As long as there is capital participation in the market, the information received by ordinary people will inevitably be a big step slower.
The news of disaster is coming, and so is the news of rising food prices.
Perhaps when the game notified the major territorial lords in advance half a month ago, those large dominant territories had already notified them in advance and planned the entire plan.
At first, they may have promised these lords some benefits, or they may have made some promises to these lords, which is why the news has been hidden.
But now, at least one thing is certain.
The hail disaster has passed.
But in the wasteland, the disaster that belongs to ordinary people has officially arrived!
"What, the price of food in our territory has actually risen to two trading points per kilogram, a full seven times increase. This price is even more expensive than that in Tianyuan territory. Is this old man Filippo crazy?"
"Damn, one kilogram of old grain contributes 2.8 points, and one kilogram of new grain contributes 3.1 points. Why doesn't he grab it?"
"What? You asked me to bring food back from Tianyuan Territory. How is that possible? Don't you know how much tax an individual in such a large territory needs to pay to transport food? It is several times the price of food!!"
"No, the price of food in Tianyuan Territory has also increased. Now one kilogram costs 3 contribution points."
"It's also gone up? Damn it, am I the one who was still thinking about stocking up on some food before the disaster? Now it's really bad."
"It's so awesome. Our small territory of more than a thousand people is now more expensive than the Tianyuan territory. It's so awesome!"
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The disaster had only ended for about half an hour, but the public liaison booth in Sangtian Town was already crowded with people.
At first, these migrant workers just wanted to come here and spend some points to ensure that their relatives at home were safe.
But when they walked in, when more and more people learned about the sudden surge in food prices.
The noise inevitably grew louder in the dark night.
Squeezing in the back of the crowd, Ge Jian'an also carefully inquired about the news, trying his best to distinguish which ones were deliberately spread false news and which ones were real intelligence.
But unfortunately, after listening for a while, he became a little silent.
Nothing else.
Those who made the phone call and claimed that the price of food in the territory had increased several times, or even ten times, had lifelike expressions and urgent emotions, and they did not look like they could perform.
Several people he knew well were standing in front of the crowd, shouting and cursing loudly.
"The Dragon Phoenix Territory is only four hundred kilometers away from the Tianyuan Territory. It is not a remote place."
“I hope food prices won’t rise too much!”
"otherwise."
Opening the game panel and looking at the transaction points on his account that had dropped to double digits, Ge Jian'an couldn't help but feel depressed and anxious.
Calculated based on the income from previous summer harvests, as long as he can complete the process, he can basically earn no less than 200 trading points of goods with his labor.
Converted into grain, it’s a full 400 kilograms!
This food, brought back to the Dragon Phoenix territory, would be enough for their family of four to no longer have to worry about food for a whole year.
And if you add in the income from the autumn harvest and the odd jobs you usually do in the territory.
Ge Jian'an was even able to free up some space and create a sturdy underground shelter that could be used as a refuge, thereby improving the family's living standards.
But this time, things are worse!
When he came to Tianyuan Territory and worked in Zizai Liangfang for three days, he only earned 90 survival points.
It seems to be much more than at the same time in previous years, but the key is.
The crops in the fields have been destroyed by hail, which is equivalent to a forced end to the summer harvest.
What he earns now is what he earned from this summer harvest.
And this income does not include the 20-point ticket to and from Tianyuan territory, as well as the recent expenses of more than 10 points.
"Throwing aside the expenses, I can save 60 points, but if the price of food increases to 3.0 points per kilogram"
"This is equivalent to earning 20 kilograms of grain."
Taking a deep breath and seeing that the queue in front of him was finally getting smaller and smaller, Ge Jianan stepped forward nervously and once again spent one transaction point to buy a "ticket" that could last for two minutes.
Insert the ticket into the contact device and quickly enter the number in memory.
Hearing the familiar beeping sound, Ge Jianan felt relieved and waited quietly for the sound coming from the other side.
"Hey, this is the communications office of the Dragon Phoenix Territory. Please name the person you want to transfer to in ten seconds."
"Transfer me to No. 17 Longji Road, Guan Taohua"
"Okay, transferring now"
A larger and more generous territory will have a dedicated communication device for each person, connected to the main communication tower in the center of the territory.
But in a small territory like the Dragon Phoenix Territory, they can only rely on secondary distribution signals and use homemade receivers to communicate.
Although this kind of homemade receiver, the monitoring signal is unstable and disconnection often occurs.
But just because its cost is only one-tenth of that of a regular communicator, it is still popular in small territories.
After a while, fortunately, there was no problem with the communicator today.
