Chapter 479: Mandalay
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About to leave Yangon, Zhuang Rui is actually a little reluctant, the nearly 20 days of Yangon life, full of surprises and excitement, the ups and downs of the bright standard, the ups and downs of the hidden standard, the surprise when the gambling rises, the depression when the gambling collapses, just like a picture of the social beings of the Buddha country. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
When Zhuang Rui came to the airport, he took a taxi, which was the taxi when he first arrived in Myanmar, with a fare of 5 US dollars, but when he got off the car, Zhuang Rui gave him a tip of 50 US dollars.
After helping Zhuang Rui take his luggage out of the car, until Zhuang Rui and others entered the waiting hall, he was still reluctantly waving his hand outside, I don't know if he was really reluctant to let Zhuang Rui and others leave, or reluctant to Peng Fei's seemingly inexhaustible dollars.
After saying goodbye to Qin Haoran and others, Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei waited for the flight to Mandalay, and after getting on the plane, they found that the original plane was also sent from China, but it was only turned around in Yangon, and the flight attendants and flight attendants above, as well as the vast majority of passengers, were Chinese.
"This little brother, look at the plane you got on the plane from Yangon, did you just participate in this Myanmar Jade Fair?"
Not long after the plane took off, a middle-aged man in his forties sitting in the front row of Zhuang Rui turned his face and accosted Zhuang Rui with a familiar smile.
"Hehe, yes, brother, are you going to Mandalay on a business trip?"
Zhuang Rui saw that this person was dressed relatively plainly, but a T-shirt with a pair of jeans, and he didn't look like a businessman.
"Hey, what's the matter, this public plate is over, we're just going to check the leftover soup and drink......"
When the middle-aged man spoke, looking at Zhuang Rui's eyes, revealing a look of envy, this plane is basically Chinese, he spoke loudly, causing everyone to look back, it was the beautiful flight attendant in the cabin, and also paid attention to Zhuang Rui.
"This boss, I don't know what the price of the king on the public auction is?"
"Little brother, tell me what is the total transaction price of this public market?"
"Yes, I heard that it only ended this morning, and I was not allowed to make calls on this plane, so I was really anxious......"
Hearing that Zhuang Rui was from Yangon to participate in the plane on the public plate, the whole cabin was noisy, and everyone asked Zhuang Rui about what happened on the public plate.
Zhuang Rui was a little troubled by these inexplicable questions, and quickly stood up and said: "Everyone, this jade public market is just trading some jade, there is nothing to say, there is really nothing to say......
"Little brother, just tell us, whether we can gain anything from this trip depends on the results of this public market......"
"yes, maybe I'll have to lose the ticket money if I run away in vain this time......"
"Sir, will you please sit down first?"
As soon as Zhuang Rui's words fell, the gossiping question came out again, but it was mixed with the voice of the beautiful stewardess, so that Zhuang Rui sat down, but when the stewardess looked at Zhuang Rui, her eyes were also full of curiosity.
You know, on the flight from China to Myanmar, the flight attendants see the most people, is to come to Myanmar to gamble stones, long-term hearing such a topic, they naturally have a deep understanding of gambling stones, know that the people who can go to Yangon to participate in the jade public market, are some big bosses, so Zhuang Rui is also different.
"Good...... Okay, sit down, I'm sorry, this old man, what's going on with you? Tell me about it first?"
Zhuang Rui originally thought that these people on the plane were all going to Mandalay for business, but now it seems that he has thought about it, and he dares to love that these people are also coming to Myanmar to pour rough stones?
Zhuang Rui guessed correctly, these people are indeed selling rough jadeite between China and Myanmar, but they do not have enough financial resources and are not qualified to participate in the Myanmar jadeite market, so they can only wait for the end of the public market, go to Mandalay to collect some rough stone materials and sell them back to China.
The reason why these people went to Mandalay was because the rough stone traders in Myanmar were basically concentrated there, and they would go back when the public market was over, and although Mandalay was also controlled by the government army, there were a lot of tricks to drill at the airport, and it was not as strict as Yangon, and these people could bring out some rough stones.
In the words of the Burmese side, a group of people on this plane are smuggling jadeite rough stones, and they don't have any customs clearance certificates, but they just buy the staff of Mandalay Airport to bring one or two sacks of rough stones on the plane, whether they lose money or make money, and they expect to smuggle out the rough stones.
And the Myanmar jade public market is the vane of the price of the entire jade and jade market, and they naturally know very well, but today on the plane, they can't learn about the latest market, so they will ask Zhuang Rui so urgently.
