Ashler is the queen of the East End, a veritable king. The Duke of Beihai's control of Haiyuan City reached 100 percent, and all commerce and land were under his control, without the slightest omission. Even those hunters who set up stalls in the big markets to peddle their hunt for mountain goods need to pay a heavy tax for him. As for the name of this tax, most of it was collected under the banner of the Flemish royal family.

Emperor Tiangao is far away, and this kind of blatant opposition to the royal family has been practiced in Beihai for two generations in a row, and the people nearby have long been accustomed to it.

In the vicinity of Kaihara Castle, not only the Hokkai region, but also the adjacent Takami area was also tragically damaged.

The land of the Takami area is in a ring, and it perfectly encloses the Hokkai, so trade with the Hokkaido area is very important for the Takami area.

The Ring Territory of the Takami region was deliberately created by the Knight King Hakutsuki, who connected several minor nobles to the marriage of Guò, and was awarded the title of duke for some meritorious work. In doing so, it creates a buffer zone for the North Sea, preventing them from expanding lightly and doing more excesses.

However, the union of the Takami region also made the hostility of the royal family towards Beihai more exclusive.

The Takami region knows what the duties of the ZI are, but they also need to survive and live. The neighbors are a bunch of crazy people, and this is also very sad for them, at least in terms of trade, it is difficult to deal with it, merchants cannot enter the North Sea region at all, and the taxes and fees for customs clearance and trade between officials and merchants are very high.

The Grand Duke of Hokkai was worried that the Takami region would benefit from trade with his own region, and thus grow stronger. He didn't want to feed wolves with his body, so he began to organize the population to crowd out everyone outside the North Sea and close off the area of Zi.

This behavior continued for decades, making Beihai a strange place in the White Moon Country.

Ashel owns most of the property in Dongcheng District, dagai from two years ago. When she was not yet ten years old, the Duke tried to get her to help with it.

The daughter of a duke with no official status, and rarely not the owner of mana. Such an identity can neither make her the daughter-in-law of a big nobleman, nor does she have the capital to lead soldiers into the army, so she can only manage the family business.

As for Ash'er's identity, almost no ordinary people know. The aristocracy did not communicate with the common people. In addition, the matter of the duke's daughter is promoted again, and this secret has been perfectly kept for so many years-

Ashler hadn't seen the goldsmith's beard in weeks. She had heard that Kellnan had come to sell gold in the South, and she was very interested to know where this guy got his weird gold coins.

Goldsmith Bearded was one of Ash'er's teachers, who taught her some knowledge about gold and silver, and knew her identity. Because of this relationship, Ashler also regarded him as an elder who could be trusted, and asked him to help a lot. The reason why the goldsmith ran to report the news when he met Kernan was also at the request of Ashler.

At this time, the princess of Beihai grabbed the gold coin of Zhou Shu and stared at the pattern on it suspiciously.

"I've never seen a gold coin like this. The gold coin has a fire dragon on it, which is strange. ”

The goldsmith said that he was a little learned, and that he had never heard of any country in history that used the inauspicious creature of the fire dragon as a currency symbol.

"Could it be the coins from the many islands to the north?" asked Esther.

The goldsmith said the possibility was almost unlikely. Judging from the workmanship of the coins, it is not something that can be done by the skills of those islanders. They may make a few or dozens of pieces, but it is completely impossible to achieve a scale that can be circulated. Moreover, most of the currency used by the islanders is silver, and I have not heard of any island producing such things as gold, and there are no large islands in the direction of the North Sea.

"Yes, you're right......" Ashler pinched the money. I think this thing is pretty good. "That, Kyernan idiot. Ready to melt this beautiful coin into gold and sell it?"

"That's right. ”

"That's right...... Did he say where the gold came from?"

The goldsmith said that he had forgotten to ask, and after a little recollection, he thought of the yellow-skinned strange man who had followed Kernan to the shop, so he said it.

"Black hair, black eyes, skin color is a little strange...... "Ai Shi'er muttered to the goldsmith's qingkuang, running naodai to search if Zi had heard of this kind of person, and the result was naturally negative.

"Do you want to come with me to Kankan? ”

"Ugh. I'm a little interested. I'm only interested in that foreigner, but that annoying guy from Kyernan is also there, which is really nerve-wracking. ”

"Then you're not going?"

"No!" Ashler jerked up her arm and said no in very exaggerated body language, "I'm going." It's been a long time since anything new has happened in the city, and I'll have to make up for this renao. ”――

The goldsmith knew very well that there was something new in this Haiyuan Castle every day. The latest thing about dagai is the prophecy made by the holy woman.

The usual prophecies are about inconsequential things, predictions of disasters that will occur in the North Sea. This time, although the usual qingkuang was also predicted as a disaster, it was not a natural disaster but a disease.

The shallow prophetic poet goldsmith can guess even a half-literate person. He didn't know if the prophecy was true or if the duke had done it on purpose, and he didn't know if the holy woman was really a holy woman, or if it was a political tool. However, he believes that no matter what happens to Qingkuang, Beihai will face a long-awaited war.

