Siheyuan: I am a trader in both worlds!

Chapter 238: Fragile Foreign Exchange Reserves
In the steel mill office building, Ximen Lang had just returned to his office. He turned around, opened the door, and walked quickly to the next room.

He chased and shouted.

"Wife, wife, look what goodies I brought back for you!"

My goodness, he was shouting so loudly that I thought the whole floor could hear him.

Then, Ximen Lang was embarrassed.

There is no other reason.

At this moment, there was a whole room full of people sitting in Bai Ling's office.

Not only Hao Pingchuan and Li Huaide who were in the same unit, but even Lao Luo and Director Wang who were not in the same system at all and lived far away came.

After he pushed open the office door, they all looked at him, with mocking expressions on their faces.

How could Ximen Lang not feel embarrassed?

Of course, the one who was even more embarrassed was Bai Ling, who was rather thin-skinned.

After all, no matter what, Ximen Lang is a man.

He is also a shameless and shameless man.

But Bai Ling.
Seeing Ximen Lang was embarrassed for a moment, he immediately acted as if nothing had happened and started making faces at himself in front of everyone.

Bai Ling, who really couldn't stand Ximen Lang's excessive enthusiasm and felt that everyone's gazes were like knives scraping at her body, was extremely uncomfortable, so she immediately shouted to stop him.

"I've told you so many times to address your job title when you're working! Why can't you remember?"

"Okay, white plant."

The word "white plant" almost broke Bai Ling's defense.

The next second, a dazzling diamond, as big as the Star of Africa, was held in Ximen Lang's palm like a magic trick and placed in front of everyone.

The office, which was bustling just now, immediately fell into silence so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

After a long time, everyone gasped and slowly came to their senses.

He exclaimed in amazement.

"This is so gorgeous, is this a diamond? It must be the size of an egg! Have you ever seen a diamond this big?"

"Where can we find it? If I hadn't spent two years in the Magic City and seen it a few times in jewelry stores, I wouldn't even know what it is. But even in the colorful Magic City, there's nothing this big. How much is it worth?"

"In terms of current market value, it is definitely no less than 20 billion."

"How many?!"

"20 million!"

"RRMB?"

"RMB?"

Even Ximen Lang laughed.

Ximen Lang asked back.

"Can you spend your RMB abroad?"

The question made Hao Pingchuan shrink his neck and mumble in reply.

“I can’t spend it.”

"Then it's over!"

“So this price”

"Of course it's in US dollars! Even that's a conservative estimate. If you really go by the price some institutions are giving, you can't even think about buying it for less than $75 billion!" (That's how much it would have been worth back then, converted to today.)
Such a small diamond is worth dozens of times the country's foreign exchange reserves!
Even if we add in inflation and other messy factors (the purchasing power of one dollar in 60 is about equal to 8.4 dollars today.)
"That's much more than our current foreign exchange reserves of just $1.8 million. It should be worth at least two or three times as much!"

"How many?!"

"Two or three times." "No, that's not it. I'm asking how much our foreign exchange reserves are!"

"1.8."

"1.8 billion?!"

This is such an absurd number no matter how you look at it, it even dumbfounded Ximen Lang.

In front of everyone, he took out his cell phone and started searching.

Then, Ximen Lang was completely speechless by the eye-catching numbers.

He pulled out from his pocket several perfect imitations of world-famous diamonds of similar value to the Star of Africa.

The Mountain of Light Diamond, Star of Hope Diamond, Xianxi Diamond, Century Diamond, etc. filled up the entire table.

Ximen Lang murmured as Lao Luo and the others looked somewhat numb.

"One African star is worth several times our foreign exchange reserves. I have so many of them. Wouldn't that make me rich enough to rival a nation?"

"Well, Brother Lang, you won't need so many. With just one, you can wipe out our foreign exchange reserves in seconds."

By pressing Hao Pingchuan's head, he pushed the tactless Hao Pingchuan into the sofa.

Taking a deep breath, Lao Luo asked.

"Alang, these diamonds shouldn't be right, right? Although I don't know about the other diamonds, I know the Star of Africa. This diamond should be with Queen John Bull, set in the scepter that symbolizes royal power."

Even John Bull in later generations had poop, the kind that pooped all over his crotch.
"It's unlikely they would sell something like this, right? And it ended up in your hands."

"Of course not. Even though John Bull's poop is really terrible, even worse than a Gallic rooster's. But this is their reputation. No matter how shameless they are, they can't sell this to an outsider like me."

"Then this is you."

Originally, Ximen Lang wanted to show off these things in front of the others. After satisfying his desire, he would then reveal the fact that diamonds could be artificially created in the future.

But when I heard that such a big country has only such a small amount of foreign exchange reserves.

I have no interest anymore.

He then threw a ruby ​​the size of a billiard ball to Hao Pingchuan, frightening him so much that he hurriedly caught it, fearing that such a rare treasure would be damaged due to his carelessness.

Seeing that he was so cautious, Ximen Lang shook his head.

"Don't worry, even though this thing looks precious, it's actually worth very little. These diamonds are a bit better, because of their size, they are still worth a bit. But this ruby... You don't have to spend money to buy it. Give me some time, and I can make it for you right now."

As he spoke, he followed the techniques Xia Yiyi gave him and watched the online instructional video, walked to the microwave oven, and started tinkering with it according to the steps.

Sure enough, in just a short while, Ximen Lang had made a few rubies, which although did not look very good were undoubtedly real rubies.

Lao Luo and the others were all stunned.

Ximen Lang then revealed the answer.

"See? I can make rubies by hand at home without any special environment or professional equipment."

"So, these things are worthless here. With your current salary, converted into our currency, you can easily buy a lot of them here."

"But here, these things are so expensive that ordinary people can't afford them in ten or even a hundred lifetimes!"

"And this brings up a question, that is, are you planning to buy goods from me and then sell them to make a fortune? Or..."

Snapped

Another tablet was placed directly in front of Lao Luo and others.

Ximen Lang continued.

"It's better to develop it yourself according to the above technology. Let me make it clear in advance that with our limited industrial capacity, no matter how powerful you are, you can't match our low prices."

　There are guests at home. Sorry for being late.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)