Chapter 189 - International Trade (I)
The dispute between the two Koreas and the nuclear explosion of the DPRK have plunged the entire Korean Peninsula into a desperate situation, but all of a sudden the ties between the countries of the world have become extremely close, and these countries have stopped contacting each other after they have suddenly begun, and they can receive dialogues between the countries of the world on the international unified channel every day, and this kind of dialogue is no longer encrypted or hidden, and even ordinary citizens with satellite communication terminal equipment can accept it.
Every day, like a taxi driver in a city, these people report on their own situation, ridicule the communications chiefs of other countries, or discuss cooperation with other countries, or publish their scientific research results.
The Americans mentioned in the newsletter that the United States has now developed a reagent that can detect whether the organism is infected with the zombie virus, or whether there are antibodies to the zombie virus, when the Americans proudly announced this achievement, the British scoffed: "If you want to monitor whether you have been infected with the zombie virus, do you still need to go over and use the reagent on him?" As long as you lean over and see if he will bite you, won't you? β
The Dutch said that they were searching for cows that were not infected with the zombie virus throughout the country, and thankfully, they concentrated more than 30 cows that were not infected with the zombie virus, although now the people can't eat, but it is no problem to ensure that tens of thousands of survivors across the country can share a little bit of milk every day.
It just so happened that this news was captured by Xie Tian, who was next to the communicator, and then, Xie Tian blurted out: "Dutch friend, are you interested in exchanging rice for cows?" β
"Rice?" The Dutchman sneered and said, "I think our president might prefer a little more wheat." β
"We have wheat too." Xie Tian smiled: "How about exchanging twenty cows with you?" β
"Well," said the Dutchman, after a moment's hesitation, "then, I'll let our Minister of Commerce talk to you, if he's interested." β
Xie Tian nodded and said, "When he comes, please contact me by special line." β
A moment later, the Dutchman's phone called, and as soon as he spoke, a man with a London accent asked in English: "Chinese friends, are you going to exchange wheat for cows?" β
"That's right." Xie Tian nodded and said, "But you have to make sure that your cows are healthy, and besides, are there any breeding cows?" β
"Yes," the Dutchman said embarrassedly, "but our cattle are a little malnourished, and besides, China is so far away from here, how can you buy our cows?" β
"You don't have to worry about this." Xie Tian said lightly: "Make a price, I will ask for a part if it suits." β
"In that case," the other side thought for a moment, and then asked tentatively, "Is it okay to exchange a cow for seven tons of wheat?" β
"I'm seven tons," the communications soldier blurted out when he heard this: "Isn't this a cheat, malnourished cows, it is estimated that they don't even have 500 kilograms, in exchange for 7 tons of grain, the Dutch are crazy to be poor!" β
Xie Tian smiled at him, stretched out his hand to signal him not to talk too much, and then said into the communicator: "In this way, prepare two breeding cows and 18 cows for me, one hundred and forty tons of grain, but one hundred and forty tons of grain, you don't expect me to give you all the wheat, among which there will be one hundred tons of rice, I will transport it by plane, and then transport the cows back, what do you think?" β
"Really?" The Dutchman was pleasantly surprised for a moment, and then asked, "Chinese friend, aren't you joking?" β
"Of course not." Xie Tian smiled and asked, "What other animals have survived there?" β
"It's gone." "We only have about 30 cows left, and if it weren't for our lack of concentrate feeding, the cows would have produced too little milk and we wouldn't have been willing to exchange more food, because cows are a renewable resource," the Dutchman said. β
"Alright." Xie Tian smiled: "At this time, don't talk nonsense, you go back and send us the coordinates, and I will prepare the food as soon as possible and let the plane transport it over." β
The people in the Ministry of Communications are a little puzzled, one hundred and forty tons of grain, how useful is it to exchange cows for cows, but Xie Tian feels that this business is worth it, only Yanjing in China was stabilized the fastest at the beginning, so Yanjing has more than 100 pet dogs and cats of all kinds that survived, but other animals have no ability to keep them, after such a long period of deterioration, even those animals that survived, I am afraid it is difficult to survive, and now if you want to find animals, you can only go to the deep mountains and old forests to try your luck, However, Xie Tian clearly knows the current development situation, food, he is not lacking, especially next year, there will be no shortage of food, but he has no other food sources, if there are Dutch cows, at least there will be fresh milk supply immediately, and the most important thing is that these cows can breed.
