money player

Chapter 31 Gold is so beautiful
The next day, the three returned to London without any incident.

There was no time to rest, so I rushed directly to the Financial City. First I went to Barclays Bank to handle a transfer of 35 pounds, then I went to Standard Chartered and Citigroup, each depositing 5 pounds, and finally I went to Lloyds Bank to handle a total transfer of 5.6 million pounds. He opened a safe deposit box and deposited 5.5 pounds of cashier's checks in various denominations in the bank.

As a result, Xian Yaowen had more than 1500 pounds left to spend, and several bank cashier's checks with a total face value of 1000 pounds.

A busy morning, a perfect ending to an operation.

Xian Yaowen's tense nerves relaxed a little, and a deep fatigue swept over his body. He could only put aside the arrangement of having a private conversation with Chanchang Fei next, and booked a room in the nearest hotel in the Financial City.

The most solid sleep since time travel, just five hours of deep sleep, Xian Yaowen returned to life.

I found a Lancashire hot pot restaurant and asked the waiter to ask the cook to add more water to make the nominal hot pot more like a hot pot. Except for Xian Yaowen himself, the others were not used to the taste of Western food, especially British-style Western food. They had not had a decent meal in the past few days.

Xian Yaowen ordered himself a haggis, a famous Scottish dish. If we use the logic of naming dishes in Chinese food, the most appropriate name should be sheep tripe buns. It is similar to tripe chicken, that is, the lamb tripe is hollowed out. , stuffed with chopped haggis and accessories and cooked for several hours.

After the food was served, he ate quickly. After he was five minutes full, Xian Yaowen took a sip of red wine and said lightly: "When I was still in the mainland, I went through the golden yuan coupon period, and also used silver yuan coupons. The golden yuan coupons... It was quite valuable when it was first distributed. At that time, the captain of the Yaowu Gang and I did a private job. The captain promised to give us two 5 gold yuan coupons in half a year. That’s a lot of gold. If you exchange it for a small yellow croaker, you can get it. More than a hundred.

At that time, I guessed that the gold yuan certificate would depreciate in value, but I did not expect that it would depreciate so much. When the promise was fulfilled, it would only be enough to buy a handful of rice.

After the gold yuan coupons stopped working, I began to spend time studying the problem of this banknote, trying to thoroughly understand why this banknote became less and less valuable. Not to mention, my research really made some sense. "

Xian Yaowu muttered in his heart: "How come I didn't know such a thing happened?"

Xian Yaowen didn't care what Xian Yaowu thought, he knew that Xian Yaowu would not tear him down.

"The value of banknotes is linked to political stability and economic development. There is a very complex linkage between them. Generally speaking, no matter which country's banknotes they are, they will slowly depreciate. Hong Kong tea restaurants now sell them for 2 to 30 cents each. The dim sum will probably sell for more than ten yuan a piece in ten or twenty years.

Money must be used to make money, not put in a jar and buried underground and spent slowly. "

Xian Yaowen clinked glasses with Chuan Fei, and then said: "50 pounds is 800 million Hong Kong dollars, and two achievements are 160 million. My most cost-effective distribution plan is that you get half of 160 million, which is 80, pig nostrils and old vinegar 25 yuan per person, they have worked hard along the way, 15 yuan per person for sesame biscuits and noodles, they are all brothers who eat from the same trough, and they should share some points if they have not contributed. "

Zhuang Fei said: "Did I take too much?"

"Not much. As I told you last time, they will sell their lives to me for up to three years. As long as they are still alive, they can leave or stay as they wish. You are different. You have a lifelong tenure. As long as you don't die, You have to work until the day you can no longer survive. I will take care of you for the rest of your life, and I will also take care of your sons and grandsons. As long as I don't fail, your family will continue to prosper."

Hearing this, Zhuang Fei nodded.

"After returning to Hong Kong, I will set up a trading company belonging to the Armadillo Team as soon as possible. I will hold 50% of the shares, you will take 20%, and a few others who will join later will share the remaining 30%. The first transaction to be made It's about smuggling gold. We have too few people now and we need to expand. You can find it from the remaining soldiers first. After the New Year, I will take you to Nepal and find a group of people from there."

Zhuang Fei nodded again. "Okay, that's all. Let's eat. After that, I'll take you to a good place."

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After eating, Xian Yaowen took Xian Yaowu and the two of them to Greece Street, and entered a store that they liked last time. The main thing is sincerity, no fancy things, and they can just open meat.