Obviously, such a big event is not new to Ash'er. For the twelve-year-old menarche, there was nothing newer than Hernan coming to her shop to sell gold.

The goldsmith knew what his young lady was interested in, and he was happy to follow her behind her back to see Renao, and there was a great tendency to fear that the world would not be chaotic. If the duke knew that he wanted to watch Zi's daughter's play, it is estimated that a life would be lost-

Master Zhou was tired of waiting in the gold shop, and in his boredom, he began to search for beautiful girls nearby, scoring them one by one in the Book of Summoning in Naodai.

Kellnan patiently watched as the shopkeepers melted the gold. This shop is not a gold shop, but a gold jewelry processing workshop. At this time, he was fantasizing about robbing this store, making the female soul of Dongcheng District grit her teeth and shout Zi's name to the sky.

There are some things that Kyrnan dares to do, like killing one or two Southerners. He didn't kill much, but there were a few. Kill with a knife, simply and neatly. No mud and water. Ordinary children will not have his experience, nor will they have his figure. What kind of people do what kind of things, he doesn't regret it.

As for robbing the shops in the city, he didn't dare to do it. Not to mention that his sister is still a saint and is about to lose this status. Sentenced to the crime of robbing the shop, Kernan will not be able to return to Haiyuan Castle in his life. It's going to be hunted down and wanted.

Zhou Shu saw that the bearded man had been unsupposed, but Zi was waiting here stupidly, and complained a little impatiently, asking if there would be some abnormalities in the speed of this grinding of Kairnan.

"Why do I find you have so many questions?" asked Kellnan, pinching his waist.

Zhou Shu has turned off the translator, and when he encountered this question, he answered in English very forcefully, "stayhungry, stayfoolish." ”

"What do you mean?" Kernan was inexplicably upset when he heard this.

"Hunger for knowledge, humility for foolishness. Zhou Shu said this and pointed at zi. "Don't you think I'm kind to you when I ask questions?"

"You're saying you're still going to want to be 'welcome' to me?"

"Not really, you're a kid after all. ”

Kyrnan has hated it most recently when people say he's a kid because it's true and can't be changed anytime soon. Just like a bald man hates being called bald, and a fat man doesn't like being called fat. Kellnan thinks Zi's age is as unpleasant as his bald head and bloated body.

In the face of Zhou Shu, he still won't do too many boring things for himself. He was very sure that Zi couldn't beat the person in front of him, and this person didn't seem to have any hostility towards Zi, so it would be best to get along with each other without incident, as long as Fanzheng was sure of the gold and got the money. You can stay away from him.

Kernan didn't refuse to answer questions because he was upset. He said he wanted to test the quality of the gold. It is normal for a series of complex processes to be required and to take some time.

Just as he was showing off the testing methods he knew, three people, two men and one woman, came in through the door. The woman is Ashler, or she can't be called a woman for the time being. The two men were the ones who played chess at her doorstep before, and they were considered guards in terms of identity.

"Oops......" Kernan saw Ashler at the same time. The mood hit rock bottom. Before, he was like an office worker who kept the SMS prompt on his mobile phone and paid for his salary in the dengdai salary card. Now his expression is like hearing the boss say that the salary is two months in arrears.

"Kid from the South End. Hello. Dressed in a suit that was easy to move around and looked like a noblewoman going hunting on horseback, Ashel walked past Kernan with a smile.

Kernan gritted his teeth and cursed. He was going to take the initiative to find Ash, and then find some trouble to fight with her guards. Let her know that she knows that Zi is awesome. As a result, I didn't wait for Zi to go now, and someone came over first. If Zi gets the money for the gold at this time, then Yiqie can say that she can move the follow-up plot to the front and find fault with her now. But the most passive thing now is that the gold is in the hands of others. What if Zi angered her and she took the gold?

A money-loving Kellnan stood in the corner with his shoulders crossed, pondering the headache. In the end, he decided to wait for the results of Zi Jin's test, and not to worry about it, but to ignore her for now, knowing that the silver coin was in hand.

The goldsmith bearded man slipped back through the back door pretending to be a meishi and walked over to Kernan.

He stood behind his boss, clutching the coin and asking if he really wanted to sell it.

"Of course I sell it, but gold can't be eaten as food, so I don't sell it and keep it. ”

Hearing this, Ashler covered her mouth and giggled, looking annoying.

"What are you laughing at?

The goldsmith shrugged and helped his young lady answer. "This gold coin is pure gold, I say this, I don't know if you understand. ”

Generally speaking, the original texture of gold is not suitable for direct production of gold coins. Gold is soft, and it melts directly into gold water and pours it into a mold to cast, and the result is a coin that is easily deformed and damaged, so a small amount of other metals needs to be added to make the gold coin stronger.

Therefore, pure gold coins are rare, at least with the metal craftsmanship of Baiyue Kingdom, pure gold coins cannot be done, and close to 10% of impurity metals need to be added.

Kernan doesn't understand this, but Zhou Shu does have some understanding.

