Chapter 219 New Business

In this land ruled by the Cecil family, Amber is probably one of the few people who dares to question Gawain's decision, although the half-elf lady's bold questioning is mostly only because she has a He didn't shut the door, but Gawain was still happy to see that not everyone here would blindly obey him, which meant the existence of independent thinking... Well, it's not necessarily independent thinking on Amber, she just owes her mouth.

It is difficult for Gao Wen to explain all his thoughts to Amber in a short period of time. He can only talk to the other party about the composition of the industrial structure and the concept of technological generation difference. As for the deeper economic and political interests, Leslie He didn't say anything about the long-term control of the leader.

But no matter what, Amber still carried out Gawain's order earnestly. The next day, she went out and delivered the handwritten letter of Duke Gawain Cecil to the Viscount Andrew as the special envoy of Cecil. in the castle.

And Viscount Andrew's response was faster than Gawain imagined. He readily accepted the invitation on the spot, and on the third day after Amber returned to the territory, the Viscount arrived at the pier of Cecil Territory by clipper. .

The last time I saw the Viscount, the other party was still in a weakened state that had been eroded by sorcery, but after this period of recuperation and recovery, Andrew Leslie had regained his health. He was wearing thick and warm clothes. A dark red coat, his head was meticulously groomed, the newly recruited housekeeper followed him, he also brought a guard team of ten soldiers and a business consultant on the territory - the business consultant was naturally for Gawain The "business" mentioned in the handwritten letter, and the escort team composed of soldiers is a necessary ostentation as a noble.

He saw a new Cecil territory that was completely different from what he had imagined.

Whether it was the brand-new and neat houses or the commoners walking on the streets, he was deeply impressed. He was especially curious that all the houses were the houses of the citizens, and the serfs and inferiors lived in the territory. Somewhere, but compared to Patrick, who has no noble blood, this viscount is much more stable and calm. In Searle's parlour, there was no excess curiosity and fuss of the country bumpkin nobility.

Then Betty poured a whole kettle of tea.

The folk customs of the southern border are simple and honest, and everyone is honest - and more importantly, it seems that everyone has the problem of thinking too much.

Viscount Andrew, like Patrick, guessed the meaning of Gawain's arrangement of a maid to keep pouring water on the guests during the first half-pot of water...

Betty, who was standing in the living room holding a large water bottle, had absolutely no idea that she had been crowned an unfathomable character card. She just stared at the decorative swords hanging on the wall in the room, thinking silently in her head. While studying the newly learned words and grammar, and at the same time devoting part of her attention to when the guests' teacups need to be filled with water-Gao Wen appeared when she recited the word list for the second time.

"Viscount Andrew, I'm glad to see that you are back to health," Gawain greeted enthusiastically as soon as he entered the door, "I heard that order has been completely restored in Tanzania, which is really good news."

"Thank you all for your help. Without your large ore order, I'm afraid I can't even repair the big hole in the castle this winter," Viscount Andrew said with a slightly exaggerated open hand and a smile, "So after hearing you As soon as I'm about to talk to me about a new business in person, I'll be there right away."

"It is indeed a new business, but we can't talk about it here - if you don't mind, would you like to visit the mine led by Cecil with me?"

"Mine?" Viscount Andrew frowned: "You mentioned in the letter that you have some new mining equipment for sale, but the Leslie family has been mining for several generations, and I am familiar with all kinds of mining equipment... hiccup... ...Ah, sorry, I'm sorry."

"Don't mind, don't mind," Gawain waved his hand quickly, at the same time wondering why Viscount Andrew's hiccups also started to echo, and then explained with a smile, "It's still necessary to see it with my own eyes, because I want to sell I'm afraid you haven't seen it before."

For Gawain's sake, Viscount Andrew certainly wouldn't continue to be ignorant, so he readily agreed to the invitation to visit the mine—and by the way inquired about the direction of the toilet.

The Cecil Mine is located in the east of the territory. In the beginning, it was just a small mining point, but with the development of the territory and the increasing demand for ore, the mine has become the second largest in construction after the "Cecil". In the central area of ​​​​Sier City, a large amount of manpower, material resources and advanced machinery and equipment were transported here. It gradually changed from a mining point with only a few camps to a village with a dozen houses. From the village to the village, there are now newly built brick houses and neat roads paved with slag and cement, while a wide main road connects the mining town and Cecil City, ensuring The flow of people and materials between the two places.

