When the big bosses of other financial banks learned about this situation, they immediately turned their backs!

Loans are possible, but not to those leaky shipping companies... other companies must be allowed, and they must have sufficient collateral.

Otherwise, if something goes wrong, what should we do with the two million hole? Let me jump off the building?

Risking one's own political future or even one's own life to earn political capital for others, the senior executives of other financial banks are not that stupid.

It's okay to ask for money, but you have to find another way. At least you have to have someone who can afford the money to apply for a loan...otherwise, you can't even think about the two million.

This has become a good thing for you and me. Hello everyone, you can have a refrigerated transport ship and you can earn political capital on the big topic of food supply. Our financial bank can also get some credit: actively provide loans for food supply.

, vigorously support domestic food supply.

If it doesn't work out in the end and you are in trouble...you have to pay back the money, and the interest must not be less. Our finance bank will treat it as an ordinary mortgage low-interest loan business, which can be regarded as making some hard money.

In the end, things were gradually reported to the higher authorities. In the end, Xie Zhengde, the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and the co-minister in charge of agriculture and animal husbandry, personally made the decision: no more loans, just let the Animal Husbandry Corporation pay for the ordering of ships, and then rent them to those shipping companies.

Operations, and then let the shipping company take over the transportation orders from the Animal Husbandry Corporation!

Anyway, there is only one main customer for refrigerated transportation in the short term, and that is the Dachu Empire Animal Husbandry Corporation... No one has ever done this business of refrigerated transportation of meat. They have to take the lead in setting a demonstration first, and then add overseas meat.

The supply is not guaranteed to be available. If you want to supply a large amount of overseas meat, you have to carry out large-scale breeding in overseas areas.

The Animal Husbandry Corporation is the most professional breeding enterprise in the Dachu Empire. Shortly after the Imperial Grain Expansion Participation Meeting, they have finalized plans to build multiple large-scale ranches in the two major regions of North America and Australia.

, producing meat to supply the local area.

With production, it naturally also requires transportation... The Animal Husbandry Corporation needs refrigerated transport ships to transport overseas meat.

It's just that my family is engaged in breeding, and they don't know how to sail a boat... Even if they have the money to order a boat, they don't know how to operate it.

Whether it is a passenger ship or a cargo ship, the operation of ocean-going ships is a very professional and complex matter.

It’s not just about finding a captain and a few sailors and sailing out to sea.

The shipping company wants to do this business and is also professional in ship operation, but they have no money and are not even qualified for mortgage loans... Each of them looks like a big business, but in fact they all have nothing in their pockets and still owe a debt.

The role of butt debt.

In the end, a roundabout way emerged: the Animal Husbandry Corporation paid for the purchase of a ship, then leased the ship to several shipping companies, and then the shipping companies took over the frozen meat transportation orders from the Animal Husbandry Corporation.

It was a twist and turn, but it was finally resolved.

Only then did a delegation from the Animal Husbandry Corporation come to Songjiang Naval Shipyard for inspection.

This inspection also went very smoothly. With the Navy's refrigerated supply ship taking the lead, Bell Refrigeration Company also proposed a complete refrigeration equipment solution. Songjiang Naval Shipyard even stated that this kind of refrigerated transport ship has nothing to do with it.

For technical issues, just make some slight changes on the navy's cryogenic supply ship, lower the speed, reduce the construction process to civilian standards, and remove the naval guns... and then the cost will come down.

Subsequently, delegations from the initially planned cooperative shipping companies, Pacific Shipping Company and Jiangnan Shipping Company, also participated and put forward many suggestions.

After all, although this ship was purchased by the Animal Husbandry Corporation, the actual operation and use still depend on these two shipping companies.

Therefore, many design and performance indicators also need to refer to their opinions.

In the end, after many rounds of talks, the parties finally finalized this cooperation plan and decided to order a total of twelve refrigerated transport ships with a full load displacement of 4,500 tons and a capacity of transporting 2,000 tons of refrigerated cargo at a time.

The first two ships are expected to be delivered in December next year, and will be delivered to Pacific Shipping Company and Jiangnan Shipping Company respectively for operation.

By that time, after one year of preparation, the National Animal Husbandry Corporation will have prepared relevant meat supplies in North America.

The most optimistic estimate is that probably in the early spring of the year after next, the first batch of commercially operated frozen meat will set sail from Jinshan Port and finally arrive at Songjiang Port.

During this period, the Navy will use their only refrigerated supply ship that is already in service to carry out multi-faceted and multi-level large-scale refrigerated transportation missions, and conduct various experiments...

If everything goes well, starting from the year after next, the empire will officially import frozen meat and even fresh fruits and other foods that are difficult to transport and preserve from overseas on a large scale, increasing the supply of meat, fruits, etc. to the empire.

And the scale of transportation will gradually increase. After five years, the empire's senior officials hope to establish a complete refrigerated transportation system throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, India, Australia and many other regions, so as to import large amounts of frozen meat and fresh fruits to the empire.

food.

Make due contributions to the empire’s food supply and help the empire achieve its five-year strategic goal of 400 kilograms of food per capita!

However, although the supply of meat is also very important, importing meat from overseas by refrigerated transport ships... to some extent is just the icing on the cake.

After all, it is estimated that 500 million people from the mainland will be gone in five years... and after five years, dozens of refrigerated transport ships will be destroyed, and they will not be able to provide food for 500 million people!

To solve the food problem, we mainly need to rely on expanding domestic production of local food and large-scale imports of wheat, rice and other food from overseas.

Needless to say, there is no need to talk about expanding domestic grain production.

If you import food from overseas, the scale can be easily increased, and transportation is more convenient and cheaper than meat!

Because goods such as wheat and rice are transported by sea, there is no need for special refrigerated transport ships, ordinary cargo ships can be used.

Not to mention specialized cargo ships, many ocean-going passenger ships currently heading overseas do not have many passengers when they return, so they often serve as temporary cargo ships when they return... and fill the bottom warehouses with various agricultural products.

and the return of industrial raw materials to China.

Grains such as wheat and rice are also among them.

What the empire needs to do in the future is to further expand overseas food supply... and also find ways to reduce the transportation cost of food.
Chapter completed!