MTL - Reborn in Brazil As a Plutocrat-Chapter 5 money

  Chapter 5 Money

   "No money?" Fang Lang couldn't help being taken aback by the seller's statement, what do you want if you don't need money for selling things. Quickly asked: "Then what do you want?"

   "Cigarettes, are you here for the first time? Now the Italian lira is the same as waste paper, so I don't charge lira." The Italian looked at Fang Lang and said seriously.

   "Why cigarettes? Isn't it okay to use US dollars?" Fang Lang was very puzzled, and he never thought that he would use cigarettes to shop.

"U.S. dollars are not bad, but in our army, cigarettes are stronger than U.S. dollars. If you give me dollars and I want to buy cigarettes, it will be difficult to buy them." It took Fang Lang a while to realize what the Italian said. It turns out that there is still such a game.

"Aren't cigarettes distributed directly? Why do you still have to buy them?" According to Fang Lang's knowledge, the US military's logistics supplies are sufficient, and each soldier has a fixed cigarette quota every month. Normally, there should be no shortage of cigarettes. Yup! Why are cigarettes now a stronger currency than the U.S. dollar in the black market?

"It's true that cigarettes are allotted, but one month's quota, in a high-intensity battlefield, will be smoked in three days. If you want to smoke again, you have to wait for the next month's quota or buy it. So, you understand! "What the Italian said was like clearing the fog to let Fang Lang see the golden light.

Cigarettes were spread from Indians, and Brazil happens to be the main tobacco growing area. Although local cigarettes in Brazil have not formed a big brand now, there are many small-scale cigarette factories, such as Fang Lang's uncle Yang Even the family runs a small workshop-style cigarette factory.

  Fang Lang, who was still thinking about how to purchase goods and sell them in the United States to make money, suddenly discovered the New World. Quickly asked again: "Dude, is it only you Italians who trade in cigarettes, or everyone trades in cigarettes. Do you look at the brand?"

  Because Fang Lang doesn't smoke, he really didn't expect that cigarettes had become a hard currency in the army. Then the cigarettes that I used to ration in the Brazilian expeditionary force were directly embezzled by the chief? I feel that I have lost a hundred million, and my heart hurts.

"Of course everyone trades in cigarettes! Including the Germans. As for the brand, it's not very important. Of course, the most popular cigarettes in the market are Lucky Strike cigarettes from the United States. It seems that you don't understand the market at all! You don't have any cigarettes on hand." Right? Then how much dollars are you willing to pay for this watch?" The Italian obviously felt that Fang Lang had strayed too far from the subject, and wanted to bring the topic back to the watch transaction.

Seeing that the Italian didn't want to continue to popularize market information for Fang Lang, Fang Lang was not annoyed, but whispered in his ear: "Brother, I am a crew member on a US Navy transport ship. I just arrived in Italy, so I don't know much about it." Understand the market, but I will often travel between the United States and Italy in the future. Do you understand what I mean?"

   When the Italian heard Fang Lang's words, a bright golden light burst into his eyes. Scanning the people around him left and right, seeing that no one noticed the two of them, he lowered his voice, pointed to Fang Lang's armband and said, "Brother, this is not the symbol of the US Navy."

"Hey. Yes, I am the Brazilian Expeditionary Navy, but we are under the command of the Fourth Fleet of the U.S. Navy, and I happen to be an officer of the Navy Logistics Department, so..." Fang Lang wanted to convince the Italian that he had the ability to get enough Cigarettes, had to reveal a little bit of their identity.

  The eyes of the Italian began to glow green, and he whispered to the other party: "Brother, how about we chat in another place?"

  Fang Lang knows what the Italians think, and he doesn't want to make him feel that he can monopolize his own channel, and he must put enough pressure on him in exchange for more benefits.

"Brother, let's continue to talk about the price of this watch! I really don't have any cigarettes in my hand now, I don't know how much you want to sell it to me." The tone of the two words now is deliberately emphasized, so that the Italian He clearly understood what Fang Lang wanted to express.

