Wuyang estimated that the previous jade diggers might have thought that this big stone was the bottom of the riverbed, and when they touched the big stone, they didn't dig deeper, so the jade below was not dug up. Running the true qi carefully looked around the deep pit, the jade is simply extended to the surroundings without limit, first ran 200 meters upstream, saw the end, and then ran 300 meters downstream, also found the end, and took off his long clothes and pants, went into the water to the other side of the river, and saw that the entire section of the riverbed is all jade, the length is 500 meters, the width is 200 meters, the thickness is different, the thick place is more than 10 meters, the thin place is also two meters, the average will not be less than 5 meters.

Call the master worker, dig it with an excavator and try it, the result is that the stone below is broken, and a bucket will dig up a stone of about 300 kilograms, one side of the stone is a stone, and the other 5 faces are all jade meat, and it is a green jade that Wuyang has not seen before. The jade flesh is particularly delicate and crystal clear, although it is not polished, it feels like clotted fat.

Wuyang hurriedly called a halt and asked the master to call the person at the homework site in the morning to come back, and he also called Zhu Qibin to come back to discuss how to carry out the next step. Arrange for the people here to eat first, and after eating, Zhu Qibin, the workers, and the soldiers should come back.

After Zhu Qibin came back, Wuyang told him about the situation, and Zhu Qibin smiled and said: "Big brother, you are really rich, how many times have others dug in this kind of place, you have found such a large jade area." ”

Wuyang said: "Let's not talk about getting rich or not, there are so many jades, how can we mine them well?" ”

Qibin said: "It is very difficult to work in the water like this. The masters are prone to getting their clothes wet, not to mention. Even an excavator will sink into it. Jade that has been broken is also not easy to collect. Just now, the company commander told me that the temperature will drop greatly tonight, and now it will be about 5 degrees above zero, and in the second half of the night, the temperature will drop to -10 degrees Celsius, and the river will freeze until the end of February and early March next year. ”

Wuyang said: "So much river water, if it is frozen. What a large amount of work, 150 meters wide, 500 meters long, 3 meters deep river, the weight is 230,000 tons, I am afraid that a few months just digging these ice will be about the same, not to mention that there is still so much sand and gravel to move, and then mine jade, but also to transport away, it is too difficult. ”

"Big brother. Is there anything you can do? ”

"There is a way, but I don't know if it will work. About 4 kilometers upstream. If we start organizing people to cut off the river now, as long as the water from the upstream does not come down, the water here will flow away, and when it freezes, there will be basically no water in the river, and the more than 200,000 tons of ice will not have to be moved. ”

Zhu Qibin said with a smile: "Big brother, what a big project this is, the time is just more than ten hours, and you can't win at all." ”

"We can also take advantage of the favorable factors of icing, and we don't have to rely on sand and gravel to intercept the flow," Wuyang said. The river above does not flow and is prone to freezing, but here it flows, and it is more difficult to freeze after all. The water flows down, there is no source above, and the water here flows away again, and the river is dry. ”

"Big brother, if the flow is intercepted, the water level will inevitably rise, and it will not freeze soon, we used to watch TV, in the case of minus 40 degrees in the northeast, the lake water is frozen on the surface, and it will not freeze below. So this one doesn't work. ”

"What then?"

"We can mine as much as we can. We called the team in Myanmar this afternoon to come over and buy some machinery here, and we won't rest this winter. ”

Wuyang said: "After the jade is mined, it is impossible to transport it back immediately, and it is also a problem to find a place to store it." ”

"It's not hard. The army has a training ground, and our jade stones are piled up in the training ground, and we can pile them down as much as they want, and when the ice and snow melt next year, we will transport them away immediately, and it will not affect the training of the troops for too long. ”

"Well, that's all there is to it. In the afternoon, I will arrange for the workers to mine, and I will go to the military sub-district to contact the matter of stacking jade and extending the task of defending the troops, and you will go to buy machinery and contact the workers in Burma. ”

"Big brother, when the company commander wants to take someone back to get tents and other cold-proof materials, let him tell the head of the unit that I don't need to go to buy machinery, the masters are more familiar, just let them go." Since there is no rest in winter, we must make preparations for a long-term battle, and we must not rush to this day or two. ”

Wuyang smiled: "Then what are we doing?" ”

"Do nothing, just get a good night's sleep."

