Jin Yutong

Chapter 449 Dead Horses as Living Horse Doctors

"Boss Chang, won't this tender be put up for auction soon?"

Chen Ran was a little puzzled, he was naturally not stupid, since Fatty Chang said so, it is obvious that after auctioning these three pieces of pre-heated 'wool' materials, it is not that the bidding king will be auctioned immediately, but the venture capital company's auction Isn’t the rightful owner the king of this mark?Why don't you immediately auction this bidder after the pre-heated pieces are auctioned off?

While wondering, Chen Ran couldn't help sighing. Although he didn't know what happened, it can be seen from this incident that his foundation is still too shallow. People in the industry like Fatty Chang don't talk about it. I'm afraid that as long as there is any trouble in the industry, he will know immediately. Not to mention Chang Fatty, but laymen like Zhu Feng and Wu Laosan are obviously much more informed than him, an insider. Zhu Feng, I'm afraid he doesn't even know that there are "wool" exhibitions here. It doesn't matter if they reach their level. Once the name comes out, as long as the other party is not stupid, it does matter. He It's different, now that he announces his name, I'm afraid not many people will care.

In Tengchong, he only has Zhao Guosheng's relationship now, and Xiao Jun has Jiuye's relationship. In fact, this is only a line, but he can't bother the other party with everything.

Of course, Chen Ran didn't think too much about it. Food needs to be eaten bite by bite, and the road needs to be walked step by step. Rome was not built in a day, and neither is a big tree in a day.

"Hehe, Brother Chen, this piece of bidding material is a piece of 'mao' material that was secretly auctioned. It has been placed here for five days. Every day at 10 o'clock in the afternoon, three pieces of 'mao' material will be taken out to warm up. The time is five days, the deadline is 30:[-] tomorrow morning, half an hour after the end of the bidding time, which is [-]:[-] to open the bid, so you still have more than ten hours..."

Fatty Chang was taken aback by Chen Ran's words, and then quickly explained to Chen Ran.

After listening to Chang Fatty's explanation, Chen Ran finally understood what was going on, and it was a secret auction.

Thinking about it, Chen Ran felt relieved. The direct auction of "wool" materials at this level may only fail, because the [-] million yuan will make everyone calm down, and the atmosphere of the on-site auction will not work at all. Presumably, every auction buyer wants to make a bid but is afraid to make a bid. Among them, the dare not make a bid still occupies the majority. The time from hesitation to making a decision is obviously not enough in a short while. When it’s over, you will naturally give up with peace of mind. Secret shooting is undoubtedly different. Seeing this king’s performance once makes you decide to take a photo more seriously. The more you look at it, the more you can’t help but want to give it Bet back.

Chen Ran also guessed right. Since the auction of this piece of jadeite from Myanmar was brought back to China at the end of March, this venture capital company has started the auction of this piece of jadeite. It has been a sensational hype for about two months. , and was finally auctioned on the spot at the Yunnan Kunming Jewelry Fair at the end of May. Wool materials are becoming scarcer and scarcer, and companies hoarding wool materials can only get in and out. Owning high-end wool materials means the right to speak, and taking out more than a dozen yuan of wool materials to warm up is also for this purpose. The king of the block bid has spent a lot of money, but what is surprising is that the king of the block bid failed in the end.

Is it because the bidder did not perform well?This is naturally not the case. You must know that the venture capital company in the Burmese Emerald Market at that time had to fight a bloody road to win the bid for the king's wool.

After the auction failed, the venture capital company also summed up the reasons. In fact, the main reason was that this venture capital company was very popular when it was in the Burmese jadeite public offering. Being left behind made the decision-maker of this venture capital company feel a little overwhelmed for a while, and his self-confidence was high, so he designed such an erroneous auction plan, and the result was disgraced. What happened, let’s not talk about it here for the time being. , This is a war between capital predators, Chen Ran can't participate now, maybe he will participate in their capital war in the future.

Fortunately, this venture capital company changed its auction strategy in time. It just so happened that Tengchong is approaching the annual emerald event again, so it chose this time to transport the bid king to Tengchong and auction it by secret auction. .

Knowing that the auction of this bid had started a few days ago, although Chen Ran felt a little regretful that he hadn't found out earlier, he was also relieved. No matter what, at least the time is not so urgent. It's really a bit overhanging to raise [-] million yuan in such a short period of time by directly auctioning off the bidder.

Since the bidding ended at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, Chen Ran was not in a hurry, so he didn't go to Zhu Feng anymore, and went to the hotel lobby with Fatty Chang to ask for a private room.

"Brother Chen, to tell you the truth, I am also interested in this bidding king, but unfortunately my company's liquidity is a bit tight during this time, so I dare not participate in it. As far as I know, this bidding king has at least been closed There are two bids from buyers. One is Lao Fenghuang, the largest jewelry company in China. I can’t guess exactly how much Lao Fenghuang invested, but according to my estimation, it will not exceed 9000 million at most. There is another It was a joint bid by five or six jewelry companies in our country. For example, Yuyuan in our province participated, and they invited me to participate. Based on the details they revealed to me, I feel that they invested money It should be between 8000 million and 9000 million. There is not much difference between the bids of these two buyers. Of course, it is not clear how much they bid. There are a few companies that are interested in but have not yet bid, and it is not clear whether they vote or not, and no one can say until the last step." After sitting down in the private room and dismissing the waiter, Chang Fatty also gave Chen Ran started to make plans, of course, he only provided Chen Ran with a reference price, so of course he would not guarantee such a thing.

Although the information provided by Chang Fatty is of little value, it also gave Chen Ran a rough idea. First of all, although there are quite a few people who are interested in this "mass" material, there should not be many who really dare to make a move with this capital. , and only big jewelry companies like Laofenghuang have the capital and courage to make a move. In addition, retail investors join in partnerships. For companies like Yuyuan, find a few jewelry companies to jointly sell, sharing less funds and taking less risk. some.

