Chapter 102 A pot of tea, a newspaper, and sitting for a day
In recent times, many new things have appeared in Weissenburg City, and teahouses are one of them.
Tea has long been used as a refreshing agent.
The custom of drinking tea as a drink has only been popular among the nobles for a few decades, and has not yet become popular among the people. For a long time, people regarded drinking tea as arty.
The development of commerce made foreign businessmen need a place where they could exchange news, look for business opportunities and conduct discussions, so teahouses appeared.
The teahouses in Weissenburg Castle are often divided into two floors. The first floor is the lobby, where you can sit for a whole day with a pot of tea and a few snacks. There are also light meals at a low cost; the second floor is separated by thick wooden boards.
In the private room, you don't have to worry about the sound being leaked when negotiating, but the price is expensive. This is where the boss's profit comes from.
As usual, Giovanni Abelardo got up early in the morning and went to the teahouse opposite the hotel. He found a seat by the window on the first floor and glanced curiously at the people at another table who were pressing their eyes.
, and then ordered the same set meal as usual: a pot of black tea, a plate of cookies, a plate of nuts, a plate of fruit jelly and today's newspaper.
Giovanni was recommended by a distant relative to be the president of the Wesson family bank. At the age of twelve, he left the Kingdom of Sardinia with his father to work in a bank in the lowlands. At the age of sixteen, he went to Cologne alone to work in another bank.
, at the age of 24, he went to serve as the vice president of a bank in London, the royal capital of the Kingdom of England. At the age of 36, he set up his own business and served as the president of a bank belonging to a large noble family in the Kingdom of Lisenberg.
It’s just that this bank president had only been in office for a few years. The boss was killed on the battlefield by a rising star from the Kingdom of Gaul, and the family was torn apart due to political turmoil.
Giovanni could only take the core members of his team back to the Kingdom of Sardinia and worked as the president of a city bank in a port for several years.
When he received the news from his relatives that a baron wanted to open a family bank in the northern highlands of the White Mountains and asked him to take charge of the work, he dismissed it. There was no prosperity on the seaside in the mountains. There were only mountains and trees in that place. Do you want to exchange gold coins with Warcraft?
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However, the relative stated clearly in the letter that the Wesson family had begun to dig a canal connecting the Rhine and Danube rivers in their territory. At the same time, the senior members of the Averardo family also planned to occupy a position there. Giovanni finally agreed and took him with him.
Set off with his core team.
More than thirty years of banking career made Giovanni develop a cautious character. He had arrived at Weissenburg Castle a long time ago, but he did not go to Baron Weissen immediately. Instead, he stayed and asked around for information. p>
To Giovanni's surprise, Wesson had a cheap paper that could replace parchment, and there was also the "Wesson Daily" filled with all kinds of news he wanted.
"Wesson Daily" was published less than a month ago. It is sponsored by the Wesson Council. The president of the newspaper is Walter, Frederick's cultural teacher. It contains important news, comments, agriculture, industry, education, economy, law, and military.
, medical, culture, sports, learning world and advertising, etc., a total of sixteen editions.
Giovanni reads the newspaper very carefully, analyzing every piece of news line by line and sentence by sentence, analyzing the meaning behind the news.
The headline news today is that a soldier named Bobo caught two pickpockets while out on a procurement mission the day before yesterday. Yesterday, he was personally received and commended by Baron Wesson, and awarded 10 florins. Baron Wesson was talking during the conversation
Emphasize that the army is a solid shield for the people of Wesenland.
Giovanni studied the news for half an hour and then turned to the last page. Like yesterday, the top half contained advertisements for this fall's military recruitment.
The requirements for the autumn conscription are the same as those for the spring conscription. In addition to height, weight, eyesight and other physical conditions, they also require a guarantee from the local gentry. The annual military salary is the same as that of ordinary craftsmen, but they have benefits such as lower standards for schooling and priority admission when applying for staff. Giovanni finally concluded that Baron Wesson wanted to improve the status of ordinary soldiers and change their image among the people.
He recalled that recent headlines included Wesson's plan to optimize the household registration system and conduct a new round of household registration statistics, specify guide prices for people's livelihood commodities, and grain merchants can obtain targeted product tax exemptions for selling grain. Baron Wesson could see that
We have also begun to prepare for war.
After taking a sip of tea, Giovanni began to calculate the date of the war.
The most important thing in a war is food, and the time to start a war can be calculated using the time to collect food.
The weather in the surrounding areas has been good this year, and the summer harvests in several surrounding territories can be considered above average. After next year's summer harvest, as long as there are no natural disasters, we will be able to store enough food for a small-scale war. After the autumn harvest, there will be more food.
It can be seen that the earliest time for the war to start is after next summer's harvest, and the latest is after autumn harvest and before snowfall.
The Averardo family has a tradition of investing in wars, which is the most profitable business.
Giovanni naturally wants to invest in this upcoming war, and there are many people who have the same idea.
