Lord Chronicle

Chapter 5 Patents and profiteers

At the celebration banquet that night, the dwarf Manson also joined in.Looking at the dwarf who ate as if no one else was following the case, and ate no less than Kress, Zhou Wen, no, he should be called Saul from now on, with a displeased expression on his face.These two guys alone can probably eat half of Lovell's harvest.

"I said, why are you here to join in the fun?"

"Hehe, bring it?" Manson stretched out his hand to him with a smile.

"what?"

"My gold coins, you promised me to give me 200 gold coins for making a waterwheel."

I thought the dwarf was a fool for making a waterwheel, but he still remembered it.Sol said helplessly: "You are really obsessed with money." At the same time, he ordered Jessica to get the gold coins.

After drinking the wine in the glass, Manson said, "What do you mean, I'm a businessman."

After a while, seeing Manson pocketing half of his property, Saul felt very distressed.Secretly, he couldn't let such a good craftsman go, he said: "By the way, I still have some stuff, are you interested?"

"What is it?" Manson, who was already drunk, became more sober than anyone else when he heard this.

A dwarf is indeed a dwarf, and the enthusiasm for manufacturing that is deeply imprinted in his blood is enough to overwhelm everything.Secretly, as long as there is this, I can keep you here.In the future, there will be a lot of places to use him to revitalize the territory.

After the success of the small test vehicle, Sol suddenly had an urgent desire to do his best to build Lovell Territory.In the past, he liked to play "Sim City" and other development and construction games, but it was just facing the data in the computer, and there was no sense of reality after all.

Now that there is a real territory in front of me, why don't I build it better?This is my own land.Among other things, watching the poor Lovell grow from scratch and gradually prosper according to his own plan, this sense of accomplishment is unmatched by any game.

What's more, it is worth trying to see the heartfelt joy of today's people again in the future.

This is a kind of enthusiasm and longing that can only be achieved by cultivating one's own things. In this plan, the dwarf Manson can be said to be the best among the initial props. How could Sol be willing to let him go like this?

"Let's talk about it after dinner, I won't disappoint you anyway." Saul started to set a trap.

"Okay, I'd like to see what other amazing machines you can make." Manson drilled willingly.

Dazedly agreeing, he lay down on the table with a bang, unconscious from drunk.

Sighing in relief, Saul began to think about his next step while being slightly drunk.

Money, what is most needed and lacking now is money.Considering that the funds in the territory were only 200 gold coins, Sol felt that there was an almost insurmountable mountain in front of him.If funds cannot be obtained in a short period of time, all development plans will be empty talk.

However, there are very few resources available for Lovell, at least for now, Sol does not believe that the addition of the two mountain ranges and the relic forest will not produce anything.But this is all in the future, and naturally there is no way to count on it now.

Money... money... Just when Sol was shaking his head in distress, he suddenly remembered a sentence he had heard before: third-rate companies sell products, second-rate companies sell services, and first-rate companies sell patents.

Now in my hands, don't I have a very good product - waterwheel?I believe this thing will definitely be very popular in the Kingdom of Dinar, which is still in an agricultural society.Isn't this a large sum of real gold coins?

Soon a plan was formed in Sol's mind, and he couldn't wait to call: "Jessica!"

"What are you doing?" Jessica with a stern face quickly appeared in front of Sol. Looking at her, she obviously thought that Sol was going crazy with the help of alcohol.

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Saul regretted it. He yelled at her so much, wondering if he was looking for death.If Jessica thinks that she is putting on airs of the lord, then the days to come will be sad.

But at this moment, he could only bite the bullet and say, "Tomorrow, you can help me find the smartest businessman in the town."

After staring at Sol for a while, after confirming that he was not joking, Jessica nodded: "Okay." It seems that Sol's success in inventing the waterwheel, coupled with the support of the people during the day, has allowed him to successfully establish his prestige.

"What do you want them for?" At the end, Jessica still couldn't help asking.

"Hey, ask them to conjure gold coins for me." Sol smiled mysteriously.

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After dinner, everyone went home separately, but Sol could not calm down. He walked outside the house while slightly drunk, and Sol sat casually under a porch pillar, looking up at the sky full of stars.

