Chapter 79 Copper, dried seafood, huanghuali, medicinal herbs and ancient jewelry
In fact, if you want to make more money, there are still many, many projects to consider.
Xu Yuan organized his thoughts.
The resources and specialties of the late Ming Dynasty can be roughly divided into six categories:
Food
Raw materials
Daily necessities
Medicinal materials
Precious metals
Antique cultural relics
The gold he has been trading around before is considered a precious metal and is expected to bring in 3 billion in cash income every year.
If we expand on the precious metal category, Xu Yuan can take brass into consideration and add it to the project.
"Now Xujiazhuang's Tianxiatong Bank has absorbed a large amount of copper coins and copper materials through various methods. After all of them were smelted and purified into refined copper materials, the bank now has a reserve of 30 million kilograms of refined copper materials.
That’s 30,000 tons.”
"The price of refined copper materials in modern society is more than 60,000 tons per ton. If 3,000 tons are transferred to modern society every month, that will be a monthly revenue of 180 million, and a yearly revenue of no less than 2 billion, which is almost as much as
It’s a waste of gold.”
"The most important thing is that the copper resources there in the late Ming Dynasty are relatively easy to obtain. The private reserves are very high. There are still many copper mines that have been exploited. Even if the output is impressive, I am sucking away 3,000 tons of it every month.
If we persist for more than ten years and wait until large overseas copper mines are mined, there should be no problem."
Do it!
The pouring of refined copper materials will begin next month.
Secondly, in terms of food, Xu Yuan felt that some specialties from the late Ming Dynasty were of great value.
Dried seafood!
Such as dried cuttlefish, dried abalone, dried sea cucumber and various salted dried fish, etc.
Xu Yuan went to the vegetable market to buy. The price of dried seafood is very expensive (also called delivery). The larger dried cuttlefish costs at least more than 100 per catty. The price of dried abalone depends on the size and volume, starting from more than 500 per pound.
The price ranges from kilogram to several thousand yuan, and the same goes for sea cucumbers. In addition, the price of salted dried fish is not cheap. Even if the taste is not very salty, the price is more than 50 yuan per kilogram.
"No matter what kind of dried seafood they are, if we average their prices and calculate them based on the wholesale price of 200 yuan/kg, I can transfer a thousand tons of them to modern society every month, which is a monthly income of 200 million yuan.
There are 2.4 billion per year.”
"It's just that the current fishing output of Harbor City is not very high, and the output of dried seafood is even lower, about two hundred tons per month. We need to expand the size of the fishing fleet at least five times and increase the total fish catch by five times.
times, the number of professional fishermen and fishermen must also increase to provide so much dried seafood."
"But this is not too difficult. The shipyard in Harbor City has also started building fishing boats and cargo ships. In a year at most, I can achieve this goal."
Therefore, food items such as dried seafood must be tossed.
Then, Xu Yuan thought about the antique cultural relics from the late Ming Dynasty, as well as various unique books, which could not only enrich the cultural heritage of China and make his own contribution, but also the value of antique cultural relics in the auction market.
It has always been difficult to estimate, and can easily be worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions.
For example, the calligraphy and paintings of celebrities in the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Blue and white porcelain from the Yuan Dynasty and the mid-Ming Dynasty.
Landscape paintings of celebrities in the late Ming Dynasty, etc.
People like Xu Yuan who don't know much about antiques and cultural relics know that in the collection market, the value of these antiques and cultural relics is very high. Just selling dozens of genuine items can bring in billions or even tens of billions in income.
Ten pieces of these antique cultural relics, Xu Yuan can buy ten pieces every month. Not only is it not difficult at all, but he should be able to earn more than 100 million.
It's just that his idea was immediately ruthlessly ridiculed by the big guys in the Time Travel Alliance communication group.
"Haha, dumping cultural relics, you don't know that anything in the field belongs to the country. If you can't produce proof of ownership, you just take out so many genuine cultural relics out of thin air. I think what's in front of you, either
A pair of silver bracelets, or 500 yuan and a banner, it depends on your choice."
"The value of antique cultural relics is supported by a certain circle. When the economy is good, it can also play a role in money laundering, bribery, insider trading, etc. You would not really think that the cultural relics themselves are worth hundreds of millions or more.
So much money?"
"Don't touch cultural relics. You'd rather buy some jewelry, jade, emeralds, etc. The water for antique cultural relics is too deep, and you can't grasp it!"
"Let's get some stones to play with. Soapstone, field yellow stone, sapphire, lapis lazuli, jade stone and the like are available in many places at home and abroad. In ancient times, the price was not too expensive. In modern society, the profit can be dozens of times higher.
There is."
After listening to the comments and suggestions of these big guys, Xu Yuan gave up the idea of dumping antique cultural relics. The risk was indeed a bit high.
Next, Xu Yuan didn't bother to use his own brain, and directly asked the big guys in the group what was safer and more profitable.