   "Brother, the watch is a small problem. If you can bring a lot of cigarettes, what does it matter if this watch is given to you?" The Italians are very honest, and they are obviously big business people.

   "You'd better tell me how many cigarettes this watch is worth!" Fang Lang is also the one who doesn't see rabbits or hawks, and continues to hang on to this Italian man.

   "Brother, you want to know how much a pack of cigarettes is worth in US dollars, right? Don't try, I want to be a long-term business partner with you, and I will never deceive you about this kind of thing!" The Italian said directly and honestly.

  Fang Lang didn't realize it all at once. He was used to the character of the Chinese in his previous life, and he wanted to test the bottom line repeatedly with this Italian, but he didn't expect that he wouldn't play around with you at all.

"Okay! Dude, let's all be honest. I'll definitely check with other people. So can you tell me, how much is a pack of cigarettes worth in your place?" Now that someone else has already opened the window, Fang Lang no longer beat around the bush.

"Brother, if you have cigarettes to sell to me, I will buy them at the price of five dollars a pack. Of course, the price will also follow the market, but I believe that the price will definitely become more and more expensive. I believe that the whole of Naples should not Someone can offer a higher price than me." The Italian said with confidence.

This price did exceed Fang Lang's expectations. You must know that the US dollar in this era has not been depreciated indiscriminately in later generations, and its purchasing power is quite strong. The current one US dollar can definitely be regarded as the currency value of one thousand yuan in two thousand years , because one dollar is now approximately equal to one gram of gold.

   If Fang Lang remembers correctly, the price of a pack of cigarettes in the United States is almost 20 cents, so if the cigarettes are shipped from the United States to Europe, the price will directly increase by 25 times. Is there a more profitable business than this? Fang Lang didn't dare to calculate, if it was purchased from Brazil's own cigarette factory, how many times the profit would be shipped.

"Brother, your offer is really attractive to me. I think I know what to bring when I come back from the United States. I don't know how much you can eat." Fang Lang calculated his capital, five hundred dollars can be If you buy 2,500 packs of cigarettes and sell them to him at a price of five dollars a pack, you can turn them into $12,500. Then you can use this money to buy 62,500 packs of cigarettes worth thirty dollars in the United States. Twelve thousand and five hundred yuan. This business is definitely worth Fang Lang's hard work. You must know that in the United States now, a car only costs about a thousand dollars, and if Fang Lang makes two trips, he can turn the money that is not enough to buy a car into enough to buy three cars. The price of more than a hundred cars. Logically speaking, such a good business shouldn't be his turn to discover it!

"I don't have many dollars in my hand, but my uncle has absolutely sufficient funds, and it is absolutely no problem to raise tens of thousands of dollars." In this era, tens of thousands of dollars is really a big boss, so the tens of thousands of dollars of the Italians, Definitely have the confidence to say that the funds are sufficient.

   "To be honest, the profit in the middle is huge, aren't there other businessmen doing it?" Fang Lang didn't believe that no one else had discovered such a good business opportunity.

"Of course someone has already started to do it, otherwise how would the price be set! Are you wondering why no one directly ships the whole ship to this side?" the Italian asked with a smile in Fang Lang's heart question.

Before Fang Lang could answer, he answered by himself: "Do you think the German submarines at sea are vegetarian now? Except for the fleet protected by the **** fleet, the risks borne by other civilian merchant ships for a trip do not have this price Earnings, who would want it! Those with the protection of the **** fleet are transporting strategic materials, so they won’t do business with you! In fact, the time when cigarettes can be used as cash also started when the Yankees landed and counterattacked. It only takes more than four months. It takes time for large merchants to prepare their fleets. As far as I know, some merchants have ventured out and never returned. This has caused the price of cigarettes to become stronger.”

  (end of this chapter)