When Colin returned to the castle, it was already late at night. When he came outside the study, he saw his senior sister busy at the desk as expected.

There are indeed too many things to do in the fortress, especially the establishment of Qiuyuan City. All kinds of materials need to be transported, plus the food and iron tools to support Dadamir, etc., all of which require the chief assistant of the lord to be busy. In addition, building houses and building roads

, alchemy workshops, mines, plantations, shops, schools, etc., are developing rapidly in all aspects.

Colin sometimes thinks that as a lord, he is more like a technical director, and there are not many matters that need to be handled by him personally, especially now that he has a senior sister.

It was said that the senior sister liked a person lying down so much, so she was forced to work until late at night every day, which made Colin feel a little guilty.

He did not disturb the senior sister, but sneaked into the kitchen.

Under his oral command, the kitchen finally made steamed buns and steamed buns. The characteristics of most common plants in this world are similar to those on Earth, and wheat is no different.

Colin sometimes finds it strange that the same wheat flour can be steamed or baked. However, some civilizations have developed steamed buns, while some have developed bread. This is not only due to the environment, but also due to inertial thinking.

My senior sister still doesn’t like steamed buns as much as white bread, but she has a special liking for steamed buns, especially vegetarian steamed buns stuffed with wild mustard in the Longji Mountains. This kind of mustard has a slightly bitter taste, but after getting used to it,

It does have a peculiar fragrance.

For this reason, Colin rarely exercised his lord's privileges and asked Sophia to open up a piece of land in the plantation to grow this kind of mustard, specifically for the castle, so that his senior sister could eat it.

He heated up two steamed buns and ran all the way to the study.

"Senior sister, let's have a late night snack."

"It's not good to eat too late..."

"Mustard Green Buns."

"Here comes one."

"I still like to eat meat." Colin ate his own meat buns.

"By the way." Tessa stuttered her buns elegantly while continuing to look down at the documents and said, "Mr. Walder has looked for you several times, but you just happened to be away every time."

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Early the next morning, Colin came to the alchemy workshop.

Walder led him to a nearly airtight room with an excited look on his face.

In the center of the room was a strange-looking mechanical device.

It is about the same size as a single bed as a whole, and the height is similar to a table. At one end is a metal box that occupies nearly half of the volume. A metal cylinder protrudes from one side of the box. The head is sharp and shining, and the table is dotted with dots.

There are various metal accessories, some fixed and some movable. On the other side is a much smaller movable rectangular box, and the inside is also an overall cylindrical fixing piece.

A luminous gemstone is mounted on the side with a bracket, illuminating the entire mechanical table.

machine tool.

Industrial machine, the machine that makes the machine.

Colin was actually not very familiar with this thing. The only time he came into contact with it in his previous life was when he was a metalworking intern in middle school. He saw it in a factory and finally completed an extremely ugly hammer.

The world is not without simple mechanical processing equipment. Even in primitive blacksmith shops, there are tools that use pedals to rotate iron plates for cutting or grinding. It is said that Gilman also has a machine driven by water flow.

The equipment is called a water flow machine.

But compared with the equipment driven by magic energy in front of me, those are not machine tools in the modern sense.

"Sir, according to the plan we discussed last time, the Magic Research Laboratory and the Alchemy Workshop have worked together to build this 'magic machine tool'." Wald bowed slightly humbly, but his expression was quite proud.

There were several people standing next to the machine tool.

In addition to several magic apprentices involved in designing and manufacturing machine tools, there are also Matthew and Rafe.

As one of the earliest veteran workers in the alchemy workshop, Raff was often entrusted with the important task of testing new equipment because of his rich experience and proficiency.

He was the first person to use the original forging machine and today's machine tools.

When he was called here today, it was Walder who asked him to operate the latest machine tools in front of the lord.

However, Wald also forgot one thing...

Rafe had met Colin from a distance before. This blacksmith who was once a serf, after confirming that the man in front of him was the lord, he knelt down without saying a word: "Master lord!"

Not only was Colin shocked, but others were also stunned.

Needless to say, Wald had known Colin before he became the Lord of Xaya; although Matthew was born as an orphan, he had been with Colin for more than three years starting from the manor outside Thunder City, and now he was in charge of the construction team

The main person in charge has participated in the fortress's highest meetings many times; the other magic apprentices who follow Wald can often see the lord.

No one expected that Raph would suddenly kneel down.

However, after all, it is a normal etiquette for ordinary people to meet the lord. Although the people present are all managers, they are not actually officially appointed by the lord. Even Sofia's "Minister of Agriculture" is only

Colin casually said that in principle, they still belong to the category of "ordinary territorial citizens" and are no different from Rafe.

After being stunned by Rafe's actions, the others had to follow suit. Matthew had already knelt down halfway, and even Walder also bent down.

Seeing this situation, Colin sighed slightly.

Then with a gentle wave of his sleeves, everyone could no longer kneel down, and even Rafe stood up involuntarily.

Only Walder was an official magician present. He knew very well that although the wind spell he just cast seemed easy, it was actually very difficult. Not only did the power need to be controlled well, but ordinary people like Rafe couldn't be allowed to stagger around. This was better than directly killing people.

It is much more difficult to blow a mile, requiring extremely high magical skills.

Colin had many thoughts in an instant.

For example, I am indeed very incompetent as a lord.

Look at the time traveler lord, the first thing he did when he came to power was to personally promulgate a freedom decree to the serfs, read it out one by one, and show his kindness in a high-profile way.

Look at myself again. In the past three years since I came to the fortress, I have done a lot to improve people's livelihood, but I have never been officially shown once. Even the few festival celebrations are hosted by my senior sister or Jennifer and others.

.Many of the citizens of Dusk Winter City still don’t know what the lord looks like.

In addition, personnel appointments must be clarified as soon as possible, and management cannot be chaotic as before. At least Wald and others must give them a formal position, otherwise in this case, they will really have no choice but to kneel down.

There should also be unified regulations on etiquette. This kind of kneeling behavior should no longer appear among the people of Xia Ya.

Colin was thinking a lot at this moment, but this was not the time to talk about this.
Chapter completed!