The sergeant asked with some hesitation, "My lord, captain, is this jade?" ”

Jade? The sergeants around him were also interested, and they surrounded them, touched the gem a few times, praised it a few times, and Zhou Quan also touched a few handfuls, and said in a very authoritative voice: "Well, it's jade, green jade." ”

"Is the kind of jade used by the emperor in Luoyang City?"

"Nobles also use it, aren't there some noblewomen in Hepu County who use this kind of jade?"

"Yes, it jingles when you walk"

"How much is that worth?"

"I don't know"

"Alright." Zhou Quan shouted: "It's better than a liter of corn, what's the noise?"

Lin Bei heard this, a little speechless, such a good piece of gem in the eyes of the sergeants is not as good as a liter of corn, it seems that the sergeants really don't understand the market, but think about it carefully, this kind of gem has to be improved in later generations, after the rise of the collection fever, the value of gems has risen significantly, in ancient times, it seems that many families have gemstones, especially some wealthy families, jade bowls and cups are too common, so although jade is gorgeous at this time, But it is indeed not hundreds or thousands of times higher than its own value like in later generations, so Lin Bei was indifferent.

Subsequently, Lin Bei told himself, don't look at these ancient things from the eyes of modern people, yes, these emeralds are valuable in modern times, but Lin Bei now sees less valuable things? Like the winged ship, if this kind of ship is well preserved and sold in the 21st century, it will be worth tens of millions, and if the wooden bowls and basins of the residents in Wanghai City are well preserved, they can also be sold for a lot of money in modern times, but now these are useful? There is some truth in what Zhou Quan said, it is better than a liter of rice.

"Thoughtful." Lin Beidao: "Let the sergeants work in a team of two, and take a look left and right to see if there is anything strange." By the way, let's focus on whether there are any ores or anything like that. ”

"My lord, I don't understand what ore is, and the sergeants probably don't either." Zhou Quan said very honestly.

"Well, then take a look at it, and if you feel weird and come back and report it, I'll go to the mountain pass."

"No."

Crawl alone towards the crater. Lin Bei recalled the information of the crater fiercely in his mind, and he didn't know much about this aspect, all he knew were some common descriptions on the Internet, such as knowing volcanic ash, such as knowing that volcanoes can spew gems, such as knowing that volcanoes can spew out minerals underground.

Lin Bei actually wanted to find out if there was iron ore here, if there were iron ore veins under the original volcano, then the iron ore would be melted at high temperatures, and the molten iron would splash out with the volcanic eruption. And solidified again.

If this is the case, then this kind of iron ore belongs to the top grade iron ore, because the impurities have been almost removed, plus the iron absorbs oxygen on the ground, some iron can even be turned into steel, this is not a hundred steel, but a modern steel in the real sense.

While thinking, Lin Bei approached the crater. The temperature here is not too high, and it is not comparable to the fountain area below. Lin Bei saw that there was also a thick layer of moss growing on the rocks of the crater.

Climbed up, the original appearance of the crater appeared in front of Lin Bei, this is a crater with a diameter of about 100 meters, looking towards the bottom of the mountain pass, Lin Bei saw that the bottom of the big cave in the mountain pass was green, and there were many plants below. It seems that there are some animals in it, and there is a lot of fog.

"About two hundred meters deep." Lin Bei estimated the depth from the lower crater to the bottom, which was already very shallow, and Lin Bei directly skimmed the plants. Focus on the rock walls and bottoms.

"There doesn't seem to be any resource worth paying attention to." Lin Bei thought with some disappointment.

The sergeants came back one after another, and reported their findings to Lin Bei, but there was nothing noteworthy, but when Zhou Quan came back, he brought back a piece of news, and found a black rock belt on his side, which Zhou Quan thought should be iron.

"How big is the black rock belt?"

"It is more than four zhang long and only more than one zhang wide."

Such a small rock belt, even if there is iron, there must not be much, but Lin Bei still went to take a look, and asked the sergeant to stab this black area with the head of a spear, and finally Lin Bei determined that this place was indeed molten iron, which fell nearby with the eruption of magma, and then solidified.

It is certain that there are veins of iron ore underneath the volcano, but it is frustrating that this iron ore is not easy to mine and the rock here is too hard.

"Let's go, get out of here, and go around the jungle again and see if there's anything." North Lim Road.

Entering the dense forest again, Lin Bei and the sergeants did not find it, except for the trees, there are not even herbs, it seems that the trees are luxuriant, but in fact, the resources are quite poor, because of the fountain of the storage zài, there may be a tourist boom here in the future, but in addition to this, there is not much development value.

At night, Lin Bei and the sergeants rested on this island, and Lin Bei planned to set off the next day to take a look around the island to see if there were any other islands, because generally speaking, volcanic eruptions will cause earthquakes, earthquakes will cause the leylines to rise or fall, if the leylines are high, then islands can be formed.

