"Bought, bought, and I bought a lot of what you didn't say." Zhang Xinda said, "Let's talk about silver first." I bought a 37 grams of silver, that is, a thousand feet of silver antique silver ingots made in the Qing system, a total of 100 for you, each price of 166 yuan, converted into a gram of 4.48 yuan, are not special marked, only 'fortune into the treasure' four words, the surface looks exactly the same as the Qing Dynasty ingots, is a new point. ”

"100?" Li Yongji was stunned, "Why do you buy so much?" Didn't you buy a few in a hurry? Buying that much will take up a lot of money! ”

"Of course I do." Zhang Xinda said, "I originally wanted to buy less, only ten, but the price of 180 yuan was too dark, so I bargained with someone, and after talking for a long time, the other party was willing to reduce the price, but I must buy at least 100 at a time." That, it's all about buying anyway, so there's no need to lose, right? You see, am I very good at bargaining? ”

"Yes, you're amazing." Li Yongji shook his head, "I know you're working hard, anyway, I've already learned too much about your ability to bargain, and it's even better than my aunt." What about the other stuff? You won't spend all your money to buy silver ingots, will you? ”

"Others, of course, there are many more." Zhang Xinda said, "I have prepared 3,000 yuan for the medicines, which are some commonly used medicines with cheap prices and good effects." For example, compound xinazole, amoxicillin potassium clavulanate dispersible tablets, montmorillonite powder, norfloxacin and the like. With these, not to mention making money, at least you can ensure that you won't burp out of a small illness such as a small cold and infection over there, and increase your survival rate.

By the way, because of the tight time, I didn't re-pack it for you, but I prepared a lot of small glass bottles and super glue, and also used the printer to type some traditional Chinese characters and yellow paper versions of simple trademarks. Also, remember to destroy the original packaging after packing. ”

"Well, I see, I don't need you to remind me."

"Then there are some daily chemical products, such as face oil, shampoo, shower gel, soap, soap, toothpaste and toothbrush, etc., which are all easy to use and cheap goods such as pechoin and bee flowers. In the same way, we also prepare a variety of glass bottles of different sizes, which you can re-pack yourself. Well, let's do it for now, it's not much anyway, and your amount of labor is not large. ”

"Hey, you're too lazy, aren't you?"

"This is not called laziness, this is called efficiency, my brother's schedule has been full recently, how can I have time to do it? Brother, you should be busy first, anyway, the future is bright, and when we have money in the future, we can go to order special goods, and then we can simply open a daily chemical factory by ourselves or acquire a daily chemical factory, these things will be easy to do. ”

"Uh-huh, that's what I said."

"Then there are some stainless steel products, which are all carefully selected by me. For example, antique stainless steel silver mirrors, stainless steel tableware, tea sets, and some stainless steel trinkets, antique mechanical pocket watches and the like. They are all good colors, and the worst ones are 304 stainless steel that has been polished, which is not a stall. Hmph, it's 1859, stainless steel hasn't appeared yet, relying on these, you will definitely be able to sell for a good price. In short, you have to sell these for me as luxury goods, don't sell them cheaply! ”

"Yes, well done." Li Yongji smiled with satisfaction.

"Also, considering your poor diet over there and your greedy hobbies, I also sent you some snacks and seasonings by the way, so that you can continue to enjoy the bombardment of modern food."

"Good brother!"

"Not only that, I also bought some rice that has not been shelled, all of which are grade 3 late indica, the cheapest kind I can buy, the market wholesale price is 2680 yuan a ton, I bought ten tons, plus the packaging fee, loading freight and warehouse rental fee, a total of 30,000 yuan."

"Why do you want to buy rice? I didn't let you buy this, huh? Li Yongji asked, "And it cost nearly 30,000?" Are you sick? With this money, wouldn't it be better for you to buy more antibiotics or stainless steel products? It's even more profitable. ”

"Boss, you're really a fan of the authorities, you didn't figure it out." Zhang Xinda in the tablet shook his finger, "Although everyone used to write novels, you used to write about cities, and my brother and I wrote history, so I guarantee that I know the history of the Qing Dynasty better than you." ”

"Getting to the point!" Li Yongji frowned, "Don't say it's useless." ”

"The point is, what you told me earlier is not appropriate, and some of it is taken for granted." Li Yongji said, "For example, reselling gold and silver. Indeed, gold and silver are no longer money in modern society, and the ratio is very large. For example, the market price published on the Internet here is 3.5 yuan a gram for silver, 241.2 yuan a gram for gold, and the ratio of gold to silver to huàn has reached 1 to 68.9, and this ratio is getting bigger and bigger. As for you, the exchange rate of local gold and silver is about 1 to 15, plus your side is on the silver standard, at first glance, this is indeed a good business, but you only see huge profits, not a problem. ”

"What's the problem?" Li Yongji asked.

