The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Boss Guan was talking about the scepter on Zhang Nan's table. He felt that this stick was a bit too ugly, and it didn't conform to the Chinese aesthetics at all.

I've seen similar things in Gaborone, but none of them are pleasing to the eye. It's really uglier than the other.

This is Africa, where scepters are common, but apart from the north of the Sahara, there are no pleasing styles.

This African scepter originated from weapons. From the first wooden sticks in the Paleolithic Age to the Cold Weapon Age, some of them have sharp spikes. To put it bluntly, they were the earliest weapons.

The ancient Egyptians in North Africa often added a round head to it to provide a powerful blow. In South Africa, some scepters are large enough to smash the head of a cow and need to be held with both hands.

The wooden sticks that began in the Paleolithic Age have evolved into ceremonial hammers and scepters for government agencies, tribes, universities, or other institutions, and continue to show authority.

Nowadays, both inside and outside the world, the scepter is still very common in Africa. It is the same in the north and south of the Sahara. From the king to the chief, there is almost a scepter as a symbol of power.

In Africa 6, Botswana’s favorite scepter is probably Botswana. Here, the tribal kings and chiefs, the patriarchs, village chiefs, and elders in the countryside, the officers and policemen in the city often carry a small stick with them. .

The small sticks in the hands of police and military officers that Guan Xingquan and others saw in Gaborone were not like Western-style "civilized sticks". They were very African. Some were covered with fur and painted with patterns, and some were bare and bare. It's like a bull-driving stick, without any decorations.

But no matter how simple it is, it is still a scepter. Everyone who is qualified to carry it in Botswana has an identity and will be respected.

However, due to historical reasons, Botswana, which will begin to be rich in diamonds, has provided dazzling decorations for the scepters and crowns of many kingdoms in the world, but their own "scepters" are still quite simple.

This is because Botswana has only 20 years since its founding, but Botswana has a long history of raising cattle and grazing, and the predecessor of the "scepter" is the stick of cattle.

Because people with cows are respected, those with cow sticks are naturally the most distinguished people!

As for diamonds?

Now the diamonds will only be in the next 20 years, so I don’t have that habit.

Here Zhang Nan heard what Guan Xingquan said, "Is it appropriate for me to take that toy?"

"What's wrong, it's not that you want to carry it every day to drive the cow. It used to be a toy, but in your hand it will be a scepter from now on. It's annoying to the British!"

When Zhang Nan heard this, he laughed.

Botswana stayed in the Commonwealth. The chief of his tribe held a diamond scepter that was even more exaggerated than the British King’s scepter. It was really a bit of black humor.

I don't know if the Queen of England will suffer from internal injuries.

After Zhang Nan smiled, Guan Xingquan's face turned straight and said, "Don't talk about the emptiness, your chieftain's title and land are hereditary. In ancient China, it would be ‘hereditary forgiveness’. It’s a cow!

Who do you give your toy to in the future? It's not your child yet, hereditary resignation, how good.

The scepter is also handed down, both men and women are the same, who you love to give to. "

Hearing this, Zhang Nan felt reasonable.

I picked up the wooden stick on the table and looked at it, studied the embossed totem above, and felt that adding it to my scepter that was still in the design stage was not a big problem and would not be unsightly.

"Well, good idea."

This is set, and when I go back, let the totem be expanded and added to the unprecedented diamond scepter that will appear.

However, if you really asked Joshua to engrave the tribal totem on the scepter, he would not be able to wander around with the thing in his hand when he came here, it was 25o!

The world’s largest diamond, the first few diamonds, the countable rubies... Holding them in the semi-desert wasteland, "pointing the country", followed by a group of bodyguards and African black buddies...

The picture is too beautiful to think about.

After talking to Guan Xingquan what was in his heart, Guan Boss turned his mind and came up with a mind-boggling idea.

Who said that Boss Guan was cold and stiff all day long?

It's fun to make you dumbfounded.

"It's simple, prepare a few more, simpler look, think about the material.

Gold sticks are tacky, and platinum is best if you make a solid one. At most, add some craftsmanship on the end you take, without any other decorations besides the totem. The color is gray and unobtrusive, and it can be used as a stick to hit people's heads at critical moments. "

Platinum scepter, there is a fan!

The specific gravity of platinum is 21.45, even if it is hollow, the weight is estimated to be not small to the extent that it will not deform. If it is made into a solid core, it doesn't need to be too long. It has a length of 60 centimeters and a diameter of three centimeters. This kind of measurement is absolutely unbalanced, so don't hit people's heads too sore!

But here comes the problem!

Zhang Nan, a math-level lousy fellow, has been working for a long time, but still hasn't figured out the weight of such a solid stick.

Fire! Calculating the weight of the platinum stick of a cube of three centimeters on a side, the result is not unknown, I was shocked!

23 catties zero point!

The cylinder with a diameter of 3 cm is probably the same, right?

As soon as I thought it out, Zhang Nan didn't have a good air: "2o catty a stick, I am not Dian Wei, I don't have that great effort~www.readwn.com~ This can be used as a dumbbell every day."

"Then learn German, just use a stick with a wooden stick."

Guan Xingquan didn't care.

"Wood is too ordinary."

"Then ivory, rhino horn, how strange it came from, I think tortoiseshell is also good."

"Use animal products to make a scepter. It has a length of at least sixty or seventy centimeters. Ivory and turtle shells are trivial, but rhino horns of this length are hard to find..."

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Talk to Boss Guan and talk to other chiefs around him to exchange feelings.

In this meeting, Zhang Nan's table is Mr. Tuwang on one side, and on the other is a chief named Uvalu.

A very simple name. This is just an abbreviation. If it is called a full name, the name of the chief who is only over 30 years old has 26 letters in English.

This is not the longest name, the longest name in the chief has 46 letters!

But the Tuwang called him Kofi, with a simple meaning: Friday.

"Robinson Crusoe" has all come out. In fact, this is not surprising. Africa uses dates as names like this. Zhang Nan remembers that everyone named this name has become the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

who?

Kofi Atta-Annan, now Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Chief Uvalu is fluent in English, because he was polite just now. Many of the conversations between Zhang Nan and Guan Xingquan were in English, and he understood.

Out of good intentions, Chief Uvalu asked Zhang Nan: "Chief Alan needs a big rhino horn?"

When Zhang Nan heard this, he said, "Yes, I plan to go shopping and see if legal channels can get a rhino horn with a length of seventy or eighty centimeters."

The black buddy chief smiled and said: "Don't look for it, I will give you one, I will have several more than one meter."

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