I handed in the sand sculpture through the book system

After the inventory of the harem was completed, all the concubines in the palace left in a daze, as if they hadn't recovered from the accident.But Mu Chen thought for a moment, but had a new idea.He discussed with Wang Zhi for a while, and drew up an order that afternoon, asking everyone in the government affairs team to pay more attention to protecting the skilled craftsmen supported by the dignitary's mansion when raiding the house, and even give You Rong a special gift.

"Cultural creation is very popular in China now." Wang Zhi commented: "As long as the things are good, there are many ways for us to make money."

·

By noon on the 120th, all the [-] concubines in the harem had been allocated.Mu Chen and Wang Zhi rested for a while, and immediately devoted themselves to the next project with a hundredfold energy.

— Copy and inspect the palace.

According to the agreement drawn up before the crossing, the team's harvest in ancient times was divided into two accounts. Antiques, cultural relics, books, and strategic resources with historical value were all sold to the country at an agreed price; while natural products, such as Gemstones, gold, jewelry mines, etc. are Mu Chen's property, which are directly included in the income of his "Southern Dynasty Company" and can be used for mortgage or sale.In other words, as long as Mu Chen is good at copying and checking, the entire palace will be a fish pond contracted by him.

With such a big favorable market, one can imagine how much motivation Mu Chen has.In order to invite experts to check the checkpoints, he specially invited Liu Heng who is on vacation (according to Wang Zhi, this consultant Liu has a jewelry appraisal certificate in his hand), and promised that as long as there is enough oil and water this time, he will I am willing to give [-]% of the bonus to Liu Heng and Wang Zhi, and let them each choose one thing as a souvenir.

In order to enhance his persuasiveness, Mu Chen deliberately took out several East China Sea pearls dug out from the emperor's bedroom, and showed the two advisers all kinds of ancient treasures.

Liu Heng just glanced at it and made a judgment:

"Saltwater pearls have a good color." He said indifferently: "If the hype is good, the market price may be worth [-] to [-] yuan, which is not bad. After all, the quality of cultured pearls is still a bit uneven."

Mu Chen's face froze.If half a year ago, he would have been dizzy and dizzy by the [-] to [-] pearls, but after seeing so many markets, just [-] to [-]...

After thinking about it, Mu Chen still stuffed the pearl into his pocket.

——[-] to [-] is also money!

Liu Heng saw Mu Chen's emotions, so he let out a laugh.

"You underestimate modern industry." Liu Heng said casually: "After industrialization, the mineral deposits that human beings can explore in one year exceed the sum of the previous thousands of years. Ancient jewelry and utensils, in addition to the advantages of cultural and historical value In addition, it is inferior to modern products in terms of fineness, texture and output."

It is reasonable to say that Mu Chen couldn't help but feel a little depressed.But Wang Zhi pondered for a while, but just smiled and didn't interrupt

Consultant Liu's remarks roughly set the tone for the entire investigation.After opening the inner vault of the palace, even though the colorful lights were dazzling, there were shining gold, jade and jewels everywhere, and the clear light shone everywhere, which made Mu Chen almost unable to take his eyes off.But Liu Heng shook his head repeatedly as he strolled past, he could see fatal flaws in the seeds of gemstones and jade at a glance.Even if there are a few gemstones of good quality, most of them are cut incorrectly due to the limitations of craftsmanship, and their value has been greatly depreciated...

——In general, these jewelry raw materials are precious, but they are limited to ancient mining methods and polishing techniques, and their value has also been greatly depreciated.

Of course, even with such a mess with backward technology, the rare treasures here are mixed and packaged, and there is a wealth of [-] to [-] million just based on the volume.However, the emperors of the Southern Dynasties worked hard to accumulate such a small number in the end, which still made Mu Chen a little disappointed. He followed Liu Heng step by step. Seeing that there were no top-notch gems to catch his eyes, he suddenly remembered something:

"This is just the palace's storehouse of jewelry, medicinal materials and miscellaneous materials." He blurted out, "There is also a treasury behind the palace!"

"That's useless." Wang Zhi's voice came from a distance beside him: "I have studied the precious metal reserves in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and due to the impact of wars, the net gold reserves of both the North and the South basically fluctuated by several hundred kilograms throughout the Middle Ages. Even if impurities are not taken into account, the price of these hundreds of kilograms of gold transported back may be less than [-] million yuan, which is not a windfall."

One hundred million is "not a windfall", to be honest, it is too floating.But thinking about the flowing expenses of Jiankang City and Jiangling City, and thinking about the bottomless financial black hole after the unification of the North and the South in the future, the money is not too much.Even if the rhenium mine has been surveyed and prepared to be mined, the income is really not worth the extravagance...

So Mu Chen frowned and couldn't help sighing.

He turned his head and looked around, trying to see if he could be lucky enough to pick up the missing pieces in the pile of jewels.But at a glance, he saw Wang Zhi standing on the right side of the hall, looking up at the huge wooden cabinet that went straight up and down in front of him.The miscellaneous materials inner warehouse is divided into two halves by the central axis. On the left are jewelry, gold, jade and various kinds of playware, and on the right are high-grade medicinal materials tributed from various places. They are piled up on the wooden cabinet.

