588. Throwing a lot of money
Rozin took Rand to the Salt Iron Division warehouse, but was about to leave the Tower of Purity when he met Teferi Crane, and the old magician waited halfway down the road with a few people, looking not very good-looking.
"Count Lanter, there have been rumors circulating throughout the Imperial Capital School just now, and you plan to let a group of Magister's children share the lessons of the Tower of Purity?"
Teferi asked with some resentment, "The last time you visited, you praised the history of the Tower of Purity and the Prancing Horse family, don't you know that the most important thing for the Tower of Purity is that the common people can also get education?" Are you going to let our teachers teach the children of the nobility? ”
Rand looked at the Magister in front of him, he had just finished talking to Sherman, and he was in a good mood, so he choked back: "Our Benma family brought nearly 3 million gold coins to the imperial capital back then, if Mentor Teferi can help me get this money back, I am willing to invest this money in civilian education!" ”
"Uh......" Teferi suddenly became dumbfounded.
Rand knew that it would definitely not work to let this group of mages collect the debts, so he continued to ask: "If it doesn't work, my two knights add up to 300 people, more than 1,000 barbarian cavalry, and 3,000 infantry and auxiliary troops, and it is estimated that 700,000 gold coins will be spent to resist the attack of the orcs, can you help me find out from the galloping horse fund?" ”
Teferi stopped talking, of course it was impossible, they spent countless dollars every year, and all of this money was used for magic research, so it was possible to give the money they asked for to a knight?
"If it still doesn't work, I can still build a magic furnace to make some money, but all the money needs to go into the account of the Galloping Horse Fund, I wonder if you can make the Galloping Horse Fund be stripped out of the general ledger of the Night Qicheng Finance Department?" Let the money I earn not go through the Galloping Horse Fund? The louder Rand spoke, the worse his mood grew, although there was still a smile on his face.
Teferi and the other magicians already had a little shame on their faces that were still full of anger just now.
He looked at the mage behind him and said to Rant, "Count Rand...... If you really need money, I can persuade a couple of families to put together a fund......"
"Very good, now a group of nobles in the imperial capital are not only willing to pool a sum of money for me, but also willing to be responsible for the cost of an extra potion, the only requirement is that their children come to the Galloping Horse Academy, and they are willing to use their own funds to cultivate the students of the Tower of Purity, why not?"
Seeing that the Magus had no more to say, Rand followed Luo Jin away, and said as he left, "We can take in another 200 students from the Tower of Purity this week with this group of children." ”
Teferi looked at Rand's distant figure and shook his head,
The Mentor of Glamorgan on the side leaned over and asked with some concern: "Earl Lante's approach sounds like bringing in a group of nobles, that is, balancing the forces and providing potions.
Glamorgan was not optimistic about Rand's use of the Imperial Capital School to balance the Tower of Purity: "But the Tower of Purity has been practiced countless times over the past few hundred years, and these two groups will eventually fight each other, and then it will not be a simple student fight, but a family battle behind the students." ”
Ben Kaul walked over and nodded to the two mentors, as a legend who has experienced more than 100 years of ups and downs, Ben knows these things well.
"Ben? Otherwise, persuade him, bringing in nobles from other regions on a large scale is a road of no return, and the imperial capital schools are intricately intertwined, and any child may have hundreds of thousand-year-old families behind him. Teferi said.
"Of all the problems he faces, there are too many children in the imperial capital, and this kind of thing that will only show up in 20 years is probably the least anxious," Ben Kaul said with a smile, "The rest includes but is not limited to empty financial pockets, orcs sharpening their knives, and families eyeing each other, if you look at him from his point of view, it is not necessarily a bad thing to introduce some imperial capital nobles to hedge the influence of the galloping horse family." ”
"So how many are he going to bring in? It can't be 4,000 children, right? ”
……
From the Tower of Purity to the warehouse near the Salt Iron Furnace, you can go directly through a special teleportation channel, and it is this special portal that makes the melting pot 100 kilometers away count as part of the Imperial Capital New Area.
