At the beginning of February, the bubonic plague had just passed, and the imminent problem of food shortage was once again in front of everyone.

The cooperation between the Li family and the Du family indicates that the problem of grain can be solved from the root cause of the shortage of grain, and although this incident has given a reassurance to the hearts of the panicked people, it cannot solve the problem of soaring grain prices due to the current lack of grain...... If you want to solve this, you have to rely on real knives and real guns to fight.

Before the temperature rises to spring, the branches of the trees have gradually begun to grow new shoots.

On the way to the suburban wharf, it was still a dilapidated scene at this time, and a fleet of ships that were not very large slowly approached the shore.

Each cargo ship is guarded by soldiers, and the waterline of the ship is not shallow, and this is the second batch of small batches of grain that is being delivered to Shin-Yokohama.

The torrent of history is moving forward.

The people who are in it can't review and summarize, and often can only roll down the flow direction.

In the second week of February, in the office of Lesson 9, the sun is gradually gaining strength as the snow melts...... Nance pushed the door open and sat cross-legged in his office chair, rubbing his palms.

"When is it my turn to show my skills......

On this day, the first batch of grain shipped into California from other places has begun to enter the market. It was Du Xiuxian who was in charge of the distribution of grain in the center, after all, as a scheming capitalist, he knew the law of prices best. On the other hand, he also has deep political resources and has an extraordinary intuition about the overt and hidden arrows at the political level.

It is the nature of businessmen to pursue profits, and almost all businessmen in California, which was affected by the snowstorm, are stockpiling grain, and everyone is still holding a lot of grain in their hands and not releasing it.

In a sense, only talking about interests is the truest side of capital.

It is conceivable that once low-priced grain enters the market and the high grain prices are suppressed, all kinds of people whose interests have been harmed will inevitably jump on the stage one after another.

All the traders, capital, and bureaucrats whose interests have been damaged will become enemies at this moment.

Some things are actually hard to understand.

Stabilizing grain prices does not mean that the capitalists lose money.

Just want them to earn a little less.

A little less greed they have, and more people will survive......

But in fact, letting the capital earn less is tantamount to waging war directly against the capital...... The prelude to this scene has been played long enough, and the real danger should be staged, and the accounts between each other must be settled.

Nance leaned back in his chair and picked up his phone to watch a picture of the Du family's disaster relief camp.

In famine years, it is common for large companies to provide disaster relief, and there are countless companies in Shin-Yokohama that distribute supplies free of charge, and government departments are naturally not idle. Although everyone has a generous and selfless attitude of "I don't have much food left, but I will do my best to save what I can save", no one knows how dark it is in private.

The Du family's disaster relief camp has always distributed only bread and rice porridge.

Since it is from Tseung Kwan O, it covers a large area and has the largest number of victims, so the maintenance of order is very important. In the past, although everyone was hungry, they could barely maintain order in order to eat a bite and queue up to receive relief food.

But I don't know what's going on today, just after a round of relief food has been distributed, and the victims still haven't dispersed.

The steward jumped onto the stage and shouted loudly, "Today's distribution is over, please disperse, come back tomorrow", and he could finish his words. Someone in the crowd shouted, "This dog is lying!" ”

As soon as the ragged man spoke, a loud voice was heard throughout the audience.

The steward knew that something was wrong, and immediately replied: "You are here to make trouble!" ”

"Guys, listen, their Du family only received grain from two freighters a few days ago......" The person who jumped out to speak shouted heartbreakingly, and someone immediately echoed: "Yes, yes, I saw the freighter parked at Kwai Chung Wharf with my own eyes." ”

"The Du family is lying to us, they want to sell the grain at a high price......

"They must have a lot of food in their camp."

The voices of a few people can provoke a great response.

The victims' eyes were a little wrong.

The steward was shocked, and shouted with a loudspeaker: "Everyone, the grain received by the Du family will definitely be put into the market at the lowest price." Our purpose is to stabilize food prices......"

There were also people in the crowd who echoed loudly.

"That's right, Master Du is a big businessman."

"My life is all given by the Du family."

"yes, it must be a mistake......"

These people quickly quarreled with each other, and for these victims, whether the price of food can be lowered in the future is really not as important as filling their stomachs now. At the instigation of those who had a good heart, many people were soon provoked, gathered in groups and rushed into the camp and began to plunder.

