Real and Fake Formations (Requesting March's Guaranteed Monthly Votes)

Three kilograms of gold? Feng Jun felt the price was a little low. It was not even a hundred taels.

One had to know that a good cultivation technique could cost more than a hundred taels of gold.

After thinking it over, he quoted a fairly reasonable price: two hundred taels of gold for the lamps, cables, power strips, and switches.

He was selling a complete package. What they were buying was not a generator, but a complete outdoor lighting solution.

Two hundred taels... The price made Yu Zhengqing a little uncomfortable. Was it expensive? Not really. The carriage house had two exceptionally fine horses, each worth over a hundred taels of gold. Could a whole set of lighting equipment be worth less than a single horse?

Then again, Thousand-Li Divine Steeds really did command such prices. Donghua Kingdom had even launched wars against foreign lands for the sake of obtaining a few divine steeds, with tens of thousands killed or wounded.

But no matter how miraculous these lighting fixtures were, they had never commanded such a price before. The imperial palace did have lamps made of gold, and those were indeed expensive, but that was because... the materials themselves were costly, they were crafted by master artisans, and their reputation added to their value.

Yu Zhengqing did not think Feng Jun was charging too much, but it was certainly not cheap either. The key issue was this: "Mr. Feng, our family intends to buy three sets. Could you lower the price a little?"

That was right. The carriage house was buying these things for use outside. Buying only one set clearly would not be enough—what if they encountered two groups of distinguished guests at the same time?

Their external convoys needed at least two sets, and if the Yu