As soon as Amber finished speaking, Gao Wen turned his head and stared at her, and straightened the half-elf thief's body, "What do you... your eyes mean..."

Gao Wen's eyes looked like he was looking at an alien creature: "Why did you know a druid?"

"Why can't I know a druid!" Amber put his waist on his back and said with confidence, "I am more than half an elf, okay? All druid factions in the world originate from elves, have you never heard of?"

It would be fine if any other pointed ears were said, but it was really inconvincing that this elf shame said. Gao Wen looked up and down at the thief who still had a righteous face, and after a while he said: "Is it the kind of understanding that he stole someone's things before and was hated, and he was chased all over the world?"

"You are insulting my personality, I'll tell you!" Amber suddenly jumped up like a hair, "How could someone find out if I steal something!"

Gao Wen: "…"

I always feel that there is something wrong with this guy's rebuttal.

However, although he was questioning, looking at Amber's conclusive appearance, this guy seemed to know a druid, and she introduced it to a seller: "Let me tell you, I know that guy is not only a druid, but also a scholar-type druid. He knows a little bit of everything. His druid faction is the 'Heart of the Woods' with a strong root. He is particularly good at dealing with animals and plants, and is absolutely reliable..."

Gao Wen finally believed the guy's words, but he did not ask in detail how Amber met the mysterious druid, and the other party's name and origin, etc. - it is obviously impolite to ask these questions now. After listening to Amber's sales words, he only asked two questions: "Can you still contact him now? If you can contact him, how long will it take to bring him?"

"It's easy to contact. Although people in the world say that druids are in a quiet place and are not easy to find, but I know that guy's range of activities is very fixed. It's just in the southern area. As for how long it will take..."

Amber kept winking at Gao Wen as he spoke: "When I went to find him, I could walk all the way, but when I came back, I probably could only rush the road honestly. How fast we can go depends on the means of transportation. Do you understand?"

Gao Wen immediately understood the other party's meaning, and waved his hand and took out a few copper plates to plug it into her hand: "Go and buy a pair of new shoes."

Amber stared at her eyes: "...I won't take you like this! And no matter how you say you have to give me some money to use as a deposit, right? Even if you are introduced by an acquaintance, you have to pay the employment fee!"

"Wouldn't you say that earlier?" Gao Wen was just joking with Amber. After all, it was interesting to see the girl jumping up and down, but after the joke, he still had to take it seriously. He took out some gold and silver strips that were pressed into a unified size from his pocket, "Take it, get it done - the rest will be yours."

Amber immediately took the shiny treasures with a smile.

Since the work required to mint coins is not yet ready, "Cecil's coin making" is still just a concept, so Gao Wen temporarily asked the craftsmen to make some gold and silver in the treasure house into this kind of broken gold and silver for trading with the outside world.

This approach is not uncommon in this world - precious metals are used as bargaining chips for direct circulation, and the commercial system is still very primitive in the Middle Ages. Gold and silver with a certain degree of purity are themselves currency. In many cases, gold and silver are made into coins for easy portability, verification and statistics. However, merchants also accept direct gold and silver transactions - but this kind of transaction has an additional process of checking the quality and weighing calculation, so when buying goods directly with gold and silver, the price will be slightly increased.

Of course, this is also the premise that the "monetary reputation" of the nobles is still sufficient. If one day the impurities mixed in gold and silver coins reach a level that can hurt merchants, then the unofficial gold and silver dollars will in turn exceed the currencies issued by the royal family and the dukes and become mainstream trading items. If you use gold and silver coins to buy things, the price will be higher.

This is also why the emblem of the God of Business is a balance, and there are iron scissors and an eye on both ends of the balance. The iron scissors and balances are things that merchants carry with them. The former is used to cut strips made of gold and silver, while the latter is used to weigh them. The eyes are something a good businessman must have, and he can see the good eyesight of gold and silver.

In fact, if Gao Wen had not had some obsessive-compulsive disorder and had to cast exquisite and distinctive gold and silver coins, he could have "minted" in a simpler and more crude way - cast gold and silver into round sticks, then cut them into thin slices, and then stamped the Cecil's emblem with a steel seal. In order to save time and effort and reduce the cost to craftsmen, the Duke of the West in 536 used this method. The gold and silver coins of that year were also nicknamed "the miser's road-buying money" - because the Western laws at that time stipulated that all merchants entering the Western border must exchange one-third of their currency for Western border gold and silver coins, and must settle with such inferior gold and silver coins when passing through any level.

