207 The beginning of the collapse

Liu Erzhu took the water and poured a few big sips, drank most of the bottle in one breath outside his mouth, and reluctantly put down the water bottle until he was about to suffocate, and took another bite of the compressed biscuit, and thanked him vaguely while chewing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Ye Han waved his hand: "Don't worry, eat slowly." ā€

Liu Erzhu didn't have time to answer at all, and nodded gratefully.

Ye Han looked at it, yes, don't ask anything, wait for this kid to finish eating.

A piece of unpalatable compressed biscuit, it only took a short time to gnaw it clean, Liu Erzhu drank the last drop of water in the plastic bottle, and licked it finger by finger endlessly.

Ye Han couldn't cry or laugh for a while, and asked patiently, "Liu Erzhu, how long have you not eaten?" ā€

"It's been a day." Liu Erzhu said embarrassedly, "I haven't eaten since I escaped from Linyi."

"Escape?" Ye Han's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he suddenly raised his voice, "You are a deserter!" ā€

"No, no, no, I'm not a deserter!" Liu Erzhu shook his head violently.

"Then what did you say about escaping from Linyi?" Ye Han asked sharply.

Liu Erzhu was stunned for a moment, blinked his eyes, and glanced at the rank of lieutenant on Ye Han's collar: "You don't know about Linyi?" ā€

"What's wrong with Linyi?" Ye Han's brows were tightly locked, and the Sichuan character pattern was so deep that it could trap flies.

A touch of bitterness appeared on Liu Erzhu's face: "Linyi is in chaos, completely messed up......"

Ye Han grabbed Liu Erzhu's collar: "What's the mess?" Why is it messed up? What's the mess? ā€

Liu Erzhu almost didn't cry: "Platoon leader, platoon leader, can you let me go first?" ā€

The veteran also persuaded: "Ye Pai, let him go, let this kid talk well." ā€

Ye Han finally calmed down, and after letting go of Liu Erzhu, he took a few breaths: "I'm sorry, I'm too excited." ā€

Liu Erzhu smiled reluctantly: "It's okay, I understand." ā€

The veteran's eyes were not good: "Don't say it's useless, what happened to Linyi?" ā€

Liu Erzhu showed a stunned look: "You don't know? ā€

"I know I need to ask you!" The veteran said angrily, "Don't talk nonsense, you say it or not!" ā€

"I said, I said it can't be done!" Liu Erzhu shrunk his neck, "What's that, you know the price of food has risen, right?" ā€

Ye Han nodded: "I know a little." ā€

Liu Erzhu grinned and said something.

Since the issuance of the harvest order, rumors of a grain harvest failure have spread, and the ensuing food ration has made matters worse.

The Linyi City Government did not hesitate to implement price limits and ruthlessly cleaned up a few black-hearted grain merchants, but there were still a large number of people who committed crimes against the wind, but there were still some people who did not know what was going on, and the more the price increased, the more crazy they robbed, causing a miasma and chaos in the grain market.

In just a few days, the grain in the market was sold out, and Linyi City immediately opened the grain reserve depot and sold grain at a reasonable price to stabilize grain prices.

In less than a day, the huge grain depot was sold out.

Despite the measures taken to limit purchases, the government's efforts have not had the desired effect, and the amount of grain stored in a grain depot is a drop in the bucket compared to the huge population base.

It is said that the government should continue to sell grain at this time, hold down grain prices to the death, and even transfer grain from other places to stabilize grain prices, but the reduction of grain production is a foregone conclusion, and the grain gap in Linzhou, a large grain-producing province, is so large, not to mention other provinces; to put it simply, the provincial and municipal governments at all levels do not have sufficient grain stocks, and if they are released regardless of everything, although grain prices can be suppressed for a period of time, after a period of time, grain prices will inevitably rebound strongly.

How can the rationing system be stable if there is not enough food to be secured? Therefore, after the Linyi municipal government sold out a grain depot, it decisively suspended the follow-up sell-off plan.

However, there are too few ordinary residents who can buy food, and the stable society and sufficient supply that have lasted for decades have made the vast majority of people have no habit of stockpiling food, and the demand for food is extremely urgent. in order to

Not long ago, I could eat whatever I wanted, and I walked into the vegetable market for a walk, but I didn't want to eat anything, and I didn't know what to eat.

Now I can't eat anything, and the little food I can only get every day can only last a little bit of hunger, and the taste of hunger is absolutely unpleasant.

As a result, a large number of Linyi citizens took to the streets to demand that the government sell enough food.

It was originally just an ordinary petition, but more and more citizens gathered, all kinds of rumors and gossip flew all over the sky, and it didn't take long for the crowd to be filled with all kinds of negative news, and some of the agitated citizens recklessly surrounded a grain depot on the edge of the city, demanding that the government "open a warehouse to release grain".

If the society had remained as balanced as it had been in the past few months, no one would have gone to the grain depot to ask for it, and no one would have stopped the citizens from buying food, but because of the insect plague, everything had changed, and the only thing the residents wanted was food.

If the government hadn't reacted quickly enough to mobilize a force to surround the grain depot, the grain depot would have been breached by angry residents.

In the presence of the army, the inhabitants regained some of their senses and began to elect representatives to negotiate with the government, which, under great pressure, also made some concessions and agreed to increase the daily food ration.

Everything seems to be turning in a good direction, but there are also people who are unhappy with the government's concessions and want the government to take a few more steps.

Naturally, the government representatives refused to agree, saying only that they could continue the discussions, but the crowd, which had just calmed down, became agitated again.

A young man lost his mind in anger and got into a verbal altercation with the soldiers protecting the grain depot, beating and scolding him inch by inch.

The soldiers endured and endured, and let and let go, but this man became even more violent, and actually tore the soldiers' equipment, shouting "If you have the ability, you will kill me", trying to snatch the rifle from the soldier's hand.

After repeated warnings to no avail, the soldiers decisively fired their guns into the sky, and the sound of gunfire stunned the rioting crowd, and after a short silence, the crowd fell into a complete rage. Chaos, constantly storming the soldiers' defenses and snatching the fighters' weapons.

I don't know who grabbed the grenade from the soldier, and without hesitation, he tore off the pull ring and threw it into the grain depot, killing three fighters and wounding six or seven on the spot.

Finally a soldier could not bear to shoot, and a man who tried to take the gun fell in a pool of blood, but the sound of the gun not only failed to restore the people's senses, but became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the crowd went completely crazy, and the troops guarding the grain depot broke out into extremely fierce clashes.

Soon, the conflict turned into an armed confrontation and quickly spread throughout the city, with a state of emergency and curfew declared in Linyi City, requiring residents to stay at home, but still unable to prevent further escalation.