do not know why.
After Jiang Tianzi saw Li Zhen's smile, he felt a chill coming out of his heart.
He was ready for Li Zhen's lion to speak loudly, but he also had a bottom line. If the money asked for was too much, he would definitely refuse.
Xinyuan Kingdom can handle such a thing, but the price is too high. That is to use iron and blood to suppress capital, use strict criminal laws to formulate rules, and prohibit trade with Dongzhou.
This price can make the New Yuan Kingdom impoverished instantly. The country does not have much productivity, but it has to ban trade.
But this is the only option. The price is too high to dare to try.
But if Li really demands too much, that's all. Emperor Jiang just hoped that Li Zhen wouldn't go too far.
However, what Jiang Tianzi didn't expect was that Li Zhen did not ask for money, but returned it. He never thought that Li Zhen would make this request...
"We are going to do an engineering project, and a lot of gold will be used in the project."
Li Zhen said calmly: "So my only request is, ten tons of gold."
"Ten tons!"
Jiang Tianzi was stunned for a long time and waved his hands quickly: "No, no, this is too much."
But I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart. If you want gold, gold is easy to handle. This is not too much to ask.
Li Zhen continued: "Don't refuse in a hurry, and don't bargain in a hurry. Listen to what I have to say."
"Speaking."
"The current price of gold on the market is 1 gram of 159 state coins. We will give you money, not for nothing. But to supply the goods to the New Yuan Kingdom, we also paid a lot of money, so you have to Give us subsidies. So the gold you sell to me can only be sold at a maximum price of 50 coins per gram."
Jiang Tianzi was silent. In silence, he quickly calculated the gains and losses of his Xinyuan Kingdom.
The current price of gold is 150 per gram, and if it is sold to the Kyushu Academy of Sciences, it can only be sold for 500 million Kyushu coins.
The New Yuan Kingdom lost one billion Kyushu coins.
Such a large sum of money... is not impossible to get out. The main question is, now we need to calculate whether the cost of the last way to end this capital chaos will exceed one billion if we don't lose this billion.
There is another problem that Jiang Tianzi can't think about now. He naturally knows the importance of gold to a country, which is strategic reserve gold.
Gold can stabilize a country's economic lifeline. But the Xinyuan Kingdom had the courage to build a country, and secretly had already accumulated a lot of property, which is not bad. As long as there is a ton of gold reserves in the Xinyuan Kingdom's treasury, it will dare to operate as usual.
In fact, the Xinyuan Kingdom currently has more than fifteen tons of gold reserves in its treasury. Then selling these ten tons of gold is actually not a problem.
It's just very heartbreaking. This is almost an unforeseen disaster. Li Zhen was about to hollow out the entire Xinyuan Kingdom without spending a single soldier.
But on second thought, he at least returned the money, which was better than nothing. Even if Li Zhen robs him of ten tons of gold, Emperor Jiang can actually agree to spend money to eliminate disasters. And the return of these ten tons of gold should be a bit of an unexpected surprise.
In fact, Jiang Tianzi's mind here cannot be turned around, and he is not deeply involved in finance. In fact, in the entire Jiuzhou, apart from the group of people gathered around Li Zhen, how many people know finance
He does not understand the phenomenon of currency depreciation. I also can’t figure out the problem of inflation and deflation. I don’t know what a financial bubble is, nor do I understand that without gold reserves, currency is actually just a piece of paper…
There were too many issues about capital and finance that he couldn't figure out. After hesitating for a long time, Jiang Tianzi said, "I can agree to your request."
Li Zhen smiled: "Also, I have a second request."
"Don't go too far!"
Jiang Tianzi stood up suddenly. Looking at Li Zhen coldly.
Li Zhen laughed: "It's not too much. It's just that I want to sign an agreement with your country."
"What agreement?"
"We will always be repairing and doing business with each other. Haha, Emperor Jiang, wouldn't you like to make a friend? If you don't fight, you won't get to know each other."
Li Zhen stretched out his hand.
Jiang Tianzi was stunned, looking at the hand in front of him, never expecting that Li Zhen's second request was to make friends.
It was good to make friends, he wanted to make friends, he wanted to make friends. Dongzhou is now too powerful, and capitalists are rising in various ways. There is no better friend than this.
In fact, if the crisis in Xinyuan Kingdom is solved, the best result is to establish trade between Dongzhou and Xinyuan Kingdom. Dongzhou still continues to sell goods to the Xinyuan Kingdom, but it will be enough to raise the price a little to be the same as Dongzhou's price.
This is like Qin Enze using opium, since he has already used it, since he has become addicted. So whether it's one-size-fits-all, or all of a sudden satisfied, this is fundamentally harmful. The only way to maintain stability is... then let's continue.
When Dongzhou's capital goods poured in, they didn't notice it at the beginning, so they missed the opportunity. This trick can only be blocked by nipping out the initial growth of capital. Otherwise, once an association is formed, there is nothing you can do.
Jiang Tianzi felt that this should be reassurance that Li Zhen took the initiative to give himself. After signing such an agreement, Dongzhou and Xinyuan Kingdom would be on good terms, so this continuous supply would not be interrupted. Now Dongzhou's goods have become the lifeblood of Xinyuan Kingdom.
"Hahaha, Dean Li is so refreshing."
The two shook hands, clapped their hands and smiled, as if they had been good brothers for many years.
Li Zhen said with a faint smile: "The Xinyuan Kingdom can send its excess labor to Dongzhou to work, and I can also try my best to solve the hidden dangers of your country's overabundance of labor and the inability to catch up with the economy."
Jiang Tianzi held Li Zhen's hand and hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said, "Haha, let's talk about it, let's talk about it."
He didn't dare to agree to Li Zhen's questions easily now. If it involved finance, he had to find someone to discuss it with.
This is labor export...
It's another new concept. No one in this world understands it, but Li Zhen understands it.
With such a blow to the economy, the Singaporean Congress has plummeted, and there are poor people everywhere. Then using their poor people to export to Dongzhou to work solves the problem of insufficient labor in Dongzhou, and the labor wages will be less than those in Zhongzhou, which is a win-win situation.
Li Zhen smiled and said without changing his expression: "We will also open a money bank to Xinyuan Country. Since we don't know each other now, it is my wish to help your country."
"Money business? What money business?"
Li Zhen smiled slightly and showed a tiger tooth at the corner of his mouth: "It is an institution that helps businessmen store currency and provide loans to others. Your country's economy is collapsing this time, and I, Li Zhen, have an obligation to help your country in this way. After all, the solution still needs to be solved. Bell tieer. If your country’s economy wants to recover, trade alone is not enough. It also requires the growth of local capitalists. And some people who want to start a business and don’t have money can borrow from our money bank.”
Jiang Tianzi's eyes lit up and he was so excited that he trembled: "Is this...serious?"
Li Zhen looked deeply at Jiang Tianqi and laughed loudly: "Take it seriously, take it seriously, of course you take it seriously. We are friends."
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(End of chapter)