Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 445445 Big Purchase

 Tang Mo, who returned to Longdao, is still very busy every day. As technology continues to advance, he must come up with more and better technologies to maintain Datang Group's leadership in research and development.

Every day he writes and draws, writes down some technical parameters, and distributes them to various R&D departments to inspire their ideas.

 This is a virtuous cycle. Tang Mo cannot always be a drawing tool and one person can undertake the R&D and design work of the entire group.

 So he can only cultivate follow-up talents, keep the R&D team motivated, and do more work for him. Only in this way can he be freed from R&D work to pay more attention to increasingly important strategic issues.

 During this technology transfer process, Tang Mo acted more as a decision-maker to prevent his technical team from wasting time on the wrong route.

In the conference room, Tang Mo was listening to reports from various departments on the development progress of Dongwan Island. Recently, almost all issues of Datang Group seemed to revolve around Dongwan Island.

There is no other way. Bunas and Yucheng are connected and are on the right track, and Harry is watching, so everything is fine.

The same is true for other ports. Everyone is busy developing and already has their own development goals. As long as they continue step by step, they can become a prosperous place in the future.

With Tang Mo personally in charge of Longdao, there is no problem: as the research and development base and technology fortress of Datang Group, there will naturally be no problems in its development.

Just look at the densely packed giant shipyards that have been expanded several times, as well as the ship hulls in various stages of construction, and you will know the status of Longdao within the Datang Group.

Although there are countless things to deal with in these places, they are all daily tasks and do not require Tang Mo to pay attention to them all the time.

Only Dongwan Island is still in the initial construction stage and is still a military bridgehead. Tang Mo needs to personally handle all matters.

Roger was left on Dragon Island by Tang Mo, and now he is doing his own job again. He introduced Tang Mo to the group's recent actions: "We have imported about 2 million tons of grain from allied countries. Most of them are gathering towards Dongwan Island.”

He explained to Tang Mo why he did not continue to purchase more grain: "This is already the limit of the amount of grain we can purchase, because if we increase the purchase, the reserves of the countries selling food will be in danger, which they are not willing to bear. "

Although Datang Group exports chemical fertilizers and improved seeds, it has indeed improved planting efficiency and enabled allied countries to achieve bumper grain harvests.

However, the problem of food and clothing has only just been partially solved, and many countries have just emerged from hunger. Everyone is wary of exporting food, so there is actually not much food flowing through the transaction link.

 The people who export grain from Datang Group are more in awe and trust. Decision-makers in various countries are still more or less willing to believe that Datang Group's food procurement is not a strategic offensive.

“Because of our procurement, the price of food in various countries has begun to rise. The price we offered is almost three times the price of food procurement this time last year.” Roger continued to speak and mentioned another reason that affects procurement.

This is also an almost unsolvable problem: continued procurement of grain will cause fluctuations in grain prices. Large-scale grain purchases like Tang Mo's will definitely cause grain prices to continue to rise.

The problem caused by rising prices is that the amount of food that can be purchased at the same price will be further reduced. From the perspective of the result, this is an immediate loss of money, and the party who spends the money will be under tremendous pressure.

 Because the loss is certain, whoever issues such an order will have to pay for the extra cost. Any individual, or even an organization, must give a reasonable explanation as to why they have to do this to lose money.

Many people don’t understand why China often purchases the treasury bonds of lighthouse countries. In fact, to explain the truth simply: China pockets a large amount of profits every year. No matter what it buys with this money, it will affect the international trade price of the commodity. skyrocketing.

This will lead to a serious problem. With the size of China, whatever you sell will fall to a dog, and whatever you buy will rise to the sky. Over and over again, the price difference is equivalent to spitting out profits to other countries.

If you want to buy high technology, but others won’t sell it, then money is no longer money. What others wanted to sell, China didn't want to buy, so it became a deadlock.

The most reasonable behavior is to purchase foreign government bonds, get some interest, and eliminate the risk of losing a lot of money... That's hundreds of billions of money, so you can't take even a little risk.

 For a country, any decision must be stable because this is the most reasonable choice. The current Datang Group is very similar to China: they have the most complete industrialization, and the scale of trade is too large. The slightest disturbance will be a tsunami for every country, and everyone is very cautious.

