Great Power Technology

The meeting finally adopted the conclusion of comprehensive intervention by a large vote. Each agency was assigned relevant tasks. We initiated emergency communication with the Serbian official and determined that we would provide technical advisory services to Srbija in the form of an independent consultant.

This part of the service includes but is not limited to media, pricing, supply, and logistics. The local China Construction Group will mobilize all idle construction machinery to restore the road to Belgrade blocked by heavy rains.

At the same time, Lazirou's news media will also assume corresponding responsibilities to investigate and report on the true current situation of the grain market, with the purpose of dispelling public panic and avoiding stampede buying.

After the meeting, Lazirou 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 make preparations, while Lazirou went to the market alone to prepare to launch an investigation and look for evidence.

However, as the investigation deepened, she became increasingly aware of the critical nature of the situation.

Now in almost all shops, supermarkets and grain trading shops on the market, their inventory levels are already below the warning level.

According to her statistics on the grain stocks of the stores she has visited, these grains can only support the consumption of the entire Belgrade for 6 days at most. If no grain is shipped after 6 days, the entire city will most likely fall into famine.

Not everyone will hoard enough food at home, especially in a 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 be disrupted. It will collapse instantly.

Many residents have been aware of this problem, and there are still long queues in front of the open food stores. La Zirou asked the store managers one by one and recorded the names of all the store's raw material suppliers in a book.

Later, she went to visit the raw material suppliers according to the names in the book. From those suppliers, she came to different conclusions.

Relatively small suppliers are indeed short of inventory, and they are also worried about this matter. They even want to bring the tools themselves to repair the roads in Belgrade, but in fact, they have already made a vague judgment in their hearts.

The shortage of food supply cannot be caused by blocked roads.

Some people have cut off the path from wholesale to retail, and some are hoarding food on a large scale.

After visiting a total of 7 suppliers, La Zirou finally came to the last one she targeted that day. As soon as she walked into the supplier's office, she immediately noticed the difference.

The person in charge of this grain store, Albery, was too indifferent.

La Zirou sat opposite the person in charge under the warm welcome of the other party, and then asked:

"Mr. Desmonds, I am the Chinese reporter in Srbija. I am visiting you today to ask you a few questions. I hope you can provide corresponding help."

Desmonds nodded with a smile and replied:

"Of course, of course, China is our friend. I will never refuse this small favor. What question do you want to ask?"

La Zirou opened the notebook in her hand, paused for a moment and then asked:

“My first question is, have you noticed the food shortage in the Belgrade market right now?”

"Of course, of course."

Delemons adjusted his sitting posture slightly, pushed the ashtray on the table away, looked directly at La Zirou and said:

"We are also worried about this. The price of grain on the market has increased nearly three times. If we can have enough grain to sell at this time, we will definitely make a lot of profits."

"But it's too bad we just don't have any in stock."

"You also know that due to the heavy rains in the past few days, the roads and water transportation to Belgrade have been blocked. Food from the region cannot be transported in at all. Coupled with the rise in international food prices, many regional suppliers have chosen to directly ship the food. When shipped overseas, it is already difficult for us to purchase them at a low price.”

Hearing his words, La Zirou frowned slightly.

What the other party said is indeed true. Because of the inversion of domestic and foreign grain prices, farmers in Srbija are more inclined to sell grain directly to exporters, which to a certain extent has led to the rise in grain prices in Srbija.

But the problem is that Srbija's grain exports have quotas. No matter how weak the official control over exports is, there should not be a shortage of supplies even in the capital.

The only reason is that the officials misjudged the situation, set the quota too high, and failed to predict that large-scale grain hoarding would occur in the country.

But who is responsible for such food hoarding?

Apparently, he was sitting across from him.

"So, you're saying that the current food shortage has nothing to do with you?"

"Of course, of course. We don't want to have food shortages because that would be against our interests."

La Zirou shook her head incomprehensibly, and then continued to ask:

"Well, maybe it is. So, I want to ask you, how much inventory do you still have in your warehouse?"

"It can probably support shipments for a week - but after a week, our food channel should be opened, right?"

"That's not necessarily the case."

La Zirou recorded a number in her notebook, and then continued to ask:

"Can I ask you about your current warehouse location?"

