"Welco, friends from Huaxia." The owner of the antique shop imdiately blurted out a sentence in Chinese upon seeing Chen Yiyang.
"You speak Chinese?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.
However, Chen Yiyang was soon disappointed. This local Uzbek gentleman only knew this one sentence in Chinese, clearly learning it specifically to welco people from Huaxia.
The official language of Uzbekistan is Russian. Chen Yiyang has visited Russia twice and can roughly understand Russian, but for real communication, he still relies on a guide.
Once inside the shop, Chen Yiyang glanced around casually.
One might say this is an antique shop, but it’s more like a store selling miscellaneous items.
Anything that looks old, regardless of its authenticity, is displayed by the owner for sale.
The most nurous items are various dals from the forr alliance.
However, Chen Yiyang feels that more than ninety percent of these dals are fake.
Because he saw over a dozen of the highest level hero dals from the forr alliance here.
After the alliance disintegrated, the Eastern European mber states were busy selling their won to Europe. While the political systems of Russia and these Central Asian countries were relatively stable, they were just selling dals and various docunts to make money.
However, as more and more European buyers beca interested in the forr alliance’s dals, manufacturing fake dals also beca an industry.
Now, any dal from the forr alliance seen on the market is fake unless accompanied by a clear record of awarding.
But Chen Yiyang quickly found what he wanted to buy.
It’s Mongolian armor from the ti of their westward expedition.
Mongolian armor restoration.
"This has been passed down in my family." Seeing Chen Yiyang’s interest in the armor, the shopkeeper hurriedly said, "This is truly authentic. Many buyers have been interested in it before.
But because it’s hard to transport, no one has bought it. If you have the contacts and channels, I can offer you a discount."
The armor indeed is well preserved, with little rust on the armor plates.
However, Chen Yiyang found the armor plates odd; they were not only uneven but also varied in shape, as if pieced together.
"How much?" Chen Yiyang asked.
"Twenty thousand US dollars." The shopkeeper looked at Chen Yiyang eagerly.
"Quote again, if it’s more than two thousand US dollars, I’ll leave imdiately."
Chen Yiyang looked at the shop owner and said, "There’s a considerable stock of ancient armor, and besides, I have to figure out how to transport this several dozen-pound object back to my country.
The cost spent midway is considerable. If your armor is priced so high, I’d rather buy it from so countries that offer easier transportation."
"Then, two thousand US dollars." This shopkeeper also did not hesitate, directly agreeing to Chen Yiyang’s two thousand US dollar offer.
It turns out the twenty thousand US dollars was purely an inflated price, waiting for Chen Yiyang to negotiate.
After paying, Chen Yiyang took the armor back to the hotel and made a video call to show it to the historian.
The historian got accustod to Chen Yiyang buying artifacts that had circulated abroad during his trips.
He then curiously looked at the armor through the cara.
"Where are you now?" The historian asked.
"Uzbekistan."
"Then it makes sense. This armor is likely genuine. However, it’s either armor from the Mongolian westward expedition or early Yuan Dynasty armor."
"How can you tell?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.
"In ancient tis, Uzbekistan was the birthplace of a state. Do you know which country it was?"
"I don’t know." Chen Yiyang answered honestly.
"It was Khwarazm, which was the first significant Central Asian state to be destroyed by Mongolia during its rise. So having Mongolian armor from that period here is quite normal."
Upon hearing Khwarazm, Chen Yiyang finally understood why there was Yuan Dynasty armor here.
Back then, Khwarazm was at its peak as a major Central Asian nation, only to be utterly destroyed by Mongolia.
This allowed Mongolia to rise rapidly.
While Jin Dynasty bears main responsibility for Mongolia’s rise, Khwarazm was at least partially responsible as well.
Initially, these two countries were the primary providers of equipnt for Mongolia.
"Why are the plates on this armor so uneven? Was it due to crafting standards at the ti?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.
"Of course not. These plates don’t originate from the sa era; how could they be even?"
The historian explained to Chen Yiyang, "In ancient tis, iron was always precious. Even when armor was damaged, the usable iron plates were dismantled and incorporated into new armor.
Moreover, lallar armor naturally lends itself to incorporating different plates. Looking at it, although your armor is from Yuan Dynasty, the plates include mid-late Tang Dynasty, late Tang, Northern Song, Jin Dynasty, and even so plates possibly forged in Khwarazm."
"My patched-up armor, huh."
For a mont, Chen Yiyang didn’t know if he should refer to this armor as Yuan Dynasty armor.
It’s genuine antique armor for sure.
After properly storing the armor.
Chen Yiyang hurried to attend a eting with local officials in Tashkent.
"Regarding the investnt in the automobile manufacturing plant." Chen Yiyang thought for a mont and said, "I invested in a car factory in Russia, but that factory originally had a foundation.
If I build a new factory in Uzbekistan, the scale would likely be small."
"We could provide your factory with a free land grant. If industrial equipnt imports, they can be entirely tax-free."
"What about sales?" Chen Yiyang said, "Here I’ve noticed many places use traditional cars. If I sell electric vehicles, I worry about the sales."
"If your factory employs more than two thousand people, our governnt would commit to first purchasing a batch of vehicles for official use."
These conditions are excellent.
Listening to their sincerity, Chen Yiyang couldn’t help but calculate.
In Russia, actually only a small portion of the factory’s production capacity is dedicated to manufacturing new energy vehicles. The rest follows previous rcedes-Benz technology producing SUV models.
It’s proven that selling electric cars in Russia’s frigid climate isn’t a brilliant idea.
After all, the Russian winter is too harsh, and electric cars may easily freeze.
So dismantling part of the equipnt at the Tula Factory in Russia and transporting it to Uzbekistan is rely a matter of transport fees.
"I heard you also invested in an automotive factory in Russia?" At this point, a local official in Tashkent spoke up.
"We also speak Russian here. Your technicians from there can directly train our workers, saving a lot of hassle.
Moreover, the cars you produce in Russia are difficult to sell to other countries, but from here they can be sold anywhere."
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