Chapter 696: Betting on Pearls
Although Wang Haoqing said that this matter could no longer be stopped, if he wanted to solve it, he really had to find him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Li Yi hung up the phone and rushed to Jingcui Liangyuan, anyway, he relied on Wang Haoqing, so he didn't believe that he couldn't do anything.
rushed to Jingcui Liangyuan, just blocked Wang Haoqing, who was about to get off work, in the office, Wang Haoqing smiled when he saw Li Yi's anxious appearance,
"Do you know you're scared now? What do you do when you're cool? ā
Li Yi sat on the sofa without saying a word.
"It's useless for you to leave me here, I'm going home from work."
As he spoke, he picked up his briefcase and left, Li Yi continued to follow him without saying a word, and when he got into the car, he pulled the car door and sat in the co-pilot.
Wang Haoqing shook his head with a smile, drove all the way home, went downstairs, and picked his chin upstairs,
"Go up and eat before leaving?"
Li Yi didn't speak, he just followed him in prison, anyway, if this matter is not solved, it will depend on you!
"Oh, okay, I'm afraid of you, your sister-in-law didn't prepare your meal!"
Wang Haoqing said as he took out a video from his briefcase and shook his head:
"Don't touch those stars if you don't want to be put in the spotlight! With your current net worth, what kind of woman do you want? Let's go back and think about it. ā
Li Yi rolled his eyes, I pondered what a fart! Am I the type of person who likes to play stars? It was an accident, it was purely an accident!
After going back, Li Yi communicated with Cheng Yu, and then stopped for a few days. Soon, a good news came that Wang Changcai, the sales director of Yanjing Tianheng Jewelry, was moved by them and was willing to come here to take charge of the market, and also brought several ready-made big customers. One of the most urgent is to ask for a freshwater pearl necklace, within a week, as for the specifications, the bigger and rounder the beads, the better, the price doesn't matter!
Judging from Wang Changcai's description, this is indeed a good deal, but the key is that Li Yi and they don't have pearls in their hands.
It is true that every jewelry company has its own strong products, but relatively, there must also be weaknesses, but customers don't care about these, especially those who are rich and willful.
For other established jewelry companies, such as this kind of regular customers, it may be nothing if the goods cannot be satisfied at one time, but at most two or three times, the customer will be lost.
However, for a new company like Li Yi and others, which has nothing but just registered, a chance may be the last chance, especially if this kind of business is turned around, and the customer may not be willing to do so, so it is even more impossible to be careless.
"What Mr. Wang means is that we will try to meet this customer's requirements, and he will also help us keep an eye out to see who has something that can meet her requirements. What he means is that even if we don't have it, it's better to collect one even if we go to another house to collect it. ā
Li Yi nodded, Wang Changcai introduced this customer over, of course, it was to imagine the new boss to prove his ability, on the other hand, I am afraid that there is also the meaning of considering the strength of their side, after all, this kind of thing should often be encountered in the future business.
"The bigger, the rounderer, the better......"
Li Yi frowned, this request is not easy to achieve.
He and Zheng Shusen both studied jewelry appraisal, although they haven't touched pearl jewelry much in the year since graduation, but they also know the rarity of a good pearl necklace.
The grade of pearls generally depends on four aspects: size, roundness, luster, and skin.
The first thing to look at in these four aspects is size. Under normal circumstances, pearls below 6 mm will not be included in the category of jewelry-grade pearls, 7-9 mm is generally loved by consumers and economically acceptable, and 10 mm freshwater pearls in good condition are already relatively rare.
But the above standards can only be said to be so-so, and if you really want to be more precious, you have to be more than 14 mm. And the pearl necklace is particularly troublesome, because it requires more beads, and it is necessary to take into account a collocation and an average problem.
Not only the size should be matched, but also the roundness, luster, and skin should be matched as much as possible.
"Little Wu, what should I do? Even if this level of necklace is available from other companies, I'm afraid it will be quite difficult for us to get it......"
"Hehe, what else can I do? Find it! ā
Li Yi laughed twice, and asked Zheng Shusen to find someone to pretend to be a customer to see which of the other ones had a suitable one, and he was going to go to Zhuji and go directly to the production area to buy raw materials. Even if you waste a few days, the processing of pearls is not complicated, and you can take them out in a day or two.
"Okay, then I'll go to other homes to have a look, and we'll keep in touch at any time."
Li Yi shook his head,
"I'll let you arrange for someone else to go, but you still have to follow me."
Li Yi's idea is very simple, since there is a market for pearl jewelry, then simply take this opportunity to enter the last batch and come back. The purpose of bringing Zheng Shusen with him was to let him take over this aspect of things in the future.
