Chapter 291

With these words, duvet was in a cold sweat, and Zach was pale.

After a long time, Du Wei sighed: "well, things have been like this, and we can only follow his Highness's wishes."

His mouth said helpless, but in the heart can't help but think: this thing is strange, why does Prince Chen want me to do? He pushed me to the corner so that I could be the outsider and take the promise of the Pope. This is certainly a way to deal with the provocation of the temple, but in terms of candidates, his highness also thinks highly of me. Why don't you let count villa or camisillo do such things? I was chosen to stand on the top of the storm

It's just these thoughts, but it's not good to say them to little Zach. Dewey settled down, and then asked Zach to go out and arrange today's important auction.

In fact, there is no such thing as auction in Roland. For example, bidding in the slave market is the rudiment of auction. It's just that what Duwei taught Zach to do is to systematize and scale up the auction house's business according to what he knew before.

Before noon, seventeen or eight luxurious carriages had already stopped in the open space outside. Many rich and noble families had arrived first, and even the servants of those rich families outside had nearly a hundred people.

The tulip family's auction house has a very good business. In this shop started by Dewey, a two-story building has already been built separately. There is a hall in the middle, surrounded by a circle of elegant ladder seats, and a circle of VIP rooms on the top second floor.

Every month's auction house has become an important activity in the imperial circle. Anyone who can participate in Tulip House's auction house. In the imperial capital, if you are rich or expensive, you can buy a ticket to participate in the auction, which has been regarded as a symbol of being in the upper class of the imperial capital.

The seven or eight VIP rooms upstairs have been heavily reserved all the year round, leaving only one or two for temporary rental.

In the VIP room on the floor of this building, there are the most comfortable soft collapse, as well as the free wine, which is condescending. Natural momentum is different. More importantly, there are several advantages: those who have this kind of VIP status have become the status symbol of the first-class figures in the imperial circle. It can be said that they can have a long-term reserved VIP room in the tulip house auction house, except for the most popular figures in the local political arena or the recognized powerful families... Ordinary upstarts, You can't buy it even if you have money.

In addition, young Zach is very good at drilling camp. At the beginning, Duwei benefited from the auction of more than a dozen VIP rooms. After an auction, the ownership of more than ten VIP rooms has already made a big profit for the tulip family.

In addition, after obtaining the VIP status, there are people from the auction house to provide free information about various auction items every month. In addition, we even made a beautiful atlas to inform the guests of the rare and precious goods that arrive every month in advance. It's totally the same way that Dewey used to treat VIP members as the top brands he knew before.

In this way, not only the status of these distinguished guests was improved, but also the tulip family auction house was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Later, almost every auction was full, and one vote was hard to get.

Obviously, today's "auction" has been widely spread in the imperial capital. So today's auction naturally attracted more people.

Little Zach had already gone out to get ready. Then people invited Du Wei to come to the auction house. There were dozens of people sitting on such a big auction site.

Du Wei had a rough look. Almost all the first-class and second-class aristocratic families in the imperial capital had arrived. According to the rules here, only one person can enter the ticket of the auction house, so the servants of these noble men stay outside. In this big hall, when Dewey came in. It attracted a lot of attention. Most people here know Dewey, even if they haven't met him. They all guessed his identity.

Some of them had to come to make up with each other, but seeing the Duke of tulip's cold expression and slightly frowning, they knew that most of the Duke was in a bad mood, so he didn't dare to come up to the mildews.

Today's auction, in addition to the promise of the Pope who is now making a lot of trouble, the original items are also rare goods, especially some precious jewelry made by several skilled craftsmen in duvet's shop and polished with Warcraft cores from the north. So there were a few more noble ladies and ladies from the rich families.

Of course, there are also some people with different thoughts. They know that the Duke of tulip has returned to the imperial capital and put his mind on Dewey. They guess that most of the Duke will come to the auction today and bring all his daughters. They just hope to meet Dewey here, and maybe they will be able to do a good job with him, From then on, I took this big tree.

And more people, it is with the mind to inquire about the wind. After all, the unusual behavior of the temple also made people panic in the circle of powerful people. It's good to come here and see how the tulip Duke responded.

Now that he came to the auction site, Dewey didn't say much. All the questions and worries in his heart were now put away. He was calm and his eyes were full of resolute eyes.

In fact, this is Dewey's character. Although he seems to be a little clever and cunning, he often likes to take the edge when things happen, and he likes to take opportunistic and shortcut. He is used to planning things first.

