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At this moment, some people may have guessed what the "promise" Zhou Ming planned to fulfill was exactly.

It's not the so-called marrying Elsa as queen... He has never said such a thing.

But the story of "a beautiful woman hidden in a golden house" spread throughout the imperial capital and has become a household name... This is the true nature of Zhou Ming's direct commitment.

He also didn't want to live up to his words and be accused of being dishonest behind his back.

He wants to fulfill his promise and prove that he means what he says!

So...what is he going to do?

Golden House.

He plans to build a golden house in the palace, place a large number of precious jewelry inside, and then invite Elsa to go in and play a game of hide and seek.

In this way, the story of "a beautiful woman hidden in a golden house" has changed from a rumor in the market to a real story.

What?

What are you doing?

Is this approach a bit excessive?

When some female compatriots see this kind of behavior, I am afraid they will give two words to them - scumbag.

Yes, a heartless, selfish and shameless scumbag.

Indeed, Zhou Ming also admitted that his approach was indeed a bit scumbag.

But don’t think that he didn’t pay anything in order to get rid of the label of “breaking his word” and to avoid being a bad scumbag?

Don't even think that realizing the so-called "beautiful woman hidden in a golden house" is as easy as just talking about it.

Even though Zhou Ming was the emperor of a huge empire, even though he was rich all over the world, it took him more than three months to achieve the achievement of "a beautiful woman hidden in a golden house".

What did he spend three months doing?

Collect gold and silver treasures.

Try your best to collect gold and silver treasures in large quantities.

First, let’s talk about the gold house. How much gold does it take to build a gold house?

Zhou Ming made a rough calculation in his mind:

First, in order to highlight the royal atmosphere, the area of ​​​​the golden house must not be small. 60 square meters and 80 square meters are definitely petty, and more than 100 square meters is a hard standard.

In addition, the number of floors of the gold house cannot be less than three floors. A gold house with one or two floors will definitely be laughed at, and no one can be hidden inside.

Some people even build a basement full of gold... Zhou Ming feels that in order to highlight the "Tibetan" theme, a basement should be added.

In this way, there are three floors above ground and one underground floor, making a total of four floors.

Since the walls, floors, ceilings and even roofs and wall columns are all made of gold bricks, Zhou Ming estimates that the consumption of gold bricks is about 100,000.

To make a gold brick, it would cost about 500 gold tower shields... Zhou Ming would have to shell out at least 50 million gold tower shields for gold alone.

Fifty million gold pagoda shields, which is equivalent to the financial revenue of the Orunya Empire for one year.

Even Zhou Ming couldn't produce so many golden tower shields in a short while, so he had to try his best to piece together everything. It took him two and a half months to collect this huge amount of gold.

The gold problem is solved, what about the jewelry that needs to be put into the gold house? How to get it?

Regarding this, Zhou Ming also calculated how much jewelry he would need to prepare?

After calculation, Zhou Ming believed that the internal floor area of ​​the golden house was about 350 square meters, and leaving 50 square meters of corridor area, he should pile a large amount of treasures on the 300 square meters.

And you can’t just stack one layer, but at least three layers, so that you don’t look petty.

Then take the height of a box of 0.5 meters, multiply it by 3, and then multiply it by 300. The total is 450 cubic meters of jewelry, which he has to provide.

And what is jewelry?

Jewelry is a priceless thing, so you cannot fill it with valuable gold and silver jewelry and pass it off as jewelry.

It must be pearls, agate, jade, gems, fragrant wood, coral, crystal, jade and other rare and weird things.

And we need to take out 450 cubic meters at one time instead of 450 pieces.

But the problem is, Zhou Ming searched the entire palace and ordered people to rummage around. He found all the things that could be defined as "jewelry", and there were only more than 1,000 pieces. When piled together, not to mention they constituted 450 cubic meters. Less than 4 cubes.

Take money to buy large quantities from the private sector?

Shaked his head.

The so-called priceless jewelry refers to jewelry items. The seller can set a price at will. It may be a sky-high price or a bargain price, but as long as it looks good and is rare and rare, the purchase price will be high.

