Chapter 692: Stir-fry the story
Although Zhao Yu didn't give up, he couldn't think of any good way to think about it, and when he felt hopeless, things suddenly took a turn for the better. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoOne day, Hao Yuntong asked to see him and said that he had found a strange case, this patient was a big food businessman, and during his stay in Qiongzhou, his hair and beard first fell out, and then he was weak and had a persistent fever. However, they could not find any disease, and they did not get better when they tried to use medicine, so the doctors who received the treatment were worried that it was an epidemic and reported it, and they still could not find it after the consultation, so they asked His Majesty to come.
Zhao Yu knew that he had a few brushes, but the real doctors couldn't see it, and his eyes were even darker. But if he came up, he would be too faceless, so he went to the hospital to see this patient, and he was shocked when he saw it, the head of the big food merchant was completely turned into a gourd, and there was no hair left, but his face was pale, and his lips were blue.
At first sight, Zhao Hao really muttered, he had really seen this kind of situation in his previous life, it was an operator in charge of welding flaw detection in the shipyard, because of long-term exposure to radiation, and did not pay attention to personal protection, as a result, he got radiation sickness, and finally died of leukemia. But what made him strange was that the current emitting element had not yet been discovered, and that thing was not something that anyone could touch if they wanted to, so he didn't dare to say for sure.
So Zhao Yu asked tentatively, starting from the initial symptoms, and then asked if he was in the jewelry business. Because he knows that some radioactive minerals exist in the gem raw materials in the form of inclusions, especially the chemical properties of zircon are very stable, so gem-quality ones can also be seen in the gravel of rivers, and zircon's gem-quality zircon after cutting is very similar to diamonds, so it is not impossible to consider from this aspect.
Unfortunately, it was said by Zhao Yu one by one. When asked if his companion had the same symptoms, the merchant shook his head and said no, and that he had a craftsman with a similar illness and had died before he set sail. In this way, Zhao Yu concluded that this big food merchant was suffering from radiation sickness, and what made him strange was that this 'gem' had very little emission, and if it wasn't worn for a long time or touched for a long time, it shouldn't have gotten sick?
Zhao Yu pondered for a while and there was only one answer, that thing must be extremely precious, so the big food merchant would hide it by his side to prevent it from being lost, but he didn't know that he was sharing the same bed with death. Thinking about it, he asked again, and it was the turn of the big food merchant to be surprised, he did hide a rare treasure in his cabin, but he never mentioned it to anyone, even if his companions didn't know, but the young man in front of him said it well, and he couldn't help but be shocked.
Talking to people in this era about excessive radioactivity is equivalent to playing the piano to a cow, Zhao Yu can only say another thing, saying that this thing is an evil thing that eats human essence and blood, which leads to a loss of qi and blood, hair loss, weakness, and loss of life after a long time. The big food merchant was busy asking how to crack it, and Zhao Yu didn't know how sick he was, so he naturally didn't dare to say that he was cured well or was dying, and the top priority was to stay away from this thing to avoid hurting himself, so he said that he could only isolate the 'treasure' as soon as possible and maybe it could be saved.
No matter how much the merchant loves money, he can't care much in the face of fate, and the big food merchant heard that there is also a slow child who sent the treasure. Zhao Yu didn't dare to open it at that time, and ordered everyone to stay away, and asked Hao Yuntong to prescribe some blood and qi replenishing medicine for him to go back to eat and see, as for whether he can recover, he can only resign himself to fate. Seeing that everyone was facing their 'treasures', the great food merchant at first suspected that someone had fraudulently obtained the treasure, but now he also believed in it, took the medicine but left the treasure in a hurry.
Zhao Hao hurriedly ordered the Imperial Warden to build a wooden chest lined with lead plates, re-seal the treasure chest, and isolate the rays before bringing it back to the palace. He was also curious about what this invisible 'baby' was, and when he opened the inner box, he saw how white light shot out from within, instantly illuminating the slightly dimly lit room, which turned out to be a night pearl the size of an ostrich egg. Upon closer inspection, there is a dragon-shaped core wrapped in it. He knew that no one in this era could use the method of filling to falsify, which was more precious, and it was no wonder that the big food merchant had to watch it without leaving him.
