Chapter 148 - 7: The Huge Profits of Inter-world Trade (4/3, thanks to the alliance leader Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Wa Ting!)

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Chapter 148: Chapter 7: The Huge Profits of Inter-world Trade (4/3, thanks to the alliance leader Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Wa Ting!)An Jing’s operations were actually quite simple. For the vendors at Kanming City’s Eastern City Market, in recent days they had welcomed a "cash cow." Calling him a cash cow may not be entirely accurate, but in general, he was a big spender who hardly ever haggled over prices. A boy who looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed neatly and appropriately, appearing to be a young master from some major faction of the Dust Li, inexplicably took a keen interest in the various trinkets they were selling. He swept through the shops along the street, one by one, essentially buying up the goods from every merchant on the street. He was generous in his spending, and with the exception of those merchants who deliberately quoted exorbitant prices and were turned away after a bit of haggling, he generally bought items at the asking price without fuss. Moreover, the silver he used was very solid, genuine silver with hardly any impurities. According to the self-proclaimed "Xuan" young master from Dust Li, he simply admired the culture of Da Chen, and couldn’t help wanting to collect all the exquisitely made porcelain, interesting toys, elegant scent bags, various calligraphy and paintings, and some curious items that could not be found in Dust Li, to take them back home in Dust Li for his leisurely appreciation. This reason actually didn’t pose any problem. Da Chen was indeed the overlord dominating over North Mysterious Sacrifice Continent, and all the small nations in the vicinity certainly admired imperial culture, least of all holding adoration and reverence for Da Chen’s culture. Even among the tribes of the Northern Barbarians, with whom relations were extremely tense, some of the major tribe chieftains’ tents were filled with poetry, calligraphy, paintings, scent bags, and antique porcelain from Da Chen. Of course, the most popular export products from Da Chen were actually the various spiritual martial armors. However, those were strictly controlled by Da Chen and only allies of Da Chen could gain these military supplies as aid. In any case, such people were not uncommon; the only novel aspect was that the one making the lavish purchases this time was a boy of thirteen or fourteen. Moreover, he was not only buying those flashy trinkets, but he was also purchasing some more practical, yet also more puzzling, items. For instance, beast bones and pelts. For instance... medicinal herbs. Medicinal herbs could still be understandable since the medicine manors of Da Chen could indeed cultivate some special spirit grasses not found in the mountains of Dust Li. But beast bones and pelts... weren’t those sold by the people of Dust Li to Da Chen? What was his intention in buying them to take back? "Rich fool, maybe?" This was what some outspoken vendors commented, but he was immediately interrupted by the neighboring fur shop owner, "What nonsense are you spouting? The young master Xuan is handsome and kind-hearted. Since he bought your goods and mine... I repaid his kindness with a peach, gave a thirty percent discount, the cost price of the cost price, ensuring Xuan did not suffer a loss!" "Cut it out, you’ve been able to sell off stock that’s been piling up for years, even at half-price you’re making a killing!" "Ha, still better than you peddling secondhand calligraphy and paintings!" In just two days, An Jing had splurged over a hundred and ten taels of silver, as well as gems from beyond the border (man-made gemstones of the Tianyuan Realm) worth dozens of taels of silver, adding up to nearly two hundred taels in total. That counted as a sizeable amount of money in Kanming City, where one tael of silver could buy more than six dou of grain; two hundred taels meant more than one hundred and twenty shi of grain. If this sum were to be used entirely for purchasing food, it would be enough to feed a tribe of around a hundred people for half a year or even longer, a life-saving amount during a disaster year. And yet, such a large sum of silver was spent by An Jing on a pile of miscellaneous trinkets, something truly enviable... and also heartbreaking! But in reality, did An Jing incur a loss? Of course not! Indeed, the calligraphy, ceramic decorations, and seemingly exquisite handicrafts that An Jing purchased were of no use to him, and even if sent to the Tianyuan Realm, they had no market value. But An Jing’s own costs weren’t high either! One hundred taels of silver along with synthetic gemstones, the cost price was only twenty-five Good Deeds—the gemstones, although more cost-effective, had to be used in conjunction with silver, otherwise the people of Da Chen wouldn’t accept them, and they couldn’t use too much; only Spiritual Gemstones held true stable value. Anyway, twenty-five Good Deeds could barely buy less than two Thunder Beads, which were not as valuable as the three An Jing had remaining. A simple calculation showed that even if An Jing merely used Good Deeds to buy Tianyuan Realm’s cheap silver, then used the cheap silver to buy Da Chen’s grain, he could achieve a terrifying exchange rate of one hundred Good Deeds for three hundred stones of grain! In the Tianyuan Realm, one Good Deed could only buy two pounds of compressed meat in cans, and one hundred Good Deeds, even with group purchase discounts, was just two to three hundred pounds of canned meat—considering benefits like water absorption expansion and convenient storage, that would at most be two to three hundred kilograms of meat. Even if these canned meats were well-preserved and had a shelf life of twenty to thirty years, the disparity was still clear. That price difference was about twenty to thirty times. Not to mention, those items were just a cover. An Jing’s real goal was the cheap ’beast bones and hides’ and ’medicinal herbs’! "These beast hides are of quite good quality, although not from Ferocious Beasts, they all have Ferocious Beast bloodlines and can be used as Talisman Paper material. According to Huo Qing, ten complete pieces could be valued at twenty Good Deeds, basically earning back the cost," he said. "And beast bones are key for some potions, Spirit Ink for talismans, and elixirs. This ’Frost Wolf Bone’ is five Good Deeds per pound, yet I can buy two pounds for just one tael of silver!" "Two or three taels of silver could earn back the initial investment of one hundred taels of silver in Good Deeds... What is this? Dozens of times the profit!" he exclaimed. Back at the inn, An Jing looked at the Frost Wolf Bones he held in his hands, cold as snow, and was deeply moved, "Trans-world trade, earning from the resource price difference, is actually this terrifying!" "Not to mention these medicinal herbs!" Huo Qing was from the Floating Dust Plains of Danlin Town, which was located near the herbal greenhouse area of Xuanye City, and he was very clear about the purchase price of various herbs. And in that vast list of herbs for purchase, there was one that was also found in Kanming Town, which was a spiritual flower known as ’Floating White Flower,’ used to make the most commonly used ’Breath of Pure Spirit Talisman.’ The purchase price was thirty-eight Good Deeds per kilogram. And in Embracing the Void, the price of this spiritual flower was one tael for three silver taels. The prices were high on both sides. Even so, if calculated according to Tianyuan Realm’s silver price, it was still nearly three times the profit. It might sound like less profit compared to beast bones and hides, but An Jing valued this medicinal herb even more. Because beast bones and hides were actually discounted, and if calculated according to fresh prices, it was about ten times the profit... However, the purchase of bones and hides was limited in quantity, and with An Jing’s channels in the Tianyuan Realm, clearing this batch was already pushing it. Any more, and Huo Qing wouldn’t be able to sell them off. A one-time deal, no matter how profitable, wouldn’t last long. But spiritual flowers and herbs were different! For Danlin Town’s medicine enterprises, there was no limit to how much they would purchase these items; they always bought as much as available, with a monopoly being ideal—a sustainable business.

Chapter 148 - 7: The Huge Profits of Inter-world Trade (4/3, thanks to the alliance leader Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Wa Ting!)

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