Chapter 107: A Discussion on Selling Jade
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However, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, even if it is a good craft, it will not work without food.
Discussion came and went, and there was a human: "I went to Mengcheng yesterday and saw the jade merchants in Mengcheng coming, why don't we sell jade." ”
Hearing the word jade merchant, Zi Baifeng's ears pricked up.
Now Zi Baifeng knows that jade, like oil in this world, is a strategic-level resource, and it is not too much.
Comparing it with oil, Zi Baifeng suddenly remembered those Arab tycoons in his previous life, selling oil one by one until he was rich.
But if you calculate carefully, these Arab tycoons, except for money, have nothing else, oil is theirs, but whether to sell it or not is not necessarily up to them, and all the general forces are eyeing it. And after all, the day when the oil is hollowed out, what should these people do when the time comes? Besides, sell the oil to others, let others develop, and then attack themselves?
Now Zi Baifeng feels that his Xiayan Village is one of those Middle Eastern countries, although there is jade, but if he sells jade, he is asking for trouble for himself and making enemies.
Especially sold to those big sects and let them build a Great Spirit Gathering Array to absorb their own aura? How stupid does this have to be?
But isn't it more wasteful to put the jade right under your own bluestone butt and sit?
Zi Baifeng is struggling here, and the villagers over there have already discussed it hotly.
In fact, when Xiayan Village produced a lot of jade, there were jade merchants who came to collect jade every year. But over the years, there have been fewer and fewer jades, and the jade merchants have gradually changed from once in two years, three years, five years, and ten years to no longer come to Xiayan Village, but directly stay in Mengcheng for a while, casually collect jade for a few days, and collect seven, seven, eight, eight, eight, and eight, and then leave directly and go to the next place.
The villagers have a lot of experience in selling jade, so they don't have such a tangle as Zi Baifeng, and after discussing for a while, they set a charter, and tomorrow they will take the jade from the village to Mengcheng to sell it.
Zi Baifeng also figured it out, these jades are the harvest of the villagers anyway, carefully calculated, there should be seventy or eighty pieces now, more than the annual harvest in previous years, these jades are not a big deal to take out, for those sects, more of them is not much, less of them is not less. For Xiayan Village, the harvest of jade sold is crucial. Seeing that Yan Lao Wu asked for his opinion with his eyes, he nodded and expressed his support for this approach.
Yan Lao Wu began to count the number of people who planned to sell jade, and the number of people who wanted to sell jade, Xiao Tuozi took a notebook and recorded it with a pencil next to him - don't look at this little guy not long after he went to school, but he is the most knowledgeable of this group of little guys.
It's not a problem to write and calculate on weekdays, but now Xiao Tuozi's name is not much shouted, and he is starting to be called Xiao Xiucai, and some people jokingly call him Xiao Mura Zheng.
The pencil and notebook he took were all rewarded to him by Zi Baifeng, and he was reluctant to use them on weekdays, and he only took them out when it was important, such as this time.
Seeing his little lump come out, the old lump was even more excited, and as soon as he raised his hand, he reported three pieces of jade.
"This shit!" Someone immediately began to scold, this guy has never told others how many pieces of jade he has gotten before, some people guess that it is about three, but although the villagers are not too economically minded, they know best how to keep their families, pay attention to wealth and do not show their wealth, Lao Tuozi dared to take out three pieces of jade out of the gang to sell, at least two or three pieces were left in his hand, this time it was five or six pieces of jade, although this harvest is not the highest, but compared with the embarrassing life of Lao Tuozi in the past, how can it not make people blush?
However, the so-called red-eyed is only a couple of scolding, expressing his envy, jealousy and hatred, and he is also secretly wondering in his heart, how many yuan can he take out and sell it?
In fact, jade is the thing that can best retain its value, and the price has never risen, never fallen. They sell jade because they are worried about the New Year, and jade merchants don't come every year, so they don't panic when they sell some jade for some money.
But if you are not short of money, it is better to keep the jade in your hands, which is safe.
Xiayan Village has a good harvest this year, and there is extra money to earn, but it is still far from being well-off, and the life is still tight, and seeing the food rising all day long, I have no bottom in my heart, and I am not sure.
After the statistics were made, there were more than 50 pieces of jade to be sold, this kind of harvest, even in the most glorious time of Xiayan Village in previous years, it was a good harvest, and this was only a harvest of less than half a year in recent months.
Because of this, the villagers have a feeling of unsteadiness, for fear that they have scavenged too much, and all the aura of the mountain has been scavenged, and future generations will have no jade. Before, it was looking for one and raising two, but now the people in the village have discussed it and started to look for one and three.
