Chapter 405： old knowledge

"Steel, guns and the industrial party across the world (

As the day approached West Mountain, Yu Yuhui dyed Huxin Town a golden color, and the chimneys on the roofs of many people's roofs had already produced smoke.

In an office on the west side of the Lord's Mansion, Ladi Setia finished her day's work. She put various documents and files into the cabinet, carefully locked the doors and windows, and walked outside the Lord's Mansion. Paul went to Port Fulan inspected, so he didn't say goodbye to him.

Originally, she was just Paul's political and economic advisor in Jiaowan, and her work was still very leisurely, but then Paul promoted the "New Life Movement" and gave her the task of popularizing health knowledge. Since the director of the Education Bureau "Betty" left, The education work also fell on her, and a series of changes made her even more busy. There is no way around this, after all, she is now the most knowledgeable person around Paul.

"Betty" made a huge and detailed education construction plan before leaving. The first stage is to build enough schools in the large towns of Arda, Bairding, and Emden, so that ordinary civilians The children of the family receive education at low tuition fees. The second stage is to focus on towns and cities in various places, and radiate educational resources to the surrounding vast rural areas.

However, hundreds of thousands of silver coins may be invested in the first stage alone, which has aroused the dissatisfaction of many officials of the Government Affairs Council. In these people's view, civilian education must be developed, but it is too wasteful to spend such a huge amount of money.

Although under the influence of Paul, these former members of the Greiman family can be said to be the most enlightened group of people in the Northwest Gulf, but they were also used to living a hard life before. If it was four or five years ago when Paul's father was still in power, the lord spent hundreds of thousands of silver coins just to teach the children of the common people how to read, then someone would have crashed to death at the gate of the lord's mansion and made a **** admonition. After all, at that time, the lord's own income (including various taxes and economic output in the land) only had a pitiful surplus of a few thousand silver coins after deducting the miscellaneous expenses throughout the year at the end of the year, and there was a high probability that there would be a surplus of a few thousand silver coins in every disaster year. Consume the accumulation of several years.

With Paul succeeding to the throne, the pirates who had been suffering for many years were wiped out, the sea route to the south was opened up, various new industries with huge profits were established, and the tax revenue of the Earl of Bairding was also incorporated into the Government Council. Finally, compared to other territories in the Northwest Gulf Emden, which can be called affluent, was placed under the control of Huxin Town, and Arda's financial revenue increased exponentially year by year.

However, the speed at which the lord spends money has also doubled. In addition to building schools, the lord wants to expand the administrative system, raise a full-time army, build roads, repair water conservancy, build public toilets and bathhouses, accommodate refugees, and It is necessary to offer high salaries to recruit those Jingyao guys who look down on others with their nostrils turned upside down.

Everyone knows that this is a good thing in the long run, but spending money like this is really unacceptable. This made them very uneasy. According to the traditional view, it is the duty of a vassal to help his lord accumulate more wealth and leave it to the next generation. Even if you need to spend money, you should at least renovate your own castle first. This is related to the dignity of being a lord.

As a scholar, Ladi agrees with the education plan left by Irene, but she is also very aware of the resistance of some old-fashioned bureaucrats to this plan. Fortunately, these resistances are not worth mentioning with the support of Lord Greyman.

She walked out of the gate of the lord's mansion, walked south along the central street of the lake island area, and came to the bridge connecting the island area to the south bank. After crossing the bridge, she walked a short distance to Feilongting, the restaurant run by her family.

In recent years, the residents of Huxin Town who have saved some spare money have also begun to improve their material living standards. Therefore, the restaurant run by mother Xie La, which specializes in Jiaowan cuisine, has been doing very well since it opened. More and more people from Jiaowan are moving to live in Hong Kong, and they are planning to open a branch there recently.

It was dinner time at this time, and it should be the busiest time for mother and Lisa, so it's better not to make trouble for them. Ladi didn't go to the main entrance, but turned into the side alley and walked to the backyard of Feilong Pavilion.

"Is it true that the days of ease have passed for a long time? I didn't find out until now..."

Walking to the corner of the alley, she suddenly said a self-deprecating sentence, then turned around suddenly.

A pedestrian wearing a cloak behind him also stopped, and now there are only two of them in this alley.

"It seems that the vigilance you have cultivated in your years of adventurer career has not been completely wiped out."

The person following her spoke up, and it turned out to be a woman too.

"who are you?"

Ladi asked coldly without any pretense. The other party can say "adventurer" obviously because he knows his identity, and it is not an open and aboveboard visit, and there is probably something shady about it.

She secretly prepared to call the police.

That’s right, it’s calling the police. On the one hand, the police under Ruth Hayden, the director of the Department of Public Safety, are very trustworthy. The law and order in Huxin Town is very good under their maintenance. There are policemen on the street just now. While on patrol, on the other hand, she didn't want to personally expose her hidden identity.

"I'm not an enemy, remember what I look like?"

The man pulled off his hood, revealing his face.

Is someone you know? Ladi looked at the other person's face carefully, searching her own memory.

The other party smiled slightly, revealing a trace of charm, "Let me remind you, the gathering in 1988 in the holy calendar...do you remember? The Blue Witch."

Ladi was startled, the visitor actually knew her nickname in the circle of spellcasters.

"Are you... Assitini?"

She retrieved the name in her mind.

…

In the backyard of Setia's house, Ladi and Sevia sat opposite each other across a stone table, and there was only a sliver of twilight in the sky at this time.

"You did great things at Nessberg."

Ladi had long known at Cecil's regular briefing that there was a witch named Assitini in the corner of the bay She was also astounded at the other party's courage, but at the time because her memory was vague , did not connect this matter with old acquaintances many years ago.

"Hehe, actually, I also want to hide alone and live a leisurely life." Sylvia narrowed her eyes.

The accusation in the words made Ladi feel pain in her heart, "Hmph! I don't feel that I have any obligations to other spellcasters."

"That's right, you're used to being alone, isn't it normal that you don't feel the same kind of affection? Although you are one of the most powerful spellcasters in Jiaowan..."

Ladi frowned, and said in a bad tone: "Enough! Did you come to Northwest Bay just to laugh at me?"

"Of course not!"

Sylvia stood up with a smile. The two were not familiar with each other. The reason why she was so presumptuous in front of Ladi was because she had already grasped the other party's temper. When she was still in Jiaowan, in order to find an ally against the church, she tried to find the mysterious and powerful Blue Witch, who had only met a few times, and collected all kinds of information about her, but the witch herself did not find it, but she did. She met her former companion as an adventurer, and further deepened her understanding from her companion. However, her companion kept tight-lipped about the witch's whereabouts and refused to disclose any information.

Yes, that's it, first arouse her guilt.

Thinking so, Sylvia walked slowly to Ladi, leaned over to her ear, and said softly:

"I heard from the locals that the lord here trusts you a lot?"

Her voice was low and pleasant, but it carried a trace of indescribable meaning.

"The power of the church here is not strong, are you interested..."

Sevia's eyes shone brightly.

"Let this lord submit to the power of magic?"