The night wind blew, and the weeds in the courtyard rustled, which made Sol feel relieved.Speaking of which, it has been more than a month since he came here out of nowhere, and it was only today that he experienced the world seriously for the first time.

"My lord..." A timid female voice suddenly came from the door.

Saul looked over and found that Julie was slowly walking towards him carrying a small box.Surprised, Saul asked, "Julie, what are you doing here?"

Walking to him and sitting down, Julie opened the box, and a fresh fragrance came out immediately.She smiled and said, "I said I would like to thank you for helping me and my mother get out of trouble that day. This is a cake I made with my own hands. I hope you don't dislike it."

"Where will it be?" Sol said repeatedly, picking up a piece and putting it in his mouth, it was fragrant and soft, very delicious.

"Is it delicious?" Julie asked seriously, and smiled happily when she saw Sol nodding.

"I wanted to come to you two days ago, but you were busy making waterwheels, so I delayed until now. Just now I was still thinking, will the lord see me, and will you look down on my cakes?" .”

"Which will be." Saul shook his head quickly, and was about to reach for the second piece.Suddenly, she saw the cake box next to Julie's legs. When the breeze blew, her skirt lifted slightly, revealing a smooth calf.

Gulu... Swallowing secretly, Sol stretched out his hand towards the cake and put it on the floor. Then his index finger and middle finger stood up, like two feet, and secretly "walked" towards Julie's thigh.

Unaware of Saul's small movements, Julie looked at the night sky and said: "I was really happy when I saw the waterwheel turning today. It was the first time I saw such an ingenious mechanism. Everyone said , all thanks to the lord, you don’t have to worry about irrigation of the fields in the future.”

"Yeah." Saul replied absent-mindedly, and continued to "aggressive" forward cautiously.

"Uncle Ruya said that our Lowell lord is small and poor, but we have met several good lords in a row, and it is like a big family here, so he doesn't want to move to those who are rich but have to face different situations. The territory of a good lord. Now that there is a lord, our life will definitely get better and better."

Speaking of this, Julie suddenly turned her head to look at Saul, so frightened that his hand stopped urgently.Feeling guilty, Sol looked around and said, "What about you, do you believe it?"

"I...I think so too." Julie blushed pretty and lowered her head slightly.

"There's something going on!" The fool could see something, Saul was overjoyed, he raised his two fingers, turned into Lushan's claws, and silently touched Julie's shoulder from behind .

"Ahem!" Unexpectedly, at this moment, a light cough suddenly came from the top of his head.

In an instant, it was like ice water pouring down on his head, Sol immediately woke up, his right hand was frozen in the air in embarrassment.Julie turned her head and looked up strangely, and then said pleasantly, "Sister Jessica."

In the window on the second floor above the two of them, Jessica leaned out half of her body with a calm expression.Sol didn't know whether his evil intentions had been exposed, and he was so uneasy that he didn't dare to raise his head.

"Sister Jessica, come down and eat cake together." Julie greeted warmly.

Jessica shook her head: "No, I still have things to do, you have to be careful not to let the dog's paws touch you."

Surprised, Sol stood like a thorn in his back.Julie watched Jessica shrink back inexplicably, and murmured strangely: "Dog's paw? Your lord, since when did you raise a dog here?"

Sure enough, he was seen through, but Saul knew it by himself.He quickly changed the topic with a laugh: "No, no, who knows what Jessica is talking about. Come, eat cake."

When Sol was chomping on the cake like venting, Jessica sighed suddenly, and said quietly: "Lord Lord, can I ask you one thing?"

"Huh? What?" Saul asked vaguely.

"I beg you, make Lovell rich and let everyone live a good life. When I was just born, my father left me and my mother to go outside because Lovell was too poor. I haven't come back yet. Although Mom won't say it, but I know she still thinks about her father, my lord, I beg you, don't let such a thing happen again in Lovell!"

Julie became more and more excited as she spoke. She held Saul's hand tightly, with tears in her eyes.

Surprised to see Julie's pretty face close at hand, Sol felt a moment of silence. It turned out that their mother and daughter had worked so hard to open the store, and there was such a hidden secret.

It turns out that I, the lord, have such a responsibility on my shoulders.

"Well, I promise you, I will definitely let everyone live a good life." Sol said seriously.

