Chapter 361 of the text (II)

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"It's nothing, it's just that I also do some jade and jade business, this time in Myanmar, I asked Uncle Yu to help my ......"

Chen Kai poured the cup in front of Yu Xuan full of wine, and said with a smile: "My Uncle Yu loves me, and I came over without even talking about the conditions, Uncle Yu, don't worry, the wine bottle must be your ......"

"Don't pat me on the back ......"

Yu Xuan pursed his lips and said, "Don't talk to me about these useless things, bring the things to me first, your dad's stingy ghost hid like a baby back then, I won't wait to see him......"

"Come on, you drink first, I'll go upstairs and get it......" Listening to Yu Xuan's words, Chen Kai quickly stood up and walked out of the restaurant, obviously going to that bronze wine bottle.

"Teacher, is Brother Kai's jade business very big?" After Chen Kai went out, Fang Yi opened his mouth and asked, not to mention anything else, it was the villa where Chen Kai lived, and in Fang Yi's opinion, he couldn't buy it without a thousand or eight million.

"Well, he only does the jadeite business, and he does a lot of ......"

Yu Xuan nodded and said: "This kid, the head of learning knowledge is not very useful, he didn't even learn one percent of his Lao Tzu, but he can do business, which he Lao Tzu can't even compare to half of his ......."

Chen Kai is also a legend, as Yu Xuan said, he didn't like to study when he was a child, no matter how he beat him, he didn't do well in the exam, and finally dropped out of junior high school at the age of sixteen.

In the face of such a son, Lao Chen was also helpless, so he wanted Chen Kai to follow Yu Xuan to learn some skills in appraising antiques, so that he could eat in society in the future.

But I don't know why, Chen Kai is not interested in learning, the antique knowledge that Yu Xuan taught him, Chen Kai is left ear in and right ear out, Yu Xuan saw that he was not the one who ate this bowl of rice, and immediately sent Chen Kai to a jade processing factory opened by his friend in Yangmei to work.

But what is unexpected is that Chen Kai, who is a mess of poor learning, is very talented in business, first he started to run sales in that factory, and after three or four years of work, Chen Kai has accumulated a very rich source of customers and contacts in the business field.

In the early 90s, when the former Soviet Union collapsed, Chen Kai, who was only in his twenties at the time, gritted his teeth and quit his job in the factory, and partnered with a friend who owned an instant noodle factory to sell instant noodles and daily necessities to Russia, and in more than a year, he actually earned more than one million.

One million in the nineties, that is definitely a huge amount of money, relying on this money, after Chen Kai returned to his hometown, he opened a small jade processing workshop, and at the beginning invited a master to specialize in jade processing business.

However, with the progress of reform and opening up, the life of the common people is gradually better than having cash in hand, and the sales of jade jewelry are also soaring year by year.

With those previous business channels, Chen Kai's sales channels were quickly opened, and he opened more than a dozen jade and jade shops in the capital cities of seven or eight southern provinces in one go, and even monopolized the business of low-grade jade souvenirs in some tourist attractions in the south.

Up to now, Chen Kai has at least hundreds of millions of net worth, and he is already a predator-level jade merchant in the southern provinces of China, that is, those chain jewelry stores in Hong Kong and Taiwan need to cooperate with him if they want to enter this market.

However, although Chen Kai is flexible and resourceful in business, he has been in the jade business for so many years, but he is still a layman in the identification of jadeite and jade, and every time he buys goods, he needs to ask experts to help him identify it.

Not to mention, although Chen Kai's method costs a lot of money, he basically doesn't take medicine every time he buys the channel, and he doesn't suffer a loss.

As for the bronze wine bottle they just mentioned, it was picked up by Chen Kai's father from the ghost market in the capital in the early eighties, and it was a bronze ware from the Qin Dynasty, which was in very good condition, and Yu Xuan had long wanted to exchange it in his hand, but Lao Chen was reluctant to do so, but he didn't think about it, but he was secretly taken out by Xiao Chen.

Of course, Yu Xuan's help to Chen Kai was purely out of the love of the elders for the younger generations, otherwise no matter how valuable the wine bottle was, it would be far from the five million appraisal fees that others gave him.

"Uncle Yu, how is it? Is this it?" As soon as Yu Xuan's words fell, Chen Kai reported a box and walked into the restaurant, placing the box in front of Yu Xuan.

