Hearing Aslan say that he wanted to purchase a large amount of grain, Yitzhak became confused anyway.
"Although our Kingdom of Cleveland is not a food-producing country, we have always been self-sufficient without any problem." Joshua asked curiously.
Aslan shook his head and took out a report from the magic space.
That was information about a locust plague breaking out across the entire Beifeng Prairie.
Joshua took it and looked at it, and his expression changed drastically in the end.
"Is the intelligence information above true?"
Aslan nodded solemnly and added: "It's almost the same, because I have noticed that the countries of the Maxim Federation are now purchasing food on a large scale. If I guessed correctly, they are probably planning to take advantage of this locust plague.
Make a fortune."
As the largest business empire in the mainland, Maxim Federation's keen business sense is beyond the reach of ordinary people.
As the saying goes, intelligence determines everything.
Especially in business, many businessmen are always one step ahead and make a lot of money when the industry is just emerging. In the end, they become either the industry leader or the industry's most important boss.
"The magician responsible for monitoring the natural environment at the Royal Academy of Magic should have reported this news." Fleur beside him suddenly added.
Yitzhak immediately sat down. He didn't pay attention to this matter at that time, and no one in the entire court of the Kingdom of Cleveland paid attention to this matter.
"So we must prepare for a rainy day. If the locust plague spreads to the Kingdom of Cleveland and a large amount of food is purchased by the Maxim Federation, the consequences will be disastrous." Aslan continued to remind.
He has long wanted to purchase grain on a large scale. It is simply not possible to rely on the Tianping Chamber of Commerce to do this on a small scale. It must be led by the giants of the kingdom.
The Royal Academy of Magic is a very good leader.
"I'll leave this matter to you Yitzhak. Purchase as much grain as you can." Joshua said decisively.
Aslan immediately breathed a sigh of relief. As for whether it would change the impact of the locust plague, Aslan said with certainty.
"Won't!"
Even if the Royal Academy of Magic takes action now, the most it can do is meet the needs of the province of Cleveland. It is simply impossible to completely satisfy the several provinces controlled by the entire kingdom, because the food reserves do not have this condition.
Aslan has already asked Meria to purchase food from many foreign countries. As for whether they will face a food crisis in the future, it is not something Aslan can consider. He only needs to ensure that the people in his territory will not starve to death.
Already.
Even after the Aslan locust plague may break out, the Duke of Medea has ordered the entire Merlox Province to increase production, especially in the Billy region. A large number of large farms affiliated to the Duke's Palace have sprung up, and 80% of the farmland on these farms belongs to
Medea, the surplus is given to the people who work on the farm, and they work hard to cultivate it.
Coupled with the facilities of the farming war policy, if the locust plague does not break out, within three years, Merlox Province can become a truly major agricultural province. If it is combined with Aslan's agricultural industrialization, it will become the fifth agricultural province.
There is no problem with the exporting country.
Of course, the most critical one is the increasingly strong industrial system in the Merlo region. As time goes by, this strength feeds back to the Merlox province in all aspects.
When Yitzhak entered the palace and asked for the little emperor's cooperation and help, Aslan returned to the Tianping Chamber of Commerce again. This time, he had just settled down when he got the news that the mark currency had steadily rebounded, and the price had reached 1% of the original price.
1.5.
After two days of smashing, Aslan had consumed nearly 20 million marks and obtained more than 10 million gold coins, which had been secretly transferred to the Tianping Chamber of Commerce.
Aslan was not worried that the mark currency would overwhelm the gold coins. Aslan continued to ask people to increase the exchange rate of the mark currency.
It's straight up 1 to 3.
As for the commodities bound to Mark coins by the Maxim Federal Chamber of Commerce, Aslan has no worries.
Because they mainly used Mark coins, although it ensured the strength of the Mark coins, it made the merchants and nobles who exchanged gold coins even crazier. They wanted to use the converted Mark coins to purchase bulk commodities from the Maxim Federation.
Aslan realized at this time that the real purpose of Maxim Federation doing this was to cover their large-scale purchase of these goods in the country. Even if someone discovered it, they would only think that they were dealing with Kyoto's financial war.
In fact, more than two-thirds of the supplies were stored in his warehouses across the country.
Since Aslan naturally wanted to add another fire, he directly took out 20 million marks to save at Maxim Federal Commercial Bank, and at the same time once again proposed the conditions for purchasing bulk commodities.
The amount reported this time was even more exaggerated. He spent all the Marks saved in Maxim Federal Commercial Bank in one go, which frightened Horns.
"Your Excellency, Marquis, do you need to think carefully? After all, if the price of materials drops with such a large quantity purchase, you will suffer a huge loss."
Faced with Horns's 'kindly' reminder, Aslan shook his head indifferently.
"Your Excellency, let's be honest and don't tell secrets. After this battle in Kyoto, whether your bank wins or loses, the prices of these bulk commodities will not be reduced for some time in the future. What's more, your bank is completely based on the market price of the mainland.
When purchasing these supplies, at the current exchange price of Kyoto Marks, you will not lose money no matter what you buy, you will only make more."
Horns immediately stopped trying to persuade him, and even began to actively introduce other businesses. After all, if they wanted to acquire these resources across the continent, even the wealthy Maxim Federation would not be able to catch up. They would not refuse any extra funds.
.
Because Horns knows very well that these nobles are essentially no different from capitalists.
It's just that one is mainly about commerce, and the other is mainly about land agriculture.
They are all synonymous with greed.
As long as there are enough benefits, they will never consider the misery of lowly people.
In fact, there are not a few people in Kyoto who can see the plan of Maxim Federal Commercial Bank. For example, Patrick, although he really wants Kyoto Commercial Bank to win the showdown with Maxim Federal Commercial Bank, it does not prevent him from making money.
Patrick quickly united with more than a dozen nobles in Kyoto and began to purchase bulk commodities from Maxim Federal Commercial Bank in Mark coins. However, they did not pay as much attention to food as Aslan. Instead, they mainly focused on steel and magic crystals. Food was only incidental, and
There are not many.
For a time, the exchange rate of the mark rose instead of falling, and instead returned to the initial value of 1:1.1, which made Horns burst into laughter.
If this trend continues, in a few days, it will be a decisive battle between the two sides.