Chapter 1: Picking up a wormhole

"Mr. Li, are you going fishing again?" The doorman of the Zhiben Building asked enthusiastically when he saw Li Ji wearing a light angler's suit. "Yes, I won't be here this afternoon, if someone comes to me in the afternoon, just say I'm going to talk about business, let him leave his contact information and purpose, and I'll be back tomorrow to get in touch." Li Ji said hello to the doorman and walked out of the building.

"It seems that today is a good weather, and I can go to get a big vote, but I didn't expect so few applicants, and only ten people came after waiting for a month." After talking to himself after reading the weather, Li Ji opened the door of his newly purchased Land Cruiser, skillfully opened the GPS positioning system, and set the destination in a sparsely populated mountainous area between Kaifeng City and Zhengzhou.

"The first time I secretly sold some artificially cultured pearls and glass products to those blue hats, and the high-grade five-kiln porcelain and jade gems in exchange for them were basically sold out, and I made tens of millions of dollars and spent almost everything, and I don't know what good things I can get from the pearls and glassware I brought this time." Li Ji carried the prepared sack on his back, put on a custom-made Song costume, shoes and hat, and once again stepped into the space-time passage he discovered three months ago.

Three months ago, while playing on a small roadside on the outskirts of Lankao, Lee Ki picked up a small wormhole that could be attracted to move by magnets. The compass on his body has become the carrier and camouflage of this wormhole. After buying the musical instrument wood and returning to the company for delivery, I immediately went back to the staff dormitory to study this wormhole.

After Li Ji's research and mobile phone experiments, the other side of the wormhole is a time and space that passes at the same speed as Li Ji's area. The automatic time-lapse photography and the results of the photography show that the surrounding environment is the same as that of the temperate monsoon climate where Li Ki is located, and the stars in the night sky show that the location is still Earth, but the time is 925 years back.

Overjoyed, Lee Ki immediately began to study a plan on how to make a fortune using the wormhole. A week later, he took a large pile of artificially cultivated pearls and glassware that he had bought with all his savings, put on the prepared cosplay costumes, and went into the wormhole that was enlarged by Li Ki's electromagnetic equipment. After entering the wormhole for the first time, Li Ji only felt like he had been smashed by a sledgehammer to the bones of his body, and the severe pain made him unable to make any movements at all, even moaning was difficult, except for weak breathing and heartbeat, he was almost like a dead man.

By the time Lee Ki could turn over and reach out for his phone to check the timer, three days had passed. Apparently thinner, Lee Ki weakly began to eat and rest, striving to start his exploration journey as soon as possible.

A day later, after packing up his tent and wilderness survival equipment, Li Ji set off to move to Kaifeng City, which was 100 kilometers away from him. According to the compass and sextant positioning, the location was not very accurate, and the location was marked on a high-precision homemade map, but Li Ki, who did not know the path and the settlement, could only slowly open the way through the mountains.

After walking for two days, Li Ji came to a deserted mountain path and followed the path down the mountain to find a settlement. When Li Ji found that there was smoke rising, he immediately hid his tent and modern items, hid a silk bag of pearls close to his body, and disguised himself as a robbed merchant and got lost in the mountains. The prepared rhetoric is just to mix up a legitimate Song Dynasty identity and origin, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

When Li Ji saw an old farmer walking towards the village from the nearest mountain field, he immediately pretended to be a passer-by, and the sound of falling to the ground attracted the old farmer. Obviously, when the old peasant saw the miserable Li Ji's tattered clothes covered in thorns and bushes, and the hair of the chicken coop that had been burned in order to pursue realism, he concluded that Li Ji was a hapless man in distress.

The old farmer went back to the village and called his son to bring Li Jijia home, woke up with cold water, and began to feed the gruel. Li Ji honestly drank the gruel and began to test the old farmer's various information. After some exchanges, Li Ji knew that he had arrived in the mountains at the junction of Zhengzhou Mansion and Mengzhou Mansion on May 14 of the third year of Yuan You of the Great Song Dynasty, and it was still 120 kilometers away from Kaifeng, that is, Bianjing.

After the honest old man Cheng learned that Li Ji was set on fire and burned part of his hair because he pretended to be dead after being robbed by the bandits, Li Ji fabricated that the root cause of his transformation from a rich businessman to a poor egg was probably that there was no one in the family to be an official, and there was not much backstage that led to the family wealth being targeted, and the merchant plan was leaked to a sworn enemy or bandit after being known, or the bandit was arranged by his sworn enemy. Old man Cheng comforted Li Ji that he could stay at his house for a few days.

Li Ji, who was full of gratitude, gave Old Man Cheng the smallest pearl, and told him that this was his last property, hoping that Old Man Cheng could get him a household registration certificate, and said that he was a distant cousin of Old Man Cheng and settled in Chengjia Village to avoid the limelight. Unexpectedly, after a few days, after fully recovering, Li Ji found that his body had become more powerful, and his quality in all aspects reached the level of a professional athlete. This is the compensation for the severe pain after the crossing.

After Cheng Lao Man gave Li Ji the completed paperwork, Li Ji slowly began to try to integrate into Chengjia Village, and after solving the problem of dialect communication and accent, Li Ji took Cheng Old Man to Gong County to exchange the remaining dozens of copper coins and household registration certificates down the mountain and went straight to Kaifeng.

After several days of hard walking, I finally saw the tall city wall of Kaifeng. After Li Ji asked about the place where Yici Le Ye people were active, he ran straight there.