"Of course, the warehouse is right behind us. If you are interested, I can take you to visit it immediately - but there is a lot of dust inside. A beautiful lady like you, it is best not to go and see it."

"Then as you wish."

In fact, La Zirou had no intention of going to their warehouse for on-site investigation. She knew that it was impossible for the other party to show her the real inventory, so there was no point in wasting time.

What she really wants to find out is the other party's subsequent strategy.

After the roads in Belgrade are opened and food from other regions can be transported into the capital unimpeded, what methods will they adopt to further raise food prices?

Continue to hoard?

This should be impossible, because although the official actions are slow, they will never leave them alone. Once Belgrade faces a comprehensive crisis and the officials use tough measures to end it, all the plans of these grain merchants will be in vain.

This is why after purchasing a large amount of grain in the early stage, they generally used wine to consume the grain, because they themselves also anticipated the sanctions that the official might take later.

After a pause, La Zirou continued:

"Can I walk around here by myself? You know, I'm a reporter and I need to get closer to my subjects."

"Of course, no problem, please do it yourself - if you don't need me, then I can."

"No problem, go ahead and do your work."

After finishing speaking, La Zirou stood up and said goodbye to Delemons. After the latter left, she patrolled the entire company area and took photos of all the details that she thought were suspicious.

During this process, she did not encounter any obstruction. It seemed that all the evidence related to hoarding food had been properly hidden. However, when she returned to the representative office and checked the photos in the camera one by one, she discovered something else. Something unusual.

Not food, but security.

The security personnel of this company are a bit too many compared to other food companies in Belgrade, and even compared to other important places.

In almost every photo, she could see those security personnel.

This is very unreasonable.

Srbija used to be a country that did not ban guns, but in recent years it has implemented gun control, the gun ownership rate has dropped significantly, and official control of social order has reached a relatively high level.

Even if there is a shortage of food supply, there will at best be some panic buying and small-scale riots. But after the official mobilization of food reserves into Belgrade, the scale of such riots should be controlled to a very low level.

Because for such a country, rising food prices may greatly harm the national economy in the short term and bring huge difficulties to people's lives, but the foundation of agriculture and the economy is there, and people will definitely not starve to death.

As long as people don't starve to death, no one will take the initiative to kill others - this is very simple logic.

However, DeLemons's security level is obviously configured according to the standard of "possibly killing someone."

In their expectation, people would definitely die in the subsequent riots caused by rising food prices.

Then, to cause such a riot, a stronger driving force is inevitably needed - a driving force from the outside world that amplifies people's panic to a great extent.

La Zirou suddenly felt a chill rising, and she seemed to have guessed what the enemy wanted to do.

They are not satisfied with just raising the price of food in Srbija, but want to turn Srbija into the second underworld city!

Only in this way can China be forced to provide assistance in the most direct way.

When its allies are losing large sums of money, China can watch quietly; but once its allies start dying, China cannot sit idly by and ignore it.

This is a chain plan, and to do this, the driving force can only be...

She rushed to the phone, dialed the number she had already memorized by heart, and then immediately reported her judgment. After a short communication, the content of the call was quickly transferred back to the country.

In just 4 hours, multiple satellites in the vast space changed their orbits and shifted their sights to the sky above this small country.

One after another, high-precision photos were taken and then passed to professional analysts. These analysts made their own judgments based on the extremely familiar aircraft that appeared on the satellite images.

The enemy's secret plan in Srbija was thus exposed to China's sight.

Maybe it was inevitable for the rabbit to discover the other party's movements. Maybe this piece of information was only a few days or even a few hours ahead of time, but this was enough.

One day later, a large military airport in China.

A batch of 12 modified Y-20Cs completed the final preparations for takeoff and took off one after another in order.

No one knew what cargo was loaded in that huge cabin, and no one knew where they were going to fly, but the faces of both the crew members and the ground staff showed urgency.

In Islamabad in the distance, 4 of the 6 Tamron fighter jets that had just landed have also taken off again accompanied by tankers.

At this time, La Zirou still didn't know what kind of changes her phone call had brought to the world.

Thanks to the leader of Dongyue Guardian for the reward!