The wide and clean streets, the tall and neatly planned buildings, the magic crystal street lamps standing on the side of the road like guards, the magic projections floating in mid-air, and the incredible magic machines on display in the square......

The big businessman Cod sat in the carriage, as a mature and steady businessman, he had successfully adjusted his mentality, and began to observe the scene outside with a calm and indifferent expression, but the storm in his heart still did not subside at all.

Carol was once a viscounty, but due to its proximity to the plains of the Whitsunday and its thriving trade, it was once one of the wealthiest areas in the South, and the prosperity of Carol City has always been something that Cod is very satisfied with and proud of, but compared to the city at present......

No, there is no need to compare the two cities at all.

There was no rancid smell of defecation in the air as common in the big cities, and there were no ragged paupers and serfs walking around the streets, and an indescribable "order" seemed to permeate the air like no one else had seen in Kod.

He knew about the new government office in Carroll City, and the series of new laws that the government had enacted—some of which were supported by the locals, such as lowering taxes and allocating land, while others were difficult to implement, such as health laws and some work systems, and frankly, even Codd didn't understand all of them—but after seeing what Cecil City is like today, he realized at least one thing:

Living in such a city is at least more comfortable than living in Carroll.

When we go back, it's time to mobilize the people of the business association, or at least to get everyone to implement the health law willingly......

The carriage left the bustling street, turned two corners, and the surroundings gradually became quiet.

The Pioneer Square was separated by only two streets next to the Government Council and the Lord's Palace, with no walls or moats in between, except for a few outposts guarding the road leading to the borough, where merchants' carriages stopped for inspection.

Cod and Parr had prepared the necessary coins for the soldiers, and as soon as the carriage stopped, they obeyed the order and got out of the carriage, and then saw a warrior in magical armor approaching: "Stop and check - please show your identification." ”

Ced quickly pulled out the identification issued by Cecil's Ministry of Commerce and the letter of introduction signed by Minister Padraic from his bosom, and handed it to the soldier as he estimated how much it would cost such a guard to be in place—although he told Pal that he had been to Cecil once, he had only been here with his family's fleet for the sale of medicinal ingredients last year, and he had not been here since, so he really didn't know much about the city.

The so-called "came to Cecil" has some self-boasting elements in it.

And in the brief moment of his thoughts, the soldiers had finished checking the documents and confirmed the black and white figures on them, and the other two soldiers checked the carriage, and a crisp voice reached the ears of Codd and Parr: "Check through—you can go in." ”

Cod nodded subconsciously, and then was stunned: "Ah...... Yes? ”

"You can go in," the soldier repeated again, and after noticing the bewildered look on the merchant's face, he glanced down at the document in his hand again to confirm its contents, "there is indeed no problem—go inside, take your passes." ”

Confused, Ced took the papers and the pass he had been given to him, and returned to the carriage with Parr, who had not yet understood what had happened until the carriage had left the post.

Parr was also confused: "Father...... Did those soldiers forget to take our money? ”

"How could such a thing be forgotten," said Cord, glancing at his son, and then muttering in disbelief, "Carol is on the other side, and so is it on this side...... How exactly did the Duke do it? ”

With a confused mind, the carriage in which the merchant father and son rode continued on.

A moment later, they arrived at the Lord's Palace.

Leaving the carriage and looking up at the tall mansion in front of him, Ced took a deep breath, carefully hid all the surprise, curiosity, confusion, and excitement along the way under that calm and indifferent countenance, then straightened his already impeccable clothes, and walked forward with Parr accompanied by a guard of the Lord's Palace.

There was not only one car parked in front of the Lord's Palace, but there were obviously other visitors, and in front of the door depicting the Cecil family crest, Cod saw a young woman walking out, dressed in a modest lady's winter coat, striding down the steps, as if she was about to leave.

The guard at the door was obviously familiar with the young woman, and they chatted briefly.

"Miss Jepley—it's done so soon?"

