Chapter 447: The Strategic Significance of Greenhouses
When Donne first arrived in Ellington, he discovered mint grass and began producing mints, and at that time he made a bet with Fiona (see chapters 26 and 27) that Elijah would still be a Witness.
The bet is on whether she can make a net profit of 10,000 gold coins with mints before the end of the year, and if Fiona loses, she will have to work for Don for the rest of her life.
"Wait!"
Fiona suddenly remembered one thing at this time: "The bet only said what will happen if I lose, but it didn't say what will happen if you lose!" ”
Don spread his hands: "Did I lose?" ”
“…… Not. ”
"So that doesn't matter, does it?"
"What an unfair bet."
Fiona pouted, but there was no trace of annoyance in her eyes.
She did lose.
Although the mint processing industry is now a lower priority industry in Ellington, thanks to the tremendous effect of the teleportation array, mints can be transported to Alinks in a very short period of time, and from there they are wholesaled to other merchants, who can flow through their hands to other countries.
In just half a year, the small mints have brought Ellington more than 100,000 gold coins.
When Fiona saw the bill handed to her by Hilton, even she couldn't believe that the humble mints could bring such a staggering profit.
She lost badly, but she was happy, because it proved that the lord was completely right.
In Plandal, there is no such thing as a New Year, the last day of the cold moon has passed, the first day of the frozen moon, there are no lively holiday celebrations, no pompous blessings, only simple happy smiles on people's faces.
Passing through the bitter cold moon means that the hardest and most dangerous time of the year has passed, and although the frozen moon is still cold, it is not uncomfortable to even want to go out.
The construction of the greenhouses is very smooth, and the greenhouses that have risen from the ground have not only met the requirements of the residents of Ellington for vegetables, but have even had the spare energy to start exporting fresh vegetables to other cities, and the first to taste the benefits are the Victors, the Aubury family and the Adrian family.
They were naturally amazed to eat such fresh vegetables on a cold winter day, but they were even more surprised when they heard that every family in Ellington was treated like this.
What does it mean for every household to enjoy this fresh vegetable in winter?
This is definitely a completely new cultivation technique!
"Out-of-season planting techniques in greenhouses?"
Victor's eyes lit up when he saw the documents that Adrien got back from the Copyright Office, and just from the name, he knew that this was a patented technology in a completely new field!
"It is said that Ellington only applied for it in the past few days, and it has been opened for licensing, and to my surprise, Don announced that anyone can use this patent for free......"
Princess Aurelia was taken aback: "So generous? It's not his character! ”
"It's a good technique, but we don't have to mix it up."
Victor shook his head, pointed to his chair and said, "Let's sit down and eat something first, just got out of the pot." ”
Adrien looked at the steaming hot pot in front of Victor and couldn't help but sigh, in the cold winter, eating this hot pot is indeed much better than gnawing bacon and bread, no wonder Victor was completely conquered.
In fact, not only Victor, but also the hot pot chain they opened in partnership with Victor has already blossomed everywhere in Illuth, with novel cooking methods, enjoyable enough taste, a variety of ingredients, fresh taste, and enough wine, this cooking method has become a novel trend and is being sought after all over the country.
Especially now that it is still winter, after a busy day in the cold weather, three or five groups sit in front of the hot pot, look at the tumbling red oil, smell the aroma inside, pick up a piece of slippery and tender meat, and then take a sip of wine, it is simply comfortable that the fatigue of the whole body disappears.
And these hot pot chains have also brought them considerable profits, the empty treasury is full day by day, and Victor finally has the confidence to do something he has wanted to do for a long time, and he is certainly in a good mood.
"Although the greenhouse technology is a good technology, it is useless for us, as long as those big farmers will naturally use this patent to produce a large number of vegetables to sell, we only need to spend money to buy vegetables at that time."
Victor picked up a piece of meat, took a deep breath of aroma, and then said with a smile: "Compared with the hot pot chain, the actual benefits of the greenhouse are much smaller, and it brings more symbolic strategic significance." ”
Princess Aurelia was stunned: "Symbolic significance? ”
"Yes, it symbolizes that humanity finally has the ability to harvest food in the winter when everything is withering."
Victor paused for a moment and said: "If this greenhouse technology can be fully popularized, it will have great strategic significance, so what we have to do is not to figure out how to use this technology ourselves, but to find a way to promote this technology as soon as possible." ”
"That guy offers free licenses, is it just so that we can promote it as soon as possible?"
