sbdcsierra Chapter 2012 sold for an astronomical price, a resounding success.
Chapter 2012 sold for an astronomical price, a resounding success.
Chapter 2012 sold for an astronomical price, a resounding success.
"Mr. Li, there's no rush." Zhao Jun smiled and led Li Guangming aside, where the two sat facing each other across the table.
Li Mingjun slammed the poplar wood tube onto the table and then eagerly reached his hand inside.
"Mr. Li, what have you taken a fancy to?" Zhao Jun asked with a smile. Li Mingjun replied, "Mr. Zhao, you can touch it first."
Zhao Jun was taken aback upon hearing this, then smiled and reached into the wooden tube, touching Li Mingjun's hand.
Li Mingjun's gesture is very simple: his thumb and index finger are spread out in a V-shape.
Zhao Jun immediately recognized it by touch; it was an "eight".
At this moment, Zhao Jun tapped Li Mingjun's hand twice with his fingertips. After receiving the signal from Zhao Jun, Li Mingjun said, "Use 100,000 as the unit."
He gestured with his hand to indicate the number eight, and said that the threshold was 100,000, which meant 800,000.
Zhao Jun nodded to indicate that he understood, and Li Mingjun said, "I'll take any of these three ginseng kings."
"Hehe." Hearing this, Zhao Jun chuckled and said, "Boss Li, at this price, you can't take any seedlings away."
"Huh?" Li Mingjun was taken aback, then heard Zhao Jun say, "Boss Li, give me your hand, let me give you a massage."
The two of them were just touching the price with their sleeves; now they're going to try to find the price inside their sleeves.
Li Mingjun instinctively reached for his left hand, but Zhao Jun said, "Boss Li, your right hand."
Upon hearing Zhao Jun's words, Li Mingjun was taken aback for a moment, then laughed and said, "Yes, the right hand."
As he spoke, Li Mingjun switched to his right hand and inserted it into the wooden tube.
Zhao Jun reached in, touched Li Mingjun's right middle finger, and then pinched it with his own thumb and forefinger.
This sudden movement caused Li Mingjun's pupils to shrink sharply.
When they were holding the price in their sleeves, each hand was called a palm of gold.
The left hand has five fingers: the little finger represents one, the ring finger represents ten, the middle finger represents one hundred, the index finger represents one thousand, and the thumb represents ten thousand.
To go higher, you have to switch hands. Switch to your right hand, with your index finger representing 100,000 and your middle finger representing 1 million.
Zhao Jun pinched Li Mingjun's right middle finger, and that was a million.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Jun pinched Li Mingjun's right index finger, pinching and releasing it five times in a row, which represented 500,000.
Adding the previous one million, that makes one million five hundred thousand.
Li Mingjun looked at Zhao Jun, and then heard Zhao Jun laugh and say, "Boss Li, without this amount as a base, you won't be able to take any of these three ginseng roots with you."
This wasn't Zhao Jun making unreasonable demands; he had heard Shen Qiushan mention it when they were together in his previous life.
In 89, Shen Qiushan promoted the Phoenix Ginseng King. That year, the investigation was particularly strict, and after being implicated, Shen Qiushan was forced to sell the ginseng to a purchasing station.
It sold for an astronomical price of 350,000 at the time.
This astronomical price is the highest price ever offered by state-run pharmacies and purchasing stations for ginseng since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
You know, how much did the Jilin Provincial Government spend when they acquired that ginseng king back then?
After the purchasing station bought the Phoenix Ginseng King at an exorbitant price, it handed it over to the provincial medicinal materials company.
That same month, the provincial pharmaceutical company sold the Phoenix Ginseng King to a pharmaceutical merchant from the south for 1.08 million yuan, setting a record for wild ginseng transactions since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
After that, Zhao Jun had no idea who the Phoenix Ginseng King ended up with or at what price it was sold for.
But Zhao Jun knew the number 1.08 million.
That was in 1989, and it's 1988 now.
With only a year's difference and Zhao Jun now having invited so many big bosses, he's confident that his Three Seed Ginseng King won't sell for less.
