Chapter 331 The prototype of developed countries
Food prices and material prices in other countries around the world have been rising recently.
Especially in the affected areas, the people at the bottom can only barely ensure fullness.
For low-income groups, if there is no government relief, they may go hungry.
However, in Xia State, it is a completely opposite style.
Food prices fell.
Meat prices plummeted.
As long as it is an ordinary food, the price will drop to a certain extent.
People's life pressure has been reduced to a certain extent.
Comparing with the dire straits abroad, it seems that it is not living on the same planet.
Moreover, Xia State was also affected by locust plague, and grain output was affected by about 3%, but prices fell.
It completely violates common sense and rules.
Thinking of the crazy selling of grain reserves during this period, some mysterious forces came to a conclusion after some discussion:
"Xia Kingdom is just holding on!"
"Their crazy selling of food stocks caught off guard and affected our plans, but they were seeking death!"
"A mere 100 million tons of grain stored in it cannot solve this famine, not to mention that about half of the grain was bought by us and all the ammunition was lost."
"But their annual import demand of 50 million tons of corn and more than 100 million tons of soybeans cannot be saved. They can only import from abroad because they do not have enough land resources!"
"Indeed, they will not lack food, and there is no problem with eating a full meal, but they lack feed, cooking oil and corn that brews ethanol fuel, now only we provide. Once the supply is banned, their pork prices will go to heaven. At least twenty or thirty yuan per pound, and the price of cooking oil will also rise."
"Unless they all choose to be vegetarian, don't think about buying a piece of cheap meat!"
"Three months, at most three months, they will definitely make trouble!"
In the conference room, the white man with blue eyes slapped the table and said.
"In another month, it will be the autumn harvest season, and the locust plague is less affected. In the short term, they will not be short of food. It is impossible for them to be hungry. It is impossible for them to eat some meat and use less oil. Instead, they can lose some weight and cause chaos in the Xia Kingdom."
"But we can't hold on for more than half a year, hoarding hundreds of millions of tons of grain, spending the wealth we have accumulated for decades. If it doesn't work, and the grain prices will fall, we will lose all of it!"
"We can only take action against the countries around Xia State, and sell the grain to them at least three times the price, and empty their wealth! In addition, Han State and island countries are also our harvest targets. Their self-sufficiency rate of grain is only about 70%. The remaining parts that need to be imported will be sold to them at least five times the price, and they will be harvested!"
Another participant said lightly.
Everyone present nodded. Since it is difficult to cut the leeks in Xia Kingdom, they can only take action against those surrounding countries.
Even though there are a few pretty hardcore allies in it, there is nothing that cannot be sacrificed or abandoned in order to make money.
They are capital, there is no good or evil, only the capital of interests, because interests are their lives.
However, what they dreamed of harvesting was the super big leek in Xia Kingdom.
But no matter what means and methods are taken or what kind of crisis they create, this leek cannot be cut, and even makes them doubt their lives and shaken.
But this time! They really took the initiative and took out their final capital, thinking that no matter what, they must chew a piece of meat from Xia Guo.
"Xia Kingdom, try the meat that is expensive to eat once every week or two!"
These people said in their hearts with gritted teeth.
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September.
Prices in Xia Country fluctuated to a certain extent again.
The prices of grain and vegetables have not fluctuated much.
But the meat price fell again.
In supermarkets, the price of pork fell to 7.5 to 8 yuan per catty, the beef fell to 12 to 15 yuan per catty, and the price of mutton was below 20 yuan. All families with ordinary conditions could eat it every day.
And this price is basically the same as the most developed lighthouse country.
If you spend one or two hundred yuan to buy at least half a shopping cart.
But this is not the end!
Lao Yang said on the phone:
"By the end of this year, the price of pork may be as cheap as about 6 yuan per pound, beef is over 10 yuan, and mutton is similar... The obesity rate will definitely increase significantly, and some varieties of vegetables will definitely be sold more expensive than meat."
"Our goal is to reduce the proportion of food expenses in national income from about 20% to 10% within three years, that is, people with a monthly income of about 5,000 yuan will have about 500 yuan in food expenses per month."
"If this goal can be achieved smoothly, our Xia Kingdom will enter the primary stage of developing countries from developing countries, but this value is no less valuable than that of developed countries such as cold countries and island countries."
"With the distance between the island countries, their income is high, but the prices are also ridiculously high. A banana is 8 yuan, an apple is 20 yuan, a watermelon is thousands of yuan, ordinary vegetables, meat, and rice are not cheap either. The per capita income is five times ours, but the prices are five times ours. After our price level drops down, the quality of life of ordinary Xia people may not be lower than that of the island residents."
"But in order to achieve these goals, my task will be very large in the next three years. The area of ryegrass planting greenhouses must be increased to about 30 million mu, of which two-thirds are accounted for in China and one-third abroad."
"Also, in order to cope with this year's food crisis, the country has cleared its inventory, and the greenhouses we planted here have entered a state of rapid production, increased the intensity of light, and artificially supplemented carbon fertilizer. Ryegrass, which has been ripe for about 20 days, has been compressed to 18 days. This year, it is planned to plant for about twenty seasons and enter a state of rapid explosion."
"Although we only have more than 5 million mu of planting greenhouses now playing a role, the output is equivalent to 200 million mu of arable land."
"As for ryegrass feed, all the animals raised in the domestic breeding industry are now unable to eat. They can only sell part of it at a price of 8 cents per pound, and the other part is processed into more nutritious dry feed, which is priced at 35 cents per pound... This is the reason why the cost of breeding has dropped sharply."
"The only regret is that my plan to make money was ruined. I used to think that I could make hundreds of billions of dollars a year, but because the above wanted the country to enter a developed society as soon as possible, the first three to five years were probably not profitable in China, and I could only make a little money from exports."
"But my situation has long been rising. As long as it is for the country and the people, it doesn't matter if I don't make a penny. As long as everyone lives a happy life, I can never make a profit or make a low profit in the food industry."
"Of course, with the cherry bean industry, you can still make more than 5 billion yuan a year. I am very looking forward to this."
Hearing these words from Lao Yang.
While Xu Ming admired his noble feelings, he also asked curiously: "How are the cherry beans sold recently?"
Chapter completed!