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[271] The pit is dead and stupid

Shen Hong, director of the Heavy Industry Division of the Central Finance Commission, trembled a little, and he tightly held the hand of his old buddy next to him, Xu Chi, director of the Jihua Department of the Ministry of Heavy Industry and chief engineer of Angang blast furnace assembly task.

Xu Chi's hand was thin and dry, he held Shen Hong's hand and said calmly, "What are you shaking?" We've been fighting for almost half a year, and this has already been ignited, so what's so scary.

Shen Hong suppressed the excitement in his heart, pushed the yellow phenolic plastic glasses on the bridge of his nose, and replied: "Lao Xu, you say, what if you can't meet the production capacity standard of the equipment?" ”

Xu Chi's eyes that were deeply sunken in his eye sockets widened, and he said unhappily: "Old man, why do you say that this is unlucky, we are in accordance with the installation standards, and all the installation processes have been repeatedly checked by ultrasonic flaw detectors, how can we not meet the production capacity standards!" ”

Shen Hong cracked his mouth and smiled: "Yes, yes, look at my crow's mouth, what you said is true!" It will definitely be done! It will definitely be done! ”

Finally, the much-anticipated moment of tapping finally came, as the valve of the blast furnace was opened, the flowing iron flow continued to pour into the huge molten steel ladle from the three-person joint bet mouth, and the huge molten steel ladle with two people was poured with golden-red iron flow in a blink of an eye. Steel slag splashed from all corners near the ladle in the workshop.

"Wow! ......" The onlookers cheered and applauded like boiling!

"Long live New China!"

"Long live Angang!"

"Long live the supply party!"

"Long live the chairman!"

Various slogans resounded one after another in the workshop.

Shao Xianghua, the director of the factory, trotted out excitedly and shouted: "Comrades! This first package of molten steel has been successfully baked! From now on, we will fight day and night! We must complete the central government's double hundred tasks of one million tons of iron and one million tons of steel before the end of the year!

Comrades! Do you have faith? “

"Yes!" The crowd shouted from the bottom of their hearts like a tsunami.

With the roar of the tractor, the ladle was dragged out of the injection port, and four steelworkers wearing heat-insulating clothing immediately stepped forward and hung the hook of the gantry crane crane on the ladle's ears. The gantry crane lifts the ladle easily and transports it to the other side of the long workshop, where it is ready to be poured into the refining converter for further refining......

At this moment, Xiaoqiang is on the No. 301 passenger plane of the Air Force, accompanying the prime minister to Anshan to express condolences for the smooth ignition of the five-link 5,000-cubic-meter blast furnace of Anshan Iron and Steel, and to extend congratulations to the Party Central Committee, the Government Affairs Yuan, and the people of the whole country.

The prime minister sat opposite Xiaoqiang, looked at the documents in his hand, and asked, "Xiaoqiang, are you short of funds now?" ”

Xiaoqiang calculated and said: "At present, there are still 51.6 billion funds on the books, and in addition, there are 20 tons of sapphire that have not been mortgaged, Prime Minister, the money is still enough for the time being." ”

The prime minister nodded and said, "I have already informed Comrade Jiaxiang to negotiate with the Soviet Union for exchange, and strive to be able to exchange cloth for Soviet diamonds and gold." Xiaoqiang, you said that the girls in 2011 all like to wear diamond rings? ”

Xiaoqiang smiled: "Well, Prime Minister, you haven't seen De Beers's propaganda, it's just overwhelming, blowing a carbon crystal into a symbol of aiqing, what "aiqing is eternal, one will be passed on forever." The noisy girls were dizzy, as if they didn't wear a diamond ring when they got married, they would lose their dignity and their faces would be dull. ”

When the prime minister heard this, he couldn't help but put down the thick stack of Jihua books handed over by the Ministry of Heavy Industry about the large-scale new small iron and steel enterprises in the country. Are gold rings bad? ”

