As soon as Amber's words fell, Gawain suddenly turned his head and stared at her, making the half-elf thief furious: "You...... What do you mean by those eyes......"

Gawain's eyes looked like he was looking at an alien creature: "Why do you know a druid?" ”

"Why can't I know a druid!" Amber crossed her waist and straightened, "I'm more or less half an elf, okay - all the druid factions in the world originated from elves, haven't you heard of it?" ”

This sentence is just a matter of any other pointed ear, but this elf's shame is really not convincing at all, Gawain looked up and down at Miss Thief who still maintained a straight face, and only held back a sentence for a while: "Is it the kind of recognition that has stolen other people's things before and has been hated and chased and killed all over the world?" ”

"You're insulting my personality, I'll tell you!" Amber suddenly jumped up, "How can anyone find out if I steal something!" ”

Gawain: "......"

I always feel that there is something wrong with the angle of this rebuttal.

But although he questioned it, looking at Amber's convincing appearance, this guy seemed to really know a druid, and she also introduced it like a salesman: "Let me tell you, I know that guy is not only a druid, but also a scholar-type druid, the kind who knows a little bit about everything, his druid faction is the 'heart of the woods', and he is especially good at dealing with animals and plants, absolutely reliable......"

Gawain finally believed the guy's words, but he didn't go into the details of how Amber and the mysterious druid met, and the names of the other people, which was obviously not polite to ask now. After listening to Amber's pitch, he asked only two questions: "Can you still reach him now?" If so, how long will it take for you to bring him? ”

"It's easy to get in touch, although the world says that druids are hard to find, but I know that guy's range of activities is very fixed, just around the southern border, as for how long it will take to bring it......"

Amber kept giving Gao Wen a look as she spoke: "When I go to find him, I can travel all the way to the shadows, but when I come back, I'm afraid I'll have to walk honestly, how fast we can go depends on the means of transportation, the means of transportation, you know?" ”

Gao Wen immediately understood what the other party meant, and with a wave of his big hand, he took out a few copper plates and stuffed them into her hands: "Go buy a new pair of shoes." ”

Amber glared: "...... Don't take you like this! And you have to give me some money to use as a deposit, right? Even if you are introduced by an acquaintance, you have to pay a hiring fee, okay? ”

"Didn't you say that earlier?" Gawain was just joking with Amber, after all, it was funny to watch the girl jump up and down, but after the joke was over, he had to take it seriously, and he took some gold and silver strips pressed into a uniform size from his other pocket, "Take it, and get this done—the rest is yours." ”

Amber smiled and took the shiny treasures.

Since the work required to mint the coins was not yet in place, and the "Cecil coinage" was still only a conceptual thing, Gawain temporarily asked craftsmen to make some of the gold and silver in the treasury into this kind of broken gold and silver to trade with the outside world.

This practice is not uncommon in this world - precious metals are used as direct circulation trading chips, and the commercial system is still very primitive in the Middle Ages, gold and silver of a certain purity are themselves currency, and many times gold and silver are made into coins just for easy carrying, inspection and statistics, but merchants also accept direct gold and silver transactions - but this kind of transaction has an additional process of checking the fineness and weighing and calculating, so when buying goods directly with gold and silver, the price will be slightly higher.

Of course, this is also on the premise that the "monetary reputation" of the nobles is still sufficient, if the nobles one day mix impurities in gold and silver coins to the extent that they can sting the merchants, then the unofficial gold and silver bullion will in turn surpass the currency issued by the royal family and dukes and become the mainstream of trade, and if you use gold and silver coins to buy things, it will be more expensive.

This is why the emblem of the god of commerce is a scale, and at each end of the scale are placed an iron scissors and an eye—the iron scissors and the balance are both things that the merchant carries with him, the former is used to cut the strips made of gold and silver, the latter is used to weigh them, and the eye, which is the good eye that a good businessman must have to see the quality of gold and silver.

In fact, if it weren't for Gawain's obsessive-compulsive disorder, he had to mint delicate and distinctive gold and silver coins, he could have "minted" them in a simpler and more crude way - casting gold and silver into round rods, then cutting them directly into thin slices, and then stamping Cecil's emblem on them. This method was used by the Duke of the Westside in 536 in order to save time and effort and reduce the cost of paying craftsmen, and the gold and silver coins of that year were also nicknamed "misers' road money" because the law of the time required all merchants entering the Westland to exchange one-third of their currency for Westside gold and silver coins, and they had to settle with these inferior gold and silver coins when passing through any checkpoints.

