Blood dragon wood has obvious fluorescence reaction, which is a characteristic of wood with high tannin content. This is actually the reason why it contains enough oil.
This point is more obvious in the blood dragon wood than in the sea yellow. The yellower it is, there are also many redwood root materials.
Blood dragon wood is really not difficult to identify. Now Han Peacock mainly doesn’t know how such a scepter ended up in East Timor and appeared at a stall?
Blood dragon wood has been used in Southeast Asia for hundreds of years. The local aborigines carry blood dragon wood into the forest for self-defense.
In addition, blood dragon wood has an analgesic effect, and long-term wearing can relieve pain, so it is mainly used in the production of handicrafts, often in the form of beads, Buddha statues, bracelets, etc.
Therefore, blood dragon wood is rarely made into walking sticks. On the one hand, blood dragon wood is very precious, and on the other hand, walking sticks are of little use in the hands of the poor.
Therefore, making a cane out of aniseed is generally done by nobles who have nothing to do after they are full, so this is probably a king's scepter.
It is not easy to determine which country's scepter this is, because there is too little information on the scepter, and there is nothing to prove the identity.
Since this scepter appears in East Timor, it is likely to be from a nearby king, and the most likely one is from Indonesia.
Blood dragon tree mainly grows in virgin forests in Vietnam, India, Nepal, Indonesia and other places, as well as Kalimantan Island in the tropical rain forests of Southeast Asia. The northern area belongs to Malaysia and Brunei respectively, and the southern area belongs to Indonesia, so Indonesia is probably the largest.
"Is this true?" Lao Wu couldn't wait to ask just when Han Peacock's realization had just left the scepter.
"It must be! Do you still want to ask this? Xiao Han, is this the king's scepter?" Lao Wang asked.
Han Peacock smiled and said: "This is real blood dragon wood, and it has existed for many years. Judging from the shape, it must be a scepter, but I don't know which king made it."
"So how much is this thing worth?" Lao Wu asked, returning to the original question.
"I really don't know about this, but at the end of 2013, the starting price of the King's Scepter of King Thai V's Blood Dragon Wood, which was auctioned in Thailand, reached 3 million baht," said Han Kongque.
"Three million baht? How much is this?" Lao Wu asked.
Han Kongque said: "At the exchange rate at that time, it should be worth 750,000 yuan. However, the auction at that time was not an act of the Thai royal family. It was a Thai civilian. Due to the political turmoil during the reign of King Thai V, the industry
There is generally no surprise about this matter, but the starting price of 3 million baht (approximately RMB 750,000) is really surprising."
"Seven hundred and fifty thousand. Is it expensive or cheap?" Lao Wang also asked curiously.
"Of course it's cheap. How can a precious wood like Blood Dragon Wood, produced by the royal family, be sold for a mere $100,000?" Han Kongque said.
"So how much did it cost in the end?" Lao Wang asked.
Han Kongque spread his hands and said: "There is no report on this, so I don't know, but the price of 750,000 yuan is definitely not the highest price."
"So, your king's scepter is worth at least 750,000 yuan, which is more than 100,000 U.S. dollars when converted into U.S. dollars?" Old Wu said with a smile.
Lao Wang also joked: "Eight hundred dollars turned into one hundred thousand dollars in the blink of an eye. How many times has the value increased?"
"The value has increased by more than a hundred times! Xiao Han really deserves his reputation. If he makes such an investment twice more, wouldn't his assets double instantly?" Old Wu looked at Han Peacock and said with admiration on his face.
"It can't be that easy. Besides, this thing is very suitable for collection, so no matter how much it costs, I don't plan to sell it. Since it is a collection, it doesn't matter how much it costs." Han Kongque laughed.
"That's right, it's just a hobby." Old Wu also said with a smile.
"Then Uncle Wu, please keep it for me! I don't have anywhere to put it now. I will go to sea in a while. I can't take it with me to sea." Han Peacock smiled and handed the blood dragon wooden scepter to Old Wu.
inside.
"Let me keep it for you? You're not afraid that I'll swallow it up for you." Old Wu took it over with a smile and said jokingly.
"If you like it, I'll give it to you. You two take such good care of me. I've long wanted to give you a gift. I'll look for Uncle Wang's share carefully. I can't just find something as a gift." Han Peacock
said with a smile.
Lao Wu looked at Han Peacock and said, "You can't be serious, are you? This is worth one hundred thousand dollars, I'm very excited when I look at it!"
Han Kongque said seriously: "I'll do it if you feel like it. This is only a hundred thousand dollars. Uncle Wu won't dare to accept it, right?"
"What am I afraid of? It's just that this thing should be put on display in a museum. Giving it to me is considered a secret gift." Old Wu shook his head and said.
Han Kongque said: "Then I will build a museum locally. I think with this proposal, the local government will happily agree to us under any conditions."
