Great Power Technology.

Chapter 357 The beginning of media division

Country of origin, Paris.

Louis was an ordinary company clerk, one of the most ordinary young people in this country.

His daily life is very simple. He gets up, washes his hands, goes to the coffee shop downstairs to buy a piece of bread and a cup of coffee, sits in front of the coffee shop after eating, and then takes a regular subway to work in the company.

Repeatedly, every day is like this, very boring, but also very fulfilling.

But recently, his life has also encountered some troubles.

The price of food rose, the price of bread almost tripled, and then, with the increase in the price of staple foods, the prices of a series of other daily necessities also began to rise, and this price increase finally even passed on to rent.

Just yesterday, the landlord asked for a 20% rent increase, because according to her, the rent that Louis now pays can hardly cover the landlord's living costs.

This statement sounds ridiculous to Louis, but this is a free market, and he has no choice but to respect the landlord's request until he finds a cheaper house.

As a result, he had to re-plan his expenses. A concert originally scheduled for Saturday had to be cancelled, and the venue for dating his lover next month was changed from a hotel to a home—but it was not difficult He, the house he is renting now is actually quite a suitable place as long as there is a little decoration.

He had already figured it out, and when the time came, he would open the skylight of the attic, and after the passion, the two of them could look at the stars through the attic together.

Probably no girl can resist such romance, right?
After washing up, Louis changed his clothes and went downstairs, bought coffee and bread as usual, sat on a chair and ate breakfast leisurely.

In his hand is a copy of today's latest Parisian newspaper. Reading newspapers while dining is a good habit he has maintained for a long time. This habit has been developed since he first came to Paris a few years ago. It is to pass the boring time on the subway, but now, the subway in Paris has begun to have the Internet, and the habit of still reading newspapers is probably to maintain the unique elegance of being a Parisian.

He put down the coffee in his hand and spread out the newspaper, and when he was about to read, a slim figure sat across from him.

"Mind if I sit here?"

Louis glanced at the woman opposite, smiled politely and replied:
"Of course I don't mind, please feel free."

The woman also smiled at him, and after sitting down, she sipped coffee and chatted:

"I often see you in this store, but we don't take the same subway, so I didn't plan to meet you before. My name is Emily."

"Nice to meet you, my name is Louis, and I live on the corner of the street—in fact, I have met you before."

"Yeah, we're still neighbors. By the way, I'd take the liberty to ask you, has your rent increased?"

Hearing this, Louis was stunned for a moment, and then asked:
"Is yours up too?"

A bitter smile appeared on the corner of the woman's mouth, and she replied:

"Yeah. We probably have the same landlord. This is ridiculous. The cost of living in Paris is getting higher and higher. I'm already thinking about giving up my job here and going back to Compiègne."

"Compiègne? That seems to be a tourist city, too? I'm afraid the cost of living there won't be that low."

"At least bread won't be so expensive. The price of bread has tripled recently."

Emily shook her head while drinking coffee.

"Yes, it's quite disturbing but at least we can still buy bread, can't we? I heard that because of food shortages, many countries in the world have started to suffer from famine - can you imagine? In this day and age, people still starve to death because they can’t buy food.”

Louis sighed with emotion. In fact, he had read all kinds of news from the newspapers before, the famine in Yindu, the conflict in Belgrade, and the rise of food prices in Europe. This series of problems seemed to be far away from him. It was far away, but when he took out his wallet to buy bread, he suddenly became very close.

As an ordinary person, he didn't have so much energy to think about the reasons behind these things, but after watching too much news, he vaguely formed an impression in his mind:
The rise in the price of the piece of bread in my hand is probably related to the country in the east called Huaxia.

Why?He couldn't tell.

However, food prices in Huaxia haven't risen, have they?

When everyone has to pay higher prices for food, a country that doesn't raise prices is likely to be largely to blame.

This is a simple inference, but the woman on the other side seems to have a different opinion from him.

After she took a shallow sip of coffee, she put down the bread in her hand and replied:
"Yes, I heard that a large-scale famine has begun to break out in Yindu. Coupled with their conflicts with Bayang, many wheat fields that are close to harvest have been destroyed. These damned ugly people, they are here The place is always restless."

"Ugly country? Isn't it Huaxia?"

Louis asked in astonishment.

"Why Huaxia? Aren't they the only country whose food prices haven't risen?"

