284. Chain reaction
"You are the successor of capitalism, I am a flower cultivated by the great soil of socialism, and my nature is different. ”
In a restaurant near Truth University, Emperor Wu and Kaibi were chatting.
"Now you look more like a businessman. Kebi said.
"It looks like Schett, I'm going to be a businessman now, but I'm going to be a literary merchant, a little fresh, cute. Emperor Wu said.
Kebi stuck out her tongue.
Edmund's test report came out, and the poor cattle and sheep died from water pollution, which means that the Huaxi River was polluted with heavy metals.
The environmental monitoring agency came up with the same test report, and the bigwigs in the government building in Sini didn't take it seriously until a week after the incident.
Unfortunately, it was too late, and things had already reached the point of no return.
On the night of the second day after Emperor Wu and Landley signed the transfer contract, livestock died one after another in large and small farms and pastures in the upper reaches of the Huaxi River.
At 8:45 a.m. on the third day, a black and white cow from a farm in the middle reaches fell to the ground, indicating that the disease, which had spread due to water resources, had spread here.
At 12:03 p.m., there was an outbreak at the Lilac Ranch downstream, the second largest ranch on the outskirts of Siney after House Manor.
The manager of the lilac is an experienced professional manager, and he immediately ordered all cattle and sheep to be tested for blood testing, and if there was a problem, it was immediately culled on the spot.
It's effective, but it's also cruel.
"Kaibi, can you imagine the expressions of the Bodhisattvas of the animal protection organization after hearing the news?" Emperor Wu took a sip of Coke.
"It's definitely funny, probably blowing your beard and glaring. Kebi thought for a moment and said.
As if the cattle and sheep were killed, more than half of the animal protection organizations in Sini gathered at the lilac ranch and held banners in protest. ”
The water pollution caused a cascade of reactions that almost ruined the entire Sini grassland economy.
The Huaxi River is the mother river of the herders, and many people eat the beef in their stomachs because of its feeding, and now, the great mother has a health problem.
The establishment of an investigative team at the City Hall of the Signey to take over the government of Pelican Town is a major event that could end Mayor Brian's political career and may become a stain on his life.
The cause of the pollution of the Huaxi River is still under investigation, and the Australian government attaches great importance to the environment, and such a serious problem is devastating to both people and the environment.
Kaibi was very worried about the safety of several ranches under Emperor Wu's command.
Emperor Wu smiled slightly, he was very grateful to himself three months ago, fortunately the water tower was built at that time!
Originally, his ranch was also used by the Huaxi River, but after the construction of the water tower, he has been using the groundwater from the deep water layer.
After the epidemic was discovered in the lilac ranch, Emperor Wu immediately notified Uncle Frank and Ms. Sandra, and immediately shut down all water intake facilities and used the water stored in the large water tower for irrigation, which could last for half a month.
Emperor Wu was worried that the groundwater and the Huaxi River were connected somewhere, and if he continued to use the groundwater, he was afraid that the thousand cows would be polluted.
In fact, the test results showed that there was nothing wrong with the groundwater at Wu Di Ranch, which had its own hidden channel flowing into the ocean.
Despite this, in order to ensure safety, Emperor Wu shut down all underground water pipes.
Pelican Township neighborhoods have also been affected, drinking water from the filtered Huaxi River, and the waterworks have been forced to shut down and shut down all water pipes associated with the Huaxi River.
Mineral water in the town's supermarket became a hot supply, and some people rushed into the supermarket with several large buckets of water to pay.
There is a sense of domestic salt grabbing when SARS was epidemic a few years ago.
The situation is not so bad that it robs anyone, the residential areas are fine, but the herders scattered in the grasslands are suffering, and their drinking water has become a problem.
The hardest hit was the lilac ranch, where hundreds of cattle died due to the sheer number of livestock on their farm, despite swift culling measures.
"BOSS, Lilac has lost at least three million. Tex's voice came over the phone.
"It's a pity that when they sold us cattle, they felt that the owner of the lilac was not bad, and this time they paid for Huaxihe. Emperor Wu said regretfully.
Then he remembered an old friend and asked into the phone, "How is the house manor?" ”
Due to the large area of the house manor, the cost of building a water tower to store water is too high, so Stanley introduced a costly German drinking water filtration system, which fully filtered and sterilized the water of the Huaxi River and drank it directly.
Turks paused for a few seconds, as if to dig through some more information, "They only lost a dozen sheep and thirty-five cows. ”
What? This can't be! Could it be that a filter made in Germany can remove all the heavy metals?
Stanley always surprises the happy people of Pelican Town, and is said to be the savior of the plague by holding a drinking party at House Manor three nights later.
In the invitation, Stanley said he would not sit idly by and set up organizations like disaster relief committees to help other ranches survive the crisis, Stanley said.
Emperor Wu didn't understand that this disaster relief committee was a god, could it be that he wanted to personally pay money to farmers and ranchers.
In the afternoon, Emperor Wu and Kaibi returned to the pasture, Uncle Frank and Tex were there, they had just returned from the distant pasture, and their own 1,000 head of cattle were fine.
"BOSS, after this crisis, most beef traders canceled orders with the affected farms. Turks said.
Emperor Wu nodded, which was expected.
In the case of Grizzly Bear Farm, Landley would have sold beef to a small and medium-sized supermarket in Sini to a three-star standard, earning about $8,000 for an adult cow.
Shares in Australian-listed Bindari Group, which has two beef cattle bases in the Inverell region of northern NSW, fell 14.7 per cent in response to the pollution incident.
Conversely, the price of five-star beef in downtown Sini has been on the rise, with the price of Victor Churchill's best beef at established beef shop Victor Churchill rising by 20 per cent to $625 a kilogram.
Victor Churchill's actions have caused controversy, and some people have seen them taking advantage of the chaos to raise prices as a shameful act and a traitor, and there has been constant online scolding.
But before the half day arrived, this sound disappeared, because people found that not only the price of high-end beef has risen again, but even the price of ordinary beef on the table of ordinary people has also risen all the way.
The simple reason is that Pelican provides beef to more than half of the Sini people, and now a large number of farms and ranches are on the verge of bankruptcy, and the supply of beef has been greatly reduced, but the demand of the people has not changed, so the price is rising.
The high-end meat represented by Victor's butcher shop is okay, because the rich don't care whether the meat in their mouths is 600 or 500 Australian dollars.
It caused a sharp earthquake in the low-end market, and beef merchants did not have too many goods in their hands, and they wanted to import from other markets, but Siney had a local economic protection policy, and it would take a lot of trouble for Melbourne's beef to flow in.