In fact, in the stone betting industry, partnership betting is the theme. Most betting stones are a combination of several companies. Individual betting is a partnership of relatives and friends. The most important thing is that jewelry companies are united. This is mainly because Nowadays, the high-end "wool" materials are soaring all the way, and the funds owned by one person are hard to eat. Moreover, when participating in the jadeite fair, the "wool" materials that are fancy are definitely not one or two yuan, but many. But the funds are limited, so we can pool the funds together. After all, as investors enter this industry, it is too difficult to compete with them. The last thing these investors are afraid of is paying money. Anyway, they want to hype some.

"Boss Chang, what do you want from me?"

After Chen Ran heard about it, he thought about it for a while, and put it aside for the time being. Instead, he asked what Chang Fatty wanted from him, and he wondered what Chang Fatty could do to him.

"Brother Chen, don't call me the boss anymore, it sounds awkward, just call me Old Chang, Fatty Chang." Chang Fatty smiled and waved his hands, he already regarded Chen Ran as a rich and powerful son, Naturally, he would not let go of this opportunity to build relationships.

"Then I'll call you Brother Chang." Chen Ran didn't mind making friends with Chang Fatty, anyway, it's not wrong to make friends with Chang Fatty.

"Okay, okay, brother, to tell you the truth, brother, I really have something to do with you, that's it..." Chang Fatty was obviously satisfied with Chen Ran's address, and he nodded happily. Ran talked about what he wanted to do with Chen Ran.

It turned out that Fatty Chang's approach to Chen Ran was related to carved jade. Fatty Chang had a big client, and the so-called big clients were those rich second-generation officials and second-generation rich. customers, this is the sales channel for high-end jade.

This big customer approached Chang Fatty and asked Chang Fatty to help him carve a jade piece. This jade piece must be the same as another jade piece, and there must be no slight difference. This is because the two jade pieces are originally the same. That's right, it was the engagement item of this big client two years ago, but it disappeared. The engagement of this big client was made by the woman's grandfather and the big client's grandfather, but not long ago, the woman's grandfather passed away. The woman's parents looked down on this big client, so they were a little reluctant when they got engaged, so after the woman's grandfather passed away, the woman's parents wanted to regret the engagement, and somehow they heard that he had lost the jade pendant they were engaged to, so they Use this to embarrass him.

The big client had a deep relationship with the woman, and he didn't want to give up, nor did he want to embarrass the woman, so he ran around, hoping to re-carve the same jade, but because this jade was carved by the woman's grandfather, and the woman Although your grandfather is not well-known in the jade carving world, and he is not in this industry, he has a unique family-passed jade carving method, and the carved jade pendants also have their own unique artistic conception and temperament. The carving is the same or different, but you can see the difference just by looking at the artistic conception.

This big client also asked Chang Fatty, and it happened that Chang Fatty also asked this big client, so he was very concerned about this matter, but none of the jade carvers in his company could carve it out. , not to mention that the imitation is the same, but the artistic conception is not something that ordinary jade carvers can carve out.

Chang Fatty's jewelry store is also a time-honored brand, and the older generation of the family also has some connections. Among them, Mr. Lu and the elderly in his family are friends for generations. Mr. Lu is also the one who opened the stone carving workshop. Don't look at this Mr. Lu. The mountains do not show the water, but he is a national-level jade carver, that is, a fifth-level jade carver.

Chang Fatty still knows the carving skills of this jade carving master. Although the big client has visited several fifth-level jade carving masters without any results, he is still convinced of the carving level of Mr. Lu, so he thought about visiting I begged Mr. Lu to make a move, but what disappointed him was that Mr. Lu had "washed his hands" a few years ago and would never carve jade again. He didn't promise him not to say anything, and he didn't give him good looks. Now, at that time, I happened to see Chen Ran, and suddenly remembered Chen Ran. After all, the eight-knife split-wave carving method is still very famous, which is why Chen Ran was so enthusiastic at the time.

Although it was a bit unreliable when I thought about it later, the older generation of jade carvers couldn't carve it out, how could Chen Ran, a 'hairy' boy, carve it out, but thinking about it, there is no way anyway, why not let Chen Ran try It's all considered a dead horse as a living horse doctor, so there is a matter of asking Chen Ran for help.

Of course, when Fatty Chang talked to Chen Ran, he naturally wouldn't say that a dead horse is a living horse doctor.

After Chen Ran heard this, he realized what was going on. The old man Lu was a fifth-level jade carver, which surprised him. But to be honest, I wouldn't be arrogant to think that my carving skills with the eight-knife split-wave carving method can compare with those five-level jade carvers of the older generation. Carving is a technical job, not only must you have skills, He also needs to have experience. Experience is not only the experience of carving, but also the experience of life, that is, the perception of life. He now has skills, but lacks experience. He can't learn the perception of the older generation.

Of course, he also has his own style. He has the mentality of a young man. Although he is mature, he is not old-fashioned. Naturally, he will not want to imitate the old man's old attitude.

Hearing that Fatty Chang said that the big client had visited several fifth-level jade carvers with no results, Chen Ran didn't dare to promise it. To be honest, he was quite curious, what kind of jade pendant was this? It would make so many jade carvers helpless, so after thinking about it, he said to Fatty Chang: "Brother Chang, take out that jade pendant and let me see it first."

"Okay, no problem." Hearing Chen Ran's words, although Fatty Chang didn't have much hope for Chen Ran, he turned around and asked the secretary sitting next to him to come over, opened his purse, opened it, took out a brocade box, and put it on Chen Ran. in front of Ran.