It is said that in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, a pair of jade watermelons were paid tribute to the world's favorite jadeite person, the Empress Dowager Cixi.

The Empress Dowager Cixi loved this pair of jade watermelons like a heart, and usually sent someone to take care of them, and sent someone to take them to play with whenever she was happy, and even before she died, she was reluctant to leave this pair of watermelons, and buried them together in Dongling, and put them at her feet in the coffin.

Later, in the summer of 1928, the Kuomintang commander Sun Dianying dug up the grave of the Empress Dowager Cixi and stole the pair of watermelons along with other funerary goods, including the famous jade cabbage, which was later stored in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

After the pair of jade watermelons were stolen, they disappeared, and nearly a hundred years later, the people of that year were almost dead, and it was almost impossible to verify.

How valuable is this emerald watermelon? When Wang Zhuo first came into contact with the jadeite industry, he had specifically consulted Qi Fei on this matter, and the two were still ordinary friends at that time, but they were not as ambiguous as they are now, and the price of jadeite has ushered in a round of skyrocketing in recent months, and the price at that time did not seem to be very qualified.

Qi Fei calculated for Wang Zhuo in this way, in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the annual budget of the Beiyang Navy was 2 million taels of silver, and the actual amount that could be received was only about 1 million taels, and one tael of silver at that time was almost equivalent to the purchasing power of 300 yuan now, and the actual annual expenditure of the Beiyang Navy Division was about 300 million yuan.

When the jade watermelon was stolen, many people believed that it was worth 5 million taels of silver at the time, and it was one of the most heavyweight national treasures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Qianlong built the predecessor of the Summer Palace, Qingyi Garden, spent 4.48 million taels of silver, and was later burned down by the British and French forces.

It sounds a little scary, a huge Summer Palace, and the value of two jade watermelons is about the same? But although the value of 5 million taels of jade watermelons needs to be scrutinized, Cixiang's love for them may not be inferior to that of the Summer Palace!

5 million taels of silver, equivalent to the current RMB, Qi Fei told Wang Zhuo that it was 1.5 billion!

And this is not counted, if the pair of jade watermelons really see the auction again, it is definitely far more than this price, you don't see the courtyard of the Old Summer Palace A few bronze statues are worth more than 100 million, only the lost cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace, this grade is tens of thousands of pieces, and in the late Qing Dynasty, those things are just some broken copper and iron in the eyes of Lafayette, this pair of jade watermelons is the real treasure of the country!

"Anything that is broken can be sold for more than a billion!" That's how Qi Fei defined the value of the jade watermelon!

With this deep impression, Wang Zhuo naturally knew that even if it wasn't the jade watermelon that Lafayette loved all his life, it was just a decent imitation, and it would rise with the tide. And the people who have seen the jade watermelon have died, and there are no pictures, photos and other things, as long as the thing that comes out is a jade melon, it's amazing!

Wang Zhuo immediately made up his mind, this piece of wool was bought, and he had to take it down!

"Wang Zhuo, what do you want?"

Seeing that Wang Zhuo was stunned, Qi Fei walked back suspiciously.

Wang Zhuo's body didn't turn, and his right hand pointed back from his shoulder: "Sister, I want to bet on that lying cow stone." ”

"It's very risky...... Qi Fei took a breath, looked at him and asked, "How sure are you?" ”

Wang Zhuo groaned and shook his head: "It's not certain for the time being, let's ask the price first." ”

Seeing that Wang Zhuo was interested in the big wool, Lao Mian immediately went to his brother-in-law excitedly, and after a while, he brought back a little man who was much younger than him, who was actually his brother-in-law.

Lao Myanmar's brother-in-law is a Chinese expert, he introduced himself as Lun Kuang, of course, this is transliterated, because the Burmese habit is to add "Mr" in front of the other party's name, and the pronunciation is "none", so Wang Zhuo and Qi Fei called him Wu Lun Kuang, which is somewhat awkward.

When Wu Lang Kuang heard that the two were interested in betting on the big piece of wool, he asked the customer he was receiving to wait for a while, and walked briskly from the other end of the courtyard.

"Twenty million."

He turned his back to the courtyard and made an offer to Wang Zhuo.

"Collapse like this, and it will cost 20 million?" Wang Zhuo was a little surprised, but he was not dispelled, bargaining, this is also an inevitable process.

Wulun Kuang smiled and only said, "That piece of material is Pa Kang's." ”

Pakang expected? Wang Zhuo's expression was shocked, Qi Fei was also a little surprised, Bakant is a famous historical pit, the material is especially famous for its black shell like coal, Bakant's jadeite crystals are delicate, well-planted, high transparency, color feet, and large, often hundreds of kilograms of large heads, occasionally out of a few pieces of tons of giant Macs weighing tons is not uncommon.

But what is strange is that Hpakant is the earliest jadeite field to be mined, as early as many years ago it was exhausted, and now the wool of the black black yarn shell that can be seen on the market is made of hemp, and I can't imagine that I can see a piece of old Hpakant's big material here.

"If it's really Pa Dang's prediction, it's still a little interesting, but the price is too high, and this piece of material is too bad."

