Arrangements are being made for the deep space ruins, and a new world gate cycle is ushering in the exile land.
It can't be said to be particularly peaceful, but compared to the main world being looted over hundreds of thousands square kilometers at a time, the current situation is much better.
As the temperature has fluctuated near freezing point, of the demon ecosystem represented by the five demon gates, only gates 2 and 4 are relatively active.
The situation at Gate No. 5 is still blocked by Fatel, but according to the information obtained from news channels, the three dragons have been dealt with before. It is not known whether they disappeared due to exhaustion or were beaten to death.
Gate No. 4 mainly threatens the northwest of Wengji. With the kingdom's low-cost support and the efforts of the Ruiweile Industrial Cluster, it is now able to achieve self-sufficiency in projectiles. Compared with consumables, the weapons are small.
The ecology of Gate No. 2 has the strongest adaptability to low temperatures, but it is a pity that the location is not good.
The main world side has mastered a certain method to open the world gate in the same area every time, with an error of less than 300 kilometers. In previous trades, it has been found that Gate No. 2 is the closest.
Although no collective strategic cooperation has been reached, there are still bold adventurers who go to hunt for gold. It should be said that they have shared a little pressure for the local area.
The existing armed forces around gates 2 and 4 may not collapse instantly in the face of the challenge from the demon swarm, but there may still be a big gap in scale and cross-city dispatch.
The most serious challenge remains the overall lack of food caused by cooling.
Every time the door is opened for trade with the main world, it can supply basic rations for hundreds of thousands of people. However, because the door cannot be completely nailed to one point, the overall transport capacity has never been able to increase.
Each lord in the southern region can mobilize a few to more than 20 planes, and the temperature is relatively low, so it doesn't matter if they stockpile food for a while. The main bottleneck is still in the main world. Not to mention infrastructure and scheduling, the point of opening the door is more uncertain for the main world. The cars sold in the past are basically useless, so that it takes more than half a month after the opening to complete basic food transportation. Be prepared, the real transportation time and radius are relatively limited.
Some people should have given up after the launch of the World Gate transaction. There is only so much that can be purchased, and they have to compete with gangsters from all over the world. If they have time to train thugs, it is better to invest some money in the direction of greenhouses.
No matter how outsiders mess with it, the Phoenix Kingdom has no control over it, and its own house is about to catch fire.
The Kingdom is covered by the Solaris Sacred Tree, which will not plunge the people into famine. However, the output of the Sacred Tree is also reduced due to the low temperature. Outside, we still have to maintain the million-level Ganlin Project. Today, we have to restrict non-sugar products. Grain exports.
The action of restricting exports was a decision made by the Central Committee. Wang Qi only signed it, and he himself was not happy about it.
Restricting exports sounds like protecting food rations, but there are always two sides to things. From a development perspective, restricting exports fixes the size of the market. The size of our own kingdom is only so large. Many commodities also have restrictions on fluctuating prices. Related agricultural enterprises are subject to the market It is expected that due to the impact of profit scale, new planting capacity will be more cautious, which will not be conducive to increasing grain output in the long term.
However, it has been more difficult in the past two or three years. Wang Qi ordered targeted interest-free loans to several agricultural enterprises with relatively stable operations, which can push production capacity up.
Increased production capacity in a restricted market will inevitably lead to falling prices. Storage-stable grains are better. Agricultural products such as tubers and vegetables do not have official stock prices to cover them. If you produce too much, you will really lose money.
Therefore, in order to continue to increase production capacity in this environment, some additional agreements must be made, such as how much the price of a certain agricultural product will drop before export controls are relaxed.
If the export of agricultural products is liberalized one by one through similar government-enterprise agreements, the impact on domestic prices will be much smaller. Otherwise, hungry people outside will dare to charge any price.
