On the other side.
After Liu Honglan left, Jiang Chen let out a long sigh.
"Fortunately, I was careful back then and drafted a new contract. Otherwise, I really don't know how to end today's matter.”
As the old saying goes, only women and villains are difficult to raise.
Jiang Chen wasn't naive enough to think that Liu Honglan had been tricked into leaving by his words.
A woman like Liu Honglan, who owned a bunch of houses and collected rent, faced all kinds of tenants every day. She was definitely not as easy to talk to as she looked on the surface.
If it weren't for this contract, Liu Honglan would definitely take the house back without hesitation.
"It seems that even with the help of the system, I still have to be careful when investing to minimize the risk.”
Jiang Chen sighed inwardly and prepared to leave.
But at this moment.
Ding dong.
The phone in his pocket rang.
Jiang Chen took out his phone and saw that it was a piece of news that had been pushed out. He subconsciously wanted to cross it out.
But when he glanced at the headline, his expression changed.
"Ships will stop across the Ishr River, and the global waterway may be congested.”
Looking at the headline, Jiang Chen suddenly thought of the news about the blockage of the Yishi River in his previous life.
If he remembered correctly.
The Ish River was one of the important sea routes for global trade. Its existence not only accelerated the intensity of global trade, but also greatly shortened the route of trade.
In his previous life, the Yis River was blocked by a cargo ship for a week, which directly caused tension in global trade.
The global economic losses caused every day were as high as billions of meters.
Even in the domestic market, because of this incident, some items were in short supply and prices fluctuated.
Jiang Chen's finger, which was about to cross out the news feed, paused for a moment. He then clicked on the news.
He had thought that the content of this news would be similar to that in his previous life, but when he glanced at it, he was indeed dumbfounded.
This was because the news did not say that a ship had stopped on the surface of the Ish River. Instead, it was a chain reaction caused by the improper operation of a ship. In the end, the three cargo ships behind were unable to respond to the emergency in time and stopped on the surface of the Ish River.
In other words.
Four cargo ships were stuck on the river, unable to move.
Seeing this…
"Is this for real?" Jiang Chen couldn't help but gape.”
Four cargo ships.
He knew that there would be a deviation in time between the parallel world and the original world.
But wasn't this deviation a little too big?
To confirm the authenticity of the news, Jiang Chen opened up other information apps.
After all, the media nowadays would even treat a scientist's hospitalization as a death in order to grab the attention of the public.
It was possible to say that one cargo ship was four cargo ships.
However, after browsing through several information platforms and seeing the photos of the four ships, Jiang Chen was certain that they were indeed stuck on the river.
Not only that.
Because of the chain reaction brought about by these four ships, the current situation on the Yis River could be said to be chaotic.
According to the news.
It would take at least three days just to command the ships that were not stuck to return and clear the river.
Seeing this…
Jiang Chen couldn't help but take a deep breath. A bold idea popped up in his mind.
In his previous life.
The river was blocked.
It was only one ship that was stuck, but in a week, the channel was completely cleared.
But now?
A total of four ships were stuck, and the scene was even more chaotic. It took three days just to clear the other ships.
In addition, they had to rescue the four ships that were stuck.
At least half a month?
In his previous life, only one freighter was blocked in the Yis River, and it had such a serious impact on global trade in a week. This time, four freighters were blocked, and it would be blocked for at least ten days to half a month. Wouldn't that have a greater impact on global trade?
It was the same logic.
Would it affect the domestic market as well?
If he could seize the opportunity to stock up on a large number of items and wait for the market to change and the price to rise, wouldn't he be able to make a huge profit?
In his previous life, because the ships had only been stuck for a short period of time, the impact on the domestic market hadn't been too severe. Jiang Chen hadn't seized this opportunity to strike.
But this time was different.
This time, the ship would be stuck for at least ten days to half a month.
After such a long time, it was inevitable that the domestic import and export industry would be seriously affected.
With that in mind, Jiang Chen couldn't wait to start looking through the country's import and export reports for last year.
Very quickly.
He found a set of data on the official website.
"Our country's total export volume last year was…"
"This is the exit data."
Jiang Chen skimmed through the first few pages.
The export of goods affected the supply and demand of goods in the foreign market.
It had nothing to do with him.
The Ishi River was blocked, and imported goods could not enter the country. What was affected was the domestic prices.
Therefore, he directly sent the data down.
Very quickly.
He found the data of domestic goods imported last year.
Top 10 domestic imported goods.
Iron ore, crude oil, coal, natural gas, steel, copper, refined oil, soybeans, dried fruits, and primary plastic.
He saw iron ore, crude oil, coal, natural gas, steel, and copper.
Jiang Chen chose to pass.
Especially crude oil, coal, natural gas, and refined oil.
It was basically impossible for ordinary people to get involved in these things.
Therefore, he finally set his sights on soybeans, dried fruits, and basic plastic.
Last year, the weight of domestically imported soybeans reached 80 million tons.
50 million tons of dried fruits.
40 million tons of primary plastic.
These three items were more common in life and were the easiest to obtain among the top ten imported goods in the country.
Jiang Chen planned to stock up on one of the three items, but whether he wanted to stock up on soybeans, dried fruits, or basic plastic would depend on the rate of return.
Without another word, Jiang Chen headed straight for the market.
"Beans.
Rate of return: 29%.
Return Period: 23
[Danger: 40]
Jiang Chen instantly knew that his guess was correct when he saw the system's analysis.
