July 25, 1991

The only port in Yakutia, Jia Lei and Wu Shaman received the freighter together, and looking at the golden wheat pouring down from the freighter, all the people of the Wuyou tribe were excited and shed tears.

"Shaman bless, we don't have to go hungry this year. Ushaman prayed to the heavens.

"Are you so excited?" asked Jia Lei.

"Of course, you don't know that this year's farmland in Russia has been hit by drought due to the climate, and the harvest of our tribe is less than 1/5 of that of previous years. Coupled with the depreciation of the ruble, we simply cannot afford it, and we will not be able to distribute enough food. Ushaman said.

"Then you can rest assured now, I brought you food as agreed. So did you bring my mammoth as agreed?" asked Jia Lei.

"Brought, brought! Just pull it in the car behind, you don't know how much effort it took us to get this big guy out of the mountains intact. Sasa said.

"Oh, I don't think you know how long it took me to get that much grain from country M. Jia Lei said.

"Let's do the math, it took me nearly two months from buying futures contracts to loading and transporting them! You must know that my time is very precious, I can earn at least 10,000 US dollars a day, how much money should you give me for such a long time?" Jia Lei said forcefully.

"How can you talk to your cousin like this, your cousin brought us so much food, but we didn't spend a penny. Ushaman hurriedly came up and said in the round.

"Jia Lei, don't be as knowledgeable as Sasa, he has always lived in a small city, and he is just a local leopard with little knowledge. Why don't you come with me to see the mammoth?" said Ushaman, pulling Jia Lei near a large truck.

Jia Lei watched her give an order, the canvas on the truck was lifted, and a bright big ice lump appeared in front of Jia Lei's eyes.

"With such a big piece of ice, don't you think it's heavy?" asked Jia Lei.

"There's no way to be heavy, without these ice cubes to keep them fresh, the elephants inside will be **. Ushaman said.

"Thanks to the low temperature here, otherwise the ice would have melted down under normal circumstances. Jia Lei said.

"We had a lot of ice, but we deliberately chose to do it at night when we came down the mountain, and when we got to the city, we put the elephants in cold storage to replenish the ice on them. Along the way, we had to pour a lot of ice on each city to freeze it, and then we made it to the docks! Usasa came over and said.

"That's a real nuisance for you! How many times do you have to load and unload back and forth? Jia Lei said.

"Don't bother, this is what we should do!" said Usaman quickly.

"By the way, I brought back a lot of food this time, so why don't you take some back. Jia Lei said.

"Can we really take some more food back?" asked Ushaman in surprise.

"At that time, this elephant could be sold for a lot of money, and you could go back with twice as much food. Jia Lei said.

The wheat in country M is 500 US dollars a ton, and even if Usaman takes twice as much, it is only a grain worth hundreds of thousands of US dollars.

"Then I'm sorry to Grandma, you don't know that all our neighborhoods have been hit by disasters, and this year's food shortage is more than double that of previous years. Ushaman said.

"Are you saying that there is a shortage of food in the vicinity?" Jia Lei asked with a roll of his eyes.

"Yes! Not only is we in Yakutia short of food, but almost all countries of the Soviet Union are now short of food, and Western Siberia, North Kazakhstan, along the Volga River, the black soil belt in the central part of the Soviet Union, and even southern Ukraine, the "barn" of the Soviet Union, have been hit by a severe drought this year. The reduction of grain production in the entire Soviet Union was a foregone conclusion. Ushaman said.

"How do you know this?" asked Jia Lei in shock.

"Read the newspaper and listen to the radio! Even though we are a minority tribe in the mountains, I send people down the mountain once a week to pick up the various newspapers I ordered. Ushaman said.

"Auntie, you are mighty!" Jia Lei said as he looked at Wu Shaman, who was dressed in national costumes and dressed as a goddess.

Jia Lei really admired this aunt and grandmother, and in the feudal society, people knew that they actively studied feudal superstitions to improve their social status. In modern times, Ushaman actually reads newspapers and listens to news every day like an old cadre to understand politics and people's livelihood. And everything related to yourself, and always find useful information from the newspaper.

Therefore, Wu Shaman had a premonition of this year's food shortage in May, and asked Jia Lei to help him buy food in advance.

By the way, even the relatives of Jia Lei, a multimillionaire, were found by Wu Shaman from the newspaper!

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The current situation in the USSR was

Since the beginning of spring this year, the Guangqiu region, mainly in the Ural Mountains, has continued to be dry and hot!

In the western part of Europe, however, it was rainy and rainy, and grain production was reduced by lodging. Lack of food!

In June, the hot air finally crossed the Volga River, and the hot wind blew dry over the central black soil belt, causing a drought.

By July, there was also a scorching heat in southern Ukraine, the main grain producing area of the Soviet Union!

The Soviet newspaper Izvestia on May 30 told people that in Chelyabinsk, in the southern Urals, there had been almost no rain for about two months.

The hot dry wind sucked up almost all the water in the soil, and a lot of the land began to sand and could not be cultivated at all!

