The old man of the Xie family said that it was a specialty of Hangzhou, but in fact, he paid for the accounts of Li Yuanxing's merchants, but it was only a few hundred. His Royal Highness King Qin does not want to take advantage of the merchants, let alone accept expensive gifts from the merchants, which is clear to all the chambers of commerce in the Tang Dynasty.

In addition to the goods purchased by Li Yuanxing, there are some gifts that are not valuable.

They are all collectibles of each family.

It is no secret that His Royal Highness King Qin likes this.

After a night's rest in Hangzhou, the flying boat took off again. Captain Gao reported softly in front of Li Yuanxing: "Your Highness traveled far this time, everything is normal in Hangzhou City, and there is enough coal to fly for 37,000 miles, but the water is only enough for 8,000 li, and there is no chance to replenish coal from here to the south." ”

Li Yuanxing nodded, he understood.

Captain Gao said again: "Your Highness, there are many trees in the south. Even with wood, we can fly back. ”

"Save as much as you can, don't think about speed. The first stop, fly directly ......" Li Yuanxing pointed to the map, but he was taken aback. Seeing that Li Yuanxing's expression was wrong, Lu Maofeng hurriedly asked, "Your Highness, what's the matter?" ”

"I miscalculated, I originally thought that it was the land of Honsawady, but I didn't expect it to be Tufan. Hopefully, there won't be any unexpected troubles, and the coordinates of this trip must be kept strictly confidential, and no one is allowed to tell them. Give up the trip to Shuzhong, fly directly to the target place, and replenish water on the way! ”

"Yes!" Captain Gao and Lu Maofeng said in unison.

Li Yuanxing instructed again: "Only declare to the outside world that this king wants to see the scenery." So fly slowly to Lingnan. Think about how convincing this time difference is. This time, the route must be kept strictly confidential! ”

"Yes!" The two saluted again.

The straight-line distance from Hangzhou to Li Yuanxing is more than 2,400 kilometers, that is, almost 5,000 miles.

According to the cruising speed of Li Yuanxing's flying boat, it takes ten hours to fly, and the coal on the ship is enough.

After Li Yuanxing finished his order, he went back to the house to rest, and all the crew members were changed to three shifts. In addition to the original furnace workers in the boiler, the idle guards of the Qin Wangfu also went to help. For the sergeants. Idle is also idle, not to mention, no one has ever thought that this boiler is cheap work.

Just because this is the boiler of the flying boat.

Ten and a half hours later, almost a day and a night, passed. The next day, before dawn. Captain Gao asked in front of Li Yuanxing: "Your Highness." The road was slower, and it was at most 100 miles away from the target location. I looked at the ground with the ship's telescope, and here are the mountains. There doesn't seem to be a lot of people. ”

"When you came over, did you see any obvious towns?"

"No, there are a few very small villages, but there may be some mountain people among the mountains here!"

Zuihou's positioning, Li Yuanxing can only rely on himself. According to the topographical photographs of later generations, Li Yuanxing stood in the command warehouse and looked around with a telescope.

Burmese jade is actually divided into, water jade, stone jade, and sand jade. This refers to the place of origin, Li Yuanxing didn't have the time to find stone jade, sand jade. It takes too long to dig and it's too labor-intensive. After occupying this piece, Li Yuanxing will really excavate.

Pyroxene jade in the mountains of Myanmar, especially cobblestone-wrapped pyroxene jade, rolls down the mountain with torrential rains.

In later times, it is almost impossible to find jade in the riverbed.

Pyroxene jade also has a nice name, which is called jadeite.

Jadeite really flowed into China through merchants in the seventeenth century, and the Tang Dynasty was only in the seventh century, and it was still a rocky mountain, and there were not even a few households, and no one knew what jade was, even if they saw it, they didn't know its value.

What Li Yuanxing was looking for this time was the cobblestones that had been washed down from the mountain by torrential rain and torrents, and the cobblestones wrapped in jade.

The sky has been bright, Li Yuanxing has been flying in the air for almost an hour, but he still has not found a riverbed that must have jade, geographically speaking, there may be jade in dozens of dry riverbeds of various sizes here, but Li Yuanxing cannot knock it open one by one.

Helplessly, Li Yuanxing borrowed the help of the time machine.

"Can you scan it for me?"

"Consume the energy of a crossing, you can do it at any time! But it can only help you find similarities, and it is impossible to distinguish in detail what you call those colors. ”

"Let's go!"

Under the instructions of the time machine, Li Yuanxing closed his eyes.

When he opened it again, Li Yuanxing saw countless colored dots in his eyes, the method of the time machine was very simple, and the color inside the stone was reflected on Li Yuanxing's eyes.

"Landing, the valley!" Li Yuanxing stretched out his hand.

The flying boat landed immediately, and Li Yuanxing jumped down hurriedly without waiting for it to stop, because the reaction in his eyes was only half an hour.

"This, this, this!" Li Yuanxing kept using ink to dot one stone after another.

