Celestial Mage

Chapter 218 Yanhua is out of circle! (14)

Something happened in Crescent Town, but it had little to do with the nobles.

For example, the newly opened "Purification of the Mind" gallery in Chengzhong District hardly affected its popularity.

From time to time, a carriage stops outside the courtyard of the gallery, and one or two well-dressed and handsome gentlemen walk down, buy one or two, or a dozen confession coupons, and come to the gallery to enjoy the beauty. No, it should be purification. soul.

After bidding farewell to Harrick and Chabolai, Rosen also came to the gallery non-stop.

Of course he is not to purify the soul, but to purify the souls of others.

After quickly drawing four new mind-cleaning paintings, he came to Patsy's office in the annex building of the gallery.

Patsy was busy arranging the documents, and Rosen didn't bother, standing by the window with his hands in his pockets, idly watching the scenery outside the window.

Customers who keep coming into the gallery make him feel very happy.

After waiting for a while, Peixi finished the work at hand, and she opened a bottle of Moonshine Wine: "Master, would you like a drink?"

Rosen glanced: "I don't like to drink moonshine wine, just give me a glass of plain water."

"Ok."

I poured half a glass of boiled water into a good flawless crystal wine glass, and handed it to Rosen with the hands of a mage.

Afterwards, he poured himself a glass of Moonshine Wine, walked slowly to the thick leather chair, sat on it with his legs curled up, and took a sip of the fine wine leisurely, as lazy as a cat.

Rosen took a sip of water and reminded: "Before the overall situation is settled, Fubosi may come to trouble you. You have to be careful, and call Xia Lina immediately if you find something wrong."

For things that pass through the open road, such as 15 land reclamation materials, Fubos will not make trouble, because the earl is watching, but things in the dark are not necessarily so.

"Thank you, Master, for your concern, but I don't think Fubos dares to come directly to the church's gallery to kidnap someone."

Naturally, Patsy knew the dangers of the struggle for the earl's heir, so she made up her mind to stay in the gallery and rely on her hands to do the investigation.

"Fubos won't, but his supporters may. But as long as you wear the protective magic weapon, there won't be any major problems."

Turning his head to look at Pei Qian, he was very puzzled when he saw that she had poured some moonshine wine into the glass again.

"Is this stuff so delicious?"

He didn't care about money. In fact, he specially approved 300 crowns a month for Petsy's living expenses.

He was worried that his intelligence officer would drink himself up.

Patsy grinned: "The moonshine wine produced by Demetran's private winery tastes much better than the high-end wine."

She rolled her eyes at Rosen softly.

"Master, good wine can actually refresh your mind, and it can even unleash the shackles of reason and let your imagination fly."

There is some truth to this statement, and everyone has eccentricities. He likes beautiful and charming girls, but Patsy likes fine wine, so there is no distinction between them.

"Fine wine always hurts the body, so be careful."

He withdrew his gaze from the window, walked back to sit down on the thick leather chair opposite Patsy, leaned back lazily, and crossed his legs.

"The background of the highland civilian mage, how is the investigation site going?"

Pei Qian squinted her eyes and smiled: "It's been ready a long time ago, I've been waiting for you to pick it up."

She has recently increased her mana, and she is also familiar with the hand of the mage.

At this time, the hand of a mage was used, and the bookcase on the side was opened, and a neat stack of manuscript paper flew out, which recorded the family background and past resume of a full 600 unofficial young mages who possessed the mana and knowledge of official mages.

Why informal?
Because these mages are all from civilian background, they can only withstand the most rigorous assessment.

The examination fee of 1000 crowns, the triple audit of the mage guild, the lord and the temple, and many unspeakable but real obstacles to the unspoken rules.

Unless the commoner mage is really talented and good at drilling, it is difficult to become a formal mage before the age of 40 with the efforts supported by ordinary talents.

After all, the status of an official mage is equivalent to an honorary knight, and a knight must either exchange military exploits, or have to spend decades in the officialdom before being awarded the title.