By the time the police arrived, the people who had started the unrest had even started to work in the next camp.

To incite the hungry people to revolt, it only takes a quick time, so that some people lose their minds, they will naturally make drastic moves, and the rest of the people will be coerced and it will be difficult to turn back. These people wandered around the various disaster relief camps related to the Du family, repeating the same operation over and over again.

Nance leaned back in her chair and browsed the images of the impact on the camp.

"Knock~"

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

Nance looked up.

The door clicked open, and the crisp sound of his heels tapping on the floor tiles made him feel comfortable for his ears.

"Section Chief, I've got you some fruit ......" Tokizaki came in with a fruit basket, his straight, well-proportioned legs wrapped in black garnessings reflected on the polished marble tiles.

After putting the basket down, she turned to leave.

"Hey, sit down for a while......" Nance's tone casually withheld.

Shi Qi Su turned his head and smiled at his boss apologetically: "There is still something to do......"

"Want to help?"

"No, section chief, you can eat oranges by yourself."

Miss Shizaki said to her boss, then smiled, turned around and was about to leave.

She has been a little busy recently, and she has to make plans for all kinds of food delivery first, and then draw out the funds on hand, and secretly accumulate preparations to make big moves...... But that's not to say you can't do it in your boss's office.

She just complained about the previous incident in her heart, and didn't want to see her boss's face.

"Eh, Miss Tokizaki, tell me how to solve the problem of the disaster victims storming the relief camp this time." Nance used business to seduce the adjutant to stay.

Shizaki's footsteps paused.

She gritted her teeth, and in an instant, the uniformed man straightened up and turned back to face her boss.

The uniform skirt was well-made, shiny and smooth, and her face was equally glamorous, and Nance reached out to peel an orange from the fruit basket and divided it with her: "Sit down and say." ”

"I won't spare you so easily next time......" Shi Qi glanced at him, walked lightly, and sat opposite him. Taking half of the orange from her boss, she carefully picked out the white veins, put a petal in her mouth, and said while chewing: "Someone will incite the victims to storm the camp, and as expected by me and Mr. Du, we only left a small amount of food in each camp, and even if we were impacted, the impact would not be great." ”

"Go on."

Nance was roaming with oranges.

"The disaster relief will usher in a wave of rebounds, which is the consensus between me and Mr. Du." "It's like a huge grinding wheel, and the mill will sweep across the whole of California, disintegrating and peeling off the original order, like a war. ”

When her boss had finished eating half an orange, she handed over the rest of her hand.

"Yes, it's war!" Nance unceremoniously took the orange handed over by the adjutant.

After Shi Qi gave him the oranges, he took out the oranges from the fruit basket and peeled them, "Some big families, such as Cargill and Bunge, are giants who are fighting head-on with the Du family. On the table, we can't directly tear their faces apart, it's too much involved, and no one has that much energy. What we have to do is to shake those small grain farmers under the table. Only by shaking the foundation of the entire market can it be possible to topple this big tree. ”

"I remember you've been investigating information about small households lately, how is it going?"

Shi Qi nodded lightly, and handed the peeled orange to his boss: "I have a part of the list and the evidence of their grain storage, as long as you order it, section chief, I can break down the door at any time and arrest them." However, we don't have the right to manage the market in Lesson 9, so we can only bring them here in the name of implicating the demons in committing crimes. Compared with the Municipal Supervision Bureau, which has been infiltrated into a sieve, we arrest people, which is actually more deterrent. ”

"No hurry, what are we in a hurry." Nance said, eating an orange.

The adjutant looked at him quietly and asked for an explanation.

"Don't forget, the reason why Du Xiuxian wants to participate in the grain price matter is so that he can give credit to his younger brother, who is going to be the Minister of Economy." After eating the oranges, Nance's eyes meowed at the fruit basket, "It's about to enter the melee stage, and his brother is almost here." ”

Tokizaki obediently peeled an apple for his boss.

"Click~"

One bite down, the crisp sound sounds sweet.

Nance comfortably nibbled on the apple, and analyzed with the adjutant: "We can't be offended, and he robbed him of the credit, right?" In the future, I will make Shin-Yokohama my home base, and I will influence the entire empire with this as the center...... Those small households will be my private little treasury in the future, don't offend them all at once. Wait for Mr. Du's younger brother to come over and let him offend people, and I won't rob him of the credit, he can't complain, right? ”

"That's true, but what if he doesn't come so soon......" Shi Qi tilted his head, and a few hints of complexity flashed in his eyes, "In this world, wherever there are people, there are selfish desires, and I don't think it is okay to have selfish desires." But, section chief, this is a matter of life and death for millions of people......"