After several long beeps, a slightly tired female voice finally sounded:
"Jian'an, how are you doing there? Is it safe?"
"I'm fine. What problems can I have here in Tianyuan territory? I'm fine. Is our family okay?"
"Everything is fine at home. It's just that a few big holes were drilled into our house. Dabao has already moved a ladder up to repair it. There are no other major problems. You don't have to worry."
The two first informed each other that they were safe. After ensuring that both parties were safe, the topic suddenly changed.
"How much is the price of food in our Dragon Phoenix Territory now?" Asked this question, Ge Jianan's heart was in his throat.
But the answer he received next made him feel like he was falling into an ice cellar.
“What, it takes 4 trading points to buy a kilogram!!!”
An outrageously high number destroyed Ge Jianan's psychological defense almost instantly, causing him to tremble uncontrollably like the person he communicated with before.
In the powerful and rich Tianyuan territory, the price of Xinghuo No. 3 wheat is only 3 trading points per kilogram.
But in the remote and small Dragon Phoenix Territory, the price of ordinary economic wheat is actually one-third higher!
What is this concept?!
"We... how much food reserve do we have?"
"And." Guan Taohua did not answer immediately, but carefully asked a few questions about the children at home, and then replied with a trembling voice: "Jian'an, we still have seventy-six kilograms, save some to eat until the autumn harvest!
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A fairly impressive number is the result of the long-term efforts of the hard-working and intelligent Ge Jianan, Guan Taohua and their two children.
Among them, Ge Dabao was only 16 years old and joined the construction team of Longhuang Territory, running around under the scorching sun all day long.
Ge Xiaobao is 11 years old, and he has to follow Guan Taohua to do small handicrafts every day to earn a meager handicraft fee.
But even so, these food reserves are only enough for their family to eat for two months.
Going forward, we will have to face the crisis of running out of food!
"Taohua, don't let Dabao repair the roof first. Ask him to quickly place the hunting traps I prepared before according to the positions given on the plan I left. As well as the food, hurry up.
Move the point to a secret room in our shelter and don’t let anyone see it.”
"I'll come back by car tomorrow. Before then, you guys should hide inside and make sure no one finds out that we still have so much surplus food!"
"Tomorrow?" Guan Taohua was startled: "Master, are you going to stop doing the summer harvest?"
"Why don't you give me a hammer? The ground in Tianyuan territory has also been smashed by hail. The summer harvest ended three days ago." He rarely used a curse word. Looking at the only thirty seconds left, Ge Jianan quickly comforted him.
road:
"Don't worry, although this year is short, there is a very powerful man named Su Youzong in Sangtian Town. He happens to work in the Liangfang where I went. He has developed a special harvester and has already harvested all the wheat in advance.
It’s put away!”
"I made 90 points. If I keep it up, it will be enough for us to survive until autumn comes!"
"90 o'clock? That's good, that's good!" After hearing this harvest, Guan Taohua's heavy tone finally brought a hint of excitement.
However, due to the tight time limit, they only waited until the last five seconds, and the communicator had already issued a warning in advance, so the two could only say goodbye reluctantly.
"Oh, it's true that natural and man-made disasters come at the same time. Every disaster makes people lose hope!"
Putting down the phone and turning his head to look at the waiting crowd behind him, Ge Jian'an let out a long sigh, feeling extremely sad in his heart.
A small territory is indeed a small territory and has no ability to resist risks at all.
The dignified Tianyuan Territory, with who knows how many thousands of people under its command, can withstand this wave of pressure and keep food prices from skyrocketing too much.
But a small Dragon Phoenix territory with a population of only a few thousand people actually experienced such violent fluctuations.
"If possible, who wouldn't want to join Tianyuan Territory!"
"Who can afford the cheapest one thousand points at this difficult time?"
Walking out to the outskirts, I heard a few people discussing whether to leave their old territory and simply join the Tianyuan Territory.
Ge Jian'an couldn't help but sneered and accelerated his pace back to his residence.
But what he never expected was...
In the Dragon Phoenix Territory, which is nearly a thousand miles away, in the place responsible for the transfer, four people also quickened their pace after the call ended.
These four people are all strong and muscular, with muscles bulging all over their bodies. It's obvious from a glance that they have extraordinary skills.
Especially the one in the lead has a bright pistol on his waist, which makes people feel chilled at the sight of it.
Walking out of the liaison office, I took a look at the direction.
The four of them all showed a ferocious smile and strode towards No. 17 Longji Road.
Tianyuan Territory·Sangtian Town·Zizailiangfang.
"You have a sect, you have a sect, it's not good!"
