Great Power Technology.

Chapter 338 An Important Guess
The meeting finally passed the conclusion of comprehensive intervention with a large number of votes, and each agency was assigned relevant tasks. Our side initiated an emergency communication with the Serbian government, and decided to provide technical consulting services to Srbija in the form of an independent consultant.

The services in this part include but are not limited to media, prices, supply, and logistics. Among them, the local China Construction Group will mobilize all idle construction machinery to restore the road to Belgrade blocked by the heavy rain.

At the same time, the news media where La Zirou works will also undertake corresponding responsibilities to investigate and report on the real situation of the current grain market, with the aim of dispelling public panic and avoiding stampede buying.

After the meeting, La Zirou and Fu Yuan returned to the representative office. After the division of labor was determined, Fu Yuan stayed in the representative office to organize personnel to prepare for the work, while La Zirou went to the market alone to start an investigation and find evidence.

However, as the investigation deepened, she felt more and more critical of the situation.

Now almost all stores, supermarkets and grain trading stores in the market have their stocks below the warning line.

According to her statistics on the grain stocks of the stores she has visited, the grain can only support the consumption of Belgrade for 6 days at most. If no grain arrives after 6 days, the whole city will most likely fall into famine.

Not everyone will hoard enough food at home, especially in this country where bread is the staple food, most people tend to buy finished food directly from the market, if one day the bread supply is cut off, the order of the entire market will be destroyed will crash instantly.

Many residents have been aware of this problem, and there are still long queues in front of the open food stores. La Zirou asked the store managers one by one, and recorded all the names of the store's raw material suppliers in the notebook.

Later, she went to visit those raw material suppliers according to the names in the notebook, and from those suppliers, she came to different conclusions.

Relatively small suppliers are also short of inventory, and they are also struggling with this matter, and even wish to bring tools to repair the roads in Belgrade, but in fact, they have already vaguely made a judgment in their hearts.

The shortage of food supply cannot be caused by road blockage.

Some people cut off the path from wholesale to retail, and some people hoarded food on a large scale.

After visiting a total of 7 suppliers, La Zirou finally came to the last one of the day's target, and just walked into the office of this supplier, she immediately noticed the difference.

The head of the grain store called Arbery's was too indifferent.

La Zirou sat opposite the person in charge under the warm welcome of the other party, and then asked:
"Mr. Desmonds, I am Huaxia's reporter in Srbija. I am visiting you today to ask you a few questions. I hope you can help me accordingly."

Desmonds nodded with a smile on his face, and replied:

"Of course, of course, Huaxia is our friend. I will never refuse this little favor. What question do you want to ask?"

La Zirou opened the notebook in her hand, paused for a moment and asked:
"My first question is, have you noticed the shortage of food in the markets in Belgrade right now?"

"Of course, of course."

Drummons adjusted his sitting posture slightly, pushed away the ashtray on the table, looked directly at La Zirou and said:
"We are also very worried about this. The price of grain on the market has risen nearly three times. If we can sell enough grain at this time, we can definitely make a lot of profit."

"But it's a pity that we really don't have any in stock."

"As you know, due to the torrential rain a few days ago, all the roads and water transportation to Belgrade have been blocked, and the food in the region cannot be transported in at all. In addition, the international food prices have risen, and suppliers in many regions have chosen to directly send the food. It is very difficult for us to buy at a low price when it is shipped abroad.”

Hearing his words, La Zirou frowned slightly.

What the other party said is indeed true. Because of the inversion of domestic and foreign grain prices, farmers in Srbija are more inclined to sell their grain directly to exporters, which has led to the rise of grain prices in Srbija to a certain extent.

But the problem is that there is a quota for Srbija's grain exports. No matter how weak the official control over exports is, there shouldn't be a shortage of food even in the capital.

The only reason is that the officials misjudged the situation, set the quota too high, and did not predict that there would be large-scale food hoarding in the country.

But who is responsible for such grain hoarding?
Obviously, he was sitting across from him.

"So, you mean, the current food shortage has nothing to do with you?"

"Of course, of course. We don't want food shortages because that's not in our interest."

La Zirou shook her head unobtrusively, and then continued to ask:
"Well, maybe it is. So, I want to ask you, how much stock do you have in your warehouse?"

"Probably can still support a week's shipments——but, after a week, our food access should also be opened up?"

