Prosperous Tang special forces

Chapter 258 Financial Crisis
In the face of these people's inquiries, Long Feiyu explained to them one by one the difficulty of his group's finding this gem.In fact, they got these gems only from an island in the ocean on their way back.

The island was originally a crater, surrounded by various stones.Among them, although you have very little diamond content, those merchants have more or less dug some of them.As for the fluorescent stone, although it can be regarded as a treasure, compared with diamonds, its price is slightly inferior.

But no matter what it is, the most important thing is the packaging.Diamonds can be sold all over the world.But fluorescent stone Rome is the best selling point. As the last slavery country, it has become fashionable for nobles to compare with each other.

The Roman Palace, which was originally only dazzling during the day, has the fluorescent stone sent by Long Feiyu, and at night it is like a bright starry sky. Those gems are shining like stars in the sky under the light of the fluorescent stone , as for the fluorescent stone, it is more like the moon.The stars arch over the moon, and the moon shines on the emperor, making a luxurious palace more charming.

Effectively, Long Feiyu's fluorescent stone sold for 1 taels of gold.With the price of that fluorescent stone, the latter will be easy to handle.Aristocrats pay attention to face, they don't care about how much money, they only care about the actual value of this thing.

During this trip, Long Feiyu polished more than 2000 fluorescent stones. These things have repeatedly appeared in the long river of history, and they have a famous name - Ye Mingzhu.

Of course, what Long Feiyu polished was not a truly rare luminous pearl, and these things can still deceive some ordinary people.But it is not so easy to meet people who know how to do it.

Although fluorescent stones can also be called night pearls, their prices are different.After staying in Lingnan for so long, Long Feiyu saw a lot of things like Lingnan's rich mineral deposits.

Businessmen who know how to market buy them back and buy them at a good price, but if they don't understand, they will naturally become waste.Of course, there are many such things in Rome, but there can be a few nobles who know how to do it. They just need this rare thing to highlight their status and show off.

Even if it's fake, they don't care.Anyway, everyone is playing, fake is fake.More importantly, the biggest fake gem is hanging in the palace right now.

The nobles who can enter the palace are all ignorant. Even if there are some who know how, the emperor has already shown that thing as a gem. If you dare to say that it is fake, it is tantamount to asking for trouble.

Besides, the original price of the fluorescent stone is not bad, it can only be regarded as a medium plaything.It's also considered cheating, but it's not as expensive as the real luminous pearl.

Two thousand luminous pearls, the cheapest fist size, can illuminate a few inches around, which is just right for seeing at night.In this way, a stone was sold for 500 taels of gold.

Seeing that the fluorescent stone worth 500 taels of gold in Long Feiyu's hand was sold for [-] taels by him, those businessmen who came here with diamonds regretted it at this time. Fluorite sold for a price.

Of course, some people participated in it, and they also brought a lot of fluorescent stones.This time, he also took advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.

A pile of broken stones was sold by Long Feiyu for 200 million taels of gold.Adding those diamonds, silk and other things, this trip actually reached a terrifying 400 million taels of gold.

This has caught up with Datang's tax revenue for a year, and Long Feiyu is getting a lot of money for the time being, and the rest of the businessmen are also good.Naturally, merchant ships brought more goods.

Hearing that merchants from the Tang Dynasty came, their goods were snapped up by caravans from neighboring countries in Rome.So at this time, except for some things that you need to bring when you return, everyone's boat is mostly gold.

Originally, according to these people's intention, it was easy to take away the gold by melting it into gold bars or nuggets, but it was stopped by Long Feiyu.

Since the goods were sold out, they had nothing to do at this time and gathered together on the boat to drink.

Some of the merchants who were close friends with Wang Yan grabbed Wang Yan and said, "Brother Wang, our goods are all sold out, but the marshal asked us to wait again. Do you know what the marshal wants to do?"

Wang Yan shook his head and said: "I don't know the details, but you have made a lot of money this time. If you don't go with the marshal, if you go to sea without permission, you may be robbed by strong men."

"That's true, but I heard that the marshal is asking about the route to continue west. From what they said, the marshal seems not ready to go home yet. We have been out for eight months this time, and everyone is eager to go home.

"Don't worry, everyone. I will prevent people from taking you back to China in the near future. But before you go back to China, you must first lend me your gold."

"Borrow gold?"

"Yes, I have 500 million taels in my hand, and you all add up to about the same amount."

"I don't know what the Marshal borrowed the gold for?"

"It's not convenient to reveal this at the moment, but how about if I can give you ten taels of interest for 1 taels of gold after the matter is completed?"

"I wonder how long the marshal will borrow?"

"About half a month."

"Alright then, but we want to know when the marshal is going to return to Datang?"

"In a few days, I will send you back. As for my fleet, I will continue westward."

