I bring technology to my hometown to get rich

Chapter 519 The Great Change of the Times is Like a Mountain Pressing Down
Inside the port of Nanyang Lion City.

Port worker John Li looked at the empty port in front of him with boredom, and the bustling scenes of the past emerged in his mind.

It used to be one of the largest, busiest and most lively ports in the world.

A large number of large ships dock here every day, and mountains of containers are piled up on the dock waiting to be transshipped here.

It is very busy here every day, with endless containers being loaded and unloaded, endless oil being refueled, and large ships being unable to stop.

The large number of large cargo ships that travel here every day are like a huge and endless source of living water, bringing huge wealth here and turning this small city into one of the world's largest aviation and shipping hubs.

It is also one of the world's largest international shipping supply centers, rest centers, and cargo transit centers; it is also Asia's largest futures trading center and financial center.

It attracts more than 1200 million tourists every year, and the tourism industry alone can generate more than tens of billions of dollars in revenue.

But now all that has changed.

As the number of large anti-gravity spacecraft increased, these anti-gravity spacecraft quickly seized the cargo ship transportation market, resulting in fewer and fewer cargo ships sailing in major oceans around the world.

Every day, a large number of cargo ships begin to run ashore and be scrapped. Many of them are not even old enough to be scrapped, but because they can no longer receive orders and have high freight costs.

Ship owners have no choice but to scrap these cargo ships in advance, so that they no longer have to maintain personnel expenses, carry out maintenance and repairs, etc.

Anyway, these ships are basically anchored in the port now and are no longer receiving any orders.

Currently, 99% of the world's cross-regional freight transportation is carried out using anti-gravity spacecraft.

These anti-gravity spacecraft are fast, have low transportation costs, and more importantly, have no restrictions. They can be transported to any corner of the world without any transit.

Whether it is an island country or an inland area, as long as you give a coordinate, it can fly directly over, and they don’t even need special ports or docks.

As long as there is a flat ground, you can dock and take off and land. It is very convenient and you don’t need to spend a huge amount of money to build special ports, airports, etc.

The speed of anti-gravity spacecraft is extremely fast, even faster than that of airplanes, at several times the speed of sound. Its efficiency is much, much faster than that of traditional ships.

Traditional ship transportation often requires the goods to be transported to the port first, and then the port loads the goods onto the cargo ship.

After the cargo ship is transported to a port near the destination, it needs to be unloaded and then transported to the destination by car.

The whole process takes a lot of time, often dozens of days, and some even take several months.

But this is not necessary when using an anti-gravity aircraft. You can even place an order directly to the manufacturer. The manufacturer will entrust a transportation company to use the anti-gravity aircraft to transport the goods to any designated location in the world within a few hours.

How can you compare it with traditional cargo ships?
There is also the issue of transportation costs. Anti-gravity spacecraft are powered by electricity, while traditional cargo ships are powered by oil, so there is no comparability in costs.

Moreover, air transportation can be in a straight line, but cargo ships need to take routes. In addition, the freighter takes a lot of time on the journey, all of which have to be included in the cost.

The transportation cost of an anti-gravity spacecraft is less than one-tenth of that of a traditional cargo ship, so the cost is extremely low.

Due to these three factors, anti-gravity spacecraft snatched away all the global cargo in just a few years.

Not only the cargo ship transportation was taken away, but also the aircraft transportation industry was completely robbed.

The great changes of the times are like a mountain rolling over at an unimaginable speed, crushing traditional sea and air transport and ruthlessly eliminating them into the dust of history.

"Ugh!"

John Lee sighed heavily.

As the traditional Spring Festival is approaching, he can clearly feel that the New Year atmosphere here is becoming increasingly weak.

In the past, at this time of year, lights and decorations were hung everywhere in preparation for the Spring Festival.

However, now, no one is in the mood to celebrate the festival.

The five major industries that people rely on for survival here are petrochemical industry, semiconductor manufacturing, biopharmaceuticals, transportation hub transit, and financial futures!
These five major industries are no longer doing well, and it can even be said that they are completely failing.

Not to mention the transit at the transportation hub, in the past, thanks to being located on a major shipping route, the company made a lot of money simply by providing transit, refueling, and rest services to passing ships.

This area is now completely shut down. Global cargo transportation is basically completed by anti-gravity spacecraft. They will never stop here, nor will they transfer or rest here, let alone charge here.

The petrochemical industry also rapidly declined with the rise of anti-gravity spacecraft.

In the past, the petrochemical industry was able to develop because of its geographical location. There are many advantages to building an oil refinery here. On the one hand, it is the geographical advantage that allows us to obtain large amounts of oil from all over the world.

After the oil is refined, it is made into various chemical industries and can be sold all over the world through the developed shipping here.

