Actually, for Feng Jun, paying with grain would be more cost-effective, because... grain on the Phone Plane was not cheap.
For example, one silver dollar was worth a thousand copper coins, while one jin of flour cost around forty copper coins. One silver dollar could only buy twenty-five jin of flour. One tael of gold could buy 2,500 jin of flour, or 1.25 tons.
One tael of gold weighed fifty grams and could sell for around twelve thousand on the Blue Star Realm. Bought in bulk, it could purchase at least nearly four tons of flour—after all, the point was to fill bellies, not to eat well.
And that was the price when the Phone Plane had favorable weather and peace. If a natural disaster or war broke out, grain prices would soar madly.
To be honest, it was not that grain on the Phone Plane was expensive, but that grain on the Blue Star Plane was cheap. In the age of industrialization, fertilizer supplies could be guaranteed, and vigorous breeding of improved varieties had kept grain prices within a relatively low range.
Still, Feng Jun felt that he needed to calculate whether this was feasible.
Assuming one tael of gold could buy one ton of flour, then twenty million taels of gold meant twenty million tons of flour—an amount truly sufficient to feed everyone in Funiu Prefecture for a year.
Even if only half was paid in grain and the other half in gold, that would still be ten million tons of flour.
Feng Jun truly was willing to pay in grain, because it was cheap enough, but the quantity was simply too great for him to arrange.
When Huangfu Wuxia heard him stay silent for so long, she said, "Hello? Are you even listening?"
"I'm listening," Feng Jun