Tearing down the east wall to repair the west wall is also an art. If you plan it properly, you can definitely cope with the difficult times. However, Grand Duke Constantine is not good at this art. This has a lot to do with his background. As a
The prince, it can be said that he was born with a golden key in his mouth. He had nothing to worry about when he was born, and money was nothing special or a concept to him.
And the nobleman of the Tian family, who has no concept of money and does not know how to make money, and who is struggling with material resources, will definitely not be able to make careful plans and demolish the east wall to make up for the west wall. After all, he has never experienced this, so naturally he does not know how to make arrangements.
As for Viscount Prozolov, although his background is a little worse than that of Grand Duke Constantine, to be honest, he is much better than 90% of ordinary people in Russia. Basically, he grew up without worrying about material things, and he is very concerned about money.
I'm not that sensitive, so I don't 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 Russian aristocrats, excluding the dilapidated aristocrats, demolishing the east wall to repair 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 get by. Naturally, they can’t appreciate life.
Due to the difficulties, we do not know how to plan rationally and make good use of available resources.
The key to demolishing the east wall to make up for the west wall is not to demolish which walls, but whether the originally demolished walls can be put up at the right time. In addition, demolishing the east wall to make up for the west wall must be concealed and cannot be made visible.
Everyone knows it, the more hidden and unnoticed the better.
Grand Duke Constantine still had many walls to tear down, such as the war preparations he had been making against Turkey. Although Neserrodie had repeatedly promised to force Turkey to submit, Nicholas I's cautious personality
Still let him prepare for the worst.
Therefore, in the past six months, Russia has been transporting a large amount of war reserves to Moldavia and Wallachia, including a large amount of food and ammunition. Although the total amount may not meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of troops, it is important to the Moldavia.
For a small country like Davia, these supplies are really quite considerable.
These supplies will be stored until the war breaks out and will be supplied to the first batch of Russian troops entering Bulgaria. Of course, if the war does not break out, these supplies will be shipped back to Russia.
Naturally, Grand Duke Constantine set his sights on these supplies. He certainly didn't dare to make any plans for arms. On the one hand, the crime was too big, and even he might not be able to bear it. On the other hand, it was difficult to find buyers for the arms, so they couldn't sell them.
Give it to the hostile Turks.
But food is different. It is a hard currency. After all, people need to eat at any time. In the international market, food has always been an important commodity for Russia to export and earn foreign exchange.
Sell a batch of grain, exchange for some foreign exchange or other supplies, to cope with the current difficulties in the past, and wait until Alexey is forced to give in, then collect a sum of money from Wallachia to fill the hole. Isn't this the way to cope with the current crisis?
What’s the best way?
Anyway, Grand Duke Constantine inspected a large area of Moldavia and found that except for this wall which was easier to demolish, the other walls were either too small to repair the holes, or those walls were actually crumbling and might need to repair the holes.
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In short, this shabby house in Moldavia really only has one good wall, and it won't work unless it is demolished.
And Grand Duke Constantine didn't take this too seriously. In his opinion, he just temporarily moved a batch of grain in exchange for a critical amount of funds to repair the road. Compared with repairing the road, it was only a small amount of grain.
It's not that important, not to mention that the food is temporarily unavailable.
Anyway, he felt that he would be able to make up for this hole, so he ordered the operation without thinking.
Following his order, under the personal command and coordination of Viscount Prozolov, the grain in the warehouse was hauled out and sold without any incident, without sending it to the international market, regardless of whether it was local Moldavian food.
Nobles, Wallachia, Transylvania controlled by Austria, and even the hostile Turks were all stocking up on grain, and almost in the blink of an eye the money Archduke Constantine wanted was received.
"well done!"
He was very happy about this and specially praised Viscount Prozolov who was responsible for this matter.
"By the way, who was the food sold to?"
Viscount Prozolov immediately replied: "In order to keep it secret, we did not sell it in large quantities in Moldavia, but sold it to Transylvania and Wallachia. They are all buying grain, and the price is pretty good."
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Hearing this, Grand Duke Constantine of Wallachia was a little unhappy and asked: "Sold to that bastard Speransky? Isn't this a bit dangerous, and that bastard is so unscrupulous, why did you sell it to him?"
Viscount Prozolov smiled bitterly and explained: "You asked for the funds to arrive quickly, so we can't sell them to Western Europe and can only deal with them nearby. And now the only people who are hungry for food are the Turks. We can't fund it."
Enemy?"
"And the prices offered by Wallachia are relatively fair. You don't have to worry about other problems when you pay in cash... As for safety issues, you don't have to worry too much. I asked the Moldavia to come forward to sell grain. Count Speransky will definitely
You never think about the real source of food!”
Grand Duke Constantine felt a little more at ease now, and asked Viscount Prozolov to be more cautious when selling grain, so as not to give Alexei a low price or expose his background. Then he took Prozolov easily and comfortably.
The check that Viscount Zolov handed over was enough money for him to deal with those evil-hearted Moldavia local snakes, and there was even a slight surplus.
And this was also the fundamental reason why he acquiesced to Viscount Prozolov to continue doing business with Wallachia. As long as he could get money to fill the hole and make him a small profit by the way, he didn't bother to care so much.
Woolen cloth!
It's just that Grand Duke Constantine and Viscount Prozolov never imagined how deep this matter was, let alone that their so-called secret operation was actually a sieve. What they did could not be hidden from Li Xiao's eyes.
It was almost like watching them with joy as they galloped towards their death.
Why do you say that?
Then we have to talk about the depth of the water first. If Grand Duke Constantine wants to steal and sell grain, he will definitely need the cooperation of the warehouse manager. After all, he is only the governor of Moldavia, and the grain in the warehouse does not belong to Moldavia.
It's not under his control.
If the warehouse manager doesn't buy it, Grand Duke Constantine won't be able to get a grain of grain mixed in. How can he get the warehouse manager to buy it?
Viscount Prozolov's method 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 to get a share of the warehouse manager...