Chapter 154: The mountains are red
The place where Jona and Jonas met was in a small village adjacent to the territory of Birro and Jungson, although the village belonged to Jona, but it was not far from Birro's territory, and after Jonas's carriage had been driving for about two hours, Jonas had already arrived in front of a country house with a somewhat rustic atmosphere.
Along the way, Jonas's heart was constantly entangled, and in the course of two days, he made countless preparations, hoping to help himself be recognized by Viscount Juana, and even Doron proposed to go to a commercial city like Genaya to buy a slave girl to give to Jana as a gift, but Jonas himself vetoed it.
In his opinion, if his talent has reached the point where he needs to use such means as a slave girl to have any hope of success when he completes this matter, then he has already failed, which is absolutely inadmissible for Jonas's strong self-esteem.
So after Doron proposed, Jonas decisively refused, but refusal is an easy thing, and Jonas wants to compensate for the consequences of refusal, which is very difficult.
Dolon's advice was a big bargaining chip, and now that Jonas himself was thrown into the trash, he would need to put more effort into improving his strength, read more about Jana, see more reports on the economic dealings between the two sides, investigate more about the dynamics of other nobles, and even find out how his children are living in order to find a breakthrough.
This lasted for two days, and until now, Jonas in the carriage was still holding the scattered materials at hand, trying to find something that he could use to increase his leverage, instead of being led by an old man like Jana.
After the two-hour journey for Jonas now, after many hurrieds and rugged roads in the mountains, this wide avenue is really nothing, so when he felt that the carriage had stopped, and Doron had already reminded himself to come out, Jonas cleaned up his mood, put the materials he was holding in his hand into the compartment in the carriage, and after confirming whether it was safe, he got out of the carriage refreshed.
Although there is only a difference of a few days, the hottest season has finally begun to become a little cooler under the gradually drowsy and worse weather, and the clouds on the horizon have changed from a large thick cloud to a piece of light floating clouds, the blue sky occupies most of the sky, and occasionally there are a few wisps of traces left by birds crossing the sky, giving people a feeling of high sky.
At this time, in the distant mountains and forests, the leaves are still emerald green, and the red maple leaves have begun to have some momentum of red all over the mountains after the midsummer sun has passed, and the mountains in the distance began to occasionally intersperse some golden yellow, bright red maple leaves in it, inadvertently adding a little autumn flavor to the summer scenery, which is very in line with Jonas's appetite.
He had long heard that Jana was a person who was very obsessed with maple leaves, and even cut down all the trees in the mountain behind his mansion and replaced them with maple trees when he was young, and the habit of being good at the top and bad at the bottom must have existed in this ancient Middle Ages, so it is not surprising that the head of this village must have planted some maple leaves in order to please the lord.
Jonas's eyes broke free from the breathtaking natural beauty in the distance, and soon found that the carriage was parked in front of a country house, the whole villa was very special in design, similar to the house Jonas had seen in the countryside, showing an earthy yellow color.
This color is originally very unsightly, always giving people a very unfashionable feeling, and it does not match the word noble, but under the careful arrangement of Jiao Na, the house spreads vertically and horizontally, and the sparse and scattered gecko vines make the whole building have a sense of returning to the basics, and with the low bushes and jungles on the edge of the house, and the red maple leaves that are stacked in the distance until the end of the mountain, there is a feeling of being in the countryside, but lonely, alone.
Jonas walked forward, the ground was slightly muddy, the soil was a little wet, but his feet on it would not connect a large piece of sludge to his feet, on the contrary, whenever Jonas's feet landed on this land that seemed to be a farmer's feeling, it would make some "rustling" sounds, Jonas took a closer look, only to find that this was just ordinary dirt in his eyes, but it was paved with fine sand from the beach, and there were some large particles of small marbles in it, so it made a rustling sound.
"No wonder so many women like him, it's too emotional. ”
Jonas couldn't help but complain in his heart, from the natural scenery he saw at first sight, to the construction structure of the entire house, and the careful arrangement in it, it is not difficult to reflect that Viscount Jana can be said to be a young man in his bones, and he is a powerful young man.
It's just that although he was complaining about Jona in his heart, Jonas didn't show a trace of expression on his face to reveal his inner thoughts, because in front of him, standing on the steps of the gate waiting for him, it was the famous Viscount Jona Rongsen.
Jonas hurriedly trotted over with a face of his children and grandchildren seeing the smiling faces of his grandfathers, and clenched Jana's hand, his attitude was very enthusiastic, but there was no flattering expression on his face, but a smile, which made Jona also feel a little bit of Jonas's attitude of not being humble or arrogant.
Jonner's impression of Jonas began when Jonas inherited Billro's territory, and after he knew about it, Jonah became interested in Jonas, because Stark, that is, Jonas's grandfather, the previous generation of Viscount Birro, Jona and him can be said to be a friend of wine and meat, and they usually occasionally get together to talk about some common topics of nobles.
At that time, Jona knew that Jonas's grandfather was a smart man, at least in terms of sensitivity to the outside world, Stark was not a stupid person, and such a person chose a child who was only young to be his heir, which undoubtedly made Jona very interested in Jonas, and he wanted to know, what kind of ability does this child have to get Stark's favor, so that he does not choose an adult to inherit, but chooses a child?
