Chapter 323: Food Weapons
Dongba.
Thanks to the full entry of Homo sapiens, the food crisis here has been initially alleviated.
At this time, a large number of poor people were sucked into the construction company in Dhaka, the capital of Dongba, and Homo sapiens launched a large infrastructure plan.
This is also the first project arranged by Homo sapiens after taking control of an area, and the purpose is to provide relief for work.
The salary offered by the construction company is very low, only 50 gold yuan a month, but it includes food and accommodation.
At the local supermarket, Fertility House quickly sold artificial food to local temporary employees at ultra-low prices through the subsidy of internal employee cards.
Duomin, who had just received 50 gold yuan from her husband, hurried to the supermarket of the Fertile House.
Dongba has implemented zero tariffs on Homo sapiens products, and the close proximity of Dongba to Honsavady has made it convenient for the Home of Abundance to transfer goods from Honsavady.
As a result, the price of the products on the shelves is very low.
Pushing the shopping cart, Duo Min first bought a large package of artificial rice, 50 kilograms of artificial rice was only 5 yuan, and then she bought a bottle of 10L artificial egg liquid for 2 yuan, a 5-kilogram package of dehydrated dried vegetables for 1.5 yuan, and then a chilled white feather chicken for 2.3 yuan.
Finally, salt, curry powder, synthetic cooking oil, onions, carrots and potatoes were taken.
I bought a lot of things and spent 14.4 yuan.
Duo Min clenched the employee card in her hand, she felt that the employee card of Homo sapiens was more important than gold.
Relatives of other Homo sapiens temporary employees are also shopping on a shopping spree, and many are worried about price increases, or the supply of goods is insufficient.
After all, the supply of materials in Dongba is not as good as a year.
This is mainly due to the fact that the population of Dongba is growing too much naturally, and the land is very limited, and the arable land in Dongba is often affected by natural disasters such as typhoons, sea tides, and floods.
In addition, due to the high-intensity cultivation of cultivated land in Dongba in recent years, coupled with the serious shortage of organic fertilizer and chemical fertilizer supplementation, the soil organic matter content of cultivated land in Dongba is declining rapidly, and there is a relatively serious phenomenon of soil degradation.
Obviously, it is difficult for Dongba itself to produce food to meet the food needs of 160 million people.
Dao Yulan, who was transferred from Khunsawadi and is in charge of the economic layout of the Dongba region, knew that it was absolutely impossible to support small farmers and ranchers now, but to do the opposite.
Mobilizing Homo sapiens' huge inventory of artificial food products to collapse the smallholder economic system in Dongba in one fell swoop.
Having done so in Hungsavady and Siam, she knew very well that the consequence of continuing to maintain the small-scale peasant economy in East Pakistan would be that agriculture would not be intensified and that the conservative forces in the local villages would continue to do so.
Only by completely destroying the small-scale peasant economy of Dongba and concentrating the entire population in the cities can we improve agricultural production efficiency and at the same time reduce the natural growth rate of the local population.
Now Dao Magnolia is asking the Fertility House to dump grain and food at low prices, in order to suppress local agricultural production and put those farmers and farmers into bankruptcy or unprofitable predicament.
The area around Dhaka City was the first to be affected.
Homo sapiens' grain dumping, in less than a week, forced local farmers to be unprofitable.
In supermarkets, the prices of agricultural products and food products are very low, but the prices of industrial products are much higher.
This price difference will further create a scissors gap, resulting in farmers selling hundreds of kilograms of rice without being able to buy a single piece of clothing and a pair of rubber shoes.
However, those temporary employees who work for Homo sapiens can easily buy low-cost daily necessities through employee subsidies.
Of course, there is some room for maneuvering.
Than temporary employees buy discounted goods and then sell them to non-employee groups.
In this regard, Dao Yulan has long been prepared to frantically suppress the purchase price of grain and agricultural products, just to make agricultural products unprofitable.
As long as agricultural products become unprofitable, temporary workers cannot monetize the sale of discounted goods.
The logic is very simple.
Farmers and ranchers don't have a gold dollar, they only have land, agricultural products, and a small amount of precious metals.
Temporary employees only have a small amount of gold dollars and can buy discounted goods at low prices.
As a result, if temporary workers sell low-priced and discounted goods to farmers and ranchers, they can only get agricultural products, land, and a small amount of precious metals.
At this time, agricultural products are unprofitable, and temporary employees cannot eat so many agricultural products themselves, so they will naturally lose interest in agricultural products in the hands of farmers.
In addition, this kind of behavior is also robbing the company's prey, and the consequences are very serious.
At worst, you lose your job, or you lose your life.
As for selling grain to big grain merchants such as Tianzhu or ABCD, this option was also stuck by Homo sapiens.
Dao Yulan has asked the Dongba region to restrict the export of grain through the relationship of raising Mengjiao, and imposed a 5,000% punitive tax on the exported grain.
Now on the road for farmers and farmers in Dongba, there is only one last option left - smuggling.
At this time, Yang Mengjiao is on the border between Dongba and Tianzhu.
She's fishing here.
With an overwhelming array of reconnaissance insects and a dense magnetic field radar, for those who have the ability to smuggle grain to Tianzhu, Yang Mengjiao directly strikes hard.
Playing smuggling in the area controlled by Homo sapiens is basically lighting a lamp in the toilet - looking for death.
It just so happens that Yang Mengjiao also wants to get rid of these guys with a long backbone in the back of her head, so she is here to wait for the rabbit.
Dao Yulan continued to regulate the economy of East Pakistan.
In fact, Tianzhu's reaction to Homo sapiens' full entry into Dongba was very intense.
However, his strength is not as good as others, and Bodhidharma does not dare to argue with the Homo sapiens company head-on, and Tianzhu is now difficult to protect himself, so he can only watch the Homo sapiens company forcibly occupy Dongba, and he is secretly incompetent and furious.
The other side.
America is also busy harvesting a group of allies, and he doesn't pay attention to the fact that Homo sapiens has swallowed Dongba.
Or it is more appropriate to describe America as powerless.
The other powers were equally preoccupied with themselves.
No one can stop themselves, and Homo sapiens naturally becomes more unscrupulous.
Not only forced Dongba to open the door, but also launched a comprehensive trade with Homo sapiens.
He even took advantage of the food crisis to demand that Nibora also accept the protection of Homo sapiens, and also to open the market to Homo sapiens.
Food, don't look at it ordinarily inconspicuous.
However, as long as there is a shortage of food and its own production capacity is not self-sufficient, it is the time when food becomes a weapon.
In this world, there are people who don't bend their waists for five buckets of rice, but the vast majority of ordinary people are destined to only bend their waists for five buckets of rice.
And those areas with huge populations and insufficient agricultural resources also have to bend their waists for five buckets of rice.
If you don't open the market to Homo sapiens, you don't want to get enough food.
For example, Tianzhu, who was fighting the food crisis and economic crisis at this time, could only grit their teeth and take out a part of their gold reserves to import grain from Lucia and América, trying to stabilize the internal food supply.
However, the price of international grain transactions has been rising steadily.
Whether Tianzhu can purchase 20 million tons of grain from the international grain market this time is still unknown at this time.
However, Dao Yulan and Yang Mengjiao are paying close attention to Tianzhu, especially its internal grain prices and total grain stocks.
It wasn't until October 12 that another breaking news appeared, which instantly plunged the entire international grain market into a violent shock.
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