Treasure Hunt America

Tourmaline is known as tourmaline in Western scientific circles.

Because this thing, after being worn by the human body and rubbed, will generate static electricity and absorb some fine dust, so it is also called limestone.

But the name tourmaline comes from the ancient Ceylon language, and the translation means 'mixed gemstone'.

This thing really became popular as a gem, or in the Qing Dynasty.

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

At that time, many Qing Dynasty first- and second-rank ministers wore flower plumes on their tops, and the twist buttons on them were made of tourmaline, and some people used tourmaline to make Chaozhu.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, after the Empress Dowager Cixi came to power, because of her love for jade, this colorful and ever-changing tourmaline gemstone became the favorite of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

She began to frantically search for the top tourmaline in the country to make her favorite ornaments, 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 Ibalaya Tourmaline Mine in the Dameisha Plain of California. From 1902 until 1911, when the Qing Dynasty came to an end, the Qing Dynasty imported more than 120 tourmaline mines from the Ibalaya Tourmaline Mine. Ten tons of raw tourmaline ore shows Ci〖〖〖〖, x.xi', and her successors' crazy obsession with this gemstone.

When this truth was made public, Chinese historians added another nickname to Cixi, that is, an out-and-out "tourmaline fan"!

The Ibalaya tourmaline mine at that time was also prosperous for a while because of Empress Dowager Cixi's mad love for this gemstone, so that when the Qing Dynasty came to an end. This tourmaline mine had to close the mine because it had no main export targets. It was not until recent years that the price of tourmaline began to rise again according to the taste of Chinese enthusiasts, and then the mine started to open again.

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

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

So historians have always been curious, what did these two treasures, who were regarded as lifeblood by the Empress Dowager Cixi, really look like? In the end is not a real jade material.

If it is really emerald material, it can be said to be a major discovery in the history of gemstones. After all, throughout the entire history of the development of emerald gemstones, it is true that such two top-level emerald gemstones with distinct colors have never been found, and they are still so big.

If it is really an emerald 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 Dongling robber Sun Dianying brought his troops. Visited Cixi's tomb.

They blew open the door of Dongling and stole countless treasures from it. Among them are these two emerald watermelons, and since then, these two emerald watermelons have completely disappeared from the history of China without a trace.

Later, in 1946, Liu Yusheng, an investigator of the Dongling robbery sent by the government of the Republic of China, once described the robbery of a company commander who personally participated in the robbery of the mausoleum: From the jewels hidden in the coffin, the four watermelons placed in the four corners of the coffin were first taken out. The melons were all green jade skins and purple jade flesh, cut in the middle, the melon seeds were black, and the rays of light were released from the cut places.”

And then this is the record of these two jade watermelons. There are only so few.

It can be said that Sun Dianying robbed the Dongling tomb. It can be said that he took the world into a big trouble. You must know that although many people were jealous of the treasures in Cixi's tomb at that time, not many people dared to rob the tomb.

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

It was only after the incident that he felt that something was wrong. At that time, various news media across the country could say that they were criticizing him, shouting and killing him.

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

At that time, Sun Dianying was already scared to pee. In order to save his dog's life, he began to bribe some senior officials within kmt, such as the bald man's brother-in-law, then the president of kmt executive council, Song Ziwen.

He once told others personally that he gave Song Ziwen one of the two emerald watermelons he stole from Cixi's tomb.

The person who entrusted it was also very famous in later history. It was the first brother of kmt's military reunification, Dai Yunong...

Later, the emerald watermelon was brought to the United States by the descendants of Song Ziwen. In the 1990s, it appeared in an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum, but because it caused a sensation, it was quickly dismissed by the museum. After the booth was removed, it completely disappeared from the public eye.

As for the other emerald watermelon, it was always out of a situation where no one was seen in life, and no corpse was seen in death.

Some people say that the half of the jade watermelon has been destroyed by the war, and some people say that it was taken overseas by a senior official of kmt.

It is also said that after the fall of Jiangnan, this jade watermelon finally fell into the hands of the Japanese, and was finally transported back to the country by the Japanese.

In short, there are different opinions, but the most credible one should fall into the hands of the Japanese.

Because later on the Japanese treasure ship, there have been many legendary anti-Japanese stories. For example, there was a group of people with lofty ideals. In order to prevent those national treasures from being transported back to the country by the Japanese, they finally sneaked on board the ship desperately. When the ship left Puhai Pier, it blew up and sank in the vast sea.

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

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

But looking at this emerald watermelon now, he has basically concluded in his heart that this emerald watermelon should finally fall into the hands of the Japanese, and then be 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 emerald watermelon in his hand, and then opened several other packages. When he saw the contents of the packages, his breath stopped.

Sure enough, the legendary emerald melon is also here.

There are a total of four pieces, two of which are white skin, yellow seed, and pink skin, and the other two are green skin, white seed, and yellow skin, which are exactly the same as those described in the history books.

This time, the set of treasures that the Empress Dowager Cixi loved most, can be regarded as alive.

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

These treasures, according to the estimates of archaeologists, are absolutely priceless and cannot be measured by money.

But in the eyes of this businessman, although these gems are very precious, they are not impossible to measure with money.

In 1928, the valuation of the two jadeite watermelons was 2.2 million taels of silver, and the valuation of the four melons was about 600,000 taels of silver. Thirteen years later, the valuation has risen. ten times.

And if the silver valuation in 1943 is converted into the current US dollar of 15:00, it is probably worth more than 30 million US dollars, and the value of the few melons is also more than 10 million US dollars.

This is only considered from the perspective of currency. If we consider the cultural relic value of this emerald watermelon, then the price will definitely be higher. It is estimated that it is appropriate to exceed 50 million US dollars.

These babies are a golden mountain in front of you!

Jin Muchen looked at these gems at this time, and couldn't help being in a daze. He originally wanted to find the treasures left by the pirates back then, but how could he have found a bunch of Chinese royal treasures now?

"How is it? Mr. Jin, what are these gems, have you identified?"

"Well, if I guessed correctly, these gems should be the emerald watermelon and emerald melon that the last empress dowager of the Qing Dynasty loved most."

That pirate is a bit of a culture, and he knows a little about China's history. Although he doesn't know how much this treasure is worth, once I heard that these gems were actually the favorites of the last queen of China's dynasty in the past, it was also at this time. Eyes wide open.

"You mean, this is a royal property in China's past."

"Well, it should be~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Mr. Bilaso, I'm a little curious, how did you find these treasures?"

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

"Hahaha, these treasures are very coincidental. I found them in this cave. A few years ago, we were hunted by the Indonesian navy. When we finally escaped, we accidentally discovered this small cave. So I hid in. At that time, the tide was high and the cave was submerged. The Indonesian navy wandered outside for most of the night and couldn't find us. Later, we took this place as our base, but when we cleaned it up later , we found out that it turned out to be a material transfer base built by the Japanese during World War II. And these treasures were left by the Japanese back then..."

This Bilaso didn't hide it. Hearing what he said, Jin Muchen was sure in his heart, it seemed that he had guessed correctly before.

But then there was a question in his mind, so why didn't the Japanese transport these treasures back to the mainland, but hid them in this cave? (To be continued...)

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