This Game Is Too Realistic

Sim thought he was a genius.

Only relying on some data on paper, he judged the next move of his neighbor.

After discovering the situation, he immediately arranged for his salesmen to go to the nearby mines to buy copper ore, sulfur and other war supplies.

At present, 1,200 tons of copper materials have been stored in the warehouse of the Horseshoe Firm. According to his calculations, the full-power bullets produced by the New Alliance need about 16 to 17 tons of copper for every one million rounds.

To fight a local battle, one to two million rounds of ammunition is necessary, and to take down the entire Xizhou City, at least one to twenty million rounds of ammunition is required.

Marauders aren't stupid, after all.

Under the training of those army instructors, these people have already learned to dig trenches and squat in bunkers. After fighting against the Snake Clan in Honghe Town for several months, they have already experienced how difficult those people are.

Because the Horseshoe Firm has raised its inventory reserve line, increased its purchases of copper ore and other materials, and reduced its shipments, the price of copper ore in Honghe Town has risen by 20%, and the price of sulfur has increased by more than 30%.

And that's just the beginning.

He is still in the stage of sweeping the goods. When he finishes sweeping the goods, the warehouse is full of copper mines. At that time, he will pinch the source of the shipments, and take advantage of the time difference between mines to increase production. It is okay to double or triple the price of copper in a short period of time. question.

Of course.

He can't do this business alone.

Commercial banks do not have the right to issue coupons. Those who can issue coupons are mine owners, and they are just dealers sandwiched between slave owners and merchants.

If you want to increase the price of copper mines, you have to attract at least one or two mine owners with enough influence to cooperate with you.

It's easy for Sim, though.

He has always had a good relationship with the nearby mine owners, and this is not the first time they have cooperated.

...

The Chamber of the Horseshoe Firm.

After listening to Sim's proposal, the man in luxurious clothes frowned slightly hesitantly.

...that sounds like a good idea, but not so good?

The man who spoke was named Dempsey, and he had a lot of power to speak in Honghe Township and even the Mining Association, and all of this was guaranteed by his 500 vicious thugs and a mountain of rubbish that was making money every day.

He admitted that the cakes Sim and himself drew were indeed very attractive, even if they didn't need to be doubled or tripled, but just increased by 20 to 30 percent, it would be enough for him to make crazy money.

However, he still has some concerns in his heart.

The Bonechewers are the common enemy of all survivors.

If the new alliance intends to attack the Bonechewer tribe, it will definitely be a good thing for Honghe Town, both strategically and commercially.

Xizhou City was defeated by the New Alliance, and the left half of the Snake Clan sat on the bullet holes of those blue coats, and the pressure on Honghe Town would be much less.

Although the cake that Sim drew for him was very tempting, Dempsey still instinctively felt that it would be unkind to backstab his ally at this time.

but……

Sim doesn't think so.

My dear friend, you must not think that this is a kind of betrayal. The price increase is a market behavior. According to their buying method, the price of copper will rise sooner or later. If you don't increase the price, will you expand production? We are just Give them a kick on the accelerator.

Dempsey: So they have to thank you?

Sim smiled and said, Of course.

Dempsey always felt that what he said was fallacious, but he couldn't think of a reason to refute it.

How do you need me to cooperate with you?

It's very simple. When necessary, you cooperate with us to issue a production reduction announcement. Whether it is a mining disaster or a failure of mining equipment, in short, reduce the issuance of tickets for the next quarter, but how to produce or how to produce .”

Grasping the armrest of the chair unconsciously, Dempsey said nervously.

What if no one buys it after it's produced?

They issue tickets to avoid this problem.

There are too many uncertainties in spot trading. Before coupons were available, everyone dug up a pile of garbage randomly, but no one bought it at all, and life was full of hunger and fullness.

It wasn't until the merchants in Honghe Town invented the coupons and stuffed the red and blue coupons into the pockets of those passing merchants that they slowly lived a good life.

It is precisely because of this that slave owners like them are more sensitive to the ticket trading model than those major commercial firms that really make a lot of money from tickets.

