Every time I come home, my wife is making garbage

Chapter 396 Blood Earnings

Several top spies looked at the camel man chewing cabbage stupidly.

These spies are actually not poor. After all, the funding for spy activities is high. They can afford to eat whatever they want when they are on business trips, and they have everything from luxury cars, beautiful women, and various magical weapons.

So water cabbage is not very tempting to them.

But they are well aware of the conditions of the desert kingdom.

Vegetables are god-level food for all desert people.

Several spies couldn't help but glance at Zhang Jingyi, thinking: What kind of devil is this? How can he take advantage of someone's weakness like this? This is an offer that cannot be refused.

Seeing them glaring at him, Zhang Jingyi glared back without hesitation, laughing in his heart: You can't stand seeing this, right? Hehehehe! I knew that, let alone this poor world, even in my world with abundant resources, the price of vegetables in desert countries is skyrocketing.

Zhang Jingyi once read a document that in Qatar, a salad can be sold for 9 pounds, and in the Gaza Strip, a kilogram of tomatoes can be sold for 190 yuan.

Showing a large bucket of vegetables to the people of the Desert Kingdom was a ruthless temptation.

The spies were speechless.

Zhang Jingyi: "I will use this thing to exchange for your black oil! Let me first explain my point of view. Black oil can be directly pumped out from the ground. The only cost your country needs to pay is the cost of pumping it and the cost of transportation."

The spies nodded in agreement.

Zhang Jingyi: "And if I want to send the vegetables to you, it also requires transportation costs, as well as the cost of keeping them fresh, so the transportation cost of the black oil offsets the transportation cost of my vegetables. The only thing you need to pay is the extraction cost."

Everyone acquiesces.

Zhang Jingyi: "The cost of black oil is very low, no doubt about it. But you know how high the cost of my cabbage is. It takes farmers half a year of hard work to cultivate the land, apply fertilizer, sow seeds, remove pests, pick vegetables... Each of these takes a lot of labor."

Zhang Jingyi: "So, my bucket of cabbage in exchange for 100 barrels of black oil, isn't that too much?"

Several spies were confused. Although they were all top spies, they were novices in business. They felt that there was something strange about exchanging a bucket of cabbage for 100 barrels of oil. However, after listening to Zhang Jingyi's analysis, it seemed to make sense.

Listening to this deal as someone from the Desert Kingdom, I feel like it’s a huge win!

Zhang Jingyi said to the wolves, "Let them go and let them take my news back to the Desert Kingdom."

So, several spies were released easily, and each of them was given five water cabbages to hold in their arms when they left. The scene was a bit weird.

They originally thought they were going to die, but unexpectedly they just went into the palace and took a look around and came out again without any injury.

"Let's go, let's go back home!"
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A few days later, in the capital of the desert kingdom, the oasis city, the royal palace.

Pharaoh looked at the dozens of water cabbages in front of him and fell into deep thought.

"The King of the Magic Kingdom, are you willing to exchange this thing for our black oil?"

"Yes!" Black Widow reported, "It said one barrel of cabbage for one hundred barrels of black oil." "One hundred barrels?" When Pharaoh heard this number, his first reaction was not that one hundred barrels was a lot, but rather that it was a huge profit, a huge profit.

There is no way, even if he is the Pharaoh, he thinks cabbage is a divine delicacy.

As for black oil, as long as you find the right place and send the gerbils to dig underground, you can get as much as you want. What's a hundred barrels? You can get a hundred billion barrels without any effort.

His instinct told him to agree immediately, but his qualities as a king told him to calm down, calm down, and figure it out...

So, the big businessman Atayi was urgently summoned to the palace.

"Attai, you are the most business-savvy person in the Desert Kingdom. Tell me, is it reasonable to exchange one hundred barrels of black oil for one barrel of cabbage?"

After Pharaoh asked this, Atayi started to do math problems.

He took out a charcoal pencil and started writing Arabic numerals on the ground, one stroke to the left, one stroke to the right, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing, and he worked on all kinds of math problems.

The Pharaoh and the nobles looked at each other in bewilderment...

After an unknown amount of time, Atayi threw away the charcoal pencil in his hand and looked up and said, "Your Majesty, if they bring the cabbages here and take the black oil away, we can make a profit by exchanging one barrel of cabbages for one hundred barrels of black oil! This business is totally worth doing."

"But if we transport the black oil over there and then transport the cabbage back, we will lose money. We will lose a lot of transportation costs. At most, we can only exchange one barrel of cabbage for 50 barrels of black oil."

"If both of us transport the cabbages to the border and trade at the border, that is, each of us bears half of the transportation costs, then we can accept one barrel of cabbage in exchange for seventy barrels of black oil."

The Pharaoh was confused and asked, "The transportation cost is so high? Doesn't the other party's cabbage also have transportation costs and freshness-keeping costs?"

Atayi: "You were deceived by Zhang Jingyi's sweet talk. He deliberately said that the transportation costs of both sides offset each other, but in fact they cannot offset each other at all. He transports a barrel of cabbage, and we have to transport dozens or hundreds of barrels of oil, which requires more manpower and more vehicles, so our transportation costs are obviously higher. Although our country has a large number of camel drivers, and is naturally superior to the Magic Kingdom in terms of transportation, our camel drivers have to eat and consume cabbage after traveling long distances. No matter how you look at it, the transportation cost is much higher than theirs, and this part of the cost should be reflected in the transaction."

Pharaoh: “???”

After being stunned for several seconds, he suddenly realized: "Yes! Damn it, you actually tried to deceive me."

Atayi spread his hands and said, "But your majesty, there is no need to be angry. Business people are like this. When negotiating prices, they will set traps for the other party everywhere. As long as you can see through it, there is no need to be angry about it. We can just draft a new transaction plan and send it over."

As the two were talking about this, Johnny English spoke up, "By the way, Zhang Jingyi said that if we refine the black oil ourselves and sell the refined product to them, the price will increase significantly... He said that a barrel of cabbage can only be exchanged for ten barrels of gasoline or ten barrels of diesel."

"what?"

Pharaoh was delighted: "If this is the case, our transportation costs will be greatly reduced and we will make much more money."

Atayi: "But we will increase the refining cost. Uh, I have to calculate this again... It's so complicated. I feel that this calculation is even more complicated."

Pharaoh: "If it's complicated, go home and calculate it slowly. Don't calculate it here for me. My brain hurts when I see your math formulas. Let's sell the black oil first. Someone, pump a large amount of black oil immediately. Pump 10,000 barrels and ship it to me first. Hahaha, now we can earn more than 100 barrels of cabbage."

(End of this chapter)