Chapter 48: Turning stones into gold
Yunnan, Yunnan! That's very close to Myanmar!
Fan Wubing's head had a flash of inspiration, and it seemed that he had caught something, so he had no intention of wandering around the factory again. He pointed to a smaller stone in the water and said to Tian Zhenglun, "Mr. Tian, ​​I look at that stone as if it is a bit special. Go and call a few workers to come and take it up and take a look."
Tian Zhenglun took a look at the stone that Fan Wubing pointed to, weighing five or six hundred pounds, so he said, "I can't eat enough in the water. I'll go find someone to drive a crane. That one is convenient to use."
Oh, yes, there are no tools in the factory? Fan Wubing nodded and stopped leaving. He just squatted on the big stone, staring blankly at the stones below the water surface, staring at the stones below the water, and even Tian Zhenglun brought the workers over and did not come to his senses.
The workers started to go into the water, studded the big stone with steel wire ropes, and then put it on the hook of the big crane. Without much effort, they hung the stone and put it on the ground.
Fan Wubing came up and carefully looked at the grinded outer skin, which revealed a hint of greenness. So he asked the worker next to him for a file and filed it hard on the outer skin a few times. After the stone chips flew, a large piece of green appeared. The texture was delicate to the local area.
Fan Wubing suddenly became excited. His grandmother’s jadeite!
In 1992, there were very few people in the mainland who knew about the goods. Almost no one would have thought that the ugly big stones were hidden, nurturing the priceless jadeite. No wonder Li Mingjiu said so arrogantly that the money was hidden in the plain factory, but no one could know. Who would have thought that he turned all his funds into jadeite rough stones?
Such a large piece of raw stone can be truly priceless. Once it is broken, it is really unknown how many top-quality jewelry can be made. This time I am really rich!
"Is this jade?" Tian Zhenglun asked when he saw the green stone inside.
"Emerald!" Fan Wubing replied without raising his head.
His thoughts were all on the pile of stones in the water. If he hadn't come here accidentally, if he had happened to see a touch of green under the water, if he hadn't happened to have seen a little story about gambling on jade stones, he would have really never expected that Li Mingjiu would have bought all his funds for jadeite rough stones.
You should know that the jade market two years ago was relatively cheap. Just because of the stones collected by Li Mingjiu, the current market has probably increased many times. If it is developed into jewelry or artwork, the value is really difficult to estimate.
Of course, if you have the patience, put these rough stones for ten or eight years, the value will be even more amazing. These are naturally verified by facts. Fan Wubing has made up his mind at this time to verify whether these stones are jade rough stones, and then open one or two pieces for processing to see the texture. If the quality is excellent, seal the other stones directly for appreciation in the future.
But Fan Wubing was really worried about letting ordinary people do these things. He immediately thought of Zhang Maolu who was creating fake cultural relics in a large yard on the rock. He hadn't let him do anything for so many months, and today he finally came in handy again.
So Fan Wubing asked someone to call Zhang Maolu. After a while, Zhang Maolu ran over with a bunch of professional tools.
"Haha, boss, you finally remembered me. Is there a fat sheep again this time?" Zhang Maolu was happy for a long time when he saw the Japanese incident. The money he got was amazing. Zhang Maolu also got a lot of money. Therefore, when he saw Fan Wubing approaching each other, he immediately ran over happily.
Fan Wubing just smiled and said to him, "Let you come here to identify it. You should have a study on jadeite, right?"
Zhang Maolu nodded and said, "Medite processing is not my strength, but it is still fine to identify it. At least the real and fake products are clearly distinguished. Why, the boss wants to make jade? Although this thing is a big deal, the reward cycle is too long. If you collect it, it usually takes more than ten years to maximize your profits. If it takes a long time, you may not have the chance to enjoy it."
"Looking—" Fan Wubing said with a frown, "I'm just asking you to do an appraisal. Why is there so much nonsense? Let's take a look at what level this stone should be?"
As he said that, Fan Wubing led Zhang Maolu to the big stone that had been ground into a small window and asked him to study it carefully.
Zhang Maolu brought his meal guy with him. At this time, he saw this big stone and a hint of greenness exposed, and knew it in his heart. So he took out the instruments used to identify gems and a strong light flashlight, and looked inside from the small window that opened. It didn't matter when he saw it, Zhang Maolu was immediately shocked!
