Chapter 298: Jade Public Market (Asking for Subscription, Asking for a Monthly Pass)
It's finally time to go to the Myanmar public market!
Ji Cheng has been looking forward to this day for too long.
The world's largest producer of jadeite, 90% of the world's jadeite comes from this country.
A small glass imperial green jadeite bracelet can be auctioned for tens of millions of dollars, so you can imagine how profitable it is.
Ji Cheng can't wait to rush to Myanmar to see the charm of the public market.
He has made too many preparations for this day, needless to say, the visa, at the very least, he has already asked Cheng Jianjun, who invited him to go to Myanmar, to complete it.
In addition, because he didn't understand jade, he specially asked Cheng Jianjun to go to the demon capital to pick up Zhi Youcai together, so that he could consult himself.
Finally, the most important thing is, of course, funding.
Ji Cheng prepared a full $100 million to go to Myanmar this time.
Well, today's jadeite prices are very cheap, the price of wool is even lower, 100 million US dollars to buy all the wool of the entire public market, after all, until 06 Myanmar public market turnover of the whole year is only more than 300 million euros, before it was lower, for example, 05 years of Myanmar public market turnover is only more than 30 million euros, not to mention the first session, only hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Now, in eight or nine years, the annual turnover is only a few million dollars.
Ji Cheng definitely didn't really buy the entire public wool, so if he didn't talk about profit and loss, he would be hated just by saying that others couldn't buy any wool, and he didn't want to set up enemies.
He prepared so much money in order to buy jadeite mines.
Since December 1966, the Burmese government has ordered that private mining of jadeite is not allowed, but that the jadeite wool is purchased by a company under the Ministry of Trade.
Then, after the military and government took over power in Myanmar in 1988, it was decided to give more free jade mining rights to private industry and commerce on the premise of consolidating state-owned enterprises, but basically the control was still state-owned.
On such a premise.
It would be very difficult for Ji Cheng to take down a valuable jade mine.
But he has always believed in the truth that as long as humanity exists, capital can conquer everything except faith and death.
As long as the money is enough, he doesn't believe that the Myanmar side is not moved.
In the villa.
Flight tonight.
Ji Cheng was on the phone with Cheng Jianjun, "Mr. Cheng, have you arrived in Myanmar?" ”
"Not yet, I'm going to fly over now, when will you arrive?" I have something important to talk to you about. Cheng Jianjun asked on the other end of the phone.
Ji Chengdao: "Tonight's plane, there is a transfer in the middle, and it should arrive at midnight." ”
"Cheng, then I'll wake up and look for you." Cheng Jianjun responded.
Hang up.
Michael. Baker walked in from outside, "Sir, the guys from the Military Career Resources Company are here. ”
Ji Cheng casually stuffed his phone into his pocket and mumbled, "Let them come in." ”
"Okay."
Michael. Baker turned and went out.
Ji Cheng sat on the sofa with a very deep gaze, since he had experienced several assassinations, he had attached great importance to his personal safety, because he didn't have much money on hand, he had not found a security team for himself, and now he had just harvested more than a billion dollars from the foreign exchange market, of course he had to do the security as soon as possible.
And this company, called Military Career Resources, is also the private military company with the closest official ties in the beautiful country.
The biggest feature of the company is that almost all of the company's employees are mid-level and high-level generals, officers and non-commissioned officers who have recently retired, and they have rich experience in troop training, standard formulation, canon revision and even field combat confrontation.
In other words, the Military Career Resources Corporation has the ability to train a newly recruited army from scratch into a hundred combat elite soldiers with the same strength as the active forces of the United States, and as long as they can obtain the training support of the Military Professional Resources Company, its essence is no less than receiving direct assistance from the United States Forces.
Military Career Resources Companies are not only engaged in training and dispatching mercenaries, but also take on some security jobs, which of course will be costly.
Ji Cheng originally thought that the company would send a senior executive to talk to him about security cooperation, but he never expected that the person who came was actually Wei Nong, the chairman of the Military Occupational Resources Company. Lewis, the general of the beautiful country before he retired.
