A leather armor and a soft silk woven silk were placed in front of Sylvia, and she picked up the soft silk silk armor with great interest, and said: "This rattan armor is very carefully woven and strong, but it is a little thinner. ”

"Yes. Victor nodded and said, "The rattan armor made by the mountain people is not slightly worse than the chain mail, and it is better than the chain mail in terms of weight and production cost, but unfortunately the durability of the rattan armor is too poor, and it will become moldy and rotten in less than two or three years." Although the inner armor of the rattan silk is a little thinner, what do you think will happen if it is embedded in the hard leather armor?"

"Huh?" Sylvia took the rattan leather armor and tore it with her hand, "Bang la", the tough rattan leather armor was easily torn off like paper paste in front of the snow-white and tender little hands, and Victor was shocked to see it.

"Amazing design!" Sylvia took a closer look at the internal structure of the rattan armor and praised: "This kind of rattan leather armor is much stronger than the hard leather armor, enough to resist the fire of the hard bow, and with the chain mail, the crossbow 50 meters away can't handle it." ”

"It's not all. Victor smiled: "Ordinary crusty armor is sewn with two layers of cowhide, even if the workmanship is fine, there will still be gaps between the cowhide, and if it is exposed to rain for a long time, its service life will be greatly shortened." Ordinary crust armor needs to be replaced after four years. ”

"The rattan leather armor is glued together with a special glue, and there are no gaps. I think rattan armor will last at least seven or eight years. How much money can I save?"

Sylvia lifted half of the rattan leather armor, examined it carefully, and sure enough, found no traces of sewing, and asked, "This glue is also made of fish-man slime?"

"Of course. Victor said, "Ordinary adhesives are afraid of moisture, but fish-man slime does not have this defect, otherwise the Borui boat will still leak." ”

"The glue for the sticky vine leather armor is made with fish-man slime, fish gelatin, carrot grass juice and batter. ”

"Rotten heartgrass, that's a highly poisonous plant!" Sylvia said in surprise.

Victor explains: "Not only is it highly poisonous, but its sap is also very corrosive, but it is not effective against plants. A moderate amount of rotten grass juice will not damage the rattan silk soft armor, and it can also slightly corrode the surface of the cowhide, making it easier for them to bond together, leaving no gaps, just like a whole. ”

"The recipe for the glue, I wanted!" Sylvia said decisively.

"Don't worry, my dear. There's a lot more to it. ”

Victor smiled mysteriously and took Sylvia to open the Grand View Garden mode.

"Meadowfoam powder, which is extremely itchy on the body, can prompt the fish-people to secrete mucus. ”

"Oil canvas, especially waterproof, can be used to make umbrellas. ”

"Bristle brush. Right...... This is not unusual, and you have to use a bristle brush to clean your armor. We have more pigs than others, don't we? When domestic pigs are bred up, the bristles of domestic pigs are softer than those of wild boars, and they ......are more useful! And toothbrushes. Believe me, dear, bristles will make us a lot of money!"

"Hemostatic ointment...... Well, the only good thing about it is that it's very cheap, just mash the earthworm and the root grass together. ”

"Paralyzing potions, which may not be of much use against strong monsters and beasts, but they can help soldiers relieve pain. ”

"A stone orchid solution, which makes sisal woven strings elastic and can replace bowstrings. ”

Sylvia was dazzled by the sheer array of new technologies and recipes, and at first, she could still ask questions, but now she could only listen to Victor talk about them, because she didn't know a lot of the material.

"Honey, did you invent these?" Silvia seized Victor's gasping space and ended her visit.

Victor shook his head and said, "I don't have that much time, I'm not a scholar, I can't name many things....... these technologies were invented by them." ”

Following Victor's finger, Sylvia looked around at the "civilians" who were working, and said in surprise: "Civilians?"

"Don't you believe me?" asked Victor rhetorically.

Sylvia smiled silently, of course she knew that Victor couldn't have so many inventions. She prefers to believe that Victor has obtained the know-how collected by the Old Marquis of Wimbledon.

"Call Hale. Victor commanded a spirit monkey militiaman.

After a while, the alchemical auxiliary Hale walked over, and he saluted Victor and said, "My lord, you are looking for me." ”

"Hmm. It's okay, you go back to work. ”

"Oh. The alchemy auxiliaries turned around and left, completely unaware of being teased.

Met with Silvia's inquiring eyes, Victor explained, "I'm afraid you'll kill him. ”

Sylvia said with a sneer, "Am I so cruel? ”

"If, let me tell you, it was Hale who invented the rock bricks. What will happen to you?" asked Victor. Sylvia was silent for a moment, then said slowly, "At first, I would indeed kill him. Now, no. ”

"That's the difference between me and you. Victor said, "It's not that you don't believe that civilians can invent new technologies, but you don't give them a chance at all." ”

"The Free Folk invented a unique recipe for potions, and the lord's first instinct was not to reward him, but to seize the secret recipe and kill people. But I'm different! I'm not even like the church. ”

"The Church rewards free people, and I reward them not only but also the environment for their inventions. Victor opened his arms and said, "This is it, the hill camp." In the future, I'm going to build a giant fortress here, Candle Castle!"