At this point, Miss Adjutant choked up a little.

"Stop, stop!" Nance glared at her, "What do you mean?" Scold me for being cold-blooded? Scold me for calculating and ignoring the lives of the people? ”

"I didn't say ......"

Miss Adjutant bit her lower lip aggrievedly.

"I hacked into Du Xiuxian's communication device, and I knew that his brother would come to Shin-Yokohama in two days......" Nance looked at the stubborn adjutant helplessly, "I just knew that he was coming soon, so I said that we would not move." ”

"Oh~"

Tokizaki sniffed.

Call~

Scared to death Baby Tokizaki.

I thought that the section chief's heart had turned black for the sake of profit.

"Two days later, he went to Shin-Yokohama, and on the third day I forced him to arrest people at gunpoint. You don't have to worry about this side of the matter, just concentrate on following Mr. Du to participate in the input of grain and suppress food prices. As long as the food price is pushed back to normal this month, most people will survive......" Nance nibbled on an apple, and as he spoke, he suddenly slapped his thigh violently, "No, the more I think about it, the more angry I become, Shizaki, you actually misunderstood me, otherwise a few times Dad will not work...... Let's go, let's go to Sister Rena and let you shout ...... in front of her."

The afternoon sun shines through the windows, and the lace curtains swaying in the wind.

Miss Adjutant, who was forced to go to Rena's mother and call her boss's father, stared at her boss's embarrassed eyes, and was a little affectionately obedient......

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The bright February sun shines on the spire of Shin-Yokohama Monastery.

On the ramp leading to the courtyard gate, a young woman sped away on a bicycle. From time to time, a limousine drove behind them, heading up the slope.

In the church, Sister Lena looked at the statue of God in front of her, a little absent-minded.

The voices of prayer were all out of order.

Nance is coming......

When she thought about it, she couldn't sit still.

Waiting is neither the fiercest storm nor the most hearty crystallization of pleasure, but only the spark that awakens the image of things...... When in love, isn't the power of waiting to the human soul equivalent to the fragrance of some flowers?

Sister Rena was drunk and savored the impact of happiness, and initially appreciated the joy of love life.

She had found a new home and a better understanding of the things in her life, and when she got up every morning in the bathroom, driven by vanity, she had already shown how difficult she was to groom and groom her body with meticulous and thoughtful grooming.

But now when she waited for Nance, in addition to the excitement, she was a little nervous.

I don't know if Nance will be angry about hiding in Marlene's closet...... Sister Rena decided that she would come out to him as soon as he asked, and would never hold back......

The car of the ninth lesson opened the gate of the seminary.

The sun shone on the cross in the square, shining brightly. The sun seemed to be spring sunshine, and the people in the square, ordinary people and nuns, had already stripped off their sweaters or coats, draped them over their shoulders or held them in their arms. In the warm afternoon sun, everyone seemed to be immersed in happiness.

The two nuns were neatly dressed in black uniforms and had a satisfied expression on their faces, chatting in the sun.

Tokizaki lowered his head and followed behind his boss with small steps like a little girl who had done something wrong...... Her movement of tilting her head to the side magically brewed a youthful and shy charm, which caused some men's eyes to cling to her.

"Section Leader......"

"What?" Nance asked, walking ahead.

He also took off his coat, turned around, and handed it to the adjutant to hold.

"Yes, can you ......" Shi Qi was a little incoherent, his face turned red, and he reached out to check his boss's coat, "Can you not call Dad in front of Sister Rena?" ”

"Can't!"

Nance didn't think about it, so he just refused.

Shi Qi hugged his coat and pouted aggrievedly: "The section chief bullies people." ”

"Come on, don't think I don't know how good you are." Nance put his hands in his pockets, turned around and continued to walk forward, "Now the women beside me, except for the two monarchs, aren't the other few headed by you?" If I don't get you done, this home will definitely not be peaceful. Be enlightened, Ms. Tokizaki! ”

"The section leader bullies people......"

Miss Adjutant's face seemed to be even redder.

I don't know if the section chief will have any strange punishments besides letting himself call Dad......