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The sapphires selected by Chen Wenzhe must be the most common and the smallest ones, and those slightly larger ones must have been collected.

Even so, for Chen Wenzhe's harvest, people's eyes are still red with envy.

"That's [-] million? A sapphire worth [-] million!"

"I'm afraid the market price exceeds [-] million!"

"The quantity is too large, so it shouldn't be able to sell at a higher price?"

"Hehe, it depends on what level of gemstone it is!"

The five people at the scene looked unclear, and their mentality may have collapsed.

"The quality of this batch of sapphires is not bad. I don't know how the Empress Dowager Cixi collected them!"

Chen Wenzhe was also a little bit emotional. Even Sri Lanka, the current big sapphire-producing country, can't produce so many high-quality sapphires at once, right?

He knew that the Qing government imported a lot of luxury goods back then, but he was still surprised that so many top-quality sapphires appeared all at once. Come to think of it, this is the power of the country!

"Where is this? I heard that the Qing government imported tourmalines from the United States in tons."

"Gems weren't so precious back then. Otherwise, why would there be so many top-quality sapphires at one time?"

"It was definitely not expensive back then, not to mention anything else, just Qilu. When sapphires were first discovered, someone bought [-] tons of sapphires from the local area at one time and chartered a plane to transport them away. It caused a sensation at the time. Everyone said that was a fool, why did you buy so many stones back home? Look how high the price of sapphire is now?"

"Compared to the Wanqing government, the power of individuals is still very small. I checked the information and found that at Wanqing, almost all the tourmalines produced by the tourmaline mines in the United States were exported to China."

Chen Wenzhe listened silently. Through the conversation of these people, he was really moved.

Tourmaline might be a good choice, after all, the sapphire here can no longer move his heart.

Compared with sapphire, tourmaline is rich in color and transparent, which is very attractive.

Moreover, the homonym of tourmaline is "to ward off evil spirits", so it is also regarded as a gem that exorcises evil spirits and brings good luck.

In the Qing Dynasty, because Empress Dowager Cixi liked it, a large number of tourmalines were imported. The quality of tourmalines in that period was much higher than the current ones.

Fortunately, he had checked the information before entering the water, otherwise, he really didn't know that the price of tourmaline is sometimes more expensive than top sapphire.

Moreover, Chen Wenzhe also knew that the Qing Dynasty imported tourmaline for a long time, and naturally accumulated a large number of high-quality tourmaline.

In fact, in the Qing Dynasty, it was not from Cixi that he began to like tourmaline.

In the early period of the Qing Dynasty, tourmaline had become a symbol of power, and it was one of the materials used for the first-rank and second-rank officials, as well as the top-wearing flower feathers of princes and nobles.

The court beads they wear are also made of tourmaline!

Especially during the period of Empress Dowager Cixi's monopoly, tourmaline received unprecedented attention in China.

Empress Dowager Cixi, who dominates the government, is not only fond of emeralds and diamonds, but also loves the colorful and ever-changing tourmalines. She is a full-fledged tourmaline fan.

In fact, Empress Dowager Cixi, who is a tourmaline fan, may have been thinking about putting tourmaline jewelry in her future tomb when she was alive.

The records in the Qing palace archives describe Empress Dowager Cixi in this way.

The "acupoint" of Empress Dowager Cixi when she built her mausoleum was in the golden well under Cixi's coffin, which also contained a large number of treasures.

From the fifth year of Guangxu to the 34th year of Guangxu, officials of the mausoleum once obeyed Yi's order and put a lot of treasures into the golden well six times.

Only tourmaline treasures include a rubellite inlaid emerald besie, a rubellite longevity pendant, a yellow tourmaline grape pendant, a rubellite gourd bat pendant, a rubellite double happiness pendant and rubellite One piece of Buddha head pagoda.

Now these things have all been found out by Chen Wenzhe.

These carved pieces with names and surnames, recorded in the archives of the Qing palace, are all real treasures, and the price of each piece is very high.

Therefore, if calculated carefully, the value of the batch of treasures that Chen Wenzhe found must be far more than tens of billions.

It is clear that, dead or alive, the Empress Dowager Cixi still has a soft spot for tourmalines.

What the two appraisers said just now is quite correct. Most of the tourmalines in the Qing Dynasty were imported from the United States.

According to historical records, from 1900 to 1908, the Empress Dowager Cixi bought several tons of different types of tourmalines from San Diego in the United States almost every year for the construction of temples, especially pink tourmalines.

In order to buy a large amount of tourmaline, the Empress Dowager Cixi can be said to be laboring and hurting the people, and gradually increases the tax on the peasants every year.

Therefore, it can be said that almost all of the huge amount of tourmaline imported by the Empress Dowager Cixi came from California, USA.

The Ibalaya Mine, located in the Great Mesa Plains of California, USA, is a high-quality tourmaline mine that became famous around the world at the end of the 19th century.

From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, most of the tourmalines mined at the Ibalaya Mine were exported to China, where they were used as jewelry and carvings by the Qing court.

The output of this mine is very large, and the quality is very good. It is said that one of the veins can mine more than 6 tons of tourmaline crystals.

However, the good times did not last long, and the precarious Manchu Qing Dynasty was overthrown in the 1911 Revolution of [-].

The extravagant life of the dynasty also came to an end here. As a result, tourmaline products from the Ibalaya mine were unsalable, and the Chinese market failed, forcing the mine to close.

Only recently has the Ibalaya mine been redeveloped.

Although the output of the reopened mines is not bad, the quality of tourmaline crystals is not as good as before, so the economic benefits are also greatly reduced.

From this, we can also see how many high-quality tourmalines the Qing government imported.

Even if it is calculated on the basis of six tons per year, there is no need to count decades, even if it is ten years, the Empress Dowager Cixi found [-] tons of high-quality tourmaline.

Even if half of the consumption is used to make carvings and jewelry, there are still [-] tons of finished products, right?

So many tourmalines were selected, and the best part was put into the golden well and coffin of the mausoleum. What a huge fortune this is?

Even now, what Sun Dianying can preserve must be the best among them.

Otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible for Chen Wenzhe to find two hundred priceless top-quality sapphires in a batch of selected jewelry boxes.

This is also the case when facing tourmaline now. Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible to choose a defective product.

Chen Wenzhe did not continue to mention ruby, but chose tourmaline. Several staff members at the scene were very happy.

Compared with rubies, tourmalines are more numerous and less valuable, and they are more willing to see Chen Wenzhe make a wrong choice.

Qiu Fu is unconscious sometimes, and they unconsciously want to make Chen Wenzhe lose as much as possible.

Unfortunately, Chen Wenzhe will not let their delusion succeed.

Even if he chooses tourmaline, he will still choose the top gemstone chameleon!