After finishing their reconnaissance of the missile position, An Ruizhi and the three went to the Jiao Mo Yu Mine, and under the guidance of their guide Lao Yang, they first came to a Kachin cottage called Dao Mangluo.

The cottage is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the scenery is very beautiful, and a river flows through the cottage. An Ruizhi found that the locals basically live along the river, and most of the cottages are built by the river, which also shows the importance of water to people's survival.

Lao Yang told An Ruizhi that their off-road vehicles could only drive here, and there was no way to go further into the mountains, so they could only rely on manpower and horses to enter the mountains. There are more than 30 rugged mountain roads from Daomang Rolling to Jiao Mo Yu Mine.

Because it was getting late, An Ruizhi decided to stay in the cottage for the night and then enter the mountain the next day. Lao Yang took them to the Kachin headman's house and planned to spend the night at the headman's house.

The headman's home is at the highest point of the village, and there are several teak hanging corner towers connected together. The interior of the building is spacious and beautiful, and the floor is all polished with bright teak boards.

The head man is a middle-aged man in his forties, who speaks fluent English and is very talkative. He was also very welcoming. An Ruizhi learned from the conversation with the head man that he had studied in England and was a member of parliament.

The next day, An Ruizhi and his wife stored the off-road vehicle at the Chief's house, and asked the Leader to help rent two ponies who were good at walking mountain roads, and let the horses carry the radio and other equipment they carried, as well as drinking water and some food.

Fang Puheng saw that Lao Yang was preparing so many things, and asked him curiously, "Brother Yang, isn't it just a thirty-kilometer mountain road, what do you need to bring so much food and water for?" ”

Lao Yang smiled and didn't answer, only after the four of them went on the road did they know why Lao Yang was preparing so many things, the mountain they were going to cross was too steep, and it took more than half of the journey to walk all day. Looking at the opposite mountain, which is only a few hundred meters away, it takes several hours to get around.

The four of them spent the night in the mountains, and only arrived at the Jiao Mo Yu mine in the afternoon of the next day.

The jade mine is underneath a mountain peak, where several wooden derricks more than ten meters high stand with cables hanging from them, lifting ore up from the bottom of the mine. There are some wooden sheds not far away, which seem to be where the miners live.

Ma Yuan had already arranged for two people to wait for them in advance, and after meeting, he would take An Ruizhi to see the piece of jade rough that needed to be transported.

The rough jadeite was stored in a cave guarded by two men with AK47 submachine guns, the cave was specially used to store the mined gems, and there was a fence gate made of rough wood, and the people who brought them opened the lock, removed the iron chains, and forcefully moved the wooden fence door.

More than ten meters into the cave, there was a half-human-high thing covered with red silk, and the person in charge of the jade mine who accompanied them took off the silk, revealing a stone weighing hundreds of kilograms, which was not much different from other stones from the outside, and was hung with magma-like substance, but a skylight was opened on the top of the stone, revealing a crystal clear, emerald green jade.

Even a layman like An Ruizhi was attracted by Meiyu at a glance. If the mined jade ore cannot be seen inside, it is called mengshi, and the act of buying and selling mengshi is called "gambling stone" in this industry. Opening the stone a little so that the color of the jade can be identified is called opening the skylight, and the price of jade with a skylight like this is very high.

The owner of the mine said to An Ruizhi: "It is extremely rare to find such a large and high-quality jadeite rough, because the rainy season is approaching, and the mine will be closed after the rainy season, so it must be transported out of the mountain before the rainy season arrives." The price of 20 million is too low, and it will be at least several times higher to be shipped to Mandalay. ”

An Ruizhi didn't speak, he was thinking about how to get such a big guy out of the mountain, he had already experienced the mountain road in and out, it was difficult to walk alone, let alone carry hundreds of kilograms of stones.

"No wonder no one dares to take this job, how can you get it out of such a big way? Not to mention the dangers on the road. Fang Puheng said to Wu Fenbin in a low voice.

Wu Fenbin pursed his lips and said in a metaphorical tone: "Do you think two million is so easy to earn?" If you just blow on it, you can still pick us up. ”

", you guy can really lift the bar, you blow and show me." Fang Puheng said unconvinced.

An Ruizhi ignored the bickering of the two, looked at the mine owner and asked, "How do you transport your usual jade?" ”

"Usually the gems mined are very small, the big ones weigh dozens of kilograms, and when the jewelers come to the mine, they hire people to carry them out on horses, and we only mine them and transport them. This treasure is because it can't be shipped, so the price is so low. ”

"What will happen to you if you don't get it out in the end?" Wu Fenbin asked curiously.

The mine owner smiled and said, "Then I have to cut it open, but then the value will be much lower." ”

An Ruizhi nodded, and he asked the mine owner again, "Is it unsafe on this passage out of the mountain?" ”

"Haha...... Anyway, the situation in the entire Golden Triangle is basically the same, whether it is to transport cigarette paste or gemstones, someone needs to escort them, and even such robberies often happen. ”

"Got it, let's get out." After An Ruizhi finished speaking to the mine owner, he turned around and walked outside.

After a few people walked out of the cave, An Ruizhi stopped and waited for the mine owner to come out, and the mine owner locked the wooden fence gate behind him and also walked out of the cave.

An Ruizhi greeted the mine owner and said, "Can you help us find a place to stay for the night?" ”

"No problem, there are two wooden houses for the merchants who come to the mine, but they are too simple, as long as you don't dislike them." The mine owner said cheerfully.

