"It's not easy to hunt, there are a lot of black bears in Burma, you probably haven't eaten bear bile yet, that thing is called liquid gold, and bear paws, that kind of deliciousness, you can almost get hooked after eating it once, hehe, of course, if you are animal protectionists, then forget it......"

Yang Yaoshan was born in Myanmar and has lived in Myanmar for a long time, so he doesn't have any animal protectionist ideas, after all, in Myanmar, it is difficult for people to eat enough, and they talk about fart protection animals, the government has no legislation, and the people will not care.

"I'd better forget it, if I get addicted, there will be problems in the future. Although Zhang Tianyuan is not an animal protectionist, but after all, he is a person who grew up in China, and he has been more or less affected, and he is somewhat resistant to hunting black bears, but he doesn't want to preach like a virgin, it's not interesting.

After all, you must know one thing, in Myanmar is different from in China, hunting in Myanmar is a very normal thing, Yang Yaoshan regards hunting as an aristocratic pastime.

Don't those so-called developed countries keep saying that they want to protect animals? They still have their own private hunting grounds, and in many places, they have even opened up special places for people to hunt, and when it comes to not being allowed to hunt wild animals, it is estimated that in China, it is the strictest.

"Brother Zhang, this is your mistake, do you know what it means to follow the customs of the locals? Since you have gone abroad, don't think about those messy things, you can do whatever you have to do, besides, you have never hunted. I don't know what kind of fun it is. ”

Zhang Tianyuan smiled and didn't say anything more. The purpose of my visit to Hpakant this time was for treasure, and maybe I would really encounter a beast like a black bear. If he doesn't shoot at that time, he will be the one who will die, and he will definitely not do that kind of idiotic thing.

He's not a Buddha.

Because the car suddenly encountered a steep slope and almost tilted down, the carriage was much quieter, and Yang Yaoshan grabbed the handrail and didn't dare to talk nonsense.

Zhang Tianyuan couldn't help but snicker when he saw Yang Yaoshan's funny appearance. Then he turned his thoughts elsewhere, the closer he got to Hpakant, the more jade mines there were, and by the light of the setting sun, Zhang Tianyuan could vaguely see busy figures.

Although jadeite was recorded in the Zhou Dynasty as early as possible, and there were also physical objects in the court of the Song Dynasty, it really had commercial value and market after Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. Before Qianlong, the vast majority of people in our country did not know how jadeite was, although some people wore jadeite in Yunnan, Guizhou and Myanmar, but the value was not high, and there were very few people who processed and made zuò, the process was rough and simple, at most it was the level of folk handicrafts.

Qianlong was an emperor who liked to collect a lot, and among the many collections, Qianlong had a soft spot for jade. In order to make Zuò's beloved jade, a huge amount of jade was transported into Beijing from thousands of miles away from the jade producing area at any cost, which is why there are now national treasures "Great Jade Sea" and "Dayu Controlling Water".

Due to the rebellion in the Hejiang region, the jade road was blocked, and Hetian jade could not be transported into the imperial capital, and the obsession with jade made Qianlong look for other jade in many ways. At this time, jadeite began to enter the court of the Qing Dynasty, and the jade masters in the palace began to study and ponder jadeite.

In just a few decades, the price of high-grade jadeite has risen more than a hundredfold. Ji Xiaolan said in "Notes on Arabesque": "When I was young, Yungui jade, I didn't regard it as jade at that time, but it was like Lantian Qianhuang, and the strong name was jade ears, but now I think it is a treasure, and the price is far higher than the real jade." In other words, when Ji Xiaolan was young, jadeite was only one of a large number of various jades, and when he wrote this notebook in his later years, the price of jadeite was already higher than that of Hetian jade. The Qianlong Dynasty was the first peak period for the rise in jadeite prices, with an increase of more than 1,000 times.

After Qianlong until the end of the Qing Dynasty, high-grade jadeite has been the royal and aristocratic Dajia keen to own and show the identity of the noble weapon, this stage of the emperor, the queen mother, the queen's tomb has jadeite burial, but the quality is mostly medium, the reason is that the mining technology is very low at that time, pure manual mining makes the output very limited, even if it enters the palace jadeite, there are very few good ones.

There are not many famous jadeites in the Qing Dynasty mentioned in the records, and it is said that there is a pair of jadeite bracelets in the tomb of Cixi that are very good, and the old pit is full of green, which is rumored to have been given to Song Meiling by Sun Dianying.

There is also a jade feather tube of Rong Lu, it is described as the feather inserted in the feather tube "delicate", the thickness of the feather tube is generally about 3-4 mm, and the feathers inside can be seen clearly, it can be known that this feather tube must be full of green glass jadeite, it is a glass species, the color must not be too deep, that is, the most respected glass species of bright green jadeite by collectors now, it is said that Cixi is quite envious.

On display in the Jade Hall of the Imperial Capital Museum are Rong Lu's wrench, snuff bottle, and Li Lianying's snuff bottle.

The Hpakant region is the earliest place for jadeite mining in Myanmar, and there are records of jadeite mining since the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

People often say that jadeite was introduced into China around the middle of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, this refers to the time when jadeite was introduced into China in large quantities and has been mass-produced. However, jadeite was first introduced to our country much earlier.

In fact, until the Ming Dynasty, jadeite was still unattainable.

