Chapter 592: The Journey to Mandalay (Part I)

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Mandalay, the capital of Mandalay Province and the famous ancient capital, is also one of the political, economic and cultural centers of Myanmar.

Although the city has just over 800,000 citizens, which is not even as large as the population of a county in China, Mandalay is already the second largest city in Myanmar!

In addition to the Mandalay Palace and Mahmudi Stupa, there are also a large number of woodcarving, jade carving and gold and silver jewelry processing factories in this 'City of Many Treasures', and Mandalay is also the trading center of Myanmar's low-end jadeite!

After Liu Dong saw off Sun Yujun and Xie Zhonglin, he took Wu Dongsheng and Wichai Sawan Suxi from Yangon by plane.

As for Ma Chao and Mu Gang, they have already taken Ba Song and Ang Ji to guard the jade rough stones that Liu Dong bought, as well as some of the finished jewelry, and the ship of Guò Global Shipping is drifting on the sea!

"Brother Liu, let's go! The family has already come to pick us up!" Coming out of the somewhat old airport, Wichai Sawan Susi took Liu Dong's arm and pointed to the three luxury cars parked together in the distance.

After nodding, Liu Dong walked over with Wu Dongsheng, looking at the first Lincoln extended version of the luxury car, Liu Dong was not too surprised, after all, there is no individual or family in Myanmar who can own a jade mine that is not rich! And the Wichai family, which has been based in Myanmar for hundreds of years, is one of the best.

"Big brother, Mr. Liu!"

Seeing a few people coming, a young man of about twenty-five or sixteen years of age, who looked three or four percent similar to Vichai Sawan Sussi, hurried up to meet him.

Liu Dong is no stranger to this person, last year. At the Spring City Jade Fair and later Blue Island. When Liu Dong made a second transaction with Wichai. The other party is also there!

"Brother Liu, you also know Ba Song, I won't introduce it to you, let's just get in the car and go!"

"Okay!" Liu Dong nodded.

The group split into three cars, Liu Dong and Wichai Sawan Susi sat on the extended Lincoln in the middle, and drove towards the nearby city of Mandalay.

Sitting in the car, he chatted with Wichai Sawan Susi without saying a word, while looking out the window at the view of Myanmar's second largest city.

To be honest, very disappointing!

In addition to the numerous exquisite temples on the top of Mandalay Hill in the distance. As well as the ruins of Darverin Castle, the Forbidden City, temples, monasteries and the old British Government building in the city center, there is really nothing else to admire.

If you have to describe the second largest city in Myanmar, Mandalay in 2001 condensed three words "dirty mess", except for a dozen buildings in the city center, most of the other horizontal and vertical streets are lined with old buildings that are no more than three stories high, and its dilapidated Cheng dù once made Liu Dong think that it should be a product of the British colonial period!

Moreover, there is no greenery on both sides of the street, with tricycles, bicycles, and a small number of cars scattered haphazardly, and piles of garbage on the streets. In many places, there is still a cross-flow of sewage and no one manages it, which makes Liu Dong, who saw this scene, frown!

Although Wichai Sawan Susi also noticed the change in Liu Dong's expression. But he didn't say anything, compared to the ever-changing, fast-growing huge China, Myanmar still wears the hat of the world's poorest country, hovering at the bottom of the world, this is a fact that almost all Burmese people do not want to believe but must accept.

Of course, no matter how poor a city is, there is a class divide between rich and poor, and there is a distinction between slums and rich areas, and Mandalay is the same!

To the north of the city is Mandalay's traditional affluent district, and after entering here, Liu Dong clearly feels that the surrounding environment is more than a notch better.

About five or six minutes later, the convoy came to a stop in front of a manor house surrounded by a wall more than two meters high, and after the iron gate with a width of four meters was slowly opened, the convoy continued to drive forward, and after passing through a winding garden road about 50 meters long, the three cars stopped in front of the main entrance of a three-story European-style villa covering an area of more than 1,000 square meters.

