Chapter 10 Silver for Jade
Since it was the big boss of the other party, Wang Yunyi and Wang Sanye came forward to make a decision, and things were easy to do, and Li Yongji quickly got three thousand taels of silver.
However, what Wang Yunyi gave was not real money, but a silver ticket of 3,000 taels of silver, which came from the Wang family's own money bank, Jufeng Money Village.
This is understandable, because three thousand taels of silver, that is, a real net weight of three thousand taels, according to the average of 36.5 grams of one tael, that is 109.5 kilograms! Li Yongji can't take such a sum of silver, and even if he can take it, it will be too eye-catching to go out.
As for copper coins, not to mention, 3,000 taels of silver can be exchanged for 4.2 million copper coins, according to the weight of 3 grams per penny, it is 12.6 tons, which can crush people.
In comparison, the silver ticket is a fluttering piece of paper, which is the most suitable.
At this time, the Qing Dynasty, the ticket number business has been quite developed, the north does not need to mention, Rishengchang is already famous in the world, and in the Jiangnan region, although it has suffered heavy losses because of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, but after all, Suzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou are the richest places in the world, and have not suffered too much war for the time being, so the ticket number business here is also quite prosperous. In the Jiangsu, Shanghai and Hangzhou regions, as long as the transaction exceeds 500 taels of silver, most of them are directly paid by silver tickets.
During this period, the ticket number business of Suzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou, because it has not yet experienced the war, is relatively average, although there are other ticket numbers such as Jin merchants, but it is mainly controlled by Hui merchants, like Wang Yunyi's Wang family, in fact, it is also a part of Hui merchants.
The energy of the Hui merchants at this time was still quite strong, and it was later because of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, especially after the Taiping army attacked southern Jiangsu, that this group was dealt a heavy blow, and the zhì ticket number business was severely frustrated, which led to the rise of Hu Xueyan and the Jin merchants later.
In short, Wang Yunyi gave Li Yongji a silver ticket, which was really for Li Yongji's sake, which was said to be convenient for everyone, but Li Yongji himself didn't think so.
In Li Yongji's view, the bank ticket number is the same as the bank, in fact, it is a kind of monetary credit system, in order to maintain, there must be a stable and strong guarantee, so that the issuer of the ticket number, that is, the money bank can operate healthily.
At this time, the ticket number business in the Qing Dynasty was actually a kind of currency credit system established in the people, not guaranteed by the credit of the national government, and the ability to resist risks was limited. In addition, he knew that the Taiping Army was about to attack southern Jiangsu, so if he didn't exchange the real money in time, once the situation corroded and the money bank went bankrupt, it could only become waste paper that could not be cashed out.
Even if it will take time for the Taiping army to attack, since Li Yongji can trade with modern society, then the silver ticket is useless to him at all, and it is better to use real money.
Because of this, Li Yongji strongly demanded that not silver tickets, but all be exchanged for equivalent gold.
The market price of gold at this time is 1 to 15 compared to the exchange price of silver, 3,000 taels of silver, which is 200 taels of gold and weighs 7.3 kilograms.
However, this request made Wang Yunyi embarrassed.
This is not to say that Wang Yunyi wants to repent, or that his silver tickets are issued indiscriminately, but because the Qing Dynasty was a silver standard system at this time, so as a bank, the currency at the bottom of the box is mainly silver and copper money, and gold is relatively small, and many money houses even have no gold at all.
Unfortunately, Jufeng Qianzhuang, which Wang Yunyi is in charge of, does not have much gold at the moment, at least it cannot be exchanged for two hundred taels of gold immediately. There are some gold artifacts in Jufengdang, but the amount is too small, and many of them are not dead and cannot be sold indiscriminately.
Hearing this, Li Yongji did not have any difficulty as a strong man, but just asked Wang Yunyi to take out as much gold as he could now, and the other half could be offset with jade diamonds, which was an area that Li Yongji somewhat understood.
At this time, in the Qing Dynasty, although diamonds were rare and the common people did not recognize them, jadeite was a real national gemstone.
