The banks of the Wulu River are not high, but there are not many suitable places to get off the boat, and the Wulu River and the jade are still dispensable things in the whole world.

Therefore, there are still not many people who come here to fish for stones.

Where, like later generations, directly drain the water of the big rivers and excavate them with excavators, and the jadeite that cannot be harvested for thousands of years is facing depletion in the face of modern science and technology.

Xu Chen and the others walked along the river bank and came to a wide area on the bank.

The boat in the middle of the river docked here, and the jade on the boat was brought ashore from here.

At this time, there are already people waiting here on the shore, dressed in wide clothes and big sleeves.

These people suddenly saw a few soldiers in armor coming, and they couldn't help but be shocked.

I thought, what is this for? I don't see any soldiers on weekdays.

There was a mercenary who stepped forward first, nodded and said with a smile:

"Hey, a few military masters, where are you fighting?"

"Where do you care we came from? And I ask you, how do you buy and sell these stones? Niu Er stepped forward and said well.

"Master Jun, these are not stones, these things are jade, a kind of green jade.

Behold, the stones are divided into small and large stones, and the small ones are two taels of silver, and the large ones are five taels of silver."

The jade rough in the Wulu River is not too big.

If the head is large, it is considered a large five taels of silver, and if the head is large, it is considered a small two taels of silver.

"Is there any green jade in this stone?"

"Master Jun, where is it guaranteed, if it is guaranteed, it will not be at such a price, although green jade is not as valuable as white jade, but there are still more than a dozen taels of silver.

If you solve a piece of the best chicken blood red, it is a valuable thing worth more than 100 taels."

This greenstone, to put it bluntly, is blocked, and gambling is the nature of human beings.

Who can refuse the thrill of a small one?

Including in later generations, the lottery is a gamble, the stock market is a gamble, futures are a gamble, basically these things are gambles.

The state does not allow small bets, but the national level can make big bets!

In the stock market, who doesn't know that there is a bookmaker behind it, there is a shady scene, but even if you know that someone controls it, you still have to buy it, what is this?

That's a bet within a gamble!

Including the investment mentioned on the surface, some investments are also betting, such as Lü Buwei's investment in the Qin State, gambling back on a sub-father who unified the Liuhe Empire.

Xu Chen looked left and right, and said, "Is this river unattended or is it managed?" Can we find someone to find a boat to go down and fish for ourselves? ”

"This, we don't know about this, maybe you can ask the people on the ship.

Again

This stone fishing is not so easy to fish, there is no excellent water quality, who dares to go into the water, even these people, every year many people die because of the stone.

While a few people were talking, a boat rowed over, and more than a dozen stones the size of a human head were piled up on the boat.

These stones look like real stones on the outside, and some of them are even scratched and bruised, revealing the inside, which shows that they are different from ordinary stones.

Even if ordinary stones are broken, the inside is the same color as the skin, but these stones, after being bruised and broken, reveal jade flesh of different colors inside.

More than a dozen pieces of jadeite rough were moved to the shore, and the owner followed ashore, surrounded by a group of people.

Those with sharp eyes snatched a few pieces of jade rough that exposed their jade flesh first, and others also stepped forward and began to look at the rough stones carefully.

Although jadeite has not appeared for a long time, there are still some summing experiences for the study of jadeite.

And these experiences, which are all crafts, are not shared with each other.

After a while, the jadeite rough was divided. One or two merchants finished buying, pulled dozens of pieces of jadeite rough, and began to return.

There are still a few merchants waiting in place because they haven't bought enough yet.

After selling the rough stones, the owner rowed back into the river, and not long after, another boat rowed over to the shore.

At this time, it is already afternoon, and the merchants who come to buy the jadeite rough are all daring to come when the sky is slightly bright in the early morning.

Then, they buy the rough stones to the jewelers, or they are jewelers themselves, and when they return to Leap City, a jade master will unravel the stones.

Not far from the bank of the river, 1,800 meters to the east, there is a small village and town.

The owner of the boat is a native of the town.

There are about a dozen boats on the entire Wulu River, and these boats are owned by locals from the town to the east.

This town was later known as Hpakant.

As for the Wulu River, no one has taken care of this river yet, and these boat owners are just spontaneously fishing for stones.

A boat can catch five or six boats a day, because people don't necessarily find stones when they go into the water.

The average of one ship is fifty taels, and the average of five ships is almost two hundred and fifty taels.

The shipowner takes the big head, and the hired sailor takes the small head.

Of course

This kind of stone digging activity does not happen every day, because there are only a few merchants who come to Tengyue, and it is impossible to come every day.

Merchants need to go back and make stones, make jewelry, sell them, and make money when they come back, so they come here to transport stones.

So the merchant and the shipowner agreed to come in the middle of the month, which is today.

Xu Chen also happened to meet it, otherwise, he might not be able to find the right place.

And then these shipowners,

Although these shipowners are spontaneous, not everyone can go into the water, and the transaction of earning two hundred taels a month is not an easy task in the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, some people are enthusiastic about making money like this, so the dozen or so boats in this river belong to a family in this town.

This family is quite arrogant in the town, and they have made a lot of money over the years.

Knowing this, Xu Chen gradually had an idea in his heart, if he could cooperate, it would be the best, and if he couldn't, then eradicate this family.