Chapter 455 Emerald Gamble

"The Jade Club is not something, brother. To tell you the truth, brother, I followed you to Tengchong to come for the Jade Club. Here, let me show you this first."

It's past four o'clock in the afternoon, and it's almost evening, so Zhu Feng didn't hide it from Chen Ran. As he spoke, he took out a card from his pocket and shook it in front of Chen Ran. After shaking it twice, he threw the card to Chen Ran with satisfaction, from his face that he was beaten. It seems to be extremely honorable to have such a card.

"What the hell?" Chen Ran just picked up the card, and Guo Hai and Zhang Shuchun also surrounded curiously.

Chen Ran ignored them, but looked down at the card thrown by Zhu Feng. There is nothing unusual about this card, and it is not much different from the hotel's membership card. It is just that this card is relatively valuable, because this is a jade gold card, and there are not many words on the card, only There is a title, the director of the Jade Club. Except for this, there is nothing else. There is nothing left except one title. Isn't it for nothing?

"Brother Feng, I won't take you like this. If you don't say it, I will ask Master Zhao." Seeing Zhu Feng's unfathomable and intentional appearance, Chen Ran was so angry that he made a move with him.

At this time, Chen Ran naturally guessed that this emerald meeting should be what Zhu Feng said before that he would take him to see the big scene tonight.

Emerald Club? Hearing the name, he also heard that it was related to jade, or gambling stones, which made him curious. He had not heard that jade would do this. Of course, he also knew that he had entered the industry relatively late. Speaking of speaking, he officially entered this industry not long ago. After all, although he used to be a jade sculptor, he was the lowest jade. Carver, I haven't been exposed to many things, but it's normal that I haven't heard of some customs.

"You boy..."

Zhu Feng was happy and looked at Master Zhao: "Lao Zhao, then you can talk to this boy." However, before Master Zhao opened his mouth and saw that the table in front of him was empty, he said to Chen Ran dissatisfiedly, "Brother, it's okay if you call us not to eat, at least give us a cup of tea? You can't just eat an apple. He is not really thirsty, but he feels uncomfortable sitting here without eating or drinking something. He is bored and looking for something for himself to do.

"What kind of tea do you want to drink? Just say a few words and we'll leave." Just now, I entered the box with Chang Pangzi and kicked the waiter out. He didn't even ask for tea. Zhu Feng's words made Chen Ran smile bitterly, but after thinking about it, he said everything and left after saying a few words, so he didn't bother to call the waiter again.

"You are cruel, Lao Zhao, then don't talk to him." Chen Ran's words choked Zhu Feng, rolled his eyes, and dragged the leftover grapes that Zhang Shuchun had just eaten and ate them with relish. When he ate them, he did not forget a little revenge on Chen Ran. It was rare to see Zhu Feng eating, and Guo Hai secretly laughed.

Zhu Feng was just joking. Naturally, Master Zhao would not take it seriously. He laughed and talked to Chen Ran.

"Brother Chen, the Jade Club is actually a jade chamber of commerce. In addition to the Jade Chamber of Commerce, it is also a kind of festival. Here, the Jade Chamber of Commerce also has two names, one is called the Jade Chamber of Commerce and the other is called the Jade Festival. The Jade Chamber of Commerce is a chamber of commerce. The Jade Festival is A kind of festival, which is a superficial saying, and now many people call jade an annual jade gambling..."

After Master Zhao's explanation, Chen Ran finally understood what was going on with the Jade Club. The Jade Club is the Jade Chamber of Commerce. It goes without saying what the nature of the Chamber of Commerce is.

Of course, the Jade Club can't be just a simple chamber of commerce. After Master Zhao explained the Jadeite Club to Chen Ran, he talked to Chen Ran about the reason for the Jade Club.

Speaking of the jadeite meeting, we should also talk about the development process of jadeite in China. It is recorded that jadeite has been introduced to China since the Han Dynasty. In fact, the famous Silk Road in history was more appropriate to say that it was a "jade road" at that time.

These rare "green stones" were introduced into China and were regarded as foreign treasures by the princes and nobles of China. They competed to wear decorations and became fashionable, and even distinguish official ranks with jade ornaments. Until the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese emperor sent eunuchs stationed in Yongchang and Tengchong to purchase jewelry and jade, and cooperated with officials and private cooperation, so that a large number of Burmese jade at that time entered Enter China.

Since the official rank is distinguished by jadepei pei, it is obvious that those who are not officials cannot wear it. In order to avoid the flow of jadeite into the people, a regulatory department was established at that time. At that time, this department was called Jade Hall. This is a semi-official and semi-private organization, but the eunuch is not the head of the hall. The head of the hall is elected by the eunuch. People, the eunuch is only responsible for delivering the goods to the above, and the rest are handed over to the owner of the Jade Hall. This Jade Hall was very powerful at that time, and all the merchants and horse gangs who went to Myanmar to mine jade were under the control of this department. This is the original form of the Tengchong Jadeite Association. From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the Jade Hall was full of ups and downs. It has been disbanded, rebuilt, and prospered for a while. At the most prosperous time, there were 5,000 Chinese jade merchants in the Jade Hall. Almost every jade merchant has a business name behind it, and the Jade Club is the alliance of these businesses. Now there is still a 5,000 carved in the ancient Chinese temple in Amoro, Myanmar. The memorial stone tablet with the name of a Chinese is a historical portrayal of the Jade Hall at that time.

