unexpectedly got Mo Jinxuan, the deputy director of the first expo, which reduced Li Yi's pressure by more than half at once, and also made Tan Moxuan quietly relieved. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The photos that Li Yi showed to Mo Jinxuan were not all of his collection. National treasures such as the acupuncture bronze man and the white plate of Yu Jizi are not included in it. But Tan Moxuan is different, after he settled down to help Li Yi, he saw all his collections as soon as possible.

Not only these, but also those in Rogov's hands, Li Yi was going to go to Moscow to exchange the Song Dynasty porcelain that he came back, and oil paintings like "Mona Lisa" that he didn't know how to describe, Li Yi didn't hide it from him.

Huge trust brings tremendous pressure, and when Li Yi put these burdens on his shoulders, although he didn't say anything, the pressure in his heart was indeed indescribable.

He is not afraid of exchange, bargaining is his strength, but he has no experience in managing museums, even if Li Yi has so many treasures, he is afraid that he will mess things up.

So in addition to Li Yi, he should be the most welcoming person for Mo Jinxuan to join, followed by Zheng Shusen. Because Mo Jinxuan's joining also liberated Li Yi, it also gave him a reason to urge Li Yi to go to Manchuria to help him contribute to the jewelry he was responsible for.

When the capital was still at the turn of autumn and winter, Manchuria was already a standard winter. Although the snow has not yet fallen, even the daytime temperature is already below freezing.

This season is definitely not a good season to go to Manchuria to gamble on stones, but there is no way, because now in their hands, except for those top-level materials, they can't even find an ordinary piece!

Although the weather in Yanjing was already relatively cold, as soon as they walked out of Manzhouli Airport, several people were still shivering by the severe cold on their faces.

Li Yi looked at the weather forecast on his phone and asked suspiciously:

"Third child, are you sure that this season, there is still jade to bet on? At this temperature, I can't wait to hold a stove in my hand, and you actually let me touch the stones? ”

"Hehe, old five, isn't there no way? Who made your vision so high before? Get over it, get over it......"

Zheng Shusen shrunk his neck and laughed dryly. Gambling stones are available in all seasons, but now Russia should be a land of ice and snow, and there should be no new shipments, but fortunately, their goal this time is not those superlative, even if there are few rough stones, bet on a few pieces of medium-quality white jade, and it should be no problem for green and white jade to be in an emergency.

The group went to the hotel first to put their luggage, Gu Feng went outside for a turn, rented a half-new seven-seater off-road car and came back, and then a few people drove straight to the Manzhouli jade trading market.

The jade market is very deserted this season, but most of the merchants are still open, and if it is really half a month later, it is estimated that more than half of the merchants in this market will close.

"In fact, there are also benefits to coming this season, because there are fewer people who come to gamble on stones, and the merchants have also reached the time of settlement and rest, so many goods are processed at the price. Although most of these goods are picked by others, with your gambling stone level, it is a good time to pick up the leak! ”

Standing at the gate of the trading market, looking at the sparse flow of people, Zheng Shusen patted Li Yi's shoulder,

"You don't have to give me face, as long as you can look at the goods you can look at, you can sweep it away, and we will give him a bloody ......"

Li Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head, but what Zheng Shusen said did have a certain amount of truth, so let's take a look at the quality of the materials here, I hope I don't have to go to Xinjiang again. But this season, it should be better to go to Xinjiang to gamble on jade than to go to Manchuria, right?

"Hehe, it's not because Wang Changcai said that the sales of natural agate jewelry are also very good, we have this condition, there is no need to shorten a leg as soon as you come up, right?"

Li Yi had already guessed that this guy had this plan, so he tapped his finger at him, and without saying much, he took the lead in walking into a gambling stone shop on the right.

This store is located at the entrance of the market, and the area is very large, just the place used to place the rough stones is more than 200 square meters, and there is a backyard of about the same area, which is full of all kinds of rough stones.

It's just that this company is mainly engaged in agate rough stones, and the gambling materials of Hetian jade only account for a small part, and they are all small pieces of mountain materials, which are basically not gambling.

However, if it comes, it will be safe, anyway, whether it is agate or Russian material, at most it is just for Li Yi to take a second look.

Agate is a kind of chalcedony mineral, the hardness is between jadeite and nephrite, and the color is very rich, including green, red, yellow, brown, white and other colors.

There are also many types of agate, including pictographic pattern agate, southern red agate, Warring States red agate, rock sugar agate, Gobi agate, grape agate, insect agate and dozens of others. In addition to China, India, Brazil, Madagascar, the United States, Egypt, Australia, Mexico and other countries are also famous agate production areas.

