Chapter 362: The Woman and the Money
    Like Dilis, Vilia feels the same way. For her, the biggest competitors are not the rich who make money, but the Vilia who doesn't make money, only spends money. But she has nothing to do, after all, that woman is rich, not weaker than her at all, and even the ability to throw money is only stronger than her.
    All she can do now is to gather as many antiques as she can and get ready for the auction. However, she believed that there shouldn't be many opportunities to compete with that crazy woman, because Qin Xuebing would kill a large number of monsters every time he hunted for treasure, and there would probably be no shortage of monster corpses.
    Of course, she also knows one thing, no matter how many monsters can't help but be wanted by so many people, there will definitely be a situation where there will be more monks and less meat at the auction. Otherwise, there is no need to hold an auction, and it is not more straightforward to trade directly in private. She believes that if she can't get a few more monster corpses at the beginning of the auction, the competition will be fierce by the end of the auction.
    But if Vilia and Dilis knew another woman, they probably wouldn't feel willing to spend money, and in front of that woman, they were not much different from Grandet.
    This woman's name is Lu Fei, a beautiful woman who has just passed forty, but has always maintained her appearance of twenty-seven or eight. Lu Fei is a woman who knows how to live very well, she is not vain, and she doesn't like to throw money around, and her daily life is centered on her husband.
    But this time she's ready to show off her skills at auction and let others see how she spends her money. In fact, Lu Fei was also helpless in her heart, and she was completely forced to spend money indiscriminately.
    She loves her husband very much, starts a business with him, and goes through the whole process of the company from small to big. But she was surprised to find out. Her husband actually raised a woman outside behind her back. The reason is even more poignant, because she makes too much money, and she doesn't know how to spend money, so she spends money on raising women outside.
    Regardless of whether this reason is true or not, Lu Fei wants to be a woman who can spend money. If it's true, it can save the husband's heart. If it's fake, then spend the money. It's better than leaving it to your husband to raise a wild woman.
    Lu Fei prepared 500 million, and it took a lot of connections to exchange all 500 million for antiques. Her purpose is very simple, that is, to spend all 500 million. Even if these 500 million can only buy a monster corpse.
    From this point of view, Lu Fei is better than Dilise and Vilia. Dilis and Vilia think more or less about the value and how many antiques they buy. And Lu Fei has only one purpose, to smash 500 million out, like throwing it into water.
    If Dilis and Vilia knew what this woman was thinking, they would have been extremely careful to avoid this woman and never bid against her.
    "Just exchange these things for monster corpses!" The latte pointed to a large pile of objects, all African antiques. Qin Xuebing didn't say that it must be a Chinese antique.
    Latte is an African gold miner and has a lot of power in Africa, and these antiques are undoubtedly dug up from a site in the course of his many mining operations. Naturally, he wouldn't donate these things, and it was the most realistic to exchange them for the corpses of his favorite monsters.
    African culture is not to be underestimated. Africa is a continent in the history of human evolution, from Australopithecus to Australopithecus forest, Homo rama, and "fully formed man" - Homo sapiens, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, and modern man. Anthropologists have found the earliest fossils of "fully formed man" in Africa. These discoveries led anthropologists, including Darwin, the founder of the theory of evolution, to conclude that Africa was the birthplace of humanity.
    Archaeological materials prove that the peoples of Africa created and developed a splendid ancient civilization very early. In ancient times. While the homeland of the Western colonialists was still in the glacial freeze stage, there was already a boiling life on the African continent. At that time, the Nile Valley was an uninhabitable swamp, but now the uninhabited Sahara Desert is a river-crisscrossed forest and grassland. About 10,000 years ago, the climate in North Africa changed dramatically. The savannah gradually arided out and turned into a desert.
