industrial lord

Chapter 227 Gu~ Then You Lend Me Some Money
On the carriage leaving the waterworks, Maria asked Frederick, "Why did you bring water to the city from so far away?"

Frederick thought to himself, I can’t tell you that I have seen a set of data in my previous life. In 1958, among the three villages of more than 1000 people in Tianjin, one had a simple water plant. The disease rate is 11.3%, and the other two villages are 16.66% and 19.2%.

So he thought for a while, and explained to Maria what microorganisms in nature were all about in plain language.

This gave him an idea, whether the organization should publish a set of popularization books such as "One Hundred Thousand Whys", using easy-to-understand language and pictures to popularize relevant knowledge to children like Maria.

The next day, Frederick did not take Maria out for inspection, because the place he was going to go to that day was theoretically not very safe.

"Gu~ kill me!"

Although the girl complained, she still skillfully carried a steel rail on her shoulder and walked towards the roadbed paved with stones.

At this moment, Belle Burke's long hair was cut off to shoulder length, and he was wearing a burlap jumper like other prisoners of war, with thick cushions sewn on his shoulders.

The appearance of Frederick caused a commotion on the railway site. Last year's war had already spread here. These prisoners of war looked at the man in front of them with trepidation, for fear that he would catch him and stew him.

Only Belle Burke pouted, as if he didn't see it, and continued to move the rails from the carriage to the sleepers and put them in place.

Frederick sneered, pointed at her and said to the foreman in this section: "That woman successfully caught my attention and asked her to wait for me in my carriage."

After finishing speaking, he asked someone to give himself a ruler, and personally measured whether the dimensions of the roadbed, sleepers and steel rails were qualified.

This is the railway from Weissenburg City to the city of Hausen in the northwest via the Oak City by the canal, and will be further extended to the city of Reichardt, which was formerly the city of Ansbach.

The railway is 1.5 meters wide at one step, and it is planned to pass a 50-horsepower locomotive, which can pull 5 to 6 carriages at a time, transport 120 to 150 tons of goods, and travel at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour.

According to the plan, every town in Wessen State will have a railway to form a railway network to promote the development of transportation in various regions.

The construction of the railway will follow the expansion of Frederick's territory. Wherever the golden double-headed eagle flag is inserted, the railway will be built.

Now there are signs of troubled times on the east bank of the Elbe River, and the Osmarga Empire does not seem to be stable. Otherwise, they would not have remained defensive in Bohemia after the defeat of Casimir, or they would have been able to attack Bohemia at that time. The large basin of Himia reached the territory of the Piast Kingdom. Frederick felt that after the First Five-Year Plan, it would be able to initially expand, and it would not be a problem to expand to the North Sea coast after developing several Five-Year Plans to consolidate the territory.

Frederick randomly selected a few places for measurement and found that it was basically qualified, and he announced with satisfaction that everyone in the evening would add chicken legs.

He glanced at several corpses hanging on the wooden pole not far away, and said to the foreman, "Take it and bury it, it's an eyesore."

When he got back into the carriage, Tony chased everyone around him away.

Bell Burke was waiting in the car, and Frederick asked her curiously, "I heard you got into a fight a while ago?"

"Yeah." Belle Burke nodded, "A woman brought her daughter to find her husband. Her husband died long ago, so she worked in the kitchen with a fellow villager. Some trash wanted to fuck her daughter, and I happened to be nearby. , When you hear the sound, go over and kill them."

In any case, Belle Burke has been trained as a knight since she was a child. After two years of work, her physical strength and vitality are good. Three or five ordinary mercenaries really can't deal with her.

Frederick took out a towel from a box next to her and wiped her face with water. At the same time, he said, "I have done a lot of deeds and deeds. You have performed important meritorious deeds. You can go home now."

Bell Burke shook his head after wiping the sweat off his face and neck and said, "I don't have the face to go back, even if I could go back before, I can't go back now."

