Chapter 67: The Dwarf Patriarch
"If I grant you enough research funds and provide you with all the raw materials you need, how long will it take you to see the results?"
Since all talents are automatically delivered to the door, Gu Mi will naturally not ignore this ongoing research project. Strive for self-luminous gold.
She acted very neatly and asked the other party's needs straight to the point.
Obviously, Xu Ke did not expect Gu Mi to do things so directly, he was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I can show you the preliminary results in half a month at the earliest, but I need you to help me two dwarf craftsmen, and Borrow a part of the iron shop."
Some agricultural tools do not require electricity or oil, and can be operated by manpower, animal power, or even water power, such as plows, windmill irrigation projects, etc., and Xu Ke has a ready-made structural diagram in his mind, as long as he builds The conditions are sufficient, and it is not difficult to reproduce them.
"Dwarves..."
Hearing Xu Ke open his mouth to ask for a dwarf craftsman, Gu Mi couldn't help but murmur in a long voice.
Having said that, since there was a dwarf tribe in the territory, she seems to have not had time to contact them.
But there's no way, she's too busy.
"I can't promise you on the dwarf clan for the time being. I need to contact the dwarven clan's patriarch before I can give you an answer. You wait a few days, and I will inform you when there is a situation."
Gu Mi did not rely on the fact that the dwarves are now The people of her territory, overstepping their wishes, agreed to Xu Ke's request.
Whether this can be done or not, she will ask the dwarves for their opinions.
No, there are craftsmen from other races, not necessarily dwarf craftsmen.
Although they are the best refiners in the world.
The reason why Gu Mi's refining level has been raised to such a high level is also because she once obtained a copy of the inheritance of the dwarf family's great master of refining by chance.
Thinking of the inheritance, she began to think, when she has time to go out and train to level 20, and then go and take the inheritance in advance.
It was something that belonged to her, and it was not a guilty conscience to take her away in advance.
"Okay, Lord."
Xu Ke didn't bother. Since Gu Mi had given a clear answer and wanted to hire him, it meant that the purpose of his action had been achieved, so he walked very neatly.
Gu Mi can naturally see the careful thinking of his subordinates.
Don't forget, she can view the personal information of all the people in the territory at any time.
"Citizen: Xu Ke
Race: Human Race (Survivor)
Age: 29
Level: 8
Talent: Mechanical Research
Skills: Spiritual Concentration (Yellow), Water Archery (White), Water Blade (White)
Potential Bias: Research, Creation
Loyalty: 51"
"It's quite high." Seeing the loyalty value of the other party, Gu Mi was a little surprised.
Even Avery's initial loyalty value was not as high as this. It can be seen that although Xu Ke's self-recommendation was mixed with a little selfishness, the main thing was to help her improve the development of agricultural technology in the territory.
That's enough.
Gu Mi was no longer the naive lord who had just built the territory and couldn't contain a bit of sand in his eyes.
In the beginning, she would have minded that Avery was trying to climb up the wrong way, but now she has learned to tolerate these small flaws.
In any case, as long as she knows that these people are talents who can help the territory develop better, she can ignore other aspects, as long as they do not involve fundamental issues such as corruption and crime.
Since there is no need to intervene in the grain harvesting, Gu Mi turned around and went to the Salt Lake after a round of inspection.
Since the salt lake would affect the cultivation of the fields, Gu Mi did not arrange the fields near it. The area closest to the salt lake is the industrial area.
Gu Mi is going to build a salt factory around the salt lake to produce salt.
At present, the industrial area is still a large piece of virgin forest. The trees here have not been cut down, and the land inside has not been used. Only a logging quarry and a quarry are located here.
Therefore, before Gu Mi had time to notify, the existence of the Salt Lake was still a semi-open secret in the territory.
Only Gu Mi, the old village chief, and Avery's group of refugees knew, maybe Cheng Ke also knew?
Gu Mi never doubted the power of the social network.
Therefore, when Gu Mi appeared next to the salt lake, it was no accident that he found that he was the only one here.
She crouched down and grabbed a handful of salt crystals on the edge of the salt lake.
These days, under the protection of the octopus monster, no one has come to collect salt, so a thick layer of salt crystals has accumulated on the shore.
Due to the high salinity of the land around the salt lake, no grass can grow, which also provides sufficient sunlight for the salt lake in disguise, making its shore a ring of salt drying fields.
Based on the salt production of this natural salt farm, they didn't even need to move the high-concentration salt water in the salt lake to supply enough salt to the entire territory.
And the salt produced in the salt lake is different from the sea salt.
It is relatively clean and can be eaten directly. The sea salt needs to go through the steps of removing impurities again before it can reach the edible level.
Come here, Gu Mi simply took out a few bags from the warehouse in the territory, and packed a few bags of salt back in one go.
These salts, at least a few hundred kilograms, are enough to eat until next year.
No, it may not be finished until next year.
