Chapter 308 On the verge of collapse

Chapter 308 On the verge of collapse

Chapter 308 On the verge of collapse
Southeast Asia, which is facing a food crisis, has gradually surrendered to Seris.

However, the country has no plans to give away food for free, nor does it plan to sell it at a high price.

Instead, it adopted the traditional barter trade model and began to carry out comprehensive cooperation in Southeast Asia.

America and the European Union, who are preoccupied with their own affairs, have no intention of intervening in this matter. After all, their internal food crisis is also very serious. If they do not solve their internal problems as soon as possible, they will instead engage in more intense competition with Serbia in Southeast Asia, and the consequences may be disastrous.

After all, Southeast Asia is right at Seris' doorstep, while America and the European Union are separated from Southeast Asia by an ocean. The power that the two can project is not at the same level at all.

And Seris did not further provoke America and the European Union, but he swallowed what he had to eat without hesitation.

Of course, Southeast Asia obviously cannot achieve a trade balance with Seres relying solely on minerals and handicrafts, so three more ambitious investment projects were proposed at this time.

The three plans are:

Asian Road and Bridge Program.

Antarctica solar energy development plan.

Industrial complex program.

The so-called Asian Road and Bridge Project is to use the Qiongzhou Strait Cross-sea Bridge, which is currently being tested, and the related technologies derived from this project to completely connect the entire Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and East Asia on land.

These include the East China Sea Shandong-Han Cross-Sea Bridge, the Korea-Japan Tsushima Strait Bridge, the Ryukyu Islands Cross-Sea Bridge, the Tainan Strait Cross-Sea Bridge, the Bashi Channel Cross-Sea Bridge, the Luzon Islands Cross-Sea Bridge, the Nanyang Islands Cross-Sea Bridge, and the Malacca Strait Cross-Sea Bridge.

These cross-sea bridges will achieve comprehensive connectivity across East Asia, Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia.

The purpose of the Antarctic solar energy development plan is not only to obtain solar energy, but more importantly, to inhibit the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, rebuild a new Antarctic ice sheet, and avoid rapid rise in sea levels.

There is no other way.

Instead of waiting for death, it is better to give it a try.

After all, if left unchecked, the global average temperature will rise by about 6 degrees Celsius in the next twenty years or so. This temperature rise is so terrifying that it almost means that the Earth will enter a long ice-free period.

The consequence of entering an ice-free period is that the global sea level will rise by one to two meters every year in about twenty years.

By then, even if the country frantically builds coastal dams, it still cannot protect the essential coastal areas.

Therefore, the country must ensure that the global sea level rise does not get completely out of control and keep it below 30 meters.

To achieve this, an expanded parasol program becomes the only option.

Of course, the relevant scientific research institutions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Hailufeng Company have used supercomputers to conduct relevant simulations, and studies have shown that the probability of success of this plan is very high.

After all, the fundamental reason why the Antarctic ice sheet is dissolving rapidly is that the carbon dioxide and methane content in the earth's atmosphere has soared, causing the warming effect of the atmosphere to continue to increase.

The increasing insulating effect of the atmosphere has led to a continuous rise in sea temperature.

Rising sea temperatures accelerate the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet in summer, while inhibiting the recovery of the Antarctic ice sheet in winter.

The area of ​​the Antarctic ice sheet continues to shrink, resulting in more and more exposed land in Antarctica. Ice can effectively reflect sunlight, but soil, rocks, sand and the like have poor reflection efficiency for sunlight and will absorb the heat of the sunlight, causing the Antarctic land to warm up, which in turn accelerates the further melting of the Antarctic ice sheet.

The current earth's climate has entered a vicious cycle.

The Antarctic solar energy development plan aims to interrupt this vicious cycle through artificial means, reduce the amount of heat radiating from the sun to Antarctica, preserve part of the ice sheet, and even allow part of the Southern Ocean to freeze again through local regulation, forming a new ice sheet.

This project seems very large, but in fact, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Hailufeng Company have conducted comprehensive and careful calculations and analysis and found a very good shortcut.

