Master Tongtian

Chapter 256 The times are making great strides forward (44)

Although Crescent Town currently has no shortage of tall and spacious buildings, there are still many shortcomings in other aspects.

For example, in terms of high-end luxury goods, the only thing Rosen can offer right now is a moon carriage given to him by the count.

To receive distinguished guests, it is natural to use this bright moon carriage.

Fortunately, the carriage is very spacious, and four people can sit there without feeling crowded at all.

After a while, Rosen, the Morrows, and Bernard Shaw got into a Bright Moon carriage. Under the escort of a team of Silver Moon Rangers, they drove out of the Lord's Castle and drove slowly down the spacious streets of the town.

It can be seen that the main streets within the city walls have been solidified, and the construction of houses on both sides of the streets has been completed. 40% of them have begun business, and the rest are still being renovated.

As the carriage drove away, Rosen made introductions.

"This is the central horizontal aisle, running east-west. In addition, there is a central vertical aisle running north-south."

"The two avenues each lead to the city gate of the town, and all shops directly facing customers will be concentrated on these two streets."

Lord Moreau looked at the shops along the street and found that each one was spacious, bright and grand, and the street was more than ten meters wide, enough to accommodate four carriages running side by side.

He couldn't help but ask: "Will all the ground in the town be petrified?"

"right."

"So when it rains, where does the water go?"

Rosen pointed to the independent petrified lid in the form of a floor grid.

"Look at those covers. Below are the drainage pipes. Rainwater will flow out along the pipes and directly to the Yue River downstream."

Lord Moro looked at the ground for a while and said, "I found three types of lids. What's the point?"

Rosen introduced carefully.

"The white round cover is a water purification cover. Domestic water diverted from the upstream reservoir is buried in a shallow layer to ensure cleanliness. The cover is added to facilitate daily maintenance of the pipeline."

There was no need to cover it originally, but there was no waterworks these days. Although a sedimentation tank was set up upstream, the water was not particularly clean after all.

Over time, the pipes will still get clogged, so they need to be maintained regularly.

Morrow immediately said: "Will someone poison you?"

Rosen nodded: "I also thought of this, so I set up various poison detectors at each hub and before entering the house."

"These poison detectors are very sensitive and will sound an alarm if they are poisonous. Moreover, there are dedicated mages who are always paying attention to this."

Lord Moro was relieved: "Master Rosen is really thoughtful."

Rosen continued to introduce.

"The black round closed one is the sewage cover, and the sewage pipes are connected inside. In order to prevent contamination elsewhere, the pipes are buried deepest underground."

"And all these pipes lead to every household in the town. While supplying domestic clean water, they also take away all kinds of domestic sewage."

Mrs. Moreau immediately clapped her hands: "Ah~ This is a great idea. This way, the town will not stink."

Lord Moro considered the cost: "Then there are not all pipelines under the road. How long will it take to dig?"

Just thinking about it made his scalp explode, and he felt like he had to throw in a lot of gold crowns to complete it.

Rosen smiled: "It's impossible to dig by manpower, but don't forget the magic, Lord."

As he spoke, he looked at his chief apprentice: "What spell do you think should be used?"

George Bernard Shaw thought about it seriously: "Mud technology, turn hard soil into soft silt, and then use shaping technology, or let craftsmen scoop it out with spoons."

"Yes, just do it."

He looked at Lord Moro: "Using this method, the cost and time of excavation can be reduced to one-twentieth of the original. Of course, this method requires hiring a lot of mages."

After Lord Moro heard this, he spread his hands.

"This is the only number of mages you can invite. The mages with enough reputation in the highlands don't have this idea, and the young mages who have this idea don't have the reputation."

Rosen smiled: "If the lord wants to transform his town, he can also directly hire these construction mages I trained. The price is not expensive."

Mrs. Moreau loved cleanliness and felt deeply that her town was unclean, so she became very interested in it.

"How much exactly?"

This was a customer asking for business, so Rosen naturally calculated it carefully for her.

"A mage like this only costs 5 to 20 crowns per month. If you hire 300 people, your town can be completely renovated within a month, and the cost is only 6,000 crowns, even if the maximum cost is 20 crowns."

"It may not be cheap, but after spending this money, you won't be afraid of stepping on dirt when you walk out."

So where does Rosen's income come from?

Naturally, it comes from the civilian mage.

Because if the opponent wants to use the petrified construction technique, he has to buy his petrified mithril staff. Each one costs 10 crowns and can be used for about half a year after being used 300 times.

Rosen has carefully calculated that using this method, he can get about one-third to one-fifth of the construction income of civilian mages, and there is basically no risk.

Mrs. Moreau was immediately very excited. After all, after saving the huge expense of building a new castle, their family could easily spend 6,000 crowns.

