The stall owner smiled: "It is indeed a knife, a knife used by ancient women for self-defense, it looks like a sword, but if you look carefully, one side is not bladed, so it is a knife." ”

Belch?

The woman's knife? Lao Wu was a little speechless.

However, this is not the point, Hu Yang said: "It looks like a bit of history, and I earned twenty yuan." ”

How much is it worth, Hu Yang was embarrassed to say in front of other stall owners.

"Haha! Earned it?" The stall owner was very happy when he heard this, and his good impression of Populus euphratica soared.

Of course, I don't think so, a young man, what can he see? I guess I can't figure out what kind of knife it is, right? From ancient times to the present, there are many types of knives, and each dynasty has its own unique sword weapon.

Lao Wu didn't think so, Brother Hu said this, which means that the income is not a hundred or dozens of yuan.

Hu Yang looked at the stall, in addition to the metal sword, there was actually a knife similar to a bone knife, the shape was a little weird.

Seeing Hu Yang pick up the bone knife, the stall owner immediately recommended it: "Little brother, have a vision, this bone knife is the portable knife of a certain king of the grassland tribe in the past." ”

Sure enough, every stall owner is a self-selling and boasting Huang Po.

The steppe tribe king's portable sword can fall on you. If that were the case, you would have put it up for auction a long time ago, instead of setting up a stall here, would you?

I saw that there were various carved mysterious patterns on the knife body, and the style was the knife of the ethnic minority.

"Oh, how do you sell this bone knife? It looks good, and it's good to buy it back as an ornament." Hu Yang said.

When the stall owner saw that Hu Yang really wanted to buy it, he immediately became excited: "The young man has a very good appetite for me, and two thousand will be good for you." ”

This line was once again frantically complained by the audience in the live broadcast room, as if it was going back and forth, it was all like that, there was not much freshness!

Without waiting for Hu Yang to speak, Aunt Ye on the side stepped out: "The king's saber, can you pull it a little more? This knife, I passed by shopping for vegetables a month ago, and I saw it here." If it were really what you said, it would have been sold a long time ago! Fifty dollars, no more. ”

Hu Yang and the others broke out in a cold sweat, shouting two thousand and cutting to fifty, which was too ruthless.

When the stall owner heard this, he was depressed, he was actually a local?

In fact, this knife is not only a month, but two or three months.

It's hard to ask the price, but it's still a young man who doesn't know how to do it, so he can't let it go!

"Fifty is definitely not good, you look at the workmanship, and the material of this bone, at least a thousand. "The stall owner is sitting on the ground and asking for money, as long as you are interested, the price can be negotiated.

If it's the kind of guy who turns around and leaves, he will definitely sell it cheaply.

"That's a hundred, it's better to buy another handicraft, it's all decorations anyway. As she spoke, Aunt Ye persuaded Hu Yang.

Hu Yang was very cooperative, nodded and said, "Well, then I'll listen to you, Auntie." ”

Uh? This married woman really attracts hatred, isn't it a troublemaker? It's not that you want to buy it, what are you talking about? It's really nosy.

The stall owner thought for a moment: "Or, five hundred! One hundred is really too much of a loss." Look, young man, don't look at it, it's made of bone, but it's sharp. ”

As he spoke, the stall owner also used a bone knife to cut the fabric used to set up the stall, which looked really sharp.

"At most, I can only add fifty to you, my house is nearby, what is the situation here, will I not know?" Aunt Ye spoke very directly.

Gotcha, the snake can't be provoked.

"Don't say anything, two hundred!" The stall owner added another fifty to himself, and the business is not good!

This time, Aunt Ye didn't speak, and let Hu Yang decide for herself.

Hu Yang glanced at the stall again and pointed to one of them: "If it's two hundred, how about taking this one again?"

I saw that it was a broken knife, and the handle was still wooden. When the stall owner saw it, he immediately nodded: "Okay, here you go, here you go!" Who told me to have a relationship with the little brother?"

Hu Yang took out two hundred yuan and gave the broken knife with a wooden handle to Aunt Ye, thanking her for helping to bargain just now.

Aunt Ye was a little confused, in fact, everyone couldn't figure out what the value of such a broken knife was?

After leaving the stall, Hu Yang explained: "This knife is not valuable, but this piece of wood is precious wood, go back and get it out." ”

"Precious wood?"

"This is ebony, the gloomy wood we mentioned earlier. However, there are many types of gloomy wood, and this one is the evolution of red almond wood that was buried in the ground.

The red tree itself is a valuable timber that has been reduced due to over-cutting and is on the verge of extinction if left unprotected. It is dark reddish-brown, the sapwood color is light, the texture is straight, the structure is fine, the pattern is beautiful, and it is known as Chinese mahogany.

The gloomy wood it evolved from is considered a relatively advanced variety of gloomy wood, and it is expensive. Such a small piece, 10,000 thousands of dollars, was bought by someone. Hu Yang said to everyone.

Speaking of gloomy wood, everyone in the live broadcast room knows that it must be worth it.

It turned out to be gloomy wood, so it's no wonder. The knives were made of steel, and they were all like that, but the handles were still intact. It is as hard as steel ebony.

