Chapter Forty-Eight: The First Diamonds
A morning sun slowly rises on the empty horizon, the weeds everywhere are dyed with a pale yellow, everything is awake and vibrant, and the animals of the African savannah have begun their day of foraging.
The wildebeest herd is leisurely gnawing on the grass roots, they are in groups, not afraid of the general lions surrounding, zebras and antelopes are also in groups in the vast grassland looking for fresh plants, patches of zebras pave the earth into a black and white, as far as the eye can see, low bushes, distant foothills, endless grasslands, Africa's unique tropical scenery in full view.
In the direction of the northern side of the grassland, a cloud of smoke and dust rolled up, and a jeep kept approaching the zebra herd, but the zebras did not react in the slightest, because they had never seen such a thing as a jeep.
The jeep stopped two or three hundred meters away from the herd, and the herd was not afraid of this behemoth hundreds of meters away, because in their simple heads, such a distance was already a safe distance.
From the rear window of the jeep, a half-meter-long muzzle slowly poked out, and then a "bang" was heard, and in the zebra herd, a large adult zebra fell to the ground.
Many of the old horses in the herd let out a disturbed cry, and soon the herd slowly moved towards the next pasture, leaving only the carcass of an adult zebra in the original land.
The jeep quickly drove up, and two people walked down from the jeep, Wang Xiaowu and another young man came down to check, only to see Wang Xiaowu turn his head and say to the car with a flattering face: "Brother Lin!" Digo! Right in the head! This marksmanship is truly amazing! Judging from Wang Xiaowu's tone, this kind of scene seems to have been seen many times.
"That's it." Di Yan, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, blew into the muzzle of the gun, "Don't look at whose marksmanship it is." β
"Lao Di, don't brag, with a fixed shot within two hundred meters, you can only deceive these ancient people." Lin Yue, who was sitting in the driver's seat, dug his nostrils and mocked.
Di Yanke, who was sitting in the back row, didn't mind kicking the seat in the front row at all, "You talk a lot." β
"Hey! You don't like to say that."
"You two, hurry up and carry this zebra carcass to the back, it's all numb." Seeing that Lin Yue still wanted to theorize, Di Yan hurriedly issued an order to the two people outside the car and diverted the topic.
When Wang Xiaowu and another young man heard this, they hurriedly lifted the fallen zebra up, and then laboriously lifted it into the back compartment of the jeep, where several animal carcasses had already been placed, including a wildebeest, an antelope, and a small crocodile half a foot long.
"Is it ready? Let's get on the bus when you're ready. Lin Yue, who was sitting in the driver's seat, also urged.
"Alright, alright." Wang Xiaowu and the others hurriedly opened the back door and got into the car.
After getting into the car, Wang Xiaowu and the young man both showed admiration for Di Yan, especially the gun in Di Yan's hand, which made the eyes of the two of them look fearful and worshipy.
"Brother Di, your marksmanship is really good, this thing can't hit anything in our hands, as long as Brother Di takes it, then killing the enemy is the same as probing the bag and taking things, and you can take the head of the enemy general from a hundred feet, if on the battlefield, Brother Di uses this musket to kill those Khitans, it is not to see who kills whom."
Hearing Wang Xiaowu's compliment, Di Yan waved his hand and said, "I've heard you say this a hundred and eighty times, and I haven't heard you change." β
"Hey, hey." Wang Xiaowu scratched his head embarrassedly, "The little one doesn't know, the little one is that every time I see Brother Di playing so accurately, I want to boast about it, if Brother Di joins the army with this gun, then he will definitely be appreciated by His Majesty the Emperor and become a general." β
Hearing Wang Xiaowu's naΓ―ve words, Di Yan shook his head and said, "The general is not enough, as long as Lao Tzu wants to, there is no problem in being the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty." As soon as these words came out, Lin Yue and Di Yan didn't care about Wang Xiaowu and the others who were shocked, but laughed at the same time
On the plain covered with weeds and trees, a large clearing has been cleared at some point, and in that clearing, a busy scene is in full swing.
Hundreds of slaves with baskets, hoes and sunhats were digging in the clearing, and in a quagmire of artificiality, women and children were panning for diamonds in baskets of sand.
In the middle of this open field, those servants have dug a large pit with a diameter of more than ten meters and a depth of two meters. "Here's another piece." Something like that.
In an independent board room not far from the mine, Jiang Yin was sitting at a table, carefully admiring the hundreds of dazzling small stones on the table.
Diamond, originally a substance made of carbon like cheap coal, was condensed into the hardest and most brilliant diamond after high pressure and high temperature underground.
From charcoal to diamonds, just the change in appearance, so that the two have a different identity treatment, the former is the energy used to burn at will, and the latter has become the decoration pursued by countless women in later generations.
The myth of 'a diamond is forever' has been witnessed countless times in later generations, and its rarity determines its high price.
The price of a one-carat G-H color, SI1-2 clarity, 3EX cut, non-fluorescent, milk-free coffee green medium diamond in later generations is about 40,000 to 60,000 yuan, not to mention the better roughs, and the price can even exceed 200,000 yuan.
The Hubley diamond mine in South Africa has a unique geographical environment, where diamonds are first sent to the surface through volcanic eruptions, and most of them are located in a kind of rock pipe or "throat" called kimberlite, which leads from the earth's crust to the ground like a pipe in the ground, resulting in its diamonds are not only large, but also very high-quality, and many of the world's famous giant diamonds are produced here.
Most of the diamonds densely placed on the table in front of Jiang Yin weighed about three carats, and there were dozens of large diamonds that were broken out of the rock, weighing about fifteen carats, and one of the largest weighing more than thirty-two carats.
The total value of a table of diamonds is estimated to be as high as 130 million yuan, which is still Jiang Yin's conservative estimate.
Now that the mining is in place, all that needs to be done is to go back to the modern era and sell them all.
"Didi." The horn of the jeep sounded outside, and the corners of Jiang Yin's mouth smiled slightly, he knew that his two subordinates had returned from hunting, so he walked out of the board room and asked loudly towards the jeep parked not far away, "Is hunting enjoyable?" β
Lin Yue and Di Yan both got out of the car, Di Yan touched the gun on his back and said: "Pleasant is pleasant, but the gun is not good, or the old gun that is old, when can Jiang Shao replace me with a 95 type, no matter how bad it is, I can make up for it with an 81." β
"Pull it down, it's just that this old gun was purchased from the black market through Manager Xu, and if you want to buy a gun in China, it's not an ordinary difficulty." After Jiang Yin smiled and sneered, his face gradually became serious, "You two are ready to prepare, let's go back to modern times soon, the first batch of goods will be delivered."