Prosperity and Poverty of the Imperial Capital

Chu Qing took a black-gold note from his sachet and handed it to the heavily armored soldier.

One thousand black gold?

The heavily armored soldier sneered. "Sorry, I only recognize travel permits and Identity Tokens!"

Chu Qing handed over three thousand black gold.

The heavily armored soldier froze for a moment, then waved over his leader.

The leader came over.

Chu Qing smiled. "Three thousand black gold can do a great many things!"

"A country bumpkin's life is worth only one or two taels of gold!"

"These three thousand black gold can buy quite a few lives!"

The leader was tempted.

But when he looked at all the soldiers behind him, he shook his head. "My friend, we only recognize travel permits and Identity Tokens!"

"My immediate superior, and my superior's superior, only recognize travel permits and Identity Tokens too!"

Rip!

Chu Qing pulled out several more black-gold notes and handed them over.

It was now ten thousand black-gold notes.

At that moment, the heavily armored leader's mouth went dry.

Though they wore heavy armor forged from black gold,

the armor did not belong to them.

The ten thousand black gold Chu Qing had produced was already an enormous sum to them.

"Gentlemen, my travel permit is the newest model."

"Give me some face!"

Chu Qing smiled at them.

Gulp!

The heavily armored soldiers swallowed and said righteously, "Friend, we recognize this newest-model travel permit!"

"Come, register your identity information with us!"

A few minutes later:

Chu Qing and the mysterious dean received their Identity Tokens.

The tokens were crimson, painted with Vermilion Birds and simple identity information.

After putting away the tokens, Chu Qing bid farewell to the attentive black-armored soldiers with the mysterious dean.

Before he left, the black-armored soldiers' leader secretly handed Chu Qing a small slip