Chapter 205 Thirty million dollars
Jiang Bin’s studio can be said to be the most secure place in his house.
Although this house is a bungalow, heavy anti-theft windows are installed on both north and south windows, and the ceiling has become cement. Needless to say, the door of the house is naturally a thick anti-theft door. Moreover, in the house, Yang Jing also saw an intelligent security system similar to his rental house.
No wonder, as a famous jade carving master, most of the things Jiang Bin handled were valuable. If it were not safer as the most important workplace, it would probably be stolen by the jade wares he handled had been stolen for many times.
As soon as Yang Jing followed Jiang Bin into the workshop, his eyes were immediately attracted by the white jade carving placed on the side of the desk.
Yang Jing quickly walked a few steps, came to the jade carving, and looked at it carefully.
As Jiang Bin said just now, this Hotan white jade carving has only taken a prototype, but even such a prototype is enough to attract people's hearts.
Such a large piece of collection-grade Hetian white jade is an extremely rare treasure, not to mention that the shape of this Hetian jade is extremely rare to be close to the standard rectangular shape, and it is most suitable to be used as a large seal.
Now the overall shape of this Feitian Seal has emerged, especially on the four sides of the large seal. The shadowy Feitian Fairy has already had a general prototype. One of the Feitian Fairy has begun to be carved, and some of it has been hollowed out...
"Tsk tsk, good stuff, good stuff! Uncle Jiang, your craft is really not built. Although it is just a prototype, I can also feel that amazing charm from it! It's really hard to imagine how shocking it would be if this Feitian Seal was completed!"
Jiang Bin smiled and didn't say anything, enjoying Yang Jing's compliment.
A jade carving work, especially a great jade carving work, cannot be carved casually. This requires the jade carver to spend a lot of energy to conceive the structure, shape and what kind of carving techniques to use. Only after determining these things will the jade carver start to use the knife.
But even with a knife, carving such a large jade carving can not be completed in a few days. A jade carving with complex craftsmanship can be completed in a few weeks, or even years.
A jade carving work is definitely a great effort from a jade carver. Some jade carvers even suffer from great energy after completing a masterpiece jade carving. They need to rest for a long time before they can recover.
Jiang Bin obviously also attaches great importance to this Feitian Seal. This piece of jade has been sent for half a month. He has only completed a prototype, which is enough to prove Jiang Bin's importance to this Feitian Seal.
After reading this Feitian Seal, although I missed the princess even more, Yang Jing's mood was still much better.
Outside, Yang Jing drank the tea made by Jiang Bin himself. While praising the deliciousness of the tea, he opened the password box he carried with him. Six pieces of ice jade of different colors and shapes were immediately revealed.
"Oh..." Jiang Bin's big teeth were almost shocked, "Xiao Jing, where did you get these jades?"
"Uncle Jiang, see if you like it. Stay here to make a few big ornaments!" Yang Jing said with a smile.
"Are these jadeites yours?" Jiang Bin asked in surprise, then laughed softly, "I'm not talking nonsense? You kid even got such a big collection-grade Hotan white jade. It doesn't seem difficult to get these ice-type jadeites..."
Jiang Bin excitedly picked up the largest piece of jadeite. This piece of jadeite was untied from the 104 kilograms of wool, weighing 16 kilograms. It was the best-sized and large piece of jadeite that Yang Jing brought back from the five pieces of wool, which was untied from the five pieces of wool, which was the best-sized piece of jadeite that Yang Jing brought back in 1994.
"Tsk tsk, a good thing! Although it is only a high ice type, it is rare for such a big size now!" Jiang Bin praised this crystal clear high ice type jade while playing with it with joy.
After Jiang Bin played with all the six pieces of jade, he said seriously: "Xiao Jing, I can leave one piece here, and I don't have the energy to do it all. Leave one piece, leave one piece I can use all my energy to concentrate on dealing with this piece of jade."
Yang Jing smiled and said, "Uncle Jiang, I took these six pieces of jade for you to choose. If you keep them all, I have no objection. If you only keep one piece, I will not say anything else."
