Chapter 121: Cattle and Horses and People Are Difficult
The silver bars were neatly stacked in a corner of the storeroom, and Zhang Bai looked around again.
There were several grotesque machines in the center of the storeroom. There are also several boxes next to it, and in the perspective of these boxes are round silver coins, which are a little difficult to see what the silver coins look like, and look a bit like commemorative coins.
This may be a place to process commemorative silver coins, but it is difficult to say that there are such things as commemorative coins in previous lives, which are made of pure silver and have a high purity, and there are also silver alloys with very low content, and there are even silver-plated commemorative coins, and the price varies greatly. Zhang Bai thought about it for a while and felt that he should still take a look at it on the spot. So he and Mu Jing drove the zombies all the way into this building.
Mu Jing pointed out the growth of glowing mushrooms all the way, and soon the place also brightened. They walked to the door of the storehouse on the third basement floor, and saw that the door was made of pig iron, and there was a combination lock outside the door. Now that the power is off, this combination lock is estimated to be unable to open.
It's still the old way, fried with talismans. But after a few loud noises, Zhang Bai was surprised to find that this door was too strong, and the talisman was useless at all. When he was at a loss, Mu Jing pointed to a wall and said, "This is not pig iron, you can fry it here." ”
Zhang Bai once again felt that he had juvenile dementia.
"Boom", and soon a large hole opened in the wall. The two entered the warehouse, and Zhang Bai came to the silver bar.
The silver bars don't seem to be too much in the pig's sight, but now they feel like a lot when you look closely. He picked up one, looked at it carefully, and saw that there was a text engraved on it: "Investment silver bar AG99.9 500g", which means that Zhang Bai can understand it, that is, 500 grams of a piece, the content is 99.9%, counting, there are about more than 300 such silver bars. 500g is 500 grams, which is one catty, and it is converted into 16 taels in ancient times in the Central Plains, and 300 silver bars are 4,800 taels of silver, which is a lot.
He put one of the silver bars into the newly tattooed nine-story stupa, and when he moved his legs, he noticed that there was no sense of weight at all.
Then Zhang Bai moved the token engraved with the word "deficit" from the first floor of the pagoda to the top floor of the pagoda. With the help of Mu Jing, more than 300 silver bars were stacked on the first floor of the pagoda.
Once you've placed it, start researching the coin. This round silver coin is beautifully printed, with a panda painted on the front and the national emblem on the back. He watched it for a long time, but he didn't understand it at all. Commemorative coins are not for investment, and they are generally not sterling silver, so God knows what these commemorative coins have been adulterated, and he decided to leave most of them where they are before coming back to pick them up. I only took a few of them, and I was going to go to the market tomorrow for people to test.
It is estimated that these commemorative coins are being processed, and the big mushroom is coming.
This night, it was a huge harvest, even if the silver content of the commemorative coin was less, the silver content was certain. With the addition of four thousand eight hundred taels of silver bars of sterling silver, almost five thousand taels of silver are always available.
"Sister Mujing, you see the change we will go shopping tomorrow, now it's ready. Zhang Bai was triumphant.
"Great, I'm going to buy a lot of stuff tomorrow, you can take a shopping cart home!"
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The next day, at noon.
The Seleucian market is crowded, and in Zhang Bai's view, the degree of excitement is no less than that of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty in film and television dramas.
It's just that the Seleucian market is relatively small, but it's much better than the big Han at this time.
Of course, Zhang Bai would not listen to Mu Jing's bad idea, and made the shopping cart out of the dream, as soon as he arrived at the market, he found someone to rent an old cow, which can carry both camels and people, and it is definitely an artifact for shopping and sweeping. The old cow slowly walked through the market, and Mu Jing sat on the back of the cow, looking around curiously. She didn't wear Han clothes, but wore a long dress found from the magic capital, which caused the women to be surprised and pointed at along the way.
In Zhang Bai's opinion, how can I say this dress? Although it is a famous brand Mason Martin Margiela, the style is too conservative! Not to mention the tight wrapping, there is also a smock on the outside, isn't it hot? It's August here!
Accompanying them were Pasha and Solomon, who were also invited by Zhang Bai to go shopping together. Let them come to Zhang Bai naturally for other purposes. In fact, this time when I went shopping, it was a small matter to accompany Mu Jing, and what Zhang Bai wanted to see most was horses and cattle, the reason was very simple, selling cattle and horses was too profitable.
Horses are abundant in the West, and tall horses are produced everywhere in Central Asia, North Africa, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe. He had already inquired with Pasha, Chen Cao and other people with rich business experience that a stallion that could play in Parthia was about the same as the value of two taels of gold. When it is sold to India, it can increase tenfold and become twenty taels of gold a horse. According to Chen Cao, in the Central Plains at this time, a poor mare from Qinghai-Tibet that can only be transported costs 20 taels of gold, and the price of a horse that can compete is simply not capped, even the most ordinary stallion costs 50 taels and 1. Like the horses produced in Parthia, which belong to the top of the Western Regions, they are worth hundreds of gold abound.
The same is true for the sale of cattle, there is a Han Dynasty, cattle are not allowed to be sold, because the animal power at that time is an important part of agricultural production, "Later Han Shu Zhang Di Ji" that said: "More diseases than the year of cattle, the cultivation of land is reduced, the price of grain is quite expensive, and people are in exile." That is to say, in the Han Dynasty, there was a disease of cattle and many people died, and the arable land was reduced and the price of grain soared, and many people had to be displaced.
However, the profit of cattle trading is not as high as that of selling horses, so Zhang Bai only looked at the price in this regard and was not in a hurry to make a move. The most important thing today is to understand the channels of horse trafficking.
In this regard, both Pasha and Solomon were masters. Both of them are Armenians, and they didn't know each other before, but this time they found out at first sight that they were not only fellow countrymen, but also very talkative, and it didn't take long for them to become old friends. They had already made an appointment to go for a drink together after shopping.
Zhang Bai looked like a thirteen-year-old child, so naturally he couldn't join them, so he secretly sighed with some regret.
The route of the horse dealer has been roughly inquired, and several local horse dealers have been found.
In Parthia itself, the trade of horses was not too profitable, because Parthia and its surrounding countries all produced horses, so the trade of horses had to be won by quantity, otherwise it would be difficult to make a big profit. Routine trading is very frequent, because there are many occasions where horses are needed, and there are many small-scale horse dealers in the market.
Both Solomon and the Pasha knew some of these horse-dealers, so they contacted them separately and asked for the price.
In the recent market, there has been a slight reduction in the price of horses. Because the war was over, some poor soldiers bought horses before the war, and after the war, they had to sell their horses, so the number of horses in the market increased a lot, and the price of horses dropped.
Zhang Bai also gave Pasha a silver coin, which was the commemorative coin he got last night, and asked him to find a silversmith to check the silver content of the commemorative coin, and he only accompanied Mu Jing.