After wandering around the warehouse for most of the day, Yang Jing finally walked out of the warehouse with more than 200 pieces of glass-type jadeite rough stones.

Yang Jing didn't want to keep these glass jades here, but planned to take them back directly. These jadeite stones were to be carried out by elephants - if the jadeite stones in the warehouse had not been counted, Yang Jing would have thrown these jadeite stones into the storage space and taken them away.

More than 200 pieces of jadeite raw stones weigh about half a ton. One elephant cannot pull them away. At least four elephants are needed.

In fact, elephants are not as powerful as people imagine, at least their carrying capacity is not good. Although adult elephants can easily roll up half a ton of things with their trunks, and can easily pull two or three tons of things forward leisurely, if you ask elephants to carry things, they will not be able to do it.

In fact, except for horses and donkeys, which have been domesticated for thousands of years and are specifically used for carrying heavy loads, all animals with four legs on the ground are mostly "copper heads, iron tails, and tofu waists". Whether they are tigers, wolves, dogs or cats, most of them have poor carrying capacity.

Although elephants are the largest land animals in the world, the weight that an adult elephant can carry should not exceed 150 kilograms, as the elephant's back strength is not very strong.

This is why Wu Qinmao organized more than 50 elephants to carry food for the workers at the site every day. An elephant can only carry about 100 kilograms, and more than 50 elephants can carry about 5,000 kilograms of food a day.

If elephants were to carry out these more than 500 kilograms of jadeite raw stones, at least four elephants would be needed.

In the evening, Wu Qinmao prepared a table full of sumptuous dishes, most of which were made from local ingredients.

Wild boar meat, pangolins, wild rabbits, pheasants, these wild animals are abundant in the primitive forests near the Damukan mining area, and there are also hunters who are proficient in hunting in the mining area. These hunters can go out for a long time with their dogs and guns and bring back a lot of game.

There is no shortage of fish and shrimp here. Walking a few kilometers downstream along the Wulu River, you will enter the canyon area. Although there are not many fish and shrimp in the mining area, there are still quite a lot of fish and shrimp in the canyon area that has not been damaged.

There was a large table of dishes for dinner, and there were quite a few people eating together. In addition to Wu Qinmao and security team leader Tun Qin, there were also four heads of stone selection masters and two other deputy security team leaders.

In the mining area, the least valuable people are the miners. Although it is helpless and cruel to say this, this is the reality.

There are hundreds of thousands of miners working in the jade mining area in northern Myanmar. In Yang Jing's Wuma mining area alone, there are nearly 4,000 miners working. In the Damukan mining area alone, there are more than 20 mining areas of similar size to Yang Jing's Wuma mining area, and even more small mining areas.

Therefore, in the jade mining area, miners have the lowest status. Above the miners are security guards and stone selectors.

The importance of security is self-evident. Although these guys seem to do nothing at ordinary times, once something really happens, they are more ferocious than most Myanmar troops.

These security guards are doing the work of mercenaries. They usually eat and drink well and receive a good salary. However, once danger occurs, they are also required to step forward and, if necessary, use their bodies to block bullet holes.

It can be said that those who can serve as security guards in Myanmar's jade mining area are a group of desperate criminals who don't care about their lives. Usually, when the Kachin Army and the government army encounter these security guards, they usually don't do anything to the security guards in the mining area.

As for the stone selectors, their importance in the mining area is even greater than that of the security guards. In the jadeite mining area, most of the stones dug out by the miners do not contain jadeite, but some do. How to distinguish them? That requires these experienced stone selectors.

Most of these stone-selecting masters are veteran miners who have worked in the mining area for their entire lives. They are very experienced and can roughly determine whether a stone contains jadeite by just looking at it, touching it, or even knocking it and listening to its sound. Every stone dug out from the mining area must be selected by the stone-selecting masters.

Moreover, the stone selector does not select these stones once, but selects them at least three times in a cross-selected manner, and finally determines which stones can be stored and which stones can be thrown into the ore dump...

Jade is very valuable. If the stone selector is not capable enough, it will be easy to throw away the raw stones containing jade as garbage. If this happens, it will naturally cause great losses to the mine owner.

Similarly, if the stone selector selects too many raw stones that do not contain jade and puts them into the warehouse, it will also affect the mine owner's profits.

Therefore, how to select the right jadeite raw stones from the excavated ores requires the skills of the stone selector. Whether the boss of a mine can make money also depends on the level of the stone selector.

In Myanmar's mining areas, a top-notch stone selector is hard to come by. The difference between the so-called "stone gambling masters" and "stone gambling experts" outside and the stone selectors in the mining areas is absolutely huge.

It is no exaggeration to say that those so-called "stone gambling masters" out there who are eager to be praised to the sky by stone lovers are not even worthy of carrying shoes for the stone selectors in the mining area.

How many pieces of jadeite raw stones can those so-called "jadeite gambling masters" out there come into contact with in their lifetime?

What about the stone selectors in the mines? They may come into contact with hundreds or even thousands of pieces of ore a day. If these stone selectors do not check tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of jadeite raw stones a year, they are embarrassed to call themselves stone selectors...

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