Qi Fei's words were not only exchanging ideas with Wang Zhuo, but also meaning bargaining with Wuren Kuang.

"The price is negotiable, but not too low." Wu Lang Kuang gestured with his hands and smiled: "Even if you go all over Myanmar, you may not be able to find such a big Phra Dang expected." ”

This sentence is really not an exaggeration, but if it weren't for the fact that this piece of material collapsed so badly before, I am afraid it would not exist and has not been cut into small pieces to this day.

Wang Zhuo hinted at Qi Fei with a small action that only two people understand, this piece of material is about to be decided, Qi Fei understands, so the two began to bargain, count the shortcomings of this piece of wool one by one, and fight the price with Wuren Kuang.

The price was finally finalized at 16 million, which was 6 million higher than Wang Zhuo's estimate of about 10 million, but the Pa Dang background of this material completely made up for this number, and if the jade watermelon was produced by a new pit material, it would be a pity.

The price was negotiated, and a new problem arose - Wang Zhuo and Qi Fei didn't have enough cash, and they didn't have much money in their accounts!

But this is not difficult for Wang Zhuo, Qi Fei is also waiting to see how he plays this trick and turns money empty-handed.

"Wu Lun Kuang, I didn't bring enough cash, do you collect the wool for gambling here?"

"I don't take it." Wuren Kuang said with a smile: "But as long as I make a few calls, more than five bosses will come to bid." The premise is that your material is good enough. ”

"That's going to be easy." Wang Zhuo smiled with satisfaction: "How about this piece of material to give me three days of fundraising?" ”

Wuren Kuang nodded again and again: "No problem, it's okay for a week." ”

Wang Zhuo went over and shook hands with him: "Then it's decided." ”

The three-day fundraising time was just a sloppy eye, that is, it fooled the old Burmese friends and Wuren Kuang, and also fooled Qi Fei. Just over an hour later, good news came from a corner of the yard, a guest who had just bought three pieces of wool had cut out a big rise!

After agreeing on a week's fundraising time, Lao Mian went back to continue practicing the stall, Wang Zhuo dragged his small broken car, and took Qi Fei to walk around the yard to look at the wool, he didn't pick three pieces of material very seriously, and after paying the money, he took it to the corner of the yard and asked the workers to help cut it.

The first brick collapsed very thoroughly, it was a snow-white porcelain bottom, if it could be sold for a few hundred yuan in Ruili, it was worthless in the old Burmese store at the port, Wang Zhuo threw it away.

The second piece is a porridge bottom, green and a little mottled, Wang Zhuo frowned and looked at it for a long time, although the worker shook his head, he still put this piece of wool divided into two into the cart.

The third piece is different, this is the best piece of material that Wang Zhuo found after seeing most of the yard, the first two are just foreshadowing, covering people's eyes, this piece of material is the highlight of today, if you want to buy that big watermelon in Pakang, you rely on it!

"Colorless glass species, green flowers, beautiful!"

"This head of water, the dazzling of the feet, has risen sharply! Friend, does this piece of material turn around? ”

"I haven't seen such a good green flower material for two years, it's not small."

"Alas, how do you say this, I just bought a large piece of ice, and I must not have enough money to do this, so I missed it!"

The yard was suddenly boiling, Guy was so beautiful that this piece of material was so beautiful, and it was the size of a small watermelon, and when it was cut, it was attached to one end, and the profile was huge, but there was almost no waste of material, and it was gambled directly with a knife.

Wang Zhuo smiled and called luck, Qi Fei couldn't close her mouth happily, she really wanted to bring this piece of material back and make it into a big bowl of cold noodles, that would be too appetizing, but this wish was destined to not come true, because Wang Zhuo had already identified the lying cow stone, and the things he recognized couldn't pull back the lead live cow.

Seeing this situation, Wulun Kuang really couldn't cry or laugh, the other party gambled a piece of material that rose sharply with hundreds of thousands, it seems that the big big wool material, you don't need to wait another week, you can close it today.

He made a few phone calls, and talked for a long time, and after a while, motorcycles roared into the courtyard, and the old Myanmar and jewelers who participated in the bidding made their debuts.

Coupled with the original customers in the yard and the people who called the customers, the yard suddenly became a little lively.

In the end, a female purchasing manager surnamed He of a Hong Kong jewelry company in Ruili got this piece of material, his bid was not the highest among everyone, but this jewelry store had some friendship with Qi Fei, and if the prosperous dynasty wanted to show its strength in this field in the future, it would ask for this jewelry store when developing Hong Kong business, so it made less money and sold a lot of face to her.

Eighteen million, this piece of wool weighing eight kilograms changed hands at this price, which is two million more than the black bull stone.

After the triangular transaction was over, Wang Zhuo also had an extra cash check of two million in his pocket, and he deserved to be a big boss, and in the middle of the night he sent the black bull stone to Ruili in accordance with the agreement, and the two parties agreed on an auto repair factory.

After verifying that it was correct, the crane of the repair shop roared open, hooked the wire rope wrapped around the large wool, and transferred it to the distribution truck hired by Wang Zhuo.

This small but far-reaching transaction has finally come to a successful conclusion!

(To be continued)