Chapter 1706: Brass "Gold" Jewelry and India
Due to the lack of metals in Persia, the price of metals is already expensive, and Marin only helps mint brass coins at a small premium according to the market price of Persia, which is actually not much different from helping Persia mint money for free. It's just that the Persian court didn't enjoy the profits of coinage. But the Persian court didn't have this business at all, so it didn't matter.
Moreover, hundreds of millions of brass coins sound like a lot, but copper coins are inherently inexpensive, and they belong to the most worthless low-level currency. Converted into gold coins, but only a million gold coins. What's more, copper coins have value in their own right. So, Marin's approach seems a bit shameless, but it has helped Persia.
Persia is not a small country, it is a regional power that includes Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Its status in the world is equivalent to that of the Three Kingdoms of the later generations. It belongs to the kind of big country that is not very strong, but it is not to be underestimated. With such a large country, hundreds of millions of copper coins will not have much impact at all. What's more, copper coins themselves have a high value.
In addition, Marin thought that he had no modest manners, but the Persian merchants were not far behind. A Jewish merchant of Persian origin, while doing business between Persia and India, discovered that the brass coins he used were often mistaken for gold.
Although Indians can tell by weight that this is not gold, the appearance of brass is too similar to gold! Then, this guy did one thing......
What did he do? He melted up the brass coins minted by Marin and sold them to poor Indian women in the form of gold jewelry......
This brain hole is really strange, but it is really powerful!
What kind of country is India? It was a country where women liked to wear gold jewelry. In later generations, even Indian women in the slums liked to wear gold jewelry all over their bodies.
Of course, don't think they're wearing real gold jewelry. In later generations, most of the gold jewelry worn by women in India's slums was actually fake gold jewelry with gold lacquer. A lot of it is aluminum jewelry, with a layer of gold paint on the outside. If you have a little money, you will buy low-quality gold jewelry with very low purity, and the price is only half that of ordinary gold.
In recent years, there has not been any high-imitation gold paint. Therefore, there are still very few fake gold jewelry painted with gold paint. In this era, most of the gold jewelry worn by ordinary Indian women is low-quality gold jewelry with very low purity, as long as the brightness is like gold.
This Persian Jewish merchant named Anedh found that brass coins were melted down to make gold jewelry, and then sold to poor Indian women at a premium, which was very marketable.
Women from poor Indian families can't afford real gold, but they want to go out with gold jewelry. Therefore, Aned's brass jewelry gave them the best choice.
Aned's sale of brass jewelry to poor Indian women, especially those of the upper castes, who were economically disadvantaged, was very popular with the brass coins themselves, which were several times the value of the brass coins. Moreover, wearing brass jewelry is much lighter than wearing real gold jewelry. After all, copper is much less dense than gold.
In this way, Aned's men later made a lot of money by melting the brass coins minted for Persia by the North Sea Kingdom. Then, many Persian merchants began to imitate him in doing so.
It wasn't until the representative of the North Sea Kingdom found out the news in Persia, and then, the unscrupulous Marin personally went down and grabbed business with these Persian merchants.
The Indian market is really big, and the use of brass to make fake gold jewelry is actually very profitable. After all, there are many more poor people in India than there are rich people, and there is a great need. Then, Marin was also given a channel to exchange goods for Indian goods, so as not to have to exchange real money for things......
The poor upper castes are a ridiculous group in Indian society. They are as poor or no better off than the untouchables, but they have a strong sense of self-esteem that the untouchables do not have. In the words of the Chinese people, it is a very good face, a good face of "dying to save face and suffering crimes". If the mother-in-law does not wear gold jewelry when she goes out, it will appear that the man is incompetent.
It just so happens that fake gold jewelry made of brass produced in Beihai can be pretended to be gold jewelry. As long as you don't weigh it, you basically can't see that it's fake. Moreover, its price makes it affordable for ordinary people. Then, this market is huge...... You must know that Indian women even wear gold nose rings on their noses in order to show off their gold......
It is said that when the British colonial army of the East India Company later broke through the Indian cities, in addition to the looting of the treasury, they would not let ordinary people go. Because, at that time, there was no fake gold lacquer jewelry, and ordinary people also had jewelry made of low-purity gold. As long as you enter the house of a person who is not too poor, open the woman's jewelry box, and you will always find gold. There was an unlucky Indian woman with a gold nose ring on her nose, which was directly removed by the colonial robbers, and she was drenched in blood......
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Of course, that was for later, and Marin didn't know it yet. If he knew, he would have jumped for joy. Because, it's a big business! Later generations of Chinese people knew that women and children were particularly easy to make money. With so many poor women in India, what a demand for fake gold jewelry!
This is a country that is morbidly obsessed with gold, even the poor. The market for fake gold jewellery and low-quality gold jewellery in India was unbelievably large. When an Indian woman gets married, if she is not covered with a few catties of gold jewelry, she will not even be able to get married......
Later, Marin asked Conté to select a jeweler named Chow Tai Fook in Daming, and with a large group of apprentices, he went to India to create cheap brass jewelry for Marin's jewelry store. Then, a brass "gold jewelry" shop called "Daifuku" became a sacred place in the hearts of poor women in India. Because, there are dazzling and beautiful "gold" jewelry, and the price is cheap......
The most terrifying thing is that Marin, a traverser, also plagiarized the ultra-classic Indian song "The Bride Marries the Groom but Not Me" (it is actually a translation error, it should be called "Burning Love Fire"). Let a group of Indian men and women with "Daifuku" jewelry dance in front of the jewelry store and sing "Burning Love Fire".
Don't ask Marin how he memorized this song, it's special, Marin listened to this song too much in his last life! But whenever there is a show of Indian dance, whether it is in the university or the company's annual meeting, this song is specially played. This song is like the Divine Comedy of the Phoenix Legend, brainwashing over and over again. Even if Marin doesn't know Hindi, he can remember how to sing and pronounce it......
Then, the song was originally a super classic Indian song, and once promoted by Daifuku Jewelry, it quickly became popular throughout India. And Daifuku Jewelry, along with this song and the dance of the beautiful girl covered with Daifuku jewelry, soared to the sky in India and opened many chain stores! Of course, it is not Master Zhou who makes a lot of money, but Master Ma (Ma Lin) behind it......