This side of the Ming world.

After the establishment of a unified global order.

Gone are the wars of great destructiveness.

The era of long-term peace has arrived.

Resources can also be used uniformly and efficiently, mined from all corners of the world, and then most of them converge towards the harbor city of Xujiazhuang, and then through the industrial system of the heavy industry city, they are purified, processed and smelted, and then turned into a variety of products and resources to meet the needs of consumers.

In this process, there is no doubt that Xujiazhuang controls the right to price, distribute and use resources, and determines the living standards of people all over the world.

Located at the top, it is natural that the people inside Xujiazhuang, with a population of only about 100 million, but they enjoy more than 80% of the electricity, 75% of the fuel, and 40% of all kinds of food resources.

In the middle position, it is the people in the Ming Empire, the people in the various manors in Nanyang, life is quite happy, well-fed and warm, the transportation facilities are more convenient, and the education can also cover the primary school stage, which can cultivate a large number of qualified and usable talents, become qualified industrial workers in the factory, serve a stable iron rice bowl, and become a highly envied blue-collar worker.

At the bottom, the vast majority, are not able to use household appliances, at most a solar panel for night lighting, food is not particularly sufficient, houses, cars, electrical appliances or something, don't have to think about it, it is not what they should look forward to at all, fortunately, the large-scale planting of improved seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, so that the grain production has been improved, the vast majority of people fill their stomachs, there is no problem at all, and they can enjoy the pastoral life, have simple happiness, as long as their population is slightly controlled, do not let most people choose the r survival strategy and rely on having a bunch of children to protect themselves, but encourage them to give birth to only two or three, and maintain the ability to renew, don't be like insects, give birth to piles and piles, that will only increase their own pressure.

And as long as two or three offspring, relying on high-yield grain seeds, a common family of six can live a very comfortable life as long as you plant four acres of grain, two acres of cash crops, half an acre of vegetables, plus three acres of land for raising cattle, pigs and sheep, as well as a number of chickens, ducks and geese, two or three acres of mountain forest orchards, about only a dozen acres of land, you can live a very comfortable life, plus some convenient and easy-to-use tools and farm tools, you can solve the survival of the family.

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On average, as long as you are busy for three or four months a year, three or four months for a little work, and then three or four months for completely lying down to recuperate, a year has passed, fortunately there is a rest, a combination of work and rest, in such a pastoral life mode, people's physical fitness will be particularly healthy, rarely sick, do not need to go to any hospital.

All in all.

On the side of the Ming world, the people in the three levels of the pyramid structure, whether they live at the top, or in the middle, or at the bottom, can find a more relaxed and comfortable life mode, you don't have to be so lucky, you don't have to do your best, you can solve your own survival and reproduction problems, the happiness index is generally very high, and you can't even detect any unfairness, because even if you live at the bottom, you have more than a dozen acres of land at home, and you can't finish eating a lot of food. In the face of famine and difficulties, Xujiazhuang will not ignore them, they don't even need to pay any taxes, they don't need to bear so many obligations, so there is nothing to complain about, and they can't perceive what oppression is at all.

Therefore, the development of the Ming world is getting faster and better, and the development model is very healthy, the happiness index is generally very high, and the turmoil is becoming less and less.

Anyway, all the development can only be described in a good word.

It's just that Xu Yuan, who is a little proud and complacent, was taken aback when he opened the door through the light and returned to the modern society that he hadn't come back for a long time.

Two years.

It's only been two years.

The time in modern society has changed from 2036 to 2038, and only about 700 days have passed.

During this period, Xu Yuan did not seriously return to the modern society to observe, but Xu Yuan, who had completed the task of carrying materials, suddenly found that the modern society, which had only passed two years, had undergone earth-shaking changes as if it had been twenty years.

Robot.

In the streets and alleys, there are traces of robots everywhere, replacing sanitation workers to clean the streets, replacing the waiters in the restaurant to help deliver food and service, and replacing countless ordinary workers on the factory assembly line, increasing the production efficiency of the factory, and even entering space, establishing a space factory, carrying out industrial production activities in space, and building a ring of space cities to help expand the living space of human beings, so that human beings on the blue star have more choices, so that they do not have to roll up painfully. It's about creating a better future.

