Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2227, global food shortage

"I don't know if it's the Grand Vizier who is here, so I'm sorry to welcome you!"

Here in Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., Ltd., Qiu Jun, the general manager of the branch, greeted Ibrahim with a smile on his face.

"Mr. Qiu, I'm here this time to inquire about food."

As soon as Ibrahim sat down, he hurriedly asked about the food.

"It seems that the Prime Minister has also received the news."

"That's right, our Son of Heaven has now issued an order to strictly limit the export of grain. Our firm has also officially received an order from the imperial court, so from now on, I'm afraid our firm will not be able to do the same as before. , a large-scale sale of grain to you."

When Qiu Jun heard this, he was also slightly surprised. Ibrahim was very well informed, and he found out the news very quickly.

"Is there really no way?"

"Don't you have a lot of food in your hands?"

When Ibrahim heard this, he immediately frowned. The speed of the Ming people was really fast. With telegrams and phone calls, the news spread here from the mainland of the Ming Empire very quickly.

"We have a lot of grain in our hands, but we don't have a license to export it now, so we can't export more grain to you."

Qiu Jun nodded and said: "You also know that with the background of our firm, we must do things in full compliance with the will of the Ming Empire."

"Besides, our firm has not actually made money from this grain. In terms of grain sales, our firm has always been at a loss."

"The main purpose is to sell the grain in the hands of our Ming Empire farmers, so even if it is a loss-making business, our firm must do it."

"Now that the imperial court restricts us from exporting grain, it is actually a good thing for our business, because we don't have to lose money in this area, and we don't need to waste a lot of ships to transport grain."

Qiu Jun's face was filled with a smile, and the sale and purchase of grain was the task assigned by his superiors.

If it weren't for the imperial court's order, Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., Ltd. wouldn't have been doing this loss-making business all the time.

Of course, Qiu Jun is a small manager. Of course, he doesn't know Liu Jin's situation. He used to be at a loss, but now, he can make back all the money he should have made in the past few years in one year.

"You don't sell food, what do we eat?"

"It's good to say that if you don't sell it, you won't sell it. Isn't this a scam?"

Ibrahim said extremely angrily when he heard it.

The Ming people are really cheating. They have always used extremely cheap grain to impact the agriculture of the Ottoman Empire. If it weren’t for the cheap grain of the Ming people, the Ottoman Empire would at least have its own agriculture. Maybe the year of famine would reduce production, but it wouldn’t be too much. Said it was completely useless.

Compared with natural disasters, man-made disasters are more terrifying.

Because of the impact of cheap grain from the Ming Empire, very few people grew grain in the entire Ottoman Empire. Everyone went to raise sheep and grow cotton, because it was more profitable.

Now the people of Ming Dynasty say that if they don’t sell it, they won’t sell it. This is directly forcing the Ottoman Empire to die.

"My lord, there is nothing I can do."

Qiu Jun said helplessly.

"I know~"

Ibrahim calmed down the anger in his heart, thought for a while and said: "I don't know if you have a channel to continue to buy grain on a large scale. The price is easy to talk about. We are willing to pay more."

"Master Prime Minister, there is really nothing I can do here. The will of the emperor must be obeyed. Our Tianjin Willing Trading Company will never do anything illegal."

Qiu Jun shook his head and said.

Pay some more money. After a while, you will have no food to eat. Even if it is ten times the price, you still have to eat and buy the same.

In this famine year, if you still want to eat cheap food like before, just dream.

Ibrahim didn't get the answer he wanted from Qiu Jun, and then visited some other well-known Ming business houses, and also contacted Ningguo, Western United Commercial Bank, South African Colony and other large grain producers, and wanted to buy from them. food.

But the replies they got were all the same, that is, they may not have enough food in their hands, so now there is no surplus food for export.

Soon, as the Ming Empire officially issued an order to strictly restrict grain exports, news spread rapidly around the world.

Without the continuous supply of food from the Ming Empire, large-scale and large-scale food shortages soon began to appear all over the world.

At the grain store in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, the owner of the grain store was the first to receive the news, and he chose to hoard the grain immediately, temporarily hoarding the grain in his hand.

At the same time, the price of grain has been directly raised by ten times. Originally, 1 Akche silver coin can buy almost 10 catties of grain, but now it has directly increased to 1 Akche silver coin can only buy 1 catty of grain, and the price has directly increased by ten times.

