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Chapter 101 One Pot of Tea and One Newspaper for One Day
Chapter 101 Sitting for a day with a pot of tea and a newspaper
Recently, there have been many new things in Wessenburg, and the teahouse is one of them.
Tea has long been used as a refreshing remedy.
The custom of drinking tea as a beverage has only been popular among the nobles for decades, but it has not yet become popular among the people. For a long time, people regarded drinking tea as arty.
The development of commerce made foreign merchants need a place where they could exchange news, find business opportunities and negotiate, so teahouses appeared.
The teahouses in Wessenburg are often divided into two floors. The first floor is the lobby, where you can sit for a day with a pot of tea and some snacks, and there are light meals at the same time. It doesn’t cost a lot of money; the second floor is separated by thick wooden boards The private room, you are not afraid of the sound leaking out during the discussion, but the price is expensive, and the boss's profit comes from here.
Giovanni Abelardo got up early in the morning as usual, went to the teahouse opposite the hotel, found a seat by the window on the first floor, and glanced curiously at the person at the other table pressing his eyes , and then asked for a set meal as usual: a pot of black tea, a plate of small biscuits, a plate of nuts, a plate of fruit jelly and a copy of today's newspaper.
Giovanni was recommended by distant relatives to be the president of the Wesson Family Bank. He left Sardinia with his father to work in a bank in the lowlands at the age of 12, and went to Cologne alone to work in another bank at the age of 16. At the age of 24, he started his own business as the president of a bank of a large aristocratic family in the Kingdom of Lisenberg.
It's just that the president didn't work for a few years. The boss was killed by a rising star in the Gaul Kingdom on the battlefield, and the family was torn apart due to political turmoil.
Giovanni could only bring the core members of his team back to the Kingdom of Sardinia, and served as the governor of the city bank in a port for several years.
When he received news from his relatives that there was a baron in the northern highlands of the White Mountains who wanted to open a family bank and asked him to preside over the work, he dismissed it. There is no seaside prosperity in the mountains. There are trees in that place besides the mountains. Do you want to exchange gold coins with monsters? ?
But the relative stated clearly in the letter that the Wesson family began to dig a canal connecting the Rhine and the Danube in the territory, and at the same time, the high-level officials of the Averardo family also planned to occupy a position there. Giovanni finally agreed and brought With his core team set off.
Thirty years of banking career had given Giovanni a cautious character. He had come to Wessenburg a long time ago, but he didn't go to see Baron Wessen right away. Instead, he stayed and asked around for news.
To Giovanni's surprise, Wesson had a cheap paper that could replace parchment, and there was also the "Wesson Daily" full of all kinds of news he wanted.
"Wessen Daily" was published less than a month ago. It was sponsored by the Wessen Land Executive Yuan. The editor of the newspaper was Frederick's culture teacher Walter. It had news, reviews, agriculture, industry, education, economy, law, and military affairs. , medical care, culture, sports, learning world and advertising, a total of [-] editions.
Giovanni read the newspaper very carefully, analyzing each news line by line and analyzing the meaning behind the news.
The headline news on the front page today is that a soldier named Bobo caught two pickpockets when he was out on a procurement mission the day before yesterday. He was personally received and commended by Baron Wesson yesterday, and rewarded with 10 florins.Baron Wessen emphasized in his conversation that the army is a solid shield for the people of Wessenland.
Giovanni studied the news for half an hour, and then turned to the last page, where, like yesterday, the first half advertised the recruitment of soldiers this fall.
The requirements for conscription in autumn are the same as those in spring. In addition to physical conditions such as height, weight, and eyesight, they also require guarantees from local gentry. The annual military salary is the same as that of ordinary craftsmen, but they have preferential treatment such as lower standards for schooling and job applicants.
Giovanni finally concluded that Baron Wesson wanted to improve the status of ordinary soldiers and change their image among the people.
He recalled that the recent front-page headlines included Wesson's proposal to optimize the household registration system and conduct a new round of household registration statistics, designate guide prices for people's livelihood commodities, and grain merchants who can get targeted product tax relief for selling grain, etc. It can be seen that Baron Wesson Also began to prepare for the army.
After taking a sip of tea, Giovanni began to calculate the date of war.
The most important thing in war is food, and the time of war can be calculated by the time of grain storage.
This year, the weather in the surrounding areas is good, and the summer harvest in several surrounding territories can be considered above average. As long as there are no natural disasters after the summer harvest next year, they will be able to stock up enough food for a small-scale war. After the autumn harvest, the food will be more abundant.
It can be seen from this that the earliest time for the war to start is after the summer harvest next year, and the latest is after the autumn harvest and before snowfall.
The Abelardo family has a tradition of investing in war, which is the most profitable business.
Giovanni naturally wanted to invest in this coming war, and there were not a few people who thought the same.
