Walk through the structure of the Ark and wander on the continent of Terra

51.The banks of Devon are quiet part.7

Yansk on the Devon River is not a very small city. The river runs through the city, and there are plenty of farmland around it. Moreover, there have been no natural disasters here for several years.The stable environment has allowed the industry here to develop rapidly, and a composite industrial model has gradually been established with origin stone refining and metal metallurgical processing as the main body, and food crop processing as the supplement.

The abundant water resources of the Devon River provide water resources for agricultural and industrial production. In addition, there are several rich open-pit mines adjacent to the Sogaojia Mountains that can be exploited for large-scale mechanized mining.

The development of the industrial economy here is considerable. From newspapers bought on the roadside, notices on the walls, and inquiries from passers-by, Devonyansk has recently purchased a new mobile city module every three years. .The lord, Earl Rustin, seemed ambitious to turn this place into a metropolis comparable to a duchy.

Alpha easily found a place to stay in this city. The gold rupee in Ursus is the gold standard currency. When settling the settlement, the purchasing power of each unit of gold rupee is considerable. One gold rupee allowed her to find a store. A clean hotel that provides breakfast and hot water at night.

At first, she thought about finding a more inconspicuous place to stay, but when she passed by two alleys with small hotel signs and looked at the sewage flowing in the alleys, the shopkeepers in the alleys looked at them with evil intentions. , and the faint sound of physical passion colliding in the deep alley, she knew that if she didn't want to be disturbed by dirty things, it would be better for her to spend more money.Although it is difficult for bards to be rich, they are generally not short of money.

Plot No. [-] is the core area of ​​Yansk on the Devon River. It is the earliest mobile module in the city. Most of the pedestrians walking here are well-dressed upper class people. There are magnificently decorated aristocratic schools and large hospitals. There is even a library.There are no signs of weather damage on the library's exterior walls, and the surrounding scaffolding used for construction work has not been removed. It seems that it has just been repaired.

If you want to understand a city, first go to its library to check the local chronicles. It is always a feasible way.Alpha walked with elegant and brisk steps through the open door of the library and walked into this Baroque-style building.

"Little girl, welcome to the Devonyansk Municipal Library." A stooped, neatly dressed and energetic old man sat in the concierge at the door of the library and greeted Alpha.

"Hello, dear sir, I am a bard who travels through this place. The strong lines of Yansk on the Devon River and the roar of machinery have given me some inspiration. I want to find some stories about this place to fill the gap. A vacancy for ballads.”

"Hahaha, it's been a long time since a bard came to this little place. Not since the old Marquis disappeared..." The old man's smile was kind, but Alpha noticed that there was something in his bright eyes. The warning means, "The library is willing to open its precious collection to every decent gentleman and lady, and I hope that the little girl can also cherish every book here."

"Books carry knowledge and deserve everyone's respect. Sir, I would like to ask where I can find historical books such as local chronicles, as well as local folklore stories."

"Hahaha, those things are on the innermost bookshelf on the third floor. None of today's young people are willing to learn about history. They can only gather dust in the most inconspicuous place, with no one paying attention."

"Thanks for the directions."

Walking up the spiral staircase in the front hall, Alpha arrived on the third floor and strolled among the mountains of collections in the library. She spread her spirit out and began to search for potentially valuable information at high speed from the sea of ​​books.

There are elegant tea tables and ordinary benches on the third floor of the library, but there are not many customers here in the afternoon.Alpha found a young couple here who looked like a couple, hiding in the corner of the third floor chatting with each other; there was also a tall middle-aged gentleman in decent clothes, who was studying something, a large number of books Japanese and manuscript papers surrounded him.

……

At the same time, in the intensive care unit of Rhode Island, Kelsey carefully opened the sterile temperature-controlled transport box with the Star of Life icon printed on it and took out a light blue medicine.

Behind her, the patient on the hospital bed has completed general anesthesia and is waiting for treatment.

"Get ready for the injection." Kelsey said to the warfarin beside her after taking one last look at the injection solution under the light.

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"Alpha is really not merciful at all..." Warfarin sighed softly when loading the medicine into the auto-injector.

Kelsey shook her head, "She hasn't killed her yet. This dose of medicine will temporarily have an excellent therapeutic effect after the implant is shut down, inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells, and temporarily restore all her body functions. "

"How long will it take until the effect of this dose of medicine wears off? One month?"

"Alfa has said that whether or not she provides a thorough treatment plan depends on what the girl has done."

