Chapter 506: Gambling on Stones
Although the essence of stone gambling involves gambling, its method is sales.

The raw stone itself is sold to customers as a commodity, and the customer takes the raw stone and cuts it with the free stone-cutting service provided by the merchant.

If jade is found inside, the customer can keep it for himself or sell it to a jewelry store. The whole process is reasonable and legal.

Therefore, it is a business behavior rather than a gambling behavior, which is why gambling on stones is allowed in the country.

In the following month, all parties had made their preparations, so Lin Hao also prepared to go to Shendian to reap his first wave of wealth.

During this period, Wu Qiao's big move actually made the nearby forces jealous.

But after several attempts to explore, Wu Qiao easily defeated them all. It would be impossible not to fight back, after all, heavy weapons were used here.

Lin Hao went to the Monkey Kingdom's reserve warehouse, so he had all kinds of light and heavy weapons, not only those from the Big Bear family, but also those left by Eagle Sauce.

Lin Hao sent these weapons to Wu Qiao, and Wu Qiao also recruited soldiers and horses. Not to mention light weapons, he was also equipped with a large number of tanks and heavy artillery.

Therefore, Wu Qiao was not afraid of nearby forces that were looking for trouble with him. Instead, they were in awe of him because of his strong martial virtue.
However, Wu Qiao made his attitude very clear. He only wanted the jade mine and would not get involved in anything else.

However, jadeite raw stones are not entirely mined by machines. After all, it can only be better mined by humans.

So, slaves holding hoes~ahem, the shortage of industrial workers has become the biggest problem at present.

But after all, in this era, it would be too barbaric to plunder directly, so the captives who had attacked Wu Qiao before became the best industrial workers.

And when there are not enough industrial workers, they start recruiting...!
So, after this period of mining, the first batch of jadeite raw stones was sent to Hong Kong Island, a total of 120 tons!
Afterwards, Wu Qiao contacted Lin Hao, and the connection between the two sides has never been interrupted. In addition to the radio, there is also Lin Hao's spiritual mark, so they can be contacted no matter how far away they are.

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Hong Kong Island is a city that never sleeps at night, filled with paper riddles.

Due to the geographical environment, the port here was the first to develop, and then led the entire Hong Kong Island to enter a period of ultra-rapid vigorous development.

At its peak, Hong Kong Island's development speed even exceeded that of the island country that was cared for by its biological father. However, Hong Kong Island's area and population were its shortcomings, and it was gradually surpassed by the island country's huge size.

At this moment, in a warehouse at a port in Hong Kong Island, 120 tons of jadeite raw stones were neatly divided into 10 parts!
"Mr. Lin, there are 12 of us, and there are only 10 portions. It's hard to divide them. Why don't we just divide them into 12 portions, 10 tons each!"

Looking at the piles of jade rough materials, some people frowned, while others just spoke.

There is no way. No one knows whether this thing can make money or not, and it is so expensive. What if it loses money? After all, no one has ever worked with Lin Hao!

The main jewelry industry in Hong Kong now is mainly diamonds and gold. Gold is needless to say, and diamonds are driven up by foreigners at high prices.

Lin Hao hates diamonds, a deceptive thing, so his main purpose this time is to lower the price of diamonds.

To put it bluntly, I have more precious jade, why should I let you make a lot of money with junk diamonds?

Facing a group of social elite groups, Lin Hao smiled disdainfully. Before, when he was reorganizing these dynamic social elite groups, these people were unwilling to cooperate.

As a result, after Lin Hao placed a family portrait on the pillow of each of their leaders, everyone became obedient. Then Lin Hao said calmly:
"What? Do you have any objections?"

Lin Hao looked at him with a smile on his face. In an instant, the whole warehouse became as cold as a glacier. Everyone else looked at the fool who had just spoken with angry eyes.

You can't defeat them even if you fight them. If you don't want to do it, there are plenty of people who will. It's your own choice to take this path.

"Yes~, I'm sorry!"

Lin Hao's goal is very simple. There are 12 social elite groups now, but he wants to select the 10 strongest groups.

Gather them together, then slowly suppress and tame them, and the remaining two groups of social elites will serve as their buffers and backups.

Lin Hao doesn't like killing people, at least not by himself. He wants to give them time to think about their future.

