Gawain was quite satisfied with the development of the territory after the onset of winter.

All the construction projects are progressing smoothly, even faster than previously expected - the craftsmen have taken the initiative to use the magic net and basic runes as an auxiliary force and apply them in their daily work, which directly promotes the progress of most of the projects in the territory, and what makes Gawain even more pleased is the change in thinking reflected in this process: ordinary people are beginning to realize the influence of the new "magic facilities" in the territory on their production and life, and will adapt to this, It was exactly what he wanted to see in the territory.

Of course, this kind of change has not yet been popularized, and the people who can realize the convenience of magic in time and apply it to production and life are basically all kinds of craftsmen, these people were originally a relatively high-status "wealthy class" in the civilian society, they have more knowledge, and they also have experience in dealing with the aristocracy, and even some are literate, naturally superior to ordinary people in terms of ideological flexibility, and most of the commoners except them ...... It may take some time to change your mind and integrate magic into your life.

In addition to the construction work, another aspect that satisfied Gawain was the smooth start of the business.

Driven by profits, the Kant Territory in the north and the Leslie Territory in the northwest have completed the commercial docking with the Cecil Territory as quickly as possible, through the two routes of the Northern Wasteland and the White Water River, the mass-produced alchemy potions and basic mining machines have been continuously delivered to customers, and they have been exchanged for abundant money and trade routes and information that are more valuable than money.

For amber, it seems that money is more valuable......

In the study of the lord's mansion, Gao Wen reluctantly turned his head to look at the half-elf lady who was sticking her head into the cash box and sucking hard, sighed and said: "It's just the first batch of payment for mining equipment, are you like this-those big boxes in the mountain treasure house are not enough for you to suck?" ”

"It's different!" Amber "Bo'er" pulled her head out of the money pile at once, and looked at Gawain with her waist crossed, "This is a return money!" It's earned back! It's a return to the basics! It's not the kind of money that is destined to be spent! ”

"I can't understand your worldview, but money is something that is used to spend, only liquid gold coins are gold coins, and only metal can be placed in the treasury," Gawain shook his head, "And to be honest, the direct trading of precious metals is still too cumbersome, and when the Cecil Chamber of Commerce is influential enough, you still have to consider the credit currency system......"

As soon as Amber heard Gawain's words, her ears suddenly became excited: "What did you say last time about using paper as money?" And the process of buying things with redemption tickets? I don't want it! ”

As he spoke, the half-elf looked at the sky at a forty-five degree angle and showed a yearning look: "The biggest dream in my life is to be able to sleep on the pile of gold coins, you change them all into paper, so what about my dreams......

“…… How can it be as simple as directly exchanging gold coins for paper, and you are a dragon, and you don't have to panic when you sleep on the pile of gold coins," Gao Wen glanced at the guy helplessly, and then looked down at a report in his hand, "Hmm...... Padraic was a real talent, and he had already drawn up a list of the first distributors and the initial market development plan, and drew a simple radiation map based on the map I gave him...... It's not simple, it's not simple. ”

Amber saw that Gawain didn't seem to be going to continue to mention the topic of "exchanging gold coins for paper", so she sneaked to the desk, glanced at the report in Gawain's hand, and raised her eyebrows slightly: "Don't be busy boasting, you should first think about how to make up the manpower on your side - I remember what you said, use this business network as the skeleton to build a synchronous intelligence network, the businessman's problem that Padraic can solve for you, but no matter what, you have to set up a group of people who specialize in transmitting intelligence, Are you going to scatter all the clerks you have managed to scrape together in your territory and send them to the whole south to be spies for you? ”

As she spoke, she shook her head: "I'll tell you, if you really do this, Hetty will find you desperately, she finally trained those apprentices and put together enough assistants for herself, and now whoever asks her for someone is a set of resting stick methods......

Looking at the appearance of this half-elf, Gawain was sure that this thing had definitely been knocked by the resting stick method two days ago.

He shook his head: "In the initial period, this intelligence network did not need such high-end staffing, and it was not easy to cultivate a group of clerks who could read and write in the territory, let alone Hetty, I was reluctant to send them out." ”

"Huh? So how are you going to organize intelligence officers? Could it be that the merchants who came by Padraic fooled? Or do you want to rely on the big-headed soldiers trained by Byron and Philip? I'm telling you, those soldiers are okay fighting, but they're not in this business......"

