Chapter 285: Hoarding Strategic Materials

Fang Xiaoyu gestured and patiently explained to Zhang Haiyang: "That is to say, whoever dares to start a war first may become the target of other countries' catharsis, and they will consume the excess armaments on us and take benefits from us." The scale of this economic crisis is so great that countries have begun to build up their armaments, and a few months ago they have begun to build up their armies. The Saar Empire doubled its army, and the Nantes Empire announced that it would change the two-year compulsory military system to three years, expanding the army to more than 800,000. The Yaman Empire began to train 500,000 reserve regiments, and the Cossack Empire directly turned 2 million troops into 3.3 million. The Kingdom of Haboafsburg and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia similarly increased their land forces by 50%. ”

Fang Xiaoyu paused and said, "This is only on the army side, and the competition on the navy side is just as fierce. Since the Thar Empire bought the steam turbine technology, it immediately announced the construction of four 'dreadnought' class battleships that were the same as the Chinese ship, and the Yaman Empire relied on its own improvements, so that the triple expansion steam engine barely met the requirements, and they immediately started to build the same four battleships, it is said that even the Kingdom of Haboffsburg, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia and the Cossack Empire began to build the hull in advance, and when we sell the steam turbine technology to them next year, we will prepare to install the hull and build a new type of battleship. ”

After listening to Fang Xiaoyu's introduction to the development of the navies of various countries, Liu Junguo said with a smile: "The young master's design of this warship is really strong, it is said that the military experts of various countries in the Western Continent have collectively referred to this type of warships as Chinese ships, and also said that the Chinese ships are epoch-making battleships, which have made all the battleships built before become scrap iron and obsolete products." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "Of course, I stimulated them to build battleships like that at the beginning, just to give them bait and let them build more obsolete products, but don't forget what I told you, the Chinese ship is also just a bait, and we have better ones."

Zhang Haiyang said with a smile: "I understand what the young master meant, now we have to endure it, and we can't let others focus their eyes on us." ”

Liu Junguo nodded and said, "Yes, we have to wait until they are exhausted before we attack." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Look at what you said, it seems that people have already started fighting, wait patiently, I estimate that it will not be able to fight within three years." However, this kind of arms race will be beneficial to us, and when the World Frontier Expo opens here next year, I will also hold a military exposition of the Chinese Consulate at the same time, so as to heat up their armaments, and it is estimated that our weapons will be sold in large quantities. ”

Coming back from the staff headquarters, Fang Xiaoyu found that Wu Feng was waiting for him, and when he saw Fang Xiaoyu coming back, Wu Feng hurried up to greet him. Seeing Wu Feng's sad face, Fang Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Brother Wu, what's wrong, who owes you money and doesn't pay it back?" ”

Wu Feng said: "It would be nice if anyone owes me money, the problem is that no one owes me money now." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Brother Wu, who are you angry with?" Talk to me about it. ”

Wu Feng said: "I'm not angry, I'm worried." Now the economy of various countries is becoming more and more sluggish, although the young master can unknowingly evade customs and transport our goods into other countries, but their domestic purchasing power is getting lower and lower, and our goods are also difficult to sell. And our China Consortium is an export-oriented enterprise, more than seventy percent of the products have to be exported, a few days ago the young master asked me to support other small enterprises in China, the burden of our China Consortium is too heavy, I am really afraid that it will not be able to last. ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "Brother Wu, is this complaining to me?" I remember that the last time the business investment department made such a big move, it should have made a lot of money, why is it so difficult? ”

Wu Feng said: "Last time, the young men in the business investment department did make a lot of money, and we also gained a lot, but last time the money earned back was replaced by cheap machinery and raw materials, and we used these materials to more than double the production capacity of the entire consortium, but in this way, our overcapacity problem is even more serious." ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Last time, I was indeed a little inconsiderate, at the beginning I was happy to make a big profit, but then I thought about it, it is impossible for those countries to exchange gold for such a large amount of banknotes, and once these countries use a large number of printed banknotes and rely on inflation to alleviate the economic crisis, our losses will be too great, at that time, it was just in time for a large number of bankruptcies in factories in various countries, and the machines were very cheap, so I would let you invest a lot of money in buying machines." With the machine, it is natural to transport it back, and it is natural that it cannot be just put away when it is shipped back, so the China Consortium uses these machines to expand production capacity vigorously. ”

Fang Xiaoyu glanced at Wu Feng and said: "Brother Wu, when you persuaded me not to expand production capacity, I thought that the war was coming soon, and I thought that the bigger our production capacity was, the more money we would be able to make, so I insisted on expanding, but now it seems that the war in the Western Continent will take several years, which is a bit of a miscalculation for me." ”

