"What are the specialties you ask?" Harald asked doubtfully, "What specialties are there in Gotland? Shouldn't the King of Sweden know 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 anymore. From your perspective, what are some things that you can 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 teasing in his heart, and said: "Since they are distinguished guests, why not let them see those green 'jewels'? Isn't that the biggest specialty of Gotland?"
"Gems?" Ella was confused. "Gotland is also rich in gems? Where is the mine? Why haven't I heard of it at all?"
Harald smiled and said, "Isn't it in your academy?"
Ella was even more confused: "Academy? There are no gems there either..."
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, let's take you to see the gems that are abundant in Gotland!"
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, boxes after boxes, 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 wealthy people for 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, but 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 Academy. Unfortunately, this problem has not been solved to this day. Although alchemists have been able to skillfully adjust the color of glass, making it transparent still requires luck. Even Ella herself cannot do it every time. Out of transparent glass.
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 did not consider craftsmanship at all. The glass they made were just rough and irregular balls, which were not even qualified as decoration. Ella was always worried about how to sell these glass. It’s nerve-wracking—at the price of normal glass products, no one is 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 academy, and more and more were piled up.
"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 the Aztlan people into the Alchemy Academy. When she pulled out a box filled with glass beads and opened it in front of Aztlan, Aztlan's eyes widened.
"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 placed them in the sun to watch carefully. Although these beads are rough in workmanship and have pitted surfaces, this makes them look like unprocessed rough stones.
"Do you like it?" Ella said tentatively, "If you like, you can each take one."
Upon hearing this, the group of Aztlan people immediately pounced on them with all their might and began to grab the gems that they thought were the best. After a while, the fight around Liuli was over. All the colored glass beads were 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, and then kneeled and lowered his head and sent it to Tesosomoc's stretcher.
Only then did Ella remember: Aztlan worships the color green. Bjorn told her that green decorations can only be used by people with 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, you can take them."
As soon as these words came out, the Aztlan man finally lost his worries and pounced on the remaining glass beads. However, those Aztlan people who had previously taken glass beads of other colors felt that they were at a loss, so they rushed to grab them with red eyes, 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 looked on in silence.
"It seems that the Aztlan people have really never seen colored glaze." Amy whispered to Ella on the side, "Take these and sell them as gems. The profits 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 shouted angrily at the soldiers who were frantically grabbing the green glazed beads: "What are you doing? The messenger of God is watching you from the front! Is this how you behave? Can't you see this?" Is it a trial?"
"Trial?" Ella was dumbfounded, not knowing 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 not to punish the entire Aztlan for this!"
When Tesozomoc 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.
(End of chapter)
