Golden Fishery

Qin Shiou snapped his fingers again, he pretended a bit too much today and was slightly drunk.

Nelson also quickly opened his black leather case. Inside were the same black pearls arranged in rows according to size. They looked orderly and exuded pleated brilliance, blinding the three of Vincent.

Seeing so many black pearls, Vincent was not happy, but his expression became a little ugly. He said, "Qin, I treat you as a little brother. Isn't it a little too much for you to do so?"

Black pearls belong to jewelry, and a lot of them can be produced every year, but Qin Shiou provides top-grade black pearls, which are high-end luxury jewelry. Only Tahiti, Australia can produce some, and the price is expensive.

And even for ordinary wild black pearls, there are very few places in the world where they can be produced. Strictly speaking, there are only two. One is Tahiti Island in the Polynesian Islands, which produces 95% of the world's black pearls; the other is the Cook Islands. The output of Penrhyn Island and Majuhiki Island accounts for 4% of the total output, and the output of other regions is less than 1%.

This is a natural black pearl, and now more black pearls in the world are cultured black pearls, which was developed in French Polynesia thirty years ago. However, the cultivated black pearls are nuclear black pearls, and their color and roundness are not as good as natural black pearls. So even in 1976, the Gemological Institute of America determined that the cultured black pearls produced in Tahiti were "a cultured pearl with a natural color", but in the high-end luxury market, cultured pearls are no different from wild pearls. Fabi.

Where is the difference between? That is the feeling. The most important thing about these wild black pearls provided by Qin Shiou is that their color has a sense of mystery. This is a kind of black that can make people put their minds into it, while the color of cultivated black pearls is dull. After being soaked in sweat for a long time, the color will be more ugly.

Luxury jewelry such as wild black pearls have a specific market. Only those people can buy them, and the value determines that it cannot be used by the whole society. According to the law of market supply and marketing, rare things are more expensive. The fewer the number of high-quality black pearls, the higher the price. If there are too many, they will be worthless.

At first, the quotation given by the three of Vincent to Qin Shiou was calculated based on the entry of one hundred high-quality black pearls into the upper class of the United States. If he knew from the beginning that he had two thousand such high-quality black pearls, then Vincent would at least have to chop them off. Half the price!

Qin Shiou knew this, but business was business. Auerbach and the Bruce couple have repeatedly emphasized this business rule to him, that favors and business cannot be mixed, otherwise he must be the one who suffers.

Therefore, when he sold these black pearls, he played a little trick. Instead of showing all the black pearls, he first took out a hundred of them to set the price.

It cannot be said that he cheated Vincent. First of all, these black pearls are definitely worthy of the price; secondly, the price Vincent gave him was a bit low from the beginning.

The value of these black pearls was squeezed out of him, and as the saying goes, business is business, and the two of them don't care about the personal education. They are now talking about business.

This incident is a bit similar to when Qin Shiou and Butler cheated Tezuka Kota together. They first sold him a bluefin tuna with excellent meat quality at a high price, and then waited for Tezuka Kota to buy it and bring it back to Tokyo to prepare for a big fight. Butler went by with three more bluefin tuna of the same quality.

At the beginning of last year, Takashi Tezuka really felt a little miserable about this incident. Kiyomura Co., Ltd. has been in a bit of a slump since then, and he paid too much money for that bluefin tuna.

but. Naturally, Qin Shiou couldn't treat Vincent like Tezuka Kota. He had a solution, so he asked first, "Don't worry, Mr. Tiffany, I want to ask, what are you going to do with these black pearls?"

Vincent said: "Make jewelry, big ones for headwear, necklaces or other jewelry, and small ones for earrings, lip beads and other jewelry."

Qin Shiou laughed and said, "So, why are you in a hurry? Although I still have two thousand black pearls in my hand, there is no conflict with you. Your plan is to disperse the black pearls. Pearls are made into a set of jewelry, and each set uses at least a hundred black pearls!"

Vincent asked: "You mean, you don't plan to sell these black pearls?"

Qin Shiou nodded and said: "Yes, that's what it means. I won't sell them to you, nor will I sell them to other stores. I hope you can make classic jewelry like the Queen of the Night, and I will sell them in the auction shop. deal with it."

This is his first thought, in fact he has another thought, but he can't say it now, it depends on Vincent's meaning.

Vincent knew the value these black pearls represented, and he wanted to keep them in his pocket, and with Tiffany's strength, there was no financial pressure to buy all the black pearls. As long as he has more than 2,000 top-quality black pearls, he believes that Tiffany will not need to purchase black pearls in the next two years.

Even, instead of purchasing blue diamonds, pink diamonds, jadeite and other types of super jewelry in the past two years, they can use these top-quality black pearls to market and do various black pearl topics. They will definitely achieve some success in this regard.

The reason why he has such confidence is because Vincent knows that the value of the black pearl has not been fully discovered yet. You must know that only fifty years ago, black pearls were still a common ornament that was indecent. If it weren't for the 'Black Pearl King' Salvador Asar, I am afraid that black pearls would still be of little value today.

Speaking of black pearls, we have to talk about it from the beginning of World War II. At that time, there was a big diamond businessman in Italy named James Assar. He fled from Europe to Cuba for asylum.

There, he found a way to make a living. At that time, the US military needed waterproof watches, and Assal got a large number of high-quality waterproof watches through his connections in the Swiss jewelry industry, which made him a fortune.

But after the end of World War II, the U.S. military stopped buying waterproof watches, and Assal’s business was successful. At this time, there were still thousands of Swiss watches in stock, and the Swiss waterproof watches he got were all high-end products at cost prices. It's also very tall, so he can't drop it in his hands.

Then things started to turn around. The Japanese needed watches, but they had no money, but they had pearls—until now, Japan is also a big producer of pearls, but they produced white pearls.

Soon, James Assal and his son were bartering, exchanging Swiss watches for Japanese pearls. Business was booming, and it didn't take long for his son, Salvador Assar, to be known as the "Pearl King".

But at that time, the Ansar family was still operating the white pearl business, and the black pearl was still a black glazed ball, which appeared after a turning point. (To be continued.)

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