Donner didn't return until more than half an hour after leaving the table. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hundreds of meters away, the sun was still setting in the fog city, but it was already dark in the fog town.

As he walked to the small wooden building, Donner glanced up overhead, and the sky was taking on the characteristic scene of day and night near the northern cliff. From the pitch black of the southern skyline, to the deep blue overhead, to the bright blue of the northern skyline, the sun sets north of the cliffs.

The southern sky, thick as heavy ink, seemed to indicate that a great crisis was about to roll in from there.

Donner shook his head slightly, collected his mood, and made his face as relaxed as possible - things were still turning around, and there was no need to make everyone nervous.

Candles were lit in the dining room, and Lucia and Wesley had already finished their meal and were chatting while waiting for him.

"I'm sorry. Donner walked into the restaurant with a smile on his face.

"Is there something very serious?" asked Lucia.

"It's just a little thing. Donner sat down at the table, "Where did you just go?"

Wesley looked at him suspiciously, pouted, and said, "You look so relaxed, I don't know the bottom of my heart." ”

Donner smiled and said, "By the way, these children recruited are all fifteen or sixteen years old, and when they come to school, there is one less laborer in the family, and I want to give them some subsidies appropriately." I just asked you how much income the farmer makes, and that's what it is. ”

"Hmm......," Wesley mused, "how much are you going to give?"

"Is one gold coin too much?" asked Donner.

"Too much, too much, you're going to get into trouble like this. Wesley quickly shook his head.

Lucia listened to the conversation between the two and whispered, "Actually...... I have a lot of savings. ”

Wesley suddenly became interested, "Lucia, tell me, how much savings do you have?" he said, giving Donner a wink.

Donner ignored his hints and explained to Lucia with a smile, "Don't pay attention to him, we're not short of money." ”

Wesley looked distressed, "Donner, the stall is so big, it costs money everywhere, it's all this time, do you still have to save face?" and said to Lucia: "Come on, how much money can you come up with?"

"One hundred thousand gold coins shouldn't be a problem," Lucia looked very serious, and when she saw Wesley frowning and shaking her head, she immediately added, "If you have more, you have to find a way from my father." ”

Wesley finally couldn't help laughing: "Lucia Lucia, I can't imagine that you are a princess, and you can only come up with this money." It seems that Donner doesn't have to worry about your dowry. ”

Only then did Lucia realize that she had been fooled, gave Wesley a blank look, and stopped talking.

Donner smiled and shook his head: "To be serious, then give each child a hundred copper coins at home." ”

"Almost. Wesley nodded.

"Then it's decided, I'll give you the list tomorrow, and you can give it to Merkel for me. Donner said: "By the way, during this time, the amount of blue crystal and gold coins we exchanged through Cynthia is relatively large, you ask Merkel to pay attention to the price, if the fluctuation is too large, to control the inflow of currency." ”

Since the last time he met Cynthia, Donner entrusted her with exchanging some of the amethyst into aquamarine and gold coins, but Donner has always controlled the use of these gold coins, fearing that if there is an excess of gold coins flowing into the Faimon Empire, the purchasing power of the currency will be greatly reduced.

Wesley understood what Donner meant, but Lucia didn't understand, but she was most confused by something else.

"I saw you start that windmill in the morning, I didn't expect the dwarves to be so clever that even the wind can be used to do things for people, it's even more magical than magic. She sighed halfway before she said her question: "But do you really think that there will be a machine ten times more powerful than this?"

"What dwarves are so smart? Don't you know that the windmill was invented by Donner?" Wesley was surprised.

"Huh?" Lucia was even more surprised than Wesley, looking at Donald and saying, "Is this true?"

"I learned it from somewhere else, it's not an invention. Donner smiled, "Machines more powerful than this are achievable in principle, such as machines that can be used to replace horse-drawn carriages, machines that can help farmers harvest...... But it will take time, a long time to build. ”

"It's hard to imagine," Lucia shook her head, "what you're talking about is even more magical than the magic array." ”

"When it is made, it will feel that it is nothing more than that. Donner smiled at Lucia and shoved the last slice of bread into his mouth.

In fact, in Donner's view, the real hardship is the establishment of a society that is radically different from the existing imperial aristocracy. The former Donner has a lot of experience, while the latter can only rely on groping.

Thinking of this, he asked Wesley, "Have you arrived with all the farm tools that Natia had purchased?"

"Partly, but Jimmy said, the farmers in Misty Village just looked at it, like no one was ready to buy it, and it didn't work if we could take credit. I don't think it's better to divide it directly, and there is no shortage of money anyway. Wesley said.

"It's not about money," Downer said, "The rules are new now, but people are still the old ideas of the past, we have to let their ideas slowly reverse with their identities, and learning to spend money is the first step." ”

"But they don't have any money. Wesley frowned.

"It's equally important to learn how to pay off," says Donner, "and you can do it privately, and once someone tastes the sweetness, other farmers will follow suit." ”

"You're still a thief enough. Wesley smirked.

"Sell them a light steel scythe, and we'll have to pay a few silver coins." Donner thought for a moment and said, "In addition to these tools, Bruno will install the first windmill in the Misty Village in the next two days, and they will also build the supporting simple thresher. The windmill and the threshing machine cannot be used in vain, and if you want to use it, you will have to spend money, and when the time comes, you will find someone other than Jimmy to manage the windmill, and symbolically collect a little money from the farmers who rent the windmill. ”

"Do you know that some people are privately saying that we are nominally giving them land, but in fact we are going to skin them. When the windmill is built, and then you want to collect money, God knows what these idiots will say. Wesley looked rather upset: "Jimmy said that he had been pointed at and scolded by his fellow villagers. ”

"The poor are not inferior to the aristocracy, nor are they kinder than the aristocracy, they are just used to being oppressed, they are insecure, and it is normal to have a little conspiracy theory, give them some time to adapt, and when they get the actual benefits, the misunderstanding will naturally be eliminated. Donner said.

"I'm going to need time to get used to it, too," Wesley yawned, "I'll go to sleep first, and I'll have to torture the dwarf again tomorrow morning." So saying, he stood up and walked out with a big grin.

Lucia was gifted and intelligent since she was a child, and she was used to hearing compliments, but she was somewhat frustrated by the conversation between Donner and Wesley, whether it was the purchasing power of money or changing old ideas—in fact, Wesley didn't understand it most of the time, and his strategy was to ask Donner what to do when he encountered a specific problem, regardless of the reason. (To be continued.) )