"Whew-"

Calvin George pulled his collar open and let out a sigh of relief.

After a few months of arguing, the nobles were finally willing to raise money for the construction of railroads and steam locomotives, and it was the middle of summer when they first started ripping off, and now the farmers had finished harvesting the wheat, right?

The more I thought about it, the more annoyed I felt, but I didn't know how to vent it.

For the sake of those funds, they have to continue to laugh at those nobles, feeling like prostitutes!

"I know you're a little angry right now......"

The road outside the Palace of Eternal Day was flat, and Calvin and Gregory didn't feel much bump in the carriage as they sat in it.

Grigory clutched the shaft of his cane with both hands, but his face remained calm.

He calmly persuaded: "But now we still need funds, otherwise the funds approved by His Majesty will not be enough at all." ”

Calvin gritted his teeth and snorted coldly.

As Gregory said, they now had to bow to the feet of the nobles in order to get more money, because the new nobles did not have much property in their hands, and even if they sold their houses, it would be a drop in the bucket to throw the money they obtained into this big project.

Many of the old nobles owned fiefs, even the court nobles owned some estates, but they had nothing, and all the funds were in the hands of the old nobles and the chancellors.

If it were to do experiments, they would naturally be able to get a lot of funds, but compared to the current big project, the funds they used to do the experiments at the beginning were not even 12/12.

If you want to lay railways on the land of the empire and form a 'railway transportation network', it is not possible to summarize the manpower and material resources that need to be spent.

To create such a transportation network, it may even take more than ten years of tax revenue from the empire!

Although they will not build a transportation network at first, after all, the current empire does not have such conditions, and they are the only ones who can build railways and steam locomotives, and even if they want to build a railway transportation network, they are far from manpower.

However, even if it was necessary to build a railway connecting the two cities, it would take far more manpower and material resources than the aristocracy could have imagined.

How could they possibly spend a lot of money on something that they couldn't see for the time being that would bring them any benefit?

They're not stupid!

However, in the eyes of Calvin and Gregory, there was nothing wrong with the considerations of the old aristocracy, but it was precisely this consideration of theirs that made them appear short-sighted.

For example, their Majesty Caesar XIII, after listening to their explanations, he basically understood what changes the steam locomotive could bring to the empire, so he immediately approved a lot of their funds.

However, the old aristocrats were different, and Calvin and Gregory had been talking to them for months, talking about dry mouths, sleepless nights, and even losing a lot of hair, before they could barely persuade them to be willing to raise money for them.

Of course, there is still a possibility here!

Perhaps the old aristocracy had seen what the steam locomotive could bring to the empire, and that was why they refused to fund it.

Once the railroad was built, the time required to travel between the two places would be much shorter, and the influence of the royal family would be expanded.

Maybe the old aristocrats weren't stupid, and they saw it, so they kept refusing.

Thankfully, there are still a lot of 'fools' in the country who are willing to support them – and for the 'smarts', the nobles who supported Calvin and Gregory's railroad plans are a bunch of 'fools'.

Fortunately, there is partisanship in this country, in fact, Calvin and Gregory used to mock these stupid partisans, but they did not expect that now, they have been 'saved' by this thing.

"But the stuff that came out of that country is pretty good......

Calvin shifted his attention, no longer angry at the 'fools', and turned his head to talk about the 'things' they had received from the Duchy of Sorrow.

"New agricultural tools, new agricultural knowledge, new philosophical concepts...... I have to say, that head maid is really lucky, she actually has such valuable knowledge of the other world!"

Every time he talks about it, Calvin gets excited.

Both as a mage and as a researcher, he was excited to be exposed to 'new knowledge', not to mention that everything was 'new' and very different from the knowledge system that originated in the world of Assatom.

Gregory nodded approvingly at Calvin's envy for the good fortune of the maid, "Indeed, it is a good thing to be able to use cement in road construction and house construction. However, it can only be used for road construction, and the simple cement is not hard enough, and if it is used to build buildings, it is likely to collapse, even if there are support columns, and I really don't understand how cement is used to build houses. ”

Gregory was as enthusiastic about this as Calvin.

Ever since they first noticed the duchy a few months ago, their interest in it had exploded uncontrollably.

This knowledge was valuable to them, not to the empire as a whole, but it was transmitted to the empire through Lolandal, which caused many of the old nobles with fiefs to ignore it.

They have shown the arrogance of the Imperial aristocracy in this matter, looking down on other countries except the Empire, even the Kurkut Empire, which has grown rapidly in recent years, and the old nobles have no interest in the 'soft bones' who use magic.

So there is even less interest in the principality that has not been independent before and is only a dukedom.

But fortunately, they all focused on the empire, and didn't notice what happened to that principality, in addition to knowing that the ruler of that principality was a black dragon and a woman, they also knew that the nouveau riche of the Moore Commercial Federation forced that lady away, and now the capital of that principality is the holy city of the goddess of wealth, and the black dragon Grand Duke is very capable of fighting.

In addition, the arrogant old aristocrats did not realize that the world had quietly changed.

Because of the birth of that principality, Calvin and Gregory also became somewhat interested in 'politics'.

In recent months, they had also proposed many times to bring Caesar XIII to the attention of the principality, and now their Majesty probably had some ideas in his heart, but it was difficult to say it now.

In terms of political system, the system of the Duchy of Sorrow seems absurd, but in fact in the Ogordon Empire, which has already had preliminary 'experiments' - Calvin and Gregory can be sure that it is an efficient political system.

The new aristocracy is the product of this 'experiment', which is similar to the political system of the Duchy of Sorrow.

Although the Ogordon Empire could not become like the Duchy of Sorrowful Wind, it was able to borrow their methods.

Because the empire was vast and beyond the reach of the imperial whip, it was difficult to effectively manage the distant frontiers, so the feudal system was more suitable for the former empire.

But now that they have developed a steam locomotive and a railway network is about to be built, the transportation industry within the empire will be more developed in the future, and the royal orders will be transmitted to the frontiers in a short time, instead of the frontier territories after three or five years will be able to receive the royal orders.

From now on, 'Heavenly Emperor Yuan' will become a thing of the past!

Calvin suddenly laughed and said in a humorous tone, "Thank you for the arrogance of the old nobles!"

Listening to his teasing, Grigory also quietly let go of his grip on his cane, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, "Thank you to the old nobles for their eyes!"