"It doesn't have to be."

La Zirou recorded a number in the notebook, and then continued to ask:

"May I ask you about your current warehouse location?"

"Of course, the warehouse is right behind us. If you're interested, I can show you right away—but there's a lot of dust inside. For a beautiful lady like you, it's better not to go see it."

"Then as you wish."

In fact, La Zirou did not intend to go to their warehouse to investigate on the spot. She knew that it was impossible for the other party to show her the real inventory, so there was no point in wasting time like this.

What she really wants to figure out is the opponent's subsequent strategy.

After the roads in Belgrade are opened and food from other regions can be transported into the capital unimpeded, what method will they adopt to further increase the price of food?
Keep hoarding?
This should be impossible, because although the official actions are slow, they will not let them go. Once Belgrade faces a full-scale crisis and the official uses tough measures to end the game, all the plans of these grain merchants will come to nothing.

This is why after purchasing a large amount of grain in the early stage, they generally used the method of brewing to consume the grain, because they themselves also anticipated the sanctions that the authorities might take in the future.

After a pause, La Zirou continued to speak:
"Can I walk around here myself? You know, I'm a reporter and I need to get closer to my subjects."

"Of course it's all right, please help yourself—if you don't need me, then I can."

"No problem, you can go to work."

After finishing speaking, La Zirou got up and said goodbye to Dremons. After the latter left, she inspected the entire company's area and took pictures of all the suspicious details she thought.

During this process, she was not hindered in any way, and it seemed that all the evidence related to the hoarding of food had been properly hidden. However, when she returned to the representative office and checked the photos in the camera one by one, she found another Something out of the ordinary.

Not food, but security.

Compared with other grain companies in Belgrade, or even compared to other important places, the security personnel of this company seem a bit too much.

In almost every photo, she can see those security personnel.

This is very unreasonable.

Srbija used to be a country where guns were not allowed, but gun control has been implemented in recent years, the rate of people holding guns has dropped significantly, and the official control of social order has reached a relatively high level.

Even in the case of a shortage of food supply, at most there will be some panic buying and small-scale riots, but after the official mobilization of food reserves enters Belgrade, the scale of such riots should be controlled to a very low level.

Because for such a country, rising food prices may greatly harm the national economy in the short term and bring great difficulties to people's lives, but the foundation of agriculture and economy is there, and people will definitely not starve to death.

As long as people don't starve to death, no one will take the initiative to kill others-this is a very simple logic.

However, the security level of Drymonds is obviously configured according to the standard of "may kill someone".

In their expectation, the riots caused by the rise in food prices will definitely kill people.

Then, to cause such riots, a stronger impetus must be needed—a impetus from the outside world that amplifies the panic of the people to a great extent.

La Zirou suddenly felt a chill rising, and she seemed to have guessed what the enemy was going to do.

They are not satisfied with just raising the price of food in Srbija, but want to turn Srbija into a second capital!

Only in this way can Huaxia be forced to help in the most direct way.

When his allies lose a lot of money, Huaxia can watch quietly; but once his allies start to die, Huaxia must not sit idly by.

It's a chain meter, and to do it, that push...can only be.
She rushed to the phone, dialed the number she had already memorized, and immediately reported her judgment. After a short communication, the content of the call was quickly transferred back to China.

After just 4 hours, multiple satellites in the vast space changed their orbits and shifted their sights to the sky above this small country.

One after another, high-precision photos were taken and then passed on to professional analysts, who made their own judgments based on the few familiar aircraft that appeared in satellite images.

The enemy's secret plan in Srbija was thus exposed to Huaxia's sight.

Maybe it was inevitable for the rabbit to discover the other party's movements, maybe this piece of information was only a few days or even hours ahead of time, but this was enough.

A day later, Huaxia, a large military airport.

A batch of 12 Y-20C modified Y-[-]C finished the final preparations for take-off, and rose from the ground one after another in order.

No one knew what cargo was loaded in the huge cabin, and no one knew where they were going to fly, but both the crew members and the ground staff showed urgency on their faces.

And in Islamabad in the distance, among the 6 Tamron fighter jets that just landed, 4 of them have also taken off with tankers.

At this time, La Zirou still doesn't know what kind of changes her phone call brought to the world.

　Thanks to the leader of Dongyue Guardian for the reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)