Chapter 165 I am a legend
However, no matter what, Mr. Hong’s jade processing and production company still shocked Jia Sidao.
Not to mention the exquisite skills of those workers, Yangmei's jade carvings are definitely one of the best wherever they are placed. On this point, I knew it clearly in my heart long before Jia Sidao came. Even the Sihui, who is also a sacred place for jade processing in Guangdong, would probably not be as good as Yangmei's side when it comes to carvings.
What surprised Jia Sidao even more was that in addition to these artificial factors, Yangmei's jade processing had a greater advantage lies in the advanced nature of the instruments. At this time, especially after entering the 21st century, if it was not driven by high technology, it would be impossible to form a mature industrial chain. Just like a jadeite raw stone cutting machine, in Mr. Hong's company, there are many instruments of various forms and functions that Jia Sidao had never seen before. After asking curiously, he realized that these machines were all newly produced.
In many details and specific operation requirements, Yang Meiren has improved it herself.
In this way, both its performance and operability are beyond the reach of previous instruments. Of course, even more incomparable, there is also its high price.
Speaking of this, Mr. Hong's face naturally flooded with pride. You must know that it is not accidental that a small place like Yangmei can have today's fame.
More than a century of history, especially the rapid development over the past 10 years, has continuously expanded the scale of Yangmei's jade processing. Originally, these finished jade products were only acquired by jewelry stores in Hong Kong and then turned to packaging and sales. However, after the Asian financial crisis at the end of the last century, many jewelry stores in Hong Kong's business were not as good as before. At the same time, Yangmei's jade business, which has excellent quality and unique craftsmanship, is still developing and expanding. Those world-wide jewellers who originally picked up goods in Hong Kong naturally came to Yangmei to purchase jade.
In this way, the development of Yangmei will undoubtedly enter a golden age.
And Mr. Hong is a man of the age who witnessed the authentic Yangmei jade merchants of such an era. Coupled with his own legendary experience of gambling stones, it undoubtedly has a stronger attraction for young people like Jia Sidao.
"Haha, Xiao Jia, if you are interested in Mr. Hong's experience of gambling stones, you can find some free time and I'll talk to you." After walking out of the jade processing site, Wang Biao said so.
"Brother Wang, where are your own experiences of gambling stones?" Jia Sidao couldn't help but ask curiously, "Isn't it also legendary?"
When talking about everyone's gambling stones, apart from the wealth that others can see or accumulate now, there are more dangers, but they are not worthy of being told to outsiders. Just like Mr. Hong, Wang Biao, and other businessmen, after hearing Jia Sidao, they just smiled faintly.
"What's wrong? Did I ask the wrong thing?" Jia Sidao felt a little hesitant when he saw the expressions of the two of them. Fortunately, Li Shiyun stood beside him and asked in a low voice. However, it caused Li Shiyun's big eyes to roll her eyes. That look seemed to be telling, which person who participated in gambling stones and finally gained a certain value was not a legend?
Those who can fight from the industry where nine out of ten bets are a great legend in themselves.
Perhaps he noticed the whisper between Jia Sidao and Li Shiyun. Mr. Hong smiled "hehe" and then took a few people into an office. The location here is very special in Jia Sidao's opinion. As long as you enter Mr. Hong's company, you should be able to see it as soon as you enter the door. Moreover, the furnishings around the interior look extremely strange.
In the entire office, there are no so-called desks, computers, or things like documents and filing cabinets. Some are just a relatively spacious counter in the middle of the office. Below is a wooden structure and rectangular shape, and above the wooden flat support, there is also a long glass display cabinet.
There were some stones inside in a messy way.
When Jia Sidao first saw it, he felt very familiar. Then, when he approached, he could see that the glass counter was full of slices of jadeite rough stones, or directly half a small jadeite rough stone. On the cut surface, some were white, some would flash a hint of green, and more were jadeites of various colors and textures. Although they were not of great value, they were probably ulterior motives to display them like this?
Moreover, what is even more rare is that on the sections of these jadeite rough stones, some places are marked with time, place, and other texts. From the beginning, it really gives people a strange feeling.
