Six days later.
Lin'an City, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province.
The leader of the inspection and exchange team in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province this time was Deputy Director Xu Yan, accompanied by Deputy Director Zhao Jinxi, a deputy director of the Finance Department, a veteran police officer from the Sixth Division who had made meritorious service last year, and a section chief of the Political Division. and clerk Xiao Gao, etc., including Dong Xuebin, there are exactly ten people, no more, no less. After getting off the plane, Xu Yan took everyone to the hotel they had booked in advance, assigned rooms, put down their luggage, and then declared free time. This "inspection" lasts for three days. Except for a symbolic trip to the National Security Department in Lin'an, the rest of the time can be freely used. However, if you do not return home at night, you need to report to the team leader in advance and ask for leave.
Hotel, room 3026.
The luxurious decoration, elegant atmosphere, and glittering layout make it clear that it is not a cheap place.
Dong Xuebin and Xiao Gao from the Political Department were assigned a room. After all, he was not at the level of Xu Yan and Zhao Jinxi, so he was not assigned a separate room. However, Xu Yan was still very partial to Dong Xuebin and deliberately allocated this room with the largest area. The suite was reserved for Xiaodong.
Xiao Gao looked up and down the room in admiration, "Director Dong, I have benefited from you."
Dong Xuebin threw his luggage next to the bed, "Haha, where are you planning to go later? Are there any tourist attractions in Lin'an?"
"Oh, there are so many places to play here. There are mountains, water and rivers. Director Dong, I studied the travel brochure on the plane. If it's not inconvenient for you, ahem, I'll follow you in the afternoon. Right? "Other agencies can bring family members with them for inspections, but the National Security Bureau cannot. This trip seems a bit monotonous. Why do you have fun by yourself? So Xiao Gao wants to follow Director Xiao Dong, and he also wants to take this opportunity to build a good relationship with Director Xiao Dong.
Dong Xuebin smiled bitterly, "Sorry, I have something else to do."
Xiao Gao waved his hand hurriedly, "It's okay, it's okay, you are busy with your business."
After waiting for a while, Xiao Gao called the old police officer from the Sixth Division, and then he seemed to have made an appointment with someone, and they left together.
When Dong Xuebin saw that he was the only one left in the room, he immediately put away his leadership arrogance. He hummed a tune and strolled to the bathroom to take a shower. After drying his hair, he leisurely put his hair on his soft face. As soon as he lay down, he took out his mobile phone and called Qu Yunxuan, "Hey, Xiaoxuanxuan, I'm in Lin'an."
"...No matter how big or small, call me aunt"
"Oh, what about you? By the way, where are you?"
"I just flew to Shanghai and I'm asking a friend for advice on doing business."
"Sweet, how many days has it been? Why haven't you decided on a business yet? Don't worry too much, just find an industry you like. As long as you are happy, it doesn't matter whether you make or lose money. Never mind that."
"How can that be done? This money is all earned by your hard work. I can't waste it on you. I have to study it carefully."
"Uh, how's your research going?"
Qu Yunxuan on the other end of the phone paused, "...that's it, listen to what my aunt says and see if it's feasible. Haha, that's what my aunt thinks. Since you're so good at picking up leaks, one coin today and a pearl necklace the day after tomorrow." A person who sells small bowls from an official kiln is also very good at gambling on stones. So, should we develop in the direction of antique collection? The collectibles market is so hot now, and there should be many opportunities to make money. My aunt has also been studying antique knowledge in the past two days. "
Dong Xuebin's eyes lit up. His BAC can indeed play a big role in the antique business. Whether it's betting on stones or picking up leaks, if you open this kind of business, you should be able to make a profit without losing money. "... What's a good idea? ? Antique shop?”
"You can only open an antique shop on a small scale. Just think about it. If you want to do a stone business, a good Tianhuang stone seal will cost millions. If you want to do a porcelain calligraphy and painting business, let alone official kilns and famous calligraphy, ordinary We can’t even get hundreds of thousands, so let’s just take two million, isn’t it enough?”
Dong Xuebin thought the same thing, "Do you have any ideas?"
