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Chapter 129, food crisis

After the urban reconstruction work was a little bit on the right track, the second problem Ossina had to solve non-stop was the food crisis.

Not enough to eat.

Fuxing City is a commercial hub and a center of light industry. Now that Weixing City's abandoned cave area is established, heavy industry is also developing at a high speed.

But Fuxing City does not produce grain.

Although there is a small farm like the Flood River Valley Manor around the city, the output of that farm's crops in a season can be 2000 tons, which is not bad, and the output for a whole year is enough to feed the entire city for ten days.

From Fuxing City to Weixing City, if considered as one, this is a city with a million people.According to the lower-level grain quota, the daily food consumption must reach 500 tons; the food demand for the whole year is at least 18 tons, and it is not an exaggeration to prepare 20 tons.

When Gu Hang just captured the city, the food reserves of the entire city could only last for about fifteen days.

Up to now, twelve days have passed in total, and the remaining grain reserves are only about nine days.

The reason for this is mainly because during this period of time, it was not purely sitting and eating.

On the one hand, after the initial end of the war, the blockade of the cities, and the hurricane disaster, the grain trade resumed more or less.Yu Ben, who was on the way to the grain caravan, finally dared to enter the city, unloaded the goods, and left with some industrial products.

On the other hand, it was assistance from Wei Xingcheng.

The two synthetic starch production lines in Weixing City are operating at full capacity, and the combined daily output can reach [-] tons under the condition of non-stop day and night.Except for the two districts of Weixing City, which are reserved for the local area, the others are all being transported to Fuxing City.

However, despite these two additions, it is still not enough to make ends meet.

This is definitely not possible.

The synthetic starch production line is not yet available. The research and development and mass production tasks of Wu Jiarong are a bit heavy, and the localized deployment of the synthetic starch production line is slow in the research and development progress.

Even if she devoted all her energy to this aspect, she might not be able to solve the urgent need.

Then you can only rely on the old method.

Fuxing City didn't produce food at all, and it was able to survive for such a long time in the past, of course it relied on foreign trade to survive.

Of course, if we only rely on foreign trade, the supply of food will definitely be very unstable.

It doesn't matter in the previous Fuxing City, if there is an unstable situation, let it happen, anyway, the inner city people will not starve to death, and the outer city will starve to death as soon as a batch, it is no big deal.

Anyway, after a while, there will always be many refugees who wander over from nowhere and will make up for the missing population.

But the current Fuxing City can't do that.

Ossina knew that the high morale of the city residents was based on Governor Gu's political declaration.People are now beginning to believe that the governor can bring them a better life, which makes them start to support the governor's regime and burst out with great enthusiasm for production.

But if Gu Hang's political declaration went bankrupt shortly after he was hungry, it would deal a severe blow to the prestige of the new government.

Ossina would never allow this to happen.

In the long run, finding a way to ensure self-sufficiency in food under the sphere of influence of the new coalition regime is the fundamental way to solve the problem of food security.But before that, the short-term solution to the problem can only rely on foreign trade.

This work originally belonged to Vaughan, the first Union member to die in the hands of Gu Hang.He was the largest grain trader in Fuxing City in the past.

After his death, his grain trading channels were quickly divided up, and Bradford was none other than Bradford who ate the most share.

He was originally a big business man, but in the past, in order to avoid internal competition with Vaughan, he didn't get involved in the food business very much.After Vaughan's death, that was ignored.

At that time, while he was cursing the governor's arrogance in the alliance council, he shed tears for Vaughan's death; on the other hand, he hurriedly ate up the property, for fear that if he was too slow, he would lose a bite.

With the defeat of the war, after he became a prisoner, he thought that all the food he ate at that time was in vain, but he didn't expect that he could still use it now.

Of course, even without him, it doesn't mean that it's impossible to do it at all.After all, the business staff who run the business are not all dead.

It's just that if there are many people he knows, and there are people from business channels in various places outside Fuxing City to help, things will be much easier.

