Chapter 481 I really got rich now
The crisis for more than half a month has finally ended. Although the ending is not so satisfactory, at last the 10 Chinese doctors he brought out with Chen Qi have returned safely.
If so many foreign doctors died, Chen Qi felt that he could just stay in Africa and have no face to return to China to see Haidong's father in his old age.
At night, it was already quiet inside the China-Serbia Friendship Hospital, but Chen Qi couldn’t sleep.
He simply got up and locked the door with a latch. After making sure that there would be no accidents, he quickly stepped into the space.
After coming out of the space operating room, the first thing he passed by was the peaches picked in Xiaze Village, as well as various delicacies and snacks purchased in China. These are the reserves of a foodie like him, and no one can afford to lose his mouth.
Chen Qi picked up a drawer of Shengxian Xiao Long Bao, held it between his fingers, and walked forward while eating.
Passing by a large number of medical equipment and second-hand cars bought by the mold country, and passing by a large number of weapons, he came to a large number of boxes.
These wooden boxes are not neat, some are obviously processed, and some are randomly pieced together. There are probably no less than 100 large and small boxes.
They were all taken from the Tomaya Yin camp, well, just taken.
Anyway, there are so many boxes, and all the materials that should be hidden in them, whether they are valuable or not, were all snatched by these black people. Chen Qi took them without any psychological pressure.
After finishing the xiaolongbao, Chen Qi wiped his mouth, pulled out an iron rod, and began to pry open a wooden box at his feet.
Then it blinded his eyes.
Because there were pieces of yellow metal placed inside the box, Chen Qi wanted to pick up one piece to weigh the weight, but he almost slipped his waist because it was too heavy.
Each piece of yellow metal is engraved with the words: "gold 27.4lb"
Chen Qi's heartbeat quickened instantly. He had originally heard that the core of this rebel army was the gold mine security team. Later, they killed the mine owner and robbed the gold, and then they gradually grew in strength.
Now that there are pieces of gold in front of him, Chen Qi believes it. Damn it, he really robbed a gold mine. No one else has such luck.
Okay, after working hard for so many years, and then grabbing so many surrounding gold mines, Chen Qi got them all in one fell swoop.
A piece of gold weighs 27.4 pounds, which is 12.5 kilograms when converted into kilograms. Chen Qi opened the boxes and checked them one by one. There were more than 30 boxes of gold.
A box of gold costs 10 yuan, which is 125 kilograms, so the total weight of these golds is almost 5 tons.
(The volume of 1 ton of gold is about the same size as a computer host, so 5 tons of gold does not seem so exaggerated.)
The price of gold in 1987 was US$409 per ounce, US$409 ÷ 28.35 grams = US$14.43/gram.
In 1987, 1 U.S. dollar was exchanged for about 4 yuan, and 14.43 U.S. dollars x 4 was about 58 yuan.
These 5 tons of gold are equivalent to US$72 million. At first glance, it seems to be less than US$100 million, which is not particularly much.
But if you convert it into RMB, it would be nearly 300 million yuan. This was 300 million yuan in 1987, an era when the average worker's salary was only 100 yuan.
And another advantage of gold is that it does not depreciate.
When banknotes are stored in banks, they are actually being squeezed out by inflation, and their purchasing power is constantly declining, which means they are actually losing money.
But gold is different. As an international hard currency, its price will only rise, and its purchasing power will always be strong.
For example, if you save 300 million yuan in 1987 until 2023, the interest may only be tens of millions, and the loss will reach your grandma’s house.
But if it is 5 tons of gold in 1987, and you hide it until 2023, based on the gold price at that time, it will be worth 2.5 billion yuan.
Of course, compared with housing prices, gold's value preservation and appreciation are smaller, but don't forget that a house is a fixed asset. If you want to run away, it will be difficult to take it away with you, and it will also be difficult to cash it out for you.
(Wait a minute, why does Chen Qi always want to escape abroad?)
But gold is different. When you open an account in Switzerland and deposit the gold, the money will always be yours and no one can take it away.
Of course, some people will say that the domestic gold trading supervision is very strict. If you take out such tons of gold, the country will not let you go.
Then why do you have to trade domestically? Can’t you trade internationally?
There are so many underground transactions and international brokers around the world. As long as you have gold, are you afraid that you won’t be able to sell it?
Therefore, it is said that blessings come from misfortunes, and misfortunes come from blessings.
I originally thought that coming to Africa would be a hard job, but I was so unlucky that I went to the countryside to conduct research on parasites and was kidnapped by the Wu Zhuang elements. It was a close call.
As a result, he survived the catastrophe, but it brought him such a huge fortune. To put it bluntly, Chen Qi wanted to open a tertiary comprehensive private hospital in the future, and he had accumulated half of his original capital.
Chen Qi, who loves money as much as his life, was so happy when he saw so much gold.
Then they pried open the remaining boxes and pulled out a lot of ivory, rhinoceros horns and other items.
Chen Qi thought for a while, these treasures must be released in time, otherwise they will definitely be lost in the future.
Because he had the impression that the trading of these things had been banned in the 1990s. Of course rhino horn is a good thing and the most important raw material of the miracle drug "Angong Niuhuang Pill". Unfortunately, Tongrentang did not dare to purchase it at that time.
In the far corner, there was a tin box that caught Chen Qi's attention.
Because this box is obviously more high-end, stronger, and more refined, and it doesn't look like something Africans can produce.
Chen Qi smashed the lock with an iron rod and opened it, revealing velvet bags inside.
Seeing this, Chen Qi already had a guess in his mind. He was so excited that his hands were shaking. He quickly opened one of the bags and a large handful of "rock candy" fell out.
The bright eyes that Chen Qi expected did not appear. He thought it was a diamond, but it was definitely a brilliant piece of crystal light.
But he immediately thought that this should be an uncut rough diamond. No wonder it was as inconspicuous as rock candy or broken glass.
Chen Qi didn't know how much these rough diamonds were worth, the ones as big as thumbs and the small ones as small as peanuts.
He only knew that in his previous life, in order to make his girlfriend happy, he gave him a 1-carat diamond ring, which cost him a full 50,000 yuan. It was just a diamond of average quality.
As the prototype country of "Blood Diamond", in addition to gold, Senegal has the most diamonds.
It’s just that this country is too backward. It only knows how to mine diamonds, but doesn’t know how to cut them. As a result, the biggest profits are made by European and American countries, and they make a lot of money.
"I've made it, I've made it~~~"
Chen Qi was so excited that his hands were shaking again. The value of this bag of diamonds is no worse than gold.
So he couldn't wait and reached for the bag next to him. If this box was full of diamonds, Chen Qi felt that he could quit his job and retire as an apartment owner now.
The second bag turned out to be diamonds, and Chen Qi almost danced with excitement.
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