America's Big Hero

"In North America, our reserves are about 10 billion tons, and Brazil's is about 16 billion tons. It can be said that there are no reserves in other regions."

"Ah?" Sean's expression was a little weird. "Africa is a place where you can't even eat food. The reserves are so large. The second is the Middle East, which is also arid and does not produce food. This world is really interesting!"

"What do they want me to do?"

"Go to Africa." David took a map, pointed to the northwest of Africa and said: "In Morocco, Western Sahara and Algeria, 90% of the world's phosphate mines are here."

Sean poked his head over to look, with a half-smile on his face, "Good guy, I also said that Morocco is next to Spain, with the Strait of Gibraltar in between, how can it be so poor?"

"So it's because there are treasures underground!"

"Hahaha."

"Okay, there's nothing wrong with it, but I can't be persuaded by a bankrupt bank."

"Of course, they'll send someone to talk to you."

"Okay, let them come, I'll wait for them in Newark."

Chapter 364: The Battle of Phosphate Mine

Morocco, not Monaco.

One in Africa and one in Europe.

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

In Morocco, 90% are white.

As soon as Sean returned to Newark, he asked someone to bring over information about Morocco, Algeria, and Western Sahara, went through it, and focused on a few key points.

Morocco, in 1986, had a GDP of US$194.62 billion and a per capita GDP of US$840. It is dominated by white people, YSL teaches Sunni, and phosphate is the main resource. Its reserves are 1100 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 which oil shale reserves are more than 1000 billion tons, containing 60 billion tons of crude oil.

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

Algeria, with a GDP of US$1986 billion in 636.92 and US$2756 per capita, is also dominated by white people and YSL Sunnis. Its oil reserves are about 17 billion tons, accounting for 1% of the world's total reserves, ranking 15th in the world, and its recoverable natural gas reserves 4.58 trillion cubic meters, accounting for 2.37% of the world's total reserves, ranking 10th in the world, iron ore reserves are 30 billion to 50 billion tons, lead-zinc ore reserves are estimated to be 1.5 million tons, uranium ore 5 tons, phosphate 20 billion tons and 73 tons of gold.

The resources are extremely abundant, there is money, and there are constant wars.

Western Sahara, here is more interesting. This is a disputed area with unknown sovereignty. The former Spanish colony, Spain withdrew its troops in 75, and Mauritania announced its renunciation of territorial sovereignty over Western Sahara in 79. After that, Morocco has always claimed sovereignty over Western Sahara. The XX Front of the Saharan People doesn’t think so. The two sides have been exchanging fire. At present, Morocco has an absolute advantage (Chuan Bao once announced that he recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, but before that, the United States was unclear).

The phosphate ore reserves that ADM is concerned about are extremely rich, accounting for about 20% of the world's reserves. The reserves of Bukra alone reach 17 billion tons. There are modern phosphate mining fields. After the war in 1976, phosphate production fell into a stalemate. Paused, production resumed in 1979.

In the two countries and one region, conflicts continued. The Moroccans rejected Algeria in the west and invaded Western Sahara in the south.

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

It is difficult to fight, there are beliefs, and very firm areas are like this, especially YSL, which has always been the most difficult bone to crack.

In addition, the forces are intricate. Spain ruled here, and the French ruled here. Although the colonists have retreated now, their influence is still there and will continue to be.

First, the Strait of Gibraltar, which is the only exit from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, is only 14 kilometers wide. Regardless of whether Morocco has the idea of ​​owning it, the strategic location is too important.

Second, the reserves of phosphate mines are too large and abundant, which is an agricultural necessity, 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 this place, and he doesn't know much about it.

After looking at it, Sean gave up. The information is incomplete. The attitude of the four major grain merchants looking for him is unclear, and the request is unknown. Wait.

……

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

The person who came was not the president or vice president of ADM, but a director, Belloc Tony, who was enthusiastic and fiery at the first meeting.

The place where Sean talked about things was arranged at the Peace Hotel. Sean likes to talk about things at the wine table.

Drinking, bragging, Belloc Tony started to boast from the first appearance of the umbrella in HK, the British dare not fart, to the battle with Ah San, playing the glory of the Americans, from Yang Wei in the Straits of Malacca, to Bombed YL with overwhelming power, from Lin Meng's blitz to 13 billion to HSBC.

