Huge Profits
When they returned to the hotel and saw the two bags of colorful rubles on the table, everyone was dumbfounded.
They really didn't expect this business to be so profitable.
It was really too profitable. It was simply a huge profit!
After spending two days in Moscow, Lin Yi's pricing for the goods was very simple. He only needed to cut the domestic price by half.
For example, a 10-yuan can of meat in China would be sold for 5 rubles in Moscow, and a 50-yuan cotton boot would be sold for 25 rubles.
Lin Yi wasn't doing charity.
International trade and domestic trade were different. The exchange rate had to be considered. At this time, the ruble was at its strongest. The official price was 0.55 rubles to 1 US dollar.
The exchange rate of US dollars to Chinese dollars was 1 US dollar was 5.3 Chinese dollars.
In other words, 1 ruble was equivalent to 9.5 Chinese dollars.
The canned meat that Lin Yi sold in Moscow was sold for 47.5 yuan, almost five times more!
This was not the most profitable thing. The most profitable thing was Lin Yi's hard liquor with industrial alcohol and glass bottles. The winery sold it to Lin Yi at the price of two yuan per bottle.
Here, Lin Yi sold a bottle of wine for five rubles. Like canned meat, it was 47.5 Chinese dollars, but the profit margin was 23 to 24 times.
Lin Yi instantly felt that he was not selling wine, but gold.
Lin Yi had already thought about the profit margin, but the key problem was that he did not expect that a whole train of goods, 60 tons of supplies, and nearly three million Chinese dollars of goods would be sold so quickly.
He had thought that it would take at least a week to sell the goods, and he had even rented the warehouse. However, he had emptied the goods in the car.
Lin Yi finally understood why the old Russian man had looked at him so strangely when he wanted to rent the storage unit. He must have known this would happen.
This was a little awkward. Lin Yi's second train had probably just arrived at the Ice City in China. It would take at least six days for it to arrive.
In other words, Lin Yi had nothing to sell in these six days.
Then there was another important problem, which was that if there was another train of wagons, they would probably be wiped out in an instant. It would not be able to satisfy Moscow's appetite at all.
Moscow was now a giant kun that truly devoured everything. This world metropolis with a population of more than 14 million consumed hundreds of thousands of tons of materials every day.
However, the supplies transported by the entire Soviet Union to Moscow only accounted for about half of the demand.
There were more than 100,000 farm workers growing vegetables for Moscow every day. In addition, there were nearly 40,000 Moscow citizens who were forced to work on the farms.
But in the shops in Moscow, there were still no vegetables.
After the vegetables were transported over, most of them were taken away by various means.
Yes, that's right. When the Russians obtained supplies, they were just like the Chinese before the reform and opening up. They liked to use the word "mess" to describe them.
This was because he couldn't buy any supplies openly. He could only get some through various connections.
As the capital of the Soviet Union, Moscow had a better shortage of supplies. Some towns and villages could not even buy cloth and oil, so no supplies could enter.
Lin Yi shook his head silently. This country was really finished. It was completely broken from the roots.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that this was the soviets described in books and people's mouths.
The Soviet Union he knew was a happy country with abundant supplies and workers who had a month of paid vacation every year.
During the paid holidays, they could take the train and then go to the seaside resort to enjoy all kinds of comfort.
Most importantly, these were all free. The train and the rest house were all free.
In later generations, the so-called high welfare European countries were not worth mentioning when compared to the Soviet Union. Their so-called welfare measures were copied from the Soviet Union.
The Soviets at that time were just like what was described in the Communist-issued Manifest of Karl Karl Marks.
However, this period of time had to stop in the 1980s. With the rise of President Ronald, the start of the Star Wars program, and the Soviet Union's militarism, that beautiful life was gone forever, leaving only chicken feathers on the ground.
"Boss, the shortage of supplies in Moscow is more serious than we thought.”Looking at the nearly two million rubles on the table, Big Horse said with bloodshot eyes.
At this moment, Ma Ma only had one thought in his mind, and that was to become a teacher or learn a foreign language. If he wanted to do it, he would do international trade. This was simply robbing money.
Lin Yi nodded and lowered his head in deep thought.
Everyone looked at Lin Yi eagerly. They were also a little confused by the current complicated situation and could only wait for Lin Yi to make a decision.
After a long time, Lin Yi said," There are two things now. I'll take Teacher Wu to the black market to exchange rubles for dollars."”
Hearing this, Big Horse couldn't help but ask,"This will cause a lot of losses, right?"”
The current official exchange rate was 0.55 to 1 US Dollar, while the black market exchange rate was 0.6 US Dollar to 1 US Dollar. If one went to the black market to exchange, they would basically lose one-tenth of the amount.
Lin Yi shook his head." There's nothing we can do about it. It's too slow to go through the official channels, and it's easy to not pay with all kinds of excuses.”
For example, in the Soviet Union and China, there was a term for foreign exchange control.
It wasn't that money could be exchanged for foreign exchange, especially for large amounts of foreign exchange. It required the approval of an existence called the foreign exchange bureau.
According to Lin Yi's understanding of the domestic foreign exchange system, it was basically very difficult to smoothly exchange foreign exchange in the Soviet Union.
He might as well go directly to the black market to exchange for it.
"Right now, time is money. With the exchange rate that we lost, when we return, we can squeeze out some time and make another trip.”Lin Yi said.
Everyone nodded. That was indeed the case.
One more trip meant four or five times more profits. Compared to the losses of the black market exchange, it was really insignificant.
"Next is the second thing. Xingyuan, you and Wu Yongnian should take the plane to Ice City to pick up the goods according to the original plan.”Lin Yi said.
Wu Yongnian and Xing Yuan nodded.
Then, Lin Yi looked at Big Horse and Zhou Zheng and said solemnly,"The two of you have a heavier task.”
" The two of you will also take a plane to Ice City. Sell me ten train loads of goods there. Is six days enough?" Lin Yi asked.
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