Sure enough, a few days after the Church of Light spread the word, the envoy from the Kingdom of God Omar came again with a dead look on his face.
In a simple trade negotiation, there is not much to agree on. A purchase list is presented here, a quotation is presented there, and the transaction location is determined after both parties have no objections to the price, and that's it.
In this process, the kingdom organized the participation of stakeholders, that is, the lords of several floating islands relatively close to this world gate.
Invite more than 20 people through diplomatic channels to form another negotiating team, responsible for internal coordination, and then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will negotiate with the people of Omar, the Kingdom of God.
The matter was relatively trivial, but the main goal was food, and it didn't waste much time. It took eight days to complete the work.
At this time, it has been a month since the world gate opened, so transactions should be done quickly.
Then send diplomats to visit Fatel to inform them about the transaction, so as to prevent them from causing trouble.
Next, in order to improve efficiency, a logistics company was organized and Manniu from the Civil Aviation Administration was used to deliver several sets of ferry transportation platforms between floating islands.
The transport platform between floating islands is assembled in a modular manner. The size of a single module is only 1×3×0.5. Under the premise of ensuring flight safety, Manniu can transport 8 structural modules or one core module at a time. Go to the local airport and transport it by light truck to the edge of the floating island for assembly.
The floating island responsible for the main business is not far from my home. Although it has not been involved in the Ganlin project, road projects are also being done, but they are not concreted. They are all in the form of dirt roads and gravel compaction.
This kind of road also exists in the direction of Fatel, but they are all narrow lanes, not even five meters wide. Light trucks need to drive outside the road to cross in the opposite direction.
It stands to reason that a mage should be sent to help temporarily widen it, but it is actually not necessary because the scale of trade is more restricted by the transportation capacity of Fatel and the Kingdom of Omar.
Only a few local lords improvised some mages to help build the goods yard.
The transaction will start about half a month later. At this time, the World Gate is still fine, and those demons that missed it should have been killed.
The trading team in Omar, the kingdom of God, still uses horse-drawn carriages, and the losses on the road are really considerable. After discussions between the local lords and the border nobles from next door to Fartel, it was decided that Fartel would complete the transportation from the World Gate to the ferry.
There must be an exchange of interests in the middle. On the one hand, the parties involved are willing to transfer a certain amount of food purchase, and on the other hand, Fatel can also get some benefits from the Kingdom of God, Omar. After all, it is to save the country of Omar. cost manpower and time.
As for vehicles, there is no problem. Fatel is close to the border of the Southern District. In fact, the exchanges with the Southern District are closer. They even use a relatively small ferry transportation platform to trade light trucks from time to time. Tractors and light trucks can also be obtained in Fatel. It's just that the reliability of the light trucks over there is worse.
After the Omar side of the Kingdom of God delivers the food, it also needs to collect money and materials. This part is directly accomplished by airplane.
Except for a small amount of precious metal, most of the payment was made in steel tools and wheels. The wheels are not for trucks, but for tractor cargo beds. Most of them are temporarily paid by Fatel, and then the Southern District will provide them with vehicle wheels and light engines.
Omar also took advantage. Even though it was just a broken wheel hub without a rubber part, it was also a high-tech product when placed next to the carriage.
Soon the transaction stabilized, and the daily trading volume barely stopped at around 220 tons. The shipping capacity on the Oma side has reached the upper limit, and some of them are still responsible for the transaction with Fatel, and they are also buying grain there.
Omar tasted the sweetness and wanted to buy a light truck. The Phoenix Kingdom did not need to be involved in the matter, as the Southern District could supply it.
As for the problem that the main world does not have a relatively complete oil industry, it is not a particularly big problem.
The fuel consumption of a light truck with a load of 3 tons is around 14 liters per 100 kilometers when transporting goods. A 400-liter oil drum can cover more than 2,800 kilometers. If you buy six or seven barrels of oil with the vehicle, it can drive 10,000 to 20,000 kilometers, even if it crosses the border. The price of trading vehicles is inflated, and the overall cost is about the same as that of a horse-drawn carriage.
The traction force of a carriage is only one horsepower, not even one kilowatt. In actual long-term transportation, it cannot reach this number. Let alone one hundred kilometers a day, the full load power does not exceed sixty kilometers at most. The slow speed will lead to the loss of people on a single trip. The cost increases, and more people are required to take care of the horses. In addition to fodder on the road, the horses need to be given extra food to keep them from losing weight.
In total, transporting 3 tons of cargo by horse-drawn carriage across a distance of 5,000 kilometers takes at least three months and requires four drivers. In order to prevent bandits, there are also security officers. Even if the entire caravan takes 3 tons of cargo and 1 security guard The loss of personnel and horses is also very large. If there is no profit of more than 300%, it is basically a loss.
