Because the crisis brought about by Liguria is over, the aftermath of the stock market has been turbulent for some time before it ends.

During this period, the Duke's family recouped some losses and evaded sanctions, but they also had to pay a political price, and the Duke and their heirs had to flee back to their hometown to avoid the limelight, because Solomon had drawn a line on behalf of the others, and the kingdom had no intention of pursuing their dishonorable behavior in selling their stocks, and would not seek justice for those who bought Ligurian stocks, but they would never be allowed to use violence against opponents.

Staying away from the political inner circle for the time being, plus the duke's family itself can be fine, it does not mean that some of the middle and low-level officials involved in it will be fine, so some people close to the old forces need to be forced to leave their posts for this reason, and even be found to be greedy for ink and thrown into prison.

Solomon's two old friends have also been troubled by the stock turmoil, and the citizens are not only questioning the behavior of the Duke's family, but also very suspicious of the role of the exchange.

Solomon can not take the dukes' sacrificial swords, but the commodity exchange has to have an explanation here, otherwise the stock exchange, and even other transactions on the commodity exchange, will be affected, which is certainly not what Kindleberger or Derek wants to see, the exchange is their life's work.

Solomon summoned the two men, and after a closed-door conversation, Derek volunteered to be a scapegoat, and the next day he made a pale review to the Commodity Exchange Management Committee, and publicly apologized to the public, admitting that he had neglected certain issues and ignored some risks in reviewing the listing of the shares of Liguria Development Co., Ltd., which led to the outbreak of the crisis. As a result, he resigned from his position at the Commodity Exchange.

Then Solomon also made a speech. Announced in order to avoid similar problems in the future. A special Securities Supervision and Review Committee will be formed by the Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom and the Commodity Exchange, and some of the institutions eligible to participate in it, such as prominent bankers, will be invited to jointly supervise and review the listing of new companies on the stock exchange, and promise that after one year it will require that any company that needs to be listed on the stock exchange must submit annual financial information to the Ministry of Finance and the Securities and Futures Commission every year, in addition to being registered with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau under the Ministry of Finance, as is now the case, in order to verify whether its business conditions are in good shape. When it comes to actual implementation, there will be more detailed rules.

This series of heavy blows at least calmed those who were not damaged by Ligurian or only suffered a small amount, and restored the business environment in Asturias.

As for those who suffered a lot from the shares of the Ligurian company, Solomon certainly wouldn't help them, and he was not a savior, so he could use this opportunity to force the dukes to give up their political interests, and his opponents would continue to pay the price for the election of parliamentarians in a few years.

After this qiē began according to his steps, an unexpected news came.

That is, an envoy group composed of high elves has come to the Azure Continent. The first stop was Titania, where it is said to have been around for a month. Then they decided to come and visit Asturias.

The news came as a surprise to Solomon, and it had been too long since the High Elves had been away from the continent.

Of course, if you look at the order of the visits, it is not surprising that the High Elves chose to visit Asturias for the second stop.

Titannia must be the first target of the High Elves, because if you don't count the influence of the Church of Light, among the Terran countries, Titania's national strength was the first in the continent ten years ago, and it has the confidence to carry the orcs to the north alone, and the Duke of Alvarez's family in the country is said to have a noble moon elf bloodline, and has always had dealings with the High Elves of the Jade Continent.

And then what? Modo is a small country, but the Saxon kingdom is united with the Church of Light, and the Aurora Empire may not be able to enter the eyes of the High Elves, and will be regarded as a barbarian country, and they have been inseparable from the Church of Light in recent decades, as long as Titania tells these elven envoys, Aurora is not so worthy of a visit by the High Elves.

As for some smaller forces on the mainland, such as the city-state alliance, their economy and trade are no less than that of a country, but their own combat power is weak.

By the way, there are also orcs, but the High Elves are even more unlikely to visit, they are the most hated race of the High Elves, although they are not at the bottom, but they are definitely in the order that can be seen backwards and upwards.

In this way, it is not surprising that the High Elf envoys, in addition to Titania, would choose Asturias as the place to visit.

But the problem is that since the High Elves have evacuated this continent, they have rarely sent envoys to this land again, and I heard that the scale of this time is not small, close to five hundred elven warriors accompanying them, which is enough to fight a small war.

Of course, Solomon didn't think that they were here to provoke any war, although five hundred elven warriors were not weak force, but when they came to the Azure Continent, this bit of force was really nothing.

No matter what the other party's intentions are, as long as Asturias doesn't plan to kill these High Elves, he will have to deal with it, not to mention that Titania will also send people to accompany him as an introduction to the High Elf envoys.

The relationship between Asturias and Titania is now very delicate, the two sides are not without contradictions, there are direct or indirect conflicts in the exploration of the heterogeneous plane, but the two sides need to deal with the Church of Light and the Saxon Kingdom together, and may add the unstable factor of the Aurora Empire, so sometimes they have to maintain a certain friendship and contact.

The High Elves' visit was an accident, and Solomon couldn't figure out what his purpose was for a while, so he simply left it behind for the time being, and left it for a while to wait until he had seen the envoys.

Subsequently, the Wizarding Institute brought two pieces of good news to Solomon.

