Chapter 419： letters from home

"thank you, sir."

Kevin gratefully thanked the man dressed as a businessman in front of him, and took out a handful of copper coins from his pocket, "You've worked hard all the way, please be sure to accept this little thing."

"No hard work, no hard work, I just brought a letter along the way, how can I collect money. We are all from the Northwest Gulf, and we should help each other in a foreign land."

The man dressed as a businessman refused again and again, but in the end he couldn't hold Kevin back and accepted the money.

After the other party left, Kevin looked at his back and laughed at himself in his heart: Maybe he really doesn't like that copper coin.

From the previous introduction, Kevin learned that the other party came to the capital of Gabela to sell porcelain.

That's a super, super profitable business!

Porcelain from Kevin's hometown, the northwest bay of Aldo Kingdom, has become popular among Gabela's upper class in recent years.

Nobles and wealthy people loved this exquisite new thing very much, and they rushed to buy it to decorate their appearance.

At first, the porcelain was brought to Gabela by merchants from Jiaowan through entrepot trade. Later, with the gradual prosperity of the ocean trade in the Northwest Gulf and the vigorous development of the shipbuilding industry, a large number of Aldo merchants brought their own porcelain to Gabela.

In addition to going south by sea and sailing eastward around the corner bay to reach Gabela, there are also people who drive camels across the vast desert to the north of Gabela to do business through the Nerodan Corridor in the northeast of Aldo, but due to the convenience of sea transportation , Generally speaking, most people take the sea route.

The letter Kevin received today was brought by an Aldo sea merchant.

Of course, the merchants brought not only porcelain, but also many other commodities, such as beautifully printed books, bundles of light paper, cheap iron tools, and unbelievably cheap cloth, etc. popular.

My lord must have made a lot of money, right? After all, these emerging things are all related to him, especially the method of refining porcelain, which is unique in the world, and has never been made public even after the introduction of the patent law.

In Kevin's mind, the scene of Paul Gleiman taking a bath in a pile of gold coins with the appearance of a nouveau riche emerged.

Although it has been a long time since the Salt Village Riot, and he was pardoned by the other party, Kevin still has a grudge against his lord.

Paul carefully returned to his room with the letter from home, and opened the envelope as if it were a treasure.

It is indeed very precious. From the northwest bay to the capital of Gabela, it will take several months to float on the sea. During this period, any accidents may happen.

After opening it, there were actually two letter papers inside. Oh, it seems that the parents must have a lot to say.

But soon he discovered that this was actually written by two people.

It is easy to recognize from the inscription and writing style. The neatly written one is from Kevin’s neighbor’s child, while the scrawled one is from Kevin’s father.

In order to promote the cultural and educational undertakings of the entire territory, Lord Graeman began to promote the advanced experience in education in Huxin Town to other places, and schools were being built in all places under the control of the Government Affairs Council.

The goal of education is not only children but also adults. In order not to affect production, the teaching activities for adults are mainly arranged at night, which is called "night school". It seems that this has benefited the citizens endlessly, such as the letter in my hand.

A year ago, every time his parents who couldn't read a few words sent him a letter, he could only trouble the neighbor's child—that is, the writer of the other letter in the envelope. That child was receiving a more formal education in the school run by the lord. —and now my father was able to write letters to him himself, even though the writing was crooked and there were many misspellings.

This is the aspect that Lord Gleiman is admired by Kevin. He is not like other local lords in the Northwest Gulf or even the entire Aldo Kingdom, who thinks that the lords are born stupid or even the more stupid the better, but educate them and civilize them. , and even used an almost coercive method to get the citizens out of ignorance.

Kevin opened the letter written by his father with some excitement. Not surprisingly, it was filled with the whole family's yearning for him. Kevin's eyes turned red.

After reading the letter from his parents several times, Kevin opened the letter from the neighbor's child.

This is a little guy named Hicks... oh, maybe he can't be called a little guy this year, and he is only two years younger than Kevin, and he was always walking around behind Kevin's **** when he was a child.

When Kevin was taught by Senior Mond in his hometown, he always passed on the knowledge he had learned to Hicks, one to consolidate himself and deepen his understanding, and the other to satisfy his desire to share.

This also laid a good foundation for Hicks, who always ranks among the best in the schools run by the lord, so Hicks is very grateful to Kevin, and every time he ghostwrites for Kevin's parents, he will add a lot of what he wants to say.

Now, Kevin's parents can write their own letters, but Hicks wrote one himself and enclosed it in the envelope.

After the warm greeting at the beginning, the second half of the letter caught Kevin's interest.

"Dear Brother Kevin, as you have requested, and I can't wait to share with you what's been going on in my hometown during this time."

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"As I mentioned in my last letter, the Government Council is still taking a series of measures to develop the territorial economy, strengthen urban facilities and road construction: build mills, improve water supply, increase mineral and metal production; The inventions and traditional things, such as red wine, flax, and cotton, are also rapidly increasing in production.”

"The above-mentioned changes have attracted a large number of people from other places to settle under the earl's rule, and some even migrated from Jiaowan, including many scholars, including artificers, naturalists, and alchemists... Oh, now It should be called a chemist, and a medical heretic who clamors for autopsies every day..."

"The earl spent a lot of money to recruit and place these people In recent years, he seems to be particularly interested in chemistry (alchemy), and organized his chemists to compile a lot of textbooks, and in various places There are relevant courses in the school.”

"People in the school take every step of the chemical experiment seriously, such as observing various liquids, planting, drawing materials, mixing solvents, and trying various substances, etc., collecting experimental data and comparing them. In order to provide sufficient experimental equipment , and even formed a specialized industry, it seems that men and women from the entire territory are involved."

"Under the leadership of Lord Earl, the researchers all agree [nature is concrete], which is manifested in experiments and observations, rather than generalized abstract knowledge."

Seeing this, Kevin's heart skipped a beat.

"There has been a linkage between various disciplines, such as chemistry and medicine. The medical reformer Wade in Port Fullland has a large number of followers, which directly led to the vigorous development of the field of medicinal chemistry. They began to ask butchers, fishmongers, spices, etc. merchants, jewelers, or dyers, to learn their respective skills, and even to add fired ochre clay to medicines."

"The pharmaceutical process not only requires hands-on hands, but also uses human senses. The materials include different types of natural substances, and sometimes human urine can be added according to personal wishes. The entire pharmaceutical process requires people to participate in person, and try to add a variety of substances. Some formulas may also be obtained from human body, such as the aforementioned urine.”