"Okay. You are the commander-in-chief, I am the Observer Mission, and my task is to sleep. You didn't rest last night, so let's go to bed after you make arrangements, go to bed. ”

"Big brother, can we still do things in other areas?"

"Don't do it, just concentrate on doing a good job here, and leave some for others, lest there will be no circulation with Khotanese jade on the market in the future, and there are still many people who rely on this for a living."

Qibin said: "In this case, you can travel to various places." ”

"It's freezing tomorrow, what are you traveling, it's serious to help you get things done here."

"It's okay, you wait a minute, I've arranged it, let's go to the city together, you go to the hotel to rest, and I'll invite you out tomorrow."

After sleeping and getting up, at the invitation of Zhu Qibin, he went to eat roast whole sheep, and the two of them asked for a lamb, so they stood next to watch the chef roast it. The charcoal fire in the stove was very strong, and the lamb was quickly roasted with oil, and the fire also decreased as he watched the cook smear something on the lamb. After about half an hour, the cook said, "Go and sit, I'll cut the lamb." You eat and drink at the same time. ”

Qibin asked for two bottles of "Elite Qu", one bottle per person, took a cup and began to drink.

Wuyang asked, "It's all arranged for the afternoon?" ”

"Alright. About 2,000 of our workers from the mines in Myanmar will come, and with the fact that all the people here are gone, it is estimated that there will be nearly 3,000 people. ”

"Where do so many people live?"

"The training team of the military sub-district is less than 8 kilometers away from our construction site, and they have no training tasks in winter, so we will make use of all the houses and facilities. Just burn the boiler. It was still very warm to sleep. Other conditions are also good. ”

"Where is the jade stacked?"

"It's on the training ground of the teaching team. I discussed with them, and I was going to rent their indoor training ground, cut out the jade and rub it well, and we just had to pull the jade meat back, and it also saved a lot of capacity. ”

"We still don't have enough personnel, do we?"

"Contact the military division, they have hundreds of veterans this year, most of them can stay and cut stones for us, we just need a skilled master to lead them."

"Qi Bin. Now that you've arranged everything, I won't worry about it. Presumably, the daily necessities of the workers are procured here, and I am responsible for all the expenses. When we get back, you can come over if you need to, just give me a call. Also, you have to arrange a place for your collection, and you will have a place to store it when you ship it back next year. ”

Zhu Qibin smiled: "Big brother, how can you let you pay the expenses alone?" We agreed that it would be half for one person, and of course the cost would only be half for one person. ”

"The big piece of jade that was pulled away today. I'm going to keep it, and I can't share it with you. This piece of jade is very high-grade, weighing about 300 tons, and you should be able to guess its value. ”

"Well, anyway, all my skills and wealth are given by my eldest brother, and it doesn't matter if I give more. Come, big brother, I'll toast you. ”

"Let's respect each other. Nothing to do at night, get a good night's sleep. ”

Zhu Qibin said: "Big brother, it's rare for us to come here, will we go to sing or drink tea later?" ”

"No, I won't. The two men are boring to sing, and they are afraid of trouble when they find a young lady, so they sleep honestly. ”

When I got up the next day, I saw the wind howling and the snowflakes dancing wildly outside the window, and I thought to myself, how can the workers work in such weather?

After washing up, I knocked on Zhu Qibin's door, but there was no response, I guess I left, and I went downstairs to see him in the parking apron, hanging snow chains on the tires of the off-road vehicle. Approaching, he also happened to hang up.

"Big brother, let's go to the construction site after dinner."

"Okay."

"Big brother, there is a down jacket in the car, you can take one and put it on. Although we are not afraid of the cold, it is too shocking to wear two single clothes. ”

Wuyang said: "The clothes are thick, and it is also necessary to preserve body temperature. ”

By the time they arrived at the construction site, the workers were already working. On the 500-meter-long jade belt, it is divided into 5 working faces, and the downstream working face, 3 bulldozers push the sand and gravel downstream side by side, and the water seeping out of the sand and gravel soon forms a thin layer of ice, so that there is basically no water in the pit pushed out.

