228 large fish, one ton of diamonds, six leaf ginseng
Wang Yuan is a small and desolate Siberian city - the city of Mirny.
Aerodrome.
Just as Wang Yuan and the others were about to leave, Yevgeny stopped them: "Wait a minute, we have one less person."
"Few?"
Wang Yuan took out a few pairs of gloves from his backpack and distributed them to everyone, lit a cigarette and took a hard puff, Wang Yuan They were 7 people, and Yevgeny and his gang were also 7 people.
Not a lot of people.
Just as he was about to ask, he saw a woman running quickly in the distance.
When I got closer, I realized that it was the stewardess "Talia", she was dressed beautifully, wearing a gray fur, a light pink women's hat, and a shoulder bag.
"Oh, God forbid."
Seeing that Yevgeny was indeed waiting for her, the innocent Talia couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, before Yevgeny said to let her resign and go with her, she really resigned as soon as her mind was hot, and directly gave up her parents begging her grandfather to tell her grandmother, and spent a lot of money to find her a job.
The competition is too fierce, and she has offended her boss by insisting on resigning, and she can't go back if she wants to go back in the future.
"I'm really crazy, I'll follow you in the future, you can't abandon me......
Talia hugged Yevgeny and babbled in confusion, apparently confused in her thoughts.
"Don't worry, let's go, let's go to the city." Yevgeny laughed and smug his face.
His little brothers are not surprised, and no one is concerned.
Wang Yuan glanced at Ta Lili, sighed softly and didn't say anything, but he felt that most of these women would probably lose very badly.
As for Da Zhuang, Xu Zhao and the others are still confused, what's going on? Didn't you just meet a flight attendant? Why are you still walking with them?
The foreign population in Mirny City is very small, and the plane is mainly used to transport supplies, and taking Wang Yuan with them is just a matter of piggybacking.
In the end, it was Yevgeny who talked to the director of the airport, and somehow, the director believed that Yevgeny was the younger brother of the mayor's wife, and finally sent three cars to take them to the city center.
Wang Yuan, Yevgeny, and Talia were in a car, and when they were in the car, Talia was still holding Yevgeny tightly, as if she was afraid that the latter would run away.
Wang Yuan asked Yevgeny how he made the supervisor believe that he was the younger brother of the mayor's wife, but the guy laughed and said nothing, so Wang Yuan didn't ask any more.
The city center is full of buildings, and although they are all low-rise houses, they are finally gaining some popularity.
The lights were on in the roadside bars, and the diamond miners who got off work were drinking in groups, guessing and watching TV.
I found a hotel to live in, although it was simple but there was no shortage of hot water, and the cleaning was quite clean.
As soon as Wang Yuan finished taking a shower, the hotel brought food, big lieba, caviar, ham sausage, and a small dessert.
Soon, the six of them gathered in Wang Yuan's room, took out pistols, grenades, etc. from their bags and distributed them to everyone, and repeatedly told his family to pay attention to safety and raise vigilance before letting them leave.
Bang~
After the lights went out, Wang Yuan quickly went into the quilt to sleep, the room was dark, only a few rays of moonlight shone in from the small window, and it was misty like a layer of frost. ….
Touching the pistol under the pillow, Wang Yuan felt a sense of relief, he yawned after a tired day, and soon fell asleep.
At one o'clock in the middle of the night.
Wang Yuan seemed to hear a cat meow when he was half asleep, and suddenly woke up, and finally found that the sound came from Yevgeny's room next door.
"I shouldn't have lived next door to him." Wang Yuan covered his head with a quilt and soon fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, after breakfast, the group went to see the mayor, who was very well informed, and he had already heard that the mayor also wanted to emigrate abroad, so he would be short of money.
In the end, the pattern of the transaction was like this - Yevgeny exchanged dollars for diamonds, of course, the price of diamonds
The grid is relatively low.
After that, he exchanged diamonds for cotton clothes, cotton boots, blankets and so on in Wang Yuan's hands.
In the end, the mayor can get the dollars he wants, Yevgeny gets cotton clothes, cotton boots, etc., and Wang Yuan gets diamonds.
The only difficulty is that the exact transaction price is not negotiable.
