Chapter 785: Tribute and Return Gifts

"Oops, it's finally done, this helicopter is really good, if it weren't for it, we would have to die here today, kiss one!"

After getting all the gold, jewelry and jadeite out of the cave, Xu Gang directly lay on the helicopter and kissed him fiercely, although he was too tired at this time, but thinking that if there was no winch brought by the helicopter, it was estimated that they would have been tired and lying down, Xu Gang was very excited in his heart.

"This is called science and technology is the primary productive force, but your kid's health is too bad, why is it worse than me, do you put your exercise time in bed, and don't do anything the rest of the time?" Zhang Tianyuan laughed.

", I usually pay a lot of attention to exercise, but your kid's body is too good, right, can you still carry such a heavy box after being poisoned?"

Even if he was reluctant, Xu Gang had to admit that his body was really too far behind Zhang Tianyuan, Zhang Tianyuan's body was as if it had been replaced with the most advanced motive all of a sudden, that was called a good envoy.

"By the way, I just asked you to separate the jewelry, gold and jadeite, and then draw a mark, have you got it?" Zhang Tianyuan suddenly thought of something, so he asked Snake Lindao.

"Don't worry, they're all separated, how can this mess up. Serpentine nodded and said.

Zhang Tianyuan walked over and opened the zipper of a box, and looked at the jewels inside, which seemed to be relatively old, but the workmanship was very exquisite, but he was more puzzled that many of the jewels in it looked more like the Chinese craftsmanship and characteristics. Even the materials, many of them are nephrite and jadeite from China.

He doesn't know much about jadeite. However, the Hetian jade and Lantian jade in nephrite jade have all been seen, and there are a lot of Lantian jade in them. The texture is much better than the Lantian jade currently mined.

Lantian jade has been famous throughout the ages. According to the archaeological Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the world ordered the prime minister Li Sicai Lantian jade jade seal, and said: Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity.

Today's people praise and say: The taste of the view is endless, and the value of the treasure is invaluable. This product is a good collection of excellent materials, fine workmanship, and beautiful shape.

The name "Lantian Jade" is also named because it is produced in Lantian Mountain in the north of Xi'an. But later, probably because the mine was emptied, later generations could not find it, and there were doubts about the theory that "Lantian produces beautiful jade", and it was speculated that Lantian was just a jade distribution center. And not a jade-producing land.

In 1978, geologists found serpentine marble jade in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, and compared it with the unearthed cultural relics of the Han Dynasty, it was very likely to be the Lantian jade recorded in ancient times. Although there is still controversy about whether the ancient Lantian jade is the current "Lantian jade", most scholars, such as Zhou Nanquan and Luan Bingao, believe that the current "Lantian jade" and the Lantian jade described in ancient books such as the Book of Han and other ancient books.

That is to say, the famous Lantian jade in ancient China was produced in Lantian, and its jade quality was serpentinized marble. Its main mineral component is calcite. The second is leaf serpentine and so on. The color is mainly white, but there are also yellow, beige, light green to green, etc. The texture is delicate and clean, and the processing performance is good. The Lantian jade mined in Lantian County today is carved into various handicrafts. Such as tea sets, wine sets, jade pillows, jade bracelets, fitness balls, etc., are sold all over the country.

Li Shangyin's poem "There are tears in the pearl of the sea and the moon, and the blue field is warm and the jade is smoking". The achievement of Lantian jade in Shaanxi. "Jade Warm Lantian", the Lantian jade brand, is the source of this famous poem!

Before Lantian got its name, it was just a small mountain villa on the ancient post road of Zhongnan Mountain. There was a poor scholar named Yang Boyong in the village. He was young and studious and kind-hearted. When he saw passing travelers on a long journey through this place. There was a lack of a place to rest and drink water, so a grass pavilion was built for passing tourists to drink water and tea.

He was alone and worked for three years.

One day, an old man carrying gravel on his back fell in front of the gazebo due to overwork. Yang Boyong hurriedly helped the old man up, fed him water and food, and saved the old man. Yang Boyong asked for warmth and wanted to keep the old man for an hour. The old man said, "There is something to do, and it is not advisable to stay for a long time." Then he gave him a bucket of gravel that he was carrying, and said, "Don't look at these gravel stones, for if you plant them in the ground, you will produce jade and marry a good wife." Without waiting for Yang Boyong to thank him, the old man disappeared.

Yang Boyong did according to the old man's instructions, and sure enough, a bucket of jade was born in the ground, and later, he made five pairs of white bi with jade as a dowry and married a kind and virtuous Miss Xu. However, this place has many mountains and little land, and when it encounters a drought, grain production has been reduced, and the peasants are starving and miserable. Yang Boyong discussed with his wife, and then distributed his jade to the people to go down the mountain to exchange for grain, so as to survive the disaster year. The news of the jade production in the poor mountain village spread ten, ten and hundred, and for a while, the officials and bandits colluded to loot the jade in the field, and the lives of Yang Boyong's family and the villagers also became a problem.

It turned out that the old man Yang Boyong had saved was not a mortal, but Tai Baixing. When he learned that the jade in the field was plundered by officials and bandits, he asked Yang Boyong to say in a dream: "On a sunny day, when you enter and exit Nanshan, the light smoke hides your jade face." "Since then, only those in the know have found gems in the mountains. The officials and bandits could only harvest the blue stone that had not grown into jade, which was a kind of inferior jade.