Aunt Ye was very happy and got another treasure.

Ye Ping was speechless and extremely depressed, obviously she was the one who came to make a small fortune, and her mother was just here to join in the fun. Now, how is it the other way around, she has become a fungiper, and my mother frequently gets babies.

Still, she took a picture with her phone and uploaded it to her work group.

Those colleagues all knew that she was accompanied by a man who knew how to appreciate treasures, and she had picked up treasures so quickly? A bead is worth forty or fifty thousand, and a knife handle is also worth ten thousand thousands?

In the group, there were all voices of envy, and the other flight attendant sisters also taught Ye Ping to get along well with that man, and in the future, everyone will go to pick up treasures together, such a man, share it together!

The chick happily put away her phone and kept up with Brother Hu's footsteps.

"Brother Hu, what about this bone knife?" asked Lao Wu.

Hu Yang smiled: "It's not a bone knife, it's made of ivory." ”

Huh?

Everyone is stunned, who doesn't know, ivory is very valuable, even if it is not processed, ivory has been a luxury since ancient times. Today, even prohibited items.

"Ivory?"

Poplar nodded: "Well, ivory! But it's not the ivory you think, but the mammoth tusk, the tusk of an extinct mammoth." Now, it is often found on the Siberian side.

It is not surprising that someone specializes in digging mammoth ivory and earns millions a year. ”

Compared to modern ivory, mammoth ivory is not as widely recognized. There are historical reasons for this, since ancient times, ivory products have been widely recognized, especially the princes and nobles as a treasure to ward off evil and avoid disasters, but also increased its value. And when ivory is widely used in craft collections and luxury goods, the public is familiar with and recognizes it.

Mammoth ivory has only been used for ivory carving and artistic creation for decades.

If measured from the perspective of resource scarcity, mammoth ivory is more valuable because it is not renewable, coupled with its greater density and hardness, the price of high-quality mammoth ivory material is now much higher than the price of modern ivory. Therefore, the collection has broad prospects and huge room for appreciation.

In addition, there are other reasons.

For example, under the market conditions of the country's vigorous crackdown on illegal modern ivory, a large number of illegal ivory traders frantically sold and no one took over, resulting in a sharp plunge in the price of modern ivory, and mammoth ivory is highly regarded by the market because of its legal and non-renewable collectible characteristics.

However, mammoth ivory is a prehistoric remnant, due to climate change, most of the mammoth ivory can no longer be used for carving, only about 15% of high-quality ice mammoth ivory can be used for carving, and the whole mammoth ivory is very little preserved.

"This ivory knife, the stall owner was right just now, it should be the saber of a certain great khan of the steppe tribe.

In the grasslands, bone products, ivory products, etc., are status symbols, especially those made into knives. With the addition of these carvings, it is almost certain that the ornaments of the tribal leader. Hu Yang continued.

Since the beginning of the past few years, the floodgates of mammoth ivory prices seem to have been pushed open overnight, and the price has continued to rise, and now the lowest price has exceeded 10,000 yuan/kg, and the quality has exceeded 5-100,000 yuan/kg.

He told everyone that if you evaluate it from the material and carving alone, the value of this knife is more than 200,000.

If it is matched with its identity, it is difficult to say.

"Brother Hu, what other identity does it have?" Andy was curious.

Hu Yang turned the other side of the ivory knife over, and there were some symbols, but everyone couldn't understand them.

"This is the script of the Vultures, that is, the Mongolian script.

Originally, the Mongolian people did not have a written language, and only relied on knots to carve wood and records. During Temujin's crusade against the Nabarbarians, he captured a Vultures named Tata Tonga.

This man was the official of the seal of the Sun Khan of the Naiban tribe, and the Sun Khan respected him as the master of the state and let him master the Golden Seal and the Valley of Money.

Soon after, Temujin asked Tata Tonga to spell Mongolian in the Vultures alphabet and taught the princes and kings to learn what was known as the Vulture script. Populus euphratica introduced.

He revealed that the words on the knife meant Temujin.

"Genghis Khan's saber?" Andy was taken aback.

You must know that the reason why the Yuan Dynasty was so powerful was almost all because of the foundation laid by Genghis Khan, which made Kublai Khan.

"Could it be a funerary object made after Genghis Khan's death?" someone asked.

Hu Yang shook his head: "That shouldn't be possible, if it's a burial item, it can't appear here." At the moment, where Genghis Khan's tomb is is still a mystery, and no one knows at all.

So, there are only two possibilities.

Before Genghis Khan died, his saber may have been given to someone, so it was not buried.

After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, some people missed Genghis Khan and made this knife. After all, during the Yuan Dynasty, no one dared to carve the name of Yuan Taizu on their own knives.

And whatever the possibility, it's all valuable.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that someone may really have dug it up from the tomb of Genghis Khan. But if the other party enters the curtain and takes out such a knife, it is too disrespectful. ”

How much gold, silver and jewelry is hidden in the tomb of Genghis Khan, no one knows, it must be astronomical.

Once discovered, a large number of these artifacts will surely emerge on the market immediately, and there will be no news to hide at all.

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