All the bustle in the world is for benefit, and all the hustle and bustle in the world is for benefit.
For a country, interests are divided into many categories. Currency is just a currency, but it is not the only one that is important. Even compared to population, currency is not that important.
For individuals and families, the only interests are money and everything that can be converted into money, including power, knowledge, interpersonal relationships, and even the death of the enemy.
The difference in perception of "profit" determines that most people cannot see the future, even for life-critical products such as food.
Since a few years ago, "Tianshu Daily" has occasionally devoted its entire page to explaining what manufacturers, individuals, and families should do during the cooling period. It not only provides guidance within the country, but also advises overseas.
Like most commodities, "Tianshu Daily" does not prohibit taking it out of the country, and even allows bulk subscriptions from overseas through scheduled flights.
But unfortunately, this kind of public opinion radiating ability is only limited to a few areas that maintain good industrial cooperation with the kingdom. There are still large blank areas. You can only come into contact with relevant things through one or two newspapers occasionally brought back by businessmen, read and There are even fewer people who choose to believe it.
After the temperature dropped further, some areas recovered, but it was too late.
At this stage, the food security method to cope with cooling is centered around plastic greenhouses. This kind of large uncut plastic cloth rolls has also been stored a few years ago. In the face of concentrated excess demand, the inventory can be temporarily expanded. Production is still insufficient.
In the final analysis, the Phoenix Kingdom's industrial chain is limited by its own population size. It needs to make a choice between the number of product types and product output.
For example, with the kingdom’s technical reserves and mining and transportation capabilities, it is not impossible to increase crude steel production capacity to 10 million tons per year, but the number of people allocated to this industry must be limited to ensure subsequent metal processing, product assembly, etc. The industrial links are complete.
The same is true for plastic sheets. Domestic greenhouses mainly use glass greenhouses that require greater capital investment and longer maintenance cycles. There is basically no demand for thickened plastic sheets for insulation. These are produced for the overseas population. , naturally it is impossible to occupy too much productivity of gold chemical industry.
After several years of adjustments, the total output of plastic sheeting is almost 40,000 tons per year.
The number is small, but it is actually equivalent to the production capacity of butyl rubber of Gold Heavy Industry, and the equipment size is more than a million-ton petroleum refining unit. And in order to ensure overseas popularity, its pricing is limited by official guidance, and its profit is far less than that of rubber.
An average of more than 3,000 tons of plastic sheeting per month may seem like a lot, but in fact it is not used for much.
Assuming that a greenhouse is 200 square meters in size and has an average height of 3 meters, including provisions for repairs and various losses, even if 400 square meters of plastic sheeting is rounded off, one hectare will consume 20,000 square meters.
Taking soybeans, which can be used as both staple food and oil extraction, as an example, the production capacity per hectare has been reduced from 3.5 tons to 3 tons. This production reduction is definitely too optimistic.
How many people can 3 tons of soybeans feed?
Even if they are all based on the size of ordinary people and can only maintain a living standard, the number will not exceed 25 people. In fact, it is best to use the standard of 15 people to maintain working ability.
Even if there are 25 people, and two crops are grown in the greenhouse each year, it means that for every one million people, the corresponding greenhouse area will reach 400 million square meters, and the weight will be approximately 400,000 tons!
So far, including the plastic sheets that have been sold and those still in storage, the total is just over 100,000 tons.
Greenhouses are a solution, but they cannot actually solve the problem. No matter how reasonable the planning is, there will not be many people that can be fed. There are still countless people waiting for cold-resistant wild species to provide food.
If you want to buy plastic sheeting during this period, you won’t even get a chance to wait in line.
As for price increases, this channel has been directly blocked.
Because at this stage, if you want to buy plastic sheets at a higher price, the food in your hands is definitely not for the common people. For this kind of customers, they should starve to death.
But there are more ordinary people who will starve to death with them, so we can't just let them go.
This matter still needs to be driven by business and let Quanquan City contribute.
