money trouble

Chapter 454 You Are A Fake Prince!

Wu Qian’s words choked Sartmucci, his expression froze, and it took him a while to arrive: “Wu, storage of crude oil requires high technical and hard conditions, and the cost is huge. Generally, only the country can make a strategy. reserve."

"Store crude oil, you can't make money at all."

As the prince of a big oil-producing country, Sartmucci has a good understanding of the oil industry, and he persuaded Wu Qian very seriously.

For a long time, Wu Qian always worried about one thing from time to time, that is, the source of all evil system suddenly popped up and told him what crime he had committed and what would happen in the future.

But he ignored that the world itself is also full of various crises. Hoarding some value-preserving currencies other than currencies was an idea that suddenly came to Wu Qian after chatting with Alennon Sergey.

Starting from the arms business, he thought about many things. He was worried about tens of billions of pounds in cash. Currency was sometimes unbelievably fragile.

Originally, Wu Qian planned to follow the example of some rich people and also buy dozens of tons of gold and deposit it in a certain bank, or build an underground vault by himself in case of emergencies.

Although gold can be used as a hard currency to preserve value, the use value of gold is far worse than that of oil, so he finally set his sights on crude oil.

Oil is widely used, highly dependent and non-renewable. In the foreseeable future, there is no real substitute. This is a hard currency that can be used to trade with the country.

Wu Qian wanted to arrange a safe and solid way out for himself.

"It doesn't matter if you make money or not, the main thing is that I like oil."

Wu Qian spread his hands, his appearance was so aggressive that he was taken aback by the local tyrant prince.

"Wu, let me be frank. Your idea is very dangerous. In what name are you storing crude oil? Personally? I'm not talking sarcasticly. Do you think you have the ability to resist those pressures? Impossible..."

Satmuzzi said seriously.

Wu Qian said calmly: "Of course I won't do it in my own name. Your Highness doesn't need to worry about these things. I just want to ask, can you sell me?"

It's not in the name of a person, it's in the name of the country. Wu Qian is more at ease when negotiating an agreement with his own country.

(Of course the country will not abandon its own citizens, this must be true!)

Sartmucci didn't say much anymore, indeed, as Wu Qian said, he didn't have to worry about others, because his own affairs were enough to worry about.

"Wu, to be honest, I don't have much crude oil quota..."

Speaking of this, Sartmuzzi's face was a little uncomfortable.

In the eyes of the outside world, they wear white robes, but what flows in their bodies is "black gold", but in fact Saudi Arabia's crude oil export is very strict. No right to speak.

"How much is not much?" Wu Qian asked.

Sartmucci pursed his lips, as if he didn't want to bring up this topic, he said embarrassedly: "One year, one hundred thousand barrels."

One hundred thousand barrels, at first glance, wow, that's a lot.

Wu Qian also thought so in the beginning, because he didn't have a very concrete concept of the unit of "barrel".

But when he took out his mobile phone to do some calculations, and then found several sets of publicly available data, he found that [-] barrels was simply a "drizzle", and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was the tip of an iceberg!
The unit of the barrel is the unit that OPEC and the United Kingdom and the United States like to use. A barrel is about 42 gallons, 150 nine liters, that is to say, one ton is about 7.2-7.3 barrels, and one hundred thousand barrels is less than fourteen thousand Ton.

A very simple set of data. In 2018, China consumed an average of 300 million barrels of crude oil per day.

If we strictly calculate that 300 million barrels can be used for 24 hours, 1 barrels can only be used by the whole country for [-] minutes.

There's no time to take a shower...

Wu Qian looked at 11.0769 (calculated minutes) on the calculator with a strange look on his face.

He also looked at the normal-pressure extraction rate of gasoline and diesel, and learned that with relatively excellent technology and high-quality crude oil, more than 300 kilograms of gasoline and half a ton of diesel can be extracted per ton.

According to the current oil price, a barrel is about 600 US dollars, and [-] barrels is [-] million US dollars. It is indeed profitable to refine it into gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products.

But no matter from which point of view, this amount is too small, far from Wu Qian's expectations!

He is not selling oil for the purpose of buying oil. He wants to use oil as a bargaining chip to prepare a solid way out for himself.

If the quantity is not large, who can appreciate it?
There is no weight in talking at all!
"Sartmucci, [-] barrels is too little. Are you sure this is not what you can control in a day, but in a year? You are a prince..."

Wu Qian was really speechless, the prince only has so little power?
Are you a fake prince! ?

Sartmucci was very sad, Ma De, what happened to the prince, there are about 3000 princes who are at the core of the family, and there are more than [-] princes who are not at the core of the royal family, princes are worthless.

Think about it too, if each of the core [-] princes can control [-] barrels of oil per year, that is [-] million barrels of oil, which is larger than the annual import volume of some small countries, which is really scary.

No way, too many people...

"Wu, how much oil do you want to buy?"

Sartmuzi didn't want Wu Qian to continue pestering him about the quota, so he pinched his nose and asked.

The one-year quota of [-] barrels is usually used by Sartmucci in exchange for pocket money. He never thought that he would trade crude oil with others, because he was not in charge of this range in the royal family.

Sartmucci has never been so aggrieved since he started talking about business with others.

Today, he was begging others to help buy the cruise ship he owns. He needs to be polite. Well, now the other party is willing to buy it, but he needs to buy some oil from him, but he can't satisfy the other party.

This is so frustrating.

Facing Sartmucci's question, Wu Qian closed his eyes and meditated this time.

"It cost 36 billion to buy Harrods from Qatar Holding Group, 55 billion to Thames Water, not much to the football club, only 21 billion, and Romanee-Conti is also very cheap, only [-] million. "

These industries are investments that can sustain output, and among them, Harrods Department Store and Romanee-Conti Winery are extremely high-quality industries that can be cashed out at any time.

"Well... there are 380 billion left. If this is the case, you should be more prepared, otherwise you will be embarrassed to talk to the country..."

It is true that the unit of quantity is in the hundreds of millions, but the unit of currency is equally important. If it is yen, then there is not much money. If it is Korean won, it will be over.

But I don't know what kind of fairy bug happened in the source of all evil system, and it was a pound for Wu Qian who was in London at the time.

Thinking of this, Wu Qian tapped his finger on the phone, and then said: "Sartmucci, I want to buy [-] million barrels of crude oil."

(End of this chapter)