The vast and clean streets, towering and neatly planned buildings, like a guard standing by the road, magic crystal street lights floating in the air, magic projections floating in the air, and incredible magic machines on display in the square...

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

Carroll was once a viscount, but because it was close to the Holy Spirit Plain and had a prosperous trade, it was once one of the richest areas in the southern region. The prosperity of Carroll City has always been a place that Cod was very satisfied and proud of, but compared with the city in front of him...

No, there is no need to compare the two cities.

There is no common smell of stinking and drowning in the air here, and there is no sight of ragged poor people and serfs walking around the streets. An indescribable "order" seems to be soaked in the air, and this sense of order is something Cod has never seen before.

He knew that the newly built government affairs department in Carroll City, and that some of the new laws promulgated by the Government Affairs Department had received support from local people, such as reducing tax burdens and allocating land, while others implemented difficulties, such as health law and some working systems. To be honest, even Cod could not fully understand the significance of the new policies. However, after seeing the scene in Cecil City today, he realized at least one thing:

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

After returning, we should mobilize the people from the business association, and at least we should make everyone willingly implement the health bill...

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

The Trail Blazers Square is next to the Government Affairs Office and the Lord's Mansion. There are only two streets between them. There are no city walls or moats in the middle. Only some posts guarding the road leading to the administrative district. The merchant's carriages stopped at one of the posts and were inspected.

Cod and Parr prepared the coins needed to handle the soldiers early. After the carriage stopped, they immediately obeyed the order and got out of the car. Then they saw a warrior wearing magic armor coming over: "Please show your identity certificate when parking to check."

Cod quickly took out his identity certificate issued by Cecil's business department and a letter of introduction signed by Minister Padric. While handing it to the soldiers, he estimated how much it would cost to handle such a guard to get it in place. Although he told Parr that he had been to Cecil, he had only been here once with the family's fleet last year to sell herbal materials. He has never been there since and he really can't tell him much about the city.

The so-called "Cecil has been here", there are some self-boasting elements in it.

And in a brief moment of thinking, the soldiers had checked the documents and confirmed the black and white portraits on the documents. Two other soldiers checked the situation of the carriage, and a clean voice came into Cod and Parr's ears: "You can go in after the inspection."

Cod nodded subconsciously, then was stunned: "Ah...ah?"

"You can go in," the soldier repeated again. After noticing the confused expression on the merchant's face, he looked down at the document in his hand and confirmed the contents again, "It's really no problem to go in, take your pass."

Cod, dizzyly, took the documents and the pass sent to him, returned to the carriage with Parr, until the carriage left the post, and he had not yet understood what had happened.

Parr was also confused: "Father... did those soldiers just now forget to collect our money?"

"How could I forget this kind of thing," Cod looked at his son, and then muttered in disbelief, "There is the same on Carroll, and the same on this... How did the Duke do it?"

With all the confusion in his mind, the carriage that the merchant and his son rode on continued to move forward.

After a moment, they arrived at the lord's mansion.

Leaving the carriage and looking up at the tall mansion in front of him, Cod took a deep breath. He carefully hid all the surprise, curiosity, confusion and excitement along the way under the calm and calm face, then sorted out his already impeccable clothes, and accompanied by a guard of the lord's house, he led Parr forward.

There was not only one car parked in front of the Lord's Mansion, but there were obviously other visitors here. In front of the gate depicting the Cecil family emblem, Cod saw a young woman walking out, wearing a decent women's winter clothes, stepping down the steps, as if she was about to leave.

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

"Miss Gipley has finished reporting so soon?"

The young woman said with a smile: "It's just a routine report."

The guards were looking forward to it: "Will there be any more shows tomorrow?"

"Of course, there are new shows to watch every day and in the past few days."

Cod came to the door and accompanied the guards to hand over, while the young woman called "Miss Giple" turned around and looked at the big merchant from Carol City curiously.

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

"Ah, I saw you on that... magic projection!" Cod looked at the young woman in front of him in surprise, and then he realized that the other party was the person he had seen on the holographic projection in the city before. This was the strange feeling of watching the real person before, and suddenly saw the real person surprised the big businessman. Then he saluted with his perfect manly demeanor, "Miss 'Witch', you are more beautiful than what you see on the projection."

"Thank you for your praise." Jipley nodded with a smile, but in the next second, a strange sense of familiarity emerged in her heart. The face of the middle-aged businessman in front of her overlapped with a face in her mind.

Cod also looked at Jiple for a moment. After putting aside the barrier of "magic projection", he looked at the "witch" lady, and his heart suddenly moved, and a vague sense of familiarity came to his heart.

The two people spoke in unison: "Have we seen each other?"

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

One autumn more than ten years ago, a young businessman who had just taken over the family business broke through the southern border and came to a strange city, ambitious.

In that autumn, a fleeing mage apprentice wandered in a foreign land, hungry.

The young businessman was looking for business opportunities, and with a certain high mood, he found a divination stall and wanted to hear a few good words.

The mage apprentice who was just a little girl was looking for food. She took out a few tricks she had just learned and wanted to exchange for two pieces of bread.

A speechless and short embarrassment was frozen in front of the steps of the Lord's Mansion. Carroll's big merchant and the famous witch lady on the Magic Network stood face to face. After a few seconds, the embarrassment was broken by the two people's unanimous laughter.

"You said that the city is full of gold," Cod took a step forward and reached out, "Cod, from Carroll."

