Chapter 990 Red Coral
The space inside this hole is probably a spherical hollow, and the sea water penetrates into this spherical space through the big hole in the rock wall. [((
Above this star space, a straight up and down channel allows a certain amount of air to be preserved in the spherical cave. This air just maintains a subtle but balanced air pressure due to the terrain, which causes the sea water to flood half of the spherical cave, leaving such a semicircular space on the top of the spherical cave.
Whenever the tide rises at night, the sea water will flood the spherical hole and squeeze out the air. When the tide is dawn, the sea water will automatically exit the hole due to air pressure, leaving half of the hemispherical space.
The conversion of seawater and air back and forth provides a very rich plankton with the seawater in the cave, and these planktons provide very good living space for those coral polyps, so this spherical hole is covered with such beautiful red corals.
Because it is in this cave, the space is closed and the air and sea water are converted back and forth, the pressure in the cave will be very high whenever the tide rises, which forms very perfect conditions for these coral polyps to form coral trees after death.
In addition, no one has visited this place for thousands of years, so this cave full of red coral trees is left behind.
At this time, Jin Muchen floated on the water and looked around, and his eyes were filled with dazzling red corals. This was also the main reason why he could see the red halo from the crack before.
The treasure ship he imagined that he had sunk on the bottom of the sea did not appear, but replaced by these priceless red coral trees. This was a big surprise for him.
These red corals may have grown here for thousands of years, and some have grown into towering trees. The tall ones can be three or five meters high, and the short ones can be more than half a meter high. Any one of them will be a priceless treasure!
Damn, Japan is indeed a good place!
You should know that Japan is the most abundant country in the world. Currently, the four most popular types of corals in the world's coral market are Aka red coral, then sardine coral, then white coral and black coral.
Among them, black coral has the lowest collection value, while red coral has the highest price, and Japan is the most abundant country in the world.
Japanese red coral is also called Aka coral in the international coral market, and is currently the most popular variety in the coral market.
Because the color of this coral is pure red and looks very festive, it is very popular with the Chinese and Japanese. Even the rich people in all countries affected by the chemical circle in Northeast Asia like red coral very much.
The emperors of ancient China liked red coral very much. Emperors of all dynasties once had hats decorated with red corals. When the emperors of the Qing Dynasty celebrated their birthdays, officials from Fujian Province also paid tribute to the emperor a whole red coral tree.
The emperors of Japan have also particularly liked this red coral. The emperors and royal relatives of Japan have also had this kind of red coral jewelry.
Because of this, the market value of this red coral is now very high.
Of course, this is mainly related to the popularity of the current gaming market. Red coral, pearl and amber are known as the three major organic gems.
In the early years, when people were playing in the market, people did not recognize this organic gem. At that time, most collectors focused on traditional Chinese porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, and traditional cultural relics. The recognition of treasures such as red coral and amber was not high.
However, since ten years ago, the market for playing has gradually heated up, and more and more people are playing and collecting, and as there are more and more people, there are fewer and fewer treasures available for collection in the market.
Especially the finest products are getting fewer and fewer.
Therefore, people who later entered the collection market had to find another way and began to find new collection search objects. In this way, some unpopular and unpopular people in the past also entered the eyes of people in the collection search industry.
For example, those gems, diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, etc. that were not popular in the past have begun to heat up in China.
But no matter how fast they heat up, they don't warm up quickly.
The performance of things like red coral in the Chinese market in recent years can definitely be described as hot.
As early as more than ten years ago, red coral collections had just begun to rise in the domestic market. At that time, a gram of red coral, even the top Aka Red Coral, started at only a few dozen yuan to two hundred yuan.
It was only ten years later that it had risen to the level of top red corals of 1 gram 20,000 to 3,000 yuan. However, since 2o1o years, the domestic collection market has heated up rapidly, and the country has continued to increase its currency and poured into the domestic financial market, which has led to the price of red corals rising like a rocket.
In 2o1o, the price of a gram of top Aka Red Coral was only more than 2,000 yuan in China. By 2o13, it had already risen to 7,000 or 8,000 yuan.
By 2015, the price of this top Aka red coral produced in Japan had risen to more than 20,000 yuan per gram, and the entire coral collection market was booming.
Even though the red coral has risen to this point, rich people who are willing to buy it are still flocking to it. The reason for this is that as more and more people start to collect red corals, people are increasingly aware of the preciousness of the red corals.
It turns out that the reason why this red coral is more expensive than sardine, white coral and black coral is that their output is particularly rare and is almost non-renewable resources. Without a little production, the less the number of existence in the world will be, so the more this thing goes, the more expensive it will be.
Red corals are generally produced in the deep sea. They grow around 20 meters underwater or 200 meters, and they also grow in places with moderate water temperatures and rocky reefs on the coast below.
The formation process is that a large number of coral polyps first gather next to those undersea reefs, and then gather more and more. Finally, when these coral polyps die, under the strong pressure of the sea water, they will gather together to form coral reefs. After years of accumulation and sea water forging, they can finally form the kind of red coral we bought and played with.
Such a process of forming red corals often takes three hundred years...
With the current people who are eager for quick success and instant benefits, not many people can wait for three hundred years to wait. Therefore, things like red coral can basically be classified as endangered resources, and can only be the kind that gets less and less exploited.
Long before the red coral was mined, there was a rarer number of blue corals under the waters of the west coast of Africa, but they are now extinct. There are basically no jewelry made of blue corals on the market, and the ornaments are spread all over the world.
Because as long as there are real people on the market appear, you basically don’t have to wait until you take the photo, and the rich will be wiped out by all the rich people.
Therefore, the current status of red coral in the collection market can be described as if there are no tigers in the mountains and monkeys are called kings.
But the number of red corals is extremely rare and will only decrease in the future, which is true.
Moreover, the reason why the red coral market is expensive is not only because the red coral stock is getting smaller and smaller, but also because the mining of red corals is very difficult.
Because this red coral can only grow in a range of twenty meters underwater to 200 meters, and for such a range, it is extraordinary that humans want to mine this red coral by bare hands.
Even if a diver with deep diving technology is proficient, his depth can be dived, even if he is in the range of more than ten meters to twenty meters. Once he dives deeper, he will cause internal organ damage due to strong water pressure. Therefore, it is almost impossible for people to rely on manual operations to mine red corals.
The only artificial equipment that can move within a range of twenty meters underwater to two hundred meters is submersible. However, submarines are basically exclusively ship types for navies in various countries around the world. Few people in the world will be full and build a submarine for themselves to play.
Even those rich people who were too busy with money had few built a submarine for themselves to play, because this thing was too expensive and even they could not afford it.
The unique hull structure, coupled with the expensive specialized post-maintenance cost, and an uncomfortable navigation experience, will only build submarines for themselves to show off unless the rich have a mind.
The navy, which finally owns a submarine, will not be so stupid as to drive a submarine out and let submarine members collect red corals underwater.
Even if the red coral is valuable, it is not as expensive as they need to go to sea.
This has caused the main reason for the increasingly scarce red coral production in the world in recent decades, because this thing is really difficult to collect.
Almost most of the red coral products sold on the market are in stocks mined by people more than ten years ago.
In the past decade, due to the excessive development of coral resources, many countries in the world that have coral resources have formulated strict laws to prohibit excessive development and mining of red corals.
Chapter completed!