Gao Wen was quite satisfied with the development of the territory after the beginning of winter.

All construction projects are being carried out smoothly, even faster than expected progress. Craftsmen took the initiative to regard magic nets and basic runes as auxiliary forces and applied them in their daily work, which directly promoted the progress of most projects in the territory. What made Gao Wen even more happy was the change in thinking reflected in this process: ordinary people began to realize the influence of the new "magic facilities" in the territory on their production and life, and would adapt based on this point, which was exactly what he wanted to see in the territory.

Of course, this change has not been popular yet. People who can timely realize the convenience of magic and apply it to production and life are basically all kinds of craftsmen. These people were originally a relatively status "rich class" in civilian society. They have more knowledge and experience in dealing with nobles. Some even know words and numbers, so they are naturally superior to ordinary people in terms of ideological flexibility. Most of the civilians except them... It may take some days to change their minds and integrate magic into life.

In addition to construction work, another thing that satisfies Gao Wen is the smooth start in business.

Driven by interests, the Kant's territory in the north and the Leslie's territory in the northwest completed the commercial docking with the Cecil's territory as fast as possible. Through the two routes of the northern wasteland and the Baishui River, mass-produced alchemy potions and basic mining machines were continuously delivered to customers, and they were exchanged for abundant money and more valuable trade routes and intelligence than money.

For Amber, money seems to be more precious...

In the study of the Lord's Mansion, Gao Wen turned his head helplessly and looked at the half-elf lady who was piercing her head into the cash box and sucking hard. He sighed and said, "It's just the first payment for the mining equipment. As for this, those big boxes in the treasure house in the mountains are not enough for you to suck?"

"This is different!" Amber "Boer" pulled his head out of the pile of money and looked at Gao Wen with his waist on his back. "This is money back! This is earned! It is a money back! It is a money back! It is different from the kind of money that is destined to be spent!"

"I can't understand your worldview, but money is used to spend it. Only the flowing gold coins are gold coins, and only metals are placed in the treasure house," Gao Wen shook his head, "and to be honest, direct transactions of precious metals are indeed too bulky. After the influence of Cecil Chamber of Commerce is great enough, you still have to consider the credit currency system..."

When Amber heard Gao Wen's words, his ears suddenly became thrilled and suddenly became: "What did you say last time use paper as money? And the process of buying things with redemption tickets? I don't want it!"

While speaking, the half-elf looked at the sky forty-five degrees and showed a yearning look: "My biggest dream in my life is to be able to lie on the pile of gold coins and sleep. If you change them all into paper, what should I do with my dream..."

"...It's not as simple as changing gold coins to paper. And are you a giant dragon? You don't feel uncomfortable sleeping on the pile of gold coins," Gao Wen gave the guy helplessly, then looked down at a report in his hand. "Well... that Padric is indeed a talent. He has actually drafted a list of the first batch of distributors and his initial market development plan. And based on the map I gave him as a benchmark, he drew a simple radiation map... It's not simple, not simple."

Amber saw that Gao Wen didn't seem to be planning to continue to mention the topic of "changing gold coins for paper", so he walked up to the desk and looked at the report in Gao Wen's hand. His beautiful eyebrows raised slightly: "Don't be busy praising me. Think about how you can get your people together. I remember what you said, you should use this business network as a skeleton to build a synchronous intelligence network. Padric can solve the problem of merchants, but no matter what, there is a group of people who specialize in transmitting intelligence. Do you plan to spread out the clerks that you finally got out of the territory and spread them to the entire southern border to be your spies?"

While saying that, she shook her head: "I tell you, if you really do this, Hetty will fight you hard. She finally trained those apprentices and collected enough assistants for herself. Now whoever wants someone from her can swing her staff is a set of rest sticks..."

Looking at the half-elf's expression, Gao Wen was sure that this guy had definitely been knocked by the Rest Stick Technique two days ago.

He shook his head: "In the era of creation, this intelligence network did not require such high-end personnel. It is not easy to train a group of clerks who can read and write in the territory. Let alone Hetty, I am reluctant to send them out."

"Ah? Then how are you going to organize intelligence personnel? Could it be that those merchants who were fooled by Padric? Or those big-headed soldiers trained by Byron and Philip? Let me tell you, those soldiers are okay in fighting, but they are not in this industry..."

