The scale of Yangmei's jadeite trading is not large, and it may not be enough to meet the needs of local people, so it is generally not open to businessmen from other places. This is the main reason why Yangmei's jadeite trading market is not famous.
"Boss Huang, we are old friends, I can still help you with this."
Although Li Yongqian lost more than one million by gambling on stones, he was also a famous person in Yangmei. It was natural for him to bring a few people to participate in the rough stone trade. After hearing Huang Bingyu's words, he agreed immediately.
"Well, thank you very much, Boss Li!" Huang Bingyu raised his glass and toasted Li Yong, but like Qin Feng, he didn't mention anything else.
"Boss Huang, I... I also have something to ask for. I wonder if you can agree to it?"
Li Yongqian's Mandarin was not very good, and since he was asking for help, he stumbled over his words and made his face turn red.
"Boss Li, please tell me something..." Huang Bingyu sighed in his heart, knowing that he could not escape after all.
"Yes...that's it."
Li Yongqian didn't look like a businessman, so he said hesitantly: "Boss Huang, if you get some good jade from gambling this time, can you give it to me for processing?"
In the eyes of outsiders, Li Yongqian is also a boss who drives a car. Although the car is just a van, someone who can drive a car can't be too bad at it, right?
But his family knows his own affairs, and only Li Yongqian knows that he really can't support it any longer. In the past two months, he hasn't received a jade processing order from outside, and he can't even afford to eat. Gone.
If he hadn't brought along a few apprentices, Li Yongqian might have closed the factory long ago and relied on his skills to work as a craftsman in another processing factory. Then he would have been able to make ends meet.
"Lao Li, we brothers have known each other for almost ten years, right?"
After hearing what Li Yongqian said, Huang Bingyu showed a sincere expression on his face and said: "We are old friends, and I won't hide it from you. I am not here to gamble on stones..."
"Not for betting on stones? Then why did you go to the trading market?"
Li Yongqian was stunned when he heard this. In addition to jade processing, this place is also a large traditional Chinese medicine distribution center in Guangdong Province. But Huang Bingyu is in the jade business. He can't wholesale Chinese medicine, right?
"Lao Li, just because I said I don't bet on stones doesn't mean I don't buy jade."
Huang Bingyu said: "My business has not been very smooth in the past few years, and I didn't bring much money with me this time. I really can't bear the risk of gambling on stones, so I want to buy some stones that others have gambled on..."
As mentioned before, the stone gambling market can generally be divided into three types of people: rough stone owners, gamblers and jewelry merchants. Huang Bingyu belongs to the third type of person, that is, the person who buys jade from gamblers.
Although the price of buying jadeite meat is much higher than that of uncut rough stones, the advantage is that there is no risk, and you don't have to experience the cruel scene of "a knife to heaven and a knife to hell" in stone gambling.
"It's also good to buy jade that others have gambled on. Don't be like me and go bankrupt..."
Li Yongqian shook his head a little lonely, then looked at Huang Bingyu and said: "Brother Huang, even if you bought jade for gambling, it still needs to be processed. I wonder if you can hand it over to my factory?"
Seeing the hopeful look on Li Yongqian's face, Huang Bingyu sighed and said: "As you know, Lao Li, I am in the jade wholesale business, which is basically cheaper goods. With this good jade material, I But I don’t dare to buy it...”
Huang Bingyu's words were tantamount to politely rejecting Li Yongqian. He made it very clear: Those cheap goods sold over the counter only cost three to five hundred yuan, and even cheaper ones can even cost dozens of yuan.
Jadeite at this price must be carved by machine, otherwise Huang Bingyu would not even be able to recover his original capital from Li Yongqian's wages alone.
"I understand, Brother Huang, we won't talk about business today, let's drink!"
Li Yongqian was not stupid. He heard the meaning of Huang Bingyu's words. He who only drank tea but not alcohol couldn't help but pour himself a glass, pretending to be drinking to relieve his sorrow.
"Brother Li, I don't make high-end jadeite, but someone does..."
Seeing Li Yongqian's appearance, Huang Bingyu couldn't bear it. He immediately gave him a word of advice and looked at Qin Feng. However, he didn't know what Qin Feng was thinking, and he didn't speak too straightforwardly.
"Well, I don't have a machine at hand now, and the processing efficiency is too slow. No one is willing to do it for me." Li Yongqian, who was full of thoughts, did not pay attention to Huang Bingyu's hint, and just lowered his head and drank sullenly.
"Boss Li, how much do those polishing and polishing machines cost?" Qin Feng asked casually.
“There are cheap ones and expensive ones.”
Li Yongqian replied smoothly: "You can buy it as cheap as 10,000 yuan or 8,000, and as expensive as 20,000 to 300,000 yuan. It depends on the quality of the jadeite processed. With good quality jadeite, it is safer to use a more expensive machine." …”
Li Yongqian has been a jade carving craftsman for more than ten years and is very familiar with all kinds of jade-related machines on the market. But now he can't even afford 10,000 yuan, and he is really at the end of his rope.
After hearing Li Yongqian's words, Qin Feng nodded and said: "Good jade requires expensive machines. This jade is divided into three parts for carving and seven parts for polishing. The post-processing is very important..."
"Boss Qin is an expert. In fact, the polishing process is better with machines than by hand."
Li Yongqian didn't drink much. After drinking a few drinks, he felt a little dizzy. Hearing Qin Feng's more professional words, he immediately started discussing with him.
"This old man is really a clumsy man. How can he do business?"
