Chapter 412
The Dragon Chair was placed on the jade steps, each piece of jade mined from the southern mountains. They were transported upstream by large ships to Chang'an.
Excavating the canal, employing tens of thousands of workers, the average cost of transporting a single piece of jade was enough to feed a small town for three years. As for the value of the jade itself... well, it wasn't worth much, simply because no one other than the imperial family could afford it.
The essence of royalty is not about having the best or the most expensive things, it's about being the only one who has what others don't.
Now, this Dragon Chair lay before Lin Shaoyu. In the vast realm of ninety thousand miles of the Empire, his was the closest.
Embossed with majestic dragons and enameled with gold lacquer, nine dragons sprang forth from the water, belching clouds and fog.