There is no way to gamble on stones, jade, and crystal agate, he must go out, but if he holds on to things like pearls and diamonds, how tired should he be?
"Okay, then wait for me to arrange it, and let's go when it's arranged!"
The main cultivation areas of Chinese freshwater pearls are concentrated in Zhuji, Dechang, Suzhou, Xijiang, Beihu, Hui'an and other places, among which the scale of Zhuji is the largest, the industrial chain is the most perfect, and the yield rate is relatively high, known as the capital of Chinese pearls.
After thinking about it, they decided to go to Zhuji first, and if they didn't meet a suitable one, then they would go around other places.
The color of freshwater pearls generally has a variety of colors such as pure white, pink, purple, gold, etc., and because of the different water quality in various places, there are also colors such as transparent yellow and pink, but generally speaking, it should be the pink with a slight red rose color as the best.
Since it is the first business and the customer is not short of money, it is natural to use the best goods to deal with it. Therefore, Li Yi set his primary goal on white pearls with a slight reddish rose color, and only when he couldn't find them, he would consider other colors.
After a group of several people arrived in Zhuji, they did not rest, but inquired at the front desk of the hotel, and then took a taxi straight to Zhuji Mountain Lake Pearl Market.
The largest bare bead processing and trading market in Zhuji is the Shanxia Lake Market, which currently has more than 1,000 stalls, of which more than 80% have bare beads for sale.
It's just that Li Yi and the others have already passed the pearl picking season when they came, and most of the good pearls on the stalls have been bought out, not to mention the pink beads above 14 mm, and even the regular round beads of other colors above 10 mm are relatively rare.
"What should I do?"
After asking more than a dozen in a row, Zheng Shusen had a little headache, now it has only been less than a month before the pearling season, and it is obviously impossible to count on new goods next year, but these old goods ......
"Ask someone, there should be big businesses here, and they will definitely have stock."
Zheng Shusen nodded, and after chatting with the owner of a small shop for a while, he told Li Yi that this is indeed the case, and now the entire pearl industry in Zhuji is actually controlled by a few super-large-scale naked pearl buyers, and many small merchants in the market take their goods from them.
If none of these merchants can meet their requirements, then they will have to try their luck with the farmers. Because of the water quality, the time of pearl diving is not the same, although the main pearl diving season has passed, but there should be some farmers who do not have pearl diving.
But when dealing with farmers, you can't pick and choose like now, but you have to pack the pond. In this way, the risk is relatively large, and the amount of money invested is also relatively large, and the most important thing is that you will buy a lot of small pearls that you don't need, not specifically for this business, and it will be more troublesome to deal with.
Li Yi nodded, since this is the case, then ask those big merchants, it's really not good, and then go to the farmers.
Several people followed the route pointed out by the merchant and walked all the way to the depths of the market. As he walked, Li Yi suddenly slowed down and stared at a stall on the side of the road a few times, with a strange look on his face.
The stall is very large, but it is also very simple, that is, a piece of plastic paper is spread on the ground, and then according to the size of the top, several piles of pearl mussels are piled up, and there is a big card standing next to it, betting on pearls!
"Hey! This thing is rare, I've heard of gambling on stones, wood, and crystals, but I really haven't heard of betting on pearls! Let's go, let's go! ā
Zheng Shusen followed Li Yi's gaze in that direction, and was immediately interested, greeted him, and took the lead in walking over there.
A few people stood in front of the booth and looked at it for a few minutes before they understood that this was indeed a gamble, and the gambling was not small. At least in the few minutes they saw, a total of more than a dozen pearl mussels were opened, large and small, but none of them could win the bet.
Pearls grow in pearl mussels, and before pearl mussels are opened, no one knows how many pearls will be in it and what color pearls will be produced, so they naturally have a certain gambling nature.
And this family obviously took advantage of this gambling and opened this pearl betting stall.
After watching it for a while, Zheng Shusen was also interested. He squatted in front of the stall and picked and chosen, and soon picked out a fat pearl mussel, held it up and asked:
"How do you sell this?"
"You're asking for 500, it's probably the biggest in the pile."
"What about this?"
"This one is cheap, 200."
Zheng Shusen smiled, took out 700 yuan and handed it over,
"Help me open it."
After that, he turned his head and glanced at Li Yi, who was still looking at the stall, and said with a smile:
"Maybe you can't buy it, but you can bet on it?"
Li Yi chuckled and shook his head, pointed to a pearl clam in front of the boss's heel and said:
"I'm not optimistic about you two, if you want to bet, you can buy that one and try it."
"Oh? You say this? ā
PS: There's one more chapter later. (To be continued.) )