When Lee Ki saw the Caucasian people wearing blue hats with the sign surname on their heads, it was as if he saw piles of moving gold bricks.

"Does this jewelry store buy pearls?" Li Ji looked at the Yici Le Ye people behind the counter with a worried mood.

"Do you have any pearls for sale?" The contemptible person is the shopkeeper of the store, the main jewelry and Fanbang treasures, is the number of the Bianjing row. If you have pearls for sale, please go to the back wing to discuss, and please move. The smiling shopkeeper heard that Li Ji had pearls for sale, so he immediately brought his professional temperament and conversation and invited Li Ji to the back room for a detailed discussion. Pearls are the main business of the jewelry industry, and the business that is generally negotiated at the bustling Yici Le Ye Ren store is a large transaction, which is an unspoken rule that determines the status of the industry. Li Ji domineeringly took out a silk bag, took out more than a dozen pearls, and handed them to the shopkeeper for identification. "The contemptible surname is Li, a single name is a basic word, come to your store to discuss a big business, there are thousands of buckets of high-grade pearls to trade with your store, I hope your store can cooperate with me happily."

"This is just a sample that I bring with me, and there are many pearls stored at home, as long as the shopkeeper and the owner of your store can come up with a price that satisfies me, the pearls in the future will only be better than these." If our cooperation goes well, there will be better goods and curiosities to sell in your store. Li Ji smiled as he looked at the shopkeeper who was holding the pearl and carefully examined it, unable to control the slight tremor of his excited hands. Before coming here, Li Ji did a lot of preparations, knowing how big the market for luxury consumer goods in the Song Dynasty was, and these pearls would be digested without even the slightest ability to affect the market price. Knowing that only the best goods can maximize profits, Li Ji almost did everything he could to go to Hainan and buy hundreds of round fine pearls with a diameter of 8mm. He spent more than 100,000 yuan of savings that he had worked hard since he joined the job at the age of 18 and tens of thousands of yuan that he borrowed from colleagues, friends, and relatives.

According to Li Ji's investigation, the price of this kind of walking beads in the Song Dynasty is extremely high, and it can be said that there is no market, as long as there is a supply, a pearl can buy a hundred copper coins. The purchasing power is not less than 50,000 yuan, and if you buy some porcelain and rare antiques from the Song Dynasty and bring them back to sell, you can earn at least 500 million yuan or more for a round trip. Li Ji's mood is naturally very nervous, if the sale is completed, Li Ji will naturally become rich overnight.

"The quality of these pearls is too good, the small shop can't scrape together enough cash to buy it for a while, not to mention the rest of the goods of Li Daguan, I hope that Li Daguan can give a few more days, and the owner of Rong Yi store will have enough cash to eat this batch of goods, how about it?" The shopkeeper looked at Li Ji nervously, as if Li Ji was about to sentence him to death, and his pitiful expression made Li Ji smile.

"Shopkeeper, don't be anxious, I still have to stay in Bianjing for a few days, buy some real estate, if your store and your owner can't open the capital turnover for a while, you can also offset the payment with other things, since coming to your store is fate, I naturally don't need to ask for trouble, I still know the credit of the happy people." Li Ki kindly expressed his understanding and agreement.

"Thank you so much Li Daguan, the small one immediately asked the owner to discuss in detail, this business is huge, and the small one doesn't have this kind of power to call the shots. Please wait for a while, and the small ones will come. The shopkeeper was excited and trotted all the way out to find the owner, and before leaving, he instructed a few apprentices to entertain Li Ji.

"I didn't expect that I would also become a Li official." Li Ji, who felt funny, couldn't help but think of Ximenqing.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the shopkeeper returned, and an old man with a hooked nose who was clearly of Jewish descent greeted Li Ji with a smile on his face. "Li Daguan is really a distinguished guest when he comes to the small shop, and he has missed the welcome, and he forgives the old man for not being well entertained." Li Ji was naturally polite.

"These top-notch walkers, the small shop has a small profit, and they really don't have the strength to take it all, I don't know if Li Daguan can agree to take over this business with a few peers?" Sassoon, the owner of the jewelry store, pleaded earnestly.

"I don't know how much cash your store has, how much real estate you have, and how much the old owner has estimated the value of this batch of goods, and you actually said that you want to take over with your peers?" As soon as he finished speaking, Li Ji couldn't help but react, this is the realm of old Sassoon's integrity and pulling everyone to make a fortune together.

Li Ji knew very well about the financing ability and unity of the Jews, if old Sassoon wanted to eat this batch of goods, he could completely find his peers or loan sharks, as long as he ate this batch of goods, he sold them to those high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and 50% of the profits could be easily obtained. The old Sassoon, who easily moved Li Ji, did not say much, and said that he could offset part of the payment for a set of 100 acres of real estate on the street near Xinzheng Gate for 50,000 yuan, plus 400,000 yuan of cash from his peers to buy Li Ji's pearls. 900 pearls were bought at the price of 500 guan each, and the extra 13 largest 9-10mm pearls were used for 20,000 guan to offset the end inkstone, porcelain from the five major kilns, and a small amount of antique jade and jade as requested by Li Ji.

Li Ji exchanged half of the 400,000 yuan in cash for easily cashable gold, almost more than 100 kilograms, and half used it to buy more than 3,000 acres of land in the northwest of Bianjing's slum transformation plan planned by Li Ji in the future.