Chapter 877: The Present Is the Future of the Past, But ......

As we all know, swarmed bees have a habit of flying away from the colony when they sense that they are sick and in danger of harming the hive, and they will fly away from the colony as far as they can and wait for death.

In general, such a phenomenon is caused by the fact that the bee is old, and its body's ability to resist some viruses and parasites that already exist is weakened, so this phenomenon is also called exhaustion and detachment - in general, this is a phenomenon in which the elderly individuals in the group go outside to seek death in order not to burden the group, after all, compared to ants, the bee's ability to clean the nest is much weaker, and if the nest ** has corpses piled up, the hive will soon be finished.

Since the winter of 2005, a large number of hives around the world have seen the collective failure of all adult worker bees at the same time, which has caused huge losses to beekeeping and agricultural cultivation. In 2006, the total number of bees in captivity in the United States was reduced to a very low level due to this unknown cause of bee exhaustion disorder, and scientists realized that under this situation, the agricultural production in the United States would usher in a rare reduction in production - after all, bee-dominated pollinators are responsible for pollinating about two-thirds of the plants on the planet.

Since 2006, the United States has imported a large number of bees from Australia, where the molecular biology industry is very developed, to make up for the sealing gap in the United States, but what people did not expect is that this kind of bee colony failure disorder caused by unknown reasons is still not far away, in 2007, 2008, 2009 there are still a large number of beekeepers who have lost a large number of bees, including those imported from Australia have also disappeared for unknown reasons.

Because Australia's bees have been exported in large quantities in recent years, Australia has established an industrial chain for bee exports, so some people suspected in 2007 that this was a conspiracy of Australians, after all, Australia's molecular biotechnology is not weaker than the United States...... Ultimately, however, it was believed that while Australians were making a lot of money by exporting bees in large quantities, they had not created the unknown virus that caused the depletion of their colonies, after all, their bees were not immune to it.

In any case, no one dares to risk the absence of bees in their country to pursue absolute justice, and the situation of agriculture without bees is not absent now, such as Hanyuan in southern China's SC, where the original golden pear was pollinated by bees and butterflies, resulting in neither bees nor butterflies in the surrounding area, and local fruit farmers can only ensure their income through large-scale artificial pollination. But this may work for China, which has a large population and low labor, but in developed countries such as Europe and the United States, it is obviously a fantasy, and the high labor cost of artificial pollination will really drag down agricultural production.

As a result, most people are trying to help Australia strengthen bioquarantine management at border crossings, so that a place that produces relatively healthy bees in large numbers is also completely overrun by the depletion of the bee colony.

However, as mentioned earlier, the syndrome of colony failure disorder is named after the habits of bees, in other words, no one has thoroughly studied what happened to bees. Of course, the study of this phenomenon has also led to the development of bees in several directions, one is the change in the survival of bees and the composition of honey stored in the global temperature rise, which leads to the excessive aging of bees, and the other is the large-scale mechanized agriculture in developed countries, which makes the wildflowers that can obtain a variety of nectar sources for bees considered extinct, making bees malnourished, or the destruction of the nervous system and digestive system of bees caused by the dual effects of parasites and viruses, or the destruction of bees' cognitive ability caused by the residues of a large number of neurological pesticides…… There are very, very many explanations on this issue, and the layman, no matter which one he hears, thinks that the scientists are right, which creates great difficulties for politicians in policymaking, and also makes many pesticide manufacturers who may face financial losses have to spend a lot of money......

For the more confused ordinary people, the scientific community has simply given a conclusion that has always been applicable - it is human activities that have caused the extinction of bees, and it is humans who have killed the cute little bees! And human beings will also bear the price of cash crops, such as coffee, cocoa, or fruits, such as apples, pears, or vegetables, such as soybeans, tomatoes, and so on......

In any case, it would be profitable for Titan to wipe out the world's bees while gaining a large number of allies, as honey is different from other agricultural products, and there are no influential large corporations controlling beekeeping.

