Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1450 - 696: The Big News That Comes With It!_3

Chapter 1450: Chapter 696: The Big News That Comes With It!_3

Alyosha wiped the sweat from his brow, took the bag of money, and said,

"Definitely, definitely! When I come over next time, I will definitely pay attention!"

The 3 million dollars in hand were enough to smooth over any displeasure, and Alyosha left with a smile.

The quality of these ivory pieces was good. With this batch of ivory and rhinoceros horns, Sean Knight’s carving factory on Big Island could truly start operating.

Elijah Hastings arranged for sentries at night and had someone pilot a drone to check the surroundings. After finding no anomalies, he then rested.

Over the next week, Alyosha brought in three more shipments, amounting to nearly 400 mammoth tusks and almost 100 woolly rhinoceros horns.

For these items alone, Sean Knight paid ten million dollars.

But by turning these items into handicrafts or pharmaceutical products for resale, Sean Knight roughly estimated that he could bring in an income of at least 30 million to 50 million dollars.

How wonderful!

The last time Alyosha came, he insisted on meeting with Sean Knight.

Sean Knight did not refuse.

Under the lights at the entrance of the camp, Alyosha’s eyes lit up when he saw Sean Knight.

"Hello, Mr. Knight!" Alyosha had actually learned a sentence in Mandarin!

However, he then continued to speak in Russian to Sean Knight, with Viola translating on the side.

"After completing this business, I will leave here for other places. However, I hope that if there’s a chance, I can still work with you, Mr. Knight."

"Of course," Sean Knight said with a smile after hearing Viola’s translation, "I am planning to build a mammoth ivory processing factory. I will continue to buy ivory and rhinoceros horns in the future.

If you plan to continue in this line of business, then of course we can keep working together—you have the contacts and resources; it would be a pity not to!"

After hearing the translation, Alyosha laughed and immediately said,

"No problem! After some time, I will contact other people I know and buy some ivory—"

"I’m afraid by then we will no longer be here," interrupted Sean Knight. "But I have people at the castle in Tomsk. Just bring the ivory there, and I will have someone buy it at a high price!"

Alyosha got the answer he wanted, and his smile grew even brighter. Finally, he said,

"Our director thinks very highly of Mr. Knight after this transaction. He says you are very reliable. So, he asked me to tell you some news as a bonus."

"What news?"

"He mentioned that domestic experts are planning to excavate an ancient city ruin located in a lake soon. That place, in ancient times of China, was called ’Tanu Oolonghai.’

"What?" Sean Knight was stunned for a moment. He didn’t expect that Alyosha’s boss would give him such information.

Why? Because of his previous experience hunting for treasures, or because he is Chinese?

Alyosha delivered the message and left with the money.

Although most of the money belonged to the director, even the tiny portion that belonged to him, along with the money he had received before, was enough for Alyosha to comfortably live out the rest of his life.

He decided to leave immediately—as for the cooperation he mentioned to Sean Knight, he would wait until the cold season passed!

Summer had ended, and the cold season had arrived. Sean Knight and his team were also beginning to plan packing up the camp and preparing to leave.

While packing up, Sean Knight looked up information about Tanu Oolonghai.

Tanu Oolonghai was originally Chinese territory. The name itself was very familiar; it was once a Chinese region, active during the Han Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, it was under the control of North Mongolian factions within Oirat, and during the Qing Dynasty, it was governed by the military commander of Uliastai.

In the late Qing period, it was forcefully occupied by Tsarist Russia, and during the Republic of China era, a large number of Russians moved there. The Chinese merchants were driven out, making their occupation a reality.

In 1994, China and Russia set boundaries that officially included this region within Russia, as part of the Tuva Republic.

Sean Knight didn’t think there would be anything there worth searching for himself.

Relics, well, they exist in many places.

But first, he needed to return to Tomsk—Charles Young’s airplane had already landed there. The ivory now had legal status; Sean Knight just needed to arrange for people to load the stuff onto the airplane and transport it to Big Island.

All things considered, Sean Knight had spent less than a month on the Arctic coast, but the gain was significant.

Setting aside the mammoth ivory, just the woolly rhinoceros horns alone, if brought into China’s medicinal materials market, would cause a huge stir!

Take the lifesaving Angong Niuhuang pills as an example; they shifted from using rhinoceros horn to water buffalo horn, which decreased their efficacy and made the old pills much more valuable.

Although these woolly rhinoceros horns weren’t as effective as contemporary rhinoceros horns, they were definitely stronger than buffalo horns.

Thus, even if used for medicinal purposes, their value would be incredibly high—after all, such medicinal use is measured by the gram!

Therefore, Sean Knight was returning fully loaded.

Back in Tomsk, winter had already set in. The leaves of the deciduous trees had almost completely fallen, and the surface of the small lake by the castle was beginning to ice over.

However, because of the mining operation, the river channel of the small river was diverted, and the lake was cordoned off; the water was drained, and then the diamond sifting began.

When Sean Knight and his team returned, despite it being the freezing winter, they saw a bustling mining site.

What surprised Sean Knight was not only that Lincoln Harrington was there, but Douglas Cooper was there too.

"Boss, I’ve returned," Douglas reported to Sean Knight first, "I’m here to get diamonds... The last batch of diamonds has been sold out!"

"All of them?" Sean Knight was surprised. The diamonds they had dug from the ground amounted to several thousand carats!

Although they were rough stones and would lose some weight after being cut, that was still a vast quantity!

They were all sold already?

"Yes," Douglas also expressed with emotion:

"It’s only after getting into this field that I realized... there are really a lot of people with money in this world!"

Sean Knight laughed.

It seemed that Douglas had brought in a considerable sum of money!