As the president of the Forsbarrow Chamber of Commerce, Sambor personally leads a team to participate in the summer trade fair every year.
Therefore, although Forsbarrow did not have any nobles, he was used to the hypocrisy and pretentiousness of the nobles of the capital - when he heard Lux's promise to "not collect taxes within five years", he was very excited at first
of.
However, in his excitement, Sambol quickly realized something was wrong.
As a businessman, he was naturally interested in costs and gold coins, so when many Forsbarrow people thought "Count Laxana is a nice person and can be dealt with", Sambol subconsciously thought of Laxana.
Notify cost issues.
Although Count Laxana does not seem to be a very luxurious person, and her personal expenses may be different from those of the great nobles in Xiongdu, she has quite a few people under her command!
Think of the battle that day when she arrived at Forsbarrow!
Sambol didn't understand military affairs, and he couldn't tell what the level of the soldiers brought by Count Laxana was, but what he dared to say was that if he wanted to support hundreds or thousands of soldiers, it would definitely not be possible.
A simple thing.
If taxes are not collected, where will Count Laxana's money come from to raise his troops?
Even if this person is from the Crown Guard family... the Crown Guard family can't afford to raise so many soldiers casually, right?
Moreover, in addition to these soldiers, Sambor also heard that the earl also brought a group of immigrants. These people did not enter the city of Forsbarrow, but seemed to be planning to find a place to build a new one outside the city.
stronghold!
In a place like the Northern Territory, establishing a settlement is very expensive. Could it be that Count Laxana was a rich man before he obtained the title?
While Sambol was confused, Laxana's story continued on the podium.
The content of the speech also began to turn from fiction to reality, and he began to talk directly about the idea of "taking advantage of this winter to build an artificial lake that can store glaciers in the northeast of Forsbarrow City."
According to Lux, this artificial lake will carry "the icebergs rushing on the Feilongji Mountains in the spring, stabilize the Forsbarrow water system, and make Forsbarrow, like Mithral City, a city with rich water resources."
"Northern City" mission.
Good guy, where in Fosbairo have you heard of this?
For a moment, everyone was talking a lot, and everyone seemed to be very interested in Laxana's statement.
However, there are also many people like Sam Bol who are sober and immediately discovered the problems with this plan.
Breaking ground in winter to build an artificial lake to carry the glaciers in spring?
Isn't this nonsense?
You know, Fosbello is located on the northern plateau, and the land here is seasonally frozen!
Although Sambol is not engaged in water conservancy or construction, he is still very clear about the characteristics of Forsbarrow's land.
Located at the foot of the Feilongji Mountains, the soil of Forsbarrow is more rocky than soil. After the permafrost melts in spring, a glacier plows the bed of a seasonal river; however, when the permafrost here is completely frozen from late autumn to early spring, the
The land is completely frozen.
Not to mention breaking ground to build an artificial river, you even have to use a chisel to dig a hole here!
Why can the people of Fosbello only watch the glaciers plow by and the river courses change every year? Is it because they don’t know and don’t want to build artificial lakes?
Of course not!
The people of Fosbairo can't afford to repair it.
Even if all the people of Forsbarrow were mobilized and painted for a whole winter, the area of the artificial lake that could be dug out could only be described as pitifully small.
Then, when spring arrives and the permafrost melts, the small artificial lake will be crushed directly into a mud pit by the glaciers.
The glacier was blocked and allowed to melt in Forsbarrow as a water source to store water.
The artificial lake is too small to bear the crushing force of the glaciers and cannot store water at all!
As for building artificial lakes after the permafrost is restored...
Not to mention that spring and summer are very busy times for the people of Forsbarrow. Everyone is usually busy with their livelihood and cannot afford to build an artificial lake.
The most critical problem is that after the permafrost is civilized, many thermal lakes will be formed near Forsbarrow.
These thermal lakes are small in area, shallow in depth, and have strong seasonality. They look like small pits that naturally store water.
However, it is these small pits that make the Forsbarrow people face great difficulties every time they travel. A large part of the reason why Forsbarrow's caravans take the glacier path is that they are "compacted" by the glacier.
There is no such nasty thermal lake.
If they want to carry out construction in the summer, it means that the people of Fosbello need to deal with all the thermal lakes above after choosing the site of the artificial lake - if they rely entirely on artificial labor, this is simply a task that is not comparable to that of the artificial lake.
Digging holes in frozen soil is even more terrifying.
Even though he was a native of Forsbarrow, Sambol had to admit that compared to the smooth Demacia plains, the northwest corner of the kingdom of Forsbarrow was really not very livable.
It makes sense for the ancestors of Demacia who were determined to open up in the first place to stop in a place like Forsbarrow and build a fortress on the mountain!
However, now, Count Laxana has stated that he will build an artificial lake that has begun to take shape this winter...
How is this possible?
Even if you drag the Fearless Pioneers over to dig a hole, you can't build an artificial lake on the frozen soil in just one winter!
Isn't this bragging?
Originally, Sambor had a very good impression of this Earl - even excluding the benefits of connections she might bring to his chamber of commerce, Sambor felt good about her alone.
But now, no matter how I look at Sambor, I feel that the other party is bragging.
Or maybe she didn't know enough about Fosbairo's situation and substituted experiences from other places into Fosbairo.
Therefore, after the speech, he immediately requested to see Count Laxana, hoping to persuade her.
After submitting the application and waiting for the interview, Sambor couldn't help but shake his head when he came back to his senses - he was actually trying to persuade an Earl to withdraw his unrealistic promise!
If you transcend your identity like this, you must be crazy!
However, perhaps he thinks that Count Laxana is different from others, perhaps because he is worried that forcibly building an artificial lake will bring greater trouble to Forsbyro, or perhaps he hopes that the earl can save his energy to contact and borrow it.
