"If it's good to smoke, I'll have another one. ”

Fan Yang handed him another one.

"Thank you. ”

The offal soup came up, and the man concentrated on the delicious food in front of him.

Kill three bowls in a row.

Both girls looked stupid.

You know, it's a sea bowl.

Three bowls are in a big basin.

After eating the last beef offal into his stomach, the man put down the bowl with satisfaction, and wiped his mouth with the boss asking for a tissue: "Thank you, it is difficult to repay the kindness of a meal, there is only one word of thanks." ”

"Don't be so polite, where can you go out without falling into trouble, brother's surname?" Fan Yang asked.

"Don't dare, my surname is Lu, my name is Lu Zhengshan, I hear your accent looks like a Sichuanese, right?"

"Yes, Sichuan, now Lianyungang is doing some small business, I still want to ask, don't you mind, is it a loss of restocking?

"It's all a loss, I went up the mountain to find jade, along the Yulong Kashgar River, on the Kunlun Mountain, there is a mine on it, out of a 12-ton stone, for a while, I was blind, 400,000 bought it, tossed for more than three months, invited dozens of people, pulled by the horse-drawn people, to move down the mountain, the result was all smashed, a total of five or six hundred thousand was spent, and the loss was all gone. ”

"12 tons?"

"How big is that?" said Lou was even more surprised.

"It's not too big, it's more than four meters high, there is no road on the key mountain, and I am reluctant to cut it, the main fear is that no one wants to admit defeat until the last moment, so it is consumed with it, dozens of kilometers of mountain roads, walking for more than three months, difficult, hard work to get it back, a knife down is all over. ”

"What's wrong?"

"What else can I do, mountain material is gambling meat, a few years ago, someone bought 400,000 yuan, bought a stone of more than 6 tons, cut it with 4 tons of jade, a full 4 tons of material, and opened dozens of catties of white jade, the white jade alone was sold for more than 2 million, and a hammer earned 10 million or 20 million. ”

Everyone present was stunned, and Fan Yang was no exception.

The so-called gambling on meat is betting on the rough stone.

If you don't cut it when it is mined, you just put the whole stone there, and no one knows what is hidden in it until the stone weighs dozens of pounds.

Dozens of pounds of stone are considered a big gamble, and the whole more than ten tons of rough stones in the mine can be called a big gamble.

This is 93 years.

To be put in the future, more than ten tons of rough stones will cost more than 10 million yuan to buy.

4 tons of jade material, this stroke is amazing enough.

"Then you are completely lost, can't it?" Fan Yang asked.

A blank look flashed in Lu Zhengshan's eyes: "It's a complete loss." ”

Wenwen hurriedly said: "You can always dig out a little." ”

"I threw it all away. ”

More than 10 tons of stones, cut down one by one, each knife is more desperate than the other, and it can indeed make people collapse.

It's lucky that you didn't get a neurotic.

If what he said was true, the experience was really bumpy enough.

"And when did this happen?"

When asked this, Lu Zhengshan's eyes were blurred for a while, and he rubbed two handfuls of his hair like a chicken nest,

"Last year, or the year before last? I don't remember exactly. ”

Fan Yang saw that he was in a trance, as if he had fallen into a memory, and couldn't bear to stimulate him again.

"Do you speak Uyghur?" asked.

"Yes, I've been here since eight years, and I've been here for seven or eight years, and I can understand some Kazakh. ”

The Kazakhs are the Kazakhs that connect the Alashankou and Khorgos ports.

This is an ancient nomadic people, living in the steppe region of Central Asia, and the Xiongnu, Turkic, Dayue, Xianbei, Khitan and other nomadic peoples have inextricable relations.

In the pre-Sulian period, the clan tribal system was still in vogue.

Survive on nomadism and hunting.

Due to various historical reasons, some ethnic Kazakhs gradually broke away from Kazakhstan and settled in Xinyin.

Now he lives in the Ili region, Kazakh Autonomous Oblast.

There are also a large number of Kazakhs, who still retain a nomadic way of life, living in the alpine steppes of the Kunlun Mountains, the Tianshan Mountains, and the Altai Mountains, domesticating falcons and bearded vultures, and the falconry skills of the Kazakh people are world-famous.

At present, more than a dozen rivers that produce jade are all in these mountains, so the Kazakhs still have a ability to pick up jade, and it is not strange to go into Kunlun to find jade, and they can speak a little Kazakh.

Fan Yang will have to go over sooner or later.

"Okay, I'll stay in Xinyi for about a month, and acquaintance is also fate, do you have a place to live?"

"Yes. Lu Zhengshan nodded hurriedly.

"Then let's try it, I really need a guide, pay you 50 yuan a day, is that enough?"

"Enough, enough. ”

Fan Yang took out three hundred yuan: "Pay you six days' salary first, go back and change your clothes at night, is there a place to take a bath?"

Lu Zhengshan took the money, his hand trembling slightly.

If you look closely, Lu Zhengshan's face is still good, his shoulders are very broad, but he is very thin, and his skeleton is quite large.

Judging from his white teeth, this person must have been quite particular before, and his quality was not low, if what he said was true, then he had been beautiful before.

But it has come to this point.

Fan Yang is still a little sympathetic.

Give him a few hundred dollars, comb it well, put on a clean set of clothes, eat well for two days, and he will recover quickly.

"Thank you, where are you going? Are you going to buy jade? I know all the jade markets in Urumqi, as well as the jade markets in Kashgar and Hotan, so I will take you there now, and I won't lose money. "A look of eagerness.

"Don't worry, I still have a lot of things to do in Xinyi, and there is one more thing, are you familiar with Alashankou and Khorgos Port?"

Both ports are national first-class ports, corresponding to Kazakhstan.

They are the two largest ports among the dozens of ports in Xinin.

Khorgos port is a highway port.

Alashankou is a railway port, where the railway merging between China and Kazakhstan is located, and the Eurasian Land Bridge passes through here.

(In the former Soviet period, the width of the railroad tracks was not the same as that of the border areas with Chinese counterparts, and the trains drove directly when they were afraid of war, including Manchuria, and the trains had to be hoisted up at the border to change tracks, and it would take a day or two to cross the border when changing tracks.) ）

Kazakhstan's cotton and wool come out of these two ports.

In 91, the two countries signed the Most Favored Nation Agreement (MFN), establishing China's first foreign trade, a free trade zone.

What is a free trade zone?

Farmers, businessmen on the border of the two countries, can cross the border without paying taxes, and trade freely here, just like a country, there is a free trade market.

Of course, there is a limit to the amount of money.

The main reason is that Kazakhstan was too difficult in those years, and the state's counterpart assistance was only aimed at the cities, and the large areas could not be taken care of at all.

The free trade zone was opened to attract the people from the north and south of the sea these days, and sent them a large number of clothing, light industry, flour, grain, fruits, and daily necessities.

Trade swaps are carried out.

It is also convenient to help refugees.

Even a pot and a coke stove can make Kazakhs grateful.

Heihe, Manchuria, is also the case.

The people of Russia in those years had a miserable life.

These bad guys have done a lot of good things.

If you want to purchase cotton from Kazakhstan, you can't jump these two ports.

Lu Zhengshan really didn't disappoint Fan Yang, he didn't answer directly, but asked directly: "Do you want to buy cotton?" Then you have found the right person again, leave this matter to me, and you won't lose money." ”