"Jipley, I'm glad to know you again," Jipley shook the other person's hand gently, "I'm sorry, I lied to you at that time, I was very hungry."

"I know," Cod let go, and took a polite step back, "I can see that you can't divine at all."

Jipley smiled: "But it will be since that day."

They passed by, and the great merchant walked towards the gate of the lord's mansion, and the witch walked towards the carriage parked by the road, but before boarding the carriage, Gipley suddenly stopped and turned around and said loudly, "Mr. Cod's city is full of gold."

Cod looked back in surprise and saw the lady witch wave at him: "This time it's true."

The big businessman laughed: "I know."

The carriage on the side of the road drove away, and Cod and Paltz walked into the gate of the lord's mansion.

"Father," the young Pal finally couldn't help speaking after walking into the door, "Do you know that Miss Witch?"

"I met her when I was young, and she was just a little girl," said the big businessman casually, "She taught me the first lesson."

“Lesson 1?”

“Yes, the content is ‘Don’t believe in roadside divination’.”

...

In front of Gao Wen, there were two documents.

An analysis report from Rebecca on the "General Traction Chassis". In this report, there is a detailed interpretation of the complete system of the first-generation magic powered vehicle, and on this basis, the solution to create a universal traction chassis based on the technical experience of the magic vehicle as the starting point.

The magic car was successfully manufactured. The R&D personnel in this world used magic technology and the unique resources of the world, and finally successfully solved most of the technical problems they encountered. They allowed a vehicle that was driven by magic and could be operated by ordinary people. Although it was still very early to be perfected and had problems of one kind or another, this first step was undoubtedly successful.

A means of transportation that is stronger, faster, exhausted, and does not need to consume forage than a cattle and horse. With it, the transportation difficulties encountered during the large-scale construction of Cecil will undoubtedly be greatly alleviated. In order to maximize the value of this technology, it is necessary to manufacture various special engineering vehicles with different functions based on the principles of the magic car.

Under such a long period of influence from Gao Wen, Rebecca has already developed the concept of modular design and general technology, and has tasted great benefits from it. So after the magic car was built this time, the girl thought of a "general chassis" plan without waiting for Gao Wen's request.

In this plan, Rebecca believed that it was necessary to make the chassis of the first generation "475" magic car into a modular chassis that can be easily connected to other shells and traction materials, and then build a large number of derivative vehicles including trucks, buses, agricultural machinery, and engineering machines. She even drew a simple diagram of the chariot at the end of the report. The basic structure is to weld a light magic cannon on the chassis of the 475 magic car, and then surrounded a circle of steel plates outside the car shell...

There was even an inappropriate collision at the front of the car.

Simple, rough, simple and rough, 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 propose this concept...

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

"The Potential Value of Developing New Media"

Newspapers have gradually become popular in the southern region, and their coverage has basically reached every town-level unit. The new Magic Network Radio is centered on the cross axis and is covering more and more cities. People in the southern region are gradually familiar with these new things. On the other hand, the people who make newspapers and broadcasts are gradually familiar with these new tasks.

The role of new media in information dissemination has gradually been reflected, especially in the Lu'an City incident. The power displayed by public opinion propaganda impressed everyone in the Government Affairs Department. Hetty also lamented that the power of those newspapers and programs is no less than that of a fully armed army.

But Gao Wen knew that the value of these new media was far from being developed. They were still very narrow in application and were limited to the tools used by the Government Affairs Department when publishing their affairs.

The content is single, the category is scarce, and the commercial income is not so much a new media as a larger bulletin board.

This is too far from Gao Wen’s original goal.

He picked up the pen and listed the next step of the promotion plan in the plan. He wanted to find a way to teach leaders to actively participate in these new things, so that people could realize more deeply that what the lord created was not only used by the lord, but also used by ordinary people. He wanted to find ways to create more civilian markets, make these new things "live" and maximize their value...

The benefits of doing this are obvious. Just from the opening of the commercial sector of newspapers, on the one hand, it can open up people's wisdom more quickly, stimulate ordinary people to think, act, and accelerate Cecil's cultural construction. On the other hand, it can generate economic benefits to alleviate the increasing financial pressure of the Cecil Department of Government. The construction projects are squeezing the economy of the Principal of Cecil. Many new things created by Cecil are completely "official projects". They rely entirely on the finances of the Principal of Cecil, but they can hardly recover costs (or can only recover the previous costs and cannot generate subsequent benefits). They are 100% "government department industry" and are almost completely out of touch with various civil groups.

Although it's okay at this stage, it will sooner or later become a huge problem.

Of course, how to effectively control and prevent these new things from losing the control of the Department of Government Affairs should also be considered seriously...

Gao Wen frowned and thought, his pen was writing and stopped. He had to consider the future development direction of the new media and the corresponding management system, and how to guide and lead the people. Considering 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. Pal of Carol are here!"

Gao Wen was stunned for a moment, then he remembered who these two strange names were.

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

"Let them come in."

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

They finally saw the Southern ruler with their own eyes.

He sat behind the wide desk, holding a pen in his hand, and a huge floor-to-ceiling window behind him. The sunlight shone into the room through the floor-to-ceiling window and landed on the shoulders of the founding duke, as if wearing a light golden cloak.

He was taller than Cod had imagined.

"Duke," after a brief shock, the merchant quickly pulled his son and saluted respectfully, "We are extremely honored that your glory shines on this land."
Chapter completed!