Chapter 551: Exchange grain for gold
Lorna shrugged and said calmly: "I told you before, I want money, a lot of money. My plan is also very simple. I will help you sell this batch of grain secretly, and we will share the money.
Share it, so you are safe and I have money, so everyone can get what they need~"
"The method is also simple. Kino is my person and holds a blank oracle. He will take the lead in transporting grain. No one dares to stop it at various checkpoints. No matter where it goes, it can be transported unimpeded."
Gomer's thoughts coincided with Lorna's. He thought for a moment and asked tentatively: "Then I would like to ask one more question, what is your highness going to do with the food after it is transported out of Danyu City?"
Lorna: "Kino, this matter will be left to you, you can tell me."
Kino said without hesitation: "Of course we sell them to various major grain stores, little by little. This is the safest way."
For some reason, a mysterious smile appeared on Gomer's face, and he asked in a joking tone: "How much can it be sold to major grain stores?"
Kino took out a pen and paper and wrote a formula while saying: "There are 1.62 million tons of secretly hidden relief grains. According to the wholesale price, the average price of ordinary wheat is 4,000 iron moons per ton. The price of century-old wheat is twice as high as ordinary wheat.
Based on 8,000 iron moons per ton, a total of 13 billion iron moons can be sold."
"Hahahahaha!" The officials in Danyu City suddenly burst into laughter, and Gome laughed so much that he covered his stomach.
Kino was a little confused: "Why are you laughing?"
Gome kept rubbing his belly and said with a sigh: "I laugh at the fact that Archon Chino has no economic knowledge and does not know how to do business. 13 billion iron moons, do you know how much this is? Are there so many in the market?
It’s hard to say if the iron moons are circulating, but even if there are, they can be piled up into a real mountain. Where do you put them? Are you afraid of being conspicuous?"
Lin Gengsen also laughed and said: "Even if we don't consider the circulation and storage issues, what is the use of 13 billion iron moons? Iron moons can only buy grains and grains. They are currencies only used by low-level civilians and slaves. I don't even carry them."
Look! I don’t even want it if you give it to me for free!”
Kino was quite puzzled and asked inexplicably: "That's what you say, but what we are selling now is wheat, not rare treasures. Can't we just sell wheat to Tieyue? There will never be someone who takes advantage of the copper.
Will you buy wheat every month?”
There was a mysterious look in Gomei's eyes, and he said slowly: "Who said wheat can only be sold for iron moon? I said it can be sold for silver moon!"
"Nonsense!" Kino laughed angrily, "Which grain store is full and uses Silver Moon to buy grain? Don't talk nonsense here."
Lin Gengsen stroked his beard from time to time and said with a smile: "We didn't say we were going to sell it to a grain store."
Kino was even more puzzled: "With so much grain, if you don't sell it to the grain store, who will you sell it to?"
Gome walked to Lorna and Kino, put his arm around their shoulders, pulled them over, and said in a low voice: "Moon coins are divided into gold, silver, copper and iron, and there are high and low. This is the national policy of the Kingdom of Doguland.
So you may find it strange to use Silver Moon to buy food.
"But what if, we don't sell within the kingdom at all, but sell to a country where the currency is not noble or cheap?"
Kino reacted immediately: "You mean the Far Eastern Dynasty?"
Gomei smiled and nodded, making gestures on the table while explaining: "Centennial barley is a specialty of the Kingdom of Doguland, just like blood essence grass is a specialty of the Far Eastern Dynasty."
"The people in the Far East are extremely fond of century-old wheat, a food that lasts for a hundred years. From the imperial court in Gyeonggi Province to the big local households, they are all vying for it. They take whatever they sell for it."
"The currency specifications in the Far East are relatively uniform, and all caravan trade uses silver. If you do business with the imperial court, what you get back is high-quality snowflake silver with extremely low impurity content."
"We sold the century-old wheat to the imperial court and received silver. This completed the process of 'exchanging grain for silver'."
Kino was still a little confused: "Silver and Silver Moon, although they both have the word 'silver' in them, they are not the same thing after all. Silver from the Far East is not circulated in Doguland, so what's the use?"
Gome laughed softly and said: "It is true that they are not the same thing, but you also said that they both have the word 'silver' in them. The casting materials of silver and silver moon are both silver ingots. Think about it, the silver we get from selling grain
Melt it, cool it again and shape it into a silver ingot, then forge it into a silver moon, wouldn't it~"
Kino's expression changed: "Coining is a secret process, can you create a silver moon?!"
"Of course not, what are you thinking about? How can our little Danyu City have such ability?" Gomai changed the topic here and pointed to the ceiling mysteriously, "There are people above us, we only need to be responsible for melting the money."
Turn it into silver ingots, and then give the silver ingots to 'that adult', and then haha, you know~"
This operation was truly astonishing. Kino opened his eyes wide and asked tentatively: "If there is a way to turn silver ingots into a silver moon, could this be the 'sir' you are talking about?"
Lorna leaned forward and said what Kino didn't say: "One of the eight princes of the current royal family, the finance minister with the power to mint, Baldien Van Dogland?"
The officials in Danyu City smiled and said nothing.
Gome put a hand on his heart and looked very respectful: "Thanks to Lord Baldian's great love, I became the consul of Danyu City. Lord treats me so highly, of course I will try my best to repay him."
Kino couldn't help but narrowed his eyes: "According to this, when wheat was grown in Danyu Plain before"
Gome smiled slightly: "Ordinary wheat has a short shelf life and cannot be stored for long. It is not attractive to the Far Eastern Dynasty. They only like century-old wheat."
"The royal family has set target requirements for the Danyu Plain over the years. The planting ratio of century-old wheat and ordinary wheat must be controlled at 1:9."
"But when it comes to actual farming, we will ask the nobles to increase the ratio. In poor years, it is usually 2:8 or 3:7. In good years, we will increase the ratio to 5:5 or even higher. Danyu Plain
More than half of the hundreds of thousands of hectares of fields are filled with century-old wheat!"
"Except for the 10% of the century-old wheat harvested to be handed over to the Royal City, we will sell all the rest to the Far Eastern Dynasty through Abao's caravan, and then take the silver in exchange and give it to Lord Baldian to mint coins."
"This is exchanging grain for silver! In Doguland we can only sell Iron Moon's wheat, but we can sell it for Silver Moon!"
"Pah, pah, pah." Kino clapped his hands, a sly smile appeared on his face, "No wonder you were unwilling to implement the executive order before. It turns out there is such a huge profit margin!"
Lin Gengsen laughed and said, "That's right! There are so many hundred-year-old wheat, and everyone is waiting to make a fortune from it. But the royal family issued a decree and asked us to pull it out? Only a devil would do it!"
"The royal family said that the blood essence grass grown can be recycled at a premium, but how much is that premium worth? It's not even a fraction of the price of exchanging grain for silver, so how about sending it to a beggar?"
Lorna narrowed her eyes slightly, as if she was interested: "According to your method of playing, how much profit can you expect from these 1.62 million tons of grain?"
Gomei said with joy: "If you follow your previous approach and sell it to grain stores in various places in the country, you can only sell 13 billion iron moons."
"We sell it to the Far Eastern Dynasty and exchange it for the silver to cast the silver moon. The income can be increased nearly 10 times! At least 100 million silver moons can be made!"
"If you feel that the amount is too much and inconvenient, it doesn't matter. When we trade with the Far East, we can ask for settlement in gold, changing 'grain for silver' to 'grain for gold', and the minted monthly coins can also be of a higher value.
Stairs! Lord Baldian can at least cast them."
Chapter completed!