara alone are 1.7 billion tons. There are modern phosphate mining fields. After the war in 1976, phosphate production fell into Paused and production resumed in 1979.

The two countries and one region have been in constant conflict. The Moroccans rejected Algeria from the west and invaded Western Sahara from the south.

"It's a werewolf!" This is Sean's evaluation of Morocco.

It is not easy to fight, has faith, and is very firm in areas like this, especially ysl, which has always been the most difficult bone to crack.

In addition, the forces are intricate and complicated. The Spanish ruled here, the French ruled here, and now although the colonists have retreated, their influence is still there and will continue to be affected.

First, the Strait of Gibraltar, which is the only outlet from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, is only 14 kilometers wide. No matter whether Morocco has the idea of ​​appropriating it or not, its strategic location is too important.

Second, the reserves of phosphate mines are too large and too rich, and no major country can turn a blind eye to them.

Of course, this is what Sean saw from the relatively brief information at hand. He has never paid attention to it and doesn't know much.

After looking at it, Sean gave up, the information is incomplete, the attitude of the four major grain merchants to find themselves is unknown, and the requirements are unknown. Wait.

Sean didn't expect the adm to be in such a hurry, and they arrived in Newark the next day.

The person who came was not the president of adm, nor the vice president, but a director, Belloc Toney, who was very enthusiastic as soon as they met.

The place to talk about things, Sean arranged for the Peace Hotel. Sean likes to talk about things at the wine table.

Drinking, touting, Belloc Tunney started to blow from the first appearance of the umbrella in HK, and the British people dare not fart under any pressure, to fight with Asan to play the heroic style of the Americans, from Yang Wei in the Strait of Malacca, to Bombing yl with the power of destruction, from Lin Meng Blitz to 1.3 billion smashing trips to HSBC.

Blow, blow to death!

In Belloc Tunney's mouth, Sean is already a hero, a national hero of the United States, the greatest man of the 20th century.

It's embarrassing to brag that Sean is so thick-skinned.

However, some information revealed by Belloc Tony when he was bragging also let Sean know that adm set up a branch in hk in 1983 to enter Southeast Asia, and in 1986 started various acquisitions in the Netherlands and Germany to enter the European market.

Blowing and blowing, Sean suddenly found a problem, he seemed to have made a mistake!

The British "Guardian" once described in a report: "As long as you are alive, you cannot escape the world's four giants."

In a Cargill brochure, it reads: We are the flour in your bread, the wheat in your noodles, the salt in your fries...the chocolate in your desserts, the sweetener in your soft drinks...we are you Beef, pork or chicken for dinner is the cotton in your clothes, the manure in the fields.

What a simple, sweet sentence.

From farmland to dining table, the four major grain merchants control the entire industrial chain, affecting the daily lives of more than 7 billion people around the world.

But that was more than 30 years later!

But it is only 1987. The four major grain merchants are still the six major grain merchants. In addition to abcd, there are also mainland grains and Cook Industries.

abcd is not yet in the Fortune 500.

Hearing Belloc Tunney bragging, Sean suddenly raised his hand and touched his chin. Does adm have any money now?

If the adm is not as good as himself, what's the point of listening to him brag?

Can anyone blow comfortably, Sean? !

"What does adm want the umbrella to do?" Sean asked suddenly.

gah...

Belloc Tunney froze in place for a while, I've been blowing so hard, why don't you seem to feel anything yet?

It took a long time for Belloc Tunney to react and said with a light cough: "West Sahara, we have some business over there, but you know, it's too messy over there, fighting all day long, Moroccans, ASaharan Front, The law and order are extremely chaotic, and we cannot carry out production and trade normally, so we hope to hire umbrella companies to maintain law and order in the surrounding area.”

"It's very expensive. The business before the umbrella is national-level, Sri Lanka, Xingcheng, Zongni, and the U.S. government." Sean said with no expression on his face, and said to himself: "The lowest single business is one year. One hundred million dollars, so, what price is adm prepared to offer.”

