What was the saying again?
XX games, using money to create happiness …
… Bah! It's because I don't have money to play …
… Bah again! It's using my heart to create happiness!
Tang En had decided to become the financial tycoon of Prandal some time ago. He wanted to use the economy to kidnap them and force them to improve their current level of civilization.
What was the most effective way to resist the threat of Chaos invasion?
Of course, it was to mobilize all life in Prandal to resist together.
Let every intelligent life go through simple training and pick up a weapon to become a powerful warrior. This was the ultimate form of war civilization.
To reach this level, Tang En believed that the first thing to do was to increase the average income of the people. Secondly, magic creations must be popularized among the civilians and the scope of magic research must be gradually increased. At the same time, the technology of the gnomes and the goblins must be actively developed to integrate their technology with the magic civilization.
In fact, even if Tang En did not interfere here, Prandal would naturally embark on this path with development. However … the development of this world was too slow. The civilization here was like a drunkard, wandering slowly on the road without any sense of urgency … Perhaps they thought that Chaos had been completely defeated?
Maybe.
What Tang En wanted to do was to become the catalyst to accelerate the progress of the entire Prandal civilization until a qualitative change occurred.
The safest and most effective way was to catalyze it through the economy.
When people had money in their hands and gradually became rich, they would have more needs. With needs, there would be a market. Following that, there would be people who would study it. This was a process that complemented each other.
Tang En wanted to give it a try. If it did not work, he was afraid that in the end, he would have to flip the table.
Of course, what he hoped most in his heart was that the invasion of Chaos would never happen …
"… Sir Lord … Sir Lord!?"
"Ah!?"
Tang En suddenly came back to his senses and saw Fiona staring at him. "Everyone is waiting for your opinion!"
"Opinion …?"
Tang En looked down and suddenly realized that after he and Fiona had finished discussing the shop, he had been mysteriously brought to the workshop by her. As a result, he had suddenly become absent-minded.
He was holding a crystal bottle in his hand. The bottle contained some light pink liquid. He leaned forward and sniffed it. The fragrance was light and elegant.
Yes, this was a bottle of perfume, or the prototype of perfume.
Tang En was very surprised. "This … is this made by you?"
"Yes."
Fiona said proudly, "How do you feel?"
"Not bad, very good!"
Tang En's expression was very strange. "Who thought of this idea?"
"Of course!"
Fiona said proudly, "Not long after you left, I was bathing … ahem!"
Fiona blushed. She was inspired when she was bathing in the flower petals. How could she say such things to the Lord!
And Sir Lord, Sir Lord, would definitely imagine how she bathed?
Too embarrassing!
So she suddenly changed her words and said, "I suddenly had an inspiration. Since the essential oil can be extracted from peppermint grass, what about those flowers?"
After the blush on her face disappeared, Fiona said excitedly, "Later, I found someone to collect some flowers with a longer and nicer fragrance. I tried processing peppermint grass, and as I expected, I could really extract the essential oil!"
Tang En smiled. "Yes, I haven't told you yet. I didn't expect you to discover it yourself."
Fiona was startled. "You already knew that it could be done like this?"
Tang En laughed and said, "Of course. It's just that I didn't find a large area of flower fields in Ellington before, so I didn't tell you for the time being … This thing is called perfume … an incomplete version."
"Perfume?"
Fiona nodded. "It's really quite appropriate."
Prandal didn't have perfume. Most of the nobles used freshly picked petals to add fragrance to the bath when they bathed.
There was once a noble slave who was inspired by this and tried to crush the petals to extract the essential oil. After he succeeded, he offered this method to his master, hoping to exchange it for freedom.
However, his idea wasn't taken seriously. Instead, he was punished by his master for secretly "wasting" a large number of petals and was beaten to death.
"If there were a large number of spice crops, perfume would also become a signature product of our Chamber of Commerce. It would be very profitable. But we don't have a flower field here, so we can only give up."
Fiona frowned and asked, "Why don't we organize to open up a flower field?"
"Open up a flower field?"
Tang En was angry and amused. "The reason why we planted peppermint grass in a large area is that peppermint grass can not only extract the essential oil, but also be eaten! If we open up a large area of flower fields, what about the grain production? What's more, where do we have so many people to manage the flower fields? You know, these spice crops are very difficult to take care of. "
"Okay, I didn't think it through."
