Chapter Twenty-Nine: Copper Coin Reselling and System Upgrades (Asking for Recommendations)
The so-called copper money to collect gold at a high price, as the name suggests, is to use copper money to buy gold and silver at a high price, originally this business is nothing, Qian Zhuang, this kind of precious metal exchange business is also due, but the problem is that the purchase price given by Li Yongji is too high.
To put it simply, if you are willing to exchange silver for copper coins, CITIC Money is to exchange 1,500 copper coins for 1 tael of silver, and if you exchange gold for copper coins, then exchange 23,500 copper coins for 1 tael of gold!
A little calculation will know that now due to the high price of silver, 1 tael of silver on the market can be exchanged for between 1400 and 1450 copper coins, generally speaking, 1 tael for 1400 copper coins in the money village, only the private is 1 tael of silver for more than 1400 copper coins. In this way, CITIC Money directly exchanged 1,500 wen for 1 tael of silver, which is equivalent to 100 wen yuan more out of thin air for every one tael of silver, and normal people know that there is money in it.
In contrast, gold for copper money is more profitable. The ratio of gold to silver is relatively stable, and at this time, 1 tael of gold can be exchanged for 15 taels of silver, which means that according to the market price, even if it is calculated at 1450 taels of silver, one tael of gold can only be exchanged for 21750 copper coins!
In this way, using gold to exchange for copper coins in CITIC Money Village is equivalent to earning an extra 1,750 copper coins for one tael of gold, which is more than exchanging the same 15 taels of silver.
Obviously, CITIC Money has made it clear that it will give priority to the purchase of gold and then receive silver.
In fact, the Qing Dynasty implemented the silver standard, so gold was not the main currency of the Qing Dynasty, so the frequency of gold in private financial transactions was not high, most of them were used as jewelry raw materials and things at the bottom of the box, on the contrary, the frequency of silver and copper coins was quite frequent, and it was the main currency in circulation in the financial field of the Qing Dynasty.
Among them, the currency of silver, the circulation is mainly in business contacts and well-off homes above, the small people to the place of silver is very few, for most people, copper money is really close to the life of the public currency.
In other words, copper coins and silver are used more frequently because they are the main currencies in circulation, while gold is much worse, so if this purchase price is true, I believe that many people will definitely flock to exchange real money for copper coins.
However, because it is too high, many people choose to wait and see and disbelieve, but in the end, there are still people who can't help it.
Sure enough, soon the first person took 1 tael of silver for copper coins in full view of everyone, and sure enough, he got 1500 Wen Qianlong Tongbao money; After that, he took out one or two gold coins, and he also got his wish in exchange for 23,500 copper coins, and this time, he got a "big sample money" that was more expensive than ordinary money!
Since these exchanges are in full view of everyone, they can't be added, so seeing this situation, the scene immediately got out of control, and everyone rushed to exchange silver or gold for copper coins, especially the most exchanged for gold, because gold can be exchanged for a large amount of money!
Qianlong Tongbao is a kind of copper coin issued in the Qianlong era, because of the large issuance, the amount of purchase, the workmanship is also good, so in the Qing Dynasty has been a relatively high credit of the basic currency, in other words, the purchasing power is very strong, is one of the most valuable copper coins in the Qing Dynasty.
The "sample money" is commonly known as the "large sample money", which is a special coin of the Qing Dynasty, which is generally directly cast by the carving mother and is exclusively used by the inner court government. Because the copper content of the large sample money is very high, the production zuò is exquisite, larger than the ordinary money, the grain is also deep, and its weight and ingredients are different from the ordinary money, so the value is much higher than the ordinary money. Some of the samples of particularly good quality can even be used as mother money.
Before the Kangxi Dynasty, most of the "sample money" was only popular in the official, and it began to flow into the folk in the late Kangxi period, and it broke out in the Yongzheng Qianlong period, and the sample money was not uncommon among the people, but in general, this kind of coin was still relatively rare.
To put it simply, the sample money is a more delicate copper coin, which is more valuable than the ordinary copper coin, and if this is the Qianlong Tongbao, the value is even greater.
Although anyone with a discerning eye can see that because the "Qianlong Tongbao" given by CITIC Bank is relatively new, nine times out of ten it is privately minted money, but in fact, whether it is private coinage or not, everyone does not care.
In the Qing Dynasty at this time, due to the government's financial suspension, the local control was very low, and the quality of Emperor Xianfeng's official coinage was too poor, so in order to alleviate the financial pressure, the local government had turned a blind eye to the private coinage on its own territory, and even encouraged it privately, for example, in poor places such as Fujian, local officials blatantly colluded with businessmen to privately mint copper coins, and the imperial court was helpless about this.
In the private sector, due to the rise in copper and silver prices, coupled with the abnormal prosperity of commerce, the lack of money in the people is very large, so the people do not care about whether it is private money, they care about the copper content of the money, that is, whether the amount is enough.
