Chapter 525： Observed

Cecil arranged the most comfortable accommodation for the guests from the capital, not in the lord's house, but in a separate building under the government office. It is said that the building was built to meet important guests and was called "Autumn Palace" by the Cecil because it was completed this fall.

This novel arrangement once again made visitors feel the difference of the Principality of Cecil.

The Victorian Duke is slightly lazy on the soft and comfortable couch, relaxing with the stiff muscles of the limbs due to the journey and dinner, and carefully observing all the furnishings in this room, frankly, the furnishings here. It doesn't match the word "luxury". Although the things are very beautiful, it is not a style with the rooms in Silver Fort, but the things here are still impressive.

All the lighting facilities here rely on the magic spar as the core. This cheap and simple lighting device is difficult to popularize because it needs constant magic, but in Cecil it is something that can be seen everywhere in the street. The room is warm and spring. But the fireplace on the west side is not lit. It is obvious that the fireplace is not a heating facility, but just a decoration. The real heating here is solved by what is called the "magic energy system"; With large and bright curtains, the weaving technique of the fabric is very strange, the needlework is simple, and even with a sense of cheapness, but the degree of neatness is surprising, it is like a well-crafted old weaver who sleeps endlessly. Such a cheap and simple cloth...

The black-haired maid, Maggie, stood behind Victoria and massaged the tight muscles of the hostess's shoulders with a gentle touch. She felt the muscles under her fingers relax a little. The brunette maid whispered: "You have been observing Everything here."

"Yes? Is it so obvious?" Victoria's tone is slightly higher, and the body is more lazy to stretch out. She can maintain the perfect state in any unofficial occasion, but at this moment when she relaxes herself, she sighs. With a sigh of relief, "I regretted at this time that I didn't bring a mediocre and shallow king to serve as a 'flower ambassador'. He can replace me for every novelty. I have too many questions. I don't understand. Things, but I have asked 'why' too much on the way."

"There are a lot of novelties here, but it seems to be just a variety of magical devices. It's not more advanced than the magical organs you set up in Winter Castle, isn't it?" Maggie said of his own opinion, "Cyprus The Syr people use the magic spar to illuminate, and the inner court of the winter castle is also, their gates can be automatically opened, and your mage tower is the same, ah, they also have the magic guide that can drive automatically than the dragon blood horse. Faster, more than your white feather gryphon."

Apparently, in the dark-haired maid's view, her mistress was confused by the dazzling "trick" of Cecil, so that she over-emphasized those novel and interesting magic devices, but Victoria shook his head: "No, Maggie, you don't understand that any of the Cecil's magical devices are not surprising to me. What really surprised me is that they have thousands of magic devices."

Maggie's finger on the shoulder of the hostess paused a bit.

"Gaowen Dagong is pushing the extraordinary power to everyone. He is breaking the line between the extraordinary and the ordinary. The scary thing is that he is not only qualified to do this, but he also did it," Victoria sat up. The expression became serious. "I don't want to understand how he did it..."

The black-haired maid did not answer, and the female duke did not expect to hear the answer from the maid's mouth. She just shook her head: "Maggie, bring those 'newspapers', I have to take another look."

"Yes."

A glimpse of the newspaper was sent to Victoria's hand. Looking at something that was also unheard of elsewhere, she couldn't help but sigh: "First let the civilians start literacy..."

The king's messengers from the north have never been exposed to what is called a newspaper. However, it has already entered the eyes of every ordinary person in the south, and everyone can read it. It is unbelievably cheap, many in the north. The information that the aristocrats seem to belong to "confidential" is publicly disseminated in the Principality of Cecil, including the price of food, the appointment and dismissal of bureaucrats, and the construction of new towns, which should be owned by the nobility. Let the civilians discuss here as long as they learn the basic literacy skills at school.

The other people in the gang have probably not noticed this kind of newspaper, but when Victoria left the Rock Fortress and passed through the city of Kant, he was concerned that a "newsboy" at the time was selling the print along the road. The rising duke was ordered to buy a copy, and then she was deeply shocked by this thing.

Her eyes quickly swept through the content of price, construction, and current affairs news, but she thought that before she left Pompeii, she wanted a difficult experience about the statistics of transit merchants.

But compared to these contents, what the Duke is paying attention to is the commentary articles on current affairs in the newspaper.

"Maggie... Do you know? If we have this in our hands, we don't have to think about whether the aristocrats and the citizens support the case when the Crown Prince of Wales is crowned." Victoria raised the newspaper in his hand, and the tone was full of helplessness. "We even People in the East can start to doubt their lords and princes."

