I just want to make money

Chapter 132
"Thanks to the leader of 'Nirvana GG' for the reward, there is no manuscript saved, and we will start adding updates tomorrow."

Old Booth Manor.

Lin Yi came over for the second time.

There was no deal this time, and the two sides seemed more relaxed.

Old Booth invited Lin Yi to drink tea and said, "Mr. Jack, I heard that you want to do a bigger business. I wonder how much you can eat?"

Lin Yi put down his teacup, "Behind me, there is a big company with absolutely sufficient funds, tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars will be fine."

Lin Yi said bluntly.

"Then, does Mr. Jack plan to buy it from other places, and I promise it will be cheaper there?"

"where?"

"Mali."

Mali,

The full name is the Republic of Mali,
It is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordering Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mauritania and Senegal, and is the second largest country in West Africa.

Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world.

This is Lin Yi's understanding of Mali.

Moreover, he also knew that Mali also produced gold. In later generations, Africa's gold production ranked first in Ghana, second in South Africa, and third in Mali.

But now it is 2005, South Africa is still the largest gold-producing country, Ghana is second, Sudan is third, and Mali is not ranked yet.

"To tell the truth, Mr. Jack, I have a channel to buy gold in Mali. The Mali government announced a few years ago that anyone can mine gold. At first, I dug gold there with others and built a gold mine. Buy gold and sneak it to Johannesburg to sell."

"But you know, although Mali has lax management on gold mining, it has strict management on gold export, because they want to collect taxes to make money through gold export, and they are very strict on smuggling. I got it to South Africa for sale, and the transportation cost is as high as 2 become."

"If you have a channel and can get the gold from Mali by yourself, I am willing to help you buy it there. The price is 7% of the gold in the market."

smuggling,

The biggest key will always be shipping.

almost all costs,
All in transport.

The danger is also in the transport link.

And this,
It is not a problem for Lin Yi.

In fact, the government also collects gold, so why don't miners sell it to companies run by the government? The simplest reason is.

Price is low.

Formal companies need to make profits, purify and process, and pay taxes. The gold export tax is 20%. If you sell it to others, you must give the other party a certain profit margin. It is impossible to follow the international gold price, otherwise no one will buy you.

The international gold price is constant, and it cannot move. If you want to make money, you can only ask for profits inward and lower the price of gold farmers.

The black market can sell for [-]% of the gold price, while the government gold company buys it for only [-]% or even [-]% of the normal gold price.

[-]% to [-]% are still purchased from mining companies, and those ordinary scattered gold diggers may not even reach [-]% to [-]% of the price.

The price mentioned by Old Booth and Lin Yi must have already added his own profit, and he probably earned not much less than Lin Yi.

black market gold,

It is the interests of the exporting country that are harmed.

20% tax is a lot of money.

for this business,
Lin Yi was very interested.

Buying gold from the place of origin, paying in cash in US dollars, and selling the gold to the system, the profit is about 30%, which is simply too impressive.

And it's an infinite loop.

His funds can keep expanding and expanding.

"Mr. Booth, I'm very interested in this business. As for the transportation channel, I will clear it up. I wonder how much gold you can buy?" Lin Yi asked.

"I think one or two tons a year is not a big problem. You can also ask other gold merchants, but the price will increase a little." Old Booth said.

Lin Yi understands that middlemen earn the difference.

He is not against middlemen, as long as it is within a reasonable range.

"Are you hosting over there?" Lin Yi asked.

"No, I'm old, and I'm going to retire in Johannesburg. I've given Barcia the responsibility for the affairs there."

Barcia is the young man Lin Yi met at Old Booth last time. He is Old Booth's nephew and his successor. Last time he came here, he sent a batch of gold, just in time for Lin Yi and Lin Yi. They trade.

Old Booth gave Lin Yi Barcia's contact information, "If you arrive in Mali, you can call him and he will pick you up."

"He will also take care of the transaction."

After getting a way to make money, Lin Yi was in a very good mood. He bid farewell to Booth and returned to the company. Lin Yi called Tommy, Kent and Marty, and told them what he had chatted with Booth. Lin Yi said:

"I'm going to go to Mali to see, Tommy, Kent, you two will accompany me then, Marty, you can get another 300 kilograms of gold transaction slip, I will sell the gold, and the money will be transferred to the account. Then you can use the money to continue to register the company.”

The three nodded together.

Lin Yi set off for Dubai again, the same company as last time, this time the transaction was smoother, the weighing test, payment transfer, the whole process was completed in one go, and Lin Yi’s account had an extra 400 million, which was enough for Marty to register the company .

Back in Johannesburg, he set off for Mali with Tommy and Kent the next day. Before leaving, Lin Yi called Barcia, Booth's nephew. Obviously, Barcia had received his uncle's notice. He said he would pick them up at the airport.

