In Jack's home, in the connecting area between the kitchen and the living room on the first floor, many dishes were already placed on the round white dining table. Four people were sitting around the dining table, waiting to eat.
Misty held a small ceramic bowl and carefully poured a bowl of red spicy soup for Lin Mo, Beichuan Hao and Jack. The tempting smell floated from the soup, and the fragrance was tangy.
"Let's try it. Misty learned the soup-making skills from my mother. The pure Mexican spicy soup is absolutely delicious." Jack said with a hearty smile, pointing to the pot of hot water on the table with his tachyon in hand. Steaming spicy soup.
With a smile on his lips, Lin Mo took the hot soup handed over by Misty.
He thanked her and began to carefully taste the bowl of "specialty spicy soup" that was passed down to Jack's mother and occasionally mentioned in the game.
Just taking a sip on his lips, Lin Mo felt a strong spicy aroma, and then a mixed taste of sweet and spicy. The soup was mixed with small pieces of meat. The moment he swallowed it, it was almost as if it was in his mouth. change.
In just this small mouthful of soup, Lin Mo could chew the delicious meat and taste the spicy excitement, as if a stream of heat poured into his body.
"It tastes good." Lin Mo gave the simplest compliment.
"Not bad." Kitagawa Hiroshi commented with a smile.
"Awesome, Misty, you already have some of my mother's skills." Jack glanced at Misty and gave a thumbs up.
Misty waved her hand and said humbly: "My cooking skills are far inferior to my mother's. There are other dishes here. Let's finish them first."
After drinking the hot soup in his hand, Lin Mo also turned his attention to the other dishes on the table.
The food in front of you is all unique Mexican dishes. The sweet corn and juicy barbecue are very appetizing at first sight. In addition, there are salad-like dishes and scones, and there is also a plate in front of everyone. of hot sauce.
Lin Mo ate very enthusiastically.
Indeed, as Jack said, this lunch tastes very strong, and every bite of food that goes into your mouth seems to make you full of strength.
Although the taste is a bit spicy, it is still very good if you try it once in a while.
...
After the meal, Misty stayed on the first floor, neatly and virtuously cleaning the bowls and tableware on the dining table, and helping Jack with housework as much as possible, while Jack led Lin Mo and Kitagawa Hao to the third floor. office.
"Sister Misty, don't you have to go to her divination room today?" Lin Mo took the time to ask during the break in the process of going upstairs.
Jack smiled and said, "The main reason is that she heard that you were coming as a guest, so she took a rare vacation and gave the key to Lao Weitou to open the clinic by himself."
"This is the benefit of being your own boss. You can take a break whenever you want." Hiroshi Kitagawa also interjected appropriately.
When I arrived on the third floor, I opened the office door and saw a bright room.
There are exquisite wooden tables, bookcases for decoration, and a few green plants in the corners. The sunlight outside the floor-to-ceiling windows is strong...
Lin Mo clicked his tongue and said in surprise, "I didn't expect you could manage the office in such a stylish way."
"This is all Misty's credit." Jack did not take credit and walked to the center of the room, where there happened to be a few sofa chairs for guests and a few bottles of unopened beer.
Seeing the logos on the shells of these bottles of beer, Lin Mo couldn't help but smile:
"In other people's offices, I usually only see tea for entertaining guests, but you are so lucky to actually put tequila here. Do you want to get others drunk and make it easier to discuss business?"
"I usually drink this by myself. This office is also where I occasionally work at home. If I meet others, I usually choose to go to my mother's bar." Jack shook his head and looked up from his desk. He brought over a hot water bottle and poured a glass of water for each of them.
[In view of the general environment,
"As soon as you've eaten and drank enough, just drink some cold water. Don't be too disgusted with it." He said.
Didigu said.
Lin Mo and Beichuan Hao are naturally inseparable.
The two sat on the sofa. Lin Mo picked up the cup and drank some water, moistened his mouth and tongue, and then said:
"Now that we're all here, it's time to talk about some serious business. In fact, I've had a doubt since I first entered the house. Jack, do you get along well with the old priest now?"
