Wide and clean streets, tall and neatly planned buildings, magic crystal street lamps standing on the roadside like guards, magic projections floating in the air, incredible magic machines on display in the square...
The great businessman Cord was sitting on the carriage. As a mature and steady businessman, he had successfully adjusted his mentality and began to observe the scene outside with a calm and indifferent expression, but the storm in his heart still did not subside at all. .
Carol was once a subcounty, but due to its close proximity to the Holy Spirit Plains and prosperous trade, it was once one of the richest areas in the south. The prosperity of Carroll City has always been the most popular among Cord. A place of satisfaction and pride, but compared with the city in front of me...
No, there is no need to compare the two cities.
There is no rancid smell of defecation that is common in big cities in the air here, and there are no ragged poor people and serfs walking around on the streets. An indescribable "order" seems to be permeated in the air. This sense of order was something Cord had never seen anywhere.
He knew about the newly built Government Affairs Office in Carroll City, and also knew about a series of new laws promulgated by the Government Affairs Office - some of those new laws were supported by local people, such as reducing tax burdens and allocating land. Others were difficult to implement, such as the health law and some work systems. Frankly speaking, even Cord could not fully understand the significance of those new policies - but after seeing the scene of Cecil City today, he at least realized I realized one thing:
Living in such a city is at least more comfortable than living in Carroll City.
After going back, we should mobilize the people in the business association, at least to make everyone willing to implement the health bill...
The carriage left the bustling city street and turned two corners. , the surrounding gradually became quieter.
The Pioneer Square is next to the Government Office and the Lord's Palace. There are only two streets between them. There is no city wall or moat in the middle. There are only some outposts guarding the roads leading to the administrative district. The merchant's carriage stopped at one of the outposts for inspection.
Cord and Parr had prepared the coins needed to manage the soldiers early. After the carriage stopped, they immediately obeyed the order and got out of the carriage. Then they saw a warrior wearing magic armor. Came over: "Parking inspection - please show your identification."
Corder quickly took out the identification issued by the Cecil Department of Commerce and the letter of introduction signed by Minister Padrick. , while handing it to the soldier, he estimated how much money it would cost to set up such a guard. Although he told Pal that he had been to Cecil, he only came here once last year with his family's fleet to sell medicinal raw materials. That's all, he hasn't been here since, and he really doesn't know much about this city.
The so-called "visiting Cecil" is somewhat self-bragging.
While he was thinking for a brief moment, the soldier had already checked the document and confirmed the black and white portrait on the document.The two soldiers checked the situation of the carriage, and a crisp voice reached the ears of Cord and Parr: "The inspection passed - you can go in."
Cord nodded subconsciously, and then Confused: "Ah...ah?"
"You can go in," the soldier repeated again. After noticing the confused expression on the businessman's face, he looked down at the bag in his hand. document, confirming the content above again, "There is indeed no problem - go in and take your pass."
Corder dazedly took the document and the pass issued to himself, and said to Pa He and I returned to the carriage together. He didn't understand what happened until the carriage left the post.
Pal was also full of confusion: "Father...did those soldiers just forget to collect our money?"
"How could we forget such a thing," Ke De glanced at his son, and then muttered in disbelief, "It's the same with Carol, and it's the same with this... How did the Duke do it?"
With a forehead Confused, the carriage driven by the businessman and his son continued to move forward.
After a while, they arrived in front of the lord's mansion.
Leaving the carriage and looking up at the tall mansion in front of him, Cord took a deep breath. He carefully hid all the surprise, curiosity, confusion and excitement along the way in that calm place. With an indifferent expression, he straightened his impeccable clothes, and, accompanied by a lord's palace guard, walked forward with Pal.
There was more than one car parked in front of the Lord's Mansion, and there were obviously other visitors here. In front of the door depicting the Cecil family emblem, Cord saw a young woman As she was coming out, she was wearing a decent women's winter clothes and walked down the steps, as if she was about to leave.
The guard in front of the door was obviously familiar with the young woman, and they chatted briefly.
"Miss Kepley - the report is finished so soon?"
