Chapter 49: Tianguang Ruins II
Tianguang Market refers to some special markets in Guangzhou that start in the early morning and end at dawn.
At first, it was just a place for some lonely and widowed old people to sell scavengers and donated goods in order to make ends meet, but later it gradually became a gathering place for antique dealers, selling some ancestral or second-hand antiques from elsewhere, as well as some antiques and miscellaneous items that are not very visible in the daytime, for those collectors and antique brokers to come to "pan for gold in the sand" with flashlights and magnifying glasses after eating supper.
Such a place full of all kinds of humanoids □□ shapes, and all kinds of things □□ shapes and shapes is naturally the interest of the Underworld.
Of course, his so-called travels are essentially different from our tours.
In order to adapt to this era, which has been out of place for him for a long time, and to absorb some necessary new things, it is the easiest and most effective way to find such places and look at them from the sidelines. Although when I was trapped in Wentou Village, I more or less witnessed the changes of each era, but in the end, the place was too small, there were too few people, and some changes were like sitting in a well and watching the sky, so as soon as I was free, except for the time spent on me, he had traveled all over the country in just a few days.
And Lao Chen happened to pass by Tianguang Market that day and wanted to take advantage of the opening hours to walk around, and he happened to meet him.
said that it was a coincidence, because the young man happened to have a thing in the picture that day, but it happened that Lao Chen also took a fancy to it.
That thing is the million-dollar jade Buddha card in my hand right now.
The Buddha card is as beautiful as a heavenly object, and it is as expensive as the sky-high price, and for ordinary people like me, it is only a part of worship.
But since the prince is from the Tang Dynasty, he is naturally disdainful of its value.
Since ancient times, scribes have been good at jade, but although jadeite is also a jade, it should have really entered the mainstream of Chinese people's collection and its value soared from the Qing Dynasty, especially the time of Cixi. It was only because of his initial interest in the surprisingly high price tag of these stones that he paid special attention to the items made from them.
But when he saw this amulet, he noticed something quite different.
It's so colorful, it's a little evil.
Although I have seen countless emerald stones of various qualities along the way, many of which are very pure and brilliant, but this one is extremely unique, even in the very dim and bad light of the stall owner, it still can't stop its heavy color in the surrounding stones, the color is as thick as charm, and the charm is enchanting.
Therefore, this should be a typical "sun, moon and sky" stone.
The so-called "the sun and the moon are attached to the sky and can shine on the world", which describes such an extreme quality in jade. And often the color is extremely strong, and there is a demon, so there is a saying called "the sun and the moon are beautiful, and the group is intimidating", and the femininity of this stone can be seen from this. In layman's terms, this is not a mortal thing, but it is not a good thing.
At that time, this extraordinary brand was being held in his hand by a man who also had something different on his body, very attentively and carefully, holding a small but extremely bright flashlight, and observing it over and over again.
The man is Lao Chen.
His full name is Chen Bingkun, a northerner, and the current chairman of a well-known daily chemical group in Guangzhou, a rich man in the real sense, just a few million is just fun for him, no wonder a boarding fare can give such a price.
However, don't look at the fact that he is worth more than 10 billion now, but I have read reports about him, when he was a child, his family was so poor that he couldn't even afford to go to school. What's even more pitiful is that his father is too cowardly and incompetent, he feels too much pressure to live and feels too hard to go out to work to make money, so he committed suicide when he was in elementary school, and the family of brothers and sisters rely on their mother as a nanny to support. Therefore, after junior high school, he relied on his own part-time work and study all the way from high school to college, and helped his mother support the whole family.
Perhaps because of this, people are more nostalgic, even if he is worth tens of billions now, he still remembers the place where he laid the first entrepreneurial fund - Tianguang Xu.
Lao Chen's first job after stepping into society was a jade dealer in Tianguang Xu.
Probably because he was poor since he was a child, and he worked to grow up, so Lao Chen's work philosophy is not the same as his peers, when his classmates are hollowing out to work in enterprises and institutions, he remembered the benefits of doing business in the past, so he ran to Guangzhou alone, after seeing a few purchase points, he used the money earned from his previous part-time job to buy some goods, and in the early hours of the morning, he entered the Tianguang Market and began his business road.
