Amber is probably one of the few people in this land ruled by the Cecil family who dares to question Gawain's decision, and while the half-elf lady's bold questioning is mostly only due to her open-door mouth, Gawain is still glad to see that not everyone here will be blindly obedient to him, which means independent thinking...... Well, resting on Amber isn't necessarily an independent thinker, she's just a mouthful.

It was difficult for Gawain to explain all his thoughts to Amber in a short period of time, he could only talk to the other party about the composition of the industrial structure and the concept of technological generation, and as for the deeper economic and political interests, the long-term control of the Leslie Collar, he did not say anything.

Regardless, Amber carried out Gawain's orders, and the next day she set out to deliver Duke Gawain's letter to Viscount Andrew's castle as Cecil's envoy.

Viscount Andrew's response was quicker than Gawain had expected, and he gladly accepted the invitation on the spot, and on the third day after Amber returned to the realm, the Viscount arrived at the docks of Cecil Territory by speedboat.

The last time he saw the viscount, he was still in a weakened state of being eroded by evil magic, but after this period of recuperation, Andrew Leslie had regained his health, he was wearing a thick and warm dark red coat, his hair was meticulously combed, and the newly recruited butler was by his side, and he also brought a convoy of ten soldiers and the business advisers in the territory - the business advisers were naturally for the "business" mentioned by Gawain in his personal letter, The convoy of soldiers was a necessary pomp and circumstance for the nobility.

He saw a new Cecil collar that was completely different from what he had imagined.

He was impressed by the new and neat houses and the commoners walking the streets, and he was especially curious about the houses of the burghers, and where the serfs and inferior people in the realm lived, but compared with Padraic, who had no noble blood, the viscount was after all much more stable and calm, and he maintained the most indifferent and elegant state from the time he disembarked to the time he was introduced into the lord's palace, until he sat in the drawing room of Gawain Cecil, None of them showed any of the excess curiosity and fuss of the country's native bun aristocrats.

Then Betty poured a whole jug of tea.

The people of the south are simple, everyone is honest - and more importantly, everyone seems to have a problem with thinking too much, and Viscount Andrew, like Padraic, guessed what the meaning of Gawain arranged for a maid to constantly water the guests for a long time during the initial half-pot of underwater belly......

Standing in the living room in a daze with a large water bottle, Betty had no idea that she had been branded as an unfathomable character, she just looked at the decorative sword hanging on the wall in the room, silently remembering the newly learned words and grammar in her head, and at the same time devoting some of her attention to the time when the guest's teacup needed to be refilled - when she memorized the word list for the second time, Gawain appeared.

"Viscount Andrew, it's great to see you regain your health," Gawain greeted enthusiastically as soon as he entered the door, "I heard that order has been fully restored to Tanzania, and that's really good news. ”

"Thank you for your help, but without your large ore order, I am afraid I would not have been able to repair the big hole in the castle this winter," said Viscount Andrew, who opened his hand rather exaggeratedly and smiled, "so I rushed here as soon as I heard that you were going to talk to me about a new business in person." ”

"It's a new business, indeed, but we don't have a good deal to talk about here—if you don't mind, would you like to come with me and visit the mines of Cecil Territory?"

"Mines?" Viscount Andrew frowned: "You mentioned in your letter that you have some new mining equipment for sale, but the Leslie family has been mining for several generations, and I am familiar with all kinds of mining tools...... Hiccup...... Ah, sorry, I was rude. ”

"Don't mind, don't mind," Gawain quickly waved his hand, wondering why Viscount Andrew's hiccups were starting to echo as well, and then explained with a smile, "It's still necessary to see it with your own eyes, because I'm afraid you haven't seen what I'm going to sell before." ”

Gawain had already said that, and of course Viscount Andrew would not be uninteresting, so he readily agreed to the invitation to visit the mines—and asked in the direction of the toilets.

Cecil Mine is located in the east of the territory, in the beginning, it was only a small mining point, but with the rapid development of the territory and the increasing demand for ore, the mine has become the second largest construction effort after the "Cecil City" in the central area, a large number of manpower, material resources and advanced machinery and equipment have been transported here, it slowly changed from a mining point with only a few tents to a village with more than a dozen houses, and from the village to the village and town, and now there are newly built brick houses, There are also well-paved roads made of slag and cement, while a wide main road connects the mining town to Cecil, ensuring the flow of people and goods between the two places.

Due to the convenient transportation, Gawain led his guests in a horse-drawn carriage to the mining town in less than two hours.

