industrial lord

Chapter 38 Why did you come here in the first place?

"Why are we here this time?"

"Uh... Frederick made Maria sad, let's teach him a lesson."

"Did you learn the lesson?"

"..."

The air in the carriage suddenly became quiet.

Dahlberg quietly looked out of the car window and saw the cargo ships gathered in the middle of the Main River, cautiously going upstream.

"What do you think of Wesson?" he asked.

Philip replied in a deep voice: "It's terrible."

"I thought at first that there was someone behind him who was actually running everything, but the people I worked with at the camp found out that he was always handling things by himself, and it was pretty much perfect."

"He seems to have lost 500 florins just now, but a machine like that costs no less than 50 florins. With the protection of the Patent Act, he can earn it back immediately, and he can earn more. The decisiveness surpasses many people."

Dahlberg gave a soft "um" and continued to look out the window.

"The year after tomorrow," he said suddenly, "in the late autumn of 1026, to celebrate my 80th birthday, a large hunting event will be organized."

"Two years is enough to see clearly."

Philip immediately understood what the Duke of Mainz meant.

Now that everyone is licking their wounds, a large-scale hunting in the nature of a paramilitary operation is the most intuitive way to announce the recovery of their own strength.

If the Wessenland can show enough strength at that time, the Principality of Mainz will take the initiative to extend an olive branch.

"William is getting old too." Dahlberg said in a low voice, "When you get old, you get anxious."

"Rudolph is a good boy. Although he grew up in the deep palace and became soft-tempered, at least he won't disgust us."

"I want him to learn a lot, Li Liwei, yes, but there is no need to drag us."

"It's all right now, the lowlands are lost, Rudolph is scared... even the slimes are braver than him."

"Philip, next year you will be making frequent visits."

"At this time, there is no need to do much, just maintain friendship."

"Take the young people and let them walk around and see more."

Philip took orders at once.

Dahlberg sighed and said, "Before William died, if Rudolph, the trash, hadn't changed much, the Rhine Union would have existed in name only after William's death, and we Germans would have no independent country of our own."

After hearing this, Philip remained silent. As an important court minister, he understood the Grand Duke's thoughts very well. The Grand Duke of Mainz dedicated his life to building a country of the Germans themselves.

It’s just that in this era, because of the feudal system, people are more divided by locality and region. Ethnicity is only used by outsiders to refer to people in a certain area who speak the same or similar language and have similar customs. Internally, they rarely refer to themselves by this.

Dahlberg had only a few germs of nationalism in his mind, and he couldn't figure out how to bring the scattered Germans to some kind of consensus.

"Huh?" Dahlberg suddenly noticed something, "Your carriage doesn't bump at all, it's quite fast."

Philip immediately replied: "This was originally Frederick's carriage, and he gave it to us after he knew that Sophia was in poor health and couldn't bear the bumps of the carriage and rarely went out."

Dahlberg wondered, "How did he make the carriage so comfortable?"

The sun was setting in the west, and when Frederick came to the castle in the town of Lore, he saw an extremely rare scene.

Baron Elthal stood helplessly next to the carriage. There was a thick carpet under the carriage, and the Grand Duke of Mainz squatted under the carriage to study the bearings on the axle.

"Come here!" Dahlberg waved to Frederick from the bottom of the car, "Tell me what is this thing on the axle?"

Naturally, Frederick did not go under the car with him, but opened the trunk of the car and took out a wooden box, which contained two spare bearings wrapped in oilcloth.

Dahlberg got out from under the car, gave Philip a hard look, and then picked up the greasy bearing to study.

Philip looked innocent, he only cared about the car and repaired it, how could he know that there were spare parts in the car.

"This is a bearing." Frederick said from the side, "The beads inside are like wheels, which can reduce friction and make the horse less strenuous."

Dahlberg held the inner ring of the bearing with one hand, and played with the outer ring with the other.

"A very clever design." The Grand Duke of Mainz lamented, "The principle is very simple, but why no one could think of it before."