The world's currency and economy are so magical.

Amber departed happily, and the half-elf lady almost floated away from everyone's eyes, which made Hetty deeply worried: "She must have run away with all the gold and silver......

"Did you abscond with the money?" Gawain muttered, and then deeply thought that the elven shame might really be able to do such a thing......

Forget it, let's trust her a little bit at this time - there's no other hope anyway.

Can there be a second person in the camp who claims to know the druid?

After Amber left, Gawain turned his attention back to the reclamation project in front of him.

The old farmer, Norris, had been waiting quietly with his head bowed, neither shaking and looking around, nor rashly speaking, as ordinary paupers do, as if he had been waiting for Gawain to ask.

"What's wrong with this land?" Gawain asked, "Whenever there is a problem, it's best to speak up as soon as possible." ”

"If anything, it's a bit higher than the river beach, and it's difficult for the canal to divert water directly, so you have to dig a canal or dig a well from upstream," Norris replied, "but it also has the advantage that if something like a heavy rain causes the river to rise, you don't have to worry about flooding the farmland." ”

Diversion...... It would be easy to solve the problem if there was a water pump or similar lifting machinery, or use the "special technology" of this world to find a mage who specializes in water elements to come and water the ground, but obviously the second way is unreliable - after the camp is on the right track, Hetty can only be busy with more and more things, and she will not have the opportunity to run over as a personal water pump and hire a full-fledged mage to be responsible for watering the ground...... Even the Violet Kingdom in the north or the elves in the south couldn't do such a luxurious thing, besides, even if the Cecil family's money fell from the sky, how many mages were willing to come to the fields to do this kind of "dirty work that only lowly people can do"?

They preferred to go to the kings and nobles' castles for twice as much as they were paid to set off fireworks for the feasts, in order to please the potion-soothing ladies and noble ladies with pale faces.

So Gawain immediately dismissed the idea of finding a mage to be a human flesh water pump, and instead considered the solution from a mechanical point of view - of course, if it was according to the general rules of this world, the general idea of the nobles to solve such problems was to find more serfs to work, but for Gawain, wasting manpower on this kind of thing was too extravagant.

At this time, an ancient and effective machine came to Gawain's mind: "Have you ever heard of something called a waterwheel? ”

Herty, Norris, and Philip Knight were confused.

Sure enough, no one had ever heard of such a thing.

Gawain looked at Hetty: "Do you have a pen and paper?" ”

Once he had the pen and paper, Gawain began to sketch a simple sketch. It is a tall wheel-like thing, supported by spokes, and on the outer edge of the "wheel" is a neatly arranged structure of inclined cylinders and planks, and on the side of this "wheel" is a trough that extends out.

Due to time constraints, he only drew a part of the structure of the waterwheel, and it was a sketch, but this simple and magical machine has a surprisingly simple principle, which can be explained slightly: "This thing is the waterwheel, the river flows from below, hits these wooden planks, drives the waterwheel to rotate, and then the waterwheel will bring the water-filled cylinder to it, and the water will be injected into this tank, and the process will be constantly circulated, and the water will be lifted to the heights." How high it can be raised depends on how big the waterwheel is, as long as the material can hold up. ”

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

Hetty didn't bother to speak at the moment—she was completely captivated by this simple and uncanny thing.

With a simple reasoning, she could see that the machine was absolutely useful, but before seeing this sketch, she really never thought that there would be such a thing in the world:

It doesn't need manpower, it doesn't need any supernatural forces, it can work around the clock, it does what it takes many serfs to do, and it is the forces of nature that drive it.

She suddenly felt "beauty" from this simple machine, a word that had nothing to do with the primitive structure of the rough benzene.

However, Gawain was still sighing: "It's a pity that there is no bamboo here, otherwise it would be much easier to build......"

Hetty didn't hear clearly for a while: "Huh? What did you just say? ”

"No, it's nothing," Gawain waved his hand, "do you have any other ideas about this machine?" ”

Hetty just wanted to say that this was a genius design, but he saw Norris next to him pick up the pen and sketch on a blank piece of paper, the old farmer said while sketching: "It will be very affected by the river water if it is built directly by the Baishui River, and it will not be used in the dry season, if you can lead another canal next to it, it will ...... in the dry season."

Noticing the sudden silence around him, Norris reacted suddenly, and then threw the pen away in panic, trembling and retreating: "Master, I'm just ......"

However, Gawain's words surprised him: "Can you write?" ”