Homo sapiens

Bandon Island.

There is a small port on the west side of the island. There is a specially designed underwater channel. At a water depth of about 35 meters, there is an underwater platform made of coral cement.

The mackerel No. 001 was slowly moored on the platform, and then a connection cabin was raised under the platform and inserted into the bottom of the mackerel No. 001. Then the connection cabin began to drain the water inside and test whether the channel was leaking.

After confirming that there was no water leakage, Xu Yingming, escorted by soldiers, entered the bottom traffic compartment of the Mackerel 001.

Open the two gates between the traffic cabin and the connecting cabin, and the capsule elevator inside the traffic cabin slides down at a constant speed.

This kind of capsule elevator is not pulled by a cable, but uses a gear grasping method to move up and down. It has considerable power and can withstand water pressure of hundreds of meters of water depth.

The capsule elevator came down from Mackerel No. 001, moved down 18 meters, and entered the water exchange cabin. Then the two gates above were closed one after another.

Coming out of the capsule elevator, Xu Yingming was taken to the underground transportation cabin and took a tram to the interior of the island.

Bandon Island is Li Qingye's core scientific research base and is also the area where the main body is located, so it is naturally strictly guarded against it.

Even Xu Yingming didn't know where this island was. After all, the soldiers only told him that it was called "Spider Nest Base".

The submarine was sailing under the sea again. There was no reference at all. He was not even qualified to enter the submarine cockpit and could only stay in a specific passenger compartment.

As for communicators and the like, they are not allowed to be brought in. Even the clothes must be changed into those prepared by the Internal Affairs Department.

Inside the underground base on Bandon Island.

When Xu Yingming came to the conference hall, there were other people present.

The spider web managers present included Harry Fernando, Cavendish Lopez, Chen Jianxiong, McDoot (Dute family), Sun Yaozu (Tusun family), and Ovie (Luzon Rear Admiral).

These people are the core members of the Luzon branch.

Xu Yingming was once again secretly shocked by the strength of the Homo sapiens company.

Fili walked out of the side door and said as he walked: "Colleagues, let us welcome the boss with the warmest applause."

Bang bang bang...

Li Qingye smiled and waved his hand: "Okay, everyone, take your seats."

Everyone sat down one after another, their expressions were very serious.

"This meeting today is, on the one hand, to let everyone get to know each other. From now on, we will all be colleagues to avoid accidentally hurting our own people."

He went on to say: "On the other hand, it is to deal with the coming food crisis."

Food crisis? Xu Yingming didn't notice this, but suddenly he remembered that some time ago, the Aquino family asked them to sell the rice and corn they had as soon as possible.

Chen Jianxiong stood up and came to the mural on the left, holding a device similar to a mobile phone in his hand. After pressing a few switches, the mural immediately turned into a large screen.

"This is the intelligence collected by our security department in Manila, Sing Tao and New York. ABCD has noticed that we are expanding the rice planting area in Luzon and is preparing to hold secret talks in the near future to discuss the food price issue in Southeast Asia. The Marcus family and the Aquino family have received invitations, and they are planning to do it again.”

The big screen displays the documents one by one.

Chen Jianxiong continued: “In addition, ABCD has also contacted some fertilizer and pesticide companies, including 17 fertilizer and pesticide manufacturers including Bayer, Dow, DuPont, Maple Leaf Potash, and BASF, and will use various excuses to promote Southeast Asia. The prices of fertilizers, pesticides and agricultural machinery have increased.”

The increase in the price of pesticides and fertilizers will obviously further increase the cost of food production for farmers in Luzon, forcing them to switch to cash crops with higher added value.

"In addition, eight international companies, including United Fruit, will gradually increase the purchase prices of some crops in the near future, including bananas, pineapples, sugar cane, mangosteen, lotus root, etc."

"Everyone has seen it." Li Qingye said calmly.

As members of the large family who had cooperated with the ABCD in sacking Luzon, Harry, Cavendish, Xu Yingming, and Sun Yaozu naturally understood the three plans of the ABCD.

Although ABCD will suffer short-term losses by doing this, once it successfully destroys Luzon's food self-sufficiency plan, Luzon will be a dish, and they can eat whatever they want.

Because Luzon's food gap is as high as 7 to 8 million tons, and there are not many food producing countries in the world that can supply this level of food.

Moreover, there is another big problem with Luzon’s eating habits, which is that rice is the main food, and corn and flour are only supplementary grains.

At present, the world's largest rice exporter is Tianzhu, with annual rice exports of about 11 million to 12 million tons; the second in the world is Siam, with annual exports of about 6 million to 8 million tons; the third is Annan, with annual exports of about 6 million to 8 million tons. Around 4 million to 6 million tons.

Next is America, with an annual export volume of about 5 million tons; Pakistan, with an annual export volume of about 3 million tons; followed by Hongsawady, with an annual export volume of about 2.5 million tons.

Regardless of the total export volume of these regions, the scale is 31.5 million to 36.5 million tons.

The problem is that a lot of this rice has been ordered. If there is a sudden increase in orders, hundreds of thousands of tons are fine. Once the demand exceeds one million tons, it will be difficult to obtain spot goods for a while.

In order to ensure food supply for a population of 100 million, without 20 to 30 million tons of rice in stock, it would be difficult to withstand fluctuations in international food prices, and Luzon does not have enough national grain reserves.

Of course, ABCD's three-step plan will not work immediately. To complete the entire plan, they will need at least one or two quarters to complete the harvest.

"Boss, Xu's warehouse still reserves 240,000 tons of rice and 360,000 tons of corn kernels." Xu Yingming was the first to stand up and express his loyalty.

In fact, there are quite a few grains stored in the warehouses of various big families.

Li Qingye smiled and said: "Well, I will let Garfield take the lead and establish a secret civil organization called the Luzon Food Security Association to centrally control the food in our hands. Aren't ABCD going to play? We will accompany them play for fun."

Everyone reconciled.

At present, they have 6.27 million tons of rice, 8.36 million tons of corn kernels, 1.33 million tons of wheat flour, and 420,000 tons of seaweed starch.

In addition, Qingye Group, another vest of Homo sapiens, also controls large farms and plantations in Hongsawady, and has about 820,000 tons of rice reserves.

Before the end of the year, after the rice harvest in various places, 2 to 3 million tons of rice and 3 to 4 million tons of corn will be stored in storage.

Fighting a food war?

ABCD only bullies those disorganized comprador countries. When it comes to countries with a high degree of centralization and sufficient arable land, their approach may not necessarily work.

The Luzon Food Security Association planned by Li Qingye will increase Luzon's total grain reserves to 30 million tons in the next three years, including 15 million tons of rice, 3 million tons of wheat, and 12 million tons of corn.

As for where the food reserves come from.

Very simple, isn’t ABCD going to fight a food war in Southeast Asia? Then Li Qingye asked Fernando and other families to take the opportunity to purchase these low-priced rice, wheat and corn while wearing vests.

As for the reluctance of farmers in Luzon to grow rice, this is not a link that ABCD can directly control.

In areas controlled by the Homo Sapiens Company, what landowners and farmers want to plant must be approved by the Agricultural Cooperative. This does not mean that farmers can change crops at will because cash crops are highly profitable.

Otherwise, the Homo sapiens company will let them know what an iron fist is and ensure that they cannot even transport agricultural products out of the local area.

After all, the local ports, shipping, roads and railways are all controlled by the Homo sapiens company behind the scenes. No matter how high the purchase price is, it will only be useful if it can be transported out.

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