Mixed in 1980

Chapter 523 The Fourth Brother Sets Sail Again

The three brothers truly admired their fourth brother.

In the Chen family, simply making money is not a real skill; the real skill lies in making something extraordinary, just like the fourth son, who easily left his mark on the history of economics.

"I'm even a little envious of this girl."

Chen Lao Er sighed, then quipped, "So lazy, yet able to accomplish great things with a flash of inspiration. He's truly blessed with talent."

Chen Yancheng said sarcastically, "Yes, God has blessed her with talent, but she doesn't want to eat it. We have to coax her, and she even spits it out after taking a bite. There's no one else like her."

"Old Chen, you're talking badly about me again."

Chen Yanyin walked in, kicked her third brother before sitting down: "My plan is almost finished, and I've already sent it to your email. You can make arrangements as you see fit."

"I'll take a look later and then send it to the development department," Chen Yancheng agreed. The siblings chatted for a while before going their separate ways.

Back in his room, Chen Yancheng opened his email.

The fourth brother has a lot of ideas; the content is richer than what was mentioned before, and there are quite a few changes.

The first addition was the exhibition hall.

Previously, it was only mentioned that after jade is listed on the market, it needs to be stored in warehouses and supervised by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, but now a new exhibition hall for raw jade has been added.

In the future, all the jade pebbles that will be available for sale will be displayed in the exhibition hall for tourists to visit, to popularize Hetian jade pebbles, and to earn some money from ticket sales.

Besides that, there is one more difference.

Chen Yanyin divided the listed products into two categories. One category, as mentioned before, is based on individual items, which can be listed by individuals who collect all the shares and can then take delivery and leave.

The other category belongs to bulk commodities.

Primarily consisting of raw materials, these commodities are marketed in quantities of 100 jin, 200 jin, and 500 jin, forming bulk commodities that are more conducive to speculation.

This will also drive up the price of jadeite.

Commodity stocks can also be delisted, but there is no mandatory delisting mechanism unless all shares can be acquired, which is almost impossible.

The materials are locked.

The scarcity of seed jade will become even more apparent.

For collectors who treat Hetian jade pebbles as "collectibles," this is fatal, as it will inevitably drive up the price of Hetian jade pebbles.

"That girl is really cunning!" Chen Yancheng said with a wry smile.

There is no mandatory delisting mechanism, which means that as long as you buy some shares and leave them untouched, no one can take them away.

So, where does the supply come from?
After thinking for a while, Chen Yancheng laughed instead. There was no need to worry about the supply of goods; Lao Si had plenty of stock on hand.

There are also official sources.

Rather than directly releasing raw jade into the market, the government prefers to vouch for raw jade, and state-owned jade factories certainly have a lot of stock.

After reviewing it, Chen Yancheng helped to improve it and then sent the solution for the solution trading platform to the product development department, asking the product manager to connect with Lao Si.

So that the fourth brother won't complain about being bored all the time.

Even though work has resumed outside.

Staying home is the right thing to do. There are many sources of information at home. Chen Yancheng has learned that the virus is currently very virulent and many elderly people cannot survive it.

My grandparents and three sets of maternal grandparents, although they have been practicing health preservation and exercise since the 1980s and have always been in good health, cannot take this risk.

Even if the fourth brother complains of being bored, he won't ask to go out. If he really has nothing to do, he'll open Douyin (TikTok) and watch videos; there's quite a lot of interesting content.

Chen Yanyin also frequently posts videos.

Slaughtering pigs, killing airplanes, killing ducks... Recently, they've also set their sights on the eldest sister's little scatterbrain. He's fair-skinned and tender, with particularly delicate features, and he's also quite scatterbrained, making him very popular with netizens.

Now they've all become minor internet celebrities.

For this, Chen Yanyin was even scolded by her older sister, but even after being scolded, she didn't change. How cute is the little scatterbrain? Unlike her own daughter, she's almost just like Xiao Wu.

The eldest sister could only go along with her.

Time flies, and it's already October. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other institutions announced that the global economy experienced its worst recession since World War II in 2020.

Chen Fan's prediction has been proven true once again.

Chen Lao Er was overjoyed.

Let them make a scene, the bigger the better, I'm not in a hurry anyway.

International inflation is intensifying, and prices for essential food items are rising significantly.

Global food prices are rising as some grain-producing countries tighten food exports.

Tianhe Agriculture Group emerged as a big winner, with its profits in the past year equaling the total profits of the previous three years, making a substantial profit.

"What a pleasant surprise!" Chen Yanche grinned from the side.