Although the photovoltaic airship has a limit to its bearing capacity, if the photovoltaic panels can be made into lightweight high-strength films, a lot of materials can be saved and the purpose of rapid deployment can be achieved at the same time.

As long as four airships pull the photovoltaic film cloth, with the current material strength, a square photovoltaic film cloth with a side length of about 5 kilometers can be produced.

A piece of photovoltaic film can cover an area of ​​about 25 square kilometers.

The land area of ​​Antarctica, including the existing marine ice shelves, is approximately 1400 million square kilometers.

Considering that there is no need to deploy photovoltaic film in the central area of ​​Antarctica for the time being, it is only necessary to deploy a circle around the edge of the Antarctic ice sheet, which only needs to cover about 200 million square kilometers to ensure that the Antarctic ice sheet will not dissolve quickly.

Therefore, to complete the layout of 200 million square kilometers of photovoltaic thin film, approximately 8 pieces of photovoltaic thin film cloth with an area of ​​25 square kilometers and approximately 20 photovoltaic traction airships are needed.

The emergence of the first two plans further led to the third plan: the industrial consortium plan.

The so-called industrial complex means that Seris will rely on these two super projects as a basis to reshape the entire industrial system of East Asia, Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia.

For example, some unimportant parts can be handed over to Southeast Asian countries for completion, and Seris will directly pay Huayuan, and then Southeast Asia will use Huayuan to purchase food and industrial products.

In fact, it is equivalent to work-for-relief.

Through these three plans, the country can integrate the economies of these regions into its sphere of influence, while also obtaining a large amount of cheap labor and obtaining huge economic benefits after the projects are completed.

You know, if the Asian Road and Bridge Initiative can be fully realized, it means that the entire eastern Asia will be connected, which will have a great promoting effect on the economy.

As for those who do not cooperate during this process, Seris does not need to take action himself, someone within their group will naturally take action.

If they don't want to be decent, someone will naturally help them to be decent.

this is the truth.

Even though America is still holding on in Japan and South Korea, in fact, there are undercurrents in these two regions.

Even though America kept hinting that she could completely lift the blockade on Japan and South Korea, and even planned to secretly sell part of the stockpiled nuclear materials to these two bastards.

But Japan and South Korea are very clear that getting nuclear materials now would basically mean a dead end.

After all, these two places do not have much land, the population is quite dense, and the internal resources are very limited. As the global sea level rises, their already insufficient agricultural land will decrease rapidly.

What will be used to feed so many people?
You can't learn from Cao Cao and eat delicious meat, right?
As for buying from abroad?
Are you kidding? If the sea level rises by 20 to 30 meters, the world's food production areas will be greatly reduced. Who would be willing to export food casually?

Therefore, there is no use at all in having nuclear materials now.

Of course, they did not reject America. Instead, while talking to America, they secretly informed Seris of the relevant contents. They even planned to hand over all the bases left by America to Seris for use directly after America evacuated completely.

Reality is so magical.

If it were Japan in the 1970s, they might have thought of fighting Seris, but now they have no chance.

Even if America left immediately, they would not be able to rise.

The main reason is that their resource endowment is too poor to support a big country. Faced with this global crisis, the Japanese clans have no confidence at all. Many Japanese clans have already dispersed and transferred the young people of the family to settle in Seris.

They came here under the guise of investment.

Of course, these families actually brought a lot of resources, including many technologies that were not previously available in the country.

For example, Tokyo Electron transferred the equipment and scientific researchers of several core laboratories to Shanghai in less than three months.

Now Japan is not afraid of America's restrictions at all, and many things have even become blatant.

America no longer has the arrogance she once had, and she simply pretends not to see anything about these things. The main reason is that America's influence in Asia has declined too quickly in recent years, which can almost be described as an avalanche.

In September.

After Seris announced these three super plans.

Various forces in Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia also quickly came to ask for a meeting.

Anyone with a little bit of common sense knows that the fundamental purpose of these three super plans is to reshape the landscape of Asia.

If you don't go now, you will have fewer and fewer opportunities later on, and you may not even be able to drink soup.

As for the Asian Road Bridge Project and the Antarctic Solar Energy Development Project among these three plans, aren’t they a bit far-fetched?

