At half past eleven, Jia Dongsheng jumped over the wall and left the courtyard, heading towards the black market.
The last time I came to the black market, I came and left in a hurry, but I gained a lot.
Two pistols, plus pork, pig heads, etc. If he hadn't come with Sha Zhu and Yi Zhonghai, he would have wanted to buy more.
I don’t know if I can meet someone selling meat this time.
By the time we were almost at the black market, it was already twelve o'clock.
Jia Dongsheng disguised himself in the homestay so that no one could recognize him. Then he followed the crowd and entered a street in the black market.
I don’t know if it was because I was lucky last time that I met someone selling pork. Anyway, this time, let alone pork, there is not even any chicken or duck meat. The black market for meat is very bleak.
There was no way out. Signs of the disaster began to appear in 1958, officially appeared in 1959, and became serious in 1960. By October 1960, the grain harvest failed again, and the situation became even more serious.
As I said, there is not much food for people to eat, let alone enough to feed animals.
Jia Dongsheng was not in a hurry and strolled around the black market slowly.
In fact, the black market is quite large. The entire street has a bend. At this bend, seven or eight people are standing together, looking into the black market from time to time. They should be the managers of the black market.
Speaking of which, the black market is different from the pigeon market, which operates in a gray area. The black market is completely illegal and is not allowed to exist. If you are caught selling things here, the minimum punishment is to eat free porridge, and in serious cases, you will have to eat peanuts.
Therefore, those who are able to organize a black market must have someone behind them.
These are the people Jia Dongsheng wants to contact.
For those who run the black market, their power must be considerable. Exchanging tens of thousands of dollars with them, although a large number, is not that much either.
However, we must be on guard against them robbing each other.
Jia Dongsheng was mentally prepared for this. If these black market people could trade with him honestly, then there would be no problem. He could exchange silver for some gold and then 20,000 yuan in cash. But if the other party was not honest, sorry, they wanted to rob the robbers, and Jia Dongsheng wanted to do the same.
Whether you can make some extra money depends on how greedy the managers of the black market are.
He knew that those who were able to intervene in the management of the black market were not good people. Even if he gave them a powerful enemy, it would be considered as getting rid of harm to the people.
After walking around the black market for over an hour and not seeing anyone selling meat, Jia Dongsheng was quite disappointed. He still wanted to buy some meat.
The pork of this era was much more delicious than the fine meat he brought back from later times, which surprised him greatly.
Unfortunately, too few were sold.
I looked at the time and it was already 1:30 in the morning. It was time to start contacting people in the black market.
When he reached the corner of the black market street, Jia Dongsheng did not stop but continued to walk in. There were originally seven or eight people standing there, but now only four were left. The others probably went out for a walk. The black market was not safe, and if you were not careful, you would be surrounded by a group and arrested.
"Hey, what are you doing here?"
As soon as Jia Dongsheng walked over, one of the four young men stood up to stop him.
"I want to do a business." Jia Dongsheng's voice was a little low, not his usual voice.
"A deal?"
The person who spoke did not continue talking. Instead, he turned his head and looked at a man in his forties among the four people who had a not-so-big scar on his face.
"I wonder which road you are on, brother. What kind of business do you want to do with us?"
The scarred man took a few steps forward, stopped more than two meters in front of Jia Dongsheng, and asked lightly.
"I'm not on any path. My family is too poor to make ends meet, so I want to use my family fortune to make some money."
Jia Dongsheng made up a story indifferently.
"Oh, I see!"
The scarred man was no stranger to people exchanging their family fortune for money. Since the disaster began, not only did people come to them to exchange money every day in the black market, but there would also be a few every one or two days.
However, the amount exchanged was not large. Fortunately, the price difference was acceptable, so it was considered some hard-earned money, and the scarred man was very happy with the money.
"Sure. I don't know what you're planning to exchange for money, but let me tell you, we don't accept anything that's not good. Of course, if the item is good, we'll give you a good price."
“A good price?”
Jia Dongsheng frowned at this, but he still said, "I want to exchange silver ingots for large yellow croaker and cash. What's the price?"
"Silver ingots?"
Hearing that it was silver ingots, the scarred man felt a little happy. It was not because he earned more by exchanging gold and silver for cash, but because such a transaction was very simple and convenient, and he could make money easily.
As for exchanging antiques for money, that’s hard to say.
Putting aside the authenticity of the antiques, the value of the antiques is one price in their eyes and another price in the eyes of the sellers. When they receive the antiques and then sell them, the price in the buyer's mind is yet another price. It is very troublesome to bargain and sell them.
Therefore, antique transactions are more valuable, but gold and silver transactions are more convenient.
"Silver exchanged for gold, or cash, must be discounted by 10%. We want to earn our hard work fee."
The scarred man smiled. "One hundred yuan worth of silver will be exchanged for ninety yuan in cash. As for the yellow croaker, the value of the silver must be at least two hundred and forty yuan. Our price is very reasonable in the black market. Is it acceptable?"
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