"Westbound? Are there any countries to the west?"

"There are some countries that you have already seen. But I am just looking for seeds. You can follow if you want to continue. If you don't want to follow, I will send soldiers to escort you back to Datang."

These businessmen who were willing to follow Long Feiyu to the west believed him, so it didn't take long for them to take their income one by one.

At the same time, sizing-up gold was pouring out from all over the Roman Empire.But silver is disappearing rapidly.

In the palace, the ministers were assembled again.The person in charge of the finances is an old man, who is looking at the emperor above with a worried face and said: "Your Majesty, a large amount of gold has appeared in various parts of the empire, and the gold owned by the government is depreciating rapidly, and it has reached a ratio of eight to one. gone."

"Eight to one? How could it fall so sharply? If it doesn't work, throw out the silver in the treasury and buy back the gold. Pull up the price of silver."

"We only have gold in our treasury, and there are not many silver reserves at all. The silver is all in the private sector, and most of it has been replaced with gold at this time. If gold continues to depreciate like this, then all our things may have to decline."

"Find out who is manipulating the market, and find a way to make them spit out the silver."

"Could it be those Tang Dynasty people? Only they have this ability and strength."

"No, although the people of the Tang Dynasty are rich, they are not enough to control our Roman Empire. It must be those surrounding countries who did it." A middle-aged man retorted sharply.

"If it's not from the Tang Dynasty, who else would it be? Such a thing has never happened before."

While discussing countermeasures in the palace, Long Feiyu was sitting with several men within a boat several feet above the sea.Looking at one of Long Feiyu, he said, "Emissary Tang, we have transferred a large amount of gold from our country according to your plan and poured it into the Roman Empire. Will this really work?"

"Naturally, Rome is a slavery country. His people are very poor. I have investigated the amount of silver coins they hold in their hands. Most nobles like to store gold, which causes the silver coins of their country to flow to your neighboring countries. Over the years, the tribute paid by your country like the Roman Empire is all gold. We control all the silver in our hands, and they no longer have the existence of silver coins as a medium currency, and can only trade with gold. As the silver coins become more and more If there are fewer and fewer, his price will jump up, and those nobles will not be able to sit still. As long as they start selling the gold in their hands, our strategy will be successful."

"Tang Envoy's strategy is really clever. We have always obtained property through trade and war. It is really unheard of for Tang Envoy to profit by reselling currency."

"It depends on where you are, like you all belong to a monarchy country. Although the common people are not as good as the nobles, most people still have silver in their hands. Your country also has a large amount of silver reserves. Gold is only available when the country trades. It plays a big role, as long as the daily communication is mainly based on copper coins. Silver coins are already considered the highest unit of currency, but unlike Rome, their people are generally poor and can only trade with copper coins. Nobles don’t like silver. So Rome's silver flowed to the surrounding countries. Only in this way can our trick show its power."

"How about Datang?"

"Great Tang? We have abundant silver reserves in Great Tang, but relatively few gold reserves. However, gold is generally not used, unless there is an emergency and when a large amount of money needs to be escorted, there is no way to use gold. Our people are not like Here, there is a lot of silver circulating in their hands, and they are not afraid of the lack of silver at all. Our annual treasury income is tens of millions of taels. If this trick is used in our Datang, those who release gold may not even make waves If he couldn’t get it right, he was bought all the gold away. What awaited him was the price drop of silver, and it would fall into his hands at that time.”

"Then we have to hurry up, or we will be in trouble when they buy silver from neighboring countries."

"Hehe, which of the surrounding countries is as powerful as Rome? Your country is at most as big as a province of Rome. Even if you travel far away, you can't quench your thirst. Now we have [-] million taels of silver in our hands. This is almost empty All the silver reserves of Rome, that country can come up with so much silver to support Rome."

"That's it."

In front of the Tang Army ships, a group of businessmen gathered here at this time, and Yang Peng came when he saw them: "The marshal is no longer, what is the purpose of you gathering here?"

"I heard that the ratio of silver to gold in Rome is now seven to one. We want to ask the Marshal what's going on?"

"Marshal no longer, I will tell him when he comes back." At this time, Yang Peng's heart was also turned upside down. A month ago, Long Feiyu sent many envoys to the surrounding area under the leadership of businessmen from various countries. those countries.

These days these people return one after another, and they bring a lot of gold.Not long after I came here, something happened in Rome. Now that the gold is plummeting all the way, the nobles couldn't help but sell it out crazily.

However, these actions have no impact on the lives of the people, because they have no gold or silver.Even if there is, the rise in silver prices also brings with it rises in prices, and they are also benefiting.

As the gold on the market continued to increase, all the nobles who sold gold became accomplices in this matter, and the price of silver continued to rise for a while.In an instant, it became a ratio of six to one.

(End of this chapter)