In the upstream and middle working faces, the sand and gravel are pushed up the river bank. The operation time is not long, the sand and gravel are nearly 10 meters thick on the bank of the river, and it is estimated that there will be no results in the past few days.

"Qi Bing, although it is a mechanized operation, I think these masters are still very hard, how do you arrange their wages?"

"The salary of all personnel is 2,000 per day, and as for the specific individual, it must be decided by the person in charge of the construction site according to the table."

"Do the workers and masters know about it?" Wuyang asked this because he was afraid that the person in charge would drink the blood of the workers.

"You have to sue sù. I gave them 3 months to complete the bonus of 1 million to each person. ”

"What if it doesn't work?"

Zhu Qibing said with a smile: "Now I say so, if the weather is too cold, or there are special circumstances, of course, it can only be postponed, and the salary and bonus will still be paid." ”

"What's the bonus for those stone-cutting veterans?"

"They work indoors, the salary is the same, and the bonus is 50,000 yuan a month. It's not that I don't want to give, but I give them more, and those who work in the cold and snow in the field must have to send more. ”

Wuyang smiled, "As long as they have no opinion." Qi Bin, if you mine like this, there will definitely be a lot of broken jade, how did you arrange it? ”

"The jade crushing workers will definitely take some, and they will take it, this is something that cannot be helped."

Wuyang said: "You tell the person in charge, let them collect it first, and then send it to everyone." ”

"Do you want to set a weight? I think it's too big to give. The price of jade is so high, take away 1 kilogram, it is millions. ”

"We are far away in Lanjiang, big and small, we can't be sure. They're going to be able to smash it up, too. ”

Qi Bing said: "Big brother." What can you do? ”

"Let them enter Baoshan and return empty-handed. It's impossible, I want to send my brother-in-law Guo Xiangli over, and he will supervise it, and when everyone leaves, they can't exceed a certain number, and if there are more, they all have to stay. Let's tentatively set this amount at 10 kilograms. ”

"Big brother, after our Burmese workers came over. Including veterans, it is more than 3,600 people, and counting the officers and soldiers of the army, almost 40 tons of jade have flowed away, which is too much of a loss. ”

Wuyang smiled: "Let's not find so many." ”

"In this case, we don't need Guo Xiangli to come over, just send the company commander and instructor of the unit to be responsible for supervising the work, and if we do it well, we will give them a generous bonus in private. We don't care what they do. ”

"Qi Bin. Our employees have actually made a lot of money in the mine, which family doesn't have hundreds of catties of jade and jade? This time it's a little tighter. And as it should be. Although we are a private enterprise, this is the same as working in a state-owned enterprise and a government department, taking what you see and eating what you want, which is also a crime. In the future, as long as the reason is explained clearly, everyone will still understand. ”

"Okay, I'll go and tell the person in charge, the company commander, and the instructor that when I leave, I can't take the jade with me. The three of them did this job well, and I gave each of them a bonus of 1 million. ”

After Zhu Qibin finished speaking, he left, and Wuyang went to the various work surfaces to take a look, everyone was working hard, and they felt that it was useless for them to stay here, so they decided to go to the military subdivision to guide the workers and rub out the big stones.

found Zhu Qibin, he just arranged things, and the two drove to the military subdivision.

When I arrived at the indoor training ground of the teaching team, there were more than a dozen stone cutters holding portable stone cutters to cut stones in various parts of the big stones.

The two of them did not speak, but quietly stood aside and looked at the cut stone. These masters are relatively experienced, but because they don't know the boundary between jade and stone, the knife is not very accurate, and it will take a lot of time.

After watching for a while, Wuyang took a stone cutter and began to cut at the top of the stone.

The strength of the two of them is greater than that of the workers, and the knives are also very accurate, almost next to the jade. After cutting for half an hour, Wuyang let the others rest and picked up the stone polishing machine to rub the stone by himself.

Soon a piece of jade of square size was rubbed out, and Wuyang rinsed it with a tap water skin tube, and saw that the jade was a gray color, which was lighter than the color of concrete, and then my heart was half cold. He rubbed out a piece cut out of his bin, and it was still gray, that is, the top of the whole piece of jade was gray. This kind of color is unseen and unheard of in the afternoon sun, although the texture is very delicate and crystal clear, but this color, I am afraid it will fall inferior.

was a little unwilling in his heart, and when everyone continued to cut stones, he chose one end of the big stone to cut and asked Zhu Qibin to cut the other end. The head is an irregular triangle with a width of 6 meters at the bottom, a height of 5 meters, and an area of about 15 square meters, and it takes time to cut it well.