"You...... Aren't you smugglers? If you get caught, won't you be in trouble?"
Zhuang Rui didn't expect the Myanmar government to control the export of rough stones so strictly, and these people actually dared to smuggle blatantly, as if they were not afraid at all.
"Fart smuggling, we just bring a few pieces of rough stone on the plane, and the money up and down is higher than the price of buying that rough stone, the real smuggler, which is not the escort of the car ship as a soldier, what are we, the people here in Myanmar, I wish their rough stones could be smuggled out......"
After the middle-aged man heard Zhuang Rui's words, he pursed his lips disdainfully, and some other people also agreed with his words, that is, the beautiful flight attendant was used to such things, but Zhuang Rui was a little fussed.
Although he has been in Myanmar for a long time, it was not until he listened to the middle-aged man's explanation that Zhuang Rui truly understood the social form of Myanmar.
Don't look at the precious items such as gems and teak that Myanmar is rich in, but it is in the hands of a very small number of people, and most people in Myanmar are very poor, lack the means to make a fortune, people are poor and think about change, and the theft and sale of resources has developed to an unimaginable point, which is not something that can be stopped by a simple government, but only slightly restrained.
In this part of Myanmar, the state began to pay attention to the rough stone trade, but it began in the eighties of the last century, and in the hands of many locals in Mandalay, there are still a large number of jadeite rough stones, and these rough stones are decades ago old pit materials, these locals do not want to participate in the public market to be pumped by the government, so there are buyers and sellers, forming a special smuggling channel.
Zhuang Rui shook his head, these people are just ordinary businessmen, and they all earn hard money, as the saying goes: pearl thieves are punished, and country thieves will naturally not come to take this small plane, nor will they run around once, just to carry such a sack of stones.
"More than 20 million euros? That's not more than 200 million RMB?"
"yes, that's a bit outrageous......
"Lao Yu, is the money we brought this time a little less?"
As Zhuang Rui said the price of the bidder, the people in the cabin, whether they came to Mandalay Taobao or on a business trip, including those beautiful flight attendants, all opened their mouths wide and looked incredulous.
After Zhuang Rui told them the bid price of the Myanmar public market, and the total transaction price reached 8 billion RMB, the entire cabin became silent, and no one spoke anymore, they were all digesting what Zhuang Rui just said, analyzing how much rough they could buy from Mandalay with the money they brought this time.
I believe that by tomorrow at the latest, this news will spread throughout the jewelry industry, and there is no way for anyone to predict what kind of price the jadeite jewelry on the market will rise to.
The people in the cabin no longer had the heart to ask Zhuang Rui for details, and Zhuang Rui, who was idle, also put his eyes on the TV screen in the cabin that was playing the introduction of Mandalay City.
Mandalay, the capital of Mandalay Province of Myanmar, the famous former capital, and the second largest city in Myanmar, with a population of about 800,000, is the political, economic and cultural center of Myanmar, and was once the seat of the Royal Palace of Myanmar.
Because the famous ancient capital of Myanmar is Ava in its suburbs, the overseas Chinese in Myanmar call it "Wacheng".
Mandalay in World War II, is the main battlefield of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Japanese army, so a large number of Chinese left here, now Mandalay's economy, mainly controlled by Chinese descendants, because of the geographical location, has always been the concentration of jadeite wool, finished products, and various gemstone trade.
The major mines in Myanmar also have stations in Mandalay, Yangon public disk is only flourishing in recent years, in the last century, the venue of the public market is often set in Mandalay, the previous legendary gambling stone stories also happened here, it can be said that Mandalay is a place with a long historical tradition.
It wasn't a long flight from Yangon to Mandalay, but after just over an hour, the plane arrived over Mandalay Airport.
"Brother, don't look at Myanmar as a military junta, it is still our Chinese who controls the lifeblood of Myanmar, do you see it, those houses are all owned by our Chinese......
When the plane swooped down, Zhuang Rui could see from the window that on the edge of the city full of pagodas, there were many luxury villas lined up, and the middle-aged man sitting in front of Zhuang Rui introduced him, but the words were then muffled by the roar of the plane landing.
Compared with the Chinese living in Indonesia and other places, the Chinese in Myanmar have a much better life, although they have money but rarely participate in politics, and the local forces in Myanmar are not Chinese-exclusive, so in Mandalay, these Chinese settlements, their economic lifeline is basically in the hands of the Chinese.