Chapter 189 International Trade (Part 1)

The dispute between South Korea and North Korea and the nuclear explosion in North Korea put the entire Korean Peninsula in a desperate situation, but suddenly the connection between countries around the world is extremely close. After suddenly starting contact, these countries no longer stop. They can receive dialogues between countries around the world on the international unified channel every day. This kind of dialogue is no longer encrypted or hidden, and even ordinary citizens who have satellite communication terminal equipment can accept it.

Every day, these people, like taxi drivers in a certain city, inform each other of their own situations, tease the communications leaders of other countries, or discuss cooperation with other countries, or publish their scientific research results.

Americans mentioned in the communication that the United States has now developed a reagent that can detect whether the organism is infected with zombie virus or whether there are antibodies to zombie viruses. When Americans proudly announced this result, the British sneered: "If you want to monitor whether you have been infected with zombie viruses, do you still need to come over and use reagents on him? As long as you lean over and see if he will bite you?"

What the British said was right, and immediately made the Americans wilted. It seemed that scientific research seemed useless in the end, and it was made out something that was not practical. The Dutch said they were searching for cows that were not infected with zombie viruses nationwide. Thankfully, they gathered more than 30 cows that were not infected with zombie viruses. Although people can't eat now, it is still no problem to ensure that tens of thousands of survivors across the country can get a little milk every day.

It happened that the news was captured by Xie Tian, ​​who was next to the communicator. Then Xie Tian blurted out: "My Dutch friend, are you interested in changing rice to cows?"

"Rice?" the Dutch chuckled, saying, "I think our president may prefer a little more wheat."

"We have wheat, too." Xie Tian smiled and said, "How about changing twenty cows with you?"

"This..." the Dutch hesitated and said after a moment: "This way, I'll let our Minister of Commerce talk to you if he's interested."

Xie Tian nodded and said, "When he comes, please contact me with a dedicated line."

A moment later, the Dutch called the dedicated line. As soon as he opened his mouth, a man with a London accent asked in English: "Chinese friends, are you going to trade wheat for cows?"

"That's right." Xie Tian nodded and said, "But you must ensure that your cows are healthy. In addition, are there any breeding cows?"

"Yes, yes..." The Dutch said embarrassedly: "But our cows are a little malnourished. Besides, China is so far away from here, how do you buy our cows?"

"You don't have to worry about this." Xie Tian said lightly: "Please offer a price, I'll need a part of it if it's right."

"If this happens..." the other person thought for a moment and asked tentatively: "Is it okay to exchange for seven tons of wheat for a cow?"

"*** Seven tons..." The correspondent blurted out when he heard this: "Isn't this a scam? The malnutritional cows are probably not even 500 kilograms. If you exchange them for 7 tons of grain, the Dutch are crazy about being poor!"

Xie Tian smiled at him and stretched out his hand to signal him not to talk too much. Then he said to the communicator: "In this way, prepare two breeding cattle and 18 cows, one hundred forty tons of grain, but one hundred forty tons of grain. Don't expect me to give you all wheat, there will be one hundred tons of rice in it. I will transport it by plane and then transport the cows back. What do you think?"

"Really?" the Dutch was surprised for a moment, and then asked, "Are you kidding with Chinese friends?"

"Of course not." Xie Tian smiled and asked, "What other surviving animals are there?"

"It's gone." The Dutch said, "We only preserve more than thirty cows. If we hadn't had the lack of essential feeding, the milk production of cows was too low, and we wouldn't be willing to exchange for more food. After all, cows are considered renewable resources."

"Okay." Xie Tian smiled and said, "At this time, don't talk nonsense. You turn around and send us the coordinates. I will prepare the food as soon as possible and let the plane transport it."

The people in the Communications Department were a little puzzled. How useful is it to change the cows to get 140 tons of grain? However, Xie Tian felt that the deal was very worthwhile. At the beginning, only Yanjing was stabilized as soon as possible, so Yanjing had more than 100 pet dogs of all kinds. The cat survived, but other animals were not able to retain it. After such a long period of deterioration, even those surviving animals might be difficult to survive. Now if you want to find animals, you can only go to the deep mountains and forests to try your luck. However, Xie Tian clearly knew the current development situation and food, especially next year, there would be no shortage of food, but he had no way to obtain other food sources. If there were Dutch cows, at least fresh milk could be supplied immediately. The most important thing was that these cows could breed.

After hearing the news, the Americans said in the communication with jealousy: "China is indeed a material power. Now it has the national strength to spend so much food and travel thousands of miles to the Netherlands to buy cows. It's a pity that our food is in short supply now, otherwise the United States would not have missed such a good opportunity."

