Chapter 1723 Helplessly slumped
After a period of rapid development, the expansion of the Aurora Legion in North America entered a bottleneck or even reversed. The Boise incident perfectly demonstrated the legion's influence in North America, but also exposed the problems directly, triggering a strong backlash from the top leaders of the Iron Brotherhood.
Back at the hotel where we settled, Xiao Yi, who was traveling with him, reported the current situation to Zhou Qingfeng, "Our trade volume with North America exceeded one trillion aurora coins last month.
Among them, the "free trade" openly with the Brotherhood of Steel accounts for 80% and the secret transactions with Incredible account for 20%.
Zhou Qingfeng has been conducting foreign trade since he founded the Aurora Legion. Before the nuclear bomb was washed, he towed away hundreds of freight ships above 10,000 tons from North America. These ships had been rusted in the port for two years, and now they can finally repair and come in handy.
"Due to the large freight volume, our freight ships are currently too busy. The ship repair yards at several ports have expressed a lack of skilled workers, and the maritime department has just been established, and many accidents have occurred in the chaos." Xiao Yi said.
Huge amount of goods transactions require a huge amount of logistics system to support. It is obvious that the Legion is currently struggling when building this system. The main reason is that it lacks capable technical and managerial personnel, and talents in this area are lacking everywhere.
"The goods we purchased from North America are also coming to the port one after another. These things need to be waited for you to return for transportation, otherwise the ship can only float on the sea." Xiao Yi sighed when he said this topic.
Oil tankers, ore grinding freighters and bulk cargo ships with a load of more than 100,000 tons have arrived in Mexico with cargo. These giant ships are filled with cargo such as oil, ore, and wood, and the quantity is extremely huge.
Since Zhou Qingfeng was essentially a "barter trade" with North America and there is no other buyer in North America at present, the prices of various raw materials he obtained are very cheap. For example, a barrel of oil was converted to less than ten dollars in the real world, which is still the price of the freight.
Zhou Qingfeng agreed with the real-world flower planter to increase the price of all goods by 50% and sell them. He can make a fortune by just changing hands. The key is that he does not pay taxes. Because this is a transaction that is invisible.
But these goods must be transferred by Zhou Qingfeng himself, so dozens of cargo ships are currently parked in the ports along the coast of Mexico, and are in vain.
Compared with the raw materials purchased, the goods sold by the Legion are also calculated in millions of tons. Speaking of the things sold, Xiao Yi spoke in a relaxed tone and smiled, "We sold one billion pieces of shirts alone. This quantity of orders has caused coastal enterprises in the real world to go crazy."
In the industrial history of major powers in the world, the easiest thing to do is the textile industry. It was not a joke that the British were doing "sheep eaters" back then, but the first thing they developed on the southeast coast of rabbits was large and small garment factories.
Only the "World Factory" can complete the orders calculated casually. The sufficient supply of goods allows Zhou Qingfeng to open up the sales of various textiles to the outside world. Mexico alone has 20 to 30 million consumer markets that require clothing and hats.
In addition, Zhou Qingfeng's tentacles not only extend to North America, South America, Africa and even Europe, only him is the only one who can provide them. This kind of single-eating business gives buyers no choice but to buy from the Aurora Legion.
"At present, we have achieved zero inventory, and all the goods you forwarded before have been sold. Judging from the current feedback from various markets, we can increase sales to tens of millions of tons in the next step.
From scratch, we achieved such results in just one month, and the performance of our departments is already excellent. I think the transportation volume will definitely reach the level of 100 million tons within half a year. Unfortunately, we don’t have so many ships to transport cargo at present, and we don’t even have enough crew members.”
Zhou Qingfeng, who was sitting on the sofa, was indifferent to these good news. After finishing the report of the economic summary this month, Xiao Yi leaned against him and asked, "What are you thinking? I'm so depressed."
"Brotherhood." Zhou Qingfeng looked indifferent in front of Rachel, but when he was alone, he still had to think about how to deal with the current situation.
Speaking of the Brotherhood, Xiao Yi opened another report in his hand and whispered: "The Brotherhood of Steel is a sovereign entity after all, and with our preliminary conditions, they are much better than us in the Air Force alone.
Some things cannot be forced too much, so let’s go back to Mexico and develop slowly. In ten or twenty years, America will naturally be your world.”
One month since the implementation of ‘free trade’, Aurora Legion’s goods have achieved huge profits through dumping. But there are also unhappy things, such as Aurora Bank to issue hundreds of millions of Aurora coins to increase agricultural products and ore production in North America. But...
This huge piece of fat was targeted by a group of officials of the Iron and Steel Brotherhood. They said that they wanted to implement financial controls and that loans must be managed by the fraternity financial institutions. To put it bluntly, they wanted to be a middleman to make a difference.
This incident alone made Zhou Qingfeng very unhappy. "Aurora Loan" is an important tool he used to carry out peaceful evolution. It was disturbed by his opponent in a few days. But his opponent had a lot of reasons, which made him have nowhere to be angry.
Mastering the economy is equivalent to mastering the lifeblood of the opponent.
In contrast, it is not worth mentioning that the president of the Masonic Congress wants to eliminate the influence of the Aurora Legion among North American workers. As for policies such as disarming workers, banning guns, and implementing news control, it has nothing to do with Zhou Qingfeng.
Zhou Qingfeng had no choice but to do these troubles. From the perspective of the Brotherhood of Steel, it was natural to restrict the wanton expansion of foreign capital, and he could only admit it. But he was unwilling to ask him to return to Mexico this time.
While he was thinking, Marco, who was in charge of safety work, knocked on the door and reported: "Sir, Wen Tianyu has been released. He is here to ask you for your visit."
"Let him come in." Zhou Qingfeng said.
Wen Tianyu, who walked into Zhou Qingfeng's suite living room, was very embarrassed. Although he was dressed neatly, his expression was unnatural. He was in trouble this time. After being a hero for a long time, he was arrested by the Freemasons and was detained for false charges and locked up.
"I'm sorry, Legion Commander. I messed up." Wen Tianyu lowered his head and was very unhappy. If Zhou Qingfeng hadn't come forward to rescue him in person this time, the Freemason would have really probably killed the chicken and Hahouhou and shot him.
Regarding this mistake, Zhou Qingfeng just waved his hand with a smile, "You saved a city, became a great hero, and improved the image of the legion. What's wrong with it? The Freemasons will sooner or later gather power, and we have no way of doing this."
Hearing his boss say this, Wen Tianyu smiled and felt much better. At least he has not squatted in prison these few days. He immediately expressed his health and asked for a fight to avenge his previous shame.
Zhou Qingfeng said twice, paced back and forth. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly said, "Go and investigate the military strength of the Masonic community for me, especially the navy. I want to know what large warships there will be, such as the aircraft carrier fleet, and where will it dock?"
Ah..., when investigating military strength, the focus is on the navy?
Chapter completed!