Chapter 48: Midas Touch

Yunnan, Yunnan! That's very close to Myanmar!

Fan Wubing's head had a flash of inspiration, and he seemed to have caught something, so he didn't have the heart to wander around the factory anymore. He pointed to a smaller stone in the water and said to Tian Zhenglun, "Mr. That stone seems a bit special, you go and call some workers to fish it up and have a look."

Tian Zhenglun took a look at the rock that Fan Wubing was pointing at, it weighed five or six hundred catties, so he said, "It's hard to eat in the water, I'll find someone to bring a crane over, that's convenient."

Oh, yes, are there any tools in the factory? Fan Wubing nodded and did not leave. He just squatted on the big rock and stared blankly at the few stones below the water surface in a daze. Even Tian Zhenglun brought the workers over and didn't come back to his senses.

The workers started to go into the water, entangled the big stone with steel wire ropes, and then hung it on the hook of the big crane. Without much effort, they lifted the stone and put it on the ground.

Fan Wubing leaned over and looked carefully at the scraped off skin, and it really revealed a trace of green, so he asked the worker next to him for a file, and filed a few times vigorously on the skin, After the stone chips flew, a large area of ​​green appeared. Judging from the texture, it is more delicate than the local area.

Fan Wubing became excited immediately, his grandma's is jadeite!

In 1992, there were very few people who knew the goods in the mainland, and almost no one would think of these ugly big rocks. It's actually a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, which breeds priceless emeralds. No wonder Li Mingjiu said so arrogantly. That money was hidden in Pingyuan Factory, but no one could know it. Who would have thought that he would turn all the money into rough emeralds?

Such a large piece of rough stone is truly priceless. Once it is broken open, how many top-quality jewelry can be made is really unknown. This time it is really a fortune!

"Is this jade?" Tian Zhenglun saw a piece of green stone inside. then asked.

"Emerald!" Fan Wubing replied without raising his head.

His thoughts at the moment are all on the pile of rocks in the water. If he hadn't come here by accident and turned around, if he hadn't happened to see a touch of green under the water, if he hadn't happened to be here I have also read a little story about betting on jade with stones. I am afraid that Li Mingjiu can actually buy rough jade with all his funds.

You must know that the price of jade two years ago was still relatively cheap. With the stones collected by Li Mingjiu, the current market price may have doubled many times. If it is developed into jewelry or artwork. The value is really hard to estimate.

Of course, if you are patient, if you store these rough stones for another ten or eight years, the value will be even more astonishing. These are naturally verified by facts. Fan Wubing has already made up his mind at this time, let’s verify these first. Whether the stones belong to the original jadeite stone, and then open one or two pieces for processing, and have a look at the texture, if the quality is high. That will directly seal up the other stones and leave them to appreciate in the future.

But Fan Wubing was really worried about letting ordinary people do these things. He immediately thought of Zhang Donkey who was making fake cultural relics in a certain big courtyard in Panshi. After so many months of not letting him do anything, it finally came in handy again today.

So Fan Wubing asked someone to call Zhang Maolu, and after a while, Zhang Maolu came running over with a bunch of professional tools.

"Hehe, Boss, you finally remembered me, and this time there is another fat sheep?" Zhang Maolu laughed for a long time when he talked about the Japanese last time. The money in hand is really amazing. There are quite a few donkeys in Zhang's hands.

Therefore, when they saw Fan Wubing, they recruited each other. He ran over immediately.

Fan Wubing just smiled and said to him, "Let you come over to appraise it, you should have researched jadeite, right?"

Zhang Maolu nodded and said, "Jadeite processing is not my strong point, but the identification is not a problem. At least the real and fake products can be clearly distinguished. What, the boss wants to make jade? Although this thing is good, but The payback cycle is too long, and if you collect, it usually takes more than ten years to maximize your profits. If it takes longer, I’m afraid you won’t have the chance to enjoy it.”

"Trouble----" Fan Wubing frowned and said, "I just asked you to do an appraisal, why are there so many nonsense? You should take a look at this stone first, what grade should it be?"

As he said that, Fan Wubing led Zhang Donkey to the big rock where a small window had been worn, and asked him to study it carefully.