Wu Feng said: "Actually, we are not a problem of funds now, the funds of the China Consortium have always been abundant, but our current goods cannot be sold, and there will be a large backlog, which will occupy a lot of our funds." The more goods accumulate, the less and less liquidity we have, and if this vicious circle continues, no amount of funds will be enough. ”

Fang Xiaoyu touched his chin, walked around the house a few times, and suddenly asked, "How much liquidity does our consortium still have?" ”

Wu Feng said: "There are still more than 9 billion Chinese yuan, because we have reduced our investment in infrastructure a lot during this period, and the government no longer needs us to pay money, and I dare not expand production capacity, so there will be so much money." ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said, "In this way, I'm discussing with Huadong Xing, so that the government can also squeeze out some more funds, and we will hoard goods first." ”

Wu Feng said: "How to hoard? ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "You build more warehouses in the territory and on the east coast of the Saint Martin Empire, I will demarcate a range for you, you hoard goods according to the range, and I will find a way to provide you with enough funds." ”

Wu Feng said: "What are you hoarding?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "Trucks, food, clothing, boats, steel, daily necessities, and I will set aside a certain range of arms and weapons for you." We will hoard in large quantities everything that is needed for war, and it will be useful in the future. ”

Wu Feng said: "It's good, I'll do it immediately." ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Okay, let the consortium adjust the industrial structure, those luxury goods and other things should be reduced to production as much as possible, and the things to be hoarded should be produced with all their might." Although our Chinese Territory has been greatly developed, the scale of industry is still only half of that of the Boston Empire, and if we do not stock up on more supplies in advance, we will not be able to do business in times of war. ”

Wu Feng left, Fang Xiaoyu sighed and said, "Money, why is there such a lack of money." I don't understand it, I didn't lack much money when I didn't have money before, but now the industry is getting bigger and bigger, and I'm getting richer and richer, but once I encounter something, I find that I am more and more short of money, and the more I lack it. ”

"That's because your business is getting bigger and bigger." A silver bell-like voice sounded from behind Fang Xiaoyu. Fang Xiaoyu looked back and saw that Xia Tingyun was walking in from outside.

Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "Why are you here?" ”

Xia Tingyun stepped forward, tapped Fang Xiaoyu's forehead with her index finger and said: "I don't know how to go home every day, the staff department has been gone for a day, and I haven't even seen anyone. ”

Fang Xiaoyu touched his stomach, only then did he find that he was already very hungry, he smiled: "Now that you say that I am indeed hungry, let's go to lunch." ”

"What lunch." Xia Tingyun said with a smile: "It's time for dinner now, it's true, I forget the time when I'm busy." ”

Fang Xiaoyu smiled awkwardly: "It's really busy, let's go to dinner." ”

Sitting at the dinner table, Fang Xiaoyu was thinking about his thoughts while holding the food in his mouth. Wang Ling, who was on the side, sandwiched a piece of sweet and sour tenderloin into Fang Xiaoyu's bowl and said, "Look at it when you eat, and it will be in your nose for a while." ”

After saying that, he laughed to himself. Fang Xiaoyu came to his senses and smiled: "I have something on my mind, and I don't know what the food I eat tastes like." ”

Xia Tingwei said: "What's wrong?" Did the Chinese Consulate encounter any problems? ”

Xia Tingyun said: "There is no problem with the Chinese collar, it seems that there is something wrong with the consortium, I heard my husband say that he seems to be short of money?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "It's nothing, the consortium still has a lot of funds, it's a big deal that I'm borrowing some money from the bank, so that the government can raise some funds, and then it's over." ”

Xia Tingwei said: "If I am short of funds, I can borrow some from my father." ”

Fang Xiaoyu shook his head and said: "Our Chinese consortium is not short of funds, it is all billions, and my father-in-law is fighting with the Cheng family, I want money everywhere in this war, I am very grateful that he didn't borrow money from me, and I dare to borrow it?" After listening to Fang Xiaoyu's words, Xia Tingwei also felt reasonable, so she didn't say anything.

Elena on the side suddenly asked, "Lack of money?" Is there a lot missing? You can borrow money from our elves. ”

Fang Xiaoyu was surprised: "Wasn't your elf race, dwarf race, and goblin race all very poor before being incorporated into the Chinese Territory? You've only been rich enough for a few years? ”

Elena said, "We are poor, but we are never short of money. ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "I don't understand this, isn't being poor just having no money?" How can you be poor and not lack money? ”

Elena picked up a piece of braised fish with chopsticks and said, "Just like this braised fish, even if we have money, no one can make it, can we use money to conjure such a delicacy out of thin air?" Our so-called poverty means that we lack all kinds of necessary materials for life, and our three tribes are not very good at farming and cooking, so we are always short of food, and we are also unable to make those daily necessities created by human society, which is what we call poverty. As for money, we have all lasted for a thousand years, not to mention that there are many minerals in the mountains and underground, and we still have those precious metals or precious stones. ”