Homo sapiens.

"Well, you can apply for Class C."

"I'm really envious of Brother Huang. Ming Zhi and I are only D3 now, and it will probably take two or three years before we reach C4." Lin Lihong looked forward to it.

Another colleague suddenly asked: "Brother Huang is going to the headquarters?"

Huang Xianjun shook his head: "My wife and I are still working here for the time being, but the family will arrange to go to the headquarters."

Liu Mingzhi looked surprised: "Brother Huang, what about your child? Xiaohu is only four years old! Sister-in-law is so relieved?"

"The company has a kindergarten, and my parents also went there, so they can help look after the children. It's not a big problem." Huang Xianjun didn't think the children were any trouble.

Lin Lihong reminded with some concern: "Brother Huang, will entrusting the child to the kindergarten will have a bad impact on the child's growth?"

After taking a sip of oolong tea, Huang Xianjun explained: "The company's kindergarten is different from ordinary kindergartens. The company has ten children with two kindergarten teachers. In addition, there are surrogate parents to help take care of them during the stay."

"Substitute parents? Will this cause the child to be less close to you in the future?" Lin Lihong looked worried.

Huang Xianjun waved his hand: "As long as the child can grow up happily, I actually don't care. At worst, let him worship his parents as a foster father and mother. We don't depend on children for the elderly."

"Old Huang, you can take it easy." Liu Mingzhi smiled wryly.

"The times are different, we need to learn to change our minds. As parents, we don't necessarily have teachers who are professional." Huang Xianjun has been in the new human system for a long time, and he doesn't think that keeping children firmly by his side can educate them. Good boy.

After all, they are adults and need to work and socialize, so it is impossible to focus too much on their children.

Many people are parents for the first time, and they lack all kinds of experience, and children are not guinea pigs, so it is impossible to try and make mistakes on children.

Homo sapiens kindergarten teachers and nursery staff are all professionals, their job is to train children, and most of their energy is devoted to children.

There is a huge gap between the two.

Huang Xianjun knew that he did not have the energy to train children, so he was more inclined to send children to kindergartens.

Since Lin Lihong is not a new human being, she doesn't know the strict rules of the new human beings, so she naturally worries about whether the preschool teachers will be able to do their best, whether they will abuse the children, and so on.

This is poor information, resulting in differences of opinion.

Lin Lihong, who was a little naive, asked: "I heard that the company has built kindergartens and schools in Dongba and Mada Island. When will we open them here?"

"Lihong, don't think about such a good thing." Another colleague shook his head helplessly.

"Why? Haven't all the other places been built?" Lin Lihong obviously didn't realize the sensitivity of an institution like the school.

Luo Xuan interjected: "If the company wants to set up a school here, there is a high probability that it will be very difficult to pass."

Liu Mingzhi also rubbed his girlfriend's hair: "In the future, we will be promoted to C-level, and it will be fine to live in the headquarters in the past. Don't get entangled in such things."

Another colleague sighed helplessly: "A lot of things here are indeed inconvenient. I went to the headquarters for training before, and everything was arranged for us there. If my parents didn't agree to go there, I would have gone to the headquarters a long time ago. gone."

"Haha, if you apply now, there is a high probability that you will go to the Spice Islands or Mada Island to open up wasteland." Liu Mingzhi joked.

Huang Xianjun did not deny this problem: "There is no way for the headquarters. The old areas are better developed, and the local population must be relatively large, and many positions are technical positions. There is not much demand for ordinary workers. Only the newly developed areas need a large number of workers. General staff."

Thinking of one thing, Liu Mingzhi turned his head and asked, "By the way, Lao Huang, I heard that there are a lot of training classes at the headquarters. When will our training classes start?"

Huang Xianjun, who has inside information, shared some information he knew: "Soon, the company is preparing, and will send some professionals to train you, or arrange for you to go to the headquarters for exchange and study for a period of time."

A significant portion of the regions that currently have open markets to Homo sapiens do not allow Homo sapiens companies to open educational institutions within their borders.

But this doesn’t stop Homo sapiens from selling dog meat, because the company trains employees, which is a legal and compliant matter.

As for the education of employees' family members, Homo sapiens usually uses boarding methods to send children to kindergartens and schools in the headquarters.

In fact, this is also to solve the worries of overseas employees, and arrange their relatives in the headquarters, which means that they can only work for Homo Sapiens wholeheartedly.

