Lord of Industrialization

"There are bugs in this powder."

"So what, even if it's bugs, the bugs from Weissensee are 10,000 times more delicious than those from the Ghazi Empire!"

Fatih didn't know what to say for a moment. He originally thought he was kind enough to remind Olive, but he didn't expect her to say that, and she didn't look too happy.

Olive continued: "So what if you eat bugs? You sir have never seen it before. We poor people even eat maggots when we have no food to eat. There are people outside Wanjing City who catch mosquitoes with nets in the swamp and mix them into soy flour. , that can only be eaten by patients."

"The masters in the city have fish, meat and wine every day, so how can they have time to care about the life and death of us insects?"

"Oh, it doesn't matter. There was a fire in my house, and I was the only one left to survive. The gentlemen came right at dawn and scraped away all the remaining valuable things. They said they still had to pay taxes."

"Look at what the masters do here in Weissensee. It's really okay. There are boiled potatoes on the roadside for free. The children in the school opposite get a bottle of milk and an egg every day, and it's free."

"Look at the hospitals here. No matter who you are, you can give birth to a baby for half a copper. They also provide nutritious meals for free."

Fatih silently stood up and left before she finished speaking, and never came to the barbecue restaurant again.

The streets of the old town of Weissenburg are busy and lively.

Fatih and Hakan entered the city gate, got on the public train driven by the steam engine behind the city gate, and walked all the way to the center of the city.

Compared with the new city where I lived before, the houses here are much older and the streets are narrower. In addition to the main road leading to the small train, people riding tricycles can often be seen on the branch roads on both sides asking others to give way. let.

What makes Fatih most concerned about is that you can see a kind of weird building from time to time in the city. It is much taller than the surrounding houses. Below it is a red brick city cylinder, with a big cylinder head attached to it. The outside of this big head Smeared with cement.

He asked the middle-aged man sitting next to him and learned that this was the water tower. With it, tap water could flow out of the faucet at home.

The middle-aged man said proudly: "With the tap water invented by Duke Wesson, we don't have to drink the well water that makes people sick."

"In the past, the mouths of wells were always open, and sometimes rats and dogs drowned in them without us knowing it. We would get sick after drinking from them."

"It's okay now. The tap water is in pipes from the water plant to here. No dirt will get in. You can use it with confidence."

Looking at Fatih’s proud expression and skillful explanation, it was obvious that this was not the first time that he introduced local characteristics to outsiders.

The middle-aged man got out of the car in front of Wesson Bookstore and walked in quickly. Out of curiosity, Fatih got out of the car and followed him with Hakan.

The Wesson Bookstore is in an excellent location. Next to it is a small square where soldiers usually set up stalls. Across the street is the Weissenburg Public Hospital. The first floor of the bookstore is about 400 square meters. There are spacious doors on both sides of the street. The second floor is The windows on the fourth floor wall are connected to each other with large pieces of transparent glass, and the exterior walls are decorated with geometric patterns in relief.

Fatih looked up at the glass window and said to Hakan: "Where I live, the glass windows are not so big or so many."

Hakan nodded. He had heard in the early years that the glass industry in Wesson was developing rapidly and was now ahead of other places. This seemed to be the case during this period.

The plate glass produced here is large and flat, clear and bubble-free. It is used to make a full-length mirror as high as a person, which is priceless in the Ghazi Empire, but here it is used to make window glass. Even the palace is not so luxurious.

Fatih made up his mind and said: "I will build a Crystal Palace with glass walls."

Later, the Crystal Palace was built, but half a year later it became a place where His Majesty the Emperor punished people. It was too stuffy inside.

There is a sign at the entrance of the bookstore. The first floor sells general reading materials such as novels, poetry collections and comic books, the second floor sells various professional learning books, and the third floor sells magic books.

Fatih saw Hakan's eyes shining and said to him with a smile: "You go to the third floor by yourself first, I will go up one floor at a time."

Hakan shook his head and replied: "Your safety is more important."

Anyway, he will reach the third floor sooner or later, and the most important thing is to protect the emperor. If His Majesty throws away his oily skin, his political career will be over.

Fatih just smiled and walked into the bookstore out of curiosity.