In a flash, Wang Yuan and they had been in Mirny for more than a week.
On this day, Wang Yuan also went to visit the mine, there were several huge mines nearby, and they went to the largest one.
The pit stretches down in a spiral, and you can't see the end at a glance, which is very shocking and spectacular.
Boom boom boom~
Trucks pulling ore run up along the spiral road, and after running to the ground, they have to send the ore to a crushing field dozens of miles away for crushing, washing, screening, and a series of complex processes before they can select gem-quality diamonds, that is, diamonds.
Of course, workers are prevented from stealing diamonds during this process.
After all, even if many diamonds are quite ordinary, the value of one is worth 20 years of part-time work, and the temptation is too great.
Wang Yuan and the others sat on a truck pulling ore, and the truck drove to the bottom of the pit with a maximum diameter of 1,200 meters, running down the spiral road around them little by little, almost making Wang Yuan and them dizzy.
The further down the pit goes, the smaller the diameter and the faster it turns.
Da Zhuang wrapped his clothes tightly and squatted on Wang Yuan's right, looking around at the gray-black rock wall:
"Hey, this pit is like a big one."
"Huh? You'd really like to."
In an instant, Wang Yuan and the others laughed, although it was a frost-free period in summer, it was only warmer for an hour or two at noon, and it was still very cold at other times.
"What is Quack?"
Talia, who was holding Yevgeny's arm, asked curiously, she had been like glue with Yevgeny in the past few days, and she seemed to be living quite happily.
"It's a spinning top." Wang Yuan didn't know how to say the spinning top in Russian, and even said it with a gesture.
Xu Zhao, who was squatting in the car body, picked up a piece of ore, which was 5 cm wide, and it may have been stuck by the cocked iron sheet, and it was not unloaded when it was unloaded.
"It feels like a normal stone, with diamonds in it? Hey, it's so hard that I can't break it."
Xu Zhao wanted to break the piece of ore that was about 8 centimeters long, 5 centimeters wide, and about 3 centimeters thick at the thickest point, but it couldn't be broken at all.
"Not all ores have diamonds in them."
"Aren't diamonds just diamonds?" ….
"That's a big difference, if diamonds must be made of all wood, then diamonds are the best batch of wood, such as rosewood, golden silk nanmu, and so on. In addition to good wood, there is also rotten wood, such as rotten poplar."
The cold wind blew over his head, and the only bit of heat was blown away:
"Ordinary diamonds are not worth anything, and there are diamonds on the knife I remember cutting glass."
"I see, I remember that my uncle and his workshop have diamonds on them." Xu Zhao still wanted to break the stone, but his strength was not so great.
In the end, Wang Yuan made a move, and with a ruthless break, click~ The stone was broken.
The people who squatted down in the car quickly came up and looked, well, there were no diamonds.
Yevgeny also came up to see it, and he himself felt that his behavior was a little funny:
"I remember that on average, you can only find a carat of diamonds in a ton of ore, and most diamonds are not diamonds, so it's too difficult to find diamonds......
That's why there are so many workers here, but almost no one is going to steal ore."
After the minecart descended to the bottom of the pit, everyone got out of the car and looked around, like a quarry, a dozen crushers were roaring, and a large number of stones were broken.
The big ones are more than a meter tall, and the small ones are like grains of sand.
Excavators and forklifts
After working together to load a large amount of ore onto the trucks, the trucks drove away one by one.
"The diamonds are contained in these stones, it's really magnificent, by the way, how deep are we standing now?"
"About 416 meters."
Wang Yuan nodded, this open-pit pit seems to have ceased operation in 2001, when it was 525 meters deep, and it would take nearly ten years to dig it.
Of course, after the surface operation stopped, it was not that the ore was stopped, but that it went underground, and the windfall profits of diamonds were too eye-catching to feed too many people.
After a visit and a few group photos, everyone left. The next day, they also went to the gravel factory in the distance, and some of the workshops involved in secrets were not allowed to be visited, and finally they simply went to a river five kilometers north to catch fish.
10 a.m.
Wang Yuan, Yevgeny, Da Zhuang, Xu Zhao and others were holding a copy of the website in the bulge of the river, the water was turbulent, and big fish kept jumping out of the river.