"Huanghuali wood, you can send people to Hainan Island in the late Ming Dynasty, as well as some countries such as Vietnam and Laos, to harvest more hundred-year-old huanghuali wood. This kind of wood became popular in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Huanghuali wood is the favorite furniture wood of the upper class. This has led to the fact that in just three hundred years, all the Huanghuali trees in Hainan Island have been cut down. No seedlings that are ten years old can be seen, making it an endangered tree species. In modern times,
Social prices have soared, even setting a record of 50,000 yuan per kilogram. Of course, the price of huanghuali wood furniture has dropped to 5,000 per kilogram, but it is also very exaggerated. You only need to find a way to get it every month
100 tons of huanghuali wood can earn 500 million yuan a month."
Crucible Clamp, the boss of the group, said.
Xu Yuan's eyes lit up.
It may be a bit difficult to get one hundred tons of huanghuali wood every month, but if you get thirty to fifty tons, it should be stress-free. You can only cut down seven or eight old trees at most, and you will earn an average of two or two per month.
Three hundred million is not a big problem and the operability is very high.
However, Big Brother Crucible Tong also reminded that no matter how much huanghuali wood was obtained in the late Ming Dynasty, no matter if the price dropped to 4,000 or 3,000 in modern society, you must sell it quickly, because a businessman planted it in the 1990s.
One hundred thousand acres of huanghuali wood can be cut down by 2030. There are only three or four years left in the window. Otherwise, when these huanghuali wood come on the market in large quantities, the price may not necessarily go down, but it will definitely plummet.
"I understand."
Xu Yuan nodded, feeling a little helpless at the same time. One hundred thousand acres of huanghuali trees is a typical Chinese ruthless person involved in involution. In fact, it would be enough to build a ten thousand acres scale, and the money earned may not even be less than one hundred thousand acres.
After discussing with the big guys in the group for a while.
There are two other valuable projects that Xu Yuan added to the Tanteng catalog.
They are ancient medicinal materials and ancient traditional gold and silver jewelry.
The medicinal materials are mainly wild ginseng from Northeast China, as well as traditional medicinal materials such as Bupleurum, Cyperus rotunda, Angelica sinensis, Polygonum multiflorum, rhubarb, and Cordyceps. Some are purely wild, and some have been artificially cultivated in ancient times. However, due to the natural environmental conditions in ancient times,
, it is impossible to use modern chemical products such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides, so they are all natural green organic medicinal materials, and their medicinal properties are definitely much stronger. As for the price, on average they can be sold for 200 yuan/kg.
What's more, the price of many old wild ginseng ranges from hundreds of thousands to several million, which is much more valuable than gold of the same quality.
"Let's try to get 100 tons of common medicinal materials every month. It is expected to bring in 20 million yuan/month. Northeastern wild ginseng, ginseng, Codonopsis pilosula, etc., try to get 100 old ones every month. On average
A 300,000 piece is expected to bring in 30 million yuan in income. The two added together will be about 50 million yuan per month."
As for traditional gold and silver jewelry, one would set up a jewelry processing factory in a manor in Xujiazhuang or in Harbor City, and then hire a group of veteran folk craftsmen with high salaries to be responsible for processing gold and silver jewelry, and finally turn these finished products around.
When selling in modern society, the main selling points are one is pure handiwork and the other is traditional old craftsmanship. With these two bonuses, and a premium of 30 yuan per gram of jewelry, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it.
Why is Xu Yuan so confident?
Because there was a big guy in the group who sent him dozens of pictures of four phoenix crowns unearthed from the Ming Emperor's Mausoleum. They were inlaid with gold and jade. They were bright in color but not messy. They were so exquisite that they were simply shocking.
The boss commented: "The aesthetics and craftsmanship of our ancestors will never let us down!"
Xu Yuanshen agreed and adopted the big boss's suggestion. He must build a jewelry processing factory in the late Ming Dynasty, hire exquisite craftsmen from all over the world with high salaries, let them learn and communicate with each other, and then combine it with modern high-efficiency processing equipment and aesthetics.
Xu Yuan is extremely excited to see what kind of shocking works will be created by combining design concepts.
The above items.
Xu Yuan finally took stock:
The production of copper materials is expected to bring in an income of 2 billion per year.
Dumping dried seafood is expected to bring in about 2 billion in revenue every year.
We can also open a furniture factory by pouring huanghuali wood, and then process it into huanghuali wood furniture by ancient craftsmen. It is expected to bring in more than 2 billion in revenue every year.
The use of ancient medicinal materials and ginseng is expected to bring in an income of about 600 million per year.
The finished gold and silver jewelry made by ancient craftsmen is expected to bring in more than 500 million in additional revenue every year.
Adding these five projects together, even if the actual results will be discounted, it should not be difficult to achieve the goal of annual revenue of 7 billion.
"That's basically it. Now we have to consider how to find partners in modern society."
