In a jade field on the Uyu River in Myanmar, the sound of machines is constantly roaring.

Like a roaring monster.

Break the silence of Myanmar's deep mountain forests.

It was a large excavator known locally as the "Strange Hand", and the Burmese had been digging jade with farming tools for generations, but these steel giants had saved a lot of effort.

Since 1992, when the Burmese government allowed private companies to enter mining, modern mechanical mining equipment began to appear in the area, which greatly accelerated the mining of jade.

Excavators peel through layers of mountains day and night, digging out stones and soil that are dumped on the slopes, and workers turn over the jade from them.

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Took a lot of high-quality jade from the gambling stone shop in the island country.

Li Jun wandered around the jade market in Mandalay, Myanmar, because he was not interested in the jade that made the boss's flesh hurt, it was worth a lot of money, you must know that Li Jun is now a person who feels that it is nothing to make 100 million US dollars immediately.

In the afternoon, I also learned about the jade mines in the Lao Hpakant area and other mines occupied by armed forces in the old Hpakant area.

More importantly, he knew that the Burmese government had recently had a crisis to buy arms, and the treasury was empty, and it needed to auction off land to solve the problem, but the auction land in Myanmar was completely different from the auction land in China, because the only valuable land auctioned in Myanmar was jade mines.

In this government auction, Li Jun learned about and learned about Myanmar's jade.

What Houjiang jade, produced in the alluvial sand layer of the riverbed, Houjiang jade water is good and the bottom is good, often full of green and high emerald, less fog, and the color of the finished product is better than the original stone......

For example, there are mines that auction gray jade, gray card jade shell variegated, mainly gray-green and gray-black, the transparency is different, the bottom is unevenly distributed, but the water is often better where there is green, and the size of the jade is very different, and the large pieces can reach hundreds of kilograms or even tens of thousands of kilograms.

For example, there are mines that produce wood and cut jade, this kind of jade raw stone skin shell with brownish gray, yellow-red, generally less at the bottom of the water, but more white fog, yellow fog, small size, the best wood cut jade will be like blood and fire, that kind of very precious.

For example, there is a mine to produce a gang jade, this kind of jade raw material skin is coarse, the skin color is brilliant, the jade water and the bottom are better, the cracks are less, it is a green or full of green and green green high emerald varieties, rarely contains impurities, the glass bottom is more common, but the yield is small.

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However, these mines to be auctioned are deep mountain and old forest mines that the Myanmar government is unwilling to expend.

The cost of mining there is huge, and it is worthless to hold it in your hands.

In the mountains of northern Myanmar, the setting sun gradually disappears into the thick clouds on the mountain tops.

Many of the Burmese government's auctions are jade mines in the Lao Hpakant area.

In the Lao Hpakant region of Myanmar, this is a magical place, there are two strongest factions, and the other forces are dependent on their jurisdiction, but neither side can be offended, and no offense is that both sides pay protection money, but the speculators here often like to take the risk of paying protection money to only one faction.

But the protection money that was knocked away.

Compared with the jade consumer market that broke out in China in later generations, that money is a drop in the bucket.

In the rise of the Chinese economy, a large number of middle classes appeared, and the Chinese people have liked jade since ancient times, because the Chinese culture believes that wearing jade can bring good luck to people.

In addition, jade is listed as jewelry, because it is beautiful, and it is scarce, not repeated, priceless, the biggest feature is beauty, in addition to the external beauty, it is also related to human life, all the natural materials to make jewelry, jade and the Chinese people are the closest and closer, because of its wonderful characteristics, with the role of stabilizing emotions and balancing physiological functions, the Chinese people call it spirituality.

In ancient times, Huaxia from the concubine to the wife, and the common ladies, all with gold and jade beads as decorations.

With the take-off of China's economy, the whole of China has once again become a huge consumer market for jade.

Moreover, although Myanmar is an industry, its processing technology is compared with that of China, and the processed jade in Myanmar can only be regarded as semi-finished products at most.

Li Jun was in the jade business, mainly hoarding until that time, and strange goods were habitable.

Thinking of a huge auction in Myanmar every year in later generations, a jade auction that sold tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars in one day, it was like grabbing money.

Later generations were popular, but jade was dug one or one less, and when the demand for jade in later generations continued to increase, it faced out of stock from time to time.

Jadeite jade continues to become a top luxury and expensive jewelry......

It is very cheap for Li Jun to obtain the mining rights now, and it will cost billions in future generations, which is heart-wrenching.

In the Lao Hpakant area, Li Jun is ready to start taking a large number of jade mines, contracting fees, protection costs, magical places get mines from the government, and pay protection fees to the local armed forces...... However, the matter of that money is a small matter for Li Jun, because the value of these jade mines in Myanmar is still the price of cabbage, of course, for the rich, millions, millions, or even tens of millions of yuan in super large Burmese jade mines, that is hundreds of millions, billions of Myanmar dollars, and the prices in Myanmar are not high, and the money is like astronomical amounts.

In later generations, these mines could only be bought for hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions of dollars, and they were also a jade mine that mined most of them.

The Burmese authorities did not want to sit idly by and watch the local armed forces grow, so they were ready to buy a large number of arms and strangle the local armed forces, so the jade market fell sharply overnight, but the Burmese government's plan to sell the mine is still going on as usual, because Myanmar basically relies on the jade to earn foreign exchange to buy arms.

Now the Myanmar jade field, is basically a market surplus market, the government sold a large number of mines is not only to obtain wealth, but also a disguised blow to the local armed forces, some local armed forces rely on some jade mines to make money to buy weapons, the domestic jade market is falling, they are extremely advantageous, selling mines at low prices, long-term is unfavorable, but can achieve short-term strategic goals.

Moreover, there are tens of thousands of mines controlled by the government, and it is not a big deal to sell some of them, and Myanmar has nothing else but jade, with 95% of the world's jade production.

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Yangon, Myanmar.

It was the first time Li Jun had seen such an auction.

That's enough for Myanmar.

It's no different from those warlords auctioning off mines.

It turned out to be a large open-air auction.

I don't know how many rows of simple chairs there were, and many of the merchants who were in the jade mine chose a place to sit down early, where they waited patiently for the auction to begin.

"Today, our government has decided to put the mining rights of 398 mines owned by the state into public auction, and according to the proven situation, the unearthed jade ...... Taking this into consideration, we set the starting price for each mine. ”