Chapter 249: Ruby Mine
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The moon shadow lantern began in the Sui Dynasty, about 609 A.D., Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty personally conquered Tuguhun, when the west and Central Asia were barren, thousands of miles away from Kyoto, melancholy was inevitable, looking at the sky alone, looking up to the moon and thinking of the capital. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗
At this time, there was a palace maid beside her, dancing under the moon and setting candles with the shadows.
Emperor Yang suddenly exclaimed: The desert is empty, and there is a woman under the moon in his heart, and he has feet!
So he ordered his courtiers to make a two-moon shadow lamp, and asked that when the candle light was lit, there must be a shadow of the palace maid dancing and fiddling on the walls of the tent.
After more than two months of experimentation, through the high temperature in the lampshade and the low temperature of the thin air outside, the convection repeatedly refracted the unpredictable effect of the moon shadow.
I really didn't expect that Sun Miaoran would be able to get such a fragment of the legendary thing.
It seems that not only Jin San is lucky, but other people's luck is also very good.
It's just that this kind of luck is good luck in some people, but it is not of great use in ordinary people.
"What is the one that Aunt Xiao Ran bought?" Jin Lan saw that Jin San was looking so seriously, and finally couldn't help asking. ╔╗
"This is a patch on the moonshadow lamp, which is a very precious thing." Jin San said, Jin San gave them a brief description of the situation of the moon shadow lamp, of course, the beautiful scene after the moon shadow lamp was lit, he also described it very vividly.
"Huh? How do you know? Although Sun Miaoran also thought that this thing of hers should have a very good background, she couldn't connect it with the Moon Shadow Lantern.
"My eyes can see the past, no matter what it is, I can see all its experiences, how is it, amazing?" Jin San said jokingly.
"Then the third uncle, look at my gemstone necklace, see if it is real, it is rumored that it has something to do with a ruby mine, third uncle, can you see that it is really the key to the treasure?" Jin Lan asked seriously.
Bai Yu couldn't laugh when he heard it: "Xiaolan is so cute." ”
"Cuter than you, how much do you see how much Xiaolan trusts me as an uncle?" Jin San said to Bai Yu.
"Then Xiaolan's lovely third uncle will show her if she can use this necklace to find a big treasure, if she really finds a ruby mine. Then we'll really get rich. Bai Yu said.
Zhang Yan also joked on the side: "Then even take a look at my piece of jade, I heard the stall owner say that it was a piece of Karamay jade, if it is true, then you can see where it came from." ╔╗
You must know the Karamay jade in the Karamay Desert now. Haven't found the veins yet. If you can see the past of this jade, then you can definitely see how it appeared here, where it was first unearthed. That's where its veins are. ”
"Yes, yes, third uncle, you have to look seriously, I like rubies. But this ruby is too ugly, if I really find the ruby vein, I have to dig up the ruby myself, I have to dig up a big ruby, make a necklace, the necklace should be full of rubies, and the largest one will be hanging underneath. "Jin Lan's eyes are full of little stars.
Jin San didn't expect that his words would make these women have such a beautiful association. However, he was really moved, so he picked up Jin Lan's ugly ruby necklace and activated his ability.
Jin San was a little speechless, what did he see?
War, killing. Captivity, abuse, deserts, dreamy canyons like rubies. Below are the miners, and below are the countless rubies.
This is indeed a necklace about treasures. And it's really a ruby vein. ╔╗
In the picture, an army pursues the enemy in the desert, and as a guide to the captives, it leads the army to a fantastical canyon.
In this place full of yellow sand, there is such a canyon, and all the soldiers are very happy.
On both sides of the canyon, under the light of the sun, colorful lights flickered, exuding a dreamlike scene, which made all the soldiers nostalgic.
Unbeknownst to them, it was a death trap, and when they entered the center of the canyon, they found a large number of rubies left behind by their original owners, much to the delight of the army.
Waiting for the night to come, they held a grand party, but they didn't know that it was a huge death trap.
While the carnival was in full swing, some soldiers began to lose sight, and then, all the soldiers were blind, and the slaves who had been captives began to stretch out their sharp fangs.
When they passed through the canyon during the day, the sunlight was reflected by the transparent crystals in the canyon, and their eyes were in that place for a long time, as if they had been illuminated by flashbangs, and now the evil consequences appeared, and all of them went blind.
The 10,000-strong army was captured by a few thousand captives, and from then on the 10,000-strong soldiers began their miserable life, and they were left behind as mine slaves. ╔╗
Through some of the characters and words in it, Jin San finally understood that this was something that happened during the heyday of Mongolia, and this should be a scene when Mongolia conquered Central Asia in the west.
After Temujin's death, his grandson Möngke ascended the throne and dreamed of establishing a martial arts rival that of Genghis Khan.
In addition to planning to occupy the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty to the south, Möngke Khan also wanted to expand his territory in both the east and west directions.
