Homo sapiens.

It happened that Yang Mengjiao also wanted to get rid of these guys with the back of the head, so she just waited here.

Dao Yulan continued to control Dongba's economy.

In fact, Tianzhu's reaction to Homo sapiens' full entry into Dongba was very intense.

However, his strength is not as good as that of others, and Bodhidharma did not dare to challenge the Homo sapiens company head-on. In addition, Tianzhu is also in danger now, so he can only watch Homo sapiens company occupy Dongba, secretly helpless and furious.

the other side.

America was also busy harvesting a group of allies, so it didn't pay attention to the matter of Homo sapience's swallowing of Dongba.

Or it would be more appropriate to describe America as being powerless.

The other great powers were equally overwhelmed.

No one can stop himself, Homo sapiens naturally becomes more unscrupulous.

Not only forcing Dongba to open the door, but also launching a comprehensive trade with Homo sapiens.

It even took advantage of the food crisis to demand that Nibhara also accept the protection of Homo sapiens, and also open the market to Homo sapiens.

Food is something that is usually inconspicuous.

But as long as food is scarce and the production capacity cannot be self-sufficient, it is the time when food becomes a weapon.

In this world, there are people who do not 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 a large population and insufficient agricultural resources also have to bend their waists for five buckets of rice.

You can't get enough food without opening the market to Homo sapiens corporations.

For example, Tianzhu, which is fighting against the food crisis and economic crisis at this time, can only grit their teeth and take out part of their gold reserves to import food from Lucia and America, trying to stabilize the internal food supply.

However, the recent international grain transaction prices have been rising steadily.

Whether Tianzhu can purchase 2000 million tons of grain from the international grain market this time is still unknown at this time.

But Dao Yulan and Yang Mengjiao are paying close attention to Tianzhu, especially its internal grain prices and the total grain inventory.

Until October 10, another sudden news appeared, which instantly plunged the entire international grain market into violent oscillations.

Chapter 324 It's a mess

the other side of the earth.

distant South America.

The vast Brazilian plateau and the La Plata plain.

AMD, Bunge, and Cargill in ABCD teamed up and invested 30 billion US dollars in research funds, and finally selected more than a dozen varieties with better disease resistance from some wild soybean varieties, and transgenic these varieties remodel.

With the arrival of spring in the southern hemisphere, it is time for soybean planting.

These genetically modified varieties, which were previously tested on a small scale in North America, were very effective against bean mold.

Therefore, ABCD can't wait to promote planting in the Brazilian Plateau and the La Plata Great Plain. The Brazilian Plateau was planted in early September, while the La Plata Great Plain was planted at the end of September.

After more than a month of growth, the soybean seedlings in the Brazilian plateau have grown very well.

Bergman, the manager of AMD in charge of the South American business, took a dozen of his subordinates to the soybean field to check in person.

Bergman pushed aside a few bean sprouts, looked at the condition of the leaves, and found that there were no spots, so he was relieved.

Anthony, an expert in genetically modified agriculture, said with a smile: "Mr. Manager, you have to trust our technology, there will definitely be no problem this time."

Bergman was noncommittal, as if he didn't want to plant the flag, but continued to immerse himself in checking the growth of the bean sprouts.

Suddenly, a brown bug jumped onto his shoulder.

Huh?Bergman subconsciously caught the bug.

It was a brown locust. His expression changed, and he quickly asked, "Hook! How big are the locusts here?"

Hook, who is in charge of managing the surrounding 50 mu of soybean fields, was taken aback for a moment, and then replied, "I haven't received reports from workers that there are locusts."

Bergman roared very angrily: "Fack squid! Hurry up and send it to investigate."

"OK! OK!" Hook hurriedly picked up his mobile phone, called his subordinates, and sent someone to check the situation of the locusts.

……

the other side.

The three-leaf oak is in a secret stronghold in the Brazilian plateau.

Fendi Fernando, head of the South America region of the Department of Field Service, is playing with a locust.

Provided with pheromone induction, he easily controlled the locusts.

"It is reported that 37 pheromone control stations have released locust reproductive pheromones."

Hearing this, Fendi Fernando narrowed his eyes, and instantly crushed the locust to death: "Hehe, ABCD, I'm going to crush you to death this time."

He casually threw the locust into the auxiliary digestive pouch on his back.

The South American branch of the Department of Field Service is arguably on the most dangerous front line, fighting against the black ships and America's henchmen almost every day.

Therefore, the members of the Field Service Department here are equipped with various auxiliary equipment, such as auxiliary digestive sacs, which allow the agents of the Field Service Department to maintain their lives by eating grass and insects in the tropical rainforest.

After suffering so much, Fendi Fernando has long wanted to make a big deal.

Since it has already made an article on bean mold before, the Field Service Department will naturally not use the same method to do it again.

If she continued to use bean mold to do things, no matter how slow America was, she would still notice the problem.

Therefore, Fendi Fernando and a group of executives from the South American branch, after research and discussion, formulated another inconspicuous but very efficient method-locusts.

Since last year, Fendi and the others have been secretly planning to induce locusts to lay a large number of eggs in the forests and wastelands around the agricultural area through pheromone induction. These eggs are hidden underground.

Now it's finally time for the eggs to hatch.

37 pheromone induction stations are activated synchronously, releasing special pheromones in all directions.

In South America in October, the temperature and air humidity are suitable for the growth of locusts. Once induced by pheromones, they immediately hide in the soil, and hundreds of millions of eggs begin to hatch.

Almost at the same time, the eggs hatched.

The overwhelming locusts quickly killed the fresh and juicy corn fields and soybean fields.

……

Bergman, who was still investigating in the field, saw more and more locusts around him, and his face turned black.

