The slimy black grease is constantly drawn from the wick to the top of the lamp, burning into a warm orange candlelight. In this large-scale palace, it is the countless sparkling oil lamps that rely on lighting.

Suddenly, a fresh breeze blew through the gaps between the huge pillars of the palace, blowing out the two lights.

A moment later.

There was a faint sound of footsteps in the palace, and as the sound of the footsteps gradually approached, the two graceful palace maids walked closer with something in their hands.

Illuminated by a nearby oil lamp, the faces of the two young ladies who were no more than sixteen or seventeen years old were revealed in the light—the dignified and delicate appearance was the best description of these two young girls.

However......

In the darkness, the 'guards' who stood in the shadows behind each huge pillar did not take a second look at their youthful and delicate faces, and the two palace maids did not seem to care about the ubiquitous guards around them, but calmly replaced the grease in the two lamps held in front of them in the hands of a pair of women's slender hands.

One maid gently raised the wick in the grease with delicate gold tweezers from a tray, while another lit it with a fire in a bamboo tube she carried with her.

The light of this small area lit up again.

The two palace maids turned to leave, and the slightest sound of footsteps faded away in the black, empty palace......

And at this time, if you take a closer look, you will find that under the rows of "oil lamps" on the cloister of the original palace, which one is not a living person?

【Taiyin Kingdom, Taiyin Palace】

This is one of the most mysterious places in the whole world.

In fact, whether the Taiyin Kingdom is compared with the surrounding Qin, Lu, Qi, Song, and Tang Kingdoms, it is still measured on the scale of the entire world...... The country itself is extremely rebellious and beyond common sense.

Although it is true that its citizens are all humans, in the eyes of other people, the Taiyin Kingdom is almost the same as the "Demon Country".

And at this moment.

While the palace maids were still changing the lamp oil and adjusting the wick for the living lamp, a group of foreigners were being met on the main hall of the Taiyin Palace.

……

Taiyin Palace, the extreme yin hall inherits the ancient system, the hall shape is square and long, with the gloomy wood of the North Sea for thousands of years as the temple pillar, a total of 366 roots, just in line with the number of heavens and stars.

In the middle of the palace, the sky is stacked, the highest part is a pagoda structure, and the center is inlaid with a piece of Taiyin national treasure 'Tianyin fragment'.

Like a fighting wheel, shining brightly, around its circumference are painted the heavens and stars evil map, the demon devouring people, the moon demon incarnation map and the demon country Yongchang map, these four murals are fundamentally contrary to the vision of normal human civilization.

At this time.

In the middle of the main hall, in the open space between the two groups of black-robed ministers on the left and on the right, there were several foreigners who had been received.

"Yellow hair is like, red hair is like hemp...... The appearance of these Fanbang people who came across the sea is really ugly! One of the ministers whispered.

This immediately caused the people around him to pander.

Because in the eyes of these Taiyin magnates, the appearance of these Fanbang people who suddenly came across the sea and proposed to engage in some "trade" with their Taiyin Dynasty is indeed a little unacceptable, and the strong body odor on the other party, the strange and ugly attire, and the vulgar speech and behavior of most Fanbang people make the ministers who are deeply influenced by the culture of etiquette and religion inevitably have a heart of contempt and contempt.

The rhetoric of the leader of the Fanbang people has come to an end at this time.

Several ministers, who had long been unable to listen, quietly hid their faces with their sleeves and yawned many times.

"Trade? What's that? Do you have to deal with the things of the vendors and dogs? Isn't this nonsense? ”

"Yes! Oh, yes! What He Yushi said is extremely true - this matter is simply Sven sweeping the floor! I don't know when His Majesty will drive these savages away. ”

The ministers chattered, but not many people noticed that among those Fanbang savages who couldn't understand Taiyin's official words, there were a few people whose eyes were shining, and their ears moved slightly, obviously understanding these conversations.

Ferdinand's ears moved slightly, and as a transcendent being, he could certainly understand the conversations of these Oriental natives who thought they were private.

And the things that these people in the Eastern Continent said were simply pedantic and ridiculous to him!

What era?

Do you even think that commercial trade is something that cannot be put on the table? Haven't you even read The Wealth of Nations?!

This was the great era of capitalism and colonialism, the industrial revolution and the Great Voyage!

In such a storm-like storm of the times, if we don't embrace capital, don't go to industrialization, don't enclose land and cannibalism, and don't colonize and plunder...... That's a dead end!

But these elites in the Eastern Continent still care about what kind of spices are on their bodies, the color of their hair, and the clothes that are different from their own clothes for foreigners!

Sure enough, it is a backward country that has never seen the world. Ferdinand sneered to himself, but there was no hint of disrespect on his face.

As a famous navigator and colonist of the Reynod Empire, Ferdinand naturally had a wealth of experience in dealing with the indigenous people of various places.

He also knew very well that this was the territory of these "indigenous" people.

If you want to make a lot of profits, you have to use the other party's backward cognition to deceive the profits, if you come hard-this is not those black-skinned natives in the Southern Continent who don't even have iron weapons, if you want to put two steam rifles casually, you can't scare them away!

That's all said and done.

Ferdinand stopped talking about it, and he was confident that the rulers of these stupid, ignorant and decaying empires would agree to him about trade...... Oh, or "tributary" and colonizing the little estuarine island, which was worthless in the eyes of their natives...... Oh, it should be said that it was a condition of the "concession".

And he ......

Ferdinand, the great adventurer, captain, and pioneer of the colonies, will pay nothing more than a richly decorated, in fact very cheap clock, and some stained glass balls!

And the harvest is tens of thousands of times the wealth, perhaps, as the first person to open the trade of the Eastern Continent, maybe he can also get the canonization of His Majesty the King!

Just thinking about it.

Above the main hall, the figure behind the black gauze curtain spoke.

"Ferdinand." As soon as the man behind the curtain spoke, his ethereal female voice and the name 'Ferdinand' uttered by standard Reinnord surprised many adventurers.

"Shoddy mechanical timepieces and some stained glass are your Rheynnord's sincerity?" Behind the curtains, his voice was unhurried, as if he hadn't taken it to heart at all.

"I, the Taiyin Dynasty, welcome you Western Continent people to trade. However, I hope you can figure it out that we don't need your worthless toys. ”

"Steam rifles, artillery, ironclads, and the production technology and craftsmen, including steam engines...... If you bring these, we naturally have gold and silver jewelry. ”