Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 521 The Evil World Grain Merchants

Japan Island, Tokyo.

The cabinet, led by Koizumi, holds a negative attitude towards whether to introduce simulated cultivation.

Because it's just a game.

No matter how advanced or popular it is, or how much commercial value it generates with millions of players, it cannot influence the world order.

Like an old man from Northeast China swimming across the Japanese sea, intending to seize the resources of the Japanese islands in the game.

Like when South Korea visited the Far East Trading Company, intending to introduce a simulated cultivation game and then use the power of the entire country to destroy the Japanese islands in the game.

These behaviors are nothing short of Ah Q's self-deception and are nothing but childish.

Then there is.

Sanyuan Agriculture has broken through the first island chain, making it impossible for North America to return to the Asia-Pacific region in the short term.

Normally, Japan should either be pro-China or, without hesitation, directly ally with China.

But in reality, this is not a rational choice.

Because there are more than 100 North American bases on the Japanese islands, and neighboring South Korea has troops stationed in 19 countries.

Furthermore, Japan's economy, communications, fuel, and foreign trade markets are heavily reliant on North America...
At this point, if Japan were to become pro-Mexico, North America would definitely close the door and beat Japan, causing it immense suffering.

Given Yu Sanyuan's attitude towards the Japanese islands, they certainly won't offer any help; they'll just stand by and watch the show.

Therefore, the best option for Japan is to take advantage of North America's inability to attend to its interests in the Asia-Pacific region, help North America protect its homeland, and even serve as a weapon in North America's hands to curb the three-way agricultural system.

In this way, North America will provide more support to Japan.

Japan can also take this opportunity to maximize its benefits.

Therefore, what Japan is now considering is how to get back the two 10,000-ton amphibious landing ships that were towed away from Yu Sanyuan, and to make its position clear to North America.

As for simulated cultivation, neither the cabinet nor any other body paid any attention to it.

However, not paying attention doesn't mean it's none of my business.

At noon.

Feng Lei, a popular livestreamer, posted a lengthy message on the forum and tagged Japan Island.

Feng Lei's idea was simple: Japan and South Korea were both vassals of North America.

But like two servants vying for favor, their relationship was not good.

Now that South Korea is spending money to introduce simulated cultivation, they're bound to drag Japan into it, and then watch the dogs fight each other.

As for the resources on the Japanese island in the game…

It's just a game; it's not as important as muddying up reality.

Therefore, Feng Lei analyzed South Korea's hatred for Japan from multiple perspectives.

They asserted with certainty that if South Korea were to seize resources on the Japanese islands, the Japanese flag would likely become nothing more than toilet paper.

South Korean netizens gave this a thumbs up.

More than a dozen South Korean companies even placed orders for Japanese-made wet toilet paper through the trade hall on the spot.

Of course, Feng Lei knew that the Japanese authorities most likely wouldn't care about this matter.

Then they brought out the essence of Sanyuan Agriculture – the world's grain trader.

"Our home planet has seen three consecutive years of bumper harvests, leading to a significant drop in global food prices."

'Now, almost all small and medium-sized grain traders and food companies have gone out of business.'

"With large capital achieving market monopoly, I guarantee that global food production will decrease this year, leading to a surge in food prices."

"Assuming food prices double in October this year, the total profit of global grain traders will not exceed $50 billion."

"However, if global grain traders use grain supplies to force grain-importing countries to play a simulation game of cultivation, with each million players as a unit, the grain supply price would decrease by 10% for every additional million players. When the number of players in a region exceeds 10 million, global grain traders would earn 20 billion less, but could generate hundreds of billions of dollars in commercial value."

Do you think global grain traders might do that?

'Food-importing countries simply pay to play the game, and in return, food prices remain unchanged.'

'Do you think countries that import grain might introduce simulated cultivation novels?'

Therefore, Japan's most urgent task is to invest billions of dollars in simulated cultivation; otherwise, in the future, when facing food supply problems, Japan will pay not only with money, but also with social instability, economic collapse, and financial chaos.

After reading Feng Lei's lengthy speech, the Japanese cabinet fell into a collective silence.

Followed by.

[Yu Sanyuan gives it a thumbs up!]
[Yu Sanyuan: Holy crap, I almost forgot I'm a global grain trader!]
Wajima: "."

worldwide:"."

Could this guy really be going to take Feng Lei's suggestion?
...

at the same time.

Headquarters of Far East Trading Company.

Although the office building is still that old six-story building, as the only foreign trade platform for Sanyuan Agriculture's Far East project, its exterior and interior are still quite impressive.

At noon.

Guo Xin, the head of the Far East Project of the Three Systems, personally received the South Korean delegation.

Leading the group were the chairman and his wife of the South Korean KS Group.

KS Group is one of the five major conglomerates in South Korea. It monopolizes South Korean energy and dominates South Korean chemical, chemical, gas, lubricant, telecommunications, and high-tech industries. It has invested in Hynix Semiconductor, South Korean Shipping, South Korean Construction, South Korean Eastern Industries, and South Korean Eastern Real Estate, and has a high degree of cooperation with China Resources.

