small farmer

Chapter 462
The sky is high for birds to fly, and the sea is wide for fish to leap.

For the vast sea, everyone is full of longing and expectation.

"Wow! What a tall and steep cliff!"

When the boat went upstream and approached the canyon, everyone looked up at the towering cliffs. At this moment, they felt how small they were, like ants on the ground, looking up at the giant in front of them.

"Hehe, of course, the Panlong River Grand Canyon has the largest height difference of 800 meters." Uncle Wang wanted to introduce it to everyone while driving the boat.

"It's really that high?" Zhang Yue exclaimed, and asked in disbelief.

"That's for sure, you know the Panlong River Bridge in front?" Seeing everyone nodding, Uncle Wang smiled and continued to explain:
"The Panlong River Bridge is more than 600 meters high, and it's not the highest place in the canyon. The highest place is not far ahead, and everyone will be able to see it soon."

Seven to eight hundred meters, that's almost equivalent to a skyscraper with two or three hundred floors. How tall is that, it's probably going deep into the clouds, right?
Thinking of this, Zhang Feng was also full of anticipation, and really wanted to see the scenery at the highest point of the canyon.

"We're about to enter the canyon, everyone put on your coats quickly."

Although they didn't understand what Uncle Wang meant, Zhang Feng and the others still put on their coats. After walking for a while, everyone felt a little hot, so they took off their coats and held them in their hands.

"Wow! How did it get so cold all of a sudden?" As soon as I entered the canyon, I felt like I entered a different world. The outside of the canyon was like a warm spring, while the inside of the canyon was like a cool autumn.

The rolling hills on both sides of the strait are towering into the clouds, covering the sky and the sun, completely covering the bottom of the canyon. Without sunlight, the temperature inside the canyon is obviously much lower than outside, so everyone feels much cooler.

The light at the bottom of the canyon was dim, like a cloudy sky, and the sun could not be seen at all.

On the tall and straight cliffs, there are various tenacious plants growing, including common thatch, bark, and a large number of mosses and ferns.

Suddenly a stunning green color appeared on the cliff hundreds of meters high, and there was a small tree growing on such a smooth cliff. Zhang Feng was shocked, rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and took a closer look. , is really a small tree.

"Brother, can you see if there is a tree growing on it??" The sharp-eyed sister also saw the plants above the canyon, and exclaimed in surprise.

"Hehe, that's a cypress tree. It is said that it has grown for hundreds of years. Although I don't know if it's true or not, it's not too far away, because I heard from the old people in our village that it was discovered before liberation." Uncle Wang smiled. Introduce to everyone.

He insisted that Qingshan would not relax, and Ligen was in the broken rock.

Chima Manto, Nishi-North-South-North.

The perseverance of Thuja cypress really shocked and admired everyone.

Rooted on such a barren cliff, without any soil, despite the wind and rain, Thuja has persisted for hundreds of years, still standing on the cliff, exuding vitality, standing proudly, and growing tenaciously.

"It's really great!" Zhang Yue couldn't help sighing.

"Hehe, I don't know if it's great or not, but it's very valuable, but it's true. Not long ago, someone spent 1 yuan and asked everyone to help get it down..."

"What happened afterwards, did anyone go up?" Before Uncle Wang finished speaking, Zhang Yi couldn't help asking.

"Hehe, money can turn ghosts around, 1 yuan is a lot, but the cliff here is so steep, is it so easy to take down the cypress trees on it, and five or six groups of people came after it but failed. The last time I almost fell to my death, so since then no one dared to hit its attention!" Uncle Wang explained with a smile.

Hearing Uncle Wang's words, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It would be a pity if such a tenacious tree was dug away. This is the most beautiful scenery in the canyon.

"Brother, is the thuja very valuable? Why would someone take the risk to dig it??" Zhang Yue asked Zhang Feng curiously.

"Hehe, Thuja is a national treasure and protected plant. The root carvings made of it are very popular among collectors..."

"So that's how it is..." Zhang Yue nodded silently, and the others finally had a better understanding of Yabai.

Many people may not know that Thuja is an endangered national treasure plant.

However, with the operation of unscrupulous businessmen, the root carvings made of thuja are of high value.

The rise of thuja collection investment is in recent years.In less than five years, thuja has changed from a niche root carving material to a very popular cultural toy category, often costing hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. The root art world of Fire was dumbfounded.

In 2011, a thuja root carving with a price tag of 3.8 million yuan was exhibited in Yanjing, which immediately caused a sensation in the entire collection circle. Such an astonishing price stunned the collectors. Immediately, the collection of thuja cypress became extremely popular, and the entire collection became popular. boundary.

Therefore, in the past three or four years, the return on investment of Thuja collections has generally exceeded 30.00%.Its appreciation potential mainly lies in three aspects:

First of all, from the perspective of artistic value, the collection of thujas has an elegant shape; secondly, from the perspective of stock, the growth rate of thujas is extremely slow, and "it will not exceed a foot in a hundred years", so the stock of collectibles market will not increase; thirdly, Thuja is also believed to have medicinal properties.

Although the collection value of thuja is astonishing, it is an endangered and protected plant in the country, and it is as cherished as a panda.

Thuja generally grows in areas above 1500 meters above sea level, and artificial introduction and cultivation have not been successful so far.The plants discovered in the Daba Mountain area of ​​Shancheng at the beginning of this century are endangered species. They were once declared extinct in the 90s due to their scarcity, and logging is now prohibited.

According to statistics from the news media, as many as 30 people die every year when they take risks and fall to the cliff to dig thuja.

The pity is that these are almost all poor farmers who don't know that thuja is a national protected plant. They are willing to take risks for the tens of thousands of hard work, and finally lose their own lives.

If the thuja is dug successfully, the biggest profits will be taken away by those profiteers.

"Brother, is it really worth 3.8 million cypresses?" Hearing Zhang Feng's introduction, Zhang Yi couldn't help exclaiming, and asked Zhang Feng quickly.

"Hehe, that's just hype by the profiteers themselves. It's the price that the owner bids himself during the exhibition." Zhang Feng smiled. Although the thuja is precious, it is not so precious. Red sandalwood furniture is not such an exaggerated price.

According to Zhang Feng's speculation, the so-called 3.8 million thuja root carvings must have been hyped by profiteers and countless media, because there is no record on the Internet that the thuja cypress root carvings have sold for more than [-] million yuan, or even tens of millions. One hundred thousand, just millions.

(End of this chapter)