Zhang Da, whose hair was already graying, ran down from the first floor of the shelter, shouting and screaming. After seeing Somo sitting in the living room, he quickened his pace a bit.
"You Zong, our granary was sealed by the security team. They said that because the market fluctuated too much, they asked us to temporarily seal it."
"In the future, it may take several months before the lockdown is lifted!"
"What?" Su Mo stood up from the sofa and put down the drawing in his hand: "What's going on? What does the market fluctuation have to do with the seizure of our granary?"
A completely unexpected news.
The leisurely mood that allowed Somo to spend three days was suddenly diluted at this moment.
Since he devoted his research efforts to the production of armor and various development indicators of Baoyu County, he has not paid much attention to the already finalized summer harvest.
But I didn't expect that at this time, the summer harvest, which should be the least problematic of all links, would jump out and increase its presence.
"Food prices outside are going crazy! Before the disaster was announced, the price of one kilogram of grain had already risen to 1.2 trading points."
“When the disaster was announced, the price skyrocketed to 1.8 trading points.”
"But now, with the prices just announced by several official granaries, it takes three trading points to buy one kilogram of grain. This..." Zhang Da was a little incoherent when he spoke. Obviously, this crazy price increase also frightened him.
It's not easy.
In previous years, when there were no disasters affecting the summer and autumn harvests, the stable price in the grain market in the Tianyuan Territory was generally around 0.5 trading points.
Only when disasters become more frequent or a large-scale disaster strikes, will the price double to 1 point per kilogram.
But now, the price of grain has reached 3 contribution points per kilogram, which is six times the previous price.
This price increase is enough to be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
"3 trading points?" Sumo said solemnly: "What about other territories? How much is the price increase?"
The actual development trend is indeed getting closer and closer to what he deduced when the disaster just struck.
Because of this hail disaster, the price of food began to rise, which in turn led to the demise of small territories and concentrated the population into medium and large territories.
If there is no other strong intervention in the future, an unimaginable turmoil is just around the corner.
"Brother Su!" Sun Quan also hurriedly walked down the stairs, with some unmelted ice residue still stuck to his legs and feet.
"The people from the escort team just came over and gave us a new notice, saying that the grain reserves we harvested can be sold, but not higher than the market guidance price. The guidance price they gave is also 3 trading points per kilogram."
"Guide price? What's going on?!" Sumo asked solemnly as he was bombarded with messages from the two people.
"I don't know why, but all the territories announced a unified price increase for food after the disaster. For example, our big territories can control it at about twice the daily salary of ordinary people, but those small territories directly raise the price.
It’s five times, seven times, or even ten times the daily salary of ordinary people.”
"In those territories, you have to work for ten days, and now you can afford one kilogram of grain. This is simply giving people no way to survive?!" Sun Quan's trembling voice lost his usual calmness, and he was obviously frightened.
Not light.
The rise in grain prices seems to be a major piece of good news for the grain industry.
But under the current situation, everyone is simply unable to put themselves into the perspective of a vested interest and look at this unprecedented unified price increase.
After all, if the chaos caused by soaring food prices leads to the collapse of the social order that humans have finally established.
By then, the degree of depreciation at the trading point will definitely exceed the current increase in food prices.
If money is worthless, mankind will go back a few years and return to the era of exchanging things for things.
"It's so crazy?" Su Mo's heart skipped a beat.
The number of humans is decreasing, and there is no fresh blood to replenish large territories. Almost everyone knows that this day will come sooner or later.
I just didn't expect it to come so quickly and unexpectedly.
"By the way, Brother Su, the people from the escort also informed me that if we want to get the sales license, we must ask you, the legal person, to apply in person. Among them."
"What's going on in it?"
"There are seven levels in total for the sales license. You need to obtain permission from different departments. Fortunately, we can handle the first level quickly, but the last level is guarded by Mayor Chen. You need to go and talk to Chen in person.
The mayor negotiates!" Sun Quan gritted his teeth, trembling all over, and finally said everything at once.
Just looking at the many review procedures, you know that it is definitely not easy to get this trading license.
And when there is a food shortage, it is not cost-effective to rush to sell food.
Wait a minute, maybe the grain price will rise to 4 trading points again, maybe 5 trading points.
But one problem is that the trading points on Liangfang’s current account cannot fully pay out the income of previous employees.
Part of the grain must be sold to collect enough points to pay wages.
If we can't gather enough as soon as possible, tens of thousands of people will come to make trouble. Just relying on the good work of dozens of people will not be able to calm down the turmoil.
The trading license may not seem urgent, but in fact it is urgent!