Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1767 Queen of Hell (38)

  An opera called "The Pearl Picker" is currently being staged at the Chatelet Opera in Paris. This story takes place in Ceylon in the wild times. The pearl pickers on the seaside hold a feast and choose Zulja as the chief of the tribe. During the party Zulja met his friend Nadir for many years. They once fell in love with a beautiful girl, so they turned against each other. Now that they meet again after a long time, they decided to continue their brotherhood.

When the two were chatting side by side in the depths of the temple, the decorator, flowers and gold, and the beautiful woman wearing a veil appeared. Her name was Laila, the woman they loved so much in the past. At this time, she had already vowed. She became a saint who never married, but Nadir fell in love with her again, and Zulga, who became the chief, sentenced them to death.

Laila had to entrust the precious pearl necklace to Zulja and let him give it to her mother. Zulja recognized by the necklace that she was the little girl who had saved him. In the end, there was a fire that spread throughout the village. Saved the couple.

  When Europeans still have a demand for fur and consider it as a status symbol, the fur trade is more profitable than the food trade.

  However, when the weather became bad and grain production was reduced and marketized, as grain prices soared, grain became a more profitable commodity than fur.

  French people who have experienced the Great Revolution certainly understand the importance of food security. Of the four abcd companies that monopolize the world’s grain and oil trade, three are American and one belongs to Louis Dreyfus in France. Since these four groups occupying the main share of world food trade act low-key, there is not much news about them, but their role in the world's food environment cannot be underestimated.

The development of agriculture in the United States is obvious to all in the world. Many exchange scholars will be sent to the United States to learn from their experience and promote the application of agricultural technology from developed countries to developing countries such as India, Mexico, and Argentina. First, it can satisfy the population of developing countries. The second is to avoid large-scale famine in peacetime.

It sounds great. In fact, the goal of this "green revolution" is not limited to this. Developed countries must also instill the concepts of infrastructure and commercial agriculture into the minds of scholars, such as fertilizers and natural gas-driven water pumps, etc. It doesn’t matter whether the concept is useful or not. Pay first, then these scholars naturally become a **** in the US food control plan.

  If we say that controlling oil controls all countries, controlling food controls all mankind. According to mankind’s thousands of years of experience in planting food, after harvest, a part of the food is used as seeds to prepare for planting in the coming year. However, although the seeds imported from the United States are high-yielding, the seeds have no breeding ability and are very effective. Soil fertility has a great destructive effect.

  The output of wheat and corn grown in Mexico increased by two to three times in the first year, and the output will be greatly reduced every year. Farmers can only buy new seeds from these companies every year to increase production. This disruptive innovation not only did not make Mexico’s agricultural ecology better, but made the environment worse. Mexico’s food also became increasingly dependent on U.S. imports, so that the U.S. could control Mexico’s agricultural policies. These multinational agricultural companies could Determine what seeds to sell to developing countries.

Argentina can be self-sufficient in milk production. Since a herbicide called Danon was used to grow American soybeans, the local ecology was almost completely destroyed. Except for American soybeans, all plants were killed by the herbicide. This herbicide is not only liquid, but also in a gaseous state. It can also spread with the wind. Cows will have no milk production capacity without pasture. Argentina needs to import milk from Uruguay.

Danone is the world’s largest producer of fresh dairy products. It not only controls France, but also Italian and Spanish dairy products. Although drinking without milk is not like eating without food, people will starve to death, but the French don’t want to go to Argentina. In the footsteps.

  Not everyone is brainwashed by the Americans like those visiting scholars to completely lose their judgment, but the Americans still have something to do. After the end of World War II, due to the implementation of the Marshall Plan, many Europeans began to admire the United States, which they had despised. The American Embassy in Paris would choose political stars that they thought had potential every year, or the Paris National School of Administration, the cradle of French leaders. School graduates, known as "young leaders", go to Washington to visit and receive "training". In essence, they are similar to the agriculturists who received the "Green Revolution", except that their training cycle is longer than that of agriculturists. The current French internal affairs The minister was one of the "young leaders" of the year.

The Americans would choose to acquire Danone at this time for no reason, and now that the "Pearl Plucking Plan" has not been implemented may be because the time is not ripe. After all, the influence of a Minister of the Interior is not enough to pressure the French government to agree to GE's acquisition of Al Stone Company.

