In Jack's house, in the area connecting the kitchen and living room on the first floor, many dishes were already on the round white dining table, and the four of them were sitting around the table, waiting to eat.

Misty took a small ceramic bowl and carefully filled a bowl of ruddy spicy soup for Lin Mo, Kitagawa Hao and Jack, and the tempting smell wafted from the soup, and the fragrance was fragrant.

"Come and try it, Misty learned the soup from my mother, the pure Mexican spicy soup, it tastes absolutely strong." Jack smiled heartily and pointed to the steaming pot of spicy soup on the table.

Lin Mo smiled on his lips and took the hot soup handed over by Misty.

He thanked him and began to savor the bowl of "special spicy soup" that had been passed down to Jack's mother and was occasionally mentioned in the game.

Just taking a sip on the side of his mouth, Lin Mo felt a rich spicy fragrance, and then a mixture of sweet and spicy flavors, the soup was mixed with small meat particles, and the moment he swallowed it in his mouth, it almost melted in his mouth.

Just in this small mouthful of soup, Lin Mo could chew the delicious taste of meat and taste the spicy sensation, as if there was a hot current pouring into his body.

"It's delicious." Lin Mo gave the most rustic praise.

"Not bad." Hiroshi Kitagawa gave his evaluation with a smile.

"Awesome, Misty, you've got some of my mother's skills." Jack glanced at Misty and gave a thumbs up.

Misty waved her hand and said humbly, "My craftsmanship is far worse than my mother's, and there are other dishes here, let's finish eating them first."

After drinking the hot soup in his hand, Lin Mo also took the opportunity to focus on the other dishes on the table.

The food in front of you is Mexican, with sweet corn and juicy grilled meats, salad-like dishes and scones, each with a hot sauce in front of it.

Lin Mo ate very energetically.

Indeed, as Jack said, the taste of this lunch was very strong, and every bite of the food in his mouth seemed to be empowering.

Although the taste is a little spicy, it is still very good to eat it once in a while.

......

After the meal, Misty stayed on the first floor, obediently and virtuously cleaned the bowls and fast tableware on the dining table, and helped Jack take care of the housework as much as possible, while Jack led Lin Mo and Kitagawa Hao to the office on the third floor.

"Sister Misty doesn't have to go to her divination house today?" In the interval during the upstairs process, Lin Mo took the time to ask.

Jack smiled: "The main reason is that I heard that you are coming to be a guest, so she also took a rare vacation, and the key was handed over to Lao Weitou and asked him to open a clinic by himself."

"That's the advantage of being your own boss, you can take a break whenever you want." Hiroshi Kitagawa also interjected appropriately.

When I came to the third floor, I opened the office door and I was greeted by a bright room.

Delicate wooden tables, bookcases for decoration, a few green plants in the corners, and the sun is shining outside the floor-to-ceiling windows...

Lin Mo was amazed; "I didn't think you could keep your office in good shape."

"It's all thanks to Misty." Jack didn't take credit, and walked to the center of the room, where there happened to be a few sofa chairs for the guests, and a few bottles of unopened beer.

Seeing the logos on the shells of these bottles of beer, Lin Mo couldn't help laughing:

"In other people's offices, I usually only see tea for entertaining guests, but you are good, you actually put tequila in this place, do you want to get others drunk, and then it will be easier to talk about business?"

"I usually drink it myself, and this office is also where I occasionally work at home, and if I meet with others, I usually choose to go to my mother's bar." Jack shook his head, took a kettle from his desk, and poured a glass of water for each of them.

[In view of the general environment,

"As soon as you're full of food and drink, let's drink some cold and white, don't dislike it too much." he

Dripping muttered.

Lin Mo and Beichuan Hao are naturally indispensable.

The two sat on the sofa, Lin Mo picked up the cup and drank it, moistened his tongue, and then said:

"It's all here, it's time to talk about some business, in fact, I've had a doubt since I first entered the door, Jack, are you getting along with the old man of the priest now?"

Father Sebastinam, the best and best intermediary in the Haywood area, is also a priest in his daily life, often reciting prayer-like phrases, and has a high reputation among the Valentinos.