The river was blocked.
Sure enough, it had an impact on the prices of major domestic imported products.
But soon, he frowned.
"The payback period is 23, which means that the impact of the blockage will last for 23 days. After such a long time, the payback rate is only 29%.”
Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes, feeling that something was amiss.
According to his deduction, the price of soybeans would increase by at least 50% after being stuck in the market for so long.
But now, the return rate given by the system was only 29%, not even 30%.
However, when he saw the risk value of 40, he suddenly understood.
Soy beans were not ordinary items.
This was a grain-type product.
According to the market rules, his price would definitely increase by more than this.
But this was in China.
Once the prices of soybeans and rice became too high and affected the lives of the people, the government could not sit idly by and would definitely take action to regulate them.
This could also explain why the return on stockpiling soybeans was not high.
"Looks like I have to choose between dried fruit and basic plastic.”
Jiang Chen decided to give up on stockpiling soybeans.
He looked at the dried fruits and the basic plastic.
However, when he reached the dried fruit market, he was dumbfounded.
There were too many types of dried fruits.
Thunderbolt fruit, cashew nut, walnut, pine nut, almond, gingko, pistachio, Xiaweiguo
Jiang Chen was dazzled by these categories.
For a moment.
He was in a dilemma.
There were hundreds of dried fruits in the market.
There were so many of them. Did he have to use the system to analyze every type of dried fruit?
Jiang Chen decided to give up.
It was not just because of the trouble.
It was because if the types of dried fruits were too scattered, the effect of the price increase would not be too obvious.
He would spread it equally among each category.
There was another reason.
Dried fruits were not a necessity.
It was not like rice.
Even if it was expensive, he had to buy it and eat it.
Dried fruits were not necessary in the market. If the price was too expensive, consumers might not accept it.
Not only was the profit from hoarding a large amount of them not great, but if they could not sell them in a short period of time, it was very likely that they would lose them.
Therefore, after less than three minutes of thinking, Jiang Chen gave up on stockpiling dried fruits and finally set his eyes on the primary plastic.
China imported 40 million tons of primary plastic last year.
This amount was not considered high compared to the amount of soybeans imported.
It was even a little low.
However, it was better in the use of the primary plastic.
Primary plastic was an important raw material for plastic products, so the primary plastic imported by China was basically used for industrial production.
In this case, if there was a shortage of domestic primary plastic, then the first to be affected would be these production plants.
Without raw materials, there was no way to produce and process them.
At that time, the person in charge of the factory would definitely try his best to purchase the primary plastic and stabilize the production as much as possible.
The price of basic plastic would definitely skyrocket.
Therefore, if he took advantage of the fact that the market had yet to react and hoarded a large number of primary plastic shapes in advance, he would wait for the market supply and demand to change before selling them at a high price. It would definitely be a profitable business.
And there was one more important point.
That was the primary plastic. For the sake of production capacity, they would take over even if the price was high.
This was because they could pass on the cost through the plastic products they produced.
Therefore, Jiang Chen wasn't worried at all. No one would pick up his stock of elementary plastic and it would end up in his hands.
In order to verify his thoughts.
Jiang Chen made a special trip to Luo City's industrial zone to find the factory that produced the city's primary plastic.
There were a total of three such factories in Zhengluo City.
These three primary plastic production plants could be said to be responsible for the supply of raw materials for 60% of the plastic processing plants in Luo City.
The remaining 40% was imported.
"How much do you sell this basic plastic for?”
Jiang Chen pretended to walk into one of the factories and asked.
The salesperson in charge of receiving Jiang Chen quickly said," 8,700 dollars per ton."
Jiang Chen nodded. He had no objection to the price because he had learned about the price of the primary plastic before coming here. It was indeed fluctuating around this price.
"Can I take a look at the quality of your basic plastic?”
Jiang Chen asked calmly.
"I can."
The salesperson smiled and took out the primary plastic produced by his factory.
Jiang Chen hurriedly opened the system and began analyzing.
"Elementary plastic.
It was an important raw material for the production of plastic products.
Rate of return: 71%.
Return period: 23 days.
[Value of risk: 0]
When he saw the system's feedback on the rate of return and risk, Jiang Chen immediately knew that his previous analysis was correct.
The returns of the basic plastic were far higher than dried fruits and soybeans.
Not only that, there was no risk in hoarding them.
Therefore, in an instant.
Jiang Chen decided.
He wanted to stock up on elementary plastic, and the more the better. The more he stocked up, the fewer elementary plastic there would be on the market in Luo City.
And the less primary plastic on the market, the tighter the supply and demand.
At that time, the price of basic plastic would increase even more.
The more he earned.
It might even exceed the 71% given by the system.
"Not bad, the quality is not bad, but the price is a little high.”
Retracting his thoughts, Jiang Chen said casually.
No one could see any fluctuations.
He planned to lower the price, lower the cost, and increase the profit.
After all, the price of 8,700 tons was still a little too high for him.
"As for the price, we can discuss it again. The key is to see how much of our primary plastic you order.”
"The more you buy, the better our price.”
The sales assistant smiled when he saw Jiang Chen's interest.
Jiang Chen thought about it, but didn't directly say how many tons he wanted to order. Instead, he asked,"How many tons do you have in stock?"
As soon as he said this.
The salesgirl in charge of receiving him was stunned at first, then her eyelids began to twitch wildly.
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