For example, the Xianfeng Tongbao run by the imperial court, the kind of inferior money is the most unwilling to be used by the people, and it is useless for the government to force it.
Because of this, now an ordinary Qianlong Tongbao system of money, in the market can be exchanged for three or four Wen Xianfeng Tongbao, if it is a large sample of money, then ten Wen Xianfeng Tongbao is less.
Therefore, CITIC Silver actually used the sample money of Qianlong Tongbao to exchange for gold, then the profit should not be too cruel, because if you are not afraid of trouble, you can completely exchange the sample money of Qianlong Tongbao for Xianfeng Tongbao, then it may not be a matter of earning two or three times more, but a problem of earning more than ten times, in other words, if you exchange gold for copper money, one or two gold in exchange for copper money, let alone earn three taels of silver.
Copper coins that make a net profit of three taels of silver with one tael of gold changing hands are still the easiest to spend, in the face of such profits, who can be calm?
Fortunately, it seems that the situation in this is also expected, CITIC Qian Zhuang said, Qianlong Tongbao for gold is a special preferential business for opening a big reward, and at present, only one hundred taels of gold is collected at most a day, and silver is only three thousand taels, first come, first served.
This means that a maximum of 2.35 million Wen Qianlong Tongbao sample money and 4.5 million Qianlong Tongbao ordinary money can be released in a day, as for how long this exchange can last, it depends on the situation, because this is a big opening reward.
In fact, this purchase restriction policy is not that there is not enough money, but that Li Yongji doesn't want to go too far from the beginning and cause unnecessary trouble, after all, no matter what, he is also exchanging private money for real money.
That's right, the so-called Qianlong Tongbao, whether it is ordinary money or sample money, is Zhang Xinda's "handicraft" privately cast by himself in later generations using modern machines!
The reason why Qianlong Tongbao is selected is because Qianlong Tongbao has been issued for a long time, the stock is huge, and the fame is also great, and because the Qianlong period is the peak of the so-called prosperity of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Tongbao is even used by the people as a treasure to drive away evil spirits, and the so-called five emperors have Qianlong Tongbao in the money.
It is precisely for this reason that the technology of imitating Qianlong Tongbao in later generations is quite excellent, and there are also special machines, as long as you buy the machine and prepare the materials, then the machine can automatically produce various forms of Qianlong Tongbao, if it is not old, the manufacturing speed is as fast as the production of jelly beans.
In order to grab high profits, the actual copper content of each Qianlong Tongbao is only 1 gram of copper, but because of the special process, coupled with the relatively high purity of copper in later generations, the so-called 1 gram of copper is pure copper, which is about equal to 1.5 grams of copper in the copper coin, so it feels full of weight, and it is no different from the real Qianlong Tongbao.
In order to make money, Zhang Xinda has long abandoned the personal limit of passing ten tons a day, at most five times, and two tons at a time, but implementing three tons at a time, seven times a day, that is, the amount of 21 tons a day.
According to Zhang Xinda, he felt that he was only slightly tired with this amount, and he also felt that if he used this extreme teleportation, he could continuously enhance his physique and increase the tonnage of teleportation.
In fact, what Li Yongji didn't tell him was that when Zhang Xinda increased the amount of transmission, Li Yongji also felt the loss of power, which shows that their previous estimate was wrong, that is to say, Zhang Xinda's transmission of goods may not only consume Zhang Xinda's own energy, but also consume Li Yongji, but Li Yongji consumes far less than Zhang Xinda.
When Zhang Xinda sent food over for the first time, the reason why Li Yongji felt tired was not because his own storage space consumed too many things, but because Zhang Xinda consumed too much, and Li Yongji's consumption feedback was also more obvious. In other words, even if Li Yongji immediately spit out the pile of things that Zhang Xinda had teleported over, including food, he would still be weak, because that weakness did not come from the consumption of storage space, but from Zhang Xinda's consumption.
If Li Yongji makes an analogy, then Li Yongji should be the server side of this space-time trading system, and Zhang Xinda is the client, when Zhang Xinda uses the space-time trading system, in addition to consuming his own strength, he also has to consume part of Li Yongji's power, a bit like playing online games, which not only occupies Zhang Xinda's stand-alone resources, but also occupies part of the resources of the game server.
So in the same way, since Zhang Xinda can strengthen his physique in the process of constantly increasing the trading volume, Li Yongji will only be stronger, and he feels that his recent strength has increased a lot compared to the past, especially the explosive power, which has reached the standard of ordinary adults.
On the contrary, Li Yongji found that if he teleported items in the past, he could already transmit more than 100 tons of items at a time, as for this kind of high-intensity teleportation can be maintained several times a day, because it has not been tested, it is not possible to determine, but according to the fatigue of 100 tons at a time, how can it be maintained more than five times a day, that is to say, he can give Zhang Xinda at least 500 tons of goods a day. It's just that because at present, there are mainly many goods transmitted from modern society, and there are few things he transmits to modern society (mainly precious goods such as jadeite and gold), so this matter is not obvious.
