Chapter 9: The Wedge (9)
Zhao Yanxi sat cross-legged on the cement road on the side of the street, and the white cloth belt tied on his forehead clearly wrote that his body was inseparable, and two were one.
Although the words www.biquge.info are ugly, it will be really embarrassing for people to know that it is written by a college student, but at this moment, who knows that Zhao Yanxi, who is dressed as a southern peasant, is a college student?
He was still very confident in his dress, pulling the corners of his clothes hard, he licked some sun-dried lips, and shouted the eight words written on the white cloth belt with the uncle next to him.
The uncle on the side, with a serious expression and a solemn and standard Kyoto accent, how could he be an old farmer from the south?
and the hands that are not calloused at all, Zhao Yanxi knows that this person has the same role as him today, and they are all hired by the so-called people's will support service.
He looked at the serious uncle and suddenly burst out laughing.
Zhao Yanxi is a sophomore in the Faculty of Law at Kyoto University and is studying well.
In fact, a child like him from the mountainous northwest can have a good future without hard work.
Looking at his parents, who worked hard day and night and were in early decline, he always asked himself to be more motivated in his studies.
The things that make him study the most troublesome in life are the real worries about the monthly living expenses, although Zhao Yanxi is already very economical, but the consumption in Kyoto is already very high.
He didn't want to add more burden to his family, so he had to work part-time in addition to his studies to supplement his life.
Today, for example, he came to dress up as a peasant in the south and shout slogans in front of the government.
In the morning, a guy with a tattoo on the tiger's mouth sent each of them a copy of the information, asking for familiarity.
From this information, Zhao Yanxi knew the whole story.
Zhao Yanxi's motherland is on a long and narrow peninsula, and the north is facing off against enemy countries that are also the same nation, and the land area is narrow.
In addition, the country is mountainous and there are very few areas that can engage in agricultural production, mainly concentrated in the south.
Agriculture in the South provides the basic food for most of the country's population, of course, this was in the past, and the problem now is that with the growth of the population, the high cost of agricultural production in the South is difficult to supply the entire country.
Heads of state have continuously introduced various policies to support and encourage more efficient and comprehensive agricultural production, but the results have not been very satisfactory.
One of the reasons for this is that the arable area is very limited.
The final proposal of the head of state was simple and straightforward: to import basic rations, meat, poultry and eggs.
When this policy was first implemented, everyone felt that they were very good, because the daily food cost was greatly reduced, and the pressure on the cost of living was reduced.
It didn't take long for some people to come forward and accuse this of being a stupid way to corrupt the country and threaten national security.
The claim went viral on the Internet, and the person claiming to be the protector of the native rice was spoken.
Because of the sharpness of the words, the toughness of the attitude, and the strangeness of the theory, people soon noticed it.
This person advocated the need to insist on buying and eating food produced in the country.
The slogan they put forward was a few words written on the cloth tape that Zhao Yanxi wrapped around their heads at this moment.
This theory soon had a great influence on the minds of the people, and the peasants of the South began to theorize with the government for this theory.
Farmers in the south did not pay attention to the impact of this policy on them at first, and it was not long before they found that their rice sales had gone from not stockpiling at all when supply outstripped supply, to now having grain in stock in every household.
After a little inquiry in the market, the statements obtained are very consistent.
Long-grain rice from the distant United States of Myrs, on a cargo ship, is half as cheap as rice in the country!
The taste is also very good.
Rice dealers and large supermarkets in various places began to sell foreign rice, and the reason was simple, and the sales were good.
It took less than a month for the peasants to go from being annoyed and overwhelmed at the beginning to learning about the sharp remarks and finally taking action.
The farmers knew very well that if the government did not do a good job of stopping the large imports of Myers rice, the post-harvest sales of the rice in the coming autumn would be a huge problem.
Since it is urgent, if we want to achieve results, we must communicate with the government with momentum.
This group of rice farmers from the south made full use of their ingenuity, carrying banners, waving farm tools, and driving high-powered tractors with horns and horns, and rushed to Kyoto.
The huge Kyoto is also stirred up by this group of people.
On several occasions, these people stopped the visiting foreign heads of state, giving the government a thrilling and stimulating experience.
The arrest of several leading rice farmers without sufficient grounds for prosecution has provoked criticism from opposition parties in public opinion.
