Chapter 474: The Age of Resource Explosion

After Zhu Youzhen signed.

This incident, which caused a lot of turmoil, was finally quickly quelled.

The reputations of the three veteran generals Wang Hong, Yang Yufan, and Deng Xi were restored, and after dozens of heads were cut off, their revenge could be regarded as a successful revenge.

The property, land and resources left behind by them were not divided by any force, but under the auspices of Xujiazhuang, and their descendants inherited them, and each child's descendants could share the shares, and then elect a representative to manage them.

And this time it was a very big incident.

Countless ordinary people and propertied classes of the Ming Dynasty were most surprised, that is, the emperor actually coaxed, and the speed of recognition was so fast, two days ago in the newspaper, let the civil officials and writers, carry out a long argument and counterattack, once able to gain the upper hand.

As a result, only two days later, only to hear the movement of the army leaders to mobilize, they immediately relented, accepted defeat, signed a shameful clause, gave up many rights, and the strong royal legion was also to be cut off 300,000 people, and only 200,000 people were retained, which was equivalent to abolishing most of the armed forces, and expressed the intention of giving up resistance.

Disappointed.

This made many scholars, who were originally very supportive of the royal family, feel extremely disappointed, and shook their heads again and again in private.

"It's too irresponsible, at the beginning, he was aggressive, he was the master of the people, and he did help a lot of people, punished some big women who did great evil, and the people of the Ming Dynasty all expressed their support, but how long has it been, our emperor just admitted defeat and gave in to those businessmen, which is simply an unprecedented shame."

"I, Han, have studied hard for more than ten years, and I didn't learn anything from Xujiazhuang, I just want to adhere to my own way of being a sage, and then help the royal family, and become a pioneer of reform like Zhang Juzheng, to create a completely different, will not belong to Xujiazhuang's Ming Dynasty, to prove that under the imperial power, it can also establish a brilliant and prosperous era, and can also make great achievements that have not been made for thousands of years, but I didn't expect that I encountered a small setback, and His Majesty the Emperor retreatedWhen will it appear?"

"Forget it, this world is indeed not the world of imperial power, but belongs to the new order of Xujiazhuang, even the royal family, in the future, must listen to the arrangements of the new order, and can no longer act arbitrarily, that is to say, at the head of the emperor, a new emperor has appeared, and eleven representatives will be elected to exercise these rights, of which Xu Jiazhuang will occupy five places, as long as one person is casually wooed, the rule of the whole world is that Xu Jiazhuang has the final say, that is to say, this world today has officially become the world under the rule of Xu JiazhuangThe times have officially changed."

"Thousands of years of unseen changes, but I don't know whether this is good or bad, at present, the whole is still okay, at least there is no war, famine and turmoil, or than the world without order, much better, in any case, although I don't like Xujiazhuang very much, businessmen are in charge, there will be a day of collapse and disintegration, but businessmen are good at careful calculation, good at developing productive forces, good at making the so-called cake, this is all benefits, it seems to be good at the present, there is no harm in showing, but a hundred years later, Three hundred years from now, five hundred years from now, if there are not enough cakes, or if some people eat too much and don't want to spit it out, how it will develop at that time, whether there will be a cycle of rise and fall, I don't know, but what will last forever will not exist after all."

"Yes, I'm old and can't see that far, it's our luck, after all, we don't have to go through hardship anymore, and this may also be our misfortune, and we can't see what a more brilliant appearance is."

Countless people sighed in private, especially those who were older, and they all had a kind of sigh and sigh for the changes of the times.

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The other side.

Recently.

Xu Yuan had to put down all the things at hand and return to the side of modern society.

Because something big is wrong.

It's only been less than half a year.

It was several times worse than previously expected.

Xu Yuan couldn't sit still, so he had to come back and deal with this huge question

Title.

What is the problem?

Collapsed.

The performance of the Magic Group in the first half of this year has collapsed.

It fell by 59%, and the total revenue was less than 200 billion, less than half of the same period last year.

If it weren't for the fact that a few days ago, Xu Yuan invested trillions of funds in the fields of longevity medical care, aerospace, nuclear fusion, etc., which brought more fruitful returns this year, and the market value of these investment funds has tripled, not to mention, it has also brought more than 100 billion profit dividends, which has become a relatively important income contribution, from the original negligible to the main source of profit now, which is just a change in just two or three years.

What really happened?

Xu Yuan's Miracle Group, how is it so miserable now, as if it has been abandoned by all consumers, those cheap clothes can't be sold, the sales of gold, silver and jewelry have also plummeted, organic rice, dried seafood, god beef, etc., have also seen a serious plunge, as for the technology products produced by the Magic Group, such as chips, computers, radios, televisions, etc., have also become garbage that is no longer sought after, and no longer the sentimental party is willing to pay.

What's going on?

Why did it get so bad?

It's only been half a year, and consumers have completely abandoned the magic group?

In fact, the departure of consumers is not really abandoning the magic group, but something more cost-effective, appearing in front of them, in the face of a more fragrant choice, they naturally can't escape the capture of the law of true fragrance.

For example, the clothes of the Magic Group are sold for 15 yuan a piece, which was really cheap in the past, and consumers bought them without blinking their eyes.

But now there are clothes on the market for 10 yuan or even 5 yuan a piece, not to mention the cheaper price, there is no difference in quality, and the money saved can be used to consume other things, why not buy cheaper things?

The same is true for other goods, if you sell 100 yuan, others will sell 90, 80, 70 or even 50 or 30 yuan, and fight a price war with you frantically, that is, to compete with the purpose of rolling you to death, not a penny of profit, as long as you are swept to death, take most of the market share, become the final winner, and not make as much as you want to earn in the future?

