Manager Liang and the others were not surprised, but laughed out loud:
"Mr. Lin is kidding. These days, the total annual output of Hetian jade, both good and bad, is only about 50 tons. If you include top-grade seed jade, it's probably only a few dozen kilograms. That's why the price of seed jade is so high now.
As far as we know, the best Hetian jade river material is very rare. Some people have used a large number of excavators to dig up the riverbed, and the seed material they found is also very rare. Now it depends entirely on mountain material, but the quality of mountain material is not good.
If Lingnan Hall really has a large amount of top-grade seed material, our National Jade Group will take as much as we can."
Lin Sanqi pretended not to understand:
"Oh, I know why top-grade seeds can be sold for 20,000 to 30,000 yuan per gram. It turns out that rarity makes things valuable. River seeds are extinct, and mountain seeds are of little use."
Manager Liang nodded:
"Yes, if Mr. Lin really has hundreds of tons of seed materials, then he would have to go back 50 years.
Even after the reform and opening up, it was not possible, because although the country did not pay much attention to jade after the reform and opening up, a large number of Hong Kong jewelers came in and bought a lot of seed materials.
The commotion is mainly coming from Hong Kong's Chow Tai Fook, Chow Sang Sang, Tse Sui Luen, and Luk Fook Jewellery. Today, colleagues from Chow Tai Fook and Chow Sang Sang are all here; they've been the first to get in on the action and make their first fortune.
The person who came from Chow Tai Fook was a purchasing manager named Zhou Kai, who also said with a smile:
"Back then, our Chow Tai Fook purchases of Hetian jade from mainland China could not even reach several hundred tons. If we had reached that scale, we would have almost monopolized the entire Hetian jade market."
Lin Sanqi stood up at this time:
"Come on, let me take you to see whether it's true or not."
When Lin Sanqi said this, several managers became suspicious, but unwilling to give up, so they all stood up.
In the vault on the second basement floor of Plaza de Mayo:
Yin Lianyi and several beauties from the Finance Department were arranging the Hetian jade. This was Lin Sanqi's request to shock all the major jade dealers.
Wang Manke held a piece of seed material the size of a green mango and exclaimed:
"Lianyi, you said that all the basic economics courses we took back then were wasted.
The book says that wealth is the product of social evolution and development, and is a social existence that serves the sustainable survival and development of the human species. It originates from the surplus results of labor, and its essential attribute is surplus labor value.
But you say a piece of stone is worth millions, equivalent to a medium-sized house. Then who created the value of this stone? Or is the value of our labor produced after working so hard for a year not even as much as a small stone?
Yin Lianyi was busy placing stones on the shelf while scolding with a smile:
"You're a graduate of a finance and economics university, what surplus value does this stone have? The value of the stone comes from capital speculation. It's imaginary, it can't be eaten or used, and it doesn't contribute to the country's economic development.
Our President Lin once said that this phenomenon is abnormal. When the whole society is keen on speculation and capital can make huge profits from speculation, then our economy will become hollow and move away from reality.
If everyone speculates in jade and real estate, and no one is willing to open factories or physical stores, and there is no real economy to support it, then the economy of this country or region will sooner or later run into problems. Hong Kong is the best example of this."
Having said that, Yin Lianyi pointed to the underground floor:
"I also heard a story from Lin Sanqi, who said that in 1960, his great-grandfather exchanged 200 kilograms of rice for 20 paintings by Qi Baishi, which are now worth billions.
The same painting was worth 200 kilograms of rice 60 years ago, but by 2014 it was worth several billion yuan, enough to buy hundreds of millions of tons of grain. So what do you think is the value of these paintings?"
Mo Zilan burst out laughing:
"Alright, alright, stop preaching. Your chats are making me feel like I'm back in my horrible school days. We don't care how much this stone is worth. What we should care about is how much the boss will give us at the end of the year."
After Yin Lianyi diligently placed a large piece of seed material on the shelf, she replied:
"Don't worry, this year's revenue will definitely double that of last year. This isn't me being partial or corrupt; this is what Chairman Lin Sanqi told me personally."
