The four hundred and fortieth chapters clearly marked (a)
Chapter 444: Clearly Marked (1)
The venue of the Myanmar Jewelry and Jade Trading Center is larger than the Pingzhou Stone Gambling Venue. In the area of tens of thousands of square meters, all the raw jade stones used for this transaction are used. At this time, except for the staff,
, there were only a few wool merchants from out of town, Zhuang Rui, and it seemed very empty.
"Zhuang Rui, the time for this public sale is from nine o'clock in the morning to five o'clock in the afternoon. Once the time is up, the venue will be cleared immediately. Let's look at the materials separately. Don't waste time..."
While Zhuang Rui was still observing around, Qin Haoran had already led the stone gambling consultants towards the rows of neatly stacked jadeite materials.
Due to the lack of raw materials, a processing factory of Qin's Jewelry has now shut down. Not only them, many jewelry companies are having difficulty in sustaining raw materials, so they are just hoping to get some raw materials from this jade auction.
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You must know that in ancient times, or even more recently, decades ago, jade mines were mined manually, and only single-digit numbers of top-quality jade rough stones were mined each year. Now using high-tech equipment, a
A mountain can be leveled in half a year.
Only Myanmar produces jadeite in the world, and it is mainly concentrated in the Myitkyina region in northeastern Myanmar, which is about 150 kilometers long and 30 kilometers wide. The formation of each piece of jadeite requires extremely harsh natural conditions and at least 200 million years. Jadeite only
It can get more and more expensive.
Someone once calculated that the amount of jade mined in one year now is equivalent to that of the past three hundred years. If this trend continues, I am afraid that within the next fifteen years, jade mines will be exhausted or even extinct in Myanmar.
If this is the case, it will be a disaster for Chinese jewelry merchants, because the number of domestic people buying jade luxury goods as collections is increasing day by day.
Zhuang Rui once read a piece of information provided by the Jade Association. According to the above, although jadeite is produced in Myanmar, the market is in China. Every year, 90% of the jadeite rough mined in Myanmar is bought by buyers from mainland China. 80%
% of the raw materials are processed and sold in mainland China, and China has become the world's major high-end jade consumer market.
From the early 1980s to the present, China's jewelry industry has experienced unprecedented development, with its output value growing from 100 million to nearly 100 billion. The price of jade has increased three hundred times, becoming the main force in the jewelry market. This huge piece of
Cake makes everyone drool,
Jewelry companies in Hong Kong have all seen the domestic market demand. Due to the gradual depletion of resources in Myanmar's mining areas, famous jewelry companies including Qin Jewelry have taken out mid-to-high-end jadeite collections from decades ago to the mainland.
reshoring to cope with the hot situation in the mainland market.
It’s just that this kind of behavior is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst. Although Qin’s Jewelry has seized a lot of markets in the mainland by relying on the inventory of raw materials accumulated for decades, there are not many raw materials left in the inventory, causing a processing plant in Guangdong to cease production.
If we are no longer able to purchase jade raw materials this time, I am afraid that the market share we previously occupied will be lost.
In today's product sales, channel is king. If the dozens of jewelry stores opened in the mainland are forced to go to the customer base, it will be a fatal blow to Qin's jewelry.
This time, the old man of the Qin family also bet his money on the Burmese jade public sale. He mobilized all the family's cash, a total of nearly 100 million euros, and brought it all to Myanmar by Qin Haoran. It can be said that it was a desperate move, so
As soon as Qin Haoran entered the stone gambling venue, he immediately hurriedly took the stone gambling consultants to look at the raw materials.
Standing at the entrance of the venue and looking around, there is a small red bid box placed next to the hundreds of thousands of woolen materials, and on one side of the bid box, there is a glass pull box with a bid list inside.
, if you like a certain piece of material, you can directly take the bid form, fill in the wool material and the number on your admission ticket, and throw it into the bid box.
However, one thing to note is that when filling out the bid form, you must calculate the exchange rate between the euro and the rmb, otherwise you will suffer a big loss. Qin Haoran just said that many people from the mainland
Stone gamblers had to leave in tears because they wrote down the euros instead of the rmb figures they calculated in their minds when filling out the bid form, and would not be able to enter here again for ten years.
Last year, a person was optimistic about a piece of wool. The base price of that piece of wool was 100,000 euros. The person thought that he could get it for about 300,000 euros. He calculated in his mind that it was about 3 million RMB, so he wrote it down casually.
Go up to a figure of three million.
When the bidding opened a week later, he naturally got the 3 million in wool, but the only thing he needed to pay was euros. The man was in tears. In the end, he could only admit that he was unlucky and left sadly, and
There was a deposit of 10,000 euros to enter, but it was wasted.
"Brother Zhuang, let's go shopping together?"
