The two Indians were fiddling with the 8.93-carat rough diamond, as if trying to figure out whether it could reach gem quality, which made Xiang Zhangsheng a little interested.

If the gray is only the surface, and the inside is colorless or the color has changed, then it is a treasure, and if it is gray inside and out, then it is depressing!

The two Indians are just screeners, and Xiang Zhangsheng is a genuine technical engineer in the mine: there is also a class in the company, and Comrade Zhang Sheng's identity can be equivalent to the company's vice president level.

Even if Zhang Nan is not there, as long as Xiang Zhangsheng is interested, the two Indians will be very respectful to give the diamond, not to mention that the biggest boss will be there.

Sitting on the inspection table, Xiang Zhangsheng looked at it with a magnifying glass under the light for a while, then raised his head and said regretfully: "The clarity can reach VVS2 or VS1, although the color is a little blue, but it is still a gray diamond, it's a pity!"

When Zhang Nan heard this, he asked, "If it is cut and polished, will it be bright?"

"That's a certainty, the clarity is enough, even if it's black, it will be bright, but this gray has never been in the market. ”

Xiang Zhangsheng is also there: 8.93 carats, such a good clarity, how can it be gray!

No way, this gray diamond has not been the choice of the jewelry industry in history, and such a rough diamond with excellent original shape, the weight of the finished diamond that can be retained after cutting and processing is generally close to 4 carats, and 5 carats is not necessarily lucky.

If it's a colorless diamond, it's worth it, pigeon eggs, but it's a damn gray diamond!

The most unwelcome thing in the diamond mine is the kind of "dirty diamond", the color is not good, the clarity is rotten, and the life of industrial diamonds is that they can't wait to smash their bones with a hammer when they encounter large particles!

And pure natural gray diamonds are the most regrettable, especially such large grains.

It's just a breath of taste!

Grey diamonds are found in diamond mines in South Africa, the Soviet Union, Brazil and Australia, and the color of grey diamonds generally ranges from light silver-gray to dark gray-graphite.

However, light gray diamonds are generally not simply gray, such as many gray diamonds from the Argyle mine in Australia often show green and blue secondary colors.

Not unusually, in fact, some of the world's most famous blue diamonds are officially graded as "light grey blue" – including the famous "Hope Diamond", "Moroccan Sultan" and "Blue Vitesse Bus".

It's a pity that the second color of the rough diamond at hand has not yet reached the level of "light gray blue", which is really tasteless and a pity to abandon.

Zhang Nan also took the rough diamond and looked at it, and said, "Have we saved this kind of gray diamond rough that is not up or down?"

Davis on the side immediately said: "Yes, there are a lot, as long as it is a high clarity one, it is a pity to sell industrial diamonds, and Mr. Jia Yin also has some." ”

"Then find a designer to design a jewelry style that matches the gray diamond, and you need to design something different. This diamond has high clarity, luster will always be there, and the price is three or four percent lower than that of ordinary diamonds.

There are a lot of alternative characters in this world, and it may not be possible to come up with a new series.

It doesn't matter if it doesn't work, just try to reuse it. ”

In the company, Zhang Nan follows his words, and the people below can do it, anyway, the manpower and material resources that need to be paid are not large.

As for the Indian partner here, he can't interject, who makes the other party only a minority shareholder, and the right to speak is in his own hands.

After speaking, Zhang Nan said to the two Indians: "You also say hello to Mr. Manu Jia Yin, the diamond design in India is very distinctive, and it may not be good to have good inspiration." ”

Zhang Nan knew that around 2010, Australia's Rio Tinto launched a series of silver-gray diamond products, with a price 20-40 percentage points lower than colorless diamonds of the same clarity and size, which seemed to be quite popular with the market.

The output of gray diamonds is not large, but if it can be used, it is also a lot of wealth, and it is always more profitable than using it as an industrial diamond.

And now that the technology of man-made diamonds is becoming more and more mature, the demand and price of industrial diamonds are gradually declining.

The rough diamond was thrown back on the plate, and Zhang Nan grabbed a few rough stones of about 2 carats, which were still not carefully graded - the mining area would only do the most preliminary grading, and the careful classification would only be carried out after sending them to Yellowknife City.

There are colorless, yellowish diamonds, and some brown diamonds that are obviously inclusive, and the last one is a cheap industrial diamond.

There are a few octahedral and 12-sided rough diamonds like Xiaoice candy, which looks particularly cute.

After cutting, the diamond's charming luster will be revealed, and it will not be cute, but green - in Zhang Nan's eyes, it is the lovely Franklin.

......

Even if the inspection is completed, Zhang Nan will not leave the mining area tonight, and will fly to Yellowknife City tomorrow on the 23rd, and then return to New York early the day after tomorrow.

