Lin greeted the two nobles in front of him with Mage etiquette. After all, they were in the other party's territory, and the other party's attitude seemed friendly. There was no need to make the other party an enemy.
After the introduction of the White Grand Swordsman William Greco, Baron Engels kindly invited Lin and the others to dinner, including the silver-bearded dwarf and his two apprentices. At this time, Finn slowly cast a levitation spell like a normal Mage and slowly moved to the big ship behind a certain someone.
There was also a crying and talkative person who was desperately shouting in other people's minds. Although he had kept his promise not to speak in front of others, it was even more unbearable to hear him shouting in his mind. Fortunately, he had the same remote positioning program as the Spy's Eye. With a flash, he picked up the Cassette Cutting again.
The sudden appearance of the weapon naturally caused a commotion among the baron's guards. Lin had to explain, "Don't worry, don't worry, it's just a cane. It won't hurt anyone." He wiped the blade with his hand and showed that it was unscathed. Only then did the dutiful guards feel slightly relieved.
The banquet for the nobles hadn't started yet. Everyone rested and chatted in the reception room on the big ship. At this time, William Greco also talked about his search for rice wine.
When he left the Wadwo tribe, William Greco didn't wander around like a headless fly. Instead, he directly asked for possible clues through his connections. However, there was no news related to "rice."
The Golden Water Route was an excellent transportation route for goods. Of course, there would be all kinds of business news and gossip flowing through it. Therefore, it became one of the ways William looked for rice.
In every river port city, he used his influence, or found some well-informed organizations to look for the existence or news of rice, but to no avail.
Until he remembered a friend on the Golden Water Route, a baron who had the same name as him. Not only was the baron the son of the Grand Duke of the Weida Army Kingdom, but he also married a wife with a wide range of connections and power.
Ruan Hui, a descendant of the royal family of a kingdom in the mysterious northeast continent. That kingdom was established more than two hundred years ago and was destroyed more than a hundred years ago. There were only three kings. This was a normal situation in the northeast of the mysterious land, which was still chaotic to this day. To this day, countries were still being built and destroyed over there.
After understanding the background of that area, one would not be surprised by this phenomenon.
There were many different species of homo sapiens in the mysterious land, unlike on Earth where the only difference was skin color. Furthermore, the Homo sapiens with the greatest number of bewildered lands and the strongest comprehensive ability were undoubtedly 'humans'. What about the other Homo sapiens?
Also, how many other species of Homo sapiens had the means to build and protect their own country when surrounded by human kingdoms, like the Kingdom of Paiat Haimei of the elves?
If they joined the human kingdom, would they be able to obtain equal status?
In conclusion, the vast majority of Homo sapiens other than humans have been driven to a corner of the Bewildering Continent – the northeast. In this chaotic land, humans no longer had the advantage. Anytime and anywhere, someone could gain the support of the majority and establish a country, only to lose it because of a rebellion by those who did not support it.
After all, different races had different beliefs, different habits, and even different taboos. These weren't problems that could be solved just by cooperating with each other. Asking the Fishmen to live in the desert, asking the Dwarves to farm, asking the Elves to mine, asking the Halflings to live in the cold mountains … Perhaps these were extreme examples, but in reality, as long as there was even the slightest bit of trouble, it was possible to cause a rebellion.
However, rebellion was not called rebellion in that chaotic land, but 'different aspirations'. There were countless races there, working together for the sake of benefits and opposing each other for the sake of benefits. Loyalty was an absolute luxury in that land.
Such an environment was both a crisis and an opportunity. The ancestors of the Ruan family should have built a country in such an opportunity, and then for some reason, the country was destroyed.
It was just that before the fall of their country, they chose to spread their influence and bring their accumulated strength to other countries instead of betting everything on the small kingdom they had built. In the beginning, this was only to win the support of other countries and strengthen their own kingdom. But after that misfortune, this approach became the biggest reason for their survival and preserved the strength of their family.
Perhaps the country behind them was destroyed, but those who survived became the descendants of the royal family. In terms of identity, even if they did not have a title, they were enough to run amok in the noble circle.
In terms of strength, the wealth accumulated by the Ruan family was also not to be underestimated. They used it to build a private army, to defend their position before other nobles, and to use money to overcome obstacles.
In addition, different branches of the family were loyal to different countries and obtained real power, titles, and territories in that country. Because of the bond of blood, the family connected these different countries and became a bridge of communication between countries, or a medium for conspiracy and calculation.
In short, in chatting with Baron Engels, his wife, and the White Sword Saint, a certain someone saw the embryonic form of a multinational corporation, and even ordinary city-states and small countries were controlled by them.