The young woman said with a smile: "It's just a routine report. ”

The guard had a hint of anticipation: "Will there be a show tomorrow?" ”

"Of course, every day – and maybe there's something new to watch in the last few days."

Codd came to the door, and the accompanying guards stepped forward to hand him over, while the young woman, known as "Miss Gibrie," turned back and glanced curiously at the great merchant from Carroll.

"Hello." The young woman nodded slightly and said politely.

"Ahh......h I saw you on the magic projection! Cod looked at the young woman in front of him in amazement, only to realize that the other party was the person he had seen in the holographic projection in the city before—the strange feeling of suddenly seeing a real person on the holographic projection before surprised the big businessman, and then he saluted with a perfect manly demeanor, "Miss 'Witch', you are more beautiful than you see in the projection." ”

"Thank you for the compliment." Gippley smiled and nodded, but in the next second, a strange sense of familiarity appeared in her mind, and the face of the middle-aged businessman in front of her overlapped with one of the faces in her mind.

Cord also glanced at Gippley - after putting aside the barrier of "magic projection", he looked at the "witch" lady, and his heart suddenly moved, and a vague sense of familiarity came to his mind.

The two of them said in unison: "Have we met?" ”

In the same instant, they all found the source of this familiarity.

In the autumn of more than a decade ago, a young businessman who had just taken over the family business ventured south to a strange city with great ambitions.

That autumn, a fleeing mage apprentice was left in a foreign land, hungry.

The young businessman was looking for business opportunities, and with a certain high spirit, he found a divination stall and wanted to hear a few good words.

The mage's apprentice, who was still just a little girl, was looking for food, and she took out a few tricks she had just learned and wanted to exchange them for two loaves of bread.

A wordless and brief embarrassment froze in front of the steps of the Lord's Mansion, and Carol's great merchant and Miss Witch, who was well-known on the magic net, stood face to face, and after a few seconds, the embarrassment was broken by the laughter of the two of them.

"You said the city was full of gold," Cord stepped forward and held out his hand, "Cord, from Carol." ”

"Gypley, it's a pleasure to meet you again," Gypli shook the other man's hand gently, "I'm sorry, I lied to you at the time, I'm hungry." ”

"I know," Codd let go of his hand and took a polite step back, "I can see that you don't know how to divinate at all." ”

Gypli smiled, "But from that day onwards." ”

They staggered by, the great merchant to the gate of the lord's house, and the witch lady to the carriage parked by the side of the road, but before she could get into the carriage, Gipley suddenly stopped, turned back and exclaimed, "Mr. Cod—this city is full of gold." ”

Cord glanced back in surprise, and he saw the witch lady waving her hand to herself, "This time it's true. ”

The big businessman laughed, "I know. ”

The carriage on the side of the road drove away, and Cord and Parr strode through the gates of the Lord's Palace.

"Father," said young Parr as he walked through the door, he finally couldn't help but speak, "you know that Miss Witch?" ”

"We met when I was young—she was just a little girl," said the big businessman casually, "and she taught me her first lesson." ”

"First lesson?"

"yes, it's 'don't believe roadside divination.'"

……

In front of Gawain, there were two documents.

One is from Rebecca, on the "general traction chassis" analysis report, in this report, there is a detailed interpretation of the first generation of magic energy drive car complete system, and on this basis, based on the technical experience of the magic guide car as a starting point, the manufacturing of general traction chassis program.

The manufacture of the magic guide car was successful, and the developers of this world used magic technology and the resources unique to this world, and after some difficult development, they finally succeeded in solving most of the technical problems encountered, so that a vehicle driven by magic and operated by ordinary people was on the road, although it was still very early from perfection, with such and such problems, but this first step was undoubtedly successful.

A means of transportation that is more powerful than oxen horsepower, faster, tireless, and does not need to consume forage, with it, Cecil will undoubtedly be greatly alleviated in the transportation problems encountered in the process of large-scale construction, and in order to give full play to the value of this technology, it is necessary to build a variety of special engineering vehicles with different functions according to the principle of the magic guide car.