At this moment, he was telling Ossina about the specific situation of the grain trade in Fuxing City:
"...The food import of Fuxing City can be summed up as two major arteries and a bunch of capillaries." Bradford was carefully telling Ossena about his experience and understanding.

"Two main arteries, one west and one south. The south one leads to the Green Valley area. I heard that Ms. Ossina was born there. You should be familiar with that area."

"Yes." Ossina nodded slightly.

She is indeed familiar, she is the daughter of a plantation manor owner with a scale of ten thousand people, and she has been helping her father manage the manor since a few years ago.

The Qinggu area is more than 400 kilometers south of Fuxing City.There is no clear boundary line, but the climate will get better and better as you go south.

That is also one of the few places with a good climate on Fury Owl Star. The frequency of waste energy storms is very low, and there is a large area of ​​arable land.The only way to see the scene of thousands of miles in the fertile fields on Nu Xiaoxing is in the Qinggu area.

One plantation after another, distributed on that piece of land.

"And the one to the west leads to the desert. You may not be familiar with it. Although the yellow sand is everywhere, there are dots of oases. Many people living in the western desert have found the pre-war desert under the oasis. A planting factory left over from the times. The restored factory can carry out high-density three-dimensional cultivation, and can obtain very high yields without requiring a large area."

"These two main arteries support Fuxing City's main grain consumption. Last year, Wohan mentioned in the work report of the Union Parliament that Fuxing City imported a total of 40 tons of grain from these two places throughout the year."

"The so-called capillaries refer to various small and medium-sized settlements with food production capacity in the area radiating [-] kilometers from Fuxing City as the center. There is some land that can be planted within this range, although It is not as large and concentrated as Qinggu, but there are still some, such as the floodplain valley manor; there are also some caves with special environments, where some fungi can be densely planted; some places have farms... There are many types and the output Not one. They mainly feed almost all the agglomerations within this range, and the production of Fuyu will be brought to Fuxing City for sale."

"Still taking last year as an example, through these capillaries, Fuxing City purchased a total of [-] tons of various foods."

"The total estimated quantity is 50 tons. In fact, Fuxing City does not consume so much. 70% of the food is distributed to places outside Fuxing City. After all, Fuxing City is the largest trading hub on the entire planet. "

Ossina's expression was solemn: "That is to say, what we have to do is not only to ensure our own food security, but also to allow food to circulate throughout the wasteland as much as possible, using Fuxing City as a hub."

"Yes." Bradford sighed, "If it can't be done, maybe people in Renaissance City won't starve to death, but many settlements in the entire wasteland that don't have food production capacity may suffer catastrophe."

Ossina said: "Moreover, something happened in the Green Valley area this year. The wave of monsters was much larger than in previous years, destroying many plantations; there were many displaced people, and many of them became looters. Let the situation become chaotic..."

"Yes." Bradford said, "The chaos in the Green Valley area has caused our food imports from there to drop by more than 30% this year, and if the situation is not alleviated, this import volume may decrease. The reduction in collapse."

The discussion about the Green Valley region was all experienced by Ossina.

It has been several months since they escaped from the Qinggu area, but according to the latest information, the situation there has not improved. There are still a steady stream of refugees from the Qinggu area, who have traveled hundreds of kilometers to Fuxing City.

Behind every refugee who managed to walk to Fuxing City alive, maybe two or three people fell on the road.

Thinking of this, Ossina almost felt that she couldn't stand it anymore.

But she can only bear it.

She knew that they didn't have the ability to travel hundreds of kilometers south, saving the suffering people along the way.

She can only take care of Fuxing City first.

Gathering her thoughts, she said: "We must resume grain trade imports as soon as possible. I will establish a grain trade bureau under the structure of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. I have sent people to take stock of all the people who worked in the grain trade business in the past. , They will be immediately transferred to the Grain Trade Bureau."

