Terra 768, November 25, afternoon.
New town area.
After two years of construction, the new urban area of Harrison Port has now begun to take shape. A solid stone bridge spans the rushing river, reflecting light golden sparkling waves.
The large alchemy workshop located on the east side of the Ewok River, next to the bridge across the river, is the center of this city. It has white walls and golden eaves, and is five stories high. It is the only building in the entire Harrison Port that is taller than the Viscount Mansion.
So special, it naturally has its uses. The thunder guide needle on the top of the alchemy workshop can absorb the abundant thunderstorms in Nanling for its own use, charging the large-scale element core in the workshop, becoming the second energy hearth in the city-precisely because In this way, the efficiency of metal smelting and casting craftsmen in Harrison Port has almost doubled, and the output of various alchemical materials and inscription facilities has also been greatly increased.
Surrounding this large alchemy workshop is a circle of related production facilities, such as the nearest furnace charge factory and oil and wax workshop, kiln factory and masonry workshop.
More peripherally, there is the Alchemy Inscription Research Institute, which the paper mill and Viscount Harrison spent huge sums of money to build... It is said to be a research institute, but it is actually a small library, which contains some basic information about alchemy and inscriptions. Books may be enough for elementary teaching, but not for higher education.
After all, no scholars currently come to Harrison Port to conduct their academic research on the edge of the world.
But no matter what, such a research institute must exist, and investment must be increased every year. Otherwise, it will be absolutely too late to build it temporarily when needed.
Viscount Grant is indeed a nobleman with a long-term vision, determination and perseverance, who is willing to give and does not indulge in non-female pleasures. The only shortcoming may be that male sex is not taboo, and the tax is not low.
As for the further periphery, there are large weaving mills, mills and sawmills that can use the surging water of the Ewok River, as well as an expensive outer city reservoir.
Even though Harrison Port is located by the river and the sea, it is difficult to obtain clean water resources that meet the needs of alchemy.
Thanks to this large reservoir and the investment of several Imperial City businessmen, the original small brewery of the Gill family was quickly upgraded to a medium-sized brewery, and a public bathhouse was built as a result.
As for these other livelihood facilities that should have been built long ago, it is entirely because Harrison Port has been competing with the indigenous people for control of the Ewok River in the past few decades. Neither side can control the river area. Naturally, the Viscount cannot go crazy and build it at any time. The mills and sawmills would be destroyed.
If the riverside city does not build water conservancy facilities, it will lose a lot of productivity. It is no wonder that after defeating the indigenous people, Viscount Grant's first thought was to build a new city to make up for these facilities.
Two years is not a long time, and not all of these facilities have been completed. For example, the furnace material factory and masonry workshop have just completed a skeleton, and the bathhouse has just been completed. It is estimated that it will take another two weeks to be put into use. .
But in any case, the lives of the residents of Harrison Port are getting better and better - there are even rumors that the old city area in the east of the city that has not many people living in it will also begin to be renovated, and it will become a new market area, and a theater Public clinics will be built there.
If all this is true, then Viscount Grant can proudly declare that everything his father promised to all immigrants from the empire, "a port located on the edge of the world, but with living conditions comparable to the cities in the heart of the empire," will be in his hands. accomplish!
A small building located next to the blacksmith shop and paper mill.
【White Room Groceries】
A white boy wearing a white robe slowly walked out of the store door and looked around.
He was wearing a black hooded short-sleeved shirt, and his long white hair was braided into a simple braid. The sun shone through the thin clouds on him and the house, bringing the heat of late autumn.
For Nanling, the four seasons are not distinct. Even the coldest winter cannot keep the temperature below ten degrees. It is usually maintained between fifteen and twenty degrees. But if the cold current in the Baisen Mountains Although there is a surge, it can also bring the temperature around the mountains to close to zero.
"It seems there are no guests."
Whispering to himself, Ian is not surprised. After all, who has nothing to do to buy groceries in a remote corner of the new city? The only ones who really came were the big clients who came to let him use psychic powers for identification after being introduced.
Such customers obviously don't come every day... rather, how many rare items can there be in a week that require the use of psychic powers and professional appraisal to be at ease.
After confirming that there were no guests, the teenager turned around, ready to clean up, and then went home.
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The shops are all used in daily use, such as the herbal medicines that eliminate poison, wooden barrels, and long rope fine nets. Qualification certification cheap alchemy matrix and raw materials, as well as underwater waterproof underwater glasses.
In addition to the large -scale network identified, there are also some artisans who want to practice alchemy, and they will also come here to purchase materials. Although Ian's private materials do not meet the specifications, the quality is stable. The only disadvantage is that the amount is not large enough.
Those who need to clean up are not these shelves. Naturally, people from the city hall will come over to sort out, and Ian goes directly towards the second floor.
There are no partitions or walls on the second floor. Except for a few load-bearing columns, everything is transparent. Rows of wooden boards are nailed to the four walls, and rows of bottles and cans are fixed on wooden frames.
The clean glass bottle is colorful, various catalytic matrix and alchemy materials, as well as some basic finished products.
Located in the center of the room is a large workbench.
Although there are no other books and notes on the workbench, as well as some simple purification synthetic instruments, there are no other, far less than those who are full of expensive instruments such as vacuum distilled and metal crusher.
But this is an attitude.
A Port Harrison will do his best to cultivate the attitude of an alchemist who is truly his own.
In Viscount Grant's understanding, Ian's psychic power can detect the weaknesses of the mountain owner, and can also help the young man clearly observe the various details of the alchemy process - after Elder Puder showed Ian the young man's only need After seeing the dual talents of psychic alchemy that could completely reproduce the alchemy process once, the noble man almost did not hesitate and decided to train Ian.
The research library in Harrison Port is completely open to him and he can borrow and copy freely, and the alchemy workshop is also completely open to him for free visits.
As a price, Ian will serve Harrison Port for fifteen years after becoming an official alchemist, and at the same time become an appraiser under Viscount Grant.
Now Viscount Grant, due to the rapid development of Harrison Port, has greater 'capacity' for all kinds of talents.
The people of Bai can develop and grow because of his growth.
The sun is setting.
The cool breeze of the dry season in autumn and winter blew into the room from the window. After sorting out his books and notes, Ian looked up at the cloud scenery outside the window - where the distant sea and sky meet, a majestic cloud mountain stood on the zenith, and the brilliance of the setting sun illuminated it. The top layer is covered with a layer of golden color.
"No rain, there is no storm, it is a good weather."
Nodding slightly, Ian closed the window.
He went downstairs, closed and locked the shop door, and then returned home.
No one would steal in the new city area where the city guards patrolled from time to time, especially the gallows next to the stone bridge. Although there were few people hanging around there, it was somewhat of a deterrent.
In general, there is no special news today.
The fleet has not returned yet, and the hunters and herb collectors have not dug in the mountains. They have harvested any precious things, and there is no big news. The biggest fun in the past week is that an out-of-town adventurer was caught by a local fish in Nanling. Bites to the lower body.
He insisted that it was an accident after entering the water, a mistake made by being too young, but who wouldn't know what he did.
No, for Ian, today is still a slightly special day.
Because he had just completed the first potion to complete his independent.
The potion of 'The True Form of the Wavesinger'.
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