"Raise your chin...a little bit, thank you." A man in a dress, holding a palette and a paintbrush in the other hand, squinted at the young man standing there and said respectfully.
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Tang Mo raised his head slightly, maintaining that arrogant posture, overlooking all living things. He put one hand in his pocket and the other on his waist, looking scornful of the world.
He is painting his first portrait in this world. The artist is the most famous realist figure painter in the Kingdom of Dorne. Many of his works can be sold for hundreds of gold coins each.
The artist's most proud painting is called Samantha, which depicts an imaginary queen of the elves.
This painting now hangs in Tang Mo's collection room, and Tang Mo has raised the price of this painting to 1,000 gold coins.
Yes, at an auction, John, the director of the Datang Group Entertainment Company, was entrusted by Tang Mo and worked with several "entrustees" to push the painting to unbelievable and terrifying heights.
Now, the first task of the artist who created the most expensive painting in the world is to paint a portrait of Tang Mo.
Tang Mo in the painting is very expressive, and he also has a bit of beauty - he was already very handsome, and now he looks even more radiant.
"Master." Leo held a telegram in his hand and pushed open the door of the room. He ignored the painter and walked straight to Tang Mo and opened his mouth to report: "Telegram from Sidos."
"Huh?" Tang Mo did not change his posture, but expressed his doubts in his own voice.
Sidos has just established a telegraph office. The Datang Group has no decent business there except brothels, gambling houses and restaurants. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be anyone there who can send telegrams.
What's more, Leo actually sent the message in person. It seemed like this was a very important intelligence message.
Leo explained directly: "The other party is from the Yangmu Kingdom, and the telegram sent is also for you, master."
"For me?" Tang Mo was stunned, then motioned to the painter over there to stop first. He looked at Leo and said, "They spent 50 gold coins on sending the letter?"
"Yes!" Leo replied with a strange expression.
When he originally set the fee, Tang Mo had no intention of having anyone send him any telegrams. He set the price to a sky-high price in order to avoid having many people who were too full to do anything and send him telegrams to find out.
trouble.
Now, the telegraph system has not been in operation for long, and many people have spent money to send telegrams to Tang Mo.
These people include, but are not limited to, His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of Wright, the great nobles in the southern part of the Kingdom, the ministers of the Kingdom of Dorne, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sussus... Of course, the one who has the most hair is a certain woman from Beiling.
Your Majesty.
She completely used the telegram as WeChat... She couldn't help it, she was so willful. But anyway, her telegrams were free, and not all of them would be sent to Tang Mo.
After all, Tang Mo already has a lot to deal with now, and he doesn't have time to chat with a girl through text messages.
As soon as Tang Mo reached out, Leo handed the message in his hand to Tang Mo. Then he turned sideways and looked at the famous painter standing in front of the canvas. The other person felt Leo's eyes, and immediately lowered his head slightly in greeting, and then bowed out.
room.
This is the price he has to pay for his promotion to become the most valuable painter in the world. After all, he has the power to choose, and he chose his current path.
Tang Mo ignored the painter's departure. He lowered his head and looked at the message: "Dear Mr. Tang, I hope you will end the war immediately. The Yangmu Kingdom's envoy will arrive in Bunas as soon as possible for an interview. Please be sure to call back after receiving it. I'm extremely grateful.
grateful."
After reading this long string of words, Tang Mo's face was full of smiles: "Hey! Did you spend a lot of money to send this telegram?"
The message sent by the other party is very interesting, and every word seems to be full of profound meaning.
First of all, the first three words in the first sentence, "Dear Mr. Tang Mo," show the respect of the other party. The other party even omitted his own name and insisted on not deleting the honorific at the beginning. This has already shown that
A certain attitude.
The things mentioned in the following telegram are all business matters, and Tang Mo also
"My subordinates have calculated that the fee for this telegram should be 100 gold coins. After all, the message is sent directly to the intelligence department, which is still very valuable." After hearing Tang Mo's praise, Leo immediately agreed.
Tang Mo handed the message back to Leo and said, "Since it is very valuable, don't let this money go to waste."
"What do you mean?" Leo was stunned, waiting for Tang Mo's next order.
"Call back to the Sidos Telegraph Office and tell them... I'm waiting for you in Bunas!" Tang Mo twisted his neck twice and looked at Weiss, who had been standing silently against the wall: "How is it?
?Is the painting handsome?"
