Chapter 353: Expanding Strength (Part 2)

"Oh, interesting, your remarks can really be compiled into a comedy, but that should be done in a theater, not here." The surprised expression disappeared from Paul's face, replaced by calmness. He stretched out his hand, turned around and said to the elders: "He said that Britannia has a mountain of gold, but why, he only brought this small piece of gold, is there only this small piece of gold in the mountain of gold? Can't we assume that this piece of gold was bought on the streets of Rome?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the entire conference hall calmed down again, and everyone present turned their eyes to Paul, as if at this moment, he was the focus of everyone's attention.

Paul stroked his forehead, with an incomprehensible smile on his face. Luca couldn't understand it, and no one present could understand it. Luca's expression was the same as theirs, surprised, confused, and even at a loss.

"What does he want? Why does he do this?" Lu Jia asked in his heart. This old man who had been against him from the beginning to now always responded to his moves and caught Lu Jia off guard. "Since you were the one who had a problem with me first!" Lu Jia thought in his heart, "Then don't blame me for ruining your reputation."

"You don't have to believe it, but you can't avoid this fact." Luca looked at Paul with a casual smile and said loudly to the elders present: "It's not hard to see that Mr. Paul sneered at the legend I told you. But I'm afraid that when you all leave, Mr. Paul will find me privately and express his willingness to pay a high price to fund us, and he will also have a share in the future economy of Britannia."

"Haha, how funny." Paul smiled and shook his head. It was obvious that he was not shaken at all by Luca's rude verbal attack. He smiled at everyone and said, "I told you that Mr. Luca is a funny actor, always using those self-righteous words to cover up his pale and weak lies." As he spoke, he slowly stood up and said to Luca, "You can't fool me, Flavius ​​Luca. What you did today is bound to bring shame to the Purple Chamber."

"It seems that Mr. Paul really doesn't choose to trust me?" Luga looked around and raised the gold in his hand again. He was no longer nervous and uneasy, but was mainly filled with anger. Yes, his heart was full of anger, and he really wanted to compete with that bastard Paul.

"It is said that what you hear may be false, but what you see is true. But Mr. Paul, I have a question for you. Have you ever been to Luduga Gaul? Or, have you ever been to Great Sequanorum?"

"No." Paul smiled and shook his head.

"Then here comes the question." Luca said, smiling at Paul as well. He held up the gold and said slowly, "Luduga Gaul is already at the border of the empire. You haven't been there, so how can you say that there is no gold mountain in Britannia, which is even farther away than Luduga Gaul?"

"Sir Luca, I'm afraid you are increasingly treating everyone here as fools." Paul stretched out his finger and swept his fingers across the elders behind him and continued to say to Luca, "I can tell lies like you, but I won't tell them as absurdly as the legends you tell." Then, he took out a Suledes gold coin from his arms, and held it up like Luca and said to the elders behind him, "It was obtained from the mines in Iberia, where gold is everywhere. Even when it is dug out, there are portraits of our Augustus Valentinian."

"Hahaha……"

The elders were amused by Paul's "funny" jokes and they laughed out loud, but there was only one person who was so angry that his face turned red, and that person was Luca.

This guy who was deliberately sabotaging, Luca felt that if he had an iron sword, he would definitely rush down and kill this damn old thing, but he could do nothing. He could only stare with wide eyes and watch stupidly, but he could do nothing.

"Admit it, you deceived us with lies." Paul looked at Luca and said smugly.

"Whether there is any deception or not depends on the opinions of the elders present here!" Luca really had lost his patience. He was so angry at Paul that he was about to lose his mind, but fortunately, he restrained himself and calmed down temporarily.

As he spoke, he casually threw the gold nugget in his hand to the elders in front of him.

“Dangdangdang…”

The gold nugget hit the stone seat, and the clanking sound spread throughout the meeting hall. All the elders followed the rolling of the gold nugget. The hall was unusually quiet, and no one made a sound. The gold nugget was lying quietly on the ground after being bumped and banged, and no one picked it up.

"When have you ever been so afraid?" Luca questioned everyone present. "This is gold, the gold of Great Britain. If you are willing to support me, you will get more. This is a deal that cannot lose money!"

"But you are not trustworthy in our hearts, Flavius ​​Luca." Paul said loudly as if he was about to win. "Don't forget, all the administrators stationed in Britannia have never found the so-called gold mountain. How big can Britain be? But you can believe that there is a gold mountain in Britannia based solely on Luca's one-sided statement, and that it is a gift from God? How ridiculous! I can even think that you are illegally amassing money and deliberately defrauding us of our money."

All the elders nodded in agreement. Luca looked at Paul's determined eyes. He was like a judge, nailing Luca to the pillar of shame in an instant. Looking at the elders and dignitaries below the stage nodding their heads in agreement with Paul's opinion, Luca realized that he had lost, completely lost.

"Then let's see whose words are true." Lu Jia was extremely unwilling. He gritted his teeth, slammed the table hard, and left angrily. Fortunately, the elders were still afraid of his status in the Purple Chamber. No one would yell "Get out" at his back, and no one even dared to boo.

Luca was not only angry with Paul, but also with himself. He was angry at Paul for being too smart, and at himself for being too stupid. He naively thought that the elders were not smart, and that they were just a bunch of stupid idiots who only knew how to fight for fame and fortune two thousand years ago. But the reality was that he was wrong. Paul could see through his idea that he had been thinking hard for three days. He also used even more ridiculous words to make the elders firmly believe that everything Luca said was a lie.

When they walked out of the meeting hall, Andrew was the first to come forward. He asked hurriedly, "What happened to Luca? Did you succeed?"

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In response to Andrew's doubts and anxiety, Lu Jia smiled bitterly. He shook his head helplessly at Andrew and said to him, "Let's go, so as not to cause gossip here."

Seeing John and Odysseus again, Luca could only nod at them and said to them: "I'm sorry, I have tried my best."

John nodded in response to Odysseus, and then said nothing. With a cold face, not making sarcastic remarks was the greatest kindness he could show to Luca.

(End of this chapter)