Who would have thought?
Consumer demand for daily necessities has surged, leading to an increase in global retail sales.

For example, Wormar's market value surged by 30%.

Also magical.

Money was handed to them like it was free, especially for their family's Xinghuo Shipping Group, which went into "money-grabbing" mode, causing shipping prices to surge by 126%.

The shipping cost for a container can be as high as $3500.

In contrast, the third company is in a worse situation, with insufficient resumption of work and inadequate supply chain.

Revenue showed a downward trend compared to last year.

Chen Yancheng wasn't in a hurry. He believed the shock was temporary, and the next few years wouldn't be easy. But once he got through it, everything would be different.

My father once said, "The fate of the nation lies in our hands!"

Chip development is like climbing a technology tree, but unfortunately, this technology tree has an upper limit, and once the limit is reached, it will be locked.

Those who run ahead can only stay in place.

Those who follow behind will always catch up; it's not about those who run ahead and race relentlessly.

Once they catch up, those ahead can only wait to die.

Like other industries, Europe and the United States have a strong first-mover advantage, but once they are caught up, they will have no choice but to surrender.

The same applies to chips.

The same applies to mobile phones, and Feixing Mobile's advantages are very obvious. It is an investment in the entire industry chain. Once it makes up for its shortcomings, it will become an invincible technological behemoth.

Chen Yancheng remains busy.

People outside have already resumed work, but I chose to work online. Before I knew it, it was December, and good news came out: the vaccine was available.

Production is still insufficient.

The Chen family, however, were among the first to receive the vaccination.

After the vaccination was completed, Chen Fan called his children over: "Tell me your thoughts, do you want to continue living here, or go back to Ya'er Hutong?"

"I'm going back to work," Chen Yi said first.

As a university professor, I already felt quite embarrassed to have taken a year's leave, but now that I've been vaccinated, I have to go back.

Chen Yanxi then said, "I also need to go back to work. If I don't go back, I might be targeted when I try to become a professor in two years."

This is a joke.

Her colleagues all know she's the eldest princess of the Chen family; who would dare to make things difficult for her? She was in a hurry to leave because she hadn't seen her husband for a year and missed him terribly.

Besides them, everyone else was the same. They had lived here for a year and were incredibly bored. Nobody wanted to stay any longer. The situation outside was well under control, and they had all been vaccinated, so there shouldn't be any major problems.

Finally, an agreement was reached, and they returned to Ya'er Hutong.

The next day, I started moving, and I felt comfortable everywhere after I came back.

"Comrade Xiaoqin, it's been a long time!" After resting at home for two days, Chen Yanyin made an appointment to go out with someone. Her college classmate, Zhang Xiaoqin, had helped her arrange a job before.

Now they've poached people from here.

While living in the Mentougou villa area, he asked Zhang Xiaoqin to prepare for the Hetian jade pebble exhibition hall.

"It's not easy to see you."

Zhang Xiaoqin rolled her eyes at her and said sarcastically, "Your family is so comfortable, you can just find a place to hide. Unlike us, we've lived in fear all year."

"Don't even mention it. Hiding in the mountains for a year, those days... well, I definitely don't want to go through that again. It would be so boring." Chen Yanyin said with a wry smile.

Zhang Xiaoqin nodded slightly: "It's all the same. Your place is considered good, it's big enough. For the first few months, we all stayed at home."

"It's such a small place."

"Every day it's just the living room, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom. I almost went crazy from being cooped up. Look at the videos on Douyin, they're all just self-entertaining jokes."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yanyin couldn't help but laugh.

There have been so many jokes on Douyin this year, one of which is like this: pretending to be a tour guide and visiting every room in a house.

This is a form of collective boredom syndrome.

After chatting for a while, the two went to the 19th floor of Xinghuo No. 2 Building, where a large private restaurant used to be located, and Chen Yanyin had been there a few times.

Chen Yanyin took down this floor, and after half a year of renovation, it already resembled a jade exhibition hall, which would serve as the starting point for the entire project.

However, this is just a transition.

Chen Yanyin's plan is to acquire a separate plot of land and build a large exhibition hall, which can serve not only as a jade exhibition hall but also as a venue for other exhibitions.

"It's alright, the space is big enough, sufficient for initial use."

After touring the area, Chen Yanyin was quite satisfied.

After leaving Xinghuo No. 2 Building, we drove to Beijing Jade Factory. This is not just a factory, but also a national-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor.

Since its inception, it has cultivated and produced three national-level representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage projects who are among the industry leaders.

