Chapter 508

The reception room of Rock Castle is luxurious and gorgeous with distinctive style. Three crystal candlestick chandeliers are hung on the ceiling. The candlelight becomes dazzling through the refraction of pure crystal and spreads all over every corner of the room; The head specimens of ferocious beasts and practical refined gold weapons are nailed into a row on the wall; Furniture is often wrapped with gold foil and decorated with gemstones to cover up its simple and heavy shape.

These all show the bravery and wealth of the neville people, and also reflect the characteristics of the Neville kingdom. There are dense mountains and forests, many wild animals, rich mineral resources and developed trade. Most of the people are tough hunters and simple miners, and there is a lack of craftsmen with exquisite mind and skills.

However, Neville cobbler's leather making skill is the best.

The leather sofa that Victor sat on had a square head and a square brain. It didn't even have a curved line, but its leather part had a close texture, dark red and nearly black color, which had a great sense of historical vicissitudes. The surface was smooth and bright, and the pores were clearly presented. It was obvious that it had not been painted, but kept the original color. From the degree of coating on the leather surface, after at least decades of precipitation, it is full of elasticity and can't see the common cracks of old leather. It's not like an antique leather sofa at all.

Rex saw Victor's curiosity about the leather sofa, laughed loudly and said quite complacently: "this is the Centaur leather sofa, which is my booty five years ago. There are 17 intact Centaur skins, all of which are here."

Victor raised his head in surprise, glanced over more than 30 leather sofas filled with guests and said, "I can't believe it. I thought these leather sofas had been preserved for more than 50 years."

Marquis wallert, the palace minister, a university student in Neville, twisted the gray beard of his jaw and explained kindly with a smile:

"Neville has a special vegetable tanning process. The tanned leather is not only durable and breathable, but also has the effect of water absorption and discoloration. The dark color is not obvious, but the light color, especially white, is obvious. The leather surface will turn red after water absorption. When it is dry, the color of the leather will become deeper. The vegetable tanned leather will change significantly with the use time, also known as' color maintenance ' ’Or 'aging'. Therefore, the more Neville leather is used, the more beautiful it is. Even the brand-new vegetable tanned leather has the characteristics of simplicity, warmth and elegance. "

The Archbishop Vespucci in the golden red robe nodded and said, "the hard leather armor made by Neville cobbler is of excellent quality. Pay attention to maintenance at ordinary times, and its defense effect can remain unchanged for at least 20 years. The leather armor equipped by the church Paladin mainly comes from the 11 taxes paid by Neville Kingdom."

Victor suddenly realized, and a "chagrin" smile appeared on his face: "it turns out that the paladins are equipped with naviville's top leather armor... Ha ha, I dare not talk about this topic with father Dane."

Paladin Leather Armor looks like old leather for some years, and Viscount Randall is famous for his piety and generosity. He is unwilling to talk about Paladin leather armor with the territory priest. Of course, he is afraid to donate money.

Viscount Randall's self mocking words narrowed the distance between him and the Lord, and secretly praised Neville's wealth. The nobles of Neville who were sitting showed either reserved or forthright laughter, and even Archbishop vispucci shook his head and laughed.

Obviously, we should talk about the feat of killing centaurs. How did the topic become leather making?

King Rex laughed happily and felt helpless. Queen sadia glanced at her husband, covered her red lips with a round fan, bent her eyes, smiled and said, "Viscount Randall's attention is really different. No wonder the Randall family can achieve enviable achievements."

Victor shrugged his shoulders and said, "Randall has no centaurs and no minerals. I have to worry about filling my people."

"Randall collar coffee and sugar are worth more than minerals."

The prince of Neville palace picked up his cup, sipped the fragrant coffee, leaned against the sofa and said contentedly, "the effect of coffee is amazing. An old guy like me can still maintain his energy and mind in his youth, all by drinking coffee."

"Not only that." King Rex said with bright eyes: "Trainee Knights attack knights and knights attack silver knights. The resonance of the fire element level is very important. All knights who resonate with the fire element level first can basically be promoted smoothly. Coffee can stimulate a slight increase in mental power and help Knights feel the pulsation law of the fire element. Knights and nobles with low blood vessels take coffee in large doses, and the probability of resonating with the fire element level will also increase." He paused, glanced at Catherine and continued: "I don't know about the promotion of the Knights and nobles of Gambis. Anyway, the Knights and nobles of Neville summed up a set of methods to take coffee and resonate the fire element level. They mixed 1 pound of water into 4 pounds of coffee powder, stirred it into paste, cut it into small pieces, and after taking it continuously, run the fight to try to resonate the fire element level."

"The Neville royal family has listed fire friendly coffee as an extraordinary material." Rex shook his head and sighed, "unfortunately, the quantity of coffee is too small. The price of coffee in cogston is as high as 55 kingsol per pound, which is still in short supply. In addition, the energy boosting effect of coffee powder is also worse. If Gambis can make coffee into medicine, it would be good."

Catherine smiled and said in a clear voice, "Randall's coffee production is limited. Victor deducted the 11 tax. The coffee paid to kite Castle every year is only about 900 pounds. After calculation, Randall's coffee can produce up to 5000 pounds a year and distribute it to Neville. It's really not much."

She never mentioned the medicine made from coffee, but Victor's heart moved.