However, if it comes to the end and forces him to the corner, there will naturally be a hidden hardness in his nature that will burst out. Du Wei is such a person. If there are seven or eight roads to go in front of him, he will carefully consider, analyze and calculate. But if you force him to give him a way, do not give him a choice, then he does not lack the courage to go to the black road.

At the moment, Dewey's heart is firm, since there is only one choice in front of him. If you can't say that, you'll have to do your best. You don't have to think about other thoughts.

Du Wei's face naturally showed a certain degree of indifference and fortitude. He walked in all the way. Several people who wanted to say hello didn't dare to speak. He just felt that the young Duchess was sending out a chill. After all, magicians are moody. No one wants to be fussy at this time.

Du Wei walked all the way to the back, and went up the second floor from the beautiful spiral stairs. In those VIP boxes, several old acquaintances had already arrived. The first to bear the brunt is naturally the count of villa and the mount Delan Warcraft.

Since the coup d'etat, the count of villa has been a member of the prince Chen faction. Later, he took over the Royal estate and became the agent of the Royal estate. His power is naturally strong. And mount Delan Warcraft is the leading weapon merchant on the mainland. The tentacles of the network of influence spread all over the military and the imperial finance department, and it was also the red man in front of Prince Chen. As these two people, they naturally have the VIP status of the auction house. And the others sitting in the box are also the first-class and top-notch giants in the imperial capital.

When he saw Dewey coming up, count villa stood up first to say hello. The dranshan Warcraft also walked out of the box with a smile. Duwei, after all, was not good at keeping a straight face to the two people. He gave a smile and exchanged greetings with them for a while. Last night, however, I was a little grateful to count villa, but now I can't help feeling a little annoyed: these guys have known about the auction for a long time. But yesterday I pretended to be deaf and dumb in front of myself and didn't say a word! Although Du Wei knew that it must be prince Chen's advice, he could not help feeling resentful.

Count villa and mount Delan Warcraft are old people who have been in this circle for most of their lives. Although Dewey doesn't talk about it, they can't help showing some clues. When they know what Dewey is thinking, count villa smiles bitterly and whispers: "Dewey. I know you're not happy with us right now. This is also an order of your highness. We can't disobey it. Well, I sent someone to your place early this morning to send an invitation. I want to invite you to dinner tonight so that I can make amends to you. "

A few similar words were said by the nearby Delan mountain. Dewey understood why he had received so many invitation this morning.

He was not a small bellied person, since the other side said so, he was not easy to put his anger on his face and laughed. "Both of you are my good friends. Needless to say, I know it in my heart. It's just... Yeah. His highness Chen's skill really gives me a headache. "

The two old foxes are dry smile, dare not talk about the prince Chen, that Delan mountain Warcraft muttered: "Your Highness always do things with deep meaning, this time of course is no exception. If we are ministers, all we have to do is to comply with them. "

Du Wei naturally knew that this was an excuse, and that the two old foxes were not willing to take any responsibility, so he laughed and invited them into the box.

The dozens of boxes on the upper floor are lined up in a semi open circular arc, similar to the pattern of VIP boxes on the second floor of the opera house in Dewey's previous life. Because of this circular arc arrangement, people sitting in the box can also see people in other boxes on the left and right.

Dewey went into a box that Zach had arranged for him. As soon as he sat down, he felt the eyes coming from the box next to him. He looked to the left, but saw a young nobleman in gorgeous clothes sitting in the box on the left. He was dressed in a dark black robe, with a gold broadband on his waist, inlaid with several gems, And the red collar style is also the most common style of aristocrats from the south.

It's just that the people who come here today are all 40-50-year-old people like count villa and de Lanshan. Apart from Dewey himself, he seldom saw such a young man, so he couldn't help looking more.

The young man was handsome, but his face was too pale, and he didn't have enough blood, but he was the standard pale white that the nobles dreamed of. But his face was still a little green in the white. It was obvious that he emptied his body with wine and color on weekdays. Although the appearance is good, but a pair of eyes on the look is relatively dim. What made Du Wei frown even more was that the young man's face was powdered. Dewey has always been disgusted by men doing such things. Although it is a custom in the aristocratic circle, he never likes it. Seeing such a good young man, his face was smeared with powder, and even his lips seemed to have been smeared with red lip gloss, which made him feel sick.

And he saw behind the young nobleman, there was a man about 40 years old waiting for him. The middle-aged man was smart and smart, dressed up, and was in charge of a rich family.