Dinner with a group of old friends from Huaxia, standard Chinese cuisine, there are chefs from Huaxia, but the ingredients are all Western.

For example, meat and fish, meat is beef, fish is cold-water fish, this thing is not seen in other places in China except in the north and northeast of Western Xinjiang.

The beef is all frozen, and that's it at minus thirty or forty degrees; there are not many vegetables, and they are still transported in heated special containers, and the batch is transported by Company Commander Sun Hongming's car.

As for the abundance of fish, it hasn't cost much yet, because there is no need for the logistics department to purchase it - some time ago, the ice highway could not be opened, but Lake Gera has already formed twenty or thirty centimeters of ice, and the mine has limited production due to the shortage of supplies.

We can't fish with big nets under the ice in Chagan Lake, but we still dripping by hitting two ice holes, putting gillnets and digging ice.

The growth of fish in the cold water lake is slow, but it can't stop no one from catching it, so it goes without saying that this harvest is needless to say: not counting the connected messy waters, the length of the main lake area of Gela Lake is more than 60 kilometers, and the width ranges from more than ten kilometers to more than forty kilometers, and the area feels larger than the area under the jurisdiction of Zhang Nan's hometown!

Just a few dozen people have engaged in such a "large-scale production movement", which is really nothing for the fish in the entire big lake!

Catch, grab whatever!

When it is not freezing, because of the busy work, at most a few people will be busy to go fishing, this time, the workers are full of energy, just a few days to make dozens of tons of trout, pike, sea bass, Canadian whitefish......

You don't need a fishing license or a fishing license, this is a wasteland, and you can catch as much as you want.

But it was only busy for a week and then stopped-no matter how much you fish, it's useless, it's enough for everyone to eat for a winter, do you still want to develop the fishing industry and let those trucks that transport supplies be transported to Yellowknife City to sell?

Don't be funny, Huangdao City is next to Danu Lake, which covers an area of 28,600 kilometers and is as big as 10 or so Gera Lake, and there will be no shortage of fish if there is a lack of anything.

The environmental conditions are difficult, so we must do a good job in eating this problem, and the practice of fish alone is grilled, braised, steamed, fried...

Everything, a mix of Chinese and Western styles.

What to do with people from India?

Do you like to eat or not!

Fortunately, the Jia Yin family who sent people also knew that vegetarian people in the northern wilderness areas of Canada would not survive, and these people sent were also carnivores.

The restaurant was open, and Zhang Nan saw that several Indians ate fish cutlets very quickly, but they stayed away from braised beef and nibbled on chicken thighs there.

Last night, he and Lao Xing and his son gnawed on cow's hooves, Zhang Nan and Xiang Weirong just drank with Lao Zhang and Lao Lou who came out of a convoy, and found that Lao Xing and his son walked into the restaurant with the cold air on their bodies.

Here, Lao Zhang Yi stretched out his hand: "This way!"

waited for people to sit down, and then they figured out: the Xing family father and son left on time at half past five in the morning, which would arrive before 19 o'clock, and drove nearly 400 kilometers in 13 hours.

At such a speed, Canadian and American drivers would not dare to drive even if they were killed, and the car would be in the parking lot, and it would not be until 21 o'clock in the evening to unload the gas, so they would come to eat first.

At noon the next day, Zhang Nan boarded the "Double Otter" to return to the Yellow Knife, and everyone who ate and drank together last night, except for Lao Xing's father and son, who had to leave in the afternoon, the others set off early this morning.

High speed on the ice, that's how hard it is.

......

On December 24, Zhang Nan caught up with dinner at Long Island Manor, and then it was a big gift delivery between each other.

It's not just Zhang Nan who gave gifts to others, but he has received a lot of gifts, such as Chariz Theron who gave him a shirt.

It's been another two days of making trouble, and then I don't know what to do.

During the New Year holiday in the United States, Zhang Nan really didn't know what to do.

Going to the Philippines?

No, too lazy to move.

Going to the Caribbean?

I didn't have that time, so I will go to Washington in a few days.

Just calm down and revise the script of "Titanic", if you don't understand this professional script, the story will still be written: I am actually a little dissatisfied with the original movie, because it is too noble!

The tender for the design of the steamship is almost in its final stages, and the shipyards in Saint-Nazaire, France, and Italy have this strength, as for the British ......

Forget it, the strength of building luxury cruise ships has long been left behind by France and Italy, and even the Finns can throw the original empire of the sun never sets a few streets in this ability!

But the current bidding is a rich man on a whim to the outside world, thinking of replicating a Titanic, but he didn't expect this guy to use it as a movie prop.

This is not bad, if this will reveal the real purpose, Zhang Nan suspects that there will be a group of people to protest!

