Time Smuggling Starting from the Year 2000

The security of Italian society before and after the Renaissance was very strange. On the one hand, there were grievances and grievances one after another in the fierce society (la:::|.i a large and domineering family with feudal customs), but on the other hand, the business behavior here was quite safe. Many people would travel around with a letter of credit of tens of thousands of gold coins or cash of thousands of gold coins with peace of mind, and others would not slack off because Huang Xuan had too few followers.

In fact, the development of a commercial city such as Venice, which was the commercial center of the world until the 16th century, would certainly be hindered if merchants were not guaranteed financial security.

In this city surrounded by water, the logistics is quite developed. There are many warehouses lined with canals. Each store has its own site, its own fleet, and even its own dock workers. In this city of only 100,000 people Here, the value created every year is the same as other places.

If it wasn't for the dilapidated buildings in foreign countries, Huang Xuan almost thought he was walking in the business district of Nanjing.

Joseph Medici is also a frequent visitor to Venice. He is sitting on a chair on the right deck, drinking coffee from central Italy leisurely. Mesero leaned forward and sat behind Huang Xuan. Compared with the Medici family, he was only a branch of the Pero family because of a transaction, so he had the opportunity to sit with Joseph Medici.

Huang Xuan sat next to Joseph.

The young Mr. Medici thought that since Huang Xuan was an Italian who could own hundreds of thousands of gold ducats. Then he can naturally sit on an equal footing with the Medici family. That's fair.

Huang Xuan didn't have the slightest intention of thanking Mr. Medici in front of him, and he wasn't even in the mood to compliment Joseph.

During the busy break, Huang Xuan naturally thought of the Space-Time Administration, a damn organization.

The three of them quietly came to the old warehouse area near St. Mark's Square.

Huang Xuan temporarily rented three warehouses here. Because it is far away from the place where the three of them were before. Li Shenggang didn't come here to look at the food. In this kind of food that involves 100,000 gold coins and :|. Managers are hard and don't try to be hands-on.

Xiao Huang got off the boat. After letting go of the two Italian gentlemen, he asked just now: "Nick, have Lu Min's things been delivered?"

"Shi Yu said that he has bought about 120 spices, mainly pepper and cardamom, because it takes a buffer period to buy from the trading floor..."

"Then put these spices in these two warehouses first, and put the food back in the plane channel. Pepe contributes"

"Great yellow master, frequent opening of the plane channel is a very resource-consuming thing. Judging from the current material energy in the plane channel. Every time you open it, you will waste about 100 yuan of electrical energy."

Huang Xuan snorted, and said, "Nick, do you want to be the most expensive doorman in history?"

"Oh, master, Nick's body should dance with your ambitions, if you want to own the most expensive hotel in history."

"Change the spice." Huang Xuan growled.

"Okay, if you don't want to continue this topic." Like a skilled student, Nick bargained after finishing his work: "Yellow master, just today, you smashed a Mercedes-Benz 600:

"People have to look forward." Huang Xuan said, and he also walked forward. The materials passing through the passage on the r plane have their own packaging methods, and the area occupied by spices is indeed not small.

After arriving at the nearest warehouse, after waiting for a few seconds, Huang Xuanfang asked the warehouse manager to open the door.

Tangy aroma.

Of course, this is for the Venetians.

From Huang Xuanwen's point of view, this place was like a playground where he could sneeze to his heart's content.

The Venetian would encounter valuables in one warehouse after another every day, just like the workers in a banknote printing factory, wondering without passion, no one seemed to come to this warehouse to load things yesterday? Should check the records.

Joseph and Mesero were extremely pleasantly surprised.

It's not that their concentration is not as good as others, but because the profits that these things can bring belong to them.

Joseph pretended to wipe his face, put away his happy expression, and asked in a serious manner: "Mr. Xhosa, can you introduce your spices in detail?"

"Half is pepper, half is cardamom, and all are Indian. There are about 10,000 pounds of spices in this warehouse." Huang Xuan shrugged. Knowing how much error Nick put in, after all, it is not necessary to control the precise energy consumption of the plane channel.

Mesero only took a moment to calculate the value of these spices, at least 52 gold ducats. It is more than the profit of Perot Company in two years.

The big Venetian merchants that people usually call, their assets should be more than 5 gold ducats, and a few people should have 100,000 gold ducats. Pepe's contribution For the latter, their annual turnover should also be around 100,000 gold ducats. As for the 500,000 gold ducats, this is already the total assets of many people. Some people will have so much money for a short time at some point, and it is only natural for a family to own 500,000 gold ducats for many years standing in the world

In terms of food equivalent, such a warehouse of spices is equivalent to an asset of 3,000 US dollars, while 120 spices are worth 104 gold ducats, which is 6,000 US dollars. Going back a hundred years, Comrade Shen Wansan in the Ming Dynasty sold off his assets, but that's not much.

Joseph naturally calculated the prices of these spices clearly. He and Mesero exchanged glances, but said: "The 130,000 pounds of spices will be divided among three companies. Although it is a lot, there are still some

Neither the Medici family nor the Perot firm could come up with coins in cash in a short period of time, just like Huang Xuan couldn't. But people from the three parties are not worried about the total amount of goods, because if it is exchanged goods, it is very profitable for Sanfang.

Venice is the distribution center of the world's commodities. When a certain material is scarce. Its sales speed will scare even the Federal Reserve.