Aurelia looked incredulous: "He has such a good heart? ”
"Ollie, don't look at people with prejudice."
Victor sighed, "Actually, Count Don has already helped us a lot in many ways. ”
Aurelia didn't think so, that guy had already revealed his true nature, he was simply a stinky rascal with a black belly!
Whoever believes in his purity and goodness will wait to suffer!
And what about Done, the stinky rascal with a black belly in her mouth? At this moment, Ellington's spiritual and civilized life is being actively promoted.
"You are the Demon King, you have to fight two brave people alone, so you must pay attention to the other party's cards and not be forced to die......"
"This card is the biggest, so it should be played when it's most critical...... Marlene, don't cheat! ”
Marlene suddenly retracted her head, stuck out her tongue, and her face suddenly turned red.
"Oops! I almost let her see it! ”
Tina exclaimed in surprise and covered her cards tightly.
"But isn't that fair?"
Vanilla still feels awkward, two people against one? The rules of this game are a bit strange.
"The Demon King can take three more cards, or strike first, so it's balanced, and that's how the game works."
Tang En spread his hands and said: "If you don't like it, you can change the rules of the game, anyway, the playing cards are fixed, and the difference is just the way the game is played." ”
That's right, in this cold winter, seeing Tina and the others looking out of the window in a daze after being busy, they didn't even bother to play backgammon, and they felt that the popular Gwent cards were too complicated, Don En simply got the playing cards out and was teaching them how to fight the landlord.
However, in this world, it is obvious that this name cannot be used, the landlord is equivalent to a nobleman, even in the game, it is a felony for commoners to fight against nobles, even if Tang En dares to teach, they do not dare to play - losing their heads because of the game, this is obviously not cost-effective.
If you change the characters to the Demon King and the Brave, you'll be perfectly fine.
Although they didn't understand the rules at first, they soon got started and immediately became addicted to it.
"I'm so busy with life and death, but you're here to play games with them......"
Fiona's resentful voice suddenly came from behind, and Don turned around with a dry smile and said, "Isn't there nothing else to do, and it's too boring to watch them." ”
"If there is nothing else to do, let's inspect the construction of the school."
Fiona handed Don a copy of the document: "The main plan of the school is exactly what you wanted, placed in the reserved area of the new town, in addition to the structure of the school, there are some details that you need to determine. ”
"Isn't that already in that document?"
"Yes."
Fiona nodded, and then said confidently, "I just don't want to see you find something to do so leisurely." ”
“……”
It is reasonable and unrefutable!
"Okay, I'll be given the initial training on the Elf Teacher's side, and I'll need a while to develop the primary textbooks, at least starting with literacy, and then progressing a little bit."
Speaking of this, Don felt a faint pain in his head, he hadn't recalled the contents of the books for many years, and after graduation, the knowledge was basically returned to the teacher, and there was really not much to remember.
Fortunately, this world does not need too advanced knowledge now, elves teach language, history, the cultivation of magical talents, and combat training (sports), and mathematics can be handed over to dwarf engineers, and later you can also add basic physics, chemistry and other knowledge.
As for the knowledge of the periodic table, chemical reactions, electrons, magnetic fields, etc., Don will only mention one point, as for the specific ...... Hehe, after the basic education in this world is popularized, let those geniuses find out, at least he doesn't have that ability now.
In fact, he had forgotten about it a long time ago.
Of course, the most important thing is that those knowledge are of little use at present, and the popularization of basic education is only something that Tang En can do, if this world can't survive in the chaotic invasion, no matter how good the education is, it will be in vain, and what we really need to care about now is to improve the basic quality of the whole people, as well as the basic combat ability.
Tang En was just about to get up and go to those elf girls to discuss the training, when a furious broom head rushed into his eyes.
"My friend!"
Klotto greeted him with a laugh: "I'm here to report the good news to you!" ”
"Oh? Musket refinement completed? ”
Tang En smiled slightly, more than half a month has passed, and according to the work efficiency of the dwarf, this is already slow.
However, considering that this is a complete head-to-toe overhaul of weapons, this pace is quite impressive.
"That's right!"
Kroto said with a fanatical expression: "This time I came here just to let you witness the crystallization of the wisdom of our two geniuses!" ”
The crystallization of GodTM......
The corners of Donn's mouth twitched, and Fiona, who was snickering with white eyes, took Kloto to the Magic Energy Engineering Research Institute. (To be continued.) )