Chapter 338: An Important Guess
The meeting finally passed the conclusion of full intervention with a large number of votes. Each organization was assigned relevant tasks. It launched an emergency communication with the Serbian official and determined that it would provide technical consulting services to SRBija in the form of independent consultants.
This part of the services include but are not limited to media, prices, supply, and logistics. The local China Construction Group will mobilize all idle construction machinery to restore the road to Belgrade blocked by heavy rain.
At the same time, the news media where La Zirou is located will also assume corresponding responsibilities and investigate and report the real status of the current grain market, with the purpose of eliminating public panic and avoiding stampede buying.
After the meeting, La Zirou and Fu Yuan returned to the representative office. After determining the division of labor, Fu Yuan stayed in the representative office to organize personnel to prepare, while La Zirou went to the market alone to start an investigation and find evidence.
However, as the investigation deepened, she felt the crisis of the situation more and more.
Now almost all stores, supermarkets and grain trading stores on the market have their inventory below the cordon.
According to her statistics on the grain inventory of the shops she has visited, these grains can only support the consumption of the entire Belgrade for up to 6 days. If there is no grain transported in after 6 days, the entire city will most likely fall into famine.
Not everyone will stock up on 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 supply of bread is cut off, the order of the entire market will collapse instantly.
Many residents have realized this problem and have formed a long queue in front of the open food store. La Zirou asked the store manager one by one, recording all the names of the store's raw material suppliers in the notebook.
Then, she visited the raw material suppliers according to the name on the notebook, and from those suppliers, she came to different conclusions.
The relatively small suppliers are indeed short of inventory. They are also worried about this matter and even want to bring tools to repair the roads in Belgrade. But in fact, they have already made a vague judgment in their hearts.
The tight food supply cannot be caused by road blockage.
Some people cut off the path from wholesale to retail, while others are hoarding food on a large scale.
After visiting a total of 7 suppliers, La Zirou finally came to the last one of the targets that day. As soon as she walked into the supplier's office, she immediately discovered the difference.
The person in charge of this grain store called Albery was too calm.
La Zirou sat opposite the person in charge under the warm welcome of the other party, and then asked:
"Mr. Desmons, I am a reporter from China in SRBija. I am visiting you today. I want to ask you a few questions and hope you can provide corresponding help."
Desmons nodded with a smile on his face and replied:
"Of course, of course, Huaxia is our friend. I will never refuse Xiaobian...What questions 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 current food shortage in the Belgrade market?”
"Of course, of course."
Dlemons slightly adjusted his sitting position, pushed the ashtray on the table, looked directly at La Zirou and said:
"We are also worried about this... The food prices in the market have now risen by nearly three times. If we can sell enough food at this time, we will definitely make a lot of profits."
"But it's a pity, we really don't have any inventory."
"You also know that because of the heavy rains a few days ago, the roads and water transportation to Belgrade were all blocked, and the food in the region could not be transported in at all. In addition, the international food prices rose, suppliers in many regions chose to transport food directly abroad. It was already difficult for us to purchase it at a low price."
Hearing his words, La Zirou frowned slightly.
What the other party said is indeed true. Because of the inversion of grain prices at home and abroad, farmers in srbija are more inclined to sell grain directly to exporters, which to a certain extent led to an increase in srbija grain prices.
But the problem is that SRbija's grain exports have quotas. No matter how poor the official control over exports is, there should not be a situation where even the capital is in short supply.
The only reason is that the official misjudged the situation and set the quota too high, and did not predict that there would be large-scale grain hoarding in China.
But who did this kind of food hoarding?
Apparently, he was sitting opposite him.
“So, you mean, the food shortages are not about you now?”
"Of course, of course. We don't want food shortages because that's not in line with our interests."
La Zirou shook her head slightly, then continued to ask:
"Well, maybe that's true. So, I want to ask you, how much inventory is there in your warehouse now?"
"It can support shipments for about a week--but in a week, our grain channels should be opened, right?"
“This is not necessarily.”
