Chapter 57: Delivering on Promises
At this moment, some people may have guessed what kind of promise Zhou Ming intends to fulfill.
It's not the so-called marrying Elsa as queen...... He had never said anything like that.
It's the story of the "Golden House Beauty" that has spread all over the imperial capital and has become a household name...... This is the ontology of Zhou Ming's direct commitment.
He also doesn't want to be truthful, and to be told behind his back that he is untrustworthy.
He wants to fulfill his promise and prove that his words count!
So...... What was he going to do?
Golden House.
He plans to build a golden house in the palace with a large number of precious jewels, and invite Elsa to play a game of hide and seek.
In this way, the story of "The Beauty of the Golden House" has changed from a rumor in the market to a real story.
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What's going on?
Isn't this a bit excessive?
Some female compatriots, seeing this kind of behavior, I am afraid that they will send two words - scumbag.
Yes, a merciless, selfish and shameless scumbag.
Indeed, Zhou Ming also admitted that his approach is indeed a bit scummy.
But don't think that he didn't pay anything in order to take off the hat of "not believing in his words", in order to be a scumbag who is not bad to the end.
Don't think that the realization of the so-called "Golden House Beauty" is so easy to talk about.
Even if Zhou Ming was the emperor of a huge empire, even if he was rich all over the world, it would take him more than three months to achieve the achievement of "The Beauty of the Golden House".
What did he spend three months doing?
Collect gold and silver treasures.
Do everything you can to collect gold and silver treasures in large quantities.
First of all, let's talk about the gold house, how much gold is needed to build a gold house?
Zhou Ming roughly calculated in his heart:
One, in order to highlight the atmosphere of the royal family, the area of the golden house must not be small, 60 square meters, 80 square meters is definitely a small family, more than 100 square meters, is a hard standard.
In addition, the number of floors of the gold house cannot be less than three floors, and the gold house with one or two floors will definitely be laughed at, and there will be no people hidden inside.
Others will even build a basement full of gold...... Zhou Ming felt that in order to give more prominence to the theme of "Tibetans", the basement should be added.
In this way, one floor above ground and one floor underground, there are four floors in total.
Since the walls, floors, ceilings, roofs, and wall columns are all made of gold bricks, Zhou Ming predicts that the consumption of gold bricks will be about 100,000 pieces.
To make a gold brick, it costs about 500 gold shields...... For gold alone, Zhou Ming had to take out at least 50 million gold shields.
50,000,000,000 gold rupiah, which is equivalent to a year's financial revenue of the Orunian Empire.
Even Zhou Ming, for a while, couldn't get so many golden pagoda shields, so he had to try his best to scrape together everything he could, and it took two and a half months to get this huge amount of gold together.
The problem of gold is solved, what about the jewelry that needs to be put in the gold house?
Regarding this, Zhou Ming also calculated, how much jewelry did he probably have to prepare?
After calculation, Zhou Ming believes that the plane area inside the golden house is about 350 square meters, and if he sets aside 50 square meters of corridor area, he should pile up a large amount of treasure on the plane of 300 square meters.
And you can't just stack one layer, at least three layers, and stack three layers of boxes, so as not to look petty.
Calculated by the height of a box of 0.5 meters, multiplied by 3, multiplied by 300, the total is 450 cubic meters of jewelry, and he has to provide it.
And what is jewelry?
Jewelry is a priceless thing, so you can't fill it with valuable gold and silver jewelry and pass it off as jewelry.
It has to be pearls, agate, jadeite, precious stones, incense wood, coral, crystal, jade, and other rare and strange things.
It is necessary to take out 450 cubic meters at a time, instead of 450 pieces.
But the problem is that Zhou Ming searched the entire palace, ordered people to rummage around, and found the so-called things that can be defined as "jewelry", which are only more than 1,000 pieces, stacked together, not to mention 450 cubic meters, that is, less than 4 cubic meters.
Take the money to buy a lot from the private sector?
Shook his head.
The so-called priceless jewelry refers to jewelry items, and the seller can offer a price at will, which may be sky-high or cabbage, but as long as it is good-looking, rare and precious, the purchase price is expensive.
