Chapter 512： Encounter

Wide and clean streets, towering and neatly planned buildings, like the magic stone streetlights that the guards usually stand on the roadside, the magical projections floating in the air, the incredible magical machines on display in the square...

The big businessman Cod was sitting in the carriage. As a mature and steady businessman, he had successfully adjusted his mentality and began to observe the outside scene with a calm and calm expression, but the wind and waves in his heart still did not fade.

Carol was once a viscount, but because of its proximity to the plains of the Holy Spirit, it has a prosperous trade. It used to be one of the richest areas in the South. The bustling city of Carroll has always been a place of satisfaction and pride. Compared with the city in front of you...

No, there is no need for comparison between the two cities.

There is no rancid smell in the air in the big cities, and there is no rags of poor people and serfs walking around the street. An indescribable "order" seems to be soaked in the air. This sense of order is Cod. I have never seen it anywhere.

He knows the new office of the City Hall in Carroll, and also knows a series of new laws promulgated by the Office of Administration. Some of the new laws are supported by local people, such as reducing tax burdens and allocating land, while others are pushing hard, such as health. The law and part of the work system, frankly, even if Cod can not fully understand the meaning of the New Deal, but after seeing the scene of Cecil City today, he at least realized one thing:

Living in such a city is at least more comfortable than living in Carroll City.

After returning, you should mobilize the people of the business association, at least let everyone be willing to implement the health bill...

The carriage left the bustling city street, turned two turns, and the surroundings gradually became quiet.

The Pioneer Square is next to the Administrative Office and the Lord's Office. There are only two streets between them. There is no city wall or moat in the middle. There are only some posts guarding the road leading to the administrative area. The merchant's carriage is in one of them. The post stopped and was inspected.

Cod and Parr prepared the coins needed for the soldiers early. After the carriage stopped, they obeyed the order and got off the bus. Then they saw a warrior wearing a magic armor coming over: "Parking check please Present proof of identity."

Cod quickly took out the identity certificate issued by Cecil’s Ministry of Commerce and the letter of signature signed by the Minister of Padre, and handed the soldier to estimate the amount of money the guard needed to get in place. He said that he had been to Cecil, but it was only once last year to sell the medicinal materials and follow the family's fleet. After that, he never came again, and he really couldn't know much about the city.

The so-called "come to Cecil" is somewhat self-proclaimed.

In the short moment he thought about it, the soldiers had checked the documents and confirmed the black and white portraits on the documents. Two other soldiers checked the condition of the carriage, and a crisp voice was introduced into the ears of Cod and Parr. : "Check in and you can go in."

Cod nodded subconsciously, then glanced: "Ah... ah?"

"You can go in," the soldier repeated again. After noticing the confused expression on the businessman's face, he looked down at the documents in his hand and reconfirmed the above. "There is no problem to go in, hold Your pass."

Cod fainted with the documents and issued his own pass, and returned to the carriage with Pal, until the carriage left the post, he did not understand what happened.

Pal is also full of confusion: "Father... Did the few soldiers just forgot to collect our money?"

"How could this kind of thing be forgotten," Cody looked at his son and then picked it up in disbelief. "Carol is also there, and this is also... How did the Duke do it?"

With a confused head, the carriage of the businessman and his son continued to move forward.

After a moment, they came to the lord's house.

Leaving the carriage and looking up at the tall mansion in front of him, Cod took a deep breath, and he carefully hid all the surprises, curiosity, confusion and excitement all the way to the calm face, and then sorted out With a look of impeccable clothing, accompanied by a lord's guard, he took Pal and walked forward.

There was more than one car parked in front of the lord's house. Apparently there were other visitors. Before the door depicting the Cecil family's emblem, Cod saw a young woman coming out, she was dressed appropriately. The lady's winter outfit, stepping down the steps, seems to be planning to leave.

The guards in front of the door were obviously familiar with the young women, and they briefly chatted a few words.

"Miss Jeepie is reporting so soon?"

