Homo sapiens.

But this 0.3 yuan per kilogram purple-patterned tomato really broke his defenses.

Although calculated from the indirect exchange rate, it is equivalent to about 4.8 Chinese yuan per kilogram, but this is a variety that is not resistant to transportation.

Just now he saw that kind of hard red tomato in the vegetable section, and it was only 0.11 yuan per kilogram.

Unbelievable, he looked at other fruits.

In fact, his head was a little dazed. Comparing fruit prices with those in tropical regions is simply asking for fun.

Mr. Zhang saw the change in this guy's mentality, and deliberately stimulated him: "Nephew, would you like some cherries?"

Seeing the box of 0.43 yuan per kilogram of big cherries, Li Shengkai immediately exploded: "Why is it so cheap? Shouldn't Southeast Asia produce cherries? Imports can be so cheap?"

Fang Xinwu explained: "The foreign trade department of Homo sapiens will adjust the price. This kind of purchased fruit is usually sold with subsidies, and it must be retailed according to the purchased price, and the price is about 3 yuan per kilogram."

"Subsidy? How much does it cost a year?" Li Shengkai was almost numb.

Fang Xinwu said a piece of data casually: "According to the bulletin of the first quarter of this year, the foreign trade department of Homo sapiens subsidized 372 kinds of purchased agricultural products, with a total subsidy amount of 481 billion gold dollars."

"..." Li Shengkai fell silent. Even if he was biased towards the West in his heart, he felt helpless in the face of such a violent material offensive.

People with Dong Yongzhen's awareness and beliefs are in the minority after all, and the vast majority of them are just fake fanatics.

Facing the overwhelming sugar-coated shells of Homo sapiens, this kind of fake fanatic will soon be revealed.

After all, the material basis determines the foundation of everything.

Homo sapiens can rely on its own industrial chain and technological advantages to artificially subsidize the price of purchased agricultural products and lower the retail price to almost the same as the place of origin, while other places obviously cannot do this.

How does happiness come from?

That is, you can buy a kilogram of cherries for 50 yuan, but I can buy a kilogram of cherries for only 4.8 yuan.

Many people's happiness is compared.

This is why human beings are keen on comparing and pretending to be X.

The reason why Li Shengkai directly broke the defense was that he could not eat such cheap cherries in Kangaroo Country and his hometown, but the employees of Homo sapiens company could enjoy low price discounts.

Immediately, Fang Xinwu's other words shattered Li Shengkai's sense of superiority even more.

"Mr. Zhang, don't take it randomly! We don't have discounts for this kind of subsidized product."

"What?" Mr. Zhang put down the cherries in his hand: "Is there a price for this thing?"

"Well, do you see that purple triangle symbol? The products with this symbol are purchased from outsiders. Only employees of Homo sapiens company are eligible for discounts on these products. People like us who are not employees of Homo sapiens company are You can only buy it at the original price.”

Mr. Zhang glanced at the packaging box, and there was a purple triangle symbol on it, and there was a number 4.5 beside it, which meant that the real retail price of the product was 4.5 gold dollars.

And Li Haoyun, who had been silent all this time, did not enlighten his son.

In fact, he deliberately arranged to come to the supermarket, colluding with Fang Xinwu and Mr. Zhang, the purpose is to combat the Gao Hua mentality that his son acquired from the Kangaroo Country, and make him sober, so as not to ruin the family business in the future.

As for whether his son will never recover because of his emotional explosion, Li Haoyun has no choice but to treat him like a dead horse.

Li Shengkai, who was hit, became taciturn during the next stroll.

However, he was still unwilling and kept scanning the prices of various products on the shelves.

But the more he looked, the more powerless he felt to refute.

From vegetables and fruits, meat, eggs and milk, to daily necessities, household appliances, skin care products, textiles, and decorations, the price-performance ratio of Homo sapiens has crushed the world.

There is no market for LV and Chanel luxury bags in Homo sapiens.

Because in the supermarket of Harvest House, there are a lot of similar products, which cost more than ten yuan.

What happiness?

This is happiness!

After getting used to Homo sapiens' cost-effective products, a strong sense of dependence will be formed, which makes it impossible to extricate yourself.

Why the vast majority of those who have come to live in Homo sapiens company choose to stay is not because of this strong gap.

As soon as I returned to my hometown, I looked at the price tags on the shelves, and then looked at my wallet. Many people were spoiled by Homo sapiens’ cheap and good quality. side.

Even ordinary people from Europe and the United States will have an explosive mentality when they come here.

Li Shengkai, who owns a mine at home, can't bear it, let alone ordinary people with pitifully low incomes.

