Luo Zin took Lant to the Salt and Iron Division warehouse, but when he was about to leave the Tower of Purity, he met Teferi Klein. The old magician was waiting halfway with a few people, and he looked unhappy.
"Count Lant, the entire imperial school has just been rumored that you plan to let a group of magister children share the lessons of the Tower of Purity?"
Teferi asked with some resentment, "When you came here last time, you praised the history of the Tower of Purity and the Galloping Horse family. Don't you know that what the Tower of Purity values most is that common people can also get education? Don't you Are you going to let our teachers teach the children of those dandy nobles?"
Lant looked at the magister in front of him. He had just finished discussing business with Sherman. He was in a good mood, so he replied: "Our Benma family brought nearly 3 million gold coins to the imperial capital. If Master Teferi can Help me get this money back, I am willing to invest all this money in civilian education!"
"Uh..." Teferi suddenly lost his temper.
Lant knew that it would definitely not work to ask these mages to collect the debt, so he continued to ask: "If it doesn't work, my two knights combined have 300 people, the barbarian cavalry has more than a thousand people, and there are 3,000 infantry and auxiliary troops. Man, it is estimated that it will cost 700,000 gold coins to resist the orc attack, can you help me find it from the Galloping Horse Fund?"
Teferi stopped talking. This was of course impossible. They spent countless amounts of money every year, all of which was used for magic research. Is it possible to give the money he wanted to a knight?
"If it still doesn't work, I can still make some money by building a magic furnace, but all the money needs to go into the account of the Benma Fund. I wonder if you can get the Benma Fund to be stripped from the general ledger of the Yeqi City Finance Department. Come out? Don’t let the money I earn go through Galloping Horse Fund?" Rand’s voice became louder and louder as he spoke. Although there was still a smile on his face, his mood became worse and worse.
The faces of Teferi and several magicians, who were full of anger just now, already looked a little ashamed.
He looked at the mage behind him and said to Lant: "Earl Lant... If you really need money, I can persuade several families to pool funds..."
"Very good. Now a group of imperial nobles are not only willing to raise funds for me, but are also willing to pay for an additional potion. The only requirement is that their children come to Benma Academy. They are willing to use their own funds to cultivate pure Students of the Tower, why not do it?"
Seeing that the magisters had no more words to say, Lant followed Luo Jin and left. Before leaving, he said: "We can accept another 200 students from the Tower of Purity this week and come with this group of children."
Teferi looked at Lant's retreating figure and shook his head.
Mentor Glamorgan on the side came over and asked with some worry: "Earl Lant's approach sounds like he brought in a group of nobles, which not only balanced the power but also provided magic potions.
Glamorgan was not optimistic about Lant's approach of using the Imperial School to balance the Tower of Purity: "But the Tower of Purity has carried out countless practices over the past hundreds of years, and these two groups of people will eventually fight each other. It’s not just a simple fight between students, but a fight between the families behind the students.”
Ben Kaur walked over and nodded to the two mentors. As a legend who has experienced more than a hundred years of ups and downs, Ben knew these things well.
"Ben? Why don't you advise him? Introducing nobles from other regions on a large scale is a road of no return. Schools in the Imperial City are complex. Behind any child may be hundreds of thousands of families." Teferi Said something.
"Of all the problems he faces, the problem of too many dandies in the imperial capital, which will only become apparent in 20 years, is probably the least urgent one," Ben Call said with a smile. "The rest include but not As the financial pockets are empty, the orcs are busy sharpening their knives, and the family is eyeing them, if you look at it from his point of view, it is not necessarily a bad thing to introduce some nobles from the imperial capital to offset the influence of the Galloping Horse family."
"Then how many children is he planning to bring in? It can't be 4,000 children, right?"
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From the Tower of Purity to the warehouse near the Salt and Iron Division's melting pot, you can go directly through a special teleportation channel. It is this special teleportation gate that allows the big melting pot a hundred kilometers away to be counted as part of the new area of the Imperial Capital.
The Salt and Iron Department's warehouse is located on a flat land at the foot of Furnace Mountain. When you come down from the mountain, you can see a large castle-like building. It is said that these warehouses were also built by Queen Padmilla. The interior height of the warehouse is generally over 50 meters, which sounds like a large space, but it is filled to the brim with huge machines.
Although Lant was alone when he arrived at the furnace hall, his dwarves were all studying here. Sophia and Jonny also arrived at the hall in the morning. When they heard about the good news of treasure hunting in the warehouse, they all followed.
"Sir, these equipments... are so big!" Jonny raised her head and looked around. As the magician who had the deepest knowledge of "stoves" in the territory, she almost wanted to move to a warehouse.
Lant on the side did not speak, but swallowed his saliva.
Seeing everyone so fascinated, high-level rune master Luo Jin said proudly: "Count Lant, these blast furnaces you see were once replaced by the Salt and Iron Division, and each one was cast according to the standard material ratio. , definitely not those junk products that can be seen everywhere!”
"Dang~dang" After tapping the blast furnace with your finger, you can hear a crisp sound, which is almost exactly the same as the newly built magic furnace wall. In Lant's eyes, these so-called replacement products can almost catch up with the newly cast ones. equipment.
"If the materials are so good, why are they piled here?" Lant couldn't move his eyes when he saw these stoves.
"The furnace hall has been renovated several times, and the furnace became bigger and bigger, so I replaced it with a smaller one." Luo Zin saw Lant's look and knew that he was tempted, so he quickly said, "Sir, what Sir Sherman just said , only includes the salt boiling pot, not these stoves!"
Rant glanced at the high-level dwarf with some surprise, "Of course I know this, you don't think I plan to take it away directly! However, since it is replaced, there should be a price, right?"
"We have an external quotation. A complete set of equipment can be taken away with 700,000 gold coins, but if it includes installation and magic pattern drawing, it will cost over one million gold coins." Luo Jin looked at Lant and said with a smile, "Sir, you are now Making a magic furnace can earn you almost 250,000 gold coins, if..."
"I bought it!" Lant didn't wait for Luo Zin to say anything more, "Cash and gold coins will be paid through the Temple of Commerce!"
"Huh?" Luo Jin almost thought he heard wrongly.
"Sir? What did you just say?" Sofia and Jonny had just recovered and looked at Lant with puzzled faces.
"I said that I will buy a complete smelting production line now. According to the price of the Salt and Iron Company, it is 1 million gold coins. I will sign the contract today and just go to the Temple of Wealth to get the money directly." Lant said without any tone, from Moge Castle Only the little red bird and the big goblin knew about bringing back a large amount of gold coins. Although the monsters saw a pile of gold coins, they had no idea about money.
Since this huge sum of tens of millions of gold coins was minted tens of thousands of years ago, it cannot be directly used for payment in the empire's internal market. And once the imperial capital knows that he has made a windfall, it will definitely miss it, so it will simply go directly to the central bank. : Transfer money from the Temple of Commerce.
"Sir, you can actually pay with the proceeds of the future magic furnace..." Luo Zin didn't expect Lant to be so forthcoming, let alone that he could come up with 1 million gold coins in cash.
Luo Jin brought Rand to the warehouse to see this set of smelting equipment this time, just to let him buy it. The price of one million gold coins is enough to occupy most of Rand's magic furnace income. If they enter the Galloping Fund together, they can turn into a capital project that will last for decades.
However, Lant not only had money, but also had independent payment channels, so he simply rejected the dwarf's proposal.
"No need, I hope to put this equipment in the new industrial zone as soon as possible. I can't wait to see it smelting the first batch of molten steel!"
(End of chapter)