At the beginning, I tested the waters, and sold some ordinary goods in the market, and some gadgets and antiques that deceived beginners. Later, I felt that the profit was too low, so I followed a master, while helping him to play in his free time, while learning some of the ways to see jade, and soon began to select materials and materials, polishing and processing by himself, because of the accurate vision, the genuine goods are not pitted, and the quality of the work is also good, for a long time, he has a small reputation in Tianguang Xu, and even the nearby resident shops are looking for him to get the goods, almost from that time, his wealth began to accumulate, and because of the investment vision, the money is like a snowball more and more, until later there is no longer a need to squat in Tianguang Xu, but to open a store like a decent, and after a few years, more funds on hand, and then from the jade store to operate a cross-industry professional, to make a daily chemical product with greater profits......
Hearing this, it seems that he is a typical example of positive energy who is poor and has made a fortune by wisdom and hard work.
But in fact, like many touching stories full of positive energy, there are often some things behind those stories in real life that are not very light, but the aura behind the parties is really dazzling, so they are always ignored.
That is not necessarily the only thing that is, in addition to the business process that seems inspirational on the surface, in fact, the first pot of gold that really made Lao Chen turn his head from a small fight to make a daily chemical product came from selling stolen goods for tomb robbers.
Take advantage of your own shop and good reputation to resell all kinds of antique relics that have been stolen and unearthed.
If this business is done well, it will be profitable in the short term.
In fact, Lao Chen was extremely disdainful of tomb robbing, and he didn't want to look at those who sold stolen goods, thinking that they were doing business of digging other people's graves and hurting yin morality, and sooner or later they would be punished.
But a rare opportunity forced him to change his original mind and start this business.
It was around the mid-90s, and he was interested in the housing market and wanted to invest in real estate. But there is a certain risk in investment, after all, no one can predict the future direction of housing prices, right, but for a person who has had nothing since he was a child, a father who has witnessed incompetence does not even know what hard work is, and a person who understands his life in a cursory way, he does not care about taking any risks at all.
So he put all his savings into buying a property.
For a while, all the liquid funds on hand were emptied, and a lot of debts were owed, but at this time, the jade business went wrong. The market was depressed, and many of the stones collected at high prices could not be sold in his hands, and some of them were reluctantly sold at low prices, so that not only did he not make a profit, but also lost his capital, so he had no choice but to make a desperate bet, borrowed usury to go to the tomb robbers to collect a batch of high-quality goods that were said to be quite valuable, and then began his career of selling cultural relics.
To be honest, he didn't have much idea about making money selling that kind of thing, after all, he had never been in contact with it.
But when he did it a few times with several so-called collaborators at that time, he found that as long as the things dug up from these tombs were properly managed and steady, they were really profitable in the short term.
Since the tomb robbers themselves are often unable and afraid to sell these things, the prices sold to agents are very low, and once Lao Chen, as an agent, finds a suitable buyer, this kind of thing can often be sold to those collectors at a hundred times or even a thousand times the price. After coming and going, he became addicted to making money, and even after the jade industry recovered and housing prices began to rise, he was still reluctant to stop those underground transactions.
After buying nearly 20% of the shares, in early 2002, he got rid of the identity of a small trader and finally became a real entrepreneur, and his career has been flourishing ever since.
Now, after more than ten years of hard work in the business world, Lao Chen, who is worth tens of billions, no longer needs to take care of his business personally, and his whole life is to enjoy life and use his unlimited assets to find the joy of life as much as possible.
Despite this, whenever he thinks of the past in Tianguang Hui and the stimulation of those shady businesses he has done, he will be "addicted", and he will involuntarily go to Tianguang Hui every once in a while to see if there are any new goods, collect one or two good things in the place where tomb robbers gather, and by the way, review his treasure eye, and taste the fun of bargaining back then.
Once a person has a successful career, the 'past' has become a kind of pastime in life, and the so-called bittersweet memories are indeed addictive.
Until one day, when he came to Tianguang Market again as usual, and wandered around with a magnifying glass among the shops intertwined with night and lights, like the rookies or gourmets around him, an ordinary encounter and the appearance of an ordinary person suddenly changed one hundred and eighty degrees, and as a result, he fell into an indescribable bad situation.