Chapter 23
Lai Yushan smiled again and asked: "Please come in!"
The person in charge of the factory came here early and was waiting, so he invited Lai Yushan and the guests to join him.
This factory is large and has many buildings, but it is very closed. It has a high courtyard wall, with camera probes everywhere, and many security guards, and people are guarding each key location.
Such a tight guard is of course because the items placed here are very important.
After the large security door of the factory opened, Lai Yushan smiled and greeted everyone at the door, and Chen Jingyan and Lin Shaohua walked at the end.
As soon as he entered, Lin Shaohua discovered that this was a huge hall. In fact, it was not visible from the outside, because the area of the factory building could not be seen from the front of the door.
The hall is at least 600 square meters in size, and the decoration is just ordinary decoration. However, there are no windows, and the entire exit has only a front door and a door on the back, but that door is locked.
The hall is brightly lit and brightly illuminated. In the middle, there are about twenty stones placed in a row, both large and small. The smallest blue ball is large, and the large one is like a basket. Each stone has a sign with the number and price written on it.
Of course, this price also states that it is the "starting price".
This is basically very different from gambling stones in border cities such as Tengchong or Ruili. The two border cities are jadeite raw stone distribution centers. From Myanmar, there are only two channels for stones. One is through official auctions, and the other is privately smuggled by the people.
Myanmar's official management of raw stones has been quite strict in recent years, and the reason is naturally the word "profit". However, driven by interests, there will naturally be people who will smuggle stones out of the country without any hesitation to take heavy punishment.
In the two major raw stone distribution centers, Ruili and Tengchong, the price of stones with good color is one piece at a time, but there are even more large amounts of stones with bad color, which is calculated based on "tons" or "carts", which roughly means how much it costs one ton or how much it costs one cart, and the amount of stones is as much like a mountain.
Because the raw jadeite stones are mined from the origin of Myanmar, although most of them are stones without color, they cannot be sure that there is no jade inside. Sometimes high-quality jadeite may be cut out from it, so even waste materials are not thrown in vain.
Lai Yushan is too far away from Jiangcheng and Tengchong Ruili, so waste is not needed. However, if there is green on the stone, the price is usually not low. Starting from thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of millions, the better the skin, the higher the price.
Of course, Lai Yushan would not risk taking the risk of betting back on the kind of extremely high-priced stone, at most it only costs a few pieces of stones worth one or two million yuan, and the others are mostly tens of thousands. After transporting them back, the price will be at least doubled. Then, the jewelers in Jiangcheng and some rich people who love gambling stones are invited to prepare once a month or two. In a year, the money you earn from gambling stones is over 100 million!
There are about twenty pieces of stone in the hall, no matter how big or small, each piece has more or less "green", some are ring-shaped strips, some are fish scales, and some are like a few mung beans, with only a few stars.
There are four cutting machines of different sizes at the edge of the hall, which are professional equipment specially used for stone cutting. Several stone cutting masters in their forties are waiting.
Basically, more than half of the gambling stones will choose to cut stones on site, and the gambling mentality is even more like the one-size-fits-all increase and immediately switch to high prices, stop when it is better, and no longer bear the final risk, regardless of whether it is rising or collapsed later.
When Wang Qianjun and Zhu Tianyu came, they brought someone. When they were in Lai Yushan's company, Lin Shaohua didn't pay attention to him, and Chen Jingyan didn't pay attention to him because they didn't know each other.
The man was about forty years old and a little thin. Lin Shaohua noticed him a little after entering the hall, because Wang Qianjun and Zhu Tianyu were both following him, and they didn't look like his followers, but followed him and looked at the stones!
Lin Shaohua was shocked: This person was probably the "stone gambling" expert invited by Wang Qianjun and Zhu Tianyu, and he probably had quite a deep skill in identifying jade raw stones.
However, skills are always just skills, and Lin Shaohua is not afraid since he has come.
However, Lin Shaohua has never gambled on stones. I don’t know if his yin and yang eyes can see whether there is jade in it from the stones, and whether the jade is of high quality or extremely poor. Only after proving that he can see it can he bet on it.
So as soon as I entered the hall, Lin Shaohua secretly used his Yin and Yang eyes to observe the twenty stones.
In the eyes of Yin and Yang, only three of more than 20 stones of large and small sizes were seen.
But what is strange is that among these three stones with "qi", the qi is different. One is very light, and the complexion is green and there is mixed air, as if there is or there is nothing.
The other two pieces, one is green and has a thick color, giving Lin Shaohua the feeling of greenness and looks very comfortable.
This made Lin Shaohua affirm that this stone has a very good jade, and its strong energy, which makes Lin Shaohua feel relieved. It seems that even if he is a real bet, he may not necessarily suffer a loss.
What’s strange is that the stone with “black” air is usually green, and the “qi” seen from the jade should also be green. However, what appears in this stone is black gas, and the black gas is like a curved column of black light, which is so black that it flows in the stone.