Including the garden in front of the villa, as well as other buildings and gardens behind the villa, the area of the entire manor is more than 8,000 square meters!

In addition, under Liu Dong's relics, there is a hole in the ground of this villa, and the hidden thing is Liu Dong's favorite jade rough!

However, it is not easy to get hold of these rough stones, which are obviously all fine.

"Father, this is the Liu Dong I mentioned to you before, Mr. Liu!"

After Liu Dong got out of the car, Wichai Sawan Susi walked to the front steps of the villa and said respectfully to a middle-aged man with gray hair, about 50 years old, wearing a white cardigan coat with a Chinese taste, lean body, and high cheekbones with a hint of majesty on his face.

And noticing that the middle-aged man's eyes were focused on himself, Liu Dong also bowed down with respect, and said respectfully: "Uncle, hello!"

"Hehe, hello, hello! I didn't expect a generation of Jade Kings to be so young, and he is really a hero out of a young man, amazing!"

"Uncle has won the prize!"

In the face of Liu Dong's humility, the middle-aged man nodded with a hint of approval on his face.

"I haven't won the award, now whether it is Myanmar, or China's jade world, or even the entire jade world, you are famous...... Let's go, for the sake of entertaining your honored guest, I have ordered a sumptuous lunch to be prepared below......

After finishing speaking, several people chatted with each other and walked into the villa at the back.

The luncheon dinner was no different from ordinary entertainment, and the opportunity to chat and eat for two hours was enough for Liu Dong to have a general understanding of the situation of the Wichai Sawan Susi family.

However, compared to these entertainments, Liu Dong hopes to see the jadeite rough, ruby sapphire and precious wood he ordered!

And Wichai Sawan Susi, who had been dating Liu Dong for a long time and already knew something about his personality, also took him to the large warehouse built under the manor as soon as possible after the lunch was over, and asked his subordinates to arrange a room for Liu Dong to stay.

Because there is already a situation in which the guò relics are understood. See this one located ten meters underground. It is supported by 16 thick columns that are hugged by three people. When there is a huge warehouse of about 5 meters high and about 1,200 square meters, I was not too surprised.

Moreover, Liu Dong also knew that there were two floors of huge storage space of the same area under this underground warehouse.

"Brother Liu, this is what I told you last time, how is it, it's not bad?" said Vichai Sawan Suxi.

"It's good!"

After nodding, Liu Dong also looked at the more than 200 pieces of wool he had ordered in a corner of the warehouse!

Maybe it's because it's the first time that this kind of huge deal of hundreds of millions of dollars has been launched between the two sides. At the same time, in order to lay the foundation for long-term mutual trust and cooperation in the future, the wool prepared by the Weichai family at this moment is very good from the leather shell, and basically every piece of wool has python belts and pine flowers that can add value to the rough stone.

And there are very few locks that pass through the sky, and these locks are very damaging to the internal jadeite!

Therefore, under the inspection of relics Yuanguang, 95% of these rough stones contain jadeite, 60% contain mid-grade jadeite, and 30% contain high-grade jadeite.

"Brother Weichai, these are the twelve most expensive jade rough stones, right?" Liu Dong walked to a wide iron frame and looked at the twelve pieces placed on it with different shapes, but without exception, they all showed the excellent jade rough stones.

"Not bad. I've made these special picks!"

"That's good!" Liu Dong nodded!

Although the average price of these twelve gambling stones is around 900,000 euros, you get what you pay for. The jadeite inside is very good, basically every piece can make tens of millions of profits for Liu Dong, especially a piece of glass Yangyang green ten kilograms of high-grade jadeite material, worth hundreds of millions!

However, Liu Dong still feels that it is a pity that there is not a glass imperial green top-level jadeite in the middle of these 217 pieces of wool!

"Forget it, anyway, there are enough top-grade jadeites from the public plate and temperature-resistant secret rooms, and there are still many opportunities to obtain these top-grade jadeites in the future!"

