Chapter 21: True Wealth

In Jessica's gritted teeth, the Jinsoro Chamber of Commerce signed more than a hundred contracts of various kinds with the Farrell family, and more than half of the 250,000 Jingold were spent in the blink of an eye.

The old man on the side smiled so much that his teeth were exposed, and his original cautious appearance was completely gone, and he couldn't even find a little bit.

He arched his hand happily, and smiled so that his eyes narrowed into a slit, "Thank you for your patronage, then, since Miss Jessica still has something to do, then the old decay will not bother much, may the goddess of wealth protect you." ”

"Get out! Don't let me see you again!" Jessica's gaze was as cold as a knife, if the eye knife was also a knife, this treacherous old man was afraid that he would have been chopped into ninety-nine-eighty-one pieces.

The old man was not angry when he was scolded, but bent down and bowed, and withdrew from the majestic hall with a smile. At this moment, the entourage who had been in charge of drawing up the contract just now came over, and a face that was a little baby fat was full of excitement, and happily put the thick stack of contracts into the ring on the tail finger.

"Teacher, we can make a lot of money this time! That batch of things is worth at least 500,000 yuan! And you used the excuse of turnover time to bring in more than 100,000 orders, and we set the price of this out-out-in-out, and you can make a lot of money in it!"

The old man smiled, took off the monocle, and wiped it carelessly. "Karina, you're still too young. ”

In her puzzled gaze, the old man explained: "We can make one achievement for those hundreds of thousands of orders, this kind of predictable bulk procurement will inevitably cause price fluctuations, and knowing this in advance is enough for us to operate." In addition, the estimated price of your girl is still a lot worse, and the actual value of that batch of things is actually around 730,000 gold. ”

"Hiss" Karina gasped, and then said with some concern: "President, although the Farrell family is a new nobleman with little background, there are more people who know how to do it, and the value of these things will be exposed sooner or later." Seeing that the Seerell family is about to become the new king of Fran, aren't you afraid that she will be in trouble in the future?"

"What's the trouble?" the old man smiled and put the lenses back into his eye sockets.

"These new nobles always felt that the old nobles were stupid, and that they would do nothing but loot, and even felt that they had a chance to overthrow the entire kingdom like Fran I. Hehe, they don't use their brains, are there still few new nobles who have jumped out in the past few hundred years? Which one has really overthrown the royal family?"

The girl asked, puzzled, "But they have already done it?" Queen Avril has already run away, and the king has been killed, and even the king has been defeated. Isn't Fran dead?"

The old man did not answer her question directly, but slowly boarded the ornate carriage and stretched out his hand to pull the small disciple up.

"Karina, you are a smart child, but unfortunately you did not join the Church of Wealth, but were abducted by the people of the Church of Knowledge. ”

"Although your little girl has read more books than the teacher and I have seen, do you know that knowledge is actually a kind of wealth, and even the most precious knowledge will not be written in books. ”

The girl nodded ignorantly. "Teacher, I understand what you mean, but I still don't understand why you don't think about the Farrell family?"

The old man smiled slightly, and the folds on his face became deeper. "The Farrell family, hehe, there has never been a family in this land that can become kings. Do you know what the empire that was overthrown by Fran I is called?"

The girl named Karina nodded and replied: "I know, before Fran was the Elon Empire, the situation at that time was very similar to now, the Elon Empire, which has been stretching for hundreds of years, suffered a natural disaster, and the barbarians on the northern steppe are also trying to invade, and Fran I, who was still a duke at the time, took action and strongly suppressed the other six ...... of the Elon Empire."

The old man waved his hand. "That's enough, I don't need to talk about the rest of it, I ask you, do you know where Fran I's fief was when he was still a duke?"

Karina nodded somewhat smugly. "I know, although none of this is written in the book, but according to his march route, as well as the amount of grain and grass logistics recorded in the military records, I judge that it should be very close to the current northern principality, and even a large part of it coincides. ”

"Yes, no, it's very good, to be able to deduce from these fragmentary records what is hidden, you are indeed a natural wise man. So, do you know what happened to the royal family of the Elon Empire in the end?"

The girl thought for a while and then shook her head and said, "This is not very clear, and there are no relevant documents left in the official history. The most detailed description reads: 'Nearly exterminate and exile the remnants.' But some of the bard's poems have survived, as if a great figure from the royal family of Elon had a great conversation with Fran I, and saved himself and a small part of his people. ”

The old man raised his eyebrows and looked at his nominal disciple with some surprise. "It's not accurate enough, but you even know this? You've inherited the Parchment of the Church of Knowledge?"

Karina bowed slightly, and said with some embarrassment: "Well, thanks to the great love of the Great Pope, I have been given the Spotted Sheep Scroll of the First Pope last year. ”

She rubbed the blue-red brass ring on her little finger and pulled out an old sheepskin scroll with a fir wood roller.

Compared to the double-sided smooth parchment made by modern alchemists, the craftsmanship of this parchment roll is very rudimentary, not only is only one side smooth, but the rough back is also covered with large blobs, and some of the speckled shadows have even penetrated the paper, making the front paper full of large black marks.

"Is this one of the thirteen scrolls of the first Pope of Knowledge?"

The old man smacked his lips enviously, stretched out his loose-skinned hands and took the scroll. The church is good for everything, and the rich and some have the land, but they lack this kind of powerful holy relic.

If memory serves, these thirteen scrolls are divided into four categories, four parchment scrolls can directly consult knowledge related to people, four papyrus scrolls can reproduce all the classics, four bay leaf scrolls seem to be able to record everything that has happened in various places, and the last scroll is said to be a yellow clay tablet, which belongs to the inheritance items of the previous popes of knowledge, as for the specific effect, it may only be known to the popes of the church of knowledge.

Rubbing the spots on the parchment like a caressing lover, the old man said with some emotion: "The history of this thing is thousands of years, almost as old as the history of the Church of Knowledge, I didn't expect it to be so well preserved." ”

While sighing at the preciousness of this thing, he picked up the parchment scroll, quietly erected his dull yellow nails, and scraped the roller made of fir wood fiercely in a position that his disciple could not see.

"Buzz!"

A pale yellow fine line swayed leisurely, and the yellow light was both light and thin, like the pages of an old book, and it looked like a strange sense of warmth. But the light, though soft, was as irresistible as a fallen mountain, slowly pushing everything but Karina outward.

"Teacher!"

At Karina's exclamation, the old man was firmly squeezed by the yellow light on the inner wall of the carriage, and with the spread of the aperture, it sank deeper and deeper into the wooden wall, and finally smashed the wooden wall alive, and the whole person was crushed out of the galloping carriage.