Jin Yutong

The scene after the bidding is over is no different from the situation when you come out of the examination room after taking an exam for the college entrance examination. Before the end, everyone hides and hides. Now that the bidding is over, naturally there is no scruples. They are like students who have answered the answer. This Asked if you voted for a certain number, and asked how much you voted for a certain number... After the answer is correct, there will naturally be those who regret it, those who are excited, those who rejoice, and those who gloat...Of course, there are also those who made mistakes in answering the questions People who make mistakes such as filling in the card wrongly fill in the bid form or vote in the wrong way.

With the end of the bidding, everyone formed a small circle to discuss in twos and threes. They discussed while they were in the venue, and they were kicked out of the venue to discuss at the entrance of the venue.

Just like taking the college entrance examination, the most popular ones at this time are naturally those top students who have studied well.

The same is true of the public market now. The famous emerald kings and jewelry predators were all surrounded, and even many reporters participated in it, as if they were holding a press conference.

Huang Shang and the others were eager to know what the Jade Kings thought of the material they voted for, and whether others voted for the material they voted for, and how much they voted for, so they all wanted to come over to listen to it after they came out, even Zhu Feng and Wu Laosan Unconsciously follow along to join in the fun.

Naturally, Chen Ran didn't have such thoughts, but he also took a look. First, to see the bidding situation of these big names in the stone gambling world, and second, to get to know each other.

The "knowledge" here is not mutual acquaintance with the other party, but Chen Ran's one-sided acquaintance with the other party is enough. It can be regarded as having a little reputation but the circle is very small, and now I know him and he won't take him seriously.

Before coming to Myanmar, Chen Ran and Vice President Lin learned about all aspects of the jewelry industry. In addition to the situation in the industry and the situation of major jewelry companies, Vice President Lin also told him who are in the industry now The limelight is relatively strong.

These bigwigs who are surrounded in front of them are obviously the most popular people in the industry.

Chen Ran has seen some of them in the past few days, while others have not.

In addition, by observing the bids put in by other people in the bidding box, Chen Ran also noted down a few people who competed with him.

There were a lot of pieces that Chen Ran thought no one would pay much attention to, but it turned out that someone also paid a high price. If it was only one or two pieces, it could be called a coincidence, but if there were many pieces, and they were all from these few people, then it was obviously not a coincidence ...

Although Chen Ran was able to get the stones by virtue of the advantage of checking the bidding box, but he did not dare to underestimate these people.

And these few people are basically well-known celebrities.

However, Chen Ran has only heard about each other, but he doesn't know which one is which. Now it's time to take a seat. After all, these people are likely to be his biggest competitors in the next time. Knowing each other will make it easier for him to investigate. "Military situation".

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You don't need to ask, you can know who is who by listening to the comments of people around you.

“这批毛料里我最看重的是635号和1109号，635号我投了25万欧元，1109号我投了380五万欧元……”说这话的不是别人，正是赌石之王马先生。

The era is different from the past. In the past, such titles as "No. [-] in the World" and "King of XX" would dare to be called indiscriminately, but in modern times, such titles can be seen everywhere.

Although the group of gambling stones is not so widespread, there are also many emerald kings, and even a province can have a emerald king.

Some Jade Kings are okay, they have a strong eye for betting on stones, but they lack influence in this industry so that the name of the Jade King is not worthy of the name. It’s okay for such a Jade King to be called the Jade King , but some Jade Kings are completely publicized, or they just gambled a few bucks and were given the name of "Jade King" by the lay media, and then they became "Jade King" , or with ulterior motives, the name of "Emerald King" was just promoted through publicity.

Everyone has a steelyard in their hearts. A layman hears others say that this person is the "Jade King" and then treats him as the "Jade King". But the real insider knows who has that ability and who does not. , It's just that now we pay attention to making money with kindness, even if we know it in our hearts, we won't tell the truth.

In fact, in the past, to become the "Emerald King" not only had to have a strong vision but also had a huge influence in this industry.

The "influence" here is not how powerful he is in betting stones and how famous he is, but how much contribution he has made to this industry. In the past, it was prestige.

Being called "King" means that you are regarded as the leader. Since you are the leader of everyone, you must protect everyone's interests, that is, the interests of the entire industry.

Only those who can do this can be called "King".

Just like the two generations of Jade Kings during the Anti-Japanese War, both made great contributions to protecting everyone's interests and even sacrificed themselves for it.

Such a "Jade King" is naturally respected.

After these two Jade Kings, because the country was in a special period of the founding of the country, no Jade Kings appeared again. It was not until the appearance of Long Jiuye in the 80s that the vacuum was filled.

Friends who know history know that 1982 was the fourth year of my country's reform and opening up, and the shift of the focus of the party and the country's work from class struggle to economic work.

In this year, the restriction on jewelry was lifted at the political level, and it was also in this year that my country's jewelry industry and jewelry market slowly recovered.

