The smell of gunpowder between the Empire and the Commonwealth is getting stronger, and according to fairly reliable sources, the border passage between the Empire and the Commonwealth has been closed, and all bilateral trade has been suspended. Except for a very small number of businessmen who are dissatisfied with this, the majority of them still have a positive and supportive attitude.

I have long wanted to take revenge, but this time I finally have the opportunity, and the entire imperial society is actively planning an unprecedented victory to wash away the humiliation that the Federation once brought to the empire.

The Federation has also been very decisive, and this time, Mr. Sail, who has been pushing things forward, finally transcended the joint ruling group of the Union Parliament, and launched a war mobilization order in a master's tone.

Seeing that war was about to start, Durin continued his journey. He had been restricted from entering the country by the Federation and some small countries, so the journey had become much shorter than planned. After receiving Natiya, the group continued southward and westward.

It is worth mentioning that while in the Republic of Tolivia, Doolin participated in a very famous auction and found something very interesting, a coin.

The coin doesn't look like the usual gold or silver coins, but more like it's made of an alloy, almost the size of an egg. The obverse of the coin is surrounded by some pretending to be a ghostly symbol, and inside is the upper body of a creature that looks like a dragon but not so much like a dragon, a little abstract, but hideous, and the triangular eyes give people the feeling of being stared at inexplicably, even if they are not decorated. The reverse side of the coin does not have any known symbols or letters representing numerals, and there is a circle of intricate patterns that have no regularity or beauty, and there is something in the pattern that looks like ...... of the pattern.

He didn't know why the world could actually see this word, but if he remembered correctly, this pattern was actually a kind of text, not the text of this world, but the text of that world in his dream—dragon!

This was also what piqued his interest, he wasn't sure if he was right, but at this moment, he was tempted to buy this.

The auctioneer on the stage was introducing the coin, which was also described in the auction brochure in Durin's hand, but none of the auctioneers said anything more detailed.

"This is a coin from before the Great Destruction, and very few have been excavated, starting with the first coin found in 779, and now there are six coins found in the world, and this is the seventh. The auctioneer looks very young, in his thirties, and has a decent appearance. In some large auctions, it is rare to see older auctioneers, firstly, because the auction process is very long, and you may not be able to stick to it if you are too old, even if there will be several breaks in the middle. Secondly, when people get older, their memory ability will deteriorate, and it is difficult to memorize the contents of the auction items word for word.

Therefore, large auctions are often presided over by young people, and those who are older auctioneers are either only presiding over small auctions, or they are transformed into experts with various titles sitting on the side, providing customers with a certain degree of authenticity service.

With the introduction of the auction items by young people, many people opened another booklet in their hands to record the contents of the auction, and of course, more people still chose to listen to the auctioneer.

"Some experts in the field of archaeology and world history agree that it was a non-circulating currency before the Great Collapse, more like a work of art, or a medal or something like that, given to his subordinates by a high-ranking figure to show their appreciation. After the research and speculation of many scholars and experts, this coin was finally called the 'Dragon Coin'. There are some references to the broken codex from the Great Apocalypse that there was once a monarch called the 'Dragon Emperor', who ruled over a vast kingdom, an evil monarch, who eventually perished because of his madness. ”

This kind of coin is a medal-like thing that he gives to his subordinates to represent glory. So far, four of the first six dragon coins are missing, and one of the other two has been crafted into an ornament, a small toy for a big man. The other was set in the scepter of a ruler to set off a large gemstone. We have taken into account the prices of the last Dragon coin, combined with the current purchasing power of the currency, and the prices have been listed in the manual. ”

"In addition to this, I also reveal a small news here, it is said that each dragon coin hides a huge secret, which has a certain relationship with the disappeared dragon empire. If someone can find the treasure of this emperor, I am afraid that it will no longer be a joke to buy the next country with wealth!"

The history of the world has basically been recorded in detail since more than 100 years A.D., and there are not many detailed records before that, and even people do not know what the Great Destruction is. Why did a civilization that had so many glorious civilizations suddenly suffer a devastating blow, and why no complete written record of the period before the Great Destruction has survived? Nowadays, people's speculation about the Great Destruction comes from some incomplete codex, plus some logical conjectures, to restore the advanced civilization that once existed in the past.