After that, Jana launched an investigation of Jonas, but for some reason, the secret talks he sent out, every time he investigated in Bilro's territory, he always found nothing, got nothing, as if Jonas had been concentrating on his studies since he came to Bilro, and had done nothing.
This once made Jona very confused, he was very confident in his intelligence organization, since they did not investigate what Jonas did, it means that Jonas did not do anything, although this made Jona very strange, but Jona only attributed him to the fact that Sdarke chose the wrong person, and he was wrong about Stark, an old friend.
This matter should have passed like this, Jana has a lot of "housework" to deal with, and Jonas is also under the protection of Dolon, and he is implementing his policies in the territory step by step, and the two of them may follow their own paths in adjacent places like a parallel line to the end of their lives.
However, fate is like this, you will always have an unexpected time, a person, break the stable life you originally had, fish you out of the lake of normalcy, throw you into the rushing river, and make you dizzy.
The steel trade advocated by Jonas quietly entered Jonner's ears, and not only that, but also entered the actual interests of Jonah, and when Jona saw the treaty signed by his steward, he already knew that this man named Jonas was definitely not a simple person.
You know, pure iron ore is just a cheap mineral, not worth much at all, a large number of nobles who own mountainous areas can be mined privately, so Jonas spent far more than the mining price of iron ore to buy, if not a problem with his brain, or he already has the ability to smelt iron ore and refine them, which will import iron ore on a large scale.
And smelting is the top priority of whether these ores can have value, and it is the secret weapon of the big nobles, like them, the small nobles in the countryside, are not qualified to get the most high-end skills in these smelting technologies, but Jonas is in the eyes of Jonner, it belongs to the already obtained, otherwise the steel trade agreement he signed will be a piece of waste paper.
These clues naturally rekindled Janna's curiosity about Jonas, a little nobleman, and the plans that had been stopped were also relaunched, although there was still nothing, but Jana was happy with it, and even his yearning for love was reduced a lot, and he ******** wanted to find out where Jonas came from.
The hard work paid off, just as Jona was investigating Jonas, a letter of invitation written by Jonas himself was placed on Jonah's wooden table, the content of which was very simple, that is, hoping that Jona could meet with him and strengthen the feelings of the neighborhood, etc., the clever Janna soon thought of the real purpose of the letter, which must be about the people behind him and Piedmont.
This made Jona think carefully for a while, after all, he was nominally a vassal of the Count of Piedmont, if he was in private, and he was the first person to start this trend, it was difficult to say whether it was good or bad for the entire Rongsen family, and of course Jonner, as the head of the family, could not make rash decisions.
But after thinking about what Jonas had done, Jana then made a decision and became the first nobleman in Piedmont to agree to meet with Jonas.
In his opinion, this land that is stable to mediocre may really need the entry of fresh blood to rejuvenate it.
And for Jonas, this is also the first time he has seen Jana, he is not dressed like a traditional playboy like a showman, eager to paint his body with perfume, and then use colorful colors to attract those ignorant girls who like beautiful faces, but very simple, just a khaki kaftan and a pair of loose cloth pants is his whole dress, look, very homely.
When Jonas put his eyes on Jonna's upper body, he found that Jona was neither bald nor obese, and even his hair was brown and black, and his figure was maintained very well, and he could clearly feel how powerful the arm that Jona raised and held with him, and Jonna's figure, according to Jonas's top-down perspective, was a little unreal, but it would certainly not be less than 180 cm, which was really remarkable for an elderly man who was about 60 years old and was weakening.
With his hands clasped, Jonas looked at the face of the same smiling Jawner with a smile, and the old gentleman's face did not like many old gentlemen, who liked to have a beard to show how long he had lived, but was cleanly trimmed, leaving only a short beard on both sides of his face, and it was black, and it did not become white because of the passage of time.
The eyes are black, which makes Jonas feel very kind, and his Western appearance makes people feel heroic, looking at such a 60-year-old man, Jonas has to understand why those middle-aged women like to hook up with this gentleman so much.
It's fun, it's strong, and it's not bad, it's really the best old man.
"Mr. Jana, I'm not late, am I?"
Jonas said with a smile, but he did have another idea in his heart, when he read the information about Jana, because it was a person who was imaginary out of thin air, in his opinion, a 60-year-old person should be hunched over, walking staggeringly, plus a somewhat confused image, after all, he can live to 60 in this era, and he can still be healthy, but also among the nobles, it is really pitiful.
So under such an impression, when Jonas was reading the information, he naturally used that set of weak man theories to think about what kind of person this Viscount Jana was, but now when he saw the real person, he found that his conjectures were all wrong, this Mr. Viscount was stronger than many soldiers, which made Jonas lose his claim in an instant, and he didn't know how to deal with it.
"Of course not, dear Mr. Jonas, I'm just old and like to walk around outside, I didn't expect you to come so soon, hehe, oh yes, you don't mind if I call you by your name, hehe, hehe, I'm old, I always like to rely on the old and sell the old, please don't mind, haha. ”
Unexpectedly, under the appearance of the middle-aged man, Jiaona's voice was old, similar to the old man's voice a little dry, which made Jonas regain some confidence, at least the information is still right, this old man is at least really Jiaona, as for Jiaona's self-talk, Jonas didn't care. (To be continued.) )