The social security of Italy before and after the Renaissance was very strange. On the one hand, it was a so-called violent society (la societa violenta), with serum revenge and magnates (magnates refers to large and overbearing families with feudal customs in Italy) and grudges one after another. But on the other hand, it was a violent society. On the other hand, the business activities here are quite safe. Many people will feel comfortable traveling around with tens of thousands of gold coins in letters of credit or thousands of gold coins in cash, and others will not worry because Huang Xuan has too few followers. What slacking off.
In fact, if merchants in a commercial city such as Venice cannot be guaranteed financial security, its development will be hindered. Until the decline of Venice in the 16th century, it was the commercial center of the world.
In this city surrounded by water, logistics is quite developed. There are many warehouses with two canals. Each store has its own territory, its own fleet, and even its own dock workers. In this city of only 100,000 people Here, the value created every year is the same as 100 million people in other regions.
If it weren't for the foreign buildings being too dilapidated, Huang Xuan would have almost thought he was walking in Nanjing's business district.
Joseph Medici was also a frequent visitor to Venice. He was sitting on a chair on the right deck, leisurely drinking coffee from central Italy. Meserro leaned forward and sat behind Huang Xuan. Compared with the Medici family, he was only a branch of the Perot family and only had the opportunity to sit with Joseph Medici because of a transaction.
Huang Xuan sat next to Joseph.
The young Mr. Medici believed that since Huang Xuan was an Italian who could own hundreds of thousands of gold ducats, he could naturally be on an equal footing with the Medici family. That's fair enough.
Huang Xuan had no intention of thanking Mr. Medici in front of him at all, and was not even in the mood to compliment Joseph.
While busy, Huang Xuan naturally thought of the Space-Time Management Bureau, a damn organization.
The three people quietly arrived at the old warehouse area near St. Mark's Square.
Huang Xuan temporarily rented three warehouses here. Because it was far away from the place where the three of them were, Li Shenggang did not come here to see the grain. In this kind of transaction involving more than 100,000 gold coins, it is difficult for managers to manage it. I won’t try to do everything myself.
Classmate Xiao Huang stepped off the boat, passed by the two Italian gentlemen, and then asked: "Nick, have Lu Min's things been delivered?"
"Shi Yu said that he has purchased about 10 tons of spices, mainly pepper and cardamom, because buying from the trading floor requires a buffer time... "
"Then put these spices in these two warehouses first, and put the food back into the plane channel."
"Great Yellow Master, frequently opening the plane channel is a very resource-consuming thing. Judging from the current material energy in the plane channel, you will waste about 00,000 yuan of electricity every time you open it."
Huang Xuan snorted and said, "Nick, do you want to be the most expensive doorman in history?"
"Oh, Master, Nick's body should pulsate with your ambition, if you want to own the most expensive hotel in history."
"Change the spices." Huang Xuan growled.
"Okay, if you don't want to continue this topic." Nick, like a skilled sixth-grade student, bargained after completing his work: "Yellow owner, just today, you smashed a Mercedes-Benz 600. Or a dozen Santanas.”
"People should look forward." Huang Xuan said, and he also walked forward. The materials passing through the passage in the R plane have their own packaging methods, and the spices do occupy a large area.
After arriving at the nearest warehouse, Huang Xuanfang waited for a few seconds before asking the warehouse manager to open the door.
A tangy aroma.
Of course, this is for Venetians.
In Huang Xuanwen, this place is like a playground where you can sneeze to your heart's content.
Venetians encounter valuables in warehouse after warehouse every day, just like workers in a money printing factory. They keep wondering without passion, no one seemed to have loaded anything in this warehouse yesterday? You should check the records.
Joseph and Mesero were pleasantly surprised.
It's not that their determination is not as good as others, but because the profits these things can bring belong to them.
Joseph pretended to wipe his face, put away his happy expression, and asked seriously: "Mr. Cosa, can you introduce your spices in detail?"
"Half is pepper, half is cardamom, all are from India. There are probably more than 10,000 pounds of spices in this warehouse." Huang Xuan shrugged. It was quite hard to calculate. Normally, there are 60 tons of spices in it. I don't know how much error Nick put in at the moment. After all, there is no need to control the precise energy consumption of the plane channel.
It only took Mesereau a moment to calculate the value of these spices, which was at least 50,000 gold ducats. It was more than the profit of Perot House in two years.
The big Venetian merchants, as they are usually called, should have assets of more than 50,000 gold ducats, and a few should have 100,000 gold ducats. For the latter, their annual turnover should also be around 100,000 gold ducats. As for 500,000 gold ducats, this is already the total asset value of many large families. Some people will have so much money temporarily at certain times, and it is natural for a family to be able to own 500,000 gold ducats for many years. Standing at the top of the world.
In terms of grain equivalent, such a warehouse of spices is equivalent to an asset of 10 million U.S. dollars, and 10 tons of spices are worth 1.04 million gold ducats, or 60 million U.S. dollars. Going back a hundred years, Comrade Shen Wansan of the Ming Dynasty could only sell so much of his supplies.
Joseph naturally calculated the prices of these spices clearly. He and Mesero looked at each other and said: "10,000 pounds of spices will be divided among three families. Although it is a lot, it is still not enough."
Neither the Medici family nor the Perot Company could come up with 50,000 gold coins in cash in a short period of time, just like Huang Xuan could not do the same, but no one from the three parties was worried about the total amount of the goods, because If it is to exchange goods, it is very profitable for the three houses.
Venice is the distribution center for the world's commodities. When a certain material is scarce, its sales speed will scare the Federal Reserve.
