Chapter 218 Pornographic paintings are out of the circle! (14)
Something happened in Crescent Town, but it had little to do with the nobility.
For example, the popularity of the newly opened "Purify the Soul" gallery in Chengzhong District has hardly been affected at all.
From time to time, a carriage stops outside the gallery courtyard, and one or two well-dressed and elegant gentlemen walk out, buy one or two, or a dozen confession coupons, and come to the gallery to enjoy the beauty. No, it should be purification.
soul.
After bidding farewell to Harrick and Chabollet, Rosen also came to the gallery without stopping.
Of course he is not trying to purify the soul, but to purify other people's souls.
After quickly drawing four new spiritual paintings, he went to Patsy's office in the annex building of the gallery.
Patsy was busy organizing documents, and Rosen didn't bother him. He stood by the window with his hands in his pockets, looking at the scenery outside the window leisurely.
The customers who kept coming into the gallery made him feel very happy.
After waiting for a while, Patsy finished her work and opened a bottle of moonshine wine: "Master, would you like a drink?"
"All right."
Pornographic paintings and magical artifacts are two major ways to make money. If the business area is good, it should be able to earn funds for the subsequent construction of Crescent Town.
Rosen also felt that when he arrived in Crescent Town, he had to set up an intelligence department as a backup, otherwise he would be blind if something happened to Patsy.
"You are right. The information collected from the outside is enough to analyze the movements of big shots. There is no need to take big risks."
"What price were you given?"
He stopped looking out the window, walked back to sit on the thick leather chair opposite Patsy, leaned back lazily, and crossed his legs.
You must open a weapon-refining workshop and train enough weapon-refining apprentices before you can truly make money.
Patsy lay motionless in his arms, and after a while, she actually fell asleep.
"You help me go to the private sector to find a group of children from civilian backgrounds. They must be smart in mind and simple in temperament."
Therefore, ordinary civilians generally have to be in their early forties before they can obtain the noble title of official mage.
Unless this civilian mage is really talented and good at maneuvering, it will be difficult to become an official mage before the age of forty just by relying on hard work supported by ordinary talent.
"23 pictures."
Naturally, Rosen would not refuse. He picked her up with his mage's hands and placed her on his lap, letting her quietly nestle in his arms. At the same time, he used his mage's hands to lift her hair that was scattered on his back.
Thick long hair.
"He mainly sells your paintings to big cities in the east, such as Raging Wave City, White Sand City, Broken Leaf City, etc., and they are not sold in general, but sold at auctions."
Unless a formal mage has serious character flaws, he won't do too badly.
After a while, Patsy suddenly remembered something again.
The main reason is that there are few people in the highlands, less than one million, and most of them are rural people. Many people cannot travel more than 50 kilometers in their lifetime.
It's a bit like the Earth's senior engineer certificate.
For an ordinary mage, it is extremely difficult to gather the help of more than a hundred mage.
At this time, a mage's hand was used. The bookcase on the side opened and a neat stack of manuscript papers flew out, which recorded the family background and past resume of a full 600 informal young mage who had the power and knowledge of the official mage.
"Master, you have opened this soul-purifying gallery and developed a warm and healthy painting style. This has given many honorable men who are concerned about their reputation an excellent opportunity to break through their moral constraints."
As soon as Rosen saw her soft and charming eyes, he knew what she wanted.
"Yes, the information is very detailed and very helpful to me."
Harrick looked at the list and his eyes widened: "280, this is a lot of money."
She remembered something again.
"Oh, I remember. Where did he sell my paintings to?"
This group of people are generally under the age of thirty, their magic power is low to medium, and their plasticity is very high.
Back to business.
"It is said that there is a painting called Bathing in the Forest. It was even taken into the golden hall of Thunder Castle by the Storm Duke of Raging Waves City. The auction price was as high as 12,000 crowns."
He began to assign new tasks.
"By the way, I plan to recruit a group of weapon-refining apprentices recently."
If you really want to make a lot of money, it's not enough to rely on yourself and Gendeloni. You won't be able to increase your production capacity, and you won't have enough time and energy.
Rosen said: "I have naturally considered this. So to be more precise, I intend to teach you some methods of using powerful magic weapons, rather than actually mastering spells."
Sure enough, Patsy revealed a surprising piece of information.
And everyone has the spiritual need to appreciate beauty. Without moral pressure, those moral gentlemen will get involved.
