After rebirth, I became a national teacher

Chen Qingzhu originally planned to go to Guangdong and Guangxi further south to look for jade mines.

But Zheng Yuannai's military power in Songhu gave her an unexpected surprise, and also required her to arrive in Songhu before mid-April.

Since we couldn't go too far on this trip, we temporarily changed our plan and planned to look for jade mines in a closer place.

After integrating the information she knew in her previous life, she still listed Xingde County as her first choice, and the second choice was Lushan Mountain in the neighboring Jiujiang Prefecture.

The mines in Lushan are already being mined, and Chen Qingzhu has no plans to get involved unless necessary.

The jade mines in the mountains of Xingde are still unknown to the public, so they are naturally the first choice.

The reason why Chen Qingzhu knew this was thanks to Mrs. Zhang, the wife of Marquis Jingnan in his previous life.

In the previous life, about four years later, natural disasters occurred frequently and Emperor Yong'an was caught up in rumors of divine punishment. Officials from all over the country found various ways to flatter the emperor.

The new prefect of Raozhou presented a large purple stone, saying it was a lucky sign produced locally. Later, Emperor Yong'an awarded this lucky sign to the only eldest prince.

Zhang and others also went to the palace to appreciate this auspicious sign. After returning, they quietly told Pei Xiao that it was actually a piece of jade.

Purple jade is rare. If we can find a jade mine and mine it on a large scale, it will definitely bring considerable income to the Jingnan Marquis Mansion.

Who would complain about having too much silver? Pei Xiao naturally would not object and immediately sent people to Raozhou to inquire about the source of this strange stone.

When we arrived at the local area, we learned that this strange stone came from the mountains in the eastern part of Xingde County.

The Jingnan Marquis's Mansion sent craftsmen who were good at exploring jade mines to investigate, and eventually concluded that there were indeed jade mines in the mountain, but purple jade was very rare, the output of other colors was not particularly large, and mining was very difficult.

Zhang did not give up and still sent people to prepare for the mine.

Unfortunately, before the mine could produce any output, Gan Province fell into the hands of the rebels, and the mine in Jingnan Marquis’ Mansion was never heard of again.

This has been confirmed by people sent by the Jingnan Marquis' Mansion. It can save Chen Qingzhu's time in investigation, so it should be listed as the first choice.

Although the output is not large, it is still a mine no matter how small it is. There will be a lot of high-quality jade in it. It should not be a problem for her to have the spiritual energy to break through the seventh level of Qi Refining.

As for the difficulty of mining, it is not a big deal for her.

Now that the spiritual liquid has been used up to a minimum, Chen Qingzhu and Rong Niang have no important luggage left.

After selling the carriage, he rode straight into the mountains.

There are almost no houses in the mountains, and the winter is very bleak. Only a few hunters go into the mountains to make a living.

When they reached the mountains, when the horses were no longer able to walk conveniently, Chen Qingzhu tied the horses aside and took Rong Niang directly to the treetops to explore the concentration of spiritual energy in the surroundings from a high altitude.

Generally speaking, high-quality and top-grade jade can only be found in places with rich spiritual energy.

After three days, Chen Qingzhu had almost explored the entire mountain range.

However, the results were not as optimistic as she had originally expected.

There are only three places where high-quality and top-grade jade mines are concentrated. It is preliminarily estimated that the total amount of spiritual energy is not enough for her to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining.

Unfortunately, the spiritual energy was not as much as she had imagined, and might not be able to help her break through to the late stage of Qi Refining.

However, since we have already spent time to find out, it would be a pity to just give up.

After some thought, she came up with a solution.

After tying a red cloth on the top of the tree as a mark, she flew down the mountain and bought three large jars for storing wine, which she carried up the mountain in a large net bag.

She placed Rong Niang in a dry and warm cave, where she devoted herself to practicing martial arts.

During these three days, they lived and ate in the mountains.

While Chen Qingzhu was exploring the spiritual energy, he could easily catch wild rabbits and pheasants. He flew to the top of a tree and got a big bag of wild chestnuts.

Pheasant stewed with chestnuts and roasted rabbit are extremely delicious thanks to Chen Qingzhu's excellent cooking skills.

Sometimes they would bring back some dried persimmons, or oranges that had become particularly sweet after being weathered.

In short, it had a unique wildness that made Rongniang feel very novel and happy.

Now that Chen Qingzhu had gone down the mountain and left her alone, with the horse as her companion, she no longer felt scared.

Seeing Chen Qingzhu coming back with three large jars, he couldn't resist his curiosity and asked:

"Mother, what are you doing?"

Chen Qingzhu smiled brightly and said mysteriously:

"Take the essence of heaven and earth."

"what?"

Rong Niang was puzzled.

Chen Qingzhu held his daughter in one hand and the jar of wine in the other, and said:

"Come on, I'll get it for you to see."

As he spoke, he took his daughter to a small hill where jade mines were concentrated.

Putting Rong Niang aside, Chen Qingzhu began to set up the formation around him.

Now she had neither a storage ring nor the ability to draw storage talismans, so she could only extract the spiritual energy and compress it into liquid to take away.

To this end, she stacked up several spirit gathering arrays to allow the spiritual energy to be gathered and compressed, and finally flow into the wine jar.

After setting up the formation, Chen Qingzhu stood in the middle of the formation, took out a banyan seed that he had prepared long ago, and made hand gestures.

Rich wood-attribute spiritual energy gushed out, and in the blink of an eye, the seed that fell to the ground grew into a tree taller than a human.