Since ancient times, men had been obsessed with boosting their virility.
Animal penises-horse, ox, sheep, bear, tiger, and more-steeped in liquor or simmered in soup had long become everyday recipes for enhancing virility. Even scrambled eggs with chives were touted as remarkably effective.
Even broad beans had been crowned with the title of "like nourishing like" because they resembled kidneys.
If people heard the Virility Stone had worked a miracle, wouldn't they rub the skin clean off it?!
[Fence it off and charge admission. One tael to worship it, five taels to touch it.]
[Hire Lord Zhan as our spokesman.]
[Then throw in some scarcity marketing-only a hundred visitors allowed to worship it each day. Practically a tiny investment for ten thousandfold profits!!]
[Right, right! Open a virility-boosting tea shop next door too, somewhere for the people in line to rest. Wait, wait, no-we need an inn next door too, to accommodate friends traveling from afar. And a restaurant! Hire two storytellers to promote Lord Zhan's glorious achievement of fathering a son at eighty around the clock... oh, we might as well turn it into a tourist attraction!]
[I'm getting rich, getting rich-come to me, gold! Gold, come into my arms! Gold, come into my purse! Keep coming, keep coming, rain down and blanket the earth!!]
Jian Ruonan could almost hear the sound of gold falling into her purse.
[Look at this dick-it looks like a Gold Sycee. Just touch it, and hey, your treasured blade will still be sharp at eighty!]
[Men's money really is so easy to make!]
[I'm a goddamn business genius!!]
The assembled civil and military officials: "..."
Emperor Deyuan: Prices that high? Would anyone actually go?
The Minister of War: Well, I'm certainly not going!
The Minister of Revenue: *Neither am I. Little Treasure of