Therefore, ordinary civilians generally have to be in their early forties before they can obtain the honorable title of official mage.

And if you are not an official mage, then daily spellcasting is a violation of the imperial regulations, and you have to find an official mage to buy a spellcasting guarantee.

It's a bit like a senior engineer certificate attached to the earth.

So the official mage has another way of making money.

Unless the official mage has serious character flaws, he won't be too bad at mixing.

Closer to home.

Rosen quickly flipped through the information in his hand, not looking at it himself, but handing it over to the computing core for automatic analysis.

After about 10 minutes, he put the documents back on the table and nodded with satisfaction.

"Yes, the information is very detailed, and it is of great help to me."

Of the [-] informal mages, nearly [-] met his requirements.

This group of people are generally under the age of 30, their mana is above the low-level, and their plasticity is very high.

He intends to use the petrification technique to build the town. If this group of people use it well, they will be the backbone magic power to build Crescent Town in the future.

Naturally, Rosen would not be stingy with rewards for capable subordinates.

"Pacey, the information you have collected recently has been of great help to me, and it also proves that my original choice was correct."

"I decided to reward you, teach you some self-defense spells, and equip you with some powerful self-defense artifacts."

Patsy and Lilith were his eyes, and he naturally had to take good care of them and never let them get hurt.

At the same time, Rosen also felt that when he arrived in Crescent Town, he had to set up another intelligence department as a backup, otherwise, if something happened to Patsy, he would be blind.

Patsy was very happy with Rosen's generosity. After thinking about it carefully, she shook her head.

"Master, learning spells requires a lot of energy and time, and this will greatly interfere with my work."

Gathering information is the core ability of her being protected by Rosen, and it is difficult for her to achieve great achievements when she starts to learn spells at this age.

As smart as she is, she naturally wouldn't pick up sesame seeds and drop watermelons.

There's nothing wrong with her saying that.

Rosen said: "I have naturally considered this. So to be more precise, I intend to teach you some methods of using powerful magic tools, rather than actually mastering spells."

"I will try my best to simplify the use of powerful instruments to ensure that you can easily master them."

Pei Qian understood, and nodded in agreement: "Thank you, Master, for your concern."

After a pause, she drank the moonlight wine in the glass in one gulp, got up and walked in front of Luo Sen, with a 'plop', she knelt down on the cashmere carpet naturally, and gently grasped Luo Sen's hand with both hands.

"Master, but I still want a small reward."

When Rosen saw her soft and charming eyes, he knew what she wanted.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a day job.

Pei Qian is only under 25, and she is busy collecting information all day long, so her desire is not strong.As long as a man doesn't tease, he won't be able to take the initiative to get up.

What she was asking for was Rosen's comfort, just like a cat jumping into its owner's arms and begging to be plucked.

Naturally, Rosen would not refuse, so he picked her up with the hands of a mage, placed her on his lap, and let her nestle quietly in his arms. Thick and long hair.

Patsy squinted her eyes contentedly like a cat, and lay motionless in his arms.

After being quiet for a while, Rosen asked, "Is intelligence collection expensive?"

For professional issues, Patsy is at her fingertips.

"According to the current scale, it will cost about one thousand crowns a month. And this scale is also difficult to expand. There are many powerful mages in Silvermoon Castle, and I dare not stretch my hand too far."

"You're right. The information collected from the periphery alone is enough to analyze the movements of important people, so there's no need to take big risks."

The main reason is that there are few people in the highlands, less than 100 million, and most of them are rural people. Many people can't walk [-] kilometers away in their lifetime.

There are only tens of thousands of residents in Silvermoon Castle, and anyone who has a fart can easily spread throughout the city.

The main cost of collecting intelligence is basically spent on maintaining the daily dark line network.

He started assigning new tasks.

"By the way, I plan to recruit a group of refining apprentices recently."

"Some apprentices will be selected from informal mages, and some want to start training from an early age."

"Help me go to the folks to find a group of children from civilian background, with smart minds and simple temperaments."

"Not too many for the time being, fifty will do."

Refining is