roccoschili Chapter 215 Amazing Profits
Chapter 215 Amazing Profits
This is the reality. If you don’t have money, you can’t speak with confidence. Otherwise, in peacetime, Old Man Wang’s three sons and five grandchildren would all speak with confidence.
After the water was boiled, there weren't that many cups in the village, only black pottery bowls, so he poured half a bowl for everyone.
It was already dawn when Hou Yangmin finished his housework and arrived at the village kiln. He registered directly without any nonsense.
There are a total of seventy-six relatives from outside the village, and everyone of that level will go. Not only those from outside the city, but also the two families of relatives from other families who have already moved into the village have to go.
After registering, Hou Yangmin did not waste any time and went directly to the Yanhuang Alliance to report.
But of course he couldn't see Hou Xiaoge, because Hou Xiaoge had left the Yanhuang Alliance last night.
After Hou Xiaoge arranged the affairs of the Yanhuang Alliance, he naturally could not delay too much because he had promised Yanzhou the oil equipment.
So we had to get to America or the Middle East as soon as possible, but the Middle East was also very backward at that time, so it had to be America.
These days, there are only two ways to go to faraway America: by boat or by plane.
But these two channels are really difficult to use now, because the United States is at war with the United States, and the country is also fighting a war of resistance, and is basically in a state of isolation.
As a result, if the Nationalist government wanted to obtain supplies from the United States, it could only send an expeditionary force to fight the Japanese and build the China-Burma Highway.
If this is the case for the officials, let alone ordinary people, going abroad is as difficult as ascending to heaven.
But this matter is not difficult for Hou Xiaoge. He is hanging on the wall, so everything can be easily solved.
Hou Xiaoge plans to fly to America by himself this time to experience a different trip.
When they first came to Chang'an last year, the Hou family experienced a thrilling event. Fortunately, Hou Xiaoge killed the Japanese with his rifle and collected the trophy plane.
Although the main body of the plane was intact at the time, the cockpit and part of the fuselage were damaged by the shotgun shells.
However, with the elf Ling'er in the space, repairing it is very simple as long as it is not manufactured.
In the end, not only was the plane repaired, Ling'er also used the magma in the space to temper the metal of the fuselage. Now the plane is much stronger.
In this way, Hou Xiaoge no longer has to worry about the Japanese's shabby planes disintegrating in mid-air. Otherwise, even with the buffer of the small world, he would still be in great danger.
Since they had to fly there by plane, there was naturally more time. Hou Xiaoge asked the Yanhuang Alliance to contact officials from the National Government to purchase a batch of strategic materials.
Pig bristles, tung oil, and ebony.
These things are first-class strategic materials during the war, and all countries are scrambling for them.
Cannons of this era needed to rest after firing, and the best way to do so was to apply tung oil.
However, the temperature of a cannon is extremely high, and an ordinary brush will not work. Westerners then discovered that the bristles on the back of the Chinese black pig can perfectly solve this problem.
Tung oil can also perfectly solve the problem of weapon corrosion and can maintain the weapons.
Not to mention ebony ore, ebony metal is an indispensable material for making special artillery shells.
Moreover, at that time, only China had these three items in large quantities. This was one of the reasons why the West strongly supported the National Government and provided it with loans.
Especially the black mine, which even has a lot of unknown history.
During the Republic of China period, the main production area of Huaxia Wukuang was Jiangxi Province, which was a red area in the early Republic of China.
Now that the coastline is blocked, the Allies are in urgent need of these strategic materials and there is only one solution available, which is air transport.
So in this era there was also a route that is well-known to later generations, the Mount Everest Death Route.
Just imagine, in order to transport tung oil, bristles, and ebony ore, the United States actually dispatched airplanes and even crossed the dangerous Mount Everest. This shows how scarce these materials were.
Therefore, when Hou Xiaoge went to America this time, he naturally had to fully carry forward the spirit of the War of Resistance, reduce the burden on the country, and support the war.
So during this period of time, we contacted government officials and purchased a large quantity of these three materials at an unbelievably high price in the country.
The prices of these three items were learned by Hou Xiaoge and the Yanhuang Alliance.
The overseas price of one ton of pig bristles is between 12,000 and 15,000 US dollars;
Tung oil is $900 to $1,200;
Roughly refined black ore is from thirty to thirty-five thousand dollars;
The price that the Yanhuang Alliance paid for purchasing these materials was naturally a huge profit.
Taking pig bristles as an example, according to domestic prices, a ton of pig bristles costs one thousand dollars, and Hou Xiaoge gave three thousand dollars.
Although the price is high, the exchange rate between the US dollar and the US dollar is about one to four, which means that one ton of pig bristles can be sold for forty or fifty thousand US dollars in the United States.
If you calculate the profit, it’s more than ten times!
A great man once said, "With a 50% profit, it will take risks; for a 100% profit, it will dare to trample on all human laws; with a 300% profit, it will dare to commit any crime, even the risk of being hanged."
And more than ten times, that’s a profit of more than one thousand percent, which is enough to scare people to death.
But now transportation is inconvenient and there are wars everywhere. Ordinary people and even the government do not have the ability to transport large quantities of goods out.
Hou Xiaoge has the unique resource of space, so naturally he would not let it go. He directly engages in logistics and makes as much money as possible.
As for tung oil, which has a relatively large output, Hou Xiaoge was not stingy. A ton costs more than 100 yuan in China, but Hou Xiaoge directly offered 500 yuan.
He would rather earn less, just earn eight or nine times more.
As for why Hou Xiaoge asked for such a high price, it was not because he wanted to fatten the government officials, but because he wanted the common people to benefit from it as well.
Although the prices of these materials are so high, the national government has always suppressed the purchase price in the hands of ordinary people.
Many ordinary people were forced to take on the task, and some even lost money after selling the supplies, so Hou Xiaoge drove up the prices so that ordinary people could earn a little more.
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However, tung oil and pig bristles are easy to get as they are available in safe areas, but black ore is more difficult to obtain as you have to go to Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces.
But one step at a time, he can fly a plane very quickly.
This time, Hou Xiaoge first went to Sichuan Province to receive bristles and tung oil. Sichuan Province is not only the largest producing area of bristles, but also the largest producing area of tung oil.
From these two items of supplies, we can see that the people of Sichuan Province really contributed both manpower and effort to the war of resistance, and it can be said that they gave their all.
Therefore, the Kuomintang government has suffered a loss at the hands of Sichuan Province. It is the one who is eating the food of the people and the one who is blaming the pot.
When leaving Chang'an, Xiaoge asked Ling'er to help him disguise himself into another appearance. He named himself Han Li, which means running around.
Early in the morning, with Ling'er's help, Hou Xiaoge practiced stretching exercises in space, increasing his height from 1.65 meters to 1.7 meters.
Hou Xiaoge can maintain this height for two hours and can use it once a week, otherwise it will easily hurt the body if used too frequently.
After disguising himself, he sneaked out of the city wearing an ordinary cotton coat. No matter how powerful the spy was, he couldn't recognize this thing.
In a grove, Hou Xiaoge drove out the black dragon and rode it quickly towards the uninhabited mountains in the distance.