Under the influence of Gawain for such a long time, Rebecca already has the concept of modular design and general technology, and has tasted great benefits from it, so after the magic guide car was built this time, without waiting for Gawain's requirements, the girl figured out a "universal chassis" plan by herself.

In this plan, Rebecca believes that it is necessary to make the chassis of the first generation of "Type 475" magic guide car into a modular chassis that can be easily connected to other shells and tows, and then build a large number of derivative vehicles such as trucks, buses, agricultural machinery, and construction machinery on this basis......

The front of the car even had a nondescript ramming angle.

Simple, crude, simple and crude, but surprising.

To be honest, Gawain was surprised for a long time after reading this report, because he didn't have time to put forward the concept in this regard at all......

And next to this report, the second document is a plan that Gawain himself is drafting-

Exploiting the potential value of new media

Newspapers have become popular in the South, covering almost every town-level unit, and the new Magic Network Broadcasting, centered on the Cross Axis, is covering more and more cities, and the people of the South are becoming familiar with these new things, and on the other hand, the people who produce newspapers and broadcasts are also becoming familiar with these new jobs.

The role of the new media in disseminating information has gradually become apparent, especially in the Lu'an incident, where everyone in the government department was impressed by the power of public opinion propaganda, and Hetty once lamented that the newspapers and programs were as powerful as an army in full armor.

But Gawain knows that the value of these new media is far from being exploited — they are still narrowly applied tools that are limited to the publication of affairs by government offices.

With a single content, a lack of categories, and a lack of commercial revenue, it's not so much a new media as a larger bulletin board.

This is too far from Gawain's original goal.

He picked up the pen and listed the next step in the plan - to find a way to teach the lords to take the initiative to participate in these new things, so that people can more deeply understand that the things created by the lords are not only available to the lords, but also to ordinary people, and to find ways to create more civilian markets, so that these new things can be "lived" and maximize their value......

The advantages of this are obvious, on the one hand, it can open up the people's minds more quickly, stimulate ordinary people to think and act, and accelerate the cultural construction of Cecil, and on the other hand, it can generate economic benefits to alleviate the increasing financial pressure of the current Cecil Government Department - too many construction projects are squeezing the economy of the Principality of Cecil, and many of the new things created by Cecil are completely "official projects", and they are completely dependent on the finances of the Principality. However, they can barely recover their costs (or only recover their upfront costs, but not generate subsequent benefits), and they are 100% "government affairs department industries" that are almost completely disconnected from various civil society groups.

It's fine at this stage, but sooner or later it's going to become a huge problem.

Of course, how to effectively control and prevent these new things from losing the control of the government affairs department in this process is also to be seriously considered......

Gao Wen frowned and thought, his pen and writing stopped, he had to consider the future development direction of the new media and the corresponding management system, but also consider how to guide the people, considering the way of thinking of the people of this era, it is not easy to formulate a plan.

Just then, Betty's voice suddenly came from outside the door, interrupting Gawain's thoughts.

"Sir! Mr. Cod and Mr. Parr of Carroll are here! ”

Gawain was stunned for a moment, and then remembered who these two somewhat unfamiliar names were.

It was the businessman father and son recommended by the Minister of Commerce, Padraic.

"Let them in."

The door opened, and Codd and Parr walked into the lord's study with a hint of nervousness.

They had finally seen the ruler of the South.

He sat behind a large desk, a pen in his hand, and behind him a huge floor-to-ceiling window through which sunlight poured into the room and fell on the shoulders of the founding duke, like a pale golden cloak.

He was taller than Codd had imagined.

"Lord Duke," said the great merchant, after a brief moment of astonishment, quickly took his son by the hand and saluted respectfully, "it is our great honor that your light shines on this land. ”

(Oh yes!!) ）

.com。 Wonderful Book House .com