Chapter 594: The Journey to Mandalay (Part II)

...... "Master Wichai!"

It can be seen that this middle-aged thin Burmese respects Wichai Sawan Susi very much! There is even a trace of fear in his eyes, and when he thinks about it, if he is not ruthless in Myanmar, a place where warlords are rampant, I am afraid that the Wichai family will not be inherited for hundreds of years!

"Mo Wen, this Mr. Liu is my brother, I came here today to see your factory, and if it is good, I will buy it!"

"Hehe, thank you Young Master Weichai for taking care of you...... Hello, Mr. Liu!" said the middle-aged man in his forties named Mo Wen with a hint of flattery on his face.

But despite this, Liu Dong didn't see any joy in this person's eyes.

And Liu Dong quickly understood the reason, that is, to make a deal with a person like Weichai who is far above him, in order not to offend the other party as much as possible, even if this deal can be reached in the end, the price will be very low, which is obviously not what Mo Wen wants.

But whether the other party wants it or not, Liu Dong doesn't care, as long as he can get this okay factory to rebuild the warehouse, anyway, it's not him who suffers!

After entering the factory with the two of them, Liu Dong's eyes lit up, judging from the layout of the entire factory, this Mr. Mo Wen was still very conscientious when the factory was built.

The floor of the factory is all paved with thick cement, and on the left side of the door is a house like this doorman, behind the house, there is a parking apron of about 300 square meters, and on the right side is some green belts that are lush but obviously lack maintenance.

About 10 meters away from the parking apron and the green belt, it is the main building of the factory.

On both sides of the central main road are a row of flat-roofed brick houses about 5 meters high. It is divided into 8 rooms of different sizes. Judging from the layout of these rooms, it should be an office or something.

After passing this row of rooms. On the right side of the main road is a 25-meter-wide, 10-meter-high, 100-meter-long rigid plastic greenhouse, most of the greenhouses are empty, only a very small piece is covered with tarpaulin, from the corner of the oilcloth underground, Liu Dong understands that the role of this greenhouse should be used to stack wood.

On the right side of the main road are some factories and workers' quarters, but they are nowhere near as large as when Liu Dong was in Quancheng. However, Liu Dong just regarded this place as a transit place, so it was enough for five factories with a length of 40 meters, a height of 10 meters, and a width of 18 meters to vacate for him as a storage place!

After Liu Dong withdrew his gaze from the back door of the factory, which was 5 meters long, he was basically satisfied with this factory! As long as the machines in the processing plant were emptied, this old factory building would be a qualified warehouse!

Noticing Liu Dong's expression, Wichai Sawan Susi also understood his decision.

In the end, it was also Vichai who came forward, and in the case of not having a chance, he paid 100 million kyats. Bought the ownership of the entire venue with the equivalent of 1 million Chinese dollars!

"Alright, we're done. Let's go back!" After Liu Dong signed the contract with Mo Wen, Wichai Sawan Susi said beside him.

Nodding his head, after thinking for a while, Liu Dong said: "Brother Weichai, since this place is already mine, can you please help transport the wood I ordered this time together with the jade rough here?"

"Hehe, I expected you to say that, okay, no problem! But it's not early now, tomorrow! We'll be busy tomorrow!"

Hearing this, after glancing at the sunset in the distance, Liu Dong did not object!

However, Liu Dong did not go home with Wichai Sawan Susi as he said, but after asking about the situation, he went to the antique market in Mandalay!

It has almost become a habit for Liu Dong to go to the local antique market every time he goes to a new city, and this time is no exception.

However, compared with the relatively standardized antique market in China, there are few serious antique shops on Mandalay's antique street, and there are only thirty or forty stalls, but Liu Dong is not surprised by this situation, after all, this so-called second largest city in Myanmar is just a small city with a population of about 800,000.

Fortunately, Mandalay, as a former Burmese country, can be regarded as having some history, so there are still some genuine goods on the stalls, but the value is not very high, and Liu Dong did not make a move!

After turning around dozens of stalls and gaining nothing, Liu Dong walked into the few antique shops on both sides of the road, especially one with the words 'Zheng Bao Zhai' written on the signboard in both Chinese and Burmese fonts, which became Liu Dong's first choice.

As Liu Dong expected, the owner is a Chinese about fifty years old, but in this antique shop of about 100 square meters, the business is not all antiques, there are a small number of jadeite, wooden handicrafts, and ivory products, although there are very few, but Liu Dong was surprised that the other party dared to commit crimes against the wind, you must know that the trade of ivory is also prohibited in Myanmar, although this law is limited to the poor security environment in Myanmar is only superficial!

