Chapter 0479 – Mandalay

About to leave Yangon, Zhuang Rui was actually a little reluctant to leave. This nearly 20 days of life in Yangon, full of surprises and excitement, the ups and downs of the open bidding, the ups and downs of the dark bidding, the pleasant surprise when the betting goes up, the downheartedness when the betting collapses, just like a picture of the social life of the Buddha’s country.

To the airport Zhuang Rui ride is a cab, sitting in the cab is that first arrived in Myanmar, 5 U.S. dollars in fare, but when getting off the car, Zhuang Rui gave him 50 U.S. dollars in tips, in this more than half a month, the driver Mr. but pulled him and Peng Fei two people, turn around all the streets of Rangoon, so that Zhuang Rui well appreciate a foreign scenery.

The driver obviously also rarely encountered Zhuang Rui such generosity of luxury customers, after helping Zhuang Rui to take the luggage off the car, until Zhuang Rui and others into the terminal, but also reluctant to wave their hands outside, I do not know whether it is really reluctant to Zhuang Rui and others to leave, or reluctant to Peng Fei pockets that seem to be inexhaustible dollars.

After saying goodbye to Qin Haoran and others, Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei boarded the flight to Mandalay. Only after getting on the plane did he realize that the original flight, too, was issued from the country, only in Yangon transit, above the flight attendants and crew, as well as the vast majority of passengers, are all Chinese.

“This little brother, see you from Yangon on the plane, is not just after participating in this Myanmar jadeite fair?”

The airplane just lifted off not long ago, sitting in the front row of Zhuang Rui, a middle-aged man in his forties, twisted his face to be familiar with himself, smiled and accosted Zhuang Rui.

“Oh, yeah! Older brother you go to Mandalay on business?”

Zhuang Rui looked at the man’s dress was relatively plain, but it was a T-shirt with a pair of jeans, not much like a businessman.

“Hey, what kind of business trip ah! This public market is over, we’re just going to pick up some leftover soup.”

When the middle-aged man was talking, he was looking at Zhuang Rui’s eyes, all he could see was envy, basically all the people on the airplane were Chinese, he was talking very loudly, attracting the crowd to turn back to look at him, that is, the pretty stewardesses in the cabin also put their attention on Zhuang Rui’s body.

“This boss, I don’t know how much is the bid price on this public auction?”

“Little brother, tell me how much is the total price of this public auction?”

“Yeah! I heard that it only ended this morning, this airplane and do not allow phone calls, really anxious me.”

Hear Zhuang Rui is from Yangon to participate in the public disk on the plane, the whole cabin noisy up, the crowd of mouths to Zhuang Rui asked about the things that happened in the public disk.

Zhuang Rui was somewhat confused by these inexplicable questions, quickly stood up and said, “Gentlemen, this emerald public plate is just trading some jade, nothing to say, really nothing to say.”

“Little brother, you just give us a few words! We can not have a harvest this trip, all depends on the results of this public disk it!”

“Yes! We might even lose our airfare for nothing this time!”

“This gentleman, would you please sit down first?”

Zhuang Rui’s words just fell, that seven questions were asked again, just mixed with the voice of that pretty air hostess, letting Zhuang Rui sit down, just that air hostess looked at Zhuang Rui, her eyes were also full of curiosity.

To know, from the domestic flight to Myanmar, the flight attendants to see the most people, is to come to Myanmar gambling stone, long-term hear such topics, they naturally know a lot about the gambling stone, know that can go to Yangon to participate in the emerald public plate of the people, are some of the big bosses, so to Zhuang Rui is also a different look.

“Good …… good, this will sit down, sorry ah! This old brother, what’s going on with you several people? Tell me first?”

Zhuang Rui originally thought that these people on the airplane, are headed to Mandalay on official business, now it seems that it is their own thought fork, dare these people also come to Burma to pour raw stone ah?

Zhuang Rui guessed right, these people are indeed between China and Myanmar trafficking jadeite raw stone, just their financial strength is not enough, not qualified to participate in the Myanmar Emerald Plate, so can only wait for the end of the Plate, go to Mandalay to collect some raw stone material sold back to the country.

The reason why this group of people go to Mandalay, that is because the raw stone merchants in Burma, basically are concentrated there, until the end of the public disk will go back, and although Mandalay is also controlled by the government forces, but the airport inspection there, there are a lot of cats and dogs can be drilled, not as strict as in Rangoon, how many of these people are able to bring out some of the raw stone.

With the Myanmar side of the words, the plane on a group of people is smuggling jadeite raw stone, they do not have any customs clearance certificate, just buy through the staff of the Mandalay airport, with so one or two sacks of raw stone on the plane, is the loss is earned, counting on smuggling out of the point of the raw stone.

