When Li Yuan came to Li Yuan's North American headquarters, it had grown into a... small company with about ten people.

Sean trotted to the door to greet him: "Boss, the new employees are looking forward to meeting you. The company's business is also normal."

"Is there anything you need me to solve?" Li Yuan asked casually.

Sean showed a wry smile: "Boss, even Elna has gone to Parallel Line. We are just a traditional agricultural product business here..."

In fact, except for chicken feet, the United States is a major exporter of agricultural products and seafood, and there is still a lot of domestic demand for imports.

But the profits of agricultural products and seafood are just that. There are also many Chinese products in North America, such as isinglass, hairtail fish, abalone, lobster, etc., so it becomes impossible to pick up the missing products. Unless there are massive by-products like chicken feet, there will always be

Certain markets can be found.

So it is a very traditional small profit. Compared with the rapid progress of Parallel Line, Sean is somewhat psychologically unbalanced.

Li Yuan smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, you also have parallel equity incentives. According to the standards of department managers, you will be the same as Elna in the future."

Sean's face lit up with joy: "That's great. Thank you, boss!"

Li Yuan continued: "I acquired a bank in Hong Kong. Originally they only had a New York branch, and now they are preparing to add a Los Angeles branch. Moreover, the demand for Chinese agricultural products will be increasing, and you will become busier in the future."

Although Liyuan has slowly spread its presence around the world, the gap still needs to be in the United States. There is nothing that can be done in the short term. The sales network and logistics system here are the most mature. As long as you are willing to spend money, you can buy almost everything.

"I understand, boss." Sean personally made a cup of coffee for Li Yuan, "Mr. Reed has already made an appointment. He wants to visit you on a special trip."

This Mr. Reed is the representative of the Southwest Agricultural Association.

"What time is the appointment?"

"At two o'clock in the afternoon, he asked you to have afternoon tea with you. There is an invitation letter from you in the evening. At the party there, Warner representatives and Martin Scorsese will meet you."

"Sean, did other crews later invite us to invest? You should know that we have a bank behind us!"

In fact, as long as the "Departed" project is successful, funds from Russia, Africa, India, and even Hong Kong will continue to flow in. Hong Kong immigrants have gone to everyone. If there is a chance, who wouldn't want to go to the United States? Anyway,

If you can't keep the hearts of those people, you might as well make a fortune yourself.

Is it possible that "The Departed" will not be successful? Although DiCaprio is not so popular now and needs to be replaced by other actors. But in the original history, Martin Scorsese won the Oscar for Best Director with this film

.

That's the Oscar! Not to mention the box office results, the reputation alone can shock a lot of people!

Who dares to say that this is not a good project?

However, Sean smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Boss, there are a lot of people coming to submit. But there are no good projects at all, and the conditions are very harsh. They don't even agree to a share of the box office, they are only willing to give a profit share. Oh, China

The district is still willing to give us the full copyright."

Li Yuan nodded. Hollywood probably hasn't accepted him yet. They are still bullying outsiders.

"Don't let go of those who come to us. We are not afraid of small projects. In the future, we will build our own script library and send it to me as well." Li Yuan ordered.

“What about the small investment in box office share?”

"You don't need to be proactive. If there is something suitable, we will discuss it." Li Yuan said with a smile, "From now on, we will mainly focus on our own platters. We should also have our own characteristics in terms of genre, focusing on plot and action, and focusing on magic and special effects.

.After all, we have parallel lines, and our main focus is the combination of movies and high technology."

In fact, in the past few years, Hollywood has been one of Li Yuan's cash machines. When we enter the new century, the focus of the Metaverse will definitely shift to China.

This is also a problem where you cannot have your cake and eat it too. As the most important public opinion tool, it can only occupy one position in China and the United States. It is absolutely impossible to be the leader of both countries!

Of course, there is no need to say more to Sean about these words.

"Sean, you can go to the party tonight."

"Huh?" Sean was surprised and happy. That was the upper class of Hollywood.

Li Yuan smiled and said: "From now on, you will be the representative of our metaverse, and I will fight for a producer position on the crew for you. Also, you can find an assistant. Where are "Pulp Fiction" and "Forrest Gump"

It also requires more care.”

"No problem. Thank you, boss!" Sean was elated. He is also the producer of a crew. Although he is not the chief producer, he is just an errand boy in the production crew, but at least he will pay the salary.

No matter how low the salary in Hollywood is, US$50,000 should be enough... right? The current average income in the United States is just over US$10,000!

Li Yuan continued: "Sean, actually I know that it is very difficult to succeed in the United States, and the internal competition is quite fierce. Instead, there are many such opportunities by taking advantage of the information differences in various regions. You can do this from the chicken feet business

You can see. I have channels from China and the United States here, and the business opportunities from China are almost unlimited. If you follow me, if you find any good opportunities, you can..."

Hearing this, Sean was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly: "Boss, boss, I still want to grow up with Li Yuan. Oh! And the Yuan Universe."

Li Yuan laughed: "Let's talk about it then! You can stay if you want, it depends on your own choice. But I don't want to test you or anything, I just want to tell you that we are all companions. If you decide to start your own business in the future

, I will do my best to help you."