The mine owner led the four of them to two wooden houses made of logs, and said to An Ruizhi with a smile: "You guys take a rest first, I'll go and ask someone to hunt some game, there is nothing to entertain you in the mountains, it's no problem to hunt a few pheasants, if you're lucky, you can get a wild deer or something." ”

"The boss is polite, thank you very much." An Ruizhi hurriedly thanked the mine owner, he felt that many people here were honest and hospitable.

After the mine boss left, the four men went into the wooden house, which, as the boss said, was very simple, with only a large bunk made of wood, and then a table made of wood and two wooden benches. It's much better than sleeping in the open air, though.

Lao Yang and Wu Fenbin were busy carrying their horses and things into the wooden house, and then Lao Yang led the two horses to the edge of the woods to walk the horses.

Wu Fenbin put the radio station on the wooden table, and saw An Ruizhi sitting on the wooden bench, the map spread out on his lap, pondering while watching, so he walked up to him and asked softly, "Are you thinking about how to get that thing out?" ”

"I'm wondering if there's any other way out than the way we came?"

Fang Puheng sat on the Chase bunk and said: "It is impossible to transport that stone out from the road we came in, and now the key question is how to transport such a heavy stone?" People can't lift them, horses can't carry them, and cars can't drive in. ”

"When I promised Gaokan, I wanted to take this opportunity to get equipment and go to the old city to scout at the same time, but I didn't expect this to be a tricky deal."

"If it really doesn't work, we'll go back and tell the old guy that we can't do it, anyway, we've touched the situation in the old city." Fang Puheng said nonchalantly.

An Ruizhi shook his head, "Although this is simple, it is not good for our future actions." There is no difficulty that cannot be solved, so use your brain and think about it. Speaking of this, he said to Fang Puheng: "You go and change Lao Yang back, and I will go around the mine with him." ”

Not long after Fang Puheng went out, Lao Yang came back and asked An Ruizhi with a smile, "Brother An is looking for me?" ”

"Brother Yang, let's go outside." As they spoke, the two of them came to the outside of the wooden house, and An Ruizhi pointed to the mountain behind the mine and said to Lao Yang: "How about we climb to the top of that mountain and see it?" ”

"Okay."

"Brother Yang, you said that apart from the mountain road we came in, can you go out from other places?" An Ruizhi chatted with Lao Yang while walking.

Lao Yang shook his head and said: "No, Daomangluo is the closest cottage from here, and the other cottages are dozens of kilometers or even hundreds of miles away, and they are all high mountains and mountains, and they can't get through it at all." ”

"Judging from the map, the river that flows through the knife is supposed to be a small tributary of the Salween River, and the upper reaches of the river seem to flow nearby?"

"Mr. An, I understand what you mean. I was thinking about it when I was releasing the horses just now. Old Yang said honestly.

An Ruizhi looked at Lao Yang with a sideways face and said excitedly, "Really? Tell us what you think. ”

"It is impossible to transport such heavy stones from the mountain road we came from, and at the bottom of this mountain is the river that Mr. An just mentioned. We can make a wooden shelf, tie that stone to it, and slide to the river down the hill. Then set up a raft, fix the stones to the raft, and use a cable to tow the raft on the river bank. Lao Yang slowly spoke his thoughts.

"Great, let's think of a piece, let's go to the back mountain now and see if we can slide the stone down." An Ruizhi said happily.

Hearing An Ruizhi say this, Lao Yang was also very excited, and said to An Ruizhi with a smile: "There is an old saying in China that heroes see the same thing, haha......"

The mine boss invited them to dinner two hours later, and found that only Wu Fenbin and Fang Puheng were there, and they waited until it was dark for An Ruizhi and Lao Yang to come back.

Seeing the two of them come back, Wu Fenbin and the others breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly asked, "Where have you been for so long?" Everybody's worried about you. ”

An Ruizhi said happily: "I went with Brother Yang to find a way out. ”

"Seeing that you are so happy, there must be a way?" Fang Puheng hurriedly asked.

An Ruizhi briefly said Lao Yang's thoughts, and finally asked the mine owner, "Does the boss think this will work?" ”

"I don't think it's a problem, why hasn't anyone thought of this before? It takes up to five days to transport the jadeite to the knife and roll. The mine owner affirmed.

Hearing what the mine owner said, An Ruizhi became more confident, and he said happily: "Tomorrow we will go out along the river under the back mountain, find out the way to the knife, and if it is feasible, we will go back to discuss the next move with Gaokan." ”

Wu Fenbin didn't speak, he pondered for a while and said to An Ruizhi: "Big brother, have you thought about it, although it is feasible to take the waterway, it is also easy to be attacked, because we are traveling from the river valley, and there are high mountains on both sides, which is very convenient for ambushes. ”

An Ruizhi said confidently: "I have thought about this problem, it is unlikely that the road from the mine to Daomangluo will be attacked, because it is difficult for us to get this piece of jadeite out, and how can the robbers transport it away after snatching it?" So even if there is an attack, it should be in a clear area, what do you think? ”

Fang Puheng agreed with An Ruizhi's point of view, and he said nonchalantly: "Big brother's analysis is reasonable, you can rest assured on the way out of the mountain, if they rob it out, it will save us trouble, and we will take it back outside." ”

Seeing that the boss had been waiting for a long time, An Ruizhi stood up and said, "No matter what, it's better to be careful, be careful to make the Ten Thousand Year Ship." Let's go to dinner first, and then we'll talk about it when we get back.