The young woman said with a smile: "It's just a routine report."
The guard asked with a hint of expectation: "Will there be another program tomorrow?"
"Of course, there will be every day - and there may be new programs to watch in the past few days."
Code came to the door, and the accompanying guard came forward to hand over the hand. The young woman known as "Miss Jipri" turned back and glanced curiously at the big businessman from Carroll City. .
"Hello." The young woman nodded slightly and said politely.
"Ah - I saw you on that...magic projection!" Cord looked at the young woman in front of him in surprise, only to realize that the other person turned out to be his previous holographic projection in the city. The big businessman was quite surprised by the wonderful feeling of seeing the person he had seen before on the holographic projection and suddenly seeing a real person. Then he bowed in a perfect manly manner, " Miss 'Witch', you are more beautiful than what you see on the projection."
"Thank you for the compliment." Jipuli smiled and nodded. However, in the next second, a strange sense of familiarity appeared in her heart. The face of the middle-aged businessman in front of her was the same as the one in her mind. Some of the faces are overlapped.
Cord also took another look at Jipuli - after putting aside the barrier of "magic projection", he looked at the "witch" lady, and his heart suddenly moved, a vague feeling. A sense of familiarity came to mind.
The two people said in unison: "Have we met before?"
At the same moment, they both found the source of this familiar feeling.
In an autumn more than ten years ago, a young businessman who had just taken over the family business traveled to the south and came to a strange city with great ambitions.
In that autumn, a fleeing mage apprentice was wandering in a foreign land and hungry.
The young businessman was looking for business opportunities. With a certain high spirit, he found the divination stall and wanted to hear some good words.
The mage apprentice, who was just a little girl, was looking for food. She took out a few tricks she had just learned and wanted to exchange them for two pieces of bread.
A silent and short-lived embarrassment froze in front of the steps of the Lord's Mansion. The big businessman from Carol and the famous witch lady from the Magic Network stood face to face. After a few seconds, the embarrassment was eliminated by the two people. The laughter broke unexpectedly.
"You said that the city is full of gold," Cord took a step forward and stretched out his hand, "Corder, from Carroll."
"Jipley, I'm very happy Get to know you again," Jipri gently shook the other person's hand, "I'm sorry, I lied to you, I was very hungry."
"I know," Cord let go of his hand and was polite. She took a step back, "I can see that you don't know how to divination at all."
Jipli smiled: "But from that day on, you will."
They were wrong Passing by, the big businessman walked towards the gate of the Lord's Mansion, while Miss Witch walked towards the carriage parked on the roadside, but before getting on the carriage, Jipri suddenly stopped, turned around and said loudly: "Mr. Cord ——This city is full of gold.”
Corder looked back in surprise, and he saw the witch girl waving to him: “This time it’s true.”
The big businessman laughed: "I know."
The carriage on the roadside drove away, and Cord and Parr stepped into the gate of the Lord's Mansion.
"Father," young Parr finally couldn't help but speak after walking through the door, "do you know the witch lady?"
"I met her once when I was young - —She was just a little girl at that time," the big businessman said casually, "She taught me the first lesson."
"The first lesson?"
"Yes. , the content is 'Don't believe in roadside divination'."
...
In front of Gawain, there are two documents.
An analysis report from Rebecca on "Universal Traction Chassis", inThis report contains a detailed interpretation of the complete system of the first-generation magic drive vehicle, and on this basis, a plan to manufacture a universal traction chassis based on the technical experience of the magic vehicle.
The manufacturing of the magic car was successful. The developers of this world used magic technology and the unique resources of this world, and after some difficult development, they finally successfully solved most of the technical problems they encountered. , putting a vehicle that is driven by magic and can be controlled by ordinary people on the road. Although it is still very early in the process of being perfected and has problems of one kind or another, this first step is undoubtedly a success.
A vehicle that is more powerful, faster, tireless, and does not require the consumption of fodder than oxen and horses. With it, there will be no transportation problems encountered during the large-scale construction of Cecil. Doubts will be greatly alleviated, and in order to maximize the value of this technology, it is necessary to create a variety of special engineering vehicles with different functions based on the principles of magic vehicles.
