This car is a heavy truck. The body itself is heavy enough. With the people on the car and the packhorse, it becomes even heavier. However, driving on the road still makes me feel a little unsteady. +
Especially when you can't see the reference objects on the roadside, you don't even know how far in front of you there is a car.
The psychological pressure was also great. Within half an hour of driving, Han Kongque felt his eyes sore. I really don’t know how the people in front of him persisted in driving for such a long time.
Fortunately, this car has an auxiliary fuel tank, which is fully filled, otherwise I would really worry about running out of gas while driving.
"Boss, if you're tired, let me drive for a while!" Huangshan said when he saw the bad weather outside.
"It's okay, I just took over for a while." Han Kongque didn't dare to look back and said with a smile while looking at the road ahead.
"We'll stay there when we get to a hotel, if it's not too difficult to leave," Wei Changqing said.
At this time, several people did not rest anymore, but chatted quietly with Han Peacock to soothe his tense nerves.
Looking at the bad weather outside, Han Peacock already regretted not getting a helicopter. If they had used a helicopter to go into the mountains, they might have reached home by now.
However, I thought that this time I was out for fun. If I were to fly around in a plane, it would be boring. This situation is also an experience.
Just as Han Kongque was driving forward with concentration, he heard a "bump" from the front.
Under conditioned reflex, Han Kongque stepped on the brakes. Although he was not driving very fast, the people in the car were also woken up by the inertia.
"Boss, what happened?" Huang Shan asked nervously.
"I don't know, there was a noise in front of me just now, maybe something hit the car." Han Peacock said, shaking his head.
He was really startled just now. At first he thought he had hit something, but the car body didn't feel that kind of impact. Only then did he realize that the sound came from Qianmin's car.
"Boss, please sit down in the car. I'll go outside to check the situation." After Huang Shan finished speaking, he took out a pistol from his waist. After checking it, he opened the door and got out of the car.
Han Peacock did not object this time, and the situation outside was unknown. The weather was still so bad, and it was not known if someone was attacking their convoy.
After all, Huangshan has been a bodyguard for so long. He handled the current situation and reacted very well with his body.
Wei Changqing and the others were not idle either. They each took their own weapons from their luggage to deal with emergencies. This area was not as stable as in Nei, and it would not be surprising even if they encountered armed gangs, so the entire expedition team almost
All have weapons.
After Huangshan got off the car, he first looked around cautiously, then walked around the car. After he found nothing unusual, he made a safety gesture to everyone in the car.
Huang Shan held a pistol in one hand, focused his attention on the person in front of him, and walked up slowly. Han Kongque and others followed behind him and did not get close.
After waiting for a while. When Huangshan came back, the car in front started again. Because the wind and snow outside were now heavier, they couldn't see clearly through the car window and a little distance away, and they didn't know what was happening in front of them.
matter.
"What's going on up front?" Han Kongque asked after he returned to the car and started the car.
"The wind and snow were so strong that ice fell on the car in front just now. Fortunately, no one was hurt. It probably hit the roof of the car," Huang Shan said.
"Bing Leng?" Han Peacock asked doubtfully.
Huang Shandao: "It may be the rocks on the mountain, but that's the case anyway. The road in front of us cannot be walked. Now the convoy has changed direction and is looking for a nearby village to rest."
"Is it okay?" Han Peacock asked.
Huang Shan hesitated for a moment and said: "It should be no problem. With so many of us together, no one will use their brains. Besides, even if there is a problem, it is not a problem for us."
The car started and continued to drive forward. The road conditions were originally poor and the driving speed was not fast. Now it seemed that it had turned into a small road, making it even more difficult to drive.
"The place we are going to is a small mountain village at the foot of Kunlun Mountain, a very ancient mountain village." Gu Tong said.
Qian Mingyuan looked confused at this time: "This should be the other side of the mountain. We have now entered the Hotan area."
"The primitive villages in the Kunlun Mountains? I have admired the primitive villages in the Kunlun Mountains for a long time!" Han Peacock said as he observed the surrounding situation.
At this time, Han Kongque knew that the village they were going to was located on the Kunlun Mountains in the south of Yutian County and belonged to Aqiang Township, a mountainous township in Yutian County.
This village is located further and higher in the Kunlun Mountains, so the snow-capped mountains not far away seem to be right in front of you.
Along countless hillsides, they meandered up endless "S"-shaped dirt roads, arduously climbing deeper into the mountains.
Han Peacock lowered the window and looked around. In his eyes, there were nothing but mountains. The Kunlun peaks were one group higher than another, one group deeper than another, and one group stacked on top of another. It was really a series of mountains.
After more than three hours of journey, the car stopped again.
In an open space, Han Peacock stopped his car. There were quite a lot of people, and cars were already parked around him.
"The car can only be parked here. If you go further, there will be a small village where the car cannot drive in. Even if it drives in, it cannot turn around." Huangshan quickly found out the current situation.
It was already dawn, and they struggled to reach a river flowing out of the Kunlun Canyon at an altitude of 3,200 meters. The small villages on both sides of the river were their destination.