At the same time, part of the pressure is also reduced. After all, the employees working overseas are themselves the front line. If Homo sapiens and a certain area become hostile, the situation of these employees will be very dangerous.

If the relatives are all in the local area, then these employees will definitely worry about the safety of their family members, and they will be more or less cautious in doing things.

Therefore, those overseas employees who have already planned to completely join the Homo sapiens company usually arrange their family members to live in the Homo sapiens headquarters.

In this way, even if something happens to him overseas, the family can rest easy in the headquarters.

That's what Huang Xianjun did. He wouldn't put his safety on the mercy of others.

There are many forces who are willing to abide by the rules, and there are also many forces who do not follow the rules.

Once the relationship deteriorates to the extreme, whether the other party will abide by the rules is ultimately unknown.

Huang Xianjun didn't want to gamble with his family, so he made arrangements early on.

External employees like Liu Mingzhi, Lin Lihong, Luo Xuan, etc. are actually not fully employees of Homo sapiens, so there is no need to worry too much.

The existence of the employee mutual aid association is to attract these external employees and at the same time cultivate a group that is close to the Homo Sapiens company.

For Homo sapiens' small actions, all regions have nothing to do.

After all, the world depends on fists and benefits.

The effect of the spiritual victory method is temporary, and most of the confrontations will eventually return to the contest on the material level.

This is one of the reasons Homo sapiens is not afraid of other forces.

Because Homo sapiens has a huge advantage in the material level, and the general public certainly has no way to escape from the material level. As long as they cannot defeat Homo sapiens in the material level, it is useless to talk about those hypes.

Humans are, after all, ordinary animals.

No matter how noble the soul is, it cannot escape the vulgar eating and drinking.

Chapter 331 The Wave ([-])

Australia.

Perth, the capital of Western Australia.

Inside BHP Billiton's office building.

Hank Maersk, who is in charge of the company's iron ore industry in Western Australia, has a very ugly face: "The headquarters wants us to shut down 50% of our production capacity?"

The secretary nodded helplessly: "Yes, Mr. Manager."

With the production reduction and layoff notice sent by the headquarters, Hank Maersk has a headache.

Hank Maersk has no right to refute the decision of BHP Billiton's headquarters. After all, the head office has no choice but to do so.

How is it possible for BHP to shut down 50% of its capacity if it can make money.

The reason for shutting down 50% of production capacity is mainly because there is a spoiler in the international market at this time.

That's Homo sapiens.

Homo sapiens reorganized its internal mining and metallurgical industries after it was formalized.

Three mining subsidiaries, Emerald Mining, Coral Mining, and Nanyang Mining, and three metallurgical subsidiaries, Sea Snail Metal, Mandalay Metallurgy, and Sumatra Metallurgy, were established.

At the beginning, these two systems did not have much impact on BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Vale.

until September.

The completely integrated Homo sapiens Mining Department and Metallurgy Department began to form a group to attack BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Vale.

The Homo sapiens company's offensive is carried out in two aspects, namely the raw material market and the finished product market.

On the one hand, Emerald Mining, Coral Mining, and Nanyang Mining are fully exploiting Sulu Sea submarine hematite, Sumatra pyrite, and deep magnetite in the southern part of Mount Thanoi. These three iron ore producing areas have a total reserve of 173 billion tons of iron ore with an average grade of 43.6%.

If it is only mining iron ore, then the problem is not serious, after all, Homo sapiens' trade channels are blocked by Europe, America and the Far East.

But how could Homo sapiens only make one move.

Subsidiaries such as Sea Snail Metal, Mandalay Metallurgy, and Sumatra Metallurgy quickly lowered the ex-factory prices of finished steel products.

In September of this year, the global ex-factory price of steel was approximately US$450-500 per ton for ordinary steel, while the CIF price of Australian iron ore with a grade of 62% was approximately US$120 per ton.

Homo sapiens' selected 62% hematite has a CIF price of 35 gold dollars per ton (equivalent to 70 US dollars per ton).

The ex-factory price of ordinary steel produced by Homo sapiens is 180 gold dollars per ton (equivalent to 360 US dollars per ton).

The impact of this price is very bad.

Because the steel profit margin of steel enterprises in Huaguo is only US$8-15 per ton, the profit margin of steel enterprises in other regions is also not high.

Europe, America and the Far East are stuck in the market channels of Homo sapiens, but it does not mean that the whole world listens to them, especially in the face of interests.