Li Yongqian's performance made Huang Bingyu next to him stare. Qin Feng asked so detailed questions, obviously intending to do business with him, but Li Yongqian seemed to be out of touch and only drank, which made Huang Bingyu anxious.! In fact, Li Yongqian seemed to be out of touch and just drank. No wonder Li Yongqian, he only knew that Qin Feng was the younger brother of Mr. Qi Gong! But he knew nothing about Qin Feng's business.
Although Li Yongqian did not judge people by their appearance, Qin Feng was too young. Li Yongqian subconsciously did not regard Qin Feng as a businessman, so he naturally did not want to discuss business with him.
"Boss Huang, Kaizi, we've almost eaten, how about we stop here?"
Qin Feng saw that Li Yongqian was already 70-80% drunk, and he didn't want to talk too much to him, so he stood up and said, "Thank you very much, Boss Li, for today. Let's have a good get-together when my little brother is hosting tomorrow..."
"Okay, okay I...I'll pay the bill..."
Li Yongqian forced himself to stand up, but his feet became weak, and he sat back on the chair again. He lay on the table in a daze and was about to fall asleep.
"Kaizi, support Boss Li and put his bag on his back. Let's go."
It was agreed before that Huang Bingyu would pay the bill. After Qin Feng saw Huang Bingyu paying the bill from the counter, he and Zhu Kai helped Li Yongqian up and walked out of the hotel door.
It was already afternoon when Qin Feng and others got off the plane. They drank tea and then drank for several hours. After leaving the hotel, it was already dark.
Although the south in January is much warmer than Beijing and Henan Province, which have already been covered in heavy snow, the temperature is still over ten degrees, and the wind blowing on you has a bit of coolness.
Li Yongqian suddenly woke up a little when he was blown by the cool breeze. He felt a wave of nausea in his chest and abdomen. He couldn't help but push the two of them away and leaned against the wall to vomit.
"Qin Feng, Lao Li is from the south. He is not very good at drinking, but he drank a lot today..."
In any case, Li Yongqian is also Huang Bingyu's friend, and Huang Bingyu still has to say a few words if he makes a fool of himself in front of Qin Feng and Qin Feng.
"It's okay, Boss Li is quite a temperamental person." Qin Feng waved his hand with a smile, his eyes suddenly turned to the two people walking over not far away, and his smile suddenly faded away.
The two of them were both in their early twenties. They put one hand in their arms, walked very fast, and their eyes were wandering, and they walked straight towards Li Yongqian who was still vomiting at the wall.
"robbery?"
Qin Feng's eyes narrowed. As soon as this idea came into his mind, one of the two young men had already grabbed the bag on Li Yongqian's shoulder. The other took out a machete from his arms and pointed it at Qin Feng. Feng et al.
"Boy, don't be ignorant..."
The man holding the machete shouted viciously at Qin Feng and others. At the same time, his accomplice also pulled Li Yongqian to the ground and took off the backpack.
"If you learn to rob, you should be more professional, right?"
Seeing that the person grabbing the bag was about to run past him, Qin Feng suddenly stretched out his right foot and stumbled on the road ahead. Hearing a thud, the person holding the bag fell to the ground.
"Robbery, robbery!"
At the same time that the man fell, Li Yongqian's voice also rang out, which was particularly harsh on the silent road. Seven or eight people suddenly poured out of the restaurant they had just come out of.
"Damn, you're lucky!"
The young man holding the knife felt a little timid when he saw someone coming out of the restaurant. He picked up his accomplice who had fallen to the ground and ran into an alley without even bothering to pick up his bag.
"Brother Li, are you okay?"
Huang Bingyu was really shocked by what just happened. It wasn't until the figures of the two people disappeared into the night that he breathed a sigh of relief and helped Li Yongqian up from the ground.
"No...it's okay, I fell on my forehead."
Even though he was frightened and frightened, Li Yongqian finally woke up from the drunkenness. He touched the big bump on his forehead. Li Yongqian felt like crying but had no tears. He was unlucky enough during this period. He never thought that he could be robbed when he went out?
"Boss Li, what's going on? Nothing was lost, right?" The restaurant owner obviously knew Li Yonggan and ran over with seven or eight people, two of whom were cooks holding kitchen knives.
"It's okay. Thank you very much, Boss Cai. I just fell..."
With Huang Bingyu's help, Li Yongqian stood up. Although he was still a little wobbly when walking, it was because the alcohol had not gone away and his hands and feet were still not in control.
"As long as it's okay, let's go back." Seeing that Li Yongqian really had no problem, the hotel owner led his people back.
"They say the public security in the south is chaotic, but you can see it today."
Zhu Kai took Huang Bingyu's bag from the ground and said: "There are robberies with knives on this road. What do those policemen do for food? They don't care at all?"
"Little brother, it's not that the police don't care, it's that they can't control it."
Li Yongqian took the bag and said with a wry smile: "Those two people must be doing pyramid schemes. I'm afraid they were deceived and they didn't even have the money to go home. There have been many such things during this period..."
It turns out that in 1998, more than 100,000 people came in to engage in a kind of swing machine pyramid scheme, claiming that they would get rich by doing this business, and deceived many people into paying for the machines.
However, in a pyramid-style MLM organization, only a few people can make money. In the end, more than 100,000 people were deceived and lost all their money, and even food became a problem.
Most people who have been engaged in rebellion since ancient times have been miserable people who cannot fill their stomachs.
Although these pyramid schemes did not dare to rebel, they also became a factor of instability in society. Originally, public security was very good, but some burglaries and road robberies occurred one after another.
Although the local government processed and deported a large number of people, many gangs, large and small, were still formed in Jie, and it was difficult to eliminate them for a while.
Being robbed by these people, Li Yongqian thought he was unlucky, but he was also very happy in his heart. If there weren't so many people today, he might have been stabbed. Those people are notoriously evil.
