Lu Bai brought over a few young eunuchs, carrying more than a dozen large food boxes of snacks.

They were placed one by one on the long table beside them.

Yao Chi and her sisters were the first to wait at the long table.

Eunuch Huang and Eunuch An each took a plate, picked up a few of each and took them back for their masters to enjoy.

Fortunately, no minister got two. I heard that Jiang Yue and the kitchen staff made them early in the morning.

They were unwilling to eat the precious ones and hid them in their sleeves to take them back for their families to try.

Now everyone knows that Princess Jiang Yue is the best at cooking.

The taste is really unheard of!

It's delicious.

Jiang Yue looked at the cute actions of these old scholars who usually talked about everything.

He said with a smile, "You're welcome. There's more in the kitchen. Let's eat something first. We'll be busy later. When you leave, make some for everyone to take home and share with your family."

The ministers bowed to thank Jiang Yue.

We ate and drank like this and waited for half an hour.

The sea turtle's eyes gradually became blurred, its head lowered lower and lower, and finally it collapsed on the splint.

Jiang Yue saw that it was almost time, and now the wind had stopped, it was the warmest time of the day.

I found a stick and poked the big turtle's feet.

As expected, he remained motionless.

Throwing away the wooden sticks, he distributed the various small shovels that Lu Bai brought to the people in the Ministry of Works.

"This is for scraping barnacles off turtles."

The Minister of Works took it with a smile on his face.

The ministers from other departments watching on were filled with jealousy.

The imperial physicians and military doctors found several large wooden basins to collect the barnacles.

The preparations are complete, and we just need to remove the thermal blanket from the turtle.

At Jiang Yue's command, Lu Bai and others opened the thermal blanket, revealing the sea turtle's body covered with dense barnacles.

The mouth of the barnacle was still moving, opening and closing.

It seemed to be affected by the anesthetic and was rotating slower than usual.

The ministers of the Ministry of Works approached the big turtle with small shovels and saw that it was indeed motionless and unconscious.

Be brave and shovel off the first barnacle.

This turtle is hundreds of years old, and the barnacles are becoming more and more tightly packed on its body.

It is not easy to shovel it down.

Fortunately, the Minister of Works is slightly different from the literati in other departments.

They often need to go out on site to do some heavy work, so they still have some strength in their bodies.

As the sea turtle fell into a deep sleep, the ministers were no longer afraid.

A large group of twenty or so men leaned on the turtle in various postures without caring about the impact.

Cleaning the barnacles off the turtle carefully and diligently.

At the beginning, I was still a little unfamiliar with the technique and would even hit my fingers when shoveling barnacles.

The imperial physician hurried to bandage him.

Later, as they became more and more proficient, they all realized that to fight barnacles, they could not use brute force, but had to use cleverness.

The barnacles were scooped off the turtle's limbs, shell, and neck at an increasingly rapid rate.

It was cleared away in just one hour.

During this period, the imperial doctors kept pouring disinfectant on the shoveled areas to prevent the turtles from being infected with bacteria.

This was also proposed by Jiang Yue.

In modern times, she likes to watch videos of people removing barnacles, repairing horseshoes, fishing and picking mushrooms.

She knew that after the barnacles were removed from the turtle, the exposed new flesh and shell had to be disinfected.

With the busy work of the Ministry of Works and the imperial physician, the back of the sea turtle was finally cleaned.

Lu Bai and his companions, along with Murong Fu and several other Jinyiwei, worked together to turn the big turtle over.

The minister and the imperial physician looked at the turtle's barnacle-covered belly with shining eyes.

This barnacle-catching thing is really addictive!

No matter how addicted a sea turtle is, there will come a time when all the barnacles on its body will be scraped away.

After the sea turtle was carefully examined from head to toe, no barnacles were found.

The Minister of Works and the imperial physicians still felt a little disappointed.

"How come it's all been deducted? If I had known, I wouldn't have let you join. We could have deducted more for a while."

The Minister of Works of Daxia couldn't help but complain that he shouldn't have agreed to their joining just because of a few words of praise from the Minister of Works of Daliang.

Ugh……

Jiang Yue stepped forward with the tracker and smiled, "My Lords, the anesthetic is only effective for a limited time. Let's clean the shell quickly and install this."

The ministers nodded repeatedly and huddled together to look for the most suitable turtle shell.

In the end, the group of people all chose the highest part of the turtle shell.

"My Lady, after looking around, I think this is the smoothest, flattest, and highest piece. It's the most suitable place to install the tracker."

Jiang Yue handed over the cleaning tools. "Hmm~ This one is pretty good. You're worthy of being the Ministry of Industry's eyes. You're so sharp. Shall we get started?"

Unexpectedly, the two countries' ministries of industry started arguing at this time.

The minister from Daxia pointed to the Minister of Works from Daliang and said, "We just asked you to help remove the barnacles. This cleanup work should still be done by us."

The Minister of Works of Daliang was also very dissatisfied. "Humph! The princess said that the anesthetic has a limited duration. If it weren't for our help, how could you guys have shoveled it so quickly? You want to get rid of us now? Impossible!"

"That's right!!" The ministers of the Ministry of Works in Daliang nodded in agreement.

Finally, the critical moment has arrived and I can personally install the tracker. This is the honor and bragging capital of the entire Ministry of Industry!

Didn’t you see the ministers from other departments who were reluctant to leave and were scratching their heads in anxiety?

How can we hand it over to other countries? No!

Jiang Yue saw that the ministers of industry of the two countries were about to start arguing again.

He turned around helplessly and looked at the two leisurely emperors.

The latter immediately understood Jiang Yue's meaning as if he had an antenna installed.

Emperor Mingde put down the snacks and teacup in his hands and said, "Ahem... I think it would be better if each of you choose two people, a total of four people to cooperate. That way, we can learn something and participate at the same time."

Emperor Yongnian also praised, "That's right! Let's do it this way. Besides, the place is not big, so we don't need so many people. Time is running out, so hurry up!"

Since both emperors have spoken, the ministers naturally have nothing to say.

They selected two representatives from their families to work together on the cleaning and polishing work.

The crowd watching from the side couldn't help but admire him.

This kind of delicate manual work can only be done by the Ministry of Industry.

This is a neat and reliable technique that doesn't require repeating the process twice; it can be done in one go.

Finally, the four of them worked together to securely fix a tablet-sized tracker on the back of the big turtle.

The red light on the instrument on top of the antenna lights up, indicating that it has started working.

The tablet in Jiang Yue's hand immediately displayed a 3D floor plan.

The two emperors leaned over and everyone looked at the light blue screen together.

"This is all sea water, and it's shown as blue."

Everyone followed Jiang Yue's fingers as they swiped the tablet, and saw an endless expanse of blue.

I couldn't help but feel disappointed.

It seems that there is no land within a few miles.

"Everyone, don't lose heart. Wait until the effects of the drug wear off on the big turtle. Then release it back into the sea and we'll follow it."

Prince Shou handed Jiang Yue a piece of dessert and turned to look at everyone. "The princess is right. How bad can the situation get? With the help of the Penglai Fairy, we will definitely be able to find a new continent and build our new home."

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