Chapter 388

Dongying, Tokyo.

5 month 11 day.

Because of the influence of the Tokyo fungus, at this time, biological research institutions around the world are deeply studying the various characteristics of the fungus.

According to the information disclosed so far, Tokyo Fungi has relatively comprehensive data on various plastic products and their decomposition speeds in different environments.

And the three large companies that met in Tokyo today also got the data they wanted to know.

The three companies are: America's Tyco, France's Alcatel-Lucent, and Japan's NEC.

Maybe many people don't know what they do, that's because their products seldom appear directly in daily life, but anyone who has used computers and mobile phones has indirectly used the products of these three companies.

Tyco, Alcatel-Lucent, and NEC are the three giants in global submarine cable engineering, and almost contracted about 90% of the world's submarine optical cable and cable construction projects.

However, this pattern is the data before Homo sapiens was formally established.

After the Homo sapiens company officially debuted last year, the Coral Submarine Cable Company was established to be responsible for the construction of submarine cable projects in the Homo sapiens company territory and its subsidiary areas.

Although Europe and the United States are very hostile to Homo sapiens, they will basically not hand over the submarine cable project to Coral Submarine Cable, allowing the three major cable giants to barely keep their basic positions.

But this time, as soon as the evaluation report of Tokyo Fungus came out, the top executives of Tyco, Alcatel-Lucent, and NEC rushed to hold a secret meeting in Tokyo.

Inside the NEC headquarters building.

The atmosphere in the meeting room was solemn and depressing.

As the host, Nobuyoshi Takeda, president of NEC, has a very serious expression: "Everyone, everyone has seen the results of the evaluation report. Although the corrosion rate of fungi on the plastic protective layer of submarine optical cables is slower than that in tropical areas, it still cannot be ignored."

At present, the plastic protective layer of submarine optical cables they often use can only last for 6 to 8 years when the seabed is completely exposed.

If only this is the case, Tyco, Alcatel-Lucent, and NEC will not be too nervous.

The problem is that the area that is easy to be corroded is not in the shallow waters that are easy to replace, but in the seabed below a depth of more than 500 meters.

The reason for this situation is mainly related to the laying method of submarine optical cables.

Submarine optical cables in shallow seas are usually laid buried in order to prevent the optical cables from being easily discovered or being cut off by the anchor plow of the ship, and the optical cables will be covered with a layer of sand.

It is precisely because of the existence of this layer of sediment that the rate of corrosion of submarine optical cables by fungi has dropped by a large margin, and it can last for about 20 to 30 years.

This time is close to the service life of the submarine optical cable, so naturally there is no need to worry too much.

The real problem is actually the submarine optical cables that appear in the deep sea, because the submarine optical cables in the deep sea are directly exposed to seawater, and there is no sediment burial at all. Fungi can use the oxygen and minerals in the seawater to cover the plastic protective layer. reproduce in large numbers.

Thales, president of Tyco, raised his glasses: "There is no way for us to use buried construction for submarine optical cables with a depth of more than 500 meters."

Even if the nuclear submarine of the US military is borrowed, the maximum working depth is only about 1200 meters.

And some submarine optical cables need to pass through ultra-deep seas similar to the Luzon Trench, Mariana Trench, and Solomon Trench.

Unless they are willing to redesign the route and change it to a shallow sea route.

The problem is that the consequence of this is that the cost will explode, and some areas will not be able to connect to submarine optical cables.

Takeda Xinyi looked at other people with a headache, hoping that they could come up with a solution, otherwise this year's submarine optical cable orders would be forgotten.

One of the NEC executives said with some uncertainty: "I heard that Homo sapiens has developed an engineering submarine that can go deep into the seabed about 3000 meters for construction."

"Hehe, even if there is such a submarine, do you think Homo sapiens will sell it to us?" Thales asked with a sneer.

Suddenly the conference room was silent.

After a while, Henry Perrin, the president of Alcatel-Lucent, knocked on the table: "Can you improve the material of the plastic protective layer to achieve anti-fungal effect?"

The person in charge of NEC's scientific research department thought for a while: "Among the currently known chemicals that can effectively inhibit the reproduction of this fungus, there are potassium permanganate and copper hydroxide. Potassium permanganate is soluble in water, and copper hydroxide It is easy to be decomposed by heat, and it is not suitable as an antibacterial agent for submarine optical cables."

Thales gritted his teeth: "Damn it! This fungus appeared too suddenly."

The executives of the three companies discussed for a long time, but still could not come up with a solution.

Engineering solutions either take detours or require deep diving engineering submarines.