"Well, what do you think of the auction house?"
Dong Xuebin was slightly startled, "Of course that's good, but the investment will be more, right?"
"It is certain that there will be a lot of investment, but it is not necessarily more than opening a high-end antique store. Think about it, those collection auction houses don't spend money to buy it. They just sign a contract and then leave your things. After the auction, even if the auction fails or the auction price is very low, the auction will not suffer any losses, and it can also draw commissions from it. Of course, the auction house will also spend a lot of money, such as how to form a scale in the early stage and how to let others Sending the auction items to us requires advertising costs, renting hotel venues, hiring experts, hiring employees, etc., but overall it’s still feasible.”
“Two million is enough?”
"It's definitely not enough. I came to Shanghai just to inquire with my friends. I used to know a lot of people when I worked in the advertising department of a newspaper. This person has a relative who is in the antiques business. He knows this industry very well. I simply told him After some communication, he said that if there is nearly three million or more, it would be no problem to open a small auction company in a second-tier city. "
"Then we don't have enough money?"
After a pause, Qu Yunxuan said: "But it's not much different. That friend of mine may be interested in cooperating with us. If you decide to open an auction company, I will communicate with him?"
Dong Xuebin frowned, "Aunt Xuan, don't want it."
"What's wrong?"
"I don't have any objections to starting an auction company. It's very good and promising. It doesn't matter if we don't have enough cooperation with others. I just want the company to belong to the two of us and don't want anyone else to get involved." Yes, Dong Xuebin doesn't want others to take shares. There are too many troubles, and the shares are not easy to allocate. He will continue to make money and inject capital into the company in the future. How can there be more than one person
"Haha, my aunt will listen to you, okay?"
"Uh-huh."
"Then with these two million... how about opening a small antique shop?"
Dong Xuebin thought about it, turned over from his bed, pressed his elbows on the pillow and said: "Let's just open an auction company. Don't we have enough money? It doesn't matter. I happen to be working with Lin'an and Changhua Chicken Blood Stone right now. Ah, Tianhuang Stone, there are properties here. I will bet on stones in the afternoon and try to make money for opening an auction house. Is it enough to have one worth hundreds of thousands or one million? "
"Betting on stones is too risky and not good."
"Aunt Xuan, just leave it alone. I won't do anything I'm not sure about. Just leave it at that."
After hanging up his cell phone, Dong Xuebin rolled over on the bedside, got out of bed, opened his suitcase and took out a bag. Dong Xuebin was not just traveling to relax this time. He finally came to Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province again. Why? I had to get some money to go back, so I prepared 100,000 cash in my bag in advance. However, because I came with my colleagues and leaders, Dong Xuebin did not dare to bring too much money for fear of the negative impact. If it was not enough, he would give it away later. Aunt Xuan came over.
I have accumulated it twelve times these days, well, that’s enough.
After leaving the hotel, Dong Xuebin walked on the streets in the city center, asking people where there was a place to gamble on stones. However, although Lin'an is the origin of chicken blood stone, it doesn't seem to sell raw chicken blood stone very much. I walked a lot and asked many people. Finally, an old man gave Dong Xuebin an address.
This is an old store, and the light box that sells soapstone has long been faded by the weather.
Dong Xuebin looked left and right at the door, and then stepped into the small shop of more than 20 square meters. There are many soapstone seals on the counter, as bright as blood and extremely charming. On the shelves next to them were seven or eight pieces of chicken-blood stone carvings, as well as Tianhuang seals and Tianhuang ornaments, but there was no original chicken-blood stone.
"Boss." Dong Xuebin casually pointed to a piece of chicken blood seal on the counter, "How do you sell this?"
The boss is a middle-aged man with small eyes, "The blood volume of this seal is at 70%. Counting Dahongpao, it costs at least 800,000."
Dong Xuebin said, "What about this one?"
"The blood volume of this one is less, maybe 150,000."
The price of chicken blood stone is related to the size and blood volume. If it is large, heavy, good land, and has a lot of chicken blood area, the price will be expensive. The best type of chicken blood stone is Dahongpao. If the blood volume accounts for 9% It is not a problem to sell a top-quality Dahongpao worth ten or more for millions. In this regard, bloodstone is much more valuable than crystal.
