Regardless of whether the mysterious "quasi-son-in-law" of the Lin family is a master or not, there is one thing that President Wu has guessed.

That's the epidemic, it really broke out two months ago!

About two months ago, the medical laboratory of the North American Livestock Slaughtering and Quarantine Association discovered a new and highly contagious swine fever virus when it conducted a routine epidemic prevention inspection of the ranch of the North American breeding giant Tiger Foods Group.

This virus is very evil, the early stage of infection of livestock almost no clinical adverse reactions, until 24~28 weeks will show fever, skin ulcers and other malignant symptoms, and will die within 1~2 weeks after the onset of the disease.

If it is slaughtered within 24 weeks, it is almost impossible to distinguish the difference between diseased pork and healthy pork without careful examination and medical analysis in a professional virus laboratory, and even the confirmed infected pigs are not densely detected in all parts.

Although the virus does not spread to humans, people who eat sick pork will have fever, and even severe symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, and even coma depending on the severity of the virus.

Even if you simmer at a high temperature, it is difficult to completely eliminate the effect!

And the most frightening thing is that although humans themselves will not be infected with this virus, they may become vectors of the virus, and then transmit it to other pigs through excrement or other metabolic forms.

If the epidemic prevention work had been actively carried out at that time, the plague could have been controlled. The problem is that it's almost impossible.

Agriculture is the backbone of the North American economy, and animal husbandry is the most important part of the North American agricultural structure.

Especially pig farming.

After all, Xia Guo, the leader of the People's Federation, is the world's number one pork consumer, and in order to earn soft sister coins, most of the pastures in North America are mainly pork-based, followed by beef that is consumed more in the country.

This industrial structure was formed in the first two years of the integration process of the People's Federation. And the breeding enterprises in North America are indeed competitive, and they have exchanged a lot of high-tech through pork.

Over the years, pork exports have reached new highs every year, and in order to improve productivity, North American farms have also made great efforts to push the production efficiency per unit area to the limit.

If this epidemic report spreads, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to local farming enterprises in North America.

In particular, the farm where the swine fever virus was first detected is the breeding farm of Tiger Foods, the largest breeding company in North America.

If the outside world knows that Tiger Foods' ranch is contaminated with swine fever virus, I am afraid that it will not only threaten the survival of Tiger Foods, but also the entire pork export industry in North America!

It's not just about North America's foreign exchange earnings, it's about thousands of jobs and the livelihoods of tens of thousands of families.

If they go bankrupt, the impact will be worse than that of swine fever in North America.

Therefore, under pressure from the North American Department of Agriculture and vested interests, the North American Livestock Slaughter and Quarantine Association finally chose to compromise and conceal the report.

Although this does not mean giving up treatment, it is obviously tantamount to cutting meat and mending sores while continuing to produce. Tiger Foods' attitude towards epidemic prevention work is also quite negative, and it obviously cares more about the sales of more than 10 million "products" that are slaughtered every year than the epidemic, and even reduces the price to start a price war in order to ship as much as possible before the basket is pierced.

This is one of the main reasons why pork imports surged in October, and small and medium-sized farms in various countries closed down.

However, paper could not contain the fire, and as the infected area continued to expand, and even invaded the field of cold chain transportation and food processing, almost the entire West Coast ranch fell in just two months.

It wasn't until the import and export ports on the east coast of Xia Guo detected abnormal pathogens in the imported pork and sent them to the medical laboratory for analysis that this layer of window paper was completely pierced.

Boy!

Dare to love that all the pork sent by this friendly country is poisonous?!

The only fortunate thing is that most of the stocks that have been put on the market in the previous month are frozen stocks, and there are some pork that has not been infected for the time being, or has been infected for a short time.

After this part of the meat is shipped, the next thing to be put on the market is the "inferior product" obtained after slaughtering the sick pigs that have clinical symptoms.

After discovering the problem, the Xia Guo Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center and the customs immediately issued an orange alert and urgently closed the pork import channel from North America to Xia Guo port.

This time, I can't hide it at all.

In the face of more and more doubts, the North American Livestock Slaughtering and Quarantine Association finally could no longer resist the pressure, admitted the failure of the epidemic prevention work, and confessed to the swine fever epidemic that had been concealed for two whole months.

Naturally, public opinion in the international community was in an uproar.

Instead of taking immediate action against this new swine fever virus, regulators in North America turned a blind eye and helped the big farmers hide from the world and cover for pork exports.

The United Nations condemned this extremely irresponsible behavior and the serious dereliction of duty in North America on the issue of epidemic prevention and control. Other countries that import pork from North America have also issued orange or even red alerts.

The blow of the swine fever epidemic to the livestock industry in North America is obvious, almost all the pastures from the entire west coast to the central part of the country have fallen, and the largest pork producer of the People's Federation has directly and passively closed the pork export channel, because no one dares to buy it.

In addition to North America, the most uncomfortable is probably Xia Guo, the world's largest pork consumer.

In fact, this kind of industry with pollution risk and low industrial added value is not very attractive to Xia Guo, not to mention that the country's arable land resources are very scarce.

Instead of developing animal husbandry, it is far better to build a few more chip factories, which can not only drive a large number of industries, but also increase the trade weight of the national currency in the countries of the people's union, and exchange money for what you need.

And yet now......

Obviously, the epidemic is across the Pacific Ocean, but the foodies who are far away from the Pacific Ocean are uncomfortable together.

The pork that arrives on the shore must not be eaten, and the ones that are stored in the port warehouse and have not been transported away should also be destroyed, and even the problematic pork that has entered the market must be recalled as much as possible.

As for those container ships floating on the sea......

It can only be said that where they came from and where they go back.

And in order to prevent them from dumping pork into the sea and spreading the virus into the marine ecosystem, the boat of the People's Federation of Environmental Protection followed them almost inexclusively, staring them back.

Just when the pork market was bleak, the futures market also staged a big drama of ice and fire. North American pork futures plummeted directly, and those close to the delivery period even fell directly through the positions, losing a lot of "pork treasures" with heavy positions.

However, the price of pork futures on Xia Guo's side has risen into an antenna.

A magical scene was staged at the entrance of the major slaughterhouses - that is, truckloads of pigs of different sizes were dragged into the slaughterhouse, and trucks were driven out on the other side.

The pigs crowded on the truck didn't know that they had inexplicably wandered around the ghost gate and went back.

Most of them smelled the rumors of the collapse of pork prices early, and before they had time to be happy for a month, they found that they had cut their meat at the foot of the mountain.

It's a feeling that's even more sour than riding a roller coaster......

Even if the stock of "premature meat" spawned by the bankruptcy of a large number of small and medium-sized breeding bases is enough to digest for several months, the market, which is governed by emotions, cannot be measured by pure rationality.

Wholesale prices have not moved for the time being, and the pork market in the market has begun to heat up.

Almost all night, the old man who sold vegetables in the bazaar watched the price of meat rise by a dollar.

What's more, he even turned his head to buy a fish, carried a bundle of leeks, and then came back to see that the past had completely changed, and a pound rose by five cents on the spot!

Good guys, the price has risen like a rocket!

It all came so suddenly, without even the slightest warning.

And these news were all found by Hao Yun on the Internet in the three days after the end of the autumn recruitment meeting, or from Lin Jun, who admired the five-body cast.

To be honest, after hearing these news, although his expression was quite calm, his heart was completely confused.

Speaking of which, how many piglets are there on New Hope Farm?

Twenty thousand? Twenty-five thousand?

In short, the fraction can be directly erased.

This......

I'm afraid he's really rich!