"It doesn't matter, no matter how many of them come. Let's choose among those ships that have not sunk much pollution, and we can't choose the one that makes the little sticks and little devils feel distressed the most? Even if it's really Asian Bermuda, it won't be cold, and these days, everyone knows that there are some things that can't be eaten casually. Zhang Lan said, her expression looked innocent, and her face was serious, as if she was doing a very noble thing: release.

It's good that with this specific goal, the rest of the things are much easier.

On November 14, a 300,000-ton iron ore carrier from Australia, which was loaded with high-grade iron ore and planned to sail to Japan, suddenly disappeared when it was 300 nautical miles south of Japan's Kyushu Island.

This has become the largest tonnage of a super-large ocean vessel to disappear in this sea area since the emergence of "Asian Bermuda"!

A huge ship of 300,000 tons, more than 330 meters in length, and even larger in length and width than the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the United States, did not even bubble out, and it was just gone? The branch manager of the new Nippon Steel Company who received the news instantly turned dead gray!

Although Japan's steel production is not the highest in the world, it exports more than one-third of the world's steel. And it's the world's largest steel exporter! At the same time, these exported steel products have the highest added value among the world's steel exports. Naturally, while these iron and steel companies have created considerable economic benefits for Japan, their dependence on external high-grade iron ore has naturally reached an almost perverted level!

Although Japan's iron and steel companies have monopolized a large part of the world's iron ore resources through nearly half a century of penetration, the shadow of the Japanese consortium can be seen behind the world's three major iron ore companies: Australia's BHP Billiton, Brazil's Vale and Rio Tinto.

However, Japan's seemingly solid means of controlling resources actually has a serious problem: Japan's economy is highly dependent on sea transportation, and once the ocean sneezes, the entire Japanese economy will have to follow a heavy cold!

Like, for example, right now.

As Japan's largest steel company and one of the world's largest steel companies, Nippon Steel Corporation, which is often talked about proudly by the Japanese media, is not very serious about the loss of 300,000 tons of iron ore if it is just an ordinary shipwreck. Even the loss of the iron ore carrier, they didn't really care.

The cost of a 300,000-ton iron ore carrier is not expensive, about 100 million US dollars, and the loss of 300,000 tons of high-grade iron ore is actually nothing for a steel company with an annual output of 25 million tons of steel.

What's really damn is that the news behind this incident is so scary, who knows if the damn "Asian Bermuda" will continue to be a "roadblock" for Japanese and South Korean steel companies?

Before they could digest the news, two absolute bad news came again. A Japanese "Chunshio-class" conventionally powered submarine escorting the convoy and a South Korean "209" class conventionally powered submarine purchased from Germany suddenly disappeared after turning on the underwater active sonar and releasing a towed sonar for search!

Like all previous missing ships, the Chuntide-class submarine and the 209-class submarine still did not send back any valuable information. Even if the submarine has been modified accordingly before, once any abnormality is found, the submarine will alarm the base as soon as possible, but it is still useless, the two submarines are like suddenly entering a time tunnel during the voyage, and they don't know where they will wander. …,

Missing! Missing! Or missing!

The word missing has become the word that Japan and South Korea are most reluctant to hear in recent times, but they hear every day! Over the past few days, the losses of more than 1 million tons of military and civilian ships have accumulated to make the two countries have a headache for their blood!

At the same time, the economic development of both countries has begun to suffer from this wave of "unexplained disappearances", and some factories have begun to compress their working hours to extend the use of their existing stock of raw materials...... Although the Japanese have a habit of storing raw materials, since they don't produce it themselves, they can't afford to consume it so much!

What to do? What to do? In the face of the continuous decline of the stock market and the comprehensive decline of various important indices related to the national economy and people's livelihood, the high-level government officials of the two countries are anxious to grab the sky! It's still a small problem that the raw materials can't be shipped in, but if there is a problem with the food supply, it becomes a big problem, and if one is not done well, the whole society will have a violent upheaval!

The word "what to do" has also become the most common word spoken by officials in the Japanese and South Korean governments, but at the same time, it is said. This means that things have reached a rather tricky situation, and it seems that there is no solution for the time being.

If the problem of raw materials and daily necessities can last for a while, then the problem of panic in society is too bad! Although the government vigorously advertises that the government has a way to deal with this problem, in this highly developed society, the public can learn the truth through the Internet...... Government officials hate the emergence of the Internet very much at the moment, because of this thing, it is impossible for them to even want to fool the common people now! In their opinion, nothing could be worse than this problem.

