Jin Yutong

Chapter 452 Emerald Casino

"The Emerald Society is nothing, brother, to tell you the truth, brother, I came to Tengchong with you this time for the purpose of the Emerald Society. Here, let me show you this first."

It's past four o'clock in the afternoon, and it will be night soon, so Zhu Feng didn't hide it from Chen Ran. When he was talking, he took out a card from his pocket and put it in front of Chen Ran. After shaking it twice, after shaking it twice, he threw the card to Chen Ran contentedly. From his expression, he could guess that owning such a card seems to be an extremely honor. one thing.

"What is it?" Just as Chen Ran caught the card, Guo Hai and Zhang Shuchun also surrounded him curiously.

Chen Ran ignored them, but looked down at the card that Zhu Feng threw over. There was nothing unusual about this card. It was not much different from the hotel membership card. If there was any difference, it was only relative to this card. To him, it seemed a bit worth the money, because it was a gold card inlaid with jade.

There are not many words on the card, there is only one title, and Jade will be the director. Apart from this, there is nothing else.

There is nothing but a title, isn't it useless to look at it?

"Brother Feng, I don't take you like this. If you don't say it, hehe, I'll ask Master Zhao." Seeing Zhu Feng's unpredictable and deliberate look, Chen Ran felt angry and became angry. And he came up with a trick of "causing trouble to the east."

At this time, Chen Ran naturally guessed that this Jade Club should be what Zhu Feng said before that he would take him to see the big scene tonight, Jade Club?From the name, it can be heard that it has something to do with jadeite, or betting on stones. This made him curious. He hadn't heard of jadeite meeting. Of course, he also knew that he entered the industry relatively late. Speaking of officially entering this industry, it was actually not long ago. After all, although he was a jade carver before, he was the lowest level jade carver. normal.

"You kid...Old Zhao, then you can talk to this kid."

Zhu Feng had a good time, so he asked Master Zhao to talk to Chen Ran, and he himself squatted on the chair. Seeing the empty table in front of him, he was dissatisfied and talked with Chen Ran. Chen Ran said: "Brother, it's fine if you call us here and don't let us eat, at least give us a cup of tea, you can't just let us eat an apple."

"What tea do you want? Let's leave after we finish talking." Just now, Fatty Chang and Fatty Chang entered the box and Fatty Chang threw the waiter out without even asking for tea. This meeting is about to leave, and Chen Ran also Too lazy to call the waiter again.

"You're a ruthless boy, Lao Zhao, then you should say a few words to him." Zhu Feng rolled his eyes, and then he pulled the leftover grapes that Zhang Shuchun ate just now and ate them with relish. , Don’t forget to take a little revenge on Chen Ran.

Zhu Feng was just joking, Master Zhao naturally wouldn't take it seriously, so he laughed and started talking to Chen Ran.

"Brother Chen, the Jade Association is actually just a Jade Chamber of Commerce. In addition to being the Jade Chamber of Commerce, it is also the Jade Festival. In our case, the Jade Association has two names, one is the Jade Chamber of Commerce, and the other is the Jade Festival. The Jade Chamber of Commerce is the A chamber of commerce, the Emerald Festival is a kind of festival, this is a superficial statement, and now some people say that the Emerald Festival is an annual emerald gambling market..."

After Master Zhao's explanation, Chen Ran finally understood what happened to the Jade Club. To put it bluntly, the Jade Club was just a legal gambling, but the bet was a bet on stones.

Speaking of the Jade Fair, we also need to talk about the development process of jadeite in our country. According to records, jadeite was introduced to China from the Han Dynasty. In fact, the famous Silk Road in history was not as good as the "Jade Road" at that time. appropriate.

When these rare "green stones" were introduced to China, they were regarded as rare treasures by the Chinese princes and nobles, who competed to wear decorations and became fashionable. They even used jade pendants to distinguish official ranks. Until the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese emperor sent eunuchs to Yongchang and Tengchong. Specializing in the purchase of jewelry and jade, and the cooperation between the government and the private sector, a large amount of Burmese jade was brought into China at that time.

Since jade pendants are used to distinguish official ranks, it is obvious that those who are not officials cannot wear them. In order to prevent jade from flowing into the people, a supervision department was established at that time. This department was called Jade Hall at that time. The supervising eunuch is not the hall master. The hall master is the person in charge selected by the supervising eunuch. The supervising eunuch is only responsible for delivering the goods to the above. The rest is handed over to the emerald hall master. , all merchants and caravans who went to Burma to mine jade belong to this department. This is the original form of the Tengchong Jade Association. In the later development, the Jade Hall has experienced ups and downs. It was disbanded, rebuilt, and once prosperous. At the most prosperous time, there were 5000 Chinese jade merchants in Jade Hall, and almost every jade merchant had a firm behind them. , there is also a commemorative stone tablet engraved with the names of [-] Chinese people, which is a historical portrayal of that time.