"Thank you!" Jiang Bin said sincerely. For a jade carving master like him who urgently needs a breakthrough, a good piece of material is more valuable than anything else. Yang Jing first gave him a piece of collection-level Hotan white jade, and now he brought six pieces of ice jade for himself to choose. This is a good thing that Jiang Bin had never had before.
"Uncle Jiang, you're so kind of polite to say this! These materials are not carved by jade carving masters like you, which can highlight the value of these jade materials. Only masters like you can make the value of these jade materials soar. I came here with these jade materials just to make the value of these jade materials increase greatly through your hands. Why are you grateful to me for doing?"
"Haha, you kid's mouth... I can't tell you."
After a pause, Jiang Bin said with some emotion: "The world divides jade collection into five levels. The first one is the ring face and the second one is the bracelet. Those pendants are all in front of the ornaments. The most carved ornaments are only at the end. Alas... I really don't know how to pretend to understand!"
Yang Jing nodded thoughtfully. In this situation, jadeite is ranked according to this collection level.
"In fact, when using jade materials of the same level, the most valuable one is the ornament! But now these people compare ice-type or even glass-type ring faces with glutinous ornaments, even horse-tooth-type jade ornaments. How can the two be comparable? A glass-type ring face is worth several times or even dozens of times the size of a glutinous ornament with hundreds of times the size of a glutinous ornament. Is there any way to compare this? You have the ability to compare a high-ice ring face with a large ornament with a high-ice type! Put the texture of the jade material aside first, and this carving skill alone is enough to throw away the eight streets of carving skill used for a ring face!"
After a pause, Jiang Bin said indignantly: "Not to mention anything else, the jade cabbage collected by the Palace Museum in Taibei is also an ornament. Why is no one comparing the glass-type ring face or bracelet with that cabbage? The ornament has the lowest collection value, which is purely nonsense! A top-quality ring face or bracelet is at most a family heirloom, but an ornament carved with top-quality jade materials can become a heirloom treasure!"
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The lunch was eaten at Jiang Bin's house. What Yang Jing didn't expect was that his uncle Jiang not only had an unparalleled foundation in jade carving, but his genius in cooking seemed to be no worse than his ability in jade carving.
"Haha, I used to like eating, but later when I got married and had children, I kept cooking at home. Over time, I naturally practiced this skill. Come on, let's drink one of our two!"
Jiang Bin also likes to drink Erguotou, and it is the 56-degree red 2 common in street convenience stores in Yanjing. This tastes similar to Yang Jing.
I have been back to China these days, and the money in my wallet is getting more and more, and the drinking grades are getting higher and higher. During the days after returning to China, I have drunk other than Wuliangye and Feitian Moutai, which really made Yang Jing very greedy.
Today I drank Erguotou with Jiang Bin, and the four dishes made by Jiang Bin tasted extremely authentic. Before I knew it, the two of them actually drank all the two bottles of red two into their stomachs.
Yang Jing drove here, so he naturally couldn't drive in this situation. Fortunately, Jiang Bin's house is spacious and there are some houses, so Yang Jing was sleeping until after five o'clock in the afternoon.
When he got up, the alcohol was almost gone. After washing his face, Yang Jing found Jiang Bin in the workshop, who was looking down at the green jade with high ice boxwood in the green. Under his hands, there were several sketches. It was obvious that he was designing this jade.
Jiang Bin finally left the largest piece of high ice jade for the six pieces of jade brought by Yang Jing. Although this piece of material is not glass, it is also a high ice jade. Moreover, it is so big that it is still full of green, and its value is even more valuable than that of glass with less color.
Since he wanted to leave a treasure that passed down from generation to generation, Jiang Bin naturally had to leave the largest piece of jade. As for the remaining five pieces of jade, Jiang Bin said that he had a way to sell it and guaranteed to sell it at a price that satisfies Yang Jing.