At this time, the wind and snow had become much lighter, so the situation in the village could be clearly seen even though it was hazy.
Looking at the village from a distance, you can see a white river flowing from east to west among the high mountains. The river gracefully twists and draws a lying "S" shape in the valley here, and then turns around and rushes westwards.
Huangshan inquired and learned that a joint tomb dating back more than 3,000 years had been excavated in this village, proving that human activities in this area have a long history.
Judging from the unearthed cultural relics and ethnic characteristics, in the past this area was dominated by Tubo and Serbian people. Today, of course, the Uyghur ethnic group is still the main body.
This village is located in the hinterland of the Kunlun Mountains, adjacent to Tibet and Tibet, with high altitude and cold climate.
The top of Kunlun Mountain is covered with snow all year round and is the birthplace of the Hotan River and the Keriya River, as well as the birthplace of the Hotan Jade Vein Deposit.
Today, there are 76 households with 276 people in the village, who mainly make a living by grazing and digging jade.
Because the village is the only and best "exit" for all jade miners coming down from the Kunlun Mountains, successive governments, in order to consolidate border defense and monitor jade mining, deliberately set up a "timber inspection station" or "contraband" here. The site of "Checkpoint" is equivalent to the current "Customs". The locals commonly call this checkpoint "Liushui Yamen".
Therefore, this place is much safer than Han Kongque and others imagined. As long as it is a place controlled by the government, it is definitely safe.
In the village, the "Liushui Yamen" is square and square like an ancient castle. It covers an area of four acres and is divided into two floors. It is entirely made of stone. The main body is solid and the appearance is unique.
Judging from the surrounding traces, this "Liu Shui Yamen" has become a precious local historical site and tourist attraction, and has been protected and utilized.
Seeing the situation here, Han Kongque realized something. It seemed that Lao Hu and his son brought them here not just to avoid the snowstorm in a simple sense. I'm afraid they had other intentions.
In the past, Hotan jade in a narrow sense only refers to the jade from the Kunlun Mountains that originates from the source of Hotan River, commonly known as "authentic Hotan jade".
Although jade appears in the Kunlun Mountains, in terms of quality, price and cultural influence, the Hetian jade from the source of the Hotan River has been highly recognized by the world for more than a thousand years, while the jade from other sections of the Kunlun Mountains
, it cannot be compared with the jade in the Liushui section of Kunlun Mountain.
The Kunlun Mountains in the south of this village are recognized by Hotan people as the birthplace of authentic Hotan jade. Therefore, this village is also called the Jade Village.
From the map, the Yushi Village section of the Kunlun Mountains is the most steep, with an average altitude of more than 4,500 meters. After the snow mountains here melt, two rivers are formed along the mountains. The ice and snow river in the east is called Keriya River, and the ice and snow river in the west is
The Ice and Snow River is called the Hotan River, which flows from the east and west wings of the Kunlun Mountains to the oasis at the foot of the mountain, and finally flows into the Taklimakan Desert and naturally evaporates to dryness.
Although the source of the Keriya River and the source of the Hotan River are located on the same Kunlun Snow Peak, the west source has a larger volume of water and a stronger impact than the east source.
Therefore, although the jade vein resources in the west source are relatively small, they are all washed into the river bed by the river and washed to the Hotan oasis with the fierce river water. Therefore, the Hotan River only produces Hotan jade seeds.
The east source does not have as much water as the west source and cannot wash the huge contiguous jade ore down the river bed. However, the jade veins here are widely distributed and have large reserves, so there are many Hotan jade mountains here. The famous large-scale jade mines in history are all here.
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To go up to Kunlun Mountain to find the source of Hetian jade, there has been a road of flowing water since ancient times, so this village is also called Flowing Water Village.
Liushui Village is the only place where jade is mined and mined in the entire Hotan area. There were four jade mines in history, namely: Alamas Aji Jade Mine, Serike Kuremu Jade Mine, and Khanxililak Jade Mine.
Qihankul Jade Mine.
Among them, the Alamas Aji Jade Mine is the oldest jade mine. It was first mined in the Tang Dynasty, and then continued intermittently. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that a small amount of jade was produced. This wide-band rich jade mine is very important in history.
Rare.
Because the average jade mine is a narrow ore zone, only a few dozen centimeters wide at its widest point, and the jade source is generally exhausted after three years of mining. The unusually long-lived "thousand-year-old white jade old man" like the Alamas Aji Jade Mine, etc.
It is extremely rare in China and even in the world.
The Selikkuremu Jade Mine is relatively close to the Alamas Aji Jade Mine and belongs to the same mountain system. The journey between the two mines takes about an hour, but the Selikkuremu Jade Mine is also 180 years old.
years of history.
The Khanxi Lilac jade mine was mined in 1985, and a batch of mountain material was produced in 1995. The quality is high, almost comparable to Hotan seed jade, which caused a sensation in the jade and jewelry industry and was known as "Hotian-95 material."
Its Khankule jade mine was only mined in 1980, making it the youngest jade mine. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!