The alchemy militia made the detoxified black astringent fruit into coffee and the non detoxified black astringent fruit into a psychedelic drug for torturing intelligence. However, the black astringent fruit was originally the raw material of spiritual medicine, which was specially used to temporarily improve people's spiritual attributes. In addition to mastering the formula of spiritual potions, alchemists also master the preparation methods of physique potions, perception potions and life potions. The alchemists of the alchemy Empire used the gold potion to restore fighting spirit to maintain the continuity of high-intensity work. Unlike today's knights, they use the additional fighting spirit brought by the gold potion to resonate with more element bits. Because, with the help of external forces, the knight missed the understanding of the four elements. They could not break through the blood barrier and stopped at the stage of senior trainee knights and senior knights.

Since ancient alchemists were knights, they must have developed a set of pharmaceutics system conducive to themselves. Physique potion, spirit potion, perception potion and life potion are likely to be pharmaceutical products that help ancient Knights understand the four elements and promote smoothly.

Unfortunately, the raw materials of these formulas have either changed their names or become extinct. The possibility of Victor trying to replicate ancient potions is almost zero.

However, kite castle has a wizard who is good at preparing magic medicine, and Auguste's level of pharmacy is world-famous. Victor's cooperation with kite castle may improve the ancient formula and make many lost ancient potions appear again.

In the past, Victor was weak and didn't dare to hide from the tiger. Good things must be hidden. Now, viscount Randall is not what he used to be. He has the ability to protect his own interests. Of course, he can take out some non core knowledge and turn it into available technology.

Cooperative research and sharing of results are actually tricks of borrowing chickens to lay eggs, and they are also the trend of social development. At present, the Randall family has no chicken that can lay eggs. It makes no sense to hold the ancient knowledge of chicken feed in hand. Finally, whether you can get the egg and how to divide the egg is the key.

Victor's mind was transferred by electricity, and the cooperative R & D plan was included in the strategic target directory of x-3. He was surprised to find that there were many strategic objectives to be completed... Including mastering the dominance of the golden regiment, improving the secret method of soul and blood, solving the problem of heirs, comprehensively improving the strength of the Randall family, collecting alchemy tower Rune crystals, building ports and fleets, spying on the inside of the masked brotherhood, building a secret stronghold on the coastline of the eastern alliance Cooperate in the research and development of ancient technology and obtain the right of free coinage.

Fortunately, there are no contradictions and conflicts between these strategic objectives. Moreover, many goals cross each other and can be promoted synchronously.

Above these goals, Victor has a longer-term and more magnificent goal, that is to promote the reform of tenant system and pull the clergy down from the top of the pyramid.

The glorious church should serve the secular regime, not on an equal footing with the great lords.

To put it bluntly, Victor wants to seek the power of the Lord of glory. If the glorious Lord is really the highest achievement of the alchemical Empire, he must serve the imperial regime. Because ancient alchemists did not let their creations ride on their heads.

Since Victor is a secular Lord and the successor of the alchemical Empire, he should set things right.

If the Lord of glory is not the creation of the alchemist... Who cares?

"Coffee, or other inventions of the Randall family, mainly comes from the wisdom of the people."

Victor paid tribute to master Edwin's jaw sitting next to the Marquis wallert, the palace minister, and said, "I must thank uncle Edwin. His views on collecting and sorting out refugee knowledge have a great impact on me. Although I have never studied in the silver white tower, I regard uncle Edwin as my academic teacher."

Edwin smiled and nodded. Wallert looked at him obliquely and said to Victor: "Edwin is my classmate and friend. I totally disagree with him. How can the wisdom and knowledge of the refugees be compared with the nobility? Some of their experiences are worth learning from, and that's all. It's neither necessary nor possible to deliberately collect and sort out the knowledge of the refugees. Because the refugees don't master knowledge at all."

"You old man, you won't admit the facts before your eyes." Edwin retorted, "the life experience of the refugees is knowledge. I admit that the wisdom of the refugees is far less than that of the nobility, but their number is there... What our scholars need to do is to collect and sort out the scattered life experience of the refugees, incorporate it into the existing academic system, and then bring forth the new. In this regard, the Randall family is the most successful."

Pastor Dane also nodded and said, "I have personal experience of master Edwin's statement. I invented soap with the help of refugees."

"Lord Dane, the inventor of soap is you, not a refugee."

A court scholar in Neville retorted: "if refugees can invent soap, they have already invented it. In fact, they can't do anything without scholars. Scholars can still invent without the assistance of refugees. Therefore, scholars are the key role."

"You can't ignore the role of refugees, and their experience is the basis of Dane's soap." Archbishop Vespucci said categorically, "there is no doubt about that!"

Seeing that the court tea party turned into a quarrel between academic schools, the Lord of Neville and the court nobles suddenly lacked interest and chatted with each other.

"Edwin, you say that many inventions of Randall family benefit from the refugees. What about the tenant system? I think the tenant system created by Viscount Randall has nothing to do with the refugees?"

Seeing that Edwin was speechless and twisted his beard, the Marquis wallert, the palace minister, smiled proudly, stood up, owed his body to victor and asked:

"Lord Randall, you are the founder of the tenant system. I have a few questions about the tenant system that I would like to ask you."

Tenant system?

Neville's lords and nobles immediately pricked their ears, the noise in the reception room subsided, and everyone's eyes focused on Viscount Randall.

Victor put down the silver cup of snow fungus tea and said with a confident smile, "Lord Marquis wallert, please ask."