Li Mingjun gave Zhao Jun a deep look. Seeing that Zhao Jun didn't seem to be joking, he said to Zhao Jun, "Boss Zhao, please wait a moment. I need to discuss this with Old Master Zhao."
The "Old Zhao" that Li Mingjun mentioned is Zhao Deshan, the old man who had a good chat with Zhao Jun at Shen Qiushan's banquet.
The old man had been running a pharmacy for many years. Li Mingjun invited him and his son to come so that Zhao Deshan could help him identify wild ginseng.
But the ginseng from the Zhao family doesn't need any identification. An expert can tell at a glance that it's top-quality ginseng because of the natural charm nurtured by the mountains and the wildness cultivated by wind and frost.
Whether it's true or false is irrelevant. What are Li Mingjun and Zhao Deshan discussing?
price?
Whether Li Mingjun buys it or not, and how much he spends if he does, is his own business. Does Zhao Deshan dare to make the decision for him?
So Li Mingjun's statement was just an excuse. Zhao Jun immediately mentioned 1.5 million, and Li Mingjun felt he needed to observe the situation further.
Of course, Li Mingjun also knew the value of Zhao Jun's three ginseng kings.
However, the person who receives the goods must have the ability to transport them to port cities and Southeast Asia.
In China, as Zhao Jun knows, the record for the transaction in 1989 was 1.08 million. You can't find that price anywhere in China now, so Li Mingjun has to stretch it a bit.
Zhao Jun had no objection to this and nodded slightly to Li Mingjun with a smile.
As soon as Li Mingjun got up, Ma Jiren from Gangcheng sat down opposite Zhao Jun.
"Chief Zhao." Ma Jiren sat down, his gaze falling on Zhao Jun, and said slowly, "Please extend your right hand."
Upon hearing Ma Jiren's words, Li Mingjun, who had just left, paused and turned back to look at the two people sitting opposite him.
Since Ma Jiren wants Zhao Jun's right hand, he is very likely to offer more than a million.
Sure enough, after Zhao Jun put his right hand into the wooden tube, Ma Jiren pinched his middle finger and then his index finger twice, saying, "Boss Zhao, my Qiancheng Hall wants the Phoenix Ginseng King."
"Hehe..." Zhao Jun chuckled lightly, but before he could say anything, someone next to him said, "We at Weihetang also want that Phoenix Ginseng King."
"Huh?" Zhao Jun was taken aback. If he remembered correctly, these two were invited by Liu Jinrong.
However, Zhao Jun quickly remembered that when they first met, Liu Jinrong seemed to have said that both of them were from long-established pharmacies in Hong Kong, with histories that could even be traced back to the Qing Dynasty.
How could two pharmacies like these not compete with each other?
Thinking of this, Zhao Jun almost burst out laughing.
Competition is good. Without competition, how would I make money?
Unlike Zhao Jun, Ma Jiren was glaring indignantly at Liang Wanshun.
"Master Ma, please." Liang Wanshun said this politely, but he was actually asking Ma Jiren to leave.
Ma Jiren was no pushover in Hong Kong either, and when his old rival humiliated him, he wanted to retaliate on the spot. However, remembering that this was Zhao Jun's territory, Ma Jiren swallowed his anger.
After glaring at Liang Wanshun, Ma Jiren simply pulled his hand out of the wooden tube and glanced at his left, which was the position to Zhao Jun's right.
Seeing this, Liang Wanshun knew that Ma Jiren was going against him, so he immediately gave a cold laugh and sat down in the seat to Zhao Jun's right.
Then, Liang Wanshun reached into the wooden tube and pinched Zhao Jun's right middle finger.
That wasn't all. After releasing Zhao Jun's middle finger, Liang Wanshun pinched his index finger twice.
One tap with the middle finger of your right hand, two taps with the index finger, that's one million two hundred thousand.
This has already broken the domestic record for wild ginseng trading prices, but Zhao Jun still shook his head at Liang Wanshun.
Because Liang Wanshun offered the same price as Ma Jiren.
What a coincidence!
Liang Wanshun was taken aback. Ma Jiren next to him let out a mocking laugh and then glanced at Liang Wanshun with contempt.
