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In that year, after the defeat of the Kuomintang Eighth Army in Yunnan, Li Mi fled to Taiwan alone, and for half a year, the 93rd Division had no fixed place to live, and was displaced, and on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve in 50 years, it finally escaped by chance and entered the territory of Burma. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, the Burmese government did not want to accept them, so the war began, although the first soldiers were repeatedly defeated and defeated in the civil war, but it was more than enough to deal with the Burmese government army. Finally gained a foothold in the Golden Triangle.

As soon as Li Mi, who was in Taiwan, saw that his old subordinates had gained a firm foothold in Burma, he immediately shouted that he wanted to counterattack the mainland, which was indeed a counterattack, but the result was heavy casualties and he retreated to Burma.

At this time, the Burmese army has reached an agreement with India, and decided that India will send troops to assist the Burmese army to drive away the remnants of the Kuomintang, which is a vicious battle, ** achieved the final victory, but it is also a tragic victory, the remnants of the Kuomintang with less than 10,000 strength, simply defeated the India-Burma coalition army, and completely gained a foothold on the Sino-Burmese border.

In the 60s of the last century, the 93rd Division began to fight against the Burmese Communist Party again, and due to the loss of supplies from Taiwan, the casualties were heavy, and the number of people was getting smaller and smaller, and dozens of armed forces, large and small, were formed in the border areas of Yunnan, Thailand, and Burma.

Later, after years of war and no supplies, the Communist Army officers and soldiers of the Communist Party of Burma and the Burmese detachment began to collectively grow opium in the Golden Triangle region, forming the world's largest armed drug production and processing base: the Golden Triangle!

The Chinese who stayed in Myanmar are nothing more than these two groups of people, so Zhuang Rui has this question, no matter what the reason is, they are all descendants of Yan and Huang, and they are also fighting for survival, and now they are about to have three links with Taiwan, Zhuang Rui naturally doesn't care about their identity.

After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, the stall owner was a little embarrassed and said: "My grandfather stayed in Burma during the expeditionary force, when they fought guerrilla warfare with the Japanese in the jungle, but later followed the defeated troops of the Kuomintang and fought with the Burmese Communist Party......

The expeditionary force left in Burma these people, almost all of them are veterans of a hundred battles, after fighting with the Japanese, they have already settled down, but later the defeated soldiers of the Kuomintang fled to Burma, out of the same spirit, many veterans took up arms again, of course, now these people are over the age of six, and large-scale wars, no longer exist.

"What is this big brother's name? How is your business here? What is the price of this ivory figure carving?"

Zhuang Rui squatted down, just because the other party is Chinese, then he has to help, and it won't cost a few dollars to buy some small things.

The stall owner glanced at the ivory carving in Zhuang Rui's hand, and replied casually: "My surname is Li, my name is Li Yunshan, the five dollars, the kyats are five thousand, buy it with dollars, it is a little cheaper......"

In Myanmar, the US dollar is a hard currency, one US dollar can be exchanged for 800 kyats, which is even higher on the black market.

Zhuang Rui calculated in his heart, but it is more than forty yuan RMB, which is still very cost-effective, and more importantly, this ivory carving is still old ivory, which looks solid and fine, soft and smooth in color, and the whole object is slightly yellowed in pure white, like something that has been old.

Ivory this thing, although it is described as white gold, but its color, but mostly yellow, ivory is divided into African ivory and Asian ivory, African male and female elephants are born ivory, the ivory is mostly light yellow, fine texture, good luster, high hardness, the color of Asian ivory is relatively white, and it will be yellowish after a long time, so look at the old ivory carving, generally distinguish from the color.

There are also some collectors who like its white color, so they will soak it in okara and then rub it to turn white naturally. After bleaching, it also has an oily white luster, the feel is moist and delicate, and it can also be called the top grade, while most of the counterfeit imitations made of bone are bleached, which appear dry and rough after bleaching, and the white of plastic products is dull, unnatural and dull.

Since the 80s of the 20th century, the ivory trade has been banned internationally, including China, for the sake of protecting the elephant population. This makes the domestic ivory carving market, which is completely dependent on imported ivory raw materials, bring a great impact.

After China stopped importing ivory directly from Africa on June 1, 1990, and completely banned the international trade of ivory and its products in 1991, any commercial import of ivory was not approved. The ban on ivory raw materials has led to the upsurge of ivory collections, and ivory carvings have continued to appreciate in the ban on swan songs.

With the ban on ivory trade, coupled with the urgency of raw materials for ivory products, the number of ivory carving handicrafts is also rare, with the consumption of the market, the surviving ivory carving products will become more and more rare. As a result, the price of ivory handicrafts has skyrocketed by 100% for a period of time, and ivory carvings are highly sought after by collectors.

Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and other places are considered the homeland of Asian elephants, so ivory products are still very common here.

"Business is okay, make money for eating, I heard that the country is developing well now, and I still want to go back if I have the opportunity......"

Li Yunshan is very talkative, although there are many Chinese tourists in Myanmar, but he does not often use Chinese, and he chatted with Zhuang Rui endlessly.

"Well, this ...... There are still a few of these, I want them, Brother Li, how much is it worth?"

Zhuang Rui picked out a few ivory carved objects on the stall, this thing is now very popular among domestic collectors, the value is more than 1,000 yuan, if it is the ivory miniature carving and royal utensils in the Song and Ming dynasties, the value is even more than tens of millions of yuan, it can be called a priceless treasure, extremely rare.

However, Zhuang Rui didn't want to make this money, he mainly wanted to enrich his basement, saying that there was nothing except a few pieces of porcelain and ancient paintings, which was a little shabby.

"This little brother, it's a total of one hundred and thirty-eight dollars, you can give one hundred and thirty, and I'll wrap it up for you......"

Zhuang Rui bought a lot of things, there are more than ten of them, and the prices are not the same, Li Yunshan took out more than ten small boxes from the big box behind him, and each of them had a corresponding ivory carving, and put them in one by one.

"Brother Li, why don't you sell jadeite here? Isn't Myanmar producing jadeite? I see other stalls selling it......

When Peng Fei was paying, Yang Hao, who stood aside and watched for a long time, finally couldn't help it, there were ruby ivory carvings and other objects in this stall, but there was no jadeite, which made Yang Hao a little strange.

"Yes......" Hearing Yang Hao say this, Zhuang Rui also reacted, there is indeed no jade jewelry or anything like this stall, but in other stalls, there are more or less some.

"Hehe, it's the first time for the little brothers to come to Myanmar, right?" Li Yunshan asked with a smile.

"yes, what's wrong? Isn't Burma allowed to buy and sell jadeite?"

Even Zhuang Rui is a little strange now, even if the ban on wool exports is counted, if the Myanmar government restricts even finished jadeite, it will be a little too much, and in doing so, it will also make their domestic jewelry companies unable to develop.

"It's not that they are not allowed to buy and sell, but when they buy jewelry and jade, especially jadeite, they must go to regular stores, and do not buy jade wool, that is, unprocessed and polished rough stones, which are all within the scope of state control for export.

After purchasing, you must ask for a shopping voucher in case you go out of customs to check, those people sell, most of them are fake jadeite, that is, there is a real one, there is no invoice, and it is out of customs when you buy it, I don't want to deceive customers, so I simply don't put it......"

Li Yunshan was very disdainful of the behavior of the stalls next to him, and showed a disapproving expression on his face.

Zhuang Rui and others heard this statement for the first time, no wonder Myanmar is rich in jadeite, but there is no famous jade company, dare to be really restricted by the government, but think about it carefully, it is normal, Myanmar's jadeite is estimated to be like Arabian oil, as the main income to earn foreign exchange, it will naturally be controlled by the government.

"Thank you, you are welcome to return to China in the future......"

Zhuang Rui took the ivory carvings that were put into the bag, stood up, and was about to say goodbye to this foreign countryman, when his eyes were suddenly attracted by an item in the box behind him, and the foot that stepped forward was taken back.

"Brother Li, are the contents of your box for sale?"

Because he was squatting down just now, when he stood up, Zhuang Rui saw clearly that in the box next to the stall owner, there was a tooth carving Buddha statue about 50 centimeters high and as thick as a child's arm, and in its clothing, it was hollowed out, the shape was elegant, and the carving was extremely exquisite.

Zhuang Rui was surprised not by these, but by the shape of the Buddha statue, which is the angry eyes of King Kong in Buddhism, as the saying goes: Bodhisattva low eyebrows, King Kong angry eyes, this Buddha carving King Kong face is vicious, holding a vajra, the whole carving is made of large materials, it can be called rare, and on its forehead, it is actually inlaid with a ruby, like King Kong Sky Eye, which makes the whole ivory carving doubly powerful.

Zhuang Rui saw this object for the first time, he liked it in his heart, this thing was placed in the living room of the courtyard, how majestic, saying that such a large whole ivory carving, in addition to the chairman memorial hall in the fine ivory carving boy play Buddha ornaments and sailing ivory carving, the folk collection is really not much.

"This thing ......"

Li Yunshan showed a hesitant look on his face, this object was captured by his grandfather from the Japanese back then, and he had always kept it as his own trophy, but the old man died a few years ago, and this thing was left to him.

Although he was going to sell it, when Zhuang Rui asked him to buy it, he was really a little reluctant.