Chapter 169: Isa's Dilemma
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"Heavenly...... Ideas?" Ye Weini looked at Ling Xiao with a little smile in her eyes, and said crisply: "Could it be, go hunt demonic beasts and make money?"
Ling Xiao chuckled and shook his head, what he had was the strength to avoid demonic beasts, not the strength to hunt demonic beasts, so if he wanted to rely on hunting demonic beasts to get crystal nuclei in exchange for gold coins, he could only listen to it as a joke. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"You should remember those beauty pills that I asked Isha to help sell, right?"
Ling Xiao's eyes lit up a little and said: "On the day of the Carnival of the Explosive Lion King, Isha gave one to the queen, and the queen took it on the spot, and an hour later, she bathed and changed her clothes, almost shocking everyone present!"
"If you don't say it, I almost forgot that we still have this channel for money. ”
Ye Weini smiled, of course she also knew about this, she had also read Isa's letter, and she could see Isa's excitement from the words on the letter, and the success was even beyond everyone's imagination!
Time goes back to the day of the Carnival of the Flame Lion King, in the Blue Moon Capital, in the royal palace of Yalan.
His Majesty was first disbelieving and then amazed at the great change that had taken place in his wife...... And then it was ecstasy! Straight to say that it was the best gift he had ever received at the carnival!
Nothing made the old king happier than to see his wife regain her youthful beauty!
Therefore, with this elixir, Isha was immediately given the title of a hereditary baron! and promised that if Isha gave birth to a child in the future, regardless of gender, she could inherit the title of nobility!
Female nobles are not absent in the empire, but they are very few! And it has not been a new female nobleman for decades! With this superb elixir, Isha has actually been canonized by His Majesty the King himself, and some people even compare her with the extremely lucky Ling Xiao a while ago!
And speaking of which, Isa's luck is so much stronger than Ling Xiao's!
Because Isa's family ...... It is a traditional business tycoon. The identity and status of a businessman have always been very embarrassing, and it is difficult to obtain the title of nobility! This is the harsh law of aristocratic circles, no matter how much money you have, in the eyes of the nobility, you are a nouveau riche. In terms of social status, a baron with no fiefdom, no real power and no wealth is much stronger than those merchants who are extremely rich and have countless wealth!
Nobles are not qualified for everyone.
Regardless of the status that Isha has obtained, this beauty elixir, which His Majesty himself called the "miracle medicine", has attracted the strong attention of all the nobles who are qualified to come to the king that day!
For a while, those princes and nobles went crazy, and Isa's family was instantly noticed by all forces, from a person who was only famous in business circles, but was never looked at by the nobles, to now even a first-class grand duke has to visit in person, and his words are extremely polite. The gap can only be tasted by the parties.
Isa's family has also managed to rise to the nobility through a girl!
Immediately, Isha issued an announcement that the Yangyan Pill was a 50,000 gold coin! Moreover, no matter who it was, if they wanted to buy it, they had to pay directly!
50,000 gold coins is definitely a sky-high price for this kind of consumable elixir, but this price is simply trivial for those almost crazy noble ladies, and there are even super rich aristocrats who shout that the one with the highest price will get it, and then the outside world started a war of words, and the price of the beauty pill was directly fried to 200,000 pieces!
Faced with this situation, Isha was also a little unexpected, although she once again issued an announcement through her family, saying that this elixir must be taken once every six months to achieve the effect of eternal youth.
But the aristocratic ladies who have lost their minds, no matter how often they take this elixir, what men care about most may be power, so as long as they have power in their hands, even if their temples are white and their faces are full of furrows, they will not care! And women are different, if there is an elixir that can keep them young forever, let alone 50,000 gold coins, even if it is 500,000 gold coins!
There are many poor people in this world, but there are more rich people in this world!
The wealth accumulated by those super wealthy families after thousands of years of development is unimaginable!
Faced with this situation, another wealthy family in the Blue Moon Empire, the Whampoa family, directly approached Isa's family, Isa's full name is Isabella Gandalf, so Isa's family is the Gandalf family. In the business field, the two companies are both competitors and partners, and the relationship has been maintained very well for so many years. In the face of this peer who suddenly became an aristocrat, the contemporary patriarch of the Huangpu family, Huangpu Cangran, that is, Huangpuyue's father, put forward the intention of cooperation while envious in his heart.