If gemstones are still rare treasures that span time, then the so-called medicinal materials are not too expensive.Ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum have long been knocked down by breeding techniques. Bezoar is precious, but the total price is only a dozen kilograms, and the price is only tens of thousands. To be honest, there is no need to pay special attention.But Wang Zhi looked up intently, as if he could see the gods.

Curious, Mu Chen walked over and took a look, only to see Wang Zhi's eyes did not turn, but his eyes fell on a piece of dark green and yellow dead wood lying horizontally on the third floor of the wooden cabinet.

This dark yellowish green dead wood is about three meters long, and it is slightly shiny, but other than that there is no abnormality.Mu Chen looked at it strangely, and couldn't help asking:

"what is this?"

Wang Zhi was silent for a moment, and replied in a low voice:

"This is Chen Xiang."

Mu Chen groaned, feeling even more surprised.Of course he knows about Chen Xiang, it is said that a bracelet can sell tens of thousands of expensive wood.But what about expensive wood?This piece of agarwood is only seventy to eighty catties at most, and its value is not as good as the bezoar next to it. What is there to say?

Wang Zhi just glanced up and knew that Mu Chen had revealed his true nature of a wild boar who doesn't eat chaff again.He coughed and decided to give a brief reminder:

"Ordinary agarwood is nothing, but this should be Qinan, the fragrance is extremely special and rare..."

Mu Chen groaned and sniffed vigorously, but the room was full of medicinal smells, and no matter what, there was no special scent.He thought about it for a while, then reached out and tore a small piece of wood (strange to say, the wood looks hard, but it feels soft and soft to the touch, like beeswax), held it to his nose and took a deep breath, and finally smelled it. A sweet, fragrant and slightly spicy, with a soft and long-lasting aftertaste, the scent lingers in the throat for a long time, making people clear their minds.

Wang Zhi remained silent, watching Mu Chen savoring the incense carefully, but his expression was quite unpredictable.After a while, Mu Chen put down the wood chip and couldn't help but smashed his tongue, which was quite memorable.

"It's pretty good." He nodded and said, "Isn't it expensive?"

"It's okay." Wang Zhi replied lightly: "Qinan with this kind of appearance is relatively rare. According to my experience, the piece of sawdust you tore off from your hand... the price can probably be hundreds of thousands."

Mu Chen coughed loudly, choking tears from the saliva.

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"Qinan, the top-notch Qinan—no, it should be the best green silk Qinan. I've never heard of such a good appearance!"

Liu Hengcai came over and took a look at the medicine cabinet, and immediately gasped.He took a second look carefully, and then blurted out his judgment, with an expression of disbelief.

Mu Chen carefully held the pitiful piece of sawdust (wouldn't it be crushed in his pocket?), still lingering in his heart.Even if you just look at Liu Heng's expression, you can guess how precious and rare this thing is.But after thinking about it for a long time, he finally couldn't understand it, so he could only ask weakly:

"Isn't this agarwood..."

Why such an exaggeration?

Liu Heng glanced back, and immediately understood Mu Chen's bewildered feeling of having his ass opened by a knife.He sighed and patiently explained:

"Agarwood is different from agarwood. Agarwood comes from the naturally growing species of Daphneaceae. Although the growth cycle is a bit slower, the absolute quantity is not small, and the price is good. After agarwood is damaged, it will secrete aromatic resin, which is destroyed by fungi. Long-term aging can produce agarwood...a piece of high-quality agarwood takes at least a hundred years, and the price will naturally rise."

Speaking of this, Liu Heng shrugged:

"As for Qinan, it is the core of agarwood, the top agarwood—about [-]% of agarwood will continue to oxidize, and after hundreds of years of continuous reaction, such a little thing will emerge in the center... To be honest, in the I have never seen a mature Qinan before, only one or two small pieces of wood at most."

He turned his head and glanced at Wang Zhi.Wang Zhi pondered for a moment, then shook his head as well.

"At most, in the Tang and Song Dynasties, the price of agarwood was already sky-high, 'one tael of agarwood, one tael of gold'. It was even worse in the Ming Dynasty, and it was simply 'a piece of agarwood is worth ten thousand gold'." He pondered and recalled: " I once visited Dongying with my mentor and saw their national treasure "Lanshedai" - that is a piece of top-quality agarwood, it is said that only the most honorable "people in the world" - such as Oda Nobunaga - Only then can we cut a piece and enjoy it. The accompanying secretary even boasted to us that the quality of this piece of agarwood is infinitely close to that of Qinan..."

Speaking of this, he smiled meaningfully—obviously, even if he is infinitely close to Qinan, he is not Qinan after all.In the past, Qinanxiang was all fragmented and scattered, so of course it cannot be compared with "Lan Shedai". close", of course it is even more ridiculous.

