MTL - Sword of Daybreaker-Chapter 57 Elf, currency, and irrigation

The voice of Amber just fell, and Gao Wen stared at her and turned to stare at her. She looked at the half-elf thief and said: "You... what does your look mean..."

Gao Wen’s eyes are like watching an alien creature: “Why do you know a druid?”

"Why can't I know a Druid!" Amber forks are straightforward. "How much am I a half elf? - All Druid factions under the heavens have originated in the elves. Have you heard of them?"

This sentence is nothing more than the other pointed ears, but the elf of the elf said that it was really not convincing. Gao Wen looked up and down the thief who still kept his face, and then he took out. One sentence: "Is it that I have stolen people's things before, so I hate it, and let people know the world?"

"You are insulting my personality, I am telling you!" Amber suddenly squirmed in general, "How can I steal things when I steal something!"

Gao Wen: "..."

I always feel that the angle of rebuttal is wrong.

However, despite the questioning on the mouth, but looking at the awkward look of Amber, this guy seems to really know a druid, and she also introduced it like a salesman: "I tell you, I know that. The guy is not only a druid, but also a scholar-type druid. He knows everything. His Druid faction is the root of the 'wood tree', especially good at dealing with animals and plants. , absolutely reliable..."

Gao Wen finally believed in the guy's rhetoric, but he did not ask in detail how Amber and the mysterious druid know each other, and the name of the other person's name, etc. - it is obviously not polite to ask these questions now. After listening to Amber's sales pitch, he only asked two questions: "Can you still contact him now? If you can get in touch, how long will you bring him?"

"The contact is good, although the world has said that the Druid is not easy to find, but I know that the guy's activities are very fixed. It is in the Southland area. As for how long it will bring..."

As the amber said, he continued to give Gao Wen a look: "When I go to him, I can go all the way through the shadows, but when I come back, I am afraid I can only go on the road. How fast we can go depends on transportation. Transport, you know?"

Gao Wen immediately understood the meaning of the other party. The big hand waved a few copper plates to her hand: "Go buy new shoes."

Amber squinted: "...not with you! And how do you say that you have to give me some money to make a deposit for others? Even if it is an acquaintance, you have to pay a hire fee!"

"You didn't have to say this early?" Gao Wen just made a joke with Amber. After all, it was interesting to see the girl jumping up and down, but after the joke was over, he still had to take it seriously. He took it out of another pocket. Some are pressed into a uniform size of gold and silver strips, "take it, get it done - how much is yours."

Amber suddenly smiled and took over the sparkling baby.

Since the work required to mint the coin is not yet in place, the “Cesil Coin” is still only a concept, so Gao Wen temporarily let the craftsman make some of the gold and silver in the treasure chest for this kind of broken gold and silver. Trading with the outside world.

This kind of practice is not unusual in this world - the precious metal is used as a direct trading bargaining chip, and the commercial system is still primitive. In the Middle Ages, the purity of gold and silver is a currency. In many cases, gold and silver are made into coins only for the sake of Easy to carry, check and count, but the merchants also accept direct gold and silver transactions - but this transaction has a process of checking the color and weighing calculations, so when buying goods directly with gold and silver, The price will increase slightly.

Of course, this is also the premise that the “currency reputation” of the nobility is still sufficient. If one day the nobility of the nobles in the gold and silver coins reaches the level that can sting the merchants, then the unofficial gold and silver will be reversed. The currency issued by the royal family and the dukes has become a mainstream transaction, and if you use gold and silver coins to buy things, the price will be higher.

This is why the emblem of the **** of business is a balance, and there is a pair of iron shears and one eye at each end of the balance. The iron shears and the balance are things that the merchant carries with them. The former is used to cut gold and silver. In the case of the bar, the latter is used for weighing, and the eyes, that is, a good businessman must have, can see the good eyesight of gold and silver.

In fact, if it is not a high degree of obsessive-compulsive disorder, if you want to cast a refined and distinctive gold and silver coin, he can use the simpler and more rude way to "cast coins" - cast gold and silver into round bars, and then directly cut into thin slices. Put the seal of Cecil on the top with a stamp. In 536, Anjou’s Duke of the West used this method in order to save time and effort and reduce the cost paid to artisans. In that year, the Western Union’s gold and silver coins were also dubbed “the money to buy money” – because of the West According to the law, all merchants entering the West must exchange one-third of the currency with Western Gold and Silver, and must use this inferior gold and silver coin to settle when passing through any checkpoint.