Lao Wang smiled and said: "If your museum can also drive local tourism, then when they see you, they will definitely treat you as their ancestor."
Han Peacock also smiled: "Now everyone here is also looking at money?"
"Where do people not care about money? Of course this is no exception." Lao Wang said.
"It's settled. We'll build a museum and promote the tourism industry here to the local government. However, is there anything here that is worthy of being collected by the museum? If not, it won't be easy to fool the natives." Lao Wu said.
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Lao Wang said at this time: "You are wrong about this. We don't need to fool you at all. Let's not talk about the environment here. It is absolutely suitable for the development of tourism. Other aspects of humanities and history are not weak. There are really many things here.
Worth collecting, such as currency, gold coins, silver coins issued during the Portuguese colonial period, various precious cultural relics from the Great Navigation Period, etc.”
"I've heard about ancient currency, but what are the precious cultural relics from the Great Navigation Period? Are there any? I'm very doubtful about a hundred years of history." Old Wu said.
Han Kongque said at this time: "This is worth collecting. Uncle Wu looks at the Great Navigation Period based on domestic history, but that is not the case here. The Portuguese should have come here in the Ming Dynasty, so it is okay to do it less."
It has a history of more than 400 years, but if you search carefully, you can still find some good things."
"You can stop talking about this. Xiao Han is talking about the Age of Discovery in Western countries, right? In fact, our country has been doing business here for a longer time. As you just said, the Ming Dynasty has a history of more than 300 years, plus the Qing Dynasty
The Republic of China definitely lasted more than six hundred years." Lao Wang said with a smile.
Han Kongque was stunned. It was indeed like this. He didn't calculate it carefully. It turned out that the time for trade with the country here was actually so long.
Lao Wang continued: "Don't talk about our country, let's talk about the Western colonial period. Some furniture from that period. Don't underestimate these things. At that time, there were many precious woods in Southeast Asia, such as rosewood, blood dragon wood, and yellow wood.
Rosewood is everywhere, and furniture made from these woods, such as tables, chairs, and cups, are all good."
"Is there really such a thing?" Old Wu asked in surprise.
Lao Wang said: "Of course, I have heard of such a thing. A Chinese who came to travel spent one hundred dollars at the old furniture market to buy a pair of chairs, which are very ordinary Western office chairs.
But it was just such a pair of chairs. It was finally confirmed that they were made of rosewood and had a history of more than 200 years. They were made by the crew for use on the ship. Later, they ended up in Indonesia for unknown reasons and were disposed of as second-hand goods by a young man.
The market will be bought by that Chinese.
Later, the owner of the flea market searched carefully, and he really found a lot of good things. Although the rosewood ones were gone, he still found a lot of other mahogany products, which made them make a fortune.
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"They are all selling second-hand goods, so how come their lives are so good? It seems that everything will be fine in the future. I will also develop the second-hand furniture market." Old Wu said with an envious look.
Lao Wang looked at Han Peacock and said: "Don't listen to Lao Wu's nonsense. As long as you have the ability, there are many good things here, such as ancient sunken ships. As long as you find one, it can support a museum."
Han Peacock's heart was moved. He really had never thought about this. It turned out that he first relied on underwater shipwrecks to make his fortune, but since the development of Peacock Island in the East China Sea, he no longer cared about this industry.
Han Kongque remembered that at that time, he asked Bai Xiaoyi and others to collect shipwreck information, which also included Southeast Asia. You must know that this is the hardest hit area for shipwrecks. Many well-known treasure transport fleets in history were in Southeast Asia.
Sunk in the sea.
There are about 3 million undiscovered shipwrecks in the world's oceans. Most of the areas where these shipwrecks are concentrated are areas with relatively developed maritime traffic in history, such as the Mediterranean Sea, the route from Europe to North America, the route from China to Southeast Asia, and the China
Sea areas on routes to Japan, etc.
Among them, the number of ancient shipwrecks in the South China Sea exceeds 2,000, but China’s exploration in this area started very late, and these shipwrecks have not received the protection they deserve.
In 1985, British man Hatcher salvaged a large number of late Ming and early Qing porcelain in the South China Sea, and auctioned them in the Netherlands for a high price of US$20 million.
In 1999, he salvaged the Taixing shipwreck from the late Qing Dynasty in the South China Sea, and salvaged tens of thousands of exquisite ceramic products such as white porcelain and purple clay pots.
It can be said that there are shipwrecks all over Southeast Asia. Maybe there is a treasure ship hidden in an unnoticed place.
"Those are too vague. Many of the legends I know are nonsense. Don't lead Xiao Han astray." Old Wu said unconvinced.
"This is not groundless. It mainly depends on who will look for it. I believe Xiao Han." Lao Wang said with a smile. (~^~)