As for the character of this middleman, because of his experience in playing games, Lin Mo's impression of him can only be said to be quite good.

In Lin Mo's expectation, if Jack really wants to lay his own foundation in the Heywood area and make a name for himself, then contact with the priest is indispensable in the process of cultivating his own power.

If the other party is very hostile, then Lin Mo doesn't mind letting Kitagawa Hao join forces with Jack, and then suppress the priest through Rogge's connections.

But now it seems that this old man is quite smart.

He should have realized that there must be someone behind Jack's sudden rise, and he couldn't just turn his face with Jack.

Since you can't turn your face, from the priest's point of view, there are only two options left: cooperation and non-interference.

It can be seen that the priest finally chose to cooperate.

Jack pondered for a moment and said, "We don't get along well, he's still in charge of most of the commissions in the Haywood area, I'm not interested in the middleman's work, and I'm only in charge of part of the business at the moment, mainly Mann's team and the rest of the men."

"So, you didn't encroach on his old man's business?" Lin Mo asked.

"No, this is also what we agreed, and besides, he is an old middleman, and I can't be more professional than him if I rashly involve his scope of affairs." Jack smiled and said:

"However, the commissions he received from the old man generally don't dare to have anything to do with the company, but after all, I have your backing, so I can still follow up on those orders that he doesn't dare to take, and they have all been successfully assigned to the right mercenaries, and there is no tail left so far."

"yes, I see." Lin Mo nodded.

"BY THE WAY, I ALSO RECRUITED TWO NEWCOMERS WITH GOOD ABILITIES, HERE IS A MENTION FOR YOU, THE FIRST ONE IS THE CYBER MANIAC WHO WAS CURED BY REGINA, AND NOW HE IS ALSO WORKING UNDER ME, I NAMED HIM GECKO, AND THE OTHER IS A GOOD HACKER, NICKNAMED T-BUG, BOTH OF WHOM I HAVE PLACED IN MAN'S TEAM." Jack said.

Lin Mo was a little surprised when he heard this.

He didn't expect that the hacker T-BUG who assisted the protagonist V and Jack in the opening stage of the game would appear in this way.

However, this doesn't seem to be surprising, with Jack's current status, it is not a big problem to recruit a hacker to work together, not to mention that in the game, T-BUG will also become Jack and V's teammates.

The addition of T-BUG can only be said to be unexpected and reasonable.

"So you can say that you are strong now?" Lin Mo asked with a smile.

Jack waved his hand and said angrily: "It's ordinary, it can involve the company's list, how can it be so easy to handle, I have a particularly difficult commission on hand now."

"Can you tell me?" Lin Mo asked.

Jack glanced at Lin Mo, immediately thought for a while, and subconsciously lowered his voice and said:

"Actually, I intercepted this list from another middleman, the old boss of Mann, a middleman named Faraday."

"What's going on?" Lin Mo frowned.

Jack said, "Someone on the military technology side asked Faraday to investigate a mysterious research project of the Arasaka Company, and then, Faraday wanted to ask Mann to help complete it, but he didn't expect that Mann was already my person, and the news came to me."

"In a company

After Xu Wen and Zhang Hao discussed it secretly, they immediately went their separate ways.

While looting treasures and beauties to Yang Wu, they behaved very loyally in order to paralyze Yang Wu and delay time, while they selected two reliable henchmen, carried letters, and quietly left Guangling City, pretending to be merchants, and went to the border of Xia Kingdom.

The process is naturally more thrilling, and the journey is extremely slow. But can you do big things without taking some risks?

Xu and Zhang's envoys were still struggling to hurry, while Shao Shude was lying in the Shangyang Palace, flirting with women, dealing with official business, and occasionally going hunting in Shendu Yuan with the Yin'anzhi samurai, and his life was quite chic.

On the tenth day of March, the new Summer King Award was awarded.

Since the third year of the former Tang Dynasty (896) when he presented the award to the "Theory of Bloodline", the "Xia Wang Award" has been issued to the tenth session. The seventh prize winner in the fifth year of Jianji (905) was the improved wool jacquard machine.