Moxie Gandalf, Isa's grandfather, says he can't call the shots, and that he needs the nod of his granddaughter in this matter. Isha felt that by using the huge influence of the Whampoa family auction house, she could not only auction the beauty pill at a higher price, but also spread her influence to the wealthy merchant class!
In fact, it's like the Huangpu family, like Xie Xiaoyan's Xie family...... There are also many wealthy businessmen, whose status is very different from that of the aristocracy, but in terms of financial resources, they can definitely be called rich and rival the country!
If such a good thing is only sold to the aristocracy, how can the benefits be maximized? Therefore, Isha readily agreed to the request of Huangpu Cangran, who had come to discuss this matter in person.
Promise to hand over 50 pills to the auction house every month! They will have full authority to act as agents for the auction of Yangyan Pill!
As for the handling fee...... When he came, the family meeting presided over by Huangpu Cangran unanimously passed the resolution of not charging any handling fees!
Just kidding, there is such an unprecedented opportunity to promote the family, even if they are willing to pay for it, where will they ask for money?
Therefore, in the letter, Isha humorously said to Ling Xiao that when it comes to this matter, it is actually two families serving Ling Xiao alone!
That's right, the two families only got fame and fortune...... It was all won by Ling Xiao alone.
Because Isha had already said that she only needed to rely on this identity as the first heir of the family to firmly grasp it, and as for money, what was she going to do? It's someone she likes!
In January 1454 of the imperial calendar, the auction house of the Whampoa family opened its doors again, and the auction house in the imperial capital was once again full! It was even difficult to get a ticket! The people living in this neighborhood opened their eyes again, and countless aristocratic ladies who could not see people at all on weekdays flocked to it, and even ...... And those nobles from the surrounding countries, somehow, also got the news and flocked to Yalan, the imperial capital of the Blue Moon.
At the same time that the Whampoa family gained fame, it was also equivalent to taking on the pressure that originally belonged to the Gandalf family, and there were countless people looking for Whampoa Cangran every day, even if they saw a baron at the beginning, Whampoa Cangran personally greeted and maintained etiquette, and later even if he was a marquis, if he wanted to meet this "lowly" businessman, he had to make an appointment in advance, no way, in the huge Blue Moon Empire, there were no less than a thousand dukes of all levels! Not to mention those princes above ......the dukes! Everyone wants to use their privileges to buy this superb elixir first.
The huge purchase pressure also made Huangpu Cangran find Isha again, hoping that Isha could take out some more pills and open an auction!
However, it was rejected by Isha, a truth that everyone understands - the one with the highest price wins!
Do you still need to use your brains to understand this? Those nobles who found the Huangpu family just took it for granted that they must have a lot of this superb elixir in their hands! And for this reason, they and those rich people raised the price, and in the end they could only cheapen the owner of the elixir!
The aristocracy has money, which does not mean that they will spend it profligately. Although the noble ladies who want the pill are not rational, the people who pay for it are still very sensible.
Huangpu Cangran finally had no choice but to revise the rules again, which has never happened in the auction history of the Huangpu family, the rules stipulate that half of the fifty pills can only be auctioned by nobles, and the other half ...... You can do whatever you want!
Now, after all, the nobles are the real masters of this country, and if they really anger them, all the businessmen will be unlucky! Although those people in the aristocratic class are still a little dissatisfied, they also know that this is already the best result! Many business families themselves are supported by the big nobles.
The relationship between merchants and aristocrats was more of a relationship of dependence than antagonism.
At the same time, the Huangpu family used the power of all the high-level martial artists of the family to protect these pills.
Even, even the four high-level martial artist bodyguards beside Huang Puyue, who had always been in the south, were all transferred back to two!
I didn't know that the owner of the pill was Ling Xiao's Huangpuyue, and she also complained in front of Ye Zi and Ling Xiao, saying that the owner of the pill was too dark, and the beauty pill that could only be kept for half a year was sold so expensive! Otherwise, she would have to take it for a long time.
Ye Zi snickered, and said with a smile that if you want to marry the lord, maybe you can take it for a long time.