Tang Mo wanted to purchase grain for Dongwan Island, and the price of grain immediately skyrocketed. This was just the beginning. If Datang Group continued to import grain, the price of grain would become higher and more uncontrollable.

Therefore, Roger’s suggestion is to suspend the purchase of grain first, wait for grain prices to fall back next year and increase grain production, and then purchase another round to keep grain prices at a reasonable and slightly expensive level.

"The good news is that we don't have to prepare a standard amount of food for slaves. For goblin slaves, we generally only ensure one meal a day..." Roger finally said, pretending to be relaxed.

Datang Group has never treated goblin slaves as "citizens", so it will naturally deduct money from these slaves to maintain the basic operation of other aspects.

"Dino is very worried that the death of the goblins will affect the development process of Dongwan Island. We have been a little too hasty. The construction speed of Dongwan Island is very fast, but this is the result of the number of slave deaths." Tang Mo He looked at Loew on the other side with some concern.

 Because the army needs to be suppressed and guarded, goblin slaves are systematically under the jurisdiction of the military. The use and deployment of these slaves, as well as casualty statistics, will be summarized to the general staff of Commander Loew.

Loew nodded slightly and began to introduce slave matters: "In the past month, we have lost 40,000 goblin slaves. Most of them died of overwork and illness, some were abused, and others It’s because construction safety does not meet standards.”

"I don't mean to sympathize with these bastards. What I'm worried about is that if the number of slaves continues to decline, it will affect the infrastructure construction on East Bay Island in the future." Roger continued.

Before Loew spoke, Leo answered Roger's worry: "Don't worry about this, because we will distribute better qualified talents to all employing areas later."

"Better?" Roger didn't know much about intelligence work, so he looked at Leo and asked.

Leo nodded proudly: "Yes, we have bribed the city lords and officials in many areas of Zheng State. They will turn a blind eye to our plan to transport people."

  He can indeed be proud of his men. Dandelion's work in Zheng State can really be said to be the largest espionage operation in the history of the world, with the most investment and the fastest results.

“Are you saying that the entire region will ignore this large-scale movement of people?” Roger looked unconvinced, because for any country, population is actually wealth and the most indispensable hard resource.

Leo continued with a smile: "Yes, they will use the criminals directly for local infrastructure construction, and then transport the good people directly to Dongwan Island as criminals."

Hearing what Leo said, Roger felt relieved and sighed with a sigh: "It seems that our people are doing a good job over there."

 Tang Mo laughed and complained about Leo's quick success in espionage activities: "It's really good. They spent the 30 million gold coins in less than 25 days, and then asked me for another 10 million."

This operation is basically a "big money throwing" campaign. There is no technique at all. It is simply to first find a corrupt official who is not a human being as a breakthrough, and then drag a series of such officials into the trap. Finally, it breaks the law and goes bankrupt. The bigger officials couldn't help but pinch their noses and admit it.

Make the payment a fait accompli. If you can't get 10,000 gold coins, you'll be given 50,000. If you can't get 50,000 gold coins, you'll be given 100,000! Keep giving until the other party nods, or someone nods for him!

 Don't underestimate the power of this tactic, because facts have proven that it is the simplest and crudest, but surprisingly effective method. Just imagine, if the United States used a year's defense budget as a bribe, few people would remain firm, right?

Even if someone is extremely loyal, but having said that, if this thing is true, don’t worry, the country will send someone to do the work for you and persuade you to surrender to the enemy and collect the money...

"Oh my god... is it true?" When Tang Mo said the bribe of 40 million gold coins without even frowning, Roger felt that he was completely confused.

He even thought that if he discussed the price directly with the king of Zheng, he might get a discount or something.

Tang Mo smiled and said to Roger: "Really, many cities in Zheng are no longer on defense against us. The local officials will completely ignore our actions, including us renovating ports, paving roads, and killing all the local young people." On the whole, it’s worth the money to ship it overseas.”

 He directly determined the nature of Leo's funds, thus avoiding Leo's embarrassment. Leo glanced at Tang Mo gratefully. To be honest, when he spent such a large amount of money, he was actually very guilty.

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 (End of this chapter)