"You ask what specialties there are?" Harald asked doubtfully, "Wouldn't the King of Sweden know what Gotland's specialties are better than me?"
Of course, Amy didn't really want Harald's advice, she just wanted to divert the topic away from the origins of these Aztlan people. So she replied: "We are used to seeing many things, but we don't think they are.
So strange. From your point of view, what can you introduce to these foreign students?"
Harald glanced at the group of Aztlan people again. The funny look of holding the scissors and wheels like treasures made him want to laugh. He couldn't help but feel a little tease in his heart, and said: "Since it is
Distinguished guests, why don’t you let them see those green ‘jewels’? Isn’t that the biggest specialty of Gotland?”
"Gemstones?" Ella was confused. "Gotland is also rich in gemstones? Where are the veins? How come I haven't heard of them at all?"
Harald smiled and said: "Isn't it in your academy?"
Ella was even more confused: "Academy? There are no gems there..."
But Amy suddenly thought of something, and secretly stepped on Ella to signal her not to talk too much. Then, she shouted to the group of Aztlan people: "I almost forgot, let's go, I'll take you there again."
Look at Gotland’s abundance of gems!”
Ella was anxious: "No, Amy, how come you also know there are gems? Save me and don't know?"
"Aren't there a lot of them?" Amy blinked, "There are all kinds of colors, box after box, placed in the Alchemy Academy?"
"Ah, what are you talking about, Lyu..."
"Gem." Amy corrected Ella with a smile.
Glaze is a transparent material with a common color of green. It is also a common building material in the Qiqiu Empire. It is often used by the wealthy as decoration on doors and windows. The raw material is quartz sand, but the finished product has a gem-like color.
. Its price is high, of course, it is far from comparable to gems.
In order to make the lenses of the Eye of Hermes, Ella was lucky enough to make colorless and transparent glass, and how to stably eliminate the color of the glass became a topic she gave to the students of the Alchemy School. Unfortunately, it was
To this day, this problem has not been solved. Although alchemists have been able to skillfully adjust the color of the glass, you still have to try your luck to make it transparent. Even Ella herself cannot make it transparent every time.
of colored glaze.
Even if it is impossible to make colorless colored glaze, as long as you master the method of making colored glaze more cheaply, this is still a hugely profitable project. However, some alchemists' works do not consider the craftsmanship at all, and the made colored glaze is just
Some rough and irregular balls were not even qualified as decoration, which made Ella have been struggling with how to sell these glazes - at the price of normal glaze products, no one was willing to buy these shoddy products. But.
She wanted to sell them at a low price, and she felt that she was at a disadvantage, so these research products were piled up in boxes in the college, and the piles became more and more.
"These Aztlan people have never seen wheels or iron, so they might really regard these things as natural gems." Amy said, "Look at their reactions. If they like it, they will treat these glass as gems."
Take it to Aztlan and sell it.”
"This is too bold! And will they be fooled so easily?"
"How do you know if you don't try? If it's discovered, just assume that the gem was dropped..."
With a worried heart, Ella took Aztlan into the Alchemy Academy. When she pulled out a box full of glass beads and opened it in front of Aztlan, Aztlan
His eyes were straightened.
"Well... we..." they asked incoherently, "can we touch these gems?"
Ella nodded in agreement. So the Aztlan people carefully took out various colored glass beads from the box and looked at them carefully in the sun. Although these beads were rough in workmanship and had pitted surfaces, this made them even more attractive.
It looks like unprocessed rough stone.
"Do you like it?" Ella said tentatively, "If you like, you can each take one."
Upon hearing this, the group of Aztlan people immediately rushed forward with all their might and began to grab the gems they thought were the best. After a while, the fight around the colored glaze was over. Various colored glaze beads
They were all snatched up, and only the green beads remained.
Many people did not grab the beads, but they just swallowed their saliva and looked at the green beads from a distance. No one dared to reach out and take them.
"What's wrong?" Ella asked a little strangely, "I said I would give it to you one per person, why didn't you take it?"
After a long time, an Aztlan man stepped forward, carefully picked up the remaining green glass in the box, then kneeled down and lowered his head and sent it to Tesosomoc's stretcher.
Only then did Ella remember: Aztlan admires the color green. Bjorn told her that green decorations can only be used by people of a certain status, similar to the purple robe she wore in the Seven Hills Empire.
Tesosomoc glanced at Ella secretly, and then said to the Aztlan soldiers with an extremely serious expression: "Since the envoy of Quetzalcoatl said he gave these things to you, just take them."
As soon as these words came out, the Aztlan people finally lost their worries and rushed towards the remaining colored glass beads. However, those Aztlan people who had taken other colored glass beads before felt that they were at a loss and rushed with red eyes.
They went up to grab it, and the scene suddenly became chaotic. After a while, the fight turned into a scuffle. Ella and Amy did not expect that a few glass beads would make things develop like this, so they stood aside and watched dumbfounded.
"It seems that the Aztlan people have never seen colored glaze." Amy whispered to Ella on the side, "Take these and sell them as gems, the profit will be huge."
"But...Amy, is this considered fraud?"
"How can it be fraud? They don't have the technology to make colored glaze, so of course things are rare and expensive. Moving goods from cheap places to expensive places to sell them is the basis of trade!"
Ella's brows furrowed deeper and deeper: "This is the truth, but it is also true..."
Tesosomok couldn't hear what Ella and Amy were talking about, but when he found Ella looking at his soldiers with a frown, his face suddenly turned pale. He immediately turned his head and faced her angrily
The soldiers who were frantically grabbing the green glass beads shouted: "What are you doing? The messenger of God is watching you from the front! Is this how you behave? Can't you see that this is a trial?"
"Trial?" Ella was stunned as she didn't know what trial she had missed.
But Tesosomok suddenly fell off the stretcher, struggled to crawl to her feet, and shouted sadly: "Please forgive my soldiers for their stupidity and greed, or punish them as you wish."
Go! But please Quetzalcoatl don’t condemn the entire Aztlan for this!”
When Tesosomoc cried like this, the Aztlan soldiers all seemed to finally realize it, dropped the glass beads in their hands, and knelt down in front of Ella while crying.