Regarding water transportation in Mithril City, Sambor finally gritted his teeth and persisted in completing the interview.
"Just think of it...for that lovely Lux!"
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Lux was very busy after her speech.
When it was Sambor's turn to meet him, it was already evening.
"Mr. Sambor is coming to see me?" When Sambor was allowed to enter the temporary office, Lux was staring at a pile of documents on the desktop. "Is there something? About next year's summer trade exchange.
meeting?"
"Well, I do have something to say about this." Although Lux obviously had no intention of being aristocratic, Sambor was still instinctively nervous, "But today I mainly want to talk about the artificial lake.
Need to report to you..."
"Artificial lake?" Lux raised her brows with an expression of surprise, "Mr. Sambol still knows about engineering?"
"No, no, no, I don't know much about engineering, I'm just a businessman." Sambor shook his head quickly, "However, I have lived in Forsbarrow for decades, traveling back and forth.
I know something about the frozen soil here."
"Permafrost?" Lux was obviously stunned when Sambor said this word, "Yes, since the caravans all walk along the river bed, you should indeed have some understanding of the characteristics of permafrost."
"That's right, that's right." Sambor breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "Miss Laxana has also walked through the river bed herself. You should know that the frozen soil in summer is soft and can easily collapse into small lakes.
It’s difficult to construct.”
"That's right." Lux nodded when she heard this, looking like she was convinced, "Thermal Lake is a big trouble."
"But in winter, it is also very difficult to start construction on frozen soil." Sambor did not ask what the meaning of the melting lake was. Although he had never heard of the word, he clearly understood what Lux meant, "hard frozen soil."
It is difficult to dig out. If you want to build a lake in one winter, it would be very difficult..."
Not necessarily avoiding offending the other party, Sambol expressed his opinions in as tactful a way as possible - saying it was difficult, but actually saying "what you promised in your speech is almost impossible to achieve."
Sambor was undoubtedly taking a big risk by talking to the nobles like this, especially by criticizing the "three things to do when a new official takes office".
If Lux was just a little surprised when Sambor took the initiative to talk about frozen soil before, then this time, she was really surprised.
Lux really didn't expect that just after she gave a speech in the morning, someone would come up to her in the afternoon and speak out for justice.
This Mr. Sambor is a really nice person!
However, things are obviously quite different from what he thought - building an artificial lake on the frozen soil is difficult for others in Demacia, but for Lux... it is actually not that difficult.
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If she dared to directly mention the specific construction period in her speech, Lux would naturally rely on it.
In fact, on the way from Xiongdu to Forsbarrow, while Lux was training soldiers, Sona, who was accompanying the team, was also performing her own mission. Her mission was to observe the dyed demons who were traveling north with the team.
who.
Although the Demon Searchers have basic registration of these demon-contaminated people, from a professional perspective as a mage, the Demon-Seekers' records of these demon-contaminated people are really too rough.
The record of personal experience is okay, but the record of magical talent can only be said to stand out as a layman's.
Therefore, taking the opportunity to take them north, Sona has been quietly observing these demon-tainted people, observing their personalities and behaviors, and judging their talent types.
The result is...
Good guy, Sona could only exclaim in her heart, good guy.
Among the more than a thousand people infected with demons, except for a small number of people who have indeed committed crimes and need to go to the north to continue serving their sentences, a considerable number of them are delinquents who cannot control their magic power and have amazing magic talents.
The magic-forbidden potion cannot suppress the magic power, and the demon-stained person is unwilling to leave Demacia.
The types of talents of these people can really only be described as varied.
According to the types of magic talents taught by Kalya, the talent of a spell caster is generally expressed in the form of "being sensitive to a certain energy and naturally possessing the means to manipulate that energy."
The "certain energy" here is elemental energy for most people, but there are also a small number of people who are naturally more sensitive to certain special fields such as the spiritual field, space perception, time perception, negative energy or positive energy.
Most of these demon-infected people who were imprisoned in the Forbidden Demon Prison have special talents.
According to Sona's observations, among the 981 demon-infected people who do not need to continue serving their sentences in the North, more than 500 are natural elemental mages. This ratio is quite low.
What's even more outrageous is that, according to Karya, usually, the elemental mages who are easier to awaken are those who are more sensitive to common elements such as water, fire, wind, and earth. After all, these elements are easier to perceive and recognize.
But among the more than 500 elemental mages, the situation is completely different - except for a few common elemental mages with amazing natural magic power, most of the elemental casters have quite unique talents.
There are three light element mages, two shadow element mages, sixteen sound element mages, eight rock element mages, two mud element mages, and fifty-three ice element mages...
The types of talents that Kalja described as "rare" can only be described as being common in this team.
In addition, there are more than 400 other spell casters whose abilities can only be described as varied.
Those who create illusions, those who are naturally charming, those who are super sensitive to time, those who always appear in inexplicable places at inexplicable times, those who can become transparent, those who can communicate with animals, those who can catalyze the growth of plants...
Although Kalya is a very knowledgeable person, it is probably not an easy task to complete the "literacy campaign" for these demon-infected people so that they can initially control their magic.
However, although the complex types of spellcasters will make it difficult to learn magical knowledge, similarly, in terms of work, if they can cooperate, the work efficiency will probably be much higher than that of ordinary types of spellcasters!
The frozen soil outside Forsbarrow City is difficult for ordinary people to dig, but for these spellcasters with various abilities, it is a top-notch training ground!
Here, they can use their power unscrupulously on the hard frozen soil. While learning to control their power, they can "by the way" dig out an artificial lake large enough to accommodate the crushing of glaciers after the spring!
Boss Sambol's concerns make sense to normal people.
But he obviously didn't realize that Lux and her devil-infected people were not normal people in the popular sense of Demacia!