The chairman of KS Group is surnamed Cui, and his wife is surnamed Lu.

The former was a top-tier clan in South Korea, while the latter was the daughter of Lu Tai, the former governor of South Korea, who claimed to be a descendant of Lu Zhi of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Unfortunately, in earlier years, KS Group did not side with Sanyuan Agriculture and competed with Sanyuan Chemical in the Ice Bear Amur natural gas pipeline project.

At the time, Ice Bear was unwilling to allow Sanyuan Agriculture to dominate the Far East, so it handed the project over to KS Group.

Later, in order to counter the Ice Bear oligarchs, the leader of the Ice Bear began to curry favor with Yu Sanyuan. This made the South Korean leadership realize the situation. As a result, the KS Group commissioned Yang Rong with a large sum of money to lease the three satellite channels, but the offer was politely declined.

Later, Yu Yang's "relative" Wei Meng fled to Shiliying and made a name for himself in South Korea, eventually becoming the leader of the South Korean black gang. In 03, he supported Lu Xuan, who came from a commoner background, to become the South Korean general manager.

Lu Hyun was a staunch supporter of the Sanyu (South Korea), even to the point of being a staunch supporter of the Sanyu, believing that "without Sanyu, South Korea has no future." He actively promoted Chinese language education, changed Seoul's capital to Seoul, and publicly reduced South Korea's dependence on North America.

At the same time, South Korea firmly opposed Japanese aggression, investigated and dealt with pro-Japanese activities, established the "Pro-Japanese and Anti-South Korean Behavior Property Investigation Committee", introduced the "Pro-Japanese and Anti-South Korean Behavior Act", and cracked down on chaebol corruption, imprisoning the heads of the five major South Korean chaebols.

KS Group Chairman Choi Tae was also imprisoned.

The reason for the release of the other party is twofold: first, KS Group plans to lease two 48-story skyscrapers in Shiliying West Second Ring Road for a ten-year property fee of US$27 billion; second, KS Group hopes to introduce a simulated cultivation game and manufacture game boxes on a 20/80 revenue-sharing basis for an annual fee of US$5 billion.

In short, it's equivalent to giving away money.

Guo Xin, the head of the Far East project, had no reason to refuse.

Furthermore, among the five major conglomerates in South Korea, Samsung, LG, and Lotte are all close to North America.

We can't just hand KS Group over to our competitors.

After exchanging their views, the two parties signed a cooperation agreement at the luncheon.

Wait until the afternoon.

KS Group Chairman Choi Tae was pardoned from prison by South Korean President Noh Hyun.

Soon, the news that KS Group had secured the license for a virtual cultivation game for South Korea became a global hot topic. Previously, all three systems (games and devices) were sold directly by the three companies.

Now that KS Group has obtained the license, it has become both the first company in the Western camp to introduce the three-system game and the first company in the Western technology alliance to manufacture the three-system equipment.

This means that the three-system technology has begun to erode Western technology.

In time, if the three-system technology becomes the mainstream in the world, Western countries will all have to import the technology from Yu Sanyuan and pay hefty patent licensing fees.

Furthermore, the existing Western technological system will collapse.

Photolithography machines, etching machines, 3G technology, and communication protocols have all been replaced.

Therefore, that afternoon, under pressure from Vanguard's shareholders, Bush put pressure on South Korea.

In the past, South Korean President Roh Hyun would most likely have been imprisoned or even died unexpectedly.

However, with North America losing the first island chain, naval vessels from the three major powers are rampant in the South Seas. Of the 19 countries that had military bases in South Korea, 18 have now withdrawn their troops, including North America, which has also reduced its troop presence.

For South Korean general manager Lu Hyun, the threat posed by Bu was completely harmless.

KS Group Chairman Choi Tae went even further to demonstrate his stance.

KS Group announced its entry into the telecommunications industry, planning to introduce Tri-Network, Tri-Network equipment, and Theta Starlink positioning and navigation.

KS Group announced its foray into terminal retail, planning to introduce 10 Shili Malls and 20 SY Malls, covering all cities in South Korea.

KS Group announced its entry into the automotive industry, planning to sign a contract with Sanyuan Machinery to establish SK Automotive production and assembly lines.

KS Group announced plans to strengthen its financial insurance business, intending to collaborate with Trade Hall-Financial Management System to expand its insurance and loan programs.

KS Group's stock on the New York Stock Exchange took off immediately.

Enraged, Bush launched a tirade and, before dawn in North America, mobilized the FBL (Financial Bureau of the United States) to seize all of KS Group's companies in North America.

The reason given is that the third party violated the Wassenaar Arrangement.

KS Group's stock subsequently plummeted.

Followed by.

The Nasdaq plummeted due to the impact of the Three Systems technology invasion.

Old Smith looked at the two major North American stock markets, which were first bought and then sold off, and then glanced at his 60% stake in the KS Group, which had already depreciated significantly. His face turned ashen.

He then posted more than 30 updates on the three-system forum.

Two-thirds of them specifically named and cursed Xiaobu as stupid as a pig.