Famine will kill people. It’s too late to do anything at this stage. Fortunately, enough preparations have been done in the early stage. After the temperature drops below ten degrees, some places are willing to cooperate. Later, the demons can provide some unsafe meat. Hungry The death rate will not be too high.
We have made some arrangements in the eastern region before, but the overall temperature is too bad and the temperature difference between day and night has become larger. The grain production capacity in the Shanwo growing area has been unable to be supplied to other places in the past two years.
Food-deficient areas will be able to grab some at super high prices to some extent, but the goods of that kind of people do not have a positive meaning, and their personal use has nothing to do with the people. They sell them at a higher price and the bottom class can't afford it and would rather eat sawdust.
In short, I have to wear one in the next two years.
Wang Qi is no longer pessimistic, but based on the recent food data, if the low temperature lasts for more than five years, the exile in a non-demon-controlled area will no longer be able to feed 20 million people.
The most relevant thing to such expectations is fuel.
The lower the temperature, the more fuel is consumed in various places. Areas that do not produce coal are faced with the problem of vegetation renewal, which burns too fast. After the existing dead trees are burned out, the Ice Age plants have not yet become useful, or in the low temperature environment all year round. , Ice Age plants can only survive and do not grow much at all.
When there is nothing left to burn, the people in that area will naturally become extinct.
To solve this problem, we can only coordinate with the outside world and increase investment in the construction of floating island ferries and transport roads.
There is still a problem that the interests of the lords cannot be reconciled. Even if there is an intention to cooperate, you have to be careful about being stabbed by others. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Phoenix Kingdom can only act as a middleman and cannot be a military guarantor, otherwise panic will easily spread among the lords. .
There is progress, but not very promising.
Another question: In the context of widespread food shortages, how many people will spend money to buy coal from other places?
No one can give the answer, which also limits the initiative of coal-producing areas.
In short, the environment is like this. The exile is facing famine, and even needs to eat demons to supplement protein. The demons are still unable to move. Next, unless they directly recruit lords or even stronger individuals, or the five gates are linked, otherwise the exile will be affected. The destructive power will most likely not be as powerful as famine.
After Wang Qi got a copy of this round of trade agreement, he ignored it and concentrated on coordinating outer space missions.
It should be said that there are still some talented people in the family. In just two months, the three major manufacturers that received the task completed the coordination and even produced the first version of the space suit.
This version is still relatively rough and belongs to the technical verification version. It has just completed underwater testing and ultra-low temperature measurement of materials.
The ultra-low temperature environment here is provided by the methane cooling system used in the laboratory. The lowest stable operating temperature of this system is only minus 176 degrees, which is still some distance from the 1 MPa freezing point of methane. It is mainly affected by the purity of methane and the resistance of equipment materials.
It is still far away from the minus two hundred degrees expected by the mission, and it is even further away from absolute zero.
Building cooler devices became a top priority.
The problem is that cooler coolants are not safe enough.
Methane seems to be flammable and explosive, but its advantage is that the liquid temperature span is large. Under high pressure, the difference between its critical temperature and boiling point is nearly a hundred degrees. It is especially suitable for use as a coolant with large temperature fluctuations.
Acetaldehyde and ethanol also have a wide range and a higher specific heat capacity. Unfortunately, they cannot be used in industrial production below minus 110 degrees.
Oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen with lower melting points, due to their small liquid span, are extremely dangerous in the category of coolants. In particular, hydrogen is accompanied by hydrogen embrittlement, which will permanently damage the container, and even experiments are high-risk objects.
There is probably no naturally occurring substance that is better than methane as a low-temperature coolant below minus 100 degrees Celsius. The Kingdom has not invested enough in basic research in this area, and laser freezing technology is even more unclear.
Now we can only hope that the long-standing magic-based heat transfer technology can be used at such a low temperature.
I am not lazy. I have written 70,000 words in the new book without punctuation.
Pressing too much is very risky, so I won’t delay it any longer. I’ll probably end it in a few chapters and release a new book in November.
