Expedition to Europe

Thunder Cliff, Qin Zhiyuan's study, Qin Zhiyuan is listening to Huang Fugui and Gaspard's financial reports.

Gaspard is responsible for helping Qin Zhiyuan make money. He now has more than 10 million US dollars in liquid funds for various financial investments to keep Qin Zhiyuan's wealth growing.

Although Gaspard was recommended to Qin Zhiyuan by Orbach, he has passed Gao Hongshi's political review. He is a professional butler with a clean background. He used to serve a British earl. Later, the earl's family fell into poverty, and Gaspard had no money to invest, so he lost his job.

The earl's family fell into poverty not because of Gaspard, but because of the earl's own problem. Gaspard's own financial management ability is still trustworthy.

Perhaps knowing that the candidate he recommended would definitely be reviewed, Orbach did it openly and honestly in this matter, and did not try to hammer a nail into Qin Zhiyuan's internal affairs, which made Qin Zhiyuan have a better impression of Orbach.

"In the past two months, the price of gold has continued to rise. I was inclined to invest in gold, but I found a more worthy investment area, that is, securities. Now Europe is in the midst of a world war, and the prices of various securities continue to fall. Some very valuable securities are even ignored. It is foreseeable that the European economy will definitely recover after the war. If we buy them at a low price now, we can make a lot of money in the future by holding those companies or reselling them." Gaspard has an economic vision, and what he needs is support.

"If you want to do it, in addition to securities, buy a few islands, about one every 2,000 kilometers from here to the Far East. There should be about two kilometers of flat land on the island, and it is best to build a port. This must be done as soon as possible. Within a month, I will start building an airport on it." Qin Zhiyuan has a plan.

"2,000 kilometers, and we have to build an airport. Do you want to fly all the way back to the Far East from here? Is this distance too far?" Gaspard is not sure.

The large transport aircraft in the aircraft design institute is being studied. Long Chengyuan and Pierce are so busy that they forget to eat and sleep. Maybe a large transport aircraft will appear tomorrow. What Qin Zhiyuan needs to do is to prepare in advance. While no one has discovered the importance of aircraft, he should occupy the territory first and then talk about other things.

"Not far, the new transport aircraft in the institute should be able to fly 2,000 kilometers at a speed of 250 kilometers per hour. Once the design is completed, it may only take a week from here to the Far East. What kind of significance does this have? I think you understand without me saying it." Qin Zhiyuan released some information.

"Oh my God, it's unimaginable. I think it takes half a year to take a ship." Gaspard's impression of sailing is still 10 years ago.

"It doesn't take half a year now. The new ships can run at a speed of 20 knots. It only takes more than a month from here to the Far East. Of course, compared with airplanes, ships are too slow." Qin Zhiyuan knows the meaning of time is money.

"Well, I think it's not difficult. Almost all the islands belong to the British, and the British need money now. If we take the money now, the British should be happy to sell it. But in this way, it may occupy our funds, and the speed of fund accumulation may not be as fast as expected." Gaspard tried to give all the possibilities.

"It doesn't matter. What do we do with our money? We have to spend the money we earn. Only when it flows, the money we earn is meaningful." Qin Zhiyuan understands the meaning of finance.

The so-called "finance" literally means flowing money. Only when it participates in circulation, money is meaningful, otherwise it is a pile of waste paper, which has no value except to satisfy people's vanity.

Although Gaspard has to spend money, he will create profits after all. But when it comes to Huang Fugui, it is purely outgoing and not in, and it is still a big hole.

"So far, our military personnel have exceeded 30,000, among which there are a large number of high-tech soldiers. The monthly consumption of each person is amazing. Just the salary, it takes 10.86 million francs per month, equivalent to about 2.16 million US dollars. Among them, the French government will pay 9.7 million francs, and the rest needs to be filled by ourselves. The monthly shortfall is about 1 million francs, equivalent to 200,000 US dollars." Huang Fugui has become numb. Now the francs he spends every day are astronomical figures. Huang Fugui no longer has the impulse to look at the numbers, as if they are just a string of numbers.

In theory, all the salaries of the Foreign Legion should be paid by the French government, but in the First Division, there are a large number of technical soldiers, and the salaries of these people are much higher than the contract signed with the French government. This part will be paid by Qin Zhiyuan.

In the contract signed with the French government, all the soldiers of the Foreign Legion were infantrymen, earning 10 francs per day. After deducting the cost of food, clothing and other expenses, they could trade about 8 francs per day. In this way, a soldier could earn more than 200 francs per month, which was equivalent to less than 200 yuan. If it were in the Republic of China, this would be a standard high salary.

"Corsica's expenditure exceeded the target seriously last month. Nearly 40,000 workers had a monthly salary expenditure of more than 1.2 million US dollars. In addition to various construction materials, as well as the expenses of scientific researchers, school teachers and security personnel, the expenditure last month exceeded 3 million US dollars, and the deficit was about 1.3 million US dollars." Huang Fugui continued to report.

This money is all used for the construction of Corsica, which is money that has to be spent. The budget Qin Zhiyuan gave to Huang Fugui is the two million dollars given by Borneo and the Vatican, but this number is obviously not enough.

This is normal. It is not normal to spend the budget. It is normal to not spend enough.

"Does Lei Ting have a blood-making mechanism now?" Qin Zhiyuan still pinned his hopes on his own blood supply.

Since Lei Ting City began large-scale construction, Qin Zhiyuan moved the "LLL" company to Lei Ting City. Anyway, taxes have to be paid, so it is better to pay to the Lei Ting City Government than to the Paris City Government. The current profit points of the "LLL" company are divided into three parts, one is the escort business of the destroyer fleet, one is the "Hunter" clothing under the "LLL" company, and the other is the patent fee belonging to the LLL company.

Perhaps another project will be added soon, that is, ocean transportation.

Crown Prince William sold those ships that they can't use now to Qin Zhiyuan, which will greatly enhance Qin Zhiyuan's ocean shipping capacity. Now Europe needs all kinds of agricultural products and various raw materials needed for industrial production. The Far East has materials but cannot provide blood transfusion to Europe due to lack of transportation power. Qin Zhiyuan will fill this gap, and his ocean shipping will have broad prospects.

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But unexpectedly, when Qin Zhiyuan finished talking about the ocean transport fleet, he was immediately opposed by Gaspard.

"Yes, I object! The ocean transport fleet should be the general's private property. The profits cannot be used for public construction casually. That is not in line with the law of economic operation. The government should have a government blood-making mechanism. If there is a fiscal deficit, even if the general is willing to subsidize the government, the government should raise funds from the general in the form of public debt, and add a part of the interest when repaying, rather than arbitrary subsidies without restraint." Gaspard was determined.

"Isn't this the same thing?" Huang Fugui was bothered.

The same thing?

It's really not the same thing!