Liang Wanshun glared back at Ma Jiren, his face somewhat gloomy, but he still managed a forced smile at Zhao Jun after turning back.
However, Liang Wanshun was somewhat worried about what was to come.
At this moment, he was unaware that his offer had clashed with Ma Jiren's. Seeing Zhao Jun shake his head, he assumed that his offer was too low.
Liang Wanshun gritted his teeth and pinched out a price representing 1.4 million from Zhao Jun's hand.
After settling the price, Liang Wanshun looked up at Zhao Jun, who first nodded and smiled at him, then looked at Ma Jiren and shook his head.
Seeing this, Liang Wanshun glanced at Ma Jiren with a smug look. At this moment, it was Ma Jiren's turn to have a bad expression.
Seeing Liang Wanshun pull his hand out of the wooden tube, Ma Jiren moved the wood to his side and then put his hand in.
Zhao Jun cooperated, but then Ma Jiren pinched Zhao Jun's right middle finger once, and then pinched Zhao Jun's index finger four times.
This is 1.4 million, which is 200,000 more than the previous 1.2 million.
Even so, Zhao Jun still shook his head at Ma Jiren, because Ma Jiren's offer had clashed with Liang Wanshun's offer.
"Hehe..." Liang Wanshun laughed out loud: "Your Qianchengtang is so poor that you can't even pay your employees' salaries, you should save your money!"
Ma Jiren's face was tense and his expression was not good. He then pulled out 1.5 million from Zhao Jun's hand.
Zhao Jun smiled, feeling that his decision was absolutely brilliant.
Using a cunning bidding strategy, they also encountered a sworn enemy. If Ma Jiren and Liang Wanshun hadn't had a feud, their bid increase would never have been so large.
To save money, they would tentatively spend 10,000 or 20,000 yuan at a time. Unlike now, where prices are skyrocketing.
After being crushed by Ma Jiren's 1.5 million, Liang Wanshun managed to extract another 1.7 million from Zhao Jun.
After gaining Zhao Jun's approval, Liang Wanshun gave Ma Jiren a smug smile.
But behind the smile, Liang Wanshun felt a bitter taste in his mouth.
Even now, Liang Wanshun doesn't know how much Ma Jiren offered, but he does know that Ma Jiren raised the price from 1.2 million to 1.7 million in just two minutes.
It's not that Weihetang can't afford to spend so much money. The problem is that Liang Wanshun wants to acquire the Phoenix Ginseng King first, and then the Cross-Sea Ginseng King.
There's no way around it; everyone has a greedy side.
But if things continue like this, Weihetang will only be able to get this one Phoenix Ginseng King.
But soon, Liang Wanshun put all of that behind him and looked at Ma Jiren with great smugness.
After gritting his teeth, Ma Jiren decisively chose to follow suit.
Even if, as Liang Wanshun said, Qianchengtang is currently going through a difficult period, if they can acquire the Phoenix Ginseng King, they can make money by reselling it to Southeast Asia.
But what Liang Wanshun and Ma Jiren both knew, Li Guangming, who came from Singapore in Southeast Asia, couldn't possibly not know.
"Boss Zhao, Steward Liang, Manager Ma." The owner of the voice appeared in front of Zhao Jun; it was Li Guangming.
Li Guangming glanced at the three people sitting around the table, then smiled at Ma Jiren and said, "Boss Ma, could you let me talk to Chief Zhao about this Phoenix Ginseng King?"
Ma Jiren was taken aback, and a bad feeling crept into his heart.
Sure enough, after Li Guangming sat down, he put his hand into the wooden tube and said to Zhao Jun, "Chief Zhao, in units of one million."
Everyone around Li Guangming was shocked when he said this.
His words served two purposes: first, to allow Zhao Jun to gauge the price, and second, to raise the price of the Phoenix Ginseng King to two million.
Li Guangming's offer was practically a stated price, and after he quoted it, Ma Jiren quickly obtained a price of 2.05 million from Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun shook his head at Li Guangming, but Li Guangming just smiled, took the wooden tube, and immediately raised the price to 2.4 million.
