Zhang Weiguo was holding something in his hand, a needle box.
This needle box is made of small-leaf red sandalwood, with ghost-eye texture and thick patina. It is obvious that it is often used.
Judging from the degree of patina, it has a history of one or two hundred years.
Rosewood is one of the best woods to date, with a hard texture and heavy density.
It is one of the three most precious famous trees.
An Indian rosewood. This kind of wood is extremely slow to produce, and basically only trees that are over two hundred years old can be made into lumber.
Moreover, this kind of wood is particularly prone to hollowing. Even if you cut a tree that has grown for two hundred years, you will find that the middle is hollow.
There is a saying that nine out of ten red sandalwood trees are hollow.
What this means is that red sandalwood is rare.
Small red sandalwood seedlings are very cheap and everyone can buy them.
I can't stand the passage of time.
You can plant it and it will produce for a hundred years, but it will never become wood.
How many people can live for a hundred years?
By the time you grow into a tree, your bones will have turned to ashes.
This is, the previous generation plants trees, and the next generation enjoys the shade.
This is the kind of tree we are talking about.
The benefits of the trees planted with great effort by our ancestors will only be reaped by future generations.
Moreover, these woods cannot be used immediately. They have to be naturally dried for a hundred years before they can be used as wood.
This is why this wood is so valuable, because it is so rare.
Another type of wood is huanghuali, which is divided into Hainan huanghuali and Vietnamese huanghuali.
The material of the sea yellow here is denser and is generally used to make small items.
You look like a bracelet, made of pistachio.
You are like a large piece of furniture, and the yellow one you use is the more yellow it comes.
Hainan yellow is rare and more valuable than Vietnamese yellow.
The last type is golden nanmu, which is even more precious. Apart from anything else, the fact that it is used exclusively by the royal family is enough to explain the situation.
This kind of wood can only be used by the royal family and cannot be used by the public. Anyone using it privately will be beheaded.
One of the charges Jiaqing brought against Heshen was using golden nanmu wood.
One sentence: Heshen fell and Jiaqing was full.
At that time, the amount of silver found in Heshen's home was ten times that of the national treasury.
Heshen had a warehouse of one thousand square meters specifically for storing these things.
Heshen's private collection contained countless treasures.
After Kangxi and Yongzheng established the empire, Qianlong only knew how to enjoy himself and used the best of everything.
Especially porcelain, which is exquisitely made and the painting is extremely complicated.
One can tell it’s from the Qianlong period by just looking at its exquisiteness.
It was also during this period that porcelain achieved tremendous development.
By the Jiaqing period, Qianlong had spent most of his money, leaving Jiaqing with a mess.
The Qing Dynasty began to decline.
If it weren't for Heshen's subsidies, Jiaqing wouldn't have known how to be the emperor.
All of Heshen's private collection throughout his life was used to help Jiaqing.
It's really hard work and adults.
Heshen also said that the thing he regretted most in his life was that he did not follow his master when he left.
Gave Jiaqing an excuse.
If I had gone with my master, none of these things would have happened.
Heshen's property converted into silver was equivalent to 800 million taels of silver.
Heshen entered the court as a guard at the age of 23, and when he was 50 years old and was sentenced to death by Emperor Jiaqing, it was only 27 years before he amassed 800 million taels of silver, with an average annual income of 29.62 million taels of silver.
Heshen was completely in a state of enriching the country but making it an enemy. You should know that the annual fiscal revenue of the entire Qing Dynasty at that time was only more than 40 million taels of silver. Heshen's property alone was equivalent to 20 years of fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty. Heshen's average annual income was equivalent to 73% of the Qing Dynasty's fiscal revenue. This income was not inferior to that of the Qing emperor.
Take the British Empire, the most powerful empire in the world at that time. In 1840, Britain's fiscal revenue was about 90 million pounds. Based on the fact that one pound was equal to three taels of silver at that time, Britain's annual fiscal revenue was 270 million taels of silver. Heshen's property was almost equal to the total fiscal revenue of Britain in three years. This was truly a wealth that could rival a country.
In a one-foot-long red sandalwood box, there are three groups of seventy-two acupuncture needles of various sizes.
The filiform needles are silvery white and are a medical style from the mid-Qing Dynasty.
The material is rare black gold, which is extremely willful and perfectly preserved.
If someone had such a black gold needle two hundred years ago, then the owner must not be an ordinary doctor.
Although Zhang Weiguo did not know medicine, he knew that this was a very good unique piece.
If this is in the hands of a Chinese medicine practitioner, it would be a treasure.
Something that is considered a family heirloom.
I don't know how it ended up in Scar's hands.
Maybe some unfilial descendant secretly sold it.
Medical skills have not been passed down, or what has been passed down, no one can learn it.
There was no more famous doctor.
This thing doesn't seem that important anymore.
It is common to sell things in order to survive.
The only regret is that there is only this set of acupuncture needles and no related traditional Chinese medicine heritage.
Zhang Weiguo decided that if he had the chance in the future, he would collect more books on traditional Chinese medicine.
Such an important matter cannot be interrupted.
Decades later, although traditional Chinese medicine still exists, there are few reliable ones.
Most of them are scammers, and few of them are really capable.
The reputation of traditional Chinese medicine plummeted to the bottom.
The inheritance of thousands of years is facing extinction, but it is also related to the interruption of inheritance.
If these traditional Chinese medicine knowledge can be preserved, it will be a huge treasure.
What will Chinese medicine be like in a few decades?
They open a store and do moxibustion, and then say they are an authentic Chinese medicine practitioner with a history of hundreds of years.
Inherit your sister.
They are all trying to cheat old men and women.
The little pension of the old men and women is being targeted.
Just poke it up like a toilet and sit on it for half an hour, and they say it can cure the disease.
You'll get the same result if you soak your feet in a footbath.
The old man and the old woman were stunned.
It's just for psychological comfort and has no effect at all.
The old men and women thought it was effective, so they paid money like crazy.
Before leaving, I gave him a basin and a pound of eggs.
The old man and the old woman became even more enthusiastic.
I spent all my retirement savings and got a bunch of eggs.
And they were very happy, thinking they had made a great deal.
Old men and women are always easy to deceive.
The old men and women who deposited their money were cheated and given eggs and rice as gifts.
All retirement savings are deposited into it.
The people who sell health products cheat old men and old ladies.
Now everyone is targeting old men and old women.
The pension funds are not enough to be shared by so many people.
Nowadays, when people talk about traditional Chinese medicine, they all think it’s a lie.
The reputation of traditional Chinese medicine has been completely destroyed.
Many times, I want to find a reliable Chinese medicine doctor. After all, Chinese medicine has thousands of years of excellent knowledge and there are solutions to many diseases.
Nowadays, all the doctors you meet are scammers, so you can only go to see a Western doctor.
Western medicine can cause great harm to the body, while traditional Chinese medicine causes much less harm.
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