Xiaoqiang said: "This is a long story, to say that De Beers, but a super multinational company, super cartel, he almost monopolizes the world's diamond bonanza, that is to say, as long as there is a little reserve of ore sources, De Beers is trying to directly control it into his own hands, or indirectly control it in the hands of relevant stakeholders." After completing the monopoly, he began to think of ways to add value to the diamonds. To put it nicely, it is advertising, but in the final analysis, it is to constantly use various newspapers and magazines, movies, radio stations, celebrity endorsements and film and television programs to brainwash people. ”

The prime minister wondered: "The common people are not stupid, how can they listen to him?" Xiaoqiang, didn't you say that you want to introduce a set of high-temperature and high-pressure synthetic diamond production line? As soon as this synthetic diamond comes out, the industrial use of this natural diamond has disappeared, and the diamond mine is not a scarce mineral as far as I know, how can it be sold so expensive in 2011? China actually spends $5.7 billion a year on jewelry and diamonds to import?! ”

Xiaoqiang said: "It's because of monopoly." Once De Beers completes the monopoly, he will be able to control the supply side, and it is basically up to him to decide how much natural diamonds to supply to the market each year. If you can't control the supply side, then the price of diamonds in the market will really become cheaper than stones. In addition, De Beers has continued to educate the public about the connection between diamonds and romance, spending money on paid news that focuses on the size of diamonds given by celebrities to their loved ones. Due to the British monopoly on diamonds, the queen and the royal family also replaced the jewelry worn in public with diamonds. De Beers' approach has increased sales in the U.S. market by 55% in just three years! By 1947, De Beers began to march into the field of consumer psychology research, constantly using various propaganda methods to strengthen the public's awareness of the concept of diamonds, and they even arranged for lecturers to go to high schools across the country to give public lectures in student groups, classes, and informal meetings, all around diamond engagement rings, and desperately grasped the slogan "diamonds are eternal, one lasts forever", desperately brainwashing. ”

The prime minister smiled bitterly: "This De Beers has worked hard to cultivate a market, and has spent so much effort. Then Xiaoqiang, you say, can this diamond maintain its value? ”

Xiaoqiang said with a smile: "The value of diamonds is actually not as good as rubies, sapphires and other rare gemstones, this kind of carbon crystals are not in fact a "long-lasting" thing, diamonds will also be scratched, damaged, faded, oxidized and yellowed, it is not easy to achieve long-term preservation of the condition, but if you don't advertise it like this, who will spend money to buy a broken stone for scratching glass to wear!" In short, De Beers has repeatedly advocated through a variety of explicit and implicit advertisements and public relations campaigns that only diamonds are universally used and recognized everywhere. This kind of advertising investment will never stop unless De Beers dies. This is a super cartel that can't survive without publicity.

As for value preservation, in 1970, a consumer goods magazine in London conducted an experiment and bought two 0.5-carat gem-quality diamonds for 400 pounds and sealed them in a safe deposit box for nine years, during which inflation in Britain reached an average of 25% per year! According to the hedging requirements, the market price of the diamond must at least catch up with inflation, that is, it should be sold for at least 3,000 pounds to maintain its value, but the market price was only sold for 500 pounds.

As for buying a diamond ring and wanting to get rid of it at the original price, it is an impossible task, basically buying it in the same year, selling it in the same year, and the recovery price is not higher than 30% of the original price. Those famous jewelers are even more reluctant to recycle at all, mainly because they feel that it is a humiliation for customers to offer a low price, and it is better to refuse it outright. The only ones that can retain their value are those really rare super large diamonds that can reach tens of carats after cutting. ”

How shrewd the prime minister is, after listening to Xiaoqiang's introduction at this moment, he has completely understood what diamonds are in 2011, he smiled: "Then we want to touch the light of De Beers, China can import 5.7 billion US dollars of diamonds a year, let's sell less, it's no problem to sell half at a low price, right?" ”

Xiaoqiang smiled: "The Soviet Union only discovered the diamond mines in Siberia at the end of the 50s, that is, recently, and is desperately mining, De Beers's proposal to the Soviet Union is to control the price of diamonds together, but the Soviet Union does not care about so much in private, and the output has been growing incredibly.

