Chapter 125: A Very Large Game of Chess
ɦ 䣺 2014-05-1008:12:38125 Chapter 125 A big game of chess
The grandeur and novelty of the House of Cards complex attracted the attention of architects and enthusiasts from all over the world, and the Grand Duke of Luxembourg also took this matter very seriously, and he also planned to hold a scientific art festival in Luxembourg, which was advertised in the telegraph, and also produced exquisite invitations to world-renowned architectural artists, inviting them to contribute exhibits to the festival, or newly created "renderings".
If there are renderings alone, the effect is not shocking enough, and then invite handicraft artists, such as carpenters, stonemasons, blacksmiths, sculptors, etc., to shape the renderings in three dimensions, the so-called scientology, that is, to try to capture the advanced and effective way of creation, this architectural art event to the entire art world is not only a one-time grandeur, but will have a profound impact on the way of creation.
Perhaps three-dimensional art is what Downing admires the most, doesn't he always like to make small models of his factory? Downing has loved this art form since he was a child, it allows people to not only see, but also see from all angles, not only to see, but also to touch, and the intimacy with the viewer is far beyond the visual arts.
If it is not just a short intimate contact, it is not enjoyable for many people, and then it can be obtained, bought home, and Smecta every day is called revolutionary art. Souvenirs based on architectural models, this is equivalent to architectural figurines, architectural figures, or a business with a large market.
Under the guidance of Tang Ning, craftsmen and artists first made a small number of architectural dolls to test the market reaction, and arranged the next step according to the process of the architectural art festival. The popular Cheng dù of the doll can be used as a reference for Downing when making decisions.
As a result, the town hall, which was built in 1572, is now the Grand Ducal Palace, and has become an architectural art exhibition hall. Many well-known artists have received invitations from the Grand Duke to the Grand Ducal Palace of Luxembourg, and their arrival has led to a huge number of art lovers. The Luxembourg Architecture Festival is growing in scale and seems to have moved away from the original scope of building momentum for the House of Cards.
Later, this architectural event, commonly known as the "House of Cards Architecture Festival", was held every three years, and after the event, a considerable number of popular artworks were preserved to continue to attract visitors, and continued to bring a win-win situation for the house of cards and artists through the business model of selling tickets and dolls.
The Grand Duke of Luxembourg has built Luxembourg into the world center of modern architecture, and the architectural achievements of the House of Cards are a wonder of the world, which can be won in a strategy game!
Architectural art plays a very important role in the art of Scientology, it is not only art, but also practical, bringing a beautiful sense to the daily life of human beings, just ask the general public, the influence and attraction of this art on him and the religious art school of painting the Virgin Mary and Jesus, which is greater? I'm afraid the answer speaks for itself.
The International Disaster Relief Center and the International Ecological Conservation Center may be a bit far away from the common people, but once Luxembourg reveals itself as an international center of architecture and art, its tourism industry should also be in the field, and the city's development can be described as rapid, and artists and their fans have come to Luxembourg to bring life to the local hotels and businesses.
The development of the city has also brought pressure to municipal construction, the Grand Duke convened the municipal committee in time to comprehensively renovate the infrastructure of Luxembourg, and quickly decided to build the world's first high-temperature garbage incinerator under the dividends of the great dictatorship, this good thing can change the way of landfill in one fell swoop, so that the nasty garbage in high temperature to come to naught, but the concern is the aforementioned toxic gas, fortunately, now the chemical synthetic materials industrial products have not yet been popularized, it is the golden age of the incinerator, as long as the tube burns it.
Matching the garbage incinerator is the world's first scientific garbage classification bill, which takes incineration as the standard and mainly divides garbage into four categories: resource, combustible, non-combustible, coarse, and harmful. Each type has a clear path to the "end point" – combustible waste is sent directly to the waste incineration plant, and the burned residue is transported to a landfill for landfill; Non-combustible waste is sent to a non-combustible waste treatment plant through a transfer station, where it is dismantled and recycled, and the residue is sent to a landfill. The coarse garbage is first specially crushed and can be recycled with components, the combustible part is sent to the incineration plant, and the remaining part is sent to the landfill; The resources are sent to the recycling facility for processing and utilization to produce recycled products; Hazardous waste is sent to a facility dedicated to hazardous treatment.
Every Luxembourg citizen learns how to sort garbage from scratch, and the trained garbage disposal staff, all serious government workers, strictly enforce the law, throw all the unqualified garbage back to the citizens, and send warnings such as "Your garbage is not sorted according to the law, please reorganize it according to the guidelines".
In order to make garbage disposal more energy-efficient and effective, Tangning is now going to build a thermal power station. In the future, methanol thermal power plants will operate on the same principle as with garbage burning rods, with a turbine steam engine driven by heat. The characteristics of wind power generation instability are very prominent, with the addition of firepower, the firepower quickly catches up when the wind is weak, so that the smooth operation of the power grid is greatly strengthened.
The Grand Duke has set up a unique incentive system for the recycling of goods in Luxembourg, that is, like the use of plastic bags mentioned earlier, if you do not let the plastic bags go into the recycling cycle after use, then the cost of using the goods will be much higher, as the Grand Dictator of Luxembourg, the Grand Duke is ready to force this economic lever on most goods, as the largest bill for sustainable production methods.
