Homo sapiens.

America can export, but there is a huge gap of 1.8 million tons in the world, and even the ABCD controlled by America cannot produce it at this time.

After all, the South American production area hit hard by the locust plague is the grain production base of ABCD.

In order to make up for the loss in South American production areas, ABCD will naturally not release the inventory, but instead contribute to the flames, causing food prices to skyrocket further.

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Hong Kong.

As a free port and financial port, it was severely impacted by the North American stock market crash, and the world food crisis that followed has also begun to affect prices here.

Tsim Sha Tsui district in Hong Kong.

In a barbecue restaurant, the owner and chef Niu Dawang is teaching his son Niu Yinghua how to make various sauces.

At this moment, his wife Li Caiyun walked into the store carrying a lot of seasonings and vegetables cursing.

"Mommy, why are you so angry?"

Li Caiyun replied with a helpless face: "The prices of things in the wholesale market have increased again. If this continues, our box lunches will also increase, otherwise we will not be able to do it."

"Another price increase?"

"Scallions cost 17 yuan a catty, and sand ginger costs 38 yuan a catty."

Niu Dawang frowned, and he hurriedly called several old friends who were wholesalers.

"Hey, Lao Jiang, it's me Dawang."

"Oh, it's Dawang! Do you want chilled chicken? The price has to be raised recently."

Niu Dawang's heart tightened, and he quickly asked, "How much is the price increase?"

"15.3 yuan a catty."

"To mention so much?"

The wholesaler on the other side of the phone smiled bitterly: "It's not that I want to raise the price so much, but that the purchase price is too high now. If I don't raise the price, I will lose money."

The two chatted for a few words, and Niu Dawang hung up the phone worriedly, and then called the wholesaler of white-striped duck, chilled goose, frozen pork and offal.

Without exception, wholesale prices have increased by about 40-70%.

"No, we'll raise the price too."

"Old Dou, how much is appropriate?" Niu Yinghua asked quickly.

Niu Dawang took a pen and did some calculations in a small notebook before deciding on the price increase: "Three packs of boxed meals are mentioned at 65 yuan, roasted duck leg rice is 55 yuan, and barbecued pork rice is 60 yuan..."

"Will this increase be too little?" Niu Yinghua has also read books and knows that this price increase cannot offset the price increase of raw materials.

But Niu Dawang shook his head: "Let's just make a little less money. If the price rises too much all of a sudden, customers might as well buy vegetables and cook for themselves. Maybe after a few months, prices will drop again."

"Hehe..." Niu Yinghua smiled dryly.

He doesn't think that prices in Xiangjiang will drop within a few months. On the Internet these days, he has seen a large number of reports and analyzes on the stock market crash in North America, the locust plague in South America, and the rice blast in South Asia.

According to the current trend, it is difficult for prices to return to the previous level within a year and a half.

But what can he do? As the general public at the bottom, he has no ability to change those financial crises, food crises, local wars, etc., and can only watch everything happen.

Just as he was thinking about it, he was cleaning the glass window of the store door.

A reporter from TVB appeared not far away, interviewing passing citizens.

An instant noodle-haired aunt carrying various plastic bags was stopped by a female reporter.

"Auntie! Do you want to buy food and go home?"

The aunt nodded: "Yes!"

"How are the prices in the vegetable market recently?"

Hearing this, the aunt's face was pained: "Oh! Don't mention it, the prices of fruits, vegetables, eggs and pork have all increased recently. If this continues, everyone will not be able to afford vegetables."

The female reporter hurriedly asked: "Compared to before, how much is the increase now?"

"The three baby dishes used to cost 15 yuan, but now they cost 21 yuan. Pork used to cost 18 yuan a catty, but now it has risen to 27 yuan a catty..." The more the aunt said, the more excited she became.

After the female reporter interviewed the aunt, she also interviewed the surrounding shops.

Through interviews, rising prices have basically become a common phenomenon in various industries.

After all, the rise in food prices means that the cost of living will also rise, but it is difficult for ordinary people's wages to rise accordingly.

