Locke brought his men with him.
"I didn't expect you to bring people with you, but welcome!"
Tang En gave him a warm hug.
Locke said a little sadly, "These are the family members of my brothers. After their deaths, these people will have no source of income and will only become more and more miserable in Ellington. I thought of what you said before, so I brought them with me. I hope they can find a way to make a living here in Ellington."
"That's the right choice."
Tang En smiled and waved to the others. He said, "Ellington is now developing vigorously, and there are construction projects everywhere. As long as these people you brought have the intention to settle down in Ellington, they will be able to get the same treatment."
Locke had brought nearly five hundred people with him this time. Although they were mostly children, the elderly, and women, they could still play a huge role. Some of the women were even stronger than the men, so they could definitely participate in the construction.
In addition to these people, many people had also come from Bayin City recently. Some of them were poor people who could not survive in Bayin City and wanted to try their luck in Ellington. Others were sensitive businessmen who wanted to come to Ellington to look for business opportunities.
The arrival of these outsiders brought great vitality to Ellington. Not only did they bring more news from the outside world to the people here, but their consumption activities in Ellington also made the economy of Ellington active. This was the result that Tang En and Fiona were eager to see.
With the increase of outsiders, Tang En gradually changed his previous conservative attitude in order to strengthen his rule. He began to show some of his strength in front of others. For example, when he was wrapping up the steel mill project, Tang En did not hide his magic skills.
When Tang En first came to Ellington, he said that he was an alchemist, but at that time, everyone only thought that he was an apprentice. Besides, Tang En did not show his magic skills later. Instead, he rushed to the enemy like a warrior, so they forgot about it.
The next day, under his instructions, this matter was widely reported by the Tang Daily. Then, all the residents of Ellington knew that their lord was a powerful mage!
This incident naturally caused quite a stir. All of the residents of Ellington were proud of this, and they worked very energetically.
At the same time, this matter also made some people with ulterior motives give up and run away with their tails between their legs.
Tang En did not know about this. In fact, the reason why he chose to reveal part of his strength now was that Ellington had begun to go out, so he needed to show off his muscles. On the other hand, it was to increase the speed of Ellington's construction.
Although more and more people were invested in the construction, the efficiency was still very slow.
Many things that could be done in minutes with spells would take days or even dozens of days with manpower. Tang En really could not stand this kind of efficiency.
The advantage of being able to use spells was that the underground drainage project, which would have taken months or even half a year to dig, only took Tang En a day to complete it.
The earth magic opened up the drainage pipe, and then the fire magic sintered the soil. After the treatment, the durability of the pipe was not much worse than the cement pipe on Earth.
Although the underground drainage system had been completed in advance, the water project still had not started because the source of copper had not been solved.
Originally, Tang En had wanted to summon elemental creatures to further speed up the construction, but considering the current level of acceptance of the residents of Ellington, he temporarily put the idea aside and turned to consider another matter.
The Magic Air Conditioner's hot sales in Bayin City had already attracted the attention of the nobles. If there was a noble in Bayin City that didn't use an Air Conditioner, they would be too embarrassed to greet other nobles. After Hilton shipped the Air Conditioner back, she came back in just a few days to increase the supply. In less than seven days, she had sold over a thousand Magic Air Conditioners.
Hilton had brought back the first barrel of gold coins for Ellington. The popularity of the mint candy, soap, soap, and extract, the stable advertising of the New Moon Wine, as well as the shocking profits of the Magic Air Conditioner, all of this combined made the Datang Chamber of Commerce one of the top companies in Bayin City in the blink of an eye.
After seeing the profits of the Magic Air Conditioner, Tang En's mind became active and he turned his attention to other places.
The Magic Air Conditioner that brought comfort was this popular, what about the other convenient machines? For example, the kettle? The water heater? The rice cooker? The refrigerator? These things could be restored with magic!
What Tang En was most concerned about was that it was already the latter half of the Month of Midsummer, and the Month of Harvest was about to begin. After entering the Month of Harvest, Ellington, and even the entire Empire, and even the entire human territory, would enter a busy harvest period. This period could be said to be the most important period of the year.
In Tang En's understanding, there wasn't a convenient way to harvest in Prandal yet, so they were still using the ancient method of harvesting by hand.
