"The Jade Club is nothing, brother. To tell you the truth, I followed you to Tengchong just for the Jade Club. Here, I'll show you this first."
It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, and it would be evening soon, so Zhu Feng didn't hide anything from Chen Ran. As he spoke, he took out a card from his pocket and waved it in front of Chen Ran as if to show off.
After shaking it twice to get the balance right, he threw the card to Chen Ran with satisfaction. From the look of shame on his face, you could guess that owning such a card seemed to be extremely honorable.
thing.
"What the hell?" As soon as Chen Rang caught the card, Guo Hai and Zhang Shuchun also gathered around him curiously.
Chen Ran ignored them, but looked down at the card that Zhu Feng threw over. There was nothing unusual about this card. It was not much different from the hotel's membership card. If there was any difference, it was only related to this card.
It seems to be a bit valuable, because it is a gold card inlaid with jade. There are not many words on the card. There is only one title, Director of the Jade Association. Apart from this, there is nothing else. Apart from the title, there is nothing else.
No more. Wouldn’t it be in vain to watch it?
"Brother Feng, I don't want you to be like this. If you don't tell me, I will ask Master Zhao." Seeing Zhu Feng's unpredictable and deliberate look, Chen Ran felt angry, so he couldn't be nice to him.
He came up with a trick to "direct trouble to the east."
At this time, Chen Ran naturally guessed that this Jade Club should be the one Zhu Feng had said before that he would take him to see the big event tonight.
Jade Club? From the name, I could tell it was related to Jade, or to gambling on stones. This made him curious. He had never heard of the Jade Club. Of course, he also knew that he entered the industry relatively late.
Speaking of officially entering this industry, it was actually not long ago. After all, although he was a jade carver before, he was at the bottom of the jade carver. He had never been exposed to many things, even if he had never heard of some customs and the like.
Very normal.
"You kid..."
Zhu Feng felt happy and looked at Master Zhao: "Old Zhao, then you can talk to this guy." But before Master Zhao could say anything, he saw that the table in front of him was empty, and he was dissatisfied.
He said to Chen Ran: "Brother, even if you call us here and don't let us eat, can you at least give us a cup of tea? You can't just let us eat an apple." He was not really thirsty, he was just sitting there.
I feel uncomfortable if I don't eat or drink something here. I just think I'm bored and looking for something to do.
"What kind of tea do you want to drink? Just say a few words and we'll leave." Just now when Fatty Chang and I entered the private room, Fatty Chang kicked the waiter out without even asking for tea. Zhu Feng's words made Chen Ran smile bitterly.
But when I thought about it, I had already said everything and left after saying a few words, so I didn’t bother to call the waiter again.
"You are a cruel kid, Lao Zhao, then you should stop talking to him." Chen Ran's words made Zhu Feng choke up. He rolled his eyes and took the grapes that Zhang Shuchun had just eaten and ate them with relish.
When he got up and ate, he did not forget to give Chen Ran a small revenge. It was rare to see Zhu Feng deflated, and Guo Hai and others snickered.
Zhu Feng was just joking, so Master Zhao would not take it seriously. He laughed and started talking to Chen Ran.
"Brother Chen, the Jade Chamber of Commerce is actually just a Jade Chamber of Commerce. In addition to being a Jade Chamber of Commerce, it is also a festival. The Jade Chamber of Commerce has two names here, one is called the Jade Chamber of Commerce, and the other is called Jade Festival. Jade Chamber of Commerce
It is a chamber of commerce, and the Jade Festival is a festival. This is a superficial statement. Now many people refer to the Jade Festival as an annual jade gambling..."
After Master Zhao's explanation, Chen Ran finally understood what the Jade Association was about. The Jade Association was the Jade Chamber of Commerce. It goes without saying what the nature of the Chamber of Commerce was.
Of course, the Jade Association cannot be just a simple chamber of commerce. After Master Zhao first explained the Jade Association to Chen Ran, he told Chen Ran about the origin of the Jade Association.
Speaking of the Jade Society, we must also talk about the development process of jade in our country. According to records, jade has been introduced to China since the Han Dynasty. In fact, the famous Silk Road in history at that time might as well be called the "Jade Road"
appropriate.
When these rare "green stones" were introduced to China, they were regarded as rare treasures by the Chinese princes and nobles. They competed to wear them as decorations and became fashionable. They even used jade pendants to distinguish official ranks. Until the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese emperor sent eunuchs to Yongchang, and Tengchong specialized in purchasing jewelry.
Jade and official-private cooperation brought a large amount of Burmese jade into China at that time.
Since jade pendants are used to distinguish official ranks, it is obvious that those who are not officials cannot wear them. In order to prevent jade from flowing into the private sector, a regulatory department was established at that time. This department was called Jade Hall at the time. It was a semi-official and semi-private organization.
The supervisory eunuch is not the hall master. The hall master is the person in charge selected by the supervisory eunuch. The supervisory eunuch is only responsible for delivering goods to the superiors. Everything else is left to the hall master of Jade Hall. This Jade Hall had great power at the time.
, all merchants and caravans who went to Myanmar to mine jade were under the control of this department. This was the original form of the Tengchong Jade Hall. From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the Jade Hall experienced ups and downs. It was disbanded, rebuilt, and prosperous for a while.
When it was most prosperous, the number of Chinese jade merchants in Jade Hall reached 5,000. Behind every jade merchant there was almost a firm, and the Jade Association was an alliance of these firms. Today, the ancient Chinese temple in Amaropura, Myanmar
In the middle, there is also a commemorative stone tablet with 5,000 Chinese names engraved on it. This is a historical portrayal of Jade Hall at that time.