The old village chief, who just wanted to do a routine inventory of the warehouse, looked at the huge bag of salt that suddenly appeared in it. He couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, then sighed, took out one of the big bags and divided them into small portions with the big leaves, and hung on to the transaction. Sold on the bar.
At that time, most of the people in the territory were short of salt. When they saw that there was salt for sale in the trading column, they rushed to buy it, for fear that it would be gone too late.
As a result, before Gu Mi returned to the village affairs center, he found that the assets of the territory had suddenly skyrocketed.
But it didn't go up a lot, so she didn't care.
"Lord Lord, you came back just in time, and there are guests looking for you." As soon as he returned to the door of the village affairs center, Gu Mi was informed that Hu Qi, who had rushed down, was called to the reception room on the second floor.
In addition to the office space on the second floor, there are several functional rooms, one of which is the reception room.
This place is generally reserved for Gu Mi and other senior managers of the territory to receive guests.
Because the territory has just been upgraded, today's guest is the first guest it receives.
"Knock knock..."
Before entering the door, Hu Qi knocked twice to remind the people inside that someone was coming in, and then opened the door, turned around and respectfully invited Gu Mi to enter: "Lord Lord, please."
Gu Mi stepped into the door He glanced at Hu Qi before.
I feel that she is becoming more and more like a secretary, and she is short of a professional suit. Maybe she can let the tailor shop try to launch similar styles in the future. After this recruitment, there should be a lot of professional women in her territory.
About to meet the guests, Gu Mi was still thinking about various things related to the development of the territory, until she saw the face of the guests, she temporarily stopped these distracting thoughts.
"Respected lord, I extend my sincere greetings to you on behalf of the Mork dwarves." The
guest was the chief of the dwarves.
He stood up and used his short and strong body to behave a bit nondescript to Gu Mi. Gu Mi guessed that this was something he learned temporarily, so it was not very smooth.
Maybe he also knew that his etiquette was not very good, and the dwarf clan chief seemed a little nervous and reserved.
Gu Mi didn't have any special reaction to this.
She nodded as a return gift to the dwarf clan chief, and then sat on the single seat opposite him, her back resting comfortably on the back covered with soft animal skins, posing as if she was ready to chat.
This made the dwarf clan chief feel that this was not a very serious occasion, and he also relaxed slightly.
"Sit down." Gu Mi made an inviting gesture, signaling the dwarf clan chief to sit down and speak.
The guest is the host.
The patriarch of the dwarf clan sat on the double bench. He was a head shorter than Gu Mi, but his stature was so burly that he occupied the entire double seat.
"Patriarch Mok, do you have any business with me?"
According to the custom of the dwarves, each branch is named after the current patriarch, so Gu Mi deduced from this that the opposite dwarf patriarch is called Mock.
Naturally, her inferences could not be wrong.
When Patriarch Mok heard the words, he was just a little surprised that the lord knew so much about the customs of their dwarves, but he did not deny his name, and because of this, he had some intimacy with the lord.
"Lord Lord, please forgive my rudeness."
Because of that kind of intimacy, Patriarch Mok was more sure of what he was going to do next, so he didn't follow Gu Mi in circles, but he was bold and solemn. He looked up and looked into her eyes. "I need to make sure that our dwarves
can really get a completely equal status in your territory? Will there be no discrimination, exclusion, bullying, use and betrayal?"
"Naturally."
Open the second territorial rule set up by her from the beginning and show it to Patriarch Mok.
"All races in the territory need to coexist peacefully, respect others, and are not allowed to discriminate, insult, bully other races, and violators will be expelled from the territory."
"Nowadays, there are various races living in the territory, as you can see, everyone. They are like a family, get along well, and no one is hostile to each other because of their different races."
She has already spoken with facts.
Patriarch Mok naturally witnessed this with his own eyes, otherwise he would not have specifically looked for Gu Mi today.
After the confirmation, a smile appeared on the old face of Patriarch Mok with all white hair and beard.
He raised his hands, holding an old wooden box in the palm of his hand, and presented it to Gu Mi respectfully: "Lord Lord, this is a gift from our Mork dwarves to the territory. We hope that we can live and work in this homeland from now on. , so, we are willing to contribute our own strength to our homeland."
Gu Mi did not expect Patriarch Mok to come to such a place.
She was stunned for a moment, then quickly came back to her senses, but she didn't pick up the wooden box immediately. Instead, she cautiously scanned the top with "God-level Perception", and didn't pick it up until it was confirmed that it was safe. .
Even if she is overly cautious.
But she would never let up her guard against her own safety.
The wooden box is very light, it should not contain any heavy objects, and there is no lock on the top. It can be opened with a slight lift.
Gu Mi opened the wooden box and looked down.
A few rolled up parchments were found lying quietly inside.
This picture...
looks familiar.
With a brief recollection, Gu Mi pulled out the similar picture from his memory.
—When she was looting the treasures of the slave traders' gang.