Chapter 280: Gambling Wood
ps: The leader of the Big Tree Alliance adds more. In addition, to explain the problem of "Lanting Collection Preface", Liu Gongquan also wrote the Lanting Preface, and it is a regular script version, and there are still fragments of the tablet in existence. Thank you for the reminder, if you are interested, you can check it online.
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In order to reflect the equality of all beings in front of the Buddha, there is no private room in the fasting room, and not only is there no private room, but the place where everyone eats is not a table, but a long machine, and the guests are also next to each other, sitting in rows to eat fruits.
After handing Li Yi over to the little monk in the room, he left, and Li Yi was placed in the middle of a long plane.
After Li Yi sat down, he took out the stele that Xiao Shami had just given him.
At present, there are more than 40 inscriptions in the White Horse Temple, among which the most famous ones are "Zhao Tablet" and "Broken Text Tablet". Zhao stele is the Yuan Dynasty to Shun four years (1333) by Zhao Mengfu to write the "Luojing White Horse Ancestral Garden" stele, the stele text style is chic, rich and beautiful bones, is a treasure in the art of calligraphy.
And what he got was a rubbings of this inscription.
Li Yi put the ruben on the long plane, and while waiting for Su Zhai, he slowly gestured with his fingers on the plane, and at this time, a young man sitting on his left hand side spoke.
"Uncle Zhao, have you been to the expo? Those flowers are so expensive! ”
The middle-aged man he called Uncle Zhao nodded,
"Rare things are expensive, just like the sea yellow, the more yellow, these things, there is no reason to talk about them."
"Hey, by the way, I forgot to ask, Uncle Zhao went to Hainan last time to gamble, how was the harvest?"
"It's okay, I bet on a total of three pieces of wood, one to earn, two to lose, and in the end it was basically a draw."
Hearing the two of them talking about gambling wood, Li Yi's heart suddenly moved, yes, he had touched a lot of old objects carved from precious wood species such as huanghuali and red sandalwood before, and he also inhaled cool air from them.
However, he has always thought that because those are antiques, he can inhale cool air, but now it seems that it is really not necessarily, since peonies can have cool air, then why can't these rare woods?
After thinking about it, there didn't seem to be anything important to deal with recently, and Li Yi quickly decided that after sending the flowers back to Yanjing, he would gamble on wood!
The wood of gambling wood mainly refers to various mahogany. At first, it was to bet on Haihuang, that is, Hainan Huanghuali. Because Hainan Huanghuali, from 2002 20,000 yuan per ton, to 2010 to a peak of 8 million yuan per ton, 8 years its value has increased 400 times!
And now, authentic sea yellow is even more expensive! But because the resources of Haihuang have been nearly exhausted, there is really no wood to pick, no wood to gamble, so the wood merchants have set their eyes on Vietnam again, and go to Vietnam to bet on Vietnamese Huanghuali!
The quality of the more yellow is much worse than that of sea yellow, but if you don't have to choose, it's better than nothing.
At present, according to the different quality, the price of Vietnamese huanghuali ranges from hundreds of thousands to two or three million per ton.
In addition, the Vietnamese side allows buyers to go directly to the forest area to select materials, and the price of gambling wood is almost two-thirds cheaper than cutting down and seeing the lines, so there is an additional way to gamble on wood, directly to the forest area to select materials!
The driving force of interests is so huge, the influx of a large number of gambling wood buyers, so that Vietnam's rosewood resources, especially Huanghuali resources, will soon be on the verge of extinction, so the Vietnamese government has greatly increased the export tariffs of Huanghuali, from the original few yuan per kilogram to more than 100 per kilogram, only to slightly curb this crazy momentum.
However, human ingenuity is endless, especially when there is a huge profit behind it. So, soon, these buyers set their sights on Africa again, where there is also mahogany!
Moreover, this time they played even crazier, buying the forest directly, and then slowly looking for mahogany in their own forest!
But isn't it just a matter of making sure that the tree is mahogany, so why gamble?
This starts with the characteristics of mahogany.
In the beginning, the so-called mahogany had little to do with a specific tree species, but was only a general term for high-quality reddish hardwoods that appeared in a certain period of time since the Ming and Qing dynasties. These include rosewood, sorrel wood, red sandalwood, etc., because their wood is different from each other to show yellow-red or purple-red, hence the name.
The quality of mahogany involves several aspects, but the two main points are wood grain and wax, which is what some people call oily.
Generally speaking, the darker the wood color, the clearer the grain of the mahogany, the better, and if the wood grain is mixed with dark brown or black stripes in the deep red, giving it an antique feel, then in terms of wood grain, this mahogany is perfect.
The second wax, in the interior of the mahogany, the wax is not evenly distributed, but in clumps or flakes, and how deep it can be eaten, no one knows until the log is unraveled.
