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Chapter 546: Chapter 453: An Additional Few Hundred Billion (2/4)_1
Once the commands were issued.
Tang Yi started busily assigning tasks and setting up a series of plans involving various matters, such as negotiations, military suppression, action deployment, privilege handling, benefit distribution, company registrations, personnel recruitment, and market sales, to name a few, which were enough to keep them fussing for a while.
A considerable amount of funding was still required to mine these minerals. Relying entirely on the ’cooperative’ forces for funding was a bit unrealistic. Even leaving aside whether they could afford it, pushing such expectations could be seen as a bit overbearing.
Hence, the necessary investment was still required.
Of course, Tang Qing didn’t have to worry about spending this money. Instead, it would be borne by the Black Jail. The funds raised through cooperation with Chai Ren, various ’suppressive’ robberies, and Tongtian’s ’debt collection’ treasury were expected to cover the upfront costs.
Moreover, loans existed in this world. If the preliminaries were handled correctly, with a bit of manipulation, it would be smooth sailing afterward. The domestic model of ’acquiring land, taking out loans, then acquiring more land’ could definitely be applied to the mining industry as well.
Tang Qing leaned back in the chair in the command room,
massaging his head.
And became lost in thought again.
The initiation of the Mining Alliance Plan signaled the beginning of the execution of the other Industrial Alliance plans. The next plan to be launched was related to the food industry.
After so long a period of layout construction.
The fighters previously stationed in Thailand have already established many farming companies, purchasing a large amount of farmland. It is no longer only in Thailand, fighters have also established agricultural companies in various Southeast Asian countries involving agricultural machinery, fertilizer, cultivation, breeding, packaging, sales, and direct-operated shops, encompassing the entire grain industry chain. A certain scale has already been achieved.
However, this is far from enough.
Unlike Africa, Southeast Asia is not chaotic, and food is not like minerals. The process of acquiring farmland here is very difficult, far beyond Tang Qing’s initial expectations.
Understandably, food security involves the safety of a nation, which is why they are very strict with the protection and management of arable land. With most of the available farmland controlled by large food companies or state-owned enterprises in Southeast Asia, it isn’t as simple for the fighters to work as they want.
There’s a certain order in this world, and many things that the fighters could not accomplish in a short time.
Thus, there is not much room for expansion in Southeast Asia.
Tang Qing turned his gaze abroad.
Mainstream future food production will undoubtedly be large-scale mechanized planting. The efficiency and cost of manual planting are relatively high. Moreover, most of Southeast Asia is hilly, with fewer plains, unlike Australia, America, or even some African countries that have vast expanses of cultivable land.
Therefore,
Tang Qing is no longer very concerned about the grain production of Southeast Asia.
However, obtaining a large number of farms and opening up land abroad will undoubtedly require a considerable amount of money. In particular, the price of farmland in Western countries is high. Tang Qing finally decided to primarily focus on Africa.
Africa has ample room for operation, and the cost of land is reasonably low. It’s an excellent place. However, the fighters currently stationed there all have other tasks. After selecting a portion of them to execute the Mining Alliance Plan, there will be very few personnel left to spare.
"Tang Yi, start making preliminary preparations for the Grain Industry Alliance Plan. The main target is Africa, with secondary targets being the United States, Canada, Australia, and Brazil. As for Southeast Asia, we won’t abandon it; orderly progress is fine.
The internal authorized budget is five hundred million Asia Dollars. Initially, we will focus on planting soybeans, corn, wheat, and rice. Later we will venture into other agricultural products within the range of international commodities. Get everything ready within three months, and then we’ll officially implement the plan," Tang Qing ordered.
"Yes, Commander," Tang Yi replied.
These are the main food-producing regions globally.
Although India and Huaxia are also among the world leaders in grain production, these two countries have large populations. Most of the grains produced are consumed domestically. Sometimes the production is not even enough, making export difficult. Hence, Tang Qing does not intend to cultivate land in these countries
Simply put, the goal of the Grain Industry Alliance is pricing power. Pricing power relies on exports, on having something to sell to others, not on self-production and self-sales, not on how high your production is.
If grains were grown in Huaxia and India, they would only be sold domestically, making the business pointless.
Similar to the Mining Alliance, what he seeks is the pricing power and influence over international grain prices, not how much money he earns. If he cannot sell it, who would care about his price? Even if the international price is double the domestic price, not a single grain would be exported from the country for fear of domestic shortage. Such a situation is pointless.
What he wants is the ’surplus’ production.
It is the output available for export.
Watching an occupied Tang Yi.
Tang Qing felt a little shy playing the game here and flashed back to the villa.
Lying on his bed.
Bored, Tang Qing started watching TV again. He watched "Independence Day" one more time. Surprisingly, this was a real original soundtrack movie.
Thanks to Little Two’s simulation functionality, dubbing was unnecessary. The functionality could directly simulate the protagonist’s voice, making it sound as if the Americans in the movie were speaking Chinese. Even bystanders’ chatter was in Chinese. Amid the hubbub, a few Chinese characters could occasionally be heard, but it did not affect the continuity of the sound quality.
