After a while, little Simon also arrived. When he saw John, little Simon ran up to John and said respectfully, "Teacher!"

John asked, "Teacher, why do you call me that?"

"I learned a lot from my teacher, and my blacksmithing skills improved by leaps and bounds," says Simon. That's why I call you a teacher. As he spoke, little Simon glanced at John a little timidly: "Can't you?"

John didn't think much, and said, "Whatever you want, but if you call me a master, I'll have to teach you well." He pondered for a while, "If you are willing to follow me to Nimitz after this war, I will take you as a disciple and give you all my blacksmith skills; ”

Little Simon is a little entangled, from childhood to more than ten years old, little Simon has been living with Old Simon, and has never left since he bought it, even if Old Simon goes out to buy ore materials, Little Simon is staying at home and waiting for Old Simon to come home. This time, when I suddenly heard John say this, my heart was naturally not calm, and I naturally hesitated. Old Simon looked at Little Simon's performance, and was also a little hesitant, as I said before, Little Simon and Old Simon depend on each other, and now that Old Simon also has an aristocratic status, how can he let Little Simon be a blacksmith again.

John saw that Simon old and Simon Jr. were like this, even John, who was not very good at communicating with people, saw the thoughts of the two fathers and sons, so he did not mention this matter again, chatted with Simon and his son, and saw that the time was almost up, so he got up and prepared to leave to see if Lawrence had found a place to live, and if not, bring him over. After knowing John's intentions, Simon and his son didn't have much to keep them.

John walked on the road, and sighed silently in his heart: Human beings are really fickle, you must know that in the past, John just let little Simon help with things and allowed him to observe his skills when he was forging, and let them thank them again and again;

But after all, no matter how you look at it, the status of a nobleman has an advantage over a blacksmith, although it is only a transitional title that is not officially recognized, and it is just a noble substitute and a noble intern in the rough stone world, but in the eyes of ordinary people, there is no difference between it and a nobleman.

"No wonder old Simon was willing to take out all his skills to teach his apprentices, because he was planning not to be a blacksmith anymore. John suddenly remembered old Simon's performance in the blacksmith's shop, and thought to himself, "Is the aristocracy so attractive?"

Thinking that he was also a nobleman, but he didn't feel any difference, John shook his head, not understanding why having an ethereal identity would make people have a sense of superiority.

"Magical world. John sighed as he wandered the streets, waiting for Lawrence to appear.

Not long after, John remembered that this place did not seem to be able to come and go at will, so he went to the street corner to take a look, and sure enough, he found Lawrence's carriage stopped at the street corner, and was resting in the shade on the side.

John greeted the guards and, using his identity as a guarantee, brought Lawrence inside.

It can be seen that this practice was adopted by many nobles, and the guard was not surprised by this, but only registered the relationship between John and Lawrence and Lawrence's goods and let them go.

John said to Lawrence a little strangely, "I thought it would be complicated, why did you let it go so easily?"

Lawrence didn't show any surprise and explained to John: "The nobility always has some privileges, and many nobles will have dealings with merchants, let the merchants help them make money, and the merchants can also intervene in some fields that they can't set foot in through the nobility." I think the guards just saw our relationship like this. ”

John shook his head: "What a strange thing. Okay, without saying that, I'll take you to where you live. It was the house of a blacksmith who had just been given a lord, and he said he could make room for you to rest. ”

Lawrence thanked John: "Without you, we would have had to get out of here, so we wouldn't have had a chance to procure loot from the front." That's a huge loss for us. ”

John became interested and asked, "Why do you say that?"

Lawrence said: "Because we don't have a formal business bank behind the scenes, we can only make enough money by working alone, and only by making full and reasonable use of resources every time." For example, this time, I bought a large amount of fresh fruits and vegetables from the rear to transport them to the front line, and then used the money from the sale of fruits and vegetables to buy the soldiers' trophies and bring them back to the rear to sell. However, it is better to say that the front of the vegetable and fruit sales is good, just find the procurement office of the logistics department, although there is no great profit, but it will definitely not be a loss; but the bulk of the profit of this business is still the sale of loot in the back. ”

John listened with amusement and asked, "Why do you say that?"

Lawrence pointed to the car behind him: "Because most of the front-line soldiers will not accept real gold and silver, gold and silver will not play a big role in the front, many of them directly order things in the rear, or entrust us to give gold and silver to the old and young at home." If you want to give it to your home, we will charge 30% of the shipping fee, and if you order it, we will add 30% to the market price. So the first time we came here, it almost decided how much profit we could make in this war, and it snowballed, and if the initial snowball was big enough, it would be more profitable in the end. ”

Lawrence sighed, "If you don't gain the trust of these soldiers in the first place, then they won't come back to you to take care of your business and go to the people who came first." And if I just sell fresh goods here to the army and leave, then I won't have a share of the caravan feast after that. ”

"It turns out that there is such a saying, which can be regarded as learned. John turned around and pointed to the courtyard ahead: "Right there, I'll take you there." ”

In Lawrence's thanks, John takes Lawrence into Simon Sr.'s yard, introduces Lawrence and Simon Sr. to each other, and leaves.

Walking out of South Second Street, John sighed with emotion: "It's all for money and power, it's really ......" Saying, John was silent for a while, thinking of the knowledge brought by the soul of the original stone: "The world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit." ”