"Boss Huang, what about the strength of Li Yongqian's processing plant? Is it big or not? After hearing Huang Bingyu's words, Qin Feng's heart moved.

Qin Feng received a call from Feng Yongkang and Xie Xuan yesterday, and they had reached an agreement with the Hetian jade mine in Xinjiang Province to buy a batch of high-quality jade rough stones from there every year at a relatively low price.

In this way, there is no problem with the supply of nephrite jade jewelry in "True Jade Fang", and what needs to be solved now is the source of jade jewelry.

Now that he has just come to Jieyang, he has met a carving master with good skills, Qin Feng will wonder in his heart, whether he can hand over the processing of his future jade jewelry to Li Yongqian?

"Boss Qin, although Li Yongqian is a good carver, he is a craftsman, and his business is a bit rigid, and it seems that the funds are not abundant, and this processing plant is very ordinary."

Huang Bingyu shook his head and said: "He is too demanding on the process, and he has to polish some of the processes that can be replaced by machines, so he will spend more time and energy......

In Huang Bingyu's view, Li Yongqian seems to have a little bit of the bottom line of ancient craftsmen, and has always adhered to the traditional skills of hand-cutting jade, and the so-called processing factory is to bring a few apprentices to do it.

However, there are many problems in this way, firstly, the processing cost of hand-carved jade is much higher than that of the machine, and secondly, the time is slow and the shipment is slow, and there are several times that Li Yongqian's processing factory has delayed the delivery time.

After several times, some jade merchants who originally admired Li Yongqian's fame also stopped doing business with Li Yongqian.

For those businessmen, ordinary customers simply do not understand the difference between machine processing and manual work, and they do not need to spend high processing costs to ask Li Yongqian to carve by hand.

"It's a good thing to be fine-crafted."

After hearing Huang Bingyu's explanation, Qin Feng smiled and said, "What." Boss Huang, after you bought the jadeite, you also planned to hand it over to Li Yongqian? ”

"Me? Alas, brother, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I can't afford to invite him. ”

Huang Bingyu smiled bitterly and shook his head. said: "Lao Li has to work for three days to make a pendant, even if you add his apprentices, how many objects can be produced in a month?"

And even if you carve the simplest jadeite jewelry, his asking price is more than three hundred, and even more expensive than the price of jadeite itself, do you think I can afford it? ”

"A pendant works for three days, that's a bit slow."

Qin Feng frowned when he heard this, and when he saw that he had come to the outside of the room, he immediately said, "Let's put our things and go eat first." Boss Li is still waiting below. ”

"Okay, that's right, Qin Feng."

Huang Bingyu suddenly said: "I'll pay for the dinner or something, this person owes a lot of favors, and it's not easy to open your mouth when it comes to talking about business......

Huang Bingyu's business is not very big, and he has a total of 100,000 yuan in his hands, he just wants to buy some ordinary jadeite rough stones and process them into jewelry that costs 3500 yuan to sell. That's why he didn't want to accept Li Yongqian's favor.

Qin Feng smiled and didn't say anything. He was wishing that Li Yongqian's business was not good, so he could concentrate on processing jadeite for him, but Qin Feng was a little puzzled, why was Li Yongqian's efficiency in jade cutting so low?

You must know that Qin Feng himself is a jade grandmaster-level figure, for him. A simple pendant can be carved in an hour, but it will take three days for Li Yongqian, which makes Qin Feng a little confused.

For this question, after coming to the hotel and sitting down. Qin Feng asked Li Yongqian in person.

After hearing Qin Feng's question, Li Yongqian said with some bitterness: "Boss Qin, I use the old process, whether it is removing impurities in the jadeite or polishing in the later stage, it is all done by hand. ”

"It's all handmade? It does take three or four days, but Boss Li, the machine used in this urgent process should not affect the value of the finished jadeite, right? ”

Qin Feng was a little stunned when he heard this, removing impurities and polishing, the skill requirements for jewelry are not very high, and they can be replaced by machines, he doesn't know why Li Yongqian is so stubborn?

"I know this too, well, let's be honest......"

Li Yongqian sighed and said: "I have been working for people a few years ago, although I also saved some money, but after I came out to build a factory, I gambled with people on a stone, and the gamble collapsed, so I didn't even have the money to buy a machine......

To say that the people who have the most contact with gambling stones, in addition to the owners of the original stones and gamblers, I am afraid that they are the craftsmen who carve jadeite.

This is a lot of seeing, many jade craftsmen themselves have a lot of experience in gambling stones, they know what kind of stone skin, the most likely to appear haode jadeite.

Li Yongqian's eyesight is good, and before he came out to work in a processing factory alone, he once helped people gamble on stones.

And Li Yongqian's luck is very good, a fist-sized black black sand rough stone has just produced an egg-sized glass light green jadeite, and the rough stone bought by more than 1,000 at that time helped the man earn more than one million.

It was also with the more than 100,000 hardship fees given by that person that Li Yongqian had the idea of working alone.