What is the night pearl, Zhao Yu does not particularly know, only knows that it is some luminous materials in the earth from the initial magma eruption, to the later geological movement, gathered in the ore, containing these luminous rare elements of the stone, after processing is what people call the night pearl. The specific value is also difficult to say, in his previous life, he had seen night pearls with a price tag of millions in jewelry stores, and he had also seen the so-called night pearls that could be bought for dozens of dollars in handicraft stores.
In this era, the reason why the night pearl is precious, Zhao Yu thinks that it is still rare and expensive! And the piece in front of me is even more strange, with deadly radioactive elements. How to deal with it, he is still a little hesitant, it is a scourge to stay in the world, and it is a pity to smash it, but if you want to harm people, it is a good thing, and God can put people to death without knowing it, and there is not the slightest trace.
In his previous life, Zhao had seen the mystery of the cursed gem, including a pure gold ornament inlaid with beetle-shaped gems belonging to the famous Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, but Tutankhamun died shortly after obtaining the ornament, at the age of less than twenty, and the scarab jewel was buried in his huge pure gold coffin.
Later, Tutankhamun's tomb was excavated by British archaeologists, and the treasure was rediscovered, and it was stolen and circulated in various channels in Egypt. First a South African seafarer won it from the table and then brought it to South Africa. The seafarer gave it to his daughter, who died soon after falling overboard during a sea trip, and the seafarer's body was washed up on the beach on the coast, and his daughter died suddenly of leukemia.
The seafarer's wife, believing that the scarab jewel was cursed and would bring more bad luck to the family, resold it to a South African woman. Tragedy struck again, the South African woman's daughter also died of leukemia! The woman was so grief-stricken that she was ready to sell the jewel, but the seller had been found, and the night before the transaction, her husband suddenly died in his sleep.
The ornament was eventually sealed in a glass frame by the Cairo Museum in Egypt, and no one knows exactly what caused the owner to die of leukemia, only that it was cursed by the king, but some researchers say that the gem contains radioactive materials, causing the wearer to be exposed to radiation for a long time and become sick. The current situation is similar, and the artisan and merchant are sick because of it......
As soon as his mind opened, Zhao Hao felt that he might be a bad guy in nature, and the first thing that came to mind was to harm people, and he also thought of a new way to assassinate Kublai Khan. People say that when an emperor is poor and extravagant, they often say that he likes to collect gems, not only to rob them by any means, but even to start a war to plunder. In fact, he thinks that everyone basically likes these things, but he just can't get them. It is said that the Mengyuan royal family is particularly fond of gemstones, and Genghis Khan once had a night pearl that could illuminate the entire tent without lighting a candle.
Now that the tools for killing people are available, and the methods are also available, because once the Night Pearl leaves his hands, it is no longer under his control, and how to ensure that it is delivered to Kublai Khan's eyes, and that it cannot be hidden deep in the treasury, and that it must be exposed to radiation for a long time. You must know that Meng Yuan swept through Europe and Asia, and also set foot in Europe and Africa, which can be said to have destroyed countless countries, and the looted treasures are calculated by cars, presumably there will be things like night pearls, and it is not easy to make such a little-known bead as a treasure.
There are always more ways than difficulties, and besides, this is the most feasible method since Zhao Hao plotted to kill Kublai Khan. He recalled the cases of some merchants who made a fortune by speculation in his previous life, those people could package and process the Yabai that was used as firewood to make it sky-high, and the most common mung beans in the vegetable market could also make them sell out of stock, in addition to garlic, Pu'er tea, walnuts and beaver rats, etc., anyway, these people have the ability to sell the most worthless things at a gold price. And the hype method is to exaggerate its role, or let it get involved with celebrities, so as to inflate its value.
Zhao Hao felt that the methods of those unscrupulous merchants could also be used for reference, so the idlers in the Hanlin Academy had something to do, and he ordered these people to find out the legends about the Night Pearl and the celebrity anecdotes related to it in the past dynasties, and then report it quickly. The job of these people is to serve him for fun, and they are naturally no strangers to jewelry and antiques, but they will send the relevant documents in two days.
The rest of the matter is Zhao Yu's, he carefully flipped through the scroll, only to know that the night pearl was known as "Sui Zhu", "Hanging Pearl", "Weeping Thorn", "Bright Moon Pearl", etc., which is a rare treasure. According to historical records, as early as the prehistoric Yandi Shenjia, there have been overnight pearls, such as Shennong's king of stone balls, known as "night mines". The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, such as "Hanging Li" and "Hanging Thorn Wall", are priceless, comparable and bi. At that time, only the two big officials Tao Lai Gong (Fan He) and Price Dun (a big merchant during the Warring States Period) could afford it.