Nitan City is backed by Pang Xun. Over the years, the oil industry has actually developed to a certain level. However, it is limited by the transportation environment. The single equipment is not large enough and the cost will be higher than that of the gold heavy industry. However, because the local industry is relatively profitable overall and attracts a lot of people, and everyone serves a single industry, the production potential is much greater than that of the Phoenix Kingdom itself.
In fact, when we first promoted plastic sheeting a few years ago, we contacted Nitan City through Gold Heavy Industry, hoping that they would establish production capabilities for polyethylene materials.
They didn't refuse, but the equipment they built was very small, with a total annual output of only 5,000 tons. It was impossible to use all of it to make plastic sheeting, because there were more profitable product forms.
It wasn't until the last few months that the guys realized there was a huge potential for plastic sheeting.
But it is a pity that the period from the establishment of the project to the production of the device will not be too short even with the help of a mage, so it cannot be counted on in the short term.
Fortunately, for the time being, before they build new production capacity, the average temperature will not drop below freezing, and the existing crops will not completely fail.
As for the sacred tree, it is not a good path.
Wang Qi's sacred tree only has one large, two small, and three seeds. The sugar-producing tree can only use small seeds. There are a lot of trees in the country that need to be taken care of, and there is not much spare time to take risks outside the country.
If the sacred tree is directly used to help solve food problems overseas, there is also the possibility that the sacred tree itself will be destroyed. This situation will lead to serious biological pollution risks.
For Solaris, it doesn't matter what form it exists in, and it has no reason to prevent the spread of the host body. But for ordinary life in the penal colony, the spread of parasites caused by the damage to the sacred tree is enough to be called a crisis of destruction, and it is an event at the level of the entire ecological chain.
Wang Qi thought about it. Solaris chose an agent to try to communicate with the will of the world here. There are two simplest ways of action, mageization of all employees and ecological pollution.
Both the Night Clan and the Sharp Blade are groups that have been transformed by Him. They have stronger magic practice potential than normal life. All members are forced to become mage, which can form at least tens of thousands of intermediate and high-level mage. Although this number is still insignificant compared to a world, Acting in unison can cause effective damage to the surface of the world, enough to be called a "pest that attracts attention."
Ecological pollution may be closer to the original purpose of Solaris. The parasites overflowing from the sacred tree can pollute the biosphere with a radius of hundreds of kilometers through the water system. Animals and plants cannot escape. If the environment, including the ocean, is realized before the floating island becomes If the entire penal colony is polluted, the total mass of organisms under his control will reach an exaggerated level. The branched will evolved from that size will probably have the influence of a fly on the will of the local world.
It is impossible to build a sacred tree with no pollution ability, because the "god" of the sacred tree, including its rapid growth and other powers, come from the will of the host body. Once the risk of infection is eliminated, it will become like a peanut and deep roots. Tuberous shrubs also become ordinary plants, which can retain the transformation function, and the yield will be reduced to a quarterly basis.
In short, Solaris itself is too destructive to the ecological chain, so the sacred tree must be managed in a controlled environment. Even if many people starve to death, it is lower than paying the price of "the future of the entire ecological chain."
Naturally, the reason of "maintaining the core competitiveness of currency" cannot be excluded.
Expanding the coverage of sacred trees in the territory to increase production capacity can be considered a method, but it will cause some subsequent economic problems, such as excessive surplus.
It may be more realistic to use the World Gate to solve the food gap from humans and demons.
On the main world side, if the World Gate still cannot survive, it will be difficult to have stable trade. However, you can try to get a batch of crops or nut plant seeds adapted to the cold environment from them, but beware of the risk of military conflict.
The demon world can only think of ways to deal with the demons' flesh.
Eating demon meat carries the risk of becoming demonic, and pure humans may not be able to bear it. This problem is not particularly big for the mixed-race people in the penal colony. At least according to the liaison documents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, no conditions causing mental mutation have been found. Mainly The appearance will change slightly.
In addition, there are many kinds of demons, and there must be some types. The hidden dangers of demonization can be eliminated in relatively simple ways. As long as you maintain the overall front line and pay attention to information collection, you will have results sooner or later.