In addition, Li Yongji also discovered a new ability, that is, the teleportation tonnage of the space-time trading system can actually be accumulated! But this accumulation is only aimed at the client, that is, Zhang Xinda.
That is to say, Zhang Xinda can consume a certain amount of power every day, but he does not actually transmit things to the past, so as to accumulate them, and then transmit large-tonnage goods at one time.
Of course, the accumulation of this kind of energy is not a 100% utilization rate, there is a loss, the greater the tonnage of the items to be transmitted, the more times the cumulative consumption of its own energy, the greater the loss, and this accumulation is also limited, the limited tonnage is Li Yongji's own tonnage capacity.
For example, Li Yongji can currently bear about 100 tons of goods at a time, so if Zhang Xinda can transmit 3 tons at a time, he can accumulate 4 times of this transmission energy, and then use the accumulated amount of 4 times to send 100 tons of goods to the Qing Dynasty at one time.
This kind of cumulative transmission ability does not seem to be cost-effective, but it can allow Zhang Xinda to transmit large items, which is very practical.
This new situation similar to the upgrade of the system suddenly popped up in Li Yongji's mind after waking up one morning, and it seems to be related to the recent frequent use of the trading system, of course, it may also be the product of the hot head of the egg-hurting star who crossed Li Yongji, it is unknown how, anyway, there is such a thing.
Out of caution, Li Yongji didn't say anything about it, but just told Zhang Xinda about the fact that he could accumulate ten tonnage consumption and then send large-tonnage items at one time, and also taught him how to use it. But he didn't say that it was related to his tonnage capacity, nor did he say that his teleportation volume was far greater than that of the other party, and the consumption was far less than that of the other party, not to mention that the other party continued to consume and enhance his physique, in fact, it would also enhance his own physique.
Originally, Li Yongji was ready to respond to Zhang Xinda's questions, such as just discovering this function, but he didn't expect Zhang Xinda to even ask why did you say it now, so Li Yongji didn't say anything more.
In short, that's the way it is, even if he still trusts Zhang Xinda very much, it's impossible to tell him everything, it's actually for everyone's good, just like you and your parents can't talk about everything.
Having said that, since Zhang Xinda can now send 21 tons of goods a day, that is, he can send at least 21 tons of copper coins to the Qing Dynasty a day.
What is the concept of 21 tons? Converted into copper coins, calculated according to an average of 2.5 grams of copper coins, it is equivalent to that he can transmit 8.4 million copper coins a day, and since there are two styles, the actual amount is about 8.3 million.
Therefore, it is really trivial to only go out 6.85 million copper coins a day, and Li Yongji can actually keep a large amount of copper coins in stock every day.
It is precisely because of the large amount of copper coins in stock that Li Yongji has been a little careless about spending money recently, not only did he directly send 3,000 taels of silver to the magistrate, so that he could strengthen his support for himself and deal with the business difficulties of the official, but at the same time, he also sent Zhou Da and others to recruit the surrounding bankrupt farmers and the displaced people who fled the famine, and began to form a real team training team.
After doing all this, probably because of his impatience, or the desire for profit, or because his own strength became stronger and his self-confidence exploded, Li Yongji became more and more unscrupulous in doing things, especially when he treated those businessmen.
For example, Dai Mengde Jewelry Company, in the face of the boycott of the Jewelry Federation, his response is to continue to fight the price war, that is, to continue to increase the purchase price of jadeite, agate, white jade, diamonds and other valuables, which is already two percent higher than the original market purchase price!
This is still because Li Yongji doesn't want to force the Jewelry Industry Federation too much, otherwise, he can directly increase it to 30%, 40%, or even 50% or 60%, anyway, even if he increases it by one or two times, he will make more money. But when that time really comes, it doesn't take much, as long as the purchase price is raised to forty percent, then what industry federations, what boycotts, and what control supply channels are all bullshit, and no one can hold it in the face of absolute profits or power!
As for those peers who opened a bank, there is no movement for the time being, and they are probably waiting, after all, Li Yongji's behavior, to put it bluntly, they are also beneficiaries, and even those who come to Li Yongji's money bank to exchange huàn copper coins, most of them may be people arranged by them. You know, where is it possible for ordinary people to take out so much silver and gold at one time to exchange it.
They are so quiet in order to see how long Li Yongji can hold out and what it is for. After all, from a certain point of view, when there is no major change in the entire precious metal market, Li Yongji's unilateral move to collect gold and silver at a high price with copper coins is an act that is specifically beneficial to others and is not conducive to himself.
All in all, today, Li Yongji's smuggling channels in time and space are finally on the right track, and the people who circle money every day have become numb, not to mention Li Yongji, even Zhang Xinda can't figure out how much money they can make every day.
This made Li Yongji sigh in private, it's really not easy.