Chapter 423: A Letter from Home
Chapter 423 A Letter from Home
“Thank you, sir.”
Kevin thanked the man dressed as a merchant in front of him with a grateful face and pulled out a handful of copper coins from his pocket, “It’s been a hard journey, please do accept this small token.”
“No hard work, no hard work, I’m just bringing a letter along the way, how can I accept money. We all come from the Northwest Gulf, we should help each other in a foreign land.”
The man dressed as a merchant repeatedly excused himself, but in the end he couldn’t argue with Kevin and accepted the money.
After the other party left, Kevin looked at his back and laughed at himself in his heart: maybe he really doesn’t see that handful of coins.
From the previous introduction, Kevin realized that the other party came to Gabela’s capital to sell porcelain.
That was a super, super profitable business!
Porcelain from Kevin’s hometown – the Northwest Bay of the Aldo Kingdom – had become popular amongst the upper class of Gabella in recent years.
The nobles and the rich loved this exquisite new thing, and rushed to buy it to decorate their homes.
At the beginning of the porcelain or corner of the Bay merchants through the entrepot trade to GABELLA, and later with the gradual prosperity of the Northwest Bay ocean trade and shipbuilding boom, a large number of Aldo merchants to bring their own porcelain to GABELLA.
In addition to the sea route to the south and then around the Gulf of Cape sailing to the east to arrive in Gabela, there are also people through the northeast of Aldo’s Nerodan corridor, driving camel and beast across the vast expanse of desert to the northern part of the Gabela for business, but due to the convenience of the sea transportation, on the whole or by sea is the majority of the people.
The letter Kevin received today was brought by an Aldo sea merchant.
Of course, the merchants brought not only porcelain, but also many other goods, such as beautifully printed books, bundles and bundles of lightweight paper, inexpensive iron tools, and unbelievably cheap cloth, all of which were very popular.
That lord-sama of his own must have made a fortune, right? After all, these emerging things are related to him, especially the method of refining porcelain is the whole world is the only one, even after the introduction of the Patent Act has never been made public.
Kevin’s mind floated to the scene of Paul Gleeman bathing in a pile of gold coins with the appearance of a thug.
Although a long period of time had passed since the Salt Village Riot and he himself had been amnestied by the other side, Kevin still had a grudge against his lord.
Paul carefully took the letter from home back to his room and opened the envelope as if it were a treasure.
Indeed very precious ah, from the northwestern bay to the Gabella imperial capital, have to drift in the sea for a few months, during this period of time any accident may happen.
After opening it, there were two letters inside, oh, it looks like the parents must have a lot to say.
But soon he realized that it was actually written by two separate people.
It was easily recognizable from the inscription as well as the writing style; the one with neat handwriting came from Kevin’s neighbor’s kid, while the one with scribbled handwriting came from Kevin’s father.
In order to promote the cause of culture and education in the entire territory, Lord Greiman began to spread the advanced experience of education in Lake Town to other places, and schools were being built everywhere under the control of the Council of State. The target of education is not only children but also adults, in order not to affect the production, the teaching activities for adults are mainly arranged at night, which is called “night school”, although the night school only teaches the reading and writing of commonly used words and simple arithmetic, but in Kevin’s opinion, this has already benefited the people of the territory, such as the letter he is holding in his hand.
A year ago, his parents who could not recognize a few words could only trouble the neighbor’s child every time they wrote to him – that is, the writer of the other letter in the envelope, that child is receiving a more formal education in the school run by the lord – now his father can even personally Now his father was able to write to him himself, albeit with a crooked hand and a lot of misspellings.
It was one of the things that Kevin appreciated about Lord Greymane, that unlike the other lords of the Northwest Bay, and indeed the whole of the Kingdom of Ordo, he did not think that his people were inherently stupid, or even that the stupider the better, but rather that he educated them, enlightened them, and even used almost coercive methods to get rid of the ignorance of his people.
Kevin somewhat excitedly unfolded the letter written by his father, not surprisingly, it was full of the family’s thoughts about him, even if the writing was rough, even if it was all unadorned vernacular, it still made Kevin’s eyes red.
After reading the letter from his parents several times, Kevin unfolded the letter from the neighbor’s kid.
This is a little guy named Hicks …… Oh, maybe you can’t call him by little guy this year, he is also only two years younger than Kevin, always following Kevin around as a child.
Kevin in his hometown to receive the teachings of the Mond schoolmaster, always the knowledge learned to Hicks also imparted once, one is to consolidate their own deeper understanding, and the other is to satisfy their own desire to share.
This also gave Hicks a good foundation and always came out on top in the schools run by the lords, so Hicks was very grateful to Kevin, and every time he wrote on behalf of Kevin’s parents, he would mix in large portions of what he wanted to say.
Now, Kevin’s parents would write their own letters, but Hicks wrote and enclosed one himself.
After the opening paragraph of warm greetings, the second half of the letter piqued Kevin’s interest.
“Dear Brother Kevin, As you requested, and I can’t wait to share with you what’s been going on back home in the meantime.”
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“As I mentioned in my previous letter, the Council of State is still continuing to take a series of measures to develop the territory’s economy, strengthening town facilities and road construction: building mills, improving water supplies, and increasing the production of minerals and metals; in addition to those inventions of the Earl’s Lord, the production of the traditional ones, such as red wine, flax, and cotton, is also increasing by leaps and bounds. ”
“All the changes mentioned above attracted a large number of foreign population to settle under the Count’s rule, even those who migrated from the Horned Bay, which includes many scholars, there are strange armourers, there are museum scholars, there are alchemists …… Oh, I should change the name to chemists now, and there are also the medical heretics who clamor every day to carry out medical heresy of autopsy ……”
“Lord Earl has spent a great deal of money to recruit and place these people, and in recent years he seems to have taken a particular interest in chemistry (alchemy), organizing the chemists under his command to compile and tamper with a lot of textbooks, and opening related courses in various schools.”
“The people in the schools took every step of the chemical experiments seriously, such as observing the various liquids, planting, taking materials, mixing solvents, and trying various substances, collecting experimental data and comparing them. In order to provide sufficient quantities of experimental equipment, a specialized industry has even been formed, in which men and women throughout the territory seem to be involved.”
“Under the leadership of the Count-sama, the researchers all agreed that [nature is concrete], manifested in experimentation and observation, rather than generalized abstract knowledge.”
Seeing this Kevin’s heart thumped and touched.
“Linkages were created between various disciplines, such as between chemistry and medicine, and Warde, the medical reformer of Port Fullan, had a large following, which directly contributed to the burgeoning field of medicinal chemistry, which began to look to the likes of butchers, fishmongers, spice merchants, jewelers, or dyers, to learn their respective skills, and even added fired ochre-colored clays to their medicines. ”
“The process of making medicines was not only hands-on, but also utilized all of one’s senses, while the materials included different kinds of natural substances, and sometimes human urine, etc., as one wished. The whole process of making medicine requires one to be hands-on and to try to incorporate a great variety of natural substances, and some recipes may also be obtained from human beings, such as the urine mentioned earlier.”
(End of chapter)