Thinking of this, Wang Zhi's smile widened, and he remembered that Nalan Shedai once had the nickname of Queen of Fragrance.Now that Qinanxiang is in the world, that is the most naked Lata, the so-called I am not dead, after all, you are——

He quickly covered his mouth and coughed dryly, blocking the unreasonable chuckle

Several people raised their heads together in front of the medicine cabinet, looked up at this unattractive and strange wood, tried to smell the strange fragrance that sometimes disappeared in the medicine, and looked up at the brilliance of money emitted from every inch of sawdust.In the end, it was Mu Chen who was the most mundane, and was the first to think of the key question:

"So this... is expensive?"

Unexpectedly, Liu Heng shook his head.

"I can't give you an answer." He replied quite honestly: "The larger the size of Qinan and the longer it is born, the more expensive it is. Because of over-exploitation, starting from ten years ago, the annual output of Chinan in Asia is only five kilograms It’s left and right, the supply and demand are extremely unbalanced, and the price of things is going up. As for the current price... I’ve seen a two-kilogram piece of Qinan wood at an auction, and the average price is [-]—one gram.”

Mu Chen shivered, and suddenly felt that the piece of sawdust in his hand seemed to be burning his skin, and every capillary burst into screams:

"Ninety-five thousand! One gram!"

·

Mu Chen carefully packed his [-] in the sample bag.After thinking about it for a while, Wang Zhi sent someone to call for the eunuch in charge of the internal treasury.This eunuch has been detained and guarded since the palace change, and now that he is lucky enough to be consulted by a nobleman, he can't wait to lie on the ground and frantically shake his tongue, and he will be completely wiped out in one breath.

According to his account, this treasure was originally a rare treasure enshrined by Jiaozhi more than [-] years ago, and it has always been carefully guarded in the Pixiang Temple.Now it was moved here because the emperor listened to the lobbying of two alchemists, and wanted to burn the qinan incense and use it as medicine to make alchemy, so that he could prolong his life...

Such a confusing and absurd operation made Wang Zhi's teeth itch when he heard it: No matter how precious it is, how can it stand the spoils of a madman?He had a brief discussion with Liu Heng, and then ordered the eunuch to take them to the alchemy room for inspection—except for Qinanxiang, who knows what the crazy emperor squandered?

Danfang was built behind Taicheng, beside Xuanwu Lake, a small three-room wooden house.Mu Chen and others opened the door to search, and there were already people inside, empty and dusty, only scattered cinnabar charcoal and piled up mountains of various medicinal materials.Mu Chen sent someone to inquire, only to find out that the two alchemists who practiced pills for the emperor were the most open-minded. A few days ago, when they heard that something happened in the palace, they immediately ran away wrapped in gold and silver. Kang.

Mu Chen raised his eyes and saw that the walls were empty and nothing was there. It turned out that there was nothing left.

Unwilling to give up, he walked slowly around the alchemy room, trying to find some alchemy materials in the corners.As a result, he turned around a pile of dry yellow withered grass, and suddenly a hand stretched out from the corner, grabbing his boots tightly!

This happened so suddenly, Mu Chen was caught off guard, and almost followed the self-defense procedure of the drill to kick back.But as soon as he bent his knee, he immediately noticed something was wrong—this arm was slender and slender, and the protruding bones under the pale skin could be vaguely seen.

His mind turned, and before he had time to raise his head to shout, a cold prompt from the system sounded in his ears:

[The branch plot has started, the host gets 50 points]

·

Mu Chen and Wang Zhi removed the medicinal herbs together, and just looked inside, his heart skipped a beat.In the pile of withered medicinal herbs lay a comatose and emaciated teenager lying on his back.But even though the person in the coma has taken off his face, he can still see the clear and smooth outline, and the handsome and profound facial features.

...It's just that these perfectly lined facial features are combined together, but they are inexplicably similar to Mu Chen's shell.

Mu Chen and Wang Zhi looked at each other, raised their hands and summoned the trembling eunuch

The eunuch stepped forward cautiously, only glanced at the young man with closed eyes in the grass, then crawled down and kowtowed repeatedly.

Mu Chen's voice was cold: "Who is this?"

"This is - this is the posthumous son of Xiaohe and the emperor of the previous dynasty...what is it called, what is it called Xiao Xuan." The eunuch's voice trembled: "The former emperor once abolished it for the common people..."

Mu Chen was slightly startled, and then realized the blood of the matter—Xiaohe Emperor was originally the elder brother of the cheap old man in the original body, but he was murdered by the prince after planning to abolish the reserve, so it was the cheap old man's turn to take over.Needless to say, the old man cleaned up the old people after he came to power, but at least he also gave the nephews a way out.How could this kid appear here?

He blurted out, "Why is he here?"

The eunuch kowtowed deeply, his tone trembling a little out of tune:

"Originally, the first emperor placed him outside Jiankang City. But——but after the current supreme emperor ascended the throne, he was brought back again, saying that the alchemist wanted to take him...to test medicine."