Chapter 86: Water Can Carry a Boat
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Sign in successfully, experience +1.
On a late October morning, Olivia lay in bed. Before she even opened her eyes, she had already relied on muscle memory to open the system and sign in.
The weather is cold now, so we cover ourselves with a thin cashmere quilt and sit by the fire at night.
It took her a while to come to her senses, and she lazily flipped through the system data.
Since the smooth shipping, large ships of foreign royal compradors have come and gone safely. After the news spread, the number of foreign merchants in Einweiden increased sharply.
Documents sent from the sheriff showed that dozens of acres of land were rented out in the city's workshop area between mid-September and mid-October.
The types of workshops are becoming more and more specialized, no longer focusing on ordinary furs, fabrics, salt, sugar, grain and oil.
Many businessmen began to develop unique technologies and improve their skills.
For example, there are wallet workshops, hat workshops, shirt workshops and other vertical workshops that are flourishing.
It's been almost a year since Olivia got her entry-level manufacturing assignment.
The number of workshops has gradually increased from ten at the beginning to fifty in June, and is now about to break one hundred.
She estimated the progress of the completion of the 100th workshop.
The Manufacturing. Primary dungeon quest should have been completed.
When you open the main interface, the first value you see is the experience value progress bar.
Experience Points: 2145
To unlock the new item at "2222", you need 77 experience points.
She scrolled further down, checking the taskbar.
Main quest: Building a fortress
Mission Progress: 80/100
Mission Rewards:
+66 Experience Points
*1 vacant seat for heirs
This task will be completed in two months.
Let’s look at the dungeon quest “Manufacturing. Primary”
Mission Description: There are one hundred workshops in the territory.
Task progress:
100/100
Mission Rewards:
+666 Experience Points
+＊5 blank character cards
+＊5 "Das Kapital"＊5 "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature"＊5 "Game Theory"＊5 "Treatise on Febrile Diseases"＊5 "Xu Xiake's Travel Notes"
It has indeed been completed.
Olivia's sleepiness disappeared completely, and she immediately clicked to receive the reward.
First, I couldn't wait to open five blank character cards.
Two one-star military cards and two one-star farming cards were released.
Olivia pursed her lips, a little disappointed, but still wrote down the names of these people.
She rubbed her eyes and blew into her palms, all her expectations focused on this last card.
Suddenly, a golden card slowly emerged.
It’s a five-star card!
Olivia slapped her thigh and opened the card.
What luck!
Moni Vaandi
"Favorability: 0"
Health: 85
Personality: Lively
Talent: Business (Five Stars)
This is a five-star business!
Olivia was so excited that she almost fainted.
But when she opened the character card, she saw a long story about the character's life.
It turned out that Moni's background was very ordinary. He had no parents who were businessmen, and he was not even from a family of self-cultivating farmers. He was just the child of an ordinary tenant farmer.
There are two parents, one younger brother and one younger sister in my family.
The manor where the Vaandi family first worked was in the Earl's direct territory.
From the age of twelve, he made money by running errands for traveling merchants and delivering goods to people in several nearby villages.
At the age of fourteen, he saved enough money by running errands for his family to redeem themselves and become self-employed farmers.
Later, he took his family to Anke City, worked hard for another two years, built a family business, and opened a shop that specialized in running errands and delivering goods for shops.
When he was sixteen, his business in Anke City was growing bigger and bigger. He had hundreds of employees and was active in the most prosperous downtown area of Anke City.
Every time it was mealtime, Moni's workers would wander around various pubs, restaurants, hotels, and grocery stores.
Milk, bread, various foods and supplies ordered by tens of thousands of people in Anke City are delivered from shops to customers' homes on schedule.
However, as Moni's fame grew, he gradually became the target of the powerful.
This powerful man was none other than the current Countess's uncle, Little Rockoff.
Nemo had no choice but to sell part of his store shares to such an untouchable person in order to continue to develop his business.
However, this little Rockoff became more and more greedy every year, and his hands were getting longer and longer.
Not only does he want money, but also because Moni is now in his early twenties and is not a child anymore.
Little Rockoff thought about acting as a matchmaker for Moni and introducing him to his beautiful mistress who he was secretly having.
In order to exert internal and external forces, he could firmly control him and use his brain to manage the business and make money for the Rockoff family.
Fortunately, Moni was very determined and did not fall into the trap. He also saw through the conspiracy behind it.
After much thought, he decided that he couldn't continue to get entangled with this person, so he decided to stay away from him completely.
So he thought of a compromise and told Mr. Rockefeller that he was going to the northern port town to dig for gold and develop maritime trade.
If the business is successful, I will invite him to invest and use this port to make money from the entire continent.
Little Rockoff was very moved after hearing this.
Even three-year-old children in Alta know that the most profitable thing in the world is maritime trade.
It is common for a large shipload of cargo to be worth thousands or even tens of thousands of gold coins, and the trading network covers all the countries along the coast of the continent.
Moni has some skills and may be successful in maritime trade.
However, little Rockefeller initially refused to let him go to the North and used this as an excuse to cancel the marriage.