Belloc Tunney licked the corner of his mouth, Sean's asking price was too harsh, and the entire adm's annual profit was only how much, "Uh, no need to make such a big deal, no need to dispatch battleships, it's the army, um, 500 people."

"I don't think it's high." Sean chuckled, "I don't even think 200 million is high!"

"How is it possible, this is crazy, it's just a region in Western Sahara, a very small city!" Belloc Tony jumped up and waved his arms.

Sean looked at Belloc Tunney without speaking. After a while, he suddenly smiled and said, "Bukla, 100 kilometers southeast of Laayoune. The reserves are about 2 billion tons. Mined since 1972, the ore has been transported to Laayoune on the Atlantic coast. Praia, selected for export by ship."

"Uh, ha, ha ha." Belloc Tunney let out a polite but embarrassed laugh, "I know we can't hide it from Mr. Sean, yes, our target is Bukla."

"Whose hands is Burkla in now?" Sean asked.

"A group of mercenaries."

"A mercenary in that country?"

"Any country has them, a motley crew."

"Where is the place of registration?"

Belloc Tony: "..."

"Paris."

"Who is Bukla's ore currently supplied to?"

Belloc Tony: "..."

you know too much!

"Louis Dreyfus."

"It's French."

"What does Mr. Sean mean?" Belloc Tunney looked solemn, and he could see that Sean had other plans.

"It's not interesting, Morocco is messy, someone needs to open up the situation here." Sean leaned back tactically and looked at Belloc Tunney with his nostrils, "It's not 100 years ago, you can't play the colonial thing, or Support agents, or only private companies can open up the situation.”

"I think, no one is more suitable than me now, right?"

Belloc Tunney was silent.

"YSL people are not easy to deal with. Everyone knows this. It's troublesome, very troublesome. Let me fight and kill YSL people for a little money. Natural gas, palm oil, wheat, rubber, coconut products, minerals, a lot of things I can get my hands on and it's not that much of a hassle.”

"So, give me a reason to get involved in the Moroccan conflict."

Belloc Tunney was silent for a while, then looked up at Sean, "What is your request, sir?"

Sean spread his hands, "I have a shipping network in South America, North America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. I have controlled terminals. From ore mining to transportation, I can do it myself."

"Don't Mr. Sean think it's too much to grab business like this!" Belloc Tunney's face became more and more ugly. He didn't expect that not only did he fail to reach a cooperation with Sean, but instead gave Sean a monopoly. It's so annoying.

"Business is business. It's no problem if you want to control the Bukra mining area, but you can't rely on your imagination alone. You have to have strength." Sean smiled at Belloc Tunney, "In this way, think about it and think more. "

"Okay, Mr. Sean, I'll say goodbye first." Belloc Tony stood up, took a deep breath, and forced a smile.

Sean didn't go there after he got to the door of the box. After thinking about it, he picked up the phone and called John William Vesey Jr. After chatting a few words, he said, "I want to buy another Konz-class missile. Destroyers, 2 Keeling-class battleships, 2 troop carriers."

"With so much, are you planning to organize another fleet? Where to put it?" John William Vesey Jr. did not directly object, but asked instead.

"Africa, I am interested in the phosphate mining industry in Monaco. This thing is a necessities for agricultural phosphate fertilizers. 90% of the reserves are in this region. It is not only of economic value, but also of high strategic value." Sean put his thoughts Say it.

"Let's meet and talk." Weissy thought for a while and said.

Sean didn't let Weissy come over by himself, but sent his sky palace to pick up people, spending some money to be solemn. Sean always knows how to do things, and always gives others face. Defense Secretary Weinberg also took over.

Sean needs a group of people with international vision to help him refer to it. This is really not a simple question of how much money to make.

Just to make money, Sean is staring at Silicon Valley faster than anything else.

"The situation in Africa is different from that in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is an island country with a very low strategic depth. The missiles on the warship can achieve full coverage and have sufficient strategic deterrence." Vesey or the map said: "But Africa is different, if you prepare If you have a foothold in Africa, the army is far more utilized than the navy.”

