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The amount of information of the coachmen is also different. Some may know nothing, some may pretend not to know, but some know a lot——

"The ones in the jade shop are polished, but the ones bought here are unpolished. Let me tell you, if the jade is not polished, it will be the same as the stones on the mountain!"

"Then why buy it? I heard that it can't be worn by itself!"

"I know this. It's cheaper to buy unpolished ones. Besides, I heard that jade is going to be closed."

"What do you mean? How do you shut up? Throw dice to compare the size, and then see who picks the stone first?"

"No, the jade is similar to the stones on the mountain. You have to guess which stone is better. For example, there is a big stone here. They ask for a tael of silver..."

"Aren't you crazy! One tael of jade? I think the jade on a woman's ring is worth more than 300 taels!"

"Hey! I'm just an example. Well, let's say 1000 taels. For example, if someone puts out such a big rock, um, it's as big as a pig's head. The asking price is 1000 taels. Can you buy it?

You have to be able to see and guess whether there is jade in the stone skin. If you remove the stone skin, it will be full of jade. A jade as big as a pig's head is only 1000 taels of silver. Wouldn't you be making a lot of money? "

"Oh! That's right! A piece of jade as big as a fingernail costs 300 taels, and a jade the size of a pig's head costs tens of thousands of taels of silver? That 1000 taels is worth it!"

"Then what if there is only a little bit of jade in it?"

"Then you will lose!"

"That's why you have to be an expert, know how to read, and be able to see what's inside through the stone skin!"

"Then isn't your home from Huafang, your boss will look at it?"

"I don't know if he will, but he brought experts here. I think your family also invited someone?"

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"I'm talking about Chen Zhuangtou," a middle-aged businessman with a round face and kind eyes asked softly, "Are these the jade brought back by the Fourth Prince a few days ago?"

The one called Chen Zhuangtou was also a middle-aged man, unlike the Zhuangtou of other farms who nodded and bowed to the nobles, he was rather reserved and bookish.

Chen Zhuangtou is one of Zheng Chunqiu's managers, he is very shrewd and capable.

It's just that Zheng Chunqiu has always relied on the power of the Yue family, so the stewards Zheng Chunqiu cultivated are all in humble positions, and the talents brought by Mrs. Zheng from her natal family are important figures in running the Zheng family's property.

This time, Zheng Chunqiu sent Guanshi Chen out to pretend to be the "Zhuangtou" to be in charge of the closure, mainly because he was inconspicuous, no one had seen him before, and he had given some explanations to him.

The first one is to "not say it clearly, but let people know that this Guanpu was held under the order of the fourth prince."

After Zheng Chunqiu had a "frank and honest" talk with the Fourth Prince, he began to ponder over this matter when he returned home.

If it is really like what the fourth prince said, everything can be handled by himself, and if he messes up things, he will have no way out at all, and the fourth prince must be involved.

Firstly, it will make this matter easier to win people's trust and facilitate development; secondly, if something goes wrong, with the name of the Fourth Prince standing in front, no one would dare to cause trouble.

So when faced with the question from the kind-hearted businessman, Chen Guanshi replied: "Shh! Don't talk nonsense! You can understand the authentic Worth jade at a glance!"

A few years ago, the jade that Chu Qing got back went directly into the royal treasury, and there was no movement in these years. This time, the fourth prince just came back, and there was movement. Obviously, it was the batch that had just been brought back.

The words are unclear, but understanding is in place, Chen Guanshi is very satisfied with the clear expression of the middle-aged businessman.

And the other businessmen who seemed to be looking at the room next to them were actually listening to the conversation between the two with their ears upright. When Manager Chen answered this, no one asked any more questions, and they all seemed tacit.

"Everyone, please! It's time, and many of them have already gone to the backyard to look at the goods." Steward Chen greeted with a smile.

Everyone followed Chen Guanshi to a warehouse. There were already many people in the warehouse. The ground was covered with snow stepped in from the outside, some of which had already melted, and the ground was dirty.

There are long tables around the four corners of the warehouse, and small stones are placed on the table. Behind each stone is a small card with a price marked on it.

There are large stones piled under the table, and the price is also marked.

On the large open space in the middle of the warehouse, there are tools such as water tanks, chisels, hammers, ropes, etc., ready to untie the stones at any time.

"These are mountain jades," Chen Guanshi said, "We will shut down these mountain jades for the first three days, and we will shut down the river jades after three days."

The jade stones brought back from the river beach are very small, and the stones have been washed by the water all year round, and the stone skin itself is also very beautiful. Therefore, if you want to cut it open to see the inside, you need to be more carefully polished and cut.

Because the stone is decomposed by manpower and all by hand, it is a very slow process to decompose the stone.

Compared with dividing large pieces of mountain jade, grinding and cutting small river jade takes more time. It may not be enough for three days, so it is done after the mountain jade.

After Chen Guanshi explained the rules of Guanpu and the rules of bidding, everyone had no objections and began to pick stones.

The mentality of people participating in stone gambling is very interesting. Some believe in their own luck, some believe in the ability to distinguish, and some are good at observing words and colors, judging which stone is good based on the expressions of others, and then preemptively strike.

Chen Guanshi looked at the looks of everyone eager to try, and couldn't help feeling: It's great to be rich, look at these people, they are picking jade, not Chinese cabbage!

Although many people have brought "experts" here, the experience accumulated by these experts is actually not much.

If you ask them to identify the finished products of Daxuan jade and Voss jade, they may be able to speak clearly and logically, but it is too difficult for them to identify rough jade.

Because very few people have seen what the original stone of Voss jade looks like, even the mountain jade operated by the Meng family in the south of the Yangtze River in the past was basically chiseled and rarely had stone skin.

But there are always experts, no, someone went to the middle of the field, scooped a ladle of water from the water tank and poured it on a stone he was looking for.

At the place where he had watered, people saw a tinge of blue translucence on the gray stone, so some people "hissed" to cool off, and went to the tank to find a ladle.

Chen Guanshi just looked at each other, and the servants handed out gourds one by one.

The gourd scoop is very delicate, only the size of a palm, so that the water can be held without weighing down the hand, and it will not splash the water all over the floor, and then stain the sole of a shoe.

There are also people who hold a stone, and then use their body to cover the surrounding light, and stick a light on the stone with a fire fold.

There are also people who are full of confidence, adhering to the spirit of "choose the big peach and eat it", and specialize in pondering around the big stone.

The same is the selection of stones, people are not completely attentive.

For example, those who are serious about splashing water and shining fire, despise those who just walk around and watch, but don't touch them: Isn't this just a quick look at the flowers, what can you see?