After briefly understanding the market situation, Dong Xuebin said: "Boss, can you gamble on stones here?"
The boss looked at him, was silent for a while, and then said: "According to regulations, direct sales of raw chicken blood stone are not allowed, but if you really want to bet, well, you come with me." The boss turned around, called someone over, and continued Walking inside, he took Dong Xuebin to the backyard. As soon as I entered, I heard a squeaking sound coming from the backyard of the store, as if someone was cutting materials. I followed the sound and looked around the corner. Hey, there are quite a lot of people there.
Dong Xuebin was refreshed and found it.
Over there, there were about six or seven people around, and one of them, a middle-aged man, was cutting a window out of a piece of soapstone wool with a cutting machine. Soapstone rough stones are not as smooth and smooth as crystal rough stones, but are rough and pitted, and most of them are very irregular in shape.
"See blood, see blood"
"There should be no problem for the blood to seep in."
“Come soon, come a little more”
Dong Xuebin walked over and pulled his neck to watch the fun. The rough stone being cut weighed more than ten kilograms. There was a lot of bright chicken blood on one corner of the surface. I guess this stone must not be cheap. If the chicken blood on the surface can extend into the stone, the harder it penetrates, the higher the value of the stone. If the chicken blood is just a layer on the surface and falls off as soon as the cutting machine wipes it off, then it is basically worthless, because there is no chicken blood in the stone. It can no longer be called chicken blood stone, it can only be called pyrophyllite.
Now, the clerk in this store is using a cutting machine to cut around the chicken blood, trying to see how thick the blood is.
Squeak, squeak... squeak, squeak...
The stone is being polished little by little...
Dong Xuebin made a visual inspection and found that the chicken bloodstone is still a relatively soft stone. It is easy to cut it when the cutting machine gear is pressed on it. If he buys seven or eight chicken blood stones in one breath, he will use the fastest speed like that time when he was betting on crystals. It should be possible to ask the boss to cut the area where there is blood to see if the blood is deep. But after thinking about it, Dong Xuebin shook his head and gave up the plan. According to his own understanding, chicken-blood stone is not the kind of stone that can be used for gambling. It is not like jade stone and hotan jade. Why are there not many chicken-blood stone producing places like Lin'an? Bet on bloodstone? Just because it is not very gambling, you can usually tell whether there is blood or not, and whether the blood is deep or not does not make much difference. In other words, the reason why chicken blood stone gambling is not very popular is because it has increased the gambling value. Even if you lose the bet, the price of the stone will not fluctuate too much.
For example, the person who bought the raw chicken blood stone in front of me may have spent more than 200,000 yuan, but if the blood volume increases, the value of the raw stone can immediately rise to 300,000 yuan. If the blood volume has dropped or the color of the blood is no longer as bright as the appearance, the original stone can still be worth 180,000 or 90,000 yuan. There are very few cases of getting rich overnight or losing everything overnight like jadeite gambling. Of course, it is not impossible. There are, but the probability is extremely high. Minimal.
Therefore, if Dong Xuebin continues to try his luck one by one using the method of betting on crystals, it is obviously a waste of BAC. Even if the bet goes up, he will not make tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention that he only has 100,000 yuan and cannot buy it in one go. There are so many stones. If you buy BAC one by one, the transaction time in the middle will still be wasted.
what to do
"Hey, it's out."
"how is it going?"
"It's just so-so. The blood volume is about the same as it looks on the outside. It hasn't gone up or down."
No one is surprised. Gambling with chicken blood stone is like this. You can't make a lot of money, but you can't lose a lot of money either.
"Bring me another one, this is the right one." The man who bought the stone just now was very unwilling and spent 80,000 yuan to buy a smaller one.
Squeak, squeak... squeak, squeak... The clerk continued to unravel the stone for him.
