Are you claiming here that every single person in Egypt, "the group as one entity", cried to Pharaoh for bread and that Pharaoh sent every single Egyptian to Joseph?
Gen 41:55
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people (Ha-YaM, m. s. ) cried (Wa-YiTsaQ, Qal wayiqtol 3 m. s.) to...