When the Emerald Hall was first established, stone gambling was not popular in China. How did stone gambling arise? There is also a small story in it. "When I went to the gambling stone, every time it was time to deliver to the superior, I would invite people to gamble. Although the eunuch was later recalled to Beijing, this game has been passed down.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, stone gambling was very popular and there were many stone gambling families. At that time, the head of the Jade Hall was no longer appointed by the court, but was elected by the Jade Council spontaneously. The one that comes out will naturally be convincing, that is, it is obtained by gambling with stones, so every subsequent generation of Jade Hall masters is the contemporary Jade King.

The most prosperous time of the Jade Society was the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, that is, before Tengchong was occupied by the Japanese army. At that time, Tengchong jade merchants gathered, making Tengchong known as "Little Shanghai". At that time, the Jade Society also had the largest number of jade merchants. At that time, because the Jade King of the contemporary Jade Association supported Zhang Wende, the anti-Japanese county magistrate at that time, after the Japanese army occupied Tengchong, they spread their anger on the Jade Hall, captured and killed the members of the Jade Hall, and supported One person became the leader of the Jade Association, that is, the contemporary Jade King. The Jade King who was supported came back from studying in Japan and married a Japanese wife. That's why the Japanese army found this person to be the Jade King. The Japanese army worked to help the Japanese army completely enslave Tengchong. Why did they support the Jade King? This is because the influence of the Jade King in Tengchong is unparalleled. This person is not a traitor. Although he became the Jade King , but quietly told someone about the situation to the anti-Japanese leader in Tengchong, that is, Zhang Wende, who on the surface worked for the Japanese, but in fact secretly helped the anti-Japanese forces. He also contributed a lot to the anti-Japanese forces at that time. He was a real anti-Japanese hero. After the truth came out, although this man died on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he did not humiliate his status as the Emerald King and was still loved by people. Respect.

This is also the reason why there are many stories about the Jade King's resistance to Japan.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Emerald Hall existed in name only. Although many people wanted to rebuild the Emerald Hall, there was no one who could convince them. Appear.

For those who gamble on stones, Master Jiu is a legend. Following the death of King Longyun of Yunnan in the Cultural Revolution and the decline of the Long family, Master Jiu started as a mining worker and gradually became a new generation of Jade King. But the oldest Jade King is still the most recognized Jade King.

After Jiu Ye became the new generation of Jade King, he rebuilt the Jade Hall. Now that the hall is no longer popular, he changed the Jade Hall into the Jade Club. As the name suggests, it actually re-established the Jade Chamber of Commerce. Since then, the spring of Tengchong has also ushered in the spring of the Jade Festival. At the same time, the annual Stone Gambling Festival has also been passed down. This day is the Jade Festival, which is today.

"How do you gamble on stones? Is it just to compare who's rough jadeite is the most valuable?" Compared to the origin of the Jade Club, Chen Ran is more interested in the so-called big jadeite gamble, and he doesn't know how he gambled If it's just two people betting against each other, whoever cuts the emerald with the highest value will win, that is no doubt meaningless, at most, the atmosphere at the scene is probably more intense and exciting.

Master Zhao smiled when he heard the words: "There are many kinds of gambling methods, some play with their own gambling stones, some play without gambling stones, that is, private games, and there are jadeites who will be the dealer, and jadeites who will be the dealer It's like Jade will come up with "wool" materials for players to bet on. There are many kinds of betting tricks, but compared to the big bosses, they are all small bets. Many big bosses don't like this kind of gameplay. For them The most exciting thing is to bring your own 'wool' material. The 'wool' material that comes with you cannot be cut open, it must be fully gambled or just opened the skylight. The number of people is randomly selected. There may be more than a dozen people who gamble together, or several people who gamble together. At most, it will not exceed 13 people, and at least it will not exceed three people. Every time you start a bet, you must put a deposit first, and the one with the least deposit It is 50, followed by 100 million, 300 million, 500 million, 800 million, or even 1000 million, for example, 500 million, like five people betting, then there are 500 million bets Gold, and five pieces of wool, only one of the five people will win, and the winner will not only get a bet of 500 million yuan, but also all the emeralds dug out of the five pieces of wool... "

"My day."

As soon as Master Zhao said this, Guo Hai stared straight at his eyes, not to mention Guo Hai, Zhang Shuchun and Yang Shijie were not much better, they were all stunned, even Chen Ran was the same, not to mention 'mao' material The value of the emeralds dug out of it is only 500 million for the bet, and there are only five people. If there are 13 people, what is the concept? More than 5000 million, this is only a 500 million bet, if it is a 1000 million deposit, even if there are five people, there is still a 5000 million bet, plus the value of the emerald dug out of the 'wool' material...

Chen Ran suddenly gasped, this is really a big gamble!