Of course, this is just a mythical story, symbolizing people's hope for a better life, but this is also a reflection of the beautiful value of Lantian jade itself.

Of course, Lantian jade and Hetian jade are only part of the jewelry, and there are even jewelry made of Tianhuang stone, bloodstone, agate, amber, pearl and other materials produced in China, but after reading it with a word appreciation formula, the history is not short, it should not be something during the Anti-Japanese War, it is estimated that it should be at least the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it may even be further aerated.

Especially some of these things, Zhang Tianyuan has not seen them in China, or they are very rare, such as the beautiful Guanyin statue created by the five-colored ancient jade, even if this thing is in China, it has never been there, at least it has not appeared at present, this is a good multicolored jade, and it belongs to mutton fat jade, not jadeite, but Hetian jade that is obviously produced in Hetian.

However, what is interesting is that Zhang Tianyuan has seen these workmanship in China, and the trick of guò can be revealed. This thing is definitely made by Chinese craftsmen, but I don't know why it appeared in Myanmar.

He thought about it. There are two possibilities, one is that the kings of Burma brought them from China in ancient times. There is another possibility that the things that little Japan got from China wanted to go to sea through Guò Burma, and ended up buried here.

After all, he has no factual basis, so he is just guessing nonsense, but his idea is actually really right, a small part of the things in it were brought from China by Little Japan, and the other part was brought from China by the local kings of Myanmar in the past.

To know. In Southeast Asia before Qianlong, jadeite is a very unvalued thing, not to mention that the Chinese people do not know much about jadeite, and do not value it, just say that these soil kings in Myanmar do not like this thing at all, and treat it as garbage completely, they prefer it to be nephrite jade and gold and silver jewelry in China.

In fact, our country is huge. Since the beginning of history, there have been precedents of paying tribute and giving gifts.

Either the country is bullied by the surrounding peoples and then makes offerings to others, which is humiliating. It's also very helpless, which leads to the outflow of a large number of good things.

There is another kind of so-called return gift, which is a great state of etiquette. When someone gives something to pay tribute, they always have to give a lot of money in return. Otherwise, it will not be able to show the grandeur and wealth of this country, and to put it bluntly, it is actually a good face.

Die to save face and suffer sin!

Since the Tang and Song dynasties. As a small and wild country, Myanmar has always been a subject country of China, and every year it has to submit credentials and pay tribute to the country, and China, as the suzerain, naturally cannot let others look down on it.

Do you say that if someone else gives three things, you will return three things? Wouldn't that make others laugh at the fact that China is no different from a subject country?

At that time, the leaders of those countries thought so, face is more important than reality, so this leads to a very abnormal phenomenon, the matter of paying tribute, those Fanbang vassal countries are actually more diligent than the other, and they simply regard this as a way to make money, as long as they come to China once, they can get several times, or even dozens of times the income, such a high profit, a fool will not come.

Especially in the Ming Dynasty, many grassland tribes visited the Chinese Celestial Dynasty and called a diligent, so that the Ming people mistakenly thought that the Celestial Empire was mighty, and others were afraid of him, but in fact, people just looked at your money and stupidity, and wanted to get a lot of benefits from you.

Although it is said that it is still relatively far from Myanmar to the political center of China, but in order to make more money, these soil kings naturally want to send a mission to China, anyway, even if something happens to the mission, it is not their accident.

A large amount of gold, silver and jewelry were shipped back from China, and then deposited in Burma, and in the end it was all cheaper for little Japan, and these Japanese devils occupied Yangon and Mandalay in Burma, and seized a lot of wealth, and in fact, the treasure buried here is only a small part of it.

Why did little Japan and US imperialism develop so quickly after the war? Of course, on the one hand, it was because of its good foundation, and on the other hand, it was inseparable from this large amount of treasure.

There is also a saying in the international community that "when Japan falls, the United States eats enough," and the United States dug up many of the treasures buried in little Japan and used them in the first place.

Return?

It's a fool to return it.

Zhang Tianyuan is now bringing these treasures back to China, which can be regarded as returning them to their original owners, but unfortunately this is too little, just one of the many treasures, compared with what Little Japan grabbed back then, it is really nothing.

In fact, Zhang Tianyuan didn't bother to care about how these things came about, anyway, now that he has appeared, this thing is his own.

After a few people ate something, they rested for a while, and then drove a helicopter, first transported most of the gold jewelry and the golden Buddha to the established location, and then handed over to the army's truck to transport it to the imperial capital, the whole process was very simple, Zhang Tianyuan couldn't help but admire, the army's efficiency is high, if this is changed to ordinary business practices, I really don't know when it will end.

After finishing the matter here, Zhang Long and Xu Gang left with the goods, they are the big boss here, as long as they are fine, then this time the matter is almost done.

As for the matter of piloting the plane, Zhang Tianyuan has already been able to get started, anyway, he is just the co-pilot, he has been watching it for so long, relying on the imitation of words, he has also figured out the way, and there is really no problem at all to help Snake Lin drive the helicopter. (To be continued!)

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