What is even more frightening is that it is currently in the midst of a global economic crisis. A large number of financial institutions and small companies in Xiangjiang cannot withstand the impact of the economic crisis, and there are signs of bankruptcy or layoffs.

This kind of double squeeze is the general status quo in the entire Far East.

Xiangjiang is just a microcosm of it.

Of course, although the Far East region is quite difficult, at least it can be endured by gritting your teeth. At most, you can eat less meat, eggs and milk to fill your stomach.

For example, Dongying and South Korea, they also have low-priced food support from America, and they barely stabilized the price of staple food.

As for another large region in the Far East, they themselves have a lot of grain production and strategic reserves, so there is not a big problem with food, but there is a shortage of feed and cooking oil.

At this time, the most difficult area is actually Tianzhu.

Compared with last year, the grain production has decreased by about 4500 million tons. Even if the people of Tianzhu are relatively hungry, they need to import at least 2000 million tons to barely ensure that there will be no large-scale famine.

Internationally, people all over the world are scrambling for food. Tianzhu doesn't have enough dollars to buy much food at all.

At this time, facing the internal and external difficulties, Bodhidharma made a difficult decision.

Chapter 326 Meat on the Cutting Board

Dongba.

The capital Dhaka.

Bodhidharma, who just got off the plane, was sitting in his special car.

He looked out the window at the streets of Dhaka.

The construction of various infrastructures has almost turned the city into a large construction site. He can find that many of them are locals through the skin color of those construction workers.

The scary thing about Homo sapiens lies in its industrial chain and comprehensive system.

The same is to build a road, Tianzhu is not only inferior to Homo sapiens in terms of construction speed and quality, but also has a world of difference in terms of overall cost.

Bodhidharma is now very clear about the strength of Homo Sapiens.

He regards Homo sapiens as his greatest enemy, so he will naturally fully understand the situation of Homo sapiens.

The island of Ceylon, which has been controlled by Homo sapiens for more than a year, has now completed full urbanization, and various infrastructures have been modernized quickly with the support of huge manpower and material resources.

Bodhidharma has no doubts about the strength of Homo sapiens, as long as the other party is given a year or two, the Dongba area will definitely become similar to Ceylon.

If the Homo sapiens company hadn't wiped out other companies and big families, farmers, nobles, etc., Bodhidharma would not be so hostile to Homo sapiens.

But after thinking about it, Bodhidharma also knew that he was thinking too much. The reason why Homo sapiens can develop so quickly has a lot to do with the other party's system.

If other companies, big families, and rich people are allowed to participate in the management of Homo sapiens company, can Homo sapiens company maintain its current vitality, high efficiency and internal fairness?

Bodhidharma is very clear that there must be only one absolute controlling shareholder in Homo sapiens' system.

In this way, relative equality will be achieved among the employees of Homo sapiens company.

Once other shareholders appear, it means that the decision-making power within the company will be divided, and the company's wealth must also be divided.

As long as other shareholders are unwilling to maintain the current model, the era of high welfare for Homo sapiens will come to an end.

Bodhidharma has already understood the operating mechanism of Sapiens Company. Most of the middle and lower-level employees of Sapiens Company at this stage will never allow others to shake the core of the company-Li Qingye.

Because there is only Li Qingye, the absolute controlling shareholder, the resources consumed by that person must be less than the resources consumed by a large number of shareholders.

As for why other people don't want to become shareholders themselves?

Bodhidharma has actually thought about this question. After substituting himself into the system of Homo sapiens, he discovered a very interesting situation.

That is, game theory, chain of suspicion, and path dependence will force the vast majority of employees to give up becoming shareholders, and will also prompt them to have extremely strong resistance to the birth of other shareholders.

The reason is very simple. They are worried that the new shareholders will change the system established by Li Qingye, they are also worried that the new shareholders will encroach on their resources, and they are even worried that the new shareholders will use their authority to deal with themselves.

This is the game theory of human nature. Homo sapiens employees will not easily trust any unfamiliar new shareholders.

And as the founder at the beginning, Li Qingye, has left a path dependence in the hearts of these employees.