In fact, no one cares much about this situation, because what they really care about is the industrial consortium plan.

As long as they can obtain corresponding industrial allocations, they can absorb a large number of idle population through industrial production. At the same time, they can obtain a large amount of Huayuan foreign exchange by selling industrial products and minerals, and then purchase a large amount of grain and food from Seris, which can basically stabilize the internal situation.

These small forces are well aware of the current situation, and they should be thankful that the status quo can be maintained.

If things go wrong, it may lead to direct destruction.

For example, just as September began, a severe famine broke out in the Ganges River Basin of India, and more than six million people in the area starved to death.

With the outbreak of the great famine, local order began to collapse completely, and various chaotic scenes continued to unfold, which further undermined local agricultural production and led to a further decline in food production capacity.

Even if the old immortal went to Lucia and Amelica and cried for help, it had no effect at all.

Lucia said she didn't have enough food to eat.

America made big promises verbally but did nothing practical.

It’s not Lucia and America’s fault for being cold-blooded, because they really can’t take care of themselves.

Lucia did have a warm summer this year, but the problem is that local natural disasters are nearly twice as frequent as in previous years, and many grain-producing areas have suffered severe production reductions.

A more serious problem is that the altitude of the East European Plain is very low and the local terrain is not suitable for building coastal dams.

The rapidly rising sea water from the Baltic Sea coast has directly flowed back into some low-lying inland areas through river estuaries, causing large tracts of inland farmland to be soaked in sea water and resulting in serious salinization.

The summer in America is also not good. Super hurricanes continue to emerge from the Caribbean Sea in Central America, bringing devastating blows to Florida and Texas.

At the same time, California has suffered a drought that has lasted for more than four months, and has also caused continuous fires in the Rocky Mountains.

The global climate is becoming increasingly extreme.

America and Lucia didn't dare to sell their stored food.

After all, no matter how stupid they are, they know that food is their foundation. Without food, everything else is useless.

Although Tianzhu claims to have only 100 million Celestial Dragons and the rest are consumables, they will definitely be in trouble if they really watch the remaining consumables starve to death.

After all, in the face of death, even if most people are numb and willing to wait to starve to death rather than resist, this does not represent all people.

And there are also crazy groups among the Indians.

Just after the Ganges famine broke out, this crazy group spread rapidly, like sparks, igniting the lifeless straw piles.

Faced with the threat of death, human madness will be infinitely magnified.

Unable to borrow or buy food, India finally began to enter a stage of total collapse.

It's like dominoes, once one domino falls, the others will follow.

At this time, various problems that had been suppressed within India began to erupt.

The country did not pay much attention to the situation in India and simply closed the border in advance. In order to avoid being affected, it even blew up the border roads and bridges.

Hongshawadi, who was also worried about being affected, hurriedly asked Seris for help. After all, their internal situation was in chaos, and if they were faced with tens of millions of hungry people rushing towards them, they probably wouldn't be able to stop them.

Fortunately, they have no bottom line. In order to avoid problems, Hongshawadi adopted a very extreme response plan, which was to purchase tens of millions of mines from Seris and then quickly deploy them on the border.

It is estimated that more mines will be purchased in the future.

But this is none of Seris's business.

Moreover, it was a good thing that the bottom of the Hongsha Basin could resist the Indians, so Seris was very happy and sold a large number of mines in stock to the other party at cost price.

Anyway, as long as Eastern Asia is stable now, we can’t care so much about other regions.

If you are really sincere, you wouldn't wait until this time to come to me.

The three super plans in full swing quickly stabilized the various forces in eastern Asia.

At this time, Hailufeng Company was finally able to go out to sea.

After all, they had to worry about America and the European Union in the past, but now the entire eastern Asia is Seres' core sphere of influence. Naturally, there is no need for Hailufeng Company to hide in the country, but to follow the official attack.

In fact, Hailufeng Company has reached a limit in its development in the country, and it is time to enter the international market.

However, the current international market is fragmented and needs to be re-cultivated.

But it doesn’t matter. In fact, a fragmented international market is more beneficial. After all, there is no construction without destruction. If the old system does not collapse, how can a new system be established?

(End of this chapter)