At this point, Zi Baifeng admires it very much, these villagers may not have much knowledge, but they remember the rules written by these ancestors on the "Jade Scripture" very clearly.
The Jade Sutra is the wisdom summed up by the ancestors, and one of them is that no matter what the jade harvest is, it will never be mentioned in front of outsiders. As the so-called wealth is not exposed, it is said that the ancestors were almost destroyed because of jade, which is why there is this ancestral teaching.
This idea Bai Feng actually has a lot of feelings, when the son and son first came to Xiayan Village, they often saw the men of Xiayan Village gathering together to discuss something, and when they passed, they were silent. After two or three years, the village accepted them, which was considered better, but when it came to the matter of searching for jade, it was still secretive. And the "Jade Sutra" has been passed down from generation to generation in the village, even if the children in the school do not study seriously, they will memorize the jade classics that they are familiar with under their father's stick, and they only saw it once before Zi Baifeng was admitted to the academy.
After ten years of hard work, Zi Baifeng and Zijian were treated as villagers, and Zijian was able to follow him to find jade. After that, Zibaifeng's prestige increased greatly, but Erhei was not ostracized, and he was easily accepted by everyone.
In fact, there are rumors in the village now that the jade in the mountains is actually a gift from the Great Bluestone Divine Monarch, and it is the good luck brought by Zibaifeng, which actually has a lot of supporters.
Although the villagers didn't say it, they all had similar thoughts in their hearts.
Because of this, the villagers kept their mouths shut one by one, and never told the harvest of the jade in the village, not even the other eight villages.
But this kind of thing is estimated to be impossible to hide forever, especially now that people from other villages are coming and going near Xiayan Village, and the old man is even more worried about what rumors they hear.
"Rest assured, as long as the villagers don't deliberately publicize it, they will hear nothing about it. Zi Baifeng replied to the old man.
"Then what if they sneak into the mountains to find jade?" The old man is still distressed, everything within the boundaries of Xiayan Village belongs to them in Xiayan Village, and the rules left by the ancestors, hunting and searching for jade, are all in their own territory, and they can't cross the boundary.
"Don't worry, the custody allows them to enter the mountain, and they can't find the jade. "Zi Baifeng has a big bag.
Anyway, Zi Baifeng is now confirmed, who can find jade, who can't find jade, it's all Da Qingshi who has the final say, and the pillar and Zi Baifeng are close, so the harvest is the first. Lao Tuozi's family trusts Zi Baifeng very much, so they have the second highest harvest. Before Erhei went up the mountain, he prayed sincerely to the god of Daqingshi, saying that the harvest at home was not good, and the old lady at home had no food to eat, hoping to find two pieces of jade, one for the master to leave, and one for the old lady to buy food.
Two days ago, the blind mother-in-law came to the door and told him that if he wanted to transfer, he would go to Daqingshi Shenjun to kowtow to incense and donate money to atone for his sins. Anyway, Zi Baifeng told Da Qingshi, if he sincerely admits his mistake, he will give him some jade.
After everyone had discussed, the next day, the old man gathered the villagers, and each family had a steward, took the jade, took the hunting knife, bow and arrow, and set off for Mengcheng.
Early in the morning, gongs and drums were beaten, and salutes were fired, and celebrations were made, because selling jade was a major event in Xiayan Village. After the celebration, they set off happily, but when it was not dark in the afternoon, the group came back in a huff.
"These jade merchants, they deceive people too much!" Yan Lao Wu slammed the table when he came back, Zi Baifeng hurriedly asked what was wrong, Yan Lao Wu was so angry that he almost jumped on the table: "Damn, this group of jade merchants actually lowered the price!"
In the past few decades, at the beginning, a piece of jade could be sold for five taels of silver, and then it rose to ten taels, and then jade became more and more scarce, and it rose to twenty taels. If you sell five or six pieces of jade at a time, you will be able to buy a family business in Mengcheng.
"Guess what, they only gave out five taels of silver!" Yan Lao Wu was so angry that his beard was shaking, "What is five taels of silver worth now? One stone of grain has now risen to almost two taels of silver, and a piece of jade is only five taels of silver, this is ...... This...... These bastards who take advantage of the fire!"
When Zi Baifeng heard this, the fire also came up.
This is really unbearable, not to mention anything else, in the entire Mengcheng Mansion, more than ten villages related to jade hunting, his Jiuyan Township accounts for at least two-thirds, the price of jade is low, it hurts his people, and it is his interests that are shaken.
Grandma's, his son Bai Feng is now trembling when he stomps his feet in Mengcheng, and even the prince of the mansion wants to give him three points, these jade merchants have eaten the gall of the bear's heart and leopard, and they dare to be so arrogant!