Chapter 245: The War of Food, Energy, and Mining

"Understood, Boss!"

Luan Weiliang's eyes gleamed, his face full of excitement.

Ever since he launched the stock market attack and currency sniping against Sakura Country last year, he had developed a fanatical obsession with such large-scale operations.

Unfortunately, over the past year, Su Xin had been busy with research and had kept a much lower profile; coupled with that battle of sniping the Sakura Country currency, all major powers had treated Tianqi Group with great respect.

He simply had no opportunity to make a move.

For the past year, he could only tediously execute the group's asset management work, arranging for subordinates to acquire companies everywhere and operate assets.

If this were three years ago, had he possessed such great power, controlling trillions in capital, lording over the international financial market, and chatting and laughing with various capital titans, he would certainly have been too excited to sleep.

But after several major events, he actually had little interest in these daily affairs.

In his heart, he only looked forward to when he could have another operation similar to the sniping of the Sakura Coin, allowing himself to leave his name in financial history once again.

That's right, such a sensational global operation was destined to leave a name in the history of world financial development, and as the executor, he would likewise be recorded in the annals of history.

Compared to these honors, his annual salary of hundreds of millions, and the respect and courtesy he received around the world, were all not worth mentioning.

Now.

The operation he had long been looking forward to had finally arrived!

Eliminate the Yongji Society!

Regarding the Yongji Society, an organization with a great reputation, he had heard of them before and had even had contact with several of its high-ranking members.

He managed trillions in funds for Tianqi Group, investing everywhere in the world, and had interacted with various capital titans; those high-ranking members of the Yongji Society were among them.

Moreover, when the other party met with him, they were all full of kindness, even fawning.

After all, he invested in almost every industry, and many of them had intersections with the Yongji Society.

Those people were also worried that if they angered him, he would directly take massive assets to crash the stock market and affect the market value of their companies.

On a global scale, he possessed exactly such powerful influence and deterrent force.

"To think you actually angered the Boss; you are simply courting death!"

Luan Weiliang sneered.

He could be considered a highly influential titan on a global scale, and his boss, Su Xin, was equivalent to a supreme emperor in the business world.

A mere Yongji Society—to put it nicely, they were the world's behind-the-scenes controllers who could indirectly influence the world economy; to put it bluntly, in front of Tianqi Group, they were just small fries.

Regardless of capital strength or business influence, the current Tianqi Group was the one and only king in the whole world.

To completely eliminate the Yongji Society, while there was a certain degree of difficulty, he was fully capable of doing it.

After receiving the document sent by Su Xin.

Luan Weiliang looked it over carefully.

"Sure enough, their main base is left with only these four major industries; the other industries had long since declined rapidly during the rise of Tianqi Group."

"However, energy, food, arms, and minerals—these four major industries all have moats; it's not that easy to occupy them relying solely on capital."

Luan Weiliang fell into deep thought.

Since ancient times, energy and food had been the most fundamental strategic industries for all countries; they could be said to be the lifeblood of a nation, affecting the survival of any country.

Although the status of arms and minerals was slightly inferior, they were also very important strategic industries.

The Yongji Society being called the world's behind-the-scenes controllers was inseparable from the fact that they controlled major discourse power in these four strategic industries.

Even if Tianqi Group had more money and stronger technical strength, at most they could snatch a portion of the market from the other party, but they couldn't touch the other party's roots for a while.

"Huh! That's right!"

Luan Weiliang's eyes suddenly shifted.

He suddenly remembered that when the Destiny Potion was first authorized externally, Su Xin had put forward two requirements to all countries.

First, require strict control and real-name registration for the flow of the Destiny Potion.

Second, countries were not allowed to hinder the development of any of Tianqi Group's industries; although some restrictions were added when negotiating terms later, food, energy, and minerals were not among the restricted items.

This was not because countries did not value these three industries enough, but because when their own related industries were conquering territories everywhere, they demanded commercial freedom from other countries and forbade excessive interference.

Therefore, they naturally could not restrict Tianqi Group from entering on the grounds of industry sensitivity.

For example, the current eight major international grain merchants were originally only the four major international grain merchants.

At their peak, the former four major grain merchants controlled about 80% of the global grain trading volume, almost controlling the global grain lifeblood and indirectly controlling the fate of the whole world.

To be able to achieve this step, besides the scale and strength of the four major grain merchants, the most important thing was relying on a completely free grain trading market.

And now, this point would also become the prerequisite for Tianqi Group to sweep across the food sector.

Thinking of this.

Luan Weiliang's ideas became clearer and clearer, and a general plan emerged in his mind.

He could use a large amount of capital in the futures market to influence or even manipulate the prices of major food crops such as soybeans, corn, and wheat, impacting market conditions, causing some subsidiaries of the grain merchants under the Yongji Society to lose money or even go bankrupt, for Tianqi Group to step in and acquire them in bulk.