Cut it in half and eat the middle food, and continue after the meal. The more I cut this time, the more confident I became, and I was already able to see the white jade and green jade inside, but I could vaguely see other colors.

After a busy afternoon, the two finally wiped their heads together. The jade inside is colorful. The top is gray, the bottom is white, and there are cyan, purple, yellow, red, dark green in the middle. Looking at its distribution, there is no pattern to be found at all, it is disorganized.

In the evening, the stone was cut again, and now there are still triangular waists and bottoms that have not been cut out. Wuyang and Qibin can both see the jade inside, and know that the jade and stone inside are intertwined, and in some places the jade comes out very high, and in some places the stone is deeply embedded in the middle of the jade, which is not something that the stone cutter master can handle, they must do it themselves.

The masters were also unwilling to be idle, so Wuyang arranged for them to cut in thicker or flatter places, and he and Qibin looked for those difficult places.

Busy until 12 o'clock, the workers and masters changed shifts, Wuyang asked Zhu Qibin to take a bath and sleep, and he was on the scene while directing and cutting, and he would change shifts tomorrow morning.

The next morning, Wuyang estimated that the stones would be transported back from the river this afternoon, so he asked Zhu Qibin to organize the big stones to be sided, and let the workers cut out the bottom of the triangle, and leave the remaining difficult parts for the two of them to cut.

When I got up in the afternoon, I saw that the truck kept transporting jade wool to the training ground, and the forklift kept transporting the wool into the indoor training ground, and then loaded the cut jade into the truck, ready to form a convoy to transport it back to Zhongnan.

Zhu Qibin was left alone to cut the big stone, the bottom had been wiped well, and the entire bottom was full of mutton fat and white jade, like clotted fat, which was very beautiful.

When Zhu Qibin saw Wuyang coming, he smiled and said, "Big brother, these places are still enough." In some places, there is no small drill bit, and it is not possible to cut. ”

"We've got a few days left, so let's cut as much as we can. Qi Bin, what do you think is a good object carved from this piece of jade? ”

"I haven't thought about it, your things, you can carve whatever you think is good."

"I can't see the whole picture yet, so let's talk about it in two days."

With that, he picked up his tools and began to work. The two of them worked for two more days, and on the morning of the 5th, the stones on the jade were basically cut and wiped clean, and they could see the whole picture of the jade.

At the top of the jade, there is a gray zigzag one, and in the middle of the white jade below the top, there are several green jade and black jade scattered, and there are 9 in the afternoon sun. Further down, there are patches, strips, and clumps of jade of various colors. Wuyang looked at it from all angles from afar and near a few times, and felt that the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and he always felt that such a good jade must be carved out of a special object in order to live up to this god-given beauty.

"Qibin, let's not do it, on such a big jade, the stones are less than 50 kilograms, let the carver get the rest."

Zhu Qibin said: "It's okay, if it's all cut clean, it may affect the design and carving." I'm going to arrange for the crane and flatbed to load the truck. ”

Or the same as the last loading, the 3 cranes can not be lifted, can only be dragged to the flat car, the jade is 5 or 60 tons lighter than the last stone, and it is not so difficult to drag it up, but this time the flat car is padded with wooden boards and cotton yarn, and the place where the wire rope is in contact with the jade is also padded with cotton yarn. It used to be a stone, but now it is a delicate jade.

The flatbed truck driver said, "Boss, this time we have to travel so far, we will have to go back and forth for at least a month, you have to pay a little more freight." ”

Zhu Qibin said: "Our trucks only go back and forth for 10 days, why do you want to go for a month? ”

"This jade is so heavy and so wide, you can't cross the toll booth of the highway, you can only take the ordinary highway, and the time must be much longer."

Zhu Qibin said: "In this case, as long as you deliver it safely, I will give you 150,000 yuan for freight." May I? ”

The driver said, "Then thank you boss." ”

Wuyang said: "Qibin, I remember what I want to carve." (To be continued......)