Chapter 1723 Helplessly Deflated

After a period of rapid development, the expansion of the Aurora Legion in North America has entered a bottleneck or even reversed. The Boise incident perfectly demonstrated the influence of the Legion in North America, but it also directly exposed the problem, triggering a strong backlash from the top leaders of the Brotherhood of Steel.

Back at the hotel where we stayed, Xiao Yi, who was with us, reported the current situation to Zhou Qingfeng, "Our trade volume with North America exceeded one trillion Aurora coins last month.

Eighty percent of this is open 'free trade' with the Brotherhood of Steel, and 20 percent is secret deals with the Enclave. "

Zhou Qingfeng has been conducting foreign trade non-stop since he founded the Aurora Legion. He towed hundreds of cargo ships over 10,000 tons from North America before the nuclear bombs wiped out the ground. These ships had rusted in the port for two years, and now they can finally be repaired and put back into use.

"Due to the large volume of cargo, our cargo ships are currently overwhelmed. The ship repair yards in several ports have expressed the lack of skilled workers, and the maritime department has just been established, and there have been many accidents in the rush." ​​Xiao Yi said.

A huge amount of goods transactions requires a huge logistics system to support, and it is obvious that the Legion is currently stumbling when building this system. The main reason is the lack of capable technical and management personnel, which are everywhere.

"The commodities we purchase from North America are also arriving in Hong Kong one after another. These things need to wait for you to go back for transshipment, otherwise the ship can only float on the sea." Xiao Yi also sighed when talking about this topic.

Oil tankers with a deadweight of more than 100,000 tons, ore carriers, and bulk carriers have arrived in Mexico with cargo. These giant ships are full of cargoes such as oil, ore, and timber, and the quantity is extremely huge.

Since what Zhou Qingfeng is doing with North America is essentially a 'barter trade', and North America can't find any other buyers at the moment, the prices of the various raw materials he gets are very cheap. For example, if a barrel of oil is transported to the real world, it is less than ten dollars, and this is still the price of shipping.

Zhou Qingfeng made an agreement with the flower growers in the real world that all products will be sold with a 50% markup. He can make a lot of money just by changing hands, the key is that he still doesn't pay taxes. Because this is an invisible transaction.

But Zhou Qingfeng had to transship these goods in person, so dozens of freighters are currently parked in ports along the coast of Mexico, empty.

Compared with the raw materials bought in, the goods sold by the legion are also calculated in millions of tons. When talking about the items sold, Xiao Yi said with a light tone and a smile on her face, "We have sold one billion shirts alone. This amount of orders has driven the coastal enterprises in the real world crazy."

In the industrial history of the world's major powers, the textile industry is the easiest to engage in. Back then, the British practiced "sheep cannibalize people" is really not a joke, and the first thing to develop on the southeast coast of the rabbit was the large and small garment factories.

Only the "World Factory" can complete orders calculated in "billion" casually. Sufficient supply of goods allows Zhou Qingfeng to sell various textiles to the outside world. In Mexico alone, there is a consumer market of 20 to 30 million people who need to wear clothes and hats.

In addition, Zhou Qingfeng's tentacles not only extend to North America, South America, Africa, and even Europe, he is the only supplier. This kind of food-only business leaves buyers with no choice but to buy from the Aurora Legion.

"At present, we have achieved zero inventory, and all the goods you have transshipped before have been sold. Judging from the current feedback from various markets, we can increase the sales volume to the level of tens of millions of tons in the next step.

Starting from scratch and achieving such results in one month, the performance of our various departments is considered excellent. I think the transportation volume will reach the level of 100 million tons within half a year, but unfortunately we don't have so many ships to carry goods, not even enough crew. "

Zhou Qingfeng, who was sitting on the sofa, was indifferent to these good news. Xiao Yi leaned against him and asked, "What are you thinking about? You're depressed."

"Brotherhood." Zhou Qingfeng looked indifferent in front of Rachel, but when he was alone, he still had to think about how to deal with the current situation.

Speaking of the Brotherhood, Xiao Yi opened another report in her hand and said in a low voice: "The Brotherhood of Steel is a sovereign entity after all, and in addition to our preliminary conditions, their air force alone is much stronger than ours.

Some things can't be forced too much, let's go back to Mexico and develop slowly. After ten or twenty years, America will naturally be your world. "

Since the implementation of 'free trade' for a month, the goods of the Aurora Legion have gained huge profits through dumping. But there are also unhappy things. For example, Aurora Bank will issue hundreds of millions of Aurora coins in support loans to increase the production of agricultural products and ores in North America. but…….

This huge piece of fat was targeted by a bunch of officers from the Brotherhood of Steel. They said that financial control would be implemented, and that the loan must be managed by the financial institution of the fraternity.

This incident alone made Zhou Qingfeng very upset. The 'Aurora Loan' was an important tool he used to engage in peaceful evolution, and within a few days of implementing it, his opponents messed it up. But the opponent has a lot of reasons, which makes him have nowhere to vent his anger.

Mastering the economy is equivalent to mastering the lifeline of the opponent.

In contrast, it is a trivial matter for the head of the Freemasonry to eliminate the influence of the Aurora Legion among North American workers. As for policies such as disarming workers, banning guns, and implementing news control, it has nothing to do with Zhou Qingfeng.

As for these troubles, Zhou Qingfeng had nothing to do. From the perspective of the Brotherhood of Steel, it is natural to restrict the wanton expansion of foreign capital, and he can only accept it. But he was unwilling to go back to Mexico.

While meditating, Ma Keshi, who was in charge of security work, knocked on the door and reported: "Sir, Wen Tianyu has been released. He came to ask you to see him."

"Let him in." Zhou Qingfeng said.

Wen Tianyu who walked into the living room of Zhou Qingfeng's suite was very embarrassed. Although he was neatly dressed, his expression was unnatural. He was very unlucky this time. After being a hero for a long time, he was arrested by the Freemasons, and he was charged with an unfounded charge and locked up.

"I'm sorry, Legion Commander. I messed up the matter." Wen Tianyu lowered his head, very unhappy. If Zhou Qingfeng hadn't personally come forward to rescue him this time, the Freemasons might have shot him dead.

Zhou Qingfeng just waved his hand with a smile when he admitted his mistake, "You saved a city, became a great hero, and raised the image of the legion. What's wrong with that? Freemasonry will gather power sooner or later, we have no Any way."

Hearing what his boss said, Wen Tianyu smiled, feeling much better, at least the prison for these few days was not in vain. He immediately stated that he was in good physical condition and asked for a fight to avenge his shame.

Zhou Qingfeng said 'hmm' twice, pacing back and forth. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly said: "Go and investigate the military strength of the Freemasonry, especially the navy. I want to know the large warships of the Freemasonry, such as the status of the aircraft carrier fleet, and where are they docked? "

Ah..., to investigate the military strength, the focus is on the navy?

Wen Tianyu was a little puzzled. The Legion is not strong enough to stand against the Brotherhood of Steel physically, but some preliminary research is necessary. Although this task was not pleasant enough, he still stood at attention and saluted, expressing his determination to complete it.