Phoebe's original plan was to collect large stray dogs from all over the world, train them to find bees and hives, and then use the pretext of funding research on bee wasting disorder to let universities and researchers around the world take these dogs to find bees for free and establish data on bee colonies in the wild, but in fact, it was implanted in the urinary system of these dogs a tiny vesicle carrying a virus, which will stimulate these dogs to mark their territory near the bee nest after these dogs find the bee nest, and the bees need water, so the bee colony will be infected by the virus in a horizontal way…… The virus was developed specifically for the nervous system of bees outside of Titan, and once infected, the bees would only know how to eat honey, instead of making honey and raising larvae and queens, Phoebe's original plan was to completely exterminate all bees within five years.

But to Phoebe's surprise, in fact, since 1982, countries have noticed that the bee colony is declining rapidly by 30% every year, and all countries have invested a lot of effort in research, but countries have not thought of doing anything according to these research results, and in the face of this large number of bee reduction events, governments around the world have actually changed more or less according to the results of scientists, and more importantly, many people are not only ready to solve the symptoms of bee colony exhaustion, but also to solve some problems in the past。

As mentioned earlier, Phoebe's plan is to let Titan climb up the American order system, but she doesn't want to have a conflict of interest with too many forces, including those that monopolize or partially monopolize the primary industry. At the same time, it has also been said that Phoebe believes that getting involved in the primary industry is a good way to make Titan's position more stable, although Titan will carry out agricultural production through the floating islands now and in the future, but will not directly talk about agricultural products to the market, but in addition to the consumption of Titan employees, some of them will be used for the manufacture of macromolecular materials and food, and some will be used to cultivate fishery resources around large floating islands.

But in any case, Phoebe also has to have a certain say in world agricultural production, and since this discourse is caused by providing products to the market, then naturally there must be other methods, and the elimination of bees other than Titan is Phoebe's solution.

In fact, Phoebe's idea of this plan is not groundbreaking at all, and she also borrowed a plan that was implemented after the founding of the United States to massacre the Indians, although the Indians helped the Americans a lot during the Revolutionary War, just as bees have been helping humans. And Phoebe just applied the American plan of slaughter to bees.

And Phoebe's plan is not only copied from the Americans in terms of concept, but also copied from others at the implementation level of this plan, and the object of plagiarism is the Spaniards, after all, in North and South America, the first to cause a large number of Indians to die is the virus brought by the Spaniards.

Of course, although Spain also created a lot of massacres against Indians, but in general, the number of kills and injuries was basically done by the virus, and it was not like the United States where the whole people killed Indians with real knives and guns, which is why the Spaniards did not make a fortune by selling the scalp of Indians, but there were a large number of rich people in the United States who made a fortune by selling the scalps of Indians, including women and children.

In fact, many farmers in the United States got their first pot of gold by killing people and selling their scalps to the U.S. government, and then bought a large number of black slaves and eventually became farmers. Similarly, Americans are anti-Chinese and anti-Asian, and it is also because of this group of people who made their fortunes by relying on capitation bonuses, after seeing Asians, especially those with braids, they remembered the Indians who were blocked by them and had no way to escape, and eventually the entire tribe was killed, so they did not want to see Asians, especially Chinese, appear in the United States......

Compared with other Asians in the United States, Phoebe has many more sources of information, although she herself has no emotional thinking, but she still has little experience in grasping the trend of human emotions, she knows that some emotions will not arise for no reason, let alone because of some simple superficial factors, just like the generation of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States, in essence, it is to safeguard the interests of African and Irish workers, but in essence it is not good for the capitalists, if it is simply because of the unfair treatment caused by the hardship and diligence of Chinese Americans, this emotional source is too abrupt and too weak。

It's like a robber who went to someone else's house and killed the owner of the house, leaving some of the original family members as servants, but the total number of servants was not enough, so the robber went to hire some new servants like dogs, and some of these servants saw the original family members of the family, and they almost said, "Oh! I know you, we are still relatives!" And now, after hearing this, the robber, who is the head of the family, will naturally not wait to see the new slave who said this, and even more so that the other new slaves who are not close to the original master will oppress this new slave who likes to be close to the old slave......