Knowing what the guy in front of him was worried about, Sim gave him a confident smile.

Take it easy, my friend, imagine if the New Alliance went to war with the Bonechewers tomorrow, wouldn't you still have to worry about the copper you produced being bought? Once the war machine starts, there's no reason to stop, we Just wish they were bought at a 'more reasonable' price.

You don't need to take any risks, and you can take the bulk of the proceeds. Don't worry about the problem of not being able to sell, we are willing to help you!

Hearing the last sentence, Dempsey finally heaved a sigh of relief, and his expression relaxed.

Picking up the pipe on the table, he got up from his chair.

Then do as you say.

He didn't want to think about things that were too difficult, and he couldn't figure them out anyway.

The reason why these commercial houses exist in Honghe Town is precisely because these guys full of evil ideas can help them sell worthless garbage at a better price.

His bionic organs, bionic companions, even the equipment of his thugs, the mining equipment of the slaves, and the bloody mercenaries who fought on the front line... were all bought with money .

As for money?

His understanding was that the red and blue tickets, the dinars of the legion and the cr of the enterprise also counted, although his intuition told him that this was just an appearance, and it was too difficult to really figure it out.

Dempsey knew very well that he didn't have that kind of brain, so it's better to let those who understand worry about it.

He just needs to know he can earn more.

Seeing Dempsey who nodded in agreement, Sim stood up overjoyed and stretched out his right hand.

I wish us a happy cooperation!

Happy cooperation!

The mine boss was sent away.

After returning to the office, Sim finally couldn't hold back and laughed wantonly.

Hahahahaha!

Every time he deals with those mine bosses, it is the happiest time in his life.

Although I just gave them a sip of soup, but every time I told them, You can take the big head, they nodded with conviction.

Copper ore, sulfur... It's a pity that they can produce steel and aluminum by themselves.

Refraining from laughing, Sim who walked to the wall stared at the map for a moment, then continued talking thoughtfully.

It's a surprise though... I thought they'd expand west.

To the south of the new alliance is the Boulder City, and to the east is nearly a hundred kilometers of wasteland, and it is the kind that has no water source.

Compared with going north, the benefits of going west will obviously be greater.

After all, Qingquan City is located in the middle of the southern plains of the River Valley Province. Going west, there are lakes and rivers, and it is dominated by plains and forests, with only a few hills.

And if you go north, you will plunge into the mountains.

Why bother?

There is no treasure there.

At this time, a knock on the door of the office interrupted Sim's thoughts.

Please come in.

The door opened.

His subordinate Enjiete came in from the outside with a list in his hand.

Boss, today's inventory data is out, and our copper reserves have grown to 500 tons!

very good!

Sim's face was filled with a bright smile, and he was a big step closer to his 1,000-ton plan.

By the way, boss... We went to the caravan in Dawn City and heard a rumor there. I think you might be more concerned.

Sim: What rumor?

Enjiete hesitated for a moment, then whispered.

...They heard from the people in the tavern that a copper mine with a reserve of one million tons was discovered in the mountainous area north of Yuanxi Town.

Sim was stunned for a moment, then laughed and cursed.

Crap!

These cunning blue gophers are pretty smart.

It only increased by 20%, and I realized that someone was following them to sweep the goods.

But this method of counterattack is really a little childish.

Is it possible that the new alliance has actually discovered a copper mine with a reserve of one million tons?

Of course there is!

But this possibility is too small, and the timing is too coincidental!

Didn't discover it sooner or later, but discovered it when the price of copper was rising?

And it's still a million tons, so it must be a big vein.

Liar!

If they really found a copper mine with such a large reserve, based on their demand for copper, they would definitely repair the road at the first time, and then set up an outpost there...

etc.

road? !

Sim's expression changed slightly, and he returned to the map, staring at the railway line on the map.

According to the information collected by the caravan under his firm, the New Alliance has been laying a railway northward. Currently, the railway has been laid from the industrial area of ​​Dawn City to the edge of the Elm District.