In the Dingling Tomb of the Ming Tombs in the northern part of the imperial capital, there are a large number of pearls, precious stones and exquisite jade artifacts that accompany the burial of the Wanli Emperor, but there are no jade products among them.

Although jadeite has been recorded very early. But this magical green jade, which can crumble gold like grinding ink, did not begin to appear in large quantities until the Qing Dynasty. There is also an interesting legend about how this jade, which is produced in northern Myanmar, was introduced to the Central Plains.

Legend has it that there were often caravans of horses transporting timber and spices back to the Central Plains from Burma, and when the stacks of a horse were unbalanced, the merchant who drove the horse picked up a stone on the side of the road. Press on the side of the buttress. Until I entered the Central Plains, I unloaded the goods. The stone also completed its task and was thrown on the side of the road.

I don't know how long later. A jade milling master passed by, saw a green crystal thing under the sun from a distance, approached and picked it up to look closely, and the green light disappeared, just a gray-white stone, with a slight green thread in the middle.

The master looked left and right, and looked carefully. He thought to himself, maybe there was jade in this pu, and when he took it back and cut it open, he was stunned. Such a bright, crystalline, and moist jade was something he had never seen before, and this was the later jadeite.

Afterward. Since then, Myanmar has been a major producer of high-quality jadeite in the world, at least so far, no jadeite has been found anywhere else in the world.

In the 80s of the 18th century, the Qianlong Emperor expanded his territory to the Hpakant region of northern Burma, where he discovered rich jadeite mines. Jadeite was used in large quantities as jade, and its glory soon surpassed that of nephrite.

There are about 160,000 people living here, of which 60,000 are local Burmese and the other 100,000 are jade miners from major Myanmar companies.

There are many Burmese Chinese living in the Hpakant area, and most of their families have a history of hundreds or even hundreds of years. Open their genealogy, it really is a history of the development of jadeite.

Although the Yang clan came here relatively late, they were the latecomers and became the largest clan in this area. Even throughout Myanmar, Heng became a powerful figure.

In order not to forget their ancestors and not to forget their roots, most of the people of the Yang clan are in addition to learning Burmese. They also have to learn the traditional Chinese culture, and they have their own schools. Many Chinese who come here have come here to study, but they have also done a good job.

Thinking about things. After about four hours of travel, the four cars finally drove into the Hpakant area, the original site of Burmese jade.

Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, but after entering the realm of Hpakant, Zhang Tianyuan found that he was really too sweet, although some asphalt roads were built here, but many roads were piled up with soil or stone slag, and the originally spacious road surface was gambled so that it was impossible to walk.

This is still a small matter, and the most troublesome thing is that because of the heavy use of explosives, and the kind of large machinery that walks on the road, the road is full of cracks and potholes, and the road is so good that it turns out to be like a dirt road.

It's really hard to walk.

Not only that, but there are often bulldozers and excavators on the road, cars go for a while, stop for a while, and they could have arrived early, but in the end they were blocked by these monsters and couldn't move forward, even if they had this pass, they had that pass, and it was in vain.

Fortunately, the technique of snake Lin driving is good enough, otherwise, on this kind of road, this situation, I am afraid that it is really difficult for this car to reach the destination, and it took nearly two hours to toss, and finally really arrived at the city of Hpakant, Zhang Tianyuan only had time to look at the time, they set off at about three o'clock in the afternoon, and it is now nine o'clock in the evening, and it has been more than six hours.

Knowing this, Zhang Tianyuan really planned to buy a helicopter for himself, even if he couldn't drive back to China in the end, it would be cheap to deal with it here, and it would be much more comfortable than now.

Along the way, he had to rely on the earth's qi to ensure that he didn't have any problems, and the young man was still like this, and Professor Qin was even more not, after arriving in Pakang, he almost fainted, his face was pale, as if he had a serious illness.

That's it, Zhang Tianyuan has secretly helped Professor Qin many times, otherwise, with Professor Qin's body, it is estimated that he will become a waste directly after Pa Kang, and he still wants to help Yang Yaoshan look at the mine, and he also wants to engage in scientific research, which is simply a fool's dream.

Although the situation is not very good now, at least he is not sick, but his body is too tired, and after being helped down by Zhang Tianyuan and Snake Lin, he is a little dizzy, but it is not much of a problem.

Yang Yaoshan also felt a little guilty when he saw this situation, every time he walked this road, he felt like he had gone to hell, even if he had sat there more than once, he still felt like this, let alone an old man like Professor Qin.

After arriving in Hpakant, Yang Yaoshan hurriedly arranged everyone into his family's private guest house, although the guest house was not luxurious, and it didn't sound as domineering as a hotel, but the facilities here were much better than the hotel he stayed in Mandalay.

After arranging for everyone to stay, Yang Yaoshan hurriedly called a doctor to check Professor Qin's body, for fear that Professor Qin would fall ill here, and it would be a big deal.

After the doctor finished examining his body, he arranged for Professor Qin to lie down and rest, and hung the hanging needle, Yang Yaoshan relaxed at this time, and suddenly remembered that he had thrown Zhang Tianyuan and Snake Lin aside, so he hurriedly ordered someone to prepare a delicious gruel, and let Snake Lin and Zhang Tianyuan eat a little first, after all, they had just shaken all the way, and now they don't dare to eat a big meal, just this gruel, it can be regarded as replenishing nutrition. (To be continued......)