Chapter 41: A Brief Stay in the Age of Empires II
(Today's first chapter arrives.,Ask for a collection of tickets.,Well,This book starts this week.,Saturday、Sunday、Monday three days double change,The remaining four days are single,Ahem,There's no way.,Save some manuscripts.,I'm sorry to thank the book friend 'bhkly' for the reward!) )
Liu Qi's brain is still relatively bright, after hearing the knock on the door, Liu Qi obviously had a hunch, the person who came probably wouldn't be planning to use force, otherwise wouldn't it be okay to break the door directly?
And Nina was questioned a few days ago but did not receive any treatment such as imprisonment or coercion, so at least there is no hostility towards Liu Qi for now. If you look at it this way, it is only right for Liu Qi to meet this person who is looking for him first - at least find out who his enemy is, right?
Well, of course, it's just that it's probably not an enemy yet...
"Liu! Is that you? I'm Goodle!! The Gutel who entertained you in the manor outside the city!! Is it okay to open the door? I have important business for you! A big business!! ”
After hearing Liu Qi's answer, the voice of the person outside the door said in a high-pitched voice, and the tone was very excited, especially the word zuihou, which was already shouting, for fear that the people inside the door did not hear it.
"Gutel?! Big business?? ”
Liu Qi's memory is not bad, and he can still remember the manor steward who entertained him. Well, well, the main reason for remembering this person is because of his beautiful wife, I remember the first time I saw this guy say that the beautiful woman was his wife, the first thought in Liu Qi's mind was a flower stuck in cow dung - of course, Liu Qi would never admit that he was envious and jealous at that time.
How could Liu Qi, this kind of impressive guy, forget it.
“… Wait a minute, I'll open the door, Goodle! ”
After Liu Qi heard that it was Gutel, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and spoke, and then pulled Nina to the side and whispered to her to take the crossbow to the house to hide it, and then saw Nina obediently carrying the crossbow into the house, Liu Qi nodded in his heart, very satisfied with Nina's well-behavedness, and then slowly stepped forward to open the door.
Liu Qi didn't take any defensive measures, since it was Gutel, a guy who knew him, who came out to find him, and it was not the kind of invitation by force, it means that he was ready to cooperate with him, and even Liu Qi even knew the reason why Gutel was looking for him, it was because of his modern goods. Remember that there was only one commodity I gave to Tuttle - modern iodized salt, and I found it because of this?
"Squeak-"
After opening the door, the first thing Liu Qi saw was Gutel's smiling face like a chrysanthemum.
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An hour later, Liu Qi sat alone in the courtyard, looking at the wooden door that had been closed by Goodel when he had just left, Liu Qi squinted his eyes and figured out how much water was in Goodel's words just now.
As soon as I met Gutel, I looked like I was climbing on friendship, but unfortunately, that kind of clumsy means of friendship was too pediatric for Liu Qi, a well-informed modern person. Well, I have to say that the speaking skills of the Bronze Age were far less powerful than those of later generations, and they were primitive and rudimentary.
Liu Qi looked at Goodel like this, he was not in a hurry, he learned the unique Tai Chi skills of the Celestial Empire according to the cat and the tiger, and chatted with Goodel about the good weather today, what is the price of wheat in Bella City today, and so on.
Bronze Age Friendship Skills VS Tai Chi of the Celestial Empire
Facts have proved that thousands of years of accumulation are not given in vain, even if Liu Qi, a beginner, is not very skilled, but against the more earthy Gutel, the power is definitely leveraged.
Later, Goodel had no choice but to reveal his true purpose.
As Liu Qi expected, the reason why Goodel looked for Liu Qi was the three packs of modern iodized salt that Liu Qi sold to Tuttle during the first time and space transaction in the manor three months ago.
Liu Qi didn't know the prices of the Imperial Era at that time, so he could only buy five packs of iodized salt, five bags of thirteen incense, and ten glass beads according to the experience in those YY novels and hurriedly ran into the Imperial Age Shijie.
Liu Qi, who has little experience, even almost died in the Imperial Age because of his wealth, if he hadn't been lucky enough to notice it in advance and had the option to quit, Liu Qi might even become the saddest otaku - obviously he had a golden finger, but he died in another shijie because he accidentally showed his wealth, this is definitely a pretty cold joke, if the protagonist is himself, even Liu Qi will laugh at this unlucky guy.
However, of course, Liu Qi didn't know that he almost forced Gutel to hang himself or wipe his neck in the month after he disappeared directly, because the Gutel family spent more than N efforts to find Liu Qi in Beira City.
The packet of white salt that Goodel had brought with Quinta caused a stir among the Gurtel family. No way, in the Bronze Age, even the nobles of the Roman city-states ate the kind of coarse salt grains, and the heavens just let the servants grind them finer, and the taste of coarse salt is precisely the salt with an extremely bitter taste.
