Chapter 1003 Jade Capital

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After sending Ma Chao to send the Tianshan Snow Lotus home by plane, Liu Dong drove to Hotan a hundred miles away alone!

After first finding a hotel to stay, Liu Dong took a short rest, and then went to the jade trading market in He*tian early the next morning!

For this place that he had longed for for three or four years, Liu Dong's interest was naturally high. But when he actually came, and after watching some of them, he was deeply disappointed!

Because on the main jade street in the teacher's market, there is really nothing Hetian jade that he can look at, in addition to the low-value Hetian jade, which is also mixed with this Russian jade and Afghan jade, and even Qing*Hai jade, and even more excessively, there are fakes!

After Liu Dong turned around and didn't find any jade that he could look at, he picked the biggest shop on the street and walked in.

Compared with the jade shops in the developed coastal provinces, the decoration of this shop, which mainly sells and even wholesales jade raw materials, is really not very good, and the interior of the store of more than 200 square meters, the cement plastering ground is basically an iron frame for jade raw materials.

Even after Liu Dong came in, no one came in to say hello, and there were not too many customers in this shop, Liu Dong observed a little, basically there were mostly tourists, and there were no jade merchants who wanted to buy goods.

And after Liu Dong circled around the iron frame, he also discovered the reason.

Although the quality of these jade stones placed on the shelves is better than the jade placed outside the door of the store, there are only a limited number of good ones, and the strongest is only a third-grade jade material, and the price per gram is less than 1,000!

"Hehe, brother, are you not satisfied with these jades?"

One wears a black jacket. A middle-aged Uyghur wearing a small hat appeared in front of Liu Dong, and his eyes had the cunning and greed that are common among small businessmen!

However, Liu Dong didn't care about this, whether it was the past three years when he was unsatisfactory, or now, he has long been accustomed to seeing the greed of the world. Not to mention the fact that he himself is the same.

"Of course!"

Seeing Liu Dong nodding, the Uyghur boss looked at him quickly and carefully and said again: "I don't know what to call my brother?"

"Don't be surnamed Liu!"

"Oh, Mr. Liu, you are welcome to my little shop!" said the Uighur boss enthusiastically.

Of course, this kind of enthusiasm is full of philistine, because the other party obviously saw from Liu Dong's expensive clothes that he had an opportunity to make a fortune for himself!

"You're welcome!"

"Mr. Liu came to Hotan to buy jade this time?" said the Uyghur boss again.

"That's right, but if it's all of them, forget it!"

As he spoke, Liu Dong pointed to the jade material placed on the iron shelf.

"Hehe, the jade here is sold to ordinary people, so naturally there will not be too good materials...... If the brothers don't dislike it. How about we go upstairs and talk?"

After listening, Liu Dong didn't refuse, he came to Hotan this time for jade, and it didn't matter where he went to buy it!

is the so-called art master bold!

Like most multi-storey shops, the reception room is basically placed on the second or third floor, and along the stairs at the back of the store, Liu Dong came to a rather retro reception room, and compared to the slightly simple interior of the store, the second floor can be called luxurious!

Don't say anything else. Just the floor is a good solid wood, and it is also dragon and phoenix sandalwood.

This comes from South American wood. The material is heavy and hard, corrosion-resistant, wear-resistant, termite-resistant, beautiful texture, more uniform, high strength, and pleasing to the eye. It is a high-quality material in wood floors and furniture, and it is very valuable.

"Mr. Liu, please be seated!"

"Well said!"

After a few polite words, the two sat down, and a beautiful waitress next to them served tea.

After taking a sip, I listened to the middle-aged Uyghur boss say, "I don't know what kind of jade Mr. Liu wants to buy this time?"

Facing temptation. Liu Dong didn't hide it much, and after glancing at the other party, he said indifferently: "I only need some Hetian jade above the second level, it doesn't matter whether it's seed material, mountain water, or mountain material, the key is that the thing is good enough, and money is not a problem!"

Really!

After listening to Liu Dong's words, the eyes of the Uyghur boss instantly lit up.

"Mr. Liu is really heroic enough!"

Facing the thumbs up of the Uyghur boss, Liu Dong smiled indifferently and said, "So Your Excellency has the good jade I want in your hand?"

"Hehe, I'm not afraid of Mr. Liu's jokes when I say it, in the entire Hotan City, except for the famous 'Jade King', there are really not many shops that can compare to the good jade in my hand!"

"Jade King?" Liu Dong asked rhetorically.

When he came to Hotan for the first time, he didn't know anything about the forces here.

"Mr. Liu is coming to Hotan for the first time, right?" After glancing at Liu Dong, the Uyghur boss smiled.