"I've got it, I've got it!"
"This one is big, I'm afraid it's more than 20 pounds!"
"What kind of fish is this? It's not like a carp, it's not like a mandarin fish."
"Oh oops, what a pity, let that fish run away."
A big fish about one meter long and probably more than 30 catties broke free from the net, pouted and fell back into the river and made a lot of splashes.
The angry man stomped his feet.
"I've got it, I've got it!"
"This one is big, I'm afraid it's more than 20 pounds!"
"What kind of fish is this? It's not like a carp, it's not like a mandarin fish."
"Oh oops, what a pity, let that fish run away."
A big fish about one meter long and probably more than 30 catties broke free from the net, pouted and fell back into the river and made a lot of splashes.
The angry man stomped his feet.
Talia took pictures of everyone with her camera, and she was also very happy to see the big fish that were thrown ashore and were still beating violently. ….
"There's too much fish in this, don't you love canned fish? Why don't you make them canned?" Da Zhuang asked the doubts in his heart.
Yevgeny smiled and said:
"Of course it can be made into cans, but no one has invested in it."
"Why, so much should be able to make money?"
"The reason why there are so many fish now is that the upstream "Chernyshevsky Reservoir" is releasing water, and it will not take half a month for this water level to go down, and there are not so many fish."
As soon as Yevgeny finished speaking, he saw a cargo ship approaching upstream, and the water level was usually too low, and the cargo ship could only be navigated when the gate was opened to release water.
There are so few people here that it's normal not to see a single person for a day or two.
The people on the cargo ship saw Yevgeny, Wang Yuan and his party, and happily waved their hats and jumped high.
Yevgeny also waved his hat in response, and in an instant both sides laughed.
That is, the cargo ship still has a transportation task on its side, otherwise I am afraid that the ship will have to pull over and have a good drink.
The car was stuffed to the brim, and after returning to the city, Wang Yuan and his party directly began to grill fish to eat.
At the back of the inn is the bungalow, so call the innkeeper to eat grilled fish and meat, and after drinking, they can use the bungalow at the back as they please.
Thorn stab, stab~
Under the iron plate is a strong flame, and after being smeared with a layer of oil, the pieces of fish are fried and the textured fish begins to change color.
A faint fragrance wafted out, and Yevgeny, Da Zhuang, Xu Zhao and others next to him swallowed their saliva one after another.
Wang Yuan stood in the shed made of steel plates to fry the fish, the weather was too cold, and a white breath came out of his mouth.
"Da Zhuang, look at the fire in the stove, don't let the fire go out."
"Okay, Xiaoyuan, don't worry, I'll watch it."
The pieces of fish meat were fried, and the fragrance became more and more complicated after being sprinkled with some seasonings, Xu Zhao was curious about this
What kind of fish was Yevgeny, he told them as it was called "Havdona fish".
Wang Yuan put pieces of fried fish on the plate and said with a smile:
"Actually, this is the Siberian sturgeon, I heard that the male fish takes more than 17 years to reach maturity, and the female fish matures several years later than the male, and only after maturity can they lay small fry."
"Ah, it's almost human, huh? Can there be more?"
"It's a big deal, we used to have sturgeon in Huaxia, but now it seems to be extinct, and even if it is not extinct, it will be difficult to eat...... I didn't expect to eat sturgeon in Russia, there are no small spines, you can eat it in a big gulp."
After pouring the wine, everyone ate it directly, and the fragrant fish meat entered the mouth, and after a few gentle chews, it was rotten, and the mouth was full of aroma when swallowed into the stomach.
Mouthful, tongue swimming, nearly 40 pieces of fish meat were quickly dried up by everyone.
"It's delicious, it tastes really different from other fish."
"yes, it smells so good! Here, do one!"
The sky was overcast, the cold wind blew the flags on the rooftops.
Eating delicious fish and drinking wine, everyone felt extremely enjoyed.
Seeing that everyone had eaten all the fish, Wang Yuan chewed the fish and continued to roast other fish, there were a lot of fish, and all the best parts were taken, and the waste was quite serious. ….