Nowadays, the transportation of oil is basically carried out using anti-gravity spacecraft, so there is no advantage here.

People all over the world can build their own refineries and, after purchasing oil, transport it directly to their own refineries to be refined into various chemical products. There is no need for you to make a profit in the middle.

The semiconductor manufacturing industry is also in trouble. With the strong rise of Feiyun Technology, Feiyun Technology's technology level in the fields of electronic technology and semiconductors is the most advanced in the world, and it is also the world's largest chip consumer.

Whether it is the chips needed for virtual machines or the chips needed for anti-gravity aircraft, they are all chips manufactured by Feiyun Technology itself.

These two markets are the two largest pieces of cake in the electronic chip market. As for the other pieces of cake, they have all been divided up by themselves. Since the largest market is in their hands, of course they will give priority to using their own products.

The semiconductor industry here will come to a complete halt and will never develop again.

The same is true for biopharmaceuticals.

Currently, the world's largest and most advanced biopharmaceutical company is Feiyun Biotech Group. Feiyun Biotech Group has extremely strong financial resources and technological capabilities. As it continues to expand its product lines, it is taking up more and more market share.

This makes life increasingly difficult for biopharmaceutical companies around the world.

There is no comparison, no comparison at all.

The last industry is financial futures.

This industry is no longer doing well. The reason why it was able to become one of the financial futures centers in the past was because it relied on its geographical advantages, freight and shipping advantages, and it was also based on Dao Le that it was able to become a financial and futures center.

Now Rabbit Coin has become Rabbit Gold, which has changed the old order. At the same time, Jiangzhou, relying on the interstellar mining industry, has rapidly developed into the world's largest futures market. Naturally, the futures market here has quickly declined.

Moreover, this place is no longer a global freight or transit center, and the number of passengers traveling here has also dropped sharply, causing the tourism industry here to rapidly decline.

After all, the scenery here is almost all man-made, with no natural landscapes.

Artificial scenery is meant to be replicable, not unique.

In addition, with the popularity of anti-gravity aircraft, travel around the world is faster and more frequent, and people have more options for travel. Who will come to your place to see the man-made scenery?
Several major industries have collectively suffered heavy losses, the kind that you have absolutely no way to recover from, making the economy here extremely bad.

This used to be one of the richest places in the world.

A place with a population of only a few million can have a GDP of more than 5000 billion US dollars a year, and its per capita GDP always ranks among the highest in the world.

However, in recent years, the economy here has been declining rapidly, regressing at a terrifying rate every year.

Up to now, the total GDP here is less than 1000 billion gold. The purchasing power of gold now is about the same as that of the previous gold. In other words, the current economy is less than one-fifth of the previous one.

This is last year's data. This year's data will be even worse. It has not been released yet, but everyone knows that this year's data will probably be even worse, maybe only about 60 to 70 billion yuan.

The per capita GDP may be only around 1 gold, and it is about to fall directly from a developed region to a developing region.

Due to the economic downturn, the unemployment rate has skyrocketed and the income has plummeted. However, the land here is small and everything has to be imported.

In the past, we were able to rely on the five major industries to earn sufficient foreign exchange to purchase a variety of goods.

But now, there is no effective means to earn foreign exchange, and everything needs to be imported. Foreign exchange is decreasing at a terrifying rate and it cannot be sustained for much longer.

Everyone is worried and anxious about tomorrow.

If the situation does not improve and a new way out is not found, everyone will have problems with food in the future.

Even fresh water has to be imported from our next-door neighbor. If you don’t have money, even drinking water will be a problem.

People were in no mood to celebrate any festivals. The great changes of the times came too fast and too suddenly.

In just a few years, anti-gravity aircraft have become rapidly popular, replacing not only the traditional automobile and aircraft industries, but also the shipbuilding industry.

At the same time, it has had a huge, far-reaching and rapid impact and change on global freight, shipping, logistics, economy, etc.

Those who adapt to this change will be able to take off, while those who cannot will naturally be eliminated.

It feels like going back to the past overnight.

In the past, this was just a small fishing port. It was poor and backward, and even drinking water was a problem.

However, they seized the trend and opportunities of the times and, relying on their favorable geographical location, developed shipping transit, freight transit, introduced petrochemical smelting, and developed the service industry.

That’s why this place took off quickly and developed economically extremely rapidly, which made this place prosperous.

After becoming wealthy, they developed shipping, making it an international shipping transit center, and at the same time they started finance, futures, tourism, etc.

Now with the emergence of new means of transportation, the old shipping and freight have been completely changed.

This place has gradually changed from a shipping center and cargo center to an ordinary place, and is no longer an important global shipping center and cargo center.

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This alone makes its decline inevitable and irreversible, because times have changed.

