Lao Mu's quotation is actually very fair, this is in accordance with the local rules, if the report is less, Haisheng will not be willing, it is estimated that at that time, Haisheng would rather go to the large trade fair outside to sell.

"Boss Zhang, let me tell you the truth, in recent years, through the efforts of many parties, the mining of bloodstone has gradually moved on the right track, and the mining area has also set up a special police room to facilitate management and timely handling of disputes. Our villagers here no longer 'bomb indiscriminately' barbaric mining, but have added air compressors, wind drills and other mechanical equipment, and Zhang Tianyuan, who is developing more efficiently, has also accelerated the depletion of bloodstone resources. In the past two years, bloodstone has become more and more difficult to dig. In the mine that is currently being mined, after more than two years of excavation, see 'red' Liao Liao ......"

"What I mean by saying this is to tell you that the price I gave is actually not expensive, don't get me wrong. ”

Lao Mu didn't want to offend Zhang Tianyuan, so after bidding, he specially explained to Zhang Tianyuan, after all, the big stone is easy to say, because the table is better, but the other four stones are really not table, the reason why he will pay the price of 7,000 to 10,000 is purely because these four stones come from the old pit, and they are bloodshot, if you are lucky, you will really make a lot of money.

"Yes, Boss Zhang, opening a hole is a hard job. A percussion drill is used to make a hole, and then a certain amount of explosives is placed for blasting. The cave was hundreds of meters deep, and it was pitch black, and it could only be lit by an emergency light on his head. The holes dug by us villagers are more than 600 meters deep and about 100 meters shallow. The height of these holes is only fifty or sixty centimeters, and it is really hard to crawl in and out. Haisheng couldn't help but pour bitter water. In fact, I just don't want Zhang Tianyuan to lower the price.

Zhang Tianyuan has some understanding of this point.

In the past, the mine area was not open to traffic. Outside vehicles can only park in Lao Mu's village and walk up the hill for about half an hour to reach the mining area. All the materials and large mining equipment on the mine had to be transported up the mountain by manpower or livestock, and the large excavators had to take a detour along a dirt road from the other side of the mountain.

Truckloads of gravel were pulled out of the black holes, covering the slopes of the mining area with no vegetation in sight. Hundreds of ravines and roads crisscross the ground, and dozens of hillsides formed by piles of quarried rocks and dirt rise from the ground, which look like a giant spider's web from a distance. Hundreds of people are mining bloodstone here day and night, fantasizing about getting rich overnight.

Engaged in mining work in the mine, the income is very unstable. The key is not to see the "red". There is a saying in the local area called "three years do not open, see red to eat for three years", which means that the excavation of bloodstone depends on luck, most of the caves usually produce some ordinary ornamental stone or wax stone, although these stones can also be sold for money, but can not be sold at a high price, the income is only enough to open the cost of mining and pay the wages of workers, only to see the "red" bloodstone can make the mine owners shine.

Large bloodstone wool can sell for tens of thousands or even millions. Of course. With resources on the verge of depletion, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for them to shine.

Therefore, these people who invest in digging holes and digging rocks themselves are like trying their luck to "gamble on stones", and some people dig treasures. made a fortune at a sky-high price, and some did not see a piece of "red" for a few years, so they were in debt.

But he knew it. He didn't speak, after all, it had nothing to do with him. No matter how hard and tired you are, I don't lie down and count the money. To be honest, this Haisheng and Lao Mu are already very lucky, you must know that Cao Cao's father died because of bloodstone.

That was just one of the examples, in the past, when digging bloodstone was chaotic, there were often fights on the mountain, and many people were beaten to death not from exhaustion, let alone falling to death.

Compared with those people, Haisheng and Lao Mu are definitely the lucky ones among the lucky, they not only make money, but also live a very good life now, Zhang Tianyuan has no need to sympathize with them at all, what should be done in this business, then what to do.

He looked at the largest stone, originally he was going to buy this stone, but Lao Mu bid 200,000 yuan, he was going to give up, because it was no longer worth it, so he shook his head and said: "We are all straightforward people, I won't go around in circles, this stone bid is too high, I don't dare to ask for 200,000 at all, because once the gamble collapses, I will lose a lot of money, although 200,000 is nothing to me, but my money is not falling from the sky, you say?" The Haisheng brothers might as well take this piece of material to the trading market to try their luck, and if they don't do well, they can meet a good buyer, and they are willing to take it for two or three hundred thousand. ”

Zhang Tianyuan's words, Haisheng and Lao Mu actually understand it very well.

Because most of the rough stones can only be seen on the outside, maybe only a hint of red, maybe just a red dot, so bidders have to judge their intrinsic value based on their own experience, which is also called "gambling stone" in the local area.

If you cut and polish it and see a large piece of ruddy, the bidder may get rich overnight, and if it is cut and there is only a trace of "red" embedded in it, then it can only be sold for the price of an ordinary seal, and the buyer will lose all his money.

But even so, Haisheng is obviously a little disappointed, if this thing can be sold for 200,000, then he has not worked in vain this year, and he can make a lot of money, but if he takes it to the trading market, can it be sold at a good price, it is difficult to say, this money, it is better to get it in his hand first.

