Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 433 New Goals

After hearing the owner of the store selling all kinds of cultural relics from outside Spain say the word Huaxia antiques, Liang En and Joan of Arc quickly walked into the store.

The things in this shop are very messy, except for an open space at the entrance for customers to stay, almost all of them are filled with various counters and items.

So after entering the shop, Liang En and the others simply stood at the door to avoid accidentally bumping into anything. After all, Porcelain Porcelain is a common problem in tourist attractions all over the world.

Fortunately, this boss was not the kind of guy who wanted to cheat money or engage in fraud. After seeing Liang En and the others standing there, he quickly took out something from the drawer under the counter and walked over.

This thing is a green stone ring that can be placed in the palm, and some abstract patterns are carved on it, which looks like a Chinese jade from a distance.

When the boss put this thing on a table near the door, Liang En stepped forward to observe it, and found that the style of this thing was not the same as Chinese jade, but rather a product of Mayan culture.Moreover, it can be clearly seen that the entire jade ring was broken into seven or eight pieces and then put together again.

I don't know if it was an accident or it looked like this when it was dug out. The missing part of the entire jade ring is between 1/4 and 1/5. At the same time, the red paint filled in those scratches is obviously repainted by modern people.

"How much does this thing cost?" Liang En asked after roughly checking a copy of this thing. To be honest, he was indeed interested in this thing.

There are not many peoples with jade culture in this world, the most famous of which should be the Huaxia people, and apart from them, only the Maori in New Zealand and the ancient Maya have a similar culture.

So after seeing the jade jewelry belonging to the Mayans here, Liang En soon had the idea of ​​buying one to keep at home as a specimen.

For professional archaeologists or historians, learning from physical samples is a very common and very effective learning method.

And these samples don't have to be high-quality goods, as long as they have certain characteristics. For example, scholars who study porcelain in Huaxia don't necessarily need the whole vessel. In many cases, they only need to collect one or two pieces of porcelain.

Even in many cases, those fragments are more valuable than the whole, because scholars can infer a lot of valuable information by observing the sections.

For example, this jade ring is like this. If Liang En buys it, he will definitely clean up the inferior glue and dyes that were stuck on it, and then store these pieces separately.

"How about 700 euros?" The boss looked at the yellowed glue protruding from the gap on the jade ring, thought for a while, and then said in an obviously negotiating tone.

This was mainly because Liang En's Spanish was too fluent, and Joan of Arc, who had a European face on her side, was not an imaginary translator, and Liang En was not a tourist from China as he imagined.

So when they were not sure, the other party could only put away the content they had prepared to fool, and then offered a less exaggerated price to see how Liang En's reaction would be.

"Even if this thing is really a jade from China as you said, the price will not be high if the whole thing is damaged like this and repaired by a layman, let alone this is obviously a Mayan-style jade in Central America.

"Liang En pointed to Yuhuan directly and said, because he knew that the people who can operate in this kind of place are basically all good people, so he was too lazy to grind his teeth with the other party, and directly expressed his appeal .

"I'm a historical research scholar, and I want to buy this seriously damaged thing just to use it as a specimen, so don't buy this kind of common Mayan jade so expensive."

"This is indeed Mayan jade, but it is not common." The shopkeeper said seriously, "Now we can only find this type of semi-precious stone in tombs and some handed down items, so even if it is damaged like this would be too cheap."

"—Didn't you find the mine?" Hearing what the boss said, Liang En immediately thought about it, but found that because he didn't pay attention to this aspect of things in this world, he didn't have any memory of this aspect in his mind at all.

Thinking of this, he restored his original expression and bargained with the boss, and finally won the remnant at a price of 500 euros, and then left the antique shop with Joan of Arc.

Sure enough, when he went out of the antique shop and searched online, Liang En found that there were no Guatemalan jadeite mines in this world, only a lot of jadeite items from the Mayan culture.

"I remember that jadeite should only be produced in Myanmar. Is it also in Central America?" After Liang En kept muttering the words Maya and jade, Joan stepped forward and asked.

Although Joan's knowledge of gemstones was limited to the common semi-precious stones such as red sapphires and crystals that she had seen before, but since Liang En started working as a jewelry designer part-time, she has read a lot of information about this, so she naturally knows about jadeite.

"Emerald is not only found in Myanmar." Liang En smiled and said, "Japan, Russia, Mexico, and the United States also have this kind of thing that Westerners consider semi-precious stones."

"It's just that jadeite is different from other gemstones. Traditionally, only Chinese people still preserve this aspect of culture, so many things are naturally determined by Chinese people."

"Just like China's bird's nest and now banned shark's fin, or European truffles and caviar, the core value of many things comes from the ancient local culture. Unfortunately, the culture of the Mayans has been cut off, and their Emeralds naturally cannot be sold at a high price."

Liang En said and raised the jade ring in his hand. There is no doubt that this should be jadeite, or a type of jadeite. Unfortunately, it is not very recognized by the Huaxia people, who are the main consumers of jadeite.

Just now, when he heard the boss say that the jade mine of the Mayans had never been found, Liang En immediately remembered the first case of Huaxia's stone gambling worth 8000 million that he saw in his previous life.

In this case, the piece of jadeite that caused controversy was only 18kg in weight, but it was worth 8000 million yuan, and even if it was later identified as Guatemalan material, it would be worth more than 430 million yuan.

After reading the news, Liang En remembered that Guatemala produced jade, and the price of less than 20 kilograms worth more than 400 million yuan was definitely not cheap.

More importantly, the reason why Guatemalan materials were cheap in the last world was purely because of the disorderly mining in the early days, which caused the thing to pass off as Burmese jade in China and bad reputation.

So if the emerald veins in Guatemala in this world have not been discovered until now, Liang En feels that with his own ability, he is absolutely sure to make Guatemala in this world several times larger than the previous world.

In any case, Burmese jade is only a few hundred years old, while Guatemala's jade was first mined by the Mayan culture. If it has a history of at least 1000 years, the cultural background is obviously not weak.

For Liang En, this discovery made him realize the beginning of a new adventure.So naturally he has to start preparing now.

(End of this chapter)