Dewey looked at the young man. Find the other person looking at themselves. What surprised duvet was that the young man looked at himself as if he was not very friendly. There was something strange in Dewey's heart. When the young man noticed that Dewey was looking at himself, he immediately withdrew his eyes.

However, with Dewey's keen observation, when the other side hastily withdrew his eyes, it was a touch of gloom. But it couldn't get away from Dewey's eyes.

Du Wei's current status, title and influence are very popular. It's too late for everyone in the imperial circle to curry favor with him. How can anyone show hostility to him? And this young man is very strange. Dewey asked himself that he had never seen him, let alone made a feud.

Du Wei's heart moved, and he asked the attendant casually, pointing to the box beside him. This Valet was sent by Zach to serve duvidi. He was very clever, so he immediately got close, bent down and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, this is the box of marquis Seine's house. A few months ago, the Marquis of seine reserved this box for half a year with 40000 gold coins. The Marquis usually comes in person, but recently I heard that Marquis Senna is not in good health and hasn't been here for a long time. Well, this young master, I think, should be the son of marquis Seine, master DuPont. Marquis Seine has three sons. This young master DuPont is the youngest son, but his mother is the wife of marquis Seine, and still comes from a rich family. So although he is not the eldest son, he is very popular in the family. "

Dewey nodded.

Marquis Seine? That's the name Dewey knows. It is said that the Marquis of Seine is also related to the royal family, but it was more than 100 years ago. In fact, it is an old rich family with a long history in the imperial capital. Political stance has always been relatively smart, rarely involved in any political struggle, and pursues the principle of staying out of the affair. So it has been standing for a hundred years. Moreover, the family was very rich. The family had a lot of property in the south of the Empire. And in his early years, when Augustine VI was in power. The Marquis of seine donated a large amount of property when he was preparing to build the naval land. Therefore, he was praised by Emperor Augustine VI. later, he made a lot of war money by taking advantage of the opportunity of the Navy's expedition to the south, and his business was quite large. There were also people in the family who served as senior logistics officials in the Navy, and they also had territories and their own fleet in the south. There were also high officials like the governor in the family.

Generally speaking, it is a first-class family.

It's just... The Seine family, I don't seem to have offended them.

Duwei was thinking that the young master DuPont peeped at Duwei several times, but they all looked at him in a hurry and immediately turned their eyes, which made Duwei feel a little uncomfortable, so he just stared at him directly. The young master DuPont, in a panic, turned his head and dodged carefully. Dewey, however, was powerful and unforgiving. He kept staring at the young master DuPont. The other side didn't dare to look at Du Wei in the eyes, so they could only turn away, but their face became more and more stiff, but their eyes gradually showed a little impatience.

It was the steward behind the young master who, seeing Dewey, bowed down respectfully and politely.

Just then, on the front desk of the auction house below, little Zach had already stepped onto the stage.

The steward under Dewey also changed into a very formal and grand black robe, which made him more solemn. With a small gold hammer in his hand, he came to the front stage and coughed first, which attracted the attention of the whole audience. Then he said in a loud voice: "thank you for coming. The auction of this month has officially started. Now please be quiet."

With that, he bowed to the audience and walked behind a table on the stage.

Zach used to work as an auctioneer himself only when the auction house was just established. After that, he trained several professional hands to work as auctioneers, and he was happy to be lazy. However, on such an important occasion and such an important auction today, Zach dare not neglect it. I changed my clothes. I picked up the hammer and personally came up to preside over the auction.

Zach is now well-known in the imperial circle. Everyone knows that he is the representative of tulip Duke in the imperial capital, and they all give him some face. As soon as Zach announced the beginning of the conversation, the noise below disappeared.

"Ladies and gentlemen." Zach coughed, then said solemnly: "today's auction officially begins. First of all, on behalf of tulip auction house, I welcome all friends. So. Next, today's Du Wei nodded. It seems that both Delan mountain and villa don't know that they have got the secret order from Prince Chen, and they don't know that the thing has already been taken away by Prince Chen. Two people to report to Du Wei, in fact, is one meaning: to Du Wei. After all, Du Wei's title is the highest in the present Prince Chen's lineage, and they also imply that they are willing to show respect for Du Wei.

Dewey thought about it. Understand this is the meaning of villa and others to show their position, this move is also clear to show loyalty to Prince Chen.

When he thought of it, he sighed and said softly, "two million gold coins."

Dewey's voice was not loud, but his voice came from upstairs and immediately spread all over the room, and everyone could hear it clearly.

