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Volume 1, Yan Cunzheng, Chapter 107: A plan to sell jade

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    But it¡¯s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. No matter how good her craftsmanship is, it can¡¯t be done without food.  The discussion went on and on, and one person said: "I went to Mengcheng yesterday and saw the jade merchants from Mengcheng coming. How about we sell jade." When he heard the word jade merchant, Zi Baifeng's ears perked up.  .  Now Zi Baifeng knows that jade is like oil in this world. It is a strategic resource and no amount is too much.  Comparing it with oil, Zi Baifeng suddenly remembered those Arab tycoons in his previous life. They all sold oil and became extremely rich.  But if you look more carefully, these Arab tycoons have nothing but money. The oil belongs to them, but it is not necessarily them who has the final say whether to sell it or not. All the big forces are watching.  And after all, there will be a day when the oil will be exhausted. At that time, what will these people do?  Besides, if you sell oil to others and let them develop, then you are going to hit yourself?  Now Zi Baifeng feels that his Xiayan Village is one of those Middle Eastern countries. Although there is jade, if he sells the jade, he will cause trouble for himself and make enemies.  ??Especially sold to those big sects and asked them to build spirit gathering arrays to absorb their own spiritual energy?  How stupid is this?  But wouldn¡¯t it be more wasteful to just put the jade stone under the buttocks of your own bluestone?  Zi Baifeng was struggling here, but the villagers over there were already having a heated discussion.  In fact, when Xiayan Village produced a lot of jade, jade merchants would come to collect jade every year. At that time, Xiayan Village was extremely rich, and everyone lived a well-off life, and no one in the government would change it.  But over the years, jade has become less and less. Jade merchants have gradually stopped coming to Xiayan Village once every two, three, five, or ten years, and instead just stay in Mengcheng for a while, collecting a few pieces at will.  Tian's jade, after collecting everything, left directly and went to the next place.  Most of the villagers have experience in selling jade, so they are not as entangled as Zi Baifeng. After discussing for a while, they decided on a charter and will take the jade in the village to Mengcheng to sell it tomorrow.  Zi Baifeng also figured out that these jade stones were the harvest of the villagers anyway. After careful calculation, it should be seventy or eighty yuan now, which is more than the annual harvest in previous years. Taking out these jade stones would not be a big deal.  , for those sects, more is not enough, and less is not enough.  For Xiayan Village, the harvest from selling jade is crucial.  Seeing Yan Laowu asking for his opinion with his eyes, he nodded and expressed his support for this approach.  Yan Laowu began to count the people who planned to sell jade and the number of jade they wanted to sell. Xiao Tuozi took a notebook and a pencil to record it - even though this little guy has only been in school for a long time, this group of little guys  The most learned among them.  On weekdays, writing and arithmetic is no problem at all, but now Xiao Tuozi¡¯s name is not often shouted out, and people are starting to call him Xiao Xiucai, and some people jokingly call him Xiao Cunzheng.  The pencil and notebook he took were given to him by Zi Baifeng as a reward. He was reluctant to use them on weekdays. He only took them out when it was important, like this time.  Seeing his little Tuozi come out, the old Tuozi was even more excited. He raised his hand and offered three pieces of jade.  "What a piece of shit!" Someone immediately began to scold him. This guy had never told anyone how many pieces of jade he had gotten before. Some people guessed that it was about three pieces. However, although the villagers were not very economically minded, they were  He knows best about retaining family wealth and keeping wealth secret. Lao Tuozi dared to take out three pieces of jade and sell it, but he still kept at least two or three pieces in his hand. Now he has five or six pieces of jade. Although this harvest is not the highest, but in comparison  Looking at Lao Tuozi's embarrassing life in the past, how can we not make people jealous?  "However, the so-called jealousy is just a few words of curse, expressing one's envy, jealousy and hatred, and secretly wondering in my heart, how much can I sell it for?  It would be less embarrassing to take it out and more distressing.  In fact, jade is the best thing to preserve its value. The price has always been rising and never falling.  They sell jade because they are worried about the future, and since jade merchants do not come every year, they can sell some jade in exchange for some money without panic.  But if you are not short of money, it is better to keep the jade in your hands, this is the insurance.  Xiayan Village has a good harvest this year, and there is extra money to be made, but it is still far from being well-off. Life is still tight, and seeing the food prices rising all day long, I feel unsure and uneasy.  At the end of the count, there were more than fifty pieces of jade for sale. This kind of harvest, even in the most glorious times of Xiayan Village in previous years, was considered a harvest, and this was only in the past few months.  Harvest in less than half a year.  Because of this, the villagers felt unsteady, fearing that they would search too much and take away all the aura of the mountain.No more jade for future generations.  Before, it was to look for one to raise two, but now after people in the village discussed it, they started to look for one to raise three.  