Datang first village

The old man of the Xie family said that it was a specialty of Hangzhou, but in fact he paid for the bills that Li Yuanxing sent to the merchants, but it was only a few hundred guan.His Royal Highness King Qin didn't want to take advantage of the merchants, let alone accept expensive gifts from the merchants. All chambers of commerce in the Tang Dynasty knew this well.

In addition to the goods purchased by Li Yuanxing, each family also had some not-so-expensive gifts.

All are collectibles.

Most of them are old objects, and it is not a secret that His Royal Highness King Qin likes this.

After a night of rest in Hangzhou City, the flying boat took off again.Captain Gao reported softly in front of Li Yuanxing: "His Royal Highness has traveled far this time. He inspected and repaired the machines in Hangzhou City and everything is normal. The coal is enough to fly [-] miles, but the water is only enough for [-] miles. From here, go south. There is no chance of replenishing coal."

Li Yuanxing nodded, he understood.

Captain Gao said again: "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 taken aback.Seeing that Li Yuanxing's expression was wrong, Lu Maofeng hurriedly asked: "Your Highness, what's the matter?"

"The calculation was wrong. I thought it was the land of Hongshawadi, but I didn't expect it to be Tupan. I hope there will be no unexpected troubles. The coordinates of this trip must be kept strictly confidential, and no one should tell .Give up on the trip to the middle of Sichuan, and fly directly to the destination, and replenish water on the way!"

"Yes!" Captain Gao and Lu Maofeng said in unison.

Li Yuanxing also ordered: "It is only announced to the outside world that the king wants to see the scenery, so he flew to Lingnan at a slow speed. How convincing this time difference is, think about it. This time the route must be kept strictly confidential!"

"Yes!" The two saluted again.

The straight-line distance between Hangzhou and Li Yuanxing is more than 400 kilometers, or about [-] miles.

According to the cruising speed of Li Yuanxing's airship, it takes ten hours to fly, and the coal on board is enough.

After Li Yuanxing finished his orders, he went back to the house to rest, and all the crew members changed to three shifts.In addition to the original furnace workers at the boiler, the sergeants of the imperial guards of the Prince of Qin who were idle also went to help.

Just because this is the boiler of the flying boat.

Ten and a half hours later, that is, almost a day and a night passed, before the dawn of the next day, Captain Gao asked for instructions in front of Li Yuanxing: "Your Highness, the flight on the road is slower, and the distance from the target point is at most a hundred miles away. Yes. I looked at the ground with the binoculars on the ship, and there are mountains here, and it seems that there are no people."

"Did you see any obvious towns when you came here?"

"No, there are a few small villages, but there may be some mountain people among the mountains here!"

For the final positioning, Li Yuanxing can only rely on himself.According to the terrain photos of later generations, Li Yuanxing stood in the command cabin and looked around with binoculars.

Myanmar jade is actually divided into water jade, stone jade and sand jade.This refers to the place of origin. Li Yuanxing has no time to find jade from stone and jade from sand.It takes too long to use excavation, and it is too labor-intensive.After occupying this area, Li Yuanxing will really dig.

The pyroxene jade in the mountains of Myanmar, especially the pyroxene jade wrapped in boulders, will roll down the mountain along with the heavy rain and torrents.

In the later modern times, it is almost impossible to find jade in the river.

Pyroxene jade also has a nice name, which is called emerald.

Jade really flowed into China through merchants in the [-]th century, and it was only in the [-]th century in the Tang Dynasty. This place is still a rocky mountain, and there are not even a few residents, and no one knows what jade is. Even if they see it, they don’t know its value.

What Li Yuanxing was looking for this time were those round stones that had been washed down from the mountain by heavy rains and torrents, and round stones wrapped in emerald.

It was already bright, and Li Yuanxing had been flying in the air for almost an hour, but he still hadn't found a riverbed that definitely contained jade. Geographically speaking, there might be dozens of dry riverbeds with jade here, but it was impossible for Li Yuanxing to have a piece of it. Knock open one by one.

Helpless, Li Yuanxing borrowed the help of a time machine.

"Can you scan it for me?"

"Consume the energy of a time travel at any time! But it can only help you find the similarities, and it is impossible to distinguish the so-called fineness in detail."

"start!"

Under the instruction of the time machine, Li Yuanxing closed his eyes.

When he opened it again, Li Yuanxing saw countless colored dots in his eyes. The method of the time machine is very simple. It reflects the color inside the stone to Li Yuanxing's eyes. Whether it is jade or not is not a matter for the time machine to consider.

"Land down, that valley!" Li Yuanxing stretched out his hand and pointed.

The flying boat landed immediately, and Li Yuanxing jumped off without waiting for it to stop, because the reaction in his eyes only lasted half an hour.

"This, this, this!" Li Yuanxing kept marking one stone after another with ink.

Immediately there were sergeants responsible for moving back the stones picked by Li Yuanxing as the standard.