Emily asked back with the same doubt.

"But... it is precisely because of this that they are the most suspicious, aren't they? I mean, from the news, the officials of Ugly Country have been warning the public about the food problem and are also committed to solving this crisis, but Huaxia They even banned food exports."

"But this is their own choice, isn't it? I heard that the destruction of the wheat fields in Yindu this time has something to do with the Ugly people."

Emily immediately refuted Louis' point of view, and after a pause, she continued:

"In my opinion, the Huaxia people are much better than the Ugly people—at least they didn't start a war, but the Ugly people sent a lot of weapons to Yindu on the eve of the war."

Louis shook his head helplessly. He vaguely felt that the woman opposite seemed to be affected by some false news.

After thinking for a moment, he explained:

"This kind of arms trade is very common all over the world. I think it just happened on the eve of the war. Having said that, without the support of the Ugly Country, the situation in Yindu will become worse and worse. More innocent lives have been lost."

"Although everything seems to be a little out of control, the Ugly people are at least doing something---this is better than being indifferent, right? As far as I know, until now, the Chinese people have not done anything."

"They are not worthy of the title of a big country at all, because they are unwilling to bear even the most basic international responsibilities."

The woman raised her head to look at Louis, and a trace of pity suddenly appeared in her eyes. Louis didn't know where this pity came from, but just quietly waited for the other party's answer.

"However, the Chinese people have obviously done a lot of things—have you read the news? They have developed a technology that can increase the production of rice and wheat. This is the key to really solving the food problem, rather than exporting themselves to the rest of the world. weapons."

"Think about it, if our food production can be increased by 40% as they say, then how can there be famine in this world? My rent doesn't need to increase, and I don't need to leave Paris."

Louis looked at the woman blankly, and asked:
"Where did you see the news? It should be fake, right?"

"Increase production by 40%? I'm afraid even Ugly people can't do it."

"This is most likely the result of hype by some of their domestic news media. You know, they often do such things, release fake news and so on."

Emily finally had an undisguised mocking look on her face. Before this chat, she still thought the man opposite was a gentle and elegant gentleman, but after a few words of conversation, the other party's level of cognition really made her surprised.

After a moment of silence, she finally spoke:
"Speaking of fake news, isn't it our own media that does the most of this kind of thing? This is a well-known fact, and there is nothing to argue about."

"However, at least our media told the truth this time."

"Mr. Louis, I didn't see this news from the Chinese media. In fact, the Parisian newspaper you have has a report on this news."

"This report is written objectively, I suggest you read it carefully."

Hearing Emily's words, Louis picked up the newspaper suspiciously, and then, the moment he saw the front page of the newspaper, his pupils shrank suddenly.

In this newspaper, the most expensive type of publication typed a line:

"Huaxia confirmed that the technology for increasing grain production is reliable, and experts in the relevant international fields commented that this technology may completely end the pattern of food shortages."

In New York, in the headquarters office of the Associated Press, Gary was making a serious call on the phone.

".You violated our previous agreement. Now I don't want to hear your illusory excuses. I just want to ask you, what is the reason for you to send this report?"

The man on the other end of the phone smiled and replied:
"Mr. Gary, we never had any agreement, it was just a verbal agreement."

"We are media people, and our mission is to disseminate credible news. Obviously, the news from the Huaxia people is credible, and it just so happens that this news can bring us benefits, so why should we reject it? "

"Do you know how much threat you will bring to our goals?"

Gary's tone was a little angry, but the man opposite him was unmoved at all.

"Mr. Gary, please pay attention to your words, that is only your goal, not our goal."

"Actually, as far as I know, because of your so-called goal, our people have already started to have no food."

"Then tell me, why should we agree with you?"

"The situation has changed, sir! While you are wrecking everywhere, there are people who are really working hard for our food. Who should be chosen, I think this is a very simple question."

"No, no, Mr. Gary, you can't accuse us of surrendering to the enemy this time—not to mention whether Huaxia is our enemy, at least, we didn't surrender."

"We are simply bowing to the truth."

"What's more, we are not the only ones doing this."

"As long as people with a little common sense know what kind of changes such technology will bring to the world, your monopoly structure has been broken."

"The game has begun to be shuffled, Mr. Gary."

"We're not a good player, but we can choose to call the good player at the table."

"Looking at this 100-year history, they've never lost, haven't they?"

(End of this chapter)