When Fatty Ma and Song Jun came here, they were a little bit confused. The huge venue was full of jade raw materials, and there were countless semi-finished and full-finished materials. Under the hot sunlight in the sky, the green jadeite on the surface gave off a seductive sound.
The brilliance of people.
"Brothers, feel free to look at it. There is so much material that you won't be able to read in not even 10 days, but even a month. Let's try our luck..."
Zhuang Rui didn't want to be with the two of them. They were both very familiar with him, especially Fatty Ma. His eyes were poisonous enough. If you put the speed at which you observe wool into his eyes, he might be able to tell something.
Clues are coming.
"Whatever, but Brother Zhuang, if there is something that feels good but you can't eat, you have to say hello to us two..."
Fatty Ma didn't force it. Neither he nor Song Jun was short of money. They came here more to find excitement. The reason why this gambling stone is attractive lies in the word "gambling", which means that when you decipher the stone, you will cut through heaven and hell.
The pleasure it brought was enough for these two idle bosses to make their blood pump and their hearts beat faster.
After Fatty Ma and Song Jun left with their bodyguards, Zhuang Rui did not rush to look at the materials. Instead, he looked at the venue guide in his hand. He got it for free when he entered the venue. It had Chinese, Burmese and English.
Text annotation.
From this guide, Zhuang Rui learned that the entire venue was also divided into two areas. Ninety-five percent of the venue was used for the placement of concealed-label wool materials, and only five percent was for openly-labeled materials.
In the betting area, we can see how disparate the ratio between the two is.
According to the guide, the opening of open bids for open bids, or on-site auctions, will be held every day. Unlike hidden bids, which must wait until a week later, Zhuang Rui plans to go to the open bid area to see if there are suitable materials.
Make a note of it and see if you can get a piece when the bidding opens.
"Brother Zhuang, where are we going?"
When Peng Fei saw Zhuang Rui flipping through the guide in his hand, he raised his feet and walked in a direction, and quickly followed him. He knew nothing about gambling stones. He regretted it now. If he had known better, he would have gone to the Myitkyina area.
The equipment has gone.
Zhuang Rui smiled and replied: "Go and see Mingbiao, Peng Fei, there will be a good show in the afternoon..."
The two of them walked for seven or eight minutes before passing through the hidden marking area and arriving at a corner of the venue. Next to the woolen materials on the ground, there were no obvious marking boxes, and except for the holder standing in the distance.
Apart from the gunmen, there were only two people in the field, Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei.
"Peng Fei, there are chairs over there. You can go and have a rest. Call me at noon..."
Zhuang Rui greeted Peng Fei, took a pen and a notebook, and walked into the marked area carrying a backpack containing a magnifying glass, a small brush and other items.
Although the number of explicit marks is not large, it is relative. Compared with Pingzhou Market, the number of hidden marks is probably not less than that of Pingzhou Market. There are tens of thousands of pieces of wool, neatly stacked on the ground, each piece
The jadeite wool has its serial number written in a conspicuous place.
Taking advantage of the fact that there were few people at this moment and no one noticed him, Zhuang Rui walked into the Mingbiao area and without even bending down, he directly released his spiritual energy and inspected each piece without even checking the details in the wool.
, just to sense whether there is spiritual energy inside, if not, he will not even stop.
In just a few minutes, Zhuang Rui walked more than ten meters. Because the woolen materials were placed in a row on both sides of the road, Zhuang Rui seemed to be shaking his head from side to side. If others saw him,
You will definitely think that this is some wealthy tourist who sneaked in to watch the fun.
"Damn it, are the jadeite stones here shipped from Pingzhou for export and domestic sales?"
In this minute, Zhuang Rui looked at hundreds of pieces of wool, only to find that there was basically no jade in these clearly labeled wools. Even if the cut surface was green, the performance inside was just shit, which made Zhuang Rui extremely disappointed.
In fact, the public market in Myanmar is just like Pingzhou. They throw materials with poor performance into the clearly marked area. To put it mildly, some jade mine owners simply throw in large rocks that have no jade performance.
, there are so many people who are hungry for jade raw materials, maybe they can be sold.
Zhuang Rui watched for more than half an hour, and he had already walked more than 30 meters away from the clearly marked area. However, he took a fancy to two pieces of material. Although the texture was average, the inside was green and could be used to make some low-end jewelry.
It was still possible. Zhuang Rui wrote down the numbers of the two pieces of wool in his notebook.
"Huh?" When Zhuang Rui's eyes accidentally glanced at a piece of wool, he stopped in his tracks because he felt that the oval piece of wool under his feet contained extremely rich spiritual energy.
"Brother Zhuang, are you here too?"
Just when Zhuang Rui wanted to squat down and take a closer look, he suddenly remembered the greeting in his ears. When he looked up, it was Yang Hao and several middle-aged people who had also walked into the Mingbiao area.