Dong Xuebin pondered while watching, thinking about how to use BAC to earn hundreds of thousands on chicken blood stones so that he could open an auction company as soon as possible. Well, since the method of betting on crystals didn't work that time, I can only wait for others to fully unlock the bloodstone. If the blood volume is large and the land is good, then I can buy it with BAC, but The only problem is that if you don’t buy the stone yourself, you won’t be able to control the time. People are very careful when cleaning the stone. Sometimes it takes more than 20 minutes to remove a stone. I only have a BAC of 12 minutes. It's too late to retreat.
There is no other way, Dong Xuebin can only wait patiently and act according to the situation.
Half an hour passed...
An hour passed...
Two hours have passed...
There have been three or four rounds of stone bettors, and sixteen or seventeen pieces of chicken blood stone have been found, but the rough stones are all the same. The best one was bought by a middle-aged woman for 50,000 yuan, and was later found. The original stone was worth 100,000 yuan, which has doubled. The worst piece is the man who is still trying to solve the stone in the backyard. He just spent 110,000 yuan to buy a piece of wool, but a lot of the blood was wiped off, and in the end it was only worth 50,000 yuan. , the other dozen or so rough stones have neither risen nor fallen, and their fluctuations cannot exceed tens of thousands of yuan.
Looking at the watch, it's almost dinner time.
Dong Xuebin has long been impatient. Alas, he thought it was easy when he came, but who knew that better chicken blood is so difficult to come out. Why hasn't he found a top-quality piece after waiting all afternoon? When I think about the fact that even if good top-quality chicken blood does appear, I may not be able to BAC it in time, and I don’t have much money. Alas, let’s go back to eat after finishing this. It’s not a problem to wait like this.
Squeak, squeak, squeak...
The clerk was cutting a piece of rough stone that was not very big. The cutting machine was rubbing it around the area where there was chicken blood, hoping to expand the area of the chicken blood. Only in this way would it be considered to be enlarged. The rough stone on the side has not changed color yet, it is still gray and black impurity pyrophyllite.
"Oh, the blood didn't go in."
"Oh, this is not good."
A middle-aged man with a mustache stared at the original stone closely, and couldn't help but cursed, "He's unlucky today, two pieces in a row." Seeing that the chicken blood stone was basically useless, it looked a little pitiful on the surface. The man with the mustache turned around and said, "Does anyone want this stone? The back part hasn't been wiped yet. It's still gambling. I bought it for 80,000 yuan just now. Now it's sold for 30,000 yuan. Whoever buys it will take it." "
"You'd better drive it yourself."
"Haha, there's no blood on the side, who would want it?"
"It's almost enough to sell it for a few thousand."
No one is stupid. The bloody end of the rough stone has collapsed. Who will buy it
Even Dong Xuebin, a layman, curled his lips in disdain, thinking to himself that this mustache can really command a price, thirty thousand? No one wants three thousand now.
The man with the mustache glared and said to the clerk: "Then I'll open it myself just to pay for it, so that's nothing."
The clerk looked at him, raised the cutting machine and slowly dropped the knife on the bloodless area at the back, squeak, squeak, squeak.
No one took it seriously. Everyone was choosing rocks and chatting casually, hoping to wait for this rock to be solved before looking at the next one.
But accidents always come so suddenly
After the clerk dropped the knife several times, he suddenly shouted "I". This voice attracted everyone's attention. When everyone saw the cut surface of the rough stone, many people immediately followed suit. "I"
See blood
Actually saw blood
Moreover, the delicate bright red color and the thick density are actually the best Dahongpao among chicken blood stones.
Dong Xuebin was also stunned. Who would have thought that the bloody end of this broken wool material had no blood, but the bloodless end was bleeding? Judging from the area of blood volume, although this stone is not big, if the blood is cut, The bloody area is cut out neatly, and it can be used as a seal, a chicken blood Dahongpao seal.
The man with the mustache looked as if he was happy, he laughed, and got hundreds of thousands.
Stones with this kind of blood color and blood volume are rare in the raw stone of chicken blood. It is really a one-in-a-million stone. Whoever catches it will get rich.
Dong Xuebin's eyes moved and he keenly caught the opportunity, so he no longer hesitated and shouted twice.
