industrial lord

Chapter 133 You Can't Make Money
"5000 florins?!"

Becher, the "God of Burning Law" with white curly hair, almost sprayed his saliva on Frederick's hand. The burning eyes are not an adjective but an objective description.

Frederick was as calm as water. Experts of this level were used to getting angry in front of him. He got even more angry when he questioned whether a certain Juggernaut's fish was bought from a vegetable market.

"5000 florins!" Becher gritted his teeth and said, "William only gave me 1500 florins a year, and you actually gave Heinrich 5000 florins?!"

Heinrich sat far away on a chair in the corner of the living room, with two wooden boxes, one large and one small, at his feet, holding a teacup in his hand, drinking tea leisurely.

I wrote a report on what I saw and heard in Wessenland and sent it back to the Royal Mages, emphasizing that Wessenburg University has a large collection of books here, worrying that these precious books will be destroyed in the war. A mouthful of the income of the magicians here.

The royal mages discussed the report while eating roasted pigs and drinking 50-year-old wine at the leader's house, and finally decided to protect those precious books and take a look at how the colleagues there made money.

They had just arrived at the castle when Frederick gave Heinrich a note of 5000 florins, so these guys became restless for a moment.

"Please explain clearly to me!" Becher was the least calm one, "Why did you give Heinrich so many gold coins? If you don't explain clearly, I will tie you back to Cologne!!"

Heinrich's popularity in the mage group is not very good. Although he is good in strength, he has little right to speak. When eating roast pigs together, he can't get good meat. He is a translucent character.

Now that he can get so much money, everyone can't help but wonder if there is something tricky in it.

Frederick smiled, with Psyche around, he really wasn't afraid of the Burning Dharma God.

"This money is an investment." Frederick said calmly, "Heinrich holds 5% of the shares with technology, and I take 5000% with 5 florins. The medium-term expected profit is about [-] florins."

He spoke very easily, just like buying a glass of beer in a tavern, regardless of the red eyes of a group of magicians around him.

"How is it possible?!" Becher understood Heinrich's specialty and strength very well, "It's true that he is good at using electric magic, and his spellcasting and theoretical attainments are excellent, but it is impossible to be worth that much money, even if It's not worth the price for him to capture the king!"

Heinrich was a little sad when he heard it, but he still held back his words and continued drinking tea.

Frederick smiled and asked Becher: "Does Heinrich have an achievement, when one kind of lightning magic circle bursts out lightning, another kind of magic circle can sense it, and the electric element in it also Will something change?"

Becher nodded and said: "That's right, there is this kind of magic, and we have developed a remote-controlled spell-casting device based on it."

He understands this. They feel that this kind of magic can make up for the lack of patrolling in key protected areas. Once someone triggers it, people not far away will be alerted.

Frederick shook his head and said, "It's such a waste of you to use this method to control the activation of magic traps, and you haven't discovered the value of it at all!"

"When Heinrich told me a while ago, I immediately discovered the value of it, and then called everyone together to come up with the finished product. After two days of experimentation, the effect reached the expectation. Today, we will sign an agreement to start a business together. It’s time to make a batch of products first.”

"If you don't have anything particularly important to go around, I'm busy arranging factory work."

He was going to drive people away, but he also aroused the curiosity of this group of people, so naturally he would not leave.

Seeing them like this, Frederick twitched his mouth slightly, and said to Heinrich who was drinking tea, "Bring those two devices and let them have a look."

Heinrich put down his teacup, moved the small wooden box at his feet to the coffee table in front of Frederick and put it away, then he hugged the big wooden box and greeted two familiar colleagues and he left the living room.

Frederick turned on the paddle switch on the wooden box, and sat there quietly with a smile on his face.

Becher and the others took this opportunity to study the magic circle in the wooden box and were shocked.

"Is it possible to do this?" A magician asked his colleagues.

The colleague thought about it and replied: "In theory, it is indeed possible."

Becher remained silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

One minute later, Heinrich's voice came from the wooden box on the coffee table: "Did you hear me, I started counting from one to ten."

The voice was a bit sharper than usual, but he could hear what he was saying clearly.

Then the two who left with Heinrich also said something, and they came back soon after, asking everyone if they heard what they said just now.

Now everyone understands that Heinrich's technology can not only be used to remotely control the activation of the magic circle, but also can be used to transmit sound.

The principle of this system is very simple and can be understood at a glance.