After all, there are still more than ten years before the return. If they have figured it out, there is still time to clear their name. If they haven’t figured it out, then let them die on their own.

“Let’s cut to the chase. I have opened more than 10 jewelry stores in Hong Kong Island, covering the territories of all of your social elite gangs.

"These ten stores will serve as the head offices in each region. You can get raw stones from these 10 jewelry stores, and they will also be responsible for recycling the jade you have opened."

"From now on, these 10 piles of jadeite raw stones will be auctioned, and the highest bidder will win. The 10 social elite groups that win the auction can open jewelry franchise stores, but they must conduct formal transactions."

“I want to see the price of diamonds go down to the lowest point in two years, and the price of jadeite go up to the sky!”

"Whoever can't do it, then change to another one, understand?"

Diamonds bring in so much wealth, and their cost may be only a few dozen dollars, which also includes the mining and transportation costs. The only thing worthwhile is probably the polishing cost.

However, this does not change the fact that diamonds themselves are just a bunch of garbage.

Therefore, Lin Hao wanted to suppress the price of diamonds and raise the price of jadeite. By the way, he wanted Wu Qiao to control all the jadeite mines in Shendian, thus killing two birds with one stone.

10 piles of rough stones!
In fact, there are more than 2 tons of raw stones left over.

Therefore, before the auction, Lin Hao had these two tons of rough stones cut into pieces!

The cut is very violent, just bend over and cut it in half!

The price of jade is not low. It was not expensive before the Qing Dynasty. It started to become expensive only during the Qing Dynasty, such as the jade ring used to string a bow and arrow, snuff bottles and so on.

Especially in the late Qing Dynasty, the most famous Empress Dowager Cixi, who "would rather give it to outsiders than to her servants", loved jade very much, which made the value of jade jewelry soar.

People in Hong Kong also know that this thing is valuable, but Lin Hao’s requirement is to raise the price of this thing, the higher the better.

It won’t cheat people from the mainland, as they can’t afford it anyway, but can people from Hong Kong Island afford it?
That doesn't matter. Wouldn't it be great if you could raise the price and status of this thing to the level of diamonds in the past?
At this time, an untimely voice said:

"Mr. Lin, our gang has dealt in jewelry before, mainly gold and diamonds. What about our original diamond business?"

"What an ignorant fool!" Lin Hao said angrily, "Diamonds are worthless garbage. You are just trying to flatter me like a fool!"

Why do ordinary people buy a piece of useless carbon when getting married?
It's just that they did a good job in marketing. With a simple slogan like "Diamonds are forever", they used other people's hard-earned money to buy a piece of carbon.

The biggest benefit of diamonds to Lin Hao is that when he encounters danger, he can use it to scratch glass.

But in fact, jadeite can also be used. The only difference is that diamonds are cheaper. However, in the real world, diamonds are also being abandoned by people.

Because people are gradually realizing that diamonds are nothing more than the biggest scam of the 21st century.

The price of a diamond ring can reach tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, which is so expensive that it terribly shocking. However, if you take the diamond ring you bought for 180 yuan and sell it at a pawn shop, the pawn shop will only give you 180 yuan at most. Of the 30 yuan, the diamond itself is only worth 150 yuan. If the ring itself is made of platinum, it will only give you yuan.

If it is stainless steel, I'm sorry, we won't accept it.

Don’t think that pawn shops are heartless. In fact, they are very conscientious. If you take it to the jewelry store that sold you the diamond, sorry, they won’t accept it.

Because the output of diamonds is ridiculously high and the price of raw materials is ridiculously low, only a fool would recycle such garbage.

For example, there are huge reserves of diamond ore in South Africa. If they were mined, on average every person in the world would be able to get 20 carats, not to mention that there are several similar large mines.

The key is that diamonds can be artificially produced, and the purity, light transmittance and other data of artificial diamonds are much higher than those of natural ones.

And the price is lower than natural ones, so low that it can be used to make sandpaper.

Of course, the original purpose of producing artificial diamonds was to make sandpaper. Which country has the largest production capacity of artificial diamonds?

That’s right, it’s me, a certain rabbit said secretly.

Henan's Diamond Town, also known as the Superhard Materials Town, produces 90% of the world's artificial diamonds.

And the world's largest producer and exporter of artificial diamond machines?