As for the antibacterial plastic solution, there is currently no suitable antibacterial agent.

Now they can only watch all the land-based cable and optical cable manufacturers eat meat, but they can't even drink soup, which is really uncomfortable.

Originally, last year, Internet giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Feishibu began to deploy submarine optical cable business one after another, preparing to recover with self-operation and further expand their business territory.

These Internet giants themselves do not have the ability to lay submarine optical cables, so they can only call for outsourcing.

Tyco, Alcatel-Lucent, and NEC focused on this piece of fat last year, and frequently contacted Internet giants such as Google, hoping to win these submarine optical cable projects.

Unfortunately, people's wishes failed. The emergence of a Tokyo fungus directly exploded the global plastics industry.

Coupled with the aftermath of the economic crisis, the Internet giants have become more cautious about the layout of submarine optical cables.

The plastic protective layer of submarine optical cables in the deep sea can only last for 6 to 8 years. This situation has made many companies operating submarine optical cables very anxious and entangled.

After all, I want to repair it now, and there is no plan to extend the service life of the plastic protective layer.

If it is not repaired, it will be more troublesome to concentrate on repairing after six or seven years.

For cable transformation on land, many areas already have a solution, which is to use copper hydroxide mixed with paint, and then apply it on the surface of the cable. As long as the special paint is applied regularly, the plastic protective layer of the cable can be replaced without replacing it. The service life is extended to about 15-17 years.

Especially in the middle and high latitude regions with cold weather, the service life can be increased to about 30 years.

As for why it has not exceeded 30 years, the main reason is that the plastic itself will also age, and the plastic wire sheath that has been used for about 30 years can basically be scrapped.

However, submarine optical cables are different from land cables. Various components in seawater can easily decompose copper hydroxide, which will cause the antibacterial coating to fail.

This situation caused Tyco, Alcatel-Lucent, and NEC a headache. Even though they invested a lot of research funds, they still did not come up with a cost-effective solution.

If the problem of fungal corrosion is not solved for a day, they will not be able to receive projects. After all, companies that operate submarine optical cables are not being taken advantage of.

Now the major submarine optical cable operating companies are holding that they would rather wait than continue to build additional submarine optical cables at this time.

As a result, Tyco, Alcatel-Lucent, and NEC have not signed a project in the past six months.

As a private enterprise, they are not a giant enterprise like Homo sapiens, and there is no way to maintain it through internal circulation.

At this moment, an employee of NEC hurried in and said a few words in the ear of the president Nobuyoshi Takeda.

Immediately, Takeda Xinyi's face changed drastically.

Chapter 389 It's All About You

Seeing that Nobuyoshi Takeda's expression was wrong, Thales quickly asked:

"Mr. Takeda, what happened?"

Takeda Xinyi's face was extremely ugly: "The Coral Submarine Cable has just been announced to build 19 large submarine optical cables."

"What?" Thales' face also changed dramatically.

The secretary at the side quickly turned on the Internet, and soon found the relevant announcement content on the official website of Coral Submarine Cable.

According to the information released by Coral Submarine Cable.

The laying of these 2024 submarine optical cables will be completed before the end of 19.

And these 19 submarine optical cables are:

Three in the Pacific Ocean: Medan Island-Central America Line, Irian Island-Inca Line, Luzon Island-Vladivostok Line.

Five lines in the Ceylon Ocean: Sumatra Island-Ceylon Island Line, Yangon-Ceylon Island Line, Ceylon Island-Mada Island Line, Ceylon Island-Persian Gulf Line, Ceylon Island-Red Sea-Suez Line.

5 along the coast of Africa: Mada Island-Cape of Good Hope Line, Mada Island-Suez Line, Cape of Good Hope-Gulf of Guinea Line, Gulf of Guinea-Strait of Gibraltar Line, Strait of Gibraltar-Suez Line.

4 along the coast of South America: Central America-Inca Line, Inca-Pampas Line, Pampas-Redwood Federation-Little Venice Line, Little Venice-Caribbean Sea-Central America Line.

2 in the Atlantic Ocean: the Cape of Good Hope-Pampas Line, the Gulf of Guinea-Mahogany Federal Line.

This basically connects Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Northeast Asia, Africa and South America, as well as the vast Pacific island countries.

In fact, the outside world knows that Homo sapiens has many submarine optical cables operated by itself.

For example, on the islands in Southeast Asia, and between Ceylon and Southeast Asia, Homo sapiens has a very high-quality network communication, which cannot be achieved by satellite communication alone.

It’s just that Nobuyoshi Takeda, Thales, Henry Perrin and others never expected that Homo sapiens would move so quickly.