Chapter 1137: 1136. Cork (5/5)

Chapter 1137 1136. Cork (55)

In the warehouse area, people would cheer from time to time, which would attract some treasure hunters to run over to see who got what.

For treasure pickers, this auction is a harvest feast.

Of course, not every warehouse has good goods, some people have moved all the things in the warehouse and classified them, and finally found that they lost money...

Li Du opened a warehouse, and the treasure hunters from Qigan City surrounded him and asked, "What is this warehouse?"

The warehouse is full of things wrapped in old canvas. After Godzilla and Ou opened it, some brown wooden boards were exposed.

"A pile of planks." Da'o said.

Dickens wondered: "Board? Is this a precious Asian rosewood? Lee, is this an Asian rosewood?"

Li Du said: "No, they are not."

"Then what is this?" someone asked again.

Li Du went over to pat the wooden boards, sniffed them again, and said with a smile, "If my observation is correct, they are cork boards. These are all cork boards, and they are used to lay floors."

"Cork flooring? Whoa, you've made a fortune this time," Ollie exclaimed.

Immediately someone asked: "Cork floor? What is this? I haven't heard of it."

"It's really ignorant." Oli looked at the treasure picker with contempt, "Cork floor, the best floor, not only has the high-grade quality of solid wood, but also the floor can firmly support the human body when stepped on. It itself is slightly concave, between soft and hard, like stepping on a foam splicing mat..."

"Compared to floor mats, they are pure natural products, which are safer. It doesn't matter if the baby rolls or runs on them, and you don't even have to worry about him licking the floor directly..."

The eyes of a group of treasure hunters were straightened, and they said enviously: "There are such high-end goods? I have never heard of them."

Seeing the envious eyes of the treasure hunters, Li Du laughed. He pushed Oli and said, "Stop, stop, don't lie to them, they take it seriously."

Carl asked in a daze, "Isn't that so?"

Ollie laughed loudly and said, "You're so stupid, of course it's not like that. Have you never seen a cork floor, or a wine cork? Find a bottle of wine, and you'll know it's a cork if you pinch it. what?"

"Are these the same thing?" asked the bearded Carl, "Lee, tell me, I don't believe that bastard Ollie."

Li Du smiled and nodded: "Yes, the cork floor, like the cork, comes from the cork oak or cork oak—that is, the bark of the oak tree."

Cork oak and cork oak are relatively unique trees. As the saying goes, people are afraid of hurting the bark of the tree, and there is a layer of cork on the outside of the bark of this tree. This layer of bark will not affect the growth of the tree at all.

The cork is made of this layer of cork. The previous wine cork was more particular, and it was dug out directly from the peeled bark.

But the bark is not peeled as you want, it needs a growth cycle, at least 20 to 30 years after the tree grows, the first harvest can be carried out, and then peeled every 9 years, the quality of peeling is not good, and it will hurt trees.

In this way, with the increasing production of wine now, cork is not enough, so only high-end wine can still use this kind of cork that is directly dug, and ordinary wine can only be glued with broken bark to make a composite type. cork.

An analogy is that laminate flooring is made by crushing wood and pressing it with sawdust and wood chips, while cork and cork floors are made by crushing bark.

Li Du read an introduction on National Geographic, and he introduced this kind of tree and the cork of red wine.

Portugal has the richest cork resources on earth. After the cork is peeled off, they dig out high-end wine corks directly from the bark, and then break it to make other cork products.

Red wine culture is prevalent in Europe and the United States, and cork is also one of the cultures. Rich people like to collect red wine, and quite rich people like to collect red wine bottles. Generally, rich people will collect red wine corks.

Most of the corks on the market are not worth collecting, and most of them will crack or drop sawdust just after being drilled into the corkscrew. This is a composite cork.

Real high-quality cork that can be cut into pieces, just like real wood.

Now this kind of cork is specially supplied for high-end red wine. To identify the quality of red wine, you can also see one, two, three through the cork, and the quality of red wine that can be used with solid wood cork will not be bad.

Since the supply of wine corks is not enough, the value of cork flooring is self-evident, and it must not be lower.

In the United States, an ordinary, real cork floor costs two to three hundred dollars per square meter. Even if it is a house of one hundred square meters, all of which are covered with cork floors, the bare floor costs two to thirty thousand dollars.

And this is an ordinary cork floor. The floor in the warehouse that Li Du photographed is a rare solid wood cork floor.

Because this kind of cork floor is integrally formed, it has better waterproof function and more beautiful natural patterns, so the price is very high.

In fact, the price gap between the two types of flooring is very large, ten times or even twenty times the difference.

Li Du searched the Internet, and found that particularly high-quality cork flooring can be sold for four to five thousand yuan per square meter. It is the first choice for the rich and famous to decorate their houses.

Most of the floors in this warehouse are natural cork floors rather than composite cork floors. Each piece is one or two meters long and half a meter wide, and the number is more than one hundred. If you find a suitable buyer, you can sell it for hundreds of thousands!

In addition to cork flooring, there are other planks in the warehouse, and these planks are very cheap.

The border bureau probably didn't know the value of this kind of cork flooring, and mixed them with ordinary wood boards after they were seized. If they knew that these floors were so valuable, they would definitely not keep them for treasure hunters.

To make money from the warehouse, the treasure picker mainly depends on luck.

Of course, some luck misses out.

For example, these floors, if Li Du didn't have the ability to turn back time to see the source and method, then he really didn't know the value of these floors, and would just treat them as ordinary floors.

His good luck didn't stop there. Two warehouses were opened later, and two boxes of silver tableware were found inside. The total value was 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, and precious animal skins were also found, such as leopard skin, otter skin, and crocodile skin. Wait, the value is equally high.

The treasure hunters left enviously and began to clean up their warehouses.

When there were no one around, Li Du asked Dao and Godzilla to clean up a large warehouse. There were some abandoned cars in it. This was photographed by him later and cost 100,000 US dollars.

Originally, he thought he could easily win the warehouse, but he didn't expect George to participate in the bidding, which cost him a lot of money.

Fortunately, he got the warehouse after all.