The main reason why Yang Jing could recognize at a glance that the dozens of "stones" that looked like limestone in front of him were most likely the legendary ambergris was that he had seen a piece of top-quality ambergris about the size of a fist in Jiang Bin's house.
At that time, Yang Jing did not recognize what it was, but something that could be preserved in a glass box like a treasure by a jade carving master like Jiang Bin must be extraordinary. So Yang Jing asked Jiang Bin what it was, but Master Jiang asked Yang Jing to guess like a child.
At first, Yang Jing thought it was a top-grade carving material like Tian Huang, but he guessed wrong for a long time. Finally, Jiang Bin told Yang Jing the answer.
"This is a piece of ambergris my father left me. Although it is not the top-grade ambergris, it is also extremely rare. But because it was left to me by my father, I never thought of taking it even when my family was in the most difficult time."
Only then did Yang Jing realize that the grayish substance with bumpy surface was actually the legendary ambergris.
Later, Yang Jing made a special effort to learn more about this thing and found that it was indeed a rare and hard-to-find good thing.
Everyone knows that in the ocean, sperm whales and large mollusks such as giant squid and giant cuttlefish are mortal enemies. Whenever the two meet, it will be a war to the death.
Sometimes giant squids use their tentacles to block the nostrils of sperm whales, suffocating them to death, but most of the time, these large mollusks become food for sperm whales.
However, the beak bone in the body of this mollusk, which is a bone similar to teeth, cannot be digested by sperm whales. When this beak bone enters the stomach of the sperm whale, it will stimulate the sperm whale to produce secretions in the intestines. After these secretions wrap around the beak bones and become solid, they are spit out. What is spit out is the legendary ambergris.
However, the ambergris that has just been spit out is black and soft, with a bad smell, both smelly and pungent. But after years of washing by sunlight, air and sea water, this kind of ambergris will harden, fade and emit fragrance, and only then will it become true ambergris.
Because ambergris is lighter than water, once it is excreted by the sperm whale, it will float in the sea water. Only after decades or even hundreds of years of soaking will this ambergris gain a high status.
The quality of ambergris is determined by its color.
White ambergris is of the best quality, but this kind of ambergris must be soaked in sea water for more than a hundred years before all impurities can be washed out and become the top-quality ambergris; the ambergris that has been soaked for more than ten years is mostly brown and has the lowest value; and the ambergris taken from the intestines of a killed sperm whale or the ambergris that has just been excreted from the body of a sperm whale is of no value at all.
The ambergris preserved in Jiang Bin’s home is gray. This kind of ambergris has been soaked in sea water for at least fifty years to form this color. It is considered a very rare ambergris.
The ambergris found in this underground warehouse are not only huge in size, but also mostly the white color of the finest ambergris, except for a few pieces which are grayish white. This is truly amazing.
Although Yang Jing didn't know whether ambergris would undergo unpredictable changes when soaked in fresh water, as long as the color was this color, then no matter how bad it was, it wouldn't be unacceptable.
Yang Jing swam over, picked up a piece of ambergris that was about the size of a basketball, and examined it carefully. The more he looked at it, the more certain he was that it was ambergris. The only thing he didn't understand was that ambergris was usually soaked in seawater. Could soaking it in fresh water produce the same effect as soaking it in seawater?
Or was this ambergris already white ambergris before it was hidden here?
Ambergris is not only famous in the East, but also a legendary spice in the West. There is no agarwood in the West, so ambergris is the top spice in the Western world, without a doubt.
These ambergris are probably the top-quality ambergris that the German devils looted from all over Europe back then. Otherwise, how could so much ambergris be gathered here?
You should know that ambergris is even more precious than gold nuggets. It is something that can only be encountered once in a while. Even in a wealthy family, it is already very impressive to have a fist-sized piece of ambergris. But here there are dozens of pieces of top-grade ambergris that weigh more than 100 kilograms.
This is simply pie in the sky!
Yang Jing made a gesture to Morris, asking him to wait a moment, and then Yang Jing turned around and swam out.
After a long while, he swam in again with a big bag, followed by Gege, Kevin Martin and several other bodyguards who were waiting outside.
After they came in, they were immediately shocked by this huge underground warehouse, and then began to help the boss put the scattered ambergris into the big bag.
It doesn't matter if other things are placed here, but Yang Jing will definitely not let go of these ambergris.
Several people worked together and soon put the thirty or so pieces of ambergris into a pocket. Yang Jing handed the bag to Thor Smith and signaled him to take the big bag back to the boat first.
After Thor Smith left, the group of people turned their attention to the other large boxes.
There are a total of seven large wooden boxes in this underground warehouse. One of the boxes has just been destroyed by Morris, revealing the ambergris inside. So what is in the remaining large boxes?
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