Chapter 110: Small-leaved red sandalwood

What appeared in front of it was a door rather than a partition, because it was so rudimentary.

Lu Yuan walked to the "door" and realized that it was just a simple partition made with a few wooden boards.

Lu Yuan couldn't help but be curious when he looked at the wooden planks in front of him.

It's really the texture of these planks is so beautiful.

This cave has been around for a long time. And there is no air in the mine.

What the hell are these planks made of, and how can they be exposed to the air for such a long time without rotting?

Lu Yuan curiously took off a wooden plank.

After some wiping, the board finally revealed its true face.

I saw that the wood itself was purple and black. The grain of the wood is very beautiful. And the brown eye is very small.

Weighing it in his hand, the plank was heavy. Apparently the density is very high.

Lu Yuan's heart moved, and he took out the computer from the Xiaoding space, and after careful search and comparison. Finally, it was confirmed that the material of this board was rosewood.

Rosewood is hard and dense, with red heartwood, and is the finest wood for construction, musical instruments and furniture. Naturally, it is also very valuable. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "one inch of red sandalwood is one inch of gold",

Rosewood is a good material, which has been known to people for a long time. The earliest record of "sandalwood" in ancient Zhuxia was first found in the "Book of Songs: Cutting Tan": "Kankan is cutting Tan, and the river is dry."

Zhuxia people love rosewood, since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, that is, the best furniture materials for the wheel and the court, and the world's top furniture materials.

The treasure house of the Shokain Temple in Nara, Japan, where the artifacts of the emperors of the past dynasties are preserved, includes several ebony artifacts given to the emperors during the Tang Dynasty of China.

According to historical records, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, China began to use ebony and red sandalwood to make furniture and handicrafts.

The Tang Dynasty was a period of maturity for Chinese furniture, and it was a major leap in the history of furniture development.

China's furniture art has a long history of development, and in its long development process, it has formed a unique charm of Chinese furniture characterized by "material beauty and ingenuity".

"If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools." The traditional furniture of Zhuxia is the product of the ingenuity of skilled craftsmen and beautiful materials.

Among the traditional furniture in Zhuxia, red sandalwood furniture can be said to be a very distinctive type of furniture.

Meng Haoran's "Liangzhou Ci" poem: "Mixed into red sandalwood and gold dust, the sound of pipa into the clouds." Hu Di traveled 30,000 miles, how could he send Ming Jun immediately. The joy of the other side is sad, and the Qiang flute does not need to be played. Sit and watch Guan Shanyue tonight, thinking about killing the border city rangers. ”

During the Ming Dynasty, rosewood was valued by the royal family, and from Zheng He's voyage to the West, the Ming Dynasty often collected rosewood from all over the world from the central to the local.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the vast majority of the world's rosewood had gathered in Zhuxia.

In order to obtain more rosewood, the Manchu Qing Dynasty also sent people to Nanyang many times to collect it.

But most of them are rough and unstraight, and they can't be used at all.

This is actually because the Ming Dynasty has exhausted the red sandalwood. Rosewood, on the other hand, grows very slowly, and unlike other trees, it takes five years to have a growth ring.

For rosewood to become a timber, it takes at least 800 years. So its texture is very dense, twice as dense as water. Put it in the water and it will sink directly into the water.

Its hardness is also the highest in the world, and it is known as the "Imperial Wood"!

In fact, not only Zhuxia, but also Omi and other countries also attach great importance to rosewood.

It's just that because they came into contact with rosewood late, they once thought that rosewood had no big materials and could only be made into small utensils.

Legend has it that in front of Napoleon's tomb there is a model of a wood-long rosewood coffin. All the visitors were amazed and envious.

It was not until modern times that a large number of Omi people came to Zhuxia to know that the essence of rosewood was all in Zhuxia.

From this time on, the Omi people began to collect and plunder rosewood in various parts of Zhuxia.

A large number of rosewood furniture and works of art were brought to the Omi countries in Zhuxia.

The last batch of rosewood preserved in Zhuxia had been used up by the time of Yuan Shikai.

Because rosewood is too difficult to grow, and it is also difficult to cultivate. So decades ago, countries around the world banned mining.

The new rosewood furniture sold in the world today is not really rosewood.

The real rosewood is actually the small-leaved red sandalwood.

Nowadays, in addition to antiques, there is naturally no new small-leaved red sandalwood, because it will take at least a few hundred years for the small-leaved red sandalwood to become a material.

But the merchants are smart. The small-leaved red sandalwood is gone, but there are still dozens of species of red sandalwood.

In order to satisfy people's pursuit of rosewood, merchants used other rosewood to pass off as rosewood.

Anyway, in the eyes of merchants, if they really know about rosewood, they will naturally buy antiques.

Buying new furniture naturally does not know the difference between rosewood and rosewood wood.

And real rosewood is so expensive that the average person can't afford it.

As for whether it is a deception, then the benevolent will see the wise and the wise will see the wise.

Lu Yuan took down a few other planks.

After looking at these planks, they are also rosewood, and they are the rarest and most precious ebony in rosewood.

This is wood that takes at least 1,000 years to grow.

And judging from the size of the planks, I am afraid that such a large material can only be obtained from small-leaved rosewood trees that are more than 2,000 years old.

Lu Yuan believes that if he sends these wooden boards to auction, it will definitely cause a sensation in the furniture and luxury goods industry.

Lu Yuan happily put away the rosewood planks carefully, and then looked at the room behind.

The place is simple, but the area is not small.

After Lu Yuan looked at it, he found a batch of damaged tools here.

There are also some everyday items that have long been damaged. Cutlery and rest items are included.

Lu Yuan judged that this should be the place where miners rested and transited.

After carefully searching the surroundings three times, Lu Yuan did not find anything valuable.

But he was not disappointed, after all, no one would put important things in the place where the workers rested.

Being able to harvest a few pieces of rosewood here was already beyond Lu Yuan's expectations.

With a happy mood, Lu Yuan continued to walk forward.

Along the way, Lu Yuan has not gained anything valuable.

After another two hours, Lu Yuan felt that he had gone at least 1,000 meters underground.

At this time, Lu Yuan suddenly found that the tunnel in front of him began to look different.

Walking quickly, the tunnel where Lu Yuan was now located became taller and bigger.

And it seems that there has been a special trimming.

Not only that, but Lu Yuan also felt a faint energy coming from the front.

A smile appeared on Lu Yuan's face again. "It seems that I have finally arrived in the core area of this mine, what awaits me in front of me?"