Under the influence of Gawain for such a long time, Rebecca already has the concept of modular design and general technology, and has tasted great benefits from it, so this time the magic car was built After that, without waiting for Gawain's request, the girl came up with a "universal chassis" plan on her own.
In this plan, Rebecca believes that it is necessary to make the chassis of the first-generation "Type 475" magic vehicle into a module that can be easily connected to other shells and towing objects. The chassis was modified, and then a large number of derivative vehicles were built on this basis, including trucks, buses, agricultural machinery, and engineering machines. She even drew a simple schematic diagram of a tank at the end of the report - the basic structure was in 475 A light magic cannon was welded to the chassis of the magic vehicle, and a circle of steel plates was placed around the outside of the vehicle shell...
The front of the vehicle even had a nondescript collision angle.
Rudimentary, rough, simple and crude ideas, but very surprising.
To be honest, Gao Wen was surprised for a long time after seeing this report, because he had not had time to come up with this concept at all...
Besides this report , the second document is a plan that Gao Wen is drafting himself——
"Developing the Potential Value of New Media"
Newspapers have gradually become popular in the southern border. The coverage has basically reached every town-level unit, and the new magic network broadcast is centered on the cross axis and is covering more and more cities. People in the southern border are gradually becoming familiar with these new things. On the other hand - production Newspaper and broadcast staff are also becoming familiar with these new tasks.
The role of new media in information dissemination has gradually emerged, especially in the Luan City incident. The power of public opinion propaganda impressed everyone in the Government Affairs Department. Hetty also Sigh, the power of those newspapers and programs is no less than a fully armed army.
But Gao Wen knows that the value of these new media is far from being developed - they still have a very narrow range of applications., is limited to tools used by the Government Affairs Department when announcing matters.
The content is single, the categories are lacking, and there is a lack of commercial income. It is more like a larger bulletin board than a new media.
This is far from Gawain’s original goal.
He picked up the pen and listed the next step in the plan - to find ways to teach the lords to actively participate in these new things, so that people can have a deeper understanding of the things created by the lords. Things can be used not only by lords, but also by ordinary people. We must find ways to create more civilian markets to make these new things "alive" and maximize their value...
The benefits of this are obvious. Just by opening the commercial section of newspapers, on the one hand, it can open up people's wisdom more quickly, stimulate ordinary people to think and act, and accelerate Cecil's cultural construction; on the other hand, it can generate Economic gains to alleviate the increasing financial pressure on the Cecil Government Office - too many construction projects are squeezing the economy of the Principality of Cecil. Many new things currently created by Cecil are completely " "Official projects", they are completely dependent on the principal's finances, but can hardly recover their costs (or they can only recover the upfront costs, but cannot generate subsequent benefits). They are 100% "Government Affairs Department industries" and are almost completely disconnected from various civil society groups.
Although it is okay at this stage, this will become a huge problem sooner or later.
Of course, how to effectively control this process to prevent these new things from losing the control of the Government Affairs Department must also be seriously considered...
Gao Wen frowned and thought, He kept writing. He had to consider not only the future development direction of new media and the corresponding management system, but also how to guide the people and the way people think in this era. It is not easy to formulate a plan. easy.
At this moment, Betty's voice suddenly came from outside the door, interrupting Gawain's thinking.
"Sir! Mr. Codd and Mr. Parr from Carroll are here!"
Gawain was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered who these two unfamiliar names were. Who.
They are the businessman and son recommended by Commerce Minister Padric.
"Let them in."
The door opened, and Cord and Parr walked into the lord's study with a hint of nervousness.
They finally saw the southern ruler with their own eyes.
He was sitting behind a large desk, holding a pen in his hand. A huge floor-to-ceiling window was behind him. The sunlight poured into the room through the floor-to-ceiling window and fell on the shoulders of the founding Duke, as if a Wearing a light golden cloak.
He is taller than Cord imagined. < /p>
(Oh my god!!)