From pioneer lord to king

Chapter 114 Establishing a Research Laboratory (4K)

There was an imperceptible light in Ryan's eyes. This was the first time someone told him that he had ambitions.

"You are very confident, but I have to say that you are very accurate in seeing people. Yes, I am ambitious, but your experiment has failed. Why do you think you can be my help?"

Ryan leaned forward slightly, staring firmly into Liman's eyes.

"Ha, Lord Baron, when you said that failure is the mother of success, you have already shown that you will not let me give up my research.

Even if I can't make [Alchemy Core], I still have runes that can work, but I just need some magic crystals as energy.

I have also done some research on alchemy over the years. As long as you give me enough manpower and resources, I can build you an extraordinary army. Of course, you must first provide enough energy. "

Liman was no longer as decadent as before, and his eyes revealed a look of confidence.

"Heh, tell me about your conditions."

Ryan leaned back on the back of the chair, and said lightly that he had made up his mind to take Liman for his own use. As he said, [Alchemy Core] is just a machine for producing energy.

The most precious things are the runes he engraved. As long as the energy problem is solved, these runes are no less effective than re-growing a technology tree for this world!
He likes to call it "the science of alchemy" or "the science of runes".

"My condition is very simple, you must unconditionally support my research, even if it is to recreate [Alchemy Core]!
And give me absolute autonomy. "Liman didn't mention money to Ryan, but the lines were full of money, and he lost his fortune for the research. It hurts to think about how much money will be thrown into it.

"I can promise you, but your research must be under my supervision, and your personal freedom will also be restricted."

Only he understands these things, and Ryan will naturally not do things that laymen command experts, but his research is too important, and if it leaks out, Ryan can't handle it now.

"make a deal!"

The two reached an agreement in this way. Since Liman's injury was still not healed, he directly made a list of the things he needed and asked Ryan to prepare first.

In order to have enough concealment and safety, Ryan chose to build the laboratory under a warehouse in the castle.

For this reason, Ryan also spent a lot of money to buy a batch of metals, and used slaves to build a solid underground laboratory for research...

A few days later, Fetrol, who had been promoted by Ryan to be the financial officer, returned with 80 pounds of grain, along with a group of hundreds of slaves, dozens of craftsmen, and a batch of weapons and equipment.

These are the contract fees paid to him by Chelsea, but they were converted by Ryan.

Slaves are just a means to increase the population, and artisans are currently scarce in the territory, no matter what you do, you can't do without them.

The weapons and equipment are mainly a batch of high-quality standard longbows. The production of bows is a very time-consuming and demanding material.

It often takes several years from the preparation of materials to the completion of the production. In order to replace the batch of inferior hunting bows in the territory, Ryan still chose to purchase the finished products directly.

Only in this way, he needs to start supplying Chelsea with green sugar, which is not a small challenge, after all, the output has not yet come up.

"Fitelor did a good job, but you can't stop and rest now. I have a list here that you need to go to Horley City or even other counties to purchase."

Fetrol took the list from Ryan, glanced at it hastily, and found that most of them were some precious metals or minerals, such as mithril, gilt, purple sand, etc.

But what surprised him the most was that it said that all kinds of magic crystals should be purchased, whether they contained a single element or pure magic crystals, and even used ones could be bought at a price.

He can understand it before, but what is the use of the used magic crystal?

Facing his question, Ryan just said: "You don't need to know too much, I am naturally useful."

After Fetrol took the order to retreat, Keweier followed into Ryan's room, and said respectfully: "My lord, all your seeds have been spawned, do you want to go and see?"

"Oh? Your efficiency is a bit slow, take me to see it quickly." Ryan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he had ordered Keweier to spawn those seeds before, but he didn't expect to complete them all until now.

Follow Keweier to a well-lit room, which was originally a bedroom, which was transformed by Ryan and specially used to cultivate plants transformed from source liquid.

At this moment, on the wooden shelf in the middle of the room, there are more than [-] pots of plants of various shapes.