Before, he couldn't figure out why the new alliance had to go northward without much effort.

But now, he vaguely guessed their intention to do so.

If that rumor is true...

Is the rumor reliable? Are there any other clues?

Looking at the boss with an ugly face, Enjiete shook his head quickly.

there is none left!

With his arms folded on his chest and his back to his subordinates, Sim, who was staring at the map, bit his thumb, his mind spinning rapidly.

After a while, he calmed down.

So what if copper mines are discovered?

Mining always takes time.

Looking back at his subordinates, Sim immediately ordered.

Let our caravan pay more attention to this news, I need to know more information!

Engett nodded quickly.

yes!

...

Have you heard? A copper mine was discovered in Yuanxi Town!

real or fake?

I don't know! I also heard from the drunkard in the road town hotel! I heard from those people that those blue coats had the geographic information data of the United Times in their hands. They had discovered the copper mine in Yuanxi Town a long time ago, but they never Zhang Zhang, I was planning to start work recently, so I leaked the news!

It makes sense to me... why else would they lay the railroad all the way north? Is there anything to transport there?

Speaking of which, has any of you been to Yuanxi Town?

What are you going to do there? There is not even a post station, and the north of Yuanxi Town is Chewbone. All the soldiers stationed there are soldiers from the New Alliance. Wandering around there, be careful not to be caught by spies who are regarded as looters. It will take half a day to explain.

Dawn City.

The door of the trading post.

A few merchants waiting for the delivery of the goods lined up and bragged there.

They are all merchants from Honghe Town, but the business they do is different.

While they were chatting, an electric mule drove into the trading post.

Seeing the drum-shaped equipment unloaded from the carriage by the stevedores, many people who know the goods showed surprised expressions in their eyes.

Multi-cylinder hydraulic crusher?

I've seen this thing before. It's imported from Boulder City. I heard that second-hand equipment costs 20,000 chips.

...It seems to be true.

Beside the truck with the badge of the Horseshoe Firm printed on it, the caravan leader's expression was a little dignified.

That night, he reported the news to the person in charge of the firm.

In fact, he didn't have to report at all.

Within a few days, the news of the discovery of a huge copper mine in Yuanxi Town spread to Honghe Town along the trade route.

As one of the main buyers of copper mines produced in Honghe Town, the new alliance discovered copper mines, which is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for those big mine owners who rely on exporting copper mines for bullets, shells and other industrial products .

When the wave broke out in Qingquan City before, the new alliance increased the purchase of copper mines. They made a lot of money from trading copper ores, and some powerful mine owners took advantage of the opportunity to increase production.

If the price of copper mines fluctuates greatly in the future, or even goes all the way down...

Regardless of whether production will be cut in the next quarter, for those mine owners, the top priority now is to take advantage of the inflated copper price to get rid of their inventory as much as possible.

Yes.

It seems that the new alliance is about to fight, but it has not yet been fought.

War is expected, and so is the discovery of copper mines.

These are clues they analyzed based on limited information, not official documents written in black and white.

The increase in the purchase of copper mines can be interpreted as an increase in munitions reserves, and of course it can also be interpreted as an increase in electrical equipment. The use of nitric acid and sulfuric acid is not only for making shells, but also for pickling in steelmaking and many other industries. .

Any logic has pros and cons.

But one thing is likely to happen.

If the new alliance does find copper...

If we can't handle the war, we have to slow down.

Honghe Town does not have only one firm, nor does it have only one mine.

When the price of copper rose before, many people tacitly followed the horseshoe firm to sweep the goods, but now they tacitly lowered the reserve line of copper mines and threw the copper in their hands out of the market.

When the growth rate of shipments significantly exceeds the growth rate of demand, it is also obvious what will happen next.

Sim soon vomited blood and found that before he had time to backstab his neighbor, he was stabbed in the back by one of his own people first.

This bunch of dog things were sold in a random manner, and they brought down the 20% price that he had finally pushed up.

The warehouses of the Horseshoe Firm are now full of copper.

