Chapter 200: The Global Food Crisis (4)

Fang Xiaoyu spread his hands and said: "I know that the royal family wants to add Lanfang coins to pay me, but in this way, the Lanfang coins will definitely depreciate significantly, if the Lanfang coins just received by the people will depreciate sharply, there will be no riots in my territory." If this is the case, the emperor will push me into the fire pit, and I will not dare to obey my fate. ”

Fang Xiaoyu's words were reasonable, so that Xiahou Feng couldn't find any reason to refute it. Originally, why did people go bankrupt to protect the foundation of the royal family, this is unreasonable.

Marshal Xiahou Feng, who was a little anxious, said: "Can't you think of a way?" The royal family can pay the account on credit first, and then pay it back slowly. Fang Xiaoyu said: "If the emperor has to give credit, it is not impossible, but I always have to give an explanation to the people, and at least 60% of the cash must be provided." ”

Of course, Xiahou Feng knew that such a favorable condition would not come without a price, and he immediately asked: "If you have any conditions, I will definitely report to the emperor as soon as possible." ”

Fang Xiaoyu pretended to be embarrassed: "First of all, the territorial issue, can the emperor allocate Yizhou Island to our Chinese territory?" ”

Xiahou Feng said happily: "This Yizhou Island is remote, sparsely populated, and it has little value, if Xiaoyu wants me, I can make the decision and allocate it to you." "Xiahou Feng has no naval knowledge, and he doesn't know the significance of Yizhou Island to an oceanic navy, of course, even Marshal Xiahou Min, who is experienced in naval warfare, doesn't have such a vision, after all, his vision is too limited to the near sea.

Fang Xiaoyu, who got cheap, secretly snickered, but on the surface, he still said with a sad face: "I also know that this Yizhou Island is not of much value, this is just to give an explanation to the people, and the other is that it needs some benefits." ”

Xiahou Feng was surprised: "What else do you want?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu said word by word: "The right to mint money." ”

Seeing Xiahou Feng's shocked expression, Fang Xiaoyu explained: "My Lanting Bank hopes to get the right to mint money, only in this way can I issue my own banknotes within the Chinese Collar to pay for the food payment for the royal family, otherwise I will only go bankrupt." ”

"This ......" Xiahou Feng was a little undecided, this matter was too big, if the coinage right was handed over to Fang Xiaoyu, it would be recognized that Fang Xiaoyu had an equal status with the Lanfang Empire in terms of economy and finance, which would invalidate most of the royal family's means of trying to use the monetary economy to manipulate the major lords.

Seeing Xiahou Feng hesitating, Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "This is not in a hurry, the marshal can go back and discuss it with the emperor first, and then notify me when there is a result." Xiahou Feng thought that there was still some food in the country anyway, which was enough for more than a month, and he had enough time to discuss with the emperor, so he agreed.

After receiving the conditions brought back by Xiahou Feng, Xiahou Ying decided to agree to Fang Xiaoyu after discussing with the important ministers. Fang Xiaoyu's reasons are quite sufficient, at least on the surface, it seems that Fang Xiaoyu is very considerate of the emperor.

After the decision is made, it is a matter of payment, of the three billion yuan of grain payment, Fang Xiaoyu bears 40% for the empire, and the rest is still 1.8 billion. Lanfang coin is easy to say, although in order not to depreciate too much, not too many new coins cannot be issued, but even if the household reserves are more than 2 billion yuan, but Fang Xiaoyu asked half of them to be paid in gold, which is more difficult.

Half of the payment for the goods is paid in gold, which is worth 900 million yuan of Lanfang coins, and according to the market price of one ton of gold to 200,000 Lanfang coins, it will take 4,500 tons of gold, and the treasury of so much gold cannot be taken out.

The Lanfang Empire currently only has 3,500 tons of gold in reserve, and this is the guarantee of the Lanfang coin, without which the Lanfang currency will depreciate. After weighing it repeatedly, Xiahou Ying decided that the royal family would take out the gold to buy grain.

Although the royal family's inventory is abundant, it is really painful to spend 4,500 tons at once to make Xiahou win, but the gold can be earned back when it is used, and if there is any riot in the country due to the lack of food, it will be more than worth the loss.

After deciding to pay for food, at Fang Xiaoyu's suggestion, Xiahou Ying passed another resolution, allowing the Chinese Leader to contribute his own people and money, and recruit a large number of immigrants in various densely populated and land-tight areas to enrich the Chinese Territory.

The grain was soon transported along the basic domestic railway line to the various grain storage points designated by the royal family, and on the way back, the train brought a large number of poor people who had been concentrated by the local county government, and the gold and banknotes that had to be paid were also transported back to the Rantei Bank by train.

The expected benefits have been received, and Fang Xiaoyu has begun to loosen restrictions on takeaway food. Of course, if it is loaded on the ship now and transported outward, when the grain is transported to the Western Continent or the New World, the daylily will be cold, so he uses Xiaofeng's fixed-point teleportation function.

Fortunately, each Zhonghua Group company's overseas business institutions have a very mysterious warehouse, and Fang Xiaoyu began to deploy the grain of the Chinese Collar to be transported to various places, and even the grain of the Wild Continent used the same method to export grain to the other party.

When he heard that Fang Xiaoyu lifted the ban on the export of grain from the Chinese Collar, merchants from all over the country flocked to the Chinese Collar to buy grain. However, the official announcement is that grain will not be sold to the public, and grain merchants will have to buy it from the people if they want to.

Of course, in order to prevent the people from being deceived, the Chunghwa Group Company provides an almost free trading platform for the people. In order to speed up the flow of grain, the Chunghwa Group Company dispatched a large number of wagons to transport grain from various parts of the Chinese Territory to several ports under the control of China, such as Vladivostok, Incheon, Rason, and Busan, for sale and shipment.

The export price of grain is 150 yuan per ton, and the Chung Hwa Group Company only takes 5 yuan per ton of transportation fees. In this way, it not only facilitated the trade between grain merchants and the people, but also greatly increased the volume of grain trade.

Because the transportation of grain has also made the transportation industry of the Chinese Collar extremely prosperous, especially the railway and sea transportation, the shipping companies under the Chung Hwa Group Company have made a lot of money, of course, the port of Vladivostok, which is now the only official port of the Chinese Collar, due to the proximity, the grain trade here is the most popular.

With the bulk of the grain trade, the port of Vladivostok quickly prospered, taking advantage of this shareholder wind, East China Bank invested a lot of money to expand the city and infrastructure, so that the whole city expanded rapidly, in his planning, this port in the future for a period of time, will be the most important grain and industrial products export port in the Chinese territory.