"They will perform their duties, divide them into three working groups according to the three general directions we talked about today, and try their best to contact those sellers and buyers who have had experience in grain trade with Fuxing City, and recover as much as possible. The scale of the grain trade."

"Mr. Bradford, I need your help."

Bradford was happy in his heart, but kept a serious face: "This is exactly what I came for."

"Well, I can appoint you as a special advisor to the Bureau of Grain Trade. I need you to be responsible for the recovery of the two trade routes 'Capillary' and 'Western Artery'. I hope that within two weeks, our The 'capillary' blood supply was largely restored; within a month, our 'Western Arteries' were able to begin re-transfusion. Can it be done?"

Bradford was slightly disappointed to hear that it was only a special counsel.

Being a consultant is probably not a formal job.

When he heard the term 'grain trade bureau' before, he had hoped that he would have the opportunity to be the director of the bureau, even if it was only a temporary agent.

Having a formal position seems to mean that he can initially integrate into the new government system.The rest is nothing more than speaking with ability and performance.

Grain trade is of course the most important part of the many trade categories in Fuxing City.If he does this well and solves the food crisis, will he really have a chance to be the Minister of Commerce in the future?

After all, it is impossible for Ms. Ossina to take on the work of multiple departments all the time.

But now, it's just that the consultant is such a dispensable position that can be canceled whenever he says, which still makes him feel a little disappointed.

But he quickly picked himself up again.

Wearing the body of sin, if you have the opportunity to serve and wash away your sins, you should cherish it hard and go all out.

Putting aside these thoughts, he began to calculate carefully, and did not speak for a while.

Ossina also waited patiently.

Bradford finally spoke: "I will do my best to fulfill your request. I will try my best to restore the relevant trade routes. However, this whole thing cannot be achieved only by relying on my efforts." Completed. After the trade channel is established, we need to eat such a large amount of food, and we also need enough commodities to trade."

He paused, there was a topic he didn't really want to bring up, but in the end he decided not to mention it: "Union currency..."

Ossina raised her hand to stop him from continuing.

"That's nothing to talk about. But in fact, you can also rest assured that we are not going to completely abolish the Union currency. In terms of foreign trade, we will recognize the value of the Union currency for a long time in the future. In terms of foreign trade, we can still accept it. Trade settlements will be made with Alliance Currency.”

"With your words, I feel a lot more at ease."

It's normal for him to have such worries.

If the alliance currency is completely abolished, then the objects of 'looting' will not only be the residents of the inner city, but all the external forces that have traded with Fuxing City in the past.In the past, for the convenience of trade, many forces have reserved a certain amount of alliance currency.

To abolish it all at once means that all the money they used to sell grain or other commodities in the past will be worthless.

This is unacceptable to many forces.

If Fuxing City can completely achieve internal circulation without relying on the outside, then that's fine.But now, even the basic food demand needs to rely on foreign trade, so it is obviously impossible to do this.

That would destroy the trade credit of Fuxing City and offend other settlements with high independence.

"You can do it with confidence." Ossina said, "I will do my best to prepare other trading commodities."

……

Ossena is not actually worried about the problem Bradford mentioned.

Not to mention the currency, just continue to recognize the alliance currency in foreign trade.

Of course, it is impossible to buy food purely with Union Coin without paying anything else.When people take the alliance currency, they also want to buy things.

Regarding the related trading items, Ossina has a well-thought-out plan.

There are quite a lot of things that Fuxing City can sell.

Fuxing City has a strong industrial production capacity, not to mention textiles, electrical appliances, some metal tools, and even generator sets using hot limestone.

In addition, there are a large number of various commodities in the warehouse of Fuxing City.

The trade center is not just for grain trade.

After those dignitaries were wiped out, many channel merchants like Bradford, their goods also fell into the hands of the current government.

These are items that can be traded.

What's more, Fuxing City now has two particularly valuable items that can be used for sale:
Arms and medicines.

(End of this chapter)