Chapter 393 shocked one after another...... (3,000 words) "What?
And more than six hundred tons of silver?
It's just crazy.
The ministers gasped again, although the value of silver was ten times different from gold, silver was also a very expensive precious metal, and its value in metal was only lower than that of gold.
Especially in the collection of gold is too high, extremely rare in market transactions, copper coins are too flooded, the value is too low, and the transaction of large transactions is very inconvenient, so silver has become the transitional currency between the two, and has become the most important currency used in bulk trade transactions, and the market liquidity is very strong, and it is accepted by everyone.
What's more, although the value is not as good as gold, but the output is higher, for example, the current amount is several times that of gold - that is more than 600 tons of silver, if you add these 300 tons, it is a thousand tons, a full 32 million taels of silver (one catty is 16 taels in the Tang Dynasty), and everyone will be shocked by this money.
After the shock, there is also endless greed - since the gold has not been scavenged, then the cheaper silver should not be less, if you can go to Tianzhu as soon as possible, although you will not swallow all the silver alone, but you will definitely get more opportunities to snatch than others.
"I see, but I misunderstood Aiqing."
Li Shimin also looked at Li Zhen strangely, you really took great pains to develop Tianzhu.
"The minister doesn't dare to be."
"Ahem, go on."
Li Shimin continued to look down: "There are three ships of all kinds of treasures, pearls, jade and antiques......
Mifune?
” "Wow!"
There was an uproar again, and everyone probably didn't experience as much shock in a year as they do today – when was jewelry measured in terms of boats?
Even if you use a 100-ton merchant ship with the smallest load to carry jewelry, it will be a full 300 tons......
You must know that the value of jewelry is also very precious, some jewelry may not be as valuable as gold, but even the most inferior jewelry is enough to exchange for several taels of silver, not to mention that there are fine jewels among the jewels, the top jewelry is much more precious than gold, even if a piece of jewelry is exchanged for a thousand taels of gold is not impossible - when Li Zhen was in Borneo, didn't he exchange the equivalent of thousands of taels of gold for a jade pearl?
What's going on in this world?
It's just a small Tianzhu, how can there be so many treasures?
We just went to war, and after more than two years of hard fighting there, we were ready to lose our capital, and some of the imperial historians were even ready for impeachment.
As a result, you now tell us that not only did we not lose money in this battle, but made a lot of money?
Look at this catch......
Is this going to war?
This is simply making money, and it's the kind of money that makes a lot of money.
One hundred tons of gold, three hundred tons of silver, plus three ships of jewelry, what does that mean?
This means that Liu Hongji and Xue Wanche fought in Tianzhu for two years, spending a little material (relative to the harvest), but bringing at least more than three years of tax money to Datang......
Roadblocks and robberies aren't all so fast, are they?
Even if it's a direct gold mine, it's not as fast as the money, right?
Compared with this Tianzhu, the so-called Silver Island Silver Mine, which caused a shock before, is simply a weak explosion, and there is no comparison at all, right?
"Huhuhu~" For a while, everyone's eyes were red, and even the entire hall was full of heavy breathing, and even Fang Xuanling, a high-ranking prime minister, was stimulated by Li Shimin's wave after wave of news - it was really an amazing profit, it seems that Tianzhu not only can't give up, but must increase investment, from today on, whoever dares to say that Tianzhu is easy to give up, who is the enemy of the whole Tang Dynasty.
"Good, good, very good."
Li Shimin was also very excited, although the liquidity of jewelry is not as good as gold, but jewelry is also a hard currency, which can be used as currency anywhere, and the value of Sanfune's jewelry is almost no worse than a hundred tons of gold.
In fact, Li Shimin misunderstood, jewelry is actually not worth much in Tianzhu, because Tianzhu itself is one of the origins of jewelry, sapphire, diamond, ruby, citrine, citrine, sun stone, moonstone and so on are abundant.
Especially diamonds and sapphires, the former has six diamonds in the world's top 10 legendary diamonds (according to their legendary story, not by price) from Tianzhu (the cursed mountain of light, the black Olof, the clear eye of the god, the largest pink red diamond Sea of Light, the most beautiful legendary diamond regent, the yellow diamond Xianxi), and not to mention the sapphire, in Kashmir, which has the world's top cornflower sapphire mine, and that alone speaks for itself.
