Rebirth of the Viking King

Shopkeeper Luo couldn't help wiping his beard twice when he saw the scene in front of him.

Tang merchants, whose businesses spanned most of the civilized world, had a detailed algorithm for how to calculate the value of a city. Just when the old man was about to send his servants to get detailed maps of the Viking territory, Gustav had already thrown out the Storm's End fiefdom token.

The old shopkeeper waved his hand gently when he saw this scene.

In his opinion, Loki's defeat was certain.

Just like normal people in the 21st century do not carry their real estate certificate when they go out. Ordinary Viking nobles would not carry such an important fiefdom token when visiting the night market. Today, two cities actually appeared in this extremely ordinary gambling game!

He has been a shopkeeper for more than 40 years, and this is the first time he has encountered a gambling game of this scale.

Loki's face turned gloomy and dark. He opened the leather bag behind him again and hesitated for a long time whether to hand over the "Jade Seal of the Nation".

After thinking for a few seconds, he decided that he had to give it a go. The reason was simple: he couldn't bear the consequences of losing Foggy Duck Town!

If Foggy Duck Town returns to the Bernard family, he will not only lose a large area of ​​land and people, but he will also have to face Yuna who has nowhere to go!

When I think about the possibility that I need to be in the same room with this young lady,

Absolutely not!

Holding the imperial seal tightly with his fingers, he silently prayed that the white-bearded man would be a good person, and then gently threw the 10-centimeter square seal onto the miniature golden mountain.

Ding!

The jade seal of Chuan Guo fell steadily to the top of Jinshan Mountain. Just as Shopkeeper Luo reached out to pick up the jade seal, his half-stretched hand suddenly hovered in mid-air.

The hand that could always remain stable hung in the air for a few seconds and then began to tremble slightly. The old man squinted his eyes and carefully observed the square seal, which was not that big.

this thing

Why is it so similar to the "Jade Seal of the Nation" recorded in ancient books?

But having said that, if he hadn't been lucky enough to see the scrolls copied by other court officials, Shopkeeper Luo himself wouldn't have known what the treasure looked like.

What's more, except for a handful of professionally trained treasure appraisers, no one knew that the "Jade Seal of the State" had been broken during the usurpation of the throne by Wang Mang of the Han Dynasty, and a corner of it was lost.

The people of the Tang Dynasty didn't know this secret yet, let alone the Vikings thousands of miles away.

Gustave, who was sitting opposite Loki, was still very confident. Frankly speaking, the Imperial Seal is not a jewel-like treasure that looks like jewels on the outside. This is indeed a good jade that is as gentle as water. But as a senior second-generation rich man, Gustav knew that once the jade articles of the Tang Dynasty were damaged, such as missing corners, cracks, etc., their value would be greatly reduced!

This jade seal was destroyed on the corner of gold in the corner. An ugly crack was filled with an even uglier piece of gold. This thing didn't look valuable at all!

Haha, they say Loki is a smart guy, but I didn’t expect him to be such a fool! When they knew Duzu would lose, most people would choose to throw a piece of worthless garbage at random and lose the game. Unexpectedly, he threw out a jade seal that was barely visible.

Gustav was full of confidence, putting his hands behind his head and waiting for Lao Chaofeng to announce the final result.

But the result has yet to come.

Lao Chaofeng very carefully took out a pair of white silk gloves from his arms and put them on his hands, and then gently picked up the jade seal. He first took it near his nose and smelled it.

Upon hearing this, his expression changed drastically!

During a rather long period of time that followed, Lao Chaofeng put his turbid old eyes to the outer wall of the jade seal and studied to observe every line on it.

(According to rumors from shareholders in the firm, I, the chief counter of Izumo Trading Company, "Qingyun Zhenren", once sneaked into the palace in the dead of night to explore this treasure!)

2000 years ago, a Chu man named "Bian He" found a jade in the "Baoyu Rock" in Jingshan Mountain. He presented the treasure to King Li of Chu. King Li's vassals thought it was just a piece of broken stone and ordered his left foot to be chopped off for deceiving the king. When King Li died and King Wu came to the throne, Bian He offered jade again. King Wu's vassals came to the same conclusion and cut off his right foot.

Many more years passed. King Wu died and King Wen ascended the throne. Bian He held the jade in his arms and cried continuously for three days. The tears dried up and blood flowed out. King Wen sent a minister to inquire, and Bian He replied: "I am not sad because of the torture I have suffered, but sad because the treasure of heaven and earth has not been recognized." King Wen thought about it and decided to open the stone himself.

Hidden in this stone, which Bian He embraced all his life, is the "He's Bi" that became famous throughout the world in later generations.

This story, which was recorded in "Han Feizi·He", was well known to everyone in the Tang Dynasty. But for people like Shopkeeper Luo, who have been identifying treasures for a lifetime, they will think about more literal issues.

For example, Qingyun Zhenren, the "big cabinet" of Izumo Trading Company. He has a completely different understanding of the Imperial Seal than ordinary people.

His understanding lies in the word "awe".

Qingyun Zhenren’s business names are spread throughout the Silk Road. His business houses were honored by numerous officials. All shopkeepers are elites selected from 100 million Tang people.

However, even the most capable shopkeeper under him was basically inferior to the several immortal cultivators in the palace of Tang Wang Li Shi who were able to identify immortal treasures and elixirs.

No matter how rich ordinary people are, they are just "common people".

They simply couldn't compete with the Royals.

One thousand two hundred years ago, the Chu State was also one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period. The counselors around the king of Chu will definitely not be mediocre people who live in idleness. Since all the treasure appraisers around the two monarchs claimed that this stone was not jade, then the stone hiding the "He's Bi" was most likely not "jade" at all!

"He's Bi" is by no means a piece of "jade" in the popular sense.

Master Qingyun guessed that this stone was most likely an "outer god" that fell from the sky to the land of Kyushu like the "outer god".

Why does he think the imperial seal on the case of the current emperor Tang Dezong is an imitation? It was precisely because after he sneaked into the palace, he discovered that the traditional jade seal on Li Shi's desk was an ordinary piece of suet-fat jade.

If the jade hidden in Bian He's arms was such a piece, not to mention the two treasure appraisers under the king of Chu, even an ordinary pawnshop owner on the street would be able to see its value.

but now

It took Shopkeeper Luo just three minutes to conclude that the jade seal in his hand was definitely not carved from any kind of "jade" on the market.

the reason is simple.

This jade seal is really ugly!