Grain has increased tenfold overnight, and these Jewish grain merchants are still hoarding. Even at ten times the price, they still only sell a small amount and hoard most of the grain in their hands.

Because after comprehensive analysis of all aspects, they believe that the Ming Empire may restrict the export of grain for a long time to come, and the grain in this hand will become more valuable than gold.

The sharp increase in grain immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction among the citizens of Istanbul, and a large number of people who came to buy grain gathered at the gate of the grain store.

They are very dissatisfied with the expensive grain, and what is even more dissatisfied is that these grain stores are obviously full of grain, but there is a sign that the grain is sold out at the door, and the grain is not sold there.

The angry crowd kept roaring, and then someone told about the restriction of food exports by the Ming Empire. Suddenly, people began to panic, especially those who had run out of food at home, who were even more worried that they would be hungry things.

All of a sudden, angry citizens rushed directly into the grain store and started grabbing grain. Some took the lead, and others followed suit. In the blink of an eye, the grain store was extremely chaotic.

This kind of chaos also quickly spread from Istanbul to the entire Ottoman Empire. Once the Ming Empire cut off the food input, the entire Ottoman Empire quickly fell into a food shortage.

Merchants holding grain in their hands are hoarding and seizing the opportunity to quickly drive up grain prices. It is very common for them to skyrocket tenfold or dozens of times overnight.

And the hungry people who couldn't buy food began to panic, and the incidents of robbing and stealing food also increased rapidly, as if the law and order had completely deteriorated overnight.

The more the cities and regions with convenient transportation and developed commerce and trade, the more obvious this situation is. On the contrary, some remote rural areas still retain a large amount of food planting habits, and they have a lot of food reserves. In rural areas, you can always find food, so the situation is not very serious.

But this situation did not last too long.

Because of this year's dry weather, food planting in the Ottoman Empire itself has also experienced problems, and drought-induced production reductions are very common.

At this lean time, the food reserves had bottomed out, and soon they all began to fall into food shortages like the cities of the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, at this moment, not only the Ottoman Empire, but also Persia, Egypt, Europe and other places are the same.

Tabriz, the capital of the Persian Empire, is here.

Also without the food import from the Ming Empire, food shortages quickly appeared in the city of Tabriz. The merchants were well-informed and instinctively began to hoard food and drive up the price of food. Overnight, the price of food soared more than ten times, dozens of times. times.

This made the citizens of Tabriz very angry, and the situation was quickly reported to Ismail I. After hearing the news, Ismail I quickly began to take over the food supply.

But it was soon discovered that even if all the grain in the hands of the merchants was taken out, the Persian Empire might not be able to last long, because it has always been heavily dependent on the grain imports of the Ming Empire.

In addition, this year's special drought has greatly affected Persia's own grain cultivation, and its output will drop sharply. This means that from now until next year's new grain output, the entire Persian Empire will suffer from a food shortage.

All of a sudden, the entire Persian Empire fell into endless panic. If there is no food, it is unknown how many people will starve to death, and the entire Persian Empire does not know how many problems will occur. The entire Persian Empire will become extremely turbulent because of this.

We must know that not only people in the east will rebel when they can't survive, it's the same everywhere, they will rebel if they can't survive.

If there is no food to eat, people can do everything, after all, they have to survive.

In Europe, in the palace of the Spanish Empire, Charles V was also worrying about food.

"Your Majesty, since the Ming Empire issued an order to limit the export of grain, our Spanish grain has soared more than ten times overnight, and a large number of merchants and nobles have started hoarding grain, causing the grain on the market to become extremely tense all of a sudden. There was a large-scale food shortage, which in turn caused riots and turmoil in the city, and all kinds of bandits and bandits emerged in endlessly."

Pelos reported to Charles V with a solemn expression.

"What about the food we grow ourselves?"

Charles V frowned. He was preparing to launch a large-scale attack on many states of the Holy Roman Empire. He did not expect that there would be a food shortage at this juncture, and the Ming Empire would stop exporting food to him.

"Your Majesty, the area of ​​grain we grow ourselves is not large, and we have suffered from severe floods this year, and the grain production will be extremely reduced. Therefore, it is far from enough to rely on my own grain. We must import grain from the Ming Empire. Just do it!"

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