Chapter 620
"Considering the company's consumption of silver, the company will launch a new purchasing method. This purchasing method will give the company priority to purchase all its products, including robots and VR platforms..."
Umbrella's sudden official announcement directly attracted great attention.
Nowadays, buying Umbrella products can directly " earn money to support the family" and truly become a winner in life. It can be said that this is highly valued by the whole world!
Even though I only earn 3,000 yuan a month here, it’s very good to work as a robot to support myself.
But foreign countries also attach great importance to it.
Although foreign countries cannot compare with China in terms of manufacturing, for robots like Da Piaoliang, the high labor costs will make the robot itself more "practical".
That is to say, Umbrella stated earlier that it would give priority to meeting the production capacity of its own products, so a certain proportion of priority was given to a certain major country in terms of robot supply, which is why the domestic market appears to be more popular.
But in fact, foreign robots are also hard to come by.
Now that a new purchasing channel has suddenly been opened, it naturally attracts a lot of attention.
"Our company will launch a 'credit point' system, which will only accept silver exchanges. Each gram of silver can be exchanged for 100 credit points. Half of the new products produced in the future can only be purchased with credit points, and there is a 10% discount. The purchasing power of credit points is benchmarked against the price of silver, and can be directly exchanged for a corresponding number of US dollars. It can also be exchanged for euros, but a 50% depreciation fee will be charged for euros, and a 10% depreciation fee will be charged for silver."
The importance of silver has been infinitely highlighted since the emergence of Umbrella's magic theory and the popularity of Umbrella's various products.
Under the hype of international speculators and the original demand, the price of silver can be said to have risen rapidly, heading straight for the price of gold!
Today, the price of silver has broken through the 200 yuan/gram mark and is still rising steadily.
Many people are predicting that if Umbrella did not have a large number of silver mines in its hands and had absolute say in silver pricing, the price of silver would definitely exceed that of gold in the future!
Now international speculators dare not speculate in silver anymore. In fact, one of the main reasons is that Umbrella has too much silver reserves.
If the price is driven up, and Umbrella sees the good profits and dumps the stock, I'll be in tears.
However, if the price of silver is stable and its growth rate exceeds inflation in the long run, many people will actively hoard it, adding to the already large number of silver scattered among the people.
Therefore, there is actually a lot of silver among the people, but it is not circulated.
The emergence of Umbrella's new regulations has undoubtedly brought another impact on the price of silver, and the price soared by 10% on the same day.
However, after Umbrella took action to stabilize the situation and took the money from those speculators, they immediately calmed down and did not dare to act rashly.
The silver reserves are not as good as Umbrella's, and the US dollar reserves are not as good as Umbrella's. It's better not to commit suicide!
At times like this, just follow along and drink some soup. If you really dive in, won't you be easily controlled by Umbrella?
They can kill you with just their left hand or their right hand.
You have to know that in that battle with South Korea, Umbrella also gained at least tens of billions of US dollars, and it really had a lot of cash in its hands.
Not to mention the silver mines. Mexico, Brazil, Kangaroo, Africa, and Neon, Umbrella holds a lot of high-quality silver mines. If Umbrella wants to destroy them, it won't be a problem to cut the current price of silver in half!
After all, the commercial use of silver belongs to Umbrella itself, and other parties can only hoard it or do some research if they buy it.
It's just that Umbrella itself produces and sells its own products most of the time, so the impact doesn't seem to be that big.
The introduction of this step of 'credit points' has really caused headaches and confusion for all parties.
Have you crossed the line?
They just have their own membership points system, and you can only buy their own products, so it’s really nothing!
But Umbrella's product is so excellent that everyone wants to grab it!
Silver can be directly exchanged for credit points, with 1 gram equal to 100 credit points. However, credit points can also be exchanged for an equivalent amount of US dollars based on the real-time silver price.
This is equivalent to anchoring the "credit point" to the US dollar, the euro and silver at the same time, bundling both the two most widely circulated international currencies and a limited number of important precious metals.
Also, because Umbrella itself has a large number of silver mines, it can easily influence the price of silver, plus there is the depreciation fee when credit points are exchanged for euros and silver.
Therefore, even if the market opens wider, there is no need to worry about any 'bank run'.
It can be said that this "credit point" system immediately touched a lot of sensitive nerves as soon as it was proposed.
You have to pry it open!
It involves currency!
Admittedly, at present it seems that silver is required to exchange for "credit points ". Even if all the silver in the private sector is exchanged, the volume that can be carried is actually limited.
However, once "credit points" are recognized , they can also be used as a currency to preserve value, and Umbrella can issue more of them.
As long as he firmly grasps the cornerstone on which the credit points are anchored and does not have any credibility problems, then the "credit points" themselves will be quite strong.
Just like when the Euro was first created.
The internal circulation of the euro zone is enough to stabilize the price of the euro. It has been favored by the whole world as soon as it came out and has been the talk of the town.
Uh, then Iraq, which announced that it would use the euro to settle oil transactions, was beaten with a bag of laundry detergent...
Although the sudden emergence of "credit points" is only a beginning, it seems that they are only convenient for "exchanging" for "membership points" of Umbrella products. For the time being, it seems that there is no other currency attribute.
But this potential has already been demonstrated!
The Umbrella stock market, which had just been pulled back by a wave of operations and had finally recovered from the impact of the New York invasion, is now crying and crying again because of Umbrella's operations, and the CPI is also soaring significantly.
The beautiful authorities who had finally suppressed the situation started to curse.
Then the current acting speaker just walked away and passed the ball to the new speaker who had won the election...
"Umbrella's 'credit point' system is shameful and a detriment to our great nation. It must be stopped immediately!"
The person who had just taken office made a righteous speech on a certain platform before he even had time to warm up his chair.
Even though "credit points" are still just a "membership points card" today and have not yet begun to cause any real impact or threat, only some people who want to buy products in advance will redeem them.
This guy, who originally claimed that he would make Da Piaoliang great again, directly treated it as the first of the three things to be done as a new official.
"We respect the laws and choices of all countries. We will stop using 'credit points' in Da Piaoliang. Those who are interested can go to Mexico to buy them. We will transfer Da Piaoliang's priority purchasing capacity to Mexico."
Umbrella responded politely...