Zi Baifeng admires this very much. These villagers may not have much knowledge, but they remember the rules written by their ancestors in the "Jade Scripture" very clearly.  The Jade Scripture is the wisdom summarized by the ancestors. One of the points is that no matter how good the jade harvest is, it should never be mentioned in front of outsiders.  As the saying goes, wealth should not be revealed. It is said that our ancestors were almost wiped out because of jade, so this ancestral precept came into being. ?? This idea actually resonated with Baifeng. When Zi and his son first came to Xiayan Village, they often saw the men in Xiayan Village gathering together to discuss something. When they passed by, they became silent.  Two or three years later, the village accepted them and things got better, but when it came to finding jade, they were still secretive.  The "Jade Scripture" has been passed down from generation to generation in the village. Even children who don't study seriously in school will memorize the jade-seeking classic under the stick of their father. It was not until Zi Baifeng was admitted to the academy that he learned it by heart.  Saw it once.  After ten years of hard work, Zi Baifeng and Zijian were treated like villagers, and Zijian was able to follow them to find jade.  After that, Zi Baifeng's prestige increased greatly, but Er Hei was not rejected and was easily accepted by everyone.  In fact, there are rumors in the village now that the jade in the mountain is actually a gift from the great bluestone god, and it is the good luck brought by Zi Baifeng. There are actually many supporters of this. If not, why don't other villages have jade?  Let alone jade, there is not even a harvest.  Although the villagers didn¡¯t say it, they all had similar thoughts in their hearts.  Because of this, the villagers are very tight-lipped and never tell anyone about the jade harvest in the village, not even the other eight villages.  But it is probably impossible to hide this kind of thing forever, especially now that there are more people coming and going from other villages near Xiayan Village, the old man is even more worried about what they heard.  "Don't worry, as long as the villagers don't deliberately spread the word, it will be fine if they hear something." Zi Baifeng answered the old man.  "Then what if they sneak into the mountains to look for jade?" The old man is still worried. Everything within the boundaries of Xiayan Village belongs to their Xiayan Village. The rules left by their ancestors include hunting and looking for jade.  , are all in their own territory and cannot cross the line.  "Don't worry, keeping it will allow them to enter the mountain and not find jade." Zi Baifeng took care of everything.  " Anyway, Zi Baifeng has now confirmed that who can find jade and who can't find jade is all decided by Da Qingshi. Zhu Zhu and Zi Baifeng are close, so the harvest should be the first.  Lao Tuozi's family had great trust in Zi Baifeng, so they gained the second most.  Before Erhei went up the mountain, he prayed sincerely to the Great Bluestone God, saying that the harvest at home was not good and that my wife had no food to eat. She hoped to find two pieces of jade, one for the master to keep and the other to buy food for my mother. The big bluestone  He was also generous, giving him three yuan at once, which made people shout that they were lucky.  The villager who had been disrespectful to Zi Baifeng had been harvesting nothing for more than a month. Two days ago, the blind mother-in-law came to his door and told him that if he wanted to be transferred, he should go to the Big Blue Stone God to kowtow to him and donate money to atone for his sins.  I don¡¯t know if he is going or not.  Anyway, Zi Baifeng told Daqingshi that if he sincerely admits his mistake, he will give him some jade.  After everyone discussed it, the next day, the old man gathered the villagers, each family had a steward, took the jade, hunting knives, bows and arrows, and set off for Mengcheng.  Early in the morning, we beat gongs and drums and fired salutes to celebrate, because selling jade is a major event in Xiayan Village.  After celebrating, they all set off happily, but when it was still dark in the afternoon, the group came back angrily.  "These jade merchants are so bullying!" Yan Laowu slammed the table when he came back. Zi Baifeng quickly asked what happened. Yan Laowu was so angry that he almost jumped on the table: "Damn it, these jade merchants actually lowered the price.  "In the past few decades, a piece of jade could be sold for five taels of silver at first, then it rose to ten taels, and then as jade became increasingly scarce, it rose to twenty taels. This year, the villagers are still thinking about how to sell it again.  Let's go up to 12 or 8 taels. If you can sell it for 30 taels of silver, you can live in Mengcheng for half a year.  If you sell five or six pieces of jade at a time, you can buy a family property in Mengcheng.  "Guess what, they only offered five taels of silver!" Yan Laowu was so angry that his beard was shaking, "What is five taels of silver worth now? One stone of grain has now reached almost two taels of silver, and a piece of jade is only given to  Five taels of silver, these these these bastards who are taking advantage of the situation!" When Zi Baifeng heard this, he became angry.  This is really unbearable. Not to mention anything else, of the more than ten villages related to Xunyu in Mengcheng Prefecture, his Jiuyan Township accounts for at least two-thirds.The price of jade is low, which hurts his people and shakes his interests.  Damn it, his son Baifeng is now stomping his feet and making Mengcheng tremble. Even the prince wants to give him three points. These jade merchants are so brave that they dare to be so arrogant!
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