Homo sapiens

The first year of Xinghe is September 11th.

Li Qingye went west and inspected the eight industrial areas of the Numidia Branch, then turned south and entered the Chad Branch.

After more than half a month of sightseeing, he had an intuitive understanding of the Numidia Branch and the Chad Branch.

For example, the city of N'Djamena, where Li Qingye settled at the headquarters of Chad Branch.

A huge airship logistics center has been established here, which is one of the industries of Ceylon Ocean Transportation Group.

Kent Alpha, the manager in charge of the Chad branch, is a tall black man. He is introducing some situations of the Chad branch to Li Qingye.

"This logistics center is currently the largest in central Africa and is also an important channel for us to radiate our influence to surrounding areas."

"I heard that some armed forces attacked the airship during the landing stage?" Li Qingye calmly looked at the transport airship that was descending and rising in the sky.

Alpha's expression was a little solemn: "Yes, it is mainly due to some local forces who do not know how to praise themselves. Instigated by European and American forces, they are trying to use their own hands as a chariot. We have dispatched the air and space fleet to completely eliminate these obstacles."

"Well, there's no need to be too polite to them." Li Qingye didn't care too much about the lives of the locals.

If they don't be ruthless, those people will take advantage of it in the future and think that the Homo sapiens company is easy to bully.

He very much agrees with Alpha's handling method. Only by using the most violent means of revenge can he kill as a warning to others, so that when they do things in the future, the monsters and snake gods in those places will consider in advance whether they can withstand the revenge of the Homo sapiens company.

"After several attempts to kill chickens and scare monkeys, no one in central Africa has any objections to our cooperation plan. We have also carried out exploration and planning for rich surface minerals in various places."

Li Qingye glanced at the holographic geological exploration map in Alpha's hand, which was covered with dense mineral symbols.

Especially in the inland areas of Africa, there are many rich minerals on the surface, including no less than 11 large iron mines with reserves of more than 27.3 billion tons, as well as bauxite, coal mines, copper mines, lead-zinc mines, tin mines, and phosphoric acid Salt mines and the like.

The reason why there are so many rich minerals on the surface is related to the social environment of this place.

After all, this place used to be a European colony. Although it became independent after World War II, most of the area was still an economic colony.

In addition, these places are prone to turmoil every day, and there is no stable social environment to develop the mining industry.

After all, mining companies are not fools. Although the mineral resources here are rich, the infrastructure is very backward. There are not even a few railways. To exploit the mineral resources in the inland, it is necessary to invest heavily in the construction of transportation facilities. This is simply a sinkhole.

Not to mention the unstable social environment.

Even France, which has worked hard in Africa, has only developed part of the coastal plain with convenient transportation, and is powerless in the interior.

Similar to base metals like iron ore, European and American companies include the Western Iron Ore in the Kangaroo Kingdom and Vale in the Redwood Federation. Why bother to go to the interior of Africa to mine.

It is precisely because of the low cost performance that the rich mineral deposits on the surface of Africa's interior remain undeveloped to this day.

Unless it is a precious metal mine or a gemstone mine, the local forces have no interest in mining it at all.

The Char Branch relied on the hard power of Homo sapiens Company to pick up a large number of rich surface minerals in the interior of Africa.

In fact, most of the local forces in the interior areas of Africa welcome the Homo sapiens company to invest in mining. As long as the homo sapiens company does not engage in other things, everyone can still be good friends.

This is mainly because Homo sapiens' prices are relatively fair and the gold dollar is very strong.

For example, the city of N'Djamena at this time is not only a logistics center, but also a trade center in central Africa.

Those gold dollars obtained after selling the mines will definitely need to be consumed.

Otherwise, where did the mountains of containers at N'Djamena Airport come from? It's not because the demand in central Africa is very strong.

A large amount of steel bars, cement, hardware, furniture, electrical appliances, electronic products, medical and medical supplies, grain and food produced by Homo sapiens are dumped on a large scale throughout Africa.

The cheap and high-quality products of Homo sapiens, with its fast and safe transportation channels, have made other foreign companies trading in Africa complain a lot. They have found that in this kind of normal trade competition, they cannot beat Homo sapiens at all.

Take steel as an example. The Homo sapiens company produces rebar. The retail price per ton in Africa is 240 gold yuan, and door-to-door delivery is also included.

Currently, the U.S. dollar has depreciated by about 50% against the gold dollar, and 240 gold dollars is roughly equivalent to 720 U.S. dollars.

The problem is that in the current global steel industry, European and American steel companies (including free associations) account for only about 15.6% of the total global production.

Far East steel companies with the largest production capacity account for about 42%, and Homo sapiens' steel production capacity accounts for about 37%.

However, Far East steel companies are now mostly processing supplied materials, and their source of iron ore is the Homo sapiens company, which can basically be regarded as an extension of the Homo sapiens company system.

For every ton of steel produced by Far East steel companies, they can probably get a rated profit of 5 to 10 gold yuan, as well as a 0.5 ton self-use iron ore quota.

In other words, if a Far East steel company produces 100 million tons of crude steel or customized steel for Homo sapiens, it can obtain a purchase quota of 50 million tons of iron ore with a grade of no less than 50%. Within this quota, the price of iron ore and Homo sapiens internal prices are basically the same.

Under such circumstances, how could Far East Steel Enterprises give up cooperation with Homo sapiens?

You know, based on the rated profit of 5 to 10 gold yuan per ton of steel, this is a guaranteed profit in droughts and floods, and is not affected by market fluctuations.

Otherwise, what can the Far East do to maintain investment and development in Central Asia? Cheap steel, cheap oil, natural gas and food from Lucia, as well as Central Asia's own mineral resources.

In addition, Far East enterprises are also surviving tenaciously in the markets of West Asia, Latin America and Africa.

They are one of the few forces that can barely compete with the Homo sapiens company.

Of course, this is just that the Homo sapiens company has not fully exerted its efforts.

In addition, forces in Asia, Africa and Latin America are worried about the Homo sapiens company causing trouble, and intend to keep the Far East companies, and even actively provide help, just to prevent the Homo sapiens company from becoming dominant.

As for European and American companies, they also managed to survive through this method.

However, how long they can sustain it depends on whether they can withstand such low profits or even long-term losses.

Anyway, Li Qingye is not optimistic about the strong support of European and American companies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. This kind of behavior that violates the laws of the market is still not a long-term solution for private companies, even with subsidies from America and the Europa Consortium.

Unless the Homo sapiens company suddenly self-destructs, Europe and the United States will be able to recover, otherwise it will be a vicious cycle.

And will the Homo sapiens company self-destruct?

It's obviously impossible.

Li Qingye has made a lot of preparations. Even if he is assassinated now, the Homo sapiens company can still survive.

Of course, the possibility of his assassination is very small.

He operates within the company and is protected by a special security team. On the surface, there is a 500-person special security battalion, and secretly, there are at least 4 security groups that can provide rapid support at any time.

In addition, there are maritime escort fleets, air and space escort fleets, satellite defense and monitoring systems.

And under this level of security, it would be difficult for conventional forces to successfully assassinate Li Qingye.

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