Seeing that Kairen was at a loss, Master Zhou helped to answer. It was taken as a tribute to his previous braggathing in metal detection.

The goldsmith listened to Zhou Shu's words and smiled and said yes, but Kernan still didn't understand. "It doesn't matter how good it is, what does it have to do with me selling gold?"

Zhou Shu helplessly supported his forehead, "In other words, you can sell this gold coin as a handicraft." "Zhou Shu was built like this by Bai Yueguo's jewelry store before.

Kernan was not interested. "Would you like to buy crafts here?"

The goldsmith shrugged and looked at his young lady. Ashler smiled, "I can take it." ”

"Okay. Kernan welcomed, "Then give me the money." ”

Ai Shi'er seems to be a girl who likes to laugh very much, and Zhou Shu discovered this. At this time, she was still snickering, as if she was laughing at Kyernan or something.

After Lord Zhou saw this girl, he used the Book of Summoning to lock her. She's just a normal person, and it's easy to make summons, which is good news.

Facing this child, in fact, Zhou Shu was still quite depressed. He had never done any bad to a little girl. He suddenly noticed that Zi seemed to be unable to do bad things to such a child.

When Zhou Shu encountered the knife killing group before, several muscles and big tendons in the knee socket were cut off by a knife behind the girl's sliding shovel in minutes. Under that kind of qingkuang, he still chose to help the knife killing team after that, and he had no intention of being an enemy at all. It's the same with Qingkuang now, a girl who loves to laugh looks cute, although it's snickering and ridicule, it doesn't matter if the fanzheng object is Kailin Zhoushu.

After seeing this child, Master Zhou began to think about how Zi's next action would be carried out. At present, he thought of a more perfect way to do it - to ask Ulla to come out of the mystery. Let her figure it out. This should be the safest thing to do.

Ashel was indeed joking at Kellnan, "I'm talking about the kid in Southtown. Where do you see where we are?"

"Your goldsmith's shop, are you so stupid that you even forgot about this?"

"No, it's not. I think you're stupid enough to forget about this. Ashler smiled and grabbed a gold coin, "If you want to sell this gold coin according to the craft, go to my chamber of commerce." The goldsmith's shop doesn't buy that. ”

Kyernan shrugged. "I'm too lazy to go to you. I want money now, and if you don't accept handicrafts here, just melt them into gold nuggets for me. ”

"Crafts cost 10 times more than gold nuggets. Ashler sat on the chair and shook one leg very indecently, like a thug. Zhou Shu also began to wonder if Zi's guess about her and the Duke of Beihai was wrong.

"Ten ......" Kernan still needs Zhou Shu to give him a step down when he earns Zhou Shu's gold coins. will proudly agree. In the face of this tenfold profit, he doesn't even need steps, Zi can be arrogant. "Hmph, since you want it so much, it's not impossible for me to go with you. Since this coin has the value of a craft, I am not very willing to destroy it. ”

Zhou Shu looked at Kelnan, who had no interest at all, with black lines on his head, and he also blushed for him, and wanted to pretend that he didn't know him. Seeing the beautiful boy in front of her talking like this, Ashler smiled even more happily.

Most of the girls belong to the Appearance Association, and Kernan's face will definitely satisfy the vast majority of the members of this association, and Ashler is no exception.

She likes to flirt with this kid in Nancheng District, and the so-called title of the queen of Dongcheng District is actually spread out by her.

Zhou Shu was still more interested in this kind of awkward thing between children, and watched it with interest on the side.

Zi blushed a little after Kernan said those words, especially Zi's embarrassed appearance was seen by the southerner next to him, which made him quite unhappy.

Ashler said that she could leave for the Chamber of Commerce right now and withdraw money to buy all the coins. Although Kernan hates this queen of Nancheng District, he is not resistant to her money at all, and he also knows that this guy is a man of his word, and he will definitely give him money if he says it, because this is not the first time the two have traded.

Kelnan occasionally gets some strange things from strange sources, which are occasionally acquired by Ashel. Since Ai Shi'er had decided to give money, and she had to pay ten times the price of pure gold, Zhou Shu was useless. Kernan didn't want this southerner to look at Zirenao on Zi's side anymore, so he said to him decisively, "Sir, you can go and do your business." Then he beckoned to Ash'er's side and said in a command, "Let's go." ”

Zhou Shu and Ai Shi'er stretched out their fingers and shook them at the same time, and the two of them had just come into contact and ushered in the same opinion for the first time.

"I don't have anything important to do right now, and I suddenly want to go to the Chamber of Commerce Kankan in Haiwon City if there is anything interesting to buy, I'll go with you. ”

Ai Shi'er also said in a caliber, "This foreigner must be the source of your gold coins, right? She turned her head towards Zhou Shu, "It's great that you're willing to walk with us." ”

Kernan also suddenly discovered that this southerner had suddenly become a gang with Ashler.

He endured his irritability, said nothing, and took the lead. Zhou Shu and Ai Shi'er glanced at each other, and smiled helplessly, there is no way to deal with this guy's childishness. (To be continued......)