Chapter 170 Dealing with Diamonds
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Zhao Yue and the four of them drove along the road. After three days, they arrived at the border with the Congo and cloth, and successfully entered the Congo cloth by bribing the border guards.
They took a day off in the border town of the Congo and the next day. The next day, they went straight down the Congo River (Zaire River), the border river of Congo and Congo, to Brazzaville, the capital of Congo. Brazzaville is across the river from Kinshasa. The two cities are only five or six kilometers apart, second only to Rome and Vatican. The distance between Gang is also the only capital in the world that looks across the river and can see each other. There is a huge gap in size between the two capitals. The population of Kinshasa exceeded 10 million in 2009, while Brazzaville was only more than one million. In order to distinguish the two countries with the name of "Congo" on both sides of the Congo River, the Republic of the Congo (Capital Brazzaville) is called "Congo (Brazzaville)" or "Original French Congo", and the Republic of the Congo is called "Democratic Republic of the Congo" or "Original Congo".
They reissued their passports and visas through the consulate in Ratchville, flew to Ethiopia, and returned home by plane through Ethiopia.
The plane landed in XIANG Port. Wei Cheng, Yang Lin and Jessica returned to the mainland first. Zhao Yue stayed alone in XIANG Port to find a jewelry store to cut the diamond and make it into jewelry.
After Zhao Yue put his luggage in the hotel room, he took a taxi to find a famous jewelry store.
"Welcome! Is there anything I can do for you? "Mr.!" A saleswoman came forward and asked politely.
Zhao Yue said, "Can you speak Mandarin? I can understand you when you speak Cantonese, but it's inconvenient!"
The saleswoman said, "Oh, I'm sorry, sir!"
Zhao Yue asked, "I don't know if you have any business of cutting diamonds, carving and making jewelry here?"
"Yes, sir, please follow me. I'll ask our manager to talk to you!" The saleswoman made a gesture of invitation.
Zhao Yue was led into the VIP room by the saleswoman. After the salesperson served the coffee, he went to hire the manager.
After a few minutes, a fat man walked into the VIP room under the leadership of a saleswoman. He entered the door and stretched out his chubby hand and said, "Welcome to trust our company. I, Chen Afa, the manager of this store. Don't you know your last name?"
Zhao Yue shook hands with him and said, "My surname is Zhao!"
Chen A shook Zhao Yue's hand vigorously and said with a smile on his face, "So it's Mr. Zhao, please sit down!"
After Zhao Yue sat down, he didn't talk nonsense. He directly took out the diamond and said, "Mr. Chen, I won't forgive you. I must have told you just now. Look, I want to make this diamond into three rings, two earrings and a necklace! I ask you to give me the best other materials."
Chen Afa, including the saleswoman next to him, saw Zhao Yue take out a thumb-sized diamond and took a deep breath. She shivered and asked, "Is this the original diamond? It's so rare! Although it is not as big as Cullinan, it is also very large among the diamonds found so far.
"Kulinan" is the world's largest gem-grade diamond discovered so far. It was discovered in January 1905 at the Premir diamond mine in South Africa, known as the "African Star". It is a diamond block with incomplete crystals. The color is colorless and transparent, flawless, excellent texture, and weighs 3106 carats. At that time, it was named after the general manager of the mine, Cullinan.
The British political axe bought this diamond for 750,000 US dollars, shipped it to the United Kingdom, and dedicated it to King Aidehua VII in 1907 as a birthday gift for the king's sixty-six years old. Later, this huge diamond was sent to the Dutch capital for grinding. After several months of research, analysis and evaluation by many experts, this "African star" was designated as a priceless treasure in the world.
After the giant diamond was divided, it began to be cut on March 3 of the same year. The three experts worked 14 hours a day and spent eight months grinding into the four largest diamonds.
"Cullinan First" is the pear-shaped, the heaviest of the three pieces, weighing 530.2 carats, and later inlaid on the king's scepter. This giant diamond is called "African Star" and it has 74 faceted faces.
"Cullinan's second" is square, weighing 317.4 carats, and is later decorated on the crown of the British king.
"Cullinan's third" is pear-shaped, weighing 94.4 carats, inlaid on the spire of the Queen's crown.
"The fourth Cullinan" is a square and weighs 63.6 carats. It is made by segmentation experts dividing the smallest of the diamonds into two, that is, "Cullinan's third" and "Cullinan's fourth", which is decorated on the edge of the Queen's crown.
This huge "African Star" raw stone weighing 3,106 carats is cut into 105 diamonds, weighing 1064.26 carats, and 9.5 carats of gravel that can't be cut. The weight of the finished product only accounts for one-third of the raw stone. It can be seen that the consumption of the raw stone into a diamond is very large.
After 14 years, in 1919, it was still in the same mine, not far from finding the "African Star" diamond, and found another 1,500-carat incomplete diamond block, which is the second in the world according to its weight. It must be named separately, but people have studied the characteristics of this diamond. According to its crystal characteristics, cracking shape and other characteristics, it is determined that the "African Star" discovered in 1905 belongs to the same crystal, but it was found one after another after cracking, so it was not named again. That is to say, if the "Cullinan" of the "African Star" does not crack, its total weight should be more than 4,606 carats.
As we all know, the lighter the color of the diamond, the higher its value. Most of the gem-grade diamonds belong to the colorless-light yellow series. When identifying the color of the diamond, the identified diamond is compared with a set of internationally accepted standard colorite. The color of the standard colorite is arranged in the order from the colorless D level (the highest level) to the yellow Z level. Diamonds come in other colors, such as brown, orange, pink, blue, etc. Among them, the most brightly colored diamond is rated as a dark and bright color in IGI's diamond identification report and is called a color diamond.
Most people think that the whiter the color of the diamond, the better. In fact, the economic value and collection value of color diamonds are also very high, because she is rarer and more precious than white, which creates her extraordinary charm.
Zhao Yue replied, "Yes, this is an original diamond, which has just been unearthed and given to me by an African friend. Mr. Chen, are you sure to do it according to my requirements?
Chen Afa said, "Mr. Zhao, since you are so cheerful, I won't lie to fool you. Your diamond is too big and valuable. When cutting, if you are not careful, it will break into countless small diamonds. There is no such high-level person in our store. It must be sent to the Dutch headquarters for cutting!"
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