Not to mention eating well, we can't even guarantee that we are full.

Simply eat less to survive.

"Line up to receive food stamps. Whoever dares to receive more will be thrown directly into jail."

The police were on hand to maintain order, and the guards of Ishihara Trading Company were responsible for supervision.

If Chu Lingyun hadn't agreed, many garrison troops and military police would have come to help.

It doesn't matter if you use the police, but if you use the garrison and military police, it's a bit fussy and unnecessary.

However, Takemoto sent people to secretly keep an eye on the grain merchants. If they dared to make any changes, Takemoto would not let them go.

"It's really a 20% discount. I bought it. I bought it. I can have a full meal today."

Soon, people who bought the grain happily left with their grain bags.

There is a purchase limit of ten kilograms per person, and you are only allowed to buy once a day.

This is to prevent grain merchants from coming to grab grain. If Chu Lingyun has enough grain in his hands, he can leave them alone. If they dare to eat, Chu Lingyun will let it go until they can't eat anymore.

Unfortunately, food is temporarily insufficient and must be restricted.

More and more people are flocking to places selling grain. They buy cheap grain and cry with joy.

After such a long time, someone is finally selling food at a cheap price. If we don't sell it, people will really starve to death.

In a restaurant, more than a dozen big grain merchants gathered together.

Everyone has a sad look on their face.

Ishihara Trading Company had previously approached them to buy grain and offered them 30% of the market price, but they did not agree.

These people are indeed united and ready to fight against Ishihara Trading Company.

But I didn't expect that after they refused, Ishihara Trading Company would do such a great job and provide food at 20% discount.

It almost cost them their lives. After Ishihara Trading Company released grain, the business of their grain store plummeted. Some shops were even empty, only their own clerks.

"President Wang, you are the president of the Chamber of Commerce. Do you want to make the decision for us?"

One person said that the Lao Wang he was talking about was an old grain merchant in his sixties. His grain store was the largest and stored the most grain.

Old Wang has more food than Chu Lingyun.

After all, Ishihara Trading Company's main business is not the grain business, the grain is just incidental.

"That's Hiroshi Ishihara, how do you want me to make the decision?"

Lao Wang shook his head. He was not stupid. Even though he was the president, his son-in-law was Japanese, and he was a Japanese officer, there was no way he could compare with Hiroshi Ishihara.

"Ishihara Hiroshi has gone too far. He is not giving us a way to survive. Today Liu Ji secretly sent someone to buy food, but he was caught by the military police and his house was confiscated."

Another person said angrily.

Shiyuan Trading Company opened a warehouse to store grain. If there were no restrictions, they would definitely be able to eat it.

They didn't know how much grain the Shiyuan Trading Company had, but it must not be too much. After all, warehouses were needed to store grain. The warehouses of the Shiyuan Trading Company were mainly in Shanghai, so they knew how much they had.

Two hundred thousand dan is enough.

Let alone two hundred thousand stones, even three hundred thousand or four hundred thousand, people like them can still afford it.

However, Shiyuan Trading Company restricted the distribution of grain, and each person was limited to purchasing ten kilograms per day.

They even announced that grain merchants like them were not allowed to buy it.

Some people were not afraid of death and were greedy for profit. They secretly sent people to buy food, but when they turned around, their homes were ransacked by the military police.

After seeing the lesson, how can other people dare to do this? They are impatient.

"Let's wait until he sells out. Ishihara Trading Company is too strong, but the food in his hands is far inferior to ours. In the end, he will not be able to compare with us."

President Wang gritted his teeth and said, but his heart was bleeding.

The grain released by Shiyuan Trading Company is equivalent to their money. Food is in short supply, but the population is only so large.

As long as they raise the price of food, people will have to buy their food.

This way they can make more money.

Ishihara Trading Company sells cheap grain, and only fools will buy their expensive grain. These people have grain in their hands and will not buy it again in a short period of time.

During this period of time, they only had losses and no gains.

