Chapter 495: The Way of Breaking Down Walls (Part 2)
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It is also an art to tear down the east wall to make up the west wall. If it is planned properly, it will definitely be able to cope with the difficult times. It's just that Grand Duke Constantine is not good at this art, which has a lot to do with his background. As a prince, he can be said to be born with a golden key in his mouth. Neither is special or conceptual to him.
And the nobles of the Tian family who have no concept of money and don't know how to use needles and thread to make up for the west must not be able to plan carefully and rationally. After all, he has never experienced this before, so he naturally doesn't know how to arrange it.
As for Viscount Prozolov, although his background is a bit worse than that of Constantine, he is also much better than 90% of ordinary people in Russia. Basically, it grew up without worrying about supplies, and it is not so sensitive to money. Naturally, it does not know how to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall.
Let's put it this way, for the vast majority of nobles in Russia, excluding the run-down nobles, tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall is a very unfamiliar skill. No matter how bad it is, as long as the family has land and serfs, they can live well. Naturally, if you don't understand the difficulties of life, you don't know how to plan reasonably and make good use of available resources.
The key to tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall is not in which walls to tear down, but in whether the walls that were originally pulled down can be repaired at the right time. In addition, the demolition of the east wall and the west wall must be concealed, and the world cannot be known. The more concealed and undetected, the better.
Grand Duke Constantine still has a lot of walls to tear down. For example, his father has been preparing for war against Turkey. Although Nesselrode had repeatedly promised to force Turkey to submit, Nicholas I's cautious personality Or let him prepare for the worst.
Therefore, Russia has been transporting a large amount of war reserves to Moldavia and Wallachia for more than half a year, including a large amount of food and ammunition. Although the total amount may not meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of troops, for a small country like Moldavia, these supplies are really not too small.
These materials will be stored until the outbreak of the war and will be supplied to the first batch of Russian troops entering Bulgaria. Of course, if the war does not break out, this batch of supplies will be shipped back to Russia.
Naturally, Grand Duke Constantine focused on these supplies. He definitely didn't dare to make up his mind about arms, for one thing, that crime was too great, even he might not be able to bear it. In addition, it is difficult to find buyers for arms, and they cannot be sold to hostile Turks.
But grain is different. This thing belongs to hard currency. After all, no matter when people have to eat, grain has always been an important commodity exported by Russia to earn foreign exchange in the international market.
Sell a batch of grain, exchange for some foreign exchange or other supplies, to deal with the current difficulties in the past, and wait for Alexei to succumb, and then search for a sum from Wallachia to fill the pit, isn't this the way to deal with the current crisis What is the best way!
Anyway, Grand Duke Constantine inspected a large area of Moldavia, and found that except for this wall, which is easier to tear down, the other walls are either too small to fill the hole, or those walls are actually crumbling, and the hole may need to be repaired .
In short, this dilapidated house in Moldavia really only has such a good wall, and it will not work unless it is demolished.
And Grand Duke Constantine didn't take it too seriously. In his opinion, he just temporarily moved a batch of grain in exchange for a critical sum of money for road repairs. A little bit of food is not that important compared to repairing roads, not to mention that the food will not be needed for the time being.
Anyway, he felt that he would be able to make up for this hole, so he ordered to do it without even thinking about it.
Following his order, under the personal command and coordination of Viscount Prozolov, the grain in the warehouse was dragged out and sold without any danger, and there was no need to send it to the international market, whether it was from Moldavia or not. Nobles or Wallachia or Transylvania controlled by Austria, or even hostile Turks are stockpiling food, and the money that Grand Duke Constantine wants is almost in the blink of an eye.
"well done!"
He was very happy about this, and specially praised Viscount Prozolov who was in charge of this matter.
"By the way, who did you sell the food to?"
Viscount Prozolov immediately replied: "In order to keep it secret, they did not sell a large amount in Moldavia, but sold it to Transylvania and Wallachia. They are all buying grain, and the price is not bad. .”
Hearing that the Grand Duke Constantine of Wallachia was a little unhappy, he asked: "Sold to that bastard Speranski? Isn't it a bit dangerous, and that bastard is so dishonest, why did you sell it to him?"
Viscount Prozolov explained with a bitter smile: "You want the funds to arrive quickly, so we can't sell them to Western Europe, we can only deal with them nearby, and now the Turks are the only ones who are more hungry for food, and we can't fund them." Enemy?"
"Furthermore, the price given by Wallachia is relatively fair. You don't have to worry about other issues when you settle the cash... As for the safety issue, you don't have to worry too much. I asked the Moldavians to come forward to sell grain. Earl Speranski absolutely Never thought of the real source of food!"
Grand Duke Konstantin was relieved now, and asked Viscount Prozolov to be careful when selling grain, not to lower the price and make Alexei less expensive, and not to expose his old background. Then he comfortably took the check handed in by Viscount Prozolov. The money was enough for him to deal with those black-hearted Moldavian bosses, and there was even a little surplus.
And this is the fundamental reason why he acquiesced to Viscount Prozolov's continued business with Wallachia. As long as he can get money to fill the hole and make him a small profit along the way, he won't bother to care so much Woolen cloth!
It's just that Grand Duke Constantine and Viscount Prozolov couldn't imagine how deep the water was, let alone their so-called secret operation was actually a sieve. What they did couldn't be hidden from Li Xiao's eyes, and he almost watched them gallop on the road to death almost with joy.
Why do you say that?
Then we have to talk about the depth of the water first. If Grand Duke Constantine wanted to steal and sell grain, he would definitely need the cooperation of the storekeeper. After all, he is only the governor of Moldavia, and the grain in the warehouse does not belong to Moldavia, strictly speaking, it is not under his control.
If the storekeeper doesn't buy it, Grand Duke Constantine won't be able to get a single grain. So how do you get the warehouse manager to buy it?
Viscount Prozolov's solution is very simple. One is to use the face of Grand Duke Constantine to open the way, and the other is to agree to sell the grain and share the warehouseman's share...
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