"In addition, there have been wars in Africa for a long time. At present, it seems that the civil wars in the next ten years will not be quelled. Such wars will be dominated by regional small-scale conflicts, and the probability of large-scale regional wars is not large. It won't be very wide either."

"So, in terms of terrain and combat conditions, the African region is more suitable for the development of the army and air force, rather than the navy."

"Yes." Weinberg took up the conversation and said: "Europe's development requires raw material origin and low-end labor. There is nothing better than Africa, so Africa will not develop, so there will be wars, and it will be uninterrupted. , war is the best way to interrupt development."

"However, the scale of the war must be controlled, and a large-scale war will completely stop production, which cannot be allowed."

"The European region will definitely keep the unrest in Africa under control, small-scale, long-term, which is easy to control and easy to absorb nutrients."

The two analyzed the problem for Sean from the perspective of war and economics, and Sean nodded frequently.

"That is, I can put a foot in Morocco. In order to cope with the local situation, it is best to vigorously develop the army, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, radar, land-based missiles, helicopters and fighter jets." Sean on the map of Morocco clicked.

"There is no need for fighter jets. We are mainly stationed in defense, deterring the surrounding area, and the cost of land-based air defense missiles is lower." Vesey thought for a while and said, "Armored troops, missile troops and helicopter formations are enough."

"Then make a batch!" Sean slapped the map of Morocco, "Expand the army!"

"What about the 2,000 people you expanded last time?" Weissy asked, he didn't care much about it.

"Rongni left 1,000 farms, and the other 1,000 went to Qatar. The oil bosses are really rich. They are afraid that yl will always harass them."

"How many people are there in the umbrella now?"

"More than 4,000 yuan, the annual labor cost alone is 150 million yuan, plus the maintenance of the warship, the consumption of ammunition, various insurances, the consumption of living materials, and zero and zero, the military expenditure of about 250 million yuan a year." When Sean said He couldn't help but grin for a while. If he hadn't signed several regional defense agreements and let others help him, he really couldn't afford it himself.

"Tsk tsk." Weissy sighed for a while, "This private armed force looks good and majestic, but this expense is really not affordable for everyone."

"How many people are you going to expand this time?"

"Look, I don't know either." Sean's current plan is to vacate hundreds of people from all over the world and throw them into Morocco to test the water, and then see how to play according to the demand and the profits that can be generated.

"What did you plan to eat?" Weinberg asked Sean when he saw that the two had finished talking about military matters.

"Phosphate mines are very concentrated. This is a natural advantage. Of course, I want to control them all. Only then will I have the power to speak." Sean smiled.

"It's almost impossible. Although Morocco doesn't have much sense of existence, the government will not allow it, and the people will not allow it," Weinberg said.

Sean shrugged, "So I asked you two to discuss what to do."

"In any case, we need a mining company, and then, we need a terminal that can guarantee security and a customer to buy these ore."

"How about acquiring a fertilizer production company?" Sean raised his eyebrows.

Weinberg glanced at Sean, how greedy!

"If the interest chain is monopolized, it will definitely be resisted by many people in the entire industry chain." Without having to ask Sean, Weinberg said: "For example, several major grain merchants, the phosphate fertilizer market has a broad prospect, and most of the Mineral deposits are also certain in Morocco, but other countries are not without it, it is just a matter of reserves and mining difficulty, they will not watch you choke their throats, absolutely not.”

"Either you choose to only engage in mining and not involved in production, or you can bring in some people."

"What do you mean?" Sean touched his chin, he wanted to hear the opinion of this strategic expert.

"First take control of the entire Moroccan phosphate mine, and then use this as a bargaining chip to carry out equity swaps for other phosphate mining companies, and then penetrate upstream and downstream industries, such as terminals, warehousing, transportation, and fertilizer production, and finally achieve in The right to speak in the phosphate mine, plus the right to speak in the entire industry chain.”

Saying that, Weinberg looked up at Sean and said, "It's better to invest in adm, Bunge, and Cargill. In this way, you will be undefeated in the entire industry chain."