As soon as you step into the room, you will be greeted by all kinds of strange floral fragrances, in addition to the golden sunflowers before, there are purple moon orchids, red roses and so on.

In addition, there are wheat, rice, peanuts, sweet potatoes, root vegetables and so on.

Some are the seeds selected before, and some are added later. These flowers bloom together in winter, and the crops with different seasons are also ready to be harvested at the same time.

It has to be said that there may not be many places in the entire southern border where such a wonderful sight can be seen.

Ryan looked at these completely different plants, nodded in satisfaction, turned his head to Keweier and said: "Thank you for your hard work, without you, these seeds will not be buried in the soil until the spring plowing, which will be a waste A lot of time."

Kewell was a little flattered. Although he had been here for a while, he still seemed very cautious and awed when he came into contact with Ryan.

"Just trying my best, my lord."

"Oh, don't be too modest. I remember that your son Kaiya is already eight years old. You can send him to study after the territory school starts." Ryan waved his hands in a good mood.

Keweier was so excited that he couldn't restrain himself. Nothing made him happier than this, and he was so excited that he didn't know how to answer.

But Ryan didn't care about these, and he harvested a little of all kinds of crops by himself and left on his own.

Ryan is quite impatient now, these are also magical plants, what kind of surprises will it bring him?
The harvested wheat grains, rice, potatoes, etc. were handed over to Joel, and asked him to make them into food. Since they had to be kept as seeds, the portion of each item was very small, which made Joel feel a little headache.

Finding a place to sit down, Ryan took out a somewhat huge peanut with some dirt on it. There is no fresher peanut than this.

It's just that the yield of peanuts after transformation is not very high, only a few per plant, so he didn't take too much.

The shell of this peanut is yellow, but it is very smooth, unlike normal peanuts that show a small grid.

Peeling off the shell revealed three round peanuts inside. After sniffing it a few times, there was a very strong smell of peanuts, and he could feel the magical power contained in it.

Throw it into your mouth in one breath, and a more intense fragrance blooms in your mouth during chewing, making people want to swallow it for a long time.

When the peanut was eaten, Ryan, relying on his keen body perception, discovered that the magic power in the peanut was also digested, and his physical strength improved a little.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to perceive the physical strength added by a peanut, which means that the modified peanut has the effect of restoring physical strength.

That's not bad, if the troops are going on a long-distance raid that day, these peanuts can be a good food to replenish their strength.

It was such a good start that he couldn't help but look forward to the rest of the crops.

Soon, Joel served a small bowl of wheat rice, which was about a mouthful.

Ryan ate it in one bite. It didn't have the strong aroma of peanuts, but the taste was also much sweeter. After eating, the trace of magic power merged into his body, and it was slightly numb.

That kind of feeling is like the feeling when practicing with the source liquid, which makes Ryan very happy. If his guess is right, this modified wheat can subtly strengthen the body.

It's just that if you want to achieve a significant effect, you need a very large amount. Extraordinary people rely on it to practice unless they eat a lot of it, otherwise there will be no obvious effect.

The effect of rice is the same as that of wheat. Potatoes and sweet potatoes have no obvious effect, but the taste has become better, and the yield has increased by a billion points.

It is surprising that woody root vegetables can promote hematopoiesis. Maybe it can become a medicinal material for treating anemia blindly in the future.

Then there are some less common crops, most of which have no special effects, and a small number of effects are not much different from those mentioned above.

That is to say, some of these modified crops are not of great value, but some are still worth planting in large quantities.

For example, rice, peanuts, potatoes, root vegetables, etc., especially rice, if one day it can completely replace the current rice as the staple food, then the physique of people who eat them for a long time will undergo significant changes.

Not to mention becoming so exaggerated as a knight, it is definitely far beyond ordinary people.

Those flowers also have obvious changes, such as the golden sunflower, which is now like a small sun at night, emitting golden light, and can be used to replace candle lighting.And the floral scent lasts forever.