Fernández solemnly invited Solomon to the third base of the research institute to see something jointly developed by the kingdom and the wizards' guild.

The Magic Guide Research Institute previously had two major projects, the Magic Guide Production Line and the Source Power Gun.

Both have achieved results one after another, although the cost of the automated magic guide production line is staggering, and it cannot be promoted for the time being, but it has been built in the end, and the later work has begun, which is to try to reduce the high cost. If the mechanical method is used to replace the magic as much as possible, the source force gun also has a heavy effect. The high-level Source Force Gun was created. And it played a huge role in the coup, and even two cardinals of the Cult of Light were killed.

However, the results on the Source Gun still did not satisfy Solomon, and he also needed more powerful Source Guns, such as the Legendary Power Gun, and the subsequent development of the Source Gun was carried out around this goal.

In addition, there is a third major project of the Magic Research Institute, and that is the result that Solomon saw after arriving at Base Three.

In the open space of this hidden field research base, a behemoth sits along. Much larger than the largest sea vessels, some like ships, but not ships, this is the floating ship that Fernandez presided over and built

"There are a large number of magic arrays on the floating ship, including featherfall and flying, as well as magic arrays for defense, offensive magic arrays, we are still thinking about which type of inscription, but even if the floating ship has offensive capabilities, its attributes may be relatively simple. And it will inevitably increase the source force required by the floating ship, but the space on the floating ship is limited. The more you require, the more space you need. If the area is further expanded, the flight skills and plumage techniques required for carrying and flying will also need to be increased to ensure the safety of flight and take-off and landing. Fernandez, after introducing Solomon to a great deal of things, finally said his true purpose.

That is, this thing can basically meet Solomon's requirements, but be prepared to put in more of it.

Solomon rubbed his head with a painful head, his original standard of floating ships was to integrate combat, reconnaissance, and transportation, with all-weather combat, air and ground attacks, and the ability to invest, but now it seems that this goal can be achieved, but the investment is surprisingly high.

In order to achieve the above goals at the same time, the floating ship must not only have the defense power of the air fortress level, but also think about how many defensive magic arrays are needed? It also needs to have reconnaissance capabilities, then it first needs to fly at high speed, take off and land smoothly, and it needs the feather falling technique, and the larger the hull area, the more it will be needed.

And to have different attack capabilities against air and ground at the same time, it means that different kinds of magic are needed, even if it is replaced by a magic array, and then reduce the difficulty of control, you don't need a high-level mage, but at least a beginner-level mage, right?

"The magic array has as little as possible to lower the threshold for operation, so that it can be guided and controlled by high-level mages, and it is best for low-level mages and even magic apprentices to operate it. "Solomon said what he was built on.

"It's a good building. However, it is not without difficulties, although this reduces the requirements for mid- and high-level mages when controlling the floating ship, but it is necessary to increase the number of low-level mages or magic apprentices, and the total number of people on the floating ship increases, so the volume of the floating ship needs to increase again, so it is necessary to increase some magic arrays to maintain the performance without decreasing. Fernandez said lightly.

"Low-level mages and magic apprentices are easier to train and obtain than mid- and high-level mages. Solomon said, "For attack, I think you can also consider using appropriate mechanical techniques, which may not be suitable for ground, but for air, you may consider adding a crossbow similar to a bed to shoot flying monsters, which can reduce the requirements for magic arrays, and the magic attacks of floating ships should be mainly used for high-level enemies." ”

Fernandez nodded, "That's not bad, the floating ship can be used to transport troops anyway." ”

"I don't think it's possible to build all of them into an all-round floating ship like the one we have now, of course, not that we don't need to, but we can build only a part. Solomon thought and said, "You can consider spinning off the function to make the performance tends to be relatively simple, so that the cost will be greatly reduced." ”

Fernandez's eyes lit up and he said, "That's a good idea, I see what you mean." ”

The all-rounder is powerful, almost a fortress in the air, but the cost is too high, and the most important thing is that it requires too much magic medium, which Asturias may not be able to afford, and building and maintaining it also means that more magic medium is needed.

Therefore, Solomon built a ship with a split function, used for reconnaissance-type floating ships, to reduce transportation, reduce combat, and make every effort to highlight the speed; for loading floating ships, a lot of space on the ship is used for transportation, and the magic array only tries to ensure floating flight, regardless of the ability of magic attacks, at most according to Solomon's previous construction, put a few bed crossbows on it; and the floating ships used for combat can also be arranged in the magic array, according to the needs of the difference between air and ground, for example, what is needed for air is to be able to carry out area attacks as much as possible.

The progress of the floating ship is basically satisfactory to Solomon, the floating ship is a systematic project, not to mention anything else, it is necessary to have extremely high attainments in sequence magic, in order to ensure that the various magic arrays are activated one after another, and there is no conflict and interference, and fortunately, Fernandez is at the helm.

After returning from Liguria, Solomon had a sense of crisis as he witnessed the crisis, and the idea that he needed to become stronger and stronger for himself and the power at his disposal, became more and more urgent.

Fortunately, the Magic Guide Research Institute did not disappoint him, and the previous investment is now beginning to bear fruit one after another. (To be continued......)