Just because of that copper mine that I don't know if it exists, the mine owners and business owners in the entire Honghe Town have become idiots.

Yes.

Just stupid.

At least in Sim's eyes, these people were only a little smarter than donkeys, no more.

This group of stupid things, can't they wait a little longer!

So what if they have copper mines? I'm assuming they do! Will copper ingots grow out of the ground by themselves tomorrow?

Angry roars filled the office.

Enjiete, who was standing aside, held his breath, not daring to take a breath.

After finally venting enough, Sim looked at him and said word by word.

How much budget do we have!

Enjiete answered quickly.

Without affecting other businesses... we can still buy about 700 tons, Enjiete looked at the boss cautiously, Actually, we could only buy more than 400 tons, but recently the price of copper has dropped a bit, so we can buy more than 400 tons. Bought more…”

700 tons!

Compared with the nearly 10,000-ton reserves released by these idiots, it's a drop in the bucket!

Sim, who was so angry that he almost vomited blood, took a deep breath to calm himself down.

Excluding these procurement budgets, he no longer has enough coupons to buy more copper mines from mine owners.

Borrow someone else's ticket?

This is not enough to borrow!

Besides, even if he could borrow it, it was impossible for him to rely on his own firm to eat all the goods that overflowed from the inventory of other firms and mines.

Once he really did this, his end would be from a person who cut leeks to a leek who was cut by others.

Who is most worried about falling copper prices?

That must be the person who bought it with N times leverage.

Once other firms find out that they have accumulated a warehouse of copper mines with a pile of debts on their backs, they will definitely laugh like crazy, and then decisively sell more copper mines to him.

In fact, there is no need for N times, as long as 80% of the copper in the market is in his hands, no matter whether he adds 80% leverage or 800% leverage, he will be a taker.

These bloody blue gophers!

Sim held back for a long time, but couldn't figure out how to scold those people in the northern suburbs, and finally squeezed out this sentence through his teeth.

Up to now, he still firmly believes that the new alliance will definitely send troops to the Bonechewer Horde.

But what good is it that he believes?

Can the market be influenced by a person's cognition?

Old, boss, Enjiet said cautiously, shall we still buy it?

Buy Nima!

Sim couldn't help cursing.

Looking at his bewildered subordinates, he took a deep breath and controlled his emotions.

Inventory reserve lines remain unchanged...

Enjiete hesitated: The copper in the warehouse...

Sim gritted his teeth and said.

Keep it!

He's a big money maker.

Those stupid asses who have done more than fail can sell as much as they want, even if the price of copper ore falls to the same price as iron ore, he will not sell.

This battle will be fought sooner or later!

It will grow back sooner or later!

...

Don't you want to make a fortune with your brother?

Don't blame my brother for not helping you, buy it quickly, if you don't buy it, you won't be able to buy it!

Looking at the report sent by the military base in Honghe Town, Chu Guang couldn't help laughing.

The news is that he put it right, but he didn't expect it to be so effective.

Copper ore prices fell 37%!

The supply is magnified by four times!

And this was based on two weeks ago, the effect of the smoke bomb far exceeded Chu Guang's initial expectations.

He originally wanted the price to return to rationality. As a result, when the mine owners and business owners heard that the new alliance had discovered copper mines, one or two lowered the copper mine reserve line in their own warehouses, not just buying copper with him. The horseshoe merchants of the mines were full of goods, and the caravans formed by the new alliance were also full of cheap copper mines.

Since copper ore is mostly in the form of sulphides, the price of sulfur has also been affected.

Considering that their major customers may not buy these two things from them in the future, it is the safest choice to reduce the inventory while they can sell for a good price.

Once the sell-off begins, though, emotions, not logic, are likely to dominate the market.

In the end, not only the major commercial firms were selling them, but the caravans who came to Honghe Town also chose to wait to see if they could buy cheaper ones.

And big copper mine consumers like the New Alliance naturally became the biggest winners.

In fact, knocking down Honghe Town is of course an option, and it won't be difficult.

