Banton Island.

A small harbor on the west side of the island, with a specially designed underwater passage, at a depth of about 35 meters, there is an underwater platform made of coral cement.

Mackerel 001 slowly moored on the platform, and then a connecting cabin was raised under the platform and inserted into the bottom of Mackerel 001, and then the connecting cabin began to empty the water inside to test whether the channel was leaking.

After confirming that there was no water leakage, Xu Yingming, escorted by the soldiers, entered the bottom traffic cabin of the Mackerel 001.

Open the two gates between the traffic cabin and the connecting cabin, and the capsule elevator inside the traffic cabin slides down at a constant speed.

This kind of capsule elevator is not pulled by cable, but uses gear holding and grasping to move up and down, which itself has a lot of power and can resist the water pressure of hundreds of meters deep.

The capsule elevator descended from Mackerel 001, moved down 18 meters, and entered the water exchange cabin, and then the two gates above closed in turn.

Coming out of the capsule elevator, Xu Yingming was taken to an underground transportation cabin and took the tram to the interior of the island.

As Li Qingye's core scientific research base, Bandon Island is also the area where the ontology is located, so it is naturally strictly guarded.

Even Xu Yingming didn't know where this island was, after all, the soldiers only told him that this place was called "Spider's Nest Base".

The submarine was again under the seabed, and there was no reference to see at all, and he was not even eligible to enter the cockpit of the submarine, so he could only stay in a specific passenger compartment.

As for the communicators and the like on their bodies, they are not allowed to be brought in, and even the clothes have to be changed into those prepared by the internal service department.

Inside the underground base on Bandon Island.

When Xu Yingming came to the conference hall, there were other people at the scene.

The webweed managers present included Harry Fernando, Cavendish Lopez, Chen Jianxiong, Mike Doote (Dutt family), Sun Yaozu (Tusun family), and Ove (Rear Admiral Luzon).

These people are the core members of the Luzon branch.

Xu Yingming was once again secretly frightened by the strength of the Homo sapiens company.

Filip walked out of the side door and said as he walked, "Colleagues, let us welcome the boss with the warmest applause. ”

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Li Qingye smiled and waved his hand: "Okay, all take a seat." ”

Everyone sat down in turn, their expressions very serious.

"Today's meeting, on the one hand, is to let you get to know each other, and everyone will be colleagues in the future, so as not to hurt your own people by mistake."

"On the other hand, it's about dealing with the coming food crisis," he continued. ”

Food crisis? Xu Yingming didn't notice this, and suddenly he remembered that some time ago, the Aquino family asked them to sell the rice and corn in their hands as soon as possible.

Chen Jianxiong stood up and came to the mural on the left-hand side, holding a device similar to a mobile phone, and after pressing a few switches, the mural immediately turned into a large screen.

"This is the information that our Department of Security has gathered in Manila, Star Island and New York, and the ABCD has become aware of our expansion of rice cultivation in Luzon and is preparing to hold secret talks in the near future to discuss food prices in Southeast Asia, and both the Marcus and Aquino families have been invited, and they are planning to repeat the same trick."

The big screen shows the documents one by one.

Chen Jianxiong continued: "In addition, ABCD has also contacted a number of fertilizer and pesticide companies, including Bayer, Dow, DuPont, Maple Leaf Potash and BASF, 17 fertilizer and pesticide manufacturers, which will use various excuses to promote the price increase of fertilizer and pesticide agricultural machinery in Southeast Asia. ”

The increase in the price of pesticides and fertilizers will obviously further increase the cost of food production for Luzon farmers, forcing them to switch to higher value-added cash crops.

"In addition, eight international companies, including United Fruits, will gradually increase the purchase prices of some crops in the near future, including bananas, pineapples, sugarcane, mangosteen, lotus fog, etc."

"Everybody saw it." Li Qingye said calmly.

As members of the big family who once cooperated with ABCD in sacking Luzon, Harry, Cavendis, Xu Yingming, and Sun Yaozu naturally understood ABCD's three-board axe.

Don't look at this, ABCD will have short-term losses, but once it succeeds in destroying Luzon's food self-sufficiency plan, Luzon will be a dish at that time, and they can eat whatever they want.

Because the grain shortage in Luzon is as high as 700~8 million tons, and there are not many grain producing countries in the world that can supply this magnitude.

And there is a big problem with Luzon's eating habits, that is, rice is the mainstay, and corn and flour are only auxiliary grains.

At present, the world's largest rice exporter is Tianzhu, which exports about 11 million ~ 12 million tons of rice every year; The second in the world is Siam, with an annual export volume of about 6 million ~ 8 million tons; The third is Annam, with an annual export volume of about 4 million ~ 6 million tons.

followed by America, with an annual export volume of about 5 million; Pakistan is around 3 million tons; It is followed by Honsavady, which can export about 2.5 million tons.

Don't look at the total export volume of these regions, there is a scale of 31.5 million ~ 36.5 million tons.

The problem is that a lot of these rice have been ordered, and if there is a sudden increase in orders, hundreds of thousands of tons are fine, but once the demand exceeds the million ton level, it will be difficult to get spot for a while.

In order to ensure the food supply of 100 million people, it is difficult to resist the fluctuation of international grain prices without stockpiling 20 to 30 million tons of rice, and Luzon does not have enough national grain reserves.

Of course, ABCD's three-plank axe will not work immediately, and to complete the whole plan, they will need at least a quarter or two more before they can complete the harvest.

"Boss, Xu's warehouse still has 240,000 tons of rice and 360,000 tons of corn kernels in stock." Xu Yingming was the first to stand up and show his loyalty.

In fact, there are not a few grains in the warehouses of various big families.

Li Qingye smiled and said: "Well, I will let Garfield take the lead and set up a secret non-governmental organization, called the Luzon Food Security Association, to centralize the control of the food in our hands, isn't ABCD going to play?" We'll play with them. ”

Everyone reconciled the accounts.

At present, they have 6.27 million tons of rice, 8.36 million tons of corn kernels, 1.33 million tons of wheat flour, and 420,000 tons of seaweed starch.

In addition, another vest of Homo sapiens, the Aoba Group, also controls large farms and plantations in Honsavady, and has about 820,000 tons of rice reserves on hand.

Before the end of the year, after the rice harvest in various places, there will be 200~3 million tons of rice and 300~4 million tons of corn in storage.

Fighting a food war?

ABCD also bullies those scattered comprador countries, and when they encounter highly centralized countries with sufficient arable land, their system may not be effective.

The Luzon Food Security Association, which is part of Li Qingye's plan, plans to increase Luzon's total grain reserves to 30 million tons in the next three years, including 15 million tons of rice, 3 million tons of wheat and 12 million tons of corn.

As for where the food reserves come from.

Very simply, isn't ABCD going to fight a food war in Southeast Asia? Then Li Qingye asked Fernando and other families to take the opportunity to purchase these low-priced rice, wheat and corn in vests.

As for the reluctance of Luzon farmers to grow rice, this is not something that ABCD can directly control.

In the area controlled by Homo sapiens, what the landlords and farmers want to plant must be approved by the agricultural cooperatives, which does not mean that the farmers can change the crops at will because they have high returns.

Otherwise, Homo sapiens will let them know what an iron fist is, and ensure that they can't even transport agricultural products to the local area.

After all, the local ports, shipping, roads and railways are all controlled by Homo sapiens behind the scenes, and no matter how high the purchase price is, it must be shipped out to be useful.