Frederick replied: "There used to be, but because of processing problems, we can only make wooden beads, which cannot be used on carriages, and will be crushed. They can only be installed on the door hinges to make it easier to open and close the door, so Not used on a large scale."

Dahlberg nodded, played with the bearing in his hand, walked to the side of the car, pointed to the black glue on the wheel and asked, "What is this black glue?"

Frederick took out a large flat wooden box from the interlayer under the car, and opened the oilcloth bag inside. These were two solid black slime tires.

"This is the tire on the wheel," he said. "This material is elastic and wear-resistant. It's like putting shoes on the wheel."

"However, the size of the wheels is different, and the tires of ordinary cars need to be specially ordered, which is very inconvenient."

"Wesson's carriages are all being remodeled now, and the axles and wheels are unified, so it will be convenient to change parts in the future."

Then he pointed to the joint between the axle and the car body and said: "This place is also sandwiched by this glue, so you won't feel bumps when you sit in the car."

Dahlberg looked at the carriage again and said, "Give me one too."

Frederick thought for a while and said, "I only sell the frame, I don't have the capital to make decorations."

An ordinary four-wheeled carriage is only 10 florins, but the carriages of these nobles are extremely luxurious, and the price is not capped. It is said that the king's carriage costs 2000 florins, which can be called the top luxury carriage among carriages.

Dahlberg also realized this, and said: "No problem, but I have a request, to reduce the bumps as much as possible, we old people can't bear that crime."

"Okay." Frederick agreed, "But it won't be until next year. Our master car builder is busy building a new factory right now."

Just as Dahlberg agreed, there was a burst of laughter. After hearing that Frederick had arrived, Maria had waited in the toy room for a long time, so she came out to look for him.

"You are here!" Maria said with a smile, "Come and play chess with me!"

Saying that, the little girl pulled up Frederick's sleeve and walked into the castle.

Frederick didn't care about the two guys with frighteningly dark faces, and followed Maria into the castle, halfway back to the room he had left to change his clothes.

He had been running in the camp for a day, and he was sweating a lot.

Tarot had already taken a step back, soaked a cotton towel in warm water, wiped his sweat and face for him, and then helped him put on clean clothes.

Dahlberg arrived at the toy room one step earlier, with a kind smile on his face, listening to Maria introduce various toys such as checkers, wooden dragonflies, and flying chess given to him by Frederick.

Maria pouted and handed Dahlberg a Rubik's cube made of mammoth teeth and six-color gems, and said dejectedly, "Godfather, I can't restore this cube."

Dahlberg took a look at the Rubik's Cube, asked how to play it, and then tried to restore the twisted Rubik's Cube.

After Frederick appeared, the Grand Duke of Mainz said to him viciously: "Did you fool Maria with a broken toy?!"

The corners of Frederick's mouth twitched, and he stretched out his hand for magic. While recovering, he said, "How dare I, many toys here were originally given to your great-grandson. I didn't expect you to go to the hot spring, so I gave them all to you." Maria."

This Rubik's Cube was handcrafted by Ogilvy's excellent jewelry craftsmen, plus the Wesson family's inventory of mammoth teeth and cheap gemstones on six sides, it can already be sold as a luxury in the noble circle. A few ordinary carriages are not a problem.

While speaking, he restored the Rubik's Cube, and after showing it to Maria and Dahlberg, he suddenly turned his back and twisted it.

Dahlberg gave Frederick a hard look, and said softly to Maria, "Can you give me this toy?"

Maria thought for a while, pointed to the dagger at his waist and said, "Okay, but I have to exchange it with this."

The scabbard of this dagger was made of gold, and it was inlaid with high-quality magic crystals instead of precious stones. The dagger itself was also a magic weapon, so it would not be a problem to sell it for dozens of florin gold coins.

Dahlberg said softly: "Oh, this dagger is too dangerous, can you change it?"

Maria started acting like a baby.

Maria gets the dagger.

Maria gave the dagger to Frederick.

Frederick's reputation with Dahlberg became "no psychological pressure to beat him".

(End of this chapter)