The rise of nanometers

After getting rid of Lao Zhao who was pestering him to buy a house, Li Liang asked two employees what they wanted to eat, then took out his mobile phone and ordered three takeaways from Feipeng Takeout.

Even at noon, there is still a lot of traffic on Jade Street. As a traditional domestic gem, jade used to be produced outside the country, making it difficult to control the market.

Now that there are large-scale jade mines in the country, it is natural to establish a strict system to allow the market to develop healthily.

The Mining Alliance has established a Jewelry Appraisal Association, with its headquarters in Batang County. Jade products here need to pass the appraisal certificate from the Jewelry Appraisal Association before they can be officially qualified for sale.

Just after ordering takeout, three tourists entered the store together. In addition to semi-finished rough stones, Li Liang's store also had some semi-finished bracelets, brands, beads, Buddha statues and bracelet cores.

"Boss, how much is this imperial concubine?" the young girl asked, pointing to an unprocessed lavender imperial concubine bracelet.

Li Liang took out a cloth mat, then took out the raw materials for the imperial concubine bracelet from the glass counter, and placed it on the cloth mat: "Beautiful girl has good taste, this material is the best."

The girl looked young, but she acted as if you thought I was a fish out of water. She took out the flashlight, picked up the bracelet material, took a photo of it, and shook her head: "It's too thick, not even in the sixth grade."

"Beautiful girl, this is not a big deal. There are few places in Batang that have this level of jade raw material."

But the girl sneered and said with a smile: "We are all insiders, why should we say these words to deceive outsiders? My family owns a jewelry store. I will give you a real price and I will accept it if it suits me."

"Then Xiaoliu!"

"120,000, seal it up if you can." The girl counter-offered directly.

Li Liang did not expect that he would meet a real expert, so he smiled and replied: "120,000 is too little, 180,000."

"Brother, if the material of this bracelet didn't have this slight crack, I would be willing to accept the 300,000 yuan, but this crack is too disturbing." The girl pointed to a slight crack on the bracelet with a flashlight and said.

Li Liang, who was exposed, also knew the impact of this rift. He originally thought that the girl didn't notice it and wanted to hide it, but now he could only nod helplessly: "Okay! 120,000."

The girl took out a business card and put it on the counter.

Li Liang took out the sealed bag, put the bracelet materials in it, then wrote the price and the other party's name, and sealed it with tape.

"Beautiful girl, if no one else bids more than 120,000 the day after tomorrow, then we will make a deal."

Chu Xinyue nodded, then called two friends and left Li Liang's shop together. She came to Batang this time. On the one hand, she was looking for some raw materials for the jewelry store at home. On the other hand, she came to see Batang. jade market.

After shopping around Jade Street, she and her two friends only took a fancy to a dozen pieces of semi-finished materials. After sealing the last piece of imperial concubine bracelet material in Li Liang's store, the three of them had their stomachs growling.

"Eat, Xiaolan, Ali, what do you want to eat?"

Moran, who was wearing a peaked cap, thought for a while and said, "How about eating mutton noodles?"

"I have no objection." Short-haired girl Yin Jingli shrugged.

"Then mutton powder."

The three of them came to the middle of Feicui Street, walked into an alleyway, and inside was a public escalator. They took the escalator to another street, which was Batang's food street.

When they arrived at a store called "Chang'an Noodle House", the three of them walked in.

Chu Xinyue and the others ordered mutton noodles, grilled mutton skewers, grilled green peppers, a grilled bun, and three bottles of Bingfeng soda.

Taking a sip of the cold soda, Moran said nostalgically: "It still tastes like home."

"Aren't you planning to go back during the New Year?" Chu Xinyue put down the soda bottle and asked.

Moran quickly shook his head: "As soon as I went back, my family was urging me to get married again, and then my aunts and aunts were gossiping, and finally there were all kinds of blind dates. It was so difficult for me!"

Yin Jingli turned around and asked, "By the way, Xinyue, what are you planning to do during the New Year?"

"I plan to go to the mining area in Hongsawady to have a look. The jade output here in Batang is too small and there is not enough in the store." Chu Xinyue was a little helpless.

"Honsawady? Because of what happened a few months ago, it seems to be under martial law now, right?" Moran reminded worriedly.

Chu Xinyue was not too worried about this: "Don't worry, I hold a domestic passport. Unless the other party doesn't want to get involved, not to mention that the mining area is a key protection area."

Yin Jingli said softly: "I heard an old classmate over there say that there seems to be someone behind that Maung An supporting him."

"It's normal, but this person is quite capable. He actually had the courage to cut off vassals and destroy several big states in one go." After Moran finished speaking, the waiter brought three bowls of mutton noodles. She picked up the spicy oil on the side and started eating. Downed three tablespoons.

Chu Xinyue, who couldn't eat spicy food, felt her scalp numb.

After a while, the mutton skewers, green pepper skewers and grilled buns they ordered were all served.

Moran picked up a large portion of lamb kebabs. The lamb was sprinkled with cumin noodles, and the large pieces of lamb were roasted golden.

"Eat it quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold." Moran said while biting a piece of mutton: "This mutton is well grilled and the price is quite cheap."

"A big skewer like that in Yangcheng starts at 15 yuan, but it only costs 5 yuan here. It's really cheap." Chu Xinyue picked up a skewer of mutton and ate it.

In fact, it’s not that prices in big cities are too high. At present, meat prices in various parts of the country are not very different.

The price of cooked food in restaurants in big cities is high because store rent and labor costs are high. In small cities like Batang, store rent and labor costs have advantages.

Since this year, mutton production in Mongolia and Mobei has increased a lot. The wholesale price of mutton is only about 17 yuan per kilogram, and that of beef is slightly higher, about 24 yuan per kilogram.

As for pork and chicken, which are the largest domestically produced products, the prices have also dropped a lot. Pork is about 11 yuan per kilogram, and chicken is about 8 yuan per kilogram.

These are wholesale prices, and retail prices are usually about 3 to 5 yuan higher.

Restaurants all wholesale, so the cost is even lower. In the store where Chu Xinyue and others ate, one kilogram of mutton makes 20 skewers. The cost of one skewer is 0.85 yuan, plus other seasonings, gas and labor. You can make half of it.

As meat prices fall, domestic meat consumption has increased to about 97 kilograms per person per year.

The consumption of other vegetables, fruits and non-staple foods has also been rising steadily, while the consumption of staple grains has dropped a lot.

This is a normal phenomenon. In areas with higher living standards, the consumption of eggs, milk, meat, vegetables, fruits and non-staple foods will increase, while the consumption of carbohydrate staple foods will decrease.

For those who say that Chinese people cannot eat meat, the Food Alliance directly slaps them in the face with facts.

We not only need to eat, we also need to eat well and be full, and we don’t need to worry about the Amazon rainforest catching fire, sea levels not rising, and it’s not a global disaster.

Because a large number of seawater desalination plants are continuously pumping out seawater every year, in China alone, more than 350 billion cubic meters of fresh water are pumped into the ocean every year, and this number will become larger and larger in the future.

There is no need to worry too much about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A large number of solar farms, wind farms, and tidal energy power stations need to extract carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to create energy storage carbon powder.

Coupled with the greening of the Gobi desert and future controllable nuclear fusion power generation technology, China can fully satisfy the needs of billions of people and live a prosperous life.

They can only envy and hate.

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