"That's right!"

"Then it's not surprising, anyone who has been to Hotan doesn't know the 'Jade King' Murat!"

"Why, is he very powerful here?" Liu Dong said curiously.

"Hehe, this is not a powerful sentence to describe it, let me tell you this, in the entire He*Tian, the Jade King Murat controls more than ninety percent of the jade trade here!" the Uyghur boss said with envy.

"Ninety?" Liu Dong was taken aback.

This is almost a monopoly, in China, there is still an industry that is monopolized by private individuals?

"More than ninety percent of the jade mining in Hetian is the responsibility of Murati's company!"

"Why? Isn't there any other more powerful jewelry company that develops its own ore?" Liu Dong continued.

"There used to be, but unless you have a backstage behind you, otherwise you will have to abide by the rules set by the 'Jade King' Murati in Hotan!"

"What rules?"

"Individuals who mine jade must take 20% of the protection fee, and the jade mined collectively must be sold to his jade company!"

"What, you still have to pay protection fees for jade mining? plus forced buying and selling, is there no one to care about such a thing?" Liu Dong simply felt a little incredible.

The fact that such a thing happened in China's territory made Liu Dong feel a little incredible, which not only involved forced buying and selling, but also involved industry monopoly.

"Hehe, of course there are people in charge, but these people who once wanted to be in charge have disappeared, and they can't see people alive or dead!" The Uyghur boss sneered and said with a hint of complexity.

"Doesn't the government care?" Liu Dong frowned.

"Of course, I will take care of it, but this is a Xinjiang province, not an eastern province, and there are absolutely no fewer Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Hui people here than the Han people, so stability and unity must prevail over everything! As long as there is no evidence, and then use money to make some points, who wants to break it? Thousands of miles for officials are only for money, brother!"

After listening to the other party's words, Liu Dong felt a little tired in his heart, but he also felt that what the other party said was indeed right. In today's country, ethnic minorities do not need to consider family planning, ethnic minorities can go to school to get extra points, and ethnic minority cadres are more likely to progress in officialdom, as if in this land of 5,000 years of ancient civilization, the Han nationality has become an out-and-out second-class citizen!

After the Han and Tang dynasties, our civilization seems to have been broken, and the proud descendants of Yan and Huang began to become slaves of foreign races!

The Song Dynasty was like this, the Yuan Dynasty went further, the Ming Dynasty improved slightly, and the Qing Dynasty completely branded the Chinese as slaves in their bones!

The humiliation of the Republic of China has completely destroyed China's pride and self-confidence since the Han and Tang Dynasties!

So much so that now, the things we used to be proud of are becoming more and more ignored, steamed porridge is not as good as KFC and McDonald's, tea is not as good as Coke, the Analects is not as good as the Bible, and the civilization that has made us infinitely proud for 5,000 years is not as good as a green card in the United States!

Maybe in another 500 years and 1,000 years, without foreign invasion and without natural and man-made disasters, our once proud civilization will disappear into the pile of old papers of history because no one inherits it, just like ancient Egypt, ancient India and ancient Babylon, if these are too far away, then think of the red empire around us, the former 'big brother' - 'su*lian'!

Liu Dong, whose mind was floating, thought of a lot in an instant.

But after feeling emotional and even indignant, he found that he really has the ability to change this kind of thing at the national level, let alone the current national policy, of course, he also has something that he can strive to change, that is, to continue to strengthen his determination to promote traditional culture.

The pre-Han Dynasty Chinese literature found in the tomb of King Kangju is a very good addition and a hot spot that attracts attention.

In addition, the charity school that he is applying for and is expanding rapidly is also a good opportunity to promote and inherit ancient culture!

Of course, that's all for later. Now, the most important thing he should deal with is the present!

And what is in front of us is not to change the status quo of the Hetian jade industry, but to change the Hetian jade that has been put on the table by the Uyghur boss!

There are not many jades, there are six pieces in total, four of which are second-class jade, and the remaining two are first-class jade, Liu Dong does not have the special grade jade material he wants the most, as for the higher-grade mutton fat jade, Liu Dong didn't think at all, this level of jade is really rare and unattainable, and the value is even rarer than the jade of glass imperial green!

"Boss, what price are you going to sell these pieces of jade?" Liu Dong said after quickly glancing at the six pieces of jade.

"This has to be divided in detail, for example, this piece, 780 grams of mountain water material, how can one gram be no less than 15,000, right?"

In the process of speaking, the Uyghur boss always observed Liu Dong's expression with his eyes, and after seeing that he did not appear obvious because of his price, his eyes obviously showed a trace of relief!

His price is at least 10% more expensive than the market price!(To be continued......