Since ancient times, there has been a saying in Huaguo.

Prosperous antiques, troubled gold.

It means that when the time comes to peace and prosperity, antiques will be in vogue and have immeasurable value.

Yin Jun has seen the wave of antiques around 2012.

However, the hype of antiques in the prosperous era is not only in this prosperous era, such as the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, the prosperous era of Kangqian, etc., there is a period of madness.

Compared to antiques, gold does not have much room for speculation, because its basic value is already fixed there.

In a peaceful and prosperous world, you can't say that I can exchange a pound of gold for a painting of Qi Baishi, right?

It's just that if the times change, when it comes to the chaotic times, gold will be precious.

At that time, nothing else would be good but gold as the only hard currency.

A corn nest can be exchanged for a yellow flower girl in one night, and a tael of gold can also buy a yellow flower girl, but Qi Baishi's paintings are not worth anything, and nothing may be exchanged.

Therefore, the meaning of the two is completely different, and it cannot be compared under normal circumstances.

Now the atmosphere in Xiangjiang is a little tense.

With the continuous game between China and the United Kingdom, the situation is quite unstable, and the current governor is Yuri, not the respected MacLehose, so it is a little bit unbearable.

The Kowloon Walled City also took the opportunity to stir up trouble at this time, and the police and inspectors were able to barely maintain law and order until they did not collapse, and they had already done their best, and the government could not control so much about the rest of the matter.

Those who are unwilling to emigrate but have no sense of security about the future will choose to find something to give them a sense of security.

Obviously, gold is one of those projects.

Gold, a hard currency, has extremely precious strategic value in the world, so under normal circumstances, countries will not allow gold to skyrocket, which is not conducive to the country's financial reserves.

But this year is different, the economic situation of various countries has a delicate situation, so since January this year, gold has continued to rise in price.

Now in August, the price of one or two 50 grams of gold has risen by more than 1,500 Hong Kong dollars compared with the beginning of the year.

That's a pretty scary increase.

But just like buying a house, people who buy gold also buy up, not down.

The more they see gold rising, the more they want to buy it, the more they want to buy it to preserve its value.

However, everyone wanted to buy gold, and Xiangjiang didn't have gold reserves in the first place - they issued currencies with US dollars as reserves.

The gold in Hong Kong is purchased from outside by commercial gold shops and jewellery shops.

Basically, it is only seven or eight companies such as Chow Tai Fook, Chow Tai Sheng, Xie Ruilin, and Xie Liyuan.

However, ordinary people can think that they will buy gold when they get to the gold shop, but they can't do this in a company.

In fact, for these gold merchants, they don't like the sharp rise and fall of gold.

The stability of gold prices is the time when they can make the most money at ease.

It is impossible for them to buy thousands of catties or tens of thousands of catties in one go, and what if you have just bought it, and the gold has already plummeted before it has been transported to Xiangjiang? What if you have just cut your flesh in pain, but it has skyrocketed?

After so many times of going back and forth, which gold shop can stand it?

Therefore, no matter how the price of gold rises and falls, these gold shops and jewelry stores have their own set of plans, and it is impossible to blindly follow the trend and hoard a large amount of gold and wait for it to continue to skyrocket.

Not to mention hoarding gold, even their own gold jewelry, which has not been in a state of saturation, basically has very little inventory, just to control risks.

The overall inventory of our gold shop industry is small, and the people of Xiangjiang are eager and enthusiastic to buy gold, which has caused the situation that every few gold shop products are snatched up as soon as they are on the counter.

In particular, 50 grams, 100 grams, and 500 grams of gold, as soon as they are taken out, they will be snatched up in minutes.

Such a hungry market performance has further pushed up the price of gold in Xiangjiang, making people a little panicked.

However, there are still smart people in Xiangjiang.

As long as they can make money, what are they afraid to do?

In the future, there will be so many fake and second-hand goods in the mainland, I don't know how many of them will enter the mainland through Xiangjiang.

Now that their legal system is not perfect, and the Kowloon Walled City is still there, it is even more unscrupulous.

The same is true for the gold market.

Seeing so many people wanting to buy gold, how can anyone not want to make a fortune?

For example, Xie Liyuan Gold Shop, one of the top ten gold shops in Xiangjiang, is one of the most active.

Speaking of this Xie Liyuan, Yin Jun can still see it when he travels to Aomen more than 30 years later.

But Aomen's Xie Liyuan jewelry is not the Xie Liyuan gold shop in Xiangjiang today, although their ancestors are all a family, but the business is completely separate, it can be said that there is no relationship.

