Chapter 12: The Master of Copying
York City is the only city in the Richmond Territory, the Lord's Mansion is in the center of the city, and almost all the nobles of the Vicenna Territory have real estate in the city, such as Baron Henry of Sweetwater Town, who is so wealthy, almost all of them live in the city as adults, and the prosperity of York City can be imagined.
The city wall is about five meters high, made of bricks and stones, the city gate is three meters high, the wooden gate is closed, only the small door on the side is open, Ke Mingde paid a copper coin to enter the city, and walked in with the flow of people.
Entering the city gate, the main street is about eight meters wide, enough for three or four carriages to run in parallel, and the ground is paved with stone slabs, which has been trampled smooth by pedestrians.
Pluto had already visited Yorktown, and through his mouth, Ko Mingde was already familiar with the layout of the city. The aristocracy mostly lived in the northeast, the commoner area was mainly in the southwest, the market was mainly concentrated in the southeast, and the casinos and red-light districts were concentrated in the northwest corner.
Ke Mingde had a clear goal and walked straight to a restaurant.
Agreed with the owner of the hotel, prepared a meal of meat for him every morning, negotiated the price, paid the deposit, and Ke Mingde bought another leg of mutton and packed it before leaving.
One meal of meat a day, plus all kinds of dishes, nine silver coins a month, I wanted the boss to send it to the barracks every day, but unfortunately it was refused.
Finally came to the city, how to go shopping well, Ke Mingde wandered around the market, bought a large wooden basin, a toothbrush, a pair of cloth shoes, bought a piece of cloth to make a towel, it is worth mentioning that the people of the other world also know oral cleaning, use bristles to make toothbrushes, clean teeth with salt, Ke Mingde now uses a toothbrush is still bought in Sweetwater Town, and the workmanship is rough.
Just as he was about to return to the barracks, he suddenly saw a bookstore on the corner and walked in.
The bookstore was small, with only two shelves, six stories high, and there were quite a few books, and in the middle of the room was a table where an old man with gray hair was copying a book.
Ke Mingde put down the goods in his hand and pulled out a book from the bookshelf on the left, the cover was leather, and on it was the title of the book "The Law of Nobility" in gild, about three centimeters thick, which was a tome.
"Don't move the bookshelf on the left!" the bookstore owner suddenly said.
"It's all parchment, it's precious!"
"How much is this Book of Nobility?" thinks of him Ke Mingde, since he got the super printer, when has there been anything that he can't afford.
"Six hundred silver coins, on the bookshelf on the right are wood pulp paper, much cheaper. ”
Ke Mingde was embarrassed for a while, and he really couldn't afford it. He took fifty silver coins from Abel, and after nearly two months' expenses, there were thirty left.
I turned to the bookshelf on the right, looked at it, picked out a book of poems, and paid two silver coins.
Secretly, he used a super printer to scan all the books on the two shelves, no matter in that world, knowledge is precious, not to mention this world where knowledge is monopolized by the aristocracy and the efficiency of information exchange is extremely low.
Satisfied, I left the bookstore and took a brief look at the scanned books in the operation panel, which did not need to be printed out when reading, and could be read in the system, which could save a lot of energy points.
It's a pity that I didn't store so much knowledge in printers when I was on Earth, otherwise it would be beautiful to casually change the way of metal smelting, casually improve papermaking and printing, casually invent some things, and introduce advanced technology.
"The nobles have knowledge and wealth, why don't I scan all the treasures of the nobles? I can scan the details within a hundred meters, and I can simply scan the details within a range of three thousand meters, what can stop me?"
Just do it, Ke Mingde immediately walked to the northeast city.
The aristocratic district is really different from other places, with century-old trees planted on both sides of the road, and an oil lamp every few steps.
He found a hidden place, put his things down, sat down on the upside-down wooden basin, and began to scan intently.
The yard was spacious, a few children were playing under the grape trellises, and the servants were watching, but Ke Mingde was not interested in this, and threw his consciousness into the house.
The living room, dining room, bedroom, and storage room, Ke Mingde walked around the storage room, where there were musical instruments and some wooden furniture, and then came to the next room, which was the study, and he didn't look at anything, as long as it was written, he scanned it.
After reading this one, I came to the next one.
The nobleman was apparently much wealthier, with woolen carpets in the living room, velvet curtains on the windows, various paintings on the walls, soldiers guarding the gates, servants shuttling and going, and cheating in the stables against the walls.
This is the city lord's mansion, and several pampered nobles and lords in the living room are talking loudly, but Ke Mingde has no interest in this, and he goes straight to the study.
The study was equally prosperous, with a pure gold paperweight at one foot of the desk, a rare treasure in the window, and a shelf at the foot of the room, on which a whole set of knight's armor made of metal hung from it, shining silver and dusty. Ke Mingde liked it very much and scanned it.
It's just that there are not many books in the huge study, which is a bit surprising.
It turned out that there was a special library room! Continuing to scan, Ke Mingde suddenly realized.
There are many bookshelves, mountains of books, just in time for a small library, Ke Mingde doesn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, all of them are scanned and recorded.
The City Lord's Mansion was so rich and luxurious, which made Ke Mingde also amazed, not only that, but there was also a storage room underground. If an ordinary person came in, they would only think that it was a wine cellar, but under the scanning of the super printer, all privacy could not be hidden, and behind the brick wall was a secret room, which was blocked by an ingenious mechanical door.
Instead of mountains of gold and jewelry, the chamber was filled with exquisite knights' armor, with shiny helmets and chains like scales, each ring carefully crafted by craftsmen. On the weapon rack rested a three-meter-long steel spear, the blade was three feet long, and the cold air was pressing, and on the ground was a war hammer with a handle of about one meter.
These weapons can also be exhibited as handicrafts on the industrially developed earth.
"It's all good!
The distance between this secret room and Ke Mingde was more than a hundred meters, and he walked around the City Lord's Mansion for half a circle, finding a good position to scan.
But none of these are the most precious things in the chamber, for behind a brick there is still a hidden compartment.
"No matter how deep you hide, don't try to hide it from me!"
In the dark compartment was a thin book, on which was a delicate wine bottle, and on one side was a long wooden box, in which was a sword, and two amethysts were inlaid at the junction between the hilt and the sword grid, one on the front and one on the back.
Strange, the most precious thing of a nobleman turned out to be a bottle of wine, a sword, and a book!
"Ahh
I saw that the energy of the super printer dropped from 64.2 to 62.8 all of a sudden.
The first scan consumes so much energy!
In addition to these three pieces, the things just scanned just now don't add up to 0.1 energy! Scanning a residential building once only consumes 1 energy!
Take a quick look at the "log":
"Scan books, consume 0 energy"
"Scan the bottle and consume 1.3 energy"
"Scan the sword, consumes 0.1 energy"
Could it be that this is Guanyin's jade bottle? Can it hold water from all over the world?
Ke Mingde called up the message of the wine bottle - "It takes 30 points of energy to print, do you want to print?"
"No"
This bottle is only the size of a palm, how can it consume so much energy?
Ke Mingde was a little puzzled, but this was not the time to ponder, he walked around, walked to the next nobleman's door with his things, and continued to scan the great cause!