Chapter 38 The Posthumous Work of the Holy Master of the Palace
After walking around in front of the military book counter, Lu Zhan was disappointed. They were just some basic theories on military exercises and combat. It seemed that the books on the counter were simply inferior to the "Complete Book of the Evolution of Generals" that he got.
It's a world of difference.
So he complained: "Little brother, don't you have any good books written by me, Gong Pengyun?"
"Gong Pengyun?" The junior appraiser's eyes widened and he muttered in confusion: "Is it a new author? I haven't heard of it yet!"
This junior appraiser was a very enthusiastic young man, and he was not ashamed to ask questions if he didn't know. So he immediately ran outside the counter and asked a white-haired old man who looked like a mid-level appraiser: "Master, that silver distinguished guest.
I just asked about the book written by a new author named 'Gong Pengyun'. Is this 'Gong Pengyun' very famous nowadays? Why have I never heard of it?"
"Gong Pengyun? New author? He's new to you!" The white-haired old man slapped the junior appraiser on the forehead angrily, then ran to Lu Zhan, bowed to him and said, "I'm sorry for this
Distinguished guest, my disciple has little knowledge and has offended the Holy Master Gong. I hope that your distinguished guest will forgive him for his youth and ignorance."
"Great Holy Lord Gong?" Lu Zhan was also very confused after hearing this. "This Gong Pengyun is actually called the Holy Lord. He must be an extraordinary person. But I have never heard of this person. What country is he from?"
of?"
The old man was startled after hearing Lu Zhan's words, thinking that this man didn't know who Gong Pengyun was, but he was a silver-level VIP, so he couldn't get angry with him, so he had to explain in a low voice: "The Holy Master Gong Pengyun is
The country had been destroyed long ago, and he was a figure from more than two thousand years ago."
Lu Zhan and the junior appraiser standing aside said "Oh" at the same time, thinking to themselves: "It turned out to be a hard-core figure from such a long time ago! No wonder I haven't heard of it. You can't blame me for being ignorant."
The old man continued to narrate: "Gong Pengyun was the founding monarch of the Hongzang Dynasty more than two thousand years ago. He was a rare military genius and martial arts genius in the past two thousand years."
The junior appraiser quickly responded: "Oh, I know about the Hongzang Dynasty. That dynasty was the most prosperous and powerful country in the entire continent two thousand years ago. It is said that it successively annexed dozens of empires. Our current Great Chu Empire was also
It's just a remote small prefecture under the Hongzang Kingdom. But isn't the founding monarch of the Hongzang Kingdom named Gong Shengtian?"
The white-haired old man smiled disdainfully and said, "You silly boy knows so little, so don't deny it. That Gong Shengtian started out as a small city, and after he gradually annexed several surrounding countries and established his power as a great country, in order to show off to all the great powers, he
Demonstration of power
His ambition to dominate the world gave him a different name. This man was so ambitious that he even intended to unify the entire world. In the end, he even called himself the Holy Lord Gong. In fact, his real name when he was young was Gong Pengyun.
.This Gong Pengyun
He is very good at using troops, and can be said to be almost invincible. His army sweeps across the world, and wherever he goes, he either gives up resistance and submits to the throne, or suffers the tragic end of the country and the destruction of the king. Think about it, the soldiers of the Great Holy Lord of the Palace
The way to go
How awesome."
The old man paused for a moment, sighed and said: "It's a pity that although the Great Holy Lord of this palace is extremely talented in military affairs, he is unsatisfactory in governance, and his descendants have no outstanding abilities. As a result, the Hongzang Dynasty only has
It only flourished for more than three hundred years and then fell apart. In his early years, Gong Pengyun did write several volumes of military books, which seemed to be called complete volumes. I'm sorry because it was so long ago that I can't remember the titles of the books.
Later he was busy annexing
The world has no intention of writing books. However, according to legend, he asked skilled craftsmen to engrave the set of books on an extremely precious ink obsidian, bound them into volumes, and stored them in the library of the Hongzang Palace.