Father - Sebastian, the best and most outstanding middleman in the Heywood area, and his daily identity is a priest. He often utters sentences similar to prayers and has a high prestige among the Valentino Gang. .
As for the character of this middleman, Lin Mo could only say that his impression was pretty good due to his experience in playing games.
In Lin Mo's expectation, if Jack really wanted to establish his own business in the Heywood area and become famous, then contact with the priest would definitely be indispensable in the process of cultivating his own power.
If the other party had strong hostility, Lin Mo wouldn't mind letting Beichuan Hao and Jack join forces, and then use Rogge's connections to suppress the priest.
But now it seems that this old man is quite smart.
He should have realized that there must be someone behind Jack's sudden rise, and he couldn't just fall out with Jack.
Since they can't fall out, from the priest's perspective, there are only two options left: cooperation and non-interference.
It can be seen that the priest finally chose to cooperate.
Jack thought about it for a while and said, "We get along pretty well. He is still responsible for most of the entrusted business in the Heywood area. I have no interest in the work of a middleman. I am only responsible for some of the affairs at the moment. My subordinates are mainly Mann." team, and several other subordinates.”
"So you didn't infringe on his old man's business?" Lin Mo asked.
"No, this is what we have agreed upon. Besides, he is an old middleman. If I rashly get involved in his business scope, it is impossible for me to be more professional than him." Jack said with a smile:
"Well, the commissions he accepts are usually not related to the company, but I have your support after all, so I can still take on the orders that he doesn't dare to take, and all of them are completed smoothly. Sent to suitable mercenaries, so far there are no traces left.”
"Well, I understand." Lin Mo nodded.
"By the way, I have recruited two new people with good abilities. Let me give you a heads-up. The first one is the cybermaniac who was cured by Regina. Now he is also working under me. , I named him Gecko, and the other was a hacker with good abilities, nicknamed T-BUG, and I arranged both of them into Mann's team." Jack said.
Lin Mo was a little surprised when he heard this.
He never thought that T-BUG, the hacker who assisted the protagonists V and Jack in the early stages of the game, would appear in this way.
However, this doesn't seem to be surprising. With Jack's current status, recruiting a hacker to cooperate is not a big problem. Moreover, in the game, T-BUG will also become a teammate of Jack and V.
The addition of T-BUG can only be said to be unexpected but reasonable.
"So you can say that you have strong troops now?" Lin Mo asked teasingly.
Jack waved his hands and said angrily: "It's just so so. A list involving the company is not so easy to handle. I have a particularly difficult commission on hand right now."
"Can you tell me?" Lin Mo asked.
Jack glanced at Lin Mo, thought for a while, and subconsciously lowered his voice and said:
"Actually, I intercepted this order from another middleman, the middleman named Faraday, Mann's old employer."
"What's the specific situation?" Lin Mo frowned.
Jack said: "Someone at Military Technology asked Faraday to investigate a mysterious research project of Arasaka Company. Then, Faraday wanted to ask Mann for help to complete this matter, but he didn't expect that Mann was already mine. The news came to me smoothly.”
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After Xu Wen and Zhang Hao had a thorough discussion, they immediately split up.
While they were searching for treasures and presenting beauties to Yang Wo, they showed great loyalty in order to paralyze Yang Wo and delay time. At the same time, they selected two reliable confidants, carried letters, quietly left Guangling City, disguised themselves as merchants, and headed for Xia Kingdom. boundary.
The process is naturally quite thrilling and the journey is extremely slow. But if you want to do big things, can you do it without taking some risks?
Xu and Zhang's envoys were still on their way hard, while Shao Shude was lying leisurely in Shangyang Palace, teasing women, handling official affairs, and occasionally going hunting in Shendu Garden with the Yin'anzhi warriors, living a miserable life. Quite cool too.
On the tenth day of March, the new Xia King Award was awarded.
Since the award was given to "On Bloodline" in the third year of Tang Qianning's reign (896), the "Xia King Award" has been awarded for the tenth time. The seventh prize winner in the fifth year of Jianji (905) was the improved wool jacquard machine.