Xie Tianxiao said: "If the United States is willing to exchange military fighter jets for food, we Chinese are the first to trade with you. We have been eager for the C-17 transport aircraft for a long time. I wonder if you are interested in selling us a few aircraft?"

"You can consider it." The American replied quickly: "But the supplies we hope we can get are not rice and wheat, but aviation fuel."

Xie Tian joked: "I didn't expect that the aviation overlord of the United States of America would also lack aviation fuel, which is incredible."

“There are so many incredible things,” the American said with a wry smile. “If we had enough aviation fuel, things would be much better in Washington and other parts of the United States.”

The Saudi Arabian immediately said: "My American friends, bring your food here and we provide you with a lot of oil. What do you think?"

The Iranians immediately blurted out: "Saudi Arabs, if you dare to sell oil to the United States, we will launch a full-scale attack on you tomorrow!"

The Saudi Arabians angrily said: "Why do we attack us? We only have three things left now: gold, oil and US dollars, but none of these three things can be eaten! Whoever can bring food to Saudi Arabia can get Saudi Arabia's oil!"

"Sorry." The American said: "Iranian friends, I have disappointed you. We do not have the ability to extract oil at present, so we will not go to Saudi Arabia to transport oil."

Xie Tian suddenly thought that the current grain is international hard currency, so can he use grain to carry out international trade? Use grain to exchange other materials he needs to countries around the world, such as Saudi Arabia's oil. His current aviation fuel reserves are far from enough, but Shanghai's oil reserves are limited after all, so he naturally needs a large amount of oil as the basis in the future. Moreover, although the amount of gasoline and diesel oil is large, the consumption is not increasing day by day. If a refinery can be restarted, the entire oil problem will be solved well. If you have sufficient aviation fuel, you can completely bring all Pakistanis back to China from Kashmir and then place a piece of land for them to farm in Zhejiang. Although they are friendly neighbors, they will also get a size and let Pakistani friends come to China to farm. It is not a bad idea, right? At worst, you can collect less rent at that time.

Immediately, Xie Tian asked, "Saudi friend, how do you sell oil?"

"This..." the Saudis hesitated for a moment and said, "A barrel of oil, a kilogram of wheat!"

"go-your-sisters!" Xie Tian cursed in English and said, "Are you robbing him? You can produce 10 million barrels of oil a day. Even if you don't produce, your reserves will be at least tens of millions of barrels. You want to exchange for a kilogram of wheat for a barrel of oil? Are you dreaming! Can you eat that oil with you? Can you solve any imminent problems?"

"Chinese friends..." the Saudis hurriedly said: "You have to know, a barrel of crude oil costs 158.9 liters, which costs more than US$100, and how much does a kilogram of wheat cost? We are already losing money!"

Xie Tian said, "Okay, China has a lot of foreign exchange cash reserves. I'll take some US dollars and buy oil from you. Two hundred dollars a barrel. Do you think it's okay?"

"Okay, Chinese friend, I was wrong..." The Saudis immediately said: "You can just give it a price. Now our 160,000 people in Jeddah Port are all in Jeddah Port. There are a large amount of crude oil reserves here. You are welcome to come and buy it."

"Well..." Xie Tian said, "Let's do this, according to the weight ratio of 1:10,000, one ton of wheat, you will get ten thousand tons of oil."

There was no movement on the other side for a while, and several other countries condemned it: "Chinese people are too smart in doing business! One to ten thousand, the price is really too ruthless!"

Even Iran couldn't stand it anymore and said, "We Iranian people expressed deep contempt for the Chinese friends who just offered the offer!"

Australians blurted out: "My Chinese friend, if one ton of wheat is exchanged for ten thousand tons of iron ore, we Australian people are willing."

"No." Xie Tian curled his lips and said, "When we wanted it, you just made trouble for us. What's the use of us now for iron ore?"

The Saudis said, "My Chinese friend, let's raise it a little more, this price is too low."

"This is how it goes." Xie Tian said, "You must be short of oil tankers. You can load the boat for me, and I will send someone to drive it back. I will give you food at 3:10,000."

"3:10,000..." The other party thought for a moment and said, "We have a super tanker with a capacity of 250,000 tons. It was just launched last year. We will fill you up. You should give us 75 tons of grain, but we gave you this tanker. How about you give you an additional 25 tons of grain? A total of 100 tons."

"Yes." Xie Tian agreed without hesitation, and at this time, the British roared: "Saudi people, the 250,000 tons of oil tanker you mentioned that just launched the water last year should be our Victoria! Our Victoria broke out before it arrived in your Saudi Arabia!"