However, today's Xiangjiang Xie Liyuan Gold Shop is also famous in Xiangjiang, and it has developed very well, and it is also a time-honored brand.

Xie Liangzong, the head of Xie Liyuan Gold Shop, is very smart and has always been known for his flexible mind.

Since he took over the helm of Xie Liyuan Gold Shop more than ten years ago, he has actively expanded his business, and then invested in all aspects.

More than ten years have passed, and Xie Liyuan Jinpu has become a large company.

In particular, the "Thousand Feet Gold Accumulation Plan" launched by Xie Liyuan Gold Shop in the 70s has become a major signature of theirs.

The so-called "Thousand Feet Gold Accumulation Plan" means that customers open a gold account in Xie Liyuan Gold Shop, buy gold at the price of the day, and Xie Li Yuan Gold Shop will give you a gold coupon as a voucher.

With the gold coupon, you can choose to take the gold immediately, or put it in their place, receive interest at the same time, and enjoy the convenience of gold appreciation and preservation.

For example, if you take it out after three years, you will not only have a considerable amount of interest money, but you will also be able to make a profit through the appreciation of gold.

Xie Liyuan Gold Shop is very famous, and it is also an old brand, of course Xiangjiang people believe in them, so in such a seven or eight years, Xie Liyuan Gold Shop has sold a large number of gold coupons, and the scenery is unmatched for a while.

But here's the problem.

The gold coupon launched by Xie Liyuan Gold Shop is the same as the bank's certificate of deposit.

When the bank certificate of deposit expires, the principal and interest must be paid together, otherwise it is a default and it is easy to cause a run.

For this reason, the banks in Hong Kong have to pay a certain amount of US dollars to the government as a deposit deposit.

So is there any guarantee for the gold coupon of Xie Liyuan Gold Shop?

No.

There is no guarantee at all.

With the money they used to sell the gold vouchers, whether they actually bought gold and saved it, or did something else, the customers didn't know.

Customers bought gold vouchers on the basis of decades of trust and a fascination with gold, without taking into account the serious risks involved.

In the past seven or eight years, the people of Xiangjiang have been proud to own the golden coupons of Xie Liyuan's gold shop.

Even many times, this gold coupon can be circulated as a bond and currency.

Because Xie Liyuan Gold Shop does not recognize people, whoever takes the gold coupon can pay directly, you can also pay if you want gold, you can also ask for money, just exchange it at the price on the same day.

Over the years, of course, no one has gone to Xie Liyuan's gold shop to ask for payment, and every time it has been paid for the first time, so its reputation has always been very good, and no one has doubted it.

Now, however, the problem has arisen.

Because of the uncertain economic outlook in Hong Kong, many people thought that there was a high chance of war, and people were so panicked that they didn't know what to do.

Some investors began to sell their properties, and the wealthy people also accelerated their emigration, but more people could only honestly use the most practical methods to add some protection to themselves.

What is Coverage?

Gold and the dollar, of course!

Both of these are the world's most common hard currencies and can be used anywhere.

On the one hand, everyone is desperately exchanging dollars in major banks, and on the other hand, they are desperately snapping up gold.

In this case, those golden coupons from Xie Liyuan's gold shop came in handy.

Although gold coupons are paid at any time, at this time, they are still not as reliable as in their own hands.

Because one day, Xiangjiang will become a battlefield, and when the time comes, it will be more convenient to run away with the gold than to go to Xie Liyuan's gold shop to get the gold at that time.

So, starting in August, many people took the gold coupons they had saved for several years and came to Xie Liyuan Gold Shop to exchange for gold.

Xie Liyuan Gold Shop didn't cheat, but they also immediately posted announcements at the door of several of their stores, explaining that too many people came to exchange gold, they didn't prepare so much for a while, and could only limit the exchange of gold worth 1 million Hong Kong dollars a day, but every day, please don't panic, pay in order, Xie Liyuan Gold Shop will definitely fulfill its promise.

It's not a troubled time now, and the reputation of Xie Liyuan Gold Shop is still there, and everyone thinks it's reasonable, your swarm of past, of course, people's various reserves will not satisfy you, after all, there is still so much gold making gold jewelry and so on.

So in the first few days, the exchange of gold tickets at Xie Liyuan's gold shop was still very orderly.

When everyone went to a few stores to line up, they asked if today's share was full, and they all left, preparing to come early the next day.

Xie Liyuan Gold Shop's ordinary gold jewelry trading business has not been affected at all, it is still full of customers, and there are many customers buying gold jewelry.

However, on the seventh day, the situation suddenly changed.

A rumor that surprised everyone spread around.