Lord of Industrialization

Frederick had earlier proposed a plan to win over the uninherited children of various families, use them to enrich the civil service system of the Duchy of Wesson, and at the same time strengthen ties with various families.

Therefore, many sons and daughters of noble families in the Rhine League went to the Principality of Wesson to look for opportunities. Some of them became civil servants, some joined the army, and many were engaged in research and education, and some entered the industrial system.

It’s okay now. Let’s put aside the Kingdom of Sverrier and so on. Children from dozens of families disappeared without a trace not long ago. They said they went to the south. Many people asked their families for a large sum of money before leaving. Money is said to be an investment.

This problem is serious. No one knows what they are doing. It is not known what the money is used for. There is no information at all, and they do not know whether they are dead or alive.

Frederick demanded a strict investigation into the matter, and then a certain Gu knight was put into an airship and sent to Hanma City.

After Belle Burke came to Hanma City, Frederick was executed first and then interrogated.

"Gu...just kill me..."

"If you don't answer honestly, you will die."

"Did I say I wouldn't answer?"

Belle Burke angrily bit Frederick on the shoulder.

Frederick stretched out his hand and gently scratched the back of her neck, making her body relax suddenly, and then he said: "Tell me more about this matter, what happened to those people and where they went."

"I don't want to talk about it now." Belle Burke regained her temper, lay on Frederick's chest, and closed her mouth tightly.

Frederick did not impose any further punishment, but just kissed her on the forehead and held her gently.

The relationship between the two of them is a bit awkward.

At first, Belle Burke was just trying to protect herself after being captured. Later, the two cooperated for their own interests, and they developed a bit of friendship.

Later, Belle Burke teased Frederick again when he was just 16 years old, hoping to see him get into the same embarrassing situation as before, but she failed.

In the beginning, there was a physical relationship between the two, but later they became romantically involved. However, both of them were stubborn and unwilling to admit that the other was their lover.

After lunch, Belle Burke explained the ins and outs of this incident in detail in the tea room.

"Maria took the lead in this matter."

Frederick was startled as soon as Bellebek opened his mouth.

Frederick did not expect that Maria was behind this incident.

Belle Burke went on to talk about how this happened.

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Time goes back to the day last year when Frederick arm-wrestled with someone on the drying Seal.

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Frederick gave Maria a piece of land on the hill to the west of University Lake, not far to the south of Weissenburg University.

Maria built a manor there with her own money. In addition to living there, she also used it as a vacation place for her parents and godfather.

Because the exterior walls and roof of this manor building are covered with snow-white paint, people call it Snow White Villa.

On this day, Snow White Villa welcomed an uneasy guest.

Sir Clare finally escaped from Old Louis and helped the "relevant departments" of the Duchy of Wesson draw portraits of spies from the Kingdom of Gaul to be sent to the Kingdom of Tarago, so that he could wait for the steam fishing boat that Frederick promised to send him. Get into the water.

She didn't expect that Frederick's fiancée, Miss Eltal, would actually invite her to a tea party.

The garden of the villa is on the edge of a cliff. One side of the pavilion is full of flowers, and the other side is the glistening University Lake.

Most of the guests attending the tea party today are Maria's best friends in the Principality of Mainz.

Each tea party had a theme, and Maria was very interested in life in the South and asked Sir Clare many questions.

Sir Claire mentioned food: "Not far south of Cyclops Island is the forest sea in the southern continent. There are many delicious fruits there."

"Many fruits mature at different times, and new fruits mature almost every month."

Someone immediately asked: "Can we also eat it in winter?"

Sir Clare replied: "There is no winter there. There are only dry seasons and rainy seasons. When it is cold here, it rains over there."

"When it rains, there are also freshly ripe fruits. There is a kind of eye fruit that looks like a human eyeball. I can't sleep after eating it or drinking tea."

"It is said that there is a red fruit deep in the forest. It is very sweet. If you eat too much and sweat, it will also turn red."

She introduced more than a dozen kinds of fruits commonly eaten by Level 4, which made the surrounding northern girls marvel.

Then Sir Clare said: "I'm not used to the wheat from the north, but the rice from the south is more suitable for me."

At this time, another girl from the north asked: "How does rice grow? Is it the same as wheat? Does it grow on vines like grapes? Or does it grow on trees like apples?"

Nowadays, there are many local restaurants in the Principality of Wesson, and they sell a lot of rice. These rich ladies have eaten it, but they have never seen how it grows.

Sir Clare said: "Rice and wheat grow the same. They are also planted in the ground. When they are ripe, there will be a big bunch above the head."

There were people growing rice in her territory and the surrounding land, so she told her how to grow rice. The northern girls were surprised by the "wheat that grows in the water", and even more surprised that rice can be grown two to three times a year. .

Someone sighed: "If you go to the forest to grow wheat in the water, you will make a lot of money."

Sir Clare shook his head after hearing this and said: "It's too dangerous in Linhai. It's easy to get sick and lose your life."

"Many people live in places where there are rivers and estuaries by the sea, but now there are people who live a good life there, and the places where there are no people are just large swamps."

The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. At this time, the landlord class and the bourgeoisie thought of the same thing.

A landlord's daughter said, "Then we can reclaim the swamp into farmland."

Sir Claire shook his head and said, "It's not that simple. It requires a lot of money. We need to build a dam to enclose the swamp first, and then fill it with soil. The investment is too large."

Someone once developed a tidal flat on the Cyclops Island. In the end, they calculated that they had to grow rice for thirty or forty years to recover the investment.

Maria's eyes turned and she had an idea.

The next day, an article appeared in the gossip section of the "Wesson Daily". On the surface, it just repeated the story told by Sir Claire.

However, now the "Wesson Daily" has become a political weather vane in the eyes of many people. They analyze it word by word in the hope of finding the next investment outlet.

Some people interpreted this article. They focused on the fact that there are many uncultivated swamps on the southern coast of the Inland Sea.

Swamps can't scare the Wesson people. Everyone knows that Grand Duke Wesson transformed large tracts of swamps into farmland in the lowlands.

Just at this time, Bila, a former student of Weissenburg University, now the vice president of Weissenburg University Linhai Branch, and a king in Linhai, was in Weissenburg City, preparing to participate in this year's World Expo, and saw this article.

Bila has lived in Linhai for many years and is very familiar with the situation there. He stayed up for several nights to write a book introducing the geography, climate, resources, customs and traditions of Linhai.

He thought he had a keen political sense and knew that the president intended to get involved in Linhai, so he opened the Linhai Branch two years ago, and now he was going to blow the horn.

It is good to lean on a big tree to enjoy the shade. If the Principality of Weissen has a large number of strongholds on the coast of Linhai, wouldn't he be able to be a very loud speaker in Linhai.

So Linhai became an unsmelted high-grade gold ore in Bila's pen, where grain, fruit, cotton can be grown, livestock can be raised and fishing can be carried out at sea. After a few years of hard work, it can become a land flowing with milk and honey.

This book is not thick, and it was quickly printed and published in the printing factory of Weissenburg University, and it sold well.