In the first month of the twentieth year of Tianwu, a nobleman of the Kazakh Khanate held a birthday banquet for his wife at home.

The invitees were all nobles of the Kazakh Khanate, as well as high-ranking officials of the Russian army in the city of Turkestan, and some wealthy merchants with a face in the city of Turkestan.

Vedalsky's reputation and cooperation with the Khanate's martial law during extraordinary times meant that he was also invited to a birthday party as a foil.

Entering the circle of nobles, Vedalsky was full of hope, but he found that these nobles and high-ranking officials did not take them as businessmen seriously at all!

Vedalisky accosted several nobles with a cheeky face, and was not surprisingly coldly starved.

He can also understand that the more backward the society, the more they look down on merchants, like the Kazakh Khanate, as well as Tsarist Russia, in the words of the Ming Shangguan, they are tribal lords, backward and ignorant!

Whether it is the Europa countries in the west or the Ming Empire in the east, they attach great importance to merchants, which also makes their country very prosperous!

Sitting in the corner of the banquet hall, Vydalsky tasted the fine wines, which were good, but he was in no mood to taste them.

Vedalisky gently put down his goblet, frowned slightly, took out a box of cigars from his bosom and lit one.

After Columbus discovered the New World and brought back tobacco cultivation, Europeans learned about the existence of tobacco, and they rolled the main leaves into cigars, and the leftover parts and bad leaves were used as cigarettes and pipe tobacco, and smoking gradually became the latest trend of the European aristocracy......

The habit spread first to Spain and Portugal, and soon to France and Italy, and by the mid-16th century Europeans had become familiar with tobacco.

Later, governments around the world found that more and more people smoked tobacco, so they began to collect taxes to make money, and the more they collected, the more they earned, and then the countries planted a large number of tobacco in the major colonies, and even the Ming Dynasty planted a lot on the island of Java, and launched its own tobacco brand.

Vedalisky took a deep breath of his cigar and gently exhaled the smoke ring, and immediately a cloud of mist appeared in front of him.

His eyes kept scurrying across the dance floor, trying to find someone to approach.

Inadvertently, Vedalsky spotted a Russian noblewoman leaning on a seat not far away, and there was no one around.

Vedalisky knew her, a noblewoman named Susanna, who was famous in the city of Turkestan!

Susanna's husband was a member of the Naryshkin family of Moscow, which had fought with the Tsar's maternal family for power, and eventually lost power and was exiled, and Susanna's husband died on the way to exile.

After that, a group of Moscow nobles, rushing to Susanna's beauty, approached her one after another, and the intentions became known.

In order to survive, Suzanne began to wander among the Russian aristocracy, becoming their plaything, and later, for some reason, settled in Turkestan in the Kazakh Khanate.

In the city of Turkestan, Suzanne still habitually shuttles between nobles and high-ranking officials in order to survive, after all, it is not easy for a woman to live, and in this era it is an accessory of men......

As a peripheral member of the Jinyi Guard, Vedalisky knows her details, this girl looks glamorous and noble on the surface, but in fact she is lonely and empty in her bones.

This woman is often in contact with the Russian aristocracy and high-ranking officials, and she has a wide range of contacts, and she may be able to have unexpected gains!

Thinking of this, Vedalisky held a cigar between the two fingers of his right hand and a wine glass in his left hand, and walked towards Suzanne with a charming smile on his face.

He believed that with his handsome appearance and the assistance of money in his pocket, he should be able to conquer this woman!

Today is the birthday party of the Kazakh nobles, and the nobles and high-ranking officials invited all bring their wives, and no one hooks up with Suzanne in front of his wife.

At this time, it is a great opportunity for Vedalisky to pick up a pickle girl!

With no one around, Susanna, with a soft face, was sipping red wine alone, looking at the pairs of cheerful dances on the dance floor, her delicate and bright face like rose petals, revealing a faint sense of loss.

"Dear Madam, my name is Vydalsky, I am a merchant in the city of Turkestan, it is an honor to know you, may I sit down next to you?"

Suzanne looked back in surprise, looking at the blonde hair and blue-eyed man who suddenly appeared next to her, the first feeling was very good, this person was tall and strong, and he was quite handsome, the type that noblewomen liked.....

However, when she heard Vedalisky introduce himself as a businessman, she immediately looked disdainful, turned her head very unceremoniously, and ignored it.

Vedalisky was annoyed in his heart, and secretly said that this girl actually doesn't look down on our old Wei! Our Lao Wei was also a famous handsome queen in ten miles and eight towns!

Seeing her so cold, Vedalisky was not discouraged, he knew what this kind of woman wanted most, the more coquettish the girl, the more powerful the eyes!

Vedalisky sat down unceremoniously next to Susanna, put on a high-end pose, and took an elegant sip of wine.

In Susanna's disgusted gaze, Vedalisky said with regret: "Hey, these men at the banquet are really visionless!" ”

The woman was suspicious by nature, and seeing that he seemed to have something to say, Suzanne frowned and said, "How can you say this?" ”

Vedalisky looked at her, showed a charming smile, and said: "They are hanging such a beautiful lady here, isn't it without vision?" ”

Susanna's pretty face twitched slightly, obviously being told that it was a sore spot.

Vydalsky's eyes swept over her expression, capturing this scene, and couldn't help but feel more confident.

Usually a group of people surround Suzanne to be courteous, she has never been so neglected and ignored, and now she is left aside, how can the cold Suzanne stand it?

Vedalisky took out the cigar in his pocket, lit it and smoked one, placed the beautiful sandalwood cigarette case on the table, and placed the black enamel metal wheel firearm on the cigarette case, and elegantly pushed it towards Susanna......

Suzanne chuckled disdainfully, and was just about to get up to leave, when she suddenly saw the bright black object on the table, and her face immediately showed a look of surprise.

She couldn't believe that this manly-looking businessman in front of her had such an expensive thing?

As a noblewoman of high society, Suzanne recognized it at a glance, and the merchant pulled out a metal wheel firearm, which was not only advanced and fashionable, but more importantly, its materials were extremely expensive!

This is the world's most extravagant "Shenzhou brand firearm", its shell is a layer of black enamel, with a strong oriental ceramic technology, the interior is forged from rare platinum, the entire metal wheel firearm, but also inlaid with a few dazzling diamonds!

Whether it is platinum or diamonds, in this day and age, they are extremely luxurious items.

First of all, platinum, at present, only Ming has a rich source of platinum in the world (Borneo), and it is also the only country that has mastered platinum forging technology, and its value is much higher than gold!

As for diamonds...... Suzanne was surprised to take this extremely extravagant "Shenzhou brand firearm" and carefully distinguish its authenticity.

After a moment, she was intrigued by the somewhat attractive blonde man in front of her......

"Hello, my name is Susanna, nice to meet you!" Suzanne smiled.

When Vedalisky saw her like this, his heart was overjoyed, and he gentlemanly lit a cigarette for Susanna.