When the Jade Hall was first established, gambling stones were not popular in China. Although the history of gambling stones has a thousand years, it was not very popular in China at first. However, it was more popular in Tengchong. A later supervising eunuch of the Jade Hall was somehow obsessed with gambling stones. Whenever he delivered goods to them, he would invite people. A big gamble, although the eunuch was later recalled to Beijing, this kind of game was passed down.

In the late Qing Dynasty, gambling stones were very common in Tengchong in China, and many gambling stone families appeared. At that time, the head of the Jade Hall was no longer appointed by the imperial court, but the jade would be elected spontaneously. Naturally, the spontaneously elected would convince the public, that is, gambling on stones. Therefore, every generation of emerald masters was the contemporary emerald king. At that time, the goal of those gambling stones was to become the emerald king.

When the Jade Hall was most prosperous, on the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, that is, before Tengchong was occupied by the Japanese army, the jade merchants gathered at that time, making Tengchong known as "Little Shanghai". In that era, the jade merchants in the Jade Hall were also the most, but because of the contemporary Fei The Jade King of Cuitang 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 to be the leader of the Jade Hall, that is, the contemporary Jade King. The supported Jade King studied from Japan. When he returned, he married a Japanese wife, so the Japanese army found this man as the Jade King to work for the Japanese army and help the Japanese army completely enslave Tengchong.

Why did the Japanese army support the Jade King? This is because the influence of the Jade King in Tengchong is unparalleled. This man is not a traitor. Although he became the Jade King, he quietly entrusted the situation to tell Tengchong's anti-Japanese leader, that is, Zhang Wende, who ostensibly worked for the Japanese, but in fact secretly helped During the Anti-Japanese War for more than two years, this man also made a lot of effort for 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 Jade King and still won people's respect.

There are many stories about the anti-Japanese of the two generations of jade kings.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Jade Hall also existed in name only. Although many people wanted to rebuild the Jade Hall, there was no one who could convince everyone to sit on the throne of the new generation of the Jade King. Until 20 years ago, that is, the ninth master of the descendant of the Yunnan Wanglong family in more than nine years.

For those who gamble stones, Jiuye is a legend. With the death of Yunnan Wang Longyun and the decline of the Long family, Jiu Ye started as a miner and gradually became a new generation of jade king. He is not only the oldest jade king in China, but also the most recognized jade king.

After the ninth master became the new generation of jadeite king, he rebuilt the jadeite hall. Now it is not popular, and he also changed the jadeite hall into an emerald association. As the name implies, in fact, it is the reorganization of the jadeite chamber of commerce. With the reform and opening up of jadeite fever, at the same time, it has ushered in the spring of the jadeite association, and At the same time, the annual Stone Gambling Festival has also been passed down, which is the Emerald Festival, which is today.

"How do you bet on the stone? Is it that two people cut out the most valuable than anyone's emerald stone?" Compared with the origin of the Jadeite Club, Chen Ran is more interested in the so-called Jade gambling market, and I don't know how to gamble. If the two people directly cut the jadeite will win, it will undoubtedly mean much. At most, the atmosphere at the scene is estimated to be more intense and exciting.

Master Zhao smiled and said, "There are many ways to gamble, some with their own gambling stones, that is, private, and jade will sit in the village. Jade will sit in the same way as jade will take out its own wool for players to bet. There are many kinds of gambling patterns, but compared with big bosses. It's all small bets. Many big bosses don't like this kind of gameplay. For them, the most exciting thing is to bring their own wool. The wool they bring can't be cut open. It must be full gambling or just open the skylight. At that time, everyone will have a brand number. The official will randomly select according to the number of people. There may be more than a dozen people gambling together. It is possible that several people bet together, at most not more than 13 people, at least three people. Every time you make a bet, you have to pay a deposit first. The minimum deposit is 500,000, followed by one million, three million, five million, eight million, or even 10 million, for example, five million, like five million. Personal bet, there are 25 million gambling money, and five pieces of wool. Only one of the five people wins. In the end, the winner can not only get 25 million gambling money, but also get all the jade excavated from five pieces of wool..."

"Damn it."

As soon as Master Zhao said this, Guo Hai suddenly opened his eyes. Not to mention Guo Hai, Zhang Shuchun and Yang Shijie were not much better. He was stunned. Even Chen Ran was the same. Not to mention the value of the jade dug out of the wool, but the bet was 25 million, and there were only five people, if there were 13 people. What is the concept? It doesn't count the value of jade in the wool. It's just that the gambling money is more than 50 million. This is only a bet of 5 million. If it's a deposit of 10 million, even if it's five people, there will be 50 million stakes, plus the value of the jade dug out of wool...

Chen Ran took a deep breath. This is really a big gamble!

[This chapter is from yesterday. Thank you for the flying wind, a good man, and the reward of the three brothers ljslq.]