What's more, after the construction of the golden house is completed, it is impossible for Zhou Ming to have extra money in his hands to buy the so-called jewelry.
With 450 cubic meters of jewelry, it is almost an impossible task.
The story of "The Beauty of the Golden House" is a great difficulty even if Zhou Ming wants to realize it.
However, Zhou Ming finally got the 450 cubic meters of jewelry and achieved the achievement of "building a golden house".
The reason was that a caravan of ten large floatboats set off in May this year to return from business on the adjacent continent of Domiwaga (also a floating island, about the size of the Orunian Empire), bringing with them a large number of jewels that Zhou Ming urgently needed.
It is also a coincidence that the continent is rich in all kinds of jewelry, but there is a shortage of gold and silver, the common currency of the continent is actually a kind of pearl with a white and bright color, round and smooth, the quantity is extremely large, the purchasing power is very low, but the gold and silver and other currencies, due to the scarcity of mineral deposits, the market circulation is very small, and the value is very high.
Therefore, the caravan of the Orunian Empire, which carried a lot of gold and silver, arrived on the continent of Domivaga, and sprinkled a lot of gold and silver, and bought as many jewels as they wanted.
Of course, the jewelry that Zhou Ming wanted could not be just a pearl, but fortunately, due to the continuous depreciation of pearl currency, there were also gem coins, fragrant wood coins, crystal coins, diamond coins and the like on the continent of Domi Waga, which were much more valuable than pearls, but they were not as good as gold and silver.
It's just that this caravan doesn't carry much gold and silver, and the 450 cubic meters of jewelry that Zhou Ming asked for can be all pearls, but if it requires a variety of types, it will be a little difficult.
Fortunately, this caravan had ten large floating boats, and it also carried a large number of best-selling goods, which were sold out, and a large amount of money was returned, which was completely enough to pay for the purchase of jewelry.
So in October, this caravan returned to the empire, and after landing at the central floating port, Zhou Ming's jewelry problem was solved!
The golden house used by the beautiful people is built successfully!
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October 20th.
On this morning, Zhou Ming sent someone to invite the old prince, her great-granddaughter Elsa, and a number of ministers and nobles to the palace.
In a clearing in the harem, they were brought to an object covered with canvas.
Zhou Ming asked the ministers to guess first, what is the object in front of them?
"I think it's a tree, a big tree. β
"It's not a tree, the tree doesn't have such square edges and corners, I think it should be a rockery. β
"Your Majesty once described to me a machine called a steam engine, and I think it's probably a steam engine!" said an official who was particularly interested in technological machinery.
"A toy, it must be a very interesting toy! β
"Elsa, what do you think, what could it be?"
Zhou Ming hugged his hand and asked Elsa next to him.
Elsa was wearing a lady's dress, with exquisite makeup, obviously dressed up carefully, plus she already had a 95-point temperament and appearance, at this moment she became the focus of everyone, in private, the ministers were full of praise for her beauty, and felt that His Majesty's vision was quite good.
However, Elsa, who was standing next to Zhou Ming, was obviously a little restrained, and when she heard Zhou Ming's question, she was even more frightened, thought for a while, twisted her head back and forth, and glanced at it several times before she spoke: "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, I think this should be a house. β
Elsa didn't dare to look at Zhou Ming, she felt that there was a deer in her heart bumping into her.
"Yes, Elsa, you are very smart, and this thing in front of you is the gift I want to give you. β
Zhou Ming nodded, and said to the left and right: "Guard, open the canvas and let everyone see its true face!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Several guards walked over, untied the rope, and pulled hard in several directions.
"Whoa~"
There was a sound of sails rattling.
The top structure of the building is exposed.
And then after a little strong sunlight!
Brush!
Everyone couldn't help but close their eyes.
Glare.
The golden light pierced the eyes of some people.
After a while.
When everyone got used to the dazzling golden light and the sound of "wow" around them, Zhou Ming hugged his hands and said:
"Do you like Elsa, this is the golden house I gave you, and there are a lot of jewels in it, and I have fulfilled my promise to you. β