Prior to this, Myanmar's jadeite was sold to Japan and Southeast Asian countries. Although there were some markets in Hong Kong and Macau, the largest market at that time was Japan, and Japan even regarded jadeite as a national stone.

The later Tengchong jade market was rebuilt step by step by Lord Long Jiu from Japan at that time. Although the huge domestic market would slowly be attracted to the Japanese market as long as the domestic ban was lifted, there was no Long Jiu. With the efforts of my generation, I am afraid that the huge domestic market will only be given to the Japanese at a lower price.

The market is there, so what is missing?

Lack of talent!There is a lack of stone betting talents, or the lack of standards for betting stones. Although there are many experienced stone betting masters here in Yunnan, it is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket compared to the huge market, and these stone betting masters are also their own. There is no certain standard for what has been explored. Without standards, it is naturally difficult to pass it on to others.

Mr. Ma was a geological expert and scholar at first, and later stepped into the stone betting line.He has been gambling in the stone industry for 40 years, and gambled on jade for more than 20 years. Mr. Ma has not only made many strong achievements, but also made hundreds of multi-millionaires and even billionaires.

In order to allow people to better and more conveniently identify jade and grade jade, Mr. Ma also established the theory of "Image Jadeite Science" and proposed [Six Elements for Identifying the Quality of Jadeite], which is still the authoritative criterion for identifying the quality of jadeite.

While betting on stones, Mr. Ma wrote articles about his experience and methods of betting on stones and passed them on to the world. Most of the standards for identifying jadeite and betting on stones are proposed by Mr. Ma, and now jewelers and wool merchants are betting on stones. The methods are basically passed on by Mr. Ma.

Therefore, although Long Jiuye and Mr. Ma are not the emerald kings selected as before, they are two veritable "emerald kings" recognized by the industry.

The most popular thing about Long Jiuye is that in the 80s and 90s, in the 21st century, he seldom appeared in public. Generally, he showed his face at the Jade Fair. Long Jiuye would not appear in public places like this, so now Few people will mention Long Jiuye anymore. The younger generation who have never been to Yunnan or Tengchong do not even know that there is such a jade king as Long Jiuye.

Without Lord Long Jiu, now Mr. Ma is undoubtedly the only recognized "Jade King". The psychic handed down jadeite under the psychic jewelry and psychic jewelry, so it is also known as the "Psychic Jade King".

The influence of the other emerald kings in the industry is obviously not comparable to that of Mr. Ma, but when it comes to betting on stones, these few have real skills, and everyone will respectfully call them "Jade Kings" when they meet. ".

Among these Jade Kings, the Jade Sage Bai Fengxian has been the most popular in recent years.

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Mr. Ma is not only famous in the industry, but also has a good reputation, so he has the most people around him, and he doesn't hide what he can answer immediately when facing everyone's inquiries.

After hearing his answer, the people around him began to discuss immediately. Luckily, most of the people in number 1109 had an impression, but most of the people in number 635 didn't.

Everyone has nothing to say about No. 635, but for No. 1109, those who did not vote regretted it very much, and those who voted regretted it even more, because almost no one voted at a higher price than Mr. Ma.

Regardless of whether you voted or not, after listening to it, you can only wish to vote for the bidding just now...

Of course, not everyone regretted it. One of them didn't regret it after hearing it. This person was none other than Zhu Feng.

After hearing this, Zhu Feng was stunned for a moment, then immediately squeezed out from the encirclement surrounded by his bodyguards and found Chen Ran who was standing outside.

"Brother, is the piece of material that you asked me to add 15 to be No. 1109?" Seeing Chen Ran, Zhu Feng couldn't wait to ask.

He had a lot of materials to vote for, and he couldn’t remember the number of other materials, but in the end Chen Ran asked him to re-submit at a higher price, but he still had a memory, and he still remembered the number, it seemed to be 1109 Number.

"Brother Feng, don't look at it, it's number 1109." Chen Ran interrupted him when he saw that he was looking for a list to confirm.

"Really?" Zhu Feng narrowed his eyes.

Chen Ran nodded affirmatively.

"Old man Ma paid out 385w, and we happen to be 15 more than him. Fortunately, brother, you let me add another 15, otherwise..." After confirming, Zhu Feng suddenly became happy, and at the same time he was a little lucky, Fortunately, Chen Ran finally asked him to add another 15. Without the 15, the bid would not be as high as old man Ma.

"Brother Feng, if I knew this, I wouldn't let you increase the price." Chen Ran didn't look happy at all, but sighed after hearing Zhu Feng's words.

Zhu Feng was stunned for a moment, and then saw that Chen Ran's expression was wrong, so he asked in bewilderment: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

Chen Ran shook his head helplessly, looked around and saw no outsiders, and then said: "Brother Feng, you voted 1109 more than Mr. Ma on No. 15, and I voted 635 more than Mr. Ma on No. [-]. If there is no accident, These two pieces were taken by both of us..."