When Jade Hall was first established, stone gambling was not popular in China. Although stone gambling has a history of thousands of years, it was not very popular in China at first. It was only popular in places like Tengchong. One of the later supervisory eunuchs of Jade Hall did not know why.
He became obsessed with gambling on stones, and would invite people to gamble a lot every time he delivered goods to his superiors. Although the eunuch was later recalled to Beijing, this game was passed down.
By the late Qing Dynasty, stone gambling had become very common in Tengchong, and many stone gambling families had emerged. At that time, the leader of the Jade Hall was no longer appointed by the court, but was elected spontaneously by the Jade Association.
Those who came out, those who were spontaneously elected, naturally had to convince the public, that is, they were made by gambling on stones. Therefore, each subsequent generation of Jade Hall masters was the contemporary Jade King. At that time, the goal of those stone gambling families was
Become the Emerald King.
The most prosperous time for Jade Hall was on the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, that is, before Tengchong was occupied by the Japanese army. At that time, there were so many jade merchants in Tengchong that Tengchong was known as "Little Shanghai". At that time, Jade Hall had the largest number of jade merchants.
At that time, because the contemporary Jade King of Jade Hall supported Zhang Wende, the then anti-Japanese county magistrate, to fight against Japan, after the Japanese army occupied Tengchong, they vented their anger on Jade Hall, arresting and killing members of Jade Hall, and also supported
One person became the leader of the Jade Hall, the contemporary Jade King. The supported Jade King returned from studying in Japan and married a Japanese wife, so the Japanese army found this person to be the Jade King.
What the Japanese army did was to help the Japanese army completely enslave Tengchong.
Why did the Japanese army support the Jade King? This was because the Jade King's influence in Tengchong was unparalleled. This man was not a traitor. Although he became the Jade King, he quietly informed Tengchong of the situation.
The anti-Japanese leader, Zhang Wende, ostensibly worked for the Japanese, but in fact secretly helped the anti-Japanese forces. During the more than two years of the Anti-Japanese War in Tengchong, this man also contributed a lot to the anti-Japanese forces at that time.
He was a true anti-Japanese hero. After the truth came out, although this man died on the eve of the victory of the anti-Japanese war, his status as the Emerald King was not dishonored and he still gained people's respect.
The two generations of Jade Kings resisted Japan, but there are many stories about the Jade Kings’ resistance against Japan.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Jade Hall ceased to exist in name only. Although many people wanted to rebuild the Jade Hall, there was no one who could convince the public to sit on the throne of the new generation of Jade King. It was not until twenty years ago, that is, in the Nineteenth Century.
In a few years, Jiu Ye, a descendant of the Wang Long family in Yunnan, appeared.
For those who gamble on stones, Jiuye is a legend. With the death of Yunnan Wang Longyun during the cultural war and the decline of the Minglong family, Jiuye started as a miner and gradually became the new generation of Jade King.
But the Jade King who is the oldest in the country is still the most recognized Jade King.
After Jiu Ye became the new generation of Jade King, he rebuilt the Jade Hall. Now that Tang is no longer popular, he changed the Jade Hall to the Jade Club. As the name suggests, it actually reorganized the Jade Chamber of Commerce. With the reform and opening up, the Jade Craze
Since then, the spring of Tengchong has also ushered in the spring of the Jade Society. At the same time, the annual Stone Gambling Festival has also been passed down. This day is the Jade Festival, which is today.
"How does stone gambling work? Is it just two people competing to see whose jadeite cut has the greatest value?" Compared to the origin of the Jade Club, Chen Ran was more interested in the so-called jadeite gambling board. He didn't know why.
As for the bet, if it was just two people betting that whoever cuts the jade with the greater value would win, it would undoubtedly not be very interesting. At most, the atmosphere at the scene would probably be more intense and exciting.
Master Zhao smiled when he heard this: "There are many ways to gamble on the gambling board. Some are played with your own gambling stones, some are played without gambling stones, that is, for private play, and there are also those where Jade will be the banker, and Jade will be the banker."
It's like Jade will take out the wool for players to bet. There are many types of gambling, but compared to the big bosses, they are all small bets. Many big bosses don't like this kind of gameplay. For them,
The most exciting thing is to bring your own woolen fabrics. The woolen fabrics you bring cannot be cut, but must be fully sold or only with the sunroof open. Everyone will have a brand number, and the official will randomly select them based on the number of people. There may be more than a dozen.
Individuals gamble together, or several people gamble together. The maximum number will not exceed thirteen people, and the minimum number will not exceed three people. Every time you start betting, you must put down a deposit. The minimum deposit is 500,000. Secondly, there are
One million, three million, five million, eight million, or even ten million, just like five million, it's like five people betting, then there are twenty-five million bets
Gold, and five pieces of wool. Only one of the five people can win. The person who wins in the end will not only get 25 million in bets, but also all the jadeite dug out of the five pieces of wool..."
"Holy shit."
As soon as Master Zhao said these words, Guo Hai's eyes widened sharply. Not to mention Guo Hai, Zhang Shuchun and Yang Shijie were not much better. They were all stunned. Even Chen Ran was the same, not to mention digging out the wool.
The value of the jadeite is only 25 million for the bet. There are only five people. If there are thirteen people, what is the concept? Not counting the value of the jadeite in the wool, the bet alone is more than 50 million.
It's more. This is only a five million bet. If it is a ten million deposit, even if there are five people, there will be a fifty million bet. Plus the value of the jade dug out of the wool...
Chen Ran took a breath of air, this is really a big gamble!
[This chapter is from yesterday. Thank you Feiwufeng, a good man, and ljslq brothers for the reward. 】
