The Beiway Refinery is finished, which leaves David Lawrence without a trump card that can control the overall situation. But if it is missing, it is missing. Without this trump card, the regional commander-in-chief will be more sober and pragmatic.
Commander Simon, who was the scapegoat, has been publicly tried and has been cursed by millions of people around New York and gone to hell. David Lawrence continues to lead the people in the ruled area to try to survive in the last days. He even because of his wife's perfection
Disposal gained higher prestige.
However, anyone who knows the inside story will know that the loss of the Bayway Refinery has caused great changes to David Lawrence. Rachel feels that these changes are beneficial. At least her husband values the family again and is willing to return home every day.
He eats at home and cares more about himself and his daughter.
However, Rachel was also disappointed. In the past, her husband was occupied by several beautiful female assistants. Now the female assistants have retired, but David Lawrence has changed from a confident and unrestrained king to a self-disciplined and ascetic avenger.
Continue to leave his wife aside and guard the empty house alone.
David Lawrence also works in his study at home. After dinner and a short rest, he will get into the study and continue working. This makes his wife and daughter who feel the warmth of the family again feel left out again.
At the dining table, Anji turned to look at the light in her father's study and asked her mother in a low voice: "Is the conflict between Dad and Victor really irreconcilable? Both of them are the best men in the world, and they are so far apart.
If there is no conflict, why can’t we sit down and have a good talk?”
"Maybe they are all too good, so no one wants to compare with each other, and they all want to compete for the title of the best." Rachel was also helpless. No one could have imagined that things would reach this point.
In the study, as a leader who commands millions of people and controls a devastated territory, as long as David Lawrence wants to work, there will definitely be countless work waiting for him. At this moment, there are a lot of things waiting to be processed on his desk.
affairs.
"Mutants are really easy to use. They don't use fuel or need good equipment. Their combat efficiency is far higher than that of ordinary troops." Mr. Lawrence was reading a combat report. The more than 30,000 mutants in his hands had already begun to attack cities and territories.
.
Due to the fear of mutant creatures, basically as long as the mutant troops' flag is directed, any hostile force is bound to be demoralized and either flee or raise the flag to surrender. In just one month, the two Maines who were still resisting were
The power was wiped out by David Lawrence.
"Quebec, Victor really sent people there." David Lawrence frowned when he saw the second report. According to reports from intelligence personnel stationed in the north, the 'Aurora Corps' has opened a direct route from Havana.
Flights to Montreal and Quebec City.
In the past two months, there have been more than a thousand Legionnaires operating in Quebec, and this number is still expanding. At the same time, an oil refinery in Quebec City has restarted, and crude oil from Venezuela has been shipped by sea.
A large amount of refined oil will be refined.
"Victor Hugo is so ambitious!" When David Lawrence learned that the Quebec refinery had reopened, his first reaction was to send people to blow up the refinery himself, but in the end he calmed down.
Impulse - People with aircraft carriers are amazing!
"But the people of Quebec will not follow you easily." David Lawrence is very confident about this. Compared with the poor people in South America and the Caribbean, Canadians have seen the market after all, and they have to let such a group of people go to Cuba.
Go, this ideological work is not easy to do.
Along with the report of the start of operations at the refinery, there was also an application for food from the intelligence agency. The reason why Quebecers were not at the point of desperation was that David Lawrence finally opened his food warehouse and provided 50,000 tons of food aid.
But 50,000 tons is just a drop in the bucket for the millions of people still alive in Quebec. Several local autonomous agencies are constantly asking for more food. But the surplus food on hand is not enough for David Lawrence. Do you want to continue?
What about investment?
David Lawrence only thought about it briefly before he was trapped by another question - where does the 'Aurora Legion' have the confidence to rob people? Victor Hugo's food supply should be even more tight. It is impossible for a poor place like Cuba to have
How much food reserves!
There was a separate file cabinet for the information from the 'Aurora Legion'. David Lawrence rummaged through the file cabinet for several pieces of recently learned information.
For example, Victor Hugo persecuted religious people, forcibly converted, and blasphemed. Intelligence analysts even seriously predicted that the 'Aurora Legion' would be in chaos as a result, and was no longer a threat.
"What a mess. If Victor couldn't deal with those religious people who have no power at all, he would have died a hundred times over." David Lawrence sneered at the so-called 'prediction'. How can people nowadays have any faith?
For another example, the 'Aurora Legion' dispatched more than 30 oil tankers, cruise ships, and freighters of over 50,000 tons at once. All of these large ships were sailing to Quebec City. Just filling the fuel tanks of these tankers would make the 'Aurora Legion'
'Bankruptcy. But...
Quebec City's refinery has restarted!
Trouble!
How pleasant it is to control the oil wells in Venezuela, the refinery in Quebec City, and have your own petrochemical industry. It is a pity that this industrial chain is controlled by others.
But this will only increase the negotiating leverage of Quebecers, because the people working in the refinery are Canadians. After the refinery restarts, they will not leave easily. Would Victor Hugo make such a stupid move?
A report also stated that the "Aurora Corps" has recently increased the export of fresh food. The number of freighters shipped to New York has increased from once every half month to once a week, and the transportation volume has also increased from more than 10,000 tons to 20,000 tons.
"Where did that kid Victor get the development capital?" David Lawrence even saw frozen pork and chicken listed on the export list. "Raising these livestock requires a lot of feed. Could it be that the 'Aurora Legion' can get a lot of corn?"
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An important use of corn is as livestock feed. The corn production in the United States has always been the highest in the world. However, the nuclear winter has caused the corn harvest to fail. Now the temperature is rising, but the global drought is raging, and David Lawrence is also facing shortages in the breeding industry.
Feed problem.
"Maybe it's the corn stocks from Brazil." David Lawrence could only guess this. After all, the 'Aurora Corps' controls the shipping routes to South America. It's really enviable when you think about it. South America is so rich in resources.
The last piece of information was a letter of intent for cooperation. Victor Hugo requested to restart several paper mills and daily chemical factories around New York. He expressed his willingness to invest money and hoped to gain control.
"What does this guy want to do? Does he want to buy these factories?" David Lawrence was quite shocked. He thought to himself: I am still worrying about food and fuel that are related to survival, but this guy actually started investing.