Destiny is ashes

Chapter 148: Huge Profits from Trade Between Two Worlds (43, thanks to Alliance Leader Lailailailailaiwadin!)
The operation of Anjing is actually very simple.

For the merchants from the East City outside Kanming City, they have welcomed a "little rich man" in recent days.

It’s not quite right to call him a rich man, but generally speaking, he is a big customer who spends money generously and hardly bargains.

A young man who looked about thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed elegantly and decently, and who was not sure which family he was from, was very interested in the many little gadgets they were selling for some reason. He went door to door along the street and basically bought all the goods from all the businesses on the street.

He was generous with his money. Except for those merchants who really asked for exorbitant prices on purpose, with whom he would shake his head and bargain, he would basically buy from them at the asking price. The silver he used was also very solid, real silver with almost no impurities.

According to the young master Chen Li who called himself "Xuan", he just admired the culture of Dachen, so he couldn't help but want to collect all the exquisite porcelain, interesting toys, elegant sachets, various calligraphy and paintings, and some rare items that could not be bought in Chen Li, and send them back to Chen Li's hometown for him to appreciate slowly.

This reason is actually not a problem. Dachen is indeed the overlord of Beixuanjizhou. All the small tribes and countries around him admire the king, or at least worship and respect the culture of Dachen.

Even among the northern barbarian tribes that had extremely tense relations with Dachen, the tents of some large tribal chiefs were filled with Dachen's poems, calligraphy and paintings, beauty sachets and ancient porcelain decorations.

Of course, Dachen’s most popular foreign trade commodities are actually the many spiritual weapons and magic armors - but these are strictly controlled by Dachen, and only Dachen’s allies can get these military supplies assistance.

In short, there are quite a lot of such people. The only novel thing is that the one who made the large-scale purchases this time is a teenager of about thirteen or fourteen years old.

Moreover, he didn't just buy those fancy little gadgets, he also bought some more practical, but also more puzzling things.

For example, animal bones and skins.

For example... medicinal herbs.

Medicinal materials are actually easy to deal with. After all, Dachen’s pharmacy can indeed cultivate some special herbs that cannot be found in the Chenli Mountains.

But animal bones and animal skins... weren’t they sold to Dachen by the Chenli people?
What's his intention in buying it back?

"He's stupid and has a lot of money."

This is what some outspoken merchants said, but he was immediately interrupted by the owner of the fur shop next door as soon as he opened his mouth: "What nonsense are you talking about? Young Master Xuan is a handsome man with a kind heart. He bought your goods and mine as well... I returned the favor by giving you a 30% discount, which is the cost price of the cost price. I definitely didn't let Young Master Xuan suffer any loss!"

"Go to hell, you can get out the old goods that have been in stock for several years, and you will make a lot of money at a 50% discount!"

"Ha, it's better than your recommendation of second-hand calligraphy and painting!"

In just two days, An Jing threw out more than a hundred taels of silver and gems from outside the Great Wall (artificial gems from the Tianyuan Realm) worth dozens of taels of silver, totaling nearly two hundred taels.

This is a considerable amount of money in Kanming City, because one tael of silver can buy more than six dou of grain, and two hundred taels of silver is more than one hundred and twenty shi of grain. If all this money is used to purchase food, it will be enough for a small tribe of about a hundred people to eat for half a year or even longer, which can save lives in years of disaster.

But such a large sum of money was spent by An Jing on a bunch of messy things, which is really enviable... and heartbreaking!

But in reality, did An Jing lose money?

of course not!

Indeed, the calligraphy and paintings, ceramic decorations, and seemingly exquisite handicrafts that An Jing bought were of no use to him, and even if they were sent to the Tianyuan Realm, there would be no market for them. However, An Jing's own costs were not high!

One hundred taels of silver plus artificial gems, the cost price is just twenty-five good merits - although gems are more cost-effective, they must be used with silver, otherwise the people of Dachen will not accept them, and they cannot be used too much, only spiritual gems have truly stable value.

In short, with twenty-five good deeds, even if you buy thunder beads, you can only buy less than two, which is not as valuable as the three that An Jing has left.

With a simple calculation, even if An Jing only used good deeds to buy cheap silver from the Tianyuan Realm, and then used the cheap silver to buy grain from Dachen, he could achieve a terrifying conversion rate of one hundred good deeds for three hundred stones of grain!

In the Tianyuan Realm, one good deed can only buy two kilograms of compressed canned meat, and one hundred good deeds, taking into account group purchase discounts, can only buy two to three hundred kilograms of canned meat - even if the advantages of water absorption and expansion, portable storage, etc. are taken into account, the most it can buy is two to three hundred kilograms of canned meat.

Even if the canned meat is well preserved and can last for twenty or thirty years, the difference can still be seen.

The price difference is about 20 to 30 times.

Not to mention, that stuff was a cover-up.

An Jing's real purpose is actually those cheap 'animal bones and skins' and 'medicinal materials'!
"The quality of these animal skins is quite good. Although they are not from fierce beasts, they all have fierce beast bloodlines and can be used as materials for talisman paper. According to Huo Qing, ten complete pieces can be worth twenty good merits, which basically makes back the cost price."

"And animal bones are the key to some potions, talismans, spiritual ink and elixirs. One pound of these 'frost wolf bones' is five good merits, but I can buy two pounds with one ounce of silver!"

"With two or three taels of silver, I can earn back the cost of one hundred taels of silver... What is this? A profit of dozens of times!"

Back at the inn, An Jing looked at the frost wolf bone in his hand, which was as cold as snow, and sighed: "Trading between the two worlds and making money from the price difference of resources is so terrifying!"

"Not to mention these medicinal herbs!"

Huo Qing was from Danlin Town in Fuchenyuan, which was originally the location of the herbal greenhouse area surrounding Xuanye City. He was very familiar with the purchase prices of various herbs.

Among the vast list of herbs to be purchased, there is one that is also available in Kanming City. It is a spiritual flower called "Youbaihua", which can be used to make the most commonly used "Qingling Talisman". The purchase price is thirty-eight good deeds per kilogram.

In Huaixu, the price of this spiritual flower is one tael of flower and three taels of silver.

Both sides are expensive.

But even so, if calculated based on the silver price in the Tianyuan Realm, the profit is nearly three times.

It sounds like the profit is much less than that from animal bones and skins, but An Jing values ​​this medicinal material more.

Because animal bones and animal skins are actually discounted, if you buy them at the price of fresh ones, you can only make about ten times the profit... and the purchase of animal bones and animal skins is limited. With An Jing's channels in the Tianyuan Realm, this batch is already the limit. If there are more, Huo Qing won't be able to resell them.

It's a one-time deal, no matter how much money you make, it won't last long.

But spiritual flowers and herbs are different!
For the pharmaceutical companies in Danlin Town, there is no limit on the quantity of these things they can purchase. They always buy as many as they can. It would be best if they can have a monopoly, as this is a long-term business.

(End of this chapter)