The financial circle is small and closed, and outsiders can't see it, but he has already found many colleagues from all over the world, even from the southern continent. At the same time, he was also discovered by them, but they thought they were doing the same thing.
They are all waiting, on the one hand to collect more information, and on the other hand, they have to reappear when the atmosphere is tense as before, so that they can negotiate terms.
No one doubted the victory of the war, because not long ago, Manuai Sage, the vice president of Wessenburg University, publicly stated in the newspaper that defending the homeland is also the responsibility of all teachers and students of the school.
What's even more frustrating is that yesterday's newspaper military section reported on the work of the militia organization in Wessenland. It mentioned that the militia organization at Wessenburg University used magicians as militiamen, which is unprecedented.
Giovanni continued to read the news. Under the headlines on the front page were all the management staff and employees of the Wesson Smelter who were happy to raise more than half of the bonus.
He stopped here for a while, the Wesson smelter has been to it himself, and the gathering of 50 5-meter-high furnaces is enough to frighten anyone who knows how to do it.
Earlier news reported that the daily iron output of Weisen Smelter and the single-day iron output of a single furnace reached a new high. There is no report on the production of elemental steel.
At this time, Giovanni noticed a sentence in the news that a new smelter was being selected.
What is certain is that Wessen Territory will become the steel center on the mainland in the future.
Giovanni read a news article introducing the progress of the construction of the Carolina Canal, and then turned to the second page. The headline of this page called for the selection of better varieties for planting to increase crop yields.
Everyone in Wesson now knows that the winter wheat yield in the experimental fields this year is double that of previous years, and there are even football matches in various places to grab seeds. It is estimated that farmers will make choices without calling on them.
In the agriculture section, Giovanni noticed two reports.
One is a report on red eggplant in the column dedicated to introducing crops imported from Peach Blossom Stone. This fruit is bright red in color, thick and juicy, sweet in taste, and rich in nutrition. It is suitable whether it is used as fruit, cooking or made into jam. A recipe for beef stew with red tomatoes is also attached at the end.
Another report is that the Bureau of Agriculture introduced the six-year crop rotation method to cooperate with the breeding industry. It can be seen that this farming model can discover the breeding industry while ensuring food rations.
Giovanni drank some tea and ate some snacks, and continued to read carefully.
The Industrial Edition vigorously reported on a double-horse steel-frame load-carrying carriage produced by Benz Carriage Factory. This kind of carriage has a large weight and is suitable for long-distance transportation.
Today's education edition has three editions, each publishing two articles.
The first page is an article by Father Ames from Bohemia on advocating universal primary education, unifying the school system, adopting the class teaching system, and expanding the categories and contents of subjects.
The second page published an article written by a scholar named August, which advocated early childhood education and standardized the construction of kindergartens.
The third page is an article by a commentator under the pseudonym "Professor Kaido". In the article, the views of Father Ames and Scholars Herbart were highly praised, and on the basis of their articles, they perfected the idea of unifying teaching materials and establishing teacher education. The theory proposes an education system from kindergarten at the age of 3, elementary school at the age of 6, vocational school or intermediate school at the age of 12 to university entrance at the end, and discusses the feasibility of 6-year compulsory education.
Giovanni spent hours reading these three articles, and the waiter didn't notice when he brought his lunch as usual.
He felt that the importance of these three articles should be placed on the headlines of the front page. Now that they are included, Baron Wesson may think that this matter may be controversial, so he did not publicize it with much fanfare.
After he finished watching the educational version, he quickly ate some cold noodles with meat sauce, and then continued to read the next part.
He glanced at the economic section, focusing on an article written by the commentator "Scrooge McDuck" on optimizing the layout of industries by taking advantage of regional advantages.
The legal edition is still the interpretation of Wesson's law and the corresponding case analysis, and several typical economic dispute cases are published at the same time.
The medical edition has a large space to remind everyone that food is easy to deteriorate in summer and is forbidden to eat, and there are pictures of bacteria on spoiled food under the microscope.
The three pages of military, culture, and sports are combined into one because the education page occupies the page.
In the military edition is an article introducing mountain mercenaries. The author's pen name is "Forest Lion". Judging from the content, he should be a senior forest mercenary. The article is full of disdain for mountain mercenaries.
There are fables and poems in the cultural edition, but Giovanni thinks that the ugly duckling grows up and turns into a white swan is the problem of the mother duck.
There are a lot of pictures in the sports section, which are the essentials and precautions for exercising the shoulders in the dumbbell fitness method made by the sword master Richard Nall, and the four-section eye exercises.
Giovanni understood what the man was doing when he first arrived, and tried eye exercises according to the newspaper, and felt that it had some effect.
After he finished his eye exercises, he looked at the Rhine language and mathematics self-study content in the learning world edition, and studied the last edition and the advertisement in the middle, and found that it was already dark.
