“Children, all of it is only enough for a single day.” “One day?” The three children stood wide-eyed in shock for a moment, until Huahua laughed awkwardly at the premier. “You’re joking . . . right?” The president said, “At one gram of MSG and ten grams of salt per person per day, it’s a simple matter of arithmetic: these train cars hold sixty tons, and there are one-point-two billion people in the country. You do the math.” They wrestled with the long chain of zeros for a moment, and realized he was telling the truth. Xiaomeng said, “But that’s just salt and MSG. What about oil? And grain?”
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