In addition, the price of goods in the supermarket mall has been significantly reduced, the number and variety of goods have increased, and it has entered a consumption model in developed countries, you need 1 yuan to buy a bottle of drink, but if you buy a dozen 12 bottles, as long as 5 or 6 yuan, in order to promote sales, the average selling price can be reduced to half, and there are all kinds of meat, fruits, grains and oils, canned food, etc., if you only buy a small amount, the price will be more expensive, very cost-effective, but so buy a big lump of meat, buy a bunch of fish, buy a whole bag of rice, buy a big basket of eggs, but the price is very cheap, you are surprisingly cheap, people take one or two hundred dollars into the mall, you can really buy enough food to eat for a week.

Why is this happening?

Very simply, the price of energy has become lower, especially the price of electricity, from the average price of 6 cents more than two years ago, to 2 cents 2 degrees now, if you use more electricity, the more you use, the lower the price of the ladder electricity price model, if you use millions of degrees, you can even enjoy the price of 1 cents 5 degrees of cabbage.

But in fact, the price of electricity dropped to around 2 cents per kilowatt-hour, if you farm, it is the cost advantage of indoor vertical farming, which has begun to significantly exceed that of outdoor traditional agriculture, the reason is very simple, if you engage in indoor vertical planting, you can set up 50 layers, 100 layers or even more, while the outdoor cultivated land is only one layer, and the difference in floor area ratio is too large.

In addition, indoor vertical farming factories do not require much labor, and all use intelligent robots to be responsible for the work of all links, while traditional outdoor agriculture requires farmers to do it themselves in many aspects, consuming a lot of manpower, but the economic output value per mu is only two or three thousand a year at most, deducting the cost of fertilizer seeds, etc., there is a net profit of 1,000 yuan, which is very good, and it can be said that the cost performance is very low.

Of course, if you engage in indoor vertical farming, a large number of agricultural products are produced, in fact, the average profit per catty is not high, and it may only look like two or three cents, but it can't stand the indoor vertical farming factory, which can produce food all year round, and will not be affected by the outside weather at all, and is always in the most suitable temperature, light and water and fertilizer environment, and the growth rate is also the fastest.

This means that the indoor vertical farming factory, like a real factory, produces a steady stream of food and vegetables every day, without interruption at all, an indoor vertical farming factory covering an area of ten acres, even if it produces 10,000 catties of fruits and vegetables every day, can only make a profit of 5,000 yuan, and a year, there are millions of profits.

It is equivalent to an average of 150,000 yuan per mu of land, creating economic benefits of more than 150,000 yuan a year, which is very interesting.

This has led to the establishment of a very large number of indoor vertical farming factories in various parts of the country in the past two years, and the development is very rapid, and now the fruits and vegetables produced by these agricultural factories have accounted for one-tenth of the total domestic output, and will continue to increase rapidly in the future, until more than half, accounting for more than fifty percent of the output share, so that the development of traditional outdoor agriculture continues to weaken until it is on the verge of extinction.

Although the fruits and vegetables produced by indoor agriculture have a single taste, not delicious enough, not very natural and other characteristics, it is completely artificial food, but it is not able to stand the large yield, the price is cheap, and there is no need to sow any pesticides, the health level is actually higher, there are these advantages, the traditional outdoor agriculture, can only be forced to decline, and finally have to return farmland to forests and grasslands, into countless natural forests, national parks, so that there are birds and flowers everywhere, fairyland on earth, into a paradise country, Maybe there will be a lot more wildlife.

Meddlesome.

All in all, the rapid development of indoor agriculture is far more beneficial than disadvantageous to Huaxia as a whole, which can be said to have completely solved the problem of food, and is no longer afraid of the people going hungry, and has a fundamental guarantee.

And that's just the change in agriculture.

