The old man from the Xie family said that it was a specialty of Hangzhou, but he actually paid the bills that Li Yuanxing sent to the merchants, which was only a few hundred dollars. His Highness the King of Qin did not want to take advantage of the merchants, let alone accept expensive gifts from the merchants.
All chambers of commerce in the Tang Dynasty are aware of this.
In addition to the goods purchased by Li Yuanxing, each family also had some not-so-valuable gifts.
They are all collections of each family.
Most of them are objects of a certain age, and it is no secret that His Highness the King of Qin likes them.
After resting for a night in Hangzhou City, the flying boat took off again. Captain Gao reported softly in front of Li Yuanxing: "Your Highness is on a long trip this time. The machines that were inspected in Hangzhou City are all normal. There is enough coal to fly 37,000 miles, but the water
But it is only enough for eight thousand miles. From here to the south, there is no chance to replenish coal."
Li Yuanxing nodded and understood.
Captain Gao added: "Your Highness, there are many trees in the south. Even with wood, we can fly back."
"Save as much as possible, don't think about speed. The first stop, direct flight..." Li Yuanxing pointed at the map, but he was surprised. Seeing that Li Yuanxing's expression was wrong, Lu Maofeng quickly asked: "Your Highness, what's the matter?"
"My calculations were wrong. I originally thought it was the territory of Hongsawady, but I didn't expect it to be Tufan. I hope there won't be any unexpected trouble. The coordinates of this trip must be kept strictly confidential, and no one is allowed to tell them.
.Abandon the trip to Shuzhong and fly directly to the destination, replenishing water on the way!"
"Yes!" Captain Gao and Lu Maofeng said in unison.
Li Yuanxing then ordered: "I only announced to the outside world that I wanted to see the scenery, so I flew slowly to Lingnan. Just think about how convincing this time difference is. The route this time must be kept strictly confidential!"
"Yes!" The two saluted again.
The straight-line distance from Hangzhou to where Li Yuanxing wants to go is more than 2,400 kilometers, or almost 5,000 miles.
According to the cruising speed of Li Yuanxing's airship, it would take ten hours to fly, and the coal on board would be sufficient.
After Li Yuanxing finished his instructions, he went back to the house to rest. All the crew members changed to three shifts. In addition to the original furnace workers, the idle guard sergeants of the Prince of Qin also went to help. For the sergeants, idle
It is also idle, not to mention, no one has ever thought that burning a boiler is a cheap job.
Just because this is Feizhou's boiler.
Ten and a half hours later, that is, almost a day and a night passed. Before dawn the next day, Captain Gao asked Li Yuanxing for instructions: "Your Highness, the flight is a bit slow on the road, and the distance from the target location is at most a hundred miles away.
I used the telescope on the ship to look at the ground. It was surrounded by mountains and there seemed to be no people around."
"Did you see any obvious towns when you came here?"
"No, there are a few very small villages, but among the mountains here, there may be some mountain people!"
For the final positioning, Li Yuanxing could only rely on himself. According to later terrain photos, Li Yuanxing stood in the command warehouse and looked around with a telescope.
Burmese jade is actually divided into water jade, stone jade and sand jade. This refers to the place of origin. Li Yuanxing did not have the time to find stone jade and sand jade. Excavation would take too long and be too labor-intensive.
After a piece of it is occupied, Li Yuanxing will actually start digging.
The pyroxene jade in the mountainous areas of Myanmar, especially the pyroxene jade wrapped in round stones, will roll down the mountain along with the heavy rain and flash floods.
In modern times, it is almost impossible to find jade on the river bed.
Pyroxene jade also has a nice name, it is called jade.
Jade only really entered China through merchants in the 17th century, and it was only in the 7th century during the Tang Dynasty that this place was still a rocky mountain with few residents. No one knew what jade was, and even if they saw it, they would not know its value.
What Li Yuanxing was looking for this time were the round stones washed down from the mountain by heavy rains and flash floods, and the round stones covered with jade.
The sky was already bright, and Li Yuanxing had been flying in the air for almost an hour, but he still couldn't find a river bed that definitely contained jade. From a geographical point of view, there might be jade in dozens of dry river beds here, but Li Yuanxing couldn't find a piece of it.
Knock it open piece by piece.
Helpless, Li Yuanxing borrowed the help of a time machine.
"Can you scan it for me?"
"You can consume the energy of one time travel at any time! But it can only help you find similar ones. It is impossible to distinguish in detail what you call the quality."
"start!"
Under the instructions of the time machine, Li Yuanxing closed his eyes.
When he opened it again, Li Yuanxing saw countless colored dots in his eyes. The time machine's method was very simple. It reflected the color inside the stone onto Li Yuanxing's eyes. Whether it was jade or not was not a question that the time machine considered.
"Land, that valley!" Li Yuanxing pointed.
The flying boat landed immediately, and Li Yuanxing jumped in hastily before it could stop, because the reaction in his eyes only lasted half an hour.
"This piece, this, this!" Li Yuanxing kept dotting one stone after another with ink.