The Jin State once used the "wall of thorns" as a bait to "fake the head and Yu to compile on behalf of the editor". Doctors from Chu, Qin, Wei and other countries once used the night pearl to imply philosophy and discuss national affairs. Qin Shi Huang was buried in the night pearl, in the mausoleum "to replace the anointing candle". Empress Guangwu of the Han Dynasty's younger brother Guo Kuang "hung pearls and hung on all sides, looking at them like stars during the day and like the moon at night" to show off his wealth. Wu Zetian gave Xuanzong the jade dragon in the night pearl, and Xuanzong returned to the son (Shizong) to clear the pearl and illuminate a room. In the Tang Dynasty, a night pearl called "Water Droplet" was sold for hundreds of millions.
In this dynasty, the royal family also likes the night pearl, and has sent officials to Sri Lanka to buy the ruby night pearl and garnet night pearl, among which there are several emerald night pearls, and the night is as bright as a candle. But some people regard it as a treasure, while others abandon it. In ancient times, some people did not know the treasure, and once abandoned the bay of the night of the hanging dawn. An old peasant in Wei got a pearl with a diameter and ruler, and when he saw that the night was terrifying, he threw it into the far field. There are also people who regard the night pearl as a "disaster water" and "hit between the sand and stones".
Zhao Yu found that although some of them were just legends, the Night Pearl had become a culture of its own in history with its beauty, nobility and mystery, so he also had the material to make up stories. Shennong's 'Night Mine' sounds famous, but the era is too old, and this era is not as famous as modern times, after all, the mention of the descendants of Yan and Huang has not yet appeared, and its reputation is not as positive as modern times, so this has been denied.
There are also some legends that are worth a lot of money, but they lack legend and are not eye-catching enough; Others are either not well-known enough, or too bland to make people possessive. Zhao Yu chose to choose only the night pearl in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is more suitable, and in terms of fame, it is an emperor through the ages; And it is also domineering enough to unify the six countries with martial arts; In addition, this thing is clearly recorded in the historical books, and there is empirical evidence, not fabrication.
However, what Qin Shi Huang's bead lacks is a legend, and everyone knows that it has long been buried in the imperial tomb, which is difficult to justify. But what is Zhao Hao doing? He just wanted some materials, and the records of ancient books are often very brief, and the descriptions of the beads are often a sentence without detailing, and there is no record of what the beads are like and how big they are. Besides, Qin Shi Huang has left enough legends, and it only takes a little processing to make it a perfect story.
Of course, this kind of thing is that the fewer people who know, the better, and Mengyuan has attached great importance to intelligence work since the time of Genghis Khan, and now Qiongzhou merchants and tourists come and go, and a large number of immigrants have entered, it is difficult to ensure that there are no Mongol spies among them, so Zhao Yu is an extremely important part of the action Zhao Yu did not fake others, but completed this work himself, so this originally plain night pearl has a new origin.
The story originated when Xu Fu went to sea for the first time to look for immortals, but when Xu Fu returned, he told him that there were big mackerel in the sea, preventing him from looking for immortals. So Qin Shi Huang personally went out to shoot mackerel in the East China Sea, and as a result, he got a huge night pearl from the belly of a mackerel that was shot, and the light was as bright as a candle at night. It is said that this thing is owned by the Dragon King of the East China Sea, and it is precisely because of this thing that the Dragon King can survive in the dark undersea, in other words, the immortality of the Dragon King of the East China Sea depends on the irradiation of this bead.
As for Qin Shi Huang's failure to live a long life, it was precisely because he did not carry this night pearl on the way to inspect that he fell ill. The burial in the mausoleum is also to ensure that the body does not decay so that it can be reborn. And now it appears in the world, it is that after Xiang Yu captured Xianyang, he was smuggled out of the mausoleum by someone who stole the imperial tomb, and the winner went away in order to avoid disaster, and the news of this night pearl also disappeared, leaving only rumors in the rivers and lakes.
This reappearance was due to a heavy rain that washed away half of the mountain, and it was discovered because of the strange light. It is rumored that the appearance of the Night Pearl at this time is an auspicious appearance, and the winner will not only live forever, but also become the co-ruler of the world......