Two Hundred and Seven, the Beginning of the Collapse

Liu Erzhu took a few gulps of the water, drank most of the bottle in one gulp, and put down the water bottle reluctantly until he was about to suffocate. Thank you sideways.

Ye Han waved his hand: "Don't worry, eat slowly."

Liu Erzhu didn't have time to answer at all, so he nodded gratefully.

Ye Han saw it, well, don't ask any more questions, let's wait until this kid finishes eating first.

A piece of compressed biscuit that was hard to swallow, it took only a short while to gnaw it clean, Liu Erzhu drank the last drop of water in the plastic bottle, and licked his fingers endlessly.

Ye Han couldn't laugh or cry for a while, and asked patiently: "Liu Erzhu, how long have you not eaten?"

"It's been a day." Liu Erzhu said shyly, "I haven't eaten since I escaped from Linyi.

"Escape?" A cold light flashed in Ye Han's eyes, and he raised his voice suddenly, "You are a deserter!"

"No, no, I'm not a deserter!" Liu Erzhu shook his head violently.

"Then what did you say you escaped from Linyi?" Ye Han asked sharply.

Liu Erzhu was taken aback, blinked his eyes, and looked at the lieutenant rank on Ye Han's collar: "You don't know about Linyi?"

"What's wrong with Linyi?" Ye Han frowned tightly, the pattern of Chuanzi was so deep that it could kill a fly.

A bitterness appeared on Liu Erzhu's face: "Linyi is in chaos, completely in chaos..."

Ye Han grabbed Liu Erzhu's collar: "What's messed up? Why is it messed up? How is it messed up?"

Liu Erzhu almost didn't cry: "Platoon leader, platoon leader, can you let me go first?"

The veteran also persuaded: "Ye Pai, put him down and let this kid talk about it."

Ye Han finally calmed down, let go of Liu Erzhu and took a few breaths: "Sorry, I was too excited."

Liu Erzhu forced a smile: "It's okay, I understand."

The veteran looked badly: "Don't say it's useless, what happened to Linyi?"

Liu Erzhu showed a look of astonishment: "You don't know?"

"I know I still need to ask you!" The veteran said angrily, "Stop talking nonsense, you don't say what you say!"

"I said, I said it's not enough!" Liu Erzhu shrank his neck, "What, do you know that the price of food has increased?"

Ye Han nodded: "I know a little bit."

Liu Erzhu grinned and said something.

Since the announcement of the harvest rush order, rumors of grain failures have spread like wildfire, and the ensuing food rationing has made the situation worse. The price of Linyi's grain immediately followed the market, one price per day, doubled and jumped up, detonating a wave Panic buying.

The Linyi City Government imposed price limits without hesitation, and severely punished some unscrupulous grain merchants, but there are still a large number of people committing crimes, and there are some people who don't know what to do. The more the price rises, the crazier it will be The robbing made the grain market a mess and chaos.

In just a few days, the grain on the market was sold out, and Linyi City immediately opened the grain reserve to sell grain at a low price to stabilize grain prices.

In less than a day, the huge grain depot was sold out.

Although the purchase restriction measures have been taken, the government's efforts have not achieved the desired results. Compared with the huge population base, the grain stored in a grain depot is really a drop in the bucket.

Ordinarily, the government should continue to sell grain at this time, firmly hold down grain prices, and even transport grain from other places to stabilize grain prices. However, grain production reduction is a foregone conclusion. Linzhou, a major grain-producing province, has such a large grain shortage, and other provinces are even worse. Needless to say, to put it simply, the provincial and municipal governments do not have enough grain reserves. If they release all of them regardless, although grain prices can be suppressed for a period of time, after a period of time, grain prices will inevitably rebound strongly.

How can the stability of the rationing system be maintained if there is not enough food in hand? Therefore, after the Linyi city government sold out a grain depot, it decisively suspended the follow-up selling plan.

However, there are too few ordinary residents who can buy food,

The stable society and sufficient supply that have lasted for decades have prevented the vast majority of people from having the habit of stockpiling food, and residents have an extremely urgent need to buy food. by

Not long ago, I was able to eat whatever I wanted. I walked into the vegetable market and wandered around.

Now I can't eat anything, and the little food I get every day can only keep me half hungry, and the feeling of being hungry is absolutely uncomfortable.

As a result, a large number of Linyi citizens took to the streets to demand that the government sell enough food.

This was originally just an ordinary petition, but more and more citizens gathered, all kinds of rumors and gossip were flying all over the sky, and it didn't take long for the crowd to be filled with all kinds of negative news, and some excited citizens surrounded them regardless They opened a grain depot on the edge of the urban area and asked the government to "open the warehouse to release grain".

If a few months in the morning, the society is still as balanced as before, then no one will go to the grain depot to ask for it, and no one will stop the citizens from buying grain, but because of the insect infestation, everything has changed. The only requirement is food.

If the government hadn't reacted quickly enough to mobilize a force to surround the grain depot in time, the grain depot would have been breached by angry residents.

In front of the army, the residents regained some sense and began to elect representatives to negotiate with the government. Under tremendous pressure, the government also made some concessions and agreed to increase the daily food ration.

Everything seems to be turning in a good direction, but some people expressed dissatisfaction with the government's concessions and hoped that the government would make a few more concessions.

The representatives of the government naturally refused to agree, and only said that they could continue to discuss. As a result, the crowd who had just calmed down became agitated again.

A young man lost his mind in anger, and had an argument with the soldiers protecting the grain depot, beating and cursing incessantly.

The soldiers endured and endured, yielding and yielding, but this man intensified and tore up the soldier's equipment, shouting "kill me if you have the ability", trying to snatch the rifle from the soldier's hand.

When the soldiers failed to warn repeatedly, they decisively fired shots at the sky. The sound of the guns stunned the rioting crowd. After a brief silence, the crowd fell into a complete riot. weapons.

Who knows who snatched the grenade from the soldier, pulled off the ring without hesitation and threw it into the grain depot, killing three soldiers on the spot and injuring six or seven others.

Finally, an unbearable soldier opened fire, and a person who tried to snatch the gun fell into a pool of blood, but the gunshot not only failed to bring back the reason of the crowd, but turned into the last straw that overwhelmed the camels. The troops of the grain depot broke out in extremely violent conflicts.

Soon, the conflict turned into an armed confrontation and quickly spread to the whole city. Linyi City declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew, requiring residents to stay at home, but it still could not prevent the further escalation of the conflict.

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