Due to the convenient transportation, Gao Wen led his guests to the mining town in less than two hours by horse-drawn carriage.

Viscount Andrew maintained his calm and indifferent demeanor to the last stop of the journey - whether it was seeing the magic spar lamps that can be seen everywhere on the territory, the straight and smooth road, or the leader who was still busy working in winter. He tried not to be too surprised at the people and the "factories" with weird noises on the edge of the town, because although these things were beyond his expectations, they were not what he imagined - he was surprised that the past had declined to the point where he almost depended on selling titles. The Cecil family, who came to maintain it, was able to build such a territory in a short period of time, but he could still add a reasonable explanation to everything he saw, as long as he understood it as "Gawain Cecil" If you dug up the coffin book that he buried in the past, and then piled up such a place with money,” then everything is understandable.

Until he saw something he couldn't understand, couldn't explain, couldn't even imagine.

"This... what is this?!"

In front of Viscount Andrew, a huge machine was driving the winch with astonishing power, dragging several heavy carts of ore that would require dozens of slave laborers to push out of the deep mine. With a low sound like a roar of a giant, the huge disc structure keeps turning with an indomitable momentum on its side. Every part of it seems to be made of steel, but these inanimate things are running like living things— —Sentimentless, endless, powerful, even with an inexplicable majesty derived from steel.

After being stunned for a few seconds, Viscount Andrew finally saw a little magical light shining at the core of the machine, and his speech ability finally recovered a little: "This is a... magic device? Some kind of magic mechanism and A combination of mechanical mechanics?"

"It's understandable," Gawain smiled, "this is what I'm going to sell you, but it's just one of them, and if you go further, you can see more machines - in Cecil's Landing , more than half of the heavy manual labor in the mine is done by these machines.”

The more Viscount Andrew looked, the more astonished he became. He knew about mines and was familiar with the mining equipment, but no matter how he thought about it, he would never have thought that the "mining equipment" that Gawain referred to turned out to be a pile of these...steel behemoths. He looked at the gigantic machines and quickly noticed the incredible sophistication of these scaly lumps of iron—the tightly stitched parts, the precisely matched connecting rods, and the unmanned Manipulating but rapidly switching magic circles... How on earth are these monsters created? !

"Is this... the magic technology of the ancient Gondor Empire?!" Finally, Viscount Andrew thought he had found the only possible reasonable explanation. He slowly turned his head and asked Gawain's eyes.

"This is designed by me and the technical experts in my territory. Of course, if you think that because I am the first remnant of the ancient Gondor Empire, the technology I have mastered is ancient Gondor technology... then understand so. No problem," Gawain deliberately perfunctory with a vague explanation, then looked at Viscount Andrew's reaction, "How, are you interested in these 'magic devices'?"

"As long as you are willing to sell it!" said Viscount Andrew, staring at him.

"You can probably see that these machines are very difficult to process in the details. The cost of manufacturing one is expensive, so the selling price is naturally high. According to the difference in size and manufacturing difficulty, the cost alone Between hundreds to thousands of Cecil gold coins, and making these things obviously requires the participation of mortals, the labor cost... you can imagine," Gawain said calmly, but Viscount Andrew gradually lost his smile. Before, he changed his words, "Of course, I only set this price when I sell it to someone else. If I sell it to a neighbor, I only charge the cost of the material - and if you have difficulty, you can even use ore to pay for it. account."

Viscount Andrew felt a great heartbeat.

These machines were not cheap, of course he knew very well, but he also knew very well how much human power these machines had in operation!

A tractor can be worth the power of dozens or hundreds of slave laborers, and the ore crushed by a crusher in half a day can make all the gravel slave laborers in the Tanzanian mine have nothing to do! Of course, it will cost a lot of money to buy these machines, but he will recover the cost very quickly, and after the cost is recovered, Tanzania Town, and even the entire Leslie Collar will usher in unprecedented profit income!

And the magic part of these machines does not seem to be too complicated. After returning to the book, he may try to recruit a group of experts in rune craftsmen and magic circles to study how this thing moves...

At this time, Gawain's voice interrupted his thinking: "By the way, Viscount Andrew, I have to tell you something: these machines can't work on their own, you should realize that there is no magician here to give the machines. provide energy……"

"Well... I'm really curious about this," Viscount Andrew touched his chin, "I didn't see any magician controlling these machines, nor did I see anyone charging them... inside them Is there a large-capacity magic storage crystal?"

"They also need a matching 'Magic Web' technology. I want to talk to you about this technology..."

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