News came from the Air Force that the temporary world gate had disappeared, letting everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
Although the results of this round are limited, it can be seen that the Light Church still has a way of stirring up trouble.
From the perspective of St. Anthony's own interests, there is no need to bother with the exile, because this time he drove near his home, and the next time he didn't know where he would go.
On the contrary, for the Church of Light, which has believers distributed all over the country and can temporarily place god warriors, the motivation for overall action will be much stronger.
Combined with the fact that St. Anthony required the church to preside over the ceremony even for the king to ascend the throne, it is obvious who is dominant.
Before closing the door, the Central Ministry manipulated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to find Fatel's permanent envoy.
The envoy is not an ambassador and has very little power.
For example, when Fatel filed a diplomatic protest, the document was first sent to the envoy for him to submit, rather than the envoy himself launching a protest based on his own authority. In addition, he is also responsible for taking the blame. For example, if the kingdom wants to submit a note to scold Fatel, the envoy will be scolded and then write a document and send it back...or he may not write it.
But no matter how small his power is, as a transit point for exchanges between the two countries, Envoy Fatel will definitely be able to obtain some information.
But before closing the door, he did not provide information on the "diplomatic results of Fatel and Saint Anthony."
After closing the door, someone was sent to inquire again. The envoy said that an agreement had indeed been reached, but it did not involve the interests of the Phoenix Kingdom, which meant that it was "none of your business."
I probably got instructions to avoid random thoughts here.
In comparison, Wengji's envoy in Little Bear City has much greater power. One of the most important tasks of this position is to cooperate with the Wengji royal family and relevant representatives to conduct currency settlements with Phoenix Bank. He will also pay attention to the developments from time to time.
But as a country, Wengji needs to be classified into the failing range.
According to its envoys, the royal family did not reach an agreement with Saint Anthony and drove people away to the area around Gate 4.
In other words, he became Saint Anthony and talked directly with the powerful nobles.
Local snakes are not easy to deal with, but there is a Church of Light behind St. Anthony, so the locals can take advantage of him.
It is unclear whether these three groups of envoys are the only ones involved in this round of Saint Anthony's operations. Those lords do not have permanent envoys in Little Bear City, so communication is very troublesome.
They failed to place people into the Phoenix Kingdom, but the overall diplomatic operation was very successful.
The guests from the main world took some energy. After closing the door, the focus returned to living a good life and guarding against demons.
At this time, the nighttime temperature has dropped to single digits, the prices of clothing in various places have inevitably increased, and charcoal stoves and charcoal have also become tense.
There is no good solution for clothes, and production capacity is limited by raw materials and it is really impossible to raise it.
Assume that each household's clothing reserve was 1 10 years ago. Now it does not increase from 1 to 2. Using the weight ratio, the potential demand is 4 to 6. The benchmark for basic production capacity is loss plus purchase. In the early stage, the annual supply is 20% of all clothing and bedding stocks in the country. It cannot cover all demand. It is probably more than 10% of the total stock that needs to be imported to meet the needs of purchases and new population.
After several years of adjustments, the production capacity of the domestic textile industry has doubled compared with before, but the gap is still large. Including overseas procurement, it can barely meet the daily needs of the people.
After the temperature drops to a relatively low level, people still need to reserve a change of clothes and spare warm clothes that can be worn at any time. A family of three needs at least four beds to meet the change needs of thicker new bedding.
It can be said that with the adjustment of production capacity in the textile industry in recent years, the gap has not only not decreased, but has also increased.
This is mainly affected by raw material output.
After the temperature dropped, the bark used for textiles in the Elte region grew poorly. After increasing the harvest range, it barely maintained a certain increase. If the temperature continued to drop, those trees might freeze to death at any time.
The situation of animal hair, down, and feathers is not very good. This part is relatively dependent on overseas markets. There is also demand for warmth overseas, and the supply has been reduced.
Then there are the fibrous plants grown on farmland. When all food supplies were moved into glass greenhouses, all the extra open-air farmland was planted with these things. Although the yield per unit area dropped a bit due to the influence of temperature, fortunately enough were planted. Fiber crops, like trees, will not be able to produce anything in the future if the temperature continues to drop.
Coupled with polyester, which was the focus of attention before, and various textile raw materials added together, we can barely achieve the effect of doubling production capacity. This is still unsustainable to a certain extent, and it is completely impossible to continue to push it upward.
The key contradiction is still on the polyester side.
Chemical production is not affected by natural temperature conditions, but determining the commissioning of a chemical plant is a very complex process. We don’t know how the temperature will change in the future. If the temperature starts to rise again after cooling down for a few months, excess production capacity will be useless.
Now we can only build the second phase of the polyester production project step by step. After completion, the polyester production capacity will increase by 200%, reaching an annual output of more than 2,000 tons.
If 2,000 tons of polyester are only used to make warm clothing fabrics, more than seven million pieces of clothing can be made. However, once the temperature is so low that outdoor plant sources cannot be harvested, we must try to convert polyester and plastic down into fillers, and single pieces The raw materials consumed for coats will become a lot, and they will be distributed to all people. Each person will only have one piece a year, and it will be difficult for outdoor workers to get two pieces.
In fact, it is not impossible to live with one warm coat per person per year, but you have to be careful. If it breaks too fast, you may have no clothes to wear.
After that, the company will think of ways to increase production by a certain proportion through process improvements while keeping the equipment unchanged.
Polyester was first used to make seat belts and safety ropes. Now all the production is allocated to clothing production. When people's household clothing reserves are almost enough and market sales decline, there will still be room for the extra polyester. No matter how big the equipment is, It's a little hard to digest.
Then there’s indoor warmth.
No special arrangements were made because there was no technical content.
Take an iron art store as an example... They make windows and mend pots. If a two-person store has a manual plate rolling machine and a welding machine, it can produce more than twenty simple stoves a day. The whole process does not require a stamping machine or a coal stove. It's a little more complicated, but not too slow.
The main problem at this stage is the fuel side.
Coal and carbon, coal is better in industry, but carbon is better for heating.
The advantage of coal is its low cost, and it already has a complete collection, washing, and transportation chain. The problem is that it is a bit toxic. In addition to the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, the sulfur content of coal is not low for indoor environments.
The advantage of carbon is that it is safer, and the flavor produced when carbon is burned can be customized through the carbon production process. The disadvantage is that the cost is high and a huge amount of heat is wasted in the carbon production process. On the premise that every household must use it, local production and local supply can only be achieved. The pressure of production and transportation across the country to open a large factory is too great.
...In fact, they are all trivial matters. In the end, there will definitely be both. There is no need for Wang Qi to participate. He is only responsible for using the seeds of the sacred tree to arrange for Phoenix City and Little Bear City. At least the houses on the sacred tree will be separated into special smoke exhaust areas. layer and coal storage room.
Taking the freezing point as an expectation: clothing is barely enough, and everyone needs to take more care of clothes; food is self-sufficient, and even by increasing the canopy size of the outpost tree, the Ganlin plan can still be maintained; housing is warm and can keep up with changes; travel can also be carried out as usual. There are plans to de-ice roads with magical roadside installations.
Preparations for cooling have already been started, and as long as the air pressure does not drop to a particularly low level, there is no need to worry about it for a while.
Next, you have to give the demons some eye drops.
