In fact, for this kind of warm hospitality, Yang Jing doesn't like it very much.But there is no way, when you come to other people's land to do things, you have to dig jade on other people's low heads, if this matter is separated from the support of the local government, it will never be done.Hetian jade is also a resource, and it is an extremely precious resource, although in this era, both the local government and various jade lovers have not begun to pay attention to this resource, but you come to dig this precious resource, how can you have a good relationship with the local government, this is the minimum condition.In particular, Cole Smith, a foreign philanthropist who can be called the most wronged, is now well-known throughout the province.Within a week of coming to Xinjiang Province, they threw down $30 million!
Even after 30 years, 30 million US dollars is a large number, let alone in this era, 30 million US dollars is simply an unimaginable astronomical foreign exchange in an inland province like Xinjiang Province.This foreign guest and rich man can donate 30 million US dollars in an unrelated place, so when he comes to his destination, how can he invest 10 million US dollars or 20 million US dollars?
This kind of rich man can't be lazy, in case the foreign guests are unhappy, then won't this investment be in vain?
In this era, government departments are still not "only DGP theory", and the primary task of government departments at all levels is to earn foreign exchange!
Before 1986, before the promulgation of the Law on Foreign-Funded Enterprises, all the foreign capital introduced by Huaxia was a joint venture, and the domestic shares had to occupy the majority of the joint ventures, which ensured the safety of state-owned funds, but caused foreign funds to have a lot of concerns about entering Huaxia investment.After all, I invested a large amount of money with real money, but I couldn't take a controlling stake, which made it difficult for those foreign capitalists to accept.As a result, before 1986, there was not a lot of foreign investment entering China.However, with the promulgation of the "Law on Foreign-Funded Enterprises", Huaxia also allows pure wholly foreign-owned enterprises, so that many foreign investors dare to boldly enter Huaxia, and more and more foreign capital has entered Huaxia in the past two years.However, most of those foreign investments are concentrated in coastal provinces such as the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta, and inland provinces such as Xinjiang Province whose resources have not yet been fully developed, not to mention foreign investment, even if it is the introduction of domestic capital, there is not much of it.Now suddenly there is a big foreign rich man who throws dollars in the unit of "10 million", so he can't make this guy happy?
This is tens of millions of dollars of foreign investment, even if it is placed in the coastal provinces, it is an absolute large amount of foreign investment.Therefore, under the warm reception of many leaders of the Hetian Land Committee and the Executive Office, Yang Jing was really stunned twice.However, Yang Jing came to Hotan this time to throw money, so at the wine table, Yang Jing has promised to invest no less than 50 million US dollars in the Hotan area in the next few years to develop local mineral resources.At the same time, it also buys the best seed material and mountain material.For Yang Jing's promise, not to mention the high-ranking officials and commissioners of the Hetian Prefecture, even the leaders of Xinjiang Province attached great importance to it, and repeatedly demanded that the Hotan side must do a good job in receiving the work and that the investment must be kept in Hotan.As for people saying that they want to exploit mineral resources, everyone knows what is going on, isn't this foreigner just running for Hetian Yu?
If you want to mine, then you can mine, but if you can't mine it, you can't blame me.Since ancient times, everyone has known that Hetian jade is a good thing and has a high value.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, according to the survey, the reserves of Hetian jade in the Kunlun Mountains are also very large, and it is roughly estimated that only in the Kunlun Mountains, which is 1,500 kilometers long, there are at least one million tons of jade resources.One million tons is not a small number, you must know that the Tatleksu mine, one of the four major jade mines in Kunlun Mountain, has been mining jade for 30 years, and only more than 3,000 tons of jade have been mined!
And this million tons is only a rough estimate, how many undiscovered mines are there in the huge Kunlun Mountains?
Anyway, for the Hotan government in this era, Hetian jade is simply an inexhaustible mineral resource.But everyone knows that if you want to mine so much jade from the depths of the mountains, it is not something that can be done casually, even if you invest 50 million US dollars, it is great to be able to mine hundreds or thousands of tons of jade at most.Going into the mountains to pick jade, that's not something you can do with money.How difficult is it to mine jade in Kunlun Mountain?
People who haven't experienced it themselves can't imagine it at all.There is such a record in the "Miscellaneous Records of the Bamboo Leaf Pavilion" of Yao Yuanzhi of the Qing Dynasty: "In the southwest of Yaerqiang, it is called Mildai Mountain, and its mountains are endless, and I don't know where it ends."
Its mountain produces jade, chiseled inexhaustibly, is a jade mountain.Mountains and snow, if you want to pick big weapons, people will take yaks, carry big nails above the giant rope, nail the hanging rope, and then chisel jade.And will fall, tied with a giant rope, slowly down, cover the mountain, fear of the jade suddenly falling to the ground crack. ”From this Qing Dynasty description of the hardships of jade mining, we can see how difficult it is to mine jade!