Many things have been destroyed, but some things have been preserved, and these things have become treasures in the eyes of the people. There are often reports that so-and-so found what kind of treasure somewhere, and suddenly became rich and rivaled the country, or that the treasure map of the Great Destruction period that so-and-so spent a lot of money to buy was fake, and spent countless money but found nothing.

The starting price of such a coin is converted into Xingyuan, which is more than 61,000 yuan, not counting fractions.

There are four currencies that can be used for settlement here, and in addition to the national currency and Star Dollar, there are two other common local settlement currencies.

Du Lin held up the sign and quoted 100,000 star dollars.

Money is no longer an important thing to him now, it is just a string of numbers, and he is not willing to wait too long for the starting price of five percent, that is, the ladder quotation of three thousand yuan, it is better to raise it to 100,000 in one breath and screen out some people who plan to fish in troubled waters.

The auctioneer did not expect to get into the subject so quickly, and before the auction starts, the auction house will have a simple assessment of the items that participate in the auction, what is easy to sell, what is likely to be lost, and there are some measures. The dragon coin seems to them to be a good thing, but there is a chance that it will not go through the auction, and even if someone participates in the auction, the price will not be too high.

It seems that this thing is particularly remarkable, one will be the thing that represents the medal, the other will be the thing of the emperor before the Great Destruction, and the other will be the object of the big people's hands. But after all, the value of this thing has not yet been accepted and recognized. The uncertain historical background and significance, the fact that it does not have any current representativeness, and which is not unique, and there is no side proof, the starting price of 60,000 yuan may not be accepted.

I didn't expect that someone would raise their cards so soon and push the price to a very high height.

After a while of the auctioneer's advocacy, no one followed, which made him drop the hammer with a little regret, and the thing was then handed over to Dorin. He began to play with the coin without gloves, and if he knew anything more about the languages of the dream world, including hieroglyphs, then he would surely have seen from the jumble of patterns that it was actually words, and the meaning of it was simple and simple—luck.

It's a lucky coin, not a dragon coin, and it's not a precious work of art held by an emperor, but it's just as priceless, but no one knows what it's for.

"Do you know what it's for?", Nadia looked curiously at the coin in Doolin's hand, she was starting to understand Doolin a little, this is a person who can't afford to be early.

The invitation to Du Lin in this auction is purely a formalism, Du Lin came to participate, that is, to see the excitement, but he took the initiative to participate in the auction, which shows that he is very optimistic about this thing, or knows what this thing is for.

Durin shook his head with a smirk and put the coin in his pocket. If there are big names in the field of antiques, I'm afraid that Durin's chances of buying any treasures in the future will be outrageously low, because he doesn't care about antiques.

"I just felt that I had an eye and liked it, so I bought it, and there may not be any reason. ”

It's not Durin, at least that's what Nathia thinks. Durin was reluctant to delve further into the matter, and she was not going to be bored. Then Durin bought a little ornament with a valuable "blood", which was either collected by the royal family or flowed from the palace, and these things were very good to give away later. Not to mention the price, there is enough historical back, and under the support of this background, money is not money, it is fragrant banknotes.

After the auction, the President of the Republic of Tolivia privately gave Durin some works of art, precious works of art, but they were given to Durin as prints, and the reason is very simple. Dulin had just signed a big contract with them with "his own money", the Republic of Tolivia had just achieved a republic, and a few years after it had come out of a state of division, and at this time it had received a large international order, which was exciting news for the whole country and the whole society. In addition to economic gains, the authority of the government in society has also increased a lot.

At least people will be more convinced that the current government is meaningful and beneficial to the whole society, and will continue to support the current government to govern. So some works of art that cannot enhance the national strength of this kind of "wild and small country" are better given to Duhrin as a favor, and maybe there will be other good projects to cooperate with in the future. Throughout the gift-giving process, with the exception of the director of the National Gallery of Art of the Republic of Tolivia, who had been looking at Durin with hostile looks, everything was very complete.

As Dürin's trip to the Southern Continent drew to a close, war broke out!