Chapter 186: Sophistry
Li Hao couldn't help laughing.
"Zheng Gongzi, what you said is really funny, I, Li Hao, really convinced you!"
"What do you mean?" Zheng Yingcai frowned and asked.
Li Hao raised his hand and pointed to the pet dog in the hand of a noble lady and smiled: "Zheng Gongzi, look, that little white dog looks exactly like you, with two eyes, a nose and a mouth. β
"Bastard! Li Hao, you dare to openly insult me, isn't it because my Zheng family is easy to bully? β
Zheng Yingcai thought that Li Hao was no longer able to argue, so he could only make insults, seize the opportunity to start attacking, and even moved the Zheng family out to suppress people.
Now that they are hindered by the power of the Zheng family, they will not dare to speak for Li Hao.
Li Hao spread his hands: "You look exactly the same as the puppy but you are not the same species, the fairy crystal and quartz look the same, you are the same thing?" Zheng Gongzi, you are very good at playing this double standard! β
"Don't argue with me here! Your fairy crystal and quartz are not the same thing, can you prove it? What is the evidence? β
Li Hao snorted coldly in his heart, and kept saying that he was sophistry, but in fact, the most sophistically was him Zheng Yingcai. The so-called who doubts, who adduces evidence. Even if he wants to prove it, it should be him Zheng Yingcai who is looking for evidence to prove that Xianjing is quartz. How could Li Hao prove it.
However, in the current situation, if Li Hao has no way to prove the authenticity of Xianjing, everyone will be biased towards Zheng Yingcai. I have to say that this is really an unsolvable topic, no matter ancient or modern, there is no shortage of Zheng Yingcai in the world.
But fortunately, Li Hao was prepared.
He was too lazy to joke with Zheng Yingcai, snatched the necklace in his hand, and borrowed a diamond ring from Shen Fushang.
"The so-called divine objects are the products of the creation of heaven and earth, and have been nourished and nurtured by the righteousness of heaven and earth for thousands of years. Fire and water are invulnerable, indestructible! β
As soon as the words fell, Li Hao slammed the necklace and diamond rings together.
"Broken!"
Hearing a crisp sound from Kara, the quartz card inlaid on Zheng Yingcai's necklace shattered into several pieces, jumped out like a crumble, and fell to the ground.
And the fairy crystal diamond ring was unharmed, not even a little bumble.
"How is that possible!" Zheng Yingcai looked stupid on the side.
Quartz is hard, knives and axes are difficult to break, in order to polish these jewelry, the craftsmen of the Zheng family have been busy for several days, how can such a hard ore be smashed by a collision?
Li Hao continued: "Didn't you ask me what the fairy crystal is? I'll show you! β
As she spoke, Wan'er strolled over, holding a mirror box in her hand.
When the mirror box was opened, a burst of dazzling light bloomed, illuminating the long guests dizzy.
When the light dissipated, everyone saw that there was a pile of crystal clear gravel in the mirror box. The rubble was a mess, but each one was crystal clear, and the colored light wrapped around them, flowing slowly on the surface of the rubble.
"Bodhi Thousand Years of Ice!" The moment the gravel appeared, I saw a merchant dressed in the Western Regions among the guests exclaimed, and he knelt on the ground with a puff in front of everyone, throwing himself to the ground in front of the mirror box, and bowed very reverently.
When everyone heard this name, they were also in an uproar.
In fact, the gravel in this mirror box is crystal, and thousand-year-old ice is the name of the ancients for crystal.
Crystal is the ore deep underground, and it is difficult to mine the scientific and technological capabilities of the Tang Dynasty, and because the crystal is abundant in the Western Regions, it has covered this ore with a veil of mystery.
Because crystals were almost impossible to mine in this era, they were particularly precious. Once it appears, it becomes a myth and legend. In the land of the Western Regions, crystal is synonymous with holiness and light.
For today's auction, Li Hao spent a lot of money to buy back a crystal from the Western Regions. After many hardships, I finally created a few jewelry, and this time it shined at auction.
Crystal is the hardest ore in nature, quartz is a younger brother compared to it, plus Li Hao has the power of the overlord, so just after a collision, the quartz immediately shattered.
"No...... Impossible, how could the immortal crystal be a thousand-year-old ice, the news I got was not like this! β
Zheng Yingcai muttered to himself, he took two steps back, his forehead was already covered with cold sweat, and he felt that he had fallen into Li Hao's trap from the beginning.
His brain raced, returning to what had happened in the past few days, and finally inserting the key information of the Millennium Ice into it.
In an instant, the whole thing was sorted out.
"That quartz vein, you deliberately let me find it!" Zheng Yingcai's face turned pale and asked through gritted teeth.
Li Hao raised his eyebrows: "You're not stupid, if I hadn't deliberately let you find out, you would have been wiped out by me a long time ago!" β
From the very beginning, Zheng Yingcai fell into Li Hao's trap.
What is the number of divine stones on Vermilion Bird Street is getting smaller and smaller, what is the secret mining of Li Jiazhuang, all of this is just a smoke bomb deliberately made by Li Hao, in order to let Zheng Ying find out the clue, and then send someone to follow him.
Li Hao knew that Zheng Yingcai was thoughtful, and after discovering the connection between quartz and Shenshi, he would definitely take action as soon as possible.
The income from arresting Li Hao is too low, and with Li Hao's status, a single private mining cannot completely defeat him, and he can only weaken his reputation first, and then report him on charges before he can be put to death.
As a result, the Zheng family secretly purchased a batch of quartz, wanting to imitate the divine stone to impact the market.
And Li Hao deliberately held a dinner party to throw out the topic of Xianjing. Attract Zheng Yingcai's gaze to the immortal crystal.
During the Tang Dynasty, crystals were rare, let alone how to distinguish the difference between quartz and crystal, so Zheng Yingcai naturally thought that fairy crystal was pure quartz.
He thought that he had caught Li Hao's life, so he privately made a batch of high-purity quartz jewelry, hoping to discredit Li Hao in front of all the wealthy businessmen at the auction.
This is exactly what Li Hao wants.
Li Hao had planned everything early in the morning, spending money to buy a piece of crystal from the Western Regions, and the jewelry in tonight's auction was made of crystal. Once Zheng Yingcai comes forward to provoke, you can slap him in the face.
Even Li Hao took advantage of Zheng Yingcai's provocation to further stabilize Xianjing's position. Zheng Yingcai's carefully crafted quartz jewelry has become the best stepping stone for Xianjing to truly make a reputation.
From the moment the quartz jewelry was shattered, Li Hao had silently stood at the pinnacle of the Xianjing industry. The gems that flowed out of his hands in the future, even if they were defective, no one dared to question them.
Zheng Yingcai was defeated in this battle, and he was completely defeated. He achieved Li Hao, and he did it with the century-old reputation of the Zheng family.
The dignified young master of the Zheng family actually challenged the fetish with defective products in front of so many rich businessmen and magnates, and it was even more ridiculous that Li Hao was exposed.
From now on, the Zheng family can't raise their heads in front of Li Hao.
Looking at Zheng Yingcai's desperate expression, Li Hao smiled secretly in his heart.
If Zheng Yingcai thought that his plan was nothing more than that, then he had to say that he was too naΓ―ve.
If it was just for the immortal crystal to sell, Li Hao would not be guilty of calculating the Zheng family, and there would be no need to spend a lot of money to buy the crystal.
At the beginning, Li Hao's purpose was to help Li Shimin completely produce five surnames and seven hopes.
The Cui and Wang families have already bowed down to Li Shimin, and the next thing is the Zheng family.
Zheng Yingcai's suffering is far from over!