Hearing Sol's words, Julie's sad face stretched out, and a smile quickly expanded on her face. At this moment, her beauty made Sol deeply intoxicated.

Embarrassedly wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, Julie got up and said, "Look at me, what have I said. But I am really grateful to the lord, I believe you can do it."

"I won't disturb your rest." With a deep bow to Saul, Julie left with brisk steps.

"Hey, hey, why are you leaving in such a hurry? Tonight the wind is clear, the moon is bright and the stars are thin, and we can get to know each other better physically. Hey..." Sol yelled unwillingly, Julie But it has gone too far.

"Hmph..." There was another cold hum from above his head.

Sol looked up in astonishment, just in time to see Jessica's flaming red hair disappear behind the window, followed by Marlene's pretty face, smiled mischievously at him, and disappeared quickly.

Really, what is it, my dignified lord is talking to a little girl, and he is still watching me like a wolf guard.Sol shook his head helplessly, patted his buttocks and stood up.

At this moment, his heart was filled with unprecedented fighting spirit.

Watch it, Julie.Even if it's just for your request, I will definitely make Lovell prosper!

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"What is 1+1 equal to?"

The next day, facing the merchants in the territory who were summoned, Sol said slowly.

Looking at each other, all the merchants had an expression on their faces: Could it be that the lord is still hungover?Why did you come to us specifically to ask this question that a three-year-old child understands?
They are all the most savvy in Lovell... No, they can only be said to be a handful of businessmen.Among them were the owners of several pharmacy weapons and armor shops that Sol had seen, and two traveling merchants.

Sol's purpose in finding them is very simple, that is to select suitable candidates to sell water trucks in other territories in exchange for the materials and funds necessary for the development of the territories.Of course, you can't ask honest people to do this job, otherwise you may not get anything in exchange for shrewd merchants and lords in other territories, and you have to include Lovell.

In other words, what Sol needs is a profiteer!
From the time these people came in, Saul secretly felt bad.They were all kind-faced, straight-eyed, without the shrewdness of a businessman or the vacillating, quick-witted eyes of Saul's ideal man.

In fact, the folks in the Lowell Territory are simple and honest, and these bosses buy and sell honestly, and never cheat, which is indeed a blessing for the Territory.But now, it's not what Saul needs.

The lord had to answer the question. After a long while, everyone finally answered in unison: "It is 2."

"Well, sure enough, I still can't find an ideal candidate. Do I want to go there myself? But there are many things that need to be done urgently, and I can't leave at all." Hearing their answers, Sol couldn't help but feel a little discouraged.

"How much the lord says is equal to how much." Just when Sol was almost desperate, a lazy voice suddenly came from behind the crowd.

"Who is it!" Sol was overjoyed immediately, stood up and asked loudly.

"Reed, what are you talking about?" Lester, the prop shop owner, turned around and said.

The speaker is a young man in his 20s with fair hair.He had been sitting quietly in the corner just now, blocked by several businessmen, and Sol didn't notice him for a while.

"Your ideas are too backward, Dad." The young man named Reed stood up calmly and walked over.

"This is?" Sol looked at Lester.

Lester introduced embarrassingly: "This is Reed the dog. I sent him to his uncle's house in Ruhr to study business since he was a child, and he only returned to Lovell last month. I heard that the lord summoned everyone today and insisted on seeing him. Look, please don't take his nonsense just now, my lord."

"No, no, it's okay." Saul waved his hand, while carefully paying attention to the young man named Reed.He looks somewhat similar to his father Lester, with an ordinary and honest appearance, only his flexible eyes reveal that he is a very shrewd person.Such a person, once he deceives others, is a hundred times more powerful than a guy with sly eyebrows and mouse eyes.

Sol looked at Reed, and Reed also looked at him unceremoniously. The two looked at each other for a while, and suddenly laughed at the same time.The old fellows were baffled, and Lester was even more frightened secretly. His son has always behaved strangely. When he met the lord today, could it be that both of them are crazy?

The secret is you, Sol said to everyone: "Please go back, I have something to talk to Reed."

Unexpectedly, they summoned themselves, but left this brat behind. Several businessmen were surprised.Full of doubts, they left helplessly, and soon Sol and Reed were left in the study.

"So, what do you want to say to me, my lord?" Reed sat down across from Saul carelessly.