Just like in ancient times, when sea transportation was not well developed, land transportation, canal transportation and river transportation were the main means of transportation.

The Grand Canal was once extremely glorious.

Yangzhou along the way is even more famous. There are songs like "Yangzhou with fireworks in March", "The merchant woman knows not the sorrow of losing her country", "The song of the back garden is still sung across the river", etc. Yangzhou, financial areas and other places relying on the Grand Canal were all famous prosperous and wealthy places in ancient times.

Moreover, the Grand Canal gave rise to the famous Huizhou merchants, Huai merchants, Zhejiang merchants, etc. in history.

Almost all areas along the Grand Canal have benefited from this river and live much better than other places.

In modern times, with the development of maritime transportation, coastal areas have also developed.

In ancient times, coastal areas were notoriously poor places and were far less prosperous than inland areas.

In modern times, coastal areas have become wealthy areas, while inland areas have become poor areas.

This is the tremendous influence brought about by the development and changes of the times.

"Ugh!"

Li John sighed heavily again and saw that it was time to get off work.

Pack up and drive home.

Yes, in this age when flying machines have become popular, he is still driving.

There is no way, because this place is too small and is not suitable for aircraft at all. Relatively speaking, cars are more convenient.

When I got home, my wife Lin Danni was cooking dinner. While busy, she was complaining about the sharp rise in prices and the sharp drop in salary income, which made it impossible to maintain a decent life.

"John, why is it that everything is fine and we did nothing wrong, why did it become like this?"

"The latest news is that if nothing changes, we might not even have a way to eat or drink water."

While eating, his wife Lin Danni was very puzzled and discussed the current affairs with Li Yuehan. This has almost become the most discussed matter and topic among people here.

Yes, they feel that they have done nothing wrong, but now their lives are becoming more and more difficult.

"When Nokia went bankrupt, their CEO said the same thing: we didn't do anything wrong, but I don't know why we lost!"

"It's the same with us now. We haven't done anything wrong, but we just can't do it anymore."

"Because the times have changed, it's not something that eliminates us, but the times."

"The great changes of the times are like a huge mountain pressing down on us. Let alone a small place like ours, look at Europe and America. Aren't they also getting miserable now?"

Li John said with a heavy sigh.

"Is it true that we can't change anything?"

Lin Danni said unwillingly: "We used to be so glorious and rich, but now we are getting poorer and poorer. If we continue like this, we won't even be able to afford food."

"It can't be changed!"

"We are no longer a shipping center or a cargo center. We have also lost our status as a financial center and a futures center. These are things that cannot be restored. Unless anti-gravity technology does not appear and cargo transportation still relies on sea transportation as before, we can return to the past."

"In the future, our place will gradually return to peace and normalcy, just like most places in the world."

Li John shook his head and said, "Perhaps what we can do is to let our children learn Chinese. If they learn Chinese, there may be more opportunities in the future."

Most of the older generation here can speak Chinese, but the younger generation is more focused on learning English. Fewer and fewer people can speak Chinese, and even fewer can read and write.

John Li and his wife Danni Lin are typical young people of the new era. They can speak a lot of Chinese, but their reading and writing skills are very poor. They have been educated in English since childhood.

"Learn Chinese?"

Lin Danni was slightly surprised.

"The center of the world has changed. It is no longer in the Western Hemisphere, but has shifted to the Eastern Hemisphere."

"Learning Chinese will be good for their future."

Li John said with a wry smile.

"Hearing what you said, it's time for them to learn Chinese well."

Lin Danni thought about it and nodded in agreement.

"I won't learn it. Don't you say Chinese is a backward language and writing system?"

"Why do you want me to learn it now?"

At this time, their son Li William said unhappily.

"Uh~"

When they heard this, they suddenly didn't know how to tell their children.

They had said this before, because Li William asked them, and that's what they told the children.

After all, in the past, they looked down on it from the bottom of their hearts. They have been constantly abandoning Chinese and many traditional things, and even thought that these things are bad, backward and ignorant.

It is even popular among the younger generation to completely break away from the old language, writing, customs, etc. and to completely westernize.

Now that the boomerang has hit back at them, they suddenly don’t know how to educate their children.

"Because Chinese has become very important now, learning it will give you more opportunities."

Li John thought for a moment and explained: "Times have changed!"

"We must adapt to the trend of the times, so that we can develop better and have a broader prospect and future!"

“Learning Chinese will become an important skill in the future!”

“It’s very important and helpful for your future.”

Li Yuehan actually wanted to say that our ancestors spoke Chinese, wrote Chinese characters, and came from the ancient land over there, but he could never say this sentence. He always felt like something was blocking him because the education he received since childhood prevented him from saying such words.

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