Huang Puyue rolled her eyes on the spot, saying that your lord has a bunch of things that he needs money for, and now he is also a poor bastard, besides, there are enough women around him, I won't join in the fun with you! Obviously, Huang Puyue also regarded the wind chimes who still lived in the Viscount's Mansion as Ling Xiao's woman.
At the first auction, fifty pills were sold for a high price of more than 13 million!
It can be said that the Whampoa family has the largest single auction amount in the history of the Whampoa family!
Because of the huge amount of money, Isha said in the letter that she hoped to be able to hand it over to Ling Xiao in person, but in fact, it was just an excuse for her to want to see Ling Xiao.
Therefore, Ling Xiao was not too worried about the funds needed to build the city, what he thought in his heart was how to not let others suspect that he had such a huge amount of gold coins!
Although he didn't stay in the Imperial Academy for too long, he had a good relationship with Isa, which was something that everyone knew, and he opened up the heavenly vein, and his strength was greatly improved, and at the same time, the women around him were all beautiful!
Coupled with Ling Xiao's mother, Mrs. Ling, there was a huge change in that face...... It's hard for others not to suspect that the source of the elixir in Isha's hand has a huge relationship with Ling Xiao!
What's more, the old marshal Qiu Chen and His Majesty the King were all poisoned by themselves, so these two ...... I'm afraid that Ling Xiao will think of Ling Xiao here at the first time!
It's not a big deal to be known by others, but the problem is that I'm afraid that someone will think about me!
Therefore, for the first time, Ling Xiao had an urgent desire to improve his strength as soon as possible!
But Ling Xiao didn't know that at this time, in the imperial capital thousands of miles away, all the high-ranking members of the Isha family were fiercely arguing about a question!
The girl looked peaceful, sitting quietly beside an old man, with a faint trace of grievance in her eyes.
"Patriarch, tell me, this matter, Isha did the right thing! She has personally obtained endless benefits through the Yangyan Pill, well, noble...... It looks like our family has become noble, but in a few years, Isha will ...... After all, we are going to get married, right? That title of nobility will also be taken away by her! When the time comes, we Gandalf family, money, not a cent, no name, not a single bit, this is very unfair! I demand, at least, we will keep half of this money!"
An old man in his fifties, staring at a pair of shrewd eyes, said excitedly. This person is the great elder of the Isha family, Mo Lin, who is also from Isa's grandfather's generation, on weekdays, he often quarrels with the patriarch Moxi because of some issues such as the heir, and this time, it is the great elder whose reputation is second only to the patriarch in the family who is the first to fire!
When he said this, some people immediately chimed in.
A middle-aged man in his forties with a white face and no beard echoed: "That's right, Isha is young, and she doesn't know if she is used by others, how can there be such a good thing? He didn't show up himself, but he made us the first birds! How much pressure did our family suffer because of this? I didn't even get a copper plate! And ...... The most important thing is that until now, I don't even know who the person who provided the pill is! You say, is this reasonable? Why do you serve others in vain?"
"Yes, Isha, who is that man? Remember, you have Gandalf's blood! You're still Gandalf's...... Future heir!" shouted the Great Elder as he slapped the table and flew at the stars.
"Great Elder. Isha said softly, and said slowly: "Since you know that I am the future heir of the family, you should know that even if I want to get married, I will not leave the family!" When she said this, Isa's heart stabbed violently, Brother Ling Xiao, Isha...... I can't stay with you all the time, really... It hurts!
"The knighthood is my own, that's right. Isha's expression turned grim, and she glanced at the Great Elder indifferently: "But it is the entire Gandalf family that benefits, whether you want to admit it or not, this is a fact that cannot be changed! The Gandalf family, now, is a noble! You will not marry someone else with me, you are not a nobleman." Therefore, from this point of view, all the members of the family have already obtained unimaginable benefits! A noble title is something that the family has not obtained for hundreds of years, even if it is ...... It's a knighthood! I don't think I need to say any more. ”
"Hmph, what you said is good! What about the money? More than 10 million gold coins! Why can't the family get a penny? You yourself say that you belong to the family! Then, the money you get belongs to the family! You said that you promised to give him all the gold coins of the pill, ha, who believes it? Anyway, I don't believe it!"
Another middle-aged man in his forties said with a sarcastic expression, this person's name is Moka, one of the thirteen elders of the Gandalf family, although he is not very old, he is the same generation as Moxi and Morin!