The currency and economy of this world is so magical.

Amber left with joy, the half-elf lady almost drifted away from everyone's eyes, which made Herty could not help but deeply worry: "She should not run away with those gold and silver..."

"Is there a money to escape?" Gao Wen sighed, and then deeply thought that the shame of the elf might be able to do this kind of thing...

Forget it, I still believe her a little bit at this time - there is no other hope anyway.

Can the entire camp find out the second person who knows Druids?

After the amber left, Gao Wen pulled his attention back to the opening project.

The old farmer named Norris had been quietly looking down and waiting, neither in the same situation as the average poor, shaking his body, looking around, and not rushing, as if he had been waiting for Gao Wen to ask questions.

"Is there any problem with this land?" Gao Wen asked. "As long as there is a problem, it is best to say it as soon as possible."

"If you want to say something, the terrain is higher than the river beach. It is difficult to directly divert water from the canal. You have to dig the channel or drill the well from the upstream," Norris replied. "But it is also good. If something like rainstorms causes the Baishui River to rise. But don't worry about the farmland being drowned."

Water diversion... If there is a pump or similar lifting machine, it can be easily solved, or use the world's "characteristic technology" to find a water element specialization master to come over, but obviously the second road is not reliable. - After the camp is on the right track, Herti can only be busy more and more, she can no longer have the opportunity to run over as a personal water pump, and hire a formal mage to take charge of the water... This is even the northern violet The kingdom or the elves in the south can't do this extravagant thing. Besides, even if the money of Cecil's family is falling from the sky, there are several mages who are willing to come to the field to do this kind of low-lying talent. Will it be dirty?"

They would rather pay twice as much to go to the castle of the king and the great aristocrats to put fireworks at the banquet, so as to please the ladies and noble ladies who were pale and ugly.

Therefore, Gao Wen first dismissed the idea of ​​finding a mage to be a human water pump, and instead considered the solution from a mechanical point of view - of course, if it is in accordance with the general rules of the world, the aristocrats generally solve such problems. The idea is to find more serfs to work, but for Gao Wen, it is too extravagant to waste manpower on such things.

At this time, an old and effective machine emerged in Gaowen's mind: "Have you ever heard of something called a waterwheel?"

Herti, Norris and Philip Knight have three faces.

Sure enough, no one has ever heard of this kind of thing.

Gao Wen looked at Hetty: "Is there a paper pen?"

After getting the pen and paper, Gao Wen began to sketch a simple sketch. It is a very high wheel-like thing, supported by spokes, with a neatly arranged sloping cylinder and plank structure on the outer edge of the "wheel", and an extension on the side of the "wheel" Go out of the sink.

Due to limited time, he only painted a part of the structure of this waterwheel, and it is a sketch, but this simple and magical machine has an amazingly simple principle, just a little explanation: "This thing is the waterwheel, the river from Flowing underneath, impacting the planks, causing the waterwheel to spin, then the waterwheel will bring the bucket filled with water to the top, and the water is injected into the sink. The process continues to circulate and the water is referred to high. How much can be raised depends on how big the waterwheel is made, as long as the material can hold it."

Saying, he added another sentence: "Of course, this is just a sketch, the principle is very simple, there can be more models on this basis..."

Herti had no idea what she was talking about at the moment—she was completely attracted to this simple and unbelievable thing.

With simple reasoning, she can see that this machine is absolutely useful, but before she saw this sketch, she never really thought that there would be something like this in the world:

It does not require manpower, nor does it require the participation of any extraordinary force. It can work around the clock, accomplishing the work that requires many serfs to complete, and pushing it – the power of nature.

Suddenly she felt "beauty" from this simple machine, a word that was originally untouched by the original structure of the crude benzene.

However, Gao Wen is still sighing: "It’s a pity that there is no bamboo here, otherwise it will be much simpler to build..."

Heti didn’t hear it for a while: “Ah? What did you say?”

"No, nothing," Gao Wen waved. "Do you have any thoughts about this machine?"

Hetty just wanted to say that this was a genius-like design, but he saw Norris picking up the pen next to it and sketching it on a blank piece of paper. The old farmer said while sketching: "Make it directly It will be very affected by the river at the Baishui River. It can't be used during the dry season. If you can introduce another channel next to it, during the dry season..."

I noticed that the surrounding area was suddenly quiet. Norris was so excited that he reacted. Then he threw away the pen in fear and threw himself away: "Master, I am just..."

However, Gao Wen’s words are more than he expected: “Would you write?”