Huang Xuan's mind turned. I understood Joseph's idea, 520,000 gold ducats and special spices. Raise the price to 600,000 King Duka

Yes, but if you only earn tens of thousands of gold coins, it would be too boring. When there is a problem, merchants will naturally try to expand the supply.

Huang Xuan chuckled, stared at Joseph and said, "Actually, I still have a warehouse now."

Joseph also felt a little embarrassed, half an hour ago. He was also a little contemptuous because Huang Xuan couldn't come up with money. At this moment, he carefully stuffed all the negative emotions into his trouser pocket.

Venice is definitely a city where there are milk and mothers. .

Mesero had to say at this time: "Mr. Medici, Mr. Xhosa, I think we should divide these spices between two families." If there are three families, the Medici and Sandro families will take three. 2/3 spices.

Perot's leather is worth 120 gold ducats alone. This is not the property of Perot's family, in other words. The Perrault family would not be able to make as much profit as the Medici family, and of course, the risk would be reduced accordingly.

Huang Xuan immediately nodded in agreement and said, "Then who will bid for the spices in this warehouse?"

"Me." The two fought again.

Huang Xuan pouted, and said, "Ivory and rhino horns are easier to transport, so the Medici family will come first, and Mr. Perot will wait a moment."

"Okay." Mesero is already satisfied to get half of it.

Huang Xuan clicked on the energy screen and said, "Mr. Medici, the elephant is 4800, the total value is carters, the rhinoceros is 4 pounds, 80,000 ducats, plus a fraction, a total of 43 gold ducats, that's right."

"Yes."

Huang Xuan pondered for a while, and said, "The grain being counted is 750 bushels in total, and every 6 ducats, so it should be 45 ducats. Including the 52 ducats of this batch of spices, there are a total of 970,000 ducats. Is there any problem?"

"Yes."

Huang Xuan took a breath, looked at the figures calculated by Nick, and said, "Not counting the deposit I gave you, you should pay for all the ivory and rhino horns now, plus then, you should also pay for 270 pounds of wool .I hope to be able to deliver by this evening."

"Bozo." Joseph shouted loudly, "Bozo, go and supply the items on the list, immediately."

It is almost noon now, and the Venetian merchants are very important to the accurate delivery time. In the words of today's people, it is hundreds of thousands per minute.

Huang Xuan nodded in satisfaction, then asked the warehouse keeper to close the door of the warehouse, and at the same time said to Joseph: "Actually, I should have one or two more boats of spices coming ashore tomorrow, if you need it, it should be in advance Prepare wool, after all, this is a bulk commodity, and some celebrity paintings, I mean artworks on wooden boards or drawing boards, can also be used as trading items."

"I understand." Joseph looked a little smug.

Huang Xuan shrugged, and walked to the warehouse on the other side with the warehouse manager, and said, "Mr. Perot, the same thing, the same price, are you going to pay with leather?"

"Of course." The tangy "scent" from the warehouses made Mesero Pero intoxicated.

"If possible, I would still like to include those ivory and rhino horns. There are about 2,000 of them?"

"As you wish." Mesero even put away his favorite bargain.

Huang Xuan also relaxed a little, and said, "Then, like Mr. Medici, if you still need more spices and food, then I hope to see more leather in the port area tomorrow."

"I'll store the leather in the nearby warehouse together." Mesero said quite eloquently.

"Well, then you check the products." Huang Xuan said and took two steps back. There are still three days left, and the process of a large transaction will definitely make any businessman collapse.

What supports them to do this tedious work is only the booster brought by money.

...

For three days and two nights, Huang Xuan never closed his eyes again.

The night wind in Venice is mixed with the smell of seafood. Hiding in the thick wooden deck, you can also feel the special humidity. The workers' chants have never stopped since the beginning. ; boats and sampans coming and going silted up most of the canal.

It wasn't just the Medici and Perot that got in on the action.

Due to the sound guild system in Venice, even the Medici family cannot really eat alone. At the same time, in order to reduce risks, the two sides coincidentally started extensive cooperation with their own allied chambers of commerce.

If you open the list of the world's richest people in history, you can hardly see the name of any Venetian merchant. But if the wealth of the major families in Venice is calculated, the accumulation of these families occupying the world's prosperous 300 is unmatched by any country or individual.

Huang Xuanqiang opened his eyes, watching the workers below who were busy counting the quantity, and there were at least seven or eight chamber of commerce representatives standing beside them.

The credit of the Merchant of Venice made them rarely do anything against business ethics during the transaction, and with Nick's help, Huang Xuan didn't need to worry about it.

The reason why he really can't rest is that he needs to find any reasonable or unreasonable excuse to load the exchanged materials into the plane channel.

Even if time did not allow the people here to have any special suspicions, Huang Xuan still couldn't blatantly stuff things into the plane passage in full view, and had to run around on the canal.

Even in order to make the transaction go more smoothly, he had to buy several merchant ships.

And Li Shenggang's work was naturally harder than Huang Xuan's.

He employs as many as 300 people to count the quantity and weight of ivory, leather and wool in each warehouse, answer questions from other merchants, and even value works of art. If it is not for Nick's help, these tasks may require him to do 6 months.

The Venetian merchants, represented by the two merchants, can afford 200 gold ducats in and out of supplies every day, and on the third day, Huang Xuan has already started buying wool - all the wool is sold out.

It was not Huang Xuan's supply that restricted the transaction speed, but Venetian's commodity inventory.

During the hard time fighting against the Sandman, Huang Xuan blissfully forgot about the threat of the Space-Time Administration. Maybe just for a moment. .