Hearing this, Warfarin shrugged, "Then she'd better eat and drink well after she goes back. I can guess without looking at the information that she won't get the second phase of treatment."

"After all, it's your own fault..."

"Kelsey, I rarely see you showing such disgust and anger."

"It's human nature, I just feel it's a pity..."

"That's not what you would say."

……

"Xu Yu, tell me, what exactly is the tantalum 193 copolymer that Ms. Alpha is talking about?" In the biology laboratory of the Base Walker, an experimental implant was completed for a Pelo beast infected with oriosis. When he was packing up the experimental equipment for the implantation surgery, Hemo looked at the formula poster posted on the wall of the laboratory and asked Xu Yuda curiously.

"I don't know either..." Xu Yu shook his head, "Alfa said that it is a very special, extremely stable, extremely neutron-rich nuclide with good biological affinity. It can be used to make biological organisms. Implants and even devices could be made to host complex consciousness.”

"The tantalum-193 produced by Alpha can exist stably on this land, but why have we never discovered this substance?"

"This kind of stable nuclide requires a supernova explosion with very special conditions to be born in the embers of a star." Diesel's voice came from the broadcast system.

"The humans in that world once destroyed the sun?"

"Of course it's impossible. The World Government or the later Hanging Gardens are still far from controlling the sun. The discovery of this nuclide is just a gift from nature."

Hummel savored Diesel's words, maybe the Source Stone is also some kind of "gift" given to mankind by the land under his feet.In the end, she smiled and shook her head, not intending to think about this kind of problem now. She had only heard of astrophysics at Alpha, which was far from her own major... When will Ifrit's illness be revealed? Once it's cured, let's study this topic again.

"By the way, Xu Yu, can I apply to use the Life Star's shipboard medical room to give Ifrit a full-body examination?"

"no problem."

52.The banks of Devon are quiet part.8

Alpha spent an afternoon in the library. She found all the local historical materials of Yansk on the Devon River, and used her high-dimensional biological abilities to quickly read, summarize and summarize all the information.

Then she discovered an interesting fact. Among the local history recorded in various historical materials, there were only records from the era of the Earl of Devon and the era of the current Earl of Rustin. Regarding the power transfer process between the two, as well as theoretically All records before and after the transfer of power have been deliberately concealed.

What happened is self-evident. The current Earl Rustin must have usurped the lordship of this fiefdom through some means. His title is one level lower than that of the old Marquis. Due to this reason.The law of Ursus stipulates that a person who inherits the status of a noble fief cannot directly inherit the original title unless he is the eldest son of the previous noble, and needs to be reduced by one level.

The crooked Earl of Rustin obviously attaches great importance to the legitimacy of his noble status and has made extensive revisions to all historical data.

But Alpha did not discover it. There is a huge paper media warehouse behind the main hall of the library, which stores all the newspapers published in Devonyansk for decades. By screening the reports in these newspapers using the same method, Alpha discovered two During this time, several media reports in the city took a dramatic turn.

About 20 years ago, when the city had not moved to its current address, for a while, newspapers reported that several businessmen came to the city to invest. In order to build factories, they purchased land in the city and invested in mobile sites. Block, for various commercial activities, held talks with the old Earl of Devon.

Two years later, business associations and chambers of commerce were established in Devonyansk, and the factories invested and built by businessmen gave the city new impetus.At the same time, at this time, news of the old Marquis' illness began to appear in the newspapers.

Another year later, the natural disaster messenger came to Yansk on the Devon River and warned of a large-scale natural disaster. The business association and the seriously ill old Marquis agreed to move the city upstream along the Devon River in order to ensure future development. , to avoid the invasion of natural disasters.

Then, on the night two days before the planned departure, the old Marquis suddenly fell seriously ill. Doctors from private doctors and municipal hospitals failed to save him, and the old Marquis passed away before he could leave a will.At that time, the old Marquis had no heirs or relatives who were qualified to inherit the title, and his two sons were both training in the Ursus army.

The situation was urgent at that time. Without the lord, the people of Devonyansk were in panic, and the already weak government institutions could not function. At the critical moment, the Chamber of Commerce came forward to organize and successfully moved the city to a safe area and re-stationed it.

Rustin Yudintsev, the leader of the Chamber of Commerce at the time, temporarily assumed the post of municipal governor to maintain order.What happened after that was a blank, but after seeing this, everyone can figure out the rest of what happened.

Regarding the two children of the old Marquis, there are only a few records indicating that they were serving in two different front armies, and there are no remaining detailed records.