Immediately, there were sergeants responsible for standardizing the stones picked by Li Yuanxing and moving them back.
"Seventy percent of all the stones here are jade. You can move them as you like!" Li Yuanxing shouted after the green spots in Li Yuanxing's eyes disappeared.
Is it jade?
Yu Zhen'er had never seen jade, and she didn't know what kind of raw jade stone contained good jade. She just asked Wang Ba to help break open a watermelon-sized stone. The inside was light green. Yu Zhen'er exclaimed: "
It’s really jade, jade in stone!”
"These are low-end goods. I don't have time to pick them one by one now. If I open one among the ones I'm looking for later, I might find some high-quality goods." At this point, Li Yuanxing smiled: "Wang Yu,
You pick some, and as long as your king can move his back, no matter what is inside, it will be rewarded to you by this king!"
"Thank you, Your Highness!" Wang Ba saluted and then picked up a stone as tall as a person.
Yuzhen'er quickly shouted: "Put it down quickly."
After Wang Ba put him down, Yu Zhen'er wiped Wang Ba's sweat and said, "You must be tired. Those are just ordinary stones. Jade is the essence of heaven and earth, so it is naturally an ancient treasure. You are looking for the kind of stone that looks old at first sight.
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"don't know!"
Yu Zhen'er walked around on the dry river bed and took a long time to pick a piece.
Only then did Yu Yuyan and others get off the flying boat. They saw the sergeants moving stones, and Yu Zhen'er seemed to be picking them up too. They really didn't understand. Cui Yanyan asked Li Yuanxing: "Your Highness, what is the use of these broken stones?"
"There are treasures in the stones, why don't you pick a few and see how your luck goes?"
"Then each person picks three pieces and see how lucky he is?" Wang Yuyan suggested.
Li Yuanxing laughed: "Okay, after the move is completed, everyone on the flying boat will pick a piece and gamble on their luck."
Seeing that Princess Qin only picked three pieces, Yu Zhener, who had originally chosen five pieces, gave up two of them. She thought that she couldn't pick more than Prince Qin's house. This was rude. It is definitely not a good thing for people to be too greedy.
But I was afraid that these two pieces would be wasted, so I simply gave one piece to each of the two princesses.
"Your Highness, if we load it any longer, I'm afraid it will be overloaded." Captain Gao asked each stone to be weighed before boarding the ship.
Someone is calculating the load.
"How many are there?"
"Your Highness, the stone is loaded with more than five tons. Including the attaché, it has reached the standard loading capacity." Captain Gao answered seriously, and then added: "Your Highness, the maximum overload is 10%. Any more will be dangerous."
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Li Yuanxing nodded, safety first, after all, this is not within the Tang Dynasty.
With Li Yuanxing's permission, Captain Gao shouted: "Everyone, everyone should carry another basket and leave a piece for themselves before returning to the ship." After shouting, he said to the person in charge of the weight: "Two and a half tons is
I dare not go any further than the upper limit. I order the machine to start pressurizing and be ready to take off at any time."
A lot, really a lot.
After a ton of coal fell down, I managed to get on the flying boat and fly.
After flying for more than half an hour, it was about 300 feet above the ground. After flying for 500 miles, it reached a normal height. This is because part of the coal was burned and the weight was reduced by several hundred kilograms.
"Your Highness, don't dare to do this next time, I'm really sweating!"
"If Mingyue were here, she would dare to ask you to throw away all the furniture on the ship just to put in one more stone." Li Yuanxing laughed. He did not doubt his guess at all. Let alone the furniture, Wu Zhao dared to throw away the furniture.
All the coal and food on the ship were thrown away.
Captain Gao was puzzled: "Your Highness, is this stone more valuable than gold?"
"Did you pick it up?" Li Yuanxing asked.
Captain Gao took out a stone weighing five kilograms and the size of two fists from under the seat in the command cabin: "Your Highness, I picked it up on the ground before taking off." Li Yuanxing looked at the stone and felt that it seemed to be valuable, and smiled.
Liao laughed and said softly:
"Order everyone to fly safely and not to leave their posts. Those who are free will follow me to the main cabin, and you will come too. Let them set up the stone cutting machine in the main cabin, and I will play with you.
Lezi. There are still 3,600 miles from here to Lingnan, but it still takes seven hours."
Once the machine is set up, there is no electric motor or small steam engine as power.
But there are dozens of young soldiers with unlimited energy here. The guards in Prince Qin's Mansion are all brave men, and they are definitely very strong.
A device like a later bicycle, with a belt connected to a grinder.
The grinding wheels of the Tang Dynasty cannot be compared with those of later generations. They are thick and rough. They are not used for cutting, but for grinding away the outer layer of jade little by little.
However, Li Yuanxing brought Yu Zhen'er to the flying boat, and now it is of great use.
First grind a small hole, then use a steel chisel to tap it gently at a specific angle, and then the whole piece will fall off. This is much faster than grinding.
The first piece is that of Captain Gao.
When the small piece of outer stone fell off, Li Yuanxing actually exclaimed: "It's beautiful!"——
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