Blow, blow to death!

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

I feel embarrassed that Sean is so thick-skinned.

However, some information disclosed by Belloc Towne when he was bragging also let Sean know that ADM established a branch in HK in 83 to enter the Southeast Asian region, and began various acquisitions in the Netherlands and Germany in 86 to enter the European market.

While whistling, Sean suddenly discovered a problem, he seemed to have made a mistake!

The British "Guardian" once described it 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 chips...the chocolate in your desserts, the sweetener in your soft drinks...we are you The beef or pork or chicken you eat for dinner is the cotton on your clothes and the manure on your fields.

What a simple, warm sentence.

From farmland to dining table, the four major grain merchants control the entire industrial chain, affecting the daily lives of more than 70 billion people around the world.

But that was over 30 years later!

But it is only 87 years now, and 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 the top [-] companies in the world.

Listening to Belloc Towne bragging, Sean suddenly raised his hand and touched his chin. Does ADM have any money now?

If ADM is not as good as yourself, what's the point of listening to him bragging?

Can I, Sean, be comfortable with anyone? !

"What does ADM want the umbrella for?" Sean asked suddenly.

gah...

Belloc Tony froze in place, I blow so hard, why don't you seem to feel anything?

It took a long time for Belloc Tony to react, coughed lightly and said: "Western Sahara, we have some business over there, but you know, it's too chaotic over there, fighting all day long, Moroccans, the Asahara Front, The law and order is extremely chaotic, and we cannot carry out normal production and trade at all, so we hope to hire an umbrella company to maintain the surrounding law and order.”

"It's very expensive. The businesses before Umbrella are all at the national level, Sri Lanka, Xingcheng, Luni, and the US government." Sean said without expression on his face, "The lowest business is one year. $[-] million, so what price is ADM going to offer?"

Belloc Tony licked the corner of his mouth. Sean's asking price was too harsh, and the annual profit of the entire ADM was only so much. "Uh, there is no need to make such a big fuss, and there is no need to dispatch battleships. It is the army, um, 500 people."

"I don't think it's high." Sean chuckled, "Even I don't think 2 million is high!"

"How is it possible? This is too crazy. It's just a region in Western Sahara, a very small city!" Belloc Tony jumped up and said, waving his arms.

Sean watched Belloc Tony not speak, and after a long while, he suddenly smiled and said: "Bukla, 100 kilometers southeast of Laayoune. The reserves are about 20 billion tons. Mining began in 1972, and the ore was transported to Laayoune on the Atlantic coast. Playa, select and ship for export."

"Uh, ha, ha ha ha." Belloc Tony let out a polite yet awkward laugh, "I knew we couldn't hide it from Mr. Sean, yes, our target is Bukla."

"Who owns Bukla now." Sean asked.

"A group of mercenaries."

"Mercenaries from that country?"

"Every country has them, motley crew."

"Where is the registration place?"

Belloc Towne: "..."

"Paris."

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

Belloc Towne: "..."

you know too much!

"Louis Dreyfus."

"It's the French."

"What does Mr. Sean mean?" Belloc Tony looked serious, and he could tell that Sean had other plans.

"It's not interesting. Morocco is a mess. Someone needs to open up the situation here." Sean leaned back tactically and looked at Belloc Tony with his nostrils. To support the agent, or the private company can only open the situation."

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

Belloc Tony was silent.

"YSL people are not easy to deal with, everyone knows this, troublesome, very troublesome, let me fight with YSL people for a little money, I will not do it, there are still many benefits to be absorbed by the umbrella in Southeast Asia, oil, Natural gas, palm oil, wheat, rubber, coconut products, minerals, a lot of things I can do without too much trouble."

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

Belloc Tony was silent for a while, then looked up at Sean, "What do you want sir?"

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

"Mr. Sean, don't you think it's too much to snatch business like this!" Belloc Tony's face became more and more ugly. He didn't expect that not only did he fail to reach a cooperation with Sean, but it made Sean feel exclusive. It's so annoying.

"Business is business. It's fine if you want to control the Bukela mining area, but you can't just rely on imagination, you have to have strength." Sean smiled at Belloc Tony, "Well, think again, think more. "

"Okay then, Mr. Sean, I'll take my leave first." Belloc Tony stood up, took a deep breath, and forced a smile.

