The sun was scorching the earth, as if people were in a furnace, and Frederick felt that the fire element in the air was a little more active than usual.
And one of his actions made the magicians agitated in the middle of summer when they should be trying to cool themselves down. At the end of August, the "Wesson Daily News" published an advertisement on the front page for 10 consecutive days, asking for 100,000 florins.
Patent for a small and highly efficient magic element conversion magic array.
According to Frederick's requirements, this kind of magic circle needs to convert a certain magic element into another element, and the energy consumption cannot be too high.
This is the research field of the Dharma God Sword Master. Some powerful people have occasionally come into contact with this phenomenon, but because it is too incredible and difficult to reproduce, they attribute this phenomenon to their own illusions.
The basic theory for studying this phenomenon was proposed by Psyche two hundred years ago, but it was not accepted by the industry. Perhaps there are still fragments of it recorded in some old papers.
It's just that Frederick is a little timid now. Although Psyche has repeatedly promised that as long as he doesn't take action, it will take at least 10 years to make staged progress at the current level, but there is no guarantee that the guy who got the protagonist's script will show up.
He couldn't get out the 100,000 florins now, unless he took out other people's deposits in the bank.
Since the beginning of this year, Wesson has invested heavily in infrastructure construction, such as the Carolina Canal. Now when Frederick inspects the construction site, Edward's heart will beat wildly for a day.
Edward is now the general contractor of Party B of the Carolina Canal Project, and is also the Minister of Construction of the State of Wesson. His identity keeps switching, and his name for Frederick also changes accordingly.
"Boss," he asked Party A's father tremblingly, "are you going to change the plan this time?"
Frederick stood at the edge of the canal construction site, followed by two beautiful little girls. He looked at the hard-working people and felt quite emotional.
Since the construction party asked this, he replied: "No changes, just leave it like this. Can it be completed next summer?"
Edward breathed a sigh of relief and did not answer the construction period. Instead, he said cautiously: "How about you write a document?"
It's not unreasonable for him to be so cautious. This spring, the canal will be opened in half a year. As a result, a large number of laborers will flow into Wesson at that time, and a large part of them will be unskilled farmers. Therefore, Party A's father is very worried.
With the stroke of a pen, the canal was expanded.
The original 20-meter-wide canal suddenly increased to 60 meters. In addition, some hills had to be dug, and the amount of work was five times the original.
Fortunately, the depth did not change, otherwise Edward would have climbed up the castle tower and jumped off.
Frederick had no choice. In April of this year, many places on the west bank of the Elbe River were looted, and the landlords had no food left. At that time, Baron Wesson was being spread all over the country and they were boasting about how rich Wesson was and how it hosted refugees.
There was a precedent, so many small landowners simply brought their families and residents to make a living.
They took a boat upstream along the Elbe River, disembarked in a lake in the Principality of Franconia, and then walked two or three days on the mountain road to the north of Nuremberg, which borders the Principality of Franconia.
It is impossible for them to live permanently in Weisen, stay here for a year, and then go back next year to sow in autumn with money, newly purchased grain, farm tools, and seeds.
So Frederick asked them to dig a canal, and each landowner became a small contractor, which was considered a work-for-relief payment.
The wages of these labor contractors were quite high, and Frederick promised that as long as they did not cause trouble, he could buy high-yielding wheat seeds. In the end, the money just went into the left pocket and the right pocket. After increasing production once, they would come back to buy seeds again in the future.
Frederick smiled and said to Edward: "Don't worry, I will go on an expedition in a few days, and I won't change my plan again."
"By the way, how's the bridge over the canal doing?"
The canal cannot cut off the road. It is necessary to build a bridge over the river.
The biggest reason why the canal needs to be widened to 60 meters is that the maximum span of today's stone arch bridges is 30 meters, and the bridge on the main channel has exactly two spans.
Now to build the bridge, first use wooden piles and soil to surround the bridge piers in the river with a cofferdam, drain the water inside with water trucks, and then start building the bridge piers. After the two bridge piers are built, they will be erected in the middle of the river.
Frames build bridge arches.
Now that there is no water in the canal, the bridge can be built first.
Frederick didn't design the bridge, so he stopped making blind orders. Edward invited a master bridge builder from the Kingdom of Sardinia to take charge, which also made him feel more at ease.
But the master still felt some Wesson shock.
Edward said: "There will be no problem in completing it next autumn. Master Gedi said that he wants to use the cement used in the industrial area to build the bridge, which is much cheaper than stones."
Frederick nodded and said: "Then let him use it. This year, we can make a small trial in other places first."
"Golden bridge, silver road, copper house, building bridges is very profitable."
Edward remembered the last words in his mind and wondered whether he should ask his son to change his career immediately and study with Master Gotti.
But work was urgent, so he added: "Master Gedi has designed some bridge designs and asked the boss to decide."
Frederick thought for a while, turned around and said to Maria and Susan who were whispering: "Let's go and see which bridges are good-looking, and you can choose."
Maria immediately said: "No, no, no, mom said I can't affect your work."
Susan was younger than Maria and had no idea what Frederick was trying to do, so she just nodded in agreement with Maria's words.
Frederick just smiled and took them back to the village hall of Oak Village.
Under the huge oak tree in Oak Village, Dawn was playing with the village children.
Now is the season when the acorns are ripe. It uses its wings to fan down the acorns. The children pick them up and feed them to it, and it rubs the children's heads with its chin.
As soon as he saw Frederick and the others coming back at dawn, he immediately picked up an acorn from a child's hand, rubbed the child's head, and then ran over happily.
Frederick smiled and stretched out his hand to catch the acorn, but without even looking at him, he gave the acorn to Maria.
Frederick flicked the horn of Dawn angrily, but the guy pretended to hide behind Maria.
"This guy." Frederick smiled and shook his head, ignoring it.
Maria laughed, and the three-headed dog jumped out of the village hall after hearing its owner's voice, running in an "S" shape and rubbing its feet.
Everyone just found out today that this guy is afraid of heights. Today, Maria got dizzy after holding it in her arms for a ride at dawn, and she still hasn’t fully recovered yet.
After playing around for a while, Edward put out the renderings of a circle of bridges for Party A’s father to choose.
Master Godi studied under the famous painter of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the renderings he painted can be used as works of art to hang in your home.
Frederick asked Maria and Susan to choose which bridge looked better, and the two little girls murmured together.
At this time little Franz came over, and Frederick went outside to talk with him.
"Commander," said little Franz, "the army is ready."
Frederick nodded.
Official orders have arrived from the city of Cologne, and the lords of the Rhine League will send troops to garrison west of the Elbe River this autumn for a whole year.
Different nobles have different proportions of troops. Duke Wesson sent 1,500 troops, while the Principality of Mainz and the Principality of Bain both sent 1,000 troops.
This was a feudal obligation for the nobles and could not be shied away from, so Frederick's fiancée came over to stay with him for a few days before he set off for the expedition.
There was just a catch in the military order. Wesson, the Principality of Mainz, and the Principality of Bain were stationed in the same defense area. The location was 100 kilometers up from the mouth of the Elbe River, and they were under the unified command of the Duke of Wesson.