Tourmaline is called tourmaline in the Western scientific community.

Because this thing, after being worn by the human body, after rubbing, it will produce static electricity and absorb some fine dust, so it is also called ash absorption.

But the name tourmaline comes from the ancient Ceylonese language, which translates to 'mixed gemstones'.

It was during the Qing Dynasty that this thing really became popular as a gemstone.

Since the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, because of the emperors' love for jade and jadeite, tourmaline has also become the favorite of many celebrities and nobles at that time, and even became a symbol of power.

At that time, many Qing Dynasty first-class and second-grade ministers wore flower feathers, and the twisted buckles on them were made of tourmaline, and some people used tourmaline to make dynasty pearls.

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, after the Empress Dowager Cixi took power, because of her love for jadeite, this colorful and ever-changing tourmaline gemstone also became the favorite of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

She began to frantically search for the best tourmalines in China to make them into her favorite ornaments, so much so that later, the Qing Dynasty even imported a large number of tourmaline gemstones from San Diego, USA.

Almost all of these gems came from the Ibaraya tourmaline mine in California's Dameisha Plain, which began in 1902 and ended in 1911, when the Qing Dynasty imported more than 120 tons of raw tourmaline ore from the Ibaraya tourmaline mine, which shows the crazy obsession of Cixi and her successors with this gemstone.

When this truth was revealed, Chinese historians gave Cixi another nickname, that is, an out-and-out 'tourmaline fan'!

At that time, the Ibaraya tourmaline mine also flourished because of the Empress Dowager Cixi's crazy love for this gemstone, so that when the Qing Dynasty died. The tourmaline mine had to be closed because it had no major export targets, and it was not until recent years, when the price of tourmaline began to rise again in line with the tastes of Chinese enthusiasts, that new mines began to be opened.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty. Chinese historians have been troubled by the two jade watermelons of the Empress Dowager Cixi recorded in history.

Because according to the records of the Qing court's treasures, the two jadeite watermelons are real, but according to the Chinese's research on jadeite, it is impossible for jadeite to have such two completely different color differences.

So historians have always been curious, what do these two treasures, which were regarded as the root of life by the Empress Dowager Cixi, really look like? Is it a real jadeite material?

If it is really jadeite, it can be said to be a major discovery in the history of gemstones. After all, throughout the history of the development of jadeite gemstones, there have never been such two top-quality jadeite gemstones with distinct colors, and they are still so big.

If it's really a jade watermelon, it can definitely be described as priceless.

It's a pity that they can only guess by imagination, because there has been no physical evidence, because in 1928, the famous Tanglin thief Sun Dianying took his troops. Patronized the tomb of Cixi.

They blew open the door of Tanglin and stole countless treasures from inside. Among them are these two jade watermelons, and since then, these two jade watermelons have completely disappeared from Chinese history and disappeared without a trace.

Later, Liu Yusheng, the investigator of the Tanglin robbery case sent by the government of the Republic of China, published "Shizaitang Miscellaneous Memories" in 1946. In the "Robbery of the Qing Tomb", it was once described as follows that a certain company commander who personally participated in the robbery of the tomb robbed the tomb: "The glow is all from the jewels hidden in the coffin. It is to take out the four big watermelons placed in the four corners of the coffin, the melons are all green jade skin and purple jade, cut in the middle, the melon seeds are black, and the glow is released from the cut. ”

And then this record of these two jade watermelons. There are only a few strokes.

That Sun Dianying stole Dongling, it can be said that he risked the world's condemnation, you must know that although there were many people who were jealous of the treasures in Cixi's tomb at that time, but not many people dared to rob the tomb.

After all, if you do that, your reputation will be stinky, but this warlord didn't think about it that much at the time, and he did it as soon as his brain was hot.

It wasn't until after the incident that he felt that something was wrong, and at that time, various news media across the country could be said to have criticized him verbally and in writing, shouting and shouting and killing.

Even the government of the Republic of China, which is still empty, has sent a special investigation team for this purpose.

At that time, Sun Dianying was already scared, and in order to save his dog's life, he began to bribe some high-ranking officials within KMT, such as the brother-in-law of the bald guy, the then president of the KMT Executive Yuan, Song Ziwen.

He once told others that one of the two jade watermelons he stole from Cixi's tomb was given to Song Ziwen by him.

The person who commissioned it was also very famous in later history, and it was the first brother of the later KMT military commander, Dai Yunong......

