Homo sapiens.

Chapter 152 Crazy (Add more)
8 month 2 day.

Metro Manila.

The sky had just turned white, and many people had already gotten up to work.

Mary prepared breakfast for the two children early in the morning, and then rode a bicycle to send the younger son to the No. [-] Primary School in the North District.

This school is a private school under the name of the Fernando family. It mainly provides educational guarantees for the children of Homo sapiens employees, family children, and middle-class families.

Mary's youngest son can come to school here, and it also benefits from the relationship of her eldest daughter Julie.

After sending her youngest son to school, she went to work in Fengrao Supermarket by bicycle.

Just arrived at the supermarket.

The manager shouted: "Mary, you and Bell go to change the price tags on the shelves."

"What else has the price increased?" Marie knows the unspoken rules of the supermarket, that is, if the price of something in the market has increased, the supermarket will rush to change the price; if the price of something in the market has dropped, the supermarket will be slower to respond.

Picking up a bunch of price tags that had just been printed out, Mary found that the things bearing the brunt were rice, flour, soybean oil, and palm oil.

Colleague Bell exclaimed in a low voice: "The price of rice has risen so high."

The two chatted quietly as they walked.

When she came to the grain and oil area, Mary took out the old price tag from the interlayer of the price tag and inserted a new one.

Basmati Medan Rice / 56 pesos / kg
Mindoro sticky rice / 41 pesos / kg
South Island Indica Rice/38 pesos/kg
……

The prices of various types of rice have risen to varying degrees, with an average increase of about 13%.

In fact, the increase in grain and oil in Fengrao Supermarket is already the smallest in Manila.

Another large grain and oil wholesaler not far from Fengrao Supermarket has even pulled the price up to 120% at this time.

Manila, as the region with the strongest foreign capital, the most compradors, and the densest concentration of converts, became the eye of the storm for soaring food prices in Luzon.

In the warehouse of Jiahai Grain and Oil Trading Company.

The boss, Fan Okahuk, is leading people to check the fireproof and waterproof facilities of the warehouse. Some time ago, he imported a large amount of fragrant rice from Siam, more than 2 tons.

Now is the season when typhoons frequently occur in Luzon, and he is also very worried about whether these rice storage warehouses can make a fortune, it depends on this time.

"Boss, the market price of rice has soared by [-]% now, do you want to sell?" the person in charge of the sales department asked cautiously.

Fan Oka rolled his eyes: "Have you lost your head? Now that the international grain price is rising steadily, Siam, Annan, and Tianzhu have all announced to increase the export price of rice and reduce the export volume. What money can you make now? ?”

"Boss is wise!" Another dog leg quickly flattered.

Fan Oka patted the rice warehouse: "If the price has not doubled, don't sell it, and I will continue to reduce the supply of the store."

"But, where is Fengrao?" The person in charge of the sales department still felt a little uneasy.

"What are you afraid of? I can't break the law if I don't sell rice? This is a free market." Fan Oka waved his hand indifferently.

Like Fan Oka, comprador merchants, convert groups, and foreign-funded enterprises are rapidly reducing rice sales while gradually raising market prices.

Affected by the sharp increase in the price of rice, Manila not only saw price increases for food, but also edible oil, sugar, meat and eggs, and non-staple food.

Similarly, in other cities in Luzon, there are also signs of rising prices of grain, oil and agricultural products.

Luzon seems to have returned to the era of the last food crisis all of a sudden, with insufficient internal food production capacity and soaring external food prices.

But this time, will the result be the same as last time?

Homo sapiens has increased the market supply of food through Fengrao Supermarket, but it has started a purchase restriction model, and the price is not low.

But in the market, Fengrao Supermarket has enough food supply, and the public can only grit their teeth to buy food at a price of one day.

This situation lasted for more than a month.

The time came to September.

The second season of rice in Luzon has entered the harvesting period.

At this time, the average price of rice in the Luzon market is stable at 56 pesos per kilogram for indica rice, 58 pesos per kilogram for glutinous rice, and 80 pesos per kilogram for fragrant rice.

The price has almost doubled.

And the worse news is.

Affected by the typhoon, this year's Luzon second crop rice production will decrease by about 12%.

At the same time, bad news came from Luzon in the rice purchase negotiations with Siam, Annam, and Tianzhu. It seems that the two sides have huge differences in prices.

All kinds of unfavorable news have made the fried rice merchants in Manila more confident. Many speculators believe that there is still room for food prices in Luzon to rise.

Just now.

The rice rush has also begun in various parts of Luzon.

Foreign-funded enterprises, comprador businessmen, and groups of converts began to organize grain collection teams to purchase rice at high prices in rural areas.

Even some of the agricultural cooperatives under Homo sapiens are "secretly" selling rice to these people.

Inside the cooperative in Macaron Village.

Fan Oka said with a smile: "Brother Carter, 45000 pesos per ton is already the highest in Manila. Don't brothers want to live in the free world?"

After he finished speaking, he took out 50 pesos from his purse and stuffed it into Carter's hand.

Carter put the money away calmly, and then replied solemnly: "Yes, 45000 a ton, but only 500 tons."

"Haha, happy cooperation." Fan Oka smiled smugly.

At this moment, his heart has been occupied by greed, and he has invested all his wealth in snapping up local rice.

There are not a few people who think like Van Oka.

In the first half of September, about 75% of the rice in Luzon has been harvested, which is also the craziest time for these speculators.

Many of them, like Fan Oka, bet all their net worth, and launched a comprehensive rice rush with Homo sapiens in Luzon.

Even ABCD gritted their teeth and squeezed out billions of dollars to secretly buy rice from Luzon.

Obviously, ABCD also wants to make up for their huge losses in the financial market and soybean spot market through this harvest.

9 month 15 day.

The average price of rice in Luzon reached a new high, reaching 78 pesos per kilogram, officially breaking through the 200% increase mark.

Now, those speculators are even more rampant.

Some people even clamored that Luzon rice would rise to 100 pesos per kilogram in October and 150 pesos per kilogram by the end of the year.

Seeing the situation in Luzon, rice producers in Siam, Annan, Tianzhu and other places became more confident, making the procurement negotiations between the two parties more difficult.

After all, they all saw that Luzon’s food chips were insufficient. If it weren’t for the joint suppression of the five major families and the continuous release of food through Homo sapiens, the price of food in Luzon would have been out of control for a long time.

Therefore, the outside world is guessing when the five major families will not be able to hold on, that is when they harvest Luzon.

Just when speculators were dancing wildly, shouting that Luzon's grain stocks were about to bottom out.

The underground conference room of Neihu Manor.

Garfield put down the assessment report in his hand: "In other words, all the fish have been hooked?"

"Yes, they have revealed their cards, and now we can play them." Jerry Zhang sneered maliciously.

Xu Yingming also said with a smile: "The second crop of rice in Hongshawadi has a bumper harvest. Currently, we can supply 700 million tons of rice. The first batch of transport ships transported 50 tons of rice, and they will start arriving at Manila Port the day after tomorrow."

"Then what are you waiting for? To launch a full-scale counterattack the day after tomorrow, I want to appreciate their free fall." Garfield joked with some wicked humor.

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