Chapter 624 [On the Lord's Treasure Chest]
After carefully storing this map of the Roman territory, Yang Yong wiped the sweat from his head. The pen and fun pavilion www.biquge.info straightened up and lit a cigar, and the James butler on the edge said with a smile.
"James, you also know the value of this map? Don't forget to show me, it's a hair missing, I'll only ask you, I can't afford to sell you when the time comes, hahahaha. ”
The two of them have been together for a long time, and the jokes are very casual, James knows that Yang Yong is just making an analogy, and said with a smile. "I know, let alone me, even if I sell you, I won't be able to compensate for the value of this map. When I think that more than 1,000 years ago, Rome already had such a high-level smelting technology, how detailed the map lesson above is! The geography of mountains and rivers, people and cultural relics, and even how high the mountains are are recorded in detail. ”
"What is the depth of the Mediterranean? Let the Italian government know that there is such a map of the Roman territory. I can't buy it from you, boss, have you made a fortune? hahahaha. ”
Yang Yong pursed his lips and snorted dissatisfiedly, "Pull it down! Even if Italy gives me a Sicilian island, I won't give up this Roman territory map." It's a priceless treasure! Who's going to sell the really good stuff. ”
"The ones that are sold are defective and can be exchanged for money, but they don't have much collection value. However, this set of Roman territory maps is not, the value is too great, and we must not reveal a little bit of information, otherwise our Yang family will never get a peaceful life. ”
"I know, I know, don't worry, I'll do things, don't you feel at ease. I'll keep this set of maps safe, by the way, sir, how are we going to get back to Savannah? ”
Yang Yong laughed and said, "I finally came out to relax, don't rush home first, and finish sorting out these things first." ”
After smoking a cigarette and resting for a while, Yang Yong began to lead people to start a destructive exploration of the third treasure. Because over the millennia, the lock on it, like a cube of iron chest, has begun to decay. The bronze-like chest can only be opened by violent means, and the chest is delicately painted with patterns.
And there are also two leather strap buckles, which are carried on his body, and Yang Yong even thinks that this one is a holy clothes box. It's a little similar to the cartoon Saint Seiya Seiya's holy clothes box that I watched when I was a child, and it's all rectangular boxes on my back.
Inside the box was not a Greek garment, but a very well-preserved wooden frame. There were two handles on the top of the box, and the well-preserved wooden inner frame was lifted out by two people. This is a wooden box made of unknown wood, with two sliding doors in front that open outward, and after gently opening it, the contents inside make Yang Yong feel very excited.
The box is very similar to the characteristics of Oriental production, very small and exquisite, with a lot of partitions, and each partition has a bottle and jar on it. There were some gleaming scrolls, and some small drawers, and those thousand-year-old things were taken down little by little.
Unexpectedly, the parchment on the scroll was very well preserved, without a little dampness and corruption, after carefully opening it. This is a scroll detailing some of Rome's heyday metal smelting techniques, and it is illustrated in great detail.
At the beginning, it is recorded how to find mines, what kind of iron stones look like, what colors, and where to find iron ore. What does the gold-containing ore look like?how to mine it, etc., etc., etc., etc., and so on, it is said that with this smelting production map, no matter where your territory is, you can follow the tips on the production map, find it in your territory, and then mine it.
After the local lords have these mines, their economic strength and military strength will not increase significantly, and they will better rule the local people. Of course, this scroll, which is only ten centimeters the size of a palm and more than one meter wide, was just a continental product at that time, but the metal on the scroll was made of pure gold, and the gold was shining very beautifully.
The scroll was opened and examined in detail, and it contains a detailed record of some of Rome's smelting techniques at its heyday. Then he carefully rolled it up, and the belt buckle was buckled and carefully put aside, and there were twelve such gold scrolls, the size of which was basically the same.
It's just that the content recorded on the parchment is different, and there is a record of agriculture in it, and the records in it are very detailed. From how to clear the land to farm to the forecast of the agricultural season, then how to harvest and then produce refined food, the growth of several crops is recorded. For example, wheat, for example, grapes, for example, olive trees, etc., etc., are very detailed.
The third scroll is an introduction to the touch livestock industry, both domestic animals, such as chickens, ducks and geese. There are even breeding methods and breeding schedules for cattle, sheep, dogs, pigs and other poultry and livestock, and even several compound feed formulas are recorded in detail. It is convenient to grasp the essence of animal husbandry, which is simply an encyclopedia.
This scroll contains medical use, education use, marching and war training, and even a city construction plan. A total of 12 sets of gold scrolls cover all aspects of production and life, and this is a living encyclopedia. It was also the highest technical achievement at the time, and with this set of encyclopedias, you can survive no matter what wild place you are.
In addition to these twelve sets of encyclopedias, there are also a number of rulers of various shapes, but all made of gold, which is soft but easy to preserve. Rulers of all shapes and sizes are placed in a compartment, and in addition to these rulers, there are some bottles and jars, which are filled with seeds of some agricultural products. Although it is well sealed, the seeds have become black and moldy, and it is impossible to plant them again, otherwise the wheat seeds obtained from more than 1,000 years ago would surely cause a sensation among agricultural experts all over the world.
In addition, those little drawers are filled with shrunken tools that can be assembled like Transformers. There are small tools for life, such as small hammers, small chisels, and small scissors, and this also includes a model of a well, and the largest thing like a catapult, which is assembled to form a large siege equipment.
In addition, there are some metal bottles in the lower drawers, which are full of some medicines. Because there are ointments, powders, and so on, and even what kind of symptoms are labeled on them? Most of them are topical drugs for the treatment of trauma. It seems that ancient Rome thousands of years ago had paid great attention to the hygiene of the legions going out to fight, and a plague caused tens of thousands of legions to be wiped out.
Even the Roman Empire could not bear such losses at that time, so the details of the life of the legions going out to fight were standardized, and there were even medicinal powders for disinfection of water sources, which shows how developed the level of science and technology was at that time.