  Luxury is often linked to corruption. Compared with businessmen, the people cannot accept official corruption, and Paris is full of luxury goods.

  Luxury products can be used as clues and evidence to report officials. Most people are corrupt in order to live a luxurious and enjoyable life.

  If luxury goods don’t bring it out to show off in front of people, then why buy it?

  In the past, when Emperor Xianfeng was reigning, the eggs he ate were 50 taels of silver. The emperor who grew up in the deep palace didn't know what the prices were outside, and how embezzled the House of Internal Affairs.

The same goes for the actresses in the opera house. They don’t know what the normal prices are. When someone sells her things a thousand times, they can easily find someone to pay.

This will definitely arouse the jealousy of some people, especially the soldiers. Hannibal is not only himself who has climbed the Alps. An actor who has not climbed the Alps pretends to be him and sings two songs to get applause. Those who really climb Why didn't the people who have been cheered?

  If the army becomes corrupt, it will be a bottomless pit. A mobile toilet of the US military in the Middle East costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, which is equivalent to the price of a house in China.

The Anti-Bribery Act applies to all companies that use U.S. dollars to denominate, sign contracts, and have servers located in the United States. It was passed by the U.S. Congress in 2000. It is an "artifact" for Americans to launch economic warfare. A law that may weaken one's own business is turned into a tool for interfering in other countries' businesses and even internal affairs. The big law firm in Paris is also US-funded. The law firm that Lawrence works for is based in Brussels, Belgium, but its founder, Channing, is an American jurist and Professor Harvard. The accused senior officials and executives want to find someone they can trust. Lawyers are hard. At first, the American business community didn't like the "Foreign Bribery Act", but they soon discovered that the benefits of this law far outweigh the losses.

  The US government monitors these high-ranking officials and executives for this reason. If the handle is in their hands, they must follow their instructions. France passed the Anti-Corruption Convention in 2000, but these European countries have not enacted extraterritorial laws, and sooner or later they will all fall into the trap.

  The solution is that Europe can also promulgate anti-foreign bribery laws in foreign countries, just like the Americans. The United Kingdom actually has them, but the strength of the United Kingdom is not enough. This law is basically a dormant law.

In the 30 years of implementing the FCPA, the U.S. Department of Justice has almost never singled out faults in oil or defense giants’ transactions. However, in the 1990s, an "exception" occurred when Sher of the U.S. In order to win this project, the Americans found a London lawyer and paid 1.88 to Nigerian officials through him. The company formed an alliance with Japan’s Nismaru Co., Ltd. and France’s Decini Company to win this project. The bribery of billions of dollars was sent to the table of a French pre-trial judge after the case was made public. The judge received the London intermediary in May 2004.

The US Department of Justice initiated an investigation, and the two countries finally reached an agreement. The French judge gave up the legal responsibility of the US company and turned to the US Department of Justice to investigate the case. After the "home" trial, Americans can do whatever they want and organize bribery in the United States. In the end, the CEO was sentenced for only 30 months. The American company was fined 559 million U.S. dollars, and Desini was sentenced to 338 million. The money had to be handed over to the U.S. government instead of the French government.

  The main rival of the alliance at the time has now repaired oil fields in Niger, not only repairing oil fields but also repairing power stations, and providing food aid during the famine raging in Niger.

  In the Middle East, oil was exchanged for food, and money was only a circulation tool. In the past, human barter was exchanged, but now it is possible to "retro".

  It's like a girl who has to face many suitors. The key to the problem is not what currency is used for settlement, but who she allows to take advantage of.

  Men believe that they do not hand their fate to others, but women always like to cry, pretending to be victims to win the sympathy of public opinion, and let others act according to their own orders.

  The girls who accuse others in the small town of Salem are very good at first, but when people's sympathy is not on them, they become the object of condemnation, and the torture they have suffered is considered to be fake.

  The great fortune of a man is that he must embark on a very difficult road, whether he is an adult or a child, but this is the most reliable path; the misfortune of a woman is that he is surrounded by almost irresistible temptations. She was not asked to work hard, only encouraged to slide down to bliss. When she realized that she had been fooled by a mirage, it was too late, and her strength had been exhausted in the failed adventure.

  Having a daughter is inexhaustible, but it is cheaper to have a son. Just like the pair of pearl divers, if Laila doesn't show up, they might have become friends again, and the village won't have to go through the fire.

  (End of this chapter)