Chapter 908 Little Ice Age
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"Hello, Mr. Marshal," Kong Qian saluted respectfully, "On behalf of the Hangzhou Merchants Association, I offer you my highest respect."
As early as more than a year ago, the Hangzhou Merchant Federation was incorporated into NAC as an economic zone, but Jiang Chen has always given these merchants a high degree of autonomy. In addition to maintaining the garrison to maintain law and order, they only stationed in Hangzhou City has set up offices and executive officers symbolically, and chamber presidents like Kong Qian are still elected by themselves.
Jiang Chen was very curious, what exactly was his fishbone base for at this time.
"Let's not talk too much about being polite, what's the purpose of coming to see me?" Jiang Chen asked straight to the point after looking Kong Qian up and down.
Kong Qian didn't answer, just nodded slightly, took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to Jiang Chen.
"This is?" Jiang Chen frowned slightly, opened the envelope, and looked at the lines, his brows furrowed even more tightly. Standing by the side, Han Junhua seemed to have guessed what the letter would be, he just scanned the first line of the letter and looked away.
[Dear President of the Hangzhou Merchants Association, I only represent all the survivors in the Northern United Area, and offer you my highest respect. We have been in business for many years, and we have maintained a friendly cooperative relationship regardless of whether it is private or official...]
【...The force we have is definitely beyond the reach of bandits and grassroots bandits. The puppet regime will surely be crushed under the wheels of our tanks. If you resist stubbornly, the only way is to destroy, I hope you will think twice. 】
[Respectfully, Fang Yuanhong, Commander of the First Army of the Northern United Area. 】
Although the wording is polite, it is still difficult to hide the arrogance between the lines.
In short, this is a letter of surrender.
"It's definitely not something that bandits and grassroots can fight against...? Hehe, it seems that we are really underestimated." Jiang Chen shook his head with a smile.
Although the industrial capacity of the Sixth Street District is not as good as any industrial park before the war, if the wasteland is used as the comparison standard, it is impossible to find an industrial base with such a high production capacity in the whole world. Although the Northern United Region had mastered pre-war equipment, wars were never just about technological content, but also tested logistical capabilities.
So what if one Prowler can replace ten Jaeger IIs? One Prowler exploded and one was missing, but there were still a lot of Tiger IIs lying on the assembly line of the military factory in the Sixth Street District.
Folding the envelope back, Jiang Chen looked at Kong Qian, only to see that he was looking at him with a half-smile.
"It seems that you have made a wise choice.
"Jiang Chen smiled.
Kong Qian bowed slightly.
"In my opinion, regime change is like the rotation of the sun and the moon. There is no such thing as orthodoxy. For us businessmen, whoever can bring us stability is the undisputed master of this land."
In the eyes of these businessmen, compared to NAC, which pursues the way of free trade, the talents in the Northern Union Region are more like bandits.
"I will remember your words and your loyalty," Jiang Chen casually put the letter aside, looked at Kong Qian and continued, "So, are you here to deliver this letter? Or Is there anything else you want to discuss with me?"
"There is indeed one more thing." Kong Qian nodded, and continued, "I don't know if the Marshal has noticed that this year's winter is one month earlier than in previous years."
When you think about it, it is true.
Jiang Chen vaguely remembered that it was still October, and Wanghai City had its first light snowfall. Because many things happened afterwards, he didn't take this detail to heart. Now that he thinks about it carefully, this is indeed a bit abnormal.
"Some time ago, a businessman in our chamber of commerce who was engaged in the business of medicine and mutated cow fur returned from Shangjing and brought news from the north. The area to the north of the entire Heilong Province has almost become a no-man's land because of the extreme cold. According to According to the analysis of the climate data observed by the Shanghai Meteorological Station, in the next five to ten years, the earth may usher in a small ice age caused by nuclear winter."
"Little Ice Age?" Jiang Chen frowned slightly.
He vaguely remembered that the Little Ice Age in history began in the 13th century and reached its peak in the 17th century. At its peak, starvation was everywhere in northern Europe, and even half of the population of Norway and Sweden died in the famine. On the other side of the world, in the Ming Dynasty, part of the reason for the national power to turn from prosperity to decline can even be attributed to this little ice age.
"Marshal, do you remember the first few years after the nuclear war?" Kong Qian asked.
"I don't remember, I was in the shelter at the time." Jiang Chen shook his head and replied with his usual rhetoric.
"No wonder," Kong Qian sighed, and explained to Jiang Chen, "After the nuclear war, in the first five to six years, even in the hottest south, there is no concept of summer. The earth is covered with ice and snow all year round, shrouded in Under the shadow of a nuclear winter. Things don’t get any better until the seventh year after the end of the nuclear war.”
"We originally thought that the nuclear winter was over, but now it seems that it is just our wishful thinking."
Having said that, Kong Qian paused for a moment, then continued.
"From the survivor settlements to the north of Wanghai City, they are desperately buying and storing food. It is okay within Wanghai City, but in areas outside Wanghai City, the price of nutritional supplements has doubled. All commodities are depreciating... except the subcrystal itself, which is a hard currency."
"Someone is hoarding nutritional supplements and sub-crystals? Are there any special uses for these things?" Jiang Chen asked.
"All the survivors are hoarding these two things." Kong Qian said seriously, "As for the obvious reason, they are preparing for the winter."
No one knows how long this cold winter will last, ten years? twenty years? Or even a century? As long as the radioactive dust cannot dissipate, the climate on the surface will only become more severe. Under the elimination of natural selection, the alien species will evolve in the direction of cold resistance, strength, and savagery, but if the weak human beings do not use tools, they can only be eliminated by nature in this small ice river.
If this winter is going to last forever...
Jiang Chen looked out the window, feeling a strong uneasiness in his heart.
This inexplicable uneasiness was even stronger than when he heard about the invasion of the United States.
If winter is to continue, nac's plantations will bear the brunt of the hit. If there is no input of raw materials such as mutated fruit and kamut resin, the industry in the sixth block will undoubtedly suffer losses...Greenhouse cultivation? It can be done, but the most critical energy cannot be solved.
Most of the sub-crystals in the sixth block come from the heterogeneous pastures, and the feed of the heterogeneous pastures comes from the mutated fruits produced by the plantations. The energy source of these subcrystals is still solar energy in the final analysis. If the two energy sources of solar energy and sub-crystal are lost, the electricity consumption in the entire nac area will become a problem...
Wait, if the migration of the United States was due to climate issues, why didn't they migrate further south, but chose Wanghai City on the east coast? Instead of places like Fuzhou or Yizhou Island?
At this time, Jiang Chen suddenly recalled the "Declaration of War" that was misinterpreted by the Crimson Chamber of Commerce during the last civil war.
If it wasn't the wreckage of the wand of God that made the Northern United Region obsessed, then what exactly would the "treasure" they were talking about be?
Just when Jiang Chen was lost in thought, Kong Qian spoke again.
"We have a proposal here, and I hope the Marshal can consider it carefully." (To be continued.)
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