And Hook at the side was even more anxious and kept making phone calls.

Dr. Brownie, an expert in biological control, also frowned:

"Mr. Manager, according to this scale, there are at least hundreds of millions of locusts in the surrounding area. The insecticide must be arranged as soon as possible, otherwise the soybean seedlings here will be eaten clean, and the breeding speed of these locusts is very fast."

However, before Bergman could speak, the phone rang, and he glanced at the number: "Hello, Jamie, what's the matter?"

A hurried voice immediately came from the other side of the phone: "Mr. Manager, locust plague! A large-scale locust plague in Bahia."

"What? Are there locust plagues over there too?"

"Also? Manager, do locust plagues appear in other places?"

"I'm in the state of Sao Paulo right now, and a large-scale locust plague has broken out here. Hurry up and use pesticide planes to spray pesticides."

"I have already arranged, but the scale of the locust is very large, I am afraid..."

The two communicated for a few minutes, and after hanging up the phone, another call came.

Within half an hour, Bergman answered seven calls, all from the heads of farms in the highlands of Brazil.

The contents of the reports are highly consistent, and they are all about locust plagues.

……

A pesticide plane flew past slowly at low altitude, spraying large areas of pesticides along the way.

However, the agents of the Field Service Department hidden in the surrounding forests are regulating the pheromones, so that the locusts can quickly avoid the pesticide planes and reduce the number of insecticides.

At the same time, another agent controls some locusts, hiding in the mountains, forests and wilderness, instead of attacking agricultural areas, but desperately eating and laying eggs.

After all, ABCD is not a fool, they will definitely spray pesticides on a large scale to suppress the spread of locusts.

At this time, the part of the locusts hidden in the mountains and wilderness needs to be used as the Zerg barracks to continuously produce new locusts.

Sure enough, with the passage of time, ABCD's local branch quickly sprayed pesticides on a large scale, which greatly suppressed the spread and destruction of locusts.

However, behind this battle between humans and insects, Homo sapiens provided tactical guidance to the locusts behind the scenes.

Many locusts do not gather in agricultural areas at all, but cover all areas, including cities, residential areas, forests, wilderness, wetlands and the like.

This has brought serious troubles to ABCD's insecticide operations. After all, farmland can be sprayed with pesticides at will, but residential areas and forests cannot be sprayed with pesticides at will.

So a very fatal situation arises.

When ABCD sprayed insecticides, the number of locusts in the agricultural area dropped rapidly in the first day or two, but soon the locusts in the surrounding areas replenished.

The more frightening thing is that some locusts have begun to develop drug resistance, and the effect of low-toxicity insecticides is getting worse and worse.

In the branch office building in Brasilia, Bergman watched the locusts killing the whole Brazilian plateau every day, and he almost collapsed.

Those loss reports made everyone in the South American branch cast a shadow that was hard to get rid of.

Just as Bergman and the headquarters were discussing how to solve the problem of the locust plague in South America.

His secretary hastily opened the office door.

"Hoo hoo...Mr. Manager, there is an urgent report from La Plata."

Bergman's eyes widened: "Have the locusts spread over there?"

The secretary's expression was a little lingering: "Yes, and the scale is very large. The La Plata branch has tried its best to organize the killing of pesticide planes, but the effect is very poor."

"Damn it!" Bergman slumped down, staring blankly at the map of South America on the wall.

Chapter 325 The Hungry World

22, April 10.

The 11th day of the locust outbreak in South America.

In this short period of 11 days, international food prices have skyrocketed to varying degrees.

大豆涨幅173％，达到每吨1537美刀；玉米涨幅133％，达到每吨725美刀；小麦涨幅131％，达到每吨806美刀；大米涨幅138％，达到每吨811美刀。

As the four core categories in the international grain market, there have been substantial price increases.

And the more frightening thing is that this kind of increase is still going on.

After combining the data of various parties, major grain futures research institutions around the world can easily find that in the next 6 to 12 months, the global grain gap will reach an astonishing 1.8 million tons.

According to the data of 21 years to compare.

Among them, the Far East needs about 1.6 million tons of soybeans and corn, which are mainly used for oil extraction and feed. This demand gap can be partially adjusted.

Then Japan imported 1.39 million tons; Mexico imported 1.15 million tons; Egypt imported 1.13 million tons;

爪哇进口1亿吨；意大利进口8291万吨；西班牙进口8059万吨；南高丽进口7930万吨；尼德兰进口7596万吨；阿尔及利亚进口7081万吨。

This is the world's top ten importers of grain for 21 years.

This year, due to natural disasters and rice blast, Tianzhu is about to change from a grain exporter to a grain importer.

Brazil and Argentina, which are also the core producers of grain exports, will significantly reduce soybean and corn production due to the impact of locust plagues.

America and Maple Leaf countries in North America, as well as Lucia and Central Asia, have entered autumn and winter at this time, and it is too late to replant to make up for the production capacity gap in South America.

Now only Australia can barely squeeze out part of the production capacity.

Of course, in this series of bad news, there is also news that is barely good news, that is, Java does not need to purchase food internationally this year, because Homo sapiens has enough food reserves.

However, Java does not need to import 1 million tons of grain, which does not mean that other regions will be better off, because Java is the world's largest producer of palm oil.

To be precise, Homo sapiens is now the largest palm oil producer in the world. It is expected to produce 9200 million tons of crude palm oil this year, accounting for about 94% of the world's total palm oil production.

The regions that import the most palm oil are Tianzhu, the European Union, and America.

Now the price of food is soaring, and the price of edible oil is also soaring.

It can be described as pulling one hair and moving the whole body.