Great Power Technology.

Chapter 319

The sudden food crisis in the cloudy capital also caused a considerable reaction in China. With the news reports and the hype of the marketing account, an inexplicable worry began to surface:
Is the food crisis really coming?

Will we face the same crisis?
Are we... going to starve?

This nation, which has existed for thousands of years, has no shortage of memories of famine in history.

"When you are old and hungry, people eat each other."

"Eat them after changing their children, and cook them after dissecting their bones."

A short sentence in the history books has actually written all the pain experienced by the people at the bottom during a great famine.

Therefore, under the inheritance of memory from generation to generation, even young people living in the most affluent new century actually have an almost instinctive fear of hunger.

On the Internet, farming is ridiculed as a natural skill of the Chinese nation, but if you think about it carefully, it may not be a so-called "talent", but a lesson.

We have to learn how to farm in order to survive even the toughest of situations.

What about when there is no land to plant?

Only grain!

As a result, there have been a lot of push articles and short videos on the domestic public opinion about storing food for disaster relief. Every blogger uses a rational and objective way to educate everyone that they need to stockpile a certain amount of food in daily life to meet unexpected needs. .

But they didn't think about what would happen to one of their videos after several times of dissemination and amplification under the current environment and when the crisis had gradually fermented.

……

Ye Zhou was sitting in the office, refreshing the latest news on the Internet on his mobile phone. After a long time, he put down his mobile phone and said to Chen Hao who was sitting opposite:
"The situation is starting to change... At first, some popular science bloggers were explaining the benefits of limited stockpiling of food, but now they need to stockpile food immediately. If it spreads for a while, I guess they will start to panic buy."

"This is the character of Chinese people—it can be said that the sense of crisis is too strong, but this sense of crisis can sometimes cause trouble."

Chen Hao nodded and replied:

"Yes, that is indeed the case from the current situation."

"If it's other commodities, it's okay if you can't grab them, and it won't affect your basic life. But once a wave of panic buying starts to form, it will snowball like a snowball, and the more it develops, the more outrageous it will become. "

"At the end of the day, there will even be some people who can't afford food at all, or can't buy food at all because of the high price."

"If it is not contained in time, even the country with the most abundant food supply will starve to death."

After pausing for a moment, he smiled and said:
"But fortunately, at least for now, we are fully capable of dealing with this panic buying."

"Either carry out a unified resource allocation, or release the old grain. It will definitely not be like the Yindu side, just a little price increase, and it will be in a hurry."

"That's not a 'little increase', it's doubled."

Ye Zhou shook his head helplessly and said.

"Double it again, and the overall volume is only that big. If we dump half a month's worth of our wheat into the Yindu market, their so-called high prices will be overwhelmed immediately."

"The key to this crisis is not actually the actual shortage of food at all, but the gap in people's hearts."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou nodded.

After a while, he continued to ask:

"However, we have not yet reached the time to release the final news, right? The current response mainly depends on inventory?"

"The strength of the confrontation at this stage is enough to rely on inventory."

Chen Hao replied confidently.

……

At 7:[-] p.m., Shencheng, Tongfu Grain and Oil Store.

From 6 o'clock in the morning, there has been a long queue at the door of this store, which usually has few customers. The people in the queue are all residents of the nearby community, and their purpose is surprisingly the same, that is, to buy rice.

The shopkeeper stood at the forefront of the crowd and shouted hoarsely into the trumpet in his hand:
"Neighbors, we really have to get off work today. We have been busy all day, and we have adjusted the goods several times. Please come back tomorrow if you want to buy rice and oil. We are closing for a rest!"

Hearing his words, there was a commotion among the people in the team. One of the kind old ladies stepped forward, handed him a bottle of water gently, and then said:
"Xiao Liu, just keep going! You see, our neighbors haven't bought rice yet. What if we come back tomorrow and it's sold out!"

The shopkeeper looked at the old lady dumbfounded, and replied:
"Mrs. Wang, you are an intellectual after all. Why are you like them? Look at the rice on the car behind me. Don't say tomorrow. If you buy two hundred catties each, I can sell it until next month. Go, where can I sell it?"

