Unlike the senators who deliberately made things difficult for the senate, the rural nobles were much more simple and pragmatic. Even so, it was very difficult to make these nobles really understand that there was no money in the imperial treasury. In the eyes of these nobles, the imperial court had so many legions in its hands, and the city of Ankara was inhabited by legions. If the treasury has no money, how can it feed so many soldiers and their families.

It took a lot of effort to make the nobles barely understand that in less than a decade, Barcellus had supported a large and well-armed Roman legion through foreign trade, and the nobles were shocked. Can foreign trade be so powerful? What Constantinople could not do for more than a thousand years as the largest trading city in the Eastern Mediterranean, Barcelus did in less than ten years?

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the biggest variable in trade in the last decade!" Sheila held up a stack of small square bills. In this era, only the Great Song Dynasty could complete the watermark technology, and the banknotes were generally very large. Compared with the banknotes of later generations, the current banknotes are more like an official document.

"If you don't have money in your hand, what do you do with someone else?" As she spoke, Sheila distributed the money to the nobles in the east, giving them a sense of what it was. Seeing the inexplicable appearance of the nobles holding the bills, Sheila continued: "If you have gold mines at home, will you mine them? ”

The question erupted in laughter, and everyone knew what the answer was. Without waiting for anyone to quip, Sheila continued to ask, "Do you remember when you heard about the recent mining of gold and silver?" ”

The smiles on the faces of the nobles faded, and they couldn't remember the news of this after much thought. It's been so long, so long, that even their parents haven't said anything about new gold and silver mines.

Sheila held up the few remaining bills in her hand and shouted to the crowd, "This is the new gold and silver mines." The food stamps I am promoting will also be the gold and silver mines of Eastern Rome. ”

Altai looked at Sheila with her arms raised and shouted, and a smile appeared on her face. This little girl is so funny that it reminds Altai of his mentor. In the era prior to the fall of Hasassin, ideals and ideals still existed within the Assassin Order. Altai's teachers sometimes drank wine and told Altai about the scene. For the sake of their ideals, the Khasasin were able to endure poverty and were ready to sacrifice their lives at any time. Because everyone believes that only then can their lives be meaningful.

Each of these nobles listening to Sheila was richer than Sheila, and each of them was probably physically stronger than Sheila, a little girl. However, the center of the room was undoubtedly Sheila, who showed a dazzling vitality and enthusiasm in her. Let those nobles involuntarily focus on Sheila and can't take it off. Even if there are doubts or objections, their starting point is Sheila, not themselves.

Altai was a little upset, and he subconsciously looked away, not wanting to be disturbed by such a scene. It's not that he hates Sheila, it's that Altai doesn't like mood swings, and that feels contrary to the training Altai has received since childhood. His gaze swept over the nobles, and Altai's gaze was locked on a few people, who did not have the attention of the other listeners, their eyes wandered, and there was an impatience that could not be concealed in their expressions. I can see that my mind is not here. So what exactly are they focused on?

At this time, Sheila didn't want to answer the nobles' questions one by one, she shouted loudly: "It was everyone who sent me to the Senate, and I will definitely repay everyone." May I ask you, do you want to sell your food at a good price? ”

"Yes!" A part of the nobles shouted.

"Do you want to make your life better?"

"Yes!"

"Do you want your children to be richer than you?"

"Yes!"

The shouts grew louder as more and more nobles identified with the slogans proposed by Sheila.

"Then please continue to support me, I can sell your food, and I can let you sell more."

"How long will that take?" A nobleman shouted.

Sheila cocked her fingers, "A month!" In a month's time, I'll be able to earn back the money you paid for Europa's farm implements and seeds! ”

"Really?" The nobles below were all excited and shouted, "What the hell should I do? ”

Altai looked like a stake with a weak sense of presence, but the actions of the suspicious elements were not at all out of his sight. At such an agitated moment, two of the suspicious elements stood up and left the hall with a look of urgency. Altai also retreated to the exit with a movement that no one else noticed, and quietly disappeared into the passage.

Outside, Altai had summoned his native brothers, and he ordered them to follow the two men who had left in a hurry to see where they were going.

The two men did not notice that they were being followed, and they hurried to the mansion of the old man Huvis. The old man was already waiting for them, and he asked, "How is it?" ”

"It seems that the other nobles continue to support Elder Sheila." The nobleman, who had checked the situation, replied immediately.

Old man Huvis had already recovered his health at this time, and his complexion was even better than before he was sick, but his expression was extremely gloomy. The old man thought that Sheila would probably not return to Ankara after being elected senator, and that a Constantinople had already gotten what she wanted in Ankara, and what did it mean to come to Ankara again? Could it be that she is allowed to continue to run here for the next term of senators?