Frederick asked strangely: "Why can't I go back?"

Belle Burke gave him a hard look, and said: "I met Baron Adiken when I went grocery shopping last year. He told me everything about your business with my family. Now everyone thinks I'm your lover." , I will be regarded as being rejected by you if I go back like this, do I still have the face to face others?"

Frederick asked her, "Then what are you going to do next?"

Belle Burke looked Frederick up and down, nodded and said: "You look pretty good-looking when you grow up a bit, I don't dislike being your lover, just three to five hundred florins annuity, this kind of people are worthy your identity."

Frederick heard a vein on his forehead, but he calmed down quickly, and said in a cold voice, "I don't support idlers."

Unexpectedly, Belle Burke shook his head, smiled softly and said: "You may not know that Madam's social circle is a very important circle, and you can get a lot of useful information. I'm worth the price."

"Not interested." Frederick shook his head, "You might as well continue building the railway here, at least you won't starve to death."

Bell Burke pouted and said, "Then lend me some money and do me a few favors. I can support myself and pay back the money in a short time."

Frederick was noncommittal, just let her talk.

"First," Bell Burke said, "I'm your mistress."

Frederick glared at her with black hair, and said, "You're going to blackmail me about this forever, right?"

Bell Burke didn't answer, and continued to say seriously: "I've seen the kind of cooking car used by your army. I want to buy it. I will buy five cars first, and I will buy the later ones when I have money."

"Now those prisoners of war who are repairing the railway are their wives who cook as cooks. I will recruit them to work for me."

"Nowadays, when building railways, we often change locations. Every time we change the kitchen, we have to dismantle the kitchen and rebuild it. It is very troublesome. It is convenient to have that kind of cooking car, and you can follow the construction site."

"At that time, I can pack three meals for a construction site. If I pack more, I can go to the village to purchase directly. The price is much cheaper, and I can earn more."

"I found out that many prisoners of war are willing to stay and work in the future. By that time, I have already recruited many of their wives, and it will be easy to recruit them again."

"At that time, you must hire someone to do the work. Skilled people like them must be much better than novices. I have the status of your mistress, so I am not afraid of being robbed of my work."

Frederick was silent for a long time after listening, and his gaze at Bell Burke became sharper.

"You look very smart." Frederick asked her again, "Why do you always decide to be my mistress?"

Bell Burke shrugged and said calmly: "When I was first captured, if I hadn't said that I was noble, you would definitely find me as a mistress in the future, and you could get a lot of money by handing me over to you. Bonus, I have long been thrown into the mountain by those people."

"Do you really think this is heaven? I saved one when I saw it that day. Do you know how many I didn't see?"

"A widow died last month. It was the guards who did it. Anyway, no one will come forward and let it go."

Frederick frowned tightly upon hearing this.

Bell Burke continued: "Wait, wait for something to happen, your territory will be full of bandits."

The corner of Frederick's mouth twitched, and then he sighed deeply.

Belle Burke seemed to want to vent something, and said: "You think I really like you, so I want to be your mistress, don't I just don't want to be fucked to death, seeing that you are so handsome is not a loss I."

Frederick became thoughtful after hearing this, and said to her after a while: "I will ask Police Minister Dominic to come to you tomorrow. You are familiar with the things you just said, and you can talk to those people. This matter is settled, and I will give you a sum of money to let you do what you want to do."

Belle Burke didn't have any happy expression, but said lightly: "Thanks. By the way, give me some of your perfume."

It is a tradition for the aristocrats to spray perfume, which can also prevent mosquitoes.

Frederick naturally did as the Romans did, but he didn't have the habit of turning himself into a human-shaped sachet anytime and anywhere, so he didn't bring it with him.

He thought that Belle Burke wanted mosquito repellent, so he said, "I didn't bring it, someone will bring it later."

Belle Burke pouted and said, "I don't smell like your perfume, and it will be revealed as soon as I go out, so give me a rub."

(End of this chapter)