The plane was small and broken.

Can only take more than 40 people.

The flying altitude is very low, and the cars and trees below can be seen clearly.

Trembling all the way.

Lin Yi was very afraid that he would plunge into it.

And it's slow,

After flying like this for five or six hours, we finally arrived at Mali Airport.

push the door down,

eyes full of desolation,
People got off the plane directly with their luggage, and the security check was extremely simple, just like getting out of a long-distance station. At the exit, Lin Yi saw Barcia.

Barcia is tall and strong. The last time I met Lin Yi and the others, this meeting felt much more cordial. I gave each of Lin Yi, Tommy and Kent a hug.

"Welcome to Mali."

The car is an old Mitsubishi Jeep. If this kind of car is placed in the United States, it is estimated that it will be thrown directly into the scrap yard, but here, it is one of the few luxury cars on the street.

The car drove into the city.

All you can see are low-rise buildings, red clay bungalows, and half-earth roads. The only taller building is the temple. This is Bamako, the capital of Mali, but in Lin Yi's eyes, it is not as prosperous as the eighth-tier small county in China.

perhaps,

This is the real Africa.

Johannesburg is just an illusion, after all, it is the city of gold, one of the most prosperous cities in Africa.

walked for a while,
Lin Yi said to Basilia, "Where is the biggest car trading market here?"

"Do you want to buy a new car or a used car?"

"Second-hand car."

Barcia directly took Lin Yi and the others there. The market was in a large open space. There were dozens of cars parked here. Old cars and off-road vehicles were old and shabby. Lin Yi took a fancy to an old off-road RV. It's thick and heavy, I don't know which rich man who traveled to Africa threw it here.

Lin Yi called the boss and went up to try it out. Based on his experience as a top driver, he felt that the overall performance of the car was not bad.

It can run bad roads and be used as a RV, which is very suitable for him.

night.

They stayed in a hotel in Barcia.

period,

Lin Yi spoke with Tommy, Kent and Barcia, and answered a phone call to go out alone. Barcia originally warned that it was not safe here, and wanted to follow, but Lin Yi refused.

The three of them watched Lin Yi leave in the RV.

After more than two hours, Lin Yi drove back and lay down to sleep without saying anything.

Departure the next day,
Lin Yi drove an off-road RV and asked Tommy and Kent to ride in Barcia's Mitsubishi jeep.

After driving for hundreds of kilometers, they came to another small town, which in Lin Yi's eyes was just a small town. Barcia stopped at the entrance of the supermarket and told Lin Yi and the others that the road was a bit far, and he wanted to buy some things by the way.

Lin Yi thought about it and got out of the car.

This small supermarket can't even keep up with the Chinese township-level supermarkets. No, the village supermarkets are bigger than him.

There is no basic industry or light industry here in South Africa, so there is a shortage of various materials. The various materials here are almost all, and most of them need to be imported, and imports require foreign exchange. For a country that relies on agriculture for 80.00%, where can it come from? foreign exchange.

Listening to the words of the residents here, Lin Yi found that he could not understand. He suddenly thought that if he wanted to make money here, he had better master the language here.

"System, buy French."

"System, buy Bambara."

The official language of Mali is French, which is caused by historical reasons. However, the locals have their own language called Bambara. Lin Yi bought two languages ​​at once and spent 400 million US dollars.

Now that the locals are communicating with each other, Lin Yi can hear them without any obstacles. Hearing them talk about their daily routines and secretly talking about these foreigners, Lin Yi finds it quite interesting.

But Lin Yi doesn't intend to let others know that he can speak the local dialect.

Demonstrated French at most.

This way, he might be able to hear a lot of things that he couldn't hear before.

Lin Yi bought 10 pieces of mineral water in the supermarket, and some other food and drink. I have to say that the price of these things is not cheap.

When moving things into the car, Tommy, Kent, and Barcia all found that there were many boxes piled up in the space behind the RV, covered with tarpaulin.

When buying a car, these things are definitely not there.

Barcia didn't know what it was, but Tommy and Kent had some guesses, and a thought flashed in their hearts.

organization.

Jack was out last night, sure fit for a joint.

After filling up at a roadside gas station, the team officially set off on the dirt road.

laterite road.

Smoke billows.

The car wobbled all the way.

No wonder this shitty Jeep is used, because a good car is a waste here.

The gold-producing land is about 2 kilometers away from the capital, deep in the wilderness. Most of the land in Mali is desert and desert, and the arable land is only [-]% of the country's land area. With such land, it is difficult for ordinary people to farm to support themselves.

As for industry, it is basically blank.

Because they couldn’t support themselves, the Mali government promulgated the policy of free gold mining, and the government is responsible for collecting gold. Now, one-fifth of Mali’s fiscal revenue comes from gold.