Sol briefly talked to him about his plan of exchanging water truck technology for funds, and finally said: "What I want you to do is this salesman. I hope you will use all means to deceive and cheat, and in short, exchange as much gold coins as possible .I won’t tell you the big truth, I will pay you at 5.00% of how much you can sell.”

Saul knew exactly what kind of person Reed was. In fact, he could be said to be a natural businessman. Saul knew this from the moment he met him.For such a guy, all reasoning is empty words, and only real gold coins can impress him, so he readily put the reward in front of Reed.

Reed's eyes lit up immediately, he had seen the magic of the waterwheel with his own eyes.With his natural businessman mind, he immediately judged that this is definitely a lucrative business.

"Okay, Lord Lord trust me, I will never let you down." Reed nodded.

"The water truck is too big to take out for you to sell, so I want to ask, how are you going to do this?" Sol decided to test him.

Reed smiled proudly: "There is no real thing, everything is empty words. But don't worry, my lord, I will invite representatives of the lords of several nearby territories to Lovell within a month, as long as they see the waterwheel with their own eyes, I can make them obediently hand over the gold coins."

"Okay!" Only by this sentence, Sol knew that he had found the wrong person.

As Reed left, Jessica walked in.Seeing the back of the other party leaving, she said worriedly: "You entrust such an important matter to this person, can you trust him?"

Sol said confidently: "Don't worry, no one in Lovell is more suitable for doing this kind of thing. Besides, his whole family is in the territory, and Reed will never play tricks."

After a pause, he stroked his chin, showing a treacherous expression not much worse than a profiteer, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, there will be a lot of places where he will be used for the development of the territory in the future."

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During the time Reid left, Sol continued to design the water mill installed under the waterwheel, folding tables and chairs and other gadgets, and even made the first retractable umbrella with the help of Manson on a rainy day.

At the same time, Manson led people to build four waterwheels, which were divided along the river and covered most of the farmland.Standing on a high place and looking around, the five waterwheels are slowly turning, continuously drawing water to the shore, and the scenery is quite spectacular.

Making a water mill is entirely for territorial considerations. Using animals to push the mill is inefficient and laborious, but the water mill is directly installed under the waterwheel and driven by water power, and the efficiency is immediately increased several times.After it was installed, it caused a sensation in Lowell again. Sol simply opened it up for free and only sent one person to maintain and manage it.

As for the folding tables and chairs, Sol gave a set to Maisie and her daughter for free after they were finished.It unfolds when in use, folds up when not in use, and does not take up space. It is undoubtedly an excellent thing for most residents whose houses are not spacious.Relying on the live advertisement of the Unicorn Hotel, the merchants who came and went quickly saw its benefits, and even a few merchants who came to buy herbal medicines immediately ordered dozens of them, preparing to sell them outside the territory.

As for the umbrella, Sol intends to sell it directly.Due to the inability to make thin steel wires, the umbrella ribs were all handmade by Manson with flexible branches. After many failures, he made three umbrellas.

Naturally, such a thing cannot be popularized, so Sol simply painted the most beautiful patterns on the surface of the umbrella, and then reluctantly sacrificed 50 gold coins, which were dissolved into gold water and decorated on the ribs, making it beautiful, like an umbrella. A work of art, ready to sell it to a lady or the like at a high price when the opportunity is right, and make a hell of a fortune.

Sure enough, as Sol expected, under the temptation of his constant "invention" of new gadgets, the dwarf Manson has been completely addicted to it.Now he completely regards the blacksmith shop in the town as his home, every day except sleeping, he just knocks in it and frantically makes all kinds of things.The blacksmiths who were his assistants also benefited a lot, and their forging skills have improved rapidly.

No one complained, although Saul paid them only a small portion of the money from the sale of folding tables and chairs.As the makers of these utensils, they most directly and truly feel the power of these things.No one doubts that one day, the Lord Lord's invention will bring a lot of gold coins.

For the residents of Lovell, what they saw in the past month was worth the past year. They had never seen so many new gadgets appearing in the territory at such a fast speed.Everyone felt the subtle changes happening around them. Although life was still the same as usual, there were more and more smiles on people's faces. They all believed that Lord Lord would definitely bring positive changes to Lowell.

(End of this chapter)