As far as China is concerned, the more famous agate production areas are Yunnan, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia and other places, because of the special geographical location of Manchuria, many agate produced in the Northeast will be shipped here for trading.

If in terms of value, in the world, the rarest should be the chrysoprase produced in South Africa, which can be used to pass off as the best jadeite, but in terms of value, it should still be respected by southern red agate.

In addition, Mexico's fire agate, Brazil's purple agate, India's aquatic agate, and the Warring States red agate are all treasures in agate, especially the heart lamp agate, which is known as the soul of the Warring States red agate, and its price can easily reach more than seven figures, which is definitely a treasure among the treasures.

Southern red agate was called red jade in ancient times, the main production area is Yunnan, although there are also in Manchuria, but the price is definitely not advantageous, but the other is known as the solemn first Warring States red agate, the first Gobi agate, the first sugar color of Heilongjiang water chong agate, because of the relationship between the origin, Manchuria has a large number of hoards.

The main business of this business is the Warring States red agate produced in Chaoyang, Liaoning.

This kind of agate is usually respected by yellow, red is precious, and it is gorgeous and restrained, flashy and unassuming, and can be called a gentleman in agate.

The pattern characteristics of the Warring States period red are very obvious, mostly in the shape of "silk", that is, the shape of the silk ribbon, among which the red ribbon is the most precious, called "red onyx".

It's just that the output of red agate in the Warring States period is less, and the big material is especially rare, so the most products are beads and pendants. If you can get a piece of material, carved into a handle, carved piece, its value is definitely quite expensive.

Because the business scope of the jewelry company is mainly based on all kinds of jewelry, Li Yi is not too picky about the size of the agate rough, and he has rarely touched the agate rough before, so this time he is ready to take a look and see if he can bet on some more special and precious materials, even if it is like crystal, gambling on some agate strange stones, which is also a powerful supplement to his museum collection.

The agate stone of this house is divided into the rough stone area and the finished product area, of which the area of the finished product area is very small, and the agate products on display are not so much sold as finished products, but rather as samples.

Li Yi hurriedly browsed the finished product area, and after having a general understanding of the current price, he turned around and came to the shelves in the gambling stone area and looked at them one by one.

The oily characteristics of agate are very significant, even if it is a rough stone, it looks like a layer of wax, and the process of its formation is relatively special, so it is mostly layered, which is very easy to identify. Of course, there are not a few people who use these characteristics to cheat.

Li Yi just looked at a shelf, and knew that the things in this store should be genuine, of course, as this kind of volume-based wholesale market, the probability of counterfeiting itself is far less than that of those small shops that deal in agate finished products.

However, I don't know if it's because the time is not right, I have looked at nearly 100 rough stones on a shelf, and Li Yi has not found a single agate worthy of his shot.

"So hard to find?"

Li Yi frowned, you know, this time he is not the best, as long as he has passed the ordinary materials, he will consider it. But that's it, I didn't see a suitable piece, this family's goods are inevitably too pitiful, right?

"Li Yi, come over and help me take a look at this piece."

was about to go to see the small material on the second shelf, when he suddenly heard Zheng Shusen greet him, turned his head, and found that this guy was lying on a large agate rough stone more than half a meter high and looking around, not only using a strong light flashlight, but also using a magnifying glass, that posture is much more professional than him.

"This piece shouldn't be the Warring States Red ......"

Li Yi squatted down beside him while groaning, first looked at the skin characteristics of the rough stone, and then looked inside from the palm-sized window rubbed out by the merchant on the side, raised his eyebrows, and said with a little surprise:

"Nanhong? Such a big piece of southern red? ”

Zheng Shusen nodded, pointed to a window the size of a bowl on the top of the rough stone, and said:

"From here, it seems that the quality is not very good, and it is difficult to process such a large material."

Li Yi let out an "um", it is indeed so. Unlike jadeite, Hetian jade and other jade, because the texture characteristics of agate are particularly obvious, it is not that the larger the material, the better.

Because the texture of the agate material is based on the whole, all the layers of "silk" shaped lines formed by layers similar to the layered state are whole, if the large material is cut into small jewelry, this texture will be destroyed, thus affecting the quality of the finished product.

However, because of the scarcity of large materials, the kind of carvings carved from a whole piece of material is also very popular, so its specific value should be determined according to the quality of the material.

After carefully inspecting it, Li Yi raised his upper body slightly, turned on the perspective, and looked directly at the inside of the material. (To be continued.) )