Even at the most upstream supply chain end, he could wantonly acquire farms, ranches, feed mills, grain processing plants, and so on, launching an all-around assault on the major international grain merchants.

These two steps seemed simple, but they extremely tested capital strength and financial operation levels.

Especially the former.

"However, such a food war involves too much; agricultural practitioners all over the world will be greatly affected, and even various countries may become turbulent due to fluctuations in food prices."

"Perhaps I should join forces with Longliang Group; it can avoid collateral damage and also add an extra helper."

Luan Weiliang thought to himself.

Longliang Group was one of the current eight major international grain merchants, larger in scale than Tianqi Grain and Oil Company, which was also one of the eight major international grain merchants, and ranked second among the eight major international grain merchants.

If he could join forces with Longliang Group, the operation would inevitably be much easier, and he could also try to avoid causing too much impact on the Long Country grain market.

The struggle in the food industry alone was a terrifying war—a war without smoke, yet involving a wide range of people, concerning everyone in the world, and involving extremely massive amounts of capital in the economic and livelihood fields.

The energy industry and the mineral industry.

They were likewise industries with huge influence.

For example, the energy industry, including oil, natural gas, photovoltaics, electricity, and so on, is closely related to every country, every company, every household, and even every single person.

For example, the mineral industry, including metallic minerals like iron, manganese, chromium, etc., as well as non-metallic minerals like diamond, graphite, phosphorus, natural sulfur, pyrite, etc., and water-gas minerals like groundwater, mineral water, hydrogen sulfide gas, helium gas, etc., all have wide-reaching implications.

If a war were rashly launched against the Yongji Society in these related fields, it would cause global turmoil.

That is why Su Xin deliberately identified the mastermind behind the scenes as Sakura Country at the press conference.

This way, he could not only find an excuse to harvest Sakura Country once more but also secretly advance his plans, quietly laying out his strategy against the Yongji Society before striking.

In fact, Tianqi Group had already made investments and layouts in these fields all over the world previously.

It was just that because the market scale of these major industries was too large and Tianqi Group's funds were spread thin, it was impossible to occupy them completely, so there had been no conflict with those top international enterprises, at most just some basic commercial competition.

But now, since Su Xin has decided to take action against the Yongji Society, and is using all of the group's liquid capital to attack at any cost.

Then, the Yongji Society has only one path: death!

After roughly thinking through the action plan, Luan Weiliang gathered the management of the Financial Management Department to discuss the plan together and arrange specific action plans and divisions of labor.

Everything was proceeding quietly.

A war without visible smoke, yet with a greater impact than last year's economic crisis, was about to happen in a corner that no one could see.

……

Su Xin did not take the war with the Yongji Society too much to heart; after all, the group was full of talent and its funds were almost inexhaustible, so there was no need to fear any force in commercial competition.

Coupled with core products like the Destiny Potion as his trump cards, no one dared to mess with Tianqi Group using off-the-field tactics.

Relying solely on normal commercial competition, the current Tianqi Group is invincible worldwide.

This day.

Su Xin called Hao Zude again.

"Director Hao, are there any newly captured Green-Scaled Modifiers recently?"

"None, there haven't been any modifier attacks for several days in a row."

Hao Zude said with a smile: "The Dragon Net Emergency Defense System has made a great contribution, and a large number of combat drones produced during this period have been deployed in the coastal areas."

"Plus the popularization of information on modifiers, people are basically no longer afraid."

"The danger of modifiers has dropped to almost zero."

"Perhaps because of this, those people haven't continued to send out modifiers."

Su Xin said regretfully: "What a pity, I still wanted to get more to study."

Hao Zude laughed: "Others use modifiers to attack you, and not only are you not worried, but you are actually so welcoming; if those people in the Yongji Society knew, they might be angered to death."

Su Xin also laughed: "Modifiers can cause trouble for Sakura Country and provide me with important materials, so of course I welcome them."

"I even hope they bring out higher-level modifiers; maybe that could give me more inspiration."

"By the way, haven't you been comparing them in the genome database? Have you still not found the biological source of those gene fragments?"

"No."

Hao Zude shook his head: "What can be determined at present is that those gene fragments do not originate from any known common organisms."

The official genome database is more detailed and comprehensive; since even Hao Zude said there was no successful match, it means the possibility that this organism is a new species is even greater.

Su Xin thought for a moment and muttered: "It seems I still have to continue collecting some rare organisms for testing; this is a bit troublesome."

"The best way is still to take down the Yongji Society directly; if that happens, perhaps I will be able to know the source of this organism, and the progress of the new experiment might be able to speed up a bit."