Even if the truck travels at a constant speed of 30 kilometers, deducting the 10 hours of rest per day, 5,000 kilometers is equivalent to 12 days of driver and safety officer fees and fuel consumption. Adding one driver can significantly shorten the cycle. The road loss advantage is too huge. One truck of oil generates The profit is enough for the horse team to run for a lifetime.
And as long as it knows how good this thing is, the main world itself will try to improve the oil industry chain. Even if oil cannot be found, it must be refined with coal.
But then again, judging from Wang Qi’s travel experience, the road conditions in the main world are really not suitable for using light trucks. Tractors are more suitable. Tractors have relatively high fuel consumption per ton of cargo transportation, but due to the simple structure, the rough road surface The failure rate will not be significantly increased, and areas with imperfect infrastructure have more advantages.
This is all a matter between the Southern District and Oma. Wang Qi only cares about how much food will be distributed to the people in the end.
This trade was brokered through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the local lords were relatively cooperative and would promptly inform them of the progress of the transaction.
Based on the three-month cycle of the temporary gate, and the last few days as the evacuation period, the grain reserves in the southern district of this round of transactions can be increased by 7,000 to 8,000 tons.
Storage-stable grains are all starchy, and it is difficult to feel full if you simply eat them for a long time. However, if you only aim to stay alive, the average annual consumption per person should not exceed 100 kilograms, and you can handle 80 kilograms.
The lords participating in the project have made a commitment to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to keep no more than 20% for themselves, and the rest will be sold to the people at the lowest possible profit and at a fair price. The meaning of this kind of promise is limited, and the kingdom cannot control the second-tier dealers outside the country, but as long as the lord does not participate in person, the second-tier dealers cannot suppress the people of the city, and the benefits will be realized.
After deducting 20% of the portion enjoyed by large households, if the final 6,000 tons flow into the market, it will be enough to feed 60,000 people for a year, or more than 200,000 people for a season.
Transactions that are not long-term can only be done on an emergency basis, but it can buy some time for the southern district to build glass greenhouses and mushroom production capacity, so that fewer people will starve to death.
Just because the door of the world is nailed to the center point of the five gates, is it really still disappearing in three months?
Even if we can persist for a longer time, we can't pin our hopes on this kind of thing.
After receiving the St. Anthony commission fee paid by Omar, Wang Qi arranged for someone to conduct an overseas sampling survey, targeting peanuts and deep-rooted tuber shrubs.
Peanuts have been discovered by people in some areas, while tuber shrubs are relatively hidden because they look too ordinary. However, as more and more heat-loving plants die, they will soon be unable to hide.
The main purpose of this sampling is to estimate the total amount of grain stored in the two plants.
The sampling method is similar to the net buckle method for investigating insect pests. For the area where seeds are dropped by airplane, wild fields are randomly selected and the total amount of fruits per unit area is calculated to estimate the total value. The error will be relatively large, but there is no better way.
Half a month later, the investigation report was sent to Wang Qi.
The average amount of peanuts per square kilometer in the seed-throwing area was 1.8 tons. After comparing several rounds of peanut-throwing range maps, it was calculated that the total underground peanut reserves should have exceeded 400,000 tons.
It is indeed enough to dig for a while.
When designing peanuts, we considered avoiding being dug up. Therefore, not all of the fruits fall under the plant. Some of them will crawl out and then burrow into the soil. Therefore, even if all the 400,000 tons are dug up in the future, it will not be possible. Another two to thirty thousand tons of peanuts will survive and continue to provide food.
The situation of peanuts can be announced on a large scale. This matter is left to the newspapers. In order to avoid being cut off by businessmen, newspapers must be distributed in the relevant areas for free.
The growth pattern of tuber shrubs is completely different from that of peanuts. Tubers will not grow at the beginning, but the plant body and root system will be developed first. Since it is a perennial shrub, this process is not short. The current sampling results, based on tubers alone, are only tens of kilograms per square kilometer.
Shrubs can continue to produce tubers under freezing temperatures as long as they are not dug up. Although peanuts have a certain ability to grow under freezing temperatures, the plant body is too small and can easily be completely covered by snow and the harvest will fail.
The situation is good now. The peanuts were deployed early and have already formed a large scale. When it becomes difficult to grow, the tuber shrubs can basically take over.
Different from the top-down distribution method, these things need to be dug by the people themselves, and must be calculated based on the amount they can eat. About five to six people can be fed per ton, which is about two million people. In fact, due to the distribution of The reason is that there will be some loss.