Zhao Jun looked at Ma Jiren, but Liang Wanshun beat him to it.
However, the 2.2 million that Liang Wanshun fabricated could not outdo Li Guangming.
When Liang Wanshun's offer of 2.3 million was also insufficient, the man withdrew his hand with a gloomy expression.
Then it was Ma Jiren's turn. As Liang Wanshun's old rival, Ma Jiren also bet 2.2 million and 2.3 million in succession.
Moreover, after two failures, Ma Jiren gave up.
Seeing that there were four people at the table, Liang Wanshun and Ma Jiren got up one after another, leaving only Li Guangming.
Seeing this, although everyone else knew that Li Guangming had offered a high price, they all stepped forward to test the waters.
This was exactly what Zhao Jun had expected. His Three Miao Ginseng King, Three Talents Ginseng King, and Phoenix Ginseng King all had the character "奇" (qi, meaning strange/unusual) in their names. The Cross-Sea Ginseng King was "霸" (ba, meaning domineering/overbearing), and the Phoenix Ginseng King was "美" (mei, meaning beautiful/beautiful).
Even ancient emperors would treasure ginseng of this year and grade as a precious gem, storing it in their treasuries for the purpose of prolonging or sustaining their lives.
The people attending this conference today may not be the final destination of this ginseng king. It will eventually be collected by someone wealthy and powerful, and since it's a collectible, it will be the one in the best condition.
This Phoenix Ginseng King seedling was already highly sought after, and with the three major pharmacies in Hong Kong and Singapore bidding against it, others also joined in.
However, after Li Guangming offered 2.4 million, no other offer could win Zhao Jun's approval.
Seeing one bidder after another give up, Li Guangming couldn't help but smile slightly, a hint of smugness on his face.
Just when everyone thought the Phoenix Ginseng King was going to be awarded to Singapore, Zhang Yuejin, Xu Qianli, and the three Song brothers walked over together.
None of the three had made a bid before, and Zhao Jun thought they had given up after learning that the Phoenix Ginseng King had been priced at over two million.
At this moment, Xu Qianli sat down to Zhao Jun's right and reached into the wooden tube. He started by adding two million, increasing by tens of thousands at a time.
When Xu Qianli pulled out 2.5 million from Zhao Jun's hand, Zhao Jun nodded.
Then, Zhao Jun looked at Li Guangming. But before he could shake his head at Li Guangming, Zhao Jun's expression suddenly changed, and he abruptly turned to look at Xu Qianli.
Even after receiving Zhao Jun's approval, Xu Qianli did not stop and extracted another 2.6 million from Zhao Jun's hand.
Surprised, Zhao Jun nodded to Xu Qianli again.
Xu Qianli smiled at him and slowly withdrew his hand.
Zhao Jun responded with a smile, then looked at Li Guangming and shook his head.
The smugness on Li Guangming's face had vanished. After hesitating several times, he moved the pine tube over, reached inside, and squeezed out 2.5 million from Zhao Jun's hand.
After seeing Zhao Jun shake his head, Li Guangming hesitated for another seven or eight seconds before adding another 30,000.
Seeing that Zhao Jun was still shaking his head, Li Guangming sighed, then gave Xu Qianli a wry smile before withdrawing his hand and getting up to leave.
"Boss Xu." Zhao Jun raised his hand and gave Xu Qianli a thumbs up. Although everyone could continue to participate in the bidding for the Phoenix Ginseng King before the Ginseng King Conference ended, Zhao Jun felt that the price of the Ginseng King was already set.
Xu Qianli smiled, then looked at Zhang Yuejin and Song Da standing behind him.
The Phoenix Ginseng King was acquired through a joint effort by the three families. As for how they divided it, Zhao Jun didn't care.
Zhao Jun was confident that, given the strength he had demonstrated, these people wouldn't dare to play tricks on him in this regard.
At this point, the Phoenix Ginseng King sold for 2.6 million. In this day and age, that's an absolutely astronomical price.
Zhao Jun believes that even though many people have tried to sell the King of Ginseng throughout history, none of them have been able to fetch this price!