"General Lewis, it's a pleasure to meet you." Ji Cheng stretched out his hand and shook the other party.
Vernon. Lewis is a white man in his sixties, and he can see the military style in him, and his handshake is sonorous and powerful, "Hello, Mr. Ji." ”
Ji Cheng invited the other party to sit down.
Vernon. After Lewis sat down, he said bluntly: "Mr. Ji, our company attaches great importance to cooperation with you, you are a well-known big man in the beautiful country and even the global financial industry, it is a great honor for our company to receive your business, may I ask how strong a private security team do you need?" ”
Ji Cheng leaned on the sofa with his legs crossed, "A private security team that can deal with all kinds of assassinations, for example, the Pollock organization has sent many killers to assassinate me before, and they use long-range sniper rifle ambushes, I want to know if your company has a way to deal with it." ”
Vernon. Lewis thought for a while, "I know about the Pollock organization, there is almost no warning before they start, and the effective range of the sniper rifle can reach up to 1,200 meters, and the maximum range can reach two or three thousand meters, if it is an emergency, no matter how powerful people are, they can't deal with it, Mr. Ji, I'll tell you the truth, something like this, any security team can only try to prevent and avoid it as much as possible, but one thing I can assure you is that if this kind of thing happens again, as long as the security personnel in my company are not killed, Then your life will not be in danger. ”
Ji Cheng asked curiously, "Then how do you prevent it?" ”
Vernon. Lewis said: "We will start from all aspects of the employer to prevent, such as the vehicle, the layout of the living environment, and the daily inventory of the employer's route to and from whether there are suspicious people, these are all means of prevention, in addition to we are equipped with some cutting-edge physical defense equipment, can effectively block the vast majority of bullets, even if it is a large-caliber sniper rifle, basically can also block, as for artillery shells, if you need it, I can help you apply to the military to spend millions of dollars to configure a missile interception system, like anti-tank missiles, Mortars and rockets can be intercepted, and there is nothing that can be done about the more ferocious fire. ”
As soon as Ji Cheng heard it, he immediately knew that what the other party said was already the strongest means of the current security force, and he was very satisfied, "How much is it a year?" ”
Vernon. Lewis said: "At the highest configuration, we will send ten professionals on our side, who are proficient in various counter-reconnaissance means, combat, cold weapons and thermal weapons, two of them will be closely protected 24 hours a day, and the remaining eight people will be divided into two shifts and hide around the employer in various ways, not counting interception systems and other devices, and the cost will be about 20 million US dollars a year." ”
The labor cost is 20 million!
You must know that even in modern society, Zuckerberg, who is known as the richest man who lives the most, only pays $150 million a year, and now the price of 20 million in eight or nine years is already high.
But Ji Cheng agreed, "Okay, you have prepared the personnel, equipment, and interception system in the next few days, and I will sign the contract when I come back in ten days." ”
"Okay, thank you, Mr. Ji." Vernon. Lewis said.
After talking about things, Ji Cheng asked Michael. Baker sent the other man away.
Later, he went to the company to explain a little something, and then waited until the evening to board the plane to Myanmar.
……
The other side.
Inside the manor where the Rockefeller family lived.
Lawrence. Rockefeller has been exhausted by Ji Cheng these days.
On the one hand his younger brother David. Rockefeller was assassinated by Ji Cheng, and this incident made Lawrence. Rockefeller was very angry, but at the same time he was angry, he was very afraid, afraid that Ji Cheng would be like assassinating David. Rockefeller assassinated him like that, after all, Ji Cheng's ability to be elusive was too terrifying.
So Lawrence is afraid of death these days. Rockefeller doesn't want to let the bodyguard protect him when he sleeps, even the hush must let the bodyguard stand by the urinal, not to mention how uncomfortable that taste is.
It was like he was in prison.
This damn Oriental is so hateful!
Lawrence. Rockefeller sat at home and felt aggrieved.
At this moment, a white young man rushed in from outside.
"Uncle, something big has happened!"
The white youth shouted in surprise as soon as he rushed in.
