Chapter 523： Dinner

A grand welcome dinner was held in the Lord's House, the first time since the completion of this large building.

Gao Wen is not a person who likes banquets. Although Heti and Rebecca are born in the orthodox aristocracy, they are not very keen on the banquet (of course, the main reason is poor), but even if they are not interested in the banquet, they know that the activity is The Necessity of Upper-Level Socialization A well-prepared banquet often has multiple political, economic, and even military identities, both to demonstrate the host's economic strength, and to complete the sword negotiation in other places in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. It is undoubtedly quite cost-effective to be able to "negotiate" the transaction.

Gao Wen still has not built a "castle" for himself in the way of the traditional nobility. He still prefers a house that is comfortable enough to live in, so even if the territory has developed, he is only adding part of the lord's house. And expansion, and planning an area for the construction of an outbuilding on the open space around the courtyard. Ultimately the main house will probably become a building between the castle and the palace, and this is for the female duke from the north and The Royal Highness of the Princess is undoubtedly a very novel thing.

In the main hall where the dinner was held, the musicians from the Leslie area were playing comfortable and pleasant music. After a few short dances, the guests at the banquet began to sit at the huge table on both sides of the main hall. The men and women who wore food and dressed in luxurious dresses included members of the ambassadors from Wangdu, the “new nobility” who survived and qualified to go to the banquet in the south, and the important officials of the Principality of Cecil and their relatives to shuttle in the banquet hall. Victoria, like a light snowflake through these people, came to Gao Wen.

“How do you feel?” Gao Wen looked at the northern female duke and raised his hand to the glass. “This place should be very different from the environment you are familiar with.”

“There are very few nobles and more real power officials. This is really different from the aristocratic banquet in the north, and there are fewer rules here.”

"The red tape is depressing. We didn't pay much attention to it in my opinion. According to my opinion, those young people who pursue classical aristocratic etiquette can try our self-service dinner at Cecil. The true classicality must of course learn from my ancients. ""

"...is very reasonable," the female duke snorted, revealing a somewhat stiff smile. Then she looked around and looked at the neat and bright hall and the large floor-to-ceiling windows in the distance. She couldn’t help but sigh. "Compared to this At the banquet, your 'castle' is even more impressive... I have never seen this kind of castle, you didn't seem to regard it as a fortress when designing it... nor did you place a barracks in the courtyard? ”

Gao Wenyi smiled: "Bing barracks? My corps can not enter the castle's courtyard, and the old-style castle is damp and cold. It is necessary to set up a fireplace in each room to barely live. It seems to me that this house is not as comfortable as I am. A seven hundred year old citizen."

"There is probably no more elderly people in the world than you are," Victoria said helplessly. She is not a good joke, but in the face of a humorous elder, she must be flexible, "I pay attention. There is no fireplace here. Is this castle heated with magic?"

“The heat source is a fire elemental array located underground. It relies on a copper heat exchanger to transfer heat to the entire building. There are interlayers in those walls, and metal pipes and bricks are buried inside,” Gao Wen explained. "Not only here, most of the buildings in this city have similar facilities. There will be a large heat source station in the block, and its heat can heat the entire block. I designed it."

Victoria’s eyes widened slightly: “You mean... everyone in this city is as warm as here?”

Gao Wen nodded. "Of course, and in fact some new buildings are warmer than here. The heat exchanger installed in this house is the first generation. The pipeline design is better than later. I am preparing to change it next year. Drop it."

Victoria didn't pay attention to the words behind Gao Wen. She just showed an incredible look: "...Building such things in the entire territory...Is this not an easy thing?"

“It’s really difficult, but fortunately we have magic technology,” Gao Wen said with a smile. He looked at the Duke’s eyes and looked at each other’s expression changes. “And if we plan well, we’re all in one place. In the case of central heating of the entire block, in fact, the things to be consumed will be less than the burning of charcoal in the households, and the people will be frozen every winter, do you think this is better?"

The female duke did not speak for a while.

Cecil City, a city that has risen rapidly in the "barren land", is incredibly advanced.

The city made her think of the city of the Thousand Towers, which was inhabited for a long time in the youth. The wizard capital of the Violet Kingdom is also the same advanced, ubiquitous magical power. The city is as if it is alive and continues to perform complex operations. However, it is true that the city of Cecil and the city of Thousand Towers are so different.

This newly rising city may have some less resources than the city of Thousand Towers, and there are few magnificent buildings that have experienced vicissitudes, but its advanced features have penetrated into every aspect, and even deepened into every civilian.

Is this the power of magic technology? What is magical technology?

After a brief silence, she finally said: "Since I set foot on this land, I have been thinking about what the magic technology is. I thought that the wall of the Rock Fortress is the magic technology, I thought those cars are magic. Guide technology, I thought that the street lamp in this city and the heating device of this house are magic technology. I thought it was a kind of magic, a new and convenient spell... but now it seems that it is better than I imagine it is more complicated and novel."

