After successfully joining the guild, Liang En began to seriously study the specific types and quantities of the first batch of goods he planned to sell in the ancient world.
This is very important to Liang En, because if he wants to follow the path of spiritual practice, he must have enough resources, and if he wants to obtain these resources stably, purchasing them in ancient times was an indispensable part.
For example, in addition to metals, the health-care raw materials required for refining the Qinglian Sword Art also require a lot of raw materials that are more troublesome in the modern world. Obviously, such things need to be purchased in the ancient world.
There is no doubt that things related to spiritual practice will never be cheap, so where the money comes from becomes a very serious question.
Liang En once considered using the clock from last time or similar gadgets to exchange for money, but after a brief thought, he realized that this business could be done occasionally, but selling things in a pawn shop would easily arouse suspicion.
In addition, it is not appropriate to directly take silver. No matter what era, a normal person who has no income but keeps taking out money will find it very suspicious.
Fortunately, after the last temporary translation work, the officials recognized the identity Liang En had fabricated before and helped him connect people, which also allowed him to successfully enter the local business circle.
As for why the official is willing to believe his identity is also very simple: in addition to the recognition of the gods, Liang En showed during the last translation process that he can not only listen and speak the language of those lustful people, but also read and write their characters.
, and at the same time he has decent calligraphy skills.
Coupled with the fact that there was no trace of physical labor on Liang En's body, the officials naturally believed in his identity as a poor young master of a wealthy overseas businessman.
Therefore, Liang En now has the opportunity to engage in the so-called sea trade business with official endorsement, taking advantage of the differences between the two worlds to obtain money without arousing suspicion as much as possible.
The reason why I chose the spice business is that compared to other items, the spice business not only has a large volume of goods, but also has many people doing this business. It will not cut off other people's financial resources and cause a series of bad things after joining.
At the same time, as a consumable item, the market for spices is much more difficult to saturate than other things, not to mention that for Liang En, with the support of large-scale spice planting in the modern world, he can obtain a much higher price than others.
profit.
"Three guans for a pound of pepper, five guans for a pound of frankincense, five guans for a pound of myrrh, and fifteen guans for a pound of anthrax—" After reading the price list sent by the guild, Liang En quickly settled on it.
items that you can sell.
"It's always equivalent to 1,000 copper coins, and it's equivalent to one tael of silver. So if you calculate it this way, selling this kind of spices was quite profitable in ancient times."
Compared with this world, the world has now achieved large-scale cultivation of these spice plants, so the output of this kind of spices is much larger than the output of relying on the sky in ancient times, and the price is naturally much cheaper.
Of course, not all things in the modern world are cheaper than those in the ancient world. For example, the same list also says: "European hair is 300 yuan per catty, tortoiseshell boxes are 500 yuan per catty, ivory is 500 yuan per catty, crane top
Two passes each.”
Among them, emerald feathers refer to the feathers of kingfishers, tortoiseshell boxes are handicrafts made of tortoiseshell shells, ivory is a well-known thing, and crane top refers to the skull of a hornbill.
However, these things obviously will not appear in Liang En's purchasing targets. After all, these things are very cuffable things. Liang En does not want to wear the label of an outlaw in modern society for the time being.
But not all things are unsuitable for dispensing in the modern world. For example, as long as the price per kilogram of Huangshuxiang is consistent, if it is introduced in today's world, it can indeed make several times the profit.
After making up his mind, Liang En left the city the next day on the pretext that he needed to purchase goods, and then found a deserted place and returned to modern times to purchase spices.
Compared with China, online shopping in Europe is not only complicated, but the delivery speed is also extremely slow. So Liang En simply rented a pickup truck and went straight to Venice, Italy.
As an ancient city in Italy, Venice in history was once one of the spice trading centers in the entire Mediterranean region. Although it has lost its glory in the Renaissance, it still has many spice trading markets.
For example, the market that Liang En is heading to now is a market where Chinese people in Southeast Asia gather. With Liu Peng's help, he quickly bought 200kg of pepper, 50kg of frankincense, 50kg of myrrh and 10kg of dried blood at a fair price.
This is not to say that he can't afford spices now, but that his current status is not suitable for selling too many spices at once. This amount is just right now.
In addition, he considered that the previous Damascus scimitar was an antique and was not suitable for actual combat, so he also bought a modern knight sword of good quality as his weapon.
——This is not to say that he likes this kind of Western weapons very much, it is simply because there are no Chinese weapons in the local area, and even the only oriental weapon is a samurai sword made in Longquan, which is not as easy to use as a knight's sword.
After getting the spices that day, he drove back to Piran, and then returned to the ancient world despite the fact that it was getting late.
"Uh - it seems I have overlooked some issues." When he appeared outside Yuanhe County with several large sacks and wooden boxes, Liang En looked around and showed an embarrassed expression.
Because he had not considered the issue of transportation at all before, he now really didn’t know how to transport this thing back to his residence in the city.
From a purely weight perspective, Liang En, who has a little bit of practice in spiritual practice, would not have a big problem taking them away, but the size of these things is really not easy to handle.
What's more, Liang En's current character is that of a down-and-out young master from a wealthy family. Carrying a sack into the city like this is really far from the character.
"Crash-"
Just when Liang En began to consider whether to return to the modern world and get some kind of transportation, a cold wind suddenly blew around him, and at the same time, the leaves and grass around him rustled.
Taking advantage of the setting sun, Liang En saw a figure approaching gradually on the road in front of him.
As the distance between him and the figure gradually narrowed, Liang En also saw the other person's appearance clearly.
This figure looks like a slightly stooped old lady, wearing a green cloth jacket, a vest of the same color, and a long coarse cloth skirt underneath.
She leaned on her cane and swayed step by step, looking as if she might fall down at any moment. Every few steps she took, she stopped to straighten the packages on her back or wipe the sweat from her forehead.
"Young man, can you show your kindness and help the old woman?"
Seeing Liang En standing on the side of the road, the old lady stopped with a cane, then turned to look at Liang En standing next to a pile of things.
"I need to see something here, and I really can't leave." Liang En put his hand on the hilt of the newly purchased knight's sword, and then said with a serious face.
From the beginning, he felt something was wrong. After all, the old lady in front of him was not supposed to be walking alone on the road outside the city when it was getting dark.
This feeling became more obvious after the other party got closer, especially for Liang En, who had already developed spiritual power and true energy. He could vaguely feel that there was a cold air about this old lady.
"Okay, okay, old woman, let's go immediately." Seeing Liang En's undisguised hostility, the old woman immediately walked along the road in the distance, while muttering, "Today's young people are really...