After making a wish, financial freedom

Chapter 586 Just Sapphire

This old king is almost dead and still refuses to part with his wealth. Is he a miser?

Li Zhuo asked:

"Since it's been lost, that's how it's meant to be. Why do we have to find it again?"

John the Landless King said:
"Everyone in the world says that I am rich, and that I am greedy. I steal other people's treasures and turn them into my own. I have a lot of treasures in my hands. Master, in fact, they have all been deceived by me."

"How many treasures do I have? Apart from the treasures on the surface, most of my treasures have long been converted into money. Otherwise, how can I use them to raise an army?"

"I did all this to show others. Everyone said that my father and my brother were wise, mighty, and ambitious. But what they didn't know was that when my eldest brother passed away, the treasury was already empty and there was no money. , I had no money to recruit an army, and the army was small in number. I was defeated by King Philip II of France one after another and lost a lot of land.

"A lot of land in England has been enfeoffed for a long time. How can I get money? The only way is to attack the nobles who own large areas of land, so I ask the nobles to pay one-third of the taxes."

"But what I did was very unsuccessful, but the more unsuccessful I was, the more I had to act like I was rich, otherwise the situation would get worse."

"As for my treasures, I actually don't need them. I am about to die. What wealth is worth remembering? I want to leave those treasures to my eldest son Henry. He needs the support of these wealth, otherwise how can he get support from others? How can we defeat the French army entrenched in the south if we are loyal to them?”

Li Zhuo listened and discovered that this low-rated King John was not confused, nor was he a greedy person. His father and brother spent all the money in the treasury. He wanted to stabilize his territory on the mainland, but unfortunately failed.

A king who continuously loses his land will naturally be disloyal, and there will definitely not be many people willing to be loyal to him.

He could only use more treasure to prop up this shelf. Now that he wanted to get the treasure back, he planned to leave it to his eldest son.

It can only be said that he is a deplorable person. Of course, he is far from innocent and has done a lot of cruel things.

Li Zhuo didn't bother to pay attention to these.

He said:
"In that case, I'll go there."

He quickly disappeared from the mid-air of the house, and the next second he appeared at the mouth of the Trem River. When the tide rises here, the seawater will surge back, causing the area around the mouth of the river to turn into a swamp. If a person falls in, , there will only be death but no life.

Li Zhuo soon discovered the clues. He noticed the ruts of the carriage and eventually disappeared completely into the swamp.

He locked the carriage, and as soon as he had the idea, the carriage was dragged out by an invisible force.

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More than ten minutes later, Li Zhuo returned to the house of Landless King John again.

The treasures he used to decorate his facade were all recovered by Li Zhuo, and now they all appear on the ground in front of King John's bed.

Even though he was seriously ill, King John still got up, got out of bed and held all these treasures in his arms.

There was a fanatical look in his eyes:

"Master, do you know? These babies are warm. I feel so warm holding them."

These words are very similar to what the miser Grandet said while holding the gold coins before he died.

But King John was not Grandet after all. He came to his senses and said to Li Zhuo:

"Master, thank you for your help. Please get one for yourself. I said, any treasure will do."

Li Zhuo weighed it up. He knew that some things were very valuable, such as a big crown, but he didn't intend to have it. There was no way he could sell this thing in modern society.

The reason is simple. As soon as this thing appears, it will cause a sensation.

This thing is recorded in historical records and described in detail. Once it appears, people will know that King John's treasure has been discovered. Even the British government has been keeping an eye on King John's treasure these years. Then Li Zhuo will be in real trouble.

He didn't intend to ask for such cultural relics. All he could really ask for was the gold cup or the gold cross, or the big sapphire.

Li Zhuo finally took away the sapphire. It was the most valuable thing and it was difficult to find out who its original owner was.

The color of this sapphire is good and the size is quite large. The only pity is that it is still a rough stone. I don’t know where King John got it from.

King John then thanked:

"Thank you, God, for leaving me the most precious items. I will hide these treasures on the bed until my eldest son comes back, and then I will hand them over to him."

King John believed almost no one except his eldest son.Li Zhuo asked before leaving:
"So when will your eldest son come back?"

"After it rained, he took people to check the situation in the swamp. If it hadn't rained, he would have come back now."

That should be no problem. King John was infected with the disease, but he didn't die immediately. He still had a few days to live, and he would definitely be able to wait for his eldest son.

Li Zhuo said:

"Then I'm leaving. You will forget everything about today. The treasure is what you keep with yourself."

Li Zhuo reached out and erased his memory, then tore open the curtain of history and returned to modern society.

After returning, everything was still the same. Li Zhuo took the sapphire in his hand, cleaned the incense burner, and then put the sapphire into the incense burner.

He called the crew and once they made arrangements, he got on the plane and flew to Bangkok.

After returning to the Mandarin Oriental Apartment, he found Zheng Kun again. Li Zhuo once asked him to sell a Madagascar royal sapphire worth 1500 million yuan. This time he was very familiar with it.

Sure enough, after he arrived, he saw the rough sapphire stone and said with some surprise:

"I didn't expect this rough stone to be quite big. I think it should be about 200 carats in size. Unfortunately, it just has a little more cracks."

"Where does this come from?" Li Zhuo asked.

Zheng Kun glanced a few more times and said:

"It should be from Sri Lanka."

Li Zhuo asked:

“When did sapphire mining in Sri Lanka begin in history?”

Zheng Kun didn't know why he asked, and thought he was curious, so he casually said:

"That's too early. Sapphires were mined in Sri Lanka about 2000 years ago. It was the first place to mine sapphires. It was not until the 16th century in the Mogok area of ​​Myanmar. As for the sapphires in Kashmir, they were mined in the late 19th century. The amount was too small. It was all mined in 7 years; Madagascar sapphires have only been mined for 30 years.”

"It is also produced in other places, including Thailand, Cambodia, and Australia, but the quality is much inferior in comparison."

Li Zhuo understood that it was indeed only Sri Lankan sapphires that could appear in Britain in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Li Zhuo asked again:
“How can you tell it’s from Sri Lanka?”

"You can judge by looking at its characteristics. This rough sapphire is obviously blue with purple. The color is not deep, but it has a sense of clarity. This is because of its high transparency, and the size of the rough stone and many cracks. , this kind of gemstone is generally produced in Sri Lanka; Burmese sapphire is also highly transparent, but its cracks are smaller, so it is almost impossible to find such a large rough stone.”

Li Zhuo finally understood, and asked again:

"So is this rough stone valuable?"

Zheng Kun lifted it up, observed it, and said:

"The cracks in the gemstone are all on the periphery, and the middle part is good. We need to find an experienced master to polish the rough stone into a gemstone. Then we look at its size. I think it is valuable, at least more valuable than the previous sapphire."

Zheng Kun needs to find someone first, watch and polish it in person, and then go to the SSEF (Swiss Gemological Institute) branch in Bangkok to spend money for expedited testing. After getting the gemstone certificate, it will be easier to sell.

Zheng Kun put the rough stone into his backpack, said goodbye and left with the bag.

Soon he called and told Li Zhuo:

"The weight of our rough sapphire is 205.51 carats, which is not generally large, but unfortunately it has a lot of cracks. After the master looked at it carefully, he said that after polishing, it is estimated that only about 110 carats will be left at most..."

Even so, it must be polished, otherwise it will not only affect the appearance, but also affect the price.

Li Zhuo said:

"Go ahead, keep as much as you can."

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(End of this chapter)