Realm of Power

The maid in second clothes looked hesitant, as if she wanted to hide something. Safin red stone Fang Mishaolu's jewelry, every Safin ruby ​​jewelry is the king of luxury goods, easily worth more than 100,000 gold coins, worth a The annual income of a middle-class family, even a few wealthy families in Kyoto may not be able to make such a large sum.

. Sorry, we don’t have Safin Ruby here! "The girl in green's disdainful eyes lingered on the fat man's bloated and ordinary clothes. She rejected the fat man simply and rolled her eyes.

Then he took out a gold box decorated with beautiful patterns from the table. He opened it lightly with his fingers, and a flash of green appeared. A string of green gems that were as warm as water was revealed. He introduced it to the fat man in a cold voice.

"If you need an accessory that can increase your worth, I suggest you choose the turquoise moonstone. This is a treasure found in the deep sea. There are only ten of them in Kyoto. It will definitely make you shine at the banquet." Fatty See Take a look at the beautiful turquoise moonstone, eyebrows The hair was furrowed, the green pine and crimson moon stones were not that rare on the southern coast. The Hulin tribe once offered a hundred kilograms as a gift, and the fat man gave it all to Jones. Nelly made a bedroom screen, and the girl in green took it. To fool myself with such cheap gems is obviously to bully myself, a foreigner, who doesn't know the goods.

Seeing the fat man's hesitant expression, the girl in green thought that this vulgar upstart was really shocked by the "treasure" she took out. She was secretly happy that she had caught a silly big fish, and quickly picked up the green pine and crimson moon. Bai Zhe's fingers followed the exquisite lines on the edge of the stone's gold box.

"Look, Your Excellency, this box is the work of Master Antuna, the most famous sculptor in Kyoto. It is made of the most precious threaded gold. This box alone is worth at least a thousand gold coins. Such a precious box paired with precious green Song Feiyue, once you take it out, you will definitely become the center of attention at the entire banquet! The price is not expensive, a total of 2,000 gold coins is enough.

The girl in green looked at the liver with a smile. In the past, as long as she said this, these ignorant upstarts would happily pay for it and be conspicuous. It doesn’t require much money, so it is the first choice for these nouveau riche. The stupid fat man in front of me obviously belongs to this type.

. good! nice one! I heard that this thing is good for making screens, so I’ll buy a hundred pounds first! "The fat man nodded calmly. In fact, he was still angry in his heart. He decided to teach this blind woman a lesson. In front of the girl in green, he took out a business alliance card with gold thread embroidered on the edge. The money order was dangled in front of the girl in green, and she placed it gently on the table. She asked with a sneer on her lips, "I wonder if this money is enough?" "

. One hundred thousand golden tickets! The girl in green had bulging eyes and shouted in panic, "Hiss." There was a gasp in the whole store. The two hundred thousand gold ticket of the Business Alliance was something I had only heard of before, but it was the first time I had actually seen it. All the maids gathered around and looked at the golden ticket embroidered with gold thread with dull eyes. ticket,

The smile on the face of the girl in green froze. The corner of the girl in green's mouth was bitter, and her pretty face with a flattering smile was uglier than crying. She might have bumped into someone she shouldn't have messed with this time! A trace of panic spread in her heart, like a flash flood that burst an embankment, impacting her thoughts,

"Are you selling it or not?" The fat man still looked stupid and asked naively.

"This silly fat man must have done it on purpose!" The girl in green looked at the fat man's behavior and gritted her teeth with hatred in her heart.

Silly Fatty is obviously a man who knows the goods. One hundred thousand gold tickets are indeed enough to buy thousands of kilograms of turquoise moon stones. The question is where to find one hundred kilograms of pine green moon stones! Although the turquoise moon stone is not very valuable, it is still a medium-sized gemstone. It's a big deal if the whole of Kyoto can scrape together ten pounds.

The fat man's silly smile was like a knife stabbing her eyes. The girl felt like a clown now. Although it is a traditional method in the jewelry industry to use turquoise and crimson moon stones to deceive people who do not know the details. But being humiliated like this still made her unbearable, but she didn't dare to leave, she could only stand there stupidly,

Because the girl in green knows that people who can own such large-denomination gold tickets in the business alliance are often wealthy businessmen in the business alliance. Such people can easily crush a small shop like their own family with one finger. If this stupid fat man really gets angry, the store that has been passed down by the family for hundreds of years will be destroyed!

The atmosphere in the store dropped to freezing point.

"Yes, I'm sorry! We don't have a hundred pounds of green pine and crimson moon stones." After a while, the girl in green responded. Her face was extremely embarrassed, and her voice was as low as a moan. The shame made her whole body look like a steamed crab, pink from the inside out, and her slender green dress trembled slightly due to excessive excitement.

"No! Then tell me earlier, I thought you were selling me your turquoise screen!" the fat man said innocently, and casually took the 100,000 gold ticket back into his pocket, without any hint of caution. It seems that what I just picked up was a torn piece of paper.