La Zirou recorded a number in her notebook and then continued to ask:
"Can I know about your current warehouse location?"
"Of course, the warehouse is behind us. If you are interested, I can take you to visit immediately--but the dust inside is very heavy. It is best not to go and see a beautiful lady like you."
"Then it's as you wish."
In fact, La Zirou did not plan to go to their warehouse to investigate on-site. She knew that the other party could not show her real inventory, and it was meaningless to waste time like this.
What she really wants to figure out is the other party’s strategy in the future.
After the roads in Belgrade are opened and other areas can be transported into the capital unimpeded, what methods will they take to further raise the grain prices?
Continue to hoard?
This should be impossible, because although the official moves slowly, they will not let them go. Once Belgrade faces a full-scale crisis and the official takes tough measures, all the plans of these grain merchants will be disappointed.
This is also why after purchasing large amounts of grain in the early stage, they generally used the method of making wine to consume the grain, because they themselves expected the sanctions that the government might take in the future.
After a moment of pause, La Zirou continued to speak:
"Can I go around here by myself? You know, I'm a reporter and I need to get closer to my interviewee."
"Of course it's okay, please let yourself go----If I don't need me, then can I..."
"No problem, go and do it."
After saying that, La Zirou stood up and said goodbye to Dlemons. After the latter left, she inspected the entire company area and took pictures of all the details she thought were suspicious.
During this process, she was not obstructed, and it seemed that all the evidence related to the stockpiling of food had been properly hidden. However, when she returned to the representative office and inspected the photos in the camera one by one, she discovered something unusual.
Not food, but security.
Compared with other grain companies in Belgrade, the company's security personnel seem to be too many compared to other important places.
In almost every photo, she could see the security personnel.
This is very unreasonable.
SRBija was once a country that could not help but gun control, but in recent years, gun control has been implemented, the public's gun ownership rate has dropped significantly, and the official control over social order has reached a relatively high level.
Even in the case of shortage of food supply, at most, there will be some buying waves and small-scale riots, but after the official mobilization of reserved grain into Belgrade, the scale of such riots should be controlled within an extremely low range.
Because for such a country, rising grain 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, so people will definitely not starve to death.
As long as people don’t starve to death, no one will take the initiative to beat others to death - this is very simple logic.
However, Dlemons' security level is obviously configured according to the standard of "may kill people".
In their expectations, the next riots caused by rising food prices will surely die.
Then, to cause such riots, stronger driving force will inevitably be needed - from the outside world, and to amplify the driving force for public panic to a great extent.
La Zirou suddenly felt a chill rising, and she seemed to guess what the enemy wanted to do.
They were not satisfied with just increasing the grain price of SRBija, but instead turned SRBija into the second Yindu!
Only in this way can we force China to provide assistance in the most direct way.
When their allies lose a lot of money, Huaxia can watch quietly; but once their allies start to die, Huaxia will definitely not sit idly by.
This is a chain of things, and to do this, that driving force... can only be...
She rushed to the phone and dialed the phone that she had already remembered, and then immediately reported her judgment. After a short period of communication, the content of the phone was quickly transferred back to China.
In just 4 hours, multiple satellites in the vast space changed orbit and turned their sights over the small country.
High-precision photos were taken one by one and then passed to professional analysts who made their own judgment based on the extremely familiar aircraft that appeared on satellite images.
The enemy's secret plan in SRBija was exposed to China's sight.
Perhaps, it was inevitable that the rabbit would find that the other party's movements were inevitable. Perhaps this information was only a few days or even a few hours in time, but this was enough.
.........
A day later, in China, a large military airport.
A batch of 12 modified y-20cs completed the final takeoff preparations and rose one after another in sequence.
No one knew what cargo was loading in that huge cabin, nor did anyone know where they were going to fly, but both the crew members and the ground staff showed a look of urgency on their faces.
Mabad, 6 Tamron fighter jets that just landed, 4 of which have also taken off again with the tanker.
At this time, La Zirou didn't know what kind of changes her phone call had brought to the world.
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Chapter completed!