"Oh, my God!" Zhang Maolu was so excited that she couldn't even speak, "Where did you find such a top-quality jadeite rough stone?! Is it Myanmar?! Such stones are really priceless! I have lived for most of my life and have never seen such a high-quality jadeite rough stone with such a large size!"
"Can you be sure it is the best jadeite raw stone?" Fan Wubing was also a little uneasy, so he asked again.
"Of course! It's definitely the best jade!" Zhang Maolu replied in an unquestionable tone, and then begged a little sternly, "You must give the appraisal fee! Boss!"
"Go to you!" Fan Wubing kicked Zhang Maofu with dissatisfaction, "You got into the money?! These stones are all the property of the company. Which big fat sheep do you think is from?!"
However, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, and it is impossible for Zhang Maoguo to work in vain. So Fan Wubing said, "I won't let you suffer a loss, but don't want to make a fortune. I'll call you here just to identify the quality of the stone. There are some bigger ones there. You can see them all and pay them, and then talk about them."
Zhang Maolu naturally believed that a wealthy person like Fan Wubing would not cheat him, so he followed Fan Wubing to the pool. When he saw forty or fifty big stones piled in the water, his eyes suddenly became straight.
"God, this is definitely the most shocking scene I, Zhang Maolu, have ever seen in my life!" Zhang Maolu said excitedly.
But among these forty or fifty stones, it is impossible to be all jadeite. If that is the case, it would be too amazing. Even so, after Zhang Maolu's identification, there are more than a dozen of top-quality jadeite raw stones with mining value, but they are not too large in size, that is, stones weighing several hundred kilograms. As for those stones weighing several tons, they are ordinary jade and their quality will not be very good, but they are used to make artworks outside and look good. At least the style of this nouveau riche can be fully developed.
Everyone was not interested in looking at it anymore. They first took out the jadeite raw stones from the pool, then numbered them, and sent them into the warehouse one by one by one by forklift. Then Fan Wubing ordered Tian Zhenglun to arrange personnel and guard the warehouse day and night. After all, this is a considerable wealth. Although it is not so easy to cash out, as long as the opportunity comes, its value will definitely be as high as the profits of Shangpanshi Heavy Industry in a few years. This is undoubtedly.
Zhang Maolu was a little more anxious. After getting Fan Wubing's approval, he started to polish a smaller piece of jadeite stone. The cutting machine is the most in the factory, especially the stone cutting machine, which is filled with water while cutting. It is basically automated. As long as the stone is placed, the operator stands aside and chats, and the machine starts working by itself.
"The current conditions are really great. It's really easy without having to do it bit by bit by bit!" Seeing the machine slowly cutting the stones, Zhang Maolu couldn't help but pile Fan Wubing with some emotion.
"To be honest, I don't know what the difference is between jade and jadeite, and I don't know what the difference is?" Although Fan Wubing knew that jadeite was valuable, he had never learned about this thing seriously. He happened to have harvested so many jadeite raw stones this time, so he naturally had to ask Zhang Maolu, a local expert.
"In fact, there is no difference, it's just the color." Zhang Maolu said with a smile, "Jade jade is also called jadeite. Another name is Burmese jade, which mainly refers to jadeite produced in Myanmar. Although Japan, Russia, Mexico, the United States and other places also produce a small amount of jadeite, its quality and output are far inferior to the Myanmar Federation. In the Myitkyna region in the northern part of the Myanmar Federation, the jadeite deposit has the largest reserves, and gem-grade jadeite was mined very early to supply it to all over the world.
Since people have only known that the Burmese Federation only produces jadeite, they have used Burmese jade as synonymous with jadeite. Jadeite is a gemological name, while Burmese jade is an expert jargon. In fact, there is no such name as jadeite in Myanmar. Jadeite is the name of Chinese people. It is said that it comes from the name of a jadeite. Because the most beautiful green and red in gem-grade jadeite are the same as the color of the feathers on this bird, I got the name of jadeite."
"That means, it's still jade?" Fan Wubing asked.