That’s right, it’s me again, a certain rabbit raised a smile.

Moreover, as early as 1965, we had already developed a six-sided top press, which had a production capacity 20 times that of foreign two-sided top presses.

The only thing that makes Lin Hao recognize the high value of diamonds is the eight-arrows and eight-hearts cutting process. This thing really requires craftsmanship.

But does jade carving require no skills?
Diamonds are cheap, so it doesn’t matter if they are cut to pieces, as the cost is low anyway.

But have you ever thought about destroying an imperial green sculpture?

He has the desire to kill.

There is no need to compare the two.

As the two-ton raw stone was cut open, the gang leaders were all excited. A man from Shendian nearby gave them a brief explanation of what gambling on stones was, which made the gang leaders' eyes sparkle.

what is this?
This is money!
Who can resist money!
"Mr. Lin, what about the people who were not photographed?"

"What should we do? We'll just have to rely on our luck next time. We want to take the world's highest-end route. Too many things will be bad!" Lin Hao said calmly.

“Also, find a legitimate person to run the jewelry store, preferably a white person, so that we can enter the European and American markets and earn pounds and dollars.

So you all, please don't mess with me. No matter whose subordinates you are, pass the word that if you want to rob, it doesn't matter if it's a gold and diamond store."

"If anyone dares to mess with my jade shop, or if anyone's shop is robbed, I will cause trouble for them!"

As he spoke, Lin Hao's aura of a superior was fully unleashed. A group of people swallowed their saliva, all of them were overwhelmed by Lin Hao's aura. There was no one here who had not been threatened by Lin Hao.

Late in the night, Lin Hao took a dog's head and placed it on your bedside, and then put a photo of his family there. Who the hell can stand this?

My goodness, did you know that people can be scared to death?

This is also the reason why both the social elite groups and the people at the top listen to him.

If you don’t obey, your whole family will be killed!

It’s not that no one resisted, but they were pulled onto the boat by Lin Hao, watched them being made into cement barrels, and helped push them into the sea to help reclaim land.

Those who disobeyed us cannot even find their bodies now.

Who would have thought that the body had already been sunk into the sea.

So, everyone was very obedient, and Lin Hao's attitude was also very strange. The order in Hong Kong Island was completely different during the day and at night.

The daytime is peaceful and the gangsters all know what to do and what not to do.

Normal people won’t go out at night, but those who want to have fun will go directly to the places of the social elite gangs. There they can have anything they want, as long as they have money!

Lin Hao didn't bother to care about this at all. In fact, because of this, the order of the entire Hong Kong Island has improved visibly. You see, Lin Hao has made another contribution to our country.

Today's Hong Kong Island is a place where everyone is doing well, including you.

So the whole of Hong Kong Island is now depressed and sick, but the problem is that this kind of pathological development is what everyone except Da Ying wants to see.

Because the money comes so quickly and life is so easy.

Two tons of raw stones made this group of people completely satisfied. They took out an ordinary jade stone weighing more than 100 kilograms, and Lin Hao bought it back at a high price on the spot.

So the gang leaders also knew that they could add a new item to their casinos.

“But… let’s make it clear in advance that whoever finds good jadeite can buy it, but you must buy it from me at the market price.

Otherwise, don’t blame me for being rude. If we want to raise the price of jadeite, we must allow more people to enter the market. As long as I am here, you will have all the raw stones.

"If you have the channels, you can go to Shendian to find the raw stones yourself, but you must let me know that someone is cheating, hehe~!"

"We made the rules clear in advance. You must abide by what I say. If you don't abide by it, I don't mind letting his whole family contribute to the reclamation of Hong Kong Island!"

Soon, a new and exciting way of gambling appeared in Hong Kong Island, and this thing opened a store openly, and inside it were raw jadeite stones~!

But more raw stones are found in many gambling dens.

Buy a piece of stone, and then have a special person help you cut the stone. The stone can be cut directly or rubbed slowly with a grinding machine.

Then there is jade inside the stone. Once the jade is seen, it is called "rise". If it is not seen, it is called "fall".

Gambling can stimulate dopamine in the brain. When gambling, the human brain will be very excited and active.

This is also the reason why you should stay away from gambling, because the dopamine produced by gambling is far greater than anything else except taking painkillers.

(End of this chapter)