Chapter 162: Byzantine jewelry

Xiao Peng thought for a while and told Yang Meng: "There is a sunken ship 300 meters from the seabed near here. There may be something good inside. I want to find it."
"Three hundred meters? Are you serious?" Yang Meng said in surprise, "Do you know the concept of a water depth of three hundred meters? The water pressure there reaches 29 atmospheres, which is equivalent to 540 on every inch of your skin. The catty fat guy is dancing ballet on tiptoe! Can you do it? It's really no joke. We don't have an Exosuit on board."
Exosuit, a deep water diving suit researched and produced by Canada, can reach a depth of 330 meters after being put on, and can stay at that depth for 50 minutes. It is a high-tech product, and the price is scary. A set costs 100 More than ten thousand euros. And it can only be ordered in limited quantities, which is something that only the toys of the wealthy or the top scientific research institutions can afford.
Xiao Peng thought for a while and said to Yang Meng: "Mengzi, do you think you are still like an ordinary person now?"
Yang Meng smiled and shook his head: "I feel like Superman now."
"Then why did you become like this?"
"You." Yang Meng replied cleanly.
"Then why don't you ask me how to make you so strong now? Why don't you ask if I can go to the deep sea?" Xiao Peng asked.
Yang Meng scratched his head: "If you want me to know, just tell me, what else should I ask?"
Xiao Peng was speechless, I really didn't know whether Yang Meng should be smart or stupid.
It may really be as in the idiom, great wisdom is like foolishness.
Xiao Peng sighed: "Mengzi, don't say anything else, you know that I can do it."
After hearing what Xiao Peng said, Yang Meng no longer objected: "That's OK, go down. I'm here to meet you."
Xiao Peng took off his clothes and jumped directly into the sea: "Mengzi, wait for me to come back." After speaking, he dived directly into the seabed.
As soon as Xiao Peng entered the bottom of the sea, a layer of magical power covered Xiao Peng's whole body. Xiao Peng adapted to the light and dived directly into the bottom of the sea, following the guidance of the Mind Clone, to the shipwreck found yesterday.
Xiao Peng had already explored the shipwreck yesterday and went directly to the captain’s room. He found the two boxes he found yesterday. He quickly returned to the ship. Yang Meng was already impatient when he saw Xiao Peng coming up. Peng hung on the boat and handed Xiao Peng the towel: "How about it?"
Xiao Peng handed Yang Meng the two small boxes he found: "Just find these two things."
Yang Meng took two boxes, both of which were small wooden boxes with silver edges. Thanks to the unique low-oxygen seawater at the bottom of the Black Sea, they did not even rot.
Yang Meng compares: "It's quite heavy. Go take a hot bath, and let's open the box together to see what's inside."
After Xiao Peng went to wash, he changed his clothes: "Come on and see if this trip is going to be a waste of work."
Yang Meng had already wiped the two small boxes clean: "One for each person, see who is lucky." Xiao Peng took one casually. The two boxes had small locks on them, and they were already in decay. For Xiao Peng, This is not a problem, just try hard and call.
"Hahahaha, it seems that I can be more valuable here." Yang Meng was so happy that he pushed the box to Xiao Peng.
Xiao Peng saw that it was a good thing, a box full of small gold coins. The size is about the size of a five-pointed Chinese coin. Although it is old, the pattern is very vivid. The front pattern is a person wearing armor, and the back is a full-length portrait of a goddess, and some strange characters, which look like Latin. There are at least three or four hundred such gold coins in this small box.
Xiao Peng took a photo of the gold coin and posted it online to see if anyone knew the gold coin.
Yang Meng was also curious at this time: "Xiao Peng, what's in your box?"
Xiao Peng showed an expression of excitement: "Mengzi, why don't we just have two boxes. We are one of us. I won't let you lose. The things in my box are old and valuable. You choose my box and I will take you. How about that box?"
Yang Meng held the box holding the gold coins and looked at Xiao Peng suspiciously: "You can be so good? Why don't I believe you? Show me the contents of your box."
Xiao Peng clasped the box in his hand tightly: "If you want to see it, you have to change it with me. You can change it. I will tell you first. Anyway, there are good things in my box."
Yang Meng stared at Xiao Peng, looked left and right, and suddenly his head shook like a rattle: "I don't want it. We have known each other for so many years, and you have never suffered. You are absolutely weird. You change."
Xiao Peng looked disappointed: "When can I still make you suffer? We will definitely take advantage of you if we change."
When Yang Meng heard it, he hugged the box tighter: "Man, if you don't want to change it, you won't change it."
Xiao Peng sighed: "This is what you said. I really didn't expect that we have known each other for so many years, and you still don't know me."
Yang Meng grinned: "It's because I know you too well that I didn't change it with you. You, you are not worthy of life."