“Do you want to give something similar in St. Sunil... or the Holy Spirit Plain?”

Victoria’s voice is full of exhaustion: “It’s useless, our people are illiterate and the Holy Spirit’s plains and the aristocrats of the king’s capital will not allow the farmers to let go of their gimmicks and read and literate. After they understand the truth, they will question them.”

She only said half of it, but the rest did not say it: If she didn't see a lot of information about Lu'an City, her own thoughts were similar to those of the king and the plain nobility...

No, it would be better to say that once the kings and the aristocrats in the plains knew what happened in Lu’an City, they would not even dare to let the people read the words.

A breeze blew from the side, Victoria stopped talking to Maggie, she looked at the corner of the room and nodded slightly: "The dark crow, you are back."

A figure wearing black soft leather came out of the air. Once belonged to Francis II, the royal defender "The Dark Crow", now obeyed by the Duke of the Regent, bowed to Victoria: "The Duke, there is no building around this building." The same."

"It seems that our founding hero is bright and upright," Victoria nodded, but couldn't help but look at the "newspaper" from the hand. Then she looked at the Royal Shadow Guard not far away. "Is there something to explore?"

"It seems that there are another group of visitors in this city besides us. I heard that they are a group of businessmen, but they live somewhere away from the 'castle'. The middle has to cross the post. We are worried that if we find it, we will not go. Check out."

“A group of businessmen...” Victoria said faintly, as if he was talking to himself. “The rumored founding hero really likes 'business'... he relies on the power of merchants to rise rapidly.”

The dark crow bowed his head: "Would you like to track down the merchants?"

"No, it’s not wise to alarm the other guests of the owner," Victoria shook his head, then his eyes suddenly fell on the shoulders of the dark crows, and the voice turned a little cold. "In addition, you have already been discovered."

"... ah?!" The dark crow was surprised, and then noticed the mistress's sight. The royal film guard immediately turned around and finally noticed a little strangeness at the back of the shoulder. He reached for the hand and the result was in the skin. A small piece of paper was found in the gap of A.

Seeing the contents of the note, the royal film suddenly changed his face:

"Hey, take a walk? The goddess of the shadow goddess stays."

The "Duke of the Duke" was immediately kneeling on the ground, with shyness and a trembling in his voice. "I... I care about it..."

A blood-curing ice cone seems to have formed behind his neck. The Royal Shadow Guard feels that his nerves and blood are getting colder a little bit, but in the next second, the feeling of deep bones will recede like a tide. He heard the voice of the Duke of the Duke coming from the front: "Get up."

The dark crow came out with a cold sweat. When he got up, he stood up. The Victoria opposite him sighed: "Granden Cecil has trained Ansu's first royal defenders, and he will have the strongest beside him. The shadow master works for you, you are not an opponent and it is normal. After all the hidden actions after the cancellation, the shadow master who did not show up just gave us a warning this time, but when Cecil’s big mouth is open, I’m afraid Not just a warning."

The dark crow breathed a sigh of relief, although he wanted to say that he should know the "dark goddess prostitute" who left a note on him. The other party is not a shadow master. When the front is hit, it is probably stronger than the goose. But as a normal-minded adult, he now wants the hostess to overestimate the power of the half-elf...

"Since you have been discovered, do something else," Victoria continued. "You leave the city first, and the second batch of our team officially enters the city, and then you are in the city of Cecil. Where you are allowed to visit, I want you to focus on three things."

"Please tell me."

"When you see how Cecil manages the 'people', find out why their efficiency is so high; observe what the ordinary people here are talking about most often on weekdays, and understand what the Principality of Cecil is in their eyes. In the end, observing their market, I want you and other filmmakers to record everything they sell on the market, including the approximate price changes, and then inquire about the origin of those things and the daily sales. There is a way for them to manage the market."

"Yes."

The shadow of the dark crow disappeared into the air. After a moment, Maggie looked at her mistress: "You finally mentioned the market of the Cecils... Are you trying to understand how the business of the Duke of Cecil works?"

"This is one of the purposes," Victoria nodded. "But it's more important to understand how strong the Duke of Cecil was after laying this land. We are going from the Rock Fortress to Cecil City. All the routes are Being planned, what we can see is also the planned market, which is the only means for us to understand other parts of the South."

How many cars are there in the Duke of Gaowen, how many ships are there, how many cities have been completely controlled by him, and how many areas are directly connected to the roads of Cecil City. How many gold coins are flowing on this land every day, and these coins can be raised again? How many troops... These things can be estimated from the market.