With this in mind, Liu Dong picked out more than 30 of the 217 pieces of wool that did not contain jadeite, as well as the worst of the many low-grade jadeite roughs, according to the terms of the deal he had reached with Wichai Sawan Suxi, and finally returned 50 pieces of the worst pieces.

These 50 rough stones are worth 15 million euros!

Then coupled with the additional 50 million euros that Liu Dong promised, it means that Liu Dong can also choose his favorite wool worth 65 million euros from the wool warehouse of the Wichai family.

"Brother Liu, you can pick all the wool in this warehouse!"

Hearing this, Liu Dong glanced at Weichai with a smile and said, "Brother Weichai, I'm afraid your family's wool is more than this one warehouse, right?"

"Hehe!" Vichai Sawan Susi laughed, the look of embarrassment in his eyes flashing away.

Of course, there is more than one warehouse where their family reserves wool, in addition to the two floors below, there is also a part of it in the jade mine that belongs to them in Kokang, and of course there are other places, the principle of the three caves of the cunning rabbit applies to anyone in any country!

Seeing the expression of Wichai Sawan Suxi, Liu Dong didn't say much, as any businessman with huge wool reserves would not be able to let him, the Jade King, pick and choose to practice in his wool warehouse.

This kind of thing is almost sending money out, if it weren't for the previous promise to Liu Dong, Wichai Sawan Suxi and the family behind him would never have allowed it.

However, in the case of the completion of the boat, they only disclosed the warehouse on the first floor of the basement to Liu Dong, and in the wool collection of the Weichai family, the condition of the wool on the first floor is the worst.

However, even the worst ones, but those that can be actively collected by the Wichai family, are generally better than most of the wool tables on the just-concluded Myanmar public market.

Therefore, seeing that it was dense, all the fields were added together, and tens of thousands of wool materials were at his disposal, the unhappiness in Liu Dong's heart immediately disappeared without a trace.

The Wichai family is very concerned about the storage and preservation of wool, and carries out very detailed registration and stacking according to the field, size and table of wool.

The bottom layer is the widest, 90 centimeters long, and all of the jadeite rough stones weighing more than 100 kilograms are placed here.

The second layer is only 60 cm, and all the rough stones placed are between 50 kg ~ 100 kg, and when you reach the top, all of them are less than 5 kg of material!

In the entire underground warehouse with a length of 60 meters, a width of 20 meters, and an area of 1,200 square meters, there are 18 large iron frames that are 16 meters long and 1.5 meters wide!

In the face of these 20,000 pieces of jade rough stones, Liu Dong felt like he had been hungry for half a month and suddenly came to a full Han banquet, and the feeling of excitement was difficult to describe in words!

Therefore, after Wichai Sawan Susi finished speaking, Liu Dong couldn't wait to stride over.

Starting from the bottom, whenever the relics were seen in the original stone with high-grade jadeite, Liu Dong asked Wu Dongsheng to paste a white note, because considering the impact, Liu Dong deliberately slowed down his speed of looking at the wool, and by the time he had dinner, he had finished reading about 4,000 pieces of wool on the 3 iron shelves!

It has to be said that as a century-old inheritance in Myanmar, the Wichai family still owns 24 jadeite mines, even if it is the worst part of the wool collection, the probability of producing high-end materials is still far higher than that of jadeite public plates.

Among the more than 4,000 pieces of wool, Liu Dong selected a quarter of the materials containing high-grade jadeite, that is, about 1,000 pieces, plus a small amount of high-quality mid-range materials with thin skin and large fillings, and the wool materials that Liu Dong intended to buy in an afternoon have reached 1,200 pieces.

However, these 1,200 pieces of wool are not cheap, although there are no more than 500,000 euros, but the average value of each piece of material is still between 80,000 ~ 150,000 euros.

In other words, even if the Weichai family is willing to sell it all, Liu Dong will have to pay almost 120 million euros, although he can take out this money very easily, but when there are about 16,000 pieces of wool left and he has not seen it, it is obviously irrational to do so!

Businessmen should strive for maximum profits.

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