    The Nile Valley is one of the cradles of the world's ancient civilizations. Egypt on the lower reaches of the Nile is one of the four great ancient civilizations in the world. Agriculture began in Egypt as early as 5000 BC, and it learned how to cultivate grain and build water conservancy. The Egyptians developed astronomy very early, and as early as 4241 BC, the Egyptians developed a fairly accurate solar calendar for the earliest human calendars. The solar calendar is 365 days a year and is divided into three seasons, one of which is four months. 30 days per month, with an additional 5 days in the last month as religious holidays. It deviates from the year of return by only about a quarter of a day each year. Ancient Egypt created hieroglyphics in the 35th century B.C., knew how to calculate the length of the sides of a square and the volume of a truncated pyramid in the 19th century B.C., and the Egyptians were able to determine the ratio of pi with almost precision around the 21st century B.C. 3?16.
    Ancient Egypt also made great achievements in the arts such as architecture, sculpture, and painting. The majestic pyramids and sphinxes that stand majestically near Cairo on the banks of the Nile are masterpieces of ancient Egypt around the 27th century BC; They are a miracle in the history of human architecture and an immortal monument to the remarkable wisdom and hard work of the working people of ancient Egypt.
    In the middle reaches of the Nile River in present-day Sudan, in the 16th century B.C., there was a Kush Empire, which had developed agriculture, iron-making and textiles, and was one of the richest and most prosperous countries in the world in ancient times. Its capital, Meroe, is the largest iron-making center south of the Mediterranean and is known to Western archaeologists as the "Birmingham of Ancient Africa".
    All kinds of things can show that African culture has an extremely bright page. African antiquities are also very popular in the antiques market, especially ancient Egyptian antiquities, which have repeatedly set records in the history of world auctions.
    And African culture and Chinese culture have a strong communication, which can be said to have a long history. As early as the second century B.C., the Han Dynasty and Africa began to understand each other, indirectly exchanging their own special treasures. It is said that in the first century B.C., the Egyptian empress Cleopatra wore royal clothes made of Chinese silk. Since Zhang Qian opened up the "Silk Road" through the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty, Chinese gold and silk have been exported to the southern shore of the Mediterranean.
     The Tang Dynasty not only began formal direct contact with the Arab Empire, which ruled northern Africa at the time, but also had Chinese people set foot on the African lands south of the Sahara Desert. The image of black Africans also began to appear in the culture and art of the Tang Dynasty, when the black Africans depicted by literati and ink writers were people of extraordinary skill, courage and wit, and chivalry. The frescoes also depict black Africans. The Tang Dynasty carried out more material exchanges with northern Africa and the east coast of Africa, and blue and white porcelain and coins from the Tang Dynasty were found in Egypt, Kenya, Zanzibar and other places.
    The development of the navigation industry in the Song Dynasty further developed the exchange of personnel and products between China and Africa, and the products of China not only appeared in large numbers on the north and east coasts of Africa, but also penetrated into Zimbabwe and other inland areas of Africa. The Song Dynasty also published books such as "Zhufan Zhi" and "Lingwai Dai Answer" that recorded African customs and geographical products.
     The Yuan Dynasty's direct contacts with Africa were increasing. Yuan Shizu once sent envoys to Madagascar to "interview strange news", and the famous tourist Wang Dayuan also went to Zanzibar. One of the four great travelers of the medieval world, the Moroccan Battuta, also visited many southern cities in China. The Yuan geographer Zhu Siben mapped the continent as a triangle stretching south as early as the 14th century, while Europeans were still vague about the continent's direction by the early 15th century. The late British scientist Joseph Needham praised Zhu Siben's map of Africa as an "outstanding achievement" in his History of Science and Technology in China.
    The Ming Dynasty was the most important period in the history of ancient exchanges between China and Africa, and friendly relations have developed to the point of mutual visits by official representatives of both sides. Zheng He, a famous navigator of the Ming Dynasty, led a fleet of dozens of large ships on several occasions, carrying a large number of gold, silver, satin and porcelain treasures, to visit the ports of East Africa in present-day Somalia and Kenya on behalf of China. A village in northern Somalia called "Zheng Hetun" was named to commemorate Zheng He's visit.
    latte doesn't like antiques and is not interested in learning about them. But if he brought these things to the auction, Qin Xuebing would be extremely welcome, even shocked. Because many of these cultural relics are Chinese antiques, which were spread to Africa in the early Chinese period. (To be continued......)