"Thank you to the leader of 'Nirvana GG' for the reward. I haven't saved the manuscript yet. I will start updating it tomorrow."
Old Booth Manor.
Lin Yi came over for the second time.
There was no transaction this time, and both parties seemed more relaxed.
Old Booth invited Lin Yi to drink tea and said: "Mr. Jack, I heard that you want to do bigger business, I wonder how much you can eat?"
Lin Yi put down his teacup, "Behind me, there is a big company with absolutely sufficient funds, tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars is no problem."
Lin Yi said unceremoniously.
"Then Mr. Jack, do you plan to purchase it elsewhere? I guarantee it will be cheaper there?"
"where?"
"Mali."
Mali,
Full name: Republic of Mali,
It is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordering Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mauritania and Senegal. It is the second largest country in West Africa.
Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world.
This is Lin Yi’s understanding of Mali.
And he also knew that Mali also produced gold. In later years, Ghana ranked first in gold production in Africa, South Africa ranked second, and Mali ranked third.
But now in 2005, South Africa is still the largest gold producer, Ghana is second, Sudan is third, and Mali is not yet ranked.
"To be honest with Mr. Jack, I have channels to purchase gold in Mali. The Malian government announced a few years ago that anyone can mine gold. At first, I and others mined gold there and built a gold mining field. Later, we also
Purchase gold and secretly bring it to Johannesburg to sell.”
"But you know, although Mali has lax management on gold mining, it has strict management on gold exports, because they want to collect taxes and make money through gold exports, and they are very strict on smuggling. When I brought it to South Africa to sell it, the transportation cost was as high as 2
become."
"If you have channels and can get the gold out of Mali yourself, I'm willing to help you buy it there. The price is 7% of gold on the market."
smuggling,
The biggest key is always transportation.
almost all costs,
It's all in the transportation link.
Danger also exists in the transportation process.
And this,
It's the least of the problems for Lin Yi.
In fact, the government also collects gold, so why don’t the diggers sell it to companies run by the government? It’s the simplest reason.
Price is low.
For formal companies to make a profit, they need to purify and process it, and they also have to pay taxes. The export tax on gold is 20%. If you sell it to others, you must give them a certain profit margin. It is impossible to follow the international gold price, otherwise who will buy it from you.
The international gold price is constant and cannot be changed. If you want to make money, you can only seek profits from within and lower the price of gold farmers.
The black market can sell gold for 60% of the price, but the government gold company can only buy it for 50% or even 40% of the normal gold price.
Forty to five percent is still for acquiring mining companies, but those ordinary scattered gold diggers may not even be able to reach the two to three percent price.
The price mentioned by Booth and Lin Yi must have included his own profit. He probably earned not much less than Lin Yi.
black market gold,
What is harmed is the interests of the exporting country.
A 20% tax is a lot of money.
For this business,
Lin Yi was very interested.
Purchase gold from the place of origin, pay in cash in US dollars, and sell the gold to the system. The profit is about 30%. This profit is simply too considerable.
And it's an infinite loop.
His funds can continue to expand and expand.
"Mr. Booth, I am very interested in this business. As for the transportation channels, leave it to me to clear up. I wonder how much gold you can buy?" Lin Yi asked.
"I think one or two tons a year is not a big problem. You can also ask other gold merchants, but the price will increase a little." Old Booth said.
The middlemen make the difference, Lin Yi understands this.
He has nothing against middlemen, as long as they are within a reasonable range.
"Are you hosting it over there?" Lin Yi asked.
"No, no, I'm old and I'm going to retire in Johannesburg. I've handed over the affairs there to Basia."
Basia is the young man that Lin Yi met at Old Booth's place last time. He is Old Booth's nephew and the successor he trained. The last time he came here, he sent a batch of gold, which happened to catch up with Lin Yi.
They trade.
Old Booth gave Lin Yi Basia's contact information, "If you get to Mali, you can call him and he will go back to pick you up."
"He will also take care of the transaction."
Having found a way to make money, Lin Yi was in a very good mood. He said goodbye to Booth and returned to the company. Lin Yi called Tommy, Kent and Marty over and told them what he had discussed with Booth. Lin Yi said:
"I plan to go to Mali. Tommy and Kent, you two will accompany me then. Marty, you can get another transaction order for 300 kilograms of gold. I will sell the gold and the money will be transferred to the account.
Then you can use the money to continue registering the company."
The three of them nodded together.
Lin Yi set off for Dubai again. It was the same company as last time. This time the transaction was smoother. The weighing test, payment transfer, and the whole process were completed in one go. Lin Yi had another four million in his account. This money was enough for Marty to register the company.
Already.
After returning to Johannesburg, he took Tommy and Kent to Mali the next day. Before departure, Lin Yi called Booth's nephew Barcia. Apparently, Barcia had received the notice from his uncle.
