Chapter Eighty-Five: The Jade Plate
It didn't take long for Xiao Zhen to come with the big truck. When the stall owner saw that the business was done, he was in a better mood. Each person was given a bottle of mineral water, and everyone started chatting.
Wuyang asked: "Boss, your neighbor fled at that time, how could he bring so many things over?" Each piece is so heavy, and there are no cars. ”
The stall owner smiled, "It doesn't matter if I tell you now, my neighbor was the commander and lieutenant general of a corps of the national army at that time, wasn't the national army defeated at that time?" He opened a bank in the station, and all the gold and silver at home were put in the bank, and later saw that the situation could not hold on, so he packed up and prepared to flee, but he was commanded by the military, by the way, at that time it was called the Secret Bureau, and all the people in the Secret Bureau were detained. He didn't dare to ask for it, so he asked the soldiers below to bring these things over. My grandfather was the regiment commander under him at the time, and it was my grandfather who carried the things with the soldiers. After arriving here, his grandfather paid for a yard for him, and the two families lived in seclusion. These things are piled up in the house all the time, and only the few small pieces you buy first are often taken out to play with. ”
Wuyang asked, "Why are you suddenly selling these things now?" ”
"The commander's grandson is now developed, and he bought a new villa a few years ago, and when he moved there, this yard is ready to be returned to my family, so I have to deal with these things. These things have been collected for decades, and they are still quite valuable. The stall owner said.
After a while, a large truck loaded with wood products came and stopped at the door. The stall owner said, "I think you may like these things, but they won't be easy to sell after they are put here, and they can't move them, so let them all pull them over." ”
After the stall owner finished speaking, he asked the workers in the car to carry the other 9 wood carvings to the car brought by Xiao Zhen. The two converted the euros on the Afternoon Sun Card into US dollars. Swiped the card. Let Wuyang continue to select wood products.
Wuyang asked the boss to climb into the big truck and help him. These things are mainly some furniture. There are two Taishi chairs, a dining table, 4 chairs, a table of eight immortals, 4 benches, as well as a small cabinet, a coffee table, a tea tray, and the largest is an arhat bed. The other is the desk. A total of 25 pieces. The boss looked at everything carefully and looked at it again and again before nodding to Wuyang.
The two got out of the car and were about to negotiate with the stall owner, and the stall owner asked, "Have you taken a fancy to it?" ”
Wuyang nodded.
The stall owner said: "It's good if you like it, let's not bargain, a fixed price, $8,000 per piece." Okay, not a word. ”
Wuyang simply nodded again, and the stall owner asked the workers to pour the objects onto another car, and then moved the 9 pieces in the stall and the small cardboard box containing the 12 zodiac wood carvings into the car, and paid by card.
Wuyang asked Xiao Zhen to tell Boss Chen. Ask him to help transport it back home. Xiao Zhen agreed and took the car away. The stall owner was so happy that he took the initiative to let Wuyang and Mao Xiaoshan choose wood carving products for free in their stalls. The two symbolically took a small object. The stall owner helped his neighbor sell these things, and he was not happy at first, these things were big and heavy, and if the neighbor hadn't promised him the freight, he wouldn't have agreed. Now he has made $86,000 on 43 pieces of wood products, and in Yangon, he is making a fortune.
A few people said goodbye to the stall owner and started shopping again. The boss said: "Boss Xiaoli, you have made a lot of money this time, just those two Taishi chairs will be auctioned in China, at least 500,000 yuan each." These things are all old things of the Ming Dynasty, and they are authentic rosewood, none of them are damaged, and they are worth more than 10 million, good things. ”
Wuyang smiled, "That boss, I can't make a penny, I bought it back for my own use." When I said this, my heart was full of joy, and I couldn't care about the sweat on my head and face. In fact, what the boss identified was only the furniture part, and the sandalwood carvings didn't let them take a closer look. It is said that the price and weight of sandalwood alone can now be compared to gold, let alone old objects.
Wuyang wanted to buy rosewood paperweights, pen holders and pen holders of small leaf red sandalwood, and I looked at a few, but the boss said it was fake, and said, I will help you find two old objects next time.