Xiao Peng was speechless: "You don't change this." After speaking, he opened the box and let Yang Meng look at the contents.
Yang Meng took a look and was stunned in place: "Nima, you are playing too deeply in your routine now!"
Xiao Peng spread his hands out: "I said that my things are worth more than yours. You must believe me, do you regret it now?"
Yang Meng's expression was irreverent: "I really can't be friends with you, or one day, I will be off by you."
There was nothing else in Xiao Peng's box, a box full of Byzantine jewelry.
The so-called Byzantine Empire is the Eastern Roman Empire. It is an autocratic monarchy that believes in the Orthodox Church. It is the oldest monarchy in ancient times and the Middle Ages. It has existed for thousands of years and is generally referred to as the Roman Empire by the world.
The gold mines in Armenia and the abundant silver mines in the Balkans provided Byzantium with a source of precious metals, so the Byzantine period gold, silver, currency, jewelry, ivory jewelry and other luxury items were extremely abundant.
The most famous of these is definitely Byzantine jewelry.
The design is exaggerated, gorgeous gold inlaid with luxurious precious colored gemstones, which is a popular element of Byzantine jewelry. In Western countries, people worship jewelry in the style of Occupation. Because the Byzantine style can send strong religious metaphors through huge gems and large amounts of gold to exude infinite beauty.
Xiao Peng took out a gold bracelet with the double-headed eagle of the Roman Empire engraved on it. His mouth was full of praise, and he took out a ruby ​​men's ring and put it on his finger: "Have you seen such a big pigeon blood red!" This ring can sell for eighteen million. Well. I'm talking about Mijin."
Yang Meng heard it, and he couldn't believe it: "You go to the grave and burn the newspaper, cheating ghosts? Rubies are not diamonds. Can they be so expensive?"
Xiao Peng laughed and said, "Idiots think that diamonds are precious! That thing is the product of serious businessmen's speculation! What is the composition of diamonds? Carbon! One of the most common elements on the planet! I'm a bit ugly. Give you a big piece of charcoal, and if you suppress it to the limit, it is a diamond! There is no shortage of diamonds on the earth! Diamond merchants deliberately created the illusion of scarcity of diamonds in order to increase the price of diamonds. After so many years, the price of diamonds has been higher. Is it a massive increase? No! For luxury goods, if there is no value added, it is a price reduction!"
Yang Meng curled his lips: "That doesn't mean that rubies are precious. I have seen them in a jewelry store. It is a thing worth 1,000 or 800 yuan, which is far worse than diamonds."
Xiao Peng looked at Yang Meng with contempt: "Can synthetic rubies be the same as natural rubies? Let me tell you this. Diamonds are almost 10,000 meters of gold and one carat, and rubies are almost 100,000 meters of gold and one carat. Blood red rubies can reach 500,000 meters of gold per carat, or even millions of meters of gold per carat. Do you think these two things are on the same level? As for this," Xiao Peng shook the ring in his hand: "Do you think one Was there a technique for synthetic rubies more than a thousand years ago? This large ring face was at least 30 carats. Although it was rough by hand, after all, the technology was backward at that time, but from another perspective, this is also an antique more than a thousand years ago. Tell me, can this price be lower?"
Yang Meng wailed in pain, "Is it too late for me to replace you with you now?"
Xiao Peng smiled: "What do you mean?"
Yang Meng screamed and lay down on the bench, his expression in pain.
Xiao Peng exhorted: "Don't be so sad, you are a box of gold coins anyway. They are also antiques. You can't sell them for tens of thousands of dollars?"
Yang Meng looked at Xiao Peng with a sad expression: "The gold coins in my box are not as valuable as your little ring. Tell me how much the things in your box are worth? There is no harm without comparison! "
Xiao Peng opened his hand: "I asked you just now if you want to exchange, but you refused."
Yang Meng looked at Xiao Peng with an innocent look, his eyes blinking and blinking: "Otherwise you can ask me again and see how I will answer?"
"NO! What about your morals?" Xiao Peng refused without surprise.
Yang Meng replied naturally: "My ethics has already jumped into the sea after I knew the price of rubies."
Xiao Peng was finally entangled by Yang Meng and had no choice but to find a men's ring from the box and give it to him.
Okay, the reason why I gave this ring to Yang Meng is because this ring is the simplest of all jewelry. It is just a gold square ring with a carved cross in the middle. The ring is embossed around the ring. Understandable text.
Although this ring looks very majestic and solemn, it should be the cheapest in the jewelry box. After all, the craftsmanship is not as fine as it is now, and it looks slightly rough, but Yang Meng did not dislike it. He took it directly and put it on his finger. It was rough. His ring is also matched with Yang Meng, a rugged personvery nouveau riche!
After all, it's an antique from thousands of years ago, isn't it? Cheap and cheap can't go anywhere!
This is why Yang Meng wears this ring.