The other third specifically named and criticized the Republicans for electing a pig.

The previously stable US dollar experienced significant fluctuations due to changes in the financial markets, prompting the Federal Reserve to angrily berate Bush.

Xiao Bu felt extremely wronged, so he secretly started the game console and began playing a simulation game about cultivating immortality.

Old Smith was so angry he almost went berserk. "If it weren't for the cooperation with your father, I would have impeached you and sent you to prison!"

Immediately afterwards, Old Smith suddenly received:

"Mr. Smith, just now, Sanyuan Agriculture issued a statement saying that the research and development of this year's Sanliu wheat variety has failed, and next year's grain production will be greatly reduced. In order to solve the grain supply problem next year, the Trade Hall will immediately raise grain prices by 120% and food prices by 110%."

“Isn’t this just nonsense?”

"However, Sanyuan Agriculture has a note that says grain-importing countries can introduce simulated cultivation. Based on 100 million players, for every additional 100 million players, the trade hall will lower the supply price of grain by 10% on the basis of the new grain price, with a maximum discount of 120%, which is equivalent to no increase in grain price."

Old Smith suddenly realized that Yu Sanyuan was forcing people from food-importing countries into the game to increase the popularity of the simulated cultivation game.

"The evil world grain merchants!"

...

Japanese islands.

Overnight, the cabinet, led by Koizumi, made a decisive decision to introduce simulated cultivation.

First, Fujima stepped in.

Fujima is a Japanese nationalist who served as president of Marubeni Corporation and the Japanese Farmers' Association. After returning to Japan Secondhand Electrical Appliances Co., Ltd., he became the leader of the largest opposition party in Japan, the Constitutional Democratic Party, which holds 148 seats in the House of Representatives. He advocates social welfare, environmental protection, the constitution, and peace.

Its loyalty to the Japanese islands is evident to the whole world.

Fujima was furious after reading Feng Lei's remarks, and he openly called South Korea "idiots" for their behavior.

He also believes that "national self-confidence is not something that can be cultivated overnight, nor can its disintegration be caused by just one or two events."

"But as the saying goes, a thousand-mile dike can be destroyed by an ant hole. If we can't even win a game, what kind of national confidence do we have?"

"We must introduce simulated cultivation!"

Secondly, Mitsubishi Industries President Keiko Igawa is willing to personally visit the Far East Trading Company and plans to spend 200 billion US dollars to introduce a simulated cultivation system.

For the Koizumi Cabinet, the former represents public opinion, while the latter means the cabinet doesn't need to spend money.

Who wouldn't want something like this for free?
As for whether North America will put pressure on Japan...

"We were forced into this by Yu Sanyuan using grain; we had no choice!"

...

9 month 17 number.

Simulated cultivation has once again become a hot topic due to rising food prices and supply problems, as well as the sudden changes on the Japanese island.

The number of people paying attention to the global Internet and the Sanyuan Communication Network has exceeded 30 billion.

Against this backdrop.

Feng Lei isn't the only online celebrity who livestreams a simulated cultivation journey.

The content presented in the live stream went beyond just analyzing the differences between the three systems of technology and Western technology.

Some streamers used the Three-System Chinese programming language to deconstruct the game files integrated into the video memory of the game box and analyze the Three-System Chinese machine language.

Some streamers used a game assistant tool to run the game while recording system logs, trying to figure out the logic of the three-system AI.

Some streamers are using real-world physics and chemistry to conduct research and create in games.

Some streamers use real-world political systems to study the civilizational order within games, such as democracy, republic, and collectivism…

In short, this is an unprecedented open virtual 3D world.

Large-scale propaganda was also carried out, including on the Japanese islands:

It boasts the world's first AI-assisted system tailored specifically for players. Upon character creation, the character automatically acquires its own AI system. As players interact with the game, the character's AI automatically memorizes, learns, and utilizes its abilities. The longer the player remains online, the more intuitive and effective the AI ​​becomes.

It possesses the world's first advanced artificial intelligence system. It is not an NPC, not a player, but a native of the virtual world. This adds infinite fun and countless possibilities to the simulation of cultivation, such as the transformation of cultivation into steampunk.

It boasts the world's first system of AI dummy robots that can grow and improve. Although they are clumsy and not intelligent, their actions and words are full of positive energy, such as "Everyone has their own unique talents" and "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river"...

It boasts the world's first seamless map, spanning towns, counties, cities, and provinces. No loading screens or route switching are required; you can travel anytime, anywhere.

It boasts the world's first 'virtual and real-world shopping mall', where users can purchase real-world food, beverages, and daily necessities using online time or in-game currency.

So, what reason do you have not to play this game?
Therefore, Mitsubishi Industries of Japan announced that it has decided to invest 20 billion US dollars to introduce a simulation cultivation game and to acquire the game box manufacturing contract on a 30/70 split.

The people of the Japanese islands cheered wildly.

Fujima also donated money and supplies, building game base clusters for players while calling on Japanese players to unite and form the Japanese Self-Defense Force to prepare for an eastward expedition to North America.

(End of this chapter)