In a communication shop, Wuyang saw a mobile phone that could hold two mobile phone cards, and was about to buy it, but the boss laughed again. It turned out that Wuyang's mobile phone was bought when he was a junior, and he basically didn't go to the communication store after that, and he didn't know how to do it when he had a dual-SIM mobile phone in China.
Go back to the hotel to take a shower, wash clothes, and then go downstairs to the hotel restaurant for dinner. Eight people sat down to eat together, and Boss Ji said: "This time Boss Xiaoli is really polite, the eating and housing are all inclusive." ”
Wuyang said: "When am I being polite again?" ”
The boss said, "If you are really polite, you can help us borrow a trolley, so that we don't have to squeeze the bus every day." ”
"It's not enough to borrow a car, and you don't choose wool, why do you go so early every day." Mao Xiaoshan said.
On the 15th of the first month, Wuyang and Mao Xiaoshan went to the airport to pick up Mr. Cao, and the next day they picked up Chairman Qin and Director Zhou. Due to the lack of rooms, Chairman Qin and Director Zhou slept on the large bed in the presidential suite, and Mr. Cao slept on the small bed. The 3 old people did not bring anyone over because Wuyang was here, this afternoon Yang had to take care of the 3 old people, Teacher Cao said that he knew a few Chinese, President Qin and Director Zhou were not good, in fact, there was no need for the two to come over, neither knew how to choose wool, nor did they need to buy jade back. Mr. Cao is now addicted to gambling stones, and he can't stop coming.
The next day was about to start the public market, and in the afternoon, Wuyang called Xiao Zhen and asked Xiao Zhen to take them to the public market to have a look. After Xiao Zhen came, he said to a few people who were about to leave: "The public location is 5 or 60 kilometers away from the hotel, and it must take more than 3 hours to go back and forth, so I don't think there is any need to go." Tomorrow morning, before the bus of the organizing committee leaves, I will come and take you there, if you have anything you don't know, I will try to answer for you. ”
"Xiao Zhen, how many times have you participated in the public market, how big is your boss Boss Chen?" Wuyang asked.
Xiao Zhen said: "I participated in the public market, this is the third time, but I have not entered the venue, just as an employee of Boss Chen to receive his friends." I don't know how big our boss is Boss Chen, but I know that he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Jade Law of the Union of Myanmar, the vice president of the Federal Jade Association, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Jade Public Market Organizing Committee. It has 3 large jade mines and more than a dozen smaller jade mines. I don't know the rest. ”
Boss Qiu asked, "Xiao Zhen." What is a public market? ”
Wuyang was really amused that Boss Qiu could ask such a rookie question. Although the interlacing is like a mountain, can you ask casually before your old gentleman comes?
Xiao Zhen said: "The public market is that each jadeite merchant puts the wool mined by his mine in one place, and the merchant who buys the wool openly looks at the goods and bids. ”
Boss Ji asked: "When did this public market start, and how many times a year is it held?" ”
Xiao Zhen said: "I don't know exactly when it started, anyway, in the sixties of the last century, after the military government took power, it started to increase taxes." No smuggling. The number of times it is held every year is regular, like this time, there are irregular, more wool will be opened in advance, less wool will be postponed. However, every time, invitations are sent to jadeite merchants from various countries. ”
The boss asked: "I heard that some wool is directly sold by the merchant himself, so it should be smuggling, right?" ”
Xiao Zhen said: "Ordinary businessmen don't dare to sell it directly, and basically the local government, that is, the military, is the master of the sale. Myanmar is a highly self-governing federal state, and the self-government below enjoys great autonomy, and there are some things that the federal government cannot control. The wool that did not go through the public market was sold, in the case of the federal government. It's definitely smuggling. ”
Boss Qiu said: "In this way, there is no way to put an end to smuggling." ”
"Yes. It's just a matter of quantity. ”
The boss asked, "What's the matter between the explicit and the implicit?" ”
Xiao Zhen replied: "Explicit and implicit bids are actually bidding methods. The public assembly will put all the wool in one place, divided into the open mark area and the dark mark area. We first look at the wool, and write down the number, after the bid is opened, the clear mark is to let everyone sit in a large conference room, there is a keyboard at hand, see the wool number you like, you can press the key to enter their own identity number and their own money; The dark mark is to set up a small box next to each piece of wool, you will vote your own price in the box next to the wool you like, and the organizing committee staff will select the highest number to win the bid, of course, before that, if the owner of the wool expects his wool price to sell too low, he can fill out a bid with a high price, which is called blocking the bid. ”
"It's too complicated to remember. What do we need to remember the most? ”
"The most important thing to remember is that the currency we use in the bid is the euro, not the yuan and the dollar, for example, if you fancy a piece of wool and think that you will buy it for 1 million yuan, when you press the button or bid, it can only be 100,000 euros, and if you press the button or bid is 1 million, you will think that you are bidding 1 million euros. Someone has been mistaken before. If you make a mistake, it's better to buy it, otherwise you will become a bad businessman on the record, and you won't be sent an invitation letter in the future, and you will have to pay a certain amount of liquidated damages. ”
"It's a nuisance." The boss said.