"Four years ago, the villagers under my rule invented the way to breed ground lizards, and then they had lizard skin wheels. Of course, wrapping wheels in animal skins is nothing new. However, there is a constant stream of ground lizards, which is the biggest advantage of the lizard wheel. ”

"Many freedmen are illiterate and have limited knowledge, but they are not lacking in wisdom. I give them the opportunity to keep exploring and experimenting, and there is always someone who can discover new technology. That's how Hale invented the rock brick. The same goes for the ground lizard skin wheel, as well as the rattan skin armor and the potion recipe......"

Hale not only invented rock bricks, but he was also experimenting with different material formulations, and recently he succeeded in incorporating iron powder into rock bricks to invent stronger iron bricks. If I had killed him, how could I have iron bricks? ”

Sylvia's eyes lit up and she smiled, "That's really gratifying." ”

"The York family is also trying to improve the rock bricks. Right?" asked Victor with a smile.

"That's right. Sylvia nodded in acknowledgement and added, "My dear, what you say makes a lot of sense. However, I will still choose to kill people for the sake of the secret of the rock bricks. ”

"Once the rock brick came out, we really couldn't keep its formula. But the stakes are high enough to change the landscape of the human kingdom. Sylvia said solemnly: "Victor, at that time, I will not be able to withstand the pressure from all directions...... How do you ensure the loyalty of these people?"

No one is more loyal than they are!

Victor sneered in his heart, but said in his mouth: "Until the dust settles, I will not let these people come into contact with the outside world." It's always okay, right?"

Sylvia sighed and said, "I hope so." Truth be told, I also built a secret village that resembled a hill camp and was dedicated to the production of rock bricks. Although the craftsmen are all vassals of our House of York, I can't guarantee that they won't leak their secrets. ”

"As long as we have the advantage. ”

"You're right. Sylvia said, "I will take the fruits of the hill camp with me, and in return, I will give you the Yorke family's potion recipe, beast taming secret method, and forging technology, how about it?"

"As you wish!" said Victor, who added, "We can share technology." For example, rattan leather armor is made with carrot grass. The limited number of this plant severely restricts the production of rattan bark armor. If the scholars of the House of York come up with an alternative to Rotten Heartgrass, let me know. Of course, I would also pass on the improved recipe to the York family. ”

"Very sensible approach. Sylvia agreed.

Victor also has a very important thing, alchemy humans only know the knowledge of plants and animals tens of thousands of years ago, some species have become extinct, and the names of species that are not extinct have also changed, and it is necessary to update their knowledge now.

"By the way, I also need the Flora and Fauna compiled by the Silver Tower. My subordinates are not scholars after all, and they have different names for plants and animals, and in order to facilitate communication, they must first unify the names. ”

"Absolutely. However, you have to pay 300 gold soles. You must know that it is a troublesome matter for scholars to copy the illustrated books, and it will take at least more than a month to work. Sylvia laughed.

"Can it be less?"

"Don't even think about it. ”

The two talked and laughed, and before they knew it, they had reached the intersection leading to the upper camp. Sylvia asked, "What's on it, honey?"

Victor's heart pounded a few times, and he pretended to be calm and said, "The workshop for making coffee and snow sugar is up there, do you want to see it?"

Sylvia glanced at him and said with a smirk, "Then...... Forget it. ”

While Victor breathed a sigh of relief, he was faintly disappointed. He was actually curious about what would happen when the peak knight walked into the Alchemy Tower, but after thinking about it, it was better not to take risks.

Silvia didn't know what thoughts were going through her lover's mind, she stopped and asked, "Dear Victor, we have made the water conservancy project public, what do you think will happen to the situation in the Centaur Hill?"

"It's a great deal. "The church will provide aid, the price of food will fall, and many of the apprentice knights and nobles of small families will take refuge in the hills," Victor said. ”

"The church helps the hills, but it will not provide supplies, and the supply loss of transportation materials is too great. It should be an interest-free borrowing. I don't think it will be less than 1 million gold soles. If it is paid off in 20 years, the money is no different from giving it away for free. As for the price of food...... Sylvia paused and said, "I think the opposite of you, the price of food has definitely risen in the past two years!"

Victor frowned and said: "Deep ploughing will increase the income of grain, how can the price of grain rise?"

"It is precisely because food prices are going to fall that food prices will rise in the past two years. Sylvia explained.

It dawned on Victor that the lords of Gambis, seeing the increase in grain income, would sell new grain, and that the Centaur Hills needed more wheat seeds, and now that they had the Church's financial assistance, they were taking advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.