In the sixth year of Jianji, he was an iron horse. Jianji had a bye for seven years.
In the eighth year of Jianji, it was awarded to five craftsmen in Luoyang. They improved the brick-making process, increased efficiency, and proposed several new material bricks, including coal ash, cinders, slag and the like.
It was another bye in the ninth year of Jianji.
The tenth year of Jianji was just awarded to a craftsman in Fengzhou who improved the sugar pressing machine and increased production efficiency.
Since the first edition, the "Xia Wang Award" has gone through fifteen years without realizing it. Except for the vacant awards for the sixth year of Qianning, the second year of Jianji, the third year of Jianji, the seventh year of Jianji, and the ninth year of Jianji, a total of ten awards have been given out.
The demonstration effect is amazing.
Generous monetary rewards, official status, patronage to descendants, and widespread publicity make people gain both fame and wealth, and their social status increases dramatically. Even a peasant woman who could not read a single word had transcended social classes and became the subject of much talk.
The more prizes awarded, the greater the cumulative effect.
Last year's new sugar-pressing machine was made by an old craftsman who was not angry that a "stupid peasant woman" could win the prize, so he spent several years thinking about it and finally improved the original sugar-pressing machine to make it more suitable for the needs of sea beets.
Shao Shude is not sure whether this award will be spoiled after his death, but at least for now, it is full of gold, and each item has made a great contribution to social production, such as "Theory of Blood", "Geometry", Wool spinning machines, wool jacquard machines, new sea-going ships, new breeds of livestock, etc.
Once these things appear, it is basically difficult to disappear, and they will always contribute to society.
What's even more gratifying is that he didn't invent any of these. Rather, it was invented under his guidance by using social resources—brain resources and technical resources are also resources. This is much more meaningful than him acting as the inventor himself.
He is only one man, not God, and cannot do everything. The more people participate, the better the effect and the faster social progress.
"Is this brown sugar cake made with Rouzhou sugar?" Shao Shude picked up a steamed and extremely soft pastry, took a few bites, and asked.
"Your Majesty, it's the sugar presented by Rou and Shen Prefectures. I heard that this year Yun, Wei, Shuo and Gui Prefectures have also begun to grow sea beets. There will be more and more of these candies in the future." Shang Gong Su replied. road.
"Why are you standing so far away from me? There are no outsiders here." Shao Shude waved. Gao looked around and reluctantly came over.
Shao Shude hugged her into his arms and said, "I was so desperate last night, why are I so alive now?" Gao was panicked, as if some big secret had been leaked, and struggled subconsciously.
"Okay, okay." Shao Shude stroked her back like a kitten, turned to Mrs. Su and said, "Is there any candy in the palace from Annan?" "Your Majesty, the sweet soup we had yesterday was made from Annan. Made from sugar." Su Shi replied.
"I see, there doesn't seem to be much difference." Shao Shude nodded, and then sighed: "The two frontiers, one in the south and the other in the north, really worry me. Now that the south is leveled, five canes can be used to grow sugar cane. Ship back to the north."
It is actually an urgent matter to bind more and more anchors to his maritime dream.
The more anchors there are, the less likely it is that shipping will be abolished, and maritime technology will receive continued investment and iteration.
There are always people who dislike each other, and Military Technology is such a large company that this situation cannot be avoided, so I used my connections to find another mid-level employee within Military Technology and borrowed his hand to handle the same commission. "
"So it's not going well now?" Lin Mo touched his chin and asked thoughtfully.
"Oh, the progress is not very smooth, but Faraday's side is also so-so." Jack sneered.
I see...
Lin Mo's smile became even brighter, he coughed a few times and pretended to say:
"Jack, now you have a marginalized person in front of you who has nothing to do. His ability is still very good. As a middleman, don't you have any ideas?"
Jack was startled at first, but then he was overjoyed and asked, "Are you willing to help?"
"I haven't moved my muscles for a long time. This time...is an opportunity." Lin Mo said with a smile.
No matter how difficult the commissioned task Jack mentioned is, it should not be a problem for him who is now fully developed mentally and physically.
