Chapter 323 Food and Weapons
Dongba.
Thanks to the full entry of the Homo Sapiens company, the food crisis here has been initially alleviated.
At this time in Dhaka, the capital of East Pakistan, a large number of poor people were absorbed into construction companies, and the Homo Sapiens company launched a large infrastructure plan.
This is also the first large-scale infrastructure project that the Homo Sapiens company arranges after taking control of a region, with the purpose of providing work in lieu of relief.
The salary offered by the construction company was very low, only 50 gold yuan a month, but food and accommodation were provided.
In local supermarkets, House of Abundance quickly sold artificial food to local temporary employees at super low prices through subsidies from internal employee cards.
Duomin, who had just received 50 gold yuan from her husband, hurried to the supermarket in the House of Plenty.
Dongba imposed zero tariffs on the products of the Zhiren Company. In addition, Dongba and Hongsawadi are very close, which makes it convenient for the House of Plenty to transfer goods from Hongsawadi.
Therefore the prices of products on the shelves are very low.
Duomin pushed the shopping cart and first bought a large bag of artificial rice. 50 kilograms of artificial rice cost only 5 yuan. Then she bought a 10L bottle of artificial egg liquid for 2 yuan, a 5-kilogram bag of dehydrated vegetables for 1.5 yuan, and then a chilled white-feather chicken for 2.3 yuan.
Finally, I took salt, curry powder, synthetic cooking oil, onions, carrots and potatoes.
I bought a lot of things and only spent 14.4 yuan.
Duomin clenched the employee card in her hand. She felt that the employee card of Zhiren Company was more important than gold.
Relatives of temporary employees of other Zhiren companies were also on a shopping spree, and many of them were worried about price increases or insufficient supply of goods.
After all, Dongba’s material supply is getting worse year by year.
This is mainly because the population of Dongba has grown too much naturally, while the land is very limited. At the same time, Dongba’s arable land is often affected by natural disasters .
In addition, due to the high-intensity cultivation of arable land in Dongba in recent years, coupled with the serious lack of organic and chemical fertilizers, the organic matter content of Dongba's arable soil is rapidly declining, and serious soil degradation has occurred.
Obviously, Dongba ’s own grain production is difficult to sustain the food needs of 160 million people.
Dao Yulan, who was transferred from Hongsawadi and is responsible for the economic layout of Dongba area, knows that now it is absolutely impossible to support small farmers and farmers, but to do the opposite.
Mobilize the huge inventory of artificial food of the Homo Sapiens company to destroy the small peasant economy system of Dongba in one fell swoop.
Dao Yulan had done this kind of operation in Hongsavady and Siam. She knew very well that if the small peasant economic system in Dongba continued to be maintained, the consequence would be that agriculture could not be intensively developed and the conservative forces in the local villages would continue to be domineering.
There is no construction without destruction. Only by completely destroying the small peasant economy of the entire Dongba and concentrating all the population in cities can we improve agricultural production efficiency and at the same time lower the local natural population growth rate.
Now Dao Yulan asked the House of Plenty to dump grain and food at low prices in order to suppress local agricultural production and force those farmers and ranch owners into bankruptcy or unprofitability.
The areas around Dhaka city were the first to be affected.
In less than a week, the dumping of grain by the Homo Sapiens company made it impossible for local farmers to make a profit.
In supermarkets, the prices of agricultural products and food are very low, but the prices of industrial products are much higher.
This price difference will further form a scissors gap, resulting in farmers selling hundreds of kilograms of rice but not being able to buy a piece of clothing or a pair of rubber shoes.
However, temporary employees working for Zhiren Company can easily purchase low-priced daily necessities through employee subsidies.
Of course, there is some room for maneuver.
Than temporary employees purchased discounted merchandise and then sold it to non-employee groups.
Dao Yulan had been prepared for this and had been frantically suppressing the purchase prices of grain and agricultural products in order to make agricultural products unprofitable.
As long as agricultural products become unprofitable, temporary workers will not be able to cash in by selling discounted goods.
The logic behind this is very simple.
Farmers and ranchers did not have gold, they only had land, agricultural products, and a small amount of precious metals.
Temporary employees only have a small amount of money and can buy discounted goods at low prices.
As a result, if temporary workers sell low-priced discounted goods to farmers and ranchers, they can only get agricultural products, land, and a small amount of precious metals from them.
However, agricultural products are not profitable at this time, and temporary employees cannot eat so much agricultural products themselves, so they will naturally lose interest in the agricultural products in the hands of farmers.
In addition, this kind of behavior is also stealing the company's prey, and the consequences are very serious.
At the very least, you may lose your job, and at worst, you may lose your life.
As for selling grain to India or large grain traders such as ABCD, this option was also blocked by the Homo Sapiens Company.
Dao Yulan has used her relationship with Yang Mengjiao to have the Dongba region restrict the export of grain and impose a 5,000% punitive tax on exported grain.
Now the only option left for Dongba farmers and ranchers is smuggling.
At this time, Yang Mengjiao was on the border between Dongba and Tianzhu.
She specializes in fishing here.
With overwhelming reconnaissance insects and dense magnetic field radars, Yang Mengjiao will directly strike hard at those who are capable of smuggling grain to India.
Smuggling in the area controlled by the Homo Sapiens Company is basically like lighting a light in the toilet - seeking death.
It just so happened that Yang Mengjiao also wanted to get rid of these rebellious guys, so she just sat here and waited for them to come.
Dao Yulan continued to regulate Dongba's economy.
In fact, Tianzhu’s reaction to Zhiren Company’s full entry into Dongba was very intense.
However, due to his inferior strength, Damo did not dare to challenge the Zhiren Company head-on. Besides, Tianzhu was also in a difficult situation now, so he could only watch Zhiren Company occupy Dongba, feeling helpless and furious.
The other side.
America was also busy gathering a number of allies and paid no attention to the Sapiens company's attempt to swallow Dongba.
Or it would be more appropriate to describe America as having the best intentions but not the best.
Other powers were equally preoccupied with their own affairs.
With no one to stop themselves, the Homo sapiens company naturally became more unscrupulous.
Not only did it force Dongba to open its doors, but it also started comprehensive trade with the Homo Sapiens company.
They even took advantage of the food crisis to demand that Nepal accept the protection of Homo sapiens and open its market to them.
Food is something that may seem insignificant at first glance.
However, whenever food is scarce and a country’s production capacity is insufficient to be self-sufficient, food becomes a weapon.
In this world, there are people who will not bow down for a few pieces of silver, but the vast majority of ordinary people are destined to bow down for a few pieces of silver.
Those regions with large populations and insufficient agricultural resources also have to bow to the demand for food.
If you don't open your market to Homo sapiens companies, you won't get enough food.
For example, India, which was currently struggling against a food crisis and an economic crisis, could only grit its teeth and use part of its gold reserves to import food from Lucia and America in an attempt to stabilize its internal food supply.
However, the international grain trading prices have been rising steadily recently.
Whether Tianzhu can purchase 20 million tons of grain from the international grain market this time is still an unknown.
However, Dao Yulan and Yang Mengjiao were paying close attention to Tianzhu, especially its internal grain prices and total grain inventory.
It was not until October 12 that another breaking news emerged, causing the entire international food market to fall into violent fluctuations.
