Chen Xia carried many Erguotou in the back of his car. This was when he was transferring in the capital. Because the waiting time was too long, he bought it at the airport.

I originally planned to meet a fellow villager on the road to ask for directions, or exchange them for exchanges when buying cantaloupes, and make favors.

Now that's it, all of them are cheaper than the soldiers.

The military station slaughtered a few more sheep. There were not many other places in this place, and they were all raised by the army themselves.

After eating and drinking, Chen Xia had a bold idea.

"Battery Commander Su, I'll ask you something. Your troops are based in Hotan area, right?"

"Yes, it's in Hotan. Dean Chen, have you heard of Hotan? That place is far away and the transportation is quite inconvenient."

Chen Xia lowered his voice and asked, "Have you heard of Hetian jade? That's it, mutton fat white jade."

Captain Su replied disrespectfully:

"Why don't you know about Hetian jade? I heard that it used to be a good treasure, but now it can't be sold. Oh, by the way, the largest Tatlek Suyu Mine belongs to our army."

Chen Xia was happy as soon as he heard this. The ore controlled by the military system was just to give money and goods with his face as a first-class hero. Wouldn't that be a casual compilation?

Wait, why is it ore?

"Oh no, shouldn't this white mutton fat jade be picked up from the river? How did it become mined in the mountains?"

"Hey, what you are talking about is water, but there is actually another type of mountain material. The water material is dug in the river beach and the quality is relatively good. The mountain material is dug from the mine cave, and the quality is relatively poor. But this is not absolute. The key is to look at the final quality."

Oh, now Chen Xia understands, it turns out that there are so many things to pay attention to.

"By the way, Battalion Commander Su, I have something to bother you. That's it. I want you to tell your leader when you go back, and you say I want to buy a large amount of mutton fat jade. You don't need ordinary goods. You need the best seed mutton fat jade. You can pay as much as you want. The price is easy to negotiate. Forex, US dollars and Hong Kong dollars."

Captain Su sprayed a mouthful of tea from his mouth and then started coughing.

"Chen, Dean Chen, you're not kidding?"

"Really, I personally prefer seed-based mutton fat jade. I want to buy it and collect it. Hey, hey, don't look at me like this. I'm not corrupt. My grandfather belongs to Xiangjiang, and he gives me the money."

"Damn it, no wonder you drive such a good car. It turns out that you have a grandfather from Xiangjiang. Why can't I encounter such a good thing? Let me tell you, Dean Chen, you have helped me a lot. We are worried that we can't sell so much jade."

After saying that, Battalion Commander Su jumped up quickly.

"No, I will report such an important matter to my superior immediately. Dean Chen, please call me with me so that my superiors will not think I am talking to you."

From the beginning of liberation, the glory of Hetian jade, or furthermore, is gone forever. The reason is naturally the same as jade.

At that time, everyone knew about our national conditions. Who had the spare money and leisure to appreciate these "toys"?

Antiques are sold as waste products. These pieces of mutton fat jade cannot be eaten or used. They are placed in jade shops and no one comes to buy them. They are not exported to the outside world. Europeans and Americans do not play with jade at all.

Moreover, the production area of ​​Hetian jade is worse than that of jadeite.

Jade can also be sold through smuggling or official public sales, and exported by sea. At least the Chinese cultural circles in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia still like it.

However, Hetian jade is located in the depths of the desert of Xinjiang Xin Province, and there is not even a railway, so this former noble jade has been in the deep boudoir for a long time and no one cares about it.

Without market and demand, even basic transportation cannot be solved, so in the end, it can only be piled in the warehouse.

Later, it was not until the late 1990s that it began to be hotly hyped along with jade. After entering the 21st century, the price also soared. Moreover, because the seed material, mutton fat jade was even sold in Lunke.

Weird, high-end top luxury goods that only rich people can afford.

Battalion Commander Su found the phone number at the military station, reported it all the way, and requested it all the way. Finally, even the division commander was alarmed and directly asked to talk to Chen Xia.

"Hey, hello, Commander Fang, I'm Chen Xia."

"Hello Comrade Chen Xia, I met you when I came to the Ulu Military Region to give a tour of heroic deeds, but you were on stage and I sat down in the audience, haha. Is this true about what Su Jianjiang said?"

"Yes...I personally like seed-based mutton fat jade very much...Yes...I just need the best jade...and water-based ingredient and mountain materials are fine."

Commander Fang asked carefully: "Comrade Chen Xia, can you really pay with US dollars?"

Chen Xia slapped his chest: "The US dollar is no problem, and everyone is comrades-in-arms. I promise not to bargain. I will give as much as you say, and I will be a supporter of our troops."

When the commander Fang heard this on the other end of the phone, he really wanted to get out through the phone line and then kiss Chen Xia fiercely.

Why does Commander Fang want US dollars so much?

This is because Xinjiang Xin Province is too big and is located on the border of the motherland, so material supply is not particularly convenient and abundant.

At this time, domestic economic construction had just begun, and money was needed everywhere, and wars were still in the south, so military expenditures were not so easy to guarantee.

It is not so easy to raise an army of thousands or even tens of thousands of people?

In order to subsidize the troops, the superiors gave some tertiary industries to let the troops run by themselves, so-called relying on the mountains to live by the mountains and relying on the water to eat water.

In the Hotan area, the troops are not only grazing, but also Hetian jade mine.

As a result, other brother troops were in full swing due to the convenience of transportation, and the tertiary industry was in full swing.

But the local garrison in Hotan was in a difficult situation, and they were just begging for food by guarding the gold mountain. Who would you sell this Hotan jade to?

Those state-owned jade factories have their own sources of raw materials, and their lives are also difficult. It is so easy to sell. Commander Fang has long snatched up customer resources.

Now someone buys it and returns it to the US dollar. This is a great thing.

Although the troops do not have any foreign exchange income-generating tasks, don’t forget that they are short of supplies now, but the northern neighbor of China is not short of supplies.

But they do not charge RMB, only US dollars.

As long as your US dollar is in place, what does your Chinese troops want to give? Food? Steel? What? Not enough? Isn't it enough? Do you want aircraft, cannons, tanks?

In the late 1980s, polar bears were charred in China. Ahem, anyway, you can give whatever you want, you can get an atomic bomb.

So as long as Chen Xia is willing to use the US dollar to purchase seed material, mutton fat jade, then the troops can use the US dollar to exchange for all the supplies they need.

This is a good thing for the Hotan garrison.
Chapter completed!