In some parts of the Novosibirsk region, there has not even been rain for 4 months!

Frequent hot and dry winds along the Volga River and in the central black soil belt have caused a widespread reduction in grain production.

In the Volgograd region of the USSR

As a result of the prolonged heat, all farmland in the state is in dire condition, and the spring-sown crops, which are the main food output, cannot grow at all

Even southern Ukraine, which was originally expected to have a bumper harvest, has been struggling to cope with the situation since July, and grain production has been reduced.

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"Auntie, do you mean that only part of Belarus in the Soviet Union and the member states will be able to get a good harvest this year?" Jia Lei swallowed and foamed at the mouth and asked.

In fact, since the independence of the member states last fall, the Soviet Union's grain production program for this year has been facing a famine crisis. More importantly, due to the independence and reduction of production in the main grain-producing regions of Eastern Europe and the depreciation of the ruble. The few places that can still produce grain are also refusing to hand over grain according to the purchase plan. Ushaman said

"But what should we do if the food gap is so big in a country as big as the Soviet Union?" asked Jia Lei.

"I don't know, most of the current Soviets have money and nothing to buy, and these additional rubles are now penniless. No one wants to take it! The ruble can't buy anything at all

Many companies have stopped trading rubles and started bartering. Ushaman said.

"According to what you say, isn't grain now a hard currency like gold in the Soviet Union?" asked Jia Lei in surprise.

Of course, grain is indeed the "hard currency" of the present

At present, the most popular in the Soviet Union are the farms and the peasants inside, who refuse to exchange grain for rubles and all kinds of bills, but directly exchange grain for other agricultural production materials and daily necessities. It's better than the engineers!" Sasa said.

"In that case, do you want to go with me?" asked Jia Lei with a golden light in his eyes.

"What's big?" asked Sasa.

"Did you see the big freighter parked in the port?" asked Jia Lei, pointing to the cargo ship in the port.

"See. Sasa said.

"I have a total of 5,000 tons of grain in this freighter, and I have 4,800 tons of grain left in addition to 200 tons for your tribe. Why don't we sell all this grain?" Jia Lei said excitedly.

"Oh my God, you have 4,800 tons of grain, enough food for our tribe for 30 years. Sasa said in shock.

"Hey, why did I give birth to such an idiot!" said Ushaman, who was beside him, with a sigh when he heard Sasa's answer.

Jia Lei asked if Sasa was willing to do business with him, but his stupid son patronized and marveled at the fact that there was more food on the ship.

"Selling grain is indeed a good business, and at this time in the USSR, there will definitely be no shortage of people buying it. This is a business that our tribe has done!" said the Ushaman, the young patriarch, over his son.

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Of course, Jia Lei will not set such a big business just by the words of Wu Shaman, Jia Lei took advantage of the rest of the hotel near the dock in the evening, called Pete, who had returned to China, and asked him to confirm whether the Soviet Union was really so short of food.

"Boss, I can answer you directly, no need to look for information. Pete said.

"Huh? What did you just say? I heard you right! How could you, a stock speculator and finance person, know about the food crisis in the Soviet Union without even checking it?" Jia Lei asked puzzled.

"You haven't forgotten that? There's also something called futures in the financial markets. Pete said.

"Oh! Hearing you say that, the price of grain futures must have risen. Jia Lei said.

"Isn't that obvious! Since you finished buying food, the price of food has risen by 20 percent, and the financiers on Wall Street are almost angry. Pete said.

"But what does the rise in grain prices have to do with financiers? At most, some futures speculators complain. Jia Lei said.

"Boss, you are wrong this time! How can the Wall Street financiers make a mistake about such an obvious matter as the price reduction of grain, most of these cunning financiers buy long contracts. As long as the price of food goes up, they can make money!" said Pete.

"Then why do you say that the financiers are about to be?" Jia Lei asked again.

"You don't know that because the Soviet Union is so short of food, the Soviet Union has now officially submitted a request to the European Community for emergency food aid of 6 billion European currency units, and the senior Soviet official Shevardnadze has issued a stern warning about a possible food crisis this winter!" Pete said.

"What kind of warning is it?" asked Jia Lei worriedly.

"According to the estimates of the Ministry of Agriculture of country M, the import of grain by the USSR this year may increase to an astonishing level of 5 00 00 tons

For this reason, the Soviet Union has begun to sell gold and other precious metals to the Western gold market! This has caused the market of these precious metals to fall, and many people who speculate in gold futures have rushed to jump off the building at a loss. Pete said.

"Doesn't that mean that now in the Soviet Union, grain is worth more than gold?" Jia Lei asked in shock.

"You're right, boss! Grain is indeed more in demand than gold in the international market now!" said Pete.

Who would have thought that grain would be worth more than gold?" Jia Lei said after glancing at the 10,000-ton freighter that was rumbling on the other side of the wharf.

"Yes, that's the way it is! In this situation, gold is the only thing that can be compared to food. Pete said. I want to talk about "Rebirth 1990: The Invisible Rich" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~