"Really, old lady, there is no need!"

"What age is this? Let me tell you, when I went to the main station to transfer goods today, people didn't even bother to raise their eyelids --- people really don't like this kind of goods!"

"It's just you guys. After watching some videos every day, you feel that there is a shortage of food. Where can I get it? The price dropped in the past two months, so that I, a second-hand dealer, will lose money. Think about how much food we have. Bar!"

What he said was all the actual situation that he experienced personally, but in the eyes of these people queuing up to stockpile food, it was still not convincing.

Before Mrs. Wang could speak, an old man on the side came forward and said:

"Xiao Liu, what you said is wrong! There is no shortage of food now, so what if there is a shortage in the future?"

"If you don't buy it now, buy it when it's in short supply? Can you still afford it?"

"I've lived my whole life, and I've seen the world no less than you. Don't fool me. Sell it quickly. If it doesn't work, you can raise the price! It's always right to make money, right?"

The owner frowned, and said with some displeasure:

"Old man Li, it's useless for you to fix these things every day. Can't you just play your chess well? Why are you here to join in the fun? I'm still raising the price. Don't you know that the more the price is raised, the more likely it is to cause panic buying?"

"When the price rises, there will be a real shortage of food!"

"We've been neighbors in the neighborhood for more than ten years. You don't know who I am? Use such words to run on me? Have I ever earned a penny for such unconscionable money?"

Seeing that the shopkeeper's tone became severe, Mrs. Wang hurriedly stepped forward to smooth things over and said:

"Xiao Liu, don't worry, he doesn't mean anything malicious, it's just that his mouth is notoriously uncontrollable, don't be as knowledgeable as him, come on, quickly put it on for me, move it to the small cart, I'll buy one first Two hundred catties."

"Can you push these two hundred catties?"

The shopkeeper said helplessly.

"You have to push if you can't push it! Hurry up, I have to go back to watch the news broadcast later..."

As soon as Mrs. Wang said her words, the TV hanging on the counter of the grain and oil store played the opening music of the news. While helping Mrs. Wang move the rice, the owner said:
"Mrs. Wang, if you want me to tell you, don't worry about it. Just watch it. In a few days, the country will issue a policy. By then, all the grain you hoarded will be wasted..."

"Nonsense! How can food be wasted!"

"Isn't it a waste if you can't finish it? This rice is full of worms!"

"I'll eat worms too!"

The two chatted without saying a word, and suddenly there was a report about food on the TV behind them.

At this moment, everyone's movements stopped subconsciously, their eyes were fixed on the news on TV, and in the news, a man in a white shirt was answering the reporter's question:

"... We have also noticed the issue you mentioned about the panic buying of food. Under the current circumstances, it is normal for the public to have certain concerns about our food security."

"Especially now there is indeed still a certain food supply gap in the world, and a small part of the population is also starving."

"However, if we only look at our country, the problem of insufficient food supply does not exist."

"I won't talk too much about the data here—it's mainly for our people. I'll just say a simple judgment."

"Our country's current staple food stocks are enough to feed the country's 15 billion people for two years."

"And, the types of our food reserves are enough for everyone to spend the past two years with a balanced diet."

"So, unlike what everyone thinks, what we are more worried about now is not the shortage of food, but how to update the old food."

"If such a large amount of grain reserves is put on the market at one time, the price of grain will inevitably drop, and the interests of our peasant brothers will not be guaranteed."

"However, the recent rise in food prices also gives us a window to operate."

"In the next period of time, we will put about [-] million tons of various grains on the market to stabilize the price of staple grains and at the same time replace old grains with new ones."

"To sum it up, it's just one sentence."

"If people and friends think it is necessary to stockpile food, then it doesn't matter if you stockpile a little."

"Because we have plenty of food."

With the end of this interview, the line in front of the grain and oil store suddenly became a little loose.

The shopkeeper looked at Mrs. Wang who was hesitating in front of him, smiled knowingly, and asked:
"Mrs. Wang, do you still want to buy these two hundred catties of rice?"

(End of this chapter)