The Emperor's Life of a Wretched Man

Unprocessed rough jadeite is called "wool".In the jadeite trading market, wool is also called "stone", and wool full of green is called "colored goods".

Wool with uneven green color is called "flower brand material", and large wool material without emerald green is called "brick material".

The whole is covered by a leather shell, and the emerald wool that has not been cut or opened is also called "gambling stone", or "gambling goods".

The outer skin of the gambling stone is covered with thin or thick original stone skin. Different gambling stones have different colors, including red, yellow, white, black, and mixed colors.

The most profitable, the most tempting, but also the most risky in jade trading is stone gambling.There is a jargon in the jewelry industry:

Gambling with stones is like gambling with your life.

If you win the bet, you will earn ten times and a hundred times, and you will become rich overnight; if you lose the bet, you will lose everything.Compared with stone gambling transactions, risky transactions such as stocks and real estate are tender and pale in comparison.

As a unique trading method, stone gambling has emerged and prospered in the history of China-Myanmar border and Yunnan jade trading market.

A piece of raw stone that has not been opened, except for its shape and weight, no one can tell what is inside. There is a saying in the stone gambling world: "It is difficult for a god to break an inch of jade." Only after cutting and cutting open can there be a real conclusion. .

Based on their own experience and the performance on the leather shell, the stone gambler repeatedly guesses and judges to estimate the price.

After buying it, it may be cut open with a knife, and the color inside is full of water, and it will be worth millions immediately, or it may be colorless and waterless inside, and become worthless in an instant.

This is the risk of betting on stones. "One knife is poor, one knife is rich", a stone may make a person rich suddenly, and it may also make a person go bankrupt overnight.

Stone gambling is a unique trading method of high-grade rough jadeite that is popular in the Yunnan-Myanmar border area. It attracts jade merchants from all directions to participate in betting because of its strong gambling color, strong stimulation and high risk, and it can be described as enduring.

If the seller knows how to gamble, has good eyesight and good luck, and buys top-quality goods, he can become a nouveau riche, a millionaire or even a multi-millionaire in an instant.

At the beginning of the last century, a group of stone gambling experts emerged in Tengchong and became famous.Mao Yingde became rich because of winning the "Mao Family Jade".

In order to show off his wealth, thousands of pairs of high-end jade bracelets were tied into a coffin cover after death as funeral objects.

From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, there was a jargon in the jewelry industry called "gambling shop". The so-called "gambling shop" refers to the eyes of jewelry players who go to jewelry shops to look for jadeite.

The success of the jadeite trade, especially the rough stone trade, depends on luck, investing in the future just like gambling or lottery.According to the "Dianhai Yuheng Zhi" written by Tan Cui in the Qing Dynasty:

"Jade comes out of the Jinsha River in the south. Jiangxi belonged to Tengyue. It is more than two thousand miles away from the state. There are many jades in it. The barbarians picked it up, leaving piles on the banks of the river. The rough ore was obtained outside. The size was like pebbles. I don't know if there are jade, Whether jade is beautiful or evil.

Businessmen bought them at will and transported them to Dali and Yunnan provinces. There were jade workshops in all of them. "This is the historical origin of the "gambling stone" trade on the border between China and Myanmar and Myanmar and Thailand today.

In Chinese history, the most famous gambling stone is "Heshibi".

According to legend, in the state of Chu 2000 years ago, a man named Bian He discovered a piece of jade.He took it out and dedicated it to the two monarchs of Chu State. The monarchs thought he was cheated and cut off his left and right legs successively.

Bian He had no legs and couldn't walk. He held Yupu and cried for three days and three nights on the Chu Mountain. Later, King Wen of Chu found out about it, and he sent someone to bring the jade and asked the jade worker to cut it open.

The result was a piece of gem-quality jade.This gem is named "Heshibi".Later, this gem was owned by King Zhao Hui, and King Qin Zhao promised to exchange fifteen cities for this gem, which shows the high value of this gem.

This gemstone was later carved into a Jade Seal of Chuanguo, which was not lost until the Western Jin Dynasty.If Bian He can live to this day, he must be an outstanding stone gambling master.

In fact, it is very simple to measure the quality of a piece of jade.The first is its hardness and density. The hardness of jadeite is very high, generally reaching [-] degrees on the Mohs scale. The jargon in the jade industry is called "kind".

Stone gamblers talk a lot, but the more they talk, the harder it is to bet on the stone.

Ordinary jade merchants usually dare not be present when they actually cut and process the stone after gambling, but burn incense nearby and pray for God's blessing.

If there are many watery and clear emerald greens in the cut gambling stone, you can become a rich man overnight; if the essence of the cut gambling stone is a piece of gray sand with green outside and white inside, you will go bankrupt overnight.

But Solo is different from the jade merchant. He directly finds someone to cut the jade on the spot, and he becomes rich for a while.

Afterwards, Solo sold several rough stones one after another, and they all succeeded in betting on jade, making a fortune. Of course, this kind of wealth is just a hair on the body of nine old cows to the former Roche Company.

However, this is the accumulation of the original capital of Solo's three start-ups.

The news quickly spread to Xiulu, who was shocked immediately, and immediately made arrangements: "Hmph! Solo, fight with me? You are a toothless tiger now, your Brother Xiu can kill you, you Just waiting to help Brother Xiu make a lot of money..."

Soon after, Solo came to the border between Yunnan and Myanmar, a major stone gambling province, where there was a newly established large gambling stone field, and the rough stones transported from Myanmar were continuously sent here.

Solo lived here and started buying stones, but to Solo's surprise, someone would buy them at twice the price for the stones he liked.

The stones that Solo was optimistic about were not ordinary. As a result, after a month, Fan Solo did not buy any of the stones that Solo was optimistic about. Solo could only watch and worry.

But a month later.

The roar of road construction came from the Sakura Nightclub in Beijing...

"You idiots, could you have been fooled by that kid Solo? Hundreds of millions of dollars have been squandered like this. This is hundreds of millions of real money! Get out now, get out of me, and find out. , Is that stone gambling house a set up by Solo..."

So Luo laughed like a fox and led Wu Nier and Bai Xue into a room in the backyard of the gambling quarry. Long Wu was counting the money wretchedly, and the wrinkles on his face were all smiles.

"Fifth Lord, are you enjoying being the boss?" Solo asked.

"Hey... this is a good deal, the mountain is full of stones that no one wants, and in one month, more than 4000 million will be in hand, now you can cry when you build the road..." Long Wu smiled and kept his mouth shut.

"Okay, brother Xiu's people have retreated back to Beijing, let's withdraw too! I believe he will send someone to investigate soon, and take the money from others, so why don't we say thank you?" Solo said wretchedly with a smile .

"Yes, yes, Suo Ye, I will serve people all my life. Celebrities don't do secret things, okay, leave him a message..." Long Wu smiled and took out a big brush, and wrote on the wall: "Thank you Funding for road construction, I'm leaving, see you in the capital..."

When the person sent by the road repairer reported this sentence to the road repairer, the beast-like breath rose from the whole body of the road repairer, and then he straightened up, spurting out a mouthful of blood, rolled his eyes and passed out...