"The fat man's words made the girl in green dumbfounded. Although the Gongna Ermo Moon Stone is not very precious, it is not so luxurious that it can be used as a screen. In the eyes of an ignorant guy like the fat man, that thing is just for making a screen. At first, the fat man was planning to make a bed, but then he changed his mind temporarily after considering whether there would be any radiation problems from the ore.

A middle-aged man dressed as an aristocrat hurriedly came down from upstairs, apologizing as he ran, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, our people are so rude. I am the owner of a shop, Tipathi Lushe, please don't See pity!"

"Tipati Lushe?" The fat man frowned slightly, as if he had heard this surname before. Since the boss apologized personally, he naturally would not take it too seriously, and waved to Tipati Lushe, "This matter Forget it, I want to buy some accessories this time, and I heard that your store is the best in Kyoto. I hope you won’t be disappointed!”

"Of course, our Tipati family's jewelry is the most famous in Kyoto!" The middle-aged nobleman breathed a deep sigh of relief when he saw that the fat man no longer pursued the matter and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He quickly led Fatty and others to the VIP room on the second floor.

"This is an amber bead from the northern grasslands! This is a golden scallop from the deep sea in the south.

"The middle-aged nobleman had people send him more than a dozen expensive jewelry, but none of them satisfied the fat man.

"Do you have any Safin ruby ​​jewelry?" The fat man once again mentioned something that impressed him deeply. The middle-aged nobleman had a strange look on his face. He paused during the introduction, his lips moved, and his expression was hesitant, just like the maid outside. This actually aroused Out of curiosity, the fat man couldn't help but ask again, "Doesn't your store even have Safin rubies?"

"Your Excellency, you really don't know, or you are just pretending to be stupid!" Shengzi's words seemed to touch the pain in the heart of the middle-aged nobleman. The well-educated middle-aged nobleman's face suddenly turned pale, his eyes stared at the fat man, and the corners of his mouth twitched and said, "Even if your Excellency He is an important figure in the business alliance, and there is no need to use this method to humiliate our Tipati family! If you want us to leave Kyoto, let’s just leave!”

"I'm sorry, if what I said offended you, I apologize!" The fat man looked blank and confused. He didn't know where he was wrong, but it was obvious that he was wrong. The middle-aged noble saw the fat man's innocent face. god He knew that he might have misunderstood the fat man, so he softened his expression and said, "I'm sorry, I misunderstood just now. It seems that you really don't know the rules of our Tipati family. Everyone in the gem industry in Kyoto knows that our Tipati family is not Selling jewelry made from that thing!”

The fat man finally heard something and raised eyebrows. It turned out that the problem was with the "Safin Ruby"

"Your Excellency, you must be a noble, right?" the middle-aged noble asked in a low voice with an embarrassed look on his face, "Yes, I can probably be considered one too!" The fat man nodded slightly, and the middle-aged noble took a long breath and looked solemn. He said in a thick voice, "Then, your Excellency, you should have heard of the Wentun Elector War eighty years ago!"

"The War of the Electors! Are you talking about the rebellion of the Wentun family?" The fat man looked stunned. In order to make up for his lack of knowledge about the electors, the fat man specifically asked Isa Moriel, who was familiar with the history of the south, for advice.

I know that eighty years ago, the Southern Wentun family, one of the five electorates, gathered a dozen of the largest lords in the south at the time to oppose the royal family's rule of the south. This war lasted for eight years. In the Southern Wentun family When they were exhausted from fighting with the royal family, several major families in the north announced their support for the king's legitimacy, and the Wentun family was defeated.

More than a dozen big families fell apart in front of the powerful royal army. The originally stronger southern forces also collapsed. The northern forces that chose to support the king quickly surpassed the south with the deliberate support of the royal family and became the most developed region in the kingdom. The south has gradually become synonymous with backwardness and barbarism.

"Yes, it's the damn Wentun family!" The middle-aged noble's eyes flashed with resentment, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Back then, our Tipati family was one of the five major duke families in the kingdom. Not only did it control the entire west, but it also had the honor of being an elector. , it was because of his involvement in the rebellion of the Wentun family that the title was removed and the territory was divided. It was all because of that thing!

"Tipati! The Elector Family!" When the fat man heard this, he almost jumped up from his seat.

No way, you can find the Tipati family that has disappeared in the long history in any store? The fat man finally realized where he had gone wrong. It is said that the Wentun family formed an alliance with the Tipati family in the west with a Safin ruby ​​known as the largest in the mainland as a gift.

Unfortunately, before the Tipati family had time to send troops, the main force of the Wentun family was defeated by a cavalry group from the north of the kingdom, and the Tipati family was also implicated. They were forced to hand over most of their territory and became a shameful family. In Vikia, which values ​​​​honor, this is almost like a disgusting beggar on the roadside. As a descendant of the Tipati family, he hates Safin Ruby so much. That's understandable