When the government has a headache, rice farmers are also troubled.
They still have a lot of things to take care of at home, and the most important thing is that the rice in the field is about to ripen, and they have to hurry up and do the last field management before maturity.
In addition, if you stay in Kyoto for a long time, you have to eat and drink, and this amount of money is very large.
The rice farmers who took the lead consulted and decided to go back, leaving only a few to continue to petition the government.
It was at this time that a company called the People's Wishes Support Service approached them and took over the work of continuing the petition with the government, and of course, the rice farmers had to pay them for their labor.
According to the capitation, rice farmers need to come up with 10,000 yuan a day, which is really not a small amount, but compared with the difficulty of selling rice in autumn, it is not a big problem.
The two sides soon reached an agreement and began to cooperate.
After the rice farmers evacuated Kyoto, the support service began to recruit part-time workers to serve as rice farmers' petitions.
Zhao Yanxi was walking on the side of the street when he saw the small flyers distributed by the support club, so he came to try it.
After a few days, because the labor fee is settled every day, Zhao Yanxi is very energetic.
A classmate saw that he went out early and returned late every day and asked him where he went.
Zhao Yanxi told his classmates that he had found a part-time job as an actor on the set of a TV series.
When he looks at his outfit, doesn't he look like a part-time actor?
Even when shouting slogans, Zhao Yanxi already regarded himself as a rice farmer from the south.
He remembered his parents who were hunters in the northwest, and now the prey in Mori Lili has become less and less, and some have become protected animals of the state, and it seems that their fate is similar to that of these rice farmers in the south.
Every time he thought of this, Zhao Yanxi shouted slogans even more vigorously, which made the leader of the support club think that he is a good part-time staff member and decide to hire him all the time.
As soon as the petition was combined with the circulating theory, the activity itself began to deteriorate.
Those who are buying imported rice from abroad find that they are discouraged from doing so, and are told the following reasons: Buying high-priced rice in their home country increases the cost of living, but it fosters good consumption habits and is a basic protection for the economy.
Some citizens were even told that buying domestically produced rice was a sign of patriotism and a means of ensuring good health.
When some people disagreed, the persuaders pointed out that there was a suspicion of genetically modified catalytic technology in these foreign rice, and in the final analysis, eating this kind of rice would cause great harm to the body.
The reason of being patriotic and unpatriotic has a bad effect on people, but the argument that eating foreign rice will cause damage to the body has a good deterrent effect.
Among these persuaders is Zhao Yanxi, who will continue to sit in silence and shout slogans or enter grain sales establishments to dissuade consumers from buying foreign rice, as arranged by the support service.
In order to achieve the best effect of dissuasion, the support club knows that Zhao Yanxi and they should not choose too many objects every time they dissuade, and they should dress up appropriately each time, the principle is that it is best to dissuade only one person at a time, and each time they play a different ordinary citizen.
The effect continues to ferment, and finally it has become the most concerned topic in society.
Under the pressure of public opinion, the government was forced to hold a hearing in Congress.
Despite the fact that during the hearings, experts in the field of food, especially those who had travelled from the United States of Myrs, presented various evidence that there was no problem with importing rice, and the members of Parliament voted to adopt a resolution to try quotas on imported rice.
The relevant parties in the country expressed regret for this, and even stated in very blatant words that this could seriously affect the normal relations between the two countries.
None of this worked, and the National Assembly, after passing the resolution, promised to take appropriate measures to repair the severe impact of the rice import incident on the economies of both countries.
After seeing the news on the TV in the school dormitory, Cho quickly realized the relationship between the incident and the event he attended, and he was a little excited, probably because those lawmakers who were already able to speak impassionedly in the Diet had this experience when they were young.
This matter has a result, and Zhao Yanxi also earned a lot of labor fees.
He doesn't have to endure the wind and sun for the time being, and he should go back to school to study well and do a good job of final revision to cope with the exam.
To be honest, in the past few months, he has not had time to study hard, so that many courses can only get a B in the mid-term test, and Zhao Yanxi's grades are more surprised than the whole class.
Zhao Yanxi secretly made up his mind that the final evaluation must get all A's.
Going to the library to read a book for a day has become Zhao Yanxi's main life in the past few weeks.
