August 2nd.

Metro Manila.

It was just white, and many people were already up to work.

Mary prepared breakfast for her two children early in the morning and rode her bicycle to take her youngest son to North District No. 1 Elementary School.

This school is a private school under the name of the Fernando family, which mainly provides educational security for the children of Homo sapiens employees, family children, and middle-class families.

Mary's youngest son can come here to go to school, thanks to the relationship of her eldest daughter, Julie.

After she sent her youngest son to school, she pedaled her bicycle to work at Fengrao Supermarket.

Just arrived at the supermarket.

The manager shouted, "Mary, you and the bell go and change the price tags on the shelves." ”

"What's going on in price again?" Mary knows the unspoken rule of the supermarket, that is, when something rises in the market, the supermarket will change the price in a hurry; If something in the market drops in price, the supermarket will be slow to react.

Picking up a bunch of price tags that had just been printed, Mary found that the first thing to bear the brunt of it was rice, flour, soybean oil, palm oil.

The colleague bell whispered: "The price of rice has risen so high. ”

The two of them chatted quietly as they walked.

Arriving at the grain and oil area, Mary took out the old price tag from the price tag compartment and inserted the new one.

Medana rice/56 pesos/kg

Buntulo glutinous rice / 41 pesos / kg

South Island Indica rice / 38 pesos / kg

……

The prices of various types of rice have risen to varying degrees, with an average increase of about 13 percent.

In fact, the increase in grain and oil in Rich Supermarket is already the smallest in Manila.

Another large grain and oil wholesale store not far from Fengrao Supermarket has pulled the price to 120% at this time.

As the region with the strongest foreign power, the largest number of compradors, and the highest concentration of converts, Manila became the eye of the storm of soaring grain prices in Luzon for a while.

In the warehouse of Jiahai Grain and Oil Trading Company.

The boss, Van Okahook, was leading people to inspect the fire and waterproof facilities of the warehouse, and he had imported a large batch of fragrant rice from Siam some time ago, with more than 20,000 tons.

It is now the season of typhoon Luzon, and he is also very worried about whether the storage warehouse of these rice can make a fortune, it depends on this time.

"Boss, now that the market price of rice has soared by two percent, do you want to make a move?" The person in charge of the sales department asked cautiously.

Van Oka rolled his eyes: "Did you get water in your head?" Now that international grain prices are rising, Siam, Annam, and Tianzhu have all announced that they will raise the export price of rice and reduce the amount of exports. ”

"Boss wise!" The other dogleg hurriedly patted the horse's ass.

Fan Oka patted the rice warehouse: "If the price has not doubled, don't sell it, and I will continue to reduce the supply in the store." ”

"But, where is the abundance?" The head of the sales department still felt a little uneasy.

"Afraid of what? If I don't sell rice, am I still breaking the law? It's a free market. Van Oka waved his hand unconcernedly.

Comprador merchants, conversion groups, and foreign-owned enterprises, as intent on Van Okka, are rapidly reducing their rice sales while gradually raising market prices.

Affected by the sharp increase in rice prices, Manila has not only seen an increase in grain prices, but also edible oil, sugar, meat, eggs, and non-staple foods.

Similarly, in other cities in Luzon, there are signs of rising prices for grain, oil and agricultural products.

Luzon seems to have suddenly returned to the era of the last food crisis, with insufficient internal grain production capacity and soaring external grain prices.

But this time, will the result be the same as the last time?

Homo sapiens has increased the market supply of food through the abundant supermarket, but it has opened a purchase restriction mode, and the price is not low.

However, in the market, there is enough food supply in the abundant supermarket, and the people can only grit their teeth to buy food at one price a day.

This situation lasted for more than a month.

It's September.

The second rice crop in Luzon is beginning to be harvested.

At this time, the average price of rice in Luzon was stable at 56 pesos per kilogram for indica rice, 58 pesos per kilogram for glutinous rice, and 80 pesos per kilogram for fragrant rice.

This price is almost double what it used to be.

And the worse news is.

Affected by the typhoon, the yield of the second crop rice in Luzon will be reduced by about 12% this year.

At the same time, there was bad news from Luzon in the rice procurement negotiations with Siam, Annam, and Tianzhu, and it seemed that there were huge differences between the two sides on prices.

The bad news has made Manila's rice traders more confident, and many speculators believe that there is room for grain prices in Luzon to rise.

Right now.

The rice war in Luzon also began.

Foreign-funded enterprises, comprador businessmen, and groups of converts began to organize grain collection teams to go to the countryside to buy rice at high prices.

Even some of the agricultural cooperatives owned by Homo sapiens are "secretly" selling rice to these people.

Inside the cooperative in the village of Macaron.

Van Oka said with a smile: "Brother Carter, 45,000 pesos a ton is already the highest in Manila, don't brothers want to live in the free world?" ”

After he finished speaking, he took out 500,000 pesos from his purse and stuffed it into Carter's hand.

Carter quietly put the money away, and then replied solemnly: "Yes, 45,000 tons, but only 500 tons." ”

"Haha, nice to work with." Van Oka smirked.

At this moment, his heart has been occupied by greed, and he has invested all his wealth in rushing to buy local rice.

There are not a few people who think the same way as Van Okka.

In the first half of September, about 75% of Luzon's rice crops were harvested, and it was also the craziest time for these speculators.

Many of them, like Van Okka, have staked their entire wealth and launched a full-scale rice rush in Luzon with Homo sapiens.

Even ABCD gritted its teeth and squeezed out more than a billion dollars of funds to secretly buy rice in Luzon.

Obviously, ABCD also wants to make up for their huge losses in the financial market and the soybean spot market through this harvest.

September 15th.

The average price of rice in Luzon reached a new high of 78 pesos per kilogram, officially breaking the 200% mark.

Now, those speculative businessmen are even more rampant.

Some even clamored that Luzon rice would rise to 100 pesos per kilogram in October and 150 pesos per kilogram by the end of the year.

Seeing the situation in Luzon, rice producers in Siam, Annam, Tianzhu and other places are also more emboldened, making the procurement negotiations between the two sides more difficult.

After all, they all saw that Luzon's grain chips were insufficient, and if it weren't for the five major families joining forces to suppress it and continuously releasing grain through the Homo sapiens company, Luzon's grain prices would have been out of control long ago.

Therefore, the outside world is speculating about when the five major families will not be able to hold on, that is, when they harvest Luzon.

Just as speculators were dancing and shouting that Luzon's grain stocks were about to bottom out.

In the basement meeting room of Neihu Manor.

Garfield put down the assessment report in his hand: "In other words, the fish have all been baited?" ”

"Yes, they've got their cards revealed, and now we can play them." Jerry Zhang sneered maliciously.

Xu Yingming also said with a smile: "The bumper harvest of the second season of rice in Honsavady can currently supply us with 7 million tons of rice, and the first batch of transport ships transported 500,000 tons of rice, which will start to arrive at the port of Manila the day after tomorrow." ”

"So what are you waiting for? A full-scale counteroffensive will be launched the day after tomorrow, and I will appreciate their free fall. Garfield joked a little wickedly.

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