Chapter 355: The Eye of Golconda
The next day, after noon, Zhang Nan and his gang arrived at Manu Jayin's diamond processing factory - eat first and then do things, otherwise everyone felt that they would starve to death in India!
Zhang Nan even has the heart to directly fly food from Europe: at least tens of billions of wealth, the part that can see people is billions of dollars, and he is still living on soaked rice and salted radish every morning, which makes it unpleasant to hunt for treasures?
Jia Yin's family diamond group has a nice name: Red Rose Group, the boss of the factory has a signboard at the entrance of the factory, which is very eye-catching. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Mumbai is a large area of land close to the suburbs, and is inevitably surrounded by the humble dwellings of low-income Mumbai citizens: unlike Zhang Nan's factories in Hangcheng, people with dense phobia are better off staying close here.
The tall fence separates the factory from the surrounding houses, and when the convoy enters, it sees several rows of factories inside, high and low. The old two-storey factory buildings were probably built in the sixties and seventies, and the new four-story factories are quite new, and it looks like they should have been built in the next two years.
"This is a big factory, a very powerful big processing plant!"
As soon as he got out of the car, Zhang Nan heard his brother-in-law in front of him talking to Brother Guan: It's a big factory, and there are more than 3,500 cutting workers in a diamond processing factory.
However, if it were to be moved to Hangzhou, the 3,500-person factory would cover an area at least several times that of Hangzhou: although the factory area was not small, it was too crowded inside, and the visual sense was similar to that of the crowded houses outside.
Manu Jia Yin was already waiting for him in front of the four-story factory with a few people, and Zhang Nan guessed that the diamond company's office should be in this building.
After some greetings and introductions, it turned out that among the people waiting for the guests together, in addition to the three executives of the Red Rose Group, there was also a tall man in his 30s who was Manu Jayin's cousin, named Dilip Mehta, who also came from Gujarat, and his hometown was near the village of Babalunpur, where the Jayin family was located.
The Jia Yin family built a huge diamond kingdom through marriage, and this young Dilip Mehta is a prominent figure in the younger generation of one of the "groups" in this huge diamond kingdom.
However, unlike Manu Jayin's hard work in Mumbai, the Dilip Mehta family's main base is in Surat, 250 kilometres north of Mumbai, where the diamond industry employs more than four times as many people as Mumbai!
The Jewellery Group controlled by the Meta family is called the "Blue Rose Group": two jewellery groups, two roses, blue and rose red in India symbolize a clear sky, and roses also represent joy - the two married families also have a bit of a quest for naming their businesses, and they have a tacit understanding.
"Dilip just arrived this morning with some of the finest polished diamonds from our two families in Sutra at the moment..."
The Jia Yin family also has a lot of property in Sutra, which is also the result of Mannu's phone call yesterday.
Everyone entered the factory building, and Manu introduced as he walked.
There is an elevator, no need to climb the steps.
Usually Indian factories don't have this equipment, but when you enter the elevator, you find that it is a huge freight elevator with elevator people in it - those diamond processing equipment is probably easier to use the elevator to get up and down.
As for the elevator man... Who makes Indian labor cheap to the point that it is outrageous, Huaxia may need three people to do the work that one person can do in India, the boss doesn't care at all, and it is estimated that there are reasons why ordinary employees are prohibited from using the elevator without incident.
The savings in electricity bills are estimated to be enough to feed a few elevator drivers - electricity in India is not cheap!
As we chatted, according to Manu's introduction, Zhang Nan learned that the first, second and third floors here are diamond-cutting and polishing workshops, while the fourth floor is the sorting workshop and the administrative staff's offices.
Luckily, as soon as I walked into Manu Jain's huge office, I was greeted by a cool chill - there was air conditioning.
Not to mention the 80s, even after more than 20 years, the offices of Indian government departments are often not equipped with air conditioners, and they rely on electric fans to blow hulala.
This Manu Jain is a person who will enjoy.
There is no rush to visit the factory, there is no air conditioning, and even if the temperature is high, the workers with meager salaries can only work under the fan.
If you go to the factory, you may sweat and your business will not be good.
There were only 6 people on Zhang Nan's side in the office, Alyosha as a personal bodyguard stood in the corner like an iron tower, and the other bodyguards stayed in the lounge outside.
Don't worry about security, it's enough for 6 people to come in.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the diamonds that Dilip brought from Surat this time, as well as some of my best diamonds, are here, and the price is definitely more than 20 percent lower than the New York market. ”
A white-gloved company executive pulls out several trays from the safe, revealing hundreds of diamonds, large and small.
"Round diamonds are not needed, and I don't like Nicole and Jenny. ”
Directly ignoring all the 57 faceted round diamonds - personal preference, the small diamond round is very beautiful, but once it is more than 5 carats, Zhang Nan feels a little weird, and can only be used as a side stone for the giant diamond necklace.
Colorless diamonds and colored diamonds are available.
Zhang Nan picked up a pear-shaped colorless diamond, and Dilip Mehta on the side said: "This is the 'Eye of Golconda', weighing 40.05 carats, completely flawless, E colorless grade." ”
It is rare for a giant diamond of this size to reach the colorless level, and the highest grade D (completely colorless grade) is often blown up, not to mention that it is completely flawless.
Zhang Nan doesn't have to worry about the other party cheating on himself: if there is a problem with the diamond, the names of these two Indian diamond families will stink, not to mention that the Indian government will be furious.
However, Zhang Nan had a question, "Mr. Meta, as far as I know, after the Golconda diamond mine was buried by a mudslide in 1870, wasn't it completely scrapped?"
It is a diamond from India, and it comes with a certificate of quality from the Blue Rose Group - not from the mine, Antwerp or the Gemological Institute of America, but from the Indians.
Dilip Mehta said with a smile: "This was purchased by our group from a descendant of the Central Region in January this year, and it may have been mined for about 400 years, and it originally weighed 65 carats.
The original cut was terrible, and it contained a micro-crack of nearly 5 mm in length, and we re-optimized the cut and polish in more than 3 months, and we got a total of three diamonds, one large, two small, and three diamonds. ”
Listening to this, I understand.
Dilip Mehta also took out a small folder from his bag with the original photo of the "Eye of Golconda", as well as two other small diamonds: the larger one at 7.86 carats and the smaller one at 1.2 carats.
A 65-carat diamond is recut with less than 50 carats left, which is good enough – weight matters, but many times quality is more important!