I Have a Little Black Hole

As the first piece of wood was fixed to the cable by the salvage robot, the hoisting work officially began. It took nearly 2 minutes, and the wood, which had been sunk on the seabed for more than 200 years, was dropped to the deck of the salvage ship.

The appraisers on the ship immediately went up to make an appraisal to see what kind of tree it is. Only after confirming what kind of tree can they confirm their value, although the value of wood that has been submerged in the sea for more than 200 years and does not rot will not be low, but the value is high. The treatment of the low-value and the low-value is different. If the value is not too high, their rich boss might give up the salvage.

Lei Tiantang and Powell were all around, watching the company's professional appraisers use various tools to appraise the wood.

We have made a fortune!!! This is red sandalwood! It's still the most precious lobular rosewood! Oh my god! You must know that the diameter of this wood alone is 46 cm, and you must know that the diameter of ordinary lobular red sandalwood is 20 cm to 0 at most. Centimeters are like this! It is still a straight piece of material as long as one meter, and the minimum value of such a lobular red sandalwood raw material is more than 1.5 million US dollars! The company's appraisal experts are so excited that their beards are floating!

When the people around heard the good news, they all applauded and cheered. They couldn't help but be unhappy. You must know that although this sunken ship is a cargo sailboat that is not particularly large, it still has a cargo warehouse! These warehouses can now be seen to be full!

A rough estimate, at least 00 lobular rosewood should still be there! How can so many lobular red sandalwood make everyone not excited! Even Lei Tiantang was very happy. If the sunken ship was salvaged from gold and gems, he would definitely not be interested, but Xiaoye Red Sandalwood was different!

Sandalwood means giving in Sanskrit. It is also called holy sandalwood because of its hard wood, eternal fragrance, colorful and changeable colors, and invincible to all poisons. It is immortal and can avoid evil.

Small leaf red sandalwood, scientific name sandalwood red sandalwood. Only lobular red sandalwood is the real red sandalwood, and other so-called sandalwood are not red sandalwood.

The lobular red sandalwood is a fine product among the red sandalwoods. It is characterized by its large density and small brown eyes, and its wood property is very stable, and it is not easy to deform and crack.

The lobular red sandalwood is mostly produced in tropical and subtropical virgin forests.

Moreover, the texture of lobular rosewood is hard, and the color varies from reddish brown to purple black after playing, and the texture is fine, so it is deeply loved by everyone.

There are many types of red sandalwood. The growth rate of red sandalwood is slow. It takes only 5 years for one year to become a material. It takes more than 800 years to become a wood. The hardness is the first of the wood. It is called the God-given tree full of positive energy in the Mishna code.

The reason why Lei Tiantang was interested in lobular red sandalwood was also influenced by Chinese culture for a long time. He knew the preciousness of lobular red sandalwood before, but when he wanted to play, he didn't have that much money.

He didn't want to play with bracelets or something, and he couldn't afford to play with big furniture, so he put it down. In the past two years, he has been rich, but he is busy doing things all day and can't remember this interest, but the basic He still knows the information.

The understanding and use of red sandalwood in ancient China began at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was recorded in Cui Bao's Annotation of Ancient and Modern in Jin Dynasty, which was called red sandalwood, from Funan, purple in color, also known as red sandalwood.

Among the identified mahogany species, red sandalwood is the first of mahogany.

The red sandalwood is solid and heavy, the wood is delicate, the density is high, the brown eye is small, the stability is excellent, the texture is beautiful, the toughness is good, and it is resistant to carving. It is prolific in tropical and subtropical virgin forests. Sandalwood is classified in the grass rosewood category. The color of red sandalwood is deep purple. It has always been the special wood for the furniture of the royal family and aristocrats. It is expensive and ranks first among all woods.

The furniture used by the French Royal Louis XVIII in the 18th century was also made of high-quality rosewood. At present, the largest red sandalwood on the market can reach a diameter of about 50 centimeters, and the normal diameter is generally about ten centimeters.

The growth of red sandalwood is extremely slow, and a mature red sandalwood tree needs to grow for more than 800 years. Due to the extremely low rate of production and the scarcity of resources, there is a saying that an inch of sandalwood is an inch of gold.

In the Ming Dynasty, red sandalwood was valued by the royal family. The development of maritime traffic and Zheng He's voyages to the Western Oceans communicated trade and cultural exchanges with countries in the Southeast Asia.

Countries often have a certain amount of precious wood, including red sandalwood, in their regular and irregular trade exchanges with China.

But this was far from meeting the needs of China's huge ruling group, so the Ming government sent officials to Nanyang to purchase.

Subsequently, private business trafficking also came into being. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, high-quality wood, especially red sandalwood, from all over Nanyang had been bundled away.

By the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the vast majority of red sandalwood produced in the world at that time were gathered in China.

The red sandalwood used in the Qing Dynasty was all picked in the Ming Dynasty. According to historical records, the Qing Dynasty also sent people to Nanyang to pick red sandalwood, but most of them were too thick and not straight, and they could not be used at all.

This is because red sandalwood grows slowly and cannot be used for hundreds of years. It was completely harvested in the Ming Dynasty, and has not been revived in the Qing Dynasty. The source is exhausted. This is also an important reason why red sandalwood is cherished by the world.

Compared with Westerners such as Europe and the United States, Huaxia attaches more importance to red sandalwood, because Westerners have never seen red sandalwood aniseed and think that it can only be used as a small utensil.

It is said that there is a five-inch long red sandalwood coffin model in front of Napoleon's tomb.

It was not until the late Ming and early Qing dynasties that Western missionaries came to Huaxia and saw many great red sandalwoods. They knew that all the red sandalwood elites were in Huaxia, so they bought and shipped them back to China. The red sandalwood utensils circulating in Europe and the United States are basically shipped from China.

Due to the difficulty of transportation, they generally do not buy the whole utensil, but only those with patterns such as cabinet doors and box surfaces. After returning, install wooden frame for display.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, due to the shortage of red sandalwood, the royal family also purchased red sandalwood at high prices from private merchants from time to time.

During this period, an unwritten rule gradually formed, that is, no matter what level of officials, as long as they saw red sandalwood, they would never let it go, buy them all, and hand them over to the royal family or local weaving institutions.

After the mid-Qing Dynasty, all the wood hoarded by private merchants in various places was also bought and used up. A large number of these wood materials were used to decorate the Yuanmingyuan and the palace of the Taishanghuang in the palace. After the wedding of Tongzhi, Guangxu, and Cixi's 60th birthday, there are very few left; By the time of Yuan Shikai, all the remaining red sandalwood was used up.

After the reform and opening up, everyone's income has increased and their lives have improved. The liking of classical traditional furniture has gradually become a fashion, and red sandalwood furniture has become the darling of the wealthy class to use and collect.

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