……

Looking at the information that he had pieced together from the vast amount of information, Alpha always felt a little indescribable. In this era, is it so easy to usurp an earl?Don’t the central bureaucracy of the Ursus Empire take care of this kind of thing?

Alpha reorganized the information she had found, and she suddenly discovered a piece of information that she had not noticed before - the newspaper itself.Before that vague transfer of power, there were only two newspapers in the city, the Devon River Merit and the Cavalry Daily. After that incident, newspapers sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the news they reported was no longer limited to high-ranking officials and nobles. Things and a small amount of current affairs news have been transformed into categories, covering various fields.

Alpha had seen those newspapers when he walked on the street.In other words, most of the large number of newspapers that came out at that time have survived until now, and the paper and printing quality of newspapers have also been revolutionized.

It is difficult to say whether it is the city's rapid economic development and market satisfaction that supports so many newspapers, or whether the managers after the change have invested more resources in publicity.

This was information worth digging into, so Alpha reorganized all the records on taxation, agriculture, industrial economy, etc. in the existing literature. The early records were not detailed enough, but Alpha still found several important points. ——During the old Marquis's time, the yield of grain grown in the surrounding countryside was about [-] kilograms per mu, and in good years it was [-] kilograms. The tax rate was five to one tax.

After re-settling, the farmers who migrated from the surrounding villages imported wheat seeds from outside and used chemical fertilizers to increase the yield per mu to [-] kilograms.

Needless to say, taking into account the need to maintain the mobile city module, and when the old earl relied on agricultural products as his main output during his period, the amount of taxes he could pay to the empire depended on God, or with a high probability. It cannot afford to pay taxes. Even if all other outputs are included, the taxes paid every year will probably be withheld.

It's a bit outrageous to say that a Marquis cannot pay taxes, but if you combine it with the Devon River Merit Report and the economic growth rate and scale reported every year since Rustin took over the title, you can get a glimpse of it - the financial deficit turned around in three years. After that, the annual growth showed an upward trend.Starting ten years ago, the Earl of Rustin began to purchase a mobile plot of land every three years, making great strides in expanding the scale of the city.

In the early stage of the successful transformation from feudal agriculture and even feudal serfdom to capitalist industry and commerce, with all parties frantically extracting dividends, this seemingly prosperous growth is nothing short of normal.

On the day that the first mobile plot Count Rustin ordered from Rem Billiton arrived, the newspaper reported the news that the Grand Duke in charge of the province where the city of Yansk on the Devon River was located personally came to the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the plot.The Grand Duke's visit did not appear in any of the existing newspapers from the old Marquis's time.

The symbolic meaning of this kind of thing is self-evident. During the old Marquis's time, the Grand Duke may have missed his old relationship and did not pursue his tax arrears in depth for years. However, the Grand Duke's tolerance for this situation has a limit. Before the conflict between him and the Old Marquis broke out, , the people from the Chamber of Commerce solved this conflict for him.No matter what the merchants have done, the current taxes in Yansk on the Devon River are definitely in full or even in excess, and even the Grand Duke will not refuse the golden gold.The Grand Duke's appearance at the ribbon-cutting ceremony proved that he recognized the legitimacy of the current Earl of Rustin.

"What a big show," he said, closing the thick book in his hand, "What about the two children of the old Marquis? Where have they gone?" From a general rational point of view, the two children of the old Marquis must be dishonest in this situation. To give up the throne, he would either die in an accident or lose his inheritance rights and become a commoner for various reasons, but in any case, it would be a good entry point for Alpha.

53.The banks of Devon are quiet part.9

After reviewing a large amount of information, Alpha put them in their proper places according to the rules. When she was about to leave, she noticed that the middle-aged man sitting in the bookstore was studying medical classics, and there were a lot of surgical techniques. .

"Maybe there are enemies on the same road, let's put the executioner here..." Alpha thought, but did not mobilize the ability to trace his experience, and simply left the library.It was now evening and it was time to go somewhere else.

Alpha soon left Plot No. [-] and returned to Plot No. [-] where his temporary settlement was.It's not yet time for the workers to get off work, so Alpha is going to take this opportunity to find a tavern or something.

The hotel Alpha chose was located next to a residential area. She went deep into the residential area and found a tavern. The sign of this tavern had been simply modified with a piece of chalk. The original "Bob's Tavern" was changed to "Kilo" Husband's Tavern".

Pushing the door open and entering, there were not many guests in the tavern at this time. The decoration of this tavern was very historical, with ancient shields and sabers hanging on the walls, as well as medals framed in pictures.These things are very old and look like they were left over from the days of the old Marquis decades ago.

