Riding the wind of rebirth

Even Northern Xinjiang, which is far inland and not considered a hot spot for investment these days, is still not immune.

Therefore, the local government and businessmen are very welcoming to Zhou Zhi, a "big sheep" who is willing to spend millions of real gold and silver to hoard jade.

There are currently only three primitive methods for inter-bank transfers, one is wire transfer, the second is cash check, and the third is credit card merchant POS clearing which is still half-dead.

You don’t have to think about credit cards. Because of the characteristic of “spend first and pay later”, banks are very careful and set the overdraft limit at the upper limit of 1 yuan, turning credit cards into debit cards all the time.

The only advantage is that the two clearing channels of VISA and MasterCard make inter-bank transfers possible. No matter which bank's POS terminal the merchant installs, any bank's credit card can be swiped.

Although the clearing time often takes about three days, that is the risk of the merchant, not the cardholder.

In Urumqi, only the largest department stores are equipped with credit card POS machines. The jade merchants are still small-time merchants who are not even qualified to find banks to install POS machines.

The second is the cash check. What Zhou Zhi holds is the cash check from the account set up by AXA Fund in Shudu Branch. The amount can be filled to a very large amount, but he can’t get the large denomination cash filled by Urumqi Bank of China for young people like Zhou Zhi. There is a natural distrust in checks, and it is also very troublesome to ask Shu University to issue faxes such as work contact letters and explain them specifically for this purpose.

The best way is to wire transfer. Just open an account here, then call Guan Ma and Liu Yushu respectively to confirm the rights. Guan Ma will go to Shuda Branch to go through the wire transfer procedures, and the money can be transferred.

Zhou Zhi is a super big customer of Shudu Branch. Wire transfers can go through the fastest channel, which is also the fastest speed that funds can flow across the country today - two hours.

Because this is an agreement between banks, in fact, after Urumqi collects all the information, it will advance the payment for Shudu Branch. In the evening, it will be settled through the People's Bank of China's wire transfer clearing system to balance the accounts.

However, these details are incomprehensible to customers. What Xu’s father can see is that after Zhou Zhi opened an account in Urumqi, everyone went out to visit the bazaar together. When they came back to Urumqi, the personal financial department manager of the Bank of China personally He came out to greet us, invited everyone to the VIP room for tea, told us that 200 million had been credited, and asked if there was anything we needed the bank's cooperation with.

In Northern Xinjiang in [-], where "thousand-yuan households" were still synonymous with wealthy people, people like Zhou Zhi were indeed worthy of such serious treatment.

The total population of Urumqi in 100 was only over 400 million, while the population of Manzhou was over [-] million.

Therefore, the population size of Urumqi is only as large as two Jiachuan rivers, and the interpersonal relationship of "lowering your head but not meeting your head" still exists here.

After the money arrived, Xu's father contacted the director of the Economic Association Office, who came forward to look for jade materials in the Urumqi market.

Theoretically, all mineral deposits after the founding of the People's Republic of China belong to the state, and this is clearly stipulated by law.

However, Hotan jade now mainly exists in the form of sub-materials. The famous Ninth Five-year Yutian material, which is the "mountain flow water" that is only second to the sub-materials, will not be mined until next year.

The seeds exist in two rivers, and people can sometimes pick them up when they go to the rivers to play. Unless the rivers are sealed and people are prohibited from entering the rivers, it will be impossible to manage them at all.

Not only did they ignore it, but the local people also encouraged such behavior and specially built a market for jade trading to facilitate everyone's jade trading.And it has indeed brought a lot of benefits to the local area.

Xu's father's friend, the director of the Office of the Economic Association, is in charge of attracting investment. Every year he sends letters to jade carving factories in Suzhou, Hangzhou and the capital asking them to select materials. This is also within the scope of attracting investment. He is naturally familiar with the reception and delivery rooms. The doorway here.

Urumqi also organized a jade carving factory earlier, but the craftsmanship was very poor and the products produced were also terrible. The material was worth 1000 yuan before carving, but only worth [-] yuan after carving.

But what should the jade carving factory workers do if they need to eat?The factory director simply mobilized everyone to start collecting the materials, and then directly sold them at a higher price. Over the years, he has continued to "recycle old materials and incorporate new ones". As the value of jade materials continues to appreciate, the factory's profits are actually pretty good.

But Factory Manager Qin is also very worried. There are a few pieces of aniseed in the factory that cannot be sold because they are too heavy and too valuable!
Among them, the largest piece of gold-sprinkled first-grade white material weighs more than 300 kilograms. It was dug out of the Yulong River in Kashgar more than 20 years ago. Even after 20 years, it is still the "Hetian Jade King" of the autonomous region. Quality and quantity come first.

But the jade carving factories in Suzhou and Hangzhou are all ghosts. They like to buy a dozen grams of small materials. The cost is more than ten yuan. If they carve an Arhat, they can sell it for two hundred. Of course they are very happy.

Except for the occasional mission in the capital, or the special luck of encountering a large customer customization, and then using aniseed materials, no jade carving factory would be stupid enough to spend hundreds of thousands to buy aniseed materials, let alone whether they have that much money. Even if you buy it, just change it into suitable small pieces, the labor cost and loss will not be old or young.

Nowadays, it is a commodity society that is responsible for its own profits and losses, and pays attention to the laws of the market. Even if hundreds of thousands of materials are carved, it is difficult to sell them. Once the pressure is in the hands, the factory will not be able to operate.

Therefore, as soon as he heard that there was a fool who bought aniseed from the Economic Co-ordination Office, Director Qin immediately ran over.

On weekdays, Lao Zhang always carries cigarettes and wine, but at critical moments, Lao Zhang thinks of himself first, and it’s really not in vain!

When I rushed into the Economic Co-ordination Office with my purse, I found that there were only Lao Zhang and an acquaintance, Lao Xu from the Finance Committee. There was also a child beside Lao Xu, but he was not the tall and powerful Xu Gang. He probably didn't know who children and nephews.

"Old Zhang, where are the big customers you're talking about?" Factory Director Qin took out the Hongta Mountain and sent it to Director Zhang: "Old Xu, don't you smoke? You are lucky. Your son is so proud that he went to college. My son is a sophomore in high school this year. , I really made my hair turn gray..."

Father Xu was very embarrassed. This was a big customer who hadn't arrived yet, so he started chatting mode: "Old Qin, please pay attention. Let's get down to business first. This is the big customer you call, and he is also my son's classmate in the same dormitory. My name is Zhou Zhi. Elbow, this is the director Qin of our city’s jade carving factory that I told you on the way.”

"Then I'd better follow Xu Gang and call him Uncle, Uncle Qin, hello." Zhou Zhi smiled and extended his hand to Director Qin.

"Ah? Ah, hello, hello..." Director Qin instinctively stretched out his hand to shake Zhou Zhi's hand, but he couldn't believe the delicate and handsome young man in front of him, who looked like a wealthy man who could afford hundreds of thousands of jade materials. .

At this time, it’s time for Director Zhang to take action: "Does Xu Anxin, the general manager of Jinan Group, know? A few days ago, Ms. Xu Anxin was the daughter-in-law of Mr. Li Qiyan of Hong Kong Island, who was celebrating the New Year at the Spring Festival Gala. At the same time, she was also Xiao Zhou cousin."

"At that time, I was also sitting next to Ms. Xu. Do you remember wearing black-rimmed glasses?" Xu's father also got the information from Ayiguli when he was speculating and selling.

Director Qin immediately looked at him with admiration. It is true that people cannot be judged by their appearance. This person in front of him is a sponsor of the Spring Festival Gala. What a big name! (End of chapter)