From the Island Owner to the King

Chen Rui stood up and asked the sandalwood merchant, ""

This is the Phoenician language and means to ask the sandalwood dealer what the price of the wood is.

This is what Chen Ruigang learned.

After practising the Immortal Cultivation Technique, Chen Rui's brain is very flexible, and he learns languages ​​very quickly.

When the sandalwood merchant saw the business, he said with a smile, ""

Means, 20 gold matt 60 silver pesos one mina.

Here, 1 mina of common wood can be bought for a few silver pesos.

Sandalwood is 20 gold mates and 60 silver pesos per mina, which is a very valuable wood.

Chen Rui knew that one mina was the volume measurement unit of the Phoenicians.

One mina is about 4 square meters.

Chen Rui said, "I need a lot, 20 gold mates a mina."

"The price is negotiable, how much you need." said the sandalwood incense merchant.

"How much do you have, how much do I need." Chen Rui said.

"20 gold matt, yes, the deal." The sandalwood businessman laughed until his mouth cracked, "Dear guest, please come with me."

This big business allows him to earn more than 200 gold mats.

You must know that Aster, a small nobleman, owns a farm, a manor, a forest, a lake, a sugar plantation, and a grain shop, and his annual income is only 120 gold mates.

One gold matt is equivalent to a few months' income of an ordinary household.

Chen Rui followed the sandalwood merchant to a warehouse next to the trading market.

The sandalwood merchant opens the warehouse door with the key.

A strong smell of sandalwood came to the nostrils, and the smell was very mellow, which made Chen Rui feel refreshed.

"Honorable guests, it's all here," Sandalwood said. "A total of 55 mina, you need to pay me 1100 gold mats, all these wood are yours."

Chen Rui did not answer.

I walked into the warehouse and took a look, and the sandalwood is fine. All are premium sandalwood.

I made a rough estimate with my eyes again, 55 mina, which is equivalent to 220 square meters, and the wood here is about this value.

In fact, Chen Rui didn't need to worry about these issues at all.

Phoenician commerce was very developed and attached great importance to commerce. The Phoenicians attach great importance to business ethics and reputation. Almost every businessman in Phoenicia has imprinted business reputation and business ethics into their bones since they started doing business. I never thought that I would use fake or low-quality things to deceive others.

There is no concept of profiteers at all.

Even if the character is very inferior, the businessman who wants to write a bastard on his forehead will never violate business ethics and business reputation.

Sandalwood incense merchants say that all the wood here is sandalwood, and they will never mix some ordinary wood with sandalwood to deceive others.

The sandalwood merchant said 55 mina, that is, 55 mina, only extra. Not less, not even 1 mina less.

Seeing that it was no problem, Chen Rui nodded. Said to the sandalwood merchant, "Deal, you are responsible for helping me transport it."

"No problem," the sandalwood merchant said cheerfully.

"Can I pay with gold?" Chen Rui asked.

Buying this batch of sandalwood requires 1,100 gold mates. Chen Rui doesn't have that many gold coins, but there are hundreds of tons of gold in the pregnant sea pearl space. All cast into 12.5kg gold nuggets without any markings as well as 100g, 300g. Gold bars ranging from 500 grams.

"Of course no problem," said the sandalwood merchant. "You need to pay 1,320 lire in gold."

Chen Rui knew. The lira was an important unit of the Phoenicians.

One lira is roughly equivalent to 32 grams.

A gold matt coin weighs about 1.2 lire.

In this way, Chen Rui needs to pay 1320*32, 42240 grams of gold.

More than 42 kilograms of gold to buy 220 square meters of top-quality sandalwood is almost the price of cabbage.

The current price of gold is 235 yuan per gram.

42240 grams * 235 = 9926400, less than 10 million yuan.

10 million RMB can only buy a table and 4 chairs at the current price of the best red sandalwood.

But here, you can buy 220 squares of the best sandalwood.

How much is 220 square, a simple analogy.

A truck carrying lumber has a weight of 45 tons and an estimated volume of about 40 cubic meters. When it is loaded beyond the carriage, the estimated volume is about 50 cubic meters.

220 square meters is equal to 5 trucks of top-quality sandalwood. I don’t know how many tables and chairs these wood can make, and how much they sell for. It’s a huge profit on earth.

After the two agreed to make a deal.

Chen Rui went to rent a warehouse first.

Then, I took three gold bricks and a few gold bars from the Pregnant Sea Pearl space, and gathered more than 42 kilograms of gold, and wrapped it in cloth.

Then go to the market and find the sandalwood trader.

Sandalwood merchants found dozens of porters.

He made more than 200 gold mates for this big business, and he didn't care that the wages of dozens of porters were less than 20 silver pesos.

The sandalwood merchant ordered the porters to move the sandalwood in the warehouse to the warehouse designated by Chen Rui.

Chen Rui chatted with the sandalwood merchant.

The sandalwood trader is called Akso, a timber trader, mainly dealing in precious timber. Compared with ordinary timber, the profit is less than 5 gold mates when it is shipped from the timber producing area to the city. The profit is about the same, and like this time, when I met a big customer like Chen Rui, the profit exceeded 200 gold mates at one time.

Chen Rui said to Akso, "In the future, once every six months, the price of sandalwood, including other precious wood, will be based on the current value."

Hearing this, Akso's mouth crooked, "Okay, no problem."

It is rare to meet a big high-roller, and he has considered desperately buying sandalwood from the downstream timber merchants.

Sandalwood is very difficult to become a material, and it cannot be used for hundreds of years. In addition, the wood of sandalwood is hard, heavy, fine and floating in texture, deep in color, and has a mellow sandalwood smell, which makes people refreshed and refreshed. sought after by money merchants, no matter on earth or here, sandalwood is very scarce.

Here, sandalwood is also very rare. Now only three jungles have sandalwood. In the deep mountains and old forests, it is very difficult to transport them out of the deep mountains and old forests.

This is also the reason why the price of ordinary wood is only a few silver pesos per mira, while the price of sandalwood is 20 gold mates and 60 silver pesos per mira.

20 gold matt 60 silver pesos one mila, only the big nobles and wealthy big businessmen can afford it.

After moving.

Chen Rui gave the gold to Akso. (To be continued)