Jadeite in the Qing Dynasty is also called Burmese jade, as early as the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, for the mining and manufacturing of jadeite, a special industry was formed. In the Xianfeng period, the amount of folk jadeite products is very large, and the classification is relatively clear, as long as there is a little bit of wealth, most of them can distinguish the quality of jadeite.
Therefore, in Jufengdang, although it is more difficult to find diamonds, it is not difficult to make jadeite, plus it is now a troubled time, jade is not valuable, and many people use it as pawns, so here you can pick out a bunch of high-quality jadeite products.
In the end, Li Yongji picked two pairs of jade bracelets of high quality, exquisite workmanship, and made of 3 points of water from Laokeng glass; A complete set of 6 cups, one large and one small 2 teapots, all of which use tea sets made of ice jade; There is also a jade wrench the size of a pigeon's egg, which is a high-quality glass species with a whole body of imperial green!
And although these things are not much, they can also be seen to be fine products in Li Yongji, and if they are in modern society, they will inevitably be worth a fortune, but here they are only priced at two thousand taels of silver!
As for the remaining 1,000 taels, Li Yongji considered that he still had to buy a house, and the silver ticket was really easy to use at this time, so he accepted the silver ticket, anyway, if he gave Zhang Xinda these jades, the value should be enough.
It was only when he saw these that Li Yongji began to sigh, that Zhang Xinda was really still on paper, what kind of upside-down copper and the like, those may be good in the future, but in the initial stage, it is still upside down these expensive jade and jade, and the cost performance is higher.
Li Yongji was secretly happy there, but he didn't know that this kind of trading method also made Wang Yunyi very happy.
You must know that if Li Yongji wants silver or gold, he will occupy a large amount of real money, that is, liquidity, but if he just wants these jade and jade, then he is actually taking advantage.
The so-called golden jade in troubled times, now it is a troubled era, jade is constantly depreciating, Jufeng when buying these jade, one of the big income, is to sell to foreigners for silver, but with more and more quantity, this thing also began to be worthless.
It is very suitable to exchange these jade objects for Li Yongji's silver, just this act of replacing silver with jade, Wang Yunyi saved at least a quarter of the money, which still gave Li Yongji an internal price, and according to the normal selling price, he had to save one-half.
It can be said that this way of exchanging silver for jade is a real joy for both parties.
After the transaction was completed, Li Yongji wanted to go back immediately, but Wang Yunyi suddenly grabbed Li Yongji, and enthusiastically said that he was very happy to see Li Yongji at first sight, and wanted to be closer and closer, and said that it was not early, and strongly asked to invite Li Yongji to eat together, and the location was Yingyue Tower.
Invite Yue Lou is actually a private prostitution house, but in this era, most brothels not only provide sex and entertainment services, but also provide services such as food and accommodation, and purely in terms of food and accommodation, it is much stronger than ordinary inns and restaurants, naturally, the price is much more expensive.
For example, this Invitation Moon Building, it is said that the owner of the building was originally a famous prostitute in Suzhou, and then he was old and decrepit, and he did not find a good family, so he came here alone to settle down, and opened a yard by himself for a living.
This famous prostitute in Suzhou itself makes authentic Su cuisine, and after he came here to run a yard, he also brought this craft over, so long ago, the Su cuisine here has become a must, and has become a signboard here, and other entertainment service projects, but it is a foil.
Su cuisine of the Invitation Moon Building, and the fish soup made by the landlord Yueniang is the most famous, it is said that the fish soup made by the landlord Yueniang is famous far and wide, many people want to eat have to make an appointment in advance, otherwise they will not be on the line. Of course, ordinary people can't afford such a place, even Li Yongji, don't look at his family, he is well-off, but he doesn't seem to have been there once in his memory, as for whether his cheap dad Li Zhengxiang has secretly come by himself, it's not clear.
Originally, Li Yongji didn't want to go, not that he was not interested in this kind of place, it was purely that he had a lot of things to do now and didn't want to have more complications. But Wang Yunyi asked again and again, and said that if he didn't go, he wouldn't go, and if he didn't go, he wouldn't give Wang San face, and he wouldn't let Li Yongji go. Coupled with what the other party said about how good the Su cuisine was, he also felt a little hungry, so Li Yongji followed half-pushed.