Fiona's face was full of regret. She only saw a new market, but she didn't consider the actual situation in Ellington.
Tang En looked at her awkward expression and smiled. "But if you want to make it on a small scale, use it yourself or give it as a gift, it's not a problem."
"Really?"
"Of course, I can teach you how to make it better."
Tang En smiled and said, "Now, what's in this bottle can only be considered as essential oil, not perfume. Real perfume, in addition to essential oil, also needs alcohol as a fragrant solvent and a stabilizer to make the fragrance last longer. There are many stabilizers, such as balsam, sandalwood, vetiver, musk, etc. But … I think balsam, sandalwood, and vetiver are the easiest to find. Forget about the others."
"Oh, oh!"
Fiona quickly took notes in her notebook. After Tang En finished explaining the ingredients, he began to explain the ratio, concentration, and other issues. He had only accidentally read about this knowledge in a magazine and had forgotten most of the details. He only remembered about seventy to eighty percent of it. But as long as the thing could be made, who cared so much? Right?
Let Fiona study it as an amateur hobby. If it was really made, it could be used as a gimmick for the Datang Chamber of Commerce. A small amount of it would be given to VIPs to enjoy. It would raise the status and level of the so-called VIPs, and the attraction and cohesion would be stronger.
After all, the rarer something was, the more valuable it was.
Thinking of this, Tang En said to the girls around him, "Listen up, I'm setting up a Light of Inspiration Award today. In the future, if anyone has a new idea, they can boldly propose it. If they can come up with a feasible solution, I'll reward them with 100 gold coins!"
100 gold coins!
The surrounding employees' breathing immediately quickened.
Fiona immediately became anxious. This guy is starting again!
He's unhappy that he hasn't spent money for a while, right?
Before Fiona could stop him, Tang En continued, "In addition, I'll arrange an assistant to help him research. If the research is successful, he will have the right to share the profits for 20 years."
Tang En glanced at Fiona and said, "Take Fiona as an example. She thought of the perfume idea and made it, so she can apply for this award. Not only will she receive 100 gold coins as a reward, but for the next 20 years, every bottle of perfume we produce, when sold, she will receive 10% of the net profit!"
At first glance, 10% of the net profit didn't seem much, but after a simple calculation, the girls' eyes widened. Even if they didn't learn much mathematics, they knew how rare this opportunity was!
They only needed to research an idea! Just one was enough! In the future, they could sit at home and count the gold coins!
God! His Lordship is simply, simply the son of God!
Which Lord would be willing to give money to his own people like this?
As mentioned before, the aristocrats had absolute control over the commoners. They could deprive the commoners of their wealth at will. Where could they find a Lord like Tang En who was willing to treat the commoners as the main body and share the benefits?
A good person!
Absolutely a good person!
In the future, if anyone dares to say bad things about Sir Lord, they will fight it out with them!
Almost in an instant, Tang En had completely bribed these girls.
"Are you crazy!?"
After leaving the workshop, Fiona immediately scolded Tang En, "10% of the net profit!? If other aristocrats know that you're doing business like this, they will definitely think that you're causing trouble! Even if you want to treat them better, you can just give them a little more salary. There's no need to share 10% of the profits! "
"It's not much, it's really not much …"
Tang En waved his hand, "You don't have to say anymore. This is what I've planned for a long time. If it wasn't for the money for expansion, I would even want to increase the profits to 50%."
Fiona was stunned, "You're crazy! Is there a businessman like you? "
"Of course I know there isn't."
Tang En smiled bitterly. Only he knew what he wanted to do.
Using the economy to stimulate the development of Prandal was the most likely way he could think of to achieve this goal. In order to achieve this goal, he had to make money and then let the people have as much money as possible. He had to let the wealth circulate and not just lie in the Star Diamond Bank.
In short, Tang En wanted to achieve common prosperity in Ellington first. Then, with Ellington as the starting point, he would radiate to the entire Prandal and let the whole world enter a period of rapid development …
How could Fiona understand his painstaking efforts now?
Perhaps this was the loneliness of a great man …
Tang En looked at the sky speechlessly. As a future great man, he was really lonely like the snow …
Then, this "lonely great man" walked into another factory with his number one mistress, Fiona.
In the yard of this factory was placed what was known as the greatest invention in the history of mankind on Earth …
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