At Paris's Théâtre du Châtelet, an opera called "The Pearl Fishers" was currently being performed. The story took place in primitive-era Ceylon, where pearl fishers by the sea held a feast to choose Zurga as chief of the tribe. At the gathering, Zurga met Nadir, a friend he had not seen for years. They had once both fallen in love with a beautiful girl and become bitter enemies because of it. Now, reunited after so long apart, they decided to renew their brotherly bond.
While the two chatted side by side deep within the temple, a veiled beauty adorned with flowers and gold appeared. Her name was Leila, and she was the woman they had both loved in the past. She had now sworn to remain a virgin for life, but Nadir fell in love with her again. Zurga, now the chief, sentenced them both to death.
Leila had no choice but to entrust her precious pearl necklace to Zurga and ask him to give it to her mother. Recognizing the necklace, Zurga realized she was the little girl who had once saved him. In the end, a fire that spread through the entire village saved the lovers.
When Europeans still wanted fur and regarded it as a symbol of status, the fur trade was more profitable than the grain trade.
However, once the weather worsened, grain yields fell, and the market became commercialized, soaring food prices made grain a more profitable commodity than fur.
Having lived through the French Revolution, the people of France naturally understood the importance of food security. Of the four major ABCD companies monopolizing the global grain and oil trade, three were American, while one belonged to France: Louis Dreyfus Company. These four groups controlled the main share of global food trade and kept a