Chapter 6: Scarcity is precious, and stupidity is blessed
At this time, they were too lazy to guess Li Nan's identity, anyway, he would definitely not be a pretending noble, and he would definitely be a dignitary, otherwise he would not have been able to get that silver.
And the silver ingot, both in workmanship and purity, was something they had never seen before. The inscription on it is obviously not a special family emblem, but a pattern representing blessings. All this shows that the strangely dressed young man opposite is indeed not lying.
"So, how much silver do I have to exchange to be able to buy a house?" As a teenager who witnessed the skyrocketing housing prices, the first thing that came to mind was not how to make a fortune through the transactions between the two sides, but to ask about the housing prices here.
"It should be enough for a dozen jade coins!" Ji Ru has not personally bought a house, so he can only roughly estimate it.
"How many jade coins can be exchanged for that side of the white jade?" What can Li Nan do?
"It's normal that you don't know, let alone you, I'm often messed up!" Li Nan asked this question, but they didn't think it was strange, because they didn't know it very well.
After that, Ji Ran took advantage of the fact that the carriage was still rushing to the city and gave him a detailed explanation of the various currencies here and the exchange ratio of the currency.
After listening, Li Nan only felt that his brain was really not enough!
What the hell is this monetary policy, it's really amazing that there is no chaos in this country so far.
In Ji Ran's short description, no less than thirty different currencies appeared.
There are three main currencies in circulation, one is copper, one is gold, and one is jade. In addition to copper coins and gold coins are almost the same, jade coins are also divided into positive coins and bad coins, and positive coins and bad coins can also be subdivided into yang jade coins and yin jade coins.
The most difficult part is that the positive coins in the jade coins are very easy to understand, and the value of the soft and hard jade coins divided by yin and yang is basically stable, so there is nothing difficult to understand.
But the bad coins are different, Ji Ran, a local, can't say how many different jade bad coins there are, the good bad coins may be much more expensive than the gold coins, and the bad bad coins may even be inferior to the gold coins. These all depend on the specific situation of the jade made into this bad coin.
It can be said that the businessmen here can not even understand arithmetic, but they must not understand jade, and they must not know how to distinguish the quality of jade, if you can't even tell the quality of jade, then you have no way to trade at all.
The main reason for this situation is that there is no way to find a general equivalent that can replace jade as currency and be accepted by everyone.
So it can only maintain the current very cumbersome state, but as time goes by, everyone has even become accustomed to it.
The exchange ratio between positive coins, except for copper coins and gold coins, which are one to one, are all one to ten, and one side of white jade can be exchanged for one hundred white jade coins. Just through this exchange ratio, Li Nan can also see the number of gold and jade mines here.
Even if he is ignorant, Li Nan knows that this is simply a paradise for trading, just get some silver and exchange it for some white jade, that is, hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of times the profit.
However, Li Nan is not very excited now, and his understanding of jade is only expensive, as for how expensive it is, he does not have a very clear understanding, because their family has no habit of wearing jade at all. Usually, the jade sold in the town is basically cheap jade, how can a product that is not even clear about whether it is true or not be sold at a high price?
What he thought in his mind was that the white jade of the thirteen squares could be exchanged for one hundred and thirty squares of gold, how much was the gold of one hundred and thirty squares?
Li Nan, who was eager to know how big the gold was, was about to die when he looked at the speed of the carriage. But no matter how anxious it was, the carriage continued to move slowly at a steady pace.
It wasn't until it was already a little dark that the carriage slowly entered the city.
With the help of the two of them, Li Nan quickly redeemed a silver ingot from a money bank owned by their Ji family. A total of ten square white jade and thirty square gold were exchanged, and it was not until he got these things that Li Nan was relieved.
Although it was a little worse than I expected, I was already very satisfied, I originally thought that the side here meant one cubic meter, who knew that the side here was only as big as a cubic decimeter in his own world.
Li Nan looked at the gold and white jade in front of him, and his happiness was overflowing, at this time he didn't hate the golden and gaudy appearance of gold at all.
But with this little gold, Li Nan found that he couldn't move it at all.
Ji Ran watched Li Nan clumsily trying to move the gold, and said with a smile: "Don't look at these thirty squares, this is more than 10,000 taels, even if there is a car, it may not be able to push it." ”
After hearing this, Li Nan gasped, more than 10,000 taels is more than half a ton! Comparing the current price of gold, he suddenly felt that his harvest was more than great! It was simply beyond imagination!
At this time, Li Nan also gave up hugging the gold, just kidding, can he hold more than a thousand catties of things?
"Why don't you live with me today, otherwise it's not safe for you to bring so many things, I'll take the time to help you see if there are any houses for sale tomorrow, or you can go out yourself to see if there are any houses for sale, and then move out?" Ji Ran suggested.
As a person who is used to doing business, he is not so kind in ordinary times, but he does have some value to see Li Nan, and maybe he can get better things from him in the future, so he treats him so kindly.
Of course, the most important point is also because he thinks Li Nan is a nobleman. If it was an ordinary civilian, holding silver ore in his hand, he wouldn't have said so much at all, just grab it.
Li Nan really couldn't find any reason to refuse at this time, and he really didn't know anything about this side, so he could only go home with him.
Entering through the side door of Ji's house, he was invited to stay in the guest room, and along the way, Li Nan never forgot to bring his things, especially the kitchen knife.
After settling in the courtyard, Li Nan looked up at the sun that was about to sink, only to realize that it was not early.
The last time he came here unexpectedly, he had already found that there should be no time difference between this side and his own world, and even if there was a time difference, the time difference should not be large. So if it's been so long here, then it's been so long on my side.