Xujiazhuang Bastion is located in a basement with a large internal space.
Looking at the three boxes in front of him, each containing 500 kilograms of gold bars, Xu Yuan stretched out his left hand, and with a thought, the white halo expanded forward, covering the boxes.
Then Xu Yuan also walked forward, followed the halo passage, and after walking a few steps, the scene in front of him changed dramatically, as if the stars were turning around him.
Come back to your senses.
The environment Xu Yuan was in was already the underground vault of a modern villa. There were thick steel doors and rows of metal safes standing against the wall. Each one weighed several tons. They were equipped with fingerprints and facial scans.
Digital password triple verification. Without a password, it is almost impossible to open these safes unless explosives are used to blast them.
Not far from my feet were three more wooden boxes.
It was the treasure box that was brought over from the world of the late Ming Dynasty that contained gold. Xu Yuan could travel through time and space with these items as long as he used his halo to scan and circle the items.
And the halo can be enlarged and reduced.
The maximum expansion diameter is about 100 meters.
In other words, Xu Yuan can carry away items within a diameter of 100 meters at most. There is no limit on the number of times. It can operate multiple times in a day and carry hundreds of thousands of tons of items.
There are no side effects such as dizziness, and Xu Yuan does not need to carry it by himself. The principle is similar to 'space translation', as long as the ground is clear and flat.
All in all, this is a very powerful and easy-to-use time portal.
but.
As a traveler between two worlds, although there are no restrictions on the amount of materials carried, the number of time travels, etc., sometimes it only takes one day to transport enough materials to the late Ming Dynasty, or transport the gold, jade, and jewelry from the late Ming Dynasty to
In modern society, the shuttle process is very efficient.
But Xu Yuan could not always stay at Xujiazhuang in the late Ming Dynasty.
In modern society, we still have to come back occasionally to deal with some things.
For example, the villa that Xu Yuan lives in was bought by him more than two years ago. It covers an area of more than 500 square meters and is well-decorated with a two-story basement. The price is not expensive and only cost more than 6 million. After all, the housing prices in Taizhou, a third-tier city, are
, just over ten thousand.
Walk to the living room on the first floor.
Xu Yuan picked up the mobile phone in his pocket, automatically connected to the Internet, and looked at the displayed time.
2024, May 18, 9:23 am.
There is a difference of nearly four hundred years from the timeline in the late Ming Dynasty, but the four seasons are basically the same. April in the lunar calendar over there in the late Ming Dynasty is May in the Gregorian calendar here; 9 am there in the late Ming Dynasty is also 9 am here.
Around 10:00, the day and night are pretty consistent, and you won’t feel like you’re experiencing jet lag.
Nowadays, Xu Yuan does not travel in time and space very frequently. He only travels back and forth three or four times a month. He does not stay at Modern Blue Star for a long time, only two or three days a month at most.
More than 90% of the time and energy were devoted to the world of the late Ming Dynasty.
The reason is very simple. Modern society is too complicated. With Xu Yuan's ordinary undergraduate education, a rural family background, and not particularly outstanding abilities and appearance, even if he works hard, the upper limit of his monthly salary may be only 30,000 to 50,000.
It is impossible to counterattack and become the boss.
What about the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty? Xu Yuan is the great devil who has released the seal. Whether it is his thinking mode or his vision, he is more than an era ahead of the ancients. With the golden finger of the time gate, if he still can't do something big,
, it can only prove that he is completely incompetent.
Xu Yuan took out his phone from his pocket, opened the memo, and looked at the demand orders for this month:
"There are 250,000 kilograms of sugar, a slight increase from last month."
"20,000 pieces of soap, 8,000 bottles of shampoo, and 10,000 bottles of shower gel. Orders have increased slightly."
"800 yuan of mechanical watches and 450 gilt clocks. Orders fell by about 10%."
"There are 100,000 lighters and 500,000 boxes of matches. After the price of these fire-making products dropped significantly, orders increased a lot."
"1,600 large glass mirrors, 15,000 small glass mirrors, 360 pairs of myopia glasses, and 510 pairs of reading glasses. Orders increased by 10%."
"Amoxicillin is 2,500 boxes. Although it was as expensive as gold in the late Ming Dynasty, money still had to be spent to save lives."
"There are 800 Phoenix brand bicycles and 500 sets of repair parts. Bicycles have become very popular recently. They are considered by the ancients to be a transportation artifact that surpasses BMWs. They have attracted countless wealthy people to pursue them. I believe there will be more orders next month."
"Toothpaste, toothbrush……"
The value of this batch of orders has been roughly estimated.
Immediately, Xu Yuan drove his blue BYD electric car out and came to a place called 'Cross Alliance Company'. In the company's large warehouse of more than 3,000 square meters, he found Zhu Yun, the warehouse keeper and purchasing manager.
Day, I sent him the order information again.
"Lao Zhu, please calculate how much these items on the purchase order cost."
