Chapter 449: Enemy Blockade
"Havana is not a small city, with more than 300,000 people crammed together to have a strong resource pooling effect, but transportation has become a problem. www.biquge.info The current gasoline production can't support public transportation, let alone private vehicles, so I got 20,000 bicycles.
Although these bikes are rudimentary, they can increase the range of an hour's movement for the average person from four to five kilometers to ten to fifteen kilometers, and they can also carry dozens of kilograms of supplies. This may seem inconspicuous, but it greatly improves productivity and expands the range of activities.
In addition, I got 3,000 750 partial three-wheelers, which are our official vehicles and transport vehicles for some time now. Our current material production is too small, it is not cost-effective to transport small quantities of materials by truck, and it is too inefficient to use manpower.
Material production is important, and transportation is also important. This heavy-duty motorcycle can be modified to tow half a ton of supplies on the road, and has strong off-road ability, which is very suitable for our current situation.
Here are the heads of the ten steam locomotives that I have gotten to use, and with them we can make use of the current railway network in Cuba, so that we can connect factories and mines that are far away. This thing only needs to burn coal, which is much stronger than burning oil.
And finally I got some vegetable seeds. Among them, there are 50 tons of mung beans, uh, ......, I admit that the quality is not very good, and the phenomenon of insect moth is very serious, but I can always screen out some that can sprout, and I can barely use it.
The above is all the 25,000 tons of transportation, although the quality of these things is very poor, and the technology is even more backward, but it can solve the problem or not, so let's make do with it for the time being. In the future, I can carry 100 tons of supplies back and forth, which should be enough to meet our needs. ”
In the large cargo ship of material transfer, Zhou Qingfeng introduced the huge materials he had transported in the past few days. Fox was personally responsible for counting and receiving them, and also had to find a way to cover up the origin of the items.
However, in the process of receiving, the little fox said while recording: "Our current foreign trade sales situation is very good, the promotion of metal currency is very smooth, the coast guard has also been established, and the original group of pilots have also begun to carry out airspace vigilance missions."
But we're in trouble, and the refinery is using the equipment you've brought in to retrofit and ramp up production to reach the level of 5,000 barrels of crude oil per day. But Cuba is a country short of oil and coal, and our oil production cannot keep up with our processing capacity.
In the past, we relied on sea freight to import crude oil and coal from the outside world, but the Enclave sent a fleet to the port of Cancun in Mexico two days ago, directly blocking our import channel from Mexico. We now have to go to Venezuela to import crude oil and coal, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and inefficient. ”
Hearing that the 'Enclave' came out to stir up trouble again, Zhou Qingfeng frowned and said angrily: "Now everyone's living conditions are so bad, those bastards still want to fight?" ”
"It's too cold for us to want to fight, and neither do the Enclaves, but they just want to contain us. For this reason, they also learned from us to build steam warships, using coal instead of fuel, and I think the Enclave is trying to drag us into the arms race. Lena also shrugged helplessly, saying that this was a common method of competition between hostile forces.
The Port of Cancun is an important port for the export of supplies from Mexico to the Aurora Army, only 500 kilometers from Havana. The port is blocked, and the 'Aurora Army' has to travel 2,000 kilometers to Venezuela to purchase coal and crude oil, which is too cost-effective.
I have to say that the leaders of the 'Enclave' are quite good at figuring out how to trick people.
Seeing Zhou Qingfeng scratching her head, Lina smiled: "The current situation is already a confrontation between two countries, so naturally all kinds of tricks will be used." We need to talk to the Enclave about the division of power. ”
"The question is, would the Enclave want to talk to us?" Zhou Qingfeng is also learning how to think from the perspective of a politician. In the words of the British, it is 'no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only eternal interests'.
"We have repeatedly asked the Enclave through other forces to talk, but they have insisted that we hand over the USS Kennedy and the huge amount of equipment and materials obtained from Florida, and even demand that we hand over a large number of key personnel in the legion. It's strange that I can agree to this kind of sky-high asking idea. ”
Zhou Qingfeng thought about compromising with the 'Enclave', but the 'Enclave' looked like Lao Tzu didn't like you, so he surrendered obediently, which made people angry when they looked at it.
It's just that for Zhou Qingfeng's complaints, Lena kept laughing and laughing, "Who let you loot in Florida, take advantage of people's eyes, and make other people's 'Enclaves' pit not mention how bitter." Do you know that many of the high-end talents in your hands are unique in this world? ”
Well....... that's not without reason.
Think of yourself as having ransacked the Cape Calaverare rocket launch site in Florida and swept away the high-end talent at the Kennedy Space Center. Thinking about the fact that Lena once went to Newport News, the most important shipyard in the United States, pulled away a large number of cutting-edge shipbuilders, and also pit more than a dozen special ships and a large number of industrial equipment in the 'Enclave', Zhou Qingfeng also felt a little embarrassed.
I really can't complain that the 'Enclave' regards the 'Aurora Army' as a great enemy, and I can't wait to sleep on its skin, drink its blood, and crush its bones and ashes to eliminate the hatred in my heart. This is really Zhou Qingfeng's action was too ruthless, he took too many advantages, and offended others too deeply. It's no wonder that people can easily reconcile with you!
"The distribution of resources in several Caribbean countries is severely uneven, with the islands in the east small and poor, and the regions in the west large and rich. We have to open up trade routes to Mexico, where resources are so important to us.
We have to let the 'Enclave' know that it is worth the cost of containing us, and maybe we have to give them a taste of sweetness. Even if they can't get through their leadership, they have to open the smuggling route for the fleet stationed in Cancun. ”
When it comes to 'smuggling', Lena laughs: "Our cargo is actually very popular in the market, and it is easy to organize a smuggling fleet. However, how to open up the smuggling channel is very troublesome, and this matter can only be promoted by you, the commander of the legion, himself. ”
"No problem, I can push this thing myself." Zhou Qingfeng felt that his ability to engage in peacebuilding was definitely not as good as that of Lena, who had the ability to manage MAX. Fox, but the ability to pit people is absolutely eight streets away from the others.
"The Enclave's presence in Cancun sounds like a troublesome existence." As soon as Zhou Qingfeng's mind turned, several ghost ideas popped up, "Isn't it just smuggling, I'm also good at this." (To be continued.) )