Before Amber could finish speaking, Gao Wen looked up and interrupted her with a smile: "I've inquired about Pittman."

"Scared!" Amber shuddered, "What are you asking for inappropriate things with that old man..."

"You should know a lot of friends, right?" Gao Wen looked at Amber with a smile, then took out a note from his pocket and began to recite one by one, "The thief in the South, the queen of the tavern, the ruler of the bar and the card table, the common leader of the bragging people in the fields, the harvester of the wallet and pocket, the co-owner of copper plates, silver coins, and gold coins, claiming to be the candidate of the Dark Night God, the person who does not pour out three barrels of ale, Ah·in short, it is super powerful·Per..."

Half-elf Miss Half-Elf Miss jumped up and the second half of the title was completely finished in the half-elf thief jumping up and down and snatching her hard and snatching her clearly that Amber's 1.6 meters tall was not worth mentioning in front of Gao Wen, a strong man of more than two meters. Even though her shadow talent was superb, she wanted to use the shadow step when she jumped up and down, but in the end she couldn't snatch the note from Pittman...

"Who gave you the titles above..." After reading them, Gao Wen pressed Amber's head and looked at the half-elf with helplessness and his face turned red. "Fox friends? Or are you?"

"There are some people who have raised me, and some of them have drunk myself." Seeing that I couldn't resist, Amber could only glar at Gao Wen fiercely, and then turned his face a little embarrassedly, "But can that Dark Night God choose not to add 'self-proclaim' in front? I'm really..."

"Okay, okay, you are the God's Choice, you are the God's Choice," Gao Wen took his hand away from the amber's head with satisfaction and sat back to the back of the desk. "Actually, I was curious from the beginning. With your shadow talent, stealth ability, and stealth level... Although some of these skills are not very nice on the table, it is undeniable that they are the way to survive in the 'gutter'. How could you, who are so superb in this regard, not know some friends who are hiding in the shadows, why didn't you say it at the beginning?"

"You didn't ask at first," Amber curled his lips, "and as you said, they were all friends, and few of them could be on the table. I was in groups with them when I was traveling around the world in the early years, but later I settled down in the old Cecil and had a relatively stable lifestyle, so I naturally didn't deal with them much..."

"Does the more stable lifestyle you mean from committing crimes from wandering crimes to committing crimes at a fixed location?"

“Yes, Yes, Yes”

Gao Wen: "…"

After a moment of embarrassment, he coughed dryly and pulled the topic back: "Anyway, I need you to help me recruit a group of talents in this field. I don't care about their origins and past. I only require these people to be flexible, know how to observe, and maintain minimum loyalty and obedience when they are given enough money. I want you to bring these people to the territory and then train them for a short period of time."

"When you have enough money..." Amber couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth as she heard Gao Wen's statement, "What you said is really straightforward."

"There is no choice, I have no choice," Gao Wen sighed. "You are not unaware that Cecil's ranks have more than 800 primitive corpses, nearly 10,000 exiles and slaves. This is the main structure of the territory's population. In addition, we hire in various ways and extradition talents are in short supply. I cannot bring up an intelligence team from such a territory. And the people you know may have problems with their character and may not be clean in the past, but since they can survive, it proves that they have a flexible mind and the ability to protect themselves, and they must be smart in the environment where they live. In this era, people with these abilities cannot be cultivated casually."

Starting from the "gutter rats" at the bottom of society in various places, the most primitive intelligence network was an idea that Gao Wen had long ago. He knew that those "gutter rats" were despised by nobles and even citizens, but he knew that those who could survive in that social environment were born the best spies: they were smart but calm, cautious but bold, smart and bright, good at observing, and basically had their own information channels, which were even one of their survival channels: mercenary adventurers walking around would be happy to buy intelligence from gutter rats everywhere. As long as the money was in place, the latter was the most reliable source of intelligence.

These two groups, located at the margins of society and at the bottom of society, are a natural symbiotic relationship.

Of course, "gutter rats" also have a lot of shortcomings: they are weak, but they have almost nothing to do with kindness. They cannot have any noble sentiments or concepts of loyalty. They can sell intelligence to you for money, but they can also sell your secrets to others for money. This is a group of people with almost no morality and discipline, because these two things are absolutely useless in their lives.

But Gao Wen doesn't care or he is completely acceptable to these flaws compared to the value of those people.
Chapter completed!