Xu Yuan asked him.
Zhu Yuntian is 52 years old this year. He used to work as a purchasing manager in a factory for more than 20 years. Normally, ordinary people would get rich after working in this kind of lucrative position for more than 20 years, but Zhu Yuntian has worked for more than 20 years.
He didn't get rich, and he became a fool in the eyes of many people. His family members were all angry with him.
Although Lao Zhu was conscientious and had never had any problems with accounting, but seeing that he was getting older, the boss fired him and replaced him with his nephew who had just graduated from college as the purchasing manager. Lao Zhu was unemployed and his parents were in poor health.
Well, I need someone to take care of me. My wife has also been diagnosed with breast cancer. My son has just entered college and is in a serious midlife crisis.
It happened that the 'Travel Alliance Company' founded by Xu Yuan just recently released a recruitment information. Seeing that the salary offered was good, Lao Zhu immediately came for an interview. After hearing his experience, Xu Yuan immediately hired him, with a monthly salary of 80,000.
If you do a good job, you will get a bonus at the end of the year.
It's just that Xu Yuan's time-traveling alliance company, called a company, is actually a large warehouse used to store a large amount of materials. It needs someone to monitor it day and night to prevent the items from being stolen.
In addition, there is also the purchase of materials, stacking and sorting, daily management and other tasks, all of which have to be done by one person.
After Zhu Yuntian joined Xu Yuan's Time Travel Alliance Company, he was not only a janitor and security guard, but also a purchasing manager, administrator, and cleaner... He wore many hats to manage this large warehouse.
Why doesn’t Xu Yuan hire more employees?
Naturally, it was for confidentiality and safety. Once there were too many people, Xu Yuan would not know what to do if he accidentally discovered Xu Yuan's secret that day.
So the fewer employees you hire, the better.
Fortunately, after Lao Zhu joined the company, he performed very well. Not only did he withstand the huge workload, but he was also thorough and organized. For more than two years, there has been no problem at all, and the accounts are clean and clear without any problems.
Xu Yuan really couldn't find anything wrong with his dishonest behavior.
In order to reward Lao Zhu for his contribution, Xu Yuan increased his salary to 100,000 yuan a month and gave him a bonus of 1 million yuan at the end of the year. He did not treat an honest man like him badly.
During the usual exchanges, Xu Yuan learned that Lao Zhu was actually a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, and had royal blood. Even Lao Zhu's face and appearance were two-thirds similar to Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait, which proved that he was not lying.
Now Lao Zhu's job is to work for Xu Yuan, a boss who developed in the late Ming Dynasty. He helps manage batches of materials and brings a lot of benefits to Xu Yuan. I have to say that this is an interesting coincidence.
Some time ago, Lao Zhu told Xu Yuan quite relievedly that the boss of the factory where he worked called him and offered him an annual salary of one million yuan to re-invite him back to be the purchasing manager. That factory was about to be finished.
In just two years, the boss's nephew actually embezzled more than 100 million and went abroad to live happily. The boss regretted it endlessly and finally remembered Zhu Yuntian's kindness.
Naturally, Lao Zhu rejected the boss's invitation. His heart had been broken long ago. No matter how high the salary was, it could not restore his heart.
"Mr. Xu, this batch of orders is not small. It will cost about 10 million. However, I would like to see if we can negotiate a few more volume and price adjustments to try to lower the procurement cost to around 9 million and ensure product quality."
After reading the order content, Zhu Yuntian made an estimate and then said.
"Okay, I'll add 10 million to the company's bank account. In addition, the quality of the things must be checked. I would rather the price be a little more expensive than the quality being too poor and damaging the trust of consumers."
Xu Yuan said.
The purchase cost of ten million seems to be quite a lot, but as long as the purchased goods are resold and wholesaled to the late Ming Dynasty, it can be turned into at least three million taels of silver (the terminal selling price is tens of millions of taels).
Then find a way to convert the silver into gold, and get at least 150,000 taels of gold.
Multiply the weight of 37.5 grams by 1 tael of gold.
A total of 5.625 tons of gold can be obtained.
Of course, due to the scarcity and lack of purity of gold in ancient times, being able to actually obtain 3 tons of high-purity gold is pretty good.
Then calculate it based on the weight of 3 tons!
Bring this gold to modern society and sell it at a recycling price of 380 yuan per gram.
The money Xu Yuan will earn from selling gold next month is expected to be 1.14 billion RMB (of course, Xu Yuan will save most of the gold and will not sell it in large quantities).
Compared with the cost of purchasing goods of around 10 million yuan, Xu Yuan can get hundreds of times huge profits.
"The profit of more than one billion per month, if it can be maintained for a long time, will reach tens of billions a year. Although it is not as good as the richest man in the country and the richest man in the world, it is still very impressive. What's more, by traveling between the two worlds, I can get,
It’s not just boring money.”
Xu Yuan murmured to himself, his eyes filled with light.