In the industrial field, the price of electricity has dropped to one-third of what it used to be, which also means that the production cost of the product will also have a price reduction of 5% to 10%, if it is a high-energy-consuming industry, the cost will drop even higher, even to half of the original, if the ex-factory price has not changed, it means that the profit margin of the factory will increase by 5%, 10% or even 20 or 30 percent, so that many traditional low-profit industries have suddenly become high-profit industries and even profiteering industries.

Of course, it is not allowed to make huge profits, the cost has been reduced, and in order to promote sales, the price will definitely fall, and it is no problem to reduce it by 5% in general.

Then to the transportation of products, in the past in the case of truck burning oil or electric truck electricity, the cost of logistics can often occupy about 30% of a commodity, now the electricity cost is only one-third, which means that the electricity cost of electric trucks has been reduced by two-thirds, and the comprehensive transportation cost has been reduced by about half.

If you use driverless trucks to be responsible for the transportation of products, you can also save a lot of money in terms of labor costs, so the transportation of products is reduced.

Finally, in the supermarket or market, the price of the product, for example, two or three years ago was priced at 100 yuan, now as long as it is sold for 80 or 70, the merchant can get exactly the same profit, or slightly more, plus after the increase in price reduction, the amount of people buying has increased significantly, so the money earned, in fact, there is an increase of about 10%, and the profit will not decline.

As for the problem of resources, in fact, this blue star under the feet of human beings is very, very huge, with a total mass of 60 trillion tons, even if the number of human beings living on the blue star is about to reach 100 billion, but if it is evenly distributed, everyone can carve up to 100 billion tons of materials on this planet, even if these materials, human beings can only effectively mine one-thousandth, and each person can also allocate 100 million tons of resources, which is also a very huge number, and it is impossible to consume it.

What's more, most of the resources can still be recycled and reused, and they are not non-renewable substances.

Therefore, after the price of energy has dropped sharply, human beings can exploit those low-grade ores that do not have mining value, such as soil with only 10% iron content, it turns out that no matter what, it is impossible for smelting companies to consider steelmaking, but after the arrival of controllable nuclear fusion, the era of unlimited energy has arrived, and those low-grade ores that originally had no smelting value on the blue star all have the value of mining and smelting, and the reserves of available resources have suddenly increased more than ten times. Using plasma atom sieve technology, every atom in the soil is screened out and turned into a variety of elemental substances, so there will really be no shortage of resources, because just in the seawater of the Blue Star, there are tens of billions of tons of gold, trillions of tons of uranium, and the seawater of the Blue Star can be screened again, and inexhaustible resources can be obtained.

So...... Trouble.

Xu Yuan's magic group will soon encounter some trouble, the group's overall revenue is under great downward pressure, last year it was able to sell 2 trillion yuan of various commodities, but this year it has dropped to 1.5 trillion yuan, a decline of 25%.

It is expected that it will fall by another 20% next year.

Why is this happening?

Because of the competitiveness of the Magic Group's advantageous fields, it is about to be unable to roll up its domestic counterparts.

In terms of clothes, all kinds of clothing transmitted from the Ming world are indeed very cheap, but now cheaper ones have appeared, generally only a few dozen pieces, a dozen yuan for a hundred, a thousand yuan and dozens of catties, that's right, the amount has risen to a certain level, and it is directly calculated by catties, and when converted, each catty may be fifty or sixty yuan, but there are four or five pieces of clothes, and the average price is about ten yuan.

The sales of organic rice are okay, but there is also an organic rice produced by an indoor agricultural factory, which simulates the natural growth environment, plus some genetically modified technology, the taste is not worse than the organic rice sold by the Magic Group, but the price is only half, and a large number of markets have been robbed.

In terms of chips, due to the relatively backward process and performance, other domestic manufacturers are also dumping at price reductions in the nature of volume, and selling at cost prices, which is still a loss in this regard.

And many more.

Finished.

Xu Yuan felt like he was going to be finished, he didn't expect the large-scale application of controlled nuclear fusion, and after the era of cheap electricity arrived, his magical group was actually swept up in sales and revenue plummeting, how could it go on like this?

He suddenly felt a lot of worry and anxiety.