Chapter 57 Ambition
"We just need to wait until night time to come back and give 20% of the money to the patrol officers, and ask them to turn a blind eye."
"Brother Wang, that means we have to give them 100,000 yuan! They didn't contribute anything at all!"
"Weren't you worried about being discovered just now? Now you're reluctant to even share 100,000 yuan? These policemen have been working in shifts day and night to protect the granary since they were deployed here.
There are more than ten people. If each person gets a small amount of 100,000, it won't be more than 10,000. If it's less, will you do it?"
"Brother Wang is right! Brother Wang is right!"
"However, if you think the money you get is too little, you can raise the price a bit and sell it for 200 yuan per kilogram tomorrow."
As 3,000 kilograms of grain were loaded onto six hand trucks, the voices of these people gradually faded away.
Yu Duoduo, who was squatting behind a big tree, felt his legs going numb.
"Turns out they are a bunch of granary termites. The people outside can't even fill their stomachs, but these people are thinking about how to squeeze out more money." Yu Duoduo angrily kicked a stone at his feet away.
"What now?"
Xie Yun looked at the angry Yu Duoduo helplessly, "We need to think about this matter carefully. You should have seen that the police inside had guns!"
On the way back, both of them were silent and didn't speak.
By the time the huge shopping mall opposite the community came into view, everything had returned to the order it had been before the morning riot.
Yu Duoduo raised his eyes and asked:
"You said, since there is grain in the granary, why don't the authorities distribute relief grain to the people in time, but instead are so cautious about salvaging waterlogged grain to sell?"
Xie Yun looked at Yu Duoduo who looked puzzled, "Have you ever been out of Hui City in your previous life?"
Yu Duoduo was puzzled, "Yes, what's wrong?"
“You know that with so many people affected and such a large area affected, if we want to open the grain storage warehouse to distribute relief grain to the people, we need to report to the central government.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance and the National Grain Administration jointly issued a notice requiring provincial civil affairs departments, finance departments and grain bureaus to provide temporary living assistance to people who are in difficulty due to the disaster, and then delegate the assistance step by step.
The scope of the apocalyptic natural disaster was so wide that the power outage alone almost brought the entire world to a standstill.
Without the Internet, land communications were almost completely cut off. Without the notice from above to release grain, how could the officials of Hui City dare to use their official hats as a guarantee to release grain to the people? "
Yu Duoduo...
"You mean to say that the reason why the grain was released only when it was extremely cold in the previous life was because it was not until that time that the official notice of releasing grain arrived in Hui City?"
"Well, probably."
"Then why do you ask me if I have ever been out of Hui City?"
"The neighboring city of Lan distributed grain in advance, half a month after the natural disaster began, which is about now."
"And then?"
"Many lives were saved, but the officials were punished for corruption."
Then, both of them fell silent.
Because of the rain, it got dark early every day. When the rubber boat arrived at the bottom of the apartment building, it was only seven o'clock, but it was already dark.
The two were stumped as to how to carry 500 kilograms of rice to the 12th floor.
It is a natural solution to split them up and move them upstairs one by one, but after moving them this time, I am afraid I will need to rest for several days to recover my strength...
"How about we try what you said last time and think of a solution from the elevator shaft?"
Xie Yun was extremely resistant to climbing stairs repeatedly. Climbing stairs would cause great wear and tear on the soft tissue of the knees. Climbing stairs with a load on his body was no less than murder...
"This is easy. Just open the outer doors of the elevator and use a rope to pull things up from the bottom."
For Yu Duoduo, who often goes to construction sites, making a hanging basket for high-altitude transportation is not a problem.
Xie Yun forced open the elevator door on the 3rd floor, and then went to the 12th floor to pull the rope. Yu Duoduo unpacked the rice and tied it to the rope downstairs.
There was no place to find the pulley support for the hanging rope, and the resistance to pulling up was relatively large.
Yu Duoduo divided the rice into more than ten portions, each weighing 20-30 kilograms, and asked Xie Yun to pull them up one by one. This way, it really saved a lot of effort than the two of them climbing the stairs repeatedly!
Apart from the soreness in Xie Yun's arms, there was no other discomfort!
Anyway, they had decided to eat and drink at Xie Yun's house in the future, so Yu Duoduo simply didn't want the 500 kilograms of food and asked Xie Yun to pack it up and store it in his warehouse.
After a busy afternoon, dinner was prepared with Duoduo as the chef... With an automatic cooking machine, all I have to do to cook is cut the vegetables!
It is still the standard one meat, one vegetable and one soup.
Sitting at the table, Xie Yun asked, "Next, do we still need to continue to buy food from them?"
Yu Duoduo paused with his chopsticks in hand, and did not answer him immediately. Instead, he asked an irrelevant question:
“Why was the leader of Lan City eventually convicted of corruption?”
"It took nearly half a year from the flood to the extreme cold. The permanent population of Lanzhou is about 8 million. In half a year, 800 million catties of grain were consumed from the granaries, using up two large granaries.
The leaders of Lan City did not expect that there would be an apocalypse with no end. They thought it was just an ordinary natural disaster that would pass. It would be okay to release the grain in advance, as they could replenish it later.
However, the total grain reserves in Lan City were only 1.5 billion jin, which was only enough for Lan City to consume for one year. Later, the city experienced a rat plague and suffered serious grain losses.
The first crime was to open the granary and release grain without any documentary evidence. The second crime was that when the document was issued, there was not enough grain in the granary.
Someone has to take responsibility for these things.”
As Xie Yun talked about the past, his eyes couldn't help but droop. As the saying goes, good people don't live long. Only those who don't care about the life and death of others and only care about themselves can live long.
"The leaders of Hui City definitely don't have the courage to do this."
Otherwise, how could that flood take away so many lives?
She remembered that when the extreme cold came, the number of people going to the relief center to receive relief food was estimated to be less than half of the current population, and many people died of despair at home.
Yu Duoduo noticed Xie Yun's loneliness.
"If we want to store more food before the rat plague, the granary is definitely the best choice. Now that we know the intentions of the higher-ups, there will always be a way to solve it. As the saying goes, where there are policies from above, there are countermeasures from below."
Xie Yun was moved by Yu Duoduo's words and looked at her, "You mean..."
“Let the government release grain in advance!”
"The leaders of Hui City do not have this authority."
"Then make a big fuss about it! Make it so that everyone knows about it and it becomes impossible to resolve."
Xie Yun looked at Yu Duoduo. There was light in her eyes, sparkling, as if it could ignite him. "Tell me in detail."
"Just like what happened in the shopping malls today, ordinary people are just trying to make a living and don't really want to go against the government.
We don’t have to do anything else, we just need to spread the address of this granary. It doesn’t have to be too far away, there are tens of thousands of people in our community alone.”
"You mean to let the people in the community go to the granary? But the police have guns." Xie Yun frowned.
“I can’t guarantee that there is no danger, but only if we all work together can there be a glimmer of hope. Before the extreme cold, there will definitely be no relief food distributed, but how many people can afford food that costs 200 kilograms?
For them, it is better to fight than to starve to death at home. Only by making such a big noise can they attract the attention of the army. "
"Attract the attention of the army?" Xie Yun asked puzzledly.
“It was only after I arrived at the base that I realized that the military had such great independence that even the government had no right to interfere with their actions!
If they intervene, then maybe there will be hope for the relief food issue!"
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