Chapter 221 – Going to the Banquet 3

Chapter 221: Going to the Banquet 3
“Earl Greiman, Earl Garnard, how did you guys make all those contraptions there? I’m willing to spend a lot of money to buy the relevant technology.”

Someone finally asked out.

“Me too, our family still has some savings, the price offered will definitely satisfy you.”

With the first, there was a second.

They had also sent people to Alda to inquire about the relevant technology, but Alda was extremely strict about the various factories and the workers inside.

Inside the factories, the production process was divided into several parts, and a worker was only responsible for a small part of it, so very few people were able to get a glimpse of the whole picture. Those who are qualified for the job are paid well, and their families live in specialized areas that are closely protected.

So far they have only been able to find out a little bit of information, such as paper seems to be related to wood, porcelain seems to be burned out of clay.

Cecil, the intelligence chief, had run the Intelligence Department in such a way that although it wasn’t as powerful as in other traveler’s novels, it still did a passable job of keeping its own secrets. But then again, the surrounding lords also do not have any outstanding underground power, everyone in the “secret front” is a chicken pecking each other.

Mellon was at a loss for words and looked at Paul in a daze, waiting for him to make up his mind.

“Uh …… gentlemen ……”

Paul pondered for a moment, now he could not decide whether to open the technology to the outside. Since the success of the blast furnace ironmaking, he had a higher level of pursuit, and was already not too interested in paper making, canning and other industries. Nor did he want to spend too much to keep them secret. As thought before, sooner or later these things would have to spread out.

However, right now, even if the set of Alda and Bairdin two places did not form an absolute advantage over the neighboring territories, in this chaotic world, a big fist is the hard truth, must first save some self-protection capital ah.

“Gentlemen, we have a patent system there. Whether or not you can give others the ability to use these technologies is subject to authorization from the inventor.”

“Patents? Aren’t you the Lord of Arda? And you still have to look at other people’s eyes?”

“This …… is ultimately about some rules. It’s not convenient to talk about this here right now, if you all are interested, you are welcome to be our guests in Lakeheart Town, so we can sit down and talk slowly.”

All the lords look at Paul did not put words to death, know that this matter has a great hope, and here are many people and eyes, really is not a place to talk about business. Good things or fewer people know better, a few neighbors to communicate with each other on the line.

“Well well well, let’s go back and talk slowly! Little old Paul, little old Myron, drink! Drink!”

The happy and smiling crowd shifted to other topics and talked loudly.

“Duke Ferdinand~ arrives–“

“Earl of Kent~ Arrived–“

A loud chorus of names came from outside the door, the voice was several times more torrential than everyone else’s, and the rightful owner of this birthday party had finally arrived.

The entire hall fell silent as the crowd waited in an even voice for the arrival of the biggest bannerman in the northwest of the kingdom.

A trembling figure slowly paced in with the support of a servant.

The current Duke Ferdinand, his entire body looked thin and weak, and he could not even take a steady step.

“Tsk~ His Excellency the Duke looks like he really can’t make it.”

“I didn’t expect it, half a year ago when I came to pay him a visit, he was still red-faced and very fit. Oh, at that moment, he had just gotten a new concubine.”

“I’m afraid it’s not some kind of acute illness, right?”

Paul heard the people around him whispering.

The Duke had just entered, and his brother, Viscount Henry, immediately scrambled to greet him.

“My brother alas, I can finally get you here, you are the main character today. Happy birthday!”

“Well ……”

The Duke responded breathlessly, and without looking at the crowd in the hall, he walked straight towards the main seat without saying a word.

Henry dismissed the servants and assisted him himself.

The Duke was followed by a man, no, two men.

One was Count Maltz Kent, and the other was a small boy, presumably Count Kent’s page.

The reason why the procession Count Kent appeared with the Duke, no one in the hall thought much about it. Everyone knew that Maltz Kent was Duke Ferdinand’s most relied upon beloved. Maltz Kent controlled his pace and always followed Duke Ferdinand.

The Duke finally came to the edge of his seat and turned around to sit on his butt.

Count Kent and his valet also took seats near the Duke, while Henry sat on the other side of the Duke.

It was then that Duke Ferdinand raised his head and looked around the hall, his face surprisingly flushed at the sight of so many people in the hall and all looking up at his side.

The thrill of power had restored some of the Duke’s spirits.

He stretched out his slightly trembling arm, and the servant standing by immediately filled a wine glass on the table with wine.

The duke raised the glass and held it forward.

“Gentlemen! Thank you for coming to my birthday banquet. Let’s all not get drunk today!”

“Happy birthday to Lord Duke!”

The crowd in the hall also raised their glasses towards Duke Ferdinand and toasted his birthday in unison.

“Well well well!”

A smile finally appeared on the Duke’s face.

Just as everyone was looking at Duke Ferdinand, Paul was observing Earl Kent, the man who Platoon had sent a messenger to Lakewood to blackmail him last year.

Maltz Kent appeared to have sensed something, and with a twist of his head, he met Paul’s gaze.

The corner of his mouth turned up and he smiled slightly at Paul.

Paul, however, felt a sudden chill run through his body, as if he had gone into a dark cave to explore and had been startled by a swarm of bats residing inside.

Duke Ferdinand, who was on the main seat, summoned up his strength to announce the beginning of the banquet. Immediately, a group of servants came in and filled the tables in front of the crowd with food, and took away the barrels of wine that had already been pretty much drunk, and rearranged them with barrels of wine.

“Please!”

“You too, please!”

After humbling each other, the guests began to enjoy the food and wine?

In addition to the rich food, the banquet also had a variety of entertaining programs, with all kinds of entertainers coming in to perform in turn.

Gnomes and clowns made people laugh, minstrels sang to mesmerize the crowd, and jugglers performed acrobatic feats to entertain the crowd.

“Aiyaa, I’m sure I’ll gain ten pounds this time when I go back.”

Paul, with a knife in one hand and a fork in the other, was sweating profusely as he dealt with the roast suckling pig in front of him, clinking glasses from time to time with Myron and Bryce beside him.

“Gentlemen!”

A voice suddenly came from over the plenum, a voice that, though not loud, caused the hall to fall silent once more.

The Lord Duke had spoken again, and Paul reluctantly put down his knife and fork and assumed the appearance of a careful listener.

“As you can see, this body of mine is getting out of shape, so ……”

The Duke’s voice lowered again for a moment, as if it were a little difficult to speak in general.

“So …… so ……”

After I don’t know how many times he said “so”, he seemed to have made up his mind, and then he said it out loud with all his strength.

“While everyone is here, I’m going to announce the successor!”

The moment these words came out, the entire seat was shocked.

(End of chapter)