And Myanmar jadeite public market, is the entire jadeite jade market price weathervane, they these people naturally know a lot, just today on the plane, can not understand the latest market, so it will be so urgent to Zhuang Rui asked.

“You …… guys this is not considered smuggling? If you get caught, won’t that be a problem?”

Zhuang Rui did not expect the Burmese government on the export of raw stone control is so strict, these people actually dare to blatantly smuggling, not at all afraid of like.

“The fart of smuggling, we but bring a few pieces of raw stone on the plane only, and the money up and down the fight, are higher than the price of buying that bit of raw stone, the real smuggling people, which is not a car ship as a soldier’s escort ah! What do we count, Myanmar side of the people, can not wait for their own raw stone can be smuggled out it!”

That middle-aged man, after hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, disdainfully skimmed his mouth. And some other people also agree with his words, is that pretty stewardess, to such things are used to, but it seems Zhuang Rui some fuss.

Although not a short time to Burma, but until after listening to the middle-aged man’s explanation, Zhuang Rui is really understand the social form of Burma.

Don’t look at Myanmar is rich in precious stones and teak and other precious items, but that are a very small number of people in the hands of the majority of people in Myanmar are very poor, lack of wealth, people are poor think of change, piracy and sale of resources has developed to an unimaginable point. It’s not something that can be stopped simply by the government, but it’s something that has been slightly curtailed.

In this place in Myanmar, the country began to focus on the sale of raw stone, but from the 1980s, and in Mandalay many local hands, there are still a large number of jadeite raw stone, and these raw stones are decades ago, the old pit kind of material, these locals do not want to participate in the public market by the government pumping, and so there are buyers and sellers, the formation of a a special smuggling channels.

Zhuang Rui shook his head, these people are just ordinary businessmen, earning hard money, as the saying goes: steal the beads, and steal the country, that naturally will not come to sit on this small plane, will not run around once, just to carry so many sacks of stone.

“More than twenty million euros? That’s not more than two hundred million yuan?”

“Yes! This is also a bit too outrageous!”

“Old Yu, the money we brought this time, isn’t it a bit less?”

As Zhuang Rui said the king price, the people in the cabin, no matter whether they came to Mandalay for Taobao or business trips, including those beautiful flight attendants, all had their mouths wide open with unbelievable looks.

In the Zhuang Rui gave them said the Burma open market king price, as well as the total transaction price reached 8 billion yuan amount of after, the whole cabin has become silent, no one said, they are digesting the Zhuang Rui just said things, analyze their own this time to bring the money, can buy how much raw stone from Mandalay.

I believe that at the latest tomorrow, this news will spread throughout the jewelry world, by then the market will rise to what kind of price of jadeite jewelry, is everyone has no way to predict.

This will be the people in the cabin has no heart to Zhuang Rui inquired about the details, and idle Zhuang Rui, also put his eyes on the cabin is playing the city of Mandalay introduction of the TV screen.

Mandalay, the capital of Myanmar’s Mandalay Division, the famous former capital and the second largest city in Myanmar, has a population of about 800,000 people. It is the political, economic and cultural center of Myanmar and was once the seat of the Myanmar Royal Palace.

Because of the famous historical capital of Myanmar, Ava, is in its suburbs, so the overseas Chinese travelers in Myanmar call it “Ava City”.

Mandalay in the Second World War, is the Chinese Expeditionary Army and the Japanese army’s main battlefield, so here left a large number of Chinese, and now Mandalay’s economy, mainly by the Chinese descendants of the hold, due to the geographical location, has always been the emerald wool, finished products, all kinds of gemstone trading center.

Myanmar’s major mines, in Mandalay are also stationed, Yangon public plate is only in recent years to flourish, in the last century, the public plate is often held in Mandalay’s location, the previous legend of all the stories of the gambling stone also mostly happened here, it can be said that Mandalay is a place with a long history and tradition.

Flying from Yangon to Mandalay, the time was not very long, but after more than an hour, the airplane arrived in the sky above Mandalay Airport.

“Buddy, don’t look at Burma as a military government, the ones who hold the lifeblood of Burma are still us Chinese, see, those houses are all owned by us Chinese.”

When the airplane swooped down, Zhuang Rui could see from the window, in the edge of the city that was filled with pagodas, there were many luxury villas arranged one by one, the middle-aged man sitting in front of Zhuang Rui introduced him, but the sound of the words was then covered up by the roar of the airplane landing.

Compared to the Chinese living in Indonesia and other places, the Chinese in Myanmar have a much better life, although rich, but seldom participate in politics, coupled with the local forces in Myanmar are not anti-Chinese, so in these Chinese settlements in Mandalay, their economic lifelines are basically in the hands of the Chinese.