Tower Defense Strategy - Chapter 318

In August, the impact of the paralysis of the world’s largest port was still spreading.

After two weeks of emergency rescue, by the second week of August, part of the river delta area blocked by the accident ship was available, and some ports resumed a small number of functions.

But apart from river transportation, road transportation has not been cleared. The affected area and the number of people are too large, and the resettlement of the victims and the dispatch of materials have exhausted the transportation capacity of the repaired roads. The trucks traveling from the port have less than one hour per day.

The overseas freight is temporarily taken over by the south, which is a big problem.

The attack by the three-level green mist monster not only hit the infrastructure, but also disrupted the entire foreign trade structure with a large number of casualties. Most companies with overseas trade are not large enough to set up offices and warehouses in multiple port cities.

Therefore, even if the goods are transferred to the south and arrive in Hong Kong, personnel and logistics need to be reorganized.

Due to the shrinkage of shipping, the size of the port is enough to cope, but the land logistics is insufficient.

Dajiang itself is the busiest transportation route in country C, but this is a gift from nature, and it is generally not mentioned in particular.

Dajiang is east of a certain ancient capital, and can sail a river cargo ship of three to five thousand tons; to the west to a super hydropower station, it can transport less than five thousand tons, and some specially designed modern cargo ships can exceed this tonnage; above the power station, it can pass 3000 tons For ships, some rivers are below 1500 tons.

Even if the huge river management fee is included, the transportation cost of the river route is much lower than that of the railway, and the capacity is not comparable to that of several heavy-duty railways.

At present, most of the goods that should arrive at the East Port are disembarked from the South Port and can only be distributed inward by rail and road. This is far from enough.

A few days after the arrival of the fleet in August, the entire southern logistics line was full, and freight train delays occasionally exceeded 12 hours. Even so, a large amount of cargo was still queued for two weeks before being dispatched.

The logistics is not available, and it is expected that it will be worse in the future, and the space system will also be affected.

According to the latest notice, the electromagnetic rocket has entered a state of limited production.

On the day the Green Mist Monster came, country C launched 7 electromagnetic rockets within 24 hours, with a total payload of 150 tons.

After the production is restricted, the ones waiting for on-site inspection are launched, and then each silo can only maintain the frequency of once every three days.

One shot in three days seems to be lower than the level before the monster crisis, but the two statistical standards are different. The previous statistics are the annual launch volume of the whole country, and the average is one shot in two days. At this time, it benefits from the characteristics of electromagnetic rockets. , Single-shot manpower and material resources consumption is lower, according to the previous standard, there is still an average daily standard of 1.3 rounds, but the amount of material consumption has dropped slightly.

But this is not the bottom.

With the passage of time, green mist monsters have become more demon, the global environment has accelerated and the import of certain raw materials has become more and more unsustainable. The expert group predicts that production will be partially suspended within three months, and relevant companies need to switch production as soon as possible.

The most affected companies are aluminum, copper, and silver related companies.

Aluminum is produced from bauxite through purification, liquefaction, electrolysis and other steps. Bauxite is not rare, and high-purity ones are not so easy to handle. Country C mainly relies on the input of resources from Heizhou in this regard, and the coastal areas caused by the monster crisis The destruction of land transportation lines has a great impact. Regardless of equipment loss, it can achieve the same self-sufficiency as iron.

Copper and silver are both historically difficult issues. As mentioned earlier, the main reason is the early development of civilization. In the process of iteration, copper weapons and artillery, coins, precious metal ingots, luxury goods, decorations have been made over thousands of years of time. Food products, civilian burial behavior, etc., have almost consumed the shallow reserves, and they are also very dependent on overseas imports.

It is not the same as aluminum. To realize the substitution of their local resources, the quality of ore may only be one-tenth to one-eighth that of overseas. Upstream procurement costs will be increased by eight to ten times, and equipment loss will be added and production links will increase to downstream consumption. The impact of the end is difficult to speculate with normal numerical changes.

So the best response is to reduce production.

It’s not a bad show, but the price produced by local substitutes, and there is no way to pay the bill.

It was almost immediately reported that the monthly output of the Black and White Magician of Country C went from barely close to 1,000 tons. In the second week of August, it immediately fell to only 200 tons, and it is foreseeable that it will continue to fall.