Those large nobles had many farms and manors, so they had to use all their manpower to harvest the crops each year. Even like this, they would lose quite a bit of grain due to the weather because of the lack of efficiency.
If he made a combined harvester, he would definitely earn a large amount!
That's right, since he wanted to make a combined harvester, he might as well make a tillering machine!
Tang En immediately went to find Brian when he thought of this. Brian was currently working overtime in the blacksmith shop to make an air conditioner.
"What? Combined harvester? "
Brian looked right at Tang En, "Big brother, don't you know how busy we are right now? These apprentices have all been caught by us to smelt ores. Edgar and I have to work here to make air conditioners, but we can't keep up with the orders from Hilton! "
"The steel mill has already started production, but I still haven't seen what the new steel looks like!"
Brian roared out while panting, "Now! You're actually telling me that you want to make a combined harvester!? "
"I can give you a few more production lines … …"
"How could we have the time and manpower!?"
"But this matter is quite urgent … …"
Tang En slightly knit his brows, "Is the manpower really that tight? Haven't there been many people settling down in Ellington recently? "
Edgar said with a bitter smile, "Lord, that's right, but we can't trust those outsiders who just came, so how could we dare hire them?"
"That's right … …"
Tang En was a bit distressed, "I was thinking that after the combined harvester was done, I would start thinking about the Magic Car and the Magic Automatic Vehicle, but now we can only put that aside for now."
"Magic Car? Magic Automatic Vehicle? "
Brian was baffled. "What are you talking about?"
"Oh, you can think of it as a product of alchemy and engineering."
Tang En said with a shrug, "They are all very convenient means of transportation."
"Engineering? Then you should tell that group of dwarves, I think they'll be very interested. "
Brian wasn't interested in engineering at all.
Tang En said with a smile, "I want to, but the problem is that we don't have a dwarf engineer here."
"Dwarf engineer … …"
Brian muttered before suddenly saying, "That's right!"
Brian suddenly gave the work to Edgar before saying to Tang En, "Big brother, can I take a few days off?"
"Leave?"
"Right, I'll take a trip back and see if I can call a few brothers to help."
Brian complained, "It isn't that I'm saying bad things about you humans, but these apprentices really are too dumb. They can't help at all, so the pressure is all on me."
"Moreover, I can also help you ask if there are any dwarf engineers who are willing to come to your place. Speaking of this, you have all these wonderful ideas, so they will definitely be happy to discuss it with you if they know about it. "
Tang En's heart skipped a beat, "You can convince those dwarves to come out of the mountains?"
"Of course!"
Brian proudly said, "I am, ke, ke. Un, in short, there shouldn't be a problem. Of course, big brother, you have to guarantee that they will be treated the same as everyone else when they come here. Moreover, there will be large amounts of fine wine … …"
"Of course there's no problem."
Tang En revealed a smile. If he could use this price to exchange for the dwarves' help, he would have earned quite a bit.
"How about this."
Tang En pondered for a moment before suddenly saying, "You make some preparations today. I'll go back with you tomorrow. After all, with your eloquence, you probably won't be able to explain it clearly. It's better for me to go and explain the treatment to them."
"Well … … Well, anyway, I still trust your character, big brother! But there's no need to prepare. Since we're going back, let's go now! "
Brian's straightforwardness surprised Tang En.
Dwarves and elves were both creations of the goddess of the earth, Nisclare. In some ways, they were actually very similar. It was very difficult for them to accept other races as friends. However, once a member accepted an outsider as a friend, through this member's introduction, the outsider would be easily accepted by the other members.
This was their unity, as well as their unconditional trust in their companions.
And the most wonderful thing was that if things went well this time, not only could they recruit dwarves to Ellington, they could even meet gnomes!
Tang En had great interest in the natives of the Prandal. Tang En felt that many mechanical problems could be completely handed over to the gnomes to solve, and it would be easy to communicate with them.
After confirming that he was going back with Brian, Tang En went back to inform Fiona that they were going to set off.
Although Fiona was very dissatisfied with Tang En going out again after only a few days, if Tang En could really recruit dwarves and gnomes, it would greatly alleviate the manpower problem that Ellington was currently facing, so she could only endure it.
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