The counter next to the door was full of people. There was a rope pulled here, and everyone was lined up. Most of them were adults with children, and there were many teenagers.

Fatih was stunned for a moment, it must be class time now, and then he immediately remembered that today is April 25th. In addition to Sunday, the last day of every tenth day, there is also a half-day holiday in the afternoon of May in Wesson.

There was an advertisement board next to the counter. It was an advertisement for the popular comic book "Pig Brothers Fighting the Wind Wolf". Out of curiosity, Fatih went to queue and bought a copy, which was only the price of a meal of barbecue noodles.

The upper part of this comic book is composed of pictures, and the lower part is text. The story is based on a fairy tale from the hometown of Baron Adam, Minister of Commerce of Wessen. It was later adapted into a comic strip by Miss Maria von Ertal, the fiancée of the Duke of Wessen. .

The story tells that the straw huts and wooden houses built by the eldest pig and the second pig were successively blown down by the wind wolf. The third pig imported cement from Weisen and built a solid house. In the end, the wind wolf blew it to death from exhaustion. The house was not damaged in the slightest.

After Fatih left the counter, he quickly flipped through the comic book and found that the text inside was simple and easy to understand, even for a beginner like himself.

He looked at the children in line and thought they might be able to understand.

"Sir." Hakan suddenly pointed to a counter next to him. A comic book placed there caught his attention. The person on the cover was wearing Ghazi Empire-style clothes.

There was no queue, and Fatih quickly bought the copy of "The Loyal General."

The emperor and the Dharma God stood in front of the counter and quickly flipped through the comic strips together. Fatih's face was not very good, and Hakan had mixed feelings because he showed his face in it.

The story of this comic book is very simple. The emperor of the Ghazi Empire sent General Arda to lead the Praetorian Guard to help the false emperor Phocas who stole Constantbulo.

After Alda arrived in Constantbul, he first had a conflict with Phocas over the embezzlement of military rations, and then the conflict deepened when he dissuaded Phocas from plundering villages during the march, but even so, he still followed Emperor Ghazi's orders to help him.

Along the way, Alda put forward a lot of correct suggestions to Phocas, regardless of previous conflicts, but the foolish and cruel Phocas did not adopt them all, and ended up defeated.

When the wise and powerful Duke Wesson flooded the lake and drowned Phokas's army, Phokas also used a cunning trick to make Alda's army the victims of his escape.

Even so, Arda delayed Duke Wesson's pursuit, refused to surrender despite the heavy siege, and committed suicide after shouting "long live the emperor" while looking at his hometown.

At the end of the story, Emperor Ghazi listened to the slander of the defeated general who escaped, thinking that Arda was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he captured his daughter and put her in a cage as a slave to be sold.

Fatih asked Hakan in Ghazi: "Is this true?"

He is the last Ghazi Emperor in the comic strip. On the surface, this part does not appear to be a mistake. If it were written truthfully that he was punishing Arda's family to get rid of the blame, the situation would be even worse, because this is what happened to old Count Wesson. .

But the details of the first part were not as clear to him as Hakan, who was watching from Phocas at the time.

Hakan replied: "That's more or less what happened."

The plots in the comic strips are still somewhat biased after being simplified, but since they are sold in such large quantities, even if I am wrong, it is useless to say anything.

Fatih sighed and lost interest in continuing shopping. He turned around and walked out of the bookstore and went straight back to the hotel.

Seeing that His Majesty the Emperor was in a bad mood, the servants carefully poured tea and water to prepare snacks. A maid turned on the radio.

The passionate voice of the announcer came from the radio: "Honder Huo Zhenploz, member of the Langnar City Council and director of the Korean Pine Food Factory, said today that all the citizens of Langnar City unanimously support the Weisen State Executive Council's decision The Principality of Franconia is warning that if the Principality of Franconia continues to persist in amassing troops at the border to stir up trouble, it will eventually suffer a devastating blow."

Fatih's attention immediately turned to the radio.

When they first arrived, they heard that the Franconian Principality in the north was gathering troops on the border because the son of the Grand Duke of Franconia was sentenced to death for killing people in Wesson. They didn't know if there would eventually be a fight.

Statements from representatives of the major city councils in Wesson were played on the radio. All places supported a war with the Franconian Principality. It seemed that the war was not too far away.