Zhang Maolu brought all his eating guys with him, and when he saw the big rock and the hint of greenery exposed, he knew it well, so he took out the equipment specially used for gemstone identification, as well as a strong flashlight , Looking inside from the small window that was opened, it doesn't matter if you look at it, Zhang Donkey was immediately shocked!

"Oh, God!" Zhang Maolu was so excited that he couldn't even speak, "Where did you find such a superb jadeite?! Myanmar?! Such a stone is really priceless! I I have lived for most of my life, and I have never seen such a high-quality, such a large jadeite rough!"

"Are you sure it's the top grade jadeite rough?" Fan Wubing was also a little uneasy, so he asked again.

"Naturally! It's definitely the best jadeite!" Zhang Maolu replied in an unquestionable tone, and then begged with a bit of shameless face, "I must pay the appraisal fee! Boss!"

"Go to your land!" Fan Wubing kicked the donkey in dissatisfaction, "You got into the money hole?! This stone is the property of the company, which big fat sheep do you think it is?!"

However, the emperor did not send hungry soldiers, and it was impossible to let the donkey work for nothing, so Fan Wubing said, "I won't let you suffer, but I don't want to make a lot of money. I will ask you to come here. In order to identify the quality of the stone. There are some bigger ones over there, you can take a look at them together, about the reward. Let’s talk about it later.”

Zhang Maolu naturally believed that a wealthy man like Fan Wubing would not cheat him, so he followed Fan Wubing to the side of the pool. When he saw forty or fifty big stones piled in the water, his eyes widened. Immediately straightened.

"God, this is definitely the most shocking scene that Zhang Maolu has ever seen in his life!" Zhang Maolu said excitedly.

But among the forty or fifty stones, it is impossible for them to be all emeralds. If that's the case, it would be too amazing, even so, after Zhang Maolu's appraisal, there are more than a dozen pieces of top-grade jadeite raw stones that are worth mining, but none of them are too big, that is, those weighing several hundred kilograms Kind of stones, as for those several tons of stones, they are ordinary jade, and the color is not very good. But it's also good to make it into a work of art and display it outside, at least this nouveau riche can be full of style.

At the moment, everyone didn't want to look at it any more, they first fished out the rough jadeite from the pool, numbered them, and sent them one by one into the warehouse with a forklift, and then Fan Wubing ordered Tian Zhenglun to arrange manpower to guard them day and night. The warehouse, after all, is a considerable wealth. Although it is not so easy to realize it, as long as the opportunity comes. There is no doubt that its value is the absolute top of Panshi Heavy Industry's profits for several years.

Zhang Maolu was more impatient, and after getting Fan Wubing's approval, he began to polish a small piece of rough jadeite. The cutting machine is the most indispensable thing in the factory, especially this kind of machine for cutting stones. It cuts while injecting water. It is basically automatic. It only needs to arrange the stones. While chatting, the machine started working by itself.

"The current conditions are really good. You don't need to do it by hand bit by bit. It's really easy!" Seeing the machine slowly cutting the stone, Zhang Maolu couldn't help but said to Fan Wubing with some emotion.

"To be honest, I don't know the difference between jade and emerald. I don't know what is the difference?" Although Fan Wubing knew that emeralds were valuable, he hadn't really learned about this thing. This time he just harvested so many rough emeralds , Naturally, I have to ask a few more words with Zhang Maolu, a local expert.

"Actually, there is no difference, just the color is different." Zhang Maolu said with a smile, "Jadeite is also called jadeite jade, and another name is Burmese jade, which mainly refers to the jadeite produced in Myanmar. Although Japan, Russia, There are also a small amount of jadeite produced in Mexico, the United States and other places, but its quality and output are far inferior to that of the Union of Myanmar. The Myitkyina region in the northern part of the Union of Myanmar has the largest reserves of jadeite deposits. Gem-grade jadeite was mined very early and supplied to all parts of the world. Therefore, people have long Jadeite is only known to be produced in the Union of Myanmar, so Burmese jade is synonymous with jadeite. Jadeite is the name of gemology, while Burmese jade is the jargon of experts. In fact, there is no such name as jadeite in Myanmar. Jadeite is our name. The Chinese name is said to be based on the name of a kind of emerald bird, because the most beautiful green and red in gem-quality jadeite are the same color as the feathers on this bird, so it got the name emerald.”

"It means that it is still jade?" Fan Wubing asked.