In just a few days, there has been a wave of people fleeing, and many wealthy people have quickly bought real estate in other countries and temporarily hid in foreign countries with their families -- the world is big, and their lives are not as big as their own.

The emergence of this wave of exodus has only exacerbated the panic of the people, who do not know how long this damn situation will last, and they do not know if the situation will get worse in the future, but for the sake of safety, it seems that it is indeed the safest to hide in a foreign country now and come back when the situation is clear.

The social unrest that is the most fearful in both countries is now beginning to show its signs.

Not only the South Korean and Japanese governments have a headache for this issue, but the United States, the common master of South Korea and Japan, is also having a headache for this problem...... Right now.

When the younger brother encounters difficulties, the boss must stand up and help the younger brother solve the difficulties, but for this problem, the Americans also have a headache: if it is a man-made problem, this is not a problem for the United States, but if it is a natural factor. And it is a natural factor that both countries face at the same time...... With the Americans' greed for life and fear of death, to be honest, even the sticks and little devils who ask the Americans for help dare not have too much hope for their masters.

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Looking at the losses caused by these things that have been tossed up in the recent period of time, Zhang Lanle couldn't close his mouth! The key is not how much damage is caused, but the blow to the confidence of the people in these two countries in the process, which is what Zhang Lan values the most.

"Don't be too happy," Xiao Chenxi broke a basin of cold water for Zhang Lan, "Haven't you noticed, in this wave of 'disappearance', a phenomenon that has not been noticed for the time being is that so far, not a single oil tanker has been missing, and the missing ones are some ore carriers, bulk carriers, fishing boats and other ships that will not cause much pollution to the surrounding environment after sinking." ”…,

Well? Zhang Lan was taken aback! Secretly said that he made a mistake!

That's right, it was considered that if the oil tankers transporting crude oil were attacked, the pollution to the environment would be too serious, so they were not allowed to attack the crude oil carriers, although during this time, those oil carriers did not dock in Japan and South Korea due to safety reasons, but it was not nothing, there were no oil tankers during this time, it just made them feel that they had picked up a life from the Grim Reaper, but if this damn situation continues, things are going to start badly.

Although no one has noticed this problem until now, it is believed that the problem will not be discovered by two countries for long. Once this problem is discovered, even if there is no evidence, it will not stop the speculation of those who are interested.

"It's a big problem." The excitement on his face had already dissipated, and Zhang Lan frowned slightly, "But if you want to attack them at the cost of damaging the environment, I can't do this kind of thing of killing a thousand enemies and damaging eight hundred, and being scolded by others." ”

Things are starting to get tricky here, what's next? Continue to do it the way it is? Or do you do it with tankers?

"The problem of dealing with crude oil after it leaks at sea has always been a big problem," said Zhang Lan, who needs to determine one thing first. "Do you have any good ways to deal with it here?"

"Not yet," Xiao Chenxi shook his head, also having a headache about this question, "Now I am cultivating a bacterium that feeds on crude oil, but even if it is a crude oil spill caused by a 10,000-ton oil tanker, the amount of this bacterium required is too staggering, and the investment is too great!" And it's a shame to throw away these things for nothing! ”

That's right...... Zhang Lan pondered for a moment, "You think of a way now, so let's calm down during this time...... Even in Bermuda, accidents don't happen all the time, and the frequency of accidents in this short period of time is a bit high. ”

"Well, it's good to make people think that this kind of thing happens intermittently," Xiao Chenxi nodded, and agreed with Zhang Lan's method that was not a solution, "This is more in line with the laws of nature." ”

Nature? Depend on! How can this thing be linked to the laws of nature? Zhang Lan really couldn't laugh or cry, but ...... The things that have been tossed for a long time, what kind of submarines and other things, but those mineral carriers are treasures, such as the 300,000 tons of high-grade iron ore, if these high-grade iron ores are allowed to corrode in the seawater, what a serious waste!

Although the value of these iron ores is less than $10 million, it is not worth so much if the 62% iron ore is smelted into metal.

"Speaking of which, the ship we're going to build doesn't have enough steel yet, right? The 300,000 tons of iron ore can eventually provide more than 180,000 tons of high-quality steel. Zhang Lan's eyes suddenly lit up.

According to Zhang Lan and Xiao Chenxi's previous design, the steel used in this ship that is still under design naturally cannot be ordinary civil ship steel, or even the kind of military steel with a strength of 300MPa used in medium-sized military ships such as ordinary destroyers and frigates, and the strength of the hull steel must be at least 500MPa special high yield strength alloy steel, as for the flight deck at the top? In Zhang Lan's eyes, even the 800MPa American HY-80 special high yield zone strength alloy steel is not typed, and the strength should be at least 1000MPa HY-100 special high yield zone strength alloy steel or nickel-cadmium plus titanium special alloy steel with the same strength and yield strength.