The wonders of the art of war that shocked the past and the present
The book became the only legacy he left to the world. Later, the Hongzang dynasty was destroyed and the entire palace was burned into a sea of fire. However, this set of strange books was preserved and passed down to the world because it was not afraid of the invasion of water, fire, and swords.
.after it was said
People have written different versions of forged versions based on that set of military books and spread them around the world, but those versions have been distorted and misinterpreted by some mediocre people, so that they have lost their original essence and charm. It is a pity that the ink jade version
of original
It is an original work, and not many people have seen its true appearance with their own eyes. If that single copy is still in the world, its value may be difficult to estimate, and it may even be worth the entire wealth of the last great empire."
Listening to the old man's narration, Lu Zhan thought that the "Complete Book of the Evolution of Heavenly Generals" in his hand was indeed carved on black jade. Could it be Gong Pengyun's original military book? It seems that General Duobao has indeed collected it.
There are some really good treasures, but it's a pity that he calls himself a general, but he is a mediocre person. He only knows how to collect but doesn't know how to make better use of their value.
After learning the story of the "Complete Book of the Evolution of Heavenly Generals" from the old man's mouth, Lu Zhan was no longer interested in staying there. He left the miscellaneous counter and walked towards the most mysterious area in this underground trading place.
Although this large secret shop looks like it has many shops and rooms and is very lively, in fact, the entire underground trading place is only divided into two large areas.
In the eastern half of the area, which is the trading hall, the shops here are all open and look bustling and popular, but in fact they only trade general items.
The western half is divided into several smaller, airtight areas. There are three auction rooms lined up at the front, which are for users in the three realms of "body refining", "bone forging" and "qi condensation".
A place for relatively tall items.
The two large and luxuriously decorated rooms at the back are respectively the appraisal room of the senior appraiser and the trading place for the highest and rarest items.
At this time, Lu Zhan was standing in the corridor next to the last two rooms.
He remembered that not long ago, when he saw Butler Liu for the first time, he saw him appearing at the position where he was standing at the moment, and he was also carrying a package wrapped in layers of precious silk and satin.
Did Butler Liu have any important transactions here at that time? If so, then the package he was carrying must have been valuable.
Lu Zhan walked to the door of the senior appraiser's appraisal room, knocked on the door, then opened the door and walked in.
There was an attractive middle-aged woman sitting in the appraisal room. When she saw Lu Zhan walking in, she quickly glanced at the soft armor in his arms and the silver VIP card he showed in his hand;
He immediately asked softly in a very sweet voice: "Is this little brother here to appraise the items?"
Lu Zhan nodded: "I'm here to find the senior appraiser."
At this moment, in order to hide his true face, he was still wearing a mask that transformed into an ugly middle-aged man.
With his old and ugly face, he was suddenly called "little brother" by the charming woman across from him, not to mention how uncomfortable and weird he felt.
The middle-aged woman didn't know what he was thinking, so she just smiled charmingly: "Well, little brother, you have found the right person. I am the one. Just call me Miss Fan."
"Miss Fan?" Lu Zhanxin said: "Such a milf still calls herself a girl at such an old age? And with her coquettish appearance, can this woman really be a senior appraiser?"
The middle-aged woman named Miss Fan saw the confusion in Lu Zhan's eyes. She smiled angrily and said: "There is no need to doubt my little brother. I am the most authoritative appraiser in the entire Yunmeng City. I said the value of the soft armor you brought
For five hundred thousand taels of silver, no one dares to raise the price to five hundred and one taels."
Seeing how confident her tone was, Lu Zhan almost believed that she was a senior appraiser.
So he put the soft armor in his hand on the table and said, "I want you to appraise this soft armor. The mid-level appraiser outside said that he could not determine the value of this piece."
"Okay, little brother's request is absolutely fine."
Miss Fan winked again, frowned for a moment, then coughed and said, "Uh-huh, I've already identified it for you."
"The appraisal was done so quickly?" Lu Zhan was puzzled: "When did you appraise it? Miss Fan, you have never even touched this armor with a finger."