It's just that when his processing plant had just been completed and the machine had not yet been purchased, a person from the same village came to him and said that he had great eyesight and wanted to partner with Li Yongqian to gamble on stones.

Speaking of the gambling stones in Yangmei, we must first introduce the history of Yangmei.

Yangmei is a village in Jieyang Jiedong District, known as the "hometown of gold and jade", since 1905, the villagers have been engaged in jade processing, production and trade, has a history of nearly 100 years.

The total population of Yangmei Village is 2,800 people, with a total of more than 600 households.

There are more than 400 large and small jade processing, production and trade enterprises, and more than 1,500 people specializing in jade processing, production and trade.

There are nearly 100 years of history of jade processing, production and trade, gambling stone is also very popular in Yangmei, as early as when the domestic jade jewelry was not popular, Yangmei people went to Myanmar to gamble on the stone, many people have hidden on the haode jade rough.

When the jade fever in the country after the rise, gambling stone has become a shortcut for many Yang beauty people to get rich, due to the limitation of funds, so they have a few good relationship with the family together, joint venture gambling stone.

In the early days of the rise of the gambling stone market, most of the rough stones that appeared in the market were old pits.

The so-called old pit refers to those jade pits that are old and known for their large output and fine quality, and the people who will cooperate with Yangmei to gamble on stones have taken a great advantage and bought a lot of high-quality jadeite at a very low price.

But last year, with the reduction of production in Myanmar's old jadeite pits, some newly developed jadeite mines entered the country, and Li Yongqian was also unlucky, just caught up with this batch.

At that time, he and his friends in the same village jointly invested 1 million to go to Myanmar to participate in a jade fair, but the result was that Li Yongqian wanted to cry without tears, and the rough stone he bought back with 1 million yuan was not even worth 100,000 yuan after cutting.

Bad luck, no one can blame this, Li Yongqian can only give up the idea of gambling on stones, and concentrate on building his jade processing factory.

It's just that he doesn't have any money in his hand, and Li Yongqian's processing factory is not even as good as other workshops, if it weren't for his achievements in jade carving, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be able to recruit apprentices.

"Boss Li, your craftsmanship is so good, won't you buy the machine back if you borrow some more money?"

Qin Feng was a little surprised when he heard this: "As long as the processing business is on track, hundreds of thousands of dollars a year will not be a problem, right?" Why do you still insist that every process is done by hand? ”

In Qin Feng's opinion, every household in Yangmei is doing business, and it should not be very difficult for the private to borrow hundreds of thousands, so he can't figure out Li Yongqian's behavior.

After hearing Qin Feng's words, Li Yongqian drank a glass of wine sullenly and said, "Boss Qin, that's not the case, you gambled on the stone, and no one is willing to lend you money......

In Yangmei, not only do every household do business, but every household gambles on stones, and these people are very superstitious, if your gambling rises, everyone rushes to gamble with you and wants to get some joy.

But if the gamble collapses, it is definitely the wall that everyone pushes.

Not to mention asking the neighbors to borrow money, even if they are their own relatives, they have no love to talk about, and they have no money to eat, but they borrow money to do business, but there is no door, which is in line with the saying that "there are no fathers and sons in the business field".

"Boss Li, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, you don't have to worry, maybe there is something to do, Boss Li, this kung fu tea is good, it's this year's new tea, right?"

After figuring out what happened, Qin Feng took the wine and toasted Li Yongqian, but he never mentioned the matter of gambling stones and processing factories, but just discussed with him the taste of kung fu tea and Chaoshan cuisine on the table.

"Xiexie Boss Qin Ji Yan, I still have a little tea here, if Boss Qin likes it, I'll send you some ...... when I go back"

Where did Li Yongqian have the heart to talk to Qin Feng about tea, turned his face to look at Huang Bingyu, and said, "Boss Huang, have you made up your mind to do a jade business?" ”

"Yes, the jade market is good now, and it almost accounts for half of the share in the jade market, so I want to change careers."

Huang Bingyu nodded and said, "Boss Li, the Yangmei gambling stone seems to be small in scope, and it was brought by regular customers, but I have to rely on you this time......"

If you want to talk about the gambling stone market, the first recommendation is naturally the Myanmar jade public market two to three times a year, but the threshold there is too high, with Huang Bingyu's strength, even if you go to the place, you can't compete for the major jewelers from Southeast Asia.

In China, only Pingzhou, Guangdong Province, has a jade public market open to the outside world, but the scale is far from being comparable with Myanmar, and it is only once a year, and it has already been opened this year.

Like Yangmei's jadeite rough trading, to put it bluntly, it is actually a secondary transaction carried out internally by some powerful merchants in Yangmei's village, after returning some stones from the Burmese public market.

Compared with the jade public market in Pingzhou, the scale of this kind of transaction is even smaller, and it can basically be digested locally in Yangmei, so if it is generally not led by acquaintances, people from outside cannot even enter the trading venue. (To be continued......)