Seeing Jiang Fan reject Nasutu's solicitation without any hesitation, and hearing Nasutu admit that the first problem was that the grassland side was the loser, Zhou Di suddenly felt happy.
There is nothing more comfortable than having a sudden reversal when you are completely in despair.
I originally thought that this year would be like the previous years, where I would be completely black and white and be despised by the prairie people. However, I didn't expect that Jiang Fan was so powerful that he could even crack something like this that had never been seen before.
For a moment, Zhou Di couldn't help but cast an approving look at Jiang Fan, then looked at Nasu Tu again, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, please do so, but please don't continue to use the sacred objects of your Immortality Sect.
That’s the topic.”
"What the prince said is that this second question is very simple. The prince should know that food is very scarce on our grassland. The staple food on weekdays is mainly cattle and sheep. And grains and the like basically all rely on
Redeemed from Dazhou."
Nasu Tu paused and continued: "So this second question is actually not only a question, but also a business. We, the envoy, very much hope that through this mission, we can purchase some food and bring it back.
grassland."
After saying that, Nasutu clapped his hands, and immediately a wine-sacrifice came out, took out a chess board, and then stepped forward and placed it at Nasutu's feet.
"Your Majesty, please take a look. This is the most popular chess board in your country. This kind of chess is also extremely popular among the nobles of our prairie people. We have nothing to do on weekdays, and our prairie nobles also like to sit with two people.
Together, the ever-changing wisdom of war contained in a game of chess is very amazing."
Nasutu said.
Zhou Di glanced at the chessboard with confusion, and was a little confused for a moment.
It is indeed the most common chess board, but what did Sutu want to do when he took out such a chess board?
"I know that the prince must have doubts in his heart, but in fact... the way I want to buy food has something to do with this chessboard."
Nasutu pointed at the chessboard placed in front of him and continued: "This mission brought a total of 10,000 taels of gold and 100,000 taels of silver. At the same time, the money bills issued by Sihai Bank in your country totaled
One million guan, and some other prairie treasures, and we all want to use these things to buy food."
Zhou Di was a little surprised.
The total value of ten thousand taels of gold and one hundred thousand taels of silver is roughly equivalent to about 200,000 guan. If you add in the millions of guan notes issued by Sihai Bank, that means less than 1.2 million guan?
The amount of money can be said to be a lot or a lot less. The amount of grain that can be purchased, even at the current high prices, is enough to buy a mountain of grain.
But the problem is that Heyang City is very short of food these days, and the price of food has skyrocketed. Even King Wu Zhou Di, who doesn't care much about people's livelihood, has already heard about it.
If a large amount of grain were sold to the grassland at this time, God knows whether the people of Heyang City would have no food to eat.
After all, the food supply from the south is gradually decreasing, and Heyang City itself must maintain a certain amount of food reserves, otherwise big problems will occur.
However, it would not be justified if it was not sold.
Therefore, it is a trivial matter to anger Grassland. If Grassland becomes suspicious because it does not sell, and Grassland discovers the current predicament of Great Zhou, then God knows what Grassland's Golden Account will do because of this.
Thinking of this, Zhou Di couldn't help but have a headache.
But before he could think further, Nasutu continued: "We don't want to use the previous method to purchase grain, but we hope to use this chessboard to determine the final amount of grain to purchase."
Nasutu said, picked up the chessboard, pointed at the chessboard and continued: "Your Majesty, please look at the chessboard. There are a total of sixty-four real square grids. And the amount of food we want to buy is based on this grid."
The quantities are accumulated.”
"Only one grain of grain needs to be placed in the first grid, two grains of grain need to be placed in the second grid, four grains of grain need to be placed in the third grid, and so on, the amount of grain required for each grid is
Use twice the amount of the previous square, up to the sixty-fourth square."
After Su Tu finished speaking, Zhou Di was stunned again.
What kind of buying method is this?
Never heard of it...
How many grains of grain can be placed in one grid? Each grid is twice the size of the previous grid. There are only sixty-four grids in total. How many grains of grain can be placed in this grid?
Can grain still be calculated in grains?
Does this add up to one stone?
"My lord, what do you think of this transaction method? As long as you nod your head and agree, we can deliver the gold, silver and money notes immediately."
Nasutu said with a smile.
Zhou Di almost agreed subconsciously, because the first impression that came to his mind was that he would definitely make a lot of money from this kind of transaction.
But after all, I still retained a trace of reason and vigilance, and I always felt that it was impossible for the prairie people to be so stupid as to do such a business that was obviously going to be a big loss at first glance.
So Zhou Di did not reply directly, but looked at Zhou He and the Qing guests and said, "What do you think?"
Zhou He couldn't make any comments. He felt exactly the same as his father, thinking that the prairie people had lost their minds and gone crazy.
If he hadn't always been wary of the prairie golden tent instinct, he would have been eager to agree on his father's behalf first.
The few pilgrims were quite uneasy, and for a while they didn't know what kind of medicine the prairie people were selling in their gourds.
But asking them to figure out how much food is needed for such a chessboard, according to Nasutu, is too much.
People in this era have an extremely low understanding of arithmetic.
After at least counting their fingers and silently calculating the grains that needed to be delivered in the first dozen chessboard spaces, several Qing guests believed that according to Nasutu's requirements, the final grains that needed to be delivered would not be too much.
Therefore, after discussing with each other for a while, one of the leaders of the Qing guests bowed his hands and said: "Your Majesty, we think that this business can be done. There are about tens of thousands of grains in a pound of grain. According to the method mentioned by His Majesty the Pope, the chessboard
There are only sixty-four grids in total. Although we cannot calculate how much food will be needed in the end, if we think about it, no matter how we increase it, it will increase to hundreds of thousands or millions at most."
"Even if our estimate is wrong and the number reaches tens of millions or even tens of millions, it is actually a very small number, a few hundred stones or even less. Because His Majesty the Pope only used a
A grain of rice is just a unit. Taking a grain of rice as a unit, after all, it is impossible to add too much grain."
"Compared with the food we need to pay, the price proposed by His Majesty the Pope is extremely exaggerated. Even excluding the prairie treasures, just gold, silver and money notes, at the current price of food, it is enough to buy two million dan
The food left and right, no matter how you look at it, is a huge profit."
After hearing Qingke's affirmative answer, Zhou Di, who was originally inclined to this point, no longer had any doubts. His face showed an expression of excitement, and he directly agreed to trade with Nasutu.
But before the words left his mouth, Jiang Fan suddenly interrupted and said: "Wait a minute!"