"Big deal, I won't be here in the future." Boss Ji said.
"If you have anything to do, I will go back without me. Now there are 7 or 800 jade merchants in Yangon, the price is much higher, everyone has dinner and rests early, and we will leave tomorrow at 7 o'clock in the morning, everyone eats early, don't delay time. Xiao Zhen finished speaking and left.
Boss Qiu and the others were still talking about it, so Wuyang asked Mao Xiaoshan to buy pens and notebooks, one set per person.
A few people shouted to play cards, I had to participate in Wuyang, Wuyang said I don't know what cards, you have your own people, I don't come.
Just when Wu Fang called, Wuyang slipped away. After Wu Fang said some love words, she said that there were three things, one was that her grandfather's relatives sent red wine again, and she would not send it next time, because they infringed on the interests of the original distributor by sending wine, if we want to continue to drink, we will find a distributor or be a distributor ourselves; the second is that he has resigned in the group company; The third is to prepare to immigrate to the United States.
Wuyang said, "Why haven't I heard you say it before?" ”
Wu Fang said: "Last time in Donghai, Zhu Qing gave each of us $1 million in Citibank, and we contacted an intermediary company as an investment immigrant. This time, Pei Lei and I will go first, Qin Xiaoying will pass soon, Zhang Mengyu and Zhang Mengxin will pass this year. The two sisters are going to open a martial arts gym, of course, as investment immigrants. Sister Xiaohui also resigned from the unit, she felt that it was not interesting to go to work, and she had to match Wang Bin and the two. I'm afraid it won't affect you well. Later, she became pregnant. She'll pass too. ”
Wuyang said: "If you think it's good to go over, go over." ”
Wu Fang heard the unhappiness in his words. He said, "Wuyang, we should discuss it with you, but I just think you will definitely agree, so I won't tell you first." I didn't expect it to be so fast. But the belly is getting bigger day by day, and people may not agree to it anymore. We're not gone forever, and we'll come back when we have a baby. To put it bluntly, it was mixed with a green card in the past. ”
Wuyang said, "You used to be good. Although it is good at home, it is not clear when you give birth to a child, and it is not convenient to go to school or anything in the future, so you can go to the United States and see if you can open a jewelry store or something, or invest in some real estate or something, even if it is left to your children. After arriving in the United States, I also put some money into your account, and you continued to speculate in futures and foreign exchange. We have money now. Do you want to find another agency to see which sister is willing to go? I'll do it all, and if I don't get along well in the future, I'll be reunited with you in the United States. By the way, when are you leaving? ”
Wu Fang said: "It's still uncertain. I'll call you when I leave. Wuyang, we will never betray you for the rest of our lives, so you can rest assured. ”
Wuyang smiled: "Can I not worry? If you want to betray me, why should you conceive a child and leave? Besides, isn't the United States also in the global village? ”
"Okay, don't say more, make money happily. In the morning, I went to Stone Villa to have a look, and it was really amazing, and I brought back a lot of wool. After Wu Fang finished speaking, he hung up.
Wuyang was about to watch and play cards, but Tan Renan called in again. "Wuyang, our 10 sets of equipment have been prepared, the power supply has been connected, several mountains have been bought, and the supporting machinery and equipment Manager Guo has also purchased all of them, and they will be sent over tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. At present, the only thing that has not been done well is the housing, which is under intense construction, so you should quickly call someone to send the equipment over. ”
Wuyang said: "Okay, I'll call right away." ”
Call Wang Bin first and ask how you are preparing?