Later, the jade watermelon was brought to the United States by Song Ziwen's descendants, and in the nineties of the last century, it also appeared in an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum, but because it caused a sensation, it was quickly removed from the booth by the museum, and since then, it has completely disappeared from the public eye.

As for the other jade watermelon, it is always out of the situation that no one is seen in life and no body is seen in death.

Some people say that the half of the jade watermelon has been destroyed in the war, and others say that it was taken overseas by a high-ranking official of KMT.

Some people also say that after the fall of Jiangnan, this jade watermelon finally fell into the hands of the Japanese, and was finally transported back to China by the Japanese.

In short, there are many opinions, but the most credible one is probably that it fell into the hands of the Japanese.

Because later, there were many legendary anti-Japanese stories about the Japanese treasure ship, such as a small story back then, saying that a group of people with lofty ideals, in order to prevent those national treasures from being transported back by the Japanese, finally desperately sneaked on the ship, and finally when the ship left the Puhai pier, the ship was blown up and sunk in the vast sea.

Anyway, that tourmaline watermelon disappeared into the long river of history like that.

And now, this tourmaline watermelon actually appeared in front of Jin Muchen like this, which really made him not know what to say.

But now looking at this jade watermelon, he has basically concluded in his heart that this jade watermelon should have fallen into the hands of the Japanese in the end, and then was brought to Nanyang by the Japanese.

As for why it fell into the hands of these pirates, he couldn't figure it out for a while.

He slowly put down the jade watermelon in his hand, and then opened several other packages, and when he saw the contents of the package, he was also breathless.

Sure enough, the legendary jade melon is also here.

There are four pieces in total, two of which are white, yellow, and powder, and the other two are greenskin, white, and yellow, which are exactly the same as those described in the history books.

This is the Empress Dowager Cixi's favorite set of treasures, which can be regarded as alive.

Jin Muchen slowly put down the gems in his hand, and then let out a long breath.

These treasures, according to the estimation of archaeological experts, are absolutely priceless and cannot be measured in money.

However, in the eyes of a businessman, although these precious stones were precious, they were not impossible to measure in terms of money.

In 1928, the two emerald watermelons were valued at 2.2 million taels of silver, and the four melons were valued at about 600,000 taels of silver, and thirteen years later, the valuation had risen tenfold.

And if the 1943 silver valuation is converted to the current 15.0 percent of US dollars, it is probably worth more than 30 million US dollars, and the value of those melons is also more than 10 million US dollars.

This is only from the perspective of currency, if you consider the value of this jade watermelon, then the price will definitely be higher, and it is estimated that it is appropriate to exceed 50 million US dollars.

These treasures are a mountain of gold in front of you!

Jin Muchen looked at these gems at this time, and couldn't help but be in a daze, originally wanted to come to find the treasure left by the pirates back then, but how did he expect to find a bunch of Chinese royal treasures now?

"How? Mr. Jin, what exactly are these gems, have you identified them? ”

"Well, if I'm not mistaken, these gems should be the last queen mother of the Qing Dynasty's favorite jade watermelon, and jade melon."

That pirate is also a bit of culture, and he also knows a little about the history of China, although he doesn't know how much this treasure is worth, but when he heard that these gems were actually the favorite of the last Chinese dynasty queen in the past, he couldn't help but open his eyes wide at this time.

"You're saying it's a royal artifact in China's past."

"Well, it should be. Mr. Billasso, I'm a little curious, how did you find these treasures? ”

This pirate introduced himself to Jin Muchen before, and he said that his name was Bilaso, which must be a pseudonym, but now Jin Muchen can only call him that.

"Hahahaha, these treasures, it is also very coincidental, I found them in this cave. A few years ago, we were chased by the Indonesian navy, and when we finally escaped, we accidentally found this small cave, so we hid inside. At that time, the tide was high and the cave was flooded, and the Indonesian Navy wandered around outside for most of the night without being able to spot us. Later, we used this place as our base, but when we cleaned up this place later, we found out that this was actually a material transfer base built by the Japanese during World War II. And these treasures are the ...... left by the Japanese back then."

This Bilaso didn't hide it, hearing him say this, Jin Muchen must be in his heart, it seems that he guessed correctly before.

But then he had a question in his heart, so why didn't the Japanese transport these treasures back to their homeland, but hide them in this cave? (To be continued......)