Two and a half days later, Sun Chen and the others came to Pearl Bay.

Because they came here with a purpose, they did not pause, and directly found an acquaintance who had an industry here by Liu Mingxuan.

That person is the one in Liu Mingxuan's mouth, after doing the pearl industry, he can barely maintain the balance of payments, Pan Daining from the capital.

Pan Daining is in his thirties, because he has lived by the sea for a long time, the skin on his face is very rough, and he looks like he is in his forties.

He led Sun Chen and them to a large beach of his own, pointed to the crowd in front of him who were busy unloading from the fishing boats, and said to Sun Chen and them: "You see, if it weren't for the ships sent by the expatriate to catch a lot of harvest every day, I would have starved to death by relying on this pearl alone!" ”

All his net worth has been invested in this beach, and even if he regrets it, it is impossible to leave just as soon as he says it.

"The scallops used for pearl diving, in addition to the usual salvage from ships, are also raised here."

Sun Chen looked up and saw that not far from the beach, he had been dug into a few square pieces by the construction site. There is seawater that has been brought from the sea, and at first glance it is thought to be used for seafood farming.

When you get closer, you can see the dense scallops at the bottom of the water spitting water droplets.

"Every day, there are special workers who come here to select pearl oysters of the right size for pearl diving, and the smaller ones will continue to be raised here."

Sun Chen followed Pan Daining towards the back of the dug paddy fields, where there were several grass huts that had been erected, and below sat a few workers with tools in pearl diving.

They inserted a thin piece of iron into the two shells of the scallops, and with a little force, they opened the closed scallops, revealing the white-flowered scallop flesh inside. Press the back two fingers of the iron piece without pinching it, and you will already know if there are beads inside.

If you find a pearl, you carefully take out the pearls and put them on a tray, and the scallop meat is placed on a large bamboo ball to dry.

Sun Chen paid special attention to it, and it was really the same as Liu Mingxuan said, almost ten scallops, there can be one bead.

"If these pearls were like this, and a third of the pearls in them could be like this, I should have made a lot of money over the years, but it's a pity that ......," Pan Denin said, picking up a pearl slightly smaller than peanuts, and shaking his head.

He pointed to the pearls that the workers had specially picked out and put in a bamboo basket, "Like this, only some rouge shops in the capital can sell them, and the price is less than one-tenth of the good condition!" ”

Women in this era already know the skin care value of pearls, but even if the price is only one-tenth of the pearls made into jewelry, not everyone can afford to use them. Only a metropolis like the capital can have such a consumption base.

"I came here ten years ago, and all the original 100,000 taels were invested, and in the end, there were only more than 30,000 taels left, all to blame for what I thought was too simple, and I didn't have the life to make money!" Pan Dainine sighed.

"Didn't you say you could break even?" Liu Mingxuan was surprised, why did he say that he had lost so much at this time?

"That was in the past few years," Pan Dinin explained, "in the past few years, we have not had so many gentlemen to do business in the Apocalypse, and naturally there are few pearl products, and the ones we have here are a little poor, but not too bad, and they can be sold improvised, without grinding into pearl powder, and at that time there was still a small surplus." But since the number of foreign ships has increased, and the pearls that have been brought in are generally of better quality than ours, my pearls have not been sold. If there is a slight flaw, no one will pay attention to it, and you can only grind it ruthlessly. The price difference between this pearl and pearl powder is not a star and a half, so naturally it will no longer make money, and it will be added every year! Last year alone, I got seven or eight thousand taels of silver! ”

"Now if someone gives me 30,000 taels, all my business will be transferred to him immediately!"

Sun Chen's heart moved slightly, but he quickly calmed down. Because he found that even if the price was 30,000 taels, he couldn't take it.

With his current net worth, it seems to be quite difficult to make up 10,000 taels, "In the end, there is still no money!" ”

Liu Mingxuan saw the change in Sun Chen's expression, rejected Pan Daining's kindness to invite a treat, and came to the inner city of Pearl Bay with Sun Chen, and found an inn to live in.

Sun Chen had just finished washing, and before he could go downstairs to eat, he heard a knock on the door.

When I opened the door, it turned out to be Liu Mingxuan standing there with wet hair.

"Tell me, what do you think?" When Sun Chen came, he was full of interest along the way, but he saw it in his eyes, and it was wilting at this moment. After Liu Mingxuan poured himself a cup of tea, he asked with his hand on his chin and elbow on the table.

"So what?" Sun Chen pondered the sentence, "When I came, I thought too simply, but after looking at the situation, I found that it was not like that. And I suddenly found myself still too poor and very much in need of hard work to make money. ”

"You mean ......?"

"That's what you think," Liu Mingxuan was not an outsider anyway, Sun Chen simply said honestly, "We seem to have come for nothing this time, because for the time being, I don't have the ability to buy a house here." But it can't be said in vain, I have learned a lot from this trip, the first is that I can't just want to enter a field that I am not familiar with. But I'm still quite optimistic about this industry, and I'm going to go back and prepare for it, and I'll come back in a few years. ”

Sun Chen's preparation, in addition to money, is also the most important point, he found that even if he knew what it was to improve the pearl yield of pearl oysters and the fineness of pearls, he was not clear about how to operate them. He needs to try to accumulate experience and see if he can find a mature solution.

"I see that you also said it after thinking clearly, then let it be!" Liu Mingxuan originally thought that if it was just because of the money, it would be okay to lend it to him, but after hearing Sun Chen's words, he changed his decision. It's not that I'm afraid that Sun Chen won't be able to pay back the money after he fails, but I found that Sun Chen seems to have made up his mind, even if he has enough funds, he won't invest in it so recklessly.

How do you know that Sun Chen has rested his thoughts, and Pan Daining can't sit still.

He intuitively knew that Liu Mingxuan took people to his bead field, not just to make a fresh picture. The man looked at everything in the bead field with judgment, which he was confident that he had not mistaken as he had been in the business world for more than ten years.

But in the end, the man was completely interested, and he also saw it in his eyes, was he optimistic about the deal, or was he simply dissatisfied with the price? He didn't know, so he came over and asked.