Chapter 423 Letter From Hometown
"Thank you, sir."
Kevin thanked the man dressed as a businessman in front of him with a grateful face, and took out a handful of copper coins from his pocket, "You have worked hard all the way, please accept this small favor."
"It's not hard, it's not hard. I'm just bringing a letter along the way. How can I get paid? We are both from the Northwest Bay. We should help each other in a foreign land."
The man dressed as a businessman refused repeatedly, but in the end he couldn't defeat Kevin and accepted the money.
After the other party left, Kevin looked at his back and laughed at himself: Maybe he really doesn't like that handful of copper coins.
From the previous introduction, Kevin learned that the other party came to Gabela Imperial Capital to sell porcelain.
That’s a super, super profitable deal!
Porcelain from Kevin's hometown, the northwest bay of the Aldo Kingdom, has become popular among the upper class of Gabela in recent years.
Nobles and wealthy people loved this exquisite new thing very much and rushed to buy it to decorate their facades.
At first, porcelain was brought to Gabela by merchants from the Corner Bay through re-export trade. Later, with the gradual prosperity of the ocean trade in the northwest bay and the booming shipbuilding industry, a large number of Aldo merchants brought porcelain to Gabela themselves.
In addition to taking the sea route southward and then sailing east around the Horn Bay to reach Gabela, there are also people who drive camels through the vast desert to do business in the north of Gabela through the Nairodan Corridor in the northeast of Aldo. However, due to the convenience of sea transportation , generally speaking, most people take the sea route.
The letter from home that Kevin received today was brought by an Aldo maritime merchant.
Of course, the merchants brought not only porcelain, but also many other commodities, such as beautifully printed books, bundles of light paper, cheap iron tools, incredibly cheap cloth, etc., all of which were very valuable. Popular.
My lord must have made a lot of money, right? After all, these emerging things are all related to him, especially the method of refining porcelain, which is unique in the world. Even after the introduction of the patent bill, it has never been made public.
Kevin pictured Paul Greenman bathing in a pile of gold coins looking like a nouveau riche.
Although it has been a long time since the Salt Village riots and he was pardoned by the other party, Kevin still has a grudge against his lord.
Paul carefully took the letter from home and returned to his room, opening the envelope as if it were a treasure.
It is indeed very precious. From the northwest bay to the Imperial Capital of Gabela, you have to float on the sea for several months. During this period, any accident may happen.
After opening it, there were two pieces of paper inside. Oh, it seems that my parents must have a lot to say.
But he soon discovered that it was actually written by two people.
It is easy to identify from the signature and writing style. The one with neat handwriting is from Kevin's neighbor's child, while the one with sloppy handwriting is from Kevin's father.
In order to promote the cultural and educational undertakings in the entire territory, Lord Graiman began to promote the advanced experience of education in Huxin Town to other places, and schools were being built in various places under the control of the Government Council.
The target of education is not only children but also adults. In order not to affect production, teaching activities for adults are mainly arranged at night, which is called "night school". Although night school only teaches the reading and writing of commonly used characters and simple arithmetic, in Kaiwen It seems that this has benefited the citizens a lot, such as the letter he is holding in his hand.
A year ago, his parents, who could not read a few words, could only trouble the neighbor's child every time they wrote him a letter - that is, the writer of the other letter in the envelope. That child was receiving more formal education in the school run by the lord. Education - Now my father can actually write letters to him himself, although the writing is crooked and there are many spelling errors.
This is an aspect of Lord Grayman that Kevin appreciates. He is not like other local lords in the Northwest Gulf or even the entire Aldo Kingdom who think that the people in the territory are inherently stupid or even the stupider the better. Instead, he educates and civilizes them. , and even used almost coercive methods to get rid of the ignorance of the people in the territory.
Kevin opened the letter written by his father with some excitement. Not surprisingly, it was filled with how the whole family missed him. Even if the writing was rough, even if it was just unvarnished vernacular, it still conveyed the message. Kevin's eyes turned red.
After reading the letter from his parents several times, Kevin unfolded the letter from the neighbor's child.
This is a little guy named Hicks... Oh, maybe we can’t call him little guy this year. He is only two years younger than Kevin. He always followed Kevin around when he was a child.
When Kevin was taught by Senior Mond in his hometown, he always passed on the knowledge he learned to Hicks, both to consolidate his own understanding and to satisfy his desire to share.
This also laid a good foundation for Hicks, who always ranked among the best in the schools run by the lords, so Hicks was very grateful to Kevin. Every time he ghostwritten for Kevin's parents, he would add a lot of what he wanted to say.
Now, Kevin's parents can write letters themselves, but Hicks wrote one himself and enclosed it in an envelope.
After the warm greeting at the beginning, the second half of the letter piqued Kevin's interest.
"Dear Brother Kevin, it's just as you asked, and I can't wait to share with you the developments in my hometown during this time."
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"As I mentioned in my last letter, the Council of State Affairs is still taking a series of measures to develop the territory's economy and strengthen urban facilities and road construction: building mills, improving water supply, and increasing mineral and metal production; in addition to the inventions of the Earl, the production of traditional things such as red wine, flax, and cotton is also increasing rapidly."
"The above changes have attracted a large number of people from other places to settle under the Earl's rule, and some even migrated from the Horn Bay. Among them are many scholars, mechanics, naturalists, alchemists... Oh, now they should be called chemists, and medical heretics who clamor for autopsies every day..."
"The Earl spent a lot of money to recruit and settle These people seem to be particularly interested in chemistry (alchemy) in recent years. He organized his chemists to compile many textbooks and set up relevant courses in various schools. "
"People in the school take every step of chemical experiments seriously, such as carefully observing various liquids, planting, taking materials, mixing solvents, and trying various substances, collecting experimental data and comparing them. In order to provide a sufficient number of experimental equipment, a special industry has even been formed, and it seems that men and women from the entire territory are involved. "
"Under the leadership of the Earl, researchers all agree that [nature is concrete], which is reflected in experiments and observations, rather than generalized abstract knowledge. "
Seeing this, Kevin's heart was touched.
"There was a linkage between various disciplines, such as chemistry and medicine. The medical reformer Ward of Port Fullan had a large number of followers, which directly led to the booming development of the field of medicinal chemistry. They began to seek advice from butchers, fishmongers, spice merchants, jewelers or dyers, learning their respective skills, and even adding fired ochre clay to the medicine."
"The pharmaceutical process requires not only hands-on, but also the use of human senses, and the materials include different kinds of natural substances, and sometimes human urine can be added according to personal wishes. The entire pharmaceutical process requires people to participate in person and try to add a wide variety of natural substances. Some formulas may also be obtained from humans, such as the urine mentioned above."