Although there has been a slight improvement in modern jade mining tools, the progress of jade mining tools has not played much better role in the high mountains, dangerous roads, thin air, harsh environment, and snow-capped mountains.Nowadays, if the jade is to be transported out of the mountain, it still depends on the back of donkeys and people.There is a passage in the Hotan area, like Yao Yuanzhi's poems, which describes the hardships of jade pickers: "A little donkey, two feet to rush with a short whip, three dogs like a cold winter, the four seasons do not know spring and summer, five more sleeping in Kunlun, six desires and seven feelings are all thrown, beautiful jade is well-known in all directions, and who knows how to die nine times in life." ”On the rugged and steep Kunlun Mountains, manpower is the only tool for transporting jade.If there is a slight mistake and a large piece of jade is broken, the value of the jade will plummet, and the personal reputation of the jade miner will plummet.The mining of Hetian jade has been very difficult since ancient times, and the human and financial resources invested are very large, and the cost of jade mining in the past few thousand years alone does not add up to 50 million US dollars, but Hetian jade is still extremely rare.The locals of Hotan are very aware of this.Therefore, the Hotan government happily agreed to Yang Jing's request.As far as these leaders are concerned, as long as they can keep this foreign capital in Hotan, they can do anything.As for whether you can successfully pick jade and how much jade you can pick, it has nothing to do with us.Of course, the leaders of Hotan also kindly persuaded Yang Jing, don't spend so much effort to go into the mountains to collect jade, not only dangerous but also not cost-effective compared to the harvest and investment, it is better to honestly buy the best jade picked from the mountains by the jade miners in Hetian, as long as you can let go of the harvest, then we can provide you with a variety of excellent materials.It realizes that the Hetian jade produced in the whole Xinjiang Province, and the best jade are exported.In the seventies and eighties, in addition to the best Dashanzi (large ornaments) for export, Hetian jade also had a large number of excellent seeds and mountain materials, especially the large ones in the seed materials were "more popular"!
It is estimated that in 30 years, few people would have imagined that in the seventies and eighties, most of the seeds used for export to earn foreign exchange were "kilograms".This is a "kilogram" seed material, in 30 years, a "two-level" seed jade, are the best that can be encountered but not sought, but in this era, "kilogram" seed material can not be said to be everywhere, but the quantity is definitely a lot.In this era, the complete kilogram material is the darling of the major jade carving factories, the domestic market of this era, the demand and value of seed material has not really been explored and returned, so after these kilogram level of the best seed material is received, the jade carving factory generally tends to carve the seed jade Dashanzi and then mainly used for export.In this era, it can only be said that people are too willful - the seed material is smaller, don't; A little incomplete, don't; Slightly shiny green, don't be "extremely harsh" on the seed material at this time.It is conceivable that in this era, there are many excellent seeds in the entire Hotan area!
But in the same way, because of the pursuit of export to earn foreign exchange, a large number of seeds were discarded in this era, including many large high-quality rough stones.Yang Jing also knows these things.Many later generations have mentioned the "stupid things" that those jade carving factories used to do in this era.This kind of pick-and-choose, non-best and don't want it, after 30 years, it will be a typical "tyrannical thing", which will make jade lovers point to the bridge of their nose and scold "bad things".Therefore, when Commissioner Zhu Changhe Zhu suggested that Yang Jing purchase the finished jade carvings or the best seed materials from the major jade carving factories in Hetian, Yang Jing agreed very happily, but he still had a small condition."
Commissioner Zhu, I can collect a part of the finished jade carving, but the quantity will not be very large, but I want the seeds, mountain materials, mountain flowing water or Gobi materials stored in the major jade carving factories, you offer the price, I will use the US dollar to collect, and the price will be on the market, how about it?"
In this era, because the true value of Hetian jade has not yet been developed, the price of Hetian jade is incredibly low.In the later generations of the Hotan area, there is a sentence that can explain the low price of Hetian jade in this era - thirty years ago, Hetian jade was sold on wagons, and now, Hetian jade is sold on grams!
This is the difference in the price of Hetian jade caused by thirty years.In this era, the price of Hetian jade is really low.Of course, the kind of big mountain that has been carved is another matter, but the price is far lower than that of later generations.As for the rough stones of this era, the price is really not much higher than the stones, so Yang Jing will make such a request to Commissioner Zhu.Of course, the best ornaments have to be received, and now this kind of big mountain is extremely rare to see in later generations, and it can be called a national treasure if you take out a random piece.Of course, what Yang Jing wants more is those rough stones and seeds, even if the rough stones and seeds that are wasted by those jade carving factories now, they will be priceless after thirty years."
Absolutely!
Mr.
Smith, if you have any needs, just mention them, we and the Department of Fields will do our best to meet your requirements!
”For Commissioner Zhu, whether it is to go into the mountains to collect jade, or to purchase finished jade carvings, or to make raw stones and seeds from the mountains, it is to earn foreign exchange!
As long as you can keep the dollars in Hotan, you can do whatever you want!
Commissioner Zhu's words are not nonsense.No. 1 in foreign exchange earnings!
No. 1 in foreign exchange earnings!
No. 1 in foreign exchange earnings!
The important thing is said three times, and it is still common in this day and age.For Commissioner Zhu, if he can transform the mountains of Hetian jade into green Franklin, it will be more important than anything else!