Lord of Industrialization

"Be careful and take your time. After all, wages are calculated on a daily basis. If you wait a few more days, you will get a few more days of wages!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the girls who were eating breakfast beside the digging pit all laughed happily.

Frederick asked Sir Clare for some people with good eyesight, concentration and dexterity to dig out the bones in the ground, so she found a group of embroiderers who had the same requirements as Frederick when doing embroidery.

The embroiderers were reluctant to play in the mud at first, but here they had flour and meat for three meals a day, the wages were three times what they used to do, and there was a shed to protect them from the sun, so they all agreed.

Frederick first started to dig roughly, and then they took small shovels to shovel away the soil bit by bit, revealing the bones buried underground.

After breakfast, the girls continued their work from yesterday.

Soon there were more people around the pit. Many tourists in the city heard that someone was digging up Cyclops bones, so they came to watch the fun.

Claire came a little later today, and the servants behind her brought drawing boards and other tools.

Frederick asked her in surprise: "Can you sketch?"

Claire said with some pride: "Of course I will. Anyway, I am idle and bored. Well... the wages cannot be less."

After saying that, she covered her mouth with a feather fan and laughed.

Frederick smiled and asked her to help find a painter. Unexpectedly, she came by herself.

"Okay then." Frederick also joked with her, "I will try it out today and draw the outline of the bones that have been dug out. If I can't draw well, I will kick him out."

Claire set up an easel beside the pit and began to draw the entire side of the skeleton on the drawing paper.

Frederick went over to take a look after an hour and found that her sketching level was quite satisfactory, which was enough for ladies to enjoy themselves.

In the afternoon, almost all the people who used to watch the excitement left, but today there was an old priest of the Light Church wearing a pure white cotton robe, watching quietly from the side.

Frederick noticed him early in the morning and had a horse sent to him.

This old priest looked to be almost ninety years old and very thin. From early morning to afternoon he was still very energetic and attentive.

There are rumors in the world that the older the priests are, the more cautious they must be. Only the God of Light knows whether they lived in the same dormitory with a cardinal or even a pope when they were young.

Frederick found a mazza and sat next to the old priest. Before greeting him, he asked: "Do you think the Cyclops is actually a kind of elephant?"

"Yes." Frederick replied, "What is your name?"

The old priest replied: "Call me Ai Liud."

Frederick found that his eyes were bright and deep, thinking that this person must be something special, and subconsciously braced himself to deal with it.

Alfred looked at the bones in the pit and asked him: "Do you really think the Cyclops is an elephant?"

"The "Sacred Code" records that the God of Light sent Cyclops to the mortal world to destroy demons in the sea. Cyclops skeletons have been found on many islands. Is the "Holy Code" wrong?"

Frederick frowned slightly. If he answered, "The Holy Scripture is wrong," he would not be able to hang out on the territory of the Church of Light in the future.

He dislikes debating scriptures with priests. Those people rely on this profession to make a living. They think and explain various issues related to scriptures every day, and they can always quote scriptures and find evidence to support their opinions.

The most intuitive example is that the fish in the ocean are not animals, but fruits in the sea, just because a pope wanted to eat meat during fasting.

Fortunately, he was familiar with this situation and often encountered it in his daily work, so he said: "It is not the Holy Scriptures that are wrong, but those who mistake these elephant bones for Cyclops."

"The "Sacred Code" doesn't mention the fate of those Cyclops, which means we can't be sure that these are their bones."

Eliud was very familiar with this kind of debate and immediately said: "The "Sacred Scripture" has already mentioned the appearance of the Cyclops and the places where they walked, and bones matching their appearance were found in these places. Isn't this enough? "

Frederick shook his head slightly, looked at the skeleton in front of him and said calmly: "In the study of one thing, if it is not necessary, do not add additional factors."

"To figure out whose bones these are, you can first compare them with the bones of other animals, analyze the differences between them, and determine who they are similar to or even the same with."

Eliud narrowed his eyes slightly and asked seemingly calmly: "Then the records in the "Holy Scripture" cannot be used as evidence?"

Frederick replied: "It would be blasphemous to mistake an ordinary elephant for a Cyclops sent by the God of Light from the beginning."

Alfred asked him again: "Then how do you prove that you are right?"

Frederick replied: "Find the bones of other elephants and compare them with the bones dug out now, and then compare them with the bones dug out before."

He said it with confidence.

Elephants are only distributed on the southern coast of the inland sea. In the forest, there are saber-toothed elephants that are nearly three meters tall. In the further southern continent, there are even larger elephants that are four to five meters tall.

Many nobles along the Inland Sea hung a stuffed elephant head as a decoration in their homes, and some even kept them as pets.

Frederick had seen local people hunting saber-toothed elephants in the forest. Naturally, he had seen what elephant bones looked like and knew that they were good for making soup.

Alfred had seen live elephants and leather specimens, but not elephant bones.

There is no talk of Cyclops in the Church of Fire in the South, and the meat and bones can be eaten, but they cannot be kept fresh in hot weather, and elephant trunks have no bones, so no one outside the elephant’s habitat has ever seen elephant bones.

Eliud stopped talking and left after sitting for a while.

Frederick thought he was here to see the fun, so he didn't care and started the next step of his work.

Someone nearby cooked the paste, and someone else cut pieces of paper.

Frederick began to number each bone, and attached pieces of paper with numbers to the bones. After drawing the drawings, he began to take them out of the ground one by one, package them separately, transport them back, and assemble them again.

Dusk fell and the day's work was over. The girls who participated in the excavation washed their hands and went home with their dinner.

Frederick arrived early on the first day and was invited to stay at Sir Clare's house.

Sir Clare's small manor is located on the seaside. In addition to the buildings, there is also a 30-meter-high watchtower, which is mainly used to resist pirates.

The local meals here are relatively simple, with conch and shellfish cooked in water and salt as an appetizer; the main course is fish that is either fried, grilled, or whole, seasoned with juice; the staple food is bread, scones or noodles, and now there are more A steam bread; in addition, it is soup made from seasonal vegetables and a little fruit.

Claire didn't talk during the meal and chatted with the guests after the meal.

"Miss Valli is here too today." She teased Frederick, "Aren't you going to talk to her?"

Frederick smiled and said: "She just wanted to ask me some questions, but I don't have time recently. I agreed to dig out the bones and then find her."

Claire asked him curiously: "What's the problem? Can you tell me?"

Frederick said nonchalantly: "It's about managing the territory."

Claire had no interest in political affairs and quickly changed the subject.

Not long after, a letter came into Frederick's hands, written by the lord of La.

After reading the letter, Frederick said: "The city lord is quite interesting."

"Yeah." Claire said with a smile. "A man who is so stingy would buy an elephant with his own money."

Frederick smiled and said: "In that case, then I agree."