Eventually, De Beers changed its attitude and completely cut off the diamond trade with the Soviet Union, and Western jewelers stopped buying diamonds from the Soviet Union altogether. They also buckled their hats with Soviet diamonds, insisting that Soviet diamonds were not diamonds, but another kind of diamonds, which was really laughing to death. However, once the Soviet Union could not ship to the West, it would be able to cheapen us. ”

The prime minister asked: "Xiaoqiang, what you said intuitively, how many tons of diamonds are 5.7 billion US dollars?" ”

Xiaoqiang smiled: "About more than 500 kilograms, a truck can pull it away." Since we want to exchange money, we will directly ship at 30% of the market price, and De Beers will not dump at this price anyway. I estimate that within two years, we will occupy half of the domestic diamond market.

However, the price is reasonable, as De Beers has been desperately touting diamond certification in the hope of strengthening its monopoly. Instill in everyone the idea that "diamonds without foreign certificates are fakes". After our diamonds are taken, De Beers will definitely die and will not let his "international authoritative jewelry certification body" give us a certification certificate, but fortunately, our domestic market does not eat this pot, and the source of rough stones in various small jewelry stores is very miscellaneous, and they are all using domestic certification certificates, which are still selling very hot.

The diamond industry is too deep, although there are levels of clarity, color, and cut. However, there is no obvious boundary between the VS class and the VVS class, even if the professional-level discriminator with special tools can not be very clear, the price difference here is 108,000 miles, completely relying on De Beers's mouth to say, what he says is what he is.

In the beginning, many people were reluctant to have colored diamonds that were mixed with impurities, but you can't let De Beers cover a bunch of useless impurity stones. So De Beers said that colored diamonds are a rare species, and also classified the color, stipulating what color is the purest, anyway, the standard is set by him, really want to compare together, who can explain why this color shade is just the purest haode? As for the various sellers, they all rely on a mouth to live, two shades of color, this store says that it is deep and pure, and that store says that it is shallow and pure.

Speaking of cut, a carat and 99 points of diamonds do not look at the weight of only one point, but the price of a heaven and an underground, one is a carat diamond and one is a non-carat diamond, diamond practitioners will not be so stupid, and their own money can not get along, so when cutting, the carat diamond will never be cut into a non-carat diamond because of avoiding flaws, you want to ask what to do with the flaws? There are two cases, one is that you can't see it if I don't tell you. The second is to use a laser to remove the defect and then fill it with a transparent substance of the same refractive index, again, you still can't see it. Besides, these consumers want to buy a stone with B, so why bother with these.

Therefore, the so-called natural, the so-called grade, the so-called certification, the so-called eternal, are just the gimmick of the diamond business, and making money is the only hard truth of De Beers!

If Debbie makes money by treating diamonds as a handicraft, it is not a sin, but if it is sold as value-preserving jewelry, it is more expensive than gold, and it makes so much money, it is really a bit too dark to start. But one yard is one yard, since it's a business, let's put it bluntly, it's a bit unkind, it's better for everyone to get rich together. ”

The Prime Minister smiled: "That's good! Let's get him a truck first! Xiaoqiang, what do you estimate the price of 500 kilograms of diamonds in the Soviet Union? ”

Xiaoqiang said with a smile: "According to our current market price in 1950, the cut Haode diamond is about 30 million US dollars, and the rough price is about 30% lower than the cut price." That's about $10 million.

De Beers' contract to the Soviets was limited in quantity, not as much as there were. So since we wanted it, it was a windfall for the Soviet Union, and they were willing to open up the supply anyway.

Most of the diamonds in the Soviet Union were about 0.5 carats, which was exactly the size of the most popular people sold in 2011. But we also want to be bigger, the bigger the more money, and the colored diamonds, and those who come will not refuse.

Anyway, Prime Minister, don't care about the size, try to buy as much as possible, let's eat it all, I guess with our relationship with the Soviet Union, I think we will definitely be able to get a cheap price. ”

The prime minister said with relief: "Now there is finally another way to make money!" ”