When they returned to Myitkyina, they had nothing to do, and one day Yang Dinglong said to them:
Family, I'm going to open jade in the garden tomorrow, are you interested?”
Okay!Long insight. ”
Early the next morning, Yang Dinglong took Yang Shijie and Ma Qian to a large lychee orchard on the outskirts of the city. Yang Dinglong introduced:
Today we are here to help Li Yousheng open jade, Boss Li is from Tengchong, our most famous jade boss in Myitkyina, which is also one of his industries. ”
The lychee garden is very large, covering an area of more than ten acres, and in the dense lychee forest of the garden, there is a small grass shed, which is the workshop of Kaiyu. There is a large iron pot in the shed, and there are two wooden sticks on the rungs on the pot, and the jade wool to be opened is placed on the wooden sticks to fix it tightly, and three-quarters of the water is placed in the pot, and there is diamond sand in the water. One person on each side, with a carpentry saw, but the toothed blade is replaced with a toothless steel blade. When working, like sawing wood, pulling left and right, the third person uses a spoon to pour sand and water on the location of the saw blade, so that the saw blade drives the diamond sand back and forth to get the effect of division, and the water is mainly for the purpose of cooling and sticking the sand. Time disappeared in the rustling sound of the saw blade moving left and right, and Yang Dinglong talked to the two about jade:
Open jade, why hide in such a big garden!?Because ** has always prohibited private individuals from engaging in the mining, processing and sale of jade. All activities related to jade are illegal, so they can only be hidden, quietly, to say that it is ugly, it is completely the same as being a thief, once it is discovered, it will be arrested and imprisoned, and the risk is also very great. ”
A few years ago, there was a Yingjiang Himama man, who escaped from the mainland with his father since he was a child, and his father died on the way, leaving him alone, wandering everywhere. Everyone doesn't know what his name is, only that his surname is Li, so they all call him Li Xiao. A few years later, a fellow villager took pity on him and took him to the Mogang jade field.
In the jade storehouse, if you have no capital, you can only do coolies. The boss funded a cave, sent a cronie to manage it, and hired a person with experience in jade as a foreman. The hole is divided into vertical hole and horizontal hole, and the worker excavates in the hole, and pulls out all the stones and soil dug out with bamboo baskets. The foreman selects at the entrance of the cave, and all those who may have jade are selected out, because the jade wool is wrapped with a layer of sand on the outside, commonly known as Pi Yan. It is difficult for ordinary people to see that experienced people can judge whether there is jade in it by the color of the skin. This person is very important, and he generally has to be a person who can be trusted by the boss, and the boss rarely comes up to the hole. There are generally caves.
Five or six people, big ones.
For one or twenty people, food, shelter and clothing are all borne by the boss. The excavated jade, every time, the boss's cronies stationed at the site on behalf of the boss, the foreman and the workers to negotiate the price together. The price obtained is divided into 10% by the workers, 20% by the foreman, and 70% by the boss. There are also good-hearted bosses who give the workers 20%. If the workers and foremen see that the boss is asking too low, they can also buy the jade for money. But this is a very rare thing, because the people who come to work in the jade field are all poor people who have money to buy. This is also a seemingly fair rule that rich people have come up with. Therefore, the boss often puts the price very low, and he forgives you that the workers have no way to take him. But if you go too far, the workers will leave the good stuff before they get out of the hole, hide it in the hole, and sell it when they have the chance. If even the foreman is angry with the workers, then your boss will be unable to prevent it and have nothing to do, so the boss still has to have a little conscience.
Therefore, in our Burma, the Burmese people have no way to go to the temple to become monks, and the Han people have no way to go to the jade field to work as workers, and they will not starve to death for the rest of their lives. Of course, not to mention natural disasters and diseases in the jade field, man-made disasters are indispensable. Because this place is not under the control of the ** army, but the sphere of influence of the mountain soldiers, all the caves are taxed to the mountain soldiers (Kachin soldiers), and they are under their protection in peacetime. If the ** army wants to go up to sweep, the mountain soldiers will get the news a few days earlier, informing everyone to temporarily evacuate and avoid. There are some people who have just come from the mainland, and they often think, such a big mountain, if you go from here, I will hide over there, and if you go over there, I will hide here again, what can you do with me!?I just don't want to go, stay in the mountains. I don't know that Lao Myanmar is up as soon as he comes up.
The first and second battalions, with thousands of men, pulled the straggler line, searched down the mountain, saw people from afar, shot and killed without saying a word, and never left a mouth alive. Think about it, how can a person outrun a bullet?When you spot the old Burmese soldiers, before you can react, the bullets will arrive in front of you. Poor heh!I don't know how many people have lost their lives as a result.
Looking back, let's talk about Li Xiao, in the blink of an eye, he has been in the jade field for a few years, and he has changed from a hairy man to a young man in his twenties. Over the years, I have eaten and drunk on the field without worry, carefree, gambling with a little money, occasionally needing, looking for a chicken to have fun, and I feel good about myself.
