Chapter 2458: Eyes Full of Holes and Value
After the meal, Princess Yongmu and Xiaolan didn't taste anything. Their minds were always on the bluer stones on the table.
Li Yi was also excited, but in a different direction.
Burning sapphires is a way to make money. The processing method of gemstones is very difficult in the world.
There are so many jade artifacts in the Hongshan culture. It was really difficult for people at that time.
It was not until the Ming Dynasty that a man named Lu Zigang appeared, who could carve exquisite patterns on jade. The previous ones were far worse than him.
Jade is hard, and sapphires and diamonds are harder. If you want to process them into many faces, it is just a dream with the current technology.
The same sapphire, processed by yourself and processed by others, has a difference of dozens or hundreds of times in value.
There is a burning method, and it can also repair some of the deficiencies of natural gemstones.
He told the two people about this plan, and Princess Yongmu and the others pulled Li Yi off the boat.
Call Li Gen. Li Gen has been looking for people to collect bad stones yesterday, that is, there is no such special transparent sapphire.
If the purity of colorless sapphire is enough, it is also valuable.
He gave the locals matches, one box of matches for one day's work, and told the locals that for the friendship between the two countries, he was going to take these bad stones back to build a friendship road.
What Li Yi said, he used to fool others, anyway, he would not believe it, guaranteed that there was a problem, the owner would not tell, he had no way to do it.
Ordinary people in Sinhalese worked hard to find stones, fearing that if they were given less stones, they would not be asked to work tomorrow.
In their eyes, a box of matches could be equivalent to half a month's work. They drilled wood to make fire, and if it went out, they could only borrow from others, and drill again, which delayed a long time.
It was similar to the Tang Dynasty, but the rich people in the Tang Dynasty had flints to knock flints.
In fact, flints do not need iron tools to knock, and stones can also make fire by knocking against each other.
This box of matches can be used for emergency, and can be used for one year or even two years.
The Sinhalese people thought so, they did not know that if the matches were not well preserved, they would be unusable if they got damp.
They have two rainy seasons every year. For example, when Li Gen exchanged 100,000 boxes of matches, he did not tell the other party how to store them.
The other party did not handle them properly and they were damaged by moisture. It had nothing to do with him. At most, he would tell the other party when he came next time.
These matches took up more than three cubic meters and less than four cubic meters in the cabin.
The fleet brought a lot of them and took fire and moisture prevention measures, including static electricity, which had to be eliminated by touching the metal at the door when entering.
Otherwise, if they caught fire, they would have to abandon the ship and there would be no time to extinguish them. What was more terrifying was the explosion.
"General Li, you have worked hard!" Princess Yongmu saw the stones piled up like a hill in front of her, and her eyes were full of Kaiyuan Tongbao patterns.
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"Princess, you are too polite. Some of the stones are too small. I will pick them out in the end."
Li Gen squatted down and picked up a few soybean-sized sapphires with irregular colors and was about to throw them away.
"No, keep them. We need to fill the gaps when repairing the road."
Li Yi shouted, don't throw them away, go back and process them, and inlay them on other gestures. After polishing, they are still dazzling and can at least earn back the money for 100,000 boxes of matches.
"Yes, yes, yes, slip the gaps." Princess Yongmu followed, she believed that Li Lang would not ask for things casually.
"How did you find these stones?" Xiaolan wanted to find out where they were mined.
Li Gen was at a loss, not knowing what to say.
Li Yi said, "Lantian County produces Lantian jade, Khotan produces Hetian jade, and Nanyang County, Dengzhou, Shannan East Road, has Dushan jade.
In addition, there is a kind of jade in our Andong Protectorate that is also very good, but it is not well known now.
In fact, the jade in this place during the Hongshan culture period... was dug by people in ancient times.
And the local sapphire here is more similar to Hetian jade, in terms of the mining environment.
Hetian jade has mountain material and seed material. The mountain material is dug out from the mountain, and the seed material is fished out from the river.
Under normal circumstances, the seed material is better than the mountain material. After friction and water impact, it is as smooth as a pebble.
The gems of Sinhalese are partly fished out from the paddy fields when planting paddy fields, and partly found in the river.
In addition, digging pits in the mountains will bring out gems, and it feels easy to get them."
The people around listened quietly, and the host was popularizing science.
Princess Yongmu came over and took Li Yi's arm: "Suddenly I feel that gold and sapphires are not valuable anymore."
Everyone understands that Li Dongzhu is the most valuable. With Li Dongzhu, there is money to be made. No amount of money can replace Li Dongzhu.
Li Guizang whispered to his senior sister and junior sister: "This is our master. I was almost caught and became someone else's apprentice. It was so close, so close!"
"I don't believe it." The little girl Qingdai pouted. You went to the mountain to pick fruits early at that time and had already determined the candidate.
In the end, you were bitten by a poisonous snake, and it was the master who flew to save you.
"Did Dongzhu come here in a dream?" Li Gen imagined.
"Yeah!" Li Yi didn't explain.
The people over there kept transporting stones over. They would look for stones specifically during the rainy season. If they found good stones, they would have money, and the better stones would be presented to the king.
The bad stones were taken home and thrown at the door. UU看书 www.uukanshu.net was really used to pave the road. There were many bad stones, which also proved that this family was good at finding gems.
Now we quickly pick them out, even those the size of soybeans are wanted, run to the riverside, grab a handful, and throw them away, the small ones are not used for paving the road.
Like Burmese jade, at first only good water and good quality jade was needed, and the others were used to build walls. Jade is stronger than ordinary stones.
As the mining became less and less, the jade that was worthless before became valuable.
The Sinhalese people now do not know that stones will change after heating. They have not mastered the relevant technology and do not even know how to use borax.
The traditional method of burning sapphire is to coat it with a layer of borax mud, and the heating vessel is a crucible.
A small crucible is placed inside the large crucible, and a small piece of coke is added. In order to increase the temperature, a pipe is used to blow directly at the edge.
If it is replaced with ordinary wood, it will burn slowly!
"Owner, how are our brothers?"
Li Gen only found an opportunity to ask the person who came to the yacht for medical treatment at this time.
"No problem. When I left, they returned to the team. One of them had fractured the middle and distal phalanx of his left pinky finger.
He didn't tell you because he was afraid you would worry and share his work.
He thought it was a problem with the soft tissue, so he rubbed it with alcohol.
It swelled up, so he took bloodletting to relieve the pressure, but it got a little infected and he had a fever.
You go back and get punished. You lack organizational skills and your ideological work is not done well."
Li Yi introduced the situation of one person separately and criticized Li Gen.
The prime ministers always look for him when they have something to eat, so why aren't they afraid of worrying about him?
If the prime minister had a fractured pinky finger, he would have to be hospitalized, which is serious.
Li Gen had a serious expression: "I will summarize the experience and lessons, and talk to my brothers later. We don't have to make money, but it's important for us to go back alive together."