"Of course." Zhang Maolu nodded and said, "This thing has already entered China in the late Ming Dynasty, and a large amount of it was imported into China after the middle of the Qing Dynasty. But from the written records and unearthed physical records, it can be seen that the emerald land appeared earlier than this. Much earlier. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, emeralds were all the rage. A jade plume owned by Rong Lu, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Qing Dynasty, was worth 13,000 taels of gold. The pair of bracelets were sold to Du Yuesheng, a leader of the Green Gang in Shanghai, for 40,000 yuan. Because of the high hardness of Burmese jadeite, it is also called water species. It is bright, clean and bright, and the color of good jadeite is bright and peaceful, which has a high value preservation and collection value, so it is called the king of jade."

The early emeralds were not expensive, and the value was not high, so they were not valued by the world. Ji Xiaolan wrote in "Notes of Yuewei Thatched Cottage", that the weight of the cover depends on the fashion of the time. I remember when I was young, ginseng Gemstones, corals, and lapis lazuli are all inexpensive. Today, Yunnan jadeite was not regarded as jade at that time.

It can be seen from this that at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the ancients did not think that jadeite was jade, and the price of jadeite was also low, but by the end of the eighteenth century. Emerald is already an expensive rarity. According to "Stone Elegance", it is known that at the beginning of this century, about ninety catties of emerald stones were worth eleven pounds. Now, the value of one kilogram of super jadeite has exceeded seven or eight million dollars. The mining, transportation, processing, and sales of jadeite have always been done by Yunnan people, in an ancient Chinese-style temple in the ancient capital of Myanmar, Amaropura. The inscription is engraved with the names of 5,000 Chinese jade merchants. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, senior officials and eunuchs stationed in Baoshan Tengchong specialized in purchasing jewelry. At that time, the line from Yongchang Tengyue to Myitkyina in Myanmar was known as the Jade Road. When the commercial road from Tengchong to Myanmar was at its most prosperous, more than 20,000 mules and horses passed through it every day. Tengchong's jewelry trade accounted for almost 90% of the world's jade trade.

Depend on! Didn't I grow up this time? ! Fan Wubing wondered how much this pile of stones would cost, so he quietly asked Zhang Maolu, "How much do you estimate the value of so many stones together, based on the current market price?"

"You're embarrassing me—" Zhang Donkey rubbed his head, feeling a little dazed. "However, from the point of view of the original stone, the value of such a pile of stones is more than 300 to 400 million yuan, and the value of the processed stones is difficult to estimate. After all, the value of the raw materials is easy to estimate, and the finished product is hard to say. But according to general experience, It is no problem to double the value of the finished product on the basis of the raw material."

I rely on it! Li Mingjiu is dead, he is dead, he finally did a good job for Panshi Heavy Industry!

Fan Wubing was at the beginning. With the idea of ​​suffering a small loss, the lost 100 million yuan was included in the asset restructuring of Panshi Heavy Industry as equity. Therefore, the ownership of this pile of stones should be divided according to the proportion of equity. With the big head, more than 70% of the profits can be shared, leaving nearly 30% for the entire Panshi Heavy Industry. In this way, Panshi Heavy Industry can make a fortune even with these stones alone. You can also live a comfortable life for a few years.

Alas, probably this is called making wedding clothes for others.

Although Li Mingjiu is a shrewd person, he thought of this method of stealing the sky and changing the sun, and converted hundreds of millions of dollars into rough jadeite. But he didn't expect that he would suddenly fall from the stage due to various things, and finally die. These stones were taken advantage of by Fan Wubing for nothing. If he knew it, he would probably vomit blood for three liters, crawl out of the coffin and have a fight with Fan Wubing, right?

Some people are just too confident. thought people in the world. Everyone is a fool except himself, but he didn't think that the stupidest one is himself.

Fan Wubing stood beside the cutting machine. Watching the gears of the machine slowly cutting the rough stone with the donkey, I was really anxious to wait. Although it seemed that a little green light could be seen in the cracks of the revealed stone powder, but I couldn't see the real face. Still a little worried.

You must know that this kind of thing has happened before. There is a layer of green skin on the outside, but there is a lot of trouble inside. It's all green to the end!

"Why are you cutting so slowly?" Fan Wubing felt that time passed so slowly, and the progress of cutting was worrying.