Although Liu Dong was surprised by people's business strategies, he couldn't control them, but there was something in this antique shop that made him very interested!

"You two, what do you want? I don't dare to say anything else, but I can guarantee that I am the antique shop with the most real things in the whole of Mandalay!" Seeing Liu Dong walk in with Wu Dongsheng, the middle-aged boss who was originally sitting behind the counter hurriedly turned off the TV and walked over.

may have seen that Liu Dong and the others belonged to the Chinese, so the boss also spoke pure Mandarin, but it was not very standard. But even so, it also made Liu Dong, who had been away from China for more than half a month, feel a little cordial.

But cordial is cordial, Liu Dong didn't believe his words at all.

Under the light of his relics, more than 98% of the things in the entire antique shop are fake!

Of course, Liu Dong was also a little surprised, he really found a few good things in this small shop, and even one of them!

And this somewhat made Liu Dong a little excited in his heart.

"Boss, can you show me that bronze mirror?"

Hearing Liu Dong's words, the middle-aged boss, who was about to fool around again, hurriedly agreed, and took down a slightly rusty back from the counter, but the front was still extremely smooth, and the bronze mirror was handed over to Liu Dong.

The whole bronze mirror is round, silvery-white, about 25 centimeters in diameter, the beast button, the string pattern high circle divides the mirror back decoration into two areas, the inner area is high relief four around the mirror button, climbing and playing between the grape leaves. The casting process is extremely fine, and the details of the eyebrows, eyes, joints, and tail of the beast are depicted in detail and meticulously.

The outer area is decorated with eight beasts and birds in the same direction, running and flying between the grape branches, dotted with grape leaves and fruits, and what is particularly commendable is that all these exquisite patterns are placed in every square inch in great detail.

Under the light of the relics, the whole bronze mirror appeared with a rich red brilliance, and the identification results of the relics told Liu Dong that this piece was complete and rare 'Tang Dynasty Rui Beast Grape Pattern Mirror'!

Bronze mirror is a practical product for the daily life of ancient people in China, with a long history of more than 4,000 years, and all dynasties and generations have made zuò.

It was not until the advent of mercury mirrors that the production of copper mirrors gradually stopped.

Some of the ornaments on the ancient bronze mirrors have been well known to everyone, and some still have many mysteries that cannot be solved, such as the Warring States Mountain Character Pattern Mirror, the Han Dynasty's Rule Pattern Mirror, and the Tang Dynasty's Sea Beast Grape Mirror. Since the appearance of the bronze mirror 4,000 years ago, it has gone through different stages of development - it sprouted in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, was popular in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, flourished in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and declined in the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties.

The Tang Dynasty was an important period in the history of the development of ancient bronze mirrors in China. In the early Tang Dynasty, the ornamentation of the bronze mirror was mainly based on sea beasts, and the sea beast mirror was more popular; from Tang Gaozong to Tang Dezong, there were new forms, new themes, and new styles on the bronze mirror decoration, which were gorgeous and gorgeous; and from Tang Dezong to the late Tang Dynasty, it was mainly popular to pair bird mirrors, Ruihua mirrors, Panlong mirrors, etc.

Sea Beast Grape Mirror, also known as "Rui Beast Grape Mirror", "Seahorse Grape Mirror", "Tianma Grape Mirror" and "Luan Beast Grape Mirror". The beast-shaped patterns depicted on the bronze mirror have different images and different postures, and are collectively referred to as "sea beasts". This kind of mirror is strangely decorated, and the pattern is full of mystery, which is called "the mirror of many mysteries" and "the mirror of condensing the civilization of Eurasia" by Japanese scholars.

However, in the field of collection, bronze mirrors have always been miscellaneous, and the long-term market treatment is not high. Now the price of a Tang Dynasty bronze mirror in good condition is generally less than one million!

However, Liu Dong is a fine product in the Tang Dynasty mirror, in addition to its almost perfect condition, the most important thing is the size, most of them are only a few centimeters, and a small number of more than ten centimeters of Tang Dynasty bronze mirrors, the diameter can reach more than 20 centimeters, each of which is the highest quality.

And this is the case in Liu Dong's hand, as for this Tang mirror, which can be regarded as a first-class cultural relic, appeared in an antique shop in Myanmar, the reason Liu Dong didn't know, because of the modern history of a hundred years of humiliation, especially the catastrophe of the Old Summer Palace, too many Chinese cultural relics have been lost overseas!

Nowadays, there is a well-recognized adage in the antique industry: 'Except for bronzes, the best cultural relics in China are abroad!', although there are some discrepancies with reality, but it can be regarded as the current situation of Taoism in the domestic antique collecting industry.

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