"Of course." Zhang Maolu nodded, "This thing has entered China in Ming Dynasty, and it was a matter of large-scale import of Middle Earth after the mid-Qing Dynasty. However, according to the written records and unearthed physical records, the emergence of jade was much earlier than this. In the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, jadeite became popular for a while. A jadeite feather tube by Ronglu, the minister of the Interior Affairs Office of the Qing Dynasty, was worth 13,000 taels of gold. In the 1930s, the jadeite king Tie Yuting of Beijing had a bracelet and sold it to Du Yuesheng, the leader of the Qing Gang in Shanghai for 40,000 oceans. Because the hardness of Burmese jade is high, it is also called water-type, smooth and bright, and the color of good jade is both bright and peaceful, with high value preservation and collection value, so it is called the King of Jade."
Early jadeite was not expensive, not high, and was not valued by the world. Ji Xiaolan wrote in "Notes on Yuewei Caotang" that the weight of the objects was due to the fashion and lack of fixed beaches at the time. I remember that when I was young, ginseng, coral, and lapis lazuli were not expensive. Today, Yunnan jadeite jade was not regarded as jade at that time, but it was like the dry and yellow blue field, and it was famous for jade ears. Now it is a treasure, and the price is far higher than that of real jade.
From this we can see that in the early 18th century, the ancients did not think that jade was jade, and the price of jade was also low, but by the end of the 18th century, jade was already an expensive treasure. According to Shi Ya, the jadeite stones weighing about 90 kilograms at the beginning of this century were worth 11 pounds. Now, the value of a kilogram of special-grade jadeite is more than 700,000 to 800,000 US dollars. Jade mining, transportation, processing and sales have always been done by Yunnan people. In a Chinese-style ancient temple in the ancient capital of Amoro Buluo, Myanmar, the inscription was engraved with 5,000 Chinese jade traders. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuchs stationed in Tengchong, Baoshan, specializing in purchasing jewelry. At that time, the line from Yongchang Tengyue to Myitkyina, Myanmar was known as the jade road. When the business roads from Tengchong to Myanmar were the most prosperous, more than 20,000 mules and horses passed through them every day, and Tengchong's jewelry transactions accounted for almost 90% of the world's jade transactions.
Damn! Then am I getting too big this time?! Fan Wubing was thinking about how much money this pile of stones would cost, so he quietly asked Zhang Maolu, "With so many stones combined, do you think how much it can be worth, and then according to the current market conditions?"
"You're stumping me-" Zhang Maolu touched her head, and was a little confused. "But from the perspective of raw stones alone, the value of such a pile of stones is more than 300 million to 400 million, so the value of the processed one is difficult to estimate. After all, the value of the raw materials is easy to estimate, and the finished product is difficult to say, but according to general experience, it is no problem to increase the value of the finished product several times based on the raw materials."
Damn! Li Mingjiu is dead, dead, and finally did something good for Panshi Heavy Industry!
At the beginning, Fan Wubing took the idea of ​​taking a small loss and counted the 100 million lost as equity into Panshi Heavy Industry's asset restructuring. Therefore, the ownership of this pile of stones should be divided according to the equity ratio. Even if he owns the big part, he can get more than 70% of the profits, and there are still nearly 30% left for the entire Panshi Heavy Industry. In this way, even if Panshi Heavy Industry makes a fortune by relying solely on these stones, he can live a few comfortable life.
Alas, this is probably called making wedding clothes for others.
Although Li Mingjiu was smart, he thought of this way of stealing the sky and changing the amount of money to jadeite rough stones, but he did not expect that he would suddenly fall from the stage due to various things and eventually die. These stones were picked up by Fan Wubing in vain. If he knew about it, he would probably be so angry that he would vomit three liters of blood, and then crawl out of the coffin and fight with Fan Wubing, right?
Some people are just too confident and think that people in the world are fools except themselves, but they do not expect that the stupidest one is himself.
Fan Wubing stood next to the cutting machine, watching the machine's gears slowly cutting the raw stones with Zhang Maodou. He was really anxious to wait. Although he could see a little green light inside from the cracks of the exposed stone powder, he was still a little worried that he could not see the true appearance.
You should know that there was such a thing before. There was a layer of green skin on the outside, and there were many things inside. If that were the case, the stone would not be worth much. Now the two of them just hope that Li Mingjiu had good luck at that time, and that the stones were all green to the end!