Sean didn't go there after he arrived at the door of the box. After thinking about it, he picked up the phone and called John William Vesey Jr., chatted for a while, and then got down to business, "I want to buy another Kunz-class missile Destroyers, 2 Keeling-class battleships, 2 troop carriers."

"There are so many, do you want to organize another fleet? Where do you put them?" John William Vesey Jr. did not object directly, but asked rhetorically.

"Africa, I am interested in the phosphate mining industry in Monaco. 90% of the reserves of this essential agricultural phosphate fertilizer are in this region. It is not only of economic value, but also of high strategic value." Sean expressed his thoughts Said a bit.

"Let's meet and talk." Wei Xi said after thinking about it.

Sean didn't let Weixi come here by himself, but sent his own air palace to pick up people. It seemed solemn to spend some money. Sean always knew how to do things, and always gave others enough face. The Secretary of Defense Weinberg also took over.

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

Simply making money, Sean stared 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 low strategic depth. The missiles on the warships can cover all areas and have sufficient strategic deterrence." Weixi or Map said: "But Africa is different. If you prepare With a foothold in Africa, then the utilization rate of the army far exceeds that of the navy."

"In addition, there have been wars in Africa for many years. At present, it seems that the civil wars in the next ten years will not be quelled. This kind of wars will be mainly small-scale regional conflicts. The probability of large-scale regional wars is not high. It won't be very wide either."

"So, no matter from the perspective of terrain or combat situation, the African region is more suitable for the development of the army and air force, rather than the navy."

"Yes." Weinberg said: "The development of Europe requires raw materials and low-end labor. There is no 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 war must be controlled. Large-scale wars will completely stop production, which cannot be allowed."

"The European region will definitely keep the turmoil in Africa within a controllable range, small-scale and long-term, which is easy to control and easy to absorb nutrients."

The two analyzed the problem to Sean from the perspective of war and economy, and Sean nodded frequently.

"That is to say, I can get a foothold 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 A little bit.

"There is no need for fighter jets. We are mainly stationed for defense to deter the surrounding area. The cost of land-based anti-aircraft missiles is lower." Weixi thought for a while and said: "Armor troops and missile troops are enough to cooperate with helicopter formations."

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

"What about the 2000 people you expanded last time?" Wei Xi asked, he didn't care much about it.

"He Ni left 1000 houses in the town, and the other 1000 went to Qatar. The oil guys are really rich. They are afraid that YL will always harass them."

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

"More than 4000, the labor cost alone is 1.5 million a year, plus warship maintenance, ammunition consumption, various insurances, daily necessities consumption, and zero and other things will cost about 2.5 million military expenses a year." Xiao En said He couldn't help grinning for a while. If he hadn't signed several regional defense agreements and asked others to help raise him, he really couldn't afford it himself.

"Tsk tsk." Weixi sighed for a while, "This personal weapon looks good and impressive, but the expense is really not something everyone can afford."

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

"Look, I don't know." Sean's current plan is to move hundreds of people from various places and throw them in Morocco to test the water, and then see how to play according to the demand and the profits that can be generated.

"How did you plan to eat it by yourself?" Weinberg asked Sean after seeing that the two had finished chatting about military affairs.

"The phosphate mines are very concentrated. This is a natural advantage. Of course I want to control everything in my hands. Then I will have the power to speak." Sean chuckled.

"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 to discuss what to do."

"We need a mining company no matter what, and then we need a terminal that can guarantee safety and customers who buy these ores."

"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 Sean asking, Weinberg himself said: "For example, for several major grain merchants, the phosphate fertilizer market has a bright future. Mineral deposits are definitely in Morocco, but it’s not that there are no other countries, it’s just a matter of reserves and mining difficulty, they will definitely not watch you choke their throats, absolutely not.”

"Either, you choose to only do mining and not get involved in production, or you recruit some people to join."

"Then 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 exchange equity for other phosphate mine mining companies, and then penetrate upstream and downstream industries, such as docks, warehousing, transportation, and fertilizer production. The right to speak on phosphate mines, and the entire industrial chain has the right to speak."