"I really don't understand. Haven't you already...made a decent...what's that called? Yes, a camera! Haven't you already made a camera? Why bother painting a portrait of yourself?" Wei
Si didn't understand Tang Mo's confusing behavior.
Datang Group had produced a camera a few weeks ago. Although it was black and white, it was really exciting.
For the first time, it preserved people's faces and recorded the moment in an almost eternal way.
Datang Group used this modern recording method to create passes for every senior executive of Datang Group, and similar ID cards will soon be issued to workers.
With this thing, the factory can be better managed and many possible infiltrations can be eliminated. In short, it is also a very effective management method.
Of course, because the production capacity cannot be increased and the film cannot be mass-produced, this thing is still in the stage of strict confidentiality.
Today, most of Datang Group's production capacity is piled up in the shipyard, and most of the remaining production capacity is focused on the manufacturing of cars, trains, and rails. On the contrary, it manufactures relatively few guns.
However, weapons are still its main business, but these "weapons" are no longer limited to guns and ammunition, but the people who use guns and ammunition.
What the Datang Group is most famous for now is not the messy K1 or K2K3 rifles, but the talents of the Datang Military Academy.
These talents are simply the treasures of the country's rise. Everyone who knows the history of Datang Military Academy is eager to get talents who have graduated from the academy.
You know, the Kingdom of Dorne only got one student, and the Kingdom of Dorne rose up in the southern part of the continent and became a member of the Three Kings Alliance.
Similarly, the Kingdom of Wright, which has received dozens of college graduates, has now surpassed Dorne and Sussus in terms of national power, which were originally comparable to it, and has become the strongest entity in the Three Kings Alliance.
Of course, no one knows whether the young man from Susas who led the kingdom's tax reform is a talented person from the Tang Military Academy, but it is rumored that he is from the Kingdom of Leyte, and he is probably a graduate of the Military Academy.
On the other hand, he is also crazy about output in culture and art, which will be the sharpest, most terrifying and most powerful weapon in the future, which can destroy the enemy without any blood and completely occupy those invisible territories.
"I understand! The subordinate resigned." Seeing that Tang Mo no longer wanted to dwell on the telegram sent by the Yangmu Kingdom's envoy, Leo was about to leave the room.
"Send a telegram to Bunas No. 2 and No. 3 and ask them to return." Tang Mo looked at Leo and continued to order.
Leo thought for a while and asked a question: "So, the action against the Yangmu Kingdom, is it..."
"It's just a pause." Tang Mo directly stated his plan: "Anyway, their supplies are almost exhausted. Let Bunas No. 4 and No. 5 go to Nanshui to take over the tasks of No. 2 and No. 3."
"Yes! I understand!" Li Ao, who understood Tang Mo's meaning, bowed slightly, then turned and walked towards the door.
Tang Mo's intention was to use the opportunity of changing ships to give the Yangmu Kingdom's envoy some face and allow the other party's Nanshui Port to relax a little.
He just wanted money and had no intention of completely destroying the Yangmu Kingdom, so there was no need to kill them all.
As long as the other party realizes the difference in weapons and pays the 14 million gold coins in arrears, all other problems will be easy to solve, right?
"Painting is art! Do you understand art? Photography is just photography." Tang Mo felt that it was not that easy for photography to reach the artistic level of painting. He was now replenishing his aristocratic heritage, and his family
How can I live without a portrait of myself?
Although he does not intend to be as tacky as the so-called gentleman and aristocrat, there are some things that he still likes very much. For example, fine wine, such as paintings, such as yachts, such as luxury cars.
In short, he does not reject Western things from his previous life, he just hates those vicious and arrogant Western counterparts.
"I don't understand art." Wes curled his lips with a look of disdain.
Tang Mo burst out laughing: "I don't understand either."
After he finished laughing, he ordered Weiss: "Invite the master in! I still have time, let him continue painting for a while."
"Oh, that's right." When Weiss was halfway there, Tang Mo seemed to remember something and asked, "How's the car training going?"
"There's no problem, I'm very talented." Wes boasted, "I really like your car...what's it called?"
"Rolls-Royce!" Tang Mo was too lazy to name it, so he just copied the famous car from his previous life and named his Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce.
"Rolls-Royce! Yes! Rolls-Royce! I like that car very much! It's big, and it drives very handsomely!" Weiss smiled and made a gesture of twisting the steering wheel to Tang Mo.
Then he turned around, opened the door, and signaled the painter waiting at the door to go in and continue painting.
The painter nodded gratefully to Weiss, and then nervously started a new round of... creation.