There is more than half of the sound amplification magic array in the box that sends the sound. The principle of this magic array is that the vibrating air drives the wind elements flowing in the receiving area, and then the vibrating wind elements drive more wind elements in the amplification area to vibrate and enter at the same time. Pronunciation area, finally vibrating the air in the pronunciation area to make a huge sound, now there is no amplification area here, the amplification area and the electric system magic array meet to form an intersection area.

In the intersection area, the vibrating wind element affects the electric element, making the electric spark change from big to small when the electric element enters the lightning zone, and the magic electric signal is strong and weak at the same time.

The working process in the sound box is reversed. The electric element output by the magic array receiving the magic electric signal is strong and weak at times, and then affects the wind element in the intersection area, and the final sound changes accordingly.

Used together, the two systems can transmit sound over long distances.

At first, Frederick thought that the information transmitted by the two systems was electromagnetic waves, and he did an electromagnetic induction experiment at the same time. As a result, the equipment did not respond at all. From this, it can be seen that it is another unknown thing.

"How many tens of thousands of florins can this earn?" Someone asked puzzledly, "I admit that this kind of thing is very useful in the army, but it can't sell that much at all."

Frederick just smiled and didn't say anything more on this topic. Now he wants to send these people away and rush to rebuild the broadcasting station in the tallest tower of the castle.

According to Heinrich's calculations, a signal transmission magic array is set up at the highest point of the castle, and Mingxing City, which is more than 100 kilometers away in a straight line, can also receive a clear signal.

"Magic, I can't do it. Making money, you can't." Frederick shook his head and said, "Your Excellency Becher, I heard that you are good at fire magic, why don't you do more research in this area?"

"If you can invent an iron-smelting furnace that uses flame magic and reduce the fuel cost of iron-smelting, the economic benefits will be more than a few thousand florins. I can offer fifty thousand florins to cooperate with you."

……

While Frederick lured the magicians of the Royal Mages to embark on the road of knowledge and wealth, in the blacksmith shop, Schmidt carefully studied the new documents sent by Frederick's secretary and began to arrange the production plan of the radio.

The production and final assembly of the radio's core magic array, casing, switch, volume controller and other components must be done by someone. According to Frederick's meaning, mature technology should be used as much as possible, which requires coordinating a large number of factories to expedite production.

Schmidt is familiar with the craftsmanship of many factories and workshops in Wessen Territory, so he needs to make a plan, and Ogilvy will coordinate as the government industrial officer of Wessen Territory.

When he finished his work, he found that Vanessa was still sitting on the sofa in the office, her eyes were a little lost, and her hand holding the teacup was still shaking.

"What's the matter?" Schmidt asked her curiously, "What do you seem to be afraid of?"

Vanessa replied with lingering fear: "Just now, when Your Excellency Becher got angry at the master, it was terrible. I felt as if there were flames all around me, and I was about to burn."

"Fortunately, I came out at that time, otherwise I would definitely cry."

She took a sip of her cold tea, trying to calm herself down.

Schmidt listened to what happened when Becher and others first went to Frederick's place, frowned slightly, and said: "It would make sense if it was Mr. Becher, he and the principal can be said to be enemies. .”

"What?!" Vanessa panicked suddenly, "Will he harm the master?"

Schmidt smiled and comforted her: "Don't worry, it's just an academic disagreement, and it won't be resolved by force."

Vanessa breathed a sigh of relief, and asked curiously, "Why do they have differences?"

Schmidt looked at the sky outside the window. It was almost lunch time, so he stood up and said, "Food is a good medicine for calming the mind. I heard that there is a new restaurant opened nearby. The food there is delicious. A stone mill that makes music."

"I don't know if the beautiful lady would be kind enough to have lunch with me. By the way, I would like to talk about your phlogiston theory, the principal's theory about energy, and the contradiction between the two."

Vanessa's face turned slightly red. They met for the first time when the smelter was producing activated carbon for the first time. At that time, this guy had been staring at him, and he knew what he was thinking.

Schmidt is well-known among the top management of Wesson, and it is said that he has a bright future. Vanessa decided to observe and observe first.

Before Vanessa agreed, Ogilvy suddenly appeared at the door of the office and said in a hurry: "Schmidt, is the plan ready? If it is done, I will call people here immediately. We will have a meal and talk at noon, and we will discuss it in the afternoon." Start arranging production, the sooner it is done well, the easier it will be for the army.”

Schmidt sighed inwardly, picked up the plan on the table and said, "This is the plan."

After receiving the plan, Ogilvy said, "I'll call for someone, and you can go to the cafeteria to make arrangements."

After speaking, he hurried away.

Seeing Schmidt's disappointed expression, Vanessa said, "It's okay, let's talk when we have time."

(End of this chapter)