(End of this chapter)
Recently, there have been many new things in Wessenburg, and the teahouse is one of them.
Tea has long been used as a refreshing remedy.
The custom of drinking tea as a beverage has only been popular among the nobles for decades, but it has not yet become popular among the people. For a long time, people regarded drinking tea as arty.
The development of commerce made foreign merchants need a place where they could exchange news, find business opportunities and negotiate, so teahouses appeared.
The teahouses in Wessenburg are often divided into two floors. The first floor is the lobby, where you can sit for a day with a pot of tea and some snacks, and there are light meals at the same time. It doesn’t cost a lot of money; the second floor is separated by thick wooden boards The private room, you are not afraid of the sound leaking out during the discussion, but the price is expensive, and the boss's profit comes from here.
Giovanni Abelardo got up early in the morning as usual, went to the teahouse opposite the hotel, found a seat by the window on the first floor, and glanced curiously at the person at the other table pressing his eyes , and then asked for a set meal as usual: a pot of black tea, a plate of small biscuits, a plate of nuts, a plate of fruit jelly and a copy of today's newspaper.
Giovanni was recommended by distant relatives to be the president of the Wesson Family Bank. He left Sardinia with his father to work in a bank in the lowlands at the age of 12, and went to Cologne alone to work in another bank at the age of 16. At the age of 24, he started his own business as the president of a bank of a large aristocratic family in the Kingdom of Lisenberg.
It's just that the president didn't work for a few years. The boss was killed by a rising star in the Gaul Kingdom on the battlefield, and the family was torn apart due to political turmoil.
Giovanni could only bring the core members of his team back to the Kingdom of Sardinia, and served as the governor of the city bank in a port for several years.
When he received news from his relatives that there was a baron in the northern highlands of the White Mountains who wanted to open a family bank and asked him to preside over the work, he dismissed it. There is no seaside prosperity in the mountains. There are trees in that place besides the mountains. Do you want to exchange gold coins with monsters? ?
But the relative stated clearly in the letter that the Wesson family began to dig a canal connecting the Rhine and the Danube in the territory, and at the same time, the high-level officials of the Averardo family also planned to occupy a position there. Giovanni finally agreed and brought With his core team set off.
Thirty years of banking career had given Giovanni a cautious character. He had come to Wessenburg a long time ago, but he didn't go to see Baron Wessen right away. Instead, he stayed and asked around for news.
To Giovanni's surprise, Wesson had a cheap paper that could replace parchment, and there was also the "Wesson Daily" full of all kinds of news he wanted.
"Wessen Daily" was published less than a month ago. It was sponsored by the Wessen Land Executive Yuan. The editor of the newspaper was Frederick's culture teacher Walter. It had news, reviews, agriculture, industry, education, economy, law, and military affairs. , medical care, culture, sports, learning world and advertising, a total of [-] editions.
Giovanni read the newspaper very carefully, analyzing each news line by line and analyzing the meaning behind the news.
The headline news on the front page today is that a soldier named Bobo caught two pickpockets when he was out on a procurement mission the day before yesterday. He was personally received and commended by Baron Wesson yesterday, and rewarded with 10 florins.Baron Wessen emphasized in his conversation that the army is a solid shield for the people of Wessenland.
Giovanni studied the news for half an hour, and then turned to the last page, where, like yesterday, the first half advertised the recruitment of soldiers this fall.
The requirements for conscription in autumn are the same as those in spring. In addition to physical conditions such as height, weight, and eyesight, they also require guarantees from local gentry. The annual military salary is the same as that of ordinary craftsmen, but they have preferential treatment such as lower standards for schooling and job applicants.
Giovanni finally concluded that Baron Wesson wanted to improve the status of ordinary soldiers and change their image among the people.
He recalled that the recent front-page headlines included Wesson's proposal to optimize the household registration system and conduct a new round of household registration statistics, designate guide prices for people's livelihood commodities, and grain merchants who can get targeted product tax relief for selling grain, etc. It can be seen that Baron Wesson Also began to prepare for the army.
After taking a sip of tea, Giovanni began to calculate the date of war.
The most important thing in war is food, and the time of war can be calculated by the time of grain storage.
This year, the weather in the surrounding areas is good, and the summer harvest in several surrounding territories can be considered above average. As long as there are no natural disasters after the summer harvest next year, they will be able to stock up enough food for a small-scale war. After the autumn harvest, the food will be more abundant.
It can be seen from this that the earliest time for the war to start is after the summer harvest next year, and the latest is after the autumn harvest and before snowfall.
The Abelardo family has a tradition of investing in war, which is the most profitable business.
Giovanni naturally wanted to invest in this coming war, and there were not a few people who thought the same.