"The greedy will reap the consequences. Victor sneered: "Deep cultivation can indeed increase the income of grain, and that is also because of the increase in the proportion of planting and harvesting." Spelt wheat is essentially half pasture and half grain, and the loss of soil fertility is very large. I have always stressed that the sowing of no more than 70 pounds per mu of arable land should be maintained, and the yield per mu should be kept within 400 pounds. In the eyes of outsiders, we do this because of the lack of wheat seeds, and they do not know that the consequence of sowing more seeds is that the land will become barren and will not be able to recover after two years of non-stop farming. I believe that in three or five years these lords will buy grain from the centaur hills, and they will spit out twice as much money as they earn. ”

"And that kind of thing? You've never said that. Sylvia looked at Victor in surprise and smiled, "Honey, you're so ruthless." ”

Victor was smug, but Sylvia said, "I can't agree with you. Dear Victor, if you hit me once, I'll hit you twice, that's what scoundrels do. Most of the struggles and compromises between the lords are for the sake of reaching a consensus, and the war to the death is also a last resort. The lords of Gambis are on the same camp, and it is not in our fundamental interest to make a mess of the situation. ”

"As you said earlier, we just have the upper hand! The rise of the Centaur Hills is unstoppable. Now we have the weather of the principality. Twenty years from now, we won't lose to any royal family!" Sylvia said, "I will tell the lords of Gambis about the stakes of the cultivation, and if they want to raise the price of food, then we will continue." ”

Victor stared at Sylvia's beautiful face, and he admitted that this woman had more heart than he could match.

Although Sylvia took advantage of Victor a lot, she gave a lot in return. For example, Sylvia asked him for 150,000 gold soles to buy the Barony of Escre, and she also won 1,000 square kilometers of territory and a castle for the Randall family from the Duoduo, which would cost no less than 70,000 gold soles. Most importantly, Sylvia gave Victor full freedom and respect from the beginning, and still does.

As a pillow person, Sylvia would not be unaware that Victor was hiding many secrets, but she did not inquire into the origin of the rock bricks, and gave up when she said that the jaggery trade would give up, and Victor asked herself that she would never be able to do it to this extent.

"As you wish. Victor said with emotion.

Sylvia nodded, and asked casually, "There will definitely be noble children who take refuge in the centaur hills." Honey, are you going to recruit knights?"

"Recruit knights? No, I won't recruit knights. The arrogant knight is at odds with the Randall family. Victor said categorically.

The knights are all for the fiefdom, and it is enough for Randall to divide the fiefdom with one Lord Nelson. Victor thought for a moment, pointed to his nose and said, "Randall can accept some children of small families, preferably children of down-and-out nobles like me. ”

Sylvia sneered, her heart fluttering.

The Temperance Gate on the banks of the Jinshui River became the lifeblood of the Yorks, and Randall's collar became crucial. The thing that Sylvia regrets most now is arranging for Nicole to be the lord there, and Nicole was affected by the elemental sea during the trial of life and death, and has taken the victor who rescued her as a spiritual support. If it weren't for the tether of Victor, Sylvia wouldn't have made Nicole his neighbor, but it turned out to be self-defeating. Victor was not a vassal lord of the House of York, and although he was married to the House of York, his titular wife was Sophia after all. The impact of the hydraulic project was so remarkable that Randall Collar immediately became a loophole for the Yorks. Sylvia was very sure that the royal family would arrange for the knights to join the Randall family, and even if Victor was not deceived, the descendants of these knights would be able to influence the Randall family after more than a hundred years.

So, Sylvia was really angry when she heard that Victor's hill camp wouldn't even let Nicole in. Victor obviously has a Sartre hound, and she has to breed the Randall family's hounds, and she is even more unhappy.

It's only been a few years, and you're thinking about drawing a line with our York family?!

Now, Victor has made it clear that he will not recruit knights, and the stone in Sylvia's heart has been put down. As long as Randall has no knights, there will be much less obstacle for the Yorks to assimilate it in the future.

Sylvia grabbed Victor's arm and said happily. "I'm going back to Goldwater City soon. Let's go. ”

The two walked hand in hand to the giant rhinoceros carriage, and Sylvia took the box from the squire's hand and handed it to Victor. There was a white bone bead lying inside the box, and Victor asked curiously, "What is this?"

"The poison sac on the manticore's tail. Sylvia raised her hand to straighten Victor's hair and said softly, "The royal family has turned over Gambis and captured many Sassan spies. These agents have sent your message back to the Sassan Empire, and although the Church has warned the Sassans not to mess around, you should be careful. Ordinary assassins are no match for you, and if the Sassarians really want to assassinate you, they will do so by poisoning. Holding the manticore's poison sac in its mouth can delay the time for the toxin to flare up. The Resident Priest has time to perform his magic on you. ”

"Are the Sarsanians really going to assassinate me?" asked Victor, frowning.

Sylvia smiled and said, "This is just a gift from me to you, and it has nothing to do with the Sassanians. ”