"But you don't have to be so depressed, I want the remaining four stones, how about counting you 30,000 yuan? If you are willing to sell, we will immediately pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, this should also be your rule here, right?" Zhang Tianyuan pointed to the four stones that were not very good, and said with a smile.

"Thirty thousand?"

"Yes, 30,000 pieces, an average stone is about 8,000 pieces, because the prices of these four stones must be different, some are cheap and some are expensive, I will give a total price, you think it's okay, then we will make a deal, no, I can't help it." Zhang Tianyuan nodded and said.

"Sell, of course sell!" Hai Sheng was simply ecstatic, because in his opinion, no one would want to buy the four stones even if they were a thousand pieces, but Lao Mu offered a price of seven thousand to ten thousand. This Boss Zhang is willing to buy all 30,000 yuan, which is definitely earned. Although 30,000 yuan is not much, it is better than not opening at all. Therefore, he was very happy, and hurriedly ran over to prepare the kind of snakeskin bag for Zhang Tianyuan to hold stones.

"Boss, these four stones are not stable, are you sure you want to buy them?" After Haisheng left, the old shopkeeper Yu said with some worry.

"Hey, these four pieces of material can still be bought, after all, there are fewer gambling ingredients, because the stones are small, not just me. It is those experienced stone merchants who can easily judge the value of the rough stone wool from the appearance, and rarely look away, even if they do, the cost of investment is not large. What don't you dare to buy? Zhang Tianyuan said with a smile.

His words are not unreasonable, but the old shopkeeper still feels a little strange, he has investigated the glorious deeds of his boss, and on the Myanmar jade market, many jadeite are bought by others when they are not optimistic. He didn't dare to sue Lao Mu and Haisheng about this, otherwise if the other party refused to sell, wouldn't it hurt the boss?

"The small stone gambles on a small stone, but the big stone gambles on a large stone?" Wang Siyuan glanced at the big stone of more than 30 kilograms. Then asked Zhang Tianyuan.

"Of course, the big stone trade has a much larger gambling component. I still remember a boss from Hu Jian, who was a stone merchant Wang, who told him two things that he remembered deeply. One is to "pick up leaks", and the other is to "walk away". "Lao Mu is a local in the end. So I remember a lot of anecdotes more clearly, and I heard Wang Siyuan ask. Without waiting for Zhang Tianyuan to answer, he spoke first.

"In 1996, he came to our village for the first time, and spent more than 300 yuan to buy a piece of wool from an old lady who set up a stone stall on the side of the road and brought it back to his hometown, and asked the craftsman to polish and process, the appearance was only a trace of red, but after grinding, he found that the inside was bright and the texture was extremely oily, and finally processed into a pair of seals, which were sold for a high price of more than 400,000 yuan. ”

"Nowadays, with the less and less high-quality wool and more and more advanced detection equipment, in their industry, the thing of 'picking up leaks' has not been heard of for many years, and there are more and more 'looking away'. The year before last, he spent more than 50,000 yuan at the auction at the bottom of the mountain to buy a piece of rough wool, weighing more than 200 kilograms, with scattered 'chicken blood red' on the outside. Before taking the photo, he had carefully illuminated it with a light, and although he couldn't see how much 'red' there was in it, the texture was transparent. After he boldly photographed it, he shipped it back to his hometown and invited the master to process it, but unfortunately, the 'chicken blood' in it was pitiful, and the processing fee of more than 30,000 yuan was pasted, and the final product was sold at the price of the wool he had auctioned. ”

"Yes, that's right, that's right, I've heard about what Lao Mu said, it just so happens that the merchant is also a friend of mine, although he is not very familiar, but he has had a few faces, in fact, he is good, and when you encounter fake bloodstone, you can't cry anymore. Old Yu nodded and said.

"Another buyer from the imperial capital, Mr. Liu, went to my antique shop to buy something, and he said something that made him very angry, he had been in the industry for three years, and he had first bought fake bloodstones in the collectibles market of the imperial capital. Because the price of bloodstone has soared year after year in recent years, but the real good stone is hard to find, the counterfeiters will do it, the most basic is to paint red pigment on the ordinary Chang fossil, and then add a layer of transparent resin, or real and false splicing inlay; Mr. Liu was introduced by a friend, and came to Lao Mu's village to receive the goods, after all, there are many experts here, and fake bloodstone can't survive here, well, by the way, it is estimated that the person also came this time, although the production of bloodstone here has also decreased, but there are very few counterfeits, after all, there are many experts here, and fake bloodstone can't be hidden. ”

"Oh, I didn't expect this collection of bloodstone to be so dangerous, I thought it was much easier than collecting jadeite, I really never expected it. "Zhang Tianyuan had thought that the appreciation of bloodstone was difficult before, but he didn't expect it to be like this, fortunately, he came to Changhua this time, and he was fully prepared, otherwise he didn't dare to buy anything casually when he heard these things that the two elders said, I was really afraid of losing my eyes.

30,000 yuan is not a small amount, Zhang Tianyuan naturally has no cash on him, but now there are credit card machines in this village, so he took out his bank card and swiped 30,000 yuan, and then this is considered a silver and goods.

You don't owe me either, and I don't owe you either, a happy business. (To be continued......)