Chapter 390 Trying to break the situation...
India, Delhi.
Looking at the wheat yield this year, Damo felt very disappointed.
73.52 million tons. Only 73.52 million tons of wheat were produced this year, which is only about 70% of previous years.
He put down the report in his hand, a serious look on his face: "As you can see, our food gap is still widening."
The head of the Ministry of Agriculture looked embarrassed, but he quickly passed the buck: "We have no other options, unless we restrict the replanting of wheat and rice fields, or ban the export of agricultural products."
Others also made excuses for themselves.
In short, it can be summed up in one sentence: I have tried my best, and it is all the fault of other departments. As for ways to change the status quo, no one dares to mention Homo sapiens.
Listening to these guys blaming each other, Bodhidharma was furious. If these guys were not the spokespersons of various forces in India, he would have wanted to kill them all.
In fact, Bodhidharma knew very well why these guys behaved like this, the reason was profit.
The big farmers found that they could make a lot of money by following the rules of Homo sapiens.
Growing crops? Forget it.
Not only do they not grow crops themselves, they also use their influence in towns and villages to require local farmers not to grow crops either.
The reason is naturally very simple, because they discovered the huge benefits and ways to control the place.
They learned the methods of the Homo Sapiens Company. These large farmers knew that the Homo Sapiens Company wanted to control India's grain industry, so they followed suit and forced farmers to switch to growing cash crops. They then used their cooperative relationship with the Homo Sapiens Company to import high-quality and low-cost grain for sale.
The cash crops produced by farmers have to go through another round of hands, and the retail grain also goes through another round of hands, which contains huge profits.
Asking them to give up these benefits is more difficult than killing them.
Many of the families behind these large farmers are Brahmins and Kshatriyas. Even Bodhidharma cannot shake the combined power of all of them.
Moreover, as time went on, large farmers in towns and villages and comprador business owners in cities had begun to become corrupt.
Including the last time Tamil Nadu sold its power industry to Sapiens, it can be seen that the depth of Sapiens' penetration into India has reached a complex level.
Looking at these bastards who were dragging their feet, Damo suppressed his anger and said, "You all need to write me a solution. I want to see a useful solution! Do you understand?"
"Understood!" everyone said in unison .
"The meeting is adjourned."
As the crowd dispersed, Damo was left alone in the empty office, feeling sad.
Many of the ministers who left the office had frivolous smiles on their faces and did not take Dharma's words to heart at all.
Including Judd, who is in charge of the Department of Agriculture.
"Minister, how should this solution be written?"
"Write whatever you want, write carefully." Judd spread his hands with a smile.
The others also had a smile on their faces.
Solution? No problem, we'll go back and look up information and figure out how to solve it, but it'll take a while.
Their family is the beneficiary of agricultural trade and can earn at least several million gold yuan in profit every year. It would take a long time for them to let go.
Originally, the power of the various states in India was very strong. Now, under the deliberate guidance of the Zhiren Company, the forces of the various states have become more united, and are basically in a state of obeying orders but not announcements.
These beneficiaries are well aware that food is their powerful weapon against the Dharma faction.
Therefore, they desperately reduce the scale of grain planting and local grain reserves, while using high-yield cash crops and low-priced grain to attract farmers to switch crops.
Farmers see that they can earn tens of gold yuan in profit by planting one acre of cash crops, but they may not even earn a few yuan in profit by planting one acre of grain.
The price of grain is very cheap, so why not switch to growing cash crops, then use the cash crops to make money and then buy grain and food?
Farmers don’t care about food security, they just want to make more money and improve their living standards.
Therefore, many farmers have switched to growing cash crops, and some areas have even specialized in growing one cash crop.
This is also what large farmers want to see.
In this way, they can monopolize food and cash crops, thereby ensuring a stable harvest, and can also coerce the farmers to resist Delhi's orders.
If Bodhidharma issued an order now, requiring all places to grow grain, he might have an out-of-this-world idea one day.
Bodhidharma was well aware of this, and therefore had no way to deal with these large farmers.
Alone in his office, he looked at the world map on the side wall.
The external environment of Tianzhu at this time was not optimistic.
To the west is the old enemy Siba, and to the north, east and south are all locations of branches of the Sapiens company.
The only exit is the Ceylon Yanga Sea in the southwest.
However, there is basically no possibility of expansion in the southwest direction. The relations between many West Asian countries and India are average. The American Fifth Fleet entrenched in the Persian Gulf does not allow other forces to intervene.
Don't think that America has been fanning the flames, instigating India and the Zhiren Company to fight to the death.
But America was only willing to provide arms and was very stingy with other things.
Thinking of this, Damo took out the list of heads of various departments and circled out the pro-American and pro-intellectual factions. He narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "You forced me to do this."
He then called his confidants and secretly instructed them on some matters.
Southwest monsoon in the Ceylon Ocean.
Blowing across the South Asian subcontinent.
A storm is coming.
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Western Asia, Sayyid Kingdom.
Harbor of Khaluf.
The American Fifth Fleet, which moved its main base here, has greatly improved its overall strength compared to a year ago.
However, facing the frantic Homo sapiens escort fleet, the US Fifth Fleet still felt tremendous pressure. After all, the shadow of the last disastrous defeat still loomed over the Fifth Fleet.
As the first fleet in the history of the US military to be captured intact, the Fifth Fleet has become a shame and stain on the US military. Unless they defeat the Homo Sapiens Corporation one day, they will have to carry this shame forever.
In fact, the headquarters of the West Asian Black Ships was also in the port of Khaluf.
In order to deal with the threat from Homo sapiens, the Black Ship has reorganized its branches in some regions.
Among them, the level of the West Asian black ships was raised by half a level, and a special governor was sent from the headquarters to take charge of the Central Asian and South Asian black ships.
Inside the high-security office in the underground bunker.
"Report, urgent news from South Asia."
Special Governor Hall took the decoded translation and after reading it, his face became gloomy. He handed the translation to his assistant James beside him.
After reading the translation, James said carefully: "Dharma wants to drive the wolf to swallow the tiger. Are we going to end it?"
Hall knew what Damo was thinking, but even though he knew what the other party was thinking, he had to jump off the black ship.
Because Tianzhu is an important chess piece to contain the Homo Sapiens Company. Once Tianzhu is used by the Homo Sapiens Company, the consequences will be very serious.
The US Fifth Fleet was already under attack from all sides in the Persian Gulf, and the attitudes of a number of West Asian oil giants were also becoming very wavering.
If India is used by the Homo Sapiens Company again, the US military will be attacked from three sides in West Asia, completely losing its buffer zone for strategic relocation, and may even be directly squeezed out of West Asia.
Hall took a deep breath and then ordered, "Tell the South Asian Black Ship to be on high alert. The confidentiality of the Dharma side will definitely not be hidden from the Sapiens Company for too long. I need to communicate with the headquarters."
"OK." James nodded.