Jia Sidao looked briefly and could see that the best jadeite rough slice should be cut out of the bright green of glass. Moreover, the slice was very thin, and a trace of pause could be almost detected on the cut surface. It is completely imagined how careful the owner of the jadeite rough was when cutting.
The largest piece of jadeite rough stone is about half the size of a head, but the jadeite texture on it is really average, probably not even bean type. The green inlaid in it looks very dry and not enough water. In Jia Sidao's eyes, it is just a piece of waste material and has no collection value at all.
I don’t know why, but it will be placed at the display counter.
"Could it be,..." Jia Sidao's heart moved and turned to look at Mr. Hong. He was staring at these slices of jadeite rough stones on the counter, with a look of memory on his face.
"The jadeite rough slices here are all stones I bet on, and I kept them after I cut them with my own hands." Mr. Hong said to several people, "Since I started gambling on stones, there are usually some memorable meanings. For example, when I cut them down for the first time, it looks like this largest jadeite rough stone..."
As he said that, Mr. Hong paused, pointed to the jadeite stone that Jia Sidao had previously thought was of little value, with a very strong smile on his lips, and then continued: "At that time, I had just entered the industry and spent 8,000 yuan in a hurry to gamble back this thing."
"Eight thousand yuan?" The woman surnamed Liu muttered in confusion.
"Why, do you think it's less?" Mr. Hong said with a smile, "Actually, I was not rich back then. Not to mention eight thousand yuan, it was 800 yuan. For me, if I had to spend it at one time, I would have to struggle for a long time in my heart. However, isn't the charm of gambling stones here? One knife is poor, one knife is rich. People in it always hope that they are the one who gets rich. As a result,..."
Mr. Hong pointed to the half of the jadeite rough stone that was preserved, and the result can be imagined.
"It seems that Mr. Hong is more courageous than me." Wang Biao glanced at the half of the jadeite rough stone and said, "The eight thousand pieces twenty years ago were already quite large. Moreover, this half of the jadeite rough stone, except for the cut part, is indeed very good in terms of the performance of the skin. Even if I ask me to gamble now, I dare to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars."
"Look at you, isn't I so sad?" Mr. Hong joked Wang Biao indifferently, "But, I did have the mentality of gamble at that time. If I make money, I will continue to bet on stones. If I lose money, I will go home to farm..."
"But, hasn't this jadeite rough stone been cut down?" Jia Sidao was a little puzzled. According to Mr. Hong himself, I'm afraid that after that time, he should have stopped.
"Yes." Mr. Hong responded, "After that time, for a long time, for half a month, I locked myself in the room and made up my mind to stop gambling stones. Even if my friends around me were still participating, I didn't do it. At most, I couldn't help but watch and listen more. Perhaps my gambling stones was also trained at that time." Speaking of this, Mr. Hong was quite self-deprecating.
"By the way, Xiao Jia, you are also a person in the industry. You should know what is the biggest reason why Yangmei's stone gambling merchant can build such a large jade market." Mr. Hong asked.
"It should be the open shareholding system in the process of gambling stones." Jia Sidao replied. The so-called open shareholding system means that before a piece of jadeite raw stone is cut, many people will freely participate in the shares. There is no contract or agreement. The particular one is verbal form. Then everyone will share the risks according to the injected funds. If the good jade is cut out, it will naturally be shared by everyone. If it is a piece of waste, everyone will also share the losses. This form will help the development of the market and will further enable Yang Meiren to learn unity.
Haven’t you seen that in the recent years, the jade merchants in Jieyang are making waves and making big moves? Even many companies in Myanmar that produce jade raw materials dare not ignore this force and have established good cooperative relationships with the jade merchants in Jieyang.
Up to now, both in the domestic and international markets, merchants in Jieyang have formed an unstoppable regional force. Compared with individuals and companies in other regions, this cooperation method in Jieyang is undoubtedly more competitive and vital.
Just like Mr. Hong in front of him, Jia Sidao would not think that he would ask this sentence casually. Undoubtedly, it is precisely because of this way of sharing risks that Mr. Hong started his own legend of gambling stones again!
Chapter completed!