Shioteiji's warehouses are located on a flat ground at the foot of the Furnace Mountain, and when you descend from the mountain, you can see a large castle-like building, and it is said that these warehouses were also built by Queen Padmila. The interior of the warehouse is generally 50 meters high, which sounds like a tall space, but it is filled with huge mechanical plugs.
Although Rand was alone when he arrived in the furnace hall, his own dwarves were all studying here, and Sophia and Jonny also arrived in the hall in the morning, and when they heard about this kind of treasure hunting in the warehouse, they all came with them.
"My lord, these devices ...... It's huge! Jonny looked around with her head tilted, as the magician in the realm who knew the "stove" best, she wanted to move to the warehouse.
Rand on the side didn't speak, but swallowed his saliva.
Seeing that everyone was so fascinated, the high-level rune master Luo Jin said proudly: "Count Lante, these blast furnaces you see used to be replaced by the salt and iron divisions, and each one is cast according to the standard material ratio, and it is by no means those rags that can be seen everywhere!" ”
After the finger of "bell ~ bell" taps on the blast furnace, a crisp sound can be heard, which is almost exactly the same as the newly built magic furnace wall, and in Rand's eyes, these so-called replacement goods can simply catch up with the newly cast equipment.
"If the materials are so good, why is the pile here?" When Rand saw the stoves, he couldn't move them.
"The furnace hall has been renovated several times, and the furnace has become bigger and bigger, so the trumpet one has been replaced," Rozin saw Rand like this, knowing that he was tempted, and hurriedly said, "My lord, what Your Excellency Sherman said just now only includes boiling salt pots, not counting these stoves!" ”
Rand glanced at the high-ranking dwarf with some surprise, "Of course I know this, you don't think I'm going to pull it away!" However, since it is replaced, there should always be a price, right? ”
"We have an external offer, a complete set of equipment 700,000 gold coins can be taken away, but if it includes installation and magic pattern painting, it will cost more than 1 million gold coins" Luo Jin looked at Rand and said with a smile, "My lord, you can make a magic furnace now is almost 250,000 gold coins, if you ......"
"I bought it!" Rand didn't wait for Rozin to say anything, "Cash, gold coins will be paid through the Temple of Commerce!" ”
"Huh?" Rozin almost thought he had misheard.
"My lord? What did you just say? Sophia and Jonny had just recovered and looked at Rand with puzzled expressions.
"I said that I will buy a complete smelting production line now, according to the price of the Salt and Iron Division, 1 million gold coins, sign the contract today, and go directly to the Temple of Fortune to get the money," Rand said again without any tone, only the little cardinal and the big goblin knew about bringing back a large amount of gold coins from Mogebao, although a few demonic beasts saw a bunch of gold coins, they had no concept of money.
This huge amount of tens of millions of gold coins cannot be directly used for payment in the imperial market because they are all coins minted tens of thousands of years ago, and once the emperor knows that he has made a windfall, he will definitely be worried, so he simply goes directly to the central bank: transfer money from the temple of commerce.
"My lord, in fact, you can use the proceeds of the future magic furnace to pay......" Luo Jin didn't expect Rand to be so happy, let alone that he could come up with 1 million gold coins in cash.
Luo Jin brought Rand to the warehouse to see this smelting equipment this time, it was going to be bought by him, the price of millions of gold coins was enough to account for most of Rand's magic furnace income, if this money was allowed to enter the plate of the Galloping Horse Fund together with the income of the magic furnace, it could become a capital project that lasted for decades.
However, Rand not only had money, but also had an independent means of payment, so he simply rejected the dwarf's offer.
"No need, I hope to be able to put this equipment in the new industrial area as soon as possible, I can't wait to see it smelt the first furnace of molten steel!"
(End of chapter)