The financial circle is small and closed, and outsiders cannot see it, but he has discovered many colleagues from all over the world, even from the southern continent, and he has also been discovered by them, but they think they are doing the same thing. They are all waiting, on the one hand to collect more intelligence, and on the other hand to appear again when the atmosphere is tense as before, so that they can negotiate terms.
No one has any doubts about the outcome of the war, because not long ago, Manuel Sage, the vice president of Weissenburg University, publicly stated in the newspaper that defending the homeland is also the responsibility of all teachers and students of the school.
What makes people feel even more fucked is that the military section of yesterday's newspaper reported on the work of the militia organization in Weisenland. It mentioned that the militia organization at Weissenburg University uses magicians as militiamen, which is unprecedented.
Giovanni continued to read the news. At the bottom of the front page was the announcement that all managers and employees of the Wesson Smelter were receiving double bonuses.
He stopped here for a moment. He had been to the Wesson Smelter himself. The gathering of 50 5-meter-high furnaces was enough to scare all knowledgeable people into weakness.
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Previously, there were news reports that the daily iron output of the Wesson smelter and the daily iron output of a single furnace reached a new high. The daily iron output was 27 tons. The maximum single-day iron output of a single furnace was more than 600 kilograms. The annual output exceeded 9,000 tons. However, steel and
There are no reports on the production of elemental steel.
At this time, Giovanni noticed a sentence in the news that the new smelting plant was being located.
What is certain is that Wesenland will become the steel center on the mainland in the future.
After reading a news article that routinely introduced the progress of the Carolina Canal construction, Giovanni turned to the second page. The headline on this page called for the use of improved seeds for planting to increase crop yields.
Now everyone in Wesson knows that the winter wheat yield in the experimental fields this year is double that of previous years. There are even football matches held in various places to grab seeds. It is estimated that farmers will make their choice without calling on them.
In the agriculture section, Giovanni noticed two reports.
One article is a report about red eggplant in a column dedicated to introducing crops from Taohuashi. This fruit is bright red in color, thick and juicy, sweet in taste and rich in nutrients. It is suitable for being used as fruit, cooking or making jam.
Finally, a recipe for beef stew with red tomatoes is included.
Another report is that the Agricultural Bureau introduced the six-year rotation method to cooperate with the breeding industry. It can be seen that this farming model can ensure the rations while developing the breeding industry.
Giovanni drank some tea, ate some snacks, and continued to read carefully.
The Industrial Edition vigorously reported on a two-horse steel-framed carriage produced by Benz Carriage Factory. This vehicle has a large load capacity and is suitable for long-distance transportation.
There are three pages of the education edition today, with two articles published in each.
The first page is an article by Father Arms from Bohemia on advocating universal primary education, unifying the school system, adopting a class teaching system, and expanding the categories and content of subjects.
The second page published an article written by a scholar named August. The content of this article was to advocate early childhood education and standardize the construction of kindergartens.
The third page is an article by a commentator with the pseudonym "Professor Kaido". The article highly praises the views of Father Arms and Herbart scholars, and based on their articles, he perfected the unified teaching materials and the establishment of normal education.
Theory, proposes an education system that starts from kindergarten at the age of 3, primary school at the age of 6, vocational school or intermediate school at the age of 12, and finally university, and explores the feasibility of a 6-year compulsory education.
Giovanni spent several hours reading these three articles, and the waiter didn't notice it when he brought him lunch as usual.
He felt that the importance of these three articles should be placed on the front page. Now that they are placed on the inside, I am afraid that Baron Wesson thought that this matter might be controversial, so he did not publicize it with any fanfare.
After he finished reading the educational version, he quickly finished the cold Bolognese noodles and then continued reading the next part.
He glanced at the economic section and focused on the article written by the commentator "Scrooge McDuck" about leveraging regional advantages to optimize industrial layout.
The legal edition still contains Weisen's legal interpretation and corresponding case analysis, and also publishes several typical economic dispute cases.
The medical section has a large section reminding everyone that food is prone to spoilage in summer and is forbidden to be eaten, and there are pictures of bacteria on spoiled food under a microscope.
The three pages of military, culture, and sports were combined into one because the education page took up space.
In the military section is an article introducing mountain mercenaries. The author's pen name is "Forest Lion". Judging from the content, he should be a senior forest mercenary. The article is full of disdain for mountain mercenaries.
There are fables and poems in the cultural version, but Giovanni thinks that the ugly duckling turning into a white swan when it grows up is the problem of the duck's mother.
There are many pictures in the sports section, including the essentials and precautions for shoulder exercises in the dumbbell fitness method performed by the sword master Richard Nall, and four sections of eye exercises.
Giovanni understood what the man was doing when he first arrived, and he also tried eye exercises based on the newspaper, and felt that it had some effect.
After he finished the eye exercises, he looked at the self-study content of Rhineland and mathematics in the Study World edition, and then studied the last edition and the advertisement in the middle, and found that it was already dark.