It was still 1981, and the country had just gone through 10 years of turmoil. No one knew what the future would be like.
There are fewer and fewer people who collect jade antiques and have such a long-term vision. The vast majority of people have given up hope. They don’t know that reform and opening up have begun and how developed this country will become in the future.
The price of jadeite will be hyped to an exaggerated level that no one can imagine.
This mentality is just like that of people who buy houses in later generations. They hope that housing prices will fall every year, but instead of falling, they keep rising.
This also caused the mentality of the vast majority of people who were holding on to their money and waiting to see what was happening to them to lose hope, and with their hopes dashed, they all became house slaves without hesitation.
Now is the time when jade and antiques are at their lowest value, and it is also the darkness before dawn. Those who can survive this period will become rich in the future.
If you can keep a glass-type imperial green bracelet for another 20 or 30 years, its price will be tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.
But can they hide it? Can they wait? Do they have the vision and confidence?
None of them.
So we can't blame Chen Xia for being despicable and clearing out their inventory that has been there for decades, or even hundreds of years. Even if Chen Xia didn't clear it out, Wang Xia and Li Xia would come to clear it out in the future.
These people will regret it in the future, but what’s the use?
High-end jadeite only has value for speculation when it is concentrated in the hands of a few people. If so many people have glass-type imperial green jadeite, how can the price be driven up?
Capitalists are not philanthropists, so why should they let you take a free ride?
In fact, the same is true for diamonds. The mining resources are concentrated in the hands of a few people, the cutting technology is also controlled by a few people, and the key is that the channels are also controlled by a few people, so the prices are hyped so high.
Who knows how many diamonds are there in the diamond mine?
Gold can still be used as hard currency at critical moments. You can try selling your diamonds and see if jewelry companies are willing to buy them back.
On the contrary, for jadeite, the resources of old mine jadeite will become less and less in the future, and high-end jadeite will become increasingly scarce. The quality of new mines is far inferior to that of old mines, which also causes the price of jadeite to fluctuate year by year.
If Myanmar's warlords start fighting again, the public auction stops, or the jade mines can no longer be transported, the price of jade will skyrocket.
Who knows if these warlords are playing a double game? After all, this is beneficial to everyone.
Did Chen Xia like jade? Actually, he didn't like it at all, but because he hadn't paid attention to economic trends in his previous life, he didn't know when the US and Japanese stocks would rise or fall, or when crude oil prices would take off or crash.
This kind of capital speculation requires extreme precision. Some novel protagonists can use 100 times leverage to speculate, but Chen Xia can never do it. A one or two point rise or fall will cause a margin call. He makes money quickly, but loses money even faster.
So in his mind, only antiques and jade could be used by him, and he would also have a house in the future.
These are all sure-wins, but the cycle is relatively long and we have to wait for decades. If we want to make money and accumulate original capital in the near future, we still have to think of "medicine".
Don’t even think about the “medical” field. No matter how high your level is, it would be useless in the 1980s.
Even if he became a nationally renowned doctor, what would that mean? At most, his salary would increase a bit, a little over 100 yuan a month, wasn't that impressive? Such a high salary and generous subsidies would make anyone envious, but what did it mean to Chen Xia?
Nothing at all. Being a doctor is a pitfall: low pay and high workload. There's a classic saying, "If you persuade someone to study medicine, you'll be struck by lightning."
Chen Xia has a principle in mind, which is not to keep too much cash on hand and to wait for more than ten years before investing in real estate.
In the future world, the best job is to be the governor of a central bank. No matter which country the governor is from, they are all the same, printing money non-stop, without any technical skills required.
There are even some weird countries like Zimbabwe and Venezuela, where the printed money has turned into waste paper.
A banknote is just a piece of paper. It will only continue to depreciate if you hold it in your hand. Even when the global economy was depressed by the impact of the new crown in 2020, the measures taken by central banks of various countries were to "print banknotes crazily."
To put it bluntly, it is to dilute the wealth in the hands of ordinary people and rob the poor to help the rich.
Chen Xia's goal was to become the richest man in Qingfeng Village, and he could afford to wait. A person without a solid foundation who wanted to become the world's richest man would be nothing more than a fat sheep in the eyes of the powerful and capitalists, waiting to be slaughtered.
Oh, he also has a space hospital. There are so many medicines, but he is a medical student and was a general surgeon in his previous life.
I didn’t graduate from a pharmacy program, so I know how to use drugs but I don’t know how to make them.
So now he can only be a "middleman". Of course, once he has a certain amount of capital, he will definitely do drug research and development work.
Now we have all the medicines, and the ingredients and formulas are all available. We will be able to copy them when the time comes, right?
Chen Xia is full of confidence in the future, and becoming a billionaire is a sure thing.
One night, everything was quiet except for the croaking of frogs in the fields. Chen Xia hid in the mosquito net, dreaming of becoming the richest man in Qingfeng Village, drinking Coke and eating melon seeds at his doorstep every day without having to go to work.
Suddenly, the stairs of the bamboo building made a series of creaking sounds. Chen Xia was woken up in a daze. Thinking that there was an emergency patient, he was about to get up and ask what was going on.
Suddenly, someone put a cold metal pole against my head and said, "Don't move."
From the tone of voice, it was known that he was speaking non-standard Mandarin. Chen Xia thought that this was the end. He had finally attracted evil spirits by collecting jadeite every day.
He had no doubt that this was a real gun. This was at the border, and 100 meters away from his bamboo house was the territory of the old Burmese. Our country was stable, but they were not.
The warlords were fighting each other every day, and guns were so prevalent that even the elderly and children could own them.
Just when Chen Xia decided to save his life first, regardless of whether he was exposed or not, and wanted to immediately escape to the space hospital, he heard the person say:
"We just want to ask Doctor Chen to do you a favor. We won't hurt you."
Chen Xia thought: "I want to see a doctor, but you brought me jade. I'll even cut off your foreskin if it's too long. What's the point of putting a gun to my head? Don't I care about my dignity?"
He could complain in his heart, but he couldn't say it out loud. He didn't dare to bet whether the bullet was faster or he could dodge faster.
"Who are you treating? Let's talk it over nicely."
"You don't need to know who we're treating. Come with us to the other side right now. If you can cure your illness, we have plenty of jade for you."
By this time, Chen Xia had already seen clearly that there were at least a dozen armed men in the bamboo building. It was too dark to see their faces and clothes, but from this evidence, it could be judged that these ghosts were all Burmese.
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