"So what?" the Saudi Arabian said calmly: "A cruise ship, at worst we can buy it. We have bought it from you in the UK. There is no problem buying another cruise ship for you. We will give you cash."

"Damn it!" The British people cursed in anger: "Who wants your dollars, we want bullets! I want bullets! Damn, we are surrounded by zombies, we need bullets!"

"Please ask together!" The Frenchman also said: "The bullet consumption is too high, and we are almost unable to withstand the attack of zombies! Bullets, we only need bullets!"

Xie Tian ignored the roaring British and said to the Saudis: "Prepare as soon as possible. If you can prepare twenty refining technicians for us, it would be great. We can provide you with twenty tons of extra grain as a reward." After saying that, Xie Tian shouted at the top of his voice: "Some of them can be purchased without zombie viruses around the world. Some of them can contact the China Communications Office, but if there are too few, there is no need for those with a single gender."

After saying that, Xie Tian left the communications office and found the person in charge of grain. He and the person in charge of Pudong Airport asked them to prepare 140 tons of grain, 40 tons of wheat and 100 tons of rice. Then he put all of the grains into domestic transport planes. In addition, he searched for several experienced breeders or veterinarians in Shanghai, and went to the Netherlands to transport cows with the team.

It is not difficult to breed dairy cows in Shanghai. There are too many forages to be used around it. Moreover, the mountains of wheat bran in the flour mill can be used as essential materials for dairy cows. The untreated bean cakes in the oil press are all stored very well. Not to mention twenty cows, two thousand can be easily raised.

Immediately, Xie Tian thought that there might be animals surviving in China, so he immediately found animal experts and asked them to study where there is still a possibility of finding living animals in China, and then sent a professional team to search. If they could find them, try to capture and bring them back to Shanghai, which can also increase the number of surviving species.

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The Dutch and Saudis are waiting for the Chinese to trade. Xie Tian's current aviation fuel reserves have exceeded 10,000 tons. The first one to go to is the Netherlands. The temporary military commission gathered six breeders who once raised dairy cows and two veterinarians who specialize in treating dairy cows. These eight people followed four domestic and Russian transport planes to the Netherlands. The Dutch had already prepared the dairy cows and waited for the Chinese to trade. When the plane landed at the simple airport in the Dutch safe zone, the Dutch, who had been preparing for a long time, immediately began to transport food from the plane and led twenty thin cows to the Chinese, as if afraid that the Chinese would regret seeing these twenty cows.

These cows produce a lot of milk every day, but they can only get fodder and cannot get essential feed, so they are very weak. Fortunately, they are not sick. After the examination, the veterinarian believed that as long as they were transported back to China for a period of time, they could supplement their nutrition soon and strengthen their bodies. In addition to the two breeding cows, the other 18 cows can produce nearly 800 kilograms of milk every day, which is a considerable number, and they can reproduce offspring themselves.

After the cows were transported back to Shanghai, many survivors rushed to join in the fun after hearing the news. It felt like they were not watching the cows, but foreigners were watching pandas. Who made animals basically disappear in this era?

Although it is impossible for twenty cows to supply so much survivor milk, the most important thing is that with this batch of cows and letting them reproduce, one day all survivors can drink milk. The current era is no longer an era of enjoyment, but an era of creation. What people need to do is to survive, and the second is how to make their descendants survive better.

As soon as the cows arrived, they were immediately sent to a modern breeding farm on the outskirts of Shanghai. This farm was previously a dairy cattle breeding base, but now it is already empty. Twenty cows were sent here, and six breeders and two veterinarians were also stationed here, full-time care for the cows and responsible for the breeding of the cows.

The Saudis had long been preparing to canned oil for the Victoria tanker, but when they found out that the Victoria had already been filled with oil and was all oil paid by the British, the Saudis felt as if they had picked up a huge bargain and exchanged for 100 tons of grain with the British ship and the oil bought by the British. This was naturally like a pie falling from the sky.

Xie Tian doesn’t care about so much, after all, oil reserves are extremely important to him. At the time, the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway was whistling and shuttled through the diesel internal combustion engine every day, and the consumption of diesel is quite large. If it is consumed alone and cannot be manufactured, it will be consumed one day sooner or later. Now I have a production line for refining aviation fuel, and I also need a factory that can refine gasoline and diesel. There are many such factories, and there are several around Shanghai. But the most important thing now is that I do not have professional technical talents to use.

Fortunately, the Saudis finally gathered twenty oil refining technicians, and they only found eleven, and the other nine were bought with Iran at a price of 500 kilograms of grain. The Iranians thought they had made a profit, but they did not expect that the Saudis made half of it and went into their pockets.
Chapter completed!