Miss Fan smiled and replied: "Didn't I just say that in the territory of Yunmeng City, if your soft armor is worth five hundred thousand taels, no one would dare to quote the price one tael more or less.
Quote one or two. Not bad! This is your seventh grade one.
'Rhinoceros Watching the Moon Armor' is worth almost half a million taels of silver according to the unified market price in our Dachu Empire Secret Workshop Alliance. Of course, if it is put at auction, it may be able to fetch a higher price; but that is not the case.
a certain thing
Son, maybe there are no wealthy buyers who appreciate it at the auction, and it will fail to sell."
"Rhinoceros Watching Moon Armor? Level 7?" Lu Zhan couldn't help but feel a little admiration: "Miss Fan is truly a senior appraiser. She just took one look at it and identified it immediately. The mid-level appraiser in the trading hall looked at it.
It took me a long time to figure out its origin and specific value."
This Miss Fan has obviously been flattered by countless people in this secret workshop, so she acted very calmly for such a small compliment to Lu Zhan.
She smiled lightly and said: "Those mid-level appraisers who said they couldn't tell the origin of this soft armor might be deceiving you. They just follow the rules of the Secret Workshop Alliance and are limited to their mid-level status. They don't have that ability yet."
Qualifications are used to evaluate this armor, so I reasoned that my ability was limited and I couldn’t see it.”
Oh, so that's what happened. No wonder the intermediate appraiser was very excited when he saw this treasure armor. It turned out that he had already recognized its grade and origin.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhan asked again: "Miss Fan, you said it's called 'Rhinoceros Moon Armor'. Could it be that this soft armor is made of rhinoceros skin tanned material."
"Yes." Miss Fan nodded: "There is a kind of rhinoceros growing in the Crescent Desert of the Southern Continent. It likes to look at the moon and chirp every night, so people call this kind of rhinoceros the moon-watching rhinoceros. This moon-watching rhinoceros has two
precious,
One is the giant horn on the head, and the other is the skin on the body. The giant horn is a very valuable material for making high-grade elixirs, and its skin looks very soft, but it is actually extremely tough and resistant to blows.
It can be said that it is invulnerable,
It is impervious to water and fire. So people made its leather into soft armor and named it 'Rhino Moon Armor'."
As soon as Miss Fan finished speaking, she heard the door behind her being opened.
Lu Zhan turned around and looked back, and saw a middle-aged man walking in. The man was short, pale, with a long and narrow face, and thick eyebrows hanging upside down.
Lu Zhan felt like he had seen this person before somewhere. After thinking about it carefully, he remembered that it was the eyebrow-raiser he saw outside the Zixia Mountain Stone Forest at dusk.
The eyebrow-raiser obviously didn't notice Lu Zhan's strange behavior. After walking in, he smiled at Lu Zhan and nodded politely.
After Miss Fan saw the eyebrow-raiser, she quickly introduced to Lu Zhan: "This is the steward of our secret workshop - Qiu Gongfeng."
Qiu Gongfeng politely said to Lu Zhanxu: "This brother wants to trade this treasured armor. I wonder if he is going to let our secret shop buy it out directly? Or he wants to put it up for auction at the auction. If he buys it out directly,
we definitely will
Offer a decent price, which is probably the price that Miss Fan just mentioned. If you want to put it up for auction at the auction house, the result is not certain. You may get a good price, or maybe it will fail. But if it really fails,
That
Then it is impossible for us to pay the price just now to buy the goods in your hand. And looking at Yunmeng City and even within a thousand miles, there is no one who can bid higher than our secret shop. So please, brother
Think it through first.”
Lu Zhan deliberately pondered for a while and replied: "No need, I'm going to keep it for myself to wear." He put the soft armor away and handed it over to Miss Fan: "Thank you Miss Fan for your appraisal. I'll take my leave now."
."
Miss Fan returned the favor with a smile: "You're welcome. If you have any good things in your hands in the future, little brother, you must come to us to trade. I guarantee that we will give you a good price."
Lu Zhan then nodded politely to Qiu Zongfeng, turned around and walked out of the appraisal room.
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