But without exception, although these special steels are alloy steels, the most basic component is still steel! As for the reason why these special steels are sold so expensive. The reason is very simple, because of their high technical content, only a few countries in the world can produce this kind of steel, such as the United States, Russia, France, etc.! …,

But this kind of thing is not a problem for Zhang Lan! Whether it is Xiao Chenxi or Brother Zhuzi, they can easily provide themselves with a complete set of low-cost smelting solutions for special alloy steel with a strength of more than 2000MPa, but the nearly 300,000 tons of pure steel required has become a big problem.

Zhang Lan is thinking about whether to sell some special alloy steel with high yield strength, and make a little difference in price to build this ship by the way? In terms of the national steel price in the previous month, the price of ordinary civil steel is between 2700 and 3000RMB, the price of civil special steel is about 4000RMB, and the price of steel for military ships? It seems that no one has revealed it; As for the high-yield strength alloy steel used on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier? Ahem, there is no specific price for this thing, if you want to quote $50,000 a ton or $100,000 a meal, whatever you want.

Of course, there is no doubt that the cost of these special steels is naturally very high, and anyway, the Americans have never disclosed the cost of HY-100 special steel, and they have always offered prices based on their own kinship and estrangement. But there is no doubt that the price of this steel has never fallen below $20,000 per tonne.

It seems that as long as you toss out a ton of HY-100 grade special alloy steel, you can exchange it for a lot of ordinary steel! Zhang Lan held her chin and thought thoughtfully.

"Are you going to use this iron ore to process steel, and then process it into high-strength and yield strength special alloy steel?" Xiao Chenxi immediately understood Zhang Lan's plan.

"That's right, in order to maintain balance, I decided to double the total production, sell the ones that I don't need to others, and make a lot of money to build ships." Zhang Lan gritted her teeth and said, just such a ship, according to the original plan, even if the cost of special steel is greatly reduced, the total cost is not less than 5 billion US dollars.

5 billion US dollars, if you don't make up for it from somewhere else, it will really cost this kid his life, and I guarantee that this kid will not be able to sleep for a few days if he is distressed.

"Selling special steel? That's a good idea. Xiao Chenxi also agreed with Zhang Lan's suggestion, "Now the main products of our steel plant are special steel of various specifications, if we add a special alloy steel of 1000MPa, this time, someone will pay for our ship." ”

"Well, in that case, what are the countries that have plans or ideas to build large military ships?" Zhang Lan's eyes rolled around twice with bad intentions, and people asked in confusion.

No need to ask, someone is bound to be unlucky. As soon as she heard Zhang Lan ask this question, combined with her own personal experience over the years, the little girl was already extremely sure that this kid must have some bad water in his stomach.

"If it is the steel that can be used on this aircraft carrier, there is no doubt that China has this idea, otherwise they would not have repeatedly bought scrap aircraft carriers from Lao Maozi and came back to study."

"Since you want to develop aircraft carriers, how to solve the problem of high-strength aircraft carrier hull and steel and higher strength and yield strength aircraft carrier flight deck and steel has naturally become an urgent problem for your domestic government to solve when equipping and maintaining its own aircraft carriers. When the Varyag aircraft carrier was towed home, he found that the weight of the military special steel he produced was too far from the quality of the aircraft carrier steel, so he contacted Lao Maozi and wanted to get the production technology of the special alloy steel used on the aircraft carrier from Lao Maozi. ”

"However, Lao Maozi knows that it is impossible for the Americans and the French to sell this kind of high-strength and high-yield strength aircraft carrier special alloy steel to your country, and they are the only ones in the world who can sell the technology and formula of this steel to your country, so after determining that your country has the idea of building an aircraft carrier, there is a fear of taking advantage of the danger of others, not only to mention the extremely high price, but also the additional conditions are extremely harsh, requiring your country to pay them a high patent fee every year. Therefore, the two sides have not yet reached an agreement on this issue. ”

"In addition, India also has plans to develop its own aircraft carriers, and has been seeking to develop its own aircraft carriers over the years. However, India's basic industry is even weaker than your country's, and among the steel used in military ships, 300MPa can barely produce itself, and more than 350MPa needs to be imported. Now these little Ah San are also jumping up and down to find a formula for high yield strength special alloy steel, and they have to get the finished ...... at the worst.