"Seventy percent of all the stones here are jade. You can move them as you like!" Li Yuanxing shouted after the green dots in Li Yuanxing's eyes disappeared.

Is it jade?

Yu Zhen'er had never seen jadeite before, and she didn't know what kind of rough jadeite would be good jade inside, but she asked Wang Ba to help break open a stone the size of a watermelon, and there was a light green inside, Yu Zhen'er exclaimed: " It really is jade, jade in the stone!"

"This is a low-grade product. I don't have time to pick one by one now. I will open one of the ones I found in a while, and there may be a high-quality product." Speaking of this, Li Yuanxing smiled: "Wang Yushi, You pick some, as long as your Wang Ba's back moves, no matter what is inside, it will be rewarded by this king to you!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Wang Ba saluted, and then lifted a stone that was as tall as a person.

Yu Zhen'er hurriedly shouted: "Put it down quickly."

After Wang Ba put it down, Yu Zhen'er wiped Wang Ba's sweat: "I'm tired. It's just an ordinary stone. Jade is the essence of heaven and earth, so it's naturally an ancient treasure. I'm looking for a stone that looks old. .”

"don't know!"

Yu Zhen'er walked around the dry river, and it took her a long time to pick a piece.

Yu Yuyan and the others just got off the flying boat and saw that the soldiers were moving stones, and Yu Zhener seemed to be picking them too, which was really incomprehensible. Cui Yanyan asked Li Yuanxing: "Your Highness, what is the use of this broken stone?"

"There are treasures in the rocks, so you pick a few and see how lucky you are?"

"Then pick three yuan each and see how lucky you are?" Wang Yuyan suggested.

Li Yuanxing laughed: "Okay, after the move, everyone on the flying boat will pick a piece and gamble on luck."

Seeing that Qin Wangfei only picked three yuan, Yu Zhen'er, who originally chose five yuan, gave up two of them. She thought that she couldn't pick more than Qin Wangfu. .But these two pieces were afraid of being wasted, so they gave one piece to each of the two princesses.

"Your Highness, if you load it any longer, I'm afraid it will be overloaded." Captain Gao asked every stone to be weighed before boarding the ship.

Someone is counting the load.

"How many?"

"Your Highness, more than five tons of stones have been loaded. Including the entourage, it has reached the standard loading capacity." Captain Gao replied seriously, and then added: "Your Highness, the maximum overload is [-]%, no matter how dangerous it may be. .”

Li Yuanxing nodded, safety first, after all, this is not the territory of Datang.

With Li Yuanxing's permission, Captain Gao shouted: "Everyone, each carry another basket and leave one piece for himself before returning to the ship." After shouting, he said to the person in charge of the weight: "Two and a half tons is The upper limit, don’t dare to add more, order the machine to start pressurizing, ready to take off at any time.”

A lot, really a lot.

It took a ton of coal to fall down before barely getting on the airship and flying.

After flying for more than half an hour, it left the ground for about three hundred feet.After flying five hundred miles, it ascended to a normal altitude.This is because a part of the coal is burned, reducing the weight of several hundred catties.

"Your Highness, don't dare to do this next time, you must be sweating!"

"If Mingyue was here, she would dare to let you throw away all the furniture on the boat, just to put an extra stone in." Li Yuanxing laughed loudly.He didn't doubt his guess at all, let alone furniture, Wu Zhao dared to throw away all the coal and food on the boat.

Captain Gao was puzzled: "Your Highness, is this stone more valuable than gold?"

"Did you pick it up?" Li Yuanxing asked back.

Captain Gao took out a stone weighing five catties and the size of two fists from under the seat in the command cabin: "Your Highness, I picked it up on the ground before take-off." Li Yuanxing looked at the stone and felt that it seemed to be in stock. He smiled and said softly:

"I order everyone to fly with peace of mind, and there is no such thing as leaving the post. If you are free, follow me to the big passenger cabin, and you come too. Let them set up the stone cutter in the big passenger cabin, and I will play with you for a while." Lezi. There are still [-] miles from here to Lingnan, so it will take seven hours."

The machine is set up well, there is no electric motor here, and there is no small steam engine as power.

But there are dozens of young sergeants with unlimited energy here, and the guards of Prince Qin's Mansion are all brave men with absolutely good physical strength.

A device like the bicycle of later generations, with a belt attached to a grinder.

Datang's grinding wheels can't be compared with those of later generations. They are thick and thick. They are not used for cutting, but for grinding off the outer layer of jade little by little.

However, Li Yuanxing brought Yu Zhen'er on the flying boat, which is of great use now.

Grind a small hole first, then use a steel chisel, and at a specific angle, let the guards of Prince Qin's Mansion tap it gently, and then a whole piece will fall off, which is much faster than grinding.

The first piece is Captain Gao's piece.

When the small piece of outer stone fell off, Li Yuanxing exclaimed: "It's beautiful!"

--(To be continued.)