In addition, there are 19 national-level jade carving masters who have created a large number of jade carving treasures that can be called national treasures.

As the founder of the jade pebble identification center and jade pebble market, Chen Yanyin has a lot of influence in the industry, and the Beijing Jade Factory also gives her a lot of face.

As soon as I got out of the car, someone came up to greet me.

It was Xiang Chunming, the general manager of the Beijing Jade Factory. After a brief exchange of pleasantries, he led Chen Yanyin to the reception room: "Miss Chen, what brings you here?"

"Of course, we've come to ask Mr. Xiang for help."

Chen Yanyin didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point, giving a detailed introduction to the "seed stock market" project: "President Xiang, what do you think?"

"That's great news!" Xiang Chunming nodded.

After a moment's thought, he said, "If more people can participate in the Hetian jade pebble market, the price of pebble jade will rise again. What is Ms. Chen's purpose in contacting me?"

Chen Yanyin smiled slightly and joked, "President Xiang, why ask a question you already know the answer to?"

Xiang Chunming laughed. They were all smart people; there was really no need for this. "Miss Chen is after our raw material inventory, isn't she?"

Chen Yanyin nodded slightly.

Since the 1950s, the Beijing Jade Factory has been tasked with generating foreign exchange. At that time, many raw jade materials were given priority supply, as well as jade carving factories in Shanghai and the Western Regions.

In the 1980s and 1990s, as the price of jadeite rose, people would definitely hoard it and reduce supply.

There is still a lot of inventory.

“It’s not just inventory, but also masterpieces carved by master craftsmen. Rather than leaving them idle, it’s better to go public and raise funds.”

Upon hearing this, Xiang Chunming gave a wry smile.

Releasing a portion of the inventory to the market is not a big problem; we can make that decision ourselves. But who would dare to touch those masterpieces carved by renowned masters under normal circumstances?

That was the face of the Beijing Jade Factory: "You're making things difficult for us."

Chen Yanyin shook her head slightly: "President Xiang, although the treasure is precious, it is still inanimate. It's just a matter of changing where it's placed and extracting some funds."

"That's true, but once it goes public, who knows who it will belong to?"

"We'll keep a portion of the shares; no one can take them away."

"A meeting is needed to make a decision."

……

After chatting for a long time, Xiang Chunming saw Chen Yanyin off and scratched his head. He was genuinely tempted to take the jade carving treasure to the market.

It's said to be a treasure or a status symbol, but if it's left untouched, it's just a lifeless object. It would be better to put it on the stock market, buy low and sell high, and make money from the financial market.

But this matter needs to be discussed.

Chen Yanyin was also busy. Within two days, she was busy on business trips, visiting various jade carving factories in Shanghai, Suzhou, Yangzhou, and the Western Regions to persuade them to join her.

Before we knew it, the New Year had arrived again.

By March 2021, with widespread vaccination, Chen Yanyin's "seed stock market" trading platform was finally developed and passed testing.

Two days before its release, Chen Yanyin posted a video on Douyin.

Just like before when I caused trouble, it was only black background with white text, which read: I, Chen Laosi, am going to cause trouble again, big trouble!
A meaningless sentence.

What many bloggers envy is that such a video has received over a million likes. When did it become so easy to get likes on Douyin?
"Fourth Princess, shall we kill the tiger?"

"Kill the elephant!"

"Lion's, I heard it's delicious."

"Bear slaughter, bear paws, a famous dish, looking forward to it!"

……

Looking at the comments section, Chen Yanyin was both amused and exasperated. What were these netizens thinking? Just because she frequently shared videos of slaughtering pigs, chickens, and ducks, she was suddenly labeled a butcher?

Is the big deal killing protected animals?

After thinking for a moment, I pinned the comment about "killing elephants" to the top and replied: "Bigger than this!"

Immediately, a group of people replied: "Killing whales?"

"Killer whale!"

"Blue Whale!"

"Humpback whale!"

Chen Yanyin almost lost her temper, and gritted her teeth as she replied: "Kill the trolls!"

Playing around and having fun are fine, but serious matters remain unresolved. On March 20th, the Chen Laosi Jade Identification Center APP released an update notice, enabling new functions.

In addition to the existing appraisal center and jade market, a jade stock market has been added.

"Jadeite stock market? What the heck is that?"

After blogger Amu updated his blog, he was still a little confused, so he quickly opened Douyin (TikTok) and found that Chen Yanyin's account had posted a new video explaining the seed jade stock market in detail.

(End of this chapter)