Thinking of this, the old man asked, "What did Sheila say?" ”

These two nobles were also incapable of understanding those issues, so they could only pick and choose what they understood. Huvis's face became more and more ugly as he listened, and he did not fully understand what the two nobles who supported him were saying. But he understood that Sheila really had no intention of letting go of the nobles of the Ankara region. Huveis felt his anger growing in his heart, the last time he backed down was because he didn't fully understand the power behind Sheila, and during this time he had taken a lot of effort to find out how much background Sheila had. The result surprised the old man, Sheila, a little girl, had a very ordinary background. Her biggest backer was her father, who was a scholar, and her sister-in-law's Leo family, despite its long history, had no influence in the eastern part of the empire. Although he did not regret the concession at that time, the old man felt that he had thought highly of Sheila at that time.

Without waiting for the old man to come up with a countermeasure, several other nobles also rushed back. They were anxious to report the old man's new situation, and Sheila told the nobles present that they would be able to sell the sepiolite they had mined for a good price.

Of course, the old man didn't know that sepiolite was named aqueous magnesium silicate in the Great Song Dynasty, but the old man had seen sepiolite and knew that this thing was a very common thing in the mountains, usually white, light gray, light yellow and other colors, opaque and luster. Some of them are shaped like clods of earth, while others are shaped like strange crusts or nodules.

Compared to the marble that Eastern Roman sculptors loved, sepiolite was common and cheap. It is only because it is soft and easy to carve that it is used on some trinkets used by the poor, and it is really something that no one wants if it is thrown on the side of the road. Can you make money selling this kind of thing?

"Huh. It's good, it's good. Old man Huveis suddenly laughed, and although the laughter was cold, he was laughing anyway. The old man laughed in his heart, he knew very well the nobles of the Ankara region, they were not bright enough and very timid. But as soon as they say something big, or use some extraordinary means to scare them, they will suddenly get excited, and listen to the wind and rain. Since Sheila said that no one would make money by throwing rocks on the side of the road that no one wanted, Huveis wanted to see how they would react when they found out that Sheila had deceived them.

It was similar to what the old man thought, although the nobles were excited by the crowd when they attended the meeting. But in the next half month, only seven nobles really sent a lot of people to follow Sheila to mine sepiolite. Sepiolite is so light that the miners carrying the steel guys can carry a large bag of stones out of the pit in a busy day.

Half a month later, the number of nobles involved in the mining of sepiolite suddenly more than tripled, and in less than a month, more than 500 mining workers had appeared in the mining area. When Old Man Huveis got the news and went to see it himself, he saw that there were miners everywhere on the hillside. The men carried the steel guys and struggled to crack open the rocks, carefully removing the sepiosphere as large as possible. The women carried the sepiolite with baskets on their backs to the trading point, where the nobles set up a trading point, and the stewards priced the sepiolite according to the size and color of the stone, and handed over to the women some things that could not be seen clearly. The women immediately carefully carried these things into their arms, and there were some stalls in the distance that were doing business. Many men and women gathered around the place to select the goods, and when they had finished choosing, they took out something small from their bosoms and handed it to the merchant, and then took the goods they wanted to buy from the merchant.

Old man Huveis was dumbfounded, what happened to a group of peasants who had bought things like nobles in this barren mountain and wilderness?

At Sheila's residence, Yi Sifan was middle-aged and several other nobles looking at the things in front of him with a smile. It's something they've wanted to buy for a long time but haven't been able to afford it. Strings of large pearls, gold and silver jewelry, cloisonné jewelry. Of course, the silk produced in the Great Song Dynasty is indispensable, and the complete sets of steel sewing tools are shining brightly.

In addition to the things that could be brought into the house, there were a lot of steel and iron farming tools in the warehouse outside, and these nobles knew exactly how much more efficient farming these guys could make, but they couldn't afford to buy so much before.

Sheila struck while the iron was hot and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, do you now understand how good paper money is?" ”

"Alas! It would be nice if I could give gold and silver coins. Yi Sifan sighed in middle age. These words were heard in the ears of the other nobles, causing them to sigh in the same way. Sheila wasn't unhappy at all, many of the things she used to tell others were just a few words that Xie Song had said. Now Sheila is sure that what Shesson said is very right, so right! The biggest advantage of paper money is that it can force the holder to take it out and spend it. If they really gave these nobles gold and silver coins, they would probably not take them out and spend them, but hide them deeply, hoping that they would never take them out and use them.