Everyone ate something in Changhua Town, and then rested for an hour, and then continued to set off, the road to Yuyan Mountain is not as bad as the old shopkeeper said, which makes the old Yu shopkeeper himself feel a little surprised, when he came here before, it is clearly potholes, the road is very difficult to walk, the general car is not good at all, and the chassis of the car is almost rotten, and now the road surface is obviously much cleaner and smoother.

"Hehe, we haven't done much other things in our country over the years, but this road repair has not been done less, many rural areas are connected to cement roads and asphalt roads, the situation here is even more special, a few years ago the road is still expanding, the road has been widened a lot in recent years, and it is also a lot more beautiful, and people who come here to travel here give a thumbs up." Wang Siyuan didn't know who he heard these words from, he probably heard the tour guide when he was just eating, and this kid actually took it out as his own words.

"This is beyond my expectations, the road here was really impossible to walk before, and you may not even imagine the potholes." The old shopkeeper also showed a very complicated expression on his face.

"Old Yu, was the road here really so bad before?" Zhang Tianyuan asked.

"Rotten, that's really rotten, you've been to Myanmar, you should know the roads near the Myanmar mining areas, the roads here in the past were similar to there." Lao Yu's shopkeeper explained: "Not to mention ordinary cars, even if you are sitting in this kind of high-end off-road vehicle, it feels the same bumpy and uncomfortable, and people can be shaken apart, which is not comfortable at all." ”

"I didn't expect that our country had such a time before, no, no. Any country has developed from that time, and when you say that, I think of a road in our small county. That road used to be the only road leading from the county to the outside, and it was called a cold road. Two cars can be passed side by side, now it's different, now the road over there is a two-way six-lane, that's called a spacious, and the greening is also very good, I'm not afraid of your jokes, when I went home, I almost got lost, I can't recognize that it is our county. Zhang Tianyuan couldn't help but sigh.

This is true. I have been to a county seat, it should have been five years ago, when the streets in the county were smooth and very wide, but there were not a few cars on the road, and some people said at the time, this is simply a face project, it is a waste. I smiled. Sue sù man, you will come back in five years. Wang Siyuan also came to the ground and told his story.

"Did you go?"

"Ah, we'll go together. Good guys, five years ago, you could jam people on the road when you could barely see a decent car. Now the friend sighed that the road was actually a little narrow. Who would have thought that in just a few years, cars would become as popular as electric cars. Wang Siyuan sighed.

"No wonder driving schools are so popular now."

"You're going a little far. And the two of you driving, look ahead, don't hit people. "The old shopkeeper sat in the car, after all, he was old, and there were a lot of cars on the road, so he was a little worried.

"Don't worry, you're old, if something really happens, it's someone else's accident, and this car is guaranteed to be fine." Wang Siyuan said proudly.

", it's not okay if someone else has an accident, you keep an eye on the front for me." Zhang Tianyuan scolded, maybe because he walked back before the ghost gate was closed, anyway, his views on human life are more important than others.

"Oh, don't worry, I'm not distracted, you said you are really, others drive sports cars on the road, I haven't done that kind of thing, I'm also a life-saving person." Wang Siyuan smiled bitterly, feeling that these two looked down on him a little too much.

"You have to go, you are the national husband in the rich second generation, how can others compare with you." He didn't want to argue with Wang Siyuan about this matter, and if he wanted to continue, Wang Siyuan had to be in a hurry, so he asked instead: "The bosses who found and excavated bloodstone here should have made a lot of money, and they didn't build roads?" It's also for them, okay? ”

"How to repair, of course it's repaired, but you also know, bloodstone is good-looking, but it's also a stone, now our trucks that transport goods, it's not normal if it's not overweight, one by one you have to transport things to the full, and then you are willing to set off, but after being overweight, the impact on the road surface is great, the road surface is crushed into potholes, and it is not used if it is repaired, besides, how much money can be invested in private roads? You can't set up toll booths to collect fees, and no one is willing to pay that unjust money. ”

"But I don't think there are any big trucks like that on this road?" It's been a long time, and Zhang Tianyuan hasn't seen a truck carrying stones, so it's a little strange whether he is going the wrong way.

"Now I estimate that there are two reasons, one is that the country has built a special road to the Guò Grand Canyon, and the trucks have gone from there, and the other reason may be related to the bloodstone itself, you must know that the bloodstone here began to be mined on a large scale in the Ming Dynasty, and now, the Changhua bloodstone is basically mined, the old pit is not mine, and the quality of the new pit is relatively poor, so the cars that come here are naturally less, and now the bloodstone is expensive It also makes sense, after all, it is still that sentence, Scarcity is expensive. Lao Yu shopkeeper analyzed.

"Exhausted? So what are we doing here? Wang Siyuan didn't have a good airway.

Brother Wang, can't you say a few words, think about the beauty in your heart.