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Time flies back
Instantly returned to two minutes ago
"Today he was unlucky. He got two stones in a row. Does anyone want this stone? The back part hasn't been wiped yet. It's still gambling. I just bought it for 80,000 yuan, and now it's sold for 30,000 yuan. Whoever buys it will take it."
"You'd better drive it yourself."
"Haha, there's no blood on the side, who would want it?"
"It's almost enough to sell it for a few thousand."
The man with the mustache no longer had any hope for this worn-out stone, so he thought he could recoup some of the cost. But when he saw that no one was stupid and no one was willing to take it, the man with the mustache smiled helplessly in his heart. , no one wanted it, so he had to open it himself, so he turned around and asked the clerk to unpack the stone.
"Wait a moment." A voice sounded from behind.
The man with the mustache turned around and said, "What's wrong? You want it?"
It was Dong Xuebin who said this, "I want it, but your price is too unreasonable. Thirty thousand is enough for me to buy a new rough stone. Why do I need this from you?"
As soon as the man with the mustache looked at Dong Xuebin, he knew that he was not a stoner, he must be an amateur. Seeing that he was interested in buying, he felt happy and said hurriedly: "Okay, how much do you want to give me a price?" "The man with the mustache really doesn't want to unlock the stone anymore. He knows that even if it is unlocked, it will only be worth a few thousand yuan, so he might as well sell it.
Dong Xuebin was too lazy to talk nonsense, "Ten thousand."
Many people watching the excitement were startled, thinking that this person was sick. How could he spend 10,000 yuan to buy it? Would you like to buy some new material
The man with the mustache was secretly happy, but said: "No, at least twenty-five thousand."
Dong Xuebin smiled and said, "Forget it."
"No," the man with the mustache bargained some more, and finally handed it over to Dong Xuebin at the price he paid.
Taking the 10,000 yuan that Dong Xuebin took out from his bag, the man with the mustache smiled and counted them. He was very satisfied. Finally, he did not lose too much and recovered some of the cost. The few people watching looked at Dong Xuebin and shook their heads slightly. If you don't understand, don't buy blindly. If you don't even understand the market clearly, why don't you just imitate others' betting on stones? Then who will pay if you don’t pay
Dong Xuebin smiled at the clerk, "Can you please open it?"
The clerk nodded. Of course he didn't think the material could be swollen, so he casually cut the knife on the bloodless part of the back.
One knife...
Two knives…
Three swords…
Just three swords, three simple swords
But after the three blows, everyone took a breath of air
A flash of bright blood popped out without any warning.
It was too sudden. No one was mentally prepared for it.
One second... two seconds... three seconds...
Seeing the thick blood on the cut surface, everyone looked at each other blankly, and they were all speechless.
What a waste! What comes out of it is the highest quality Dahongpao chicken blood.
For a moment, the man with the moustache was so regretful that his intestines almost turned green, and slapped him on his thigh. Why should he sell it? Why the hell am I selling it
This is gambling on stones, which is always full of unpredictability.
"Young man, do you sell Dahongpao?" The clerk was the first to speak, and then he began to shout loudly to the boss outside.
A young man who had just bet on stones said, "I'll pay 400,000."
A middle-aged man said: "...500,000 yuan, do you want to sell it? If so, I will sign a check for you right now."
"...Give me five hundred and fifty thousand."
The Dahongpao is rarely seen in auctions, so everyone bid on it one after another.
Dong Xuebin was not in a hurry to sell, but listened patiently.
At this time, the shop owner quickly walked into the backyard, "The Dahongpao is out? Where is it?" Looking at the half-cut piece of wool on the ground, the owner squatted down, touched it left and right, and nodded in admiration, "What a good material, young man. , you wrote it out? Okay, you are really lucky, so I don’t know what the price is. Well, I have a check for 700,000, do you think it will work?”
Once I heard it was 700,000, no one would fight anymore.
Dong Xuebin felt so happy in his heart. He thought about it and nodded slowly.
With these 700,000 yuan, my total assets have reached 2.7 million yuan.
Enough to start a small auction company
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