A bit more insidious, Chu Guang sent a mission directly, asking the players who supported Honghe Town on the front line to turn their guns to attack the surrounding NPCs, directly tear a gap in the defense line, put the predators of the Snake clan in, and send troops to clean up the mess at that time .

One regiment is enough.

The only risk is that the Ya Clan got news from the Snake Clan and took the opportunity to go south to fight the autumn wind and encircle Wei to save Zhao.

After all, it is not a turn-based game. When you do it yourself, the probability of others standing still is very small.

But here is the problem.

Since it is not a turn-based game, the war still has to be calculated according to the means and reasons of the war object.

This reason is divided into internal and external two.

Internally, the emancipation of the slaves is enough. The residents of the new alliance support him from the bottom of their hearts, and the players are only concerned with an expansion pack.

Using the planned vest to issue the declaration of war notice can save even the explanation, and the best place for players to use it is here. If you can explain it, use the plot to justify it, and if you can't explain it, use the setting to explain it.

The filial son of Lordaeron can kill his father with a single sword, my manager is in a bad mood today, what's wrong with stabbing a teammate in black? It's reasonable to not sign a covenant!

But to the outside world, this reason is difficult to explain.

From Boulder City to Garbage City, to other distant survivor settlements, although they are all opposed to looters, none of them are anti-slavery, only some recognize legality, and some allow trade but not private execution.

There are many slaves in the mines in Honghe Town, and they are also plunderers caught by other survivors' settlements.

Use the reason of liberating the slaves to announce them, it is better not to make this excuse at all, start the fight with a disagreement, and the fight is over when others look confused, and the impact of expansion will be smaller.

Using the abolition of slavery as an excuse for war, the debuff of diplomatic punishment might be higher than that of the Bonechewer.

Some things need soil, and advanced people can be equipped with advanced ideas. Whether it is Vault 117 or Vault 401, there is only one reason for their failure in the final analysis, that is, they did not consider the actual situation of the wasteland, or Considered but can't let go of the reservedness of civilized people.

What they think is good, maybe others don't.

They can see things ten years later, but the people they manage may just want to live in the present.

Just like Boss Xia always liked to play fish and be lazy before, although Chu Guang often teased her, he never really threw her out.

He wasn't born to be a manager either. Having lived at the bottom, he understood how she felt in that position.

Not everything is right or wrong.

On the contrary, Xiaoyu's well-behaved and sensible appearance sometimes makes him feel bad.

Looking at the manager with an optimistic face, Old Charlie still had a worried expression on his face.

Falling prices for raw materials are certainly cause for joy.

But if they fall too fast, they will eventually hurt themselves.

I have to remind you that the drop in the price of copper mines and sulfur is due to the release of inventories, not the increase in production capacity. If those mine owners cut production accordingly, the price of copper mines may grow even higher in a few months. high.

You're right, so in the end we have to rely on ourselves to solve the supply of raw materials.

Chu Guang put down the report in his hand, and looked at old Charlie who was standing opposite the desk.

According to the data fed back from the logistics department, we have already stockpiled 700 tons of copper, and about 1,200 tons are still on the way. These resources are enough for our consumption in the next three months!

With the current production efficiency of the industrial zone, it takes 16.7 tons of copper to produce 1 million rounds of bullets.

Just to make bullets, the 1,200 tons of copper can make more than 71 million rounds.

It doesn't take so many bullets to fight Xizhou City, not even half of it.

At the beginning, he only planned to prepare 5 million rounds of ammunition, and then he could produce while shooting.

It is estimated that by the end of the war, the total consumption of ammunition will not exceed 10 million rounds.

...You really don't leave any room for yourself.

Looking at the surprised old man, Chu Guang smiled lightly, got up and walked to the wall, looking at the marks on the map and said softly.

I will liberate Xizhou from the Bonechewer within a month.

Our mining teams will go out with equipment, along with the shells we send to the front.

After that, whether the copper and sulfur in our neighbor's house is expensive or cheap, it has nothing to do with us.

Anyway, we won't buy from them in the future.