What's more, after the construction of the Golden House is completed, Zhou Ming will no longer have any extra money to buy so-called jewelry.

A full 450 cubic meters of jewelry is almost an impossible task.

Even Zhou Ming found it extremely difficult to realize the saying "a beautiful woman is hidden in a golden house".

However, Zhou Ming finally obtained 450 cubic meters of jewelry and achieved the achievement of "building a golden house".

The reason is that a caravan consisting of ten large aerostats set out in May this year and returned from doing business in the neighboring Domivaga continent (also a floating island, about the same size as the Orunian Empire), bringing with it Zhou Zhou. Ming needed a large amount of jewelry.

This is also a coincidence. The Domiwaga continent is rich in various types of jewelry, but gold and silver are in short supply. The common currency of the continent is actually a kind of white, bright, round and smooth pearls. The quantity is extremely large, but the purchasing power is very low. It is gold and silver. Such as currency, due to the scarcity of mineral deposits and small market circulation, the value is very high.

Therefore, after the Orunian Empire caravan arrived at the Domiwaga continent carrying a lot of gold and silver, they squandered a lot of gold and silver, buying as much jewelry as they wanted.

Of course, the jewelry Zhou Ming wants cannot just be pearls. Fortunately, due to the continuous depreciation of the pearl currency, gem coins, fragrant wood coins, crystal coins, diamond coins and the like have also appeared on the Domiwaga continent. , the value is much higher than pearls, but not as good as gold and silver.

It's just that the caravan doesn't carry much gold and silver. The 450 cubic meters of jewelry Zhou Ming wants cannot all be pearls. They require a variety of types, which is a bit difficult.

Fortunately, the ten large aerostats of this caravan also carried a large amount of best-selling goods. After these goods were sold out, a large amount of funds were recovered, which was completely enough to pay for the purchase of jewelry.

So in October, the caravan returned to the empire. After landing at the central floating port, Zhou Ming's jewelry problem was solved!

The golden house for hiding beauties was built successfully!

…

October 20th.

That morning, Zhou Ming sent someone to invite the old prince, his great-granddaughter Elsa, and a group of ministers and nobles to the palace.

In an open space in the harem, they were brought to a large object covered with canvas.

Zhou Ming asked the ministers to guess what the object in front of them was.

"I think it's a tree, a big tree."

"It's not a tree. The tree doesn't have such square edges and corners. I think it should be a rockery."

"His Majesty once described to me a machine called a steam engine. I think this is probably a steam engine!" said an official who was particularly interested in technological machinery.

"The toy must be a very fun toy! A toy invented by His Majesty."

"Elsa, what do you think, what could this be?"

Zhou Ming asked Elsa next to him while holding his hands.

Elsa wore a ladylike dress with exquisite makeup. She was obviously carefully dressed up. In addition, she already had a temperament and appearance of 95%. At this moment, she became the focus of everyone. Privately, all the ministers They all praised her beauty and thought that His Majesty had a very good taste.

However, Elsa, who was standing next to Zhou Ming, was obviously a little restrained. When she heard Zhou Ming's question, she was even more frightened. She thought for a while, turned her head back and forth, looked at it for a while, and then said: " Your Majesty... Your Majesty, I think this should be a house."

Elsa didn't dare to look at Zhou Ming, she felt like there was a little deer racing around in her heart.

"Yes, Elsa, you are very smart. This thing in front of you is the gift I want to give you."

Zhou Ming nodded and said to the left and right: "Guard, open the canvas and let everyone see its true appearance!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Several guards walked over, untied the rope, and pulled it in several directions.

"Whoa whoa whoa~"

There was a sound of canvas being pulled.

The top structure of the building is exposed.

After some strong sunshine!

brush!

Everyone couldn't help but close their eyes.

Dazzling.

The golden light makes people unable to open their eyes.

After a while.

When everyone got used to the dazzling golden light and there were "wow" sounds all around, Zhou Ming held his hands and said:

"Do you like it, Elsa? This is the golden house I gave you, and there are a lot of jewelry placed in it... I have fulfilled my promise to you."