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- "I wonder if the Grand Vizier is here, but I am not welcomed from afar!"
Here at Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, Qiu Jun, the general manager of the branch, welcomed Ibrahim¡¯s arrival with a smile on his face.
"Mr. Qiu, I came here this time to inquire about food."
As soon as Ibrahim sat down, he quickly asked about the food.
"It seems that the Prime Minister has also received the news."
"That's right, our Emperor of Heaven has now issued an edict and begun to strictly restrict the export of grain. Our trading company has also officially received the order from the imperial court. So from now on, I am afraid that our trading company will not be able to be the same as before. , selling grain to you on a large scale."
When Qiu Jun heard this, he was slightly surprised. This Ibrahim was very well-informed, and he knew the news very quickly.
"Is there really no way?"
"Don't you have a lot of food in your hands?"
When Ibrahim heard this, he immediately frowned. The Ming people were really fast. With telegrams and telephones, the news quickly spread from the mainland of the Ming Empire to here.
"Our trading company has a lot of grain in hand, but we don't have an export license now, so we can't export a large amount of grain to you."
Qiu Jun nodded and said: "You also know that the background of our trading company must fully comply with the will of the Ming Empire."
"Besides, our firm has never made money from this grain. Our firm has always been losing money in the sale of grain."
"The main purpose is to sell the grain in the hands of farmers in the Ming Empire, so even if it is a loss-making transaction, our business must do it."
"Now that the imperial court restricts our export of grain, it is actually a good thing for our trading company, because we no longer need to make losses in this area, and we no longer need to waste a large number of ships to transport food."
Qiu Jun¡¯s face was filled with a smile. Selling and buying grain was a task assigned by his superiors.
If it weren¡¯t for the imperial court¡¯s order, Tianjin Ocean Trading House wouldn¡¯t have been doing this loss-making business.
Of course, Qiu Jun is a small manager. Of course he doesn't know Liu Jin's situation. He used to lose money, but now, he can make back all the money he should have made in the past few years in one year.
"If you don't sell food, what will we eat?"
"It's easy to say that it won't be sold if it's not for sale. Isn't this a scam?"
When Ibrahim heard this, he immediately said angrily.
The Ming people are really cheating. They have always used extremely cheap food to attack the agriculture of the Ottoman Empire. If it were not for the cheap food of the Ming people, the Ottoman Empire would at least still have its own agriculture. Maybe the output will be reduced in the year of famine, but it will not be It's said that there is absolutely no harvest.
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¡°Compared to natural disasters, man-made disasters are more terrifying.
Because of the impact of cheap food from the Ming Empire, there were very few people growing food in the entire Ottoman Empire. Everyone raised sheep and grew cotton because it was more profitable.
¡°Now that the Ming Dynasty says they won¡¯t sell it, they will not sell it. This is directly forcing the Ottoman Empire to die.
¡°Prime Minister, there is nothing I can do.¡±
Qiu Jun said helplessly.
"I know~"
Ibrahim calmed down the anger in his heart, thought for a while and said: "I wonder if you have any channels to continue to purchase grain on a large scale. The price is easy to negotiate, and we are willing to pay more."
"Prime Minister, there is really nothing I can do about it. The emperor's will must be obeyed. Our Tianjin Trading Company will never do anything illegal."
Qiu Jun shook his head and said.
You should also pay some extra money. After a while, you will have no food to eat. Even if it is ten times the price, you will still have to eat and buy.
In this year of famine, if you still want to eat cheap food as before, just dream.
Ibrahim did not get the answer he wanted from Qiu Jun, so he successively visited some other well-known trading houses in the Ming Dynasty, and also contacted large grain producers such as Ningguo, Western United Trading Company, and South African Colony, hoping to get help from them. Buy food.
But the responses they received were all the same, that is, they may not even have enough food in their hands to eat, so now there is no food at allAfter all, everyone has to survive.
In Europe, in the palace of the Spanish Empire, Charles V was also worried about food.
"Your Majesty, since the Ming Empire issued an order restricting grain exports, our food in Spain has soared more than ten times overnight, and a large number of merchants and nobles have begun to hoard food, causing the food on the market to suddenly become extremely tight. There was a large-scale food shortage, which triggered riots and unrest in the city, and all kinds of bandits and thieves emerged one after another."
Pelos reported to Charles V with a solemn expression.
¡°What about the food we grow ourselves?¡±
Charles V frowned. He was preparing to launch a large-scale attack on many states of the Holy Roman Empire. Unexpectedly, at this juncture, there was a food shortage. The Ming Empire suddenly stopped exporting food to itself.
"Your Majesty, the area we grow our own grain is not large, and we have suffered from severe floods this year. The reduction in grain production will be extremely serious, so relying on my own grain is simply not enough. We must import grain from the Ming Empire. That¡¯s it!¡±
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