Isa's eyes scanned the various expressions of more than 30 people in the entire conference room, and her heart was tingling, they all knew in their hearts what the truth was, but they were still so shamelessly persecuting me, forcing me to tell who provided the pill, and desperately trying to fight the idea of that money. Because...... Every year, each room of the family has to pay dividends.
Isa's gaze fell on the face of a handsome middle-aged man, but the middle-aged man was ashamed at the moment, and he avoided Isa's gaze a little and didn't dare to look at her.
This person is Isha's father, Raymond Gandalf, the family is notoriously incompetent, as the eldest son of the eldest son, Raymond is not even an elder, otherwise, why is the Mossi patriarch so old and still in power, if the son has the ability, he would have passed down the position of the patriarch long ago.
Faced with his daughter being besieged by many people, Raymond, who was cowardly by nature, didn't even have the courage to argue for his daughter, although he was already angry in his heart, he had a lot to say, but he ...... It's just unspeakable.
Isha sighed lightly in some disappointment, and didn't look at her father again, her face was flushed, no matter what, it was her father after all, even if she was disappointed in her heart, Isha didn't want to criticize her father too much. I just looked at my father, but subconsciously, I just hoped that someone could say a few words for me.
After sorting out her thoughts, Isha said, "The family is under a certain amount of pressure, I admit it......"
"What do you say if you admit it? Isn't it enough to just say how much compensation you do?" A young man in his twenties, who looks very handsome, just has a flying and domineering expression, it is the grandson of the Great Elder Morin, Ocedo, who has just graduated from the Imperial Academy for more than a year, and now he is already holding an important position in the family, and his own ability can only be said to be average, the key is that there is a grandfather who favors him.
Ocedo has always felt that he should be the first heir of the family, why is it Isabella's stinky girl? Is it because she is a descendant?
This is the essential reason for their trouble!
Fame and fortune are the things that people in this world pursue all their lives, and few people can escape the shackles of these two words.
Isha glanced at the young man lightly and said, "Osido, don't you think that you are not qualified to speak?"
"You...... You ......" Osido couldn't have imagined that in just over half a year, the low-key and shy girl who was not valued by him at all would have such a transformation, although she was criticized by almost everyone, she could still maintain her calmness, and then her words could be so sharp!
Isha ignored him anymore, and said with reason: "The little pressure on the family is more, grandpa and me, as for you, how much can you bear? A noble title has also been resisted." Now the pressure belongs to the Whampoa family, what does it have to do with you? This matter, so to speak, is me alone, and it has brought great benefits to the family, and you ...... I don't know how to be grateful, but I have such an attitude towards me, okay, I won't tell you either, now, I only ask the patriarch a word, and he will judge!"
Isha said, her eyes finally covered with a layer of mist. Although the little girl knew that the family dispute was cruel, she didn't expect it to be cruel to such an extent, if it weren't for the fact that she got the beauty pill, I'm afraid it would be a long time before she could experience this.
Moxi also has a headache, in the family, although he is the patriarch, he is full of words. But he couldn't ignore the opposition of all the elders, after all, he also belonged to the Gandalf family, and felt in his heart that those who opposed Isha wanted nothing more than two things, one was the right to know, and the other was to share interests.
First of all, even Mo Xi himself was very curious, who did this precious granddaughter get this magical elixir from! Although many people were suspicious of Ling Xiao, this kind of groundless thing, no one with wisdom would be gullible. Therefore, Moxi felt that even if he said it, it was nothing, and it was not the one who could issue a gag order. Whoever dares to speak out regardless of the interests of the family will be expelled from the family forever!
Even if the person who provided the elixir had this request, it should be out of his own safety, but in the same way, human greed is endless, so even Moxi himself hopes to take that person into his hands and serve the Gandalf family forever in the future.
However, he loves his granddaughter after all, and after weighing the pros and cons, Moxi said.
"Isha has the right not to say who that person is! I think you would do the same! No matter what way you think about it, it is better for you not to know this person than to know!"
The people below just wanted to make a noise, but Moxi's sharp eyes swept over, but the next words made the little smile that Isa had just shown froze on her face.
"However, I think that the proceeds from the auction of this herb ...... Yes, at least half of our family!"
Moxie said.