"Oh, it's funny, Your Excellency's remarks could really be made into a comedy, but it should be in the theater, not here." The look of surprise disappeared from Paul's face, replaced by a calm composure, he stretched out his hand, turned back to the senators, and said, "He said that Britannia has mountains of gold, but why, he only brought this little piece of gold, is there only such a small piece of gold?" Can't we think that he bought this piece of gold on the streets of Rome? ”

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere of the whole venue calmed down again, and everyone present turned their eyes to Paul, as if he was the focus of attention at this moment.

Paul stroked his forehead, and the corners of his mouth showed an incomprehensible smile that Luga couldn't understand, and everyone present couldn't. Luga's expression was the same as theirs, surprised, confused, and even overwhelmed.

"What the hell he wants, why does he do it." Lu Jia asked in his heart, this old man who has been against him from the beginning to the present, this guy always sees tricks and catches Lu Jia off guard. "Since you didn't want to go with me first!" Luga thought to herself, "Then don't blame me for ruining your reputation. ”

"You can believe it at all, but you can't avoid it." Lu Jia looked at Paul in front of him with a very casual smile and said loudly to the elders seated: "It is not difficult to see that His Excellency Paul scoffs at this legend I am talking about, and dismisses it. But I fear that while you are gone, His Excellency Paul will come to me privately and offer to pay a high price to support us, and to have a share of the future of Britannia's economy. ”

"Haha, that's funny." Paul smiled and shook his head, it was clear that he was not in the slightest swayed by such rude verbal attack by Luga, and he smiled at the crowd: "I will just say, Lord Luga is a funny actor, and always uses self-righteous words to cover up his pale and feeble lies. As he spoke, he slowly got up and said to Luga, "You can't fool me, Flavis. Luga, what you have done today is destined to bring shame on the Purple Room. ”

"It seems that His Excellency Paul really didn't choose to trust me?" Luga looked around and raised the gold in his hand again, his heart was no longer nervous and uneasy, mainly occupied by anger, yes, his heart was full of anger now, he really wanted to compete with Paul, the bastard.

"It is said that what the ear hears may be false, but what the eye sees is true, but I have a question for you, Mr. Paul, have you ever been to Ludug Gaul? Or rather, have you ever been to the Grand Sequanoren? ”

"Not really." Paul smiled and shook his head.

"Then here's the problem." Luga said, smiling at Paul in return, and he held up the gold unhurriedly and said: "The province of Ludug Gaul has reached the border of the empire, and you have not been there, so how can you determine that in Britannia, which is farther away than the province of Ludug Gaul, then how can you be sure that there is no mountain of gold there?" ”

"Your Excellency Luga, I'm afraid you're now more and more of a fool of all of you here." Paul stretched out his finger and swept the senators behind him at Luga, and then said, "I will tell you such a lie, but I will not use legends to you so absurdly." Then he took out a gold coin of Souledes from his bosom and raised it to the senators behind him, saying, "It was obtained from the mines of Iberia, where gold is everywhere, and even when it is dug up, there is the head of our Augustus Valentinian." ”

"Hahaha......"

The patriarchs were amused by Paul's "funny" joke, and they laughed, but there was only one person in the scene who was so angry that he was red-faced, and that person was Luga.

This guy who deliberately demolished the stage, Luga felt that if he had an iron sword, he would definitely rush down and slaughter this damn old thing, but he couldn't do anything, he could only stare at it with wide eyes and look stupidly, but he was helpless.

"Admit it, you deceived us with lies." Paul looked at Luga and said with a smug expression.

"Whether there is deception or not, it depends on the opinions of the elders here!" Luga was so impatient that he was so angry with this Paul that he lost his mind, but fortunately, he restrained himself and calmed himself down for a while.

As he spoke, he threw the gold nugget in his hand into the patriarch in front of him.

"Dangdangdang......"

The gold nugget smashed on the stone pedestal, and the clanging sound spread throughout the entire council hall, and the eyes of all the elders moved with the rolling of the gold nugget, and the hall was unusually quiet, and everyone was silent without making a sound. The nugget of gold was bumped and bumped, and now it lay quietly on the ground, and no one even bothered to pick it up.

"When have you ever been so afraid?" Luga questioned everyone present, "This is gold, the gold of Great Britain, if you are willing to fund me, you will get more, this is a trade that cannot be lost!" ”

"But you don't have anything to trust in our hearts, Flavies. Luga. Paul exclaimed, as if he was about to win, "Don't forget, the governors who have been stationed in Britannia have not discovered the so-called mountains of gold, how big can Britain be?" But it is entirely by Luga's words that he can believe that there is a mountain of gold in Britannia, or is it a gift from God? It's ridiculous! I can even think that you are illegally enriching and deliberately defrauding us of our money. ”

All the elders nodded yes, and Luga looked at Paul's determined eyes, and he was like a judge, and in an instant he nailed Luga to the pillar of shame and could not move. Looking at the elders and magnates in the audience nodding their heads in agreement, Luga realized that he had lost, completely lost.

"Then we'll see whose words are true." Lu Jia was extremely unwilling, he gritted his teeth, slapped the table hard, and left the scene angrily.

Luga was angry not only with Paul, but also with himself. He was angry that Paul was too smart, and at the same time he was too stupid to think that the elders' IQ was not online, and that two thousand years ago they were just a bunch of stupid idiots who only competed for fame and fortune. But the reality was that he was wrong, and one Paul would have been able to see through the thoughts he had been pondering for three days. And use even more ridiculous words to make the senators firmly believe that everything Luga said is a lie.

Walking out of the council hall, Andrew was the first to greet him, and he hurriedly asked, "What's the matter with Luga?" Did you succeed? ”

Luga smiled bitterly at Andrew's questions and anxieties, he shook his head at Andrew helplessly, and said to him: "Let's go, so as not to gossip here." ”

Seeing John and Odysses again, Luga could only nod at them and say to them, "I'm sorry, I've done my best." ”

John nodded to Odyss, and then didn't say anything, with a cold face, and no sarcasm was already the greatest mercy to Luga.