However, even this extremely bitter coarse salt was not something that the commoners and slaves could afford to eat on a regular basis, and salt was never cheap in the Roman city-states. Well, of course, it seems that the price of salt in ancient times was not very cheap, at least in Beila City, the price of salt is also quite high, a pound of salt is about equivalent to half a month's salary of ordinary citizens in Beila City, which is definitely a very expensive price, and ordinary citizens basically have to eat a pound of salt for a long time.
However, although this high-priced salt is nothing to the aristocracy, some nobles even buy the so-called refined high-grade salt for consumption. But the high-grade salt that the Roman nobles bought ... Well, Dingtian is a little better than the thick black salt of ordinary citizens.
This so-called 'high-grade salt' is nothing compared to Liu Qi's kind of white salt, which is scum at all!!
Gutel's family is also considered to be the top wealthy family in Beira City, and its leader's business sense and thinking ability are far from being comparable to people of Gutel's level.
After receiving the packet of white salt sent by Quinta, after a simple attempt, the head of the Gurtle family understood that the value of this white salt was absolutely immeasurable.
Salt, the second necessity of mankind after food (clothing is the third), is an industry that every dynasty and government must control, after all, anyone with eyes knows that people cannot be without salt.
In this way, no matter how high the price of salt is, as long as people can, even those who pick the door will grit their teeth and pay for a little salt to maintain the necessary consumption of the human body - and even those who have no place to buy salt even replenish the salt with plant ash and the blood of livestock.
In this case, it is self-evident how profitable the salt was in the Roman city-state.
Liu Qi's white salt not only does not have the bitterness of the salt that is usually eaten in the family, but the snow-white color is a silver coin that symbolizes white flowers. It is believed that those nobles will never care about paying several times more for this kind of white salt, which symbolizes status and wealth, and the head of the Gutel family can certainly see this.
Therefore, less than a day after Liu Qi disappeared, the Goodel family secretly mobilized people to inquire in Beila City, and this kind of money-making channel was of course impossible to make a big splash.
The efforts of the Goodel family are in vain, and who will be able to find someone who is no longer on this shijie? This is obviously impossible to do.
As a result, the Gutel family only found the few packets of spices and two packets of salt sold by Liu Qi, and the rest were nothing, and the disappointed Gutel family Zuihou could only give up the search, after all, after searching for almost half a month, the patience of the Gutel family was worn out, and the Gutel family, who had lost a lot of manpower and material resources, gave up this kind of secret search that seemed to have no gains, and could only admit that there was no luck, and it was estimated that the merchant had left Beila City.
But the matter is not over yet, and Gutel and Quinta, who have been in contact with Liu Qi, are unlucky.
Quinta missed a great opportunity because he didn't realize the importance of Liu Qi, and was directly used as a scapegoat by the Guttele family and reduced to an ordinary guard.
Gutel was caused by his beautiful wife, and Gutel, who had been hiding in the manor outside the city because of this, could be said to have suffered from the pond fish this time. Gutel, gritting his teeth and not compromising to some people, was stripped of his position as steward of the manor and recalled to the city of Bella to become an insignificant town hall clerk.
Gutel, who originally wanted to turn over with the help of Liu Qi's white salt, can be said to have completely lost his status in the family.
But Goodel was also lucky, he thought he had no hope, but half a month ago, he was drunk in a tavern in Bella City to relieve stress, and Gutel unexpectedly heard someone at his wine table talking about the guy with black hair and black eyes who lived around him seemed to have recently gone out Yunyun.
This unintentional conversation made Goodel lift his spirits at once, with black hair and black pupils! Isn't this peculiar to the businessman named 'Liu'? Is he still in the city of Beila??
Possessing black hair and black pupils at the same time?? Gutel could swear by Athena, the goddess of wisdom he believed in, that for the first time in his life, he would see that the only one who had both was 'Liu'.
However, Gutel, who came to his senses, also had doubts in his heart, his family had also secretly searched for almost a month according to this special feature without yielding anything, why did he suddenly get the news after almost a month and a half? Is it a trap? Is it against yourself? But he obviously only came to this tavern temporarily.
All kinds of questions swirled in Gutel's mind, but doubts were doubts, and Gutel still had a glimmer of hope in his heart. Because he knows that this news is probably the only hope for his own recovery.
From a powerful manor steward to a small clerk in Beira who barely paid to support his family, Guntel's grievances were not to mention.
However, Goodel did not dare to rashly reveal this unconfirmed news to the family, but chose to investigate it himself, so after spending some time and energy, Goodel successfully found Liu Qi's residence.
That's what happened to you!