After eating, we came to Erdaoqiao International Market.

Hetian Jade Trading Center.

It's not like the little bazaars.

There is a main building covering an area of several thousand square meters, with four floors, dozens of shops on each floor, and an open-air wool trading market.

Among them, the first layer is the finished jade retail market, the second and third floors are the wholesale market, the fourth floor is the cutting field, the processing factory, and there are also large and small seed transactions, which are specially for gambling stones.

After shopping on the first floor of the mall for a long time, the 93-year-old Hetian Jade Trading Center was already crowded with people, rubbing shoulders, Fan Yang and they used to be early, and they couldn't go back when they were crowded inside.

I was forced to visit the counters side by side.

Not surprisingly, it's all expensive.

A piece of blue and white jade pendant costs hundreds or thousands at every turn.

Monopoly on outsiders.

Naturally, it is not Fan Yang's dish.

Finally strolling up to the second floor, Fan Yang and the others couldn't help it and ran to a balcony to smoke.

"You almost didn't squeeze me to death, can you still stand it?"

"There are too many people, so many foreigners. ”

"It's all Middle Eastern countries, Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan and so on, and there are some in Eastern Europe, but not much. Xiao Lu introduced.

Lu Zhengshan coughed twice, attracting the attention of several people, and asked Fan Yang, "What does Fan always plan?"

"I, I haven't thought it through yet, what do you think is better?"

Lu Zhengshan felt ashamed, and desperately wanted to perform, so he said: "Actually, I am quite experienced in this area, I have also done the wholesale business of Hetian jade before, and I have helped others a lot, it is the same as ordinary commodities, it is also divided into mining, processing, sales, three links, these three links are profitable, but there is a characteristic, almost no one can integrate these three links, which is determined by the terrain." ”

When it comes to business, Lu Zhengshan feels different.

Zhong Ting's beautiful eyes next to her flowed.

For some reason, she was attracted to people like Lu Zhengshan.

"It's very clear, you say. ”

Lu Zhengshan smiled self-deprecatingly: "Except for me." ”

"You?"

"Yes. Lu Zhengshan nodded and said: "At the beginning, I was big-hearted, and I personally organized people to hold Kunlun Mountain, and I was responsible for transportation, but it was a failure, because it was decided by the terrain, reckless mountains, there is no grass in many places, and those jade mines were built in the depths of Kunlun Mountain, and there was no road at all, and it all relied on donkeys, horses, and manpower to transport them." ”

Zhong Tingting interjected and asked, "Why don't you use camels?"

Xiao Lu stood next to Zhong Ting and said, "Camels have to run in the desert, there is a plateau over there." ”

Fan Yang nodded and said: "Yes, didn't I tell you before, Xinyi has three main terrains, basins, deserts, and plateaus, and the location of Hotan is at the junction of Kunlun and the Himalayas, and the Pamir Plateau, which is another roof of the world. ”

Lu Zhengshan glanced at Fan Yang in surprise: "Mr. Fan has been over there?"

"No, I just learned in advance, I used to live in Kangding and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for two years. ”

"I see. Lu Zhengshan said with a smile: "Indeed, Hotan is similar to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, and the living habits are similar. ”

"Hmm. Fan Yang nodded.

"The main reason is that the geographical conditions of Xinyi are good, it is in the center of the Eurasian continent, the Himalayan orogeny, the violent volcanic magma, the glacier transfer, the impact of the Eurasian plate in the secondary era, the uplift, the accumulation of a large number of mineral resources, the three mountain ranges of Xinyin, the mineral resources are very rich, the Kunlun Mountains produce Hetian jade, Kunlun jade, Qinghai jade, Tianshan Jasper, and the Altai Mountains produce gold. ”

"Gold?" Fan Yang interrupted, "Is there still a lot of gold in the Altai Mountains?"

"Yes, our new reins are known as the state of gold and jade, Altai in Mongolian, it means gold mountain, Altai Mountain seventy-two ditches, ditches out of gold, don't you know?"

"Well, I really didn't pay attention to that. ”

Xiao Lu next to him smiled: "Yes, Brother Lu is right, but the management is very strict, ordinary people can't go up the mountain, there are more than ten ore veins over there, there are more than ten state-owned gold mines, Habar Gold Mine, Zaire Gold Mine, and Harke Mountain Gold Mine, all of which are more than 100 kilometers of metallogenic belts, and also produce rare earths, which is currently the largest rare element metallogenic belt in China." ”

Fan Yang had a strange look.

When Zhao Guangming heard the news, he was so scared that he went crazy.

"Is there a gold mine in Kunlun Mountain?"

Lu Zhengshan nodded and said: "Yes, but there are not as many as the Altai Mountains, the earliest jade mines were blown up by gold mines, and many pits were mined in the Ming Dynasty, you have stayed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, you should know what the concept of the Hengduan Mountains is, right?"

"You know, it's bare, the oxygen is thin, the plants can't grow, it's all weeds, the soil is thin, and the mountains are snowy. ”

"Yes, it's the snow-capped mountains, the environment above is very harsh, those jade workers are very hard, every year in the mining season, vegetables can't be eaten fresh, all rely on drinking tea to supplement vitamins. There is a record in the "Taiping Yulan": it is the most difficult to take jade, cross the three rivers and five lakes to the mountain of Kunlun, thousands of people go, hundreds of people return, hundreds of people go, and ten people return. ”

"Is there still a mining season up there?"

"Of course. Lu Zhengshan replied: "If it snows, now the jade metallogenic belt on the Kunlun Mountain is generally above 4,000 meters above sea level, and the mineralization above 4,800 meters is the best, anyway, the higher the better, now only Alarmas and Hainelak two ore sites produce white jade, one is 5,300 meters above sea level, one is 5,600 meters, and only after April can enter the mountain every year, and before October at the latest, it must come out, otherwise it will have to die on it." ”

Fan Yang smiled, not much worse than his own gold mining.

Speaking of the hardships of jade mining, Xiao Lu has also heard a lot, and said: "A little donkey, two feet to drive a short whip, three dogs like a cold winter, the four seasons do not know spring and summer, five more sleeping in Kunlun, six desires and seven emotions are thrown away, beautiful jade is well-known in all directions, and who knows if you die nine times in your life." ”

Lu Zhengshan laughed: "Yes, yes, that's it, who knows, the key is that this jade is not like coal, the coal mine can be mined for three or five years, or even decades, but the jade mine is different, it is a matter of luck, find a jade vein with the widest two meters, and open it at one time, what to do? ”

Lu Zhengshan said more and more energetic: "When I found the mine, the first cannon sound of the mine was the most exciting, before the cannon was fired, the mine manager had to stand at the highest place, blow a few whistles, shout the cannon, after a few cannon sounds, the jade miner crawled out of the hiding place, picked up the stone ballast, and saw if there was any hope, and if there was no hope, he had to continue to move the nest." ”

"Then why are you looking for jade?" asked Fan Yang.

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