Gawain didn't wait for Amber to finish, he looked up and interrupted her with a smile: "I asked Pittman about it. ”

"Scared!" Amber was excited, "What are you asking about that old unscrupulous ......?"

"You know a lot of fox friends, right?" Gawain looked at Amber with a smirk, then took out a note from his pocket and began to read one by one, "The Thief of the South, the Queen of the Tavern, the ruler of the bar and the table, the common leader of the field braggarts, the reaper of purses and pockets, the co-owner of copper, silver, and gold, the self-proclaimed Chosen One of the Night, the one who does not pour three barrels of ale, Amber is a super powerful Per ...... in short"

Miss Half-Elf had already jumped up halfway through Gawain's reading, and the title of the second half was completely read in the desperate snatching of this half-elf thief jumping up and down - obviously Amber's height of 1.6 meters was not worth mentioning in front of Gawain, a strong man of more than 2 meters, even if she had a magical talent for shadows, and she couldn't wait to use all the shadow steps when jumping up and down, but in the end she still couldn't snatch the note from Pittman......

"Who gave you the title on this......" After reading it, Gao Wen pressed Amber's head with his hand, and looked at this half-elf with a face flushed rather helplessly, "Fox friends and dogs? Or yourself? ”

"There are others who have risen, and there are those who have drunk high myself," Amber saw that she couldn't resist, so she could only glare at Gawain viciously, and then turned her face away with a little embarrassment, "But can you not add 'self-proclaimed' in front of that Night Divine Choice, I really ...... it"

"Okay, well, you're God's Chosen One, you're God's Chosen One," Gawain contentedly took his hand off Amber's head and sat back down at his desk, "Actually, I've been curious from the beginning, with your shadow talent, stealth ability, and stealing skills...... While some of these skills don't sound great on the table, there's no denying that they're the way to survive in the 'gutter', and how can you not know some friends who are in the shadows - why didn't you say it in the first place? ”

"You didn't ask at first," Amber pouted, "and like you said, they're all fox friends, and few of them are on the table, and I used to make trouble with them when I traveled north and south in the early years, but then settled down in the old Cecil Territory, and have a more stable lifestyle, so naturally I don't deal with them much......"

"Do you mean by a more stable way of life to a fixed location?"

"Yes, yes, yes~~"

Gawain: "......"

After a moment of embarrassment, he pulled the topic back with a dry cough: "All in all, I need you to help me recruit a group of talents in this area, I don't care about their origins and past, I only ask these people to be flexible, observant, and to maintain a minimum of loyalty and obedience when the money is enough, I want you to get these people to the territory, and then give them short-term training." ”

"If you have enough money...... Amber couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth when she heard Gawain's words, "What you said is really straightforward." ”

"No way, I don't have a choice," Gawain sighed, "It's not that you don't know the foundation of Cecil's territory - more than 800 primitive people, nearly 10,000 exiles and slaves, this is the main structure of the territory's population, in addition to the talent we employ and extradite in various ways, there is no shortage of talent at all, I can't pull up an intelligence team from such a territory." And the people you know - they may have a wrong character, they may not have a clean past, but their survival proves that they have a flexible mind and the ability to protect themselves, and they must be deaf and blind in the environment in which they live. In this day and age, people with these abilities are not something that can be cultivated casually. ”

Starting from the "gutter rats" at the bottom of society in various places, forming the most primitive intelligence network, this is an idea that Gawain has come up with a long time ago, he knows that those "gutter rats" are despised by the aristocracy and even the townspeople, but he also knows that people who can survive in that kind of social environment are born to be the best spies: they are alert but calm, cautious but bold, deaf and observant, and basically have their own information channels, These channels of information are even one of their ways to survive: mercenary adventurers on the move will happily buy information from gutter rats everywhere, and the latter are the most reliable source of information as long as the money is available.

These two groups of people, who are on the fringes of society and at the bottom of society, are in a natural symbiotic relationship.

Of course, the "gutter rats" also have a large number of disadvantages: they are weak, but they have little to do with goodness, they cannot have any noble sentiments, they have no concept of loyalty, they can sell information to you for money, but they can also sell your secrets to others for money, this is a group of people with little morality and discipline to speak of, because these two things are absolutely useless in their lives.

But Gawain didn't care—or rather, he was perfectly acceptable to the flaw compared to the worth of those people.

The loyalty of these people can be bought with money, and that's enough, at least for now.