And in the past two years, on the side of modern society, there has suddenly been a wave of entrepreneurship, and there are many newcomers from all walks of life to join, these newcomers play simply and rudely, that is, to use cheap raw materials and products, and then produce cheap goods, and then sell them at extremely cheap prices, and finally seize the market share of those old companies. There is no brave man who can defeat and challenge, all kinds of challenges can only end in failure, and gradually form a society with a fixed class, the choice of young people has become very narrow, the unemployment rate is getting higher and higher, and the number of people who gnaw on the welfare for a living has gradually increased - in fact, young people don't want to do this, they also want to be motivated, they don't want to become a waste in the eyes of their parents, and it doesn't mean that they don't have the ability to endure hardships, but they don't have a stage to play.

But since last year, the stage for them to play has come, they have entered the entrepreneurial market, started a vigorous entrepreneurship, and most of them have achieved success, no longer more than 90% of the amazing failure rate, but more than 60% of the success rate, thus inspiring more young people to join the entrepreneurial market.

And the three advantages they have make them almost invincible in the face of competition, even if it is a giant company in front of them, they can only take advantage of it, and can only have the upper hand.

One, the advantage of cheap technology.

Since the great development of AI technology, today's AI has become almost omnipotent, people can use AI to do games, make software, and complete various technical work, as long as humans provide one by one creativity and ideas, AI can help him to realize, so that they don't have to type a line of code, don't have to do a document.

And what about the giant companies?

In order to maintain a technological advantage, these giants

The head company, generally still has to recruit tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of top talent employees, and then let these employees, to develop a variety of new technologies, but compared with the powerful AI, these human employees spend countless brainpower to develop new technologies, perhaps only about 10% stronger than AI, but this advantage, and will be quickly learned and absorbed by AI, the technical advantage is instantly wiped out, and AI is for all the people, which means that at the technical level, everyone stands on the same starting line, Even if you are a genius with a super high IQ, you will not be much ahead of AI, which means that you are not much ahead of ordinary people.

It's just that giant companies hire employees, and they have to pay billions of tens of billions of salary costs every year, or even more.

What about ordinary entrepreneurs, he doesn't need to engage in research and development, and he doesn't need to pay his own salary, if he succeeds in starting a business, the money he earns is his own, and if he fails, he starts all over again, and the advantages of small ship and low cost are brought into full play.

At a disadvantage, it has become those giant companies, because there are too many people to raise, and this piece alone consumes a lot of money, and these costs have to be added to the price of the product, resulting in the products produced by the giant companies must be sold for 1,000 yuan in order to have a certain profit.

However, the products produced by entrepreneurs have no R&D costs, no wage costs, only the cost of raw materials, as long as the price is slightly increased on the basis of raw materials, and sold at a price of 800 yuan, but there is still a guarantee of profits.

Secondly, in terms of raw materials, there has also been a huge decline in the past two years.

On the one hand, it is the commercial operation of controllable nuclear fusion, and the massive amount of cheap electricity has significantly reduced the cost of mining, smelting, processing, transportation and other links, as well as the emergence of molecular sieve technology, as well as the massive mining of low-grade ores, so that the resources in the market are oversupplied all of a sudden, and the price has plummeted, all of which have fallen to the price of cabbage and the price of loss, and the price war is extremely fierce, and some new entrepreneurs who have newly entered the resource extraction industry are also using electricity that is almost so cheap that they don't want money. Crazy exploitation of resources, and then crazy price wars, those traditional opponents first to the death, and the traditional mining group, a large number of employees, need to support the retired employees are also many, if the price of resources is sold low, they will not be able to make ends meet, face a big problem. As for the new newcomers, they either go it alone and buy a batch of mining robots to work for themselves, or they are small family workshops of three or five people, working for themselves, and they don't have to carry so much baggage.

On the other hand, it is the resources in the space universe, which has been vigorously developed, and the miniaturized nuclear fission reactor has been sent to space and installed in the mining spacecraft, which can fly far into space, and then mine those high-value mineral meteorites, although it takes more than a year to go back and forth, but after sending those meteorite minerals to the blue star, its comprehensive mining cost is still relatively low, if it is used to mine iron ore, nickel ore, titanium ore, it will be a little less cost-effective, and the cost performance is not high. But if it is used to mine high-value resources such as gold, silver, and rare earths, it is very cost-effective, and the cost is even lower than the cost of mining on Blue Star.

Under a combination of two factors.

Taking the price of gold as an example, three or five years ago, the price of gold per gram was as much as four or five hundred, but now the price of gold has fallen to only 50 yuan / gram, only one-tenth of the previous one, which can be described as falling through the floor.

In short, the decline in the price of raw materials and the explosive increase in resource production have brought human society into the era of resource cabbage, although I don't know how long such a period will last, but at least in two or three years, it is impossible to declare the end, at least in more than five years.

Other words!

The difficult period of the Wonder Group is at least about five years away.

During this period, income will continue to plummet, competitiveness will decline, and it will face an extremely huge dilemma - although today's Magic Group, directly or indirectly, employs nearly 500,000 employees, and carries such a big burden, the speed of collapse and collapse is naturally fast.

Three years.

Many experts in the industry predict that in another three years at most, the magic group Ken

It's going to close down, and they're willing to make a bet that they can't lose.

And this is also the dilemma in front of Xu Yuan now.

With up to 500,000 employees, but do not want to make a layoff decision.

In the case of the market competitiveness is getting weaker and weaker, and it is about to make little money.

Under the conclusion that the experts predicted that the magical group would last for another three years at most, it would eat up the old capital and collapse with a bang.

What to do?

What kind of good way can Xu Yuan come up with to get out of such a difficult predicament?