Titanic, a pain in the hearts of Europeans and Americans, especially for the arrogant British, Zhang Nan wanted to tear apart this scar and add to the British's self-feeling good.

Harming others and not benefiting oneself?

No, if you harm others and benefit yourself, Zhang Nan will not do it at a loss.

Calm down and revise the story, and family members also come to counsel, such as Adjani.

As a senior filmmaker, Adjani admired the courage of her own man too much after watching the story that Zhang Nan spent a lot of time revising.

"Alan, after the British see it, some guys will be mad, you don't want the British box office anymore?"

French Rose's eyes were a little sadistic.

"Movies are just a little toy for me, okay, and the UK has more box office, so I don't care if it's there or not.

To play, you have to play with a taste, just be happy.

By the way, it will take at least six years to shoot, will you be interested in giving Charlie a green leaf by then?"

Zhang Nan's eyes were also a little playful.

Adjani smiled and said, "I'm no problem, playing a French lady?"

Dead or alive?"

"Live, I'm reluctant to shoot you to death. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Nan suddenly thought that Jenny still had British relatives, and it would be bad if the family was upset because of a movie, so he hurriedly called someone and asked her to read the story.

Jenny didn't have time to watch, she just listened to Adjani.

After listening, the opinion was clear: "My mother's family is a commoner, and my ancestors have been for many generations, and those things of the superior have nothing to do with our family!"

I'm busy, so I'm leaving.

Recently, Jenny has been busy at home, because the stock market crash in Japan has slowly developed into an economic crisis, and she has a lot to do.

And it's not just Japan, there are actually some businesses over there: half a year ago, Wall Street had a lot of money going to Wanwan, and it was all hot money.

Jenny also went to get involved, and there will be a $7 or 80 million withdrawal, a small profit of 40%.

Wanwan is also about to have a stock market crash, which is the expectation of Jenny and a group of experts below, but unlike Japan, where the market is mature, the situation is complicated, and hot money will be collected while it is good.

Want to do it like you do it in Tokyo?

Beware, don't say that the money can't come back, it's a problem whether people get it back!

Regarding the problem of bending the stock market, Zhang Nan didn't interfere, he could make it if he could, anyway, if he didn't make it, others would make it, he was not soft.

Now Jenny has no opinion, and the script can be completely to her liking.

The main line remains the same, that is, some modifications are made to the characters and character portrayals other than the male and female protagonists, and they are as close to the real history as possible.

For the story of Zhang Nan and the big ship, the historical experts hired by Xingchen Colombia have found a huge amount of historical materials, especially according to the boss's requirements, to find out how the European and American media hacked the Chinese at that time, and by the way, they also found that the Minister of Railways who seemed to have hacked a little devil at the beginning!

On January 3, 1990, James Cameron was summoned to Long Island by Zhang Nan, and this guy was working on the preliminary preparations for "Terminator 2", which was very busy.

But the boss called someone, and even if Cameron had a big shelf, he had to rush over immediately.

Who made this boss different and couldn't be offended: Titanic began to bid for tenders, who else has the courage and financial resources?

For three whole days, plus three hired historians who signed a confidentiality agreement, and a senior screenwriter, a group of people gathered to discuss the plot.

With the deepening of data analysis, what happened on the Titanic was dug up layer by layer.

"The truth only appears when it is needed", and all the noble and ugly things that happened when the giant ship sank were dug up!

"Boss, I will reasonably add the scene of 8 Chinese crew members when it is finalized, and besides, those villains can't run away!

As for the Japanese official, which version do you think would be better?"

"When the time comes for our most powerful version, this pre-shoot change is too late.

Restoring the design in-house is too time-consuming. This will be 50,000 tons of cruise ships are generally designed for half a year, and we can't get this one for a year and a half.

Shipbuilding is another two or three years, and it would be nice to be able to complete it in 95 years.

Add a sea trial or something, you are ready to start filming in 96, let's not rush, just block the release in the summer of 97. ”

There are Chinese on the Titanic?

Yes, 8 Chinese laborers, but they have been hacked by the Western media for decades!

Why?

Because six people survived.

Zhang Nan decided to turn over that period of history.

Of course, this is a Western romance film, and the Chinese actors will not occupy too much of the role, just to let modern people know why 6 of the 8 Chinese laborers who took one-fifth of the white wages of the same kind of work could survive the shipwreck.

Also, let the world see what really happened on the ship in the first place!

There are rich gentlemen in the West who dare to face death and resolutely do not go to the lifeboat, but there are more rich villains!

It's not just empty words that a movie can affect history, it's also the terrible thing about American-style film culture, using movies to influence the world.

Zhang Nan plans to play with this very useful tool and tell the real history in the fake story.

"Gentleman, shit!"