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Chapter 1053: 1053: Things Have Gotten a Bit Out of Hand
Chapter 1053: 1053: Things Have Gotten a Bit Out of Hand
Chapter 1053: Chapter 1053: Things Have Gotten a Bit Out of Hand
Actually, for Feng Jun, paying with food would be more cost-effective because… the price of grain in the Mobile Phone Plane is not cheap.
For example, one silver dollar is worth a thousand copper coins, and a pound of flour needs around forty copper coins, which means one silver dollar is worth twenty-five pounds of flour, and one tael of Gold can buy two thousand five hundred pounds of flour, which is one and a quarter tons.
One tael of Gold is fifty grams, and it can sell for around twelve thousand in the Earth Realm. If purchased in bulk, one could at least buy close to four tons of flour — after all, the goal is to eat enough, not necessarily to eat well.
That is the price when the weather in the Mobile Phone Plane is fair; once there’s a natural disaster or chaos from war, grain prices will skyrocket.
Honestly, it’s not that the grain in the Mobile Phone Plane is expensive, but that the grain in the Earth Plane is cheap, with the big industrial era ensuring the supply of fertilizers, and coupled with the active breeding of good varieties, the grain prices can be kept within a not-so-high range.
However, Feng Jun felt that he needed to do some calculations to see if this operation was feasible.
Let’s assume that one tael of Gold can buy one ton of flour, then twenty million taels of Gold would be twenty million tons of flour — that quantity is indeed enough for the entire population of Funiu Province to eat for a year.
Even if only half of the payment is made with grain and the other half with Gold, that’s still ten million tons of flour.
Feng Jun really is willing to pay with grain because it’s cheap enough, but the amount is too large for him to handle.
Huaxia has always maintained tight control over food security; setting aside the red line of arable land, even grain and oil operations require a permit.
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