Gao Wen didn't say anything, he just nodded and let the female duke continue.

After a brief indulgence, Victoria Verde once again said: "Is the magical technology for ordinary people?"

“Ordinary people can really control it and benefit from it.”

Victoria took a deep breath.

She didn't ask Gao Wen about the principle of this technology. This naive question only made herself look abrupt. She didn't ask if Gao Wen knew what it means to put the power of magic on the hands of ordinary people. She doesn't believe this. The promoters of the technology would not think of this. She just thought about it for a moment, and then seemed to turn the topic in the other direction: "You just rely on it to arm your army and then defeat the coalition of more than forty nobles in the South." ?"

Gao Wen showed a smile, and Rebecca’s voice came from the side: “It’s their initiative to call!”

Victoria turned his head and saw that Cecil’s heir was standing next to a cake. Her eyes were wide, her mouth was a little creamy, her face was full of ecstasy, but the next The second girl exclaimed: "Wow, my aunt said that I will not let me interrupt me today..."

"It's okay, we're just chatting," Victoria nodded to Rebecca. "You are beautiful today, the Marquis of Rebecca."

Rebecca heard the other party greet him and suddenly reacted. This defeated all the ceremonial teachers, so the girl who failed the ceremonial class put the cake aside and tried to dress up according to the memory of the middle school: "Hello, Duke of Wilde, you are very today...hey?"

She finally reacted to what the other party called herself.

However, Gao Wen just stood aside with a smile, watching quietly like an outsider who had mastered everything in advance.

"Female... Marquis?" Rebecca narrowed his eyes and pointed to his nose while asking the Duke, "Are you talking about me?"

"Is it wrong? According to Ansu's law, the first aristocrats of adult aristocracy will automatically inherit a lower rank than their fathers before they officially inherit the title," Victoria said, looking at Rebecca, but this is obviously not just to say Rebecca heard, "The Duke of Govin Cecil has already developed a land in line with his title in the South, so according to the agreement in the silver castle that day, the power that the Cecil family should have also recovered. ”

Her eyes finally fell on Gao Wen, while the latter only nodded faintly, indicating that the matter was already known.

The expression of the Duke’s face did not change, but her heart sighed slightly.

Just as the things that Welsh in Wales said in the hands of the other party are not gifts, for such a ancestor who does not have to care about the attitude of the second dynasty, the "recognition" from St. Sunil is worthless. of.

Rebecca is slightly a bit of the "consultation in Silver Fort" mentioned by Victoria, she knows, because she also followed when she concluded this agreement. When her ancestors returned from Francis II, they returned for seven hundred years. In the former permanent pioneering power, the Second Dynasty also announced the recognition of the Duke’s title of the ancestors, but added restrictions on it: the Duke of Govin Cecil’s title will only serve as his personal permanent honor, not for hereditary, Unless he can use the pioneering power to develop a minimum land that meets the Duke’s title in his lifetime, the Cesar’s duke title and related powers can be restored...

At that time, the big men in Baiyinbao seemed to think that the ancestors could not open up a duke from the waste land in their lifetime.

In fact, the ancestors did not open up a duke collar from the waste soil. He killed the nobles in the south, which is completely different from what was said at the beginning...

Rebecca’s new Marquis de Cecil, with her eyes in her eyes, is drawing a formula in her brain that is good at dealing with mechanical and fireballs, trying to figure out the “owner who took up the people after they were killed. What is the difference between the land and the real land of no land in the waste soil? However, before she understood it, she saw that her ancestors had naturally chatted with the female duke: the ancestors seemed to Not at all unexpected, the Duke did not mention the details of the covenant on the same day...

Rebecca thought about it and suddenly felt that politics was really good. Everyone can be shameless...

In front of Gao Wen, Victoria is toasting slightly: "The situation in the kingdom is now turbulent. There is a strong guardian duke guarding the south. Everyone in the Silver Fort is relieved."

Gao Wen also raised his hand and smiled: "That's really good, but it looks like my outdated old man is very popular."

The two guardian dukes greeted each other and clinked them in a friendly way. When they said the words, they turned their minds to the opposite of their mouths, leaving a perfect photo of the reporters who were holding the magic net terminal on the side of the hall.

Then Gao Wen was ready to leave as the owner of this dinner, and he had more than one guest to entertain.

He and Victoria Wilde still have a lot to talk about, but he is not in a hurry, the really important thing is to talk after the banquet.

Looking at his own ancestor who turned away, Rebecca waved his hand: "Can I eat more cakes today?"

Gao Wen didn't look back: "You don't want to eat it."

"Hey! I know!"

After a few moments, Rebecca had another dish in his hand. The new female Marquis smiled and showed off to Victoria: "You should try this Mr. Ballside's cake is as good as his grilled meat. eat."

It is really carefree.

Victoria Wilder looked at Rebecca and looked at the girl who had already licked her face on her face and acted like a female marquis. She couldn’t help but shook her head.

"Don't you eat?"

"No, I just envy you a little."