I thought Heyue had some tricks up his sleeve, but after getting my consent, he simply and neatly pushed the blame on me.
In fact, he didn't do anything, just spread a mysterious gossip:
"The Lord of Yuxi City has no big ambitions. He likes to delve into strange skills and tricks. He loves precious swords. He spends a lot of time every day studying forging methods by himself. It is said that his love for this way is far greater than his desire for beauty."
This gossip was passed on layer by layer, and in the end, in the eyes of the public, I had become a frigid man who let his beautiful wife and concubine stay in an empty room, and slept alone with a cold knife in his arms. Especially as this story became more and more evil, I went to a teahouse to drink tea, and I heard a few old brothers next door say:
"Speaking of which, have you heard what happened to the city lord recently? It is said that someone offered a beautiful woman to the city lord, was kicked out by the city lord, and was warned to say [women, stay away from me]."
Another old man said seriously:
"Yes, yes, I've heard that too. It is said that after the Lord City Lord came back from the capital, his temperament changed drastically, and his need for female sex disappeared. Some people also said that the Lord City Lord was given by the king... Sigh. I won't mention this matter. Whatever."
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Wait, isn't this public opinion starting to get a little bit wrong
But it didn't take long before the incident became known to everyone. Even merchants from outside will send people to send some weapons to the City Lord's Mansion after they inquire about this matter.
Since I became the city lord, there are actually quite a few people who want to send things.
For example, Han Tu who works in the Mozu Farm, Sha Yan, the owner of Zhenwei Building, etc., have all had the idea of giving gifts to build relationships. Rather, the entire emerging aristocratic class, because of the lack of foundation and heritage, had to come to their liking. It's just that it's a bit difficult to find what I like, because Heyue is basically in charge of internal affairs on weekdays, and it's hard for them to get in touch with me, so they don't know what I like, so they can only speculate with their own smart head.
The previous trend of public opinion was that I am so beautiful.
It does make sense, who doesn't like cute girls.
And from their point of view, most of the people living in the City Lord's Mansion of Yuxi City are young girls, so it can be inferred from this that it is definitely possible to send a woman.
In addition, Heyue was under strict control before, and I didn't have a group of maids who threw themselves into my arms, which made these emerging nobles see the possibility of success even more. This field is still a blue ocean, and whoever does it first will take the initiative, so during that time, they were also frantically looking for attractive women. The entire Yuxi City and foreign businessmen were in full swing, so that during that time, through The number of women entering Yuxi City for business transactions has increased significantly.
However, after the people bought it back, the group of nobles fell into an embarrassing situation again.
The quality is not enough.
Not to mention anything else, He Yue is "the second most beautiful woman in the world" appointed by Bai Huang, and when ordinary vulgar fans stand in front of her, they will immediately be overshadowed. The nobles at that time wanted to come to present women, but every time Heyue opened the door, he asked calmly "what's the matter", looked at her over there, and answered "it's all right".
excuse me.
Although Heyue's gender has always been a mystery, it is precisely because of this that it is even more difficult. Those nobles could understand clearly: if it was a girl, if the city lord had such a good-looking girl by his side, the ones in their hands would definitely be inferior. If it's a boy, it's even worse, the girls sent here can't even compare to the boys around the city lord, and they're still playing with wool.
So until now, I have not received a single girl.
It's a pity to think about it.
This is not the most angry thing, the most angry thing is that He Yue has a clear heart and he did it on purpose.
But if you ask her, she refuses to admit it, she blinks her innocent eyes, and tells me in a very ambiguous tone that those bought from outside may not be as good as her, suggesting that if I need it, I can go to her first.
How can I find it
I was really worried that before the flowers under the moon, after the two of them drank with each other, my Yang Feng was about to stand up, and found that he was also on the horse with a gun. The two looked at each other, but didn't know what to do. It is said that a gentleman hides his weapon in his body and moves it when the time comes, but you can't move it together!
But weapons and equipment are different.
What is good at the top will be worse at the bottom. There is a nail named He Yue in the way of seeing off the beautiful woman, so it will be fine to send off the beauty. So the new nobles gritted their teeth and began to purchase some relatively "good" weapons from outside. They can't afford to buy particularly expensive ones, so they can only buy some [rare] level equipment and try to send it to me through various connections.
But according to the plan we discussed, I checked these weapons in front of them and showed a certain interest, but the questions I asked were all like this:
"Who made this sword?"
"This knife is well made, it should be someone's handwriting."
"This gun is quite hot, I really want to meet the person who forged this gun..."
After some "appreciation", these things were returned intact.
If they can't understand this anymore, then they are really stupid.
The things sent up were good, but they couldn't catch my eyes. The most urgent task is to find some good blacksmiths to come to Yuxi City, so that they can please me. This is the hint I implicitly conveyed to them. Some things cannot be done by me personally. It is the best choice to let the people below do it. The tax burden of Yuxi City is not heavy, and the newly rising nobles have accumulated a certain amount of capital. At the same time, because of commercial reasons, they also have quite a lot of contacts outside.
Letting this class do things for me is much more efficient than simply letting Shuang take Anbu to investigate.
And most importantly, it will not arouse the vigilance of others. After all, after I came to Yuxi City, I took in the mixed blood of the demon race, danced in women's clothing in public, and sent back the three cities including the Skystar City that I had fought so hard. So there is nothing wrong with adding a weapon preference setting. There are so many children from rich families with this kind of interest. They obviously like to collect powerful weapons because they are good at it, or because they are good at it, they want to learn from powerful weapons and equipment. Gain a sense of security.
I will also be regarded as one of those prodigal sons of rich families, which does not conflict with the current strategy of keeping a low profile in Yuxi City.
So, just treat this matter as a carnival that suits you.
However, although the nobles also have their own channels, they are slower after all. They will pay attention to all the news about free blacksmiths, and try to contact those blacksmiths, and ask them if they are willing to come to Yuxi City. But this can't be too fast. If you want to see the effect, you have to wait at least half a month.
I was not in too much of a hurry, and asked He Yue to purchase a batch of armaments from Yunhai first to make up for the loss caused by the previous battle with Li Neng. After all, even if a blacksmith with a certain level comes, it will take a long time for Yuxi City to produce armaments by itself.
Until then, it's still about buying.
After doing this, although I was relieved, I didn't rest.
During the period of leaving Yuxi City, a lot of things in Yuxi City have accumulated, and I need to solve them one by one.