Huang Xuan's mind turned around and he understood what Joseph was thinking. Raising the price of spices from 50,000 gold ducats to 600,000 gold ducats would be good, but if you only earn tens of thousands of gold coins, it would be too boring. When there is no problem with sales, businessmen will naturally try to expand supply.
Huang Xuan chuckled, stared at Joseph and said, "Actually, I still have a warehouse now."
Joseph also felt a little embarrassed. Half an hour ago, he was a little contemptuous because Huang Xuan couldn't get the money. At this moment, all the negative emotions were carefully stuffed into his trouser pocket.
Venice is definitely a city where if you have breasts, you are a mother.
Mesero had to say something at this time: "Mr. Medici, Mr. Cosa, I think we should divide these spices between two families." If there are three families, the Medici and Sandro families will take away three. 2/2 spices.
The leather of the Perot Company alone is worth 100,000 gold ducats. This is not the property of the Perot family. In other words, the Perot family cannot make as much profit as the Medici family. Of course, the risks are also corresponding. Reduced.
Huang Xuan immediately nodded in agreement: "Then which one of you will bid for the spices in this warehouse?"
"Me." The two people started fighting again.
Huang Xuan pouted and said: "Ivory and rhinoceros horns are easier to transport. Let the Medici family do it first. Mr. Perrault will wait a moment."
"Okay." Meserro was satisfied to get half of it.
Huang Xuan opened the energy screen and said: "Mr. Medici, there are 4,800 ivory tusks worth 50,000 ducats, 40,000 pounds of rhino horns, 80,000 ducats, plus fractions, the total is 40,000 gold ducats. right."
"Yes."
Huang Xuan pondered for a moment and said: "There are 7.5 million bushels of grain being counted. For every 1 million 60,000 ducats, it should be 450,000 ducats. Including the 50,000 ducats for this batch of spices, the total is 970,000 ducats." Carter, is there any problem?"
"Yes."
Huang Xuan took a breath, looked at the number calculated by Nick, and said: "Not counting the deposit I gave you, you should now pay for all the ivory and rhino horns. In addition, you should also pay 700,000 pounds." Wool. I hope to have it delivered by this evening."
"Pozo." Joseph shouted loudly and said, "Pozo, go and deliver the goods according to the list, right away."
It is almost noon now, and Venetian merchants attach great importance to accurate delivery time. In modern words, it is hundreds of thousands per minute.
Huang Xuan nodded with satisfaction, and then asked the warehouse keeper to close the door. At the same time, he said to Joseph: "In fact, I should have one or two more ships of spices ashore tomorrow. If you need it, you should send it in advance." Prepare the wool, after all, this is a commodity. In addition, some famous paintings, I mean works of art on wooden boards or drawing boards, can also be used as trading items.”
"I understand." Joseph looked somewhat complacent.
Huang Xuan shrugged, walked to the warehouse on the other side with the warehouse manager, and said, "Mr. Perot, the same thing, the same price, are you prepared to pay with leather?"
"Of course." Mesero Perrault was intoxicated by the tangy "smell" of the warehouses being opened.
"If possible, I would still like to include those ivory and rhino horns. There are about 000 of them, right?"
"As you wish." Meserro even put away his favorite bargaining.
Huang Xuan also relaxed a little and said, "Like Mr. Medici, if you still need more spices and food, then I hope to see more leather in the port area tomorrow."
"I will store the leather in the nearby warehouse together." Mesero said quite easily.
"Well, then you can check the products." Huang Xuan said and took two steps back. There are still three days left, and the process of large-scale transactions will definitely make any businessman collapse.
What supports them in doing this tedious work is just the boost of money.
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For three days and two nights, Huang Xuan never closed his eyes again.
The Venetian night breeze blows against your face mixed with the smell of the sea. Hiding in the thick teak deck, you can also feel the special humidity. The workers' chants never stopped from the beginning. ; The boats and sampans coming and going blocked most of the canal.
It wasn't just the Medici and Perot who got into it.
Due to the sound guild system in Venice, even the Medici family cannot really go it alone. At the same time, in order to reduce risks, both parties coincidentally began extensive cooperation with their allied chambers of commerce.
If you open the list of the world's richest people in history, you will hardly see the name of any Merchant of Venice. But if you count the wealth of the major families in Venice, the accumulation of these families that have occupied the world for 300 years of prosperity is unmatched by any country or individual.
Huang Xuanqiang opened his eyes and watched the workers below busy counting the quantities. There were at least seven or eight representatives of the chamber of commerce standing beside him.
The reputation of the Venetian merchants means that they rarely do things that are contrary to business ethics during the transaction process, and with Nick's help, Huang Xuan does not need to worry about this.
The reason why he really couldn't rest was that he needed to find any reasonable or unreasonable excuse to load the exchanged materials into the plane channel.
Even though time did not allow the people here to have any special suspicions, Huang Xuan still could not blatantly stuff things into the plane passage in full view of the public, and had to run around on the canal.
He even had to purchase several merchant ships in order to make the transaction smoother.
Li Shenggang's work is naturally harder than Huang Xuan's.
He hired as many as 00 people to count the quantity and weight of ivory, leather, and wool in each warehouse. He also had to answer questions from other businessmen and even appraise works of art. If Nick hadn't helped, these tasks might have required him. Do it for 6 months.
Venetian merchants, represented by two firms, could afford the import and export of goods worth one million gold ducats every day, and by the third day, Huang Xuan had already begun to purchase woolen goods - all the wool was gone.
What restricts the transaction speed is not Huang Xuan's supply, but the Venetian's commodity inventory.
During the hard time fighting the Sandman, Huang Xuan happily forgot about the threat from the Space-Time Administration.
Maybe just for a moment. (To be continued. If you want to know what happened, please log in to .qidian. There are more chapters. Support the author and genuine reading!) (To be continued)