Jiang Wenyao jokingly said, "Oh my, did you say that in bed? So, is our Director Lin really good at this?"
Yin Lianyi knew that there were only a few of them in the vault, so she said without shyness:
"Anyway, I have to take the next day off and stay in bed. What's wrong? Is your boyfriend not capable? Are you so unconfident?"
"Ah, is Mr. Lin a beast or a human? You've been lying down all day. Did you meet an animal?"
"Hehe, Lianyi always brags. I see that the boss has obvious dark circles under his eyes recently. He must have been drained by Lianyi."
Hahahaha~~~
(Lin Sanqi: I have dark circles under my eyes because I was so busy traveling through two eras, okay!!!)
At this time, Yin Lianyi's phone rang: "Yeah, okay, I'm almost ready here."
After hanging up the phone, Yin Lianyi turned on all the lights on the second underground floor. Suddenly, it was as bright as day. Rows of shelves appeared in front of everyone, and the shelves were full of pieces of Hetian jade seeds.
After a while, the vault door opened and Lin Sanqi came in with a group of people.
As he entered, the vault door was closed tightly, and then all the cameras were aimed at the person, and there was someone watching in the monitoring room.
Just kidding, this is a real treasury. Even a seed the size of an egg stolen from here could be worth tens or millions of dollars.
As soon as Manager Liang, Manager Zhou and others entered the underground vault, they saw jade stones everywhere, neatly arranged in rows on the shelves.
Everyone's eyes bulged out, and they looked incredulous.
Even when beauties like Yin Lianyi were standing nearby, these old perverts were too lazy to take a second look; their eyes were all fixed on the jade.
Manager Liang asked with trembling hands:
"Mr. Lin, these are all Hetian jade?"
Lin Sanqi added: "Seed material!"
Zhou Kai, the purchasing manager of Chow Tai Fook, was also stunned:
"Mr. Lin, how much seed material do you have here?"
Lin Sanqi thought for a moment:
"I really don't know how much seed material I have, but I can be sure that I have about 1,000 tons of Hetian jade in total, of which the seeds should be no less than 100 tons. Do you think I only have these seeds on the shelf? No, you are wrong.
Lin Sanqi pointed to the rows of large wooden boxes on the other side and said:
"Look, all of this is Hetian jade, and it's top quality. You can open the boxes and take a look. The seeds are packed in boxes, just like pebbles in a stream. There are so many of them."
Manager Liang and the other nine colleagues looked at each other. After the initial shock, they began to feel a little worried.
Manager Liang asked in confusion:
"Director Lin, we have all been working in the jewelry industry for decades. To be honest, we have seen several tons of Hetian jade, and we have also seen thousands of kilograms of seeds delivered at once, but this is the first time I have seen so many seeds.
Mr. Lin, please don't blame me for being mean-spirited. I'm very curious. The Hetian jade resources in Western Xinjiang are almost exhausted. Where did you get so much Hetian jade from in Lingnan Hall?
Lin Sanqi smiled and said, "You're probably asking, are we counterfeiting something? Or are we mastering the technology to create synthetic jade like Henan Diamond?"
Several managers smiled awkwardly.
Precisely because they are insiders, they simply cannot imagine where so much top-grade Hetian jade comes from?
It seems that the only possibility is fraud.
Lin Sanqi took a file bag from Yin Lianyi, took out the documents inside and placed them on a table.
"Please look, this is the document from 1962. This is the mining license signed by the Hotan Prefectural Committee at that time. This is the transportation document from the railway department at that time. And this is the export certificate issued by the Ministry of Foreign Trade at that time.
This batch of Hetian jade was exported to Hong Kong back then. The Lin Xiuming mentioned in the document is my great-grandfather. He was doing jade business in Hong Kong back then, but later due to special reasons, he moved back to China from Hong Kong.
So you don't have to worry. We at Lingnan Hall won't do anything illegal or illegally mine minerals. Besides, even if someone were to steal them now, where would they find so much top-grade Hetian jade?"
Manager Liang and the others heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this, but their concerns quickly returned. (End of Chapter)
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