He said he would pick them up at the airport.
The plane is small and broken.
It can only take more than 40 people.
The flight altitude is very low, and the cars and trees below can be clearly seen.
Trembling all the way.
Lin Yi was afraid that he would plunge in.
And the speed is very slow,
After flying like this for five or six hours, we finally arrived at Mali Airport.
Push the door and go down,
Eyes full of desolation,
People got off the plane directly with their luggage. The security check was extremely simple, just like leaving a long-distance station. At the exit, Lin Yi saw Basia.
Barcia is tall and strong. He met Lin Yi and the others last time. This meeting felt much more cordial. He gave Lin Yi, Tommy and Kent each a hug.
“Welcome to Mali.”
The car is an old Mitsubishi Jeep. In the United States, this kind of car would probably be thrown directly into the scrapyard, but here, it is one of the few luxury cars on the street.
The car drives into the city.
What you see are low buildings, red clay bungalows, and half-dirt roads. The only tall thing is the temple. This is Bamako, the capital of Mali, but in Lin Yi's eyes, it is not as prosperous as the eighth-tier small counties in China.
perhaps,
This is the real Africa.
Johannesburg is just an illusion. After all, it is the City of Gold, one of the most prosperous cities in Africa.
After walking for a while,
Lin Yi asked Basia: "Where is the largest car trading market here?"
"Do you want to buy a new car or a used car?"
"Second-hand car."
Basia directly took Lin Yi and the others there. The market was in a large open space with dozens of cars parked here. The cars were old and dilapidated, and the off-road vehicles were old and dilapidated. Lin Yi took a fancy to an old off-road RV with a dark green body that looked very cool.
It's so heavy. I don't know which rich man who came to Africa to travel left it here.
Lin Yi called his boss and went up to give it a try. Based on his experience as a top driver, he felt that the overall performance of the car was okay.
It can travel on bad roads and can be used as a RV, so it suits him very well.
night.
They stayed in a hotel in Brasilia.
period,
Lin Yi and Tommy talked to Kent and Basia, and answered a call and went out alone. Basia originally warned that it was not safe here and wanted to follow, but Lin Yi refused.
The three of them watched Lin Yi drive away in the RV.
More than two hours later, Lin Yi drove back and lay down to sleep without saying anything.
Departing the next day,
Lin Yi drove an off-road RV and let Tommy and Kent take the Mitsubishi Jeep in Brazil.
After driving hundreds of kilometers, we arrived at another small town, which looked like a small town to Lin Yi. Basia stopped in front of the supermarket and told Lin Yi and the others that it was a long way to go, so they could buy some things.
Lin Yi thought about it and got out of the car.
This small supermarket can't even keep up with China's township-level supermarkets. No, village supermarkets are bigger than it.
There is no basic industry in South Africa, nor is there light industry, so there is a shortage of various materials. The various materials here are almost all, and most of them need to be imported, and imports require foreign exchange. For a country that relies 80% on agriculture.
, where did the foreign exchange come from?
Lin Yi listened to the words of the residents here and found that he could not understand them. He suddenly thought that if he wanted to make money here, he had better master the language here.
"System, buy French."
"System, buy Bambara."
The official language of Mali is French. This is due to historical reasons. However, the locals have their own language called Bambara. Lin Yi purchased two languages at once and spent 4 million US dollars.
Lin Yi now had no problem listening to the exchanges between the locals. Lin Yi found it quite interesting to listen to them talking about their daily routine and secretly talking about the foreigners.
But Lin Yi doesn't intend to let others know that he knows the local dialect.
At most, he showed that he knew French.
This way he might be able to hear a lot of things he couldn't hear before.
Lin Yi bought 10 pieces of mineral water and some other food and drinks in the supermarket. It must be said that the prices of these things are not cheap.
When moving things into the car, Tommy, Kent and Basia all discovered that there were many boxes piled up in the space behind the RV, covered with quilts.
When you buy a car, you definitely don’t have these things.
Barcia didn't know what it was, but Tommy and Kent had some guesses, and an idea flashed in their minds.
organize.
Jack went out last night, which would definitely be a good time to organize a meeting.
After filling up the tank at a roadside gas station, the convoy officially set off onto the dirt road.
Red dirt road.
Smoke and dust billowed.
The car swayed all the way.
No wonder this crappy jeep is used, because good cars are a waste here.
The gold-producing area is about two hundred kilometers away from the capital, deep in the wilderness. Most of Mali's land is desert and desert, and the cultivated land is only 2% of the country's land area. It is difficult for ordinary people to cultivate land to support themselves on such land.
As for industry, it is basically blank.
