Water Margin people

Chapter 1410 Reselling

"Mr. Li, come and eat! This is a sheep shipped from the Arab world. It's the only one in Quanzhou!"

Pu Kaizong saw that Li Ying had not eaten, so he smiled and invited him to eat.

"No need, I'm not very hungry!"

Li Ying refused directly. He really couldn't accept the situation of sitting together and eating with their hands.

"You're welcome!"

Pu Kaizong looked at Li Ying and thought Li Ying was being polite.

"Let's talk business. You need a lot of gold and silver coins? You don't need to exchange them at a premium, right?"

Li Ying looked at Pu Kaizong and asked about the doubts in his heart. The value of the gold coin is gold, and its purchasing power is one or two taels of gold. Who would add 10% to the price to exchange it?

"This is not a secret! It's okay to tell Mr. Li!"

Pu Kaizong said with a smile, looking indifferent.

"The gold coins of Qi are as exquisite as works of art. Not only does the Arab Empire not have them, but even the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, which are even further away, do not have them."

Pu Kaizong spoke.

"So... you treat this as a craft? Not a coin?"

Li Ying didn't expect the result to be like this.

"Yes, I plan to take these gold and silver coins back to the Arab world and exchange them for gold and silver. The profit will be considerable!"

Pu Kaizong smiled and said that he was not worried that Li Ying would know about this dangerous road, because the people of Qi had no acquaintances in Daqin and could not do business at all.

"Reselling gold and silver coins?"

Li Ying looked at the gold and silver coins in his hand and was speechless. What a stupid behavior. Exchanging gold and silver for currency in this way would cause huge losses. No matter whether it was gold and silver or gold and silver coins, they would have to be exchanged for equivalent materials in the end.

"Mr. Li hit the nail on the head. I have collected all the gold and silver coins in Quanzhou, but the amount is still too small. Mr. Li is from Liangshan City. Do you have any way to exchange for more coins?"

Pu Kaizong looked at Li Ying and asked, this was the purpose of him inviting Li Ying to dinner.

"Coins are easy to deal with. I have some connections in Liangshan City. The imperial court is encouraging the issuance of new coins, so it won't be difficult to exchange them!"

Li Ying said.

"You really have connections, Mr. Li. I'll take as many gold and silver coins as you can get!"

Pu Kaizong spoke immediately.

"Puganban, let me make it clear first, a large amount of gold and silver coins must be exchanged with gold and silver, not goods!"

Li Ying looked at Pu Kaizong and said.

"Gold and silver exchange?"

The smile on Pu Kaizong's face froze. He was still thinking of exchanging goods. After all, the goods from the Arab world could also have a considerable premium when shipped to Qi. In this way, he could eat from both ends. But if he exchanged with gold and silver, the profit would be much less.

"Mr. Li, the goods from the Arab Empire are also good stuff. You can make a lot of money by transporting them to Liangshan City!"

Envoy Zhang Bo stood by and helped Pu Kaizong speak.

"Envoy Zhang, it's not that I don't want to do business. You also know that it's difficult to exchange a large amount of coins directly. The easiest way is to take the gold and silver to the government to exchange them."

Li Ying also talked about his own difficulties.

"This... seems to be the truth! Fine, I'll exchange it with gold and silver!"

After thinking for a long time, Pu Kaizong felt that Li Ying was right. It was almost impossible to exchange a large amount of money from the people. The assets of ordinary people were not worth a few gold coins. If they really wanted to exchange, they had to go to the government.

"Okay, I'll let you know later!"

Li Ying stood up and left.

"Envoy Zhang Bo, can this man get a large amount of fine coins?"

Pu Kaizong looked at Zhang Boshi and asked.

"It should be no problem. Li Tianzhou is very noble and has an extraordinary bearing. Dongping Prefecture is right next to Liangshan Lake. How can he do business there without any influence?"

Zhang Boshi said that he had lived in Quanzhou for a long time and didn't know much about the situation in the north, but things in the world were just like that. Qi had just unified the world, and those who had no connection with the Central Plains had long been cleared out. "Then I will go and prepare the gold and silver!"

Pu Kaizong said with a smile.

"Get ready, I have something to do and I'm leaving first!"

Zhang Boshi stood up and left.

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on the street.

"Master, do you really want to do business with them? Isn't it illegal to smuggle money?"

Du Xing looked at Li Ying and asked, he always felt that it was inappropriate to trade money with the barbarians in this way.

"It should be illegal! That's why I asked them to trade with gold and silver. As long as there is enough gold and silver, I think His Majesty won't blame them!"

Li Ying replied that he also thought of the smuggling crime, so he emphasized the need for gold and silver. Anyway, gold coins and silver coins are also made of gold and silver, so there should be no problem in exchanging them for more gold and silver. It is not enough to just mint them.

"Someone is following us!"

Wang Yin whispered, he noticed someone following him.

"Let's go back to the inn!"

Li Ying did not turn back to look for anyone. If his guess was correct, the people following him should be from the Maritime Customs.

That night, Pu Kaizong personally delivered the goods that Li Ying wanted to the inn. Li Ying was also straightforward and directly gave him a bag of gold coins.

"Mr. Li is really straightforward! I brought some gold and silver. How much more coins do you want?"

Pu Kaizong opened a small box, which was filled with glittering golden sand.

"Shakin?"

Li Ying frowned. Most of the gold in the Central Plains was cast into shapes, such as gold ingots, gold cakes, gold leaves, gold melon seeds, etc. There was very little gold sand for trading.

"I have lived in Champa for a long time. Where did this gold dust come from? These are good things!"

Pu Kaizong smiled and said that Champa is located in the South China Sea, but it is a must-pass place on the Maritime Silk Road.

Li Ying asked people to bring some plates, poured the gold sand in the box into them, and then examined them carefully.

"The quality of the gold sand is average, and its value can only be calculated at 80% of its weight!"

Li Ying checked it carefully before speaking.

"Look carefully, these are pure gold, much purer than the gold cakes you had in the Central Plains!"

Pu Kaizong was furious. Sand gold was natural gold, which could be shaped with just a little smelting.

"But it is far inferior to the gold coins of our Qi State. Why are the gold coins of our Qi State so shiny? The reason lies in the purity!"

Li Ying emphasized that Qi State’s current alchemy method was very advanced, which greatly increased the purity of gold, resulting in the dazzling gold coins.

"Okay, 80 percent, 80 percent. Let's weigh it!"

Pu Kaizong gritted his teeth and said, anyway, these gold dust were brought from Champa, Angkor, Srivijaya, Bagan and Malay. There are ignorant natives over there, and a piece of coarse cloth can be exchanged for some gold dust.

Li Ying immediately asked Du Xing to bring a scale to start weighing, then took out a box of shining gold coins and began to count them one by one.

"The gold sand is worth three hundred gold coins! Plus the goods for two hundred! This is five hundred gold coins, please count!"

Li Ying pushed the gold coin to Pu Kaizong.

"Haha, I look forward to the next transaction with Mr. Li!"

Pu Kaizong was overjoyed. He thought that if these gold coins were transported to Daqin, they could be exchanged for at least two thousand taels of gold. If this business could be expanded, he would become rich.

"I think there will be a deal soon!"

Li Ying smiled and said that Qi would not tolerate the chaos in Quanzhou.

In the next few days, Li Ying bought some specialty goods in the city and then left for the north.