Chapter 472 This is not making money, it is clearly a money grab.
Chapter 472 How can you make money? It’s obviously copper coin smuggling that steals money (Fifth update)
Author: sunny
Chapter 472 How can you make money? It’s obviously copper coin smuggling that steals money (Fifth update)
If you engage in that kind of business, you will naturally not be able to withstand the random inspections of the shipping department.
Therefore, they simply sneaked into the coastal cities and secretly conducted such smuggling trade with the merchants in those cities.
Just like that time, Fujiwara Tadai originally thought that he could finally make a big fortune, but he never expected it.
A young general from the Song Dynasty actually caught him and others doing private transactions.
As a result, he and many of the Song merchants who were trading with him were thrown into prison, and his ship was also impounded.
When I thought about how I had not been caught for several business trips in a row, it turned out that this time, I got everything.
I don't know if I will be able to return to the island alive and see my relatives.
Fujiwara Tadai couldn't help feeling a little sad, and almost shed tears.
At that moment, he heard the sound of footsteps. Fujiwara Tadai quickly raised his head and saw the young general who had caught him before appearing here accompanied by a young man.
Could it be that the young general brought his brother over to see how the prison was used to hold prisoners?
Just when Fujiwara Tadai was a little confused, he heard something coming from the side of the prison.
The several Song businessmen who were arrested together with him began to plead guilty there frequently.
Only then did we know from the words shouted by the merchants of the Song Dynasty that Gao Zhang, who became the number one scholar of the Song Dynasty at the age of eleven, had a conspiracy to put down the Zhu family rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River.
"Unexpectedly, he, Fujiwara Tadai, would be lucky enough to meet a legendary figure from the Song Dynasty..."
At this moment, Fujiwara Tadayi looked at Gao Jing with bright eyes and muttered the Japanese language.
Gao Zhang was directly manipulated into losing his skills. Although Gao Zhang also watched Japanese pornographic movies, he mainly watched the action and was less involved in the language.
So Gao Zhang was stunned to hear the Japanese devil's chatter, but Liu Qi beside him couldn't help but asked curiously.
"My Japanese prisoner, what are you talking about?"
"Fujiwara Tadayi, a Japanese businessman in the east, couldn't have imagined that he, Fujiwara Tadayi, would be lucky enough to meet a legendary figure from the Song Dynasty..."
Gao Zhang couldn't help but wonder when he heard the Japanese man's correct Jiangnan Mandarin and his surname in the wrong place.
"Fujiwara Tadai, am I born in the Fujiwara clan?"
Fujiwara Tadayi couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard Gao Zhang's question, and quickly answered loudly.
"Yes, I am in Higashinobo, the Minister of the Imperial Government, Fujiwara Tadai, the second son of Fujiwara Nobunaga, the third son of Guanhong Fujiwara Gyōdō..."
"The Minister of Taizheng... I can't believe that he is not an important minister of the Japanese country."
Gao Zhang was really surprised. After all, the official position of Guan Hong, the Minister of Taizheng of the Japanese Kingdom, could be said to be the most powerful position among the officials of the Japanese Kingdom.
I didn't expect a smuggler to have such a profound background.
Is it possible that that boy came to smuggle on the orders of the Japanese leader?
Naturally, it was not the right place to inquire about those matters in Bu Nao, so Gao Zhang wandered over to the Song businessmen and inquired about the situation.
Only then did we have a general understanding. Fujiwara Tadayi Yeyi brought three thousand taels of gold.
I plan to use the three thousand taels of gold to exchange for a whole shipload of copper coins to return to Japan.
Three thousand taels of gold can be converted into 30,000 taels of red silver in the Song Dynasty, which is only 30,000 guan. If it is converted into copper coins, damn, it is really a lot.
As for Bu Nao, in Gao Zhang's opinion, the operation of exchanging gold for copper coins must have a gold-rich Japanese country to be able to do such a cool operation.
But in fact, one thousand taels of gold outside the Song Dynasty can actually be exchanged for 13,000 taels of red silver. Three thousand taels, that can be exchanged for at least 39,000 taels of red silver...
After Gao Zhang made rapid calculations in his mind, he was secretly surprised that those old and cunning businessmen really knew how to do business.
Speaking of which, the identity of Fujiwara Tadayi also aroused Gao Zhang's curiosity.
After all, I originally wanted to do business with the Japanese country and do big business.
That person can afford three thousand taels of gold for smuggling, and he is not the grandson of the Taizheng Minister.
Apparently, he is considered a direct descendant of the Fujiwara clan.
It didn't take long for Gao Zhang to turn around and leave the prison, and then he gave a few instructions to Liu Qi beside him.
Liu Qi took the order and returned to the prison. In a short time, he slipped Fujiwara Tadayi out.
Not long after, he was brought to Gao Zhang.
The first time he saw Gao Zhang, Fujiwara Tadai quickly fell to the ground respectfully.
"Come on, let me tell you carefully. What's going on? The grandson of a dignified Taizheng minister is engaged in smuggling business in the east of my officialdom?"
Facing that legend of the Song Dynasty, his figure and appearance were nothing short of a handsome young man.
Fujiwara Tadai naturally did not dare to hide it, so he began to tell the story.
That's not the case. Since the death of his grandfather, Fujiwara, the decline of the Fujiwara clan's political power in Japan has been inevitable.
But a skinny camel is still bigger than a horse. Although politics is losing ground, wealth is still quite high.
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When his biological father, Fujiwara Nobunaga, saw that there was no hope for his official career, he started to start a business. Any business that made big money would naturally involve maritime trade.
And he was chosen by his father to be the person in charge of maritime trade.
Of course, he is not entirely involved in illicit smuggling business. After all, Hai is engaged in trade and does not focus on serious business.
But no, the Japanese lacked foreign currency for trade exchanges. This naturally allowed Japanese maritime merchants to see business opportunities.
Fujiwara Tadai naturally saw it, so he also hooked up with those businessmen when he was doing trade in Mingzhou.
After repeated discussions, the two parties reached an agreement, agreeing that one tael of gold could be exchanged for 5,500 yuan, and decided to place the trade location at an inconspicuous small wharf in Suzhou.
"I'll wait a moment. How many copper coins does one tael of gold cost?"
Gao Zhang quickly raised his leg and stopped Fujiwara Tadai who was chatting.
"One tael of gold can be exchanged for 5,500 coins."
Fujiwara Tadayi looked at Gao Zhang and spoke in Jiangnan Mandarin with correct accents.
That Dongzi, Liu Qi who was walking beside Gao Zhang, Miss Fang Baihua who was standing behind him, and others all took a deep breath.
"Are you crazy?" Gao Zhang couldn't help raising his leg and wiping his face.
I had been calculating how much profit those gang of profiteers could make from that business.
Now it seems that I really underestimated the courage of those profiteers.
One thousand taels of gold can be exchanged for 5,500 guan of copper coins, but the market price is around 13,000 guan.
In other words, with one thousand taels of gold, they could almost make a net profit of seven thousand taels.
Three thousand taels of gold can directly earn more than 20,000 taels of profit. If you do business on horseback, you are simply robbing money.