He was mostly self-studying in the library, and only when he was tired would he walk between the floors to see if there were any new books on the shelves.
It was a gloomy day, and sleet soon followed.
Due to the weather, many students did not come to the library in the southwest corner of the school to study, and the library was much empty.
Zhao Yanxi forced himself to get up early to study by himself in order to get good grades at the end of the semester.
He loves the no-man environment.
Compared to the previous months when he endured all kinds of noise on the street, and even created noise himself, Zhao Yanxi felt that he liked this kind of tranquility more.
After helping the teacher push a cart of books to the stack, he was about to turn around when his attention was attracted by the name of a book.
To be precise, it was the gorgeous cover of the book that attracted the attention.
He deliberately checked the back of the book, and the title of the book was strange, called Reptile Empire.
After saying hello to the teacher, he took the book and looked at it as he walked from the stack to the study room.
Judging from the thickness of the book, it is about 300,000 words.
It's about this novel, open it and look at the introduction, more than a dozen quotation-style remarks, people from different fields express their opinions.
These perceptions point to a conspiracy that seems to be real: that humans have never been their own masters.
Seeing this strange conclusion, he closed the book and looked at the cover again.
This is very similar to the series of sci-fi disaster dramas filmed by Xifang.
The huge lizard-like grass-green reptile stood semi-erect, and the muscles on its strong hind limbs left a deep impression on Zhao Yanxi.
The head of the reptile is pointed, but the proportions to the body are obviously awkward, and the head appears slightly larger.
Does this probably mean that the intelligence of monster reptiles is very developed?
Joke, Zhao Yanxi knows at least the common sense of evolution, an amphibian reptile with a very developed intelligence?
No reason.
The reptilian has four powerful fingers on one forelimb that grips a pyramid-like structure, and in the afterglow of the setting sun, the shadow cast by the translucent body of the amphibian envelops the pyramid, and in the desert at the foot of the pyramid, it is obviously a dwarf human, walking forward with his back to the pyramid.
Zhao Yanxi read the cover carefully, and he didn't know when a thin layer of sweat appeared on his neck, and he felt the tide.
Zhao Yanxi laughed at himself, he was not even afraid of the monster novel, why did he sweat when he saw this.
He simply flipped through the content and found that it was not a novel, but an obscure set of rhetoric.
Some of them are like someone's own words, and the writing style is purely Western.
This may have something to do with the limited skill of the translators, or maybe it was written by a madman at all.
After Zhao Yanxi turned it over, he still decided to complete the self-study plan he made in the morning first, which was the right thing.
When he was about to retreat, Zhao Yanxi went to the borrowing office to borrow the book, but the teacher told him that the book had not yet been processed in the library, that is, the book could not be borrowed.
Zhao Yanxi had no choice but to put the book on the cart and made an appointment with the teacher to borrow the book in a few days.
For several days in a row, Zhao Yanxi did not go to the library.
When he went to the library again, the teacher who had received him asked for leave and was not in class, and it was a few days of delay.
Strangely, the teacher did not come back to work and was supposedly transferred.
It doesn't matter, Zhao Yanxi asked the teacher at the borrowing office to use the system to query the strange book for him, and entered the title of the book several times to search, but it showed that there was no data available.
The teacher told him that there were two possibilities, one was that the book might not have been processed in the library.
This is highly unlikely, and there is no precedent for libraries to have no new books for so long.
The second possibility is that there is no book in the library at all, which made Zhao Yanxi stunned, how could there be none.
At least two people had seen this book in the first place, how could it not be?
He tried his best to explain the situation to the teacher in front of him, but the teacher smiled and shook his head, saying that the library's system search function is so powerful, how could it be wrong?
It seems that Zhao Yanxi can only figure out his own way, he roughly described the content of the book, and the teacher suggested that he look for the relevant bookshelves.
Zhao Yanxi spent two days searching for all the books on the third floor, but he really didn't see that book.
Since the library doesn't have it, and Zhao Yanxi wants to see what the book says thoroughly, look for it on the Internet to see if there is any sale.
The search results are even more surprising, and the Internet prompts that the word is a sensitive word, and the searcher is advised not to search for the word again.
Why has it become a sensitive word?
Zhao Yanxi was so frustrated that he tapped the keyboard hard, he thought about how else to find that book?
He thought of someone from whom he might be able to get help.