But Zhang Maolu said, "That's not bad! As the saying goes, if you don't cut jade, you can't make it into a tool. Jadeite is called the king of jade because of its high hardness, high specific gravity, and very rare high-grade materials. Therefore, the processing of jadeite The procedures, processing materials, processing tools and processing equipment are all different from other jade."

"What's the difference?" Fan Wubing asked casually as the left and right were both idle.

"The difference is huge!" Zhang Maolu began to educate Fan Wubing.

To engage in jadeite, the first thing is to choose the material. Jadeite usually has a leather shell, and it is the only jade with a leather shell in the world. Therefore, the material selection is generally called gambling stone or gambling goods, which is not available in other jades. Therefore, the key to material selection is the processing purpose, for decoration? device? bracelet? Pendant? Rings or rings, etc. The characteristics of the raw material are closely related to the processing use. If the choice is not good, not only will the raw material be wasted, but the processed product will also lose money. The second is to cut the material, which is also a key link. Some people are eager to bet on stones, and they often cut off the emerald stone with a single knife.

The general normal procedure is to rub the skin first to look at the surface characteristics of the jade, such as the direction of emerald color, the development and direction of cracks, emerald and purple colors, the distribution of black, the analysis and estimation of the changes inside and outside the seed water, the shape of the original stone and other characteristics. Secondly, it is determined according to the overall condition of the original stone and the possible use of processing. Then, decide whether to make the whole raw material for carving or cut it.

I don't know how long I waited, but I finally broke the piece of rough stone. After washing it with water, two green stones appeared in front of everyone's eyes. Until this moment, everyone's heart that had been hanging for a long time fell to their stomachs. in.

Alas, it is finally confirmed that this is a valuable rough stone! Fan Wubing looked at it with emotion for a long time, and suddenly said to Zhang Maolu, "Actually, I think this thing is similar to glass!"

"How can it be compared with glass?!" Zhang Donkey was so angry that he almost fainted. He directly manipulated the cutting machine, cut a small piece from a piece of emerald green, and then said to Fan Wubing, "Come with me." !"

Fan Wubing didn't know what Zhang Donkey was going to do, so he followed him to the big bright window of the factory building in a daze, and saw Zhang Donkey scratched the glass with the piece of jade casually, and drew a deep line. Deep traces come.

Then Zhang Maolu said to Fan Wubing, "See! You don't have to use diamonds to scratch glass, the hardness of emeralds can also do this! If someone sells you fake emeralds in the future, you should first Try it on the glass, and you will be able to verify the authenticity! Moreover, the jadeite is relatively heavy, and the glass is generally light when weighed. Another point is that the emerald is illuminated with a strong light, and it feels a bit cloudy and foggy inside. , You can also see many bubble-like things under the microscope, but there is no glass surface, this can also be used to identify the authenticity of jadeite.”

"Grandma, this time I'm well-developed!" Fan Wubing touched the emerald green jadeite that was about to drip out of water, and he really wanted to laugh three times in his heart. If it wasn't for worrying about people watching , he was about to relax a long time ago.

But Zhang Maolu said to Fan Wubing again, "To be honest, with Mr. Fan, you seem to have all kinds of opportunities to make a fortune! Who would have thought that the pile of broken stones in the pool would be priceless?" Rough jadeite, this matter cannot be described as a coincidence!"

"Isn't it a coincidence? What does that mean?" Fan Wubing asked.

"I'm afraid you are born with a touch of gold, turning a stone into gold!" Zhang Maolu couldn't help expressing his feelings for Fan Wubing. These words have been stuffed in his heart for a long time, and he has never had a chance to say them. After coming out, seeing Fan Wubing bring himself to experience a soul-shocking scene today, he couldn't help but confided his thoughts.

In fact, it's not just Zhang Maolu who has this kind of thinking. Anyone who knows Fan Wubing basically has this kind of thinking. The original Pingyuan factory, the glass factory, etc., are all under the management of Fan Wubing, and Xianyu has turned around?

The start of today's Panshi Heavy Industry is also very gratifying! This pile of rotten stones suddenly turned into emeralds, but their value was much higher than that of gold! From this perspective, it is really not too much to say that Fan Wubing is turning stone into gold!

Midas? Fan Wubing laughed, his luck was indeed good.

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