There is definitely no shortage of food here on the island, not to mention the big fish, there are quite a lot of shells and crabs on the seashore alone, in addition to flocks of seabirds, the sergeant got some crabs, lobsters and shells in the sea and came back, and shot more than a dozen seabirds, he can make a delicious meal, Lin Bei's appetite is larger, so he went to the sea to hunt a half-meter-long fish, and the sergeant made a fish soup, so that Lin Bei had a full meal.

On the second day, Lin Bei set off alone, while the sergeants stayed on the island.

Lin Bei, who acts alone, is quite free, with the island as the center, except for the channel when he came, Lin Bei has to be explored in the other three directions, and the range is a hundred miles.

Under this exploration, Lin Bei also found several small islands around, a small island is only a few dozen square meters in size, in addition to the rocks there is not even moss, but there are more seabirds, there is a small island is slightly larger, in the shape of a mountain spire, there are also no plants, it is a colony of seabirds, Lin Bei saw a big bird here, they are albatrosses, although not as big as the moa, but it is also a hegemon on the sea.

Subsequently, Lin Bei discovered the third island, and when he saw this island, Lin Bei didn't know why, so he felt that he should have a harvest, and when he arrived on the island, Lin Bei found that his harvest was big.

This island is slightly smaller than Fountain Island, there are no trees on it, only some rare grass plants, after Lin Bei stepped on the island, when he saw that the ground was black, he was a little flustered.

"These are coals, right? It's really coal, right? ”

A lot of coal was covered by the mud, but more coal was bare/exposed on the island, and the smell of coal could not even stand the birds, except for some seabirds on the edge of the island, the whole island was empty and dead, but Lin Bei was extremely happy.

"It's actually an open-pit coal mine, and this kind of coal looks a little bright, as if it's still anthracite, and it's developed." Lin Bei ran around the island, and deliberately turned over several places to look at the soil, and finally determined that nearly three-quarters of the island had coal, and if the depth was not small, then the coal production here would be quite large.

"Happiness came so quickly, just as the steam wagon needed a lot of combustibles, and coal was much stronger than charcoal."

Lin Bei immediately named this island Coal Island, and then left with a happy mood, with this harvest, he is ready to make persistent efforts, to explore the surrounding area again, if you can find a few more coal islands It would be better, Lin Bei will not think that this kind of resource is more.

However, Lin Bei's luck was obviously used up after discovering the coal island, and then he found three more small islands, one of which is a waste island, only stones, and the other two are similar to the ecology of Fountain Island, there are forests, trees, clawed lizards and moa, but it can only be sightseeing, who will come so far to sightsee in this era.

Then Lin Bei was never found again, and then returned to Fountain Island.

As soon as he arrived on the island, Lin Bei hurriedly called Zhou Quan and asked Zhou Quan to write it down: "There is an island more than 100 miles south of Fountain Island, called Coal Island. At the same time, Zhou Quan also immediately drew a map by hand,

After the joy, Lin Bei had to think about the practical thing, that is, how to develop the island's coal.

Fountain Island is about two hundred and thirty miles away from Wanghai City, and the distance of Coal Island is almost three hundred miles, this distance does not seem to be much, Lin Bei can run to it in three hours, but the boat is not good, in addition, because there are many big fish in the sea, so the small boat is not good, and the big ship must be used as a cargo ship.

Then the problem arises, before the construction of steamships, it was obviously difficult to build a large cargo ship that could sail, which could not be done by putting wooden blocks together.

"Steam ships have to be built, and shipbuilding technology has to be improved, so that it is possible to make cargo ships that can carry tens or hundreds of tons under the two-pronged approach, and this time may be longer, but at least the goal is clear."

In any case, this trip to sea is relatively perfect, just a coal island is worth it, Lin Bei immediately ordered to return to Wanghai City.

"Your Excellency." Zhou He stubbornly said: "Do you need to build a guard tower on this island and send sergeants to garrison it?" ”

Lin Bei glanced at the faces of the sergeants, they were all a little unnatural, they thought that this place was too far away from Wanghai City, once they were stationed here, they might not be able to go back for the rest of their lives, and no one was willing to do so in this case.

"I don't think the sergeants are very willing, so if that's the case, then don't need it, but maybe you won't be able to line up in the future."

Zhou Quan and the sergeants shook their heads, it's strange who wants to come to this kind of ghost place.

Lin Bei smiled dumbly, when the steamship became the mainstream, the speed reached sixty or seventy miles an hour, and these three hundred miles were only four or five hours, and it was convenient to come and go, with the scenery on the island, it was definitely snatched by the sergeants, but these sergeants obviously did not have Lin Bei's advanced vision.

It took a day and a half to return to Wanghai City from Fountain Island, Lin Bei's return, did not cause any waves, after all, he didn't go out for a long time this time, Lin Bei just got on the dock, Bian Ji came to report to Lin Bei, saying that the bicycle had been built by craftsmen, and passed guò test ride. (To be continued......)

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