Log merchants can't discern the inside of a log, so they generally sell the wood as a whole and refuse to open it, so that the risk is transferred to the wood merchant who buys the wood, and for the wood merchant, this is gambling, so it is called gambling wood!
Li Yi had heard of it before, but at that time he didn't think about whether there was cool air in the log.
If there is no cool air, then even if he has a spirit identification card, at most he can only ensure that he will not be deceived and buy fake wood, and there is no way to judge the quality of this log, whether it is hollow or not, and what level of mahogany can be solved.
But now it's different, even if there is no cool air in the log, the perspective distance of ten centimeters of the spirit card is enough for him to see through all the small materials below twenty centimeters, even if some large materials are as thick as fifty or sixty centimeters, it is not without a chance to fight!
Moreover, he is more ruthless than those who specialize in wood betting, not only can he determine the amount of wax inside the mahogany, but he can even pick the wood grain directly through the bark!
If you don't gamble like this, when? What's more, he also wanted to know if there was cool air in the log and whether he could inhale it, so he made a bet and set off with the demon eye back to Yanjing!
In addition, for the upgrade of the spirit card this time, he suddenly had an uncertain idea. The reason why he is not sure is because this idea was deduced from the experience of the previous two upgrades.
Needless to say, before he came into contact with the Shwedagon Pagoda, he had already absorbed a lot of cool air, and if you look at the cool air with the Buddha's nature in the Shwedagon Pagoda as a necessary catalyst for upgrading, this qiē seems very logical.
Although the second upgrade is slightly different, it is still very easy to understand, because he has touched almost all the wool and gems on the public plate before, and once again accumulated a lot of cool air.
However, there is still a problem here, that is, the amount of cool qi he absorbed on the public plate will definitely not be larger than the amount of cool qi he accumulated before the first upgrade, but the perspective distance of the spirit card has actually increased by two centimeters all of a sudden, what does this mean?
Li Yi guessed that between the two, it should reflect the difference between the two models of breakthrough and growth.
Psychic cards were not able to see through before, so the appearance of the perspective function should be considered a new breakthrough. A breakthrough requires not only an opportunity, but also a lot of energy accumulation.
And once it breaks through and grows again, the energy it needs is normalized, so although the second upgrade absorbs less cool air, it is easy to explain the direct growth of two centimeters after encountering the catalyst.
According to this principle, the third upgrade also became easier to understand, that is, the cool qi he absorbed from these Buddha statues not only contained a catalytic effect, but also a large amount in itself, enough to support the perspective of the spirit card to grow to ten centimeters!
But this is actually a waste, a waste of catalysis!
Therefore, Li Yi suddenly had a strange idea, is this catalytic effect instantaneous or can it continue for a period of time? If it can be delayed, then will it be too late for him to go back and replenish a lot of cool air now?
With this thought, he couldn't sit still anymore.
Whether you make it in time or not, it's worth a try! Because, he knows where there is a lot of cool air that he can inhale enough at once!
Looking at the sumptuous meal that had just been placed in front of him, he had no intention of enjoying it slowly, so he casually took two bites and left quickly.
"Sure enough, it's a local tyrant, such a good vegetarian food is wasted casually, Amitabha, may the Buddha bless you."
The monk who had just given Li Yi vegetarian food had not gone far, and saw that he had already left his seat and rushed away, and he couldn't help blinking his eyes in shock, and silently pronounced a Buddha name, for the sake of you offering 1 million incense, this sin, the poor monk will bear it for you!
Check out, drive, and run all the way, Li Yi rushed back to Yanjing.
"Master, can I go into the treasury of the head office to study?"
When he was still on the road, Li Yi called Zhong Haoqing.
"Of course that's fine, I'll tell the people in charge of the treasury that you can go at any time as long as they're there. By the way, when did you come back? ”
"I haven't gotten home yet, but I'm going to be in the city soon...... Master, I'd like to go to the storehouse later, and see if you can be accommodating. ”
Zhong Haoqing was stunned, but immediately found a reason for Li Yi,
"Going later? Did you see some ancient monster pieces this time and came back to find a basis? Okay, you wait for me to call and ask. ”
Five minutes later, the phone called,
"You go over, I told their person in charge, there is a staff on duty there, you can just mention my name when you arrive."
After hanging up the phone, Li Yi almost looked up to the sky excitedly and roared, ha, Master is so powerful!
The distance from Yangluo to Yanjing is nearly 700 kilometers, and Li Yi only ran for less than six hours in total, and when he entered Beijing, he just missed the rush hour after work, so he quickly rushed to the warehouse of Tongruibao head office.
After a brief exchange, Li Yi entered the warehouse, he knew that there were cameras everywhere, so although he was eager, he still patiently pretended to be looking for something, and slowly touched them one by one.
10, 100, 200......
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