Lord Moreau looked at his wife's expression and knew that the money had been spent. He shrugged and pointed to a very huge building in the distance.

"That is?"

"The Crescent Hotel is built with the petrification technique. It has 5 floors and 400 rooms. It is just right for the official mages who come to my class to rest."

Mrs. Moreau immediately asked: "I see there were a lot of people here just now. Are they all here to take your math class?"

Rosen nodded.

At this time, Bernard Shaw on the side said: "It is said that La Farea College is also planning to open a math class, but it has not yet found a suitable math tutor."

Mrs. Moreau laughed: "Son, now you know how lucky you are, right?"

Bernard Shaw nodded repeatedly: "Before I came back, Mr. Alder said that I was very talented and advised me to stay in school. But as soon as I mentioned the name of my tutor, he immediately stopped talking."

Lord Moro was naturally very happy, but he was more interested in Rosen's income, which was difficult to ask directly, so he made a secret estimate in his mind.

He had heard someone say that Rosen's class was five crowns per class. There were more than 300 formal mages just now, and that class was 1,500 crowns.

Considering that Rosen must give many lectures a year, it can also be expected that more and more mages will come to attend the lectures.

Then his lectures alone for a year would be a huge income.

Thinking of this, he felt envious in his heart, but he also knew very well that this was money he would never earn.

I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: "It's good to have knowledge~ After sitting in class and talking for a while, a lot of money will be paid into your account."

His eldest son and second son are both warriors, but now he feels that they have not been raised well.

"Fortunately I still have a little son."

At this time, the carriage tilted slightly and drove up the large ramp to the tall city wall surrounding the town.

This city wall is 15 meters high, 15 meters at the bottom, and 10 meters wide at the top. It is much grander than the walls of Silver Moon Castle. When the carriage drives on the city wall, it is also very smooth.

Lord Moro sighed with emotion: "Oh, with such a city wall guard, even a giant dragon may not be able to break it, right?"

Rosen smiled slightly: "The dragon is a legendary race, and this thing can't stop it."

The phoenix is ​​already very difficult to deal with, but the dragons are even more difficult.

According to the ancient war records recorded in the temple, the Golden God spent 200 years in order to expel the two-headed dragon king Laconde and his descendants.

They used all kinds of tactics, including distant friendship and close attack, vertical and horizontal alliances, and finally the cost of expulsion was reduced to an acceptable range.

According to Rosen's analysis, if they fight head-on, the Golden God Clan and the Dragon Clan are probably about 60% to 40% powerful and can win, but they will be disabled after the fight and will be picked off by a third party.

After the carriage drove for a while, Rosen said: "The battlements are too high and you can't see them clearly from the carriage. Let's get off and take a walk?"

"my pleasure."

Several people got out of the car and walked along the spacious city wall.

Soon, the group stopped at the inner city wall and looked down at the scenery of the entire town.

Although the town has not yet been completely built, except for the two sides of the main road, which is horizontal and vertical, and the rear is still under construction, the general appearance of the town can already be seen.

Mrs. Moreau said with emotion: "I can feel that the fully completed Crescent Town must be an extremely beautiful place."

Lord Moro also nodded: "I thought it would take at least three or four years to get on the right track, but I didn't expect it only took a month."

"It seems now that my knowledge is far behind the times."

The group of people went to the outer city wall again and looked at the scenery outside the town.

Outside the town is a vast expanse of countryside, where countless farmers are hard at work cultivating their land.

Looking from a distance, a large number of fertile fields have already taken shape.

On the other side of the Yuexi River, another group of people gathered there.

Bernard Shaw asked curiously: "Teacher, what are you doing there?"

Rosen explained with a smile: "The Crescent Reservoir is being built and canals are being dug to divert water. Without water, it is difficult to grow food."

Lord Moro looked at it for a while, made a rough estimate, and said: "I have learned about the terrain of Crescent Town. If we really want to cultivate all the land, it is estimated that there will be about 10,000 acres of fields outside the town."

Rosen nodded in agreement: "The lord's estimate is very accurate. It's roughly this much, but it must not be fully mined."

George Bernard Shaw curiously asked: "Why is it left uncultivated?"

His father’s answer: “Because there’s no one.”

Rosen nodded: "There are too few people in Crescent Town, currently less than 30,000."

Because of the turmoil, those who are in poor health have basically died, so there are less than four people in a household on average, which adds up to 8,000 households. Five rams of land per household is already the limit, and in total, there are only more than 800 rams.

In fact, the area of ​​Crescent Town is relatively large among the six towns in Huangshui. However, because it is located in a remote area and there used to be a lot of forest land, the population has not been able to increase.

Now, if it is managed well, in a few generations, it will probably grow to more than 100,000 and become a large highland town.

Of course, Rosen is not prepared to wait for generations. He has plenty of ways to attract people.