However, one or two hundred years was not enough for this family to grow into a dinosaur. Their range of influence was only a small part of the entire mysterious land. To the real big countries, this family was still not worth mentioning.
The foundation of the Ruan family was some industries that had never been seen or paid attention to before in the mysterious land. Especially food! They had mastered many special crops, but food seeds and planting techniques were only spread in a small area.
… … At this point, a certain someone did not believe that their ancestors were not seniors who had traveled through time.
The marriage between Ruan Shihui and William Engels, in addition to their mutual love, was also the combination of wealth and power of the two families behind them.
For example, the warship that everyone was on now was pulled by Grand Duke Engels. He sold the first-line warship of the empire, which was "eliminated" because it was "backward" half a year after it was launched, to his son. The cost of buying the ship was paid for by Ruan Shihui's dowry.
In addition, a fleet for trade was built. Relying on the flag of the unicorn, it was successful in every endeavor on the Golden Water Route. These expenses were, of course, paid by the Ruan family. Then the nobles of the military country collected taxes, and the Ruan family made money while strengthening their own influence.
Putting aside the schemes behind the scenes for now, for a certain pure white sword saint and a certain magician, the most important thing was the rice that Ruan Shi Hui had brought, and it was rice.
Because of the huge difference in planting methods, rice was not very popular in the mysterious land. And of course, some of the products that were extended could not be produced. Perhaps it was because there were too many choices, so they felt that they did not have to do some thankless things to promote something that was not accepted by the world. Or … … the other party really did not know that they could use it like this?
It was difficult to understand all these mysteries from the woman in front of them.
After all, from what they said, Ruan Shihui belonged to the branch of the branch in their family, and was far from being a direct descendant. The reason why they were connected to William Engels was purely because the two young men and women were interested in each other. And the status of the two parties could only be regarded as idle chess pieces to the two families, so they let the two young people be together.
Getting rid of the troublesome matter of investigating the seniors who had traveled through time, Lin carefully listened to the White Sword Saint, who loved life, talk about the difficulties of brewing wine.
First of all, rice seeds were available, and with the family power of Baron Engels, it was not difficult for him to get a piece of land as an experimental paddy field. And the growth cycle of rice, under the right climate, was four to five months. A group of professional farmers successfully harvested rice.
However, with rice, how to brew wine became the second problem.
Because there was no previous experience to follow, the professional winemakers of the Engels family and the Ruan family could only try to use the existing technology. Anyway, the key point of brewing wine was the fermentation, and the details could be adjusted according to the situation.
Some people did it using the method of brewing ale, some used the method of brewing beer, and some tried to do it using the method of brewing wine. There were also all kinds of strange methods that were found and used by people. William Greco, on the other hand, was looking for wine that was suitable to be drunk warm among several methods. It was like the method of trial and error, which was used when conducting all kinds of research.
After all this trouble, he really did come up with something. At least according to William Greco, in a small scale tasting, warm wine received good reviews. In fact, this was also the reason why Baron Engels was willing to help. Wine was a profitable business in and of itself.
In the chat, the baron knew that William Greco's idea came from the mage in front of him, so he directly asked people to bring a bottle of each wine that he felt was suitable. Lin also directly tasted the cold wine. At the same time, the responsible winemakers were called over.
After tasting them one by one, Lin felt that a few of them were already very similar to the taste of rice wine on Earth, except that the taste was very strong. Thinking of the taste that he had drunk before, and after asking a few winemakers, he knew where the problem was.
Different from some of the brewing methods of natural fermentation, wine that used grain as the raw material needed the help of distiller's yeast to ferment. There was also the technique of making distiller's yeast, but that was made using wheat as the basis when brewing ale. There would be a slight difference between the taste and that made with rice yeast.
Secondly, after the brewing was completed, was there a heating process, and how many times? However, this batch of wine had not undergone such a process, because heating the finished product was not the standard brewing method in the Mystic. Without the heating process, the yeast in the wine would continue to ferment. At this time, the storage environment would be very particular. If it was not stored well, it was possible that the wine would go sour.
In short, after tasting one round, Lin discussed the brewing method with the "professional" winemakers. Of course, he knew little about winemaking, but it did not prevent him from saying some frightening truths.
However, they were all things that had not been done before, and these experts were quite disapproving of a certain mage's pointing. Instead, it was the baron and his wife who did not understand, and the white Grand Swordsman, who were stunned by a certain someone.
In order to determine the winner with these experts, after all, he had to work on the finished product and make the wine taste better. Otherwise, just talking would not be enough to persuade the winemakers who had mastered a craft.
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