He plans to use the petrification technique to build a small town. If these people use it well, they will be the backbone of the magical power to build Crescent Town in the future.
Patsy smiled and began to explain in detail.
Rosen smiled slightly: "I will make this money as soon as possible."
Rosen couldn't remember much at once: "What investigation mission?"
Rosen was startled: "A lot, how many are they?"
After a pause, she drank the moonshine wine in one gulp, stood up and walked to Rosen. With a 'pop', she naturally knelt down on the cashmere carpet and gently grabbed Rosen's hand with both hands.
Weapon refining is a technical job, but it is also laborious and time consuming.
He wasn't sure at first, but after hearing about Candela's auction of pornographic paintings, he felt confident.
After all, the status of a formal mage is equivalent to an honorary knight, and a knight must either obtain military exploits in exchange for it, or he must have spent decades in the officialdom before being awarded the title.
"I know."
Give him the list and information of the unofficial mages you plan to hire.
"Because these new customers have high moral standards but relatively low economic levels, they can only give 500 kronor per ticket."
When it comes to professional issues, Patsy has them at your fingertips.
"Compared with before, there is always a psychological gap between a 500 and a 500. Besides, I am also busy with work now, so I am afraid I won't have time to draw."
"I will try to simplify the use of powerful magic weapons as much as possible to ensure that you can easily master them."
Fortunately, the uncle found a lot of government assistants to share a lot of work with him.
He remembered that the painting was sold to Candela for 50 crowns.
Then he poured himself a glass of moonshine wine, walked to the thick leather chair, sat on it with his legs curled up, and sipped the wine leisurely, as lazy as a cat.
"Why are there so many?"
And if you are not a formal mage, then your daily spellcasting is a violation of imperial regulations, and you have to find a formal mage to buy a spellcasting guarantee.
That is, a circle is drawn.
"Master, good wine can actually refresh your mind. It can even loosen the shackles of reason and let your imagination run free."
"Candra's mission to sell paintings."
Patsy narrowed her eyes and smiled: "It's ready a long time ago. I've been waiting for you to pick it up."
Naturally, Rosen would not be stingy with rewards for his capable subordinates.
There are only tens of thousands of residents in Silver Moon Castle, so if anyone has a big incident, it can easily spread throughout the city.
Considering that many formal mage apprentices will take up part of the quota, it may take the help of more than a hundred formal mages to get the spellcasting permission.
He was worried that his intelligence officer had drunk his body badly.
Rosen glanced at it: "I don't like drinking moonshine wine, just give me a glass of water."
"According to the current scale, it will cost about one thousand crowns a month. And it is difficult to expand this scale. There are many powerful mages in Silver Moon Castle, and I dare not stretch my hand too far."
Patsy nodded immediately: "No problem, Master."
"Some apprentices will be selected from informal mages, and some want to train them from an early age."
Rosen waited for her to fall asleep, then gently placed her on the small rest bed in the office, covered her with a thin quilt, released her home protection operation, and then left quietly.
She glanced at Rosen softly again.
"Paissie, the information you have collected recently has been of great help to me, and it also proves that my original choice was correct."
But the price was too low and Rosen was unwilling to paint.
Of these six hundred informal mages, nearly three hundred met his requirements.
"How is the background of the civilian mage in the highlands, and how is the investigation going?"
Don't get me wrong, I don't do anything during the day.
Patsy is only twenty-five years old, and she is busy collecting information all day long, so her desire is not strong. As long as a man doesn't flirt with her, he won't be able to take the initiative.
There's no big problem with what she said.
"No more for now, fifty will be enough."
Rosen understood immediately.
About ten minutes later, he put the information back on the table and nodded with satisfaction.
As smart as she is, she will naturally not pick up sesame seeds and drop watermelons.
"Master, but I also want a small reward."
In addition, since they are all informal mages, in addition to money, they also lack guarantees for spell casting.
"I decided to reward you, teach you some self-defense spells, and equip you with some powerful protective weapons."
Patsy was very pleased with Rosen's generosity. After thinking about it carefully, she shook her head.
The business was over, and Rosen patiently cashed in the small reward for Patsy.
"The publicity stunt is the work of Master Liushu, the genius of northern magic."
"Master, learning spells requires a lot of energy and time, and this will greatly interfere with my work."
"Good wine is always harmful to the body, so be careful."
So the official mage has another way to make money.
"Then I push it for the master?"
The main cost of gathering intelligence is basically spent on maintaining the daily dark network.