Ruthless!

Sean grinned and gave a thumbs up, "The most I think about is manipulating the price of ore to threaten people, my dear, you want to control the entire industry chain, you are more ruthless than me!"

Weinberg smiled very reservedly, "I personally believe that the food strategy can play a very important role in the future international situation, it is very important to the United States, and it is a force that Congress must win over. At the same time, it can also play an important role internationally. control."

"Okay, just do what you think." Sean laughed, "It's just that adm is going to curse."

Weinberg spreads his hands, then it has nothing to do with him. He is no longer the Minister of Defense, and adm has no checks and balances on Sean.

"We adm want to partner with Mr. Sean to set up a mining development company, what does Mr. Sean think?" Within two days, Belloc Tony came over again.

"Company." Sean glanced up and down at Belloc Tunney, "So, in this company, what is the core competitiveness of adm?"

Ordinary people do business in partnership because one person lacks funds or shares risks, but at the level of Sean and the others, the key to doing business in partnership is the core competitiveness.

"Production, sales." Belloc Tony said solemnly: "Our adm consumes tens of thousands of tons of fertilizers every year and eats all the products."

Sean shook his head, "What does that have to do with Bukla? There are only so many phosphate mines in the world. I don't need to get involved in production and sales at all."

"Mr. Sean really wants to do everything!" Belloc Tunney's face turned gloomy and he gritted his teeth. Now it's too late to regret it, he would have found mpri!

Now to bring out such a guy who eats people and doesn't spit out bones, mpri will definitely not take this task in order to avoid conflicts.

Looking at other security companies around the world...

What's more, as far as the umbrella's record is concerned, Belloc Tunney himself has no confidence in those small security companies.

"Business is business, adm can't show its core competitiveness, what does this have to do with me." Sean raised his hand and licked his ears.

"Mr. Sean doesn't want that bank!" In the end, Belloc Tunney could only throw this out. He really had no bargaining power.

"Yes, of course, one size will be one size."

Ha, Belloc Tunney is so amused, he has never seen such a brazen person!

"Mr. Sean is really cold."

"How about I owe you adm a favor."

"You already owe one. Obviously, Mr. Sean's favor is not worth much."

Sean touched his nose embarrassedly, "Human feelings are also divided into big and small, like that."

So it was difficult for Sean to say, "The phosphate mine in Monaco, I, Sean, want to make a decision, and **** can't stop it!"

"But, Sean, I'm not someone who just wants to eat alone."

"Phosphate mine involves a complete industrial chain. He is not isolated. I can set up a joint venture company with adm, a company specializing in the production of phosphate fertilizers." Sean looked up at Belloc Tony, "What you want It is to ensure that there is no interruption in the supply of chemical fertilizers, it is enough to have this company specializing in products, and there is no need to intervene in the ore business."

"To be honest~www.mtlnovel.com~ Which mining business in Africa is not stained with blood? This business has a bad reputation. You are in agriculture, so this is not suitable for you."

Belloc Tunney frowned and did it again. Sean's proposal was considered to be more than seven inches from adm. If he didn't cooperate, it would definitely be a loss. Good news to feed the dog, nothing fell.

The cooperation is not reconciled. What's more, mining is very profitable, and every shovel is full of dollars!

"From your adm's point of view, I think you should agree. Adm has only set foot in the United States for 3 years. You should feel that, even if it is backed by the United States, there are some things that the country can't do well, but it is a private company like me. , I have no scruples in doing things."

"For example, the expansion of adm in Southeast Asia, the help I can provide will not be lower than the United States!"

These last words took Belloc Tunney's last breath away.

"Well, Mr. Sean, as far as I'm concerned, you won, but I believe the company will not refuse to cooperate with Umbrella in Southeast Asia."

"Look, that's right. Cooperation is greater than confrontation. As we all know, I am very talkative." Sean laughed and said, "Then, we can talk about cooperation in Southeast Asia, for example, setting up a joint venture company!"

Belloc Tunney stared at Sean in amazement, what a joint venture, Sean, peeling, right?

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