In the industrial context, copper is actually a secondary substitute for gold. It mainly uses its advantages in high ductility and electrical and thermal conductivity to produce finished products. Some functions can be replaced by aluminum, but the thermal conductivity of aluminum is much lower. The product volume will be larger, and the total weight of consumables will not change much.

As a result, the decline in copper production capacity is directly reflected in the market price of aluminum. In addition to the changes in the aluminum industry itself, in just 18 days, the wholesale price of aluminum in country C has more than doubled, and the aluminum price in the entire international market has risen even more. Soon, after the reaction in early August, the mid-month has far exceeded the domestic market, with an increase of 280%.

Aluminum, copper, and silver are only typical, and the ones that are actually affected include almost all of the world’s most manufactured metal products produced by country C.

By this time, the so-called international metal futures market was in a state of complete chaos.

The goods wanted by various giant companies have generally risen, but the strategy adopted by giants is different from that of small companies. There is a fork here.

Giant enterprises are roughly divided into two categories, classical entities and new entities.

The classical entity, taking the former leader of Bai Qing before going to heaven as an example, is characterized by a low debt ratio.

When the debt ratio is low to a certain level, in the current situation, in order to avoid losses, it will tend to temporarily suspend production, and it is a big deal to borrow money and open wages.

The reason is that the cost of the production side increases, and it is difficult to feed back to the sales side in real time. The shorter the fluctuation time, the greater the difficulty.

This increase in more than ten days may be due to two adjacent batches of goods. It is impossible for the purchaser to have a national future strategy research institute. Most of them are not far-sighted. They usually negotiate with distributors first, and at the same time adopt a wait-and-see attitude in upstream negotiations, and push Tai Chi in payment negotiations and delivery.

If the production side does not stop production, a new round of price negotiations will quickly drain the cash flow of the enterprise, leading to a series of unimaginable consequences.

New entities refer to those companies that are completely grasped by financial games. Whether they produce themselves or not is completely bound by the liabilities behind those financial games.

The negotiation between this type of enterprise and the purchaser is as above, but once production is stopped, it will cause a huge gap in the financial report, and the default of the terms caused by the financial gap will lead to the early recovery of debts by banks, brokerages and other debtors, and finally in order to pursue the flow of funds. “Healthy”, they will have to sell at a loss to return funds, or simply borrow usury to repay old debts, leading the company to no return.

In the modern world, the proportion of classical entities is very low, but there is after all.

Their withdrawal from the production section will cause the supply of raw materials to appear “sufficient”, but there is a real shortage of goods on the product side, and reverse fluctuations on the raw material side and the supply side will further cause the market to become chaotic.

At the end of August, another port in Heizhou suffered disaster, and this port was the third largest export port of silver and aluminum on the east coast.

After the accident in the port, the so-called international guidance price completely failed. After all, under the credit economy system, most factories will definitely go bankrupt if they do not produce.

Then, the upstream changes were finally passed on to the consumer.

In September, the real economic crisis came.

The price of a mobile phone (local) suddenly changed from an alloy case to a plastic case. There was no other change, but the price jumped directly from 499A to 999.

Everyone thought that the manufacturer was making fun, and the set that raised the price first and then promoted it again. As a result…there was no promotion.

Some scholars have long referred to the economic changes in the Monster Era as a crisis~www.mtlnovel.com~ However, the overall rate of change in the top few manufacturing industries in the world is not large… at least the rate of global impact is relatively controllable.

The third-level green mist monster attacked the big river triangle of country C. It can be said that it was the last straw that crushed the camel. The so-called rational man market completely collapsed in just over a month.

During the entire September period, global prices have increased by an average of 90% compared with July. If they cannot be stabilized in the next few months, the increase at this time will turn into actual inflation.

Country C, where the incident occurred, was okay.

Because people here are accustomed to the existence of a guide price, it should exist, so through a series of control measures…that is, the way of eating grain (debt issuance), the current price increase of industrial products barely maintains around 30%, and the increase of food products Is limited to less than 10%, non-staple food is slightly higher at 18%.

After this incident, the so-called interstellar age, space migration, everyone just enjoy it.

The aerospace production and launch system can only be said to be incomplete, and the efficiency of production and launch is rapidly declining.