Viscount Andrew kept his calm and indifferent demeanor until the last leg of his journey—whether it was the magic crystal lamps that could be seen everywhere in the territory, or the straight and smooth roads, or the people who were still busy working in the winter and the strange sounds coming from the "factories" on the edge of the town, he tried not to be too surprised, because although these things were beyond his expectations, they were not beyond his imagination— He was amazed that the Cecil family, which had been in decline to the point of almost having to sell their titles to survive, had been able to build such a territory in such a short period of time, but he could still add a reasonable explanation to everything he saw, as long as it was understood that "Gawain Cecil dug up the coffin book he had buried back then, and then piled up such a place with money".

Until he saw something he couldn't understand at all, something he couldn't explain, something he couldn't even imagine.

"This ...... What is this?! ”

In front of Viscount Andrew, a huge machine was driving the winch with amazing force, dragging several truckloads of heavy ore that would probably require dozens of slave laborers to push out of the deep cavern, the machine made a low sound like a giant's roar, the massive disc structure turned on its side with an indomitable momentum, every part of it seemed to be made of steel, yet these inanimate things moved as if they were living creatures—emotionless, endless, powerful, There is even an inexplicable majesty derived from steel.

After a few seconds of stunned speech, Viscount Andrew finally saw a little magical brilliance at the heart of the machine, and his ability to speak finally regained a little: "It's a ...... Magic device? A combination of some kind of magical and mechanical mechanism? ”

"That's what I'm going to sell you, so you know," Gawain smiled, "but that's just one of them, and further along, you'll see more machines—in Cecil Territory, where most of the heavy manual labor in the mines is done." ”

The more Viscount Andrew looked at it, the more shocked he became, he knew about the mine and was familiar with the set of things in mining, but he would never have thought that the "mining equipment" that Gawain mentioned was actually a bunch of such ...... Iron Behemoth. He looked at the massive machines, and soon noticed the incredible intricacies of these seemingly coarse iron bumps—the seamless parts, the precision-matched connecting rods, and the unmanned but rapidly switched magic arrays...... How the hell are these monsters made?!

"It's ...... The magic technology of the ancient Gondor Empire?! Finally, Viscount Andrew, believing that he had found the only possible reasonable explanation, slowly turned his head and looked Gawain in the eye and asked.

"This was designed by me and the technologists in my realm, if of course, if you think that since I am the first remnant of the ancient Gondor Empire, the technology I master is considered ancient Gondor technology...... Then it's okay to understand it this way," Gawain deliberately perfunctory with a rather vague explanation, and then looked at Viscount Andrew's reaction, "What, are you interested in these 'magic devices'?" ”

"As long as you're willing to sell!" Viscount Andrew said with a glare.

"Presumably you can also see that these machines are scary in the details of the processing difficulty, the cost of manufacturing one is not expensive, so the price is naturally high, according to the difference in its scale and manufacturing difficulty, the cost alone is between hundreds to thousands of Cecil gold coins, and the manufacture of these things obviously requires the participation of extraordinary people, labor costs ...... As you can imagine," Gawain said unhurriedly, but before Viscount Andrew faded his smile, he shifted his words, "of course, I only set the price this way when I sell to someone else, and if I sell to a neighbor, I only charge the cost price of the material - and if you have a problem, you can even pay for it with ore." ”

Viscount Andrew felt a great deal of emotion.

These machines are not cheap, of course he knows it very well, but he also knows very well that these machines are quite a lot of human power when they are running!

A tractor can withstand the power of dozens or hundreds of slave laborers, and the ore crushed by a crusher in half a day can make all the gravel slave workers in the Tanzanian mine have nothing to do! Of course, it will cost a lot of money to buy these machines, but he will recover the cost very quickly, and after the cost is recovered, the town of Tanzania, and even the entire Leslie Collar will usher in unprecedented profit income!

And the magic part of these machines doesn't seem to be too complicated, and after returning to his roots, he may be able to try to recruit a group of rune craftsmen and experts in magic circles to study how this thing moves......

At this time, Gawain's voice interrupted his thoughts: "By the way, Viscount Andrew, I have one more thing to tell you: these machines can't work on their own, you should have noticed it, there is no magician here to provide energy to the machines......"

"Hmm...... I'm really curious," Viscount Andrew touched his chin, "I don't see any magicians controlling these machines, or anyone charging them...... Do they have a large amount of Reservoir Crystals in them? ”

"They also need a companion 'magic web' technology, and I'm going to talk to you about this technology......"