In the team of the British ambassador Magherny, who came to China in 1793 to try to establish opium trade relations, there was a translator named George Thomas Staunton, whose records of Chinese culture, especially those of the ruling class at the time, that is, the Manchus, attracted considerable attention in some circles in the United States, after all, the Manchu culture was too similar to the Indian culture. In fact, things are more than that, the Qing court ambassador to the United States, Chen Lanbin, fought for the rights of the Cuban Chinese, and signed the "Cuban Chemical Treaty" with Spain, which caused a great stimulus to the United States, and then Chen Lanbin and his successors continued to fight for the treatment of Chinese workers in the United States, which prompted the entire upper echelon of the United States to have an extremely negative impression of China - in their view, this is the internal affair of the United States, and if the chemical industry in the United States wants to fight for interests, it can also be with blacks, The Irish are making a fuss, what are you a foreign country coming to interfere in our internal affairs?

And more importantly, Chen Lanbin's diplomats in the United States also tried to contact the Indian reservations that had been suppressed to the point of being depressed, which completely stimulated the upper class in the United States, and then left the foreshadowing for the high-level leadership and the formulation of the later Chinese Exclusion Act.

In fact, Phoebe sat in the diplomatic bloc that participated in similar decision-making and persuasion back then, even earlier, and the Borgleets even participated in the Eight-Nation Alliance.

But whether it is the two families adopting Phoebe or the attitude of Phoebe and the two families, they will not carry the hatred that continues in history, because the diplomatic family's understanding of history is to know through history the reason why things have developed like this today, understand the logical context, and will not bring historical events into any personal emotion, because one of the most important ideas followed by the diplomatic family is that people should plan for the future, and the past is just the future of the present.

Phoebe believes that just as ordinary people's perception of the Chinese is only used by the upper class in the United States, but the actions of the upper class are not known to ordinary people, ordinary people will gradually adapt to a world without bees, and she only needs to do it, no one except Titan really knows what they do.

Because the world under the management of the American order is what it is......

France, Le Mans, a certain pet hospital.

A young black woman grabbed a white man's arm and pointed to the computer screen: "Look, that's it, I found it when I was at home, and it says that this project is a project with a number of universities, in order to count the number of bees around the world, especially wild bees, so they need large dogs to help find them, so I hope that the members of animal protection organizations who are under financial pressure to take in large stray dogs will give them large dogs, and they will distribute them to scholars who go to find wild bees after three months of training." ”

The white man looked closely, frowned, and said, "I've never heard of such a project before......"

The black woman said, "Haven't you heard of the bee crisis?"

The white man shook his head, "You know I don't usually pay much attention to that. ”

The black woman had to briefly explain the swarm exhaustion disorder and the consequences if no one helped the bees, and the white man became serious: "But can they really take care of the dogs? You know how much a big dog can eat." ”

"I also know that there are no longer enough large dogs to accommodate here, and after the economic crisis, there are a lot of dogs thrown away, so they choose to adopt, and most people are also starting to tend to keep small dogs, which you complained about last time. The black woman spread her hands.

The white man looked at the web page again, nodded, and said, "Well, at least they're training these dogs outside of Berlin, and we can go check them out first." ”

The black woman said, "We haven't been out this summer, so it's a trip to Berlin." ”

The white man laughed, "But Berlin is not a good place to visit, and we have been there the year before." ”

The black woman gave her a blank look, and the white man suddenly approached the screen and said strangely, "Alas, this place name ...... I think it was the town where I said the neo-Nazi rallies, right?"

The black woman was stunned for a moment, then glanced at it, shook her head and frowned, "I'm not impressed......"

The white man also frowned: "I'm not mistaken, it's indeed here...... Neo-Nazis are going to adopt large dogs for bees?"

The black woman shook her head: "Anyway, I should go and see it." ”

"You're right, and we're going to have to get some people along. As he spoke, the white man reached into his trouser pocket and pulled something in.

The black woman nodded, then asked, "But if they really need dogs to count the number of bees in the wild, do we give them to them?"

The white man had already taken out his mobile phone and was about to make a call, and after hearing the black woman's words, he paused and hesitated: "I don't know, let's talk about it after I see it, I always think that they have some purpose in adopting dogs, after all, there are a lot of neo-Nazis there, and those crazy people may want to abuse animals or something." ”

The black woman nodded, her eyes hardened, she felt the need to go there to take a closer look, since the economic crisis had increased neo-Nazi activity in Europe, and she and her boyfriend were wary of it, having participated in more than one anti-Nazi demonstration......