At that moment, there was a sergeant who was responsible for moving back the stones picked by Li Yuanxing to the standard.

"Seventy percent of all the stones here are jade. You can move as you please! After the green dot in Li Yuanxing's eyes disappeared, Li Yuanxing shouted.

Is it jade?

Yu Zhen'er had never seen jadeite, and she didn't know what kind of jade rough would be good jade inside, but she just asked Wang Ba to help smash open a watermelon-sized stone, which was pale green, and Yu Zhen'er exclaimed: "It's really jade, jade in the stone!" ”

"This is a low-grade goods, now I don't have the time to pick them one by one, I will open a piece of the ones that this king is looking for, and there may be a high-quality good goods." Speaking of this, Li Yuanxing smiled: "Wang Yu's family, you pick some, as long as your king's back moves, no matter what is inside, it will be rewarded to you by this king!" ”

"Your Highness!" The king saluted, and then carried a stone that was a man tall.

Yu Zhen'er hurriedly shouted, "Put it down quickly." ”

After Wang Ba put it down, Yu Zhen'er wiped Wang Ba's sweat: "I'm tired." It's just an ordinary stone, jade is the essence of heaven and earth, and it is naturally an ancient treasure. ”

"I don't understand!"

Yu Zhen'er walked around on the dry riverbed, and it took a long time to pick a piece.

Yu Yuyan and the others got off the flying boat at this time, and saw that the sergeants were moving stones, and Yu Zhen'er seemed to be picking, which was really incomprehensible, Cui Yanyan asked Li Yuanxing: "Your Highness, what is the use of this broken stone?" ”

"There are treasures in the stones, you can also pick a few and see how lucky you are?"

"Then pick three pieces per person and see how lucky?" Wang Yuyan proposed.

Li Yuanxing smiled: "Okay, after moving, everyone on the flying boat will pick a piece and gamble on their luck." ”

Seeing that Princess Qin only picked three pieces, Yu Zhen'er, who originally chose five pieces, gave up two of them, she thought that she couldn't pick more than King Qin's mansion, this is rude, people are too greedy is definitely not a good thing. But these two pieces were afraid of being wasted, so they simply gave one to each of the two princesses.

"Your Highness, if you continue to install it, I'm afraid it will be overloaded." Captain Gao weighed every stone before getting on board.

Someone counted the load.

"How many?"

"Your Highness, the stone is loaded with more than five tons. Together with the attaché, the standard loading capacity has already been reached. Captain Gao replied solemnly, and said again: "Your Highness, at most you will be overloaded, and you will be afraid of danger." ”

Li Yuanxing nodded, safety first, after all, this is not in Datang.

With Li Yuanxing's permission, Captain Gao shouted: "Everyone, each person will carry another basket and leave a piece for themselves and return to the boat." After shouting, he said to the person in charge of the weight: "Two and a half tons is the upper limit, don't dare to more, order the machine to start pressurizing and be ready to take off at any time." ”

Many, really much.

It was enough to fall down with a ton of coal, and then he barely got on the flying boat and flew up.

After flying for more than half an hour, he left the ground for about 300 zhang. After flying for 500 miles, it flew to a normal altitude. This is because the coal burns off part of it, saving a few hundred pounds of weight.

"Your Highness, don't you dare to do this next time, it's a cold sweat!"

"If Mingyue is here, she dares you to throw away all the furniture on the ship, just to put an extra stone." Li Yuanxing hahadaxiao. He didn't doubt his guess at all, let alone the furniture, Wu Cao dared to throw away all the coal and food on the ship.

Captain Gao was puzzled: "Your Highness, is this stone more valuable than gold?" ”

"Did you pick it up?" Li Yuanxing asked rhetorically.

Captain Gao took out a five-pound, two-fist-sized stone from under the seat in the command cabin: "Your Highness, I picked it up on the ground before taking off." Li Yuanxing looked at the stone, felt that it was in stock, smiled and said softly:

"Ordered everyone to fly with peace of mind, and not to leave their posts. The idler goes to the big guest warehouse with this king, and you come too. Let them set up the stonecutter in the big guest barn, and the king will have some fun with you. There are still 3,600 miles from here to Lingnan, and it will take seven hours. ”

The machine is erected, there is no electric motor here, and there is no small steam engine as power.

But there are dozens of young soldiers with unlimited energy here, and the guards of the Qin Palace's mansion are all brave warriors, and they definitely have good physical strength.

A device like a bicycle in later generations, with a belt connected to a grinder.

Datang's grinding wheel cannot be compared with later generations, thick and thick, this is not used for cutting, but for grinding off the outer layer of jade little by little.

However, Li Yuanxing took Yu Zhen'er on the flying boat, but now it is of great use.

First grind a small opening, and then use a steel chisel, at a specific angle, let the guards of the Qin Wangfu gently knock it down, and then the whole piece fell down, which is much faster than polishing.

The first piece is Captain Gao's.

When the small outer layer of stone fell, Li Yuanxing exclaimed: "Beautiful!" ”——

(To be continued......)