Chapter 31: The Ning Family's Financial Crisis
readx; At the high-level meeting of the Ning family, Ning Yu and Ning Bowen announced a lot of good news to everyone, including technological progress and military innovation. www.biquge.info But next, Xiaojiao's data analysis of the current economic situation of the Ning family as usual poured cold water on everyone present.
After the joint calculation of the family's core intelligent computer and the family's highest database, Xiaojiao came to an astonishing result, and now the Ning family is facing the risk of bankruptcy.
Moreover, the data shows that the Ning family has been continuously increasing the investment in scientific research funds, ignoring the development of the family's capital income capacity, and the previous capital chain is only just enough to meet the balance of payments.
This barely maintained equilibrium has now been shattered by changes in the earth's ecological environment, and instead of improving as human beings had predicted, the earth's ecology has deteriorated again, and the price of food in the market is rising at an alarming rate.
It can be said that even if the Ning family does not consider the joining of the two vassal families, sooner or later it will definitely be dragged down by the price of food. The Ning family's top priority is to solve the food problem by self-reliance. Of course, you can also consider getting more capital income to buy food, but obviously the former is more suitable for the characteristics of the Ning family's gene family.
Xiaojiao's data also shows that the resources and industrial capacity of the Ning family can no longer meet the development of the Ning family in the future.
In terms of resources, the current Ningjia has almost no resources and minerals, and all military construction materials must be obtained through outsourcing.
The industrial capacity is also very weak, and can only carry out scientific research manufacturing and processing in small batches. This kind of industrial system, although there are many types of equipment, and the accuracy and difficulty of processing can be regarded as top-notch, but in the face of the large-scale military construction of many families today, the industrial system of the Ning family, coupled with the original lack of resources, is very stretched. In the future, once faced with those large-scale violent families, the Ning family can only use cutting-edge technological weapons to confront them, obviously, if that situation loses its technological advantage, the Ning family will definitely face the threat of destruction.
The Ning family must find the family's own resource mine as soon as possible, and at the same time establish a larger production line for military accessories. The former is almost impossible to achieve on Earth, and the latter is meaningless even if it is established without resources.
The question finally returned to the Ning family's cosmic plan. Fortunately, the problem of the thruster of the model ship of the Ning family has been solved by the thruster design drawing brought back by Shen Linna, and all the other problems of the new ship have also been solved within the family. It is believed that as long as there are enough construction funds, the battleship that stayed on the slipway of the Ning family will be completed soon.
But now Xiaojiao's words clearly tell everyone that now due to the problem of food, the Ning family is about to fall into a financial crisis, and those plans are likely to be stalled, and everyone present is shocked.
Ning Yu heard Xiaojiao's analysis, but he didn't panic like he was doing everyone, he also saw that his mother and his cheap father didn't have any surprised expressions, obviously they either knew about this analysis in advance, or they also had a complete solution.
In fact, when Ning Yu returned to the base a few weeks ago, he had already predicted that the Ning family would face a financial test. Ning Yu would have such a prediction, or it was based on the field ground scene he saw on the plane back to Ning's home base.
I remember that on his way to Shanghai a few months ago, he also passed through the vast wilderness. At that time, although the surface of the land was just as hot and desolate, there were still a lot of water sources and cultivated fields, and there were even some small bandits who dared to shoot missiles at their planes and some of the cities and defenses built by the refugees.
But on Ning Yu's way back to the base, those water sources were gone, the cultivated land had dried up, and all the walled cities were gone. There was such a big change in just a few months, Ning Yu was very shocked at that time, after he came back, he sent people to check the drought and the price changes of food, and even used his privilege to urgently mobilize part of the family's procurement funds to purchase a large amount of food reserves before the price of food soared.
Ning Yu thinks about it now, he actually forgot to discuss countermeasures with the senior management of the family at that time, and he was really too arbitrary. Fortunately, my mother is a super capable head of the family, and with her back in charge, Ning Yu really has nothing to worry about.
As the head of the Ning family, Shen Linna had actually received this crisis alert from the smart computer a long time ago. In addition, another reason why Shen Linna was not anxious was that the Ning family had several food crops suitable for planting in harsh environments very early, but at that time, due to the huge strategic value of the Ning family itself and this crop, the Ning family never disclosed it to the public.
What's more important is that Shen Linna will not use this crop before the Ning family has more powerful military strength, which almost marks that the Ning family has attracted the envy and greed of all mankind and stands on the opposite side of all the families on the earth.
Just like the Ning family was the first to master the advanced gene technology, if it is not handled well this time, it will be the same danger as that time, you must know that the crisis, the Ning family opened up a large number of gene technology to the world, and then withdrew from everyone's sight in a low-key manner for many years, and barely escaped the crisis.
It is precisely because the Ning family has kept a low profile for many years that it has brewed the evil result that the Ning family has no name now, and many families with the name of the Ning family back then have now become cosmic-level family forces, and the Ning family has just started a plan to move towards the universe.