Because it could not support itself, the Malian government promulgated a policy of free gold mining, and the government was responsible for collecting gold. Now, one-fifth of Mali's fiscal revenue comes from gold.
The car continued to drive forward. On both sides of the road, one could occasionally see mining sites. Basia once told Lin Yi that almost everyone in the country was mining gold. From adults to children, there were countless gold mines.
The government has no way of counting how many gold mines there are in the country.
at dusk,
Finally, we arrived at the gold mining mine in Brasilia. The conditions here were very poor. There were only a dozen box-type houses, and these conditions were already the best in the neighborhood.
There were several guards in the courtyard with AKs hanging around their necks.
Not far away, there are gold farmers prospecting for gold.
Lin Yi was not idle,
I was curious to go and see how they mined gold.
After seeing it, I can only say that it is too primitive. I dig the soil with a drill and then wash it in the river. A whole basin of soil is washed out, and a little gold slag is left in the end.
God cares about Africans,
They were given fertile land and gold everywhere, but they were always struggling to live in poverty.
night,
Basia entertains Lin Yi.
Roast whole lamb with beer.
While eating and chatting about the purchase of gold, Basia had two proposals. One was to purchase the gold and sell it to Lin Yi at 70%, and the other was to help contact the surrounding mine owners and sell the gold to Lin Yi and the others.
Regardless of the price, he takes a 10% commission.
Lin Yi believes that no one is a fool. Since Basia dares to say the second option, it means that the price is probably within this range.
As outsiders, Lin Yi and others may need a long time to establish themselves on African soil.
Lin Yi does business,
Like to pursue speed,
Rather than pursuing absolute profit margins.
Squeeze out a few more points.
It’s far better to earn more by doing one more round.
"Brazia, I choose the first option. As long as it is gold you purchase or introduce, I will give you 70% of the price no matter how much it is."
Basia was very happy to hear what Lin Yi said.
Here,
He earns 10% which is more than enough.
If Lin Yi and the others ask for a large amount, he can make a lot of money. Of course, this money is not his own. His uncle also has a share. He also has to support a group of people. This is also a cost, but overall
Said it would definitely make a lot of money.
"But one thing, if I find the source of the gold acquisition by myself, it cannot be counted as your commission." Lin Yi said.
"of course."
Barcia thinks it's very reasonable. It's natural that he won't get involved if he doesn't participate.
night,
Tommy and Kent live in a wooden house, while Lin Yi lives in a car.
The next day.
As soon as Lin Yi got up, Basia came in with a few people and several canvas bags. Each one was heavy. When he opened it, they were all full of small yellow gold cakes.
"There are about 68 kilograms here, and the purity is about 22K. You can measure it."
Tommy and Kent have also perfected their skills these days. They began to check and weigh, calculate the price, and finally reported the total amount to Lin Yi.
Lin Yi did the math.
The value of this batch of gold should be around US$884,000, and based on the 70% price, he only had to pay Basia US$618,000.
From this transaction alone, he earned 260,000.
This is just the price for selling the system. If it is used as money laundering funds, the profit will be increased by 20%.
Lin Yi walked back to the RV and picked up a canvas bag. When he opened the canvas bag, it was filled with wads of U.S. dollars.
Seeing the money, Tommy and Kent were 100% sure that Jack must have contacted the organization yesterday, and the money was shipped by the organization, because they didn't bring any money with them when they came out.
I can’t even get on a plane with so much money.
The organization brought money to Mali so quickly, and they admired the organization even more.
As for the gold, Lin Yi took back the off-road RV and, of course, directly collected it into the space when they couldn't see it.
In fact, there is no money at all to put it in the car.
Those boxes were just decorations to hide the money from others. He didn't need to press the money out. With the system wallet, he could withdraw cash at any time, and the amount could be controlled.
Basia made money and became more interested in buying and selling gold. He immediately said: "I will contact the mine owners and ask them to send gold here."
"By the way, do you bring enough money?" Basia was worried that too many people would come and Lin Yi would not be able to pay.
Lin Yi smiled and said: "Don't worry, the most important thing we don't lack is US dollars."
afternoon,
Barcia brought two gold sellers.
When asked, it was directly given in US dollars in cash. One small mine owner sold more than 60 kilograms, and another small mine owner sold more than 50 kilograms.
As for how Basia divides the money, it's none of Lin Yi's business, but looking at Basia's happy face, you know that he got his own share. Lin Yi doesn't care, he has earned his share anyway.
evening,
Three more waves of people came.
A total of more than 120 kilograms were purchased.
night,
More people are coming,
A total of 5 waves of people came, and Lin Yi bought more than 260 kilograms.
All day long,
Lin Yi actually purchased a whopping 558 kilograms of gold. This was just one day. The ancients said, "Every day makes more gold," but that's it.
