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Immediately after the meeting, the news spread, causing a sensation all over the world.

If all African countries join the "Weiyuan" system, wouldn't they become another "European Union"?

Europe and America do not want a strong alliance to be born! As a result, they have extended olive branches to African countries, and are ready to provide them with financial loans.

Some African countries are overjoyed, thinking that American dads finally know how to help themselves!

However, at this moment, Wall Street collapsed because of what Henry said!

Henry said at the meeting that the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has not reached its worst time, and it will last until at least 2009. As soon as this remark came out, it immediately caused panic on Wall Street, and the stock market plummeted that day.

The leaders of some African countries were stunned. Isn't it just Henry Williams' assumption that he can control the situation on Wall Street? !

That's right, Henry has this ability!

Although Henry didn't hang out on Wall Street, the legend of Henry has always been circulating on Wall Street. In the eyes of Wall Street, Buffett is far less powerful than Henry.

On the second day, Citigroup announced its financial situation for the first quarter. After writing down more than US$18 billion in losses, it still had a net loss of US$11.24 billion in the first quarter, or a loss of US$2.24 per share, causing global panic. Immediately afterwards, Merrill Lynch announced its financial situation in the first quarter, with a loss of US$3.42 billion!

The U.S. financial market got worse and began to plummet wildly.

Seeing that the subprime mortgage crisis is getting worse, how can the United States give money to African countries? What it promised before has now become a blank check. As for the European financial market, of course, it is not much better.

Henry turned off the TV and said with a chuckle: "Hehe, the idea of ​​Egypt, Libya and other countries to get funds from the United States and Europe has come to naught!!!"

Four days later, Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in the United States, fell into a serious financial crisis and announced to apply for bankruptcy protection. A more serious financial crisis came.

On the same day, Williams Bank of America acquired the soon-to-be-bankrupt Merrill Lynch.

On April 9th, Washington Mutual, the largest savings and loan bank in the United States, headquartered in Seattle, was seized and taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation of the United States on Thursday local time, becoming the largest bank failure in the history of the United States!

At this time, the Bush administration formally submitted a bill to the US Congress to rescue the financial system, and the Treasury Department would be authorized to purchase up to US$1 trillion of non-performing housing mortgage assets. However, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a trillion-dollar rescue plan, which led to a sharp drop in U.S. stocks. The Dow plummeted 777 points, the largest point drop in history. The one-day drop was as high as 7%, and it was also the largest since the global stock market crash in 1987. decline. Market confidence is weak, the Dow continues to sink, and the 10,000-point mark is in jeopardy.

At this moment, African leaders once again came to the Williams Capitol.

Henry looked at everyone energetically, showed a warm smile, and said: "Welcome everyone, after a week of consideration, I think you must have figured it out! Not much nonsense, countries willing to join the 'Wei Yuan' system can Come on stage and sign the agreement immediately!"

As soon as the words fell, a large group of people stood up. Henry saw that only the leaders of South Africa, Egypt, and Morocco were still sitting. At this moment, the three of them looked at the others with serious eyes.

The corners of Henry's mouth raised, revealing a vague smile. "Hehe, these three nail households are really persistent. From now on, the surrounding countries will use Weiyuan. Let's see how long you three countries can persist?"

In less than an hour, the leaders of African countries signed an agreement with Henry, formally joining the "Weiyuan" system.

During the period, the leaders of South Africa, Egypt, and Morocco couldn't sit still and left the meeting one after another.

As soon as they left, it happened that Henry was discussing things with others.

First of all, according to the conditions of African countries, how much money should Henry lend to them.

Subsequently, Williams Royal Investment Company will do its best to help them develop, especially the North African countries, which are located in the Sahara Desert, are very short of water, and the desertification is getting worse and worse, and the environment is extremely harsh!

Henry said: "There are many deserts in Africa and the environment is harsh. The Williams Empire is willing to buy these deserts and spend huge sums of money to transform the desert environment! Which of your countries is willing to sell the deserts to the Williams Empire?"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but hesitate.

The harsh environment of the desert cannot survive at all, and the desertification is serious, and the land is being encroached every day. Solving the desert problem is imminent! Of course, African countries do not have the ability and funds to transform the environment, so they can only let the desert area grow larger and the living area of ​​people shrink!

If someone wants to buy deserts and is willing to spend money to improve the environment, this is naturally good for many African countries. However, the desert is not completely useless. There may be rich oil in the desert, and many large oil fields are found in the desert. If the desert is sold, if oil is discovered later, it will be a big loss! Although there are Tesla cars now, it is impossible to popularize them in a short time. Therefore, cars that use petroleum as fuel still occupy a major market. In addition, petroleum has many other functions. It is also a raw material for many chemical industry products, such as solutions, fertilizers, pesticides and plastics.

Henry looked at everyone's hesitant expressions, and after thinking for a while, he guessed what they were thinking.

"I know why everyone is hesitant. Okay, I can sign an agreement with you. If oil is found in the desert, the Williams Empire will only take 40% and you will take 60%. How about it!!!" Henry smiled, Said, "The environment in the desert is harsh, and it is not easy to survey. After the desert environment is successfully transformed, the exploration will be much more convenient. Maybe a lot of oil will be discovered then!"

As soon as Henry finished speaking, the presidents of some countries were a little moved.

Henry went on to say at this time: "If you want to make a large-scale transformation of the desert environment, especially the Sahara Desert, it will inevitably cost a lot of money! The more popular artificial rainfall mode is actually just artificial rainfall, and the amount of rainfall depends on the amount of water in the clouds." Air content. As the saying goes, a clever woman can’t cook without rice. If there is not much water vapor in the cloud layer, can something be created out of nothing? Just like the Sahara Desert, the cloud air content in the sky above it is very scarce, and there is not much rain when it all falls. In addition, The temperature here is too high, and the water vapor is easily evaporated.

At present, the more effective way is to build pipelines to divert seawater into the desert! Traditional agricultural irrigation relies on fresh water resources, but fresh water resources in Africa are scarce, so we can only use sea water.

Seawater is inexhaustible, we can irrigate seawater in the desert, and then cultivate plants that are resistant to heavy salt and seawater! In this way, it not only solves the desert problem, but also creates economic value and solves the food problem in Africa. It is now known that there are about 1,500 species of halophytes in the world, some of which can be used as food, forage, and cooking oil, and some can be used as raw materials for fibers, chemicals, and medicines. In addition, with the rapid development of cell and genetic engineering technology, plant salt-tolerant genetic engineering breeding is becoming practical, and the molecular breeding of economic crops and field crops with salt-tolerant varieties is not far away. Using genetic engineering to transform halophytes, making them become Bioreactors will also be possible.

Gene Umbrella's research on cell and genetic engineering technology, you must know something about it, so I won't go into details. In short, if you agree to sell the desert to the Williams Empire, the desert will become the most fertile land, and countries will no longer need to import food at high prices from abroad! At the same time, after transforming the desert environment or turning the desert into fertile land, a large number of workers are needed, which undoubtedly solves the employment problem of various countries...

In addition, while building the seawater pipeline, the Williams empire will also invest huge sums of money to build railways along the way. These will definitely bring a huge boost to the economic development of various countries! "

Hearing what Henry said, everyone couldn't help but nodded, with excitement written all over their faces!

(to be continued ~^~)