Acting as a fat translator, he helped the two of them choose their favorite ingredients, then went upstairs to start cooking. He hugged the orioles and swallows on the first floor, but he sat calmly and pondered about gold. Smuggling business.

The Bretton Woods system established an international monetary system centered on the U.S. dollar, which also gave rise to the name "U.S. dollar." The current international gold price is a constant 35 U.S. dollars equal to one ounce, or 1.125 U.S. dollars/gram. The gold price in Hong Kong is 720 Hong Kong dollars ÷ 37.5 grams ÷ 5.7 exchange rate = 3.368 US dollars / gram, there is a price difference of 2.243 US dollars.

This price difference can only be used as a data reference and has no practical significance. 720 Hong Kong dollars per tael is the price for gold shops to ship out. Naturally, when selling gold to gold shops, you must leave enough profit margin for the other party, which is at least higher than the profit from re-exporting smuggling from Macau. It must be 15% higher, otherwise the other party has no need to do business with you.

Xian Yaowen made a rough estimate. After excluding transportation, customs clearance and other costs, Jinji Trading Company had a gross profit of about 0.45-0.6 US dollars per gram. He originally told Zhou Yutong that the profit would be about 2000 US dollars for a transaction of at least 4 taels.

2000 taels is only 75 kilograms. The size of gold is so small that you can take it directly back to Hong Kong by plane. If you do it accidentally, there won’t be much risk. The first transaction can be completed easily, and you will save a lot of customs clearance costs and profit. It can almost double.

This transaction seems easy and the profit seems to be very generous, but Xian Yaowen is not too satisfied. He knows that the high profit of this transaction cannot last long. It can maintain a slow decline for a year at most, and then a rapid decline until the transaction dies.

Xian Yaowen's earliest positioning of the gold business was divided into two parts:
The first is a stepping stone to the smuggling business. He started with gold, which is small in size and has high profits, and slowly explored the secrets of smuggling. After half a year, he expanded to other large-ticket commodities.

The second is to closely follow the word gold. What we do is gold trading, buy more, mine more and sell less, in order to achieve the purpose of hoarding gold. Holding a large amount of gold can not only achieve asset preservation, but also layout the future gold futures and foreign exchange markets.

Everyone in the stock market understands that in the future, "gold falls and the U.S. rises, and the U.S. falls and gold rises," the trend between the U.S. dollar and gold will be inversely proportional. How could Xian Yaowen not understand that, not to mention other complex financial operations, he would just focus on the Fed's additions and subtractions? If you repeatedly buy and sell between gold and the US dollar, you can obtain huge profits, and this kind of profit can be obtained in the long term, and you can encounter a big market every few years.

If we extend our attention to other currencies in the foreign exchange market and include leverage, the profits that can be obtained will increase exponentially. In addition, if we hold a large amount of gold spot in our hands, we can completely control gold futures locally and in a short time. In the market, you don’t have to wait for the so-called big market trends. You can create the market trends anytime and anywhere.

Gold is the fuel catalyst for Xian Yaowen's established small consortium to upgrade to a large consortium. It is associated with hundreds of billions of dollars in interests and will play a decisive role in up to twenty years. He has to think carefully and arrange carefully.

Just saying that being a second-tier dealer is not his current goal. The gold price of US$1.125/gram is still too expensive. He is not willing to spend money to buy it from others. He wants to rob it and go to South Africa, which is not yet independent. I went to Indonesia, which was not long after the founding of the country, and colluded with the new local power faction to steal gold mines from others. It had to be a rich mine. If the mining cost was too high, it would be meaningless.

It's just that he doesn't have the strength to rob these two places yet. He needs to pick a few simple targets first. For example, Ghana, a small African country where private gold mining is very serious. It is relatively easy to rob those private mines. After grabbing them, he can take advantage of the domestic The contact with the outside world has not been broken, so we went to Shanglin to recruit a group of old gold diggers to dig gold in Ghana.

Just because he is thinking about robbing, he will quickly cut off the connection between himself and Jinji Trading Company, and he only plans to invest 3 pounds in start-up capital. Subsequent funds will have to be generated by Jinji Trading Company on its own. The money he holds in his hand Funds are important to develop a glamorous business that can be dried in the sun and allow others to play with a magnifying glass to find faults.

(End of this chapter)