Franchise God - Chapter 1255



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Franchise God Episode 1255

Chapter 288: Do you know why it doesn’t fail? (6)

Not all of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance welcomed the issuance of government bonds for foreign currency procurement.

Within the Ministry of Finance, nearly half of those who fear or are wary of Ha Soo-young still do.

“If we had insufficient foreign exchange reserves, there were many other ways to procure them. There was no need to reach out to Cheongdam-dong.”

“You never know what kind of poison the special contract you put up as collateral might come back to you later.”

“At a time when we need to reduce the influence of Cheongdam-dong on national finances, expanding the scope in this way will not be beneficial in the long run.”

“The country is getting involved in a private loan shark that even the King of Hell would turn down, and that too from the loan shark king of Cheongdam-dong… This will be a problem that will hinder the government for a long time.”

The pro-Ha Soo-young faction laughed at the concerns of the anti-Ha Soo-young faction.

“If you can borrow $220 billion at negative interest rates, are you in your right mind to refuse to accept it and find another way?”

“If you are affiliated with the Ministry of Finance, you should only look at the numbers in the report. Why are you adding in random external factors?”

“They are stupid guys. They don’t understand at all why our country is not going to collapse in these times and is running smoothly. How can you entrust the national finances to guys like that when you feel uneasy?”

Behind the scenes of the public bond issuance and acquisition events, pro-Ha Soo-young and anti-Ha Soo-young forces engaged in a fierce battle with sharp tongues.

“You, you’re stuck in this small country of Korea and you don’t know anything about the outside world, right?”

“What do you mean I don’t know?”

“Then why is that kid who knows so well getting dollar aid from Cheongdam-dong so swollen and mouthy?”

“Ah, even if it wasn’t Cheongdam-dong, there were many ways to raise dollars.”

“Where do you think there would be a crazy institution that would lend dollars at a negative interest rate? Where else would there be one that doesn’t even have to pay interest every month?”

The government can use the money for 10 years without interest, and then repay the principal after deducting 10 years of negative interest.

The government will probably make every effort to extend it by 10 years.

“And if there had been no swimming farm! Our country would have been ruined long ago! Our country would have been completely destroyed!”

“Ha, that makes sense. What do you mean the country is going to perish? Do you know that our country is so weak that it will perish over a single farm?”

“If there were no swimming farms, all the farms in our country would have collapsed and been reduced to ashes long ago. The food self-sufficiency rate would not have been 50 or 60%, but literally 0. 0!”

“You’re overdoing it. Let’s moderate it.”

“Don’t overdo it. If I show you the facts, please stop pouting and engrave them in your fucking head. I’m so embarrassed that I went to the same college as you.”

“This kid?”

The Ministry of Finance’s pro-Ha Soo-young faction agreed with the speculation that if there had been no swimming farm, the country itself would have collapsed.

The number of people supporting the swimming farm to prevent it from starving right now is in the hundreds of millions.

We can see this by looking at China, which is suffering from food shortages.

If there were no swimming pools, China would have had to buy food from overseas in large quantities, grain prices would have skyrocketed, and South Korea would have been turned upside down by exorbitant food prices.

In a situation where the ocean is empty, grains and meat will have to fill the nutritional gap that seafood used to provide, which would have added to the chain reaction of dominoes.

With even China struggling, North Korea may have attempted a nuclear detonation in a do-or-die manner, as it had no way of purchasing food.

The pro-Ha Soo-young faction despised the anti-Ha Soo-young faction, which desperately struggled with its eyes tightly shut and turned a blind eye to reality.

“Do you know why the whole world is saying, ‘Oh my, we’re having a hard time because we have a food shortage’? It’s because of swimming pools. If there were no swimming pools, there would have been a war over food before we could even hear those full voices. War!”

“Why isn’t our country and the whole world going to ruin? It’s because the swimming farms are single-handedly covering the enormous food supply!”

“If we hadn’t exterminated the mutant red fire ants from the swimming pools, our country’s farms would have been ruined long ago. We wouldn’t have been able to produce a single soybean. I want to open up my head and see why they are ignoring this.”

***

It was a particularly hungry year, and one that seemed set to get even hungrier in the future.

The world’s food production capacity has clearly declined compared to the past.

There was no intentional reduction in food production. Rather, many countries made efforts at the national level to produce more food than usual.

But with temperatures fluctuating wildly and a drought that only comes once in a century, lakes and rivers are bare.

Floods that wipe out farmland and wash away crops have steadily reduced global food production.

The honeybees, whose power is waning day by day due to the super hornets, also played a part in this.

“If the swimming farms had not absorbed China’s food demand, there would have been chaos all over the world.”

In China, vast fields were devastated by swarms of locusts, crops were ruined by drought, and more than 50-60% of the stockpile was destroyed.

Had it not been for the swimming farms, China’s massive food purchases would have sent a shockwave through global grain markets.

Grain companies may have been screaming with joy at the skyrocketing prices, but the world would have been devastated by food shortages.

