Chapter 55 Foundation Laying
Amber's mouth was as random as ever and extremely poor. If it were usual, Gao Wen would have been carrying the Trail Blazer Sword to beat this guy on the wall. However, this time, he did not quarrel with Amber.
Because he is in a really good mood.
He even had the mood to discuss some serious questions with Amber: "Do you know how valuable that magic array is?"
"How valuable?" Amber blinked. To be fair, the half-elves lady was quite confident about her magical attainments - she believed that she knew nothing in the relevant fields, so she was not embarrassed to admit it. "I can't even understand several magic runes on it. I don't know how valuable it is..."
Gao Wen really didn't expect that the other party was so honest and almost choked to death. But at least he had experienced the Internet era in his previous life, and even the poorest people had seen it, so he quickly adjusted his mindset: "Then I'll ask you in a different way - if magic becomes something that everyone can use, or everyone can 'borrow', how valuable do you think this technology can be?"
Amber was stunned for a moment. After half a minute, she said in disbelief: "You mean... that magic circle can turn everyone into a magician? Could it be that you have been dizzy when you see too much sun in the past two days?"
Gao Wen did not pay attention to the lack of draw in the other party's words, but shook his head in a good mood: "Of course it can't turn everyone into a magician, but it may allow everyone to come into contact with the extraordinary realm. I guess Hetty probably didn't really realize the meaning of that magic array. It is not just as simple as 'a bad spell caster assembled a large magic array with basic runes'. Its greatest significance is a breakthrough, a breakthrough in 'general, universal, and easy to use'. In order for his daughter who has no magic talent to receive magic power, the wild mage allows the self-charged magic array to provide a constant and adjustable magic output to any magic-consuming unit. Before this... no great magician in the world has any concept of this, because those great magicians have always used their own hands to complete this process."
Amber felt a little confused about Gao Wen’s idea: “You can control magic freely with your own strength. Isn’t this much more powerful than the wild mage who needs to use a huge magic array to achieve similar goals?”
Gao Wen looked at Amber's eyes: "The mountain giant ape can easily slap the brown bear's head with a slap, but humans need a warhammer to do the same thing. Which one do you think is more powerful?"
Amber: “……Eh?”
Gao Wen ignored Amber who was in shock and thought, but stood up and came to the tent door.
The treasure left by the unknown wild mage not only includes a magic circle, but also a large number of research records he left in his notebook. As a "weaker" with extremely limited spell casting ability, he had to use calculations and advanced ideas to make up for his shortcomings. His research notes were left in this aspect everywhere. Gao Wen was deeply surprised when he first saw those things. He didn't even believe that those things were left by a person living in the ignorant and suppressed medieval era.
Automatic operation, compatible with transmission interface, "fool-style" external control, rune arrangement rules based on geometry, rune simplified formula...
Without an open vision from another world, from the perspective of most people in this world, these "clumsy struggles" would probably be swept into the garbage dump, because any caster who reached the middle level can directly use various super magic skills to skip the steps recorded in the wild mage's notes - they never thought about the whimsical thing of "making inferior people who do not have magic or low magical talent control magic power."
The great magicians who wield flames and thunder on their own might be feared, but in Gauwen's view, this mysterious and powerful skill was truly sublimated until the day when a crappy wild mage stripped magic as a tool from "personal talent" and liberated his hands, and this mysterious and powerful skill was truly sublimated - it turned from a fist to a stick.
Just like the first time a human has tied a stone to a wooden stick and used this rough warhammer to kill a beast several times stronger than itself, this is a leap.
Unfortunately, after thousands of years, humans are still creating warhammers.
Gao Wen felt it was time for him to install a rocket booster on this warhammer...
Putting aside Rebecca, who was holding the original image of the magic circle to study how to construct it, on the third day when a large number of people were finally in place, the land reclamation work of Cecil's pioneering land was officially launched.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, food is the foundation of survival. No matter how many grand plans there are in Gao Wen’s mind based on the heavy-liu Steamed Steel and Rocket Aided Power Hammer, he must first ensure that the people in the territory are filled with their stomachs.