But these cannot be stated explicitly, lest they touch Lord Moro's psychological red line.

After all, every lord is very sensitive to the number of people in his territory, and he really doesn't want free people to move out of his territory.

Lord Moro looked at it for a while, his face filled with emotion.

"Master Rosen, with a lord like you here, the prosperity of Crescent Town is only a matter of time. The northern barrier of the highlands is considered strong."

Speaking of the northern barrier, he asked again: "What about the fortress?"

Rosen laughed: "Master Hal has already led a group of construction mages and about 2,000 townspeople to the north. They are currently building a city wall on the top of the Luoxue Mountains. It is expected to be completed in six months."

"The wall on the top of the mountain?"

"Yes, it is 30 meters high, 20 meters wide, and 100 miles long. It will block the entire northern part of Crescent Town and set up beacon towers. Wherever it is attacked, it will be discovered immediately."

"At that time, the troops stationed near the fortress will be able to ride fast horses and run along the road on top of the city wall, ensuring that support will be in place within an hour."

Lord Moreau was so speechless that his head was spinning.

"Only fools attack such a high city wall, right?"

"What if there is a fool? Moreover, ice dwarves are particularly good at digging. This must be carefully guarded against."

"Well, it is indeed possible. But having this city wall is enough to make me feel at ease."

He was worried about his son's safety before, but now it seems that his son is probably safer staying in Crescent Town than in his own Fanggu Town.

I guess if the dragon really comes, it can hold it off for a while, right?

Of course, this has to be a flightless earth dragon.

After that, the group visited for a while, then got on the Bright Moon Carriage again and returned to the Lord's Castle.

In the carriage, Lord Moreau talked about business.

"Fubos is somewhat aware of the changes in the situation and has been visiting major families in the highlands frequently recently."

"He visited me, my father-in-law, the La Fongle family, the Sano family, and even Demitlan."

"He promised great benefits and said that as long as he supports him, he will change the great lord agreement and distribute more benefits to the major barons."

Rosen also probably knew about this, as it was reported by Patsy, but he didn't know the specific details.

Seeing Moreau say this at this time, he felt that Fubos was like a trapped wolf, simply destroying the Omisia family's foundation.

Rosen said softly: "To be honest, Highland's interests are only so small, and there is no future at all by changing the agreement."

“You have to get out there to really make big money.”

Furthermore, the Great Lords Agreement, which has been implemented for more than 700 years, has long formed a solid distribution of interests. How can it be so easy to change?

Even if I change it, it doesn't mean much. It's just that I earned 20,000 before, but now it's 25,000.

Moro nodded: "I have the same idea, and I can also feel that Fubos's vision is still completely stuck in the old times. There is absolutely no future for following such a lord."

He tried his best to keep up with the changes of the times, otherwise he would not fully support his sister in refining medicine.

Rosen was not worried about his reaction, so he asked, "What did Mr. Du Meng say?"

Morrow laughed: "My father-in-law is a businessman and even a lord. He is greedy for the big business in the East. How can he be tempted by such a small profit."

Rosen understood.

With the rapid development of the times, the aristocratic lords increasingly looked down upon the little income from land, and began to gradually transform from land aristocrats to commercial aristocrats, and even capital aristocrats.

He was completely relieved and asked about the potion workshop again.

Morrow said: "Just one more month. In one month, the workshop will be built."

The workshop was built in Fanggu Town and was built remotely by Vivian. There was nothing she could do about it. She didn't dare to leave Crescent Town now, for fear that Faerun would come to get her.

Rosen said: "Then let me reserve 200 tons first."

One ton costs 150 kronor, and 200 tons is a huge order of 30,000 kroner.

Moro raised his eyebrows: "Master Rosen, it seems that you have made a lot of money recently."

Rosen laughed: "It's indeed a lot, but it's fun if we all make money together, isn't it?"

"That's right~ Hahaha."

Moreau also laughed loudly, and the last trace of worry about the potion workshop completely disappeared in his heart.

Because even if the potion doesn't sell well in the future, Rosen will still be there to take care of it.

When he returned to the courtyard of the lord's castle, as soon as he got off the carriage, he found two more groups of people coming to look for him.

A group of "Precision Balances" from the alchemy equipment workshop in Broken Leaf City should have shipped the ordered alchemy laboratory equipment.

The other group actually came from Winter City, to be precise, from La Farea College.

Lord Moro said: "Master Rosen, just go and do your work. I am also busy with matters in my territory, so my wife and I will go back."

Rosen had no choice but to apologize, and after hurriedly sending Morrow and his wife away, he took the young Bernard Shaw to the backyard and temporarily gave his wife his place to live.

He hurriedly found Gendeloni and put her in charge of the alchemy equipment.

He went to receive the envoy from La Farea College.