Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Story of the Chaebol

As the first country to possess nuclear weapons, South China's application of nuclear energy is naturally the strongest in the world.

Since the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the country, Nanhua has been on a roll. To date, a total of nine large-scale nuclear power plants have been built in the entire Nanhua territory. The emergence of these nuclear power plants has not only greatly solved the problem of domestic power shortage, but also greatly strengthened Nanhua's research progress on the second-generation nuclear power plants due to the accumulation of a large amount of experience.

"Your Majesty, where would be a good place for us to build the first second-generation nuclear power plant?"

"Let's put it in Africa. The crustal movement in the South Pacific is too active. It's too risky to build a nuclear power plant here. There are still many problems with the second-generation nuclear power plants that have not been verified. When the technology is fully mature, we can consider building a nuclear power plant in the South Pacific."

Of the nine nuclear power plants currently operated by South China, none is built in Southeast Asia.

The main reason is that the frequency of various natural disasters in Nanyang is too high. In addition, the nuclear power technology in Nanhua is not mature enough. If any problems arise, it will easily trigger a chain reaction.

"By the way, how is the locust plague in Africa being dealt with?"

As one of the most troublesome natural disasters for humans, humans have had no good way to deal with locust plagues since ancient times.

Since the founding of Nanhua, there have been a total of four locust plagues in the country.

During these four locust plagues, the country was simply unable to deal with the first two, and ultimately could only mobilize food from other parts of the country to rescue the affected areas.

But when the third locust plague came, it was already the mid-1950s, and South China's national strength had begun to slowly grow stronger.

In order to solve the locust plague that time, Nanhua thought of many ways.

Burning, poisoning, eating poultry, in short, Nanhua tried every method they could think of.

In fact, the methods used by Nanhua were completely ineffective against the large-scale locust groups, so the effect of controlling the locust plague that time was not very good.

After learning from the previous lesson, Nanhua began to vigorously promote the raising of poultry such as chickens and ducks that like to eat locusts among the people in Africa.

The Nanhua native breed 'Koda Duck' is a new breed of commercial duck. Its biggest feature is that it can eat a lot and grows fast. In the diet of this duck, locusts are definitely their favorite food.

Therefore, in South China's African territory, the number of this type of ducks raised has already exceeded 200 million.

It is precisely because of the existence of this kind of duck that when there was a locust plague in Africa this time, other places were severely affected, and only the central and southern African regions owned by Nanhua were unscathed.

This is not to say that there are no locusts in central and southern Africa, but these locusts have just arrived in this part of the country and have directly entered the stomachs of local Pikachus.

Pikachu can eat and poop, and grows fast.

If you calculate it all, this wave of locust plague not only did not bring too much economic loss to South China, but instead made the farmers in South China's African region make a lot of money.

What are locusts?

This thing is the most nutritious food for Psyduck.

Through biological control and manual capture, this locust plague brought a total profit of more than 3 billion South Korean yuan to South China.

"The locust plague over there has subsided. Because the scale of this plague is smaller than the previous three times, many local people still feel unsatisfied. After all, many local farms are now buying locusts. It is said that an unemployed man in Handuo City took his family out to catch locusts during the locust plague. In less than three months, his family earned a total of more than 700,000 South Yuan."

"Why are there so many?"

Seven hundred thousand Southern Yuan was certainly not a lot of money for Sun Jingwen, but for ordinary people, this amount of money was enough for a family of nine to live a wealthy life for more than a decade.

"I don't know the details, I just know that this man has a special way of catching locusts. During the locust plague, he caught a total of 9000 tons of locusts. According to the local purchase price of 80 South yuan per ton of locusts, this man's income is indeed more than 70 yuan."

“Why is the purchase price so low?”

The selling price of locust feed is 200 yuan per ton. You should know that this kind of feed is not made entirely of locusts, but other things are added to it, so the cost should be lower.

"After all, the factory has to make money, so the people are quite accepting of their purchase price. Your Majesty, you may not know that many local people are saying that it would be great if the locust plague could come every year."

"That's nonsense. The locust plague over there is no longer a threat to humans, but it is still extremely destructive to the local natural environment. If it happens every year, all the local wild animals and plants will become extinct."

"Everyone is just talking about it. It's impossible for there to be a locust plague every year. After all, given the local efforts to kill locusts, the locusts also need to recover their population, right?"