One summer day, in the middle of the night, Li Xiao and the workers were so dizzy from gambling, their pockets were empty, and they were driven down from the gambling table, only to feel that their little belly was swollen and bulging, and they were so anxious that they couldn't do it. So he hurriedly ran out, found a place where no one was, and rushed down as soon as he soaked in urine. The first is that the time is too long, and the second is that the young and energetic are full, and it took five or six minutes to vent. He casually lowered his head, ready to see how his battle was, a stone the size of a teacup washed by urine, glittering in the moonlight. Li Xiao picked it up and saw that the layer of soil wrapped on the surface of the stone was washed away by urine, revealing its true face, which turned out to be a washed stone (the jade material that has lost its shell due to years of water washing), emitting a green light. Li Xiao couldn't help but feel his heart beating wildly, blood rushing to his head, and after a period of dizziness, he looked around to see that there was no one, so he stepped on the moonlight and ran down the mountain. From then on, no one on the field saw him, and his disappearance, except for a period of surprise to the workers in the same cave, soon forgot about him, Bi Jing was a very small figure.
Not long after, a young boss who looked very similar to Li Xiao appeared in Yangon City, and it is said that not long ago, his lump of jade jade was sold for more than 2 million yuan. Although this person is also surnamed Li, his name is Lao Li - Li Lao, with millions of dollars, bought a hotel in Yangon, and began to linger in Yangon's entertainment venues, eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling and everything, proficient in the door, generous, and squandering money, in fact, this person is the poor boy Li Xiao half a year ago. After making a fortune, I felt that I was small in front of everyone before, and I was angry, so I changed my name to Li Lao, so in front of everyone, not only equal, but also higher than you. Heh!Heh!Lao Tzu is rich, if you don't call Li Lao, I won't lose you. So the news of 'a millionaire in a bubble of urine' went ......”
It's a story made up by the poor, right?Pure Ah Q spirit. ”
No, that's true. Elder Li often goes back to Myitkyina, and I will introduce you to you when I have the opportunity. (Li Lao, who later asked the second daughter of the Longchuan Tusi family as his wife, was exposed to the Myanmar Immigration Bureau in 79, saying that he came from China and was arrested in Myitkyina, when he held a Kachin ID card, but did not know Kachin, so the Immigration Bureau sentenced him to three years under Article 13-1 of the Immigration Law, and then deported him under Article 7-1 of the Immigration Law, transferred to Yongsheng Prison in Yangon, and was sent back to Kunming, Yunnan Province with other Chinese in October 1986, and died the next day because he was worried about the future empty life caused by heart disease, ending his legendary life.) 。 ）
In the first half of the day, everyone talked and laughed, but in the second half of the day, the climate was hot again, and they were completely in a state of semi-sleep, only moving mechanically from side to side. Sometimes the sawing and watering are reversed, and everyone is bored anyway.
Jade is very hard, a piece of rough stone the size of a football, if pulled from the middle, it basically takes twelve hours, that is, it takes a day. When each piece of jade is halfway open, if it is lit with a flashlight, you can see whether it is green through the narrow openingWhat is the chromaticity?Is there a good jadeite?But generally only open to the remaining five cents, can not be opened again, at this time by the jade holder, personally gently knock, so that it is divided into two halves. Maybe you will get rich, maybe you will go bankrupt, everything is just a little bit, so this time, it must be left to everyone in jade to complete, this is the rules of the jade world. Sometimes the operation is improper, or the inch is not accurate, accidentally broken in half, if there is a good carousel then it's just, if once there is no color, the jade owner does not admit it, then the jade person is unlucky, not only to lose, and no one will look for you to open the jade in the future.
The wages for opening jade are generally calculated according to the area of the disconnected surface, which is about 60 kyats per square inch. At that time, Burmese pork was sold for only one piece of kyat, and a soccer ball-sized wool cut was more than 20 square inches, which means that the construction was between 1,200 and 1,500 kyats, and you could buy more than 10 pigs weighing 100 kyats, which was already a lot of property.
They worked non-stop for a week, and a total of ten jade Mao Ke were opened. On the afternoon of the last day, Li Yousheng, the boss of jade, came to the garden with several peers, and everyone gathered around the ten pieces of wool that had been opened, taking turns to use flashlights to shine on the cracks, and appreciating them with relish, and expressing what they saw and discussing. When the final critical moment came, Boss Li took a small hammer in his hand and began to strike, "Wow", every time there was a gentle sound, it would attract a few praises or sighs. After ten sounds, the results finally came out, two pieces of fine jade, six pieces of general, only two large colorless, the general said, it is a big rise, it is a big rise, look at Boss Li smiled from ear to ear. Boss Li ordered the housekeepers who came with him to give a tip of 2,000 kyats per person in addition to the normal salary. Before leaving, he whispered to Yang Dinglong:
Those two pieces, let's deal with them the old way. And he took the good jade and left.
Yang Shijie asked curiously
What else should I do with the door?”
At night, when there are few passengers, they take it to the river and throw it into the river. ”
Forget it, why bother!”
Bury it, bury it there?”
Buried in this garden. ”
What a joke!Once someone denounces it, ** comes to the garden to dig up something, and the owner of the garden will have to suffer a lawsuit. When you go to lose it, you have to see if there are people at both ends to lose it. ”
Only then did Yang Shijie understand that in the jade business, this meal was not easy to buy.