"Shaohua, let's take a look..."
Chen Jingyan beside him saw Lin Shaohua looking at the stone, and immediately reached out and pulled his sleeves gently, and whispered that these dozens of stones didn’t look special, but the price was tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, and two were still high prices of more than four million. Isn’t it just a stone? Who would be willing to spend so much money to buy stones?
Besides, who can be sure that there must be jade in this stone? Maybe a few cuts of everything, and those millions will be cut out. Millions are not paper. Even if it is paper, there must be a lot of piles!
Lin Shaohua nodded and whispered: "I know what I know!"
At this time, Lai Yushan basically stopped talking and just waited for someone to bid. The more people bid, the better. The price could be raised. Those who came to gambling stones only believed in their own eyes. She would not deliberately recommend it because the customers would be disgusted. It would be fine if the bet increased, but if the bet collapsed, they would inevitably blame her.
The other five or six invited jewelers went to look at the stones carefully as soon as they came in. They were basically people who often gambling on stones, and naturally they all had their own secrets. They killed pigs, necks, butts, and each had their own ways of killing them.
However, everyone sees the naked eye, and the eyes cannot see through. The ones that everyone chooses are naturally more "green" on the skin, which looks eye-catching.
As a result, all seven or eight people squeezed into that pile. They were the seventh, eighth and ninth grade three stones, with a diameter of about half a meter and a weight of about a hundred kilograms. The three stones were not much different. The skins were all like watermelons. One of them was surrounded by two green strips, and the other two were three green belts. The green looked very attractive.
Lai Yushan spent more than five million yuan in these three pieces of materials, two million yuan in each of the three green belts, and one and a half million yuan in two green strips, which are the three pieces of materials with the highest price and the best color.
However, Lin Shaohua did not pay any attention to the three pieces of skin-colored materials, because he knew that the three pieces of stone didn't even have a slight amount of jade skin, and it was not worth a penny.
Basically, among the more than ten people who came, except Lin Shaohua and Chen Jingyan, the attention of others fell on the three best-skinned stones, which was also the result Lai Yushan wanted the most.
The starting price of two pieces of stone with three green belts is 4.5 million, and the price of two pieces of green is 3.5 million. The price of other pieces is relatively low. The cheapest piece is 6,000 yuan, as big as a small bowl, and there are only two dots as big as soybeans on the surface, but these two dots are in two colors, one green and the other black.
Most of the remaining twenty stones range from tens of thousands, because the green on the skin is not very good, but they are more or less revealed.
Lai Yushan did not gain much from this trip to Ruili and Tengchong. This is mainly because the price of jade is getting higher and higher, and the raw materials are getting smaller and smaller. Moreover, the stones mined from several old pits in Myanmar are mostly waste.
The person Wang Qianjun brought was indeed a master of identifying jade raw stones, named Fei Dahai. He did rough stone mining in Myanmar when he was a teenager, and later became a stone cutter. He was taught by experts. With more than 20 years of personal experience, he had a strong set of skills in identifying jade raw stones.
Wang Qianjun himself is also a person who is willing to pay for talents. He hired Fei Dahai as the master of Wang's jewelry for a high price. This time he wanted to punish Lin Shaohua, who was snatching his woman from him. He kept thinking about the plan. After knowing that Chen Jingyan and Lin Shaohua were going to Lai Yushan to purchase goods, he thought of the way to bet on stones, so he took Fei Dahai. This time he had to kill him from playing stones. Chen Jingyan was not strong enough, and as long as she and Lin Shaohua were trapped in and lost 30 million, he would be able to play to death!
To be honest, although Fei Dahai was tempered from the environment of gambling stones, his years of experience understand that anyone who is involved in the word "gambling" is not 100% sure. In fact, even if he is called a "master", if he really talks about it, he is not even 30% sure, because no matter how he studies it from the surface, he cannot be sure whether there is jade in the stone.
Nine out of ten bets lost, but this time, the boss must ask him to help, and Fei Dahai will certainly not refuse.
At this moment, Fei Dahai also quietly told Wang Qianjun what he thought about the materials. Looking at the "green" of the stone, we have to divide the direction. Usually, ordinary people look at the direction of green, whether it is more or less, while Fei Dahai is different. He looks at the direction of green, whether it is green from the outside to the inside or from the inside to the outside.
Because the stones are excavated from the old mountains in harsh environments, the stones become fragments after being mined, both large and small. After being mined and transported, the same piece of fragments of stones have long been dispersed and unknown whereabouts.
What a truly capable identification master wants most is to be able to gather the stones of the entire environment together, and then piece them together to see the direction of "green", but in fact there is absolutely no such possibility.
If the green on the stone is from the outside to the inside, it may be "soaked" from other stones. There is no jade in this material. If the "green" is from the inside and outside, the possibility of jade is 70% or 80%. Only then can it be meaningful to look at the quality of green.
Chapter completed!