When I was in Tanzan, I had already purchased enough food. The king also promised the supply of food and cloth in the early years of the territory. However, these were only transitional purposes. If you want to survive for a long time, self-sufficiency is necessary. Although it is not impossible to use the resources produced by mines to buy food from nearby lords, as a pioneer who traveled from the Celestial Empire, Gao Wen has the obsessive-compulsive disorder that most Celestial people have-
Obsessive-compulsive disorder without food.
Reclaim the land! Farming! You dare to sleep if you don’t open ten acres of land after you arrive? If you don’t open two vegetable gardens behind the base, you will be embarrassed to say that you have gained a foothold. Since ancient times, there is only one standard for expanding territory and living for a long time - that is, to cultivate a piece of land!
Of course, it is normal to have this idea, but in this world where extraordinary power exists, Gao Wen is very clear that he still has a lot to learn.
A very simple truth - after knowing that humans in this world can smel iron with the help of runes and use straw as fuel, who can guarantee that they can compare with the local primitive technology by piled up manure?
What's more, without knowing the basic rules of this world, Gao Wen was not sure how much earth knowledge he remembered in his mind could work here. What if the microbial activities in this world do not follow the Basic Law...
But no matter these details, the basic idea of farming first if you want to settle down is always good.
Gao Wen came to the place where the wasteland was reclaimed, and everything here was still in a very basic stage. Rebecca took the time to come yesterday and put a big fireball on the weeds and bushes for half a day to complete a perfect burning of wasteland. Today, the serfs began to turn the land deep so that they could turn the fertile ash into the soil layer and remove the stones mixed in the land.
Gao Wen was delighted to see that the system he had ordered in advance was also implemented here - a wooden sign was inserted every hundred steps on the vast wasteland, which divided the entire reclamation area into many even plots, and the working people worked within the plots, and several other groups of people were moving between plots to prepare for digging ditches. A wooden shed was temporarily built next to the reclamation area, and Heti and several people stayed there, responsible for recording the progress of the work, registering the withdrawal tools and return of each group.
At the same time, there was a big pot stove in the wooden shed, and the lunch of the land reclamator was also solved near the shed.
People who work are already familiar with Gao Wen's appearance - this "somewhat strange noble master" always likes to sway on the noisy construction site and specializes in chatting with mud legs. At first this made many people nervous and uneasy, but now...
There was still tension, but the anxiety subsided a lot, especially after Gao Wen fulfilled the two immediate promises of "all serious workers can eat enough" and "people who work extra hard have meat to eat", the civilians and serfs in the territory have become more trust and close to this new lord who keeps his promise and is famous.
Gao Wen walked through the busy labor scene and came to the wooden shed on the side of the ground. Hetty was standing next to him with a dark-skinned farmer-like man. The two were communicating with serious expressions, while Knight Philip was guarding the side.
Gao Wen's nearly two meters tall had a full presence. As soon as he approached, Hedy looked up and stood up. The farmer with his back facing him turned around. Seeing that it was the Lord's Master, he hurriedly bent down and bowed: "Lord's Master..."
"Don't be nervous," Gao Wen waved his hand, "I'm just here to see the situation."
Then he looked at the man who looked like a farmer but was discussing the problem with Hetty: "Are you an expert in farming?"
In the common human terms in Loren continent, "expert" and "scholar" are the same words. When the farmer heard Gao Wen call him this, he waved his hand nervously and fearfully: "How could I compare to those profound big names...I am just a farmer..."
"His name is Norris," said Hetty, "he is a farmer in the territory, and his farming skills are very good. I asked someone to ask about land reclamation and farming, and then I found him."
Gao Wen looked up and down at Norris. This was a typical medieval farmer with dark skin, thin skin, thick hands and feet, and a humble expression on his face. He looked about forty or fifty years old, or older, but Gao Wen was not sure of his real age. Heavy labor and malnutrition made every civilian on the Loren continent aging prematurely. Although humans in this world have a lifespan that exceeds the lifespan of people on earth under health, and the average age of nobles has reached 100 to 150 years (without using external forces such as magic to extend their lifespan), in fact, 90% of the population in this world is unhealthy, and many workers are sometimes old in their twenties.
The civilians in Cecil's territory could at least maintain food and clothing and live longer than the civilians in other territories, but the premature aging caused by labor cannot be avoided.
The farmer named Norris turned his neck a little nervously under Gao Wen's sight and showed a humble smile.
But this humble smile made Gao Wen slightly stunned.
Chapter completed!