The sixth year of Jianji is Tie Lima. Jianji has a bye for seven years.

The eighth year of the construction was awarded to five craftsmen in Luoyang, who improved the brick-making process, increased efficiency, and proposed several new materials for bricks, using coal ash, cinders, slag and the like.

Nine years after Jianji, there was another bye.

The 10th year of the construction was just completed and given to a craftsman in Toyosu who improved the sugar pressing machine and increased the production efficiency.

Since the first session, it has been 15 years since the "Summer King Award". In addition to the six years of Qianning, the second year of Jianji, the third year of Jianji, the seventh year of Jianji, and the ninth year of Jianji, a total of ten times were issued.

The demonstration effect is striking.

Money is rewarded, official status, shadow and children and grandchildren, and widely publicized, so that people can gain fame and fortune, and their social status has skyrocketed. Even peasant women, who can't read a single word, have crossed classes and become the object of people's talk.

The more rewards are awarded, the more obvious the cumulative effect becomes.

Last year's new sugar press machine was an old craftsman who was not angry that a "stupid peasant woman" could win an award, so he spent years pondering and finally improved the original sugar press machine to make it more suitable for the needs of sea beets.

Shao Shude doesn't know if this award will be spoiled after his death, but at least for now, it is full of gold, and everything has made great contributions to social production, such as "Blood Theory", "Geometry", wool looms, wool jacquard machines, new sea boats, new breeds of livestock, and so on.

These things appear, and they are basically difficult to disappear, and they will continue to contribute to society.

What's even more gratifying is that none of this was invented by him. Rather, under his guidance, it was invented using the resources of society—mental resources, technical resources, and resources—which made much more sense than he personally acted as an inventor.

He was one man, not God, and could not do everything. The more people involved, the better the effect and the faster the social progress.

"Is this brown sugar cake made of Joju sugar?" Shao Shude picked up a piece of extremely soft pastry, tasted two bites, and asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, it is the sugar offered by Rou and Sam Erzhou. I heard that this year, the four prefectures of Yun, Wei, Shuo, and Fu have also started to grow sea sugar beets, and there will be more and more of these sugars in the future." Shang Gong Su replied.

"Why are you standing so far away from me? There are no outsiders here." Shao Shude beckoned, Gao looked left and right, and reluctantly walked over.

Shao Shude took her into his arms and said, "I had to die or live last night, why is it so alive now?" Gao Shi panicked when he heard this, as if some big secret had been leaked, and subconsciously struggled.

"Alright, alright." Shao Shude caressed her back like a kitten, turned his head and said to Su Shi, "Is there any candy offered by Annan in the palace?" "Your Majesty, the sweet soup I ate yesterday was made with Annam sugar." Su replied.

"I see, it doesn't seem to make a difference." Shao Shude nodded, and then sighed: "The two frontiers, one south and one north, really broke my heart. Now the south will be flat, and the five tubes can be used to grow many kinds of sugar cane, and the ship will be transported back to the north."

Binding more and more anchors to his maritime dreams is actually an imminent matter.

The more anchors there are, the less likely it is that maritime transport will be abolished, and the more seafaring technology can be continuously invested

There are always people who don't look at each other well, and the scale of the military technology company is so large, it can't avoid this situation, so I asked another middle-level staff member within the military technology to borrow his hand to take the same commission."

"So it's not going well now?" Lin Mo touched his chin and asked thoughtfully.

"Heh, it's not going well, but Faraday's side is pretty good." Jack scoffed.

I see...

Lin Mo's smile became even bigger, he coughed a few times, and pretended to say:

"Jack, now you have a marginal person in front of you who has nothing to do, and his ability is still very good, as an intermediary, don't you have any ideas at all?"

Jack was stunned at first, then overjoyed, and asked, "Would you like to help?"

"It's been a long time since I've moved my muscles, and this time... It's an opportunity." Lin Mo said with a smile.

No matter how difficult the entrusted task mentioned by Jack is, it should not be a problem for him to develop intellectually and physically well.