Chapter 1776: Timber

California, Los Angeles, Santa Monica.

The production of the Su-57 will not be completed immediately, but before that, the squeeze of the eagle sauce on the rabbit is getting stronger day by day.

Standing by the window of his office with a cup of coffee, Fidel looks out at the sweltering streets and buildings. He had no thoughts or thoughts at the moment, he just wanted a moment of peace.

After the rabbit publicly detonated the "F-22 lost" incident, the government and military of Yingjiang were in a mess. And then Valina flew into Tokyo Bay by herself, which stretched the already sensitive nerves of Eagle Sauce's executives to the limit.

As the CIA senior intelligence officer who "recovered the F-22", Fidel had to become a scapegoat and take full responsibility. When the U.S. military recalled all F-22s deployed overseas and stepped up the verification of its improved models with an additional budget, Fidel also resigned from the CIA with dignity. He turned and went to 'Rand'.

The well-known RAND Corporation, a comprehensive strategic research and decision-making consulting organization, has considerable influence on the Yingjiang government and the military. Fidel has endured a lot of pressure in the process of being a scapegoat, and entering the "Rand" can be regarded as a little compensation for him.

The department where Fidel works is the Asia-Pacific Regional Policy Research Center, which, to put it bluntly, studies rabbits.

The most famous story of "Rand" is that it successfully predicted the Korean War before it happened, and wrote a consulting report trying to sell it to the Ministry of Defense of the Eagle Sauce. But..., this story is just like the "contest in the summer camp" back then, it was fabricated by some literati in China.

However, it is true that RAND pays attention to rabbits. They have deduced thousands of wars in the Taiwan Strait, and have also studied how to divide the rabbit territory into four parts according to ethnic composition. As for the other reports of curbing rabbits, they are really endless and overwhelming.

After Fidel joined 'Rand', he took over an old-fashioned topic, 'The threat of rabbits to the eagle sauce, and how to deal with it'.

In the past, the Yingjiang military sang the "rabbit threat theory" in order to ask for military expenses, but this time it was for real. It's not when the rabbit will threaten Yingjiang, but it is already threatening, even provoking.

Many people in Eagle Sauce demand that the government sanction the rabbits, and there are not a few crazy people who even suggest launching a military strike. But how to deal with it requires careful planning.

After finishing a cup of coffee, Fidel returned to his desk. There are a lot of reference documents for his subject to copy, but he still wants to dig something new to prove..., to prove that the current threat of rabbits is far beyond people's imagination.

Putting aside the current tense military relationship between the two countries, and even the recently hotly hyped military cooperation between the two countries, Fidel wants to draw an argument from an earlier economic aspect. He asked his assistant to find various economic data of rabbits in the past two years,

Hope to gain something.

The sound of ticking mouse buttons kept ringing, and one file after another was opened. Time passed while reading various reports. After reading the documents for about a week, Fidel was stunned to find something contrary to common sense.

"Since half a year ago, rabbits have implemented a quota system for imported commodities. Since rabbits are already an important market for global commodities, the introduction of quota imports immediately caused great turmoil, and the prices of raw materials including oil fell accordingly. But the follow-up situation The development is very strange?"

The relationship between the petroleum industry is complicated, and it is very troublesome to study. Fidel did not look at the big item of oil, he chose the import and export of timber as an indicator for analysis.

Eagle sauce is extremely rich in forestry resources. Ordinary Yankees would rather use wood than reinforced concrete to build a small villa because wood is cheap. Rabbits have a great demand for wood in recent years, and they are the world's largest wood importer.

However, since half a year ago, the import volume of rabbits' timber has dropped like a cliff. This has led to a sharp drop in the profits of traditional timber exporting countries such as Xiongda, Canada, Eagle Sauce, and New Zealand.

Correspondingly, the domestic wood processing and export of rabbits have not been affected at all, and are even increasing, and the price is still falling. Several countries in Europe and the United States are scolding rabbits as dumping, and they are going to conduct anti-dumping investigations-this is really fucking hell!

"Coniferous logs, plummeted; Douglas fir, plummeted; hemlock logs, plummeted; spruce, cedar, ponderosa pine, all plummeted. Odd thing is that rabbits don't import lumber from us, and imports from Xiongda have dropped significantly amount, does it really re-harvest its own timber?"

The collapse of the timber market has been studied for a long time, and the industry is wailing. Everyone blames the rabbits for re-harvesting domestic timber instead of imports. But Fidel has worked in the CIA, so he naturally has other information channels. Instead of increasing, timber harvesting in Rabbit’s country is decreasing.

But why is it that almost all the furniture factories in Rabbit China are desperately producing? The influx of a large amount of cheap wood has brought great prosperity to various wood processing industries.

In the past, a random hardwood desk in Rabbit’s country could easily sell for one or two thousand yuan, and a set of combined furniture would cost tens of thousands even if it was made of glued particle boards, but now it only costs seven to eight thousand yuan to use good solid wood boards. Factors such as labor, equipment depreciation, and factory buildings have not changed, but the price of raw materials has changed.

The prices of various timbers on the market are public, and have been greatly reduced since half a year ago. Up to now, the cheap ones are only one-fourth or even one-fifth of the past, and even the precious wood is only one-third of the past.

At the beginning, some timber merchants thought that the price reduction was temporary, and immediately sold a batch of valuable timber. For example, North American walnut, oak, and hemlock are popular in the market. Many people even mortgage their real estate to buy desperately, just waiting for the price to rise before making a fortune.

As a result, the price did not go up when it fell, and it hit the bottom all the way. The key is that it’s fine if the price falls, and it’s a big deal to wait for a year or two before the price rises.

However, there are more and more precious woods emerging on the market, the amount is hundreds of times that of the past supply, and the subsequent supply of wood will not be exhausted.

Hundreds of times the supply, how can this hoarder live?

In the past, a piece of good wood was hard to find, and it was hyped to be priced by the gram. But now that the wood in the warehouse is full of compensation in their own hands, many people want to cry but have no tears.

It's just that the large supply of precious wood has really set the furniture industry on fire. Things that used to be affordable for the rich can now be consumed by ordinary wage earners. And the consumption of this class is much higher than that of the rich, and the market has also expanded hundreds of times.

Many things can be reflected from a wood processing industry....

The rabbit yells every day that he is pessimistic about the future economy. As a result, other countries are unlucky. Not only are they not pessimistic, but they are very optimistic.

Timber is only a small branch of modern industry, and the wood processing industry does not have much impact on the national economy. But there are many other industries similar to wood processing, all of which are caused by the sharp drop in raw materials and the drop in commodity prices, which in turn promotes consumption.

However, the population of rabbits is too large, and the amount of consumption seems to be decreasing, but the commodities that can be consumed are increasing. For a country, money is just a number, and the circulation and consumption of commodities are real development.

And the economic stimulus in the past six months has been accompanied by an extremely huge social driving force, and it also hides unpredictable secrets.

As a former intelligence officer, Fidel has always believed that it is useless to simply list data, and one must find out the root cause behind the incident—so how did Rabbit manage to drop the price of raw materials?

Without clarifying this issue, any report is nonsense. Fidel finally decided to go to the Rabbit Country to investigate in person, and he felt that he should uncover this secret.