Therefore, Tianzhu gems are really worthless, and if Zhu is a colony of Datang today, it is conceivable that there will definitely be all kinds of gems in Datang in the future, and these gems will definitely impact the price of gems - so if Li Shimin doesn't want his three boats of gems to shrink, the best way is to sell them as quickly as possible, otherwise once others know about Tianzhu's situation, although it will not rot in their hands, it will definitely shrink by more than half.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you have worked hard, and I thank you again for your hard work for Datang."
Li Shimin was overjoyed, this time he thanked him sincerely, it was really a big gain for Datang in this battle, it can be said that Datang couldn't take a sip of milk, so that Datang recovered his spirit in an instant, and this credit alone is worthy of Li Shimin's personal thanks.
As for the things behind the fold, he didn't look at them, because the next things are actually detailed descriptions of these gold and silver jewelry, just a more detailed introduction to them, which can be read slowly when you have time later.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, I dare not be ashamed." xn。
Liu Hongji said again: "By the way, Your Majesty, in addition to these, the ministers also found several other treasures in Tianzhu, whose value is no less than the above gold and silver, and the significance of their representation is even more extraordinary. ” "Oh?
Quickly give me some insight.
Li Shimin just remembered that Liu Hongji and his subordinates took out a total of five boxes, one of which contained the gift list that had been opened, and the remaining four obviously contained the peerless treasures in his mouth.
"The first one is the original edict written by Emperor Ashoka, the third monarch of the Mauryan Dynasty who unified the Tianzhu Continent a thousand years ago."
Liu Hongji first opened the box in the hands of Li Junxian, the deputy head of the Lingnan Road march (a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, the first unlucky guy in the ages, who lost his life because of a small name, there is no one more wronged than him, let him appear once).
"Boom!"
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The box in Li Junxian's hand was not the largest, only about twenty-five centimeters in length, width and height, but as the box was put down, there was an obvious muffled sound on the ground, and at the same time, Li Junxian also let out a long breath, it was obvious that the weight of this box was not light.
Liu Hongji pointed to the box and introduced: "In the past, Emperor Ashoka unified the Tianzhu Continent, so he formulated strict moral norms for his subjects according to the Buddhist canons.
In order to make the precepts strictly enforced, made public, and perpetuated, Emperor Ashoka ordered that the edicts be engraved on stone pillars with lion heads throughout the country.
And this box is said to contain the original edict engraved by Emperor Ashoka himself - by the way, Emperor Ashoka is also the apologetic king of Buddhism, and colleagues who believe in Buddhism should be very clear about this. ” "All of you Aiqing should come up and have a look."
Li Shimin couldn't help but smile when he saw that everyone was stretching their necks out, looking at the box with their eyes open, it seems that this curiosity is not only unique to him.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
The officials did not shirk anymore, and they all got up and gathered around to see what the legendary treasure left by Emperor Ashoka was.
As the box was opened, everyone noticed that the contents were not as big as they thought, the length, width and height were about twenty centimeters, and the rest were straw filling.
As the chamberlain pulled away the straw, a statue of a lion standing with his back to each other came into everyone's eyes, the statue was purple-gray as a whole, and it looked inconspicuous at all, but those who knew the properties of gold knew that it was the color of gold after oxidation.
Because gold is an inert metal, it is impossible to oxidize to this extent without a thousand years, and this also proves the age of this statue from the side - no wonder Xi Jun is so tired to buy, the volume of twenty centimeters of gold is more than 300 catties, and it is thanks to Xi Jun to buy it, if it is an ordinary person, let alone lift it flat for so long, it is estimated that it will not be able to lift it.
If you look closely, you can vaguely see an inscription similar to Sanskrit all over the whole body of the statue, but unfortunately, although there are many Buddhist believers who are proficient in Sanskrit, they can not recognize the words on it when they come forward to identify them one by one.
But think about it in combination with the actual situation, this should actually be considered normal, even if the inheritance of Sanskrit is stable, more than a thousand years of vicissitudes, it is normal for the text to evolve - don't you see that a thousand years ago Huaxia was still using small seals?
But now, unless it's a specialized study of this, who will know a few small seals?
"Good stuff, really good stuff."
Li Shimin's eyes flashed, of course he knew how precious this thing was, to be honest, this statue was not valuable, to put it bluntly, this is a piece of gold, although Li Shimin likes gold, but there is a lot of gold in the treasury, and today he has so much, but there is no shortage of such a little.
What is really precious is the Sanskrit edict above and the meaning of this seal engraved by Emperor Ashoka himself - this is a relic left by the Buddhist Protector, what a precious treasure this should be for Buddhism?
How extraordinary should this be for the whole Tianzhu?