The young woman smiled with a smile: "It’s just a routine report."

The guard took a look of hope: "Is there a show tomorrow?"

"Of course, every day and in recent days there may be new programs to watch."

Cod came to the door and the accompanying guards stepped forward, and the young woman, known as Miss Jeepie, turned around and curiously looked at the big businessman from Carroll City.

"Hello." The young woman nodded slightly and said politely.

"Ah, I saw you on that... magic projection!" Codd looked at the young woman in front of him in surprise, only to find that the other person was actually the one he had seen before on the holographic projection in the city. Looking at the holographic projection, I suddenly saw the wonderful feeling of the real person, which surprised the big businessman. Then he performed a ceremony with a perfect manly style. "Miss Witch, you see it on the projection. It’s still beautiful.”

"Thank you for your compliment." Jupli nodded with a smile, but in the next second, she felt a strange familiarity in her heart. The face of this middle-aged businessman overlapped with a face in her mind. Come together.

Codd also watched Jupley and looked at the "magic projection" gap. He looked at the "witch" lady, and his heart suddenly moved. A vague sense of familiarity floated on his mind.

Two people said in unison: "Have we seen it?"

At the same moment, they all found the source of this familiarity.

In the fall of a decade ago, a young businessman who had just taken over the family business went to the south and came to an unfamiliar city with ambitious.

In the fall, a mage apprentice who fled was in a foreign land and was hungry.

Young businessmen are looking for business opportunities, with some kind of high-spirited mood, he finds a divination booth and wants to hear a few good words.

It was just a little girl's mage apprentice looking for food. She took out a few tricks she had just learned and wanted to change two pieces of bread.

A silent and short-lived stagnation stagnate in front of the steps of the lord's house. The big merchants of Carroll and the famous witches on the magic net stood face to face. After a few seconds, they were broken by the laughter of two people.

"You said that there is gold in the city," Cod took a step forward and reached out. "Ced, from Carol."

"Jipley, I am very happy to meet you again," Jupli gently grasped the other's hand. "I am sorry, I was lying to you, I am very hungry."

"I know," Codd released his hand and politely stepped back. "I can see that you will not divination at all."

Jabil smiled: "But it will be after that day."

They staggered, the big businessman went to the gate of the lord's house, and the witch went to the carriage parked on the side of the road, but before riding the carriage, Jeep suddenly stopped and went back and said loudly: Mr. De's city is full of gold."

Cod looked back in surprise, and he saw the witch who waved at herself: "This time is true."

The big businessman laughed: "I know."

The carriage on the side of the road drove away, and Cod and Parr stepped into the gate of the lord's house.

"Father," the young Parr couldn't help but open his mouth after entering the gate. "Do you know the witch lady?"

“I saw that when she was young, she was still a little girl,” the big businessman said casually. “She gave me the first lesson.”

"first lesson?"

"Yeah, the content is ‘Don’t believe in roadside divination’.”

......

In front of Gao Wen, two documents were placed.

One is from Rebecca, an analysis report on the "General Traction Chassis". In this report, there is a detailed interpretation of the complete system of the first generation of Magic Drive vehicles, and on this basis, with the magic guide The technical experience of the car is the starting point for the manufacture of a universal traction chassis.

The manufacturing of the magic car has been successful. The developers of this world have used magic technology and the unique resources of the world. After some difficult development, they have successfully solved most of the technical problems encountered, and let one drive with magic. The vehicle that ordinary people can also manipulate has opened the road. Although it is still very early and has such problems, this first step is undoubtedly successful.

A transportation vehicle that is more powerful, faster, and less exhausting, and does not need to consume fodder. With it, the transportation problems encountered during the large-scale construction of Cecil will undoubtedly be greatly alleviated. In order to give full play to the value of this technology, it is necessary to manufacture a variety of special-purpose engineering vehicles with different functions according to the principle of the magic guide car.