These five pieces of ice jade are all old pit jade. Regardless of the quality, color or size, they are hard to see now. The jade from new pit cannot be compared with this kind of old pit jade. As long as the news comes out, some of them will definitely be bought by jewelry companies.
Jiang Bin is a master of jade carving. Major jewelry companies beg this master. When he comes to sell jade, the price will naturally not be much lower. Yang Jing was relieved to him, so he entrusted the remaining five pieces of jade to him to sell.
Sure enough, the next day, the bosses of more than a dozen large jewelry companies gathered in Jiang Bin's courtyard.
Yanjing is the capital of China, one of the most developed cities in China, and one of the cities with the most wealthy people in China. Therefore, the world's famous jewelry companies and top domestic jewelry companies have opened flagship stores or branches in Yanjing, which has also led to fierce competition in the Yanjing jewelry market, which is extremely tragic.
Everyone wants to enjoy this huge market, but no one can lead the way.
The cruel competition is not only reflected in market share, talents, raw materials, sales channels, etc., and so on. The competition in all aspects is extremely cruel, especially as the lifeblood of jewelry companies, the jewelry raw materials have always been the most concerned thing for the bosses of major jewelry companies.
Now, Master Jiang Bin, the leader of the Beijing School jade carving, made a noise, saying that there were five pieces of old pit ice jade materials weighing about 30 kilograms, ready to take action. The owners of these jewelry companies immediately seemed to ask about the bloody sharks, and all rushed over.
Now that the old-keng glass type is almost extinct, ice-type jade is the main force of major jewelry companies. The thirty kilograms of old-keng ice-type jade are enough to support the sales of high-end jade for a jewelry company for most of half a year or even a whole year.
The five pieces of jade taken out by Yang Jing are not ice-type jade in the general sense. These five pieces of jade are all old pit ice-type jade, and have good water heads and good colors. Although there is only one piece of ice-type jade full of green, the remaining four pieces of jade green account for the majority.
Nowadays, a colorless new pit ice bracelet can be sold for more than 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of yuan. The starting price of an old pit ice green bracelet is several million yuan. Just like the piece of violet ice jade taken away by Yang Jing's uncle, the price of one violet ice jade bracelet can exceed eight digits.
If the high-icy boxwood green jade left by Jiang Bin as a bracelet, the lowest starting point for a bracelet is 13 million!
Ice species and ice species are different. Nowadays, those new pit ice species, let alone full green bracelets, even if they are floating green or blue bracelets, they will have to be millions.
The five pieces of old pit ice jade that Yang Jing took out can produce bracelets, and the color and water head are quite good. As long as you buy them and make them into bracelets and pendants, they are all at the level of the store treasure.
Who doesn't want such good materials?
Therefore, the competition for this private auction event was so fierce.
In the end, the wealthy Chow Taifu of Yanjing bought these five pieces of jadeite materials for 198 million yuan.
To be honest, this price is a bit too high. After all, these five pieces of jade can only be sold at most twenty bracelets. It is really not cheap to buy these five pieces of jade at this price. After all, the jewelry company is not just buying raw materials. They still have a lot of operating expenses, and making jade into jewelry also requires a lot of labor costs.
However, as high-end old pit ice jade is becoming increasingly rare, buying these five pieces of jade will be a considerable gain even if it is left for a year.
It is said that the ones you buy are not the most sold, but Yang Jing and Jiang Bin are still not enough to see in front of the bosses of these jewelry companies that have become elites.
However, this price was enough to satisfy Yang Jing, so these five pieces of jadeite materials eventually fell into the hands of Zhou Dafu, Yanjing.
The card was nearly 200 million more, which made Yang Jing feel very comfortable. Suddenly, there was so much more money, and Yang Jing was a little confused about how to spend it.
Calculated based on the current exchange rate, the 198 million national currency is almost equivalent to 30 million US dollars.
"Or else transfer all the money to the United States?" Yang Jing thought to himself.
In addition to making some money, I have a lot of work to do when I go to the United States this time, but everything costs a lot of money.
Chapter completed!