Now, that’s impressive.
If this were launched in the market, voiceover artists would be out of a job.
However, Tang Qing did not plan to launch this device. He didn’t see a reason to ruin people’s livelihoods abruptly. After all, being decent is the way to go.
...
At night.
After washing up.
Tang Qing returned to the command room, feeling a little excited.
Today marked one month since he had initially taken over the territories of two talented individuals. An entire month, which meant that the mineral resources and population of these two territories would be recorded in his name, and the issuance ceiling of the Asia Dollar could be raised by a few hundred billion.
Tang Qing brought up his personal information.
Name: Tang Qing
Level: 5
Experience: 1192/1600
Loan quota for this month: 800/800 million
Personal quota for this month: 160/160 million
Withdrawable assets: 86.651 million
Spirit: 507
Physical Fitness: 506
Origin Qi Value: 0
Available foreign currencies for exchange: US Dollar, Euro, Yen, Ruble.
The purchase of "Thought: Intermediate" cost a billion RMB, plus the profit from arbitrage in U.S. dollars these days, the funds have again exceeded eight hundred million.
Completed this month’s loan task, gaining three hundred and twenty experience points. With the experience gained from the achievement tasks, the total experience reached 1192. However, Tang Qing estimated that he would have to wait for the University to open before he could level up to Level 6.
If the achievement tasks are completed faster, upgrading before the University opens is not impossible—there’s only a difference of four hundred and eight experience points. Deducting the three hundred and twenty points of experience from August’s loan task, only eighty-eight points of experience need to be gained from the achievement tasks.
Tang Qing then checked the achievement tasks:
Achievement series tasks (I).
3. Issue loans, reward content: Every one hundred million RMB is converted to experience +1, Origin Energy points +1. Progress: 82/100.
4. Absorb deposits, reward content: Every one hundred million RMB is converted to experience +1, Origin Energy points +1. Progress: 73/100.
5. Bank’s Level 1 asset, reward content: Every one hundred million RMB of Bank’s Level 1 assets is converted to experience +1, Origin Energy points +1. Progress: 62/100.
6. Currency issuance: Issue a total value of 3 trillion RMB of new currency. Rewards: Each one trillion RMB is converted to 100 experience points and 20 Origin Energy points. Progress: 0/3.
Seeing this, Tang Qing felt like swearing.
God damn it.
Even if he completed the first three achievement tasks, he would only gain eighty-three experience points.
Eighty-three.
Eighty-eight.
Only a difference of five points.
Bloody hell.
But he couldn’t complete the last task of issuing one trillion Asia Dollars, so looking at this, Tang Qing didn’t know what to say. It was like this again, stuck on five experience points. Damn it.
Looks like he can only wait until September for the upgrade.
Oh well.
Just wait patiently.
"Tang Yi, what is the issuance limit for Asia Dollars now?" Tang Qing asked. Having Tang Yi around, he didn’t bother asking Gold coin. Because Tang Yi seemed more like a living being, while Gold coin and Little Two were more rigid, like intelligent programs, which considerably reduced his interest in chatting with them.
"Commander, with the incorporation of the newly acquired territories into your total assets, the issuance limit for Asia Dollars is now 905 billion. Of this, 153 billion Asia Dollars are frozen, and 752 billion can be issued. 301 billion Asia Dollars have already been issued." Tang Yi replied.
Tang Qing knew there were four conditions for issuing Asia Dollars.
First, collateral of foreign currency.
Second, collateral of gold and silver.
Third, bank’s level one assets.
Fourth, three percent of total assets from the territories.
So, all four combined give a total of 905 billion Asia Dollars now.
This is nearly double of the previous amount.
That is to say, there are a few hundred billion more available for ’creation’.
Pretty good.
As for the frozen Asia Dollars, it’s understandable. For example, those machines bought from the command room such as fighters, spies, and scientists, that portion is equivalent to Asia Dollars not flowing into the market, but turning into robots. Naturally, robots aren’t money, can’t be spent and can’t be sold. So, they’re equivalent to frozen assets.
These frozen Asia Dollars are not included in the issuance, it’s a kind of ’cash-out’ benefit for him.
It seems like a total of 301 billion Asia Dollars have been issued so far, with over 400 billion more available to be issued or transferred. It can be said that it’s pretty sufficient.
With this in mind, Tang Qing can only count on the Myanmar Bank Group to make good profits in the future, either earn foreign currency or enhance level one assets. Because the expansion of territories has hit a bottleneck, it’s not about not being to conquer, but the timing isn’t right.
This timing.
Can’t rely on it in the short term.
Well, that’s fine.
Isn’t it just about making money?
With the equipment in the mall, even those that only exist in a few places in the world are available, and the prices are so low, Tang Qing would be clueless about what else could possibly make money if he can’t make profits out of these.
PS: Chapter Two.
Thanks to the reader ’Once Ablaze’ for the reward.