Under the influence of Gao Wen for so long, Rebecca has the concept of modular design and general technology, and has tasted great benefits from it, so after this magic car was built, it did not wait for Gaowen. The girl figured out a "general chassis" solution.

In this program, Rebecca believes that it is necessary to make the chassis of the first generation "475" magic guide car into a modular chassis that can be easily connected to other outer casings and traction objects, and then on this basis. She produced a large number of derivative vehicles including trucks, buses, agricultural machinery, and engineering machines. She even drew a simple chariot at the end of the report. The basic structure is to weld a door on the 475 magic car chassis. The light magical guide gun, and then surrounded a steel plate outside the car shell...

The front of the car even has a non-native horn.

Simple, rough, simple and rude, but very surprising.

To be honest, after seeing this report, Gao Wen was surprised for a long time, because he didn't have time to come up with the concept of this...

Next to this report, the second document is a proposal that Gao Wen himself is drafting.

"The potential value of developing new media"

Newspapers have gradually become popular in the south, covering almost every town-level unit, and the new magic net broadcast is centered on the cross axis, covering more and more cities. People in the south are gradually becoming familiar with these new ones. Things, on the other hand, the people who make newspapers and broadcasts are gradually becoming familiar with these new jobs.

The role of new media in information dissemination has gradually emerged. Especially in the Luancheng incident, the power of public opinion propaganda has impressed everyone in the Office of Government Affairs. Heti also lamented those newspapers and programs. Power is no less than a fully armed army.

But Gao Wen knows that the value of these new media is far from being developed. They are still very narrowly applied and are limited to the tools used by the Office of Government Affairs to publish affairs.

The content is single, the category is lacking, and the lack of commercial income is not so much a new media as it is a bigger bulletin board.

This is far from the original goal of Gao Wen.

He picked up the pen and listed the next step in the plan. He wanted to teach the democratic movement to participate in these new things, and let people realize more deeply that the things created by the lord are not only available to the lord. It is also something that ordinary people can use. It is necessary to find ways to create more civilian markets, let these new things "live" and maximize their value...

The benefits of doing so are obvious. From the commercial sector of the open newspaper alone, on the one hand, it can open up the wisdom of the people more quickly, stimulate ordinary people to think, act, and accelerate the cultural construction of Cecil. On the other hand, it can produce Economic gains to alleviate the current increasing financial pressures of Cecil’s Office of Administration are squeezing the economy of the Principality of Cecil, and many of the new things that Cecil has created are thoroughly “official projects”. "They rely entirely on the finances of the Principality, but they can hardly recover their costs (or can only recover the upfront costs, but not the subsequent benefits). They are 100% "Office of the Government" and are almost completely out of touch with various civil society groups.

Although it is still fine at this stage, it will become a huge problem sooner or later.

Of course, how to carry out effective control in this process and prevent these new things from losing the control of the Administrative Office, it is also a serious consideration...

Gao Wen frowned and thought that his pen should stop writing. He should consider the future development direction of the new media and the corresponding management system, and also consider how to guide the people and consider the way people think in this era. It is not easy to formulate a plan.

At this moment, Betty’s voice suddenly came from outside the door, interrupting Gao Wen’s thoughts.

"Master! Mr. Cod and Mr. Parr of Carroll are coming!"

Gao Wen stunned, and then remembered who these two strange names are.

It was the father and son of the businessman recommended by the Minister of Commerce Padre.

"Let them come in."

The door opened, and Cod and Parr walked into the lord's study with a trace of tension.

They finally saw the southern ruler with their own eyes.

He sat behind a large desk, holding a pen in his hand, a huge floor-to-ceiling window behind him, the sun shining through the floor-to-ceiling windows into the room, and falling on the shoulder of the founding Duke, as if a pale golden cloak.

He is taller than Cody imagined.

"Duke of the Duke," after a brief mistake, the big businessman quickly pulled his son and honoured him with respect and respect. "We are extremely honored to shine on this land."

(Mother!!)