No one dared to bet on the character and ability of the new shareholders, they didn't think that other people could be more suitable than Li Qingye.

So as long as Li Qingye doesn't mess around with himself, or doesn't die suddenly, then Homo sapiens company must be difficult to break through.

When Dharma thought about Li Qingye's age (outside data), the other party was only about 31 years old this year. With Homo sapiens' medical conditions, it is estimated that he would live to be 80 years old, so there is no big problem.

Li Qingye still has 50 years left, which means Homo Sapiens will not have too many internal problems in the next 50 years.

Bodhidharma stroked his white beard and sighed secretly: "Time is on Homo sapiens and Li Qingye's side." '

Before they knew it, the convoy had arrived at the gate of a palace.

The Homo sapiens company has a special habit, that is, after controlling a region, it usually chooses the representative flowers and plants of the region to build a palace.

The representative flowers and plants of Dongba are water lilies.

So this palace is called Water Lily Palace.

Under the leadership of the internal affairs staff, Bodhidharma and his party entered the Water Lily Palace in a low-key manner.

In the reception hall.

Seeing Bodhidharma and others walking in, Dao Yulan said with a smile: "Your Excellency Bodhidharma is welcome to come to Dongba as a guest, please sit down! Serve tea!"

"Governor Knife, I am very happy to meet you." Although Bodhidharma felt that he had been belittled and neglected, he understood that the so-called respect was based on strength.

He came here this time to ask for help from others, so he naturally lowered his profile.

After tea.

Bodhidharma proposed the purpose of coming this time: "Your company has huge influence in the world, I wonder if you can help mediate the Assam matter."

"Oh? If we can contribute to world peace, then our company is obliged, but it depends on the sincerity of both of you." Dao Yulan replied with a smile.

Hearing this answer, although Bodhidharma secretly scolded the other party for being mean and shameless in his heart, he still had a smile on his face:

"We are willing to end the military confrontation and use the west entrance of the Siliguri Corridor as a temporary demarcation line."

"Is it just that?"

Bodhidharma quickly said: "We also have a lot of cooperation ideas with your company, such as grain, food processing, oil and gas, mechanical equipment, electronic appliances and so on."

Dao Yulan tapped the table lightly with her finger: "Our company is a little worried about your business environment!"

It's not that Dao Yulan is deliberately finding fault, but that Tianzhu's business environment is indeed very poor, and the supporting facilities are poor. The key is that there are too many gods in it.

Otherwise, those foreign-funded enterprises in Europe, America and the Far East would not leave after crying for their father and mother after investing in Tianzhu.

Of course Bodhidharma is very clear about the pile of bad things in his family.

"We can provide your company with a special license and set up a special management agency to deal with your company."

Dao Yulan instantly saw Bodhidharma's careful thinking, she didn't poke at him, but asked with a smile:

"It's not enough for you to open the market. Our company hopes that you can respect the free market and allow our company to buy land, operate agriculture, mine minerals, build real estate, operate finance, and freely recruit workers."

Bodhidharma shook his head: "Governor Knife, you should know that there is no so-called free market in this world, and we need to survive."

Obviously, unless Bodhidharma was crazy, he would never agree to these requests.

Once the market is fully opened, what is the difference between Tianzhu and Dongba?

"If that's the case, it's very difficult for me!" Dao Yulan said with a helpless expression.

After struggling for a while, Bodhidharma gritted his teeth: "Finance can be opened up, but the conditions for the free sale and purchase of land and farmland can only be restricted."

Regarding land, Bodhidharma is very insistent.

The two sides talked for more than six hours before finally reaching an agreement.

Tianzhu conditionally opened part of the market to Homo sapiens, while Homo sapiens provided Tianzhu with 4500 million tons of grain and 800 million tons of palm oil at low prices, and at the same time mediated the peace talks in Assam.

In fact, Tianzhu gave up the Assam region in disguise.

Bodhidharma made such a difficult choice.

On the one hand, because of the long-term confrontation, its military expenditure has increased significantly, and the economy has been unable to sustain it.