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On one of the most prosperous streets in Capua, the performances of some actors caused traffic jams, because Levi's weapon shop was about to open.

This weapon shop is next to Levi's Sugar Hotel. Although it is a bit inconsistent with the products sold in the surrounding shops, as a shop that only sells top-level weapons, these are not problems.

Some people who had finished buying sugar and spirits were also taken to the weapons store, because those who could afford sugar and spirits were those with real spending power.

These people are either dignitaries or knights, and even many officers. These are the buyers of top-level weapons.

But after seeing the price, those people were not calm.

A Syrian with a few subordinates almost spat out the rock sugar in his mouth, and said with a shocked face: "What kind of sword is that, it sells for one million dinars, are you crazy?"

Several of his big customers also expressed their dissatisfaction. Although they are rich, they can't be slaughtered like fat sheep.

Valens coughed lightly. He also complained about Levi's pricing, but faced with Levi's insistence, he had nothing to do.

"Our master's goods have always been priced at the price of the goods, and we will never ask for half a sesterce. This sword has added a lot of rare materials, spent a lot of time, and used the family's secret method of making, so That's why it's so expensive."

Valens said.

The others looked contemptuous, blow! Blow hard!

And family secrets? Why haven't they heard of any good swords from the Li Wei family?

As poor as the Li Wei family used to be, even in front of them they didn't care.

And even family secrets are not worth a million dollars.

Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, Valens looked helpless.

In fact, not only they didn't believe it, but even he didn't believe it, but in order to fulfill the Patriarch's order, he had to work hard to complete this task.

"We have a dagger specially used for sword testing here, and it only costs 10,000 dinars. I wonder how much this dagger cost?"

Valens said to the Syrian.

Levi's weapons store currently only sells daggers, which are divided into three price points, namely 10,000 dinars, 300,000 dinars and 1 million dinars.

10,000 dinars are just ordinary carburized steel swords, 300,000 dinars are 10-refined daggers, and 1 million dinars are 20-refined daggers.

In order to sell his weapons, Li Wei "reluctantly" took out a steel sword as a test product.

"This sword of mine is a weapon of a famous Syrian craftsman, worth at least 50,000 dinars."

The Syrian said with a proud face, and took out his short sword after speaking. The scabbard of this sword was inlaid with precious jewels, which looked extremely expensive.

"How about let your sword and our cheapest sword slash each other, if your sword wins, we will pay you 50,000 dinars. If your sword loses, we don't want anything, what do you think? "

Valens said lightly.

"this one……"

The Syrian hesitated a bit. Since the price of the sword dared to sell for 10,000 dinars, it must be superior. If he chopped off his sword, he would lose a lot.

"No, my sword is very expensive and cannot be used to chop with this sword."

The Syrian said, but he also figured out a way, and he drew one of his entourage's swords, "You can try it with this sword."

"no problem."

Valens said, so he ordered the two guards in the store to pick up a sword each, and began the mutual cutting experiment.

Everyone looked at the two swords intently, to see which one was stronger.

"Ding!"

The two swords collided fiercely. Valens took a look, and then smiled and showed the two swords to everyone.

"It really is a good sword!"

Someone couldn't help but praise.

They found that there was a huge gap in the sword of the Syrian guard. As long as there were no more than two cuts in the same place, the sword would be completely ruined.

The Syrian nodded secretly. Of course, the sword he was guarding was not of inferior quality. To have such a big gap in one sword showed that the quality of the sword was not inferior to his sword.

Hearing everyone's admiration, a smile appeared on Valens' face. This is a good start.

"I want to try it too, I don't know if it's okay."

At this time, another foreigner said.

He murmured to himself, these two people probably knew each other, so let's play for others here.

It is not uncommon for him to travel all over the world to do business.

"Of course there is no problem. You can try all the swords of all levels here. It's just that you need to pay 10,000 dinars to try those swords. This one doesn't need it."

Valens said with a smile.

Those people couldn't help cursing inwardly after hearing this, they are really black-hearted guys, it costs 10,000 dinars to try a sword, no wonder Li Wei is so rich.

The foreigner pulled out a dagger from his hand, and conducted another cutting experiment, and Li Wei's steel sword really won again.

The rest were not to be outdone, they tried it anyway and didn't want swords. After a few times, Li Wei's short swords all won out, which attracted their praise.

As a result, several steel swords worth 10,000 dinars were sold, but none of the 300,000 dinars and 1 million dinars were sold.

They believed it was a good sword, but it was too expensive.

However, some people are interested in those swords, but they still need to go back and discuss.

As long as some good things can be sold to the local king, they may get a return far exceeding their own value.

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Li Wei and Pompey were walking on the street with a few of their men. Although they were not much different in age, their experiences were completely different.

Pompey fought with his father in the army in his early years, and he already has rich combat experience.

Although Li Wei has always had two legions, and has also supplemented a lot of military knowledge, there is still a huge gap between him and Pompey, so he asked Pompey a lot of knowledge, and Pompey did not hesitate to teach him, so that Li Wei learned a lot .

"In order to thank you for your advice, I will give you something good."

Levi said.

"what?"

Pompeo asked.

"Good sword, today is the opening day of my weapon shop, I will give you a good sword."

Levi said.

Pompey was noncommittal about this, his weapon was a good sword handed down from his family, how could Li Wei's sword be any better.

But facing Li Wei's kindness, he couldn't bear to refuse, so he had to follow Li Wei to the weapon shop.

"By the way, who pays your army's salaries and food? Is it Sulla?"

Levi asked.

This is a very important question. I just thought about taking refuge in Sura before, but I didn't understand this question clearly.

Due to the soaring food prices, the expenditure of the three legions has exceeded 800,000 dinars in a month, which is an extremely heavy expenditure.

Of course, since Li Wei had stored enough food in advance, the expenditure was far from that much, but it was enough to make Li Wei's heart ache.