After New Year's Day, time has officially entered 2022, and the world has entered a new chapter.
At the beginning of the new year, Daxia encountered a major "setback". The domestic and cross-ocean trade negotiations ended in a hurry with Daxia's initiative to make concessions.
According to the memorandum of understanding signed by the two countries, Daxia promised to increase the import of each other's goods and services by at least 2 trillion yuan.
Especially on the issue of agricultural products, Daxia once again signed a huge agricultural product purchase contract worth about 70 billion yuan.
Throughout 2021, Daxia has imported a total of approximately 400 billion yuan of agricultural products from across the ocean.
In other words, in just over a year, Daxia imported a total of about 470 billion yuan of farm products from across the ocean, with a total volume of almost 300 million tons.
Among them, soybeans alone exceeded 40 million tons, almost wiping out the other party's inventory at once.
While the monopoly giants on the other side of the ocean were rejoicing, Xu Dong couldn't help but smile knowingly.
Bring good people!
As a reborn person, he was deeply moved by the generosity across the ocean.
In the previous life, if the other party hadn't frantically forced Daxia to purchase its domestic agricultural products, the difficulties Daxia encountered would have likely increased tenfold.
After all, Daxia has a large population, and the pressure on food rations is much greater than in many countries.
The competitors on the other side of the ocean unintentionally did Daxia a great favor. It would be an understatement to describe it as providing help in times of need.
In contrast, the country of Tianzhu, which also had a large population, disintegrated in the second year of the catastrophe. Since then, the states have fallen into civil war and the people have been wiped out.
After reading this news, Xu Dong scrolled through the comment area, and there was indeed a lot of wailing.
Topping the list of likes is this comment:
"Everyone remember:
Summer grain brand: Huilinmen
Summer grain storage brand: Tieding
Please give priority to purchasing state-owned national brands when the price is right. If you can’t buy it locally, you can buy it online, for the sake of the country and ourselves. [Struggle][Struggle][Struggle]"
The number of likes on the comment actually exceeded 10 million. To be honest, Xu Dong was a little shocked.
The useless and painful life he lived in his previous life made him full of resentment towards the entire society, thus neglecting many beautiful things in human nature.
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Life will go on, and national affairs will be put aside for the time being. Xu Dong plans to conduct statistics on the entire warehouse.
Statistics have two purposes, one is to have a clear idea, and the other is to check for deficiencies and fill in the gaps.
After a day and night of registration, summary and analysis, Xu Dong finally found some missing materials or insufficient preparations.
First of all, there was insufficient consideration in terms of energy. He did not consider how to cook when electricity was unavailable.
This is no small problem. There are three babies at home, and they cannot eat cold food.
The solution was simple. Xu Dong specially bought several alcohol stoves and stocked up 3,000 kilograms of solid alcohol, which was three large barrels.
Solar flares can damage electrical equipment, but they will never affect alcohol combustion.
Secondly, he stocked up on commonly used medicines, but forgot to buy vitamin tablets. They were not health products, but the kind that cost a few yuan a bottle at the drug store.
If fruits and vegetables are stored for a long time, a large amount of vitamin C will be lost, and the human body will be deficient in vitamin C, which will lead to reduced immunity and eventually illness.
This solution was even simpler. Xu Dong bought a lot of vitamin tablets directly from the drug store at the door.
Third, there is the issue of drinking water.
In the future, drinking water sources will mainly come from desalination plants and groundwater, with a small part coming from sewage treatment plants.
At that time, in order to provide sufficient fresh water resources, the country may not have so strict requirements on water quality.
Therefore, Xu Dong needs to bring his own water purifier to avoid drinking unclean water.
This problem is also easy to solve. Xu Dong directly purchased ten water dispensers online, as well as hundreds of boxes of spare filter elements, enough to last for more than ten years.
Fourth, there is still a dog and a cat missing.
After the catastrophe, although the security situation in Daxia is generally good, there will be more and more petty thefts, and the crime rate of vicious cases will also rise sharply, so we have to be cautious.
Although your courtyard house has a complete security system, it cannot guarantee 100% safety. Having multiple guard dogs is an extra layer of insurance.
As for cats, they are mainly used to prevent rats. In the early stages of drought, the rat infestation will be very serious, until hungry people eat all the rats.
Even later, a factory specializing in raising meat rats was born. After all, rats have a short breeding cycle, are not picky about food, and have low breeding costs.
On the other hand, cats and dogs can also become children's good friends and can cultivate love.
On the weekend, Xu Dong took the Coco sisters to the pet market.
After selection, he finally bought a half-grown wolfdog and a newly adult "second-hand" civet cat.
I chose them for no other reason than because they have strong hunting abilities, are easy to feed, and are not picky about food.
You can’t stock up on dog food for more than ten years just to raise a dog!
As for the problem of large dogs being unable to obtain dog ownership licenses, it is simply a matter of delay. It will not be a problem until after the new year.
After returning home, Xu Dong ordered a wooden dog house and cat house online. As for the past few days, he will use cardboard boxes for the time being.
The kid Ke Ke named the wolfdog "Mark", probably he learned it from TV.
Lele obtained the right to name the civet cat and named it "Huahua". Maybe it was because the cat had too many patterns.
In addition, Mark and Huahua are both males.
Next, let’s get back to the topic.
There is one final omission from the reserve list, and one that should not be omitted, and that is masks.
The first is to prevent sandstorms. As drought continues to worsen in the future, sandstorms will become more and more raging. Masks are definitely a daily necessity.
Second, in order to prevent influenza epidemics, several rounds of influenza broke out in Luyang in the previous life. Although the fatality rate of influenza was very low, it caused great harm to infants and young children. Masks are even more indispensable at this time.
A good disposable mask can have a shelf life of three to five years.
Xu Dong waved his hand and purchased a hundred boxes directly from the Internet.
One hundred boxes are enough to last five or six years. When this batch of masks is used up or expires, you can still go to the hospital to buy them. Difficulty in buying does not mean that they are impossible to buy.
A week later, all the goods purchased online arrived.
At this point, the final version of Xu Dong’s reserve list is finally released.
According to statistics, the current warehouse list is as follows:
White sugar: 600 tons
Emergency food: 100,000 packages
Rice: 30 tons
Miscellaneous grains/native products: about 48 tons