For example, oil tyrants in West Asia, once they got a good deal, they found that the cost of purchasing steel from Homo sapiens can be reduced by about 20%.

I have a lot of gold and dollar foreign exchange, so why not choose Homo sapiens' steel products?Do you think there is too much money?

Another example is the cash-strapped African countries. They all obtained some gold dollars by selling mines and oil and gas. Naturally, they want to give full play to the cost performance of gold dollars.

South Asia, Central Asia, and Latin America also chose Homo sapiens steel products.

Even some European countries secretly import Homo sapiens' steel products and iron ore through intermediaries such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

As a result, the pressure has come to the major steel companies in the Far East. Will they give up the high-priced iron ore from Australia and Brazil, or continue to insist?

The first to make a choice was a group of steel companies in Huaguo. They reached an agreement with Homo Sapiens, that is, Homo Sapiens will provide iron ore at a processing fee of 125 gold dollars per ton of steel to help Homo sapiens produces steel.

Although the net profit is only about 5 gold dollars per ton, the benefit can be obtained from cheap iron ore supply.

As the world's rolling king, Huaguo Steel Enterprises played its role as the rolling king and directly lowered the global steel ex-factory price to an ultra-low price of only US$360-390.

And a chain reaction ensues.

You know, in 21 years, 60% of the iron ore in the international market was eaten by Huaguo steel companies, while the metallurgical subsidiary of Homo sapiens company took 21% of the iron ore share.

Together, the two have eaten up 81% of the iron ore in the international market.

Now Homo sapiens fully adopts its own iron ore, and Huaguo steel companies are also forced to use Homo sapiens' iron ore.

All of a sudden, it lost 81% of the market share.

BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Vale suddenly experienced a large excess of production capacity.

Even if America restarted some steel production capacity in response to the threat of Homo sapiens, North America has already passed the stage of using iron ore smelting, and their steel plants mostly use scrap steel as raw materials.

More than 13 billion tons of iron ore overcapacity, how to break it?

This is simply unsolvable.

Among the remaining steel companies in the world, they simply cannot absorb 13 billion tons of iron ore. BHP Billiton's only option is to significantly reduce production and lay off workers.

Of course, they can also choose to mark down the price.

They can't beat Homo sapiens just by cutting prices.

According to the research reports of international organizations, the production cost of iron ore in Australia is about US$40 per ton, while that of Vale in Brazil is around US$60 per ton.

After adding the transportation cost, the CIF price of Australian iron ore transported to the Far East will come to around US$60 per ton, while the CIF price of Vale will reach US$90-100 per ton.

How does this price compete with Homo sapiens?

The ore production cost of Homo sapiens is extremely low, and the transportation distance is also close at hand. The CIF price of 35 gold dollars per ton actually has a 40% profit.

That is to say, once BHP Billiton and the others lower their prices, Homo Sapiens will definitely lower prices further.

As a last resort, BHP Billiton began to cut production and lay off staff.

Mines in Western Australia are bearing the brunt.

Hank Maersk has already felt the pressure and malice of Homo sapiens. According to the current trend, the remaining 19% market share is actually in jeopardy.

After all, the steel plants in South Korea, Japan, and the European Union will certainly not last long.

Now Huaguo steel companies occupy the low-end international market, while Homo sapiens occupies the high-end market, making other steel companies cry.

Don't buy Homo sapiens' ore?

Then go to hell!

This is also the reason why some European steel factories secretly purchase Homo sapiens mines. They can only make choices in order to survive.

If it is a traditional international market, then BHP Billiton and their behind-the-scenes funders will definitely eat up all the low-priced iron ore directly through financial means, and then continue to maintain their market monopoly position.

However, when they met Homo Sapiens, the existence of Jinyuan directly blocked the possibility of manipulation by European and American financial capital.

After all, to purchase Homo Sapiens' iron ore, they need to prepare at least hundreds of billions of gold dollars.

Now there are only more than 3000 billion trade gold dollars circulating in the world.

European and American capital forces can't gather so many gold dollars at all, so naturally they have no way to snipe Homo sapiens' iron ore layout.

Even if they can collect so many gold dollars, Homo sapiens can play hooligans and directly restrict their purchases at that time, requiring them to be steel companies before they can be qualified for purchases, which can break the other party's conspiracy.

Facing this head-to-head confrontation, BHP Billiton felt extremely uncomfortable.

Now only by reducing production capacity and laying off staff can we barely stabilize the interior.