After hearing the news, the Americans said in the newsletter with jealousy: "China is really a big country in materials, and now it has the national strength to spend so much food and go thousands of miles to the Netherlands to buy dairy cows, but it is a pity that we are now in a bit of a shortage of food, otherwise, the United States would not have let go of such a good opportunity." β
Xie Tian said with a smile: "If the United States is willing to exchange military fighters for food, we Chinese will be the first to do business with you, C-17 transport aircraft we have been longing for for a long time, I wonder if you are interested in selling us a few?" β
"You can think about it." The Americans quickly replied: "But what we want to get is not rice and wheat, but aviation fuel." β
Xie Tian joked: "I didn't expect that the United States of America, the aviation hegemon, would also be short of aviation fuel, it's incredible." β
"There are so many incredible things." The American smiled wryly and said, "If we had enough jet fuel, Washington and the rest of the United States would be much better." β
The Saudis immediately said: "American friends, bring your grain over, and we will provide you with a large amount of oil, what do you think?" β
The Iranians immediately blurted out: "Saudi Arabians, if you dare to sell oil to the United States, we will launch a full-scale attack on you tomorrow!" β
The Saudis were furious: "Why attack us, we now only have three things left: gold, oil and dollars, but none of these three things can be eaten!" Whoever can bring food to Saudi Arabia will get Saudi Arabian oil! β
"I'm sorry." The American said: "Iranian friends, I have disappointed you, we do not have the ability to refine oil at present, so we will not go to Saudi Arabia to transport oil." β
Xie Tian suddenly thought, now that grain is an international hard currency, can I use grain to carry out an international trade? Use food to exchange other materials they need from all over the world, such as Saudi Arabia's oil, the current aviation fuel reserves are far from enough, but Shanghai's oil reserves are limited after all, and a large amount of oil will be needed as a basis in the future, and although the amount of gasoline and diesel these oils is larger, but also in the day by day consumption does not increase, if you can restart a refinery, the entire fuel problem, will have a good solution, if you have enough aviation fuel, Then I can go and bring all the Pakistanis back to China from Kashmir, and then set aside a piece of land in Zhejiang for them to cultivate, although it is a friendly neighbor, but it is also divided into sizes, and it is not unkind to let Pakistani friends come to China to farm, right? It's a big deal, and when the time comes, it's just to collect less rent.
Immediately, Xie Tian asked: "Saudi friends, how to sell oil?" β
"This" the Saudis hesitated for a moment and said: "A barrel of oil, a kilogram of wheat!" β
βgo-your-sistersοΌβ Xie Tian scolded in English and said, "Are you robbing it?" You can produce 10 million barrels of oil a day, and even if you don't produce it, your reserves are at least tens of millions of barrels, and a barrel of oil is worth exchanging for a kilogram of wheat? You're dreaming! Can you eat the oil you keep? Is there any looming problem that can be solved? β
The "Chinese friend" Saudi hurriedly said: "You know, a barrel of crude oil costs more than 100 US dollars at 158.9 liters, and how much does a kilogram of wheat cost?" We're already losing a lot of money! β
Xie Tian said: "Okay, China's foreign exchange cash reserves are very large, I'll pull some dollars over and buy oil with you, two hundred dollars a barrel, do you think it's OK?" β
"Okay, Chinese friend, I was wrong" The Saudi Arabian immediately said: "You can look at it and give it a price, we are now in the port of Jeddah with 160,000 people in the whole country, and there is a large reserve of crude oil here, you are welcome to come and buy it." β
"En" Xie Tian said: "In this way, according to the weight ratio of 1:10,000, one ton of wheat in exchange for ten thousand tons of oil." β
There was no movement on the other side for a long time, and several other countries condemned: "Chinese, you are too shrewd in doing business!" One to 10,000, this price is really ruthless! β
Even Iran couldn't look at it and said: "We, the Iranian people, express our deep contempt for the Chinese friends who just made the offer!" β
The Australian blurted out: "Chinese friends, one ton of wheat for 10,000 tons of iron ore, our Australian people are willing." β
"Don't." Xie Tian pouted and said: "When we wanted it at the beginning, you just gave us tricks, and now we want iron ore, what's the use?" β
The Saudis said: "Chinese friends, let's raise it a little more, this price is too low." β
"So be it." Xie Tian opened his mouth and said: "There must be no shortage of oil tankers over there, you load the ship for me, I will send someone to drive it back, and I will give you food according to 3:10,000." β
"3:10000" the other party thought for a moment and said: "We have a super tanker with a capacity of 250,000 tons, which was just launched last year, we filled it for you, you should give us 75 tons of grain, but we gave you this tanker, how about you give 25 tons of grain?" A total of one hundred tons. β
"Yes." Thank God agreed without thinking, and at this time, the British roared: "Saudis, the 250,000-ton oil tanker that you just launched last year should be our Victoria!" Our Victoria was the zombie virus that broke out after it arrived in your Saudi Arabia! β
"So what?" The Saudi saudis said very calmly: "A cruise ship, it's a big deal, we bought it from your UK I don't know how much, Bentley, Land Rover, it's no problem to buy you a cruise ship, we'll give you cash." β
"Damn it!" The British angrily scolded: "Whoever wants your dollars, we want bullets!" Ask for bullets! Damn, we're surrounded by zombies that can't be killed, and we need bullets! β
"Together!" The French also spoke: "The bullet consumption is too great, and we are almost unable to withstand the attack of the zombies!" Bullets, we just need bullets! β
Thanksgiving ignored the roaring British, and said to the Saudis: "Prepare as soon as you can, if you can prepare us twenty oil refining mechanics, it would be great, and we can provide you with an extra twenty tons of grain as a payment." After speaking, Xie Tian shouted at the top of his voice: "Poultry and livestock that have not been infected with the zombie virus are purchased all over the world, and some can get in touch with the China Communications Office, but the number is too small, and there is no need for a single surname." β
After that, Xie Tian left the communications office, found the person in charge of grain, and the person in charge of Pudong Airport, and asked them to prepare 140 tons of grain, 40 tons of wheat and 100 tons of rice, and then load all these grains into the domestic transport plane.
