Lin Quan actually has something to do in France, that is, to investigate the French furniture market, focusing on the high-end furniture market of mahogany type. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

France is an old capitalist country, in the Age of Discovery, it has established a large number of colonies in the world, carried out crazy plunder, and then there was the accumulation of the first pot of gold, and the capitalist countries in the West actually developed from this process, so don't look at their current life is glamorous, but the money in it is stained with blood.

In both South America and the Indochina Peninsula, the French had colonies.

South America was originally the first to be entered by Spain and vineyards, but after the defeat of the Armada in five expeditions to England, after the Battle of the Downs in 1639, Spain's sea power was completely lost, and the emerging France and England became the new maritime powers.

France once had a number of colonies in South America, and part of Brazil was once a French colony, and so far, French Guiana is still not independent, it is the largest colony in the world, but the French have a large number of immigrants to this side, and there are relatively few locals, so they probably can't be independent.

Brazil is rich in mahogany, and the Indochina Peninsula is actually similar, ancient Chinese mahogany is mainly made from the direction of Yunnan to transport materials, although this is not as expensive as Taihu stone, but the consumption of manpower and material resources is also a lot.

Vietnam and the entire Indochina Peninsula are tropical rainforest areas, and there are actually a lot of mahogany here.

When the French occupied this side in the nineteenth century, the mahogany in South America was almost cut down, so the mahogany on this side quickly entered their eyes, and the British who occupied the Indian Peninsula at that time were also engaged in mahogany furniture in their hands, and India's rosewood is also very famous, so in these two countries, mahogany furniture is still very common!

The history of French mahogany is not too long, but their log reserves are relatively rich, but most of the mahogany in Europe is used to make musical instruments, such as violins, cello bows, etc., and there are also furniture makers, generally in the hands of the aristocracy, which is an international practice.

In France's largest mahogany furniture market, Lin Quan has been watching for a long time.

The price of rosewood here is slightly cheaper than that in China, so there are many people who transport the rosewood here back to China, and then sell it at a high price to earn the difference in the middle, of course, if it's just that, it's nothing, but these second-way dealers are also more disgusting, they sometimes sell the bad rosewood at a high price, and bully those new entrants to be fooled.

Some people even start selling fakes altogether, so in the mahogany furniture market, there is no deep way, or don't go into the water easily, if you don't do it, you will be eaten with no bones left.

"Sir, this is the best batch of mahogany furniture in our store, you look at this workmanship, this quality, you can't find it anywhere else!"

In front of the store's many mahogany furniture, Lin Quan stopped.

His gaze did not stay in front of the European-style furniture that looked bright and well-made and well-made pointed by the boss, but noticed a piece of furniture that was incompatible with other furniture and looked like a strong Chinese style, a round back chair with a slight warehouse yellow, the color did not look as bright as the surrounding furniture, and it was a little dim, but this thing immediately attracted Lin Quan.

This mahogany furniture is different from other things, most of the other furniture is made by Europeans after transporting the logs back, it can be seen from the style and polishing process, these are furniture built in accordance with European style and technical characteristics, this kind of thing Lin Quan has seen a lot, although the workmanship is excellent, it looks very comfortable, but most of these things are not very old, and there is not much historical added value, so he doesn't care. But the thing in front of him, at first glance, is a Chinese style thing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there are Chinese characters on it, but because the light is not good, the handwriting is not very clear, because it is old, so it blends with the color of the furniture.

But this kind of round-backed chair is definitely Chinese style, and he remembers reading a news before, saying that in China, a cabinet chief assistant in the late Ming Dynasty used the Taishi chair sold for more than 15 million yuan, that first assistant seems to be in the Chongzhen period, what is the name of Wen, I can't remember the name, but it seems to be a very famous guy. And the price of the round back chair of the same era should not be cheaper than the Taishi chair!

Although he didn't know the age of this round back chair, the style of this kind of thing was from the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, and later because of the scarcity of mahogany, there were few furniture of this style, so Lin Quan was a little surprised in his heart, did he see that it was something from the Ming Dynasty?

After the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, there were two former vassal states that claimed to be Chinese cultural orthodoxy, one of which was Vietnam and the other Korea.

However, the Vietnamese and the Koreans are slightly different, although these two effects are trying their best to de-sinicize, abolish Chinese characters, and create their own languages, but one of them is still a little self-aware, and the other is all over the world to announce that this is his, that is his, and the Tai Chi pattern is snatched away as the national flag, and Zhang Sanfeng is a person from their country, what Confucius, Chinese characters, and traditional Chinese medicine are theirs, and the Dragon Boat Festival has been snatched away.

I've seen a lot of shameless people, so shameless, see you for the first time!

After Lin Quan thought about it for a while, he realized that this thing might be something from the small court of Vietnam.

At that time, the royal furniture of the Ming Dynasty royal family was mahogany furniture, and this culture of the upper class spread quickly, everyone respected mahogany, and the rich even used mahogany to build houses, judging how rich a family was, not to see how much money you have, but to see how much mahogany furniture you have, which has also spread to Vietnam.

They border Yunnan and Guangxi, which was originally the origin of Huanghuali, and this kind of thing is regarded as the best choice in mahogany furniture, so the Vietnamese once brought a lot of mahogany when they sent tribute to worship, and Lin Quan remembered that there were relevant records in a wild history that he saw somewhere before.

The Vietnamese are more shrewd, well versed in the way of Chinese culture, to the emperor to send tribute is not good, but also to the following ministers of civil and military affairs, so also sent a lot, furniture, logs, until later generations, the Chinese mahogany market has mahogany from Vietnam, including a diameter of more than one meter weighing 22 tons of big guys, was a Hong Kong tycoon spent hundreds of millions of dollars to buy a set of furniture.

Since the Vietnamese know that the civil officials and nobles of the Central Plains court like this thing, they naturally want to imitate it, so for example, if the Nguyen royal family and the princes and ministers have a few pieces of mahogany furniture in their homes, it is also a common thing, and it is not worth mentioning at all.

And this thing that Lin Quan saw was very likely left by those nobles in Vietnam.

He looked at it carefully, but he didn't dare to show it too obviously, the words on the round back chair were very critical evidence, Lin Quan believed that the shopkeeper must have seen these words, but whether he had studied them in depth, he didn't know.

His heart began to get excited, although it may not be an ancient Chinese cultural relic, but Vietnam has been in the same vein as China since ancient times, and there is not much difference in cultural craftsmanship and value, so the price of this thing is at least more than 10 million! And take a look at the list price, it's only 2,000 euros?