After roasting about 20 pieces, this time everyone ate it.
"Hiccup~Fragrant, so fragrant!"
Yevgeny felt that the fish was about to come out of his throat, and he looked at the bread on the cabinet behind him, and wanted to eat the fish with the bread, but in the end the bread was not touched at all.
"Talia, is the fish good?"
Yevgeny also asked his new girlfriend, who nodded like a little hamster while munching on fish.
At this time, Wang Yuan touched a glass of wine with Yevgeny, and said in a low voice:
"Yevgeny, you still have to fight quickly and avoid a long night, hurry up and complete the deal, we can retreat, even if someone wants to find us, it will be difficult to find us."
Many things in Russia are now unowned, or strictly state-owned, but private individuals can sell them, and many industries are being privatized at a rapid pace.
Some even privatized the state - they were just a general stationed there, but they turned out to be a general tong.
Of course, this process is risky.
"I understand."
Yevgeny frowned, he also had a sense of crisis, the city of Mirny is more than 8,000 kilometers away from Moscow, and his energy may not be easy to use here.
If something really happens, I'm afraid it will be beyond the reach of the whip.
After eating the fish and meat, he could not take a break, and Yevgeny hurried to the mayor, and this time everything was finally settled.
Yevgeny borrowed a phone to call his younger brother who had stayed in Moscow, and the cargo plane that night flew to Mirny brought in enough dollars, two large boxes.
There were also 30 of Yevgeny's younger brothers, and they even brought a lot of weapons and equipment, obviously he was also afraid of being hacked.
After exchanging US dollars for diamonds that morning and bringing two large bags of diamonds, Yevgeny and Wang Yuan and his party came directly to the airport.
When the plane they were on slowly flew into the sky, Xu Zhao glanced down, only to see a group of more than a dozen military vehicles coming at a high speed from a distance, and finally a large number of soldiers got out of the car, and could only look at the higher and higher planes with resentment on their faces.
"Xiaoyuan, Xiaoyuan, look at it, there is a situation!"
"Shhh~ What's going on?"
Looking at the little people below through the window, Wang Yuan was also a little confused, although he couldn't understand where he provoked them, but looking at their appearance, he knew that the comer was not good.
"Fortunately, I left, otherwise I'm afraid I'll be in trouble." Wang Yuan couldn't help but feel scared for a while.
After everyone took the plane back to Moscow, they rested
One day, when Yevgeny and his people came to warehouse No. 37 the next day, they found that the warehouse was already full of goods.
"King, it's all amazing! All these things are brought in by train?"
Yevgeny pinched his chin and felt incredible.
Wang Yuan walked in with him, there were packages on both sides of the passage, and a large number of packages were stacked more than ten meters high, and people felt so small when they walked inside.
"As we said before, an ordinary cotton coat is exchanged for two 1-carat diamonds, or a 2-carat diamond...... One 3-carat diamond to 4 2-carat diamonds......
There are many references to measure the value of a diamond, not only weight, but also clarity, color, cut, etc.
And now the trade is all rough diamonds, not cut, and the price of the final product is still to be determined.
The price standard agreed by Wang Yuan and Yevgeny can be said to be very crude, but it can be regarded as a method.
It took three days to count all the goods, and finally after the deal was reached, Wang Yuan had more than 1.12 tons of rough diamonds and more than 50,000 US dollars.
There were more goods than Yevgeny had imagined, and he had to buy the extra in dollars.
"Contact me when other goods are shipped in the future!" Working with me is definitely the safest and most worry-free."
Yevgeny shook hands with Wang Yuan excitedly, and he had already begun to calculate how much money he could make after selling all these goods.
"By the way, I also brought you a grass root, ah no, it's one of these things."
Yevgeny handed a wooden box to Wang Yuan, who opened it and saw that it was a fresh ginseng with six leaves!
The roots of ginseng are covered with a lot of soil, and not only are the leaves green, but the ginseng seeds are red and beautiful.
"This ...... Where did this come from?"
Wang Yuan hadn't gotten six leaves of ginseng for a long time, and this thing was too rare.
"Far East, if you like it." Yevgeny grinned.
20,000 per day