In Shanghai, if you do dairy cow breeding, it is not a difficult task, there is too much forage around to use, and the mountains of wheat bran in the flour mill can be used as concentrate for dairy cows, as well as the unprocessed soybean cake in the oil mill, all of which are well stored, not to mention 20 cows, 2,000 heads can easily feed.
Immediately, Xie Tian thought that there would be animals in China that would survive, so he immediately called animal experts and asked them to study where it is possible to find live animals in China, and then send a professional team to search, and if they can find them, try to capture them and bring them back to Shanghai, so as to increase the number of surviving species
The Dutch and the Saudis are waiting for the Chinese to come to the door, Xie Tian now has more than 10,000 tons of aviation fuel reserves, the first to prepare to go is the Netherlands, the people of the Provisional Military Commission in the city gathered six breeders who had raised dairy cows, and two veterinarians who specialized in treating dairy cows, these eight people followed four domestic and Russian-made transport planes to the Netherlands, the Dutch had already prepared the cows, waiting for the Chinese to trade, when the plane landed at the airstrip in the Dutch security zone, The Dutch, who had been preparing for a long time, immediately began to carry grain from the plane, and led twenty emaciated cows to the Chinese, as if they were afraid that the Chinese would regret seeing the twenty cows.
These cows produce a large amount of milk, but can only get forage, can not get concentrate feeding, so the body is very weak, but fortunately not sick, veterinarians after the examination, that as long as they are transported back to China to recuperate for a period of time, they can soon supplement the nutrition, so that the body is strong again, in addition to the two breeding cows, the other eighteen cows, can produce nearly 800 catties of milk per day, or a considerable amount, and they themselves can breed offspring.
After the cows were transported back to Shanghai, many survivors rushed to join in the fun, and it felt as if they were not looking at the cows, but foreigners watching the pandas.
Although it is impossible for twenty cows to supply so many survivors with milk, but the most important thing is that with these cows, and let them breed, one day all survivors can drink milk, the current era is no longer an era of enjoyment, but an era of creation, people have to do, the first is to live, and the second is how to make their descendants survive better.
As soon as the cows arrived, they were immediately sent to a modern farm on the outskirts of Shanghai, which was previously a dairy cow breeding base, but now it is empty, and 20 cows are sent here, and six breeders and two veterinarians are also stationed here, who are responsible for caring for the cows and taking care of the cows' breeding.
The Saudis had long been preparing to tank oil for the Victoria tanker, but when they found out that the Victoria had already been filled with oil, and it was all oil paid for by the British, the Saudis felt like they had picked up a big bargain, using the British ship and the oil bought by the British in exchange for a hundred tons of grain, which was naturally like pie in the sky for them.
Thank God no matter so much, after all, oil reserves are extremely important to him, the original Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway diesel internal combustion engine whistling shuttle every day, diesel consumption is quite large, if it is only consumed and can not be manufactured, then sooner or later one day will be consumed clean, now they have a production line for refining aviation fuel, but also need a factory that can refine gasoline and diesel, there are many such factories, there are several around Shanghai, but now the most important thing is that they have no professional and technical personnel available.
But fortunately, the Saudis finally came up with 20 oil refining technicians, and they only found 11, and the other 9 were bought with Iran at the price of 500 kilograms of grain each, and the Iranians thought they were making a bargain, but they did not expect that the Saudis would make half of the money into their own pockets.
Xie Tian sent a flotilla to Saudi Arabia with the pilots, carrying 120 tons of grain, and after that, the transports would return to the sea, and the crew of the fleet would sail the tanker Victoria directly back to Shanghai.
(To be continued)