Far away, in the box of the Earl of villa and Warcraft of Mount Holland. They look at Dewey from afar. All smiles and nods.

After that, de Lanshan immediately sent someone to send a message to Dewey, saying only: since the Duke is out. They shut up, and if the Duke was not in a tight position, he would support them.

Good de Lan Mountain, estimate seem to understand oneself to do so is to get the order of Chen prince.

Dewey sighed.

When he called out the two million gold coins, he immediately called out two and a half million to the people with a southern accent.

All the emperors and dignitaries took a breath, and the smart people understood that it was the beginning to stop!

Who doesn't know the identity of Dewey? If it's a simple auction, the tulip Duke opens his mouth, then no matter how rich others are, they will give the Duke a face and will not continue to bid with him.

But these southerners seem to be well prepared, and they don't give Du Wei any face, which makes Du Wei confirm his guess that these southerners are sent by the temple!

The play in the temple is also interesting. The Pope wrote such a decree, and then sent his own people to buy it back.

The meaning of this is very deep!

After all, the fact that the Pope personally presides over baptism and acts as godfather is tantamount to openly challenging the authority of the royal family. But such a promise, the Pope is not easy to make casually to people, can only borrow "fund-raising relief" this high sounding reason.

And the second step, the key is that this commitment is in whose hands!

If... If it falls into the hands of a powerful careerist, then if the careerist gets this promise from the Pope, it means that he can be personally baptized by the Pope... It means that he gets the same treatment as the royal family!

The most subtle thing is that "the Pope personally presides over the baptism" has been regarded as a symbol of the legitimacy of the succession to the throne for many years!! Be regarded as sacred, noble!!

If the temple wants to take advantage of this to attack the prestige of the royal family, the most effective and simple way is to find a way to get their own people to buy it back, and then deliberately arrange for some vulgar rich man to come and accept the baptism of the Pope. In this way, everyone can't help thinking: any vulgar upstart can get the same treatment as the royal family, then the ceremony of the legitimacy of the throne of the royal office... There is nothing sacred to speak of.

Let's think about it more deeply... If an ambitious man gets this promise, then if one of the princes, such as Lu Gao of the northwest army, is baptized by the Pope himself, it will make people think: can it be regarded as: he also gets the highest sacred legitimacy?

Such association, once the opening, is very dangerous!

Du Wei sighed

Less than a cup of tea, the price has reached five million gold coins. Du Wei's heart is naturally aching. His money is not from the wind, no matter how much the final price to buy down, he must hand over the money to the temple.

When the price reached eight million gold coins, there was no sound at last.

Du Wei's heart was a little uneasy... Is it so simple? So simple to finish the task? In this case, it would be too simple to destroy the temple plan.

Sure enough! Before Duwei's thoughts were over, he suddenly heard a clear and sweet voice from the door of the auction house. It was delicate and beautiful, but it had a kind of holy taste.

"I'm sorry to disturb you. I know it's impolite to be late, so please forgive me

As soon as I heard that the door of the auction house was pushed open, a woman in a long white dress came in slowly. The woman was tall and slim. She was dressed in a white skirt, but it was obviously the style of a clergyman in the temple. Her long golden hair was soft and loose, and she was wearing a snow-white cloak behind her.

She stood at the door, eyes in the audience so gently sweep, attracted everyone's eyes. The woman's voice was very young. Standing at the door, the dress of the clergyman had a kind of holy and noble taste. Although her whole body is not a bit of luxury jewelry, but a gesture, but vaguely full of a noble atmosphere.

As soon as Dewey heard the voice, there was a haze in his eyes!

This is the daughter of the late great prince, the Royal Princess of the holy temple dedicated to the temple.

The Royal Princess came in. Her eyes were clear and her face was covered with white gauze. Although I can't see her face clearly, her eyes are more graceful and graceful like the cold moon. It is clear that there are many kinds of customs, but it is with a bit of holy breath. This kind of complex temperament is integrated in her body, which makes people feel relaxed.

Seeing the arrival of the princess, Dewey's heart sank and frowned.

At this time, Du Wei suddenly heard DuPont, the young master of marquis Seine's family. Suddenly, a short low cry came out from his mouth. Du Wei turned to look at the young master, but saw the surprise on his face. His eyes were full of fiery eyes, staring at the princess and Saint below. Her Highness seemed to raise her head and smile at the young master. The young master's face turned red in an instant. Suddenly, he seemed to be encouraged and said in a loud voice: "ten million gold coins!"