Homo sapiens

August 2nd.

Manila city area.

The sky has just turned white and many people have already gotten up to work.

Mary prepared breakfast for her two children early in the morning, and then rode her bicycle to send her youngest son to North District No. 1 Primary School.

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

Mary's younger son can go to school here, and it will also benefit from the relationship between her eldest daughter Julie.

After sending her youngest son to school, she went to work at Fengrao Supermarket on her bicycle.

Just arrived at the supermarket.

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

"What else has increased in price?" Mary knows the unspoken rules of supermarkets, that is, if something in the market increases in price, the supermarket will hurriedly change the price; if something in the market drops in price, the supermarket will be slow to respond.

Picking up a pile of price tags that she had just printed out, Mary found that the first things to pay attention to were rice, flour, soybean oil, and palm oil.

Colleague Lingdang exclaimed in a low voice: "The price of rice has increased so much."

The two of them chatted quietly as they walked.

When she came to the grain and oil section, Mary took out the old price tags from the price tag sandwich and inserted the new price tags.

Medan fragrant 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 prices at Fenggao Supermarket is already the smallest in Manila.

Another large grain and oil wholesale store not far from Fengrao Supermarket has raised the price to 120% at this time.

Manila, as the area with the strongest foreign capital, the largest number of compradors, and the densest concentration of converts, suddenly 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, was leading people to inspect the fireproof and waterproof facilities of the warehouse. He had imported a large amount of fragrant rice from Siam some time ago, totaling more than 20,000 tons.

Now is the typhoon season 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 20%. Do you want to take action?" the person in charge of the sales department asked cautiously.

Fan Oka rolled his eyes: "Are you out of your mind? Now the international food prices are rising steadily. Siam, Annan, and Tianzhu have all announced to increase the export price of rice and reduce the export volume. How much money can you make now? ?”

"The boss is wise!" Another bitch quickly flattered him.

Fan Oka patted the rice warehouse: "If the price doesn't double, don't sell it, and I will continue to reduce the supply in the store."

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

"What are you afraid of? If I don't sell rice, am I breaking the law? This is a free market." Fan Oka waved his hand indifferently.

Comprador merchants, convert groups, and foreign-funded enterprises that share Van Oka's plans are rapidly reducing rice sales while gradually raising market prices.

Affected by the sharp increase in rice prices, not only food prices have increased in Manila, but cooking oil, sugar, meat, eggs, and non-staple food prices have also increased.

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

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

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

The Homo sapiens company has increased the market supply of food through Fengsheng Supermarket, but it has launched a purchase restriction mode, and the price is not low.

But on the market, only Fengrao Supermarket has enough food supplies, and people can only grit their teeth and buy food at one price a day.

This situation lasted for more than a month.

It's September.

The second rice season in Luzon has begun to be harvested.

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

The price has almost doubled from before.

And here's the even worse news.

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

At the same time, bad news came from Luzon's rice purchase negotiations with Siam, Annan, and Tianzhu. It seemed that there were huge differences in price between the two parties.

All kinds of adverse news have made Manila's fried rice merchants more confident. Many speculators believe that there is still room for rising grain prices in Luzon.

Right now.

The war to grab rice has also begun across Luzon.

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

Even some agricultural cooperatives owned by Homo sapiens companies are "secretly" selling rice to these people.

Inside the Macaron Village co-op.

Fanoka said with a smile: "Brother Carter, 45,000 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 500,000 pesos from his wallet and stuffed it into Carter's hand.

Carter collected the money calmly, and then replied seriously: "Okay, 45,000 a ton, but only 500 tons."

"Haha, happy cooperation." Fan Oka showed a proud smile.

At this moment, his heart was occupied by greed, and he invested all his wealth in buying local rice.

There are not many people who think the same as Van Oka.

In the first half of September, about 75% of the rice harvest in Luzon was completed, which was also the craziest time for these speculators.

Many of them, like Fan Oka, staked all their wealth and launched a comprehensive rice rush in Luzon with the Homo sapiens company.

Even ABCD gritted its teeth and squeezed out more than one billion US dollars to secretly purchase 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.

September 15th.

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 aggressive.

Some people are even clamoring that Luzon rice will 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, Annam, Tianzhu and other places have become more emboldened, making procurement negotiations between the two parties more difficult.

After all, they all saw that Luzon's food chips were insufficient. If the five major families had not joined forces to suppress it and continuously released food through the Homo sapiens company, the price of food in Luzon would have been out of control.

Therefore, the outside world is speculating when the five major families will be unable to hold on, which is when they harvest Luzon.

Just when the speculators were in a frenzy, shouting that Luzon's grain stocks were about to hit bottom.

In the underground meeting room of Neihu Manor.

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

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

Xu Yingming also said with a smile: "The second-season rice harvest in Hongsawady has been bumper. It can currently supply us with 7 million tons of rice. The first batch of transport ships transported 500,000 tons of rice and will begin arriving at the Manila Port the day after tomorrow."

"Then what are you waiting for? We will launch a full-scale counterattack the day after tomorrow. I want to watch their free fall." Garfield joked with some evil humor.

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