At the current momentum, Luxembourg would become a fairly wealthy country, and the implementation of sustainable industry in the country would serve as a good example for industrial development throughout the world. Of course, now in the eyes of many people, this is redundant, "the earth is so big", where does it need so much attention?
Is the Earth really big? Not necessarily, when airships are popular, the earth will be able to look down from the sky, and when the airship flight network is spread out around the world, human beings will find that circumnavigation is so easy to access. To truly protect the earth, the Grand Duke must play a big game of chess, and the core of this game of chess is ...... South america.
The Amazon rainforest in South America, the largest forest in the world, accounts for 50% of the world's forests! It is the undisputed lungs of the earth. It absorbs a large amount of greenhouse gases every year, and is the main force to buffer the climate change brought about by the great development of human industry. The lungs of Asia, the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia are mainly located in Malaya and Indonesia, which are already under the control of the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company controlled by Downing.
The profit-seeking nature of capital seems to have doomed the Amazon rainforest to a massive reduction, and there is only one way - to fight poison with poison, to fight capital with capital, and the military dictators in South America, mainly Brazil, are like the Amazon jungle that breeds in cruel natural selection, and if they want to dominate in this jungle, they must find a way to control the economic lifeblood of South America.
The economy of South America is mainly agriculture, that is, even North America is dominated by agriculture, not to mention South America, which is a 10,000-year-old agricultural country. Some of their most important crops are: coffee, cotton, tobacco, cocoa beans, rubber, yerba mate (a stimulant drink with slightly higher caffeine content than green tea, also known as yerba mate). Strategically, it is necessary to control the terminal retail network of these crops, because these crops have alternative origins around the world, so the retail terminal has a strong deterrent effect on them, and then on the whole of South America.
Paraguayan holly is not considered for the time being, and it seems that it is difficult to develop into a global consumer food, cross it out. Rubber, the biggest consumer prospect lies in the car, which has long been under the control of Tangning, tick.
Tobacco, which is harmful to the human body but will be raging in the world for many years before slowly slowing down, now Downing has a good reason to dominate, of course, to promote pollution-free smokeless cigarettes, in India, Malaya, Luxembourg and other countries where he has a word, directly prohibit the sale of all open flame cigarettes, and in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Munich and other countries where he has great influence, vigorously promote the anti-smoking movement. Not only that, but also by virtue of the huge influence of Windsor Hospital in the field of health, discriminatory charges for smokers, and a significant reduction in the charging level for smoking pollution-free cigarettes. It is also necessary to cooperate with health insurance companies to differentiate the premiums of smokers, and use economic leverage to leverage strong consumption habits has become Downing's main business method, and it is also the most effective means. Tick.
Cotton, and food, clothing, housing and transportation in the four major "wear" is closely related, the textile industry's technological innovation is earlier than the improvement of the steam engine, in this industry a large number of inventors rack their brains all day long to improve production efficiency. Do you want to rely on CNC machines to make incredibly efficient machines? It seems that this still cannot dominate the upper reaches of the cotton industry - weaving. There it is, man-made fibers, blended!
Some practitioners in the garment industry like to boast of "pure cotton", in fact, the performance of the cloth blended with man-made fibers is much improved, and the pure cotton cloth is just a business in order to cater to people's psychology of liking pure nature. Especially for hard-working workers, blended fabrics with advantages in abrasion resistance, heat resistance, and wrinkle resistance have overwhelming advantages. It is not that it is necessary to completely monopolize the weaving industry, as long as it is a supplier of man-made fibers, it is necessary to sign a cotton origin supply contract with cloth merchants, and buy cotton from the origin designated by Tangning, then there is a rebate for buying man-made fibers, and you can use this hand to hold cotton producers in the palm of your hand, or press them under the Marble Mountain. Tick.
Cocoa beans, which are the main source of zuò chocolate. The most recent innovation in the chocolate industry, in 1847, was the addition of cocoa butter, which melted in the mouth, making it known today as chewable chocolate chunks. (http://)。 There seems to be no precedent for mixing with milk, and there may be some process hurdles that can be left to the engineers to solve. Is there anything else that can be innovative? Yes! Ice cream. It's not that ice cream hasn't been invented yet, it's been in homes since the mid-18th century, and of course, only in the cold winter or by the aristocracy and the rich who can afford to store it. Now that Downing has invented the technology of cooling, the penguin freezer has made it possible to popularize ice cream, the king of snacks, in any season, he can invent the best ice cream machine, and chocolate, a very popular taste, will make his ice cream shop popular all over the world. One more tick!
As for coffee, there are two means, first, the invention of the instant coffee process. The trick is to use hot vapor to evaporate the water in the beans, so that the ground melts when it comes to water afterwards and is resistant to storage due to water loss. Second, try to create a global chain brand like Starbucks.
At this point, South America's coffee, tobacco, cocoa beans, and cotton are all in the hands of careerists. If other capitalists had known that Downing had gone to such great lengths to protect the Amazon rainforest, they might have been so surprised that they had smashed a hole in the wall.