A treasure-appraisal maniac

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Fei took Jin'er to the sidewalk outside the Jiadexing parking lot.

Put the snakeskin bag in your hand on the ground, take out two small horseshoes, and then officially set up the stall.

"elder brother!"

"Are we setting up a stall here?" Jin'er asked.

"The feng shui here is good."

"Go inside, the merchant doesn't agree!"

"But, the auction will start soon, and there will be a lot of people here!" .??.

"hey-hey!"

"That's right!"

"Our customers are the big bosses."

"Don't be embarrassed."

"Do as I say and you will experience a different kind of excitement."

Lu Fei said as he took out a piece of big red cloth and spread it on the ground.

Then he took out the ink from the brush and started to splash the ink on the front end of the red cloth.

"Wow!"

"Brother, your handwriting is so beautiful!"

"hehe!"

"It would be much better to be serious than it is now!"

"cut!"

"Not modest at all!"

As Lu Fei wrote, Xiao Jin'er muttered silently.

"The goods are genuine, refuse to bargain, the price is fair, I am honest, I will compensate you ten for the fake ones."

"The goods at this stall are only for sale to Chinese people, foreigners please ignore it!"

"puff"

"elder brother!"

"Why not sell it to foreigners?" Xiao Jin'er asked.

"These are treasures of China and cannot be sold to foreigners."

"But, I am also a foreigner!"

"You are different, you are of Chinese descent." Lu Fei said.

"What if Chinese people buy it and then sell it to foreigners?"

"no way!"

"This is just for peace of mind!"

Lu Fei said, taking out six brocade boxes from his bag.

Xiao Jin'er was shocked when he saw these brocade boxes.

"elder brother!"

"I don't remember that we bought so many things?"

Lu Fei chuckled.

"You bought four pieces in total and sold one to Dong Dayuan."

"There's still a rock in there that needs to be dealt with."

"Besides, there are only two pieces left. They are too monotonous and unattractive. I will give you four more pieces."

"Make a perfect sixty-six."

"However, the nature is different in this way." Jin'er said.

"It doesn't matter. The money from selling those four pieces will be mine."

"Oh, that's no problem."

Lu Fei arranged the brocade boxes on the red cloth one by one and marked the price on the red cloth.

Early Ming Dynasty Pisces Bagua bronze mirror: 100,000 yuan.

"elder brother!"

"Don't you think this bronze mirror is worth fifty thousand yuan?"

"I'm talking about Shenzhou coins."

"This is Hong Kong Island."

"oh!"

"its not right!"

"The difference between Hong Kong Island currency and China currency is not that big!"

"This makes the willing take the bait."

Next are Lu Fei's own belongings, all of which came from Yan Shifan's burial gold objects.

Lu Fei has a lot of these things, and he wears them just to be ready to use them to communicate with each other when necessary.

Now is a good time to have some pocket money.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial government built a golden bulwark: 500,000 yuan.

"Wow!"

"This is so beautiful!"

"This is not classy enough."

"If you like it, I can give you something better another day."

"Thank you bro!"

"You are welcome."

A pair of gold and ruby ​​bracelets from the imperial palace of the Ming Dynasty: 1.5 million yuan.

In the 40th year of Jiajing reign in the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Household Affairs cast fifty

Two feet of gold ingots: 2.8 million yuan.

Ming Dynasty gold box with precious stones: 3.2 million yuan.

The last item is the biggest one that Jin'er picked up today. It is an enamel bowl with pomegranate flowers and two orioles painted by Yongzheng, with a price tag of 100 million.

"elder brother!"

"With such a high price tag, can it be sold?" Xiao Jin'er asked.

"have no idea."

“If you find something you really like, the price is completely acceptable.”

"No matter who comes in a while, there is no need to tell them anything, just follow the price we marked, and we won't sell it for a cent less."

"No need to spoil them." Lu Fei said.

"Okay, I get it now."

Seeing Jin'er's well-behaved look, Lu Fei laughed from the bottom of his heart.

"do not be shy!"

"We make money based on our skills, there is no shame in it."

"In life, you should try to experience new things as much as possible, so that they are exciting enough and will bring you different joy."

"Um!"

"you're right!"

Everything was ready, let Jin'er put on a mask and practice stalls behind the red cloth.

Lu Fei stepped aside and took out the rechargeable hand grinding wheel, sandpaper, a few bottles of water, and other odds and ends he had just bought from the snakeskin bag.

Then he took out the stone Jin'er bought and started looking at it.

This stone is slightly larger than a fist, has a blue-black surface, and is quite light.

In the strange stone stall I passed by before, this stone that resembled a turtle shell was placed in the most inconspicuous position.

It is estimated that even the boss himself does not know that this is a serious amber rough stone.

This kind of rough stone is produced in Fushun, Liaoning Province. The reason why it is blue and black is because it is produced in coal mines.

Fushun had a subtropical climate during the Paleogene of the Cenozoic Era, with warm and humid winters and hot and rainy summers. Cupressaceae plants that proliferate in large numbers in this area, such as metasequoia, sequoia, and water pine, all secrete resin, which forms

The original plant of amber.

After the resin secretes and drips, it is transported slightly off-site by flowing water and then deposited, or the trees containing resin die and are buried and deposited. After a long geological period, the resin loses its volatile components and polymerizes and solidifies to form amber deposits.

Fushun amber was produced in the Fushun West Open-pit Coal Mine. In the 27th year of Guangxu's reign, Wang Chengyao, a national capitalist at the time, obtained a license and began trial mining.

In the 29th year of Guangxu's reign, formal mining began, and amber and coal essence were mined along with the coal.

Wang Chengyao's fellow villagers in Hebei Province, Zhao Kunsheng and Zhao Jinglin, were brothers. They worked as carpenters in the mines and later specialized in wood carving.

They used their wood carving skills to carve coal amber and found that it was a highly carving raw material for handicrafts. The two then switched careers and specialized in coal amber carving.

In the third year of the Republic of China, the Fushun West Open-pit Mine was converted from underground mining to open-pit mining, and a large amount of amber was mined.

The brothers believed that the business prospects were very good, so they cooperated with another woodcarving artist Zhang Baixiao to establish the first business name "Shuanghexing" specializing in carving and selling coal essence and amber, which means harmony brings wealth and business is prosperous.

Zhao Kunsheng is the chief shopkeeper, and he and Zhang Baixiao jointly carve and produce. Zhao Jinglin spends part of his time engaged in carving and production, and is also responsible for sales in Fengtian, Lushun, and Yangcheng.

"Shuanghexing" recruited and trained more than 20 apprentices, and was the largest coal-refined amber carving workshop "Century Coal Sculpture" at that time.

The three of them also became the masters of amber carving in Fushun. In the 1930s, the scale of coal essence and amber carving in Fushun has developed greatly. In addition to "Shuanghexing", "Baoju Amber", "Jinsheng Amber", "Datian Amber" ” has also become a rising star.

According to the "Fushun County Chronicle of the Republic of China": "Twenty households of charcoal and coal-huang utensil workshops".

Fushun's coal and amber carving industries have reached a certain scale.

The second-generation amber artists Guo Baoju of "Baoju Amber", Bai Jinsheng of "Jin Sheng Amber", and Yuan Datian of "Datian Amber" are representative figures.

During this period, amber carving production was independent from coal carving, but most of them were operated at the same time as gold and silver production.