Chapter 327: Mahogany
"You can try it!"
Lin Quan couldn't laugh or cry in his heart, after telling a lie, he needed to keep using new lies to cover up the previous lies, and finally he was out of control. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It is impossible for him to tell others about the Jade of Life and the Jade of Water, but the effect of these two things is real, which is something that everyone can see, so everyone will be curious, why do things on your farm grow so well and grow so fast?
This is a very normal situation, it is human nature to trace the source, and curiosity is human instinct.
Lin Quan couldn't explain this matter, so he had to deduce that it was because the land was good and the water quality was good, so Zhang Chuan put forward the idea of going abroad to cultivate, and then bring the soil and water sources here.
Lin Quan smiled slightly and said, "This is a good idea, but we don't know which plants are more precious, Brother Zhang, do you have any recommendations?"
Zhang Chuan heard Lin Quan's words, smiled and said: "I can't remember the name of the plant, but I know that every country has its own endangered protected plants, I think we can cultivate according to this list, so that most of the words are okay, of course, those plants that have strong ornamental properties and then are very endangered are of course the best!"
It's a good idea, there are many plants that are not suitable for the increasingly harsh environment outside, or because they think the damage is too great, so the number is getting smaller and smaller, such as the rosewood native to Brazil, which is originally a very widespread plant in Brazil, and the locals didn't care about them at all, and they took them too seriously.
However, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, because of the advent of the Age of Discovery, a large number of colonists came from Europe, and after they came to South America, they quickly discovered this plant!
The plant grows slowly, but its grain is straight and the wood is very dense and tough, and the trunk is rich in water-soluble red dye that can be used as a dye.
However, of course, its greater value is used to make furniture, because the texture of this thing is very hard and dense, so if it is used to make furniture, the furniture is not easy to corrode and can be stored for a long time.
As a result, the Europeans began to cut down large areas of trees here to make dyes and make furniture, and in the beginning there were not many Europeans, and these trees were very large, so everyone took them too seriously.
But when there are more and more Europeans, the industry is developing faster and faster, and the demand is getting bigger and bigger, everyone is nervous, because the number of this tree is getting smaller and smaller, and one of the Achilles heels of this tree is that it grows too slowly, the longest growth period of Brazilian mahogany can reach more than 1,000 years, and the shorter one is 4-5 hundred years, and the growth rate of this tree is too slow, coupled with overexploitation, so it has become an endangered species at the end of the eighteenth century.
Lin Quan also saw a news before, it is said that there is a super-rich man in the Celestial Empire, who took a fancy to a set of rosewood in Brazil, and planned to transport this set of rosewood back to make furniture, but it took more than 5 million to buy these rosewoods, because the volume was too large, there was no way to transport it by air, so it could only be transported by sea, and it took more than three months to transport it back, and the freight cost was more than 8 million, and the freight was higher than the price...
The world of the local tyrant is incomprehensible, but this kind of thing has now been listed by the Brazilian government as a thing in the restricted export or even prohibited list, and it is obviously impossible to cut down new trees, and even if the old trees have already been cut down, it is very difficult to sell them, and it takes a lot of procedures to get through many links.
This has led to fewer and fewer mahogany furniture on the market, and the Celestial Empire in Yunnan, Guangxi and other places originally had this kind of tree, but like Brazil, because the growth age of this thing is too high, it is becoming more and more rare, resulting in the price of mahogany furniture skyrocketing!
As early as the Ming and Qing dynasties, mahogany has become the exclusive product of the emperor's family, and almost all the royal utensils are made of mahogany, which symbolizes dignity, status and identity, and itself has a noble temperament!
And then this thing is undoubtedly a kind of green environmental protection, he itself is a precious medicinal material in traditional Chinese medicine, the breath emitted by mahogany furniture can have the effect of health care, can make people feel refreshed, and feel comfortable, which is also the reason for people to fall (etc., Chinese medicine...... )。
And there is another point, mahogany furniture because the texture is very dense, the weight is large, not easy to corrode, water and fire do not invade, so its preservation life is very long, the general wooden furniture may be used for more than ten years to decay, but mahogany furniture can be used for hundreds of years, or even thousands of years, not long ago there was not a person in the cleaning of their own pond silt found a mahogany worth tens of millions, and then handed over to the state to reward 200 yuan? After soaking in the pond for so long, it is only superficially corroded, which is nothing short of a night for ordinary trees!
Because it has a long service life and a long lifespan, this thing can be passed on as real estate, you can pass it on to your son, your son can pass it on to his grandson, and his grandson will pass it on to his great-grandson, and his great-grandson will ask an appraisal expert to take a look: good guy, an old antique from hundreds of years ago, he made a lot of money, and he was happily sent to the auction house, and he was replaced by a lot of grandpa Mao......
Mahogany furniture is calculated according to the age of the tree, the higher the age, the denser the texture, the denser the tree grain is of course the most expensive and the best, the price of this kind of thing in the market is really upside down, 06 years, a 150-year-old mahogany furniture bed may only cost tens of thousands of dollars, but now, there are no hundreds of thousands or even millions, it is not easy to take, as for the older, longer history of mahogany, the price can be imagined.
When I think of the huge profits in this, I don't want to say that I am not tempted, it must be a lie, after all, the profit margin here is amazingly large, if you can plant a large number of mahogany in batches, then take it out and sell it, it must be priceless!
It's just that this mahogany grows too slowly, and even if he has two treasures in his hand: the Jade of Life and the Jade of Water, he can't guarantee that the growth rate of this thing can really keep up.
"Actually, you have a fork, although mahogany has a strong practical value, but this thing itself is also a very ornamental plant!"
Seeing Lin Quan's embarrassed appearance, Zhang Chuan said with a smile.
The reason why mahogany is very scarce is not that there are few trees, but that there are few adult trees in this tree, and there are still many small saplings and seedlings, and these little guys grow very slowly, so many people treat them as potted plants, plant them, and treat them as an ornamental plant.