The performance of Ziyuelan is slightly different, but the purpose is not known yet, so we can only wait for follow-up research.

……

Time always passed quickly, and more than ten days passed in a flash, the weather gradually warmed up, and the howling wind was no longer as cold as before.

Today is a special day. Cheers will take away the first month's share of green sugar, which weighs [-] pounds, and sells [-] Kindlers.

This means that green sugar has officially appeared in the eyes of the public, and Ryan has opened up a source of income!
In Doman City, there are two cross-like roads leading to the four directions of Doman City. After repairs, they are now relatively flat.

Cavin was dressed in broken animal skin armor, with a rusty one-handed sword hanging from his waist. His body was a bit sloppy, and his long brown hair hung down like rags.

He is only in his 30s and 50s, but this outfit makes him look like he is [-] or [-] years old.

Walking on the street in this outfit, his rate of turning his head back is beyond the charts. Looking at the appearance of people around him who are afraid to avoid them, Calvin seems to have no self-knowledge, and he goes to places where there are many people.

"Green sugar shop?"

Calvin picked his nostrils, looked at the sign in front of him and read softly, although he is not much different from a beggar, he was also a three-good student back then.

"It's so lively, a sugar seller? Go in and have a look." Calvin has a quirk, that is, he likes to join in the fun, where there is a lot of noise, he goes to join in, and even enters the city because many people go out to cut down green cane and start to return. It seems that lively.

He didn't care about queuing or not, he just squeezed in, and when he went in, he found many small clay pots on the counters.

There is only a shop owner and a buddy working inside. The business is very good, and the buddy is so busy that his feet don't touch the ground.

Calvin looked left and right, and his eyes finally settled on a bowl on the counter in front of the boss, which contained some small blue pieces, which looked like gravel.

"Guests, this is the green sugar made by the lord. It is sweeter than honey and more delicious than caramel. There are some broken pieces in it, and you can taste it for free."

The boss took the trouble to talk to the customers in front of him over and over again.

Calvin's eyes lit up, and he quickly squeezed forward, stretched out his somewhat greasy hand, picked up the biggest piece in the bowl, and put it in his mouth.

The sugar melts in the mouth, and the taste is a bit rusty. The syrup it turns into is extremely sweet, but with a hint of fragrance, it doesn't look so greasy.

He immediately fell in love with this taste, and it awakened the pleasure deep in his brain.

"Boss, this candy is not bad, how do you sell it?"

The store owner frowned and looked at this sloppy mercenary, after all, he had no intention of driving him out, and emphasized: "This is called green sugar, and it is now priced at ten silver delores per pound. You must know that this is definitely yours. Best price I could find."

Calvin frowned when he heard the words, touched the round silver coins in his pocket, and suddenly felt that he was so poor that he couldn't even afford a pound of sugar with all his belongings.

"Oh, my friend, can't you give it a discount, it's so expensive that you won't be able to do business."

He spread his hands, looked at the boss helplessly and said.

The boss looked at the tired and sweaty guy, and couldn't help but want to complain, is it because you are too poor?This candy was not intended for the grassroots people. The people who bought it here were the servants of some merchants or the upper-middle class in the territory.

Although the price is expensive, they naturally know how to choose compared to the more expensive caramel.

As if he heard the boss's voice, Calvin muttered, "Okay, okay, I'll give you five silver delores, and you give me half a pound."

When Calvin walked out with the clay pot, the inside of his pocket was already cleaner than his face.

As a mercenary, he has always pursued the idea of ​​enjoying himself in time. It is meaningless to put money on him. He might die one day. At that time, no matter how much money he has, it will become someone else's spoils of war.

"How do you make money? I haven't worked recently."

Calvin was sipping candy while thinking about making money. Walking at an intersection, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a line of big characters, and couldn't help but read out:

"Recruit extraordinary people, and the monthly salary is more than [-] silver delores?"

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(End of this chapter)