“The problem is that there is no hope that things will get better in the future. Right now, the whole world is like a frog being boiled in slow-boiling water, but no one is looking at their own situation!”

But the cries of the experts did not reach the leaders of the great powers.

European politicians were preoccupied with the developments in the Russian-Ukrainian war, dismissing the situation as ‘food production has fallen a bit. We need to release or buy rice from reserves.’

“War is a tragedy that must end quickly, but the problem of food shortages due to abnormal climate will be a slow-coming disaster.”

“It doesn’t mean that ending the war is not important. It just means that we need to start paying great attention to climate change and food issues from now on.”

“I have both acute appendicitis and hypertension. Are you going to treat only the appendicitis and leave the hypertension alone? Of course, both should be treated at the same time!”

But strangely enough, the international food supply was barely maintained at the level of ‘price went up a little?’

Even though the United States, one of the world’s largest food exporters, has drastically reduced its food exports.

Experts found the reason in swimming pool farms.

“The swimming farm is barely holding on to its international grain market.”

“The food industry that the swimming farm operates in the United States with nanosoft is ultimately covering the global food demand so that it does not become too short.”

“It seems that the swimming farm is deliberately keeping the supply of food slightly short, even though it could provide more.”

France’s food self-sufficiency rate, which was over 300%, has now fallen to close to 200%.

If it were like before, there would have been a fuss and chaos.

However, grain prices in Europe were stable, although slightly low.

The Russian war and the frequent locking of energy pipelines to Europe have prevented European politicians from turning their attention elsewhere.

European food experts have determined that this situation is by no means trivial.

“Food production across Europe is declining, and swimming farms are increasingly taking up the gap. In ten years, swimming pools could be feeding all of Europe.”

“Europeans have no idea that the expensive farmed fish they eat today comes from swimming farms. They simply believe that the fish is grown in Norway.”

“The feed that those fish eat comes 100% from swimming farms.”

“Europe’s fish have already been completely taken over by swimming farms.”

“Europe’s food sovereignty is at risk.”

But the concerns of such food experts did not easily reach the highest levels of European countries.

***

Ha Su-yeong visited a large farm in Nantes, France.

Lockheed Martin’s Cosfeld personally escorted Ha Su-yeong to the Nantes farm over the weekend.

“I bought most of the farms around here. There were more farmers than I thought who were worried that their children would not inherit the farm.”

“I saw the map. The number of farms has really increased. It’s incomparable to the first time.”

“There are quite a few farms that have been put on hold, saying they can continue farming until they retire.”

“Are you by any chance distributing support from headquarters to those farms?”

“Yes. Not all of it, but I share some of it. Still, since we are neighbors, I want to make it possible for us to continue enjoying farming at least until we retire.”

“Well done. The joy of farming increases when it is shared.”

Ha Soo-young doesn’t like France. No, there isn’t a country in Europe that she particularly likes.

But apart from the state, farmers are in themselves a friendly and respectable entity.

“All the yellow truffles produced here are sold to Europe. The grapes are sent to Korea only for sugar extraction, and the rest are used to produce wine.”

“These grapes were grown by mixing our family’s special fertilizer with Professor Ansalin’s Kuruma fertilizer. They will taste very good even without long-term aging.”

Elixir fertilizer has a huge impact on increasing production, but most importantly, it speeds up the time.

Just as it speeds up the production of crops, it will also speed up the maturation of wine made from grapes grown on Elixir Fertilizer.

“Let’s take a look at the ranch map.”

“Should we start livestock farming too?”

“Now that the oyster mushrooms, grapes, and winery are all settled in, shouldn’t we start a ranch too?”

“But I wonder if I can really do well in ranching…….”

“Freedom will hire people and manage it, so I think you can just pet the calves sometimes, Mr. Cospelt.”

“Haha, I see. Then I’ll look for a suitable ranch. How many horses should I consider?”

“But wouldn’t it be appropriate to look into it while thinking that we will raise about 1 million of them later?”

“1 million… Okay, I understand.”

Kozpelt, who had been groaning for a moment, nodded obediently, recalling Ha Su-young’s scale. In fact, this must have been sung very plainly.

“And that methane capture device that the French government is whining about installing.”

“yes.”

“Let’s just install it at the Cospelt Ranch. If we show off to the French government, they won’t whine anymore, right?”

Cosfeld thought for a moment and then answered.

“I think he’ll still whine. But I’ll try to persuade him to be quiet.”

“When securing cattle, don’t spare money and focus on increasing their numbers.”

Ha Su-yeong muttered as he looked around the wide land of Nantes.

“It would be perfect if we put an orbital elevator here too…….”

“yes?”

“I’m just talking to myself.”

Ha Soo-young shared her vision for the French farm with Cosfeld while enjoying wine and cheese.

Then, Freedom suddenly intervened.

“Master, this is international breaking news.”

“What is it?”

“It is said that Japan’s Mt. Fuji is showing signs of activity.”