After all, the only deep-water port in the north that can be used all year round and has a large scale and security guarantee is the Port of Einweitten.
In Little Rockoff's opinion, that place was too far from Anko and too close to the border.
Barons on the border had greater autonomy than barons in the hinterland.
Although he was powerful, the Countess did not think of giving his family a half-title, so he had no real power.
He knew that his reputation would be useless if he went to such a place, so he refused.
Knowing Little Rockoff's concerns, Moni made up his mind to take drastic measures.
He left all his wealth in Anko City and wanted to sell most of the dividends to the Rockoff family.
Moni's business has developed from purely running errands in the beginning to having its own source of goods.
There are currently dozens of bakeries, more than a dozen slaughterhouses, numerous dairies, dairy factories, and beet sugar factories.
Relying on the customer base advantage gained from the initial delivery business, it has occupied a large part of the food retail market in the city.
These industries of Moni can generate profits of thousands of gold coins every year.
Moreover, the business model is already fully mature and can operate even without Moni himself.
Little Rockoff looked at the huge amount of wealth that was within his reach, and thought about the potential of future maritime trade, so he couldn't help but let go.
Therefore, Moni was able to successfully take his family on the road, traveling day and night to the far north.
From the map below, we can see that Moni's family and a dozen servants set out on the journey with light luggage.
They were boarding a boat at the ferry terminal at La Vossen, intending to go down the river to the port of Einwyton.
After reading this story, Olivia tugged at her lip liner.
The Rockefeller family is the maternal grandfather of the current Countess. The family is prosperous, and old Rockefeller has four daughters and one son.
The eldest daughter is the Countess's mother, and this little Rockefeller is the youngest one. Although he is older in generation, he is about the same age as the Countess.
This family was not well-known in the south, but was just a big landowner.
But with the marriage into the Konta family, decades ago, the Countess married the Earl as his second wife.
The Clover family began to tremble with power.
Now in Anke City, this family has countless industries.
Olivia really didn't expect that there would be such stupid people in the world.
For a business talent who single-handedly turned his family from tenant farmers into wealthy people, it is obvious that his brain is the most valuable thing.
This little Rockefeller was such a fool to let him go.
She shook her head and thought to herself, finally, here comes a person with full star business talent.
Currently, all of Einweiton’s business is handled by the adventurous-talented Laidilan.
Although he works diligently and his business skills are above average compared to ordinary people, his major is not suitable for him. His future destination is to lead merchant ships out to sea and light up more areas of the map.
Moni is a talented person and must be recruited.
However, having said that, Olivia was not in a hurry.
When dealing with this poor guy who has been beaten by the powerful, you need to make him willing. If you force him, he might run away again.
She closed her character card and distributed all the props issued by the system to her managers, servants, apprentice monks, and tenant farmers.
It is still divided according to the portrait of the crowd.
The clergy gave the gift of medicine, and the servants or stewards gave the gift of business or wisdom.
Farmers are given talents in construction or exploration, and soldiers are given talents in military affairs.
Farming and animal husbandry were distributed among the millers or tenant farmers within their own territories.
By spreading her talents widely, she created a group of new talented people in the territory, allowing these talented people to develop freely under her jurisdiction.
Then, I started to check what items were rewarded with experience points.
"2145" experience points plus "666" experience points, the total amount has exceeded "2222"
She clicked to unlock new items.
Congratulations on unlocking: "Eliminating Pen"
Item Description:
Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it.
The Eraser Pen can be used to erase any talent from any NPC with a Favorability of 60 or below.
Instructions for use:
"The Elimination Pen has a cooldown period of two weeks per use. It can eliminate one star at a time. It cannot be used without a talent. It can only be used within the illuminated map area."
This item, like the skill pasteer, is a key item that can directly affect the gifted.
The erasing pen is even more powerful than the pasteer, as the pasteer only considers skills, not pasting talents.
But the elimination pen can eliminate one star at a time.
If this was a one-star talent who didn't like her, she would have been directly reduced to no talent.
If you encounter a situation where the opponent's talent level is higher than yours, the elimination pen will come in handy.
The last time Olivia used the paste device, it affected the crucial moment.
She checked the next amount of experience points to unlock.
"4000"
After accumulating 4,000 experience points, you can unlock the mysterious seed.
The threshold for unlocking this experience value has also become higher.
Olivia refreshed the dungeon mission in disappointment.
Gold Coin Master. Intermediate
Task description: Earn a cumulative 10,000 gold coins from the time you accept the task.
Mission progress: 1/10000
Mission Rewards:
+111 Experience Points
+20% cotton and linen production
Hmm? She could understand the hemp production, but where did the cotton come from?
Here in the north, the air is cold for half a year a year, so it's impossible to grow cotton. Besides, she can't even get cotton seeds now.
Could it be that the system wants to guide her to send merchant ships out to sea to colonize plantations in the future?
Olivia pondered for a moment and put the matter aside for the time being.
As November was approaching, she had to start packing up the gold and silver jewelry in the manor. After packing up, she would be able to move in more than a month.
Today, she was going to review the furnishings for her study and then have them sent to the fortress for installation.
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