Alpha walked into the pub wearing the hood of her robe. She sat on the seat in front of the bar and said, "Boss, have a beer."

The boss behind the counter looked not surprised. A large iron cup filled with beer was quickly brought up. There were no customers in the store now, so the boss leaned in front of Alpha in a familiar manner.

"The girl is a foreigner..."

"The boss is really good at judging people. I'm a bard passing by here."

"Oh, that's strange. I haven't seen a bard here for many years. The last time I saw him was at the old Marquis's 80th birthday party. Can the girl play a song? It's not easy to listen to music in this world. This cup I’ll treat you to the wine.”

"Of course, boss, is there anything you want to hear?"

"Girl, please do whatever you want."

So Alpha chose a local folk music that she retrieved from the library. It was an old piece of music that was at least 40 years old.

"Hey, the girl is so knowledgeable. In our small place, we can actually pick up old songs from decades ago."

"I like to collect music from all over the world. I just went to the library and memorized some classic music scores. Unfortunately, I just got into it and I don't have a deep experience. I can only follow the script and make the boss laugh."

"Hey, old man, thank you girl here." The smile on the boss's face made all the wrinkles on his face knit together. It seemed that this music brought back some good memories for him, "That's It was a good time, but unfortunately the old Marquis is gone and the good days are gone."

"Boss, what do you mean by good days?"

Using this topic, the boss began to tell old stories one after another, recalling things he was proud of in the past. Most of the descriptions were basically consistent with what Alpha had deduced based on the intelligence.Interestingly, the boss himself admitted that the entire city was quite difficult during that time, but he still believed that it was a period of time that was thousands of times better than now.

With another endless story, Alpha asked about some blank information in the records, among which he asked about the age of the old Marquis' children.

The boss said that the two children of the old Marquis were in two different regiments at the time. The regiment where the eldest son was in was fighting the Casimir people on the front line when the accident happened to the old Marquis. The eldest son of the old Marquis fought bravely and fought against the enemy. Heroic sacrifice for the country.The second son's troops were suppressing bandits at the time, and the team led by the second son won consecutive battles. However, during an operation, he was seriously injured and lost a leg due to a sneak attack by bandits.

Alpha silently took note of the boss's statement. This situation was in line with her current speculation, but the truth of the matter could not be determined by just a few rumors.

……

The time came to seven o'clock in the evening unknowingly, and the street outside became noisy. Combined with the ringing of the factory's get off work bell in the distance, it must be that the workers finally got off work.

It didn't take long for customers to start pouring into the pub. Alpha ordered a new beer and found a secluded corner to rest for a while. She was indeed going to try to compose a song. This time was a rare opportunity to think.Of course, you can also take the opportunity to observe the living conditions of the workers in this emerging industrial city.

But you don’t have to look at it to know that it has been quite miserable. When I came to the city in the morning, it was seven or eight o’clock, and the workers were already working on the assembly line of the factory. Now it is seven o’clock in the evening, and the workers have just got off work and rest. The working day is close to twelve hours.Alpha's evaluation is that this group of capitalists do not have the classic sixteen-hour work system of the Industrial Revolution. It is really their conscience that they have found out.

It was not far from her expectation. The workers here were thin and many had unwashed iron filings and dust on their faces. However, their clothes looked relatively advanced and they should all have certain protection and partitions. Function.Compared with Terra, Originium is ubiquitous, and Originium pollution is especially common in industrial production.Therefore, people will pay special attention to their own protection. No matter how poor they are, they will still have protective clothing and filtration masks that can isolate contamination.

Alpha sat in the corner and recorded all the conversations of the workers who entered the tavern. Most of the workers were complaining about the fatigue caused by high-intensity labor, the foreman's acrimony, discussing their meager wages, and complaining about some A short chore for parents.They are all tired and want to use alcohol to anesthetize their spirits in order to forget the pain of today.

After a long time, Alpha picked up the Naples solo and played a brisk song. The music was floating in the tavern, and he didn't know if it could bring them some comfort.

……

On the boarding deck of Rhode Island, Warfarin handed several pills to the noble girl who had gone through the discharge procedures, and then watched her get into the vehicle driven by the butler and leave Rhode Island through the ramp.

Those pills were just starch placebo pills containing vitamins. After taking the medicine provided by Alpha, whether she received the usual treatment or not, she would be healthy for the next 30 days or so.Alpha will find out where she fits into the whole story and then make his own judgment on whether to cure her disease once and for all.