"Why is it so slow?" Fan Wubing felt that time passed so slowly, and the cutting progress was worrying.
Zhang Maolu said, "This is pretty good! As the saying goes, jade cannot be made into a tool without carving. Jade jade is called the king of jade because it has high hardness, large proportion and very few high-end materials. Therefore, the processing procedures, processing materials, processing tools and processing equipment of jade are different from other jades."
"What's the difference?" Fan Wubing asked casually when he was idle.
"The difference is big!" Zhang Maolu began to literate Fan Wubing.
When making jade, the first thing is to choose materials. Jade jade materials usually have leather shells, which are the only jade with leather shells in the world. Therefore, material selection is generally called gambling stones or gambling goods, which are not available in other jades. Therefore, the key to selecting materials is processing purposes, making ornaments, devices, bracelets, pendants, rings or ring faces, etc. The characteristics of raw materials are closely related to processing purposes. If the choice is not good, not only is the waste of raw materials, but it will also lose money after processing. Secondly, the cutting materials, which is also a key link. Some people are eager to gambling stones and often use one knife. Not only may the jade be cut off, but they may not be able to carve the artwork as a whole and lose their original value.
Generally, the normal procedure is to first apply the skin to see the surface characteristics of the jade, such as the direction of the emerald color, the development and direction of the cracks, the color of jade and purple, the distribution of black, the analysis and estimation of the inside and outside changes of the species and water, the appearance of the raw stone, etc. Secondly, determine based on the overall condition of the raw stone and the possible processing purpose. Then, decide whether to make the whole raw material into carvings or cut them.
I don’t know how long I waited, but finally broke the raw stone. After washing it with water, two green stones appeared in everyone’s eyes. Until this moment, everyone’s hearts that had been hanging for a long time fell into their stomachs.
Alas, I was finally sure this was a valuable rough stone! Fan Wubing looked at it with emotion for a long time, and suddenly said to Zhang Maolu, "Actually, I think this thing is similar to glass!"
"How can it be compared with glass?!" Zhang Maolu almost fainted from anger. He directly operated the cutting machine, cut a small piece of it from a piece of Ercui, and then said to Fan Wubing, "Come with me!"
Fan Wubing didn't know what Zhang Maolu was going to do, so he followed him in confusion to the bright large window of the factory. Zhang Maolu casually used the jadeite to scratch the glass and drew a deep trace.
Then Zhang Maolu said to Fan Wubing, "See it! You don't have to use diamonds to scratch the glass. The hardness of jade can also do this! If someone sells you fake jade in the future, you can try it on the glass first, so you can definitely find out the authenticity! Moreover, jade is more important than glass, and it is usually light and light to weigh it. Another thing is that jade is shining with strong light, and there is a feeling of clouds and fog inside. You can also see many bubble-like things under the microscope, but there is no glass surface. This can also be used to identify the authenticity of jade."
"Grandma, I'm developing this time!" Fan Wubing touched the jadeite rough stone that was as green as if it was about to drip out of water. He really wanted to laugh three times. If he hadn't been concerned about someone watching around him, he would have relaxed a little long ago.
However, Zhang Maolu said to Fan Wubing again, "To be honest, if you follow Mr. Fan, you seem to have all kinds of opportunities to get rich! Who would have thought that the pile of broken stones in the pool were priceless jadeite rough stones. This matter cannot be described as a coincidence!"
"It's not a coincidence? What does that mean?" Fan Wubing asked.
"You are probably born with a golden hand, and you turn stones into gold!" Zhang Maolu couldn't help but express his feelings for Fan Wubing. This was buried in his heart for a long time and he never had the chance to say it. Today, seeing Fan Wubing experience a big scene that shocked his soul with him, he couldn't help but reveal his thoughts.
In fact, not only Zhang Maolu has this idea, but anyone who knows Fan Wubing basically has this idea. As long as Fan Wubing's clever hand is guided, even the industry can bring youth to life. Just like the original plain factory, glass factory, etc., isn't it just under Fan Wubing's management, and the salted fish will turn over?
The start of today's Panshi Heavy Industry is also very gratifying! This pile of rotten stones suddenly turned into jade, but it is much more valuable than gold! From this perspective, it is really not an exaggeration to say that Fan Wubing turns stones into gold!
Chapter completed!