The currency and economy of this world are so magical.

Amber left happily, and the half-elves almost ran away from everyone's eyes, which made Hetty feel deeply worried: "She shouldn't have run away with the gold and silver..."

"Did you escape with the money?" Gao Wen muttered, and then deeply believed that the shame of the elf might really be able to do such a thing...

Forget it, I'd better believe her a little at this time - there's no other hope anyway.

Can you find a second person in the entire camp who claims to know the Druid?

After Amber left, Gao Wen turned his attention back to the reclamation project in front of him.

The old farmer named Norris kept quietly waiting, neither shaking his body in this situation like ordinary poor people, looking around, nor speaking rashly, as if he had been waiting for Gao Wen to ask questions.

"Is there any problem with this area?" Gao Wen asked, "Anything that may have problems, it is best to tell them as soon as possible."

"If you have to say it, the terrain is higher than the river beach, and it is difficult to directly divert water from the canal. You have to dig canals or drill wells from the upstream," Norris replied. "But there are also benefits. If something like heavy rain causes the Baishui River to rise, you don't have to worry about the farmland being submerged."

Water diversion... If there is a pump or similar lifting machine, it can be easily solved, or if you use the "special technology" of this world, you can find a mage with specialized water elements to water the ground, but obviously the second path is unreliable - after the camp is on track, Hetty will only be busy with more and more things. She will never have the chance to come over to be a personal water pump, and hire a formal mage to be responsible for watering the ground... Even the Violet Kingdom in the north or the elves in the south cannot do such a luxurious thing. Besides, even if the money of the Cecil family fell from the sky, how many mages are willing to come to the fields to do such "dirty work that only low-fudges can do"?

They would rather go to the castle of the king and the great nobles to set off fireworks for the banquet with double the rewards, so as to please the pale and noble ladies and noble ladies who were eating potions.

So Gao Wen immediately gave up the idea of ​​finding a mage to be a human water pump, and instead considered the solution from a mechanical perspective. Of course, if it was based on the general rules of this world, the general idea of ​​the nobles to solve such problems was to find more serfs to work, but for Gao Wen, wasting human power on such things was too luxurious.

At this time, an ancient and effective machine came to Gao Wen's mind: "Have you ever heard of something called a waterwheel?"

Herty, Norris and Philip Knight were confused.

Sure enough, no one has ever heard of this kind of thing.

Gao Wen looked at Hedy: "Do you have paper and pen?"

After getting the paper and pen, Gao Wen began to sketch a simple sketch. It was a very tall wheel-like thing, supported by spokes, and a neatly arranged inclined cylinders and wooden board structures were fixed on the outer edge of the "wheel", and on one side of the "wheel", a sink extending outwards was drawn.

Due to limited time, he only drew part of the structure of the water wheel, and it was a sketch, but this simple and magical machine has an amazingly concise principle, and only a little explanation is made: "This thing is a water wheel. The river flows through the bottom, impacting the wooden boards, causing the water wheel to rotate, and the water wheel will bring the water filled barrel to the top, and the water is injected into the sink. This process continues to circulate, and the water is raised to a height. The specific height can be increased depends on how big the water wheel is, as long as the material can hold it."

As he said that, he added: "Of course, this is just a sketch, and the principle is very simple. On this basis, there can be more models..."

Hetty had no time to talk at this moment - she was completely attracted by this simple and incredible thing.

Just simple reasoning, she could see that this machine is absolutely useful, but before seeing this sketch, she really never thought that there would be such a thing in the world:

It does not require human power or any extraordinary power to participate. It can work day and night to complete the work that requires many serfs to complete, and what drives it is the power of nature.

She suddenly felt "beauty" from this simple machine, a word that had nothing to do with the original structure of the crude benzene.

However, Gao Wen was still sighing: "It's a pity that there are no bamboos here, otherwise it would be much easier to build..."

Hetty didn't hear clearly for a moment: "Ah? What did you just say?"

"No, nothing," Gao Wen waved his hand, "Do you have any ideas about this machine?"

Hetty was about to say that this was a genius design, but saw Norris next to him pick up a pen and draw on a blank piece of paper. The old farmer said while outlining: "Making it directly by the Baishui River will be very affected by the river. It will not be used during the dry season. If you can lead another canal next to it, during the dry season..."

Noting that the surroundings suddenly became quiet, Norris suddenly reacted, then threw the pen away in panic and retreated with trembling: "Master, I just..."
Chapter completed!