At the same time as the fifth Mongol expedition to Goryeo, Möngke Khan sent an army of 120,000 people under the command of the kings Hulegu to expedition to Western Asia.
After the main army of Hülegü joined the Mongolian and ancient armies of about 50,000 people who had been stationed in West Asia and Southwest Asia, its strength became even stronger.
In the spring of 1256, the Mongol and Guxi expeditions crossed the Amu Darya River and entered the unconquered Persian region.
At the end of the same year, Hülegü led a large army across the Amu Darya River and into the Murayi region (present-day northern Iran), where he annihilated a large number of Murayi** and broke through the country's last stronghold, the Fort of Araga, and wiped out the religious state, which was famous for its assassins. ╔╗
In 1257, Hulegu led the Mongol army to invade the country of Baoda (present-day Iraq) in three ways, annihilated the main force of the ** team in the Tigris River region, captured the country's capital Baghdad, and ended the rule of the Abbasids.
In 1258, Hulegu marched into Syria and forced into the Syrian capital of Damascus, where King Nasir fled and the city of Damascus surrendered.
After that, Hülegü continued his offensive and, after occupying the Mediterranean states, prepared to cross the Sinai Peninsula to attack Egypt.
At this time, the news of Meng Ge's death came, and the general of Hülegu cowardly stayed in Syria and led his troops to return east.
This was the end of the third and last western expedition of the Mongolian and Cuban armies.
In 1260, Egypt numbly left a guest to defeat the cowardly Buhua, the cowardly Buhua died in battle, and in the end, tens of thousands of Mongolians and ancients were buried in Syria, and no one could have imagined that the invincible Mongolian and Cuban armies, there was once a team of 10,000 people, lost in the Syrian desert.
The Syrian Desert is the Arabic word for desert in West Asia, found in northern Saudi Arabia, western Iraq, southern Syria, and eastern Jordan.
It covers an area of about 324,000 square kilometres, with an annual precipitation of less than 125 mm, most of which is covered with lava, making it unsuitable for grazing and difficult to navigate.
Only a small number of herders live in the Hamad region to the south, which was a major obstacle to transportation in West Asia in ancient times, and is crossed by oil pipelines and roads in modern times.
In such a place, it is almost impossible for the Mongolian and ancient armies lost in the desert to have a chance to escape, but there is such a lucky person, after thirty years, who is lucky to escape.
And the ruby on the ruby necklace in Jin Lan's hand was one of the gems brought out by this Mongolian veteran, but he didn't expect it to fall into Jin Lan's hands now.
The fate of this Mongolian and ancient soldier was also very miserable, but he got out of that hell after a lot of hard work and found the local Mongolian and ancient garrisons, but he was treated as a deserter.
Because of old age and decrepitude, they finally saved their old life, but their 10,000-strong team was hidden by those in power, because, how could the invincible Mongolian and ancient armies be captured by a formed team of 10,000 people?
Disheartened by this encounter, he never mentioned anything about the ruby veins again, and in this way, it took him several years before he returned to his homeland, but by this time his death was not far off.
Not long after returning to his hometown, the Mongolian and ancient soldiers fell ill and died, and then the ruby necklace changed hands several times and was finally obtained by Jin Lan.
If it was something else, it would definitely be like this peddler, who disposed of this ruby necklace as garbage, but it was different when Jin San got it.
Knowing that a gem vein is in the Syrian desert, Jin San has to go to see it, that place in Central Asia, which has been in war for many years, has not been calm until now.
Jin San carefully inspected the scene of the escape of the Mongolian veterans back then, and in such an environment, even the local Arabs did not dare to enter and exit at will.
Now no one knows if there is still that gem vein back then, but as long as there is a chance, Jin San also wants to see it.
There are relatively few sources of rubies in the world, mainly distributed in Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, India, Tanzania, China and other places.
Jin Sanke had never heard of rubies produced in Syria, which means that this ruby vein may not have been discovered yet, and of course, it may have been mined by the ancient Arabs.
Most of the world's rubies are found in small areas of alluvial deposits.
The more precious the ruby, the harsher the environment in which it grows.
Similarly, rubies are mined in difficult conditions, such as those found in Myanmar, which often require up to 15 feet of cover to be stripped to reach the gem-bearing gravel layer before they can be truly mined.
But the picture Jin San saw was different, although there was also a covering layer in the canyon to cover the gem mine, but the gem veins distributed in the shape of hills, most of the gravel layers, were exposed on the side of the canyon or hills, so it was much easier to mine.
It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to gradually screen out delicate and beautiful gemstones from a large amount of gravel, which is like a big wave washing sand, but if it can be mined without digging deeply, such gem mines are rare.
The carefully selected work took a lot of manpower, material resources and time, and with the conditions of the time, and the hidden methods of the Arabs, Jin Sancai did not believe that they had already mined all of them.