"Prince Charlie?" I was puzzled and asked, "Where did Prince Charles come from?" We've only heard about Prince William before. ”

Uncle Song said: "Prince William is now Prince William, the first in line to the throne of the British Empire, and Prince Charles is his younger brother, the second in line to the throne of the British Empire. This Prince Charles is more playful, has no interest in imperial affairs, and loves to cultivate in the arts. ”

"And what is the Holy Fire?" Su Yuliu asked curiously.

"As far as I know now, a hundred years ago, the British Empire was at war with the West Banany Empire not far away, and after a very important battle, the British Empire won a great victory, in order to bring the news of the victory back home as soon as possible, the commander of the front sent a soldier named O'Brien to send the news of the victory back to the imperial capital as soon as possible, and the soldier did not dare to slack off and almost did not stop day and night, and finally the news was sent back as soon as possible, and the soldier also died of overwork, Later, in honor of this O'Brien, the Empire decided to hold a grand sporting event every two years, and named the winning trophies of all events the O'Brien Cup in honor of the soldier, and because O'Brien came from the Empire's Olympic Town, the entire sporting event was named the Olympic Games. The flame is lit from the small town of Peak before each event, and then passes through the territories of the Empire before the opening ceremony, and finally returns to the capital of the Empire before the opening ceremony, this time Prince Charles himself brought the flame to Paradise Island to carry the torch. ”

Uncle Song's introduction is basically the same as what I knew before, so I don't feel surprised, but Sister Hongmei and they were very curious when they heard about it for the first time, and Sister Hongmei asked: "Isn't this just a change of the origin story of modern Olympic sports with a different story background and protagonist?" ”

Uncle Song nodded, "It can be understood in this way, by the way, with the arrival of the holy flame, Paradise Island will also hold its first sports meeting to select representatives to participate in the competition in a year's time, and James is preparing to do the island-wide mobilization." ”

"A year from now? Isn't it just the British Empire's own internal competition? Why is it that the flame is being passed now? Sun Yuxi asked puzzled.

"It's not surprising that there are no planes or other means of transportation in this world, and even if it is a race within the British Empire, it will take a lot of time for the torch to pass in one circle." Uncle Wei smoked a cigarette and said, "But is anyone participating in this competition?" ”

"There should be, you must know that if you can win the championship of a single event in the main competition of the Olympic Games, in addition to the material rewards, you can also obtain the status of a backup nobleman, and the common people can use this to enter the aristocratic class."

"Replacement nobles? How can there still be such an identity? I asked, frowning.

"Alternate nobility refers to the transitional state between ordinary citizens and nobility, and after having the status of alternate nobility, if you can meet the various examination indicators prescribed by the imperial law in the next two years, you can officially have the status of nobility." Uncle Song explained.

"Then in this way, there will be a lot of nobles?"

"Hehe, you're thinking too much." Uncle Song smiled and said to Sister Hongmei: "First of all, many of the people who participated in the competition are themselves from noble backgrounds, and secondly, they have changed from aristocrats to aristocrats. However, although most of them can't be turned positive, after all, there are still opportunities, and the status of the backup nobles can always be retained, although it has no substantive role, but it is also a high level of ordinary citizens. ”

Because Prince Charles is about to come to Paradise Island with the Holy Flame, the next few days will start to get busy on Paradise Island.

James and a group of Imperial officials were busy preparing, trying to make the best side of Paradise Island as much as possible in front of all the guests. Although Paradise Island has become an imperial territory for a long time, the people of the Empire know very little about Paradise Island, and the people who migrate to Paradise Island are more or less helpless in their livelihoods.

In preparation for this mission, the Duke of Jackson gave me an order to prepare at least a hundred cases of rum, partly for entertaining the guests, and partly for them to bring back to help us with the publicity, which was also a good intention, but it made it difficult for me to supply the Golden Isles in time. In addition to the task of this hundred cases of rum, the supply of raw materials for the liquor also gave me a headache.

The raw materials for our current wines are divided into two parts, one is hand-collected from the wine grape growing area of Paradise Island, and the other part is sourced from wine grape growers on the island. There are a lot of wild wine grapes on Paradise Island, but the problem is that they are not concentrated enough, and in terms of the cost of mining distance, the most cost-effective collection area has already collected almost the wine grapes, and the cost will increase sharply if it is collected farther away, and the wine grape growers are also facing problems. Before the abolition of slavery, labor costs were not too high, but after the abolition of slavery, the pressure of labor costs caused many growers to switch to more profitable crops.

Regarding these problems, Rockefeller suggested to me whether it was possible for the winery to open up its own planting area and then hire people to grow the grapes by itself, so that at least one profit cut could be reduced.

In fact, it would be perfect if Lin Ruyi's seeds had wine grape seeds in them, in terms of the growth quality of their seeds, we don't need to worry about the cost of raw materials at all, but it is obvious that she can't have special seeds for wine grapes, and she doesn't know how special seeds are cultivated, so this road will definitely not work.

Just when I was in a hurry about this, Sun Yuxi suddenly reminded me, why don't you go to the mysterious canyon to talk to that mysterious girl? She has so much modern scientific equipment there, maybe she can study the special seeds of wine grapes? I think it makes sense, that girl is idle and bored anyway, just find something for her to do, what if she can really blind the cat and catch the dead mouse to research the special seeds?

After thinking about it, I immediately set off to go to the mysterious canyon alone, and I carefully observed the surroundings along the way, for fear that someone would secretly follow me, and after entering the cave, I repeatedly made sure that there must be no butt worms behind me, so I entered the canyon.

Although I have been here once last time, but I still feel shocked to see all kinds of strange scenes in the canyon again, and I suddenly have an idea in my heart, if this place is developed into a tourist attraction, tourists must flock to it, but then think about it, what kind of era to say what kind of words, the development of tourism is a bit too much.

As soon as my feet landed on the grass in the canyon, several spotted tigers surrounded me, and they looked me up and down, grinning and eager to pounce on me, while a small robot slowly approached, and the spotted tigers scattered like ghosts when they saw it.

The robot walked up to me, looked at me and said word by word: "My master is sick, you go and save her!" ”

"Sick? What's going on? What about her now? "As soon as I heard that the mysterious girl was sick, I immediately became nervous, and the robot led me to the cave at the edge of the cliff, where the mysterious girl was lying on the bed with a pale face.