All the expected income was destroyed by Ishihara Trading Company.

"That's all."

Others sighed that Ishihara Trading Company was too big and they could not afford to offend him.

The cause of this incident was that Ishihara Trading Company came to collect their food, but they did not agree, which led to retaliation.

The damage has already been done. My arms can't twist my thighs, so I can only recognize it by holding my nose.

"Boss, you are still the best."

Fang Shiyi gave Chu Lingyun a thumbs up. He knew best that Chu Lingyun's purpose was not to make money at all, but to bring down the price of food.

But Ishihara Trading Company couldn't do it directly, so it just casually spared a lot of money, and the behavior of suppressing food prices became reasonable.

No one can find fault with it.

Let people collect grain first, seemingly to get a share of the grain business.

Waiting for those grain dealers to refuse, then releasing grain at low prices and suppressing grain prices. On the surface, the grain dealers are targeted, but in fact it is the common people who benefit.

Moreover, Toru Ishihara has mobilized a large number of cargo ships and is transporting grain back from abroad.

After this batch of grain arrives, a large number of grain merchants will go bankrupt.

Once they go bankrupt, these grains will fall into Ishihara Hiroshi's hands, and they will have the final say on how to arrange them.

And the common people can save enough food to survive this winter.

"This is just a temporary solution and will not last long."

Chu Lingyun sighed. This method is effective in the short term, but it treats the symptoms rather than the root cause.

The most fundamental reason is the insufficient food production caused by the war. China has too many people and needs massive amounts of food.

Not to mention that he mobilized these smugglers, even if he mobilized all the people in the literary society, it would not be possible to change this situation.

With a population of hundreds of millions, he can't help that many people.

Right now, the only people he can help are the people in Shanghai, and there is nothing he can do in other places.

"It's good for a while, at least the people won't starve to death."

Fang Shiyi is a college student, so he doesn’t know everything. He understands that the current situation cannot be changed by Ishihara Hiroshi alone.

The production cannot keep up, and there are so many people, so they all rely on imports, which is simply unrealistic under current conditions.

"Go and send a batch of food to Ezaki He, the people over there need it more."

Chu Lingyun ordered, "Esaki He is good, he knows not to purchase too much food, so as not to increase the price of food again."

Today is not the future, the state has very strict control over food raw materials.

Once it goes up, it's hard to come down.

Businessmen pursue profits, and who doesn’t want to make more if they can make money?

For many commodities, prices will not be reduced after price increases, especially at the terminal, where the prices of raw materials are reduced, but the prices of finished products are not.

"Okay, others don't understand, but I understand you."

Fang Shiyi nodded heavily. Ishihara Hiroshi used this method to do what the Red Party should do.

Ishihara Hiroshi is rich, but he cannot directly use the money to distribute it to the people. There are many places where his money is needed. For example, this time, if he had not opened a warehouse to sell grain in a roundabout way, many people would have starved to death.

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The food distribution continued, and more people came the next day, forming a long queue.

They must first receive food stamps and then buy food, with a maximum of ten kilograms per person at a time.

With such a long queue, it would be difficult for one person to buy twice.

Ishihara Trading Company said that they are raising grain from various places and will not stop selling grain at low prices. Everyone will be able to buy grain in the future.

This is a kind man and he definitely saved everyone's lives.

"Little Ishihara, what a loss."

Liaison Department, Abe smiled and shook his head after hearing about Ishihara Trading Company.

So do these grain merchants. Now that Ishihara Toru is keeping an eye on them, it would be great to hand over the money honestly. If Ishihara Toru eats meat, they can at least drink some soup.

Ishihara Hiroshi was furious, but now it's better. Let alone drinking soup, there is no northwest wind.

After this food crisis has passed, I don’t know how many people are going to hang themselves.

He has no objection to Ishihara Hiroshi snatching money from grain merchants. The more money Ishihara Hiroshi has, the better. Recently, he is very satisfied. Every month, Ishihara Hiroshi will ask him to run a group of people.
To be continued...