Therefore, considering the existing military strength of the Ning family, Shen Linna believes that it is not yet the time for the Ning family to use any crops, and the only way to solve the crisis at this time is to find another way to earn more funds to meet the development needs of the family.
Increasing the production of genetic drugs is a first choice, especially the production of high-grade genetic drugs, but this is a double-edged sword, and the Ning family earns funds while also strengthening the combat power of other families in disguise. However, it is impossible to increase the production of low-grade gene drugs, and it is no longer the time for the Ning family to monopolize the market share in this market, and many powerful emerging gene families are also putting low-grade gene drugs of different quality into the market. The Ning family has long had no room for profiteering in the extreme market of genetic drugs.
There is also a way to make money, which is to sell the two newly acquired scientific and technological materials of the Ning family, the "blue titanium" alloy and the "immersion particle" superconducting material, but the output of these two materials is a problem, and before large-scale mass production, only the internal consumption of the Ning family has occupied all the current output of the two materials.
The Ning family's above three methods to directly solve the food crisis or make a lot of money have been rejected. Just when everyone's faces were gloomy, Ning Yu once again mentioned the original proposal to form a family mercenary army in front of everyone, which was to solve the problem of the family's lack of cosmic combat experience, and now it seems that this method must also be used to solve the family's financial problem, and the pressure on Ning Yu's shoulders is a little arduous.
The meeting finally decided to divide the two newly formed 1,000-person teams, namely the Elite Mecha Combat Group and the Elite Armored Combat Regiment, into half to form an 800-member Space Special Operations Group, and cooperate with the first batch of 500-person ship-based troops trained to establish the first Space Mercenary Regiment of the Ning Family.
In this way, what needs to be solved urgently at the same time is to quickly complete the universe version of the "blacksmith" and "jiading" mechas, as well as the universe version upgrade of the armor. Fortunately, there are already a lot of public data in the world for these two improvements, and all the Ning family has to do is to modify them according to the transformation experience of other families.
The modification is nothing more than the reduction of the load-bearing design in terms of loading, the strengthening of the sealing and energy storage, the loading of space propulsion devices. Compared with the environment of high gravity of the earth, what needs to be paid more attention to in the universe is actually its vastness and the impermanence of environmental changes. Therefore, the equipment in the universe, first of all, the utilization rate of energy is very important, which has a great advantage for the Ning family, which has "immersion particle" superconducting materials.
The only thing that needs to be strengthened is the ability to cope with various environments in the universe. The temperature in the universe varies in two levels, with the sunny side being extremely hot and the sunny side being extremely cold. In addition, there is almost no buffer material in the vacuum environment, any dangerous rays and high-speed substances will appear in front of you at any time, and the breakdown of any small matter and the penetration of rays will be fatal. Therefore, the armor in the universe must not only seal the vacuum, but also have an extremely strong ability to shield cosmic rays.
In many space warfare, people can only notice the colorful battles between starships and mechas, in fact, in the universe, armored soldiers are also very powerful combat power, not to mention landing battles and broadside battles, just their ability to stay in the vacuum environment of the universe, stealth ability, is a very good infiltration combat unit.
There used to be many families who secretly dropped armored troops at a long distance, and then secretly infiltrated the enemy's starship home port under the cover of meteorite belts, and destroyed a large number of enemy docked warships by sneak attack.
There are also families, because the newly built meteorite defense position does not have enough fixed defensive turrets, so they have an idea, a large number of turret main guns that have not yet had time to be installed, temporarily made into a human turret that needs to be manually operated in a vacuum environment, so a large number of armored soldiers became temporary defensive artillery, and finally that family actually defeated the sneak attack of the enemy.
It is precisely because of the versatile combat method of the armored troops that many families are very focused on the armored troops in the universe.
The cosmic mercenary group formed by the Ning family this time took into account various combat environments and established a cosmic armor war group of 400 people and a cosmic mecha war group for it. The maximum number of warbands is 1,000 people, but like many historical military systems, it is impossible for the Ning family's army to maintain a full strength.
In addition, the establishment of this newly built mercenary group is still at the corps level, and the corps level is the upper level of the war group level, which is much higher than the establishment of the war group level, and the highest establishment is 10,000 people, but now because the family does not have so many soldiers. Therefore, this mercenary group, known as the corps-level mercenary group, has only 1,300 people in its two subordinate battle groups plus ship-based soldiers.
Ning Yu knew that the family's manpower was very tight now, and he didn't want to cause trouble to the family anymore, so 1,300 people would be 1,300 people.
Now that the staffing is there, the next question is the starship.
Ning Yu still has 57.3 billion earth coins of family funds in his hands, and the next step is to solve the problem of the employer contract and warship of this newly built mercenary group. Before Ning Yu returned to the base, he had already established an account with the branch of the International Bounty Guild on Garden Island and the agency that acted for the starship leasing business, and now he could contact customers and find employers even if he was in the Ning family's base, and the starship lease could also be completed at the same time.
I believe that soon it will be time for Ning Yu to lead this family mercenary group to make a big move.