The sudden food crisis in Yindu also caused considerable reactions in China. News reports and marketing accounts hype, an inexplicable worry began to surface:

Is the food crisis really coming?

Will we face the same crisis?

Will we... go hungry?

This nation that has lasted for thousands of years has actually not lacked memories of famine in history.

"I'm so hungry every year, people eat each other."

"Change the son and eat it, and cook it with the bones."

A short sentence in history books actually describes the pain experienced by the people at the bottom in a great famine.

Therefore, under the memory inheritance of generations, even young people living in the most prosperous new century actually have an almost instinctive fear of hunger.

The Internet jokes about farming as the talented skills of the Chinese nation, but if you think about it carefully, it may not be the so-called "talent", but the lesson.

We must learn to farm in order to survive even the most difficult situations.

So what about when there is no land to plant?

Only store grain!

As a result, a lot of push articles and short videos appeared in domestic public opinion about garrisoning grain to overcome disasters. Every blogger educates everyone in a rational and objective way to hoard certain food in daily life to cope with emergencies.

But they never thought about what kind of results their video would lead to after several times of spreading and appending in the current environment and the crisis has gradually fermented.

...

Ye Zhou sat in the office, refreshing the latest news on the Internet in his mobile phone. After a long time, he put down his phone and said to Chen Hao who was sitting opposite him:

"The situation has begun to change... It was originally some popular science bloggers explaining the benefits of limited grain storage, but gradually it has become that it is necessary to store grain immediately. If it spreads for a while, I guess they will start buying it."

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

Chen Hao nodded and replied:

"Yes, from the current situation, it's true."

"If it's other products, it's okay, but if you can't get it, it won't affect your basic life. However, once the trend of buying things like grain begins to form, it will be bigger and bigger like a snowball, and the more it develops, the more outrageous it becomes."

"In the end, there are even some people who can't afford it at all because of the high price, or can't buy food at all."

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

After pausing for a moment, he smiled and said:

"But it's fine, at least now, we are fully capable of dealing with this kind of snap-up."

"Either carry out unified resource allocation or release old grain, it will definitely not be like the Yindu side, and it will be a little bit of a sudden price increase."

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

Ye Zhou shook his head helplessly and said.

"Double the amount of the whole body will be so large. If we take out our wheat stock for half a month and pour it into the Yindu market, their so-called high price will be immediately washed away."

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

Hearing this, Ye Zhou nodded.

After a moment, he continued to ask:

"But, we haven't reached the time to release the last news yet, right? The current response is mainly based on inventory?"

"The intensity of confrontation at this stage is enough by inventory."

Chen Hao answered confidently.

...

At 7 pm, in Shenzhen, Tongfu Grain and Oil Store.

Starting from 6 a.m., there was a long queue at the entrance of this store, which usually had few customers. The queues were all residents of nearby communities, and their purpose was surprisingly consistent, that is, to buy rice.

The shop owner stood at the forefront of the crowd and shouted at the loudspeaker in his hand at the top of his lungs:

"Neighbors, we really have to get off work today. We have been busy for a day and have been relocating the goods several times. Please buy rice and oil to come again tomorrow. We are going to close and rest!"

Hearing his words, the people in the team were in a commotion. One of the kind-hearted old ladies walked forward, gently handed a bottle of water, and then spoke:

"Xiao Liu, do you persist? You see, our neighbors haven't bought rice yet. What if we come back tomorrow, what should we do if we sell it out!"

The owner glanced at the old lady with a laugh and cried, and replied:

"Old Mrs. Wang, you are an intellectual after all, why are you the same as them? Look at the rice on the car behind me, don't say it's all day. You buy 200 kilograms by yourself, and I can sell it until next month. Where can I go to sell it?"

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

"What era is this? I tell you, when I went to the main station to transfer goods today, they were too lazy to even raise their eyelids----the people really don't like this little product!"

"That's it. After watching some videos every day, I feel that there is no food, so where is it? The price fell in the first two months, and I, a second-hand dealer, would lose money. Think about how sufficient our food is!"

All he said was a real situation that he had experienced personally, but in the eyes of these people who were queuing up for food, there was still no convincing power.

Before Old Mrs. Wang could speak, an old man next to her approached and said:

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

"I won't buy it now, wait until I'm short of it before buying it? Can I still afford it?"

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

The shop owner frowned and said with some displeasure:

"Old man Li, you're just using these useless things every day. Can't you play your chess well? Why are you here to join in the fun? I'm also raising the price. Don't you know that the more you raise the price, the more likely it is to rush to buy?"

"When the price rises, you will really have to be short of food!"

"We have been in the street for more than ten years. You don't know who I am? I'm using such words to squeeze me out? Have I earned a penny of such unconscience?"

Seeing that the owner's tone began to become stern, Old Mrs. Wang hurried forward to smooth things over:

"Xiao Liu, don't be anxious. He has no malice. He is famously unable to control his mouth. Don't be as knowledgeable as him. Come on, load it up for me and move it to the cart. I'll buy two hundred kilograms first."

"Can you push these two hundred kilograms?"

The shop owner said helplessly.

"If you can't push it, you have to push it! Come on, you have to go back to watch the news broadcast later..."

As soon as Mrs. Wang said what she said, the TV hanging on the counter of the grain and oil shop came out with the opening music of the news. The owner helped Mrs. Wang carry rice while saying:

"Old Mrs. Wang, if you ask me to tell me, don't bother. Just be optimistic. The country will issue a policy in a few days. All the grain you stockpiled will be wasted..."

"Nonsense! How could food be wasted!"

"Will you waste it if you can't finish it? This rice will cause worms!"

"I will eat it even if it is wormed!"

The two chatted without a word, and suddenly there were reports of food on the TV behind them.

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

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

"Especially, there is still a certain food supply gap in the international community, and a small number of people are also hungry."

"But, if we only talk about our country, the problem of insufficient food supply does not exist."

"I won't talk about too much data here--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"my country's current staple food inventory is enough for 1.5 billion people across the country to eat for two years."

"And, our food reserves are enough for everyone to spend these two years in a balanced manner."

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

"If such a large amount of grain reserves are put into the market at one time, the grain prices will inevitably fall, and the interests of our peasant brothers will not be guaranteed."

"But the recent rise in grain prices has also given us a window of operation."

"In the future, we will invest about 100 million tons of various types of grains to the market to stabilize the price of staple food and at the same time achieve new grain replacement."

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

"If the people think it is necessary to store grain, it doesn't matter if they stock up a little."

"Because, we have food."

As the interview ended, the queue that was originally in front of the grain and oil store suddenly began to become a little loose.

The shop owner looked at the hesitant old lady Wang in front of him, smiled with understanding, and then asked:

"Old Mrs. Wang, do you still buy these 200 kilograms of rice?"

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