After a period of rapid development, the Aurora Legion's expansion in North America has reached a bottleneck or even regressed. The Boise incident perfectly demonstrated the Legion's influence in North America, but it also directly exposed the problem, triggering a strong backlash from the top brass of the Brotherhood of Steel.
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Back at the hotel, 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 open 'free trade' with the Brotherhood of Steel accounts for 80%, and the secret transactions with the Enclave account for 20%."
Zhou Qingfeng has been engaged in foreign trade since he founded the Aurora Legion. Before the nuclear bombs washed away the land, he towed hundreds of cargo ships over 10,000 tons from North America. These ships had been rusting in the port for two years.
, now it can finally be repaired and put to use again.
"Due to the large volume of cargo, our cargo ships are currently overwhelmed. Ship repair yards in several ports have expressed a lack of skilled workers. The maritime department has just been established, and many accidents have occurred during the rush." Xiao Yi said.
A huge amount of goods transactions require a huge logistics system to support it. It is obvious that the Legion is currently stumbling in building this system. The main reason is the lack of capable technical and managerial personnel. Talents in this area are lacking everywhere.
"The goods we purchased from North America are now arriving at the port one after another. These things need to wait for you to go back for transshipment, otherwise the ships will just float on the sea." Xiao Yi sighed when talking about this topic.
Oil tankers, ore cargo ships, and bulk carriers with a load capacity of more than 100,000 tons have arrived in Mexico with cargo. These giant ships are filled with oil, ore, timber and other cargoes, and the quantities are extremely huge.
Since Zhou Qingfeng's "barter trade" with North America is essentially a "barter trade", and North America can't currently find other buyers, the prices of various raw materials he obtained are very cheap. For example, a barrel of oil shipped to the real world would cost less than ten dollars.
US dollars, this price includes shipping fee.
Zhou Qingfeng has made an agreement with flower growers in the real world to sell all products at a 50% markup. He can make a lot of money just by changing hands. The key is that he doesn't pay taxes. Because this is a hidden transaction.
But these goods must be transported by Zhou Qingfeng himself, so currently dozens of cargo ships are parked in ports along the coast of Mexico, empty.
Compared with the raw materials purchased, the goods sold by the legion are also measured in millions of tons. When talking about the things sold, Xiao Yi spoke in a relaxed tone with a smile on her face, "We sold one billion pieces of shirts alone.
This amount of orders makes coastal companies in the real world go crazy."
In the industrial history of the world's major powers, the textile industry is the easiest to develop. It was no joke that the British practiced "sheep eating people" back then, and the first to develop on the southeastern coast of Rabbit were large and small garment factories.
Only the 'World Factory' can casually complete orders worth hundreds of millions. The sufficient supply of goods allows Zhou Qingfeng to sell various textiles to the outside world. In Mexico alone, there are 20 to 30 million people in need of clothing.
The consumer market for hats.
In addition, Zhou Qingfeng's tentacles not only extend to North America, South America, Africa and even Europe, he is also the only one who supplies. This kind of one-stop business leaves buyers with no choice but to buy from the Aurora Legion.
"At present, we have achieved zero inventory, and all the goods you have transferred before have been sold. Judging from the current feedback from various markets, we can increase the sales volume to tens of millions of tons in the next step.
Starting from scratch and achieving such results in one month, the performance of each of our departments is already excellent. I think the transportation volume will definitely reach 100 million tons within half a year, but unfortunately we currently don’t have that many ships to transport cargo, and we don’t even have enough crew members.”
Zhou Qingfeng, who was sitting on the sofa, was indifferent to these good news. After Xiao Yi finished the economic summary report for this month, she leaned next to him and asked: "What are you thinking about? You are unhappy."
"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 given our initial conditions, their air force alone is much stronger than ours.
Some things can't be forced too much. Let's go back to Mexico and develop slowly. In ten or twenty years, America will naturally be your world."
Since the implementation of 'free trade' one month ago, Aurora Legion's products have made huge profits through dumping. However, there are also unhappy things. For example, Aurora Bank has to issue hundreds of millions of Aurora coins in support loans to increase the production of agricultural products and ores in North America. However,
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This huge piece of fat has been targeted by a bunch of officials from the Brotherhood of Steel. They said that they would implement financial controls and loans must be managed by the Brotherhood's financial institutions. To put it bluntly, they wanted to get involved and act as middlemen to earn the difference.
This incident alone made Zhou Qingfeng very unhappy. The 'Aurora Loan' was an important tool he used to promote peaceful evolution, but his opponent interfered with it within a few days of implementation. However, his opponent had good reasons, which made him angry.
Nowhere to post it.
Mastering the economy means mastering the lifeline of your opponent.
In comparison, if the Grand Master of Freemasonry wants to eliminate the influence of the Aurora Legion among North American workers, that is a trivial matter. As for policies such as disarming workers, banning guns, and implementing press controls,
It has nothing to do with Zhou Qingfeng.
Zhou Qingfeng had no choice but to deal with these troubles. From the perspective of the Brotherhood of Steel, restricting the wanton expansion of foreign capital was a matter of course, and he could only accept it. But he was unwilling to return to Mexico.
While he was deep in thought, Marco Shi, who was in charge of security work, knocked on the door and reported: "Sir, Wen Tianyu has been released. He has come to see you."
"Let him come in." Zhou Qingfeng said.
Wen Tianyu was very embarrassed when he walked into the living room of Zhou Qingfeng's suite. Although he was neatly dressed, his expression was unnatural. He was extremely unlucky this time. After being a hero for a long time, he was caught by the Freemasons and was detained.
He was imprisoned on an unfounded charge.
"I'm sorry, legion commander. I messed up." Wen Tianyu lowered his head and was very unhappy. If Zhou Qingfeng hadn't personally come to the rescue this time, the Freemasons would have shot him.
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In response to this admission of mistake, Zhou Qingfeng just waved his hands with a smile, "You saved a city, became a great hero, and improved the image of the legion. What's the mess? Sooner or later, the Freemasons will gather power, and we don't have that.
Any way.”
Hearing what his boss said, Wen Tianyu smiled and felt much better. At least the past few days in prison were not in vain. He immediately stated that he was in good health and asked for a fight to avenge his previous humiliation.
Zhou Qingfeng said "hmm" twice and paced back and forth. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly said: "Go and investigate the military strength of the Freemasonry for me, especially the navy. I want to know what large-scale Freemasonry
What is the status of the warships, such as the aircraft carrier fleet, and where are they docked?"
Ah..., when investigating military strength, the focus is on the navy?
Wen Tianyu was a little confused. The Legion was not strong enough to fight against the Brotherhood of Steel, but some preliminary investigation was necessary. Although this task was not pleasant enough, he still stood at attention and saluted, expressing his determination to complete it.