Lawrence. Rockefeller was already upset, but now when he saw that this nephew was so ignorant, he immediately became angry in his heart and reprimanded: "What does yelling look like? ”
The white youth trembled and did not dare to say anything.
Lawrence. Rockefeller looked a little better when he saw that his nephew was well-behaved, "What's the matter?" ”
The white young man said cautiously: "There are two things, the first thing is that I just got the news, that Oriental man left the beautiful country......"
"What? He's gone? ”
Lawrence. Rockefeller was instantly overjoyed when he heard this, no one knew how hard he had been in the past few days, and he had no freedom at all, and now when he heard that Ji Cheng had left the beautiful country, he almost jumped up with excitement, and he could finally sleep peacefully without fear of being screwed out of his head!
"The Ronin Who Started from Douluo"
But he didn't have time to rejoice for long, when the white youth said the second thing, "Uncle, the second thing is...... A reward of $99,999,999 was offered for your life......"
Burst!
Lawrence. Rockefeller almost squirted, he stared at his nephew in disbelief and said, "Someone offered a reward of nine thousand nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars for my life?" ”
The white youth nodded slightly.
Lawrence. Rockefeller laughed angrily, "Don't the people who posted the bounties know that I'm Rockefeller......"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly woke up!
A bounty of nine thousand nine hundred nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine?
This Nima doesn't have to guess to know who posted the bounty!
It must be the abominable Oriental!
Why Lawrence. Is Rockefeller so sure of Ji Cheng? Isn't this nonsense, because not long ago, he just announced a reward of $100 million for Ji Cheng's life. Rockefeller was assassinated by Ji Cheng, and he also left a cruel word, asking Lawrence. Rockefeller was careful when he slept at night, so as not to accidentally twist his head, which was enough to show how strong the killing intent was.
And Ji Cheng is leaving the beautiful country, it is obvious that he has something to do, and he can't do it himself, but how can the killing intent be so strong that Lawrence. Did Rockefeller sleep soundly?
Nature, Lawrence. Rockefeller was 99 percent sure that the bounty was given by Ji Chengfa.
Fack!
originally thought that this kid would be able to settle down if he left the beautiful country.
But it didn't turn out that way at all!
Lawrence. Of course, Rockefeller understands how attractive the bounty amount of 99999999 is for global killers, which can be seen from the fact that he issued a reward of 100 million US dollars for Ji Cheng's life, which is a sensation for global killer organizations, although in the end it was fruitless, but Nima This is Ji Cheng's own strength is too strong, so that those killers have more than enough strength and can only give up the assassination, he Lawrence. Rockefeller does not have the strong personal strength of Ji Cheng.
Lawrence. Rockefeller could even foresee how many assassinations would follow, and if he was not careful, his life would be basically over.
Can't you let me sleep in peace when you leave?
Lawrence. Rockefeller thought of this anger skyrocketed, his whole face was red with anger, he threw everything on the coffee table in front of him to the ground like crazy, and roared hysterically: "Ji Cheng, I Fake you!" ”
……
Ji Cheng didn't know that he was putting Lawrence. Rockefeller's anger was thunderous to the point of spitting fragrant fragrance.
After a dozen hours of flight, during which he changed planes, he landed in Yangon.
Because this year's Emerald Fair was held in Wacheng, although it was already the second half of the night when he arrived in Yangon, he still took another plane towards Wacheng.
Wa City is another name, properly called Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar.
The distance of more than 800 kilometers is still a long way, and even the plane took nearly an hour.
Counting the time spent waiting and on the road, when Ji Cheng arrived at the hotel, the eastern sky was already bright.
He took a shower in the hotel, and then didn't squint for a while, anyway, he had unlimited physical strength in this plane, and it was okay if he didn't sleep.
At about eight o'clock in the morning, he met Cheng Jianjun, Xiao Zhang, Zhi Youcai and other people, a total of about a dozen people, some of whom he had met once, and some of whom he didn't know at all.
"Haha, Mr. Ji hasn't seen you for a long time."
"Brother Ji, you have come all the way from the beautiful country by plane, will you fall jet lag if you don't sleep much?"