The car continued to drive forward, and on both sides of the road, you could occasionally see mining sites one by one. Barcia once told Lin Yi that almost everyone in the whole country is mining gold. From adults to children, there are countless gold mines.

The government can't count how many gold mines there are in the country.

at dusk,

I finally arrived at the gold mine in Barcia. The conditions here are very poor, there are only a dozen box-type houses, and such conditions are already the best in the vicinity.

There are several guards in the courtyard with AKs hanging around their necks.

Not far away, there are gold farmers panning for gold.

Lin Yi was not idle,

Curious to go over and see how they mine gold.

After seeing it, I can only say that it is too primitive. I dig the soil with a digging head, and then wash it in the river. After washing out the whole pot of soil, a little gold dregs are left in the end.

God favors Africans,

They were given fertile land and gold everywhere, but they were still struggling on the line of food and clothing and poverty.

at night,

Barcia entertained Lin Yi.

Roast whole lamb with beer.

While eating and talking about buying gold, Barcia had two proposals, one was that he buy gold and sell it to Lin Yi at a price of 7%, and the other was to help contact the surrounding mine owners and sell the gold to Lin Yi and the others. No matter how much the price is, he commissions 10%.

Lin Yi believes that no one is a fool. Since Barcia dared to say the second type, it means that the price is probably in this range.

As outsiders, Lin Yi and the others would probably need a long time to operate if they wanted to gain a firm foothold on African soil.

Lin Yi does business,

I like the pursuit of speed,

Don't like to pursue absolute profit margins.

Extrude those dots more.

It's far better to earn more in one more round.

"Barcia, I choose the first option. As long as it is the gold you bought or introduced, no matter how much the price is, I will give 7% of the price."

Hearing what Lin Yi said, Barcia was very happy.

Inside,
He earns 10% more than enough.

If Lin Yi and the others ask for a large amount, he can earn a lot of money. Of course, this money is not his own. His uncle still has a share, and he has to support a group of people. This is also a cost, but overall Said it would definitely make a lot of money.

"But there is one thing, if I find the source of gold to buy, it can't be counted as your commission." Lin Yi said.

"of course."

Barcia thinks it's reasonable, and he doesn't get any points if he doesn't participate.

at night,

Tommy and Kent lived in the board house, while Lin Yi lived in the car by himself.

The next day.

As soon as Lin Yi got up, Barcia came in with a few people and several canvas bags, each of which was heavy, and when opened, it was filled with small yellow golden cakes.

"There are about 68 kilograms here, and the purity is about 22K. You can measure it."

Tommy and Kent have also practiced their skills these days. They began to check and weigh, calculate the price, and finally reported the total amount to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi did the math.

The value of this batch of gold should be about 88.4 US dollars, and according to the 7% price, he only needs to pay Barcia 61.8 US dollars.

From this transaction alone, he earned 26 yuan.

This is only the selling price to the system. If it is used as money laundering funds, it will increase the profit by 20%.

Lin Yi was unambiguous, went back to the car and brought a canvas bag down, opened the canvas bag, and there were stacks of dollar bills inside.

Seeing the money, Tommy and Kent were 100% certain in their hearts that Jack must have connected with the organization yesterday, and the money was transported by the organization, because when they came out, they didn't bring any money with them.

With so much money, I can't get on the plane.

They have grown to admire the organization for bringing money to Mali so quickly.

As for the gold, Lin Yi took back the off-road RV. Of course, when they couldn't see it, they directly put it into the space.

In fact, there is no money in the car.

Those few boxes were just decorations, just to hide people's eyes and ears. He didn't need to press the money out. There was a system wallet, and he could withdraw cash at any time, and the amount could be controlled.

After earning money, Barcia paid more attention to buying and selling gold, and immediately said, "I'll contact those mine owners and ask them to send gold here."

"By the way, do you have enough money?" Barcia worried that Lin Yi would not be able to pay because too many people came.

Lin Yi smiled and said, "Don't worry, the last thing we need is dollars."

in the afternoon,

Barcia brought two gold sellers.

After asking, it was directly given in US dollars in cash. A small mine owner sold more than 60 kilograms, and a small mine owner sold more than 50 kilograms.

As for how Barcia divides the money, it's none of Lin Yi's business, but looking at Barcia's happy face, you can tell that he got his own share, Lin Yi doesn't care, anyway, he has earned his share.

evening,

3 more waves came.

A total of more than 120 kilograms were acquired.

at night,

More people came,

A total of 5 waves of people came, and Lin Yi bought more than 260 kilograms.

all day long,

Lin Yi actually bought up to 558 kilograms of gold. This is only one day, and the ancients said that "day's progress in fighting gold" is nothing more than that.

(End of this chapter)