Rosen quickly looked through the information in his hand, not reading it himself, but handing it over to the computing core for automatic analysis.
"I remember."
In other words, it was because of his series of operations that the gorgeous and elegant oil paintings were gradually accepted by the upper class of Silver Moon Castle and gradually grew into a mainstream art school.
Of course, Patsy knew the dangers of the struggle for the earl's heir, so she made up her mind to huddle in the gallery and rely entirely on her men to do the investigation.
It's a pity to push it forward, after all, it is a good income.
By the way, people in the East are really rich.
It's not that he cares about money. In fact, he specially granted Patsy 300 kronor a month's living expenses.
In this way, the moral pickiness is much obscured by the elegant aura of art, making it less dazzling.
Patsy and Lilith were his eyes, and naturally he had to take good care of them and never let them get hurt.
"Is this stuff that delicious?"
After thinking for a moment, Rosen said: "Take it, but tell these customers that I am very busy and I have to draw based on my mood."
Later, while thinking about making money from pornographic paintings, Rosen masturbated the cat. No, it was his own intelligence officer.
"Fubos won't, but his supporters may. But as long as you wear protective magic weapons, there won't be any big problems."
This guy actually sold the painting to the East for so much money, a profit of 240 times!
He turned to look at Patsy and saw that she was pouring some more moonshine wine into the glass, and he was very puzzled.
It has only been a few days, are all the old gentlemen of Silver Moon Castle so hungry?
Patsy explained with a smile.
Rosen was speechless.
"The delivery time is uncertain, it can be up to three to four months, or even half a year."
Intelligence work is very tiring.
"It seems that Candela and I also have huge room for cooperation in pornographic paintings."
According to the empire's official mage order, one official mage can guarantee the spellcasting permissions of up to 8 informal mages at the same time.
Why informal?
Because these mages are from civilian backgrounds, they can only withstand the most demanding assessments.
"By the way, Master, I have recently received many requests for custom paintings from old gentlemen. When will you be free?"
There is some truth to this, and people all have quirks. He likes beautiful and charming girls, but Patsy likes fine wine, so there is no difference between them.
"So, this part of the demand comes from new customers that we haven't touched before."
Peixi smiled: "The moonshine wine produced by Demitlan Private Winery tastes much better than the commercial products."
After a moment of silence, Rosen asked: "Is intelligence collection expensive?"
When Rosen heard this, he knew that Candela must be making a fortune.
Fubos would not mess with things that passed through the open road, such as 150,000 yuan of land reclamation materials, because the count was watching, but that was not necessarily the case with things in the dark.
The examination fee of 1,000 crowns, triple review by the mages guild, lords and temples, and many unspeakable but real unspoken rules make things difficult.
What she asked for was Rosen's comfort, just like a cat jumping into its owner's arms and begging to be stroked.
First, we found Uncle Harrick who was also very busy and dizzy at the 'Crescent Town Temporary Town Building'.
Patsy understood and nodded in agreement: "Thank you, Master, for your concern."
Patsy narrowed her eyes with contentment like a cat, and lay motionless in his arms.
No wonder he was so generous, willing to rent the Egret Garden to him for three months for a custom-made painting. Sure enough, businessmen don't do business at a loss.
He poured half a glass of boiled water into a good flawless crystal wine glass and handed it to Rosen with a mage's hand.
Rosen took a sip of water and reminded: "Before the overall situation is settled, Vobos may come to trouble you. You have to be careful and call Sharina immediately if you find something is wrong."
"There are also investigation tasks assigned by the master. I also got the answer this morning."
"Thank you for your concern, Master, but I don't think Fubos would dare to come directly to the church gallery to kidnap someone."
Her magic power has increased greatly recently, and she has become familiar with her mage's hands.
"Uncle, hire these informal mages as soon as possible. They will be divided into six levels according to their abilities. The monthly salary will be adjusted between 5 and 20."
Gathering intelligence was her core ability under Rosen's protection, and it would be difficult for her to achieve great success if she started learning spells at this age.
Such small details of constraints are not too big, but they can effectively prevent careerists from taking advantage of loopholes to do big things and subvert tradition.
So, where could Rosen find such a large number of official mages for help?
Naturally, we rely on the temple to send mages, and we can’t let others help us in vain.
The Maple Leaf Tea Party happened to be in three days, and it was time to fulfill the promise he had made to Bilgu.
Of course, before that, he had to go home and get ready.
