Rongcheng.

Ye Zhou has been busy with the six-nosed project of quantum computing and the production increase project of gene editing. He has delayed the new simulation, but he is not anxious about it.

In the last simulation, the original intention was to explore the simulation plot about lasers first. Since you have a general understanding, then the most suitable choice is to wait for your time to complete the simulation at one time when you have a little more time.

The key task now is to gather all your energy to deal with this food crisis and defeat the enemy's last attack in the non-military field.

As long as this food battle is over, all four areas that the enemy originally had the advantage will fall into a disadvantage - or at least balance the power. Then, with the six-nosed project's quantum computer RSA solution, China's development space in the next few years can be greatly reduced.

According to the plan arranged by Chen Hao for him, today is his fixed weekly rest day, but he does not plan to rest, but plans to use the spare time of this day to sort out all the problems at hand to welcome the explosive development period of the Chinese technology field that is about to come soon.

However, just as he turned on the computer and was about to start work and sort out, a video call interrupted his thoughts.

The caller was Ye Lan.

Ye Zhou showed a smile on his face. Since he started his graduate course, he has less contact with him, but he can basically maintain a frequency of communication twice or three times a month.

The content of the two chatted was actually very simple, it was nothing more than some family matters, complaints about school affairs, work of Ye Lan's financial project team, or some interesting things that were not secrets about Ye Zhou.

Such communication always makes Ye Zhou feel a sense of security inexplicably.

He once explored the source of this sense of security, and with the support of the talent of the "decision maker", he quickly summarized the reasons.

The so-called sense of security is actually his sense of stability as a "person".

Since entering the core decision-making circle, the things I come into contact with have become more and more grand. Every decision and every suggestion I make have affected thousands of people, and this result has led to more and more detached from the individual perspective when looking at problems.

To summarize in a simple sentence, when you make a choice, what you consider is no longer the "human" factor, but the "people".

This is probably an improvement, but this progress is also accompanied by risks.

That is, he will become more and more indifferent, and his pursuit of extreme cost-effectiveness is becoming stronger and stronger. Sometimes, he will even have extreme utilitarian ideas, and this idea will gradually distort his "original intention".

When a person no longer pursues the most fundamental original intention and instead puts "interest" first, this kind of interest will eventually slide in the wrong direction.

Maintaining the basic attributes of a "person" is the most effective way to avoid this risk.

Therefore, even in the busiest time, he never rejects communication with his relatives, because every communication will make him take a step further in the direction of "humanity", thereby neutralizing the negative impact of him as a "decision-making machine" and "technical machine".

After putting away his slightly messy thoughts, Ye Zhou took the video and Ye Lan's cheerful face immediately jumped out of the screen.

"Brother! Are you busy? Why haven't you answered the phone for so long?"

Ye Zhou smiled and replied:

"No, I just happened to type on the computer and I finished typing the last paragraph before I picked it up... Is the school holiday today?"

"What kind of vacation is there? I can't take it now. I'm either studying or doing projects every day... I haven't slept in for a long time."

Ye Lan's voice on the other end of the phone revealed a little less obvious feeling of fatigue, but fortunately, from the picture, she didn't look very bad.

"If you are tired, take a leave to take a break. Don't get tired of your health--I'm forced to rest by Chen Hao now, one day a week."

"In fact, this effect is quite good, and the work efficiency will increase in the future. The reason why the 8-hour working system plus double breaks is still a rule."

"I know, I know... I will definitely rest tomorrow. Brother, I have something to ask you today, do you have time?"

Ye Zhou did not answer directly, but asked:

“About what?”

"food."

"Grain? Has your project team started to get involved in the food field? Futures or spot?"

Ye Zhou is actually clear about the layout of financial means on the grain market, but he has never invested much energy in this regard. First, he is not a professional, and second, special commodities like grain are actually less dependent on financial operations, and they are not the main strategy in their plans, so Ye Zhou does not need to know it specifically.

However, since Ye Lan asked himself, it means that this action began to be related to his layout.

As for what connection it is, it depends on what Ye Lan will say next.

"Futures. Brother, I'll ask you first, do you know the connection between spot grain prices and futures prices?"

Ye Zhou was stunned for a moment, thought carefully, and replied:

"I can probably understand. The hedging attributes of grain futures are stronger than other futures types, so delivery is more frequent--that is, most traders do not make speculative arbitrage, but to stabilize costs. Is this true?"

"That's right."

Ye Lan nodded and continued:

"Commodities like grain are different from other commodities. As you said, most of the positions will be delivered, so the futures price will have a greater impact on spot prices."

"Our project team has been following up on the price trends of indica rice and wheat for a month, and now we are noticing a very abnormal situation."

"In theory, if our opponents want to raise the spot price, then futures prices should also rise simultaneously, because if the market expects that the food price will fall in three months, traders will tend to sell their inventory, which will immediately lead to a drop in spot prices."

"This is a very simple supply and demand relationship - although it is reversed from the data, it is very accurate."

"The future price decline means that there is sufficient supply in the future, and if the supply is sufficient, there will be no room for spot price increase."

"The basic principle is, but the problem is, the opposite is true now."

"Spot prices are rising, while futures prices have not changed much, and are even slowly falling."

"We don't know what the reason is. The project team has reported to the superiors. Then I thought there might be news here, so I came here to ask you."

After hearing Ye Lan's words, Ye Zhou frowned slightly.

This is indeed a new situation that I have not noticed before, but what does this situation mean?

After thinking for a while, he asked:

"So your doubts now are that our opponents are obviously manipulating futures prices, but the direction of manipulation is the opposite?"

"That's right! That's it!"

"We now even suspect that the opponent's internal division has begun to split because their strategic directions in the spot and futures markets are opposite - but in fact, it is absolutely impossible to split at this point in time."

"So I want to ask you if there is any information we haven't obtained that has led to this difference."

Ye Zhou frowned and asked:

“When did this start to happen?”

“It’s about the last week.”

"Have you communicated with the General Office?"

"I have communicated. The project team has issued early warnings to all relevant departments, but has not received any feedback yet."

Hearing Ye Lan's words, Ye Zhou nodded slightly and replied:

"I know the situation, but I can't answer you, and I can't think of what caused this situation."

"You will continue to follow the scheduled plan first. I will go to Chen Hao for a meeting later. After the meeting is over, we will provide you with relevant information based on the situation."

"Before this, you just need to follow the project team to do it. Don't make rash judgments to avoid affecting their decisions. Do you understand?"

"I know, don't worry."

Ye Lan on the other end of the phone nodded solemnly. After the two of them chatted for a few more words, Ye Zhou hung up the phone directly.

Then, he immediately dialed the phone to Chen Hao. After listening to his description, the latter not only did not surprise him, but instead smiled helplessly:

"Engineer Ye...we have tried our best to reduce the burden on you, but I didn't expect you to find work for yourself."

"We know what you are talking about and we have a solution."

"Let's do it. I'll come here later and I'll talk to you roughly. But don't worry about it later, don't add work to yourself."

Ye Zhou nodded and replied:

"I'm worried that this thing will have an impact on our technical layout."

"No, you're wrong."

"It's not that this thing has an impact on our technical layout, it's our technical layout that will have an impact on the other party's strategies."

"This is also why we have to emphasize the importance of production-increasing technology this time."

"Because from the beginning, the cards that the opponent plays soar in the short term are all illusions."

"What they really need to do is to reduce global food production for a long time."
Chapter completed!