David was a little embarrassed when he handed over the list: "Hehe, Chief Chen Yuanbao, this is the number of livestock breeding that our American settlements want to buy from you, please take a look." ”

Chen Yuan glanced at David suspiciously, and said in his heart, "What's so embarrassing about this." ”

But I quietly took the list and looked at it, this one is unbelievable!

"Hiss......"

Immediately, Chen Yuan took a sharp breath of cold air.

Because Chen Yuanchu did a little calculation, there were more than a dozen American settlements in the list, and they had to buy more than 100,000 chickens, 20,000 ducks, 1,000 pigs, 500 cows, and 1,000 sheep from the Steel Castle!

Chen Yuan said in surprise: "Deputy City Lord David, the number of livestock you want to buy is inevitably too much!" Some of these quantities are even larger than the ones we can breed in the fort! ”

Indeed, the scale of the farms in the fort is only 80,000 chickens and ducks. The United States, on the other hand, buys more than 100,000 chickens at one time.

David smiled and explained, "Chen, you have to understand that our consumption of chickens in the United States is no less than that of cows. And it is easier to raise chickens than cattle in the last days. In addition, if these chickens are allocated to more than a dozen settlements, in fact, each settlement will not be divided much. ”

Chen Yuan continued to ask: "But so many livestock, the total weight is estimated to be more than 500 tons, and they are all still living animals, how can you transport them back?" Actually, you can consider buying these livestock cubs? ”

But David said, "No! Chen, it will take more than ten hours to fly from your Steel Fort back to our America. And when we arrive in the United States, we have to be assigned to various settlements. In this way, the time is too long, the journey is bumpy, and the young of the livestock may not be able to stand it and die in the middle of the way! As for how to transport, we can transfer a few more C-5 large military transport aircraft from the country! ”

During the flight, the aircraft will inevitably encounter some air currents and turbulence. Sometimes the bumps are quite big.

Livestock cubs have poor tolerance, and death during transport is very likely.

Although it is possible to revive dying livestock in time with spirit meat, it is too consuming and too expensive.

And David and others, in addition to this consideration, actually have another important reason.

That is, in fact, in China, the feed is also cheaper than that in the United States!

In particular, pigs, cattle and sheep have to consume a lot of feed when they are mature. It will take time. Of course, it is better to buy livestock from Huaxia directly.

So that when they get to the United States, they can start reproducing.

However, at this time, Chen Yuan then shook his head and said, "Deputy City Lord David, the number of livestock you want to buy this time is indeed a bit large, so I can't agree to you right now." Please allow us some time to figure it out and see if this will affect the supply of livestock in our own settlements. Is it okay to give you an answer then then? ”

"Of course!" David nodded.

It's not like it was now. Livestock resources, even in the Iron Castle, are limited. And if they were to put them in the United States, they would be enough to buy two or three short-lived animals.

It's also because they do buy a little more at once. Therefore, an old diplomat like David, whose face has long been worn into a cowhide in his diplomatic career for I don't know how many years, was embarrassed when he submitted the purchase list to Chen Yuan just now.

But this is indeed the minimum amount that has been negotiated by relevant breeding experts and financial experts in the United States after research by more than a dozen of their settlements.

That's more, let's not talk about whether the Iron Castle side will agree. Just that much of the quantity will definitely make the Iron Castle side increase the price a lot.

If it is less, it is indeed not enough for more than a dozen of their settlements.

For example, 100,000 chickens were distributed to more than a dozen settlements, with an average of less than 7,000 chickens and a maximum of 10,000.

Compared to the hundreds of thousands of survivors in these settlements, these thousands of chickens are only enough for breeding.

You know, in the United States, the consumption of chickens is indeed very large.

But in fact, Americans also have a little more to report, so there is room for adjustment.

In addition, judging from the ratio of the number of livestock purchased by the Americans, it can also be found that the diet of the Americans has also undergone some considerable changes.

That is, the number of pigs is not small.

In the past, Americans didn't eat much pork.

They eat steak and lamb chops, but few have heard of pork chops in the United States. The most eaten pork is made into bacon meat, but the quantity is much less than that of beef and mutton, after all, it is not a staple food.

Even if it is made into a hot dog, more than 60% of the meat in it is beef and chicken, and pork accounts for less than 30% of the amount.

Because pork is dirty, and it has a high fat content and less protein, the taste is not as good as beef and mutton.

But now, because of the end times, they have to start changing their eating habits.

Eat pork that is better nourished and has more meat.

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The Iron Castle is very efficient.

In the morning, they immediately began to assess whether the amount of livestock purchased by the United States would affect the supply of livestock in their settlements.

The results of the assessment are actually within the range that they can accept.

It's a big deal, everyone has a little less meat every day, and it will be back to normal in a week or two at most. Anyway, now everyone is no longer like at the beginning, not eating meat for a long time, and there is a great demand for meat. Many children are forced to eat meat by their parents, as they did in peacetime!

Or you can take out the frozen meat that you have stocked up in advance and digest some of it. (In order to deal with emergencies, the Iron Castle has a corresponding reserve mechanism, and there must be a certain amount of ready-made reserves for food and meat resources!) But you can make more flesh, and it's a good deal.

However, when replying to David and the others that afternoon, Chen Yuan still deliberately expressed embarrassment, because he wanted to raise the price!

He said, "Deputy City Lord David, the number of livestock you bought this time is indeed a little more!" According to our calculations, this is likely to affect the meat supply in our settlements. You know, we don't just supply our own livestock, we buy livestock from dozens of settlements, large and small! So we can only sell 80,000 chickens, 20,000 ducks, 800 pigs, 200 cows, and 500 sheep like you! And if you buy so much livestock, we will have less supply here, and the price will have to go up! ”

Just kidding, it's a one-shot deal. The Americans bought these animals to breed, and they won't buy them again next time. Of course, Chen Yuan wants to take advantage of this time to have more of them! 2k reading web