"Boss, what did you ask Mr. Cheng to take me to Myanmar for? I just know some jade knowledge, but I don't really know how to gamble on stones, and besides, it's not very safe here, I'm really afraid that someone will accidentally kill me......"
"Ahh
Cheng Jianjun, Xiao Zhang, Zhi Youcai and others greeted Ji Cheng.
Ji Cheng also responded to them one by one.
Subsequently, Cheng Jianjun introduced Ji Cheng to those other people.
Ji Cheng thought that these people were ordinary jade merchants at first, but after listening to Cheng Jianjun's introduction, he learned that these people were all high-level executives of major jewelry companies, such as Zheng Chun, the second-generation son of the Zheng family, the controller of Chow Tai Fook, who was later the chairman of Chow Tai Fook.
Another example is Zhou Shengsheng, vice president Zhou Cheng, Lao Fengxiang, purchasing manager Qian and a series of people.
Lao Fengxiang is professional in gold, and the jadeite business is only involved, but it is always necessary to purchase some raw materials, otherwise the customer will not be bad.
Ji Cheng got to know all these people.
At the beginning, Mr. Qian and other people in the state-owned jewelry stores in the mainland were still a little lukewarm, but after hearing Cheng Jianjun's introduction that Ji Chengcheng had invested tens of millions of dollars, his attitude immediately changed.
On the contrary, Zheng Chun looked at Ji Cheng with a little doubt, "Mr. Ji, have we met?" It feels like you're familiar. ”
Ji Cheng estimated that Zheng Chun had accidentally heard his name in the newspaper or on the financial channel, or saw the photo, but he couldn't recall it for a while, he came to Myanmar this time to buy jadeite, not to pretend to be forced, so he naturally smiled very low-key: "Maybe I have a public face, so Mr. Zheng feels familiar." ”
"Is that really the case?" Zheng Chun replied with a little suspicion, he really felt that Ji Cheng was familiar.
Cheng Jianjun and others didn't realize that Ji Cheng had made a great name in the beautiful country and even the global financial community, and they thought that Zheng Chun was wrong.
"Hey, Lao Zheng, Mr. Ji is either in the magic capital or in the beautiful country, but he hasn't been to Xiangjiang much, how can you know him?" Cheng Jianjun said.
Zhou Cheng also smiled and said: "Indeed, I haven't heard of Mr. Ji's name in Xiangjiang, don't think about it, hurry up and go to Jade Street to see if there is a chance to pick up the leak." ”
"Okay." Zheng Chun didn't think about where he had seen Ji Cheng anymore, and instead said, "Let's go, let's go to Jade Street." ”
This time it was Ji Cheng's turn to wonder, he looked at Cheng Jianjun and the others with a sigh of voice, "Mr. Cheng, isn't the public market officially starting tomorrow, what are we going to Jade Street for now?" ”
"Look at my memory." Cheng Jianjun patted his head and said: "The first time you come to participate in the jade market, you may not know much about this, although the market will officially start tomorrow, but generally there will be many jade merchants who will arrive in advance before the public market, and most of the jade merchants who come here are jade merchants from Hong Kong and Taiwan, accounting for about 80 percent......
He roughly explained.
Only then did Ji Cheng figure out what was going on.
The Myanmar public market is a large-scale jade bidding activity organized by the Myanmar government, and there will be a large number of jade merchants to come, but not every jade merchant is qualified to enter the public exhibition site, which naturally gave birth to a group of jade rough wool dealers to sell some rough stones a few days before the public market, and the price will be much cheaper than the public market.
Ji Cheng couldn't help but light up when he heard that he didn't have to wait until tomorrow to have the opportunity to buy some jadeite, this time he had prepared too much money, if he happened to meet someone on the jade street who opened a high-quality jadeite, such as high ice species, glass species and the like, then he could buy it at a high price like he did last time on Cheng Jianjun's side, and then bring it back to modern society and sell it at a high price.
I just don't know if there will be such a superb jadeite as glass imperial green today.
Ji Cheng couldn't help but look forward to it, he wanted to get more high-quality jadeite, this thing was too profitable.