"There are a lot of questions, and in the short term, it's how do you explain where these things come from, and whether you can safely spend them. As the saying goes, it's whether you can afford it! Zhang Xinda said, "What you have crossed is that the judicial system is not perfect, there are thieves everywhere, murder and arson are as common as the late Qing Dynasty, you yourself are just the son of a small businessman, you have no power, no power and no force, you are still a minor, and you can't keep your wealth." ”

"Of course I know about the security issues, and I won't be stupid and show it all at once." Li Yongji said, "It's not that it's okay, I'm going to release the silver little by little and exchange it for gold with others." Didn't you also say that this thing can't be used as an antique on your side, so I have to exchange it for gold as hard currency here. ”

"That's the problem, no matter how you put it little by little, there are traces to follow, you turned out to be just the youngest son of an ordinary grain shop owner, and what you can usually get your hands on is a few tens of copper coins, and suddenly you can keep releasing silver for gold, who would have thought that there was a problem, right? Moreover, you don't have much time, it's 1859 on your side, right, if one qiē is normal, according to history, there will be another year, no, there will be less than half a year, and the Taiping army will start the southern Jiangsu campaign and break the Jiangnan camp for the second time. After that, Li Xiucheng of the Taiping Army would break Suzhou and Hangzhou in the first half of 1860, and in the second half of the year, the troops would be in Shanghai, and the entire Jiangnan region would suffer from war. When the time comes, not to mention that you will lose a big consumer market, and even your Zhujiajiao town will suffer a military disaster. ”

"Don't be afraid." Li Yongji pouted and said, "You and I are just like you, my brother graduated from medical school, English level 6, and his spoken English is also good, it's a big deal that I will go to Shanghai to be a comprador and go to foreigners." When the time comes, I will exchange gold with foreigners, and I remember that Britain and France and other Western powers are now on the gold standard, and they only made trade silver coins in order to trade with China. ”

"It's amazing, when you write about the city, you even know the silver coins of trade." Zhang Xinda smiled and said, "As for your medical undergraduate...... Brother, how many years have we been brothers, and you still show off this dry hair with me? With your education that isn't even a graduate student, and you don't have any backstage, what's the use? In the end, it's not like me, a student at Pheasant University, who is a hard writer? You just can't let go of this little self-esteem, and you're still single. ”

"Humph!"

"Okay, let's not talk about that." Zhang Xinda said, "Your idea of taking refuge in foreigners is not bad, but it is still taken for granted in practice. Do you think it's that easy to get a foreigner? You don't have to know English. As for the exchange of gold, yes, at this time, Britain and France and other powers mostly implemented the gold standard, they actually prefer to use gold to buy things, after all, the price of silver has been falling, in terms of exchange rate, it means that China's currency has been depreciating, and currency depreciation is conducive to exports, not imports, otherwise how did the **trade and**war come about? It's not just ......"

"Hey, that's off-topic!"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sick, I always like to analyze." Zhang Xinda smiled and cleared his throat, "In short, today's comprador class is relatively solidified, with its own circle, no power and means, you are a minor bear child, even if you can speak English, the old comprador class will not be so easy to accept you as a member of them, because it is equivalent to sharing more profits."

Moreover, why should a foreigner believe you and be willing to deal with you? How can you ensure the fairness of exchanging gold with foreigners? How to ensure that you will not be cheated and robbed? Why do people have to do business with you seriously, instead of taking advantage of it? Why should others be kind and sit on the side and watch you get rich? Gold and silver are themselves dipped in blood, which is the case in modern society, let alone the late Qing Dynasty. What's more, if you want to play the game of exchanging gold and silver, let's not talk about the operation problem on my side, why do you have to open a silver account or bank first, right? At the very least, you have to have a certain strength to do it, right? ”

"I didn't say I'd go to exchange gold with foreigners now, I mean later." Speaking of this, Li Yongji suddenly reacted, ", you've been around again." I know what you said, and I won't be stupid to exchange silver for gold from the beginning, nor will I cover my head and go to foreigners to be compradors. In other words, I obviously asked you why you spend a lot of money to buy food, okay? If you have that money, why don't you buy stainless steel products and medicines? The topic of discussion is the question of cost performance, okay? Why do you always deviate? ”