"Well, it's this, no ......."

Yu Xuan picked up the bronze wine bottle about ten centimeters high and looked at it for a while, then put it in a box and pushed it in front of Chen Kai, and said: "Xiao Kai, I have received your heart, but this thing should be taken back by Lao Chen, if he knows that this thing is gone, he still doesn't know what the distress will become......"

With the care of the two big brothers when they squatted in the cowshed, Yu Xuan couldn't take Lao Chen's beloved things, and the reason why Chen Kai was allowed to take it down was just to have a good time.

"Uncle Yu, you can rest assured, I told Comrade Chen, if he doesn't agree, do you say I dare?"

Chen Kai smiled and pushed the box back, he knew that Yu Xuan was worth a trip to Myanmar now, this bronze wine bottle was a real Qin Dynasty court wine vessel, although it was not worth five million, but two or three million was still worth it, and it could show his heart to some extent.

"Let's get back to that......"

Yu Xuan nodded noncommittally and said, "Xiao Kai, you have never gambled on stones before, why do you suddenly want to gamble on stones this time?" You also know that gambling on stones is very risky, even if you Uncle Yu and I also look away, ah......"

Yu Xuan is definitely a Taishan Beidou-level figure in the identification of jadeite and jade, and he has not helped Chen Kai before, but he knows that Chen Kai has always bought half of the jade or all the jade materials when he buys the original stone, and he has never gambled on jadeite.

"Teacher, you said that gambling stones, is that what you want to take me to see this time?" Hearing Yu Xuan mention gambling stones, Fang Yi couldn't help but ask, he often heard Yu Xuan mention his gambling stones, and Fang Yi was enthusiastic when he heard it, but Fang Yi had never experienced it personally.

The so-called gambling stone refers to the fact that the miners in Myanmar will mine the jadeite rough with a layer of stone skin to transport out, so that people can judge whether there is jadeite and jadeite grade in the rough stone by that layer of stone skin.

Although this kind of rough stone that has not been polished off the stone skin is cheap, it is extremely risky, because even the most sophisticated machine in the world cannot see the jade flesh inside through the stone skin.

In this way, the gambling nature of the original stone has become very heavy, some people spend 100 yuan, it is possible to open hundreds of thousands or even millions of stones, and some people spend hundreds of thousands or even millions, but the jade is worthless, so many people get rich overnight because of the gambling stone, and there are countless people who are bankrupt because of the gambling stone.

Because of such a gambling nature, it has also attracted countless people to participate, including professional gamblers, as well as jewelry company owners and jade merchants.

Of course, there is a difference between gamblers and businessmen, that is, gamblers generally gamble fully, while businessmen will buy half-gambling or finished materials from gamblers, and the two can be said to be a parasitic relationship.

"Uncle Yu, I can't bet this time......"

Hearing Yu Xuan's words, Chen Kai said helplessly: "You also know that Myanmar's current shape is very bad, and I don't know if it can be opened next year, I have to stock up on some materials, otherwise if the shape deteriorates again, my jade shops will have to close down......."

Chen Kai is not a very gambling person, he has always sought stability in business, but this time external factors also made him have to gamble.

Jadeite, a kind of jade, is only produced in Myanmar on both sides of a river about dozens of kilometers long, not to mention the amount of production, its mining and transportation environment is very bad, and the number of people who die in mining disasters every year is unknown.

If it's just that the mining environment is bad, then that's all, but most of the land in the Golden Triangle is also in Myanmar, plus Myanmar is full of hills, almost every village is an armed force, no one believes in the government army at all, and there have been constant conflicts and wars since the fifties and sixties.

In this case, it will inevitably affect the mining and sale of jadeite jade, if it is not for the government's full maintenance, I am afraid that Myanmar's jadeite public market will not be able to hold for a long time.

This year, the political situation in Myanmar is particularly unstable, after the big drug lord surrendered to the government, his forces were torn apart, and guerrilla warfare was waged in various mountains, which also led to the inability to transport the jadeite rough, which made the supply of goods tight and the price soared.

In this situation of not knowing whether they can enter Myanmar next year, all the jade merchants can only hoard some more raw stones, which is also the reason why someone on Hong Kong Island gave Yu Xuan a sky-high appraisal fee of 5 million, but he did not want to be intercepted by Chen Kai with his relationship with the world. (~^~)