Wang Bin said: "It's almost ready. I was most worried about recruiting workers, but I didn't expect this opportunity to be particularly good, many migrant workers came back for the New Year, and as soon as the news came out, it was full in two days, and there was still room for choice. Now the remaining problem is that the electricity bureau thinks that our electricity consumption will be very large, and we must install a transformer separately, so it is still a little short, and it is estimated that it will be done tomorrow. ”
Immediately called Ouyang Qi, told the number of equipment, and told him that the new address was next to the original, and he would find out when he got there.
Ouyang Qi said: "The quantity you want is too much, and you can't transport it all at once." But don't worry, the installation and commissioning will be completed within half a month, and you will be ready for euros. ”
Today is the beginning of the public market, and 12 people squeezed two cars. Wuyang and Mao Xiaoshan are both relatively tall, and the two of them are drivers, Chairman Qin and Boss Qiu are both tall and fat, so they sit in the passenger seat, and the others are 4 squeezed behind.
Under the guidance of Xiao Zhen, he successfully arrived at the public venue: the Jewelry and Jade Trading Center of the Union of Myanmar
After getting out of the car, I saw that there were only soldiers at the gate of the trading center, which covered a very wide area. More than 10 soldiers stood at the entrance with loaded guns, and there were patrolling soldiers on the other side of the wall, as if they were facing a great enemy.
They came relatively early, and there were no merchants at the entrance. Under the guidance of Xiao Zhen, several people quickly applied for admission passes after paying the deposit.
Xiao Zhen said: "If you go in, I won't accompany you." When you bid for the purchase of wool, whether it is an open or hidden bid, you must write the number of the admission pass. However, the secret label is different, you can understand it by looking at the promotional materials for yourself. It doesn't matter if you don't know, you haven't bid today, just go back and ask again. I'll be waiting for you at the door at night. ”
A few people came in and saw that the wool inside was placed in a single piece, and the number was extremely large, I am afraid that it would be more than double that of Boss Chen's wool. The wool in the open mark area is numbered, and there is a box next to the wool in the dark mark area, which is for people to bid, and there are bid sheets in the drawer under each box.
It was the first time for Wuyang to go to such an occasion, because he had money in his hands and was not ready to buy wool, so he felt a little leisurely, and walked past the soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition, and there was no tension at all.
It is very easy to distinguish between the clear mark and the hidden mark, the one with the box is the dark mark, and the one without the box is the clear mark.
As soon as Mr. Cao entered the door, he went to choose the wool by himself, President Qin and Director Zhou followed behind like no troublemaker, and Boss Qiu followed closely with six people.
Wuyang smiled and said: "You still have to look at yourself, follow it like this, it doesn't matter if no one knows me, someone recognizes me, which piece of wool do I fancy and people don't have to consider it?" With this in mind, trouble may come. ”
Boss Qiu felt that it made sense, so he immediately dispersed and pretended to pick wool.
Wuyang and Mao Xiaoshan walked to the Mingbiao area, and Wuyang asked Mao Xiaoshan: "Brother Mao, will you buy a piece of wool in the Mingbiao area and make a few dollars to make your wife?" ”
Mao Xiaoshan said: "I was not tempted by Boss Chen's mine, and the price here is so high, so I won't come." Leave me alone and do your own thing. ”
Wuyang said "good" and began to select wool. On both sides of the road, there is a row of numbered wool, and Wuyang took out a pen and notebook and walked all the way over. Looking directly ahead, the wool on both sides is in full view.
After walking more than 10 meters, I didn't find any jadeite wool, so I stopped to observe the wool carefully, and I had the bottom in my heart. These wool materials may have been handed over by various jade merchants in order to cope with the federal government. Whether there is jade or not, for yourself, it does not matter at all, but you must avenge the boss for their poorness.
Finally, I found that there was a wool material with jadeite, and the grades were high and low, and the jadeite was large and small. Because the eye is looking ahead, there is a problem when approaching the record number. (To be continued......)