"The beautiful stone is like a beautiful woman in the world, from the moment it is discovered, it is destined to be envied and chased, and bloodstone is no exception. That touch of fresh and pure, blood-dripping scarlet, I don't know how many emperors and generals have been poured over thousands of years, such as sassy people and rich giants. The prosperous emperors of the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi and Qianlong, used it as their own seal, and the Empress Dowager Cixi loved it even more, and tried her best to collect as many as possible, almost to the point of obsession. Grandpa Tai rarely used seals in his life, but he had two large bloodstone seals in the study, because they were gifts from Qi Baishi......" Lao Yu said with emotion.

"The mountain is not high, but the stone is famous. Since the advent of 'bloodstone fever'. People such as 'merchants' and 'stone farmers' began to use modern equipment to conduct carpet searches for mines in this area. Rounds of stone-hunting activities gradually broke the tranquility of the mountain village. For more than 30 years. I don't know how many people have changed their fate and even lost their lives.

For a while. The mining area was designated as a forbidden area, but due to the huge lure of bloodstone, the so-called 'cave closure and mine protection' was not realized. Between 1991 and 1994 alone, more than 3,000 people went to the mine every day, and nearly 100 large and small mine caves were excavated. In recent years, the mining of bloodstone has become legal, and a police office has been set up in the mining area to facilitate management and deal with disputes in a timely manner. Although the scene of indiscriminate bombing is gone, air compressors, wind drills and other mechanical equipment are added. The speed of damage to Yuyan Mountain has been accelerated. Bloodstone is getting harder and harder to dig, but the roar never stops. ”

"Such crazy mining, alas, it feels similar to the situation on the Hetian jade side, once this thing makes money, people will go crazy, I have seen the jade mines in Myanmar, where many originally good mountains have been dug bare, and it is really ugly to look at." Zhang Tianyuan also sighed and said.

"yes. The most regrettable thing is that the resources of bloodstone are depleted day by day. Not only has the Changhua bloodstone been basically exhausted, but the Bahrain bloodstone has only some tailings left, and the quality of the bloodstone mined in the new pit is far inferior to the old pit. According to the person concerned. There is almost no regularity in the distribution of bloodstone, so its reserves are impossible to talk about. The old shopkeeper sighed and said.

Zhang Tianyuan knows that this is a very real problem. But it is difficult to solve at present, Mencius had the beginning. Zhang Tianyuan doesn't know if it's right or not. But he thinks that human greed should be right.

After the main production area of Shoushan Tianhuang was sealed, the output of Tianhuang was scarce, and its market value was pushed up by people one step a year, and the sky-high price of transactions often appeared in the auction of Tianhuang stone, and the entry of institutional investment made many collectors sigh with admiration, and everyone's attention naturally shifted to the field of bloodstone.

There are fewer things, but there are more and more people who like them; There are fewer things, but the appetite for preferences is getting higher and higher; There are fewer things, but people are investing more and more money, and the market is surging because of it.

There is always an undercurrent under the rolling waves, and the lucrative profits have prompted some people to do shady things. As a result, the traditional methods of counterfeiting have been restored, new technology and equipment have been put into use, and some people have provided abundant funds, and the bloodstone market, like other gems and jade markets, is also as deep as an abyss, and the water is as muddy as mud, and people who have been deceived abound.

They are shoddy. After processing, the impurities on the ground have been reduced, or even gone, and the modern technology has caused the blood on the artificial frozen stone to be bright. An ordinary stone, after staining, artificial chicken blood red soaked in, in a short time, the effect of oxidation can not be reached, the collector's secret bloodstone will be restored to an ordinary stone when it comes out one day in the future.

They are filled with vanity. A side of the best bloodstone printing material sent to the seal carver, a knife down, not stone chips splashed, but silk rolled up, it turned out, this bloodstone is stone powder and glue molded into the press; Another side of bloodstone, the seal carver knife down, a few pieces of stone, is another kind of stone, it turns out, this bloodstone is six pieces of bloodstone pieces pasted on a side of the ordinary stone; Another side of the bloodstone, the seal carver went down, there were stone chips flying, there were silk rolls up, it turned out that this bloodstone was artificially colored on the stone while baking.

They confuse the real with the false. For those collectors who have not yet entered the industry, the criminals are even more rampant, they wantonly raise the grade of bloodstone by opening high prices, they use other red jade to pass off as bloodstone, they even use resin and other chemical materials to make bloodstone, fake prices, fake origins, fake materials in their reeds under the noise of real money, into their pockets.

The complexity of the market requires collectors to keep their eyes open, do their homework in many aspects such as the material, weight, texture, and carving process of bloodstone, study carefully, carefully identify, hide what they love, and learn what they have hidden.

Since its appearance, bloodstone has a deep relationship with culture, so no matter ancient or modern, the first use of bloodstone is to make a seal, is placed in the study, printed in calligraphy and painting, and pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and orchid tea, this proud dust and the clear sound that does not go around the beam should reach the ancient and modern, I hope that people in the investment collection of bloodstone, can also truly appreciate its blood-stained beauty and cinnabar a little smart. (To be continued......)