"I know this may be difficult, but I still hope you can find a way to provide me with as much sugar as possible, oh, and this kind of chocolate! Half of this gold is my thank you gift to you, and the other
Half of it is considered as a deposit. I don’t care about the actual price of the sugar you buy, but I will buy it at a price of 5 ounces per pound, how about it?" Daenerys said solemnly.
After all, she is a queen-like figure. Although she is still young, she has already experienced many hardships, not some ignorant little flower.
Daenerys is very aware of the importance of sugar.
If powerful firearms can help her conquer the enemy with force, then sugar is the guarantee of her army's combat effectiveness and an important material to win over her allies.
When she returns to Westeros, if she wants to win over a certain lord or noble, sending an equal weight of sugar will definitely be a hundred times better than giving an equal weight of gold.
As for the price of 5 ounces/pound, it is also a number calculated by Daenerys based on the crude sugar cubes in her world.
There is no doubt that white sugar of this quality is definitely low based on the price of inferior sugar in Westeros.
But what Daenerys can also guess is that the price of sugar in Josie's world may not be cheap, but it is definitely not as high as in Westeros.
This was not an unfounded guess, but a conclusion she drew based on the firearms that Josie had sold her before.
Why? Because of metal!
During World War II, the industrial level of the earth had reached a very advanced level. The steel produced was naturally incomparable with the special steel of later generations, but compared with the Middle Ages, it was simply heaven and earth.
When Josie first recommended firearms to Daenerys, she was only interested in their power.
But after getting the actual gun, she was interested not only in the gun itself, but also in the metal used to make the gun and bullets.
When she first traded with Josie and got the .38, Daenerys had already tested it. The best weapons used by her warriors could only barely leave tiny marks on the gun.
scratches without causing any damage to it.
After careful observation, it was discovered that the so-called scratches were actually scratches on an unknown coating on the outside of the gun body... This gun was nickel-plated.
Such a powerful steel can be said to be no less powerful than the legendary Valyrian steel.
In Westeros, steel of this level is several times more expensive than gold.
Even like the Yitian Sword and Dragon Slaying Sword in martial arts novels, they cannot be bought with money at all.
And how much does a 38 point weigh? More than one kilogram.
Even if the non-metallic part is removed and converted into imperial unit ounces, it will not be less than 30 ounces.
The price that Josie sold her, plus a copy of The Prince, was only 10 ounces of gold.
Not to mention the later M1917 rifle, which weighed a total of 8 kilograms. Excluding the wooden handle, it was no less than two kilograms. It also came with a hundred rounds of ammunition.
And whether it is .38 or M1917 bullets, they are all made of fine copper.
So even though the price has tripled, Daenerys is not losing money at all.
Even if one day Josie stops selling her bullets, these guns will not become what Josie thinks are fire sticks. Daenerys can make up for all the losses simply by recycling the steel and the shells left by the bullets.
You can also make a lot of money.
And there is no situation where the recycled steel cannot be used.
It is true that steelmaking requires high productivity, but if it is just recasting, the difficulty is much lower.
Just like Valyrian steel, it cannot be forged by Westerosians, but it is not difficult to reforge weapons just made by Valyria.
So Qiao Xi always thought he was getting a big advantage.
But in fact he is only in the third layer, and Daenerys has already reached the atmosphere.
This is one of the greatest benefits of plane trading.
Now, Daenerys is also taking advantage of this information gap to give her own estimated sugar price.
Faced with the offer given by Daenerys, Josie was undoubtedly moved.
Is white sugar expensive? At $2 a pound, it is certainly expensive.
And if you want to trade in large quantities, it is simply impossible at this price because it is difficult to get ration coupons.
So I can only buy it on the black market.
The price of sugar on the black market is at least five dollars a pound.
However, this price is still extremely cheap compared to Daenerys' price of 5 ounces of gold (80% purity), which is US$250 per pound.
That's a full 50 times profit. The M1917 rifle he sold before only barely made 25 times the profit.
This business is worth doing!
"I can try my best, but I can't guarantee the quantity." Qiao Xi thought about it and immediately agreed, but he didn't dare to say too much. After all, it is the most strictly controlled material.
"It doesn't matter, just try your best." Daenerys also knew that this matter was not that easy.
After talking about what they wanted to talk about, the two said goodbye and ended the communication.
After ending the communication, Qiao Xi looked at the one hundred gold bars in the system warehouse, and felt excited again.
Although I have seen gold every day these days, the wealth gained from each transaction is more than the last time.
This feeling is wonderful.
That is to say, they are all gold. If they were converted into US dollars, Qiao Xi would take one out and pretend to be cool like Brother Ma by lighting cigarettes.
Of course, this also means thinking about it. First of all, Qiao Xi does not smoke. On the other hand, although Xiao Ma is cool about using money to light cigarettes, people are printing counterfeit money, and the money he uses to light cigarettes is also counterfeit money.
Soon, the night passed.
The next day, Josie woke up very late and plans changed again.
Originally this morning, he planned to go to various gun stores and buy more guns. After all, his original money would not be much left after paying the house payment, and he would not be able to stock up. So he planned to buy some guns in the morning, and then go with Dan
Nelis made an appointment to make a deal at noon.
But because of the sugar thing, he got a thousand ounces of gold out of thin air, so he didn't need to be so anxious.
What? Half of this is the deposit?
Are you kidding me, you have put it in Qiao Xi’s pocket, and you still want him to return it? It’s just less than a hundred pounds of sugar, and he still has to collect it even if he buys it all on the black market!
I casually ate some bread and milk from the stock to pad my stomach, and then started to pack my things.
There were not many things to pack, because most of the more important things had already been stored in the system warehouse by Qiao Xi, so he just randomly put some clothes into the box.
What's more, he specially prepared an exquisite small wooden box and put fifty gold bars in it.