The financial circle is small and closed, and outsiders can't see it, but he has already found many colleagues from all over the world, even from the southern continent. At the same time, he was also discovered by them, but they thought they were doing the same thing.
They are all waiting, on the one hand to collect more information, and on the other hand, they have to reappear when the atmosphere is tense as before, so that they can negotiate terms.
No one doubted the victory of the war, because not long ago, Manuai Sage, the vice president of Wessenburg University, publicly stated in the newspaper that defending the homeland is also the responsibility of all teachers and students of the school.
What's even more frustrating is that yesterday's newspaper military section reported on the work of the militia organization in Wessenland. It mentioned that the militia organization at Wessenburg University used magicians as militiamen, which is unprecedented.
Giovanni continued to read the news. Under the headlines on the front page were all the management staff and employees of the Wesson Smelter who were happy to raise more than half of the bonus.
He stopped here for a while, the Wesson smelter has been to it himself, and the gathering of 50 5-meter-high furnaces is enough to frighten anyone who knows how to do it.
Earlier news reported that the daily iron output of Weisen Smelter and the single-day iron output of a single furnace reached a new high. There is no report on the production of elemental steel.
At this time, Giovanni noticed a sentence in the news that a new smelter was being selected.
What is certain is that Wessen Territory will become the steel center on the mainland in the future.
Giovanni read a news article introducing the progress of the construction of the Carolina Canal, and then turned to the second page. The headline of this page called for the selection of better varieties for planting to increase crop yields.
Everyone in Wesson now knows that the winter wheat yield in the experimental fields this year is double that of previous years, and there are even football matches in various places to grab seeds. It is estimated that farmers will make choices without calling on them.
In the agriculture section, Giovanni noticed two reports.
One is a report on red eggplant in the column dedicated to introducing crops imported from Peach Blossom Stone. This fruit is bright red in color, thick and juicy, sweet in taste, and rich in nutrition. It is suitable whether it is used as fruit, cooking or made into jam. A recipe for beef stew with red tomatoes is also attached at the end.
Another report is that the Bureau of Agriculture introduced the six-year crop rotation method to cooperate with the breeding industry. It can be seen that this farming model can discover the breeding industry while ensuring food rations.
Giovanni drank some tea and ate some snacks, and continued to read carefully.
The Industrial Edition vigorously reported on a double-horse steel-frame load-carrying carriage produced by Benz Carriage Factory. This kind of carriage has a large weight and is suitable for long-distance transportation.
Today's education edition has three editions, each publishing two articles.
The first page is an article by Father Ames from Bohemia on advocating universal primary education, unifying the school system, adopting the class teaching system, and expanding the categories and contents of subjects.
The second page published an article written by a scholar named August, which advocated early childhood education and standardized the construction of kindergartens.
The third page is an article by a commentator under the pseudonym "Professor Kaido". In the article, the views of Father Ames and Scholars Herbart were highly praised, and on the basis of their articles, they perfected the idea of unifying teaching materials and establishing teacher education. The theory proposes an education system from kindergarten at the age of 3, elementary school at the age of 6, vocational school or intermediate school at the age of 12 to university entrance at the end, and discusses the feasibility of 6-year compulsory education.
Giovanni spent hours reading these three articles, and the waiter didn't notice when he brought his lunch as usual.
He felt that the importance of these three articles should be placed on the headlines of the front page. Now that they are included, Baron Wesson may think that this matter may be controversial, so he did not publicize it with much fanfare.
After he finished watching the educational version, he quickly ate some cold noodles with meat sauce, and then continued to read the next part.
He glanced at the economic section, focusing on an article written by the commentator "Scrooge McDuck" on optimizing the layout of industries by taking advantage of regional advantages.
The legal edition is still the interpretation of Wesson's law and the corresponding case analysis, and several typical economic dispute cases are published at the same time.
The medical edition has a large space to remind everyone that food is easy to deteriorate in summer and is forbidden to eat, and there are pictures of bacteria on spoiled food under the microscope.
The three pages of military, culture, and sports are combined into one because the education page occupies the page.
In the military edition is an article introducing mountain mercenaries. The author's pen name is "Forest Lion". Judging from the content, he should be a senior forest mercenary. The article is full of disdain for mountain mercenaries.
There are fables and poems in the cultural edition, but Giovanni thinks that the ugly duckling grows up and turns into a white swan is the problem of the mother duck.
There are a lot of pictures in the sports section, which are the essentials and precautions for exercising the shoulders in the dumbbell fitness method made by the sword master Richard Nall, and the four-section eye exercises.
Giovanni understood what the man was doing when he first arrived, and tried eye exercises according to the newspaper, and felt that it had some effect.
After he finished his eye exercises, he looked at the Rhine language and mathematics self-study content in the learning world edition, and studied the last edition and the advertisement in the middle, and found that it was already dark.
(End of this chapter)
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