Li Yuan conveniently took another dose of chicken blood injection to boost the morale of Sean, a young man.

On the one hand, Sean and Elna are both good people. Not only did they sign up for community college, but they also signed up for a Chinese training class, which was in simplified Mandarin.

You know, the current overseas Chinese training courses are still based on traditional Chinese, Cantonese and Hokkien. On the contrary, simplified Mandarin is particularly expensive.

On the other hand, Li Yuan himself doesn't like burning bridges very much. He has a very high tolerance for thorny people like Martin. Otherwise, just because of Martin's bad mouth? He would have been fired a long time ago. Isn't it possible that Silicon Valley can't poach people?

?

"Thank you! Thank you boss!"

"hehe."

"..."

…

When Reed, dressed as an old cowboy, arrived, the two of them sat on a lounge chair on the rooftop, drinking beer and chatting about the world.

There is a saying that the local agricultural cooperatives do not attach much importance to Liyuan. Everyone should understand the role of European and American agricultural cooperatives, which is nothing more than a non-governmental organization for farmers to unite for warmth.

The energy of the Agricultural Cooperative is still very large, and it can at least guarantee a certain number of votes.

However, farmers in the United States are more miserable. Unlike farmers in other countries, these farmers are troubled - there is too much land, and no one wants many agricultural products!

Agriculture in the United States is basically fully controlled by big grain merchants. Big grain merchants themselves do not farm, and many do not even have their own farms. But they control the upstream and downstream through grain processing plants and meat processing plants in regional centers.

Purchase from farms at low prices and then sell at high prices in supermarkets.

And through social organizations such as agricultural cooperatives, fixed output for each farm is stipulated.

It's a simple truth. If there is no fixed output, how can big grain merchants raise prices? And if there are too many farm products on the market, wouldn't milk be poured into the river? Will wheat be used to burn boilers?

Therefore, the most troublesome problem for American farmers is that they have too much open space at home, but the annual quota is only a small amount. Of course, if you are not afraid of losing money, you can grow more land. As long as you have the ability to sell it.

That's why the United States has so much land under rotational cultivation. They don't advocate intensive farming, but rather extensive mechanized agriculture.

That is our own national conditions!

I won’t go into details about the agricultural problems in the United States here. But it is easy to understand that they are looking forward to a new sales market. No matter how small the chicken feet are, they are still meat!

"Li, what bulk farm products do you need in China? We can provide them here." Reed asked tentatively.

"There will be. Haha."

At present, the amount of domestically imported agricultural products is not large, mainly due to foreign exchange issues. However, it will grow at an alarming rate every year in the future, especially soybeans, corn and other oil-extracting and feed crops.

"Reed, how is the situation on your farm now?" Li Yuan asked casually.

"It's very bad." The old cowboy said bluntly, "There are many bankruptcies. The farm's income has also been greatly reduced."

Li Yuan recalled the short videos from his previous life, mainly about the American economy.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the U.S. economy was already in quite bad shape, mainly affected by the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union.

In fact, in the fierce confrontation of the Cold War, life was difficult for the former Soviet Union, and life was also difficult for the United States. It was just a question of who could survive to the end. Obviously, the United States won in the end.

There are indeed political, economic, institutional, public sentiment, etc. reasons for this. But it is not like what those European and American politicians, economists, or some domestic public figures later boasted - that is, the victory of democracy and human rights.

This still depends on the cohesion and willpower of the country and nation.

Just like in World War I, Germany was defeated, and the trigger was the sailors' uprising in the port of Kiel. These are standard answers in history books, and everyone should know them.

But few people know that at about the same time, the French army on the Western Front also rebelled, and the soldiers were unwilling to continue fighting this deadly war.

Of course, there was also the October Revolution in the former Soviet Union, which also stemmed from the people's despair over the war.

It's just that France suppressed the rebellion, but Germany failed to withstand it, and eventually Germany was defeated.

Closer to home, in the early 1980s, the United States was also in a mess. So President Ronald Reagan continued his campaign, which was the famous Reaganomics, which included the Plaza Accord and so on.

Then came George H.W. Bush, who actually continued Reaganomics and made it more perfect, creating the "Washington Consensus" and so on.

Maybe some people are not very familiar with the "Washington Consensus". But when it comes to shock therapy, you should know this, right?

That’s right! This is Reaganomics, and the main theoretical core is the Chicago School of the University of Chicago.

However, here, the complicated economic content will not be verbose, and those who are interested can understand it by themselves.

Let me briefly introduce Reaganomics - completely liberalizing the free economic market and minimizing government regulation. As long as economic growth can be achieved, there is no need to worry about anything else!

Not surprisingly, the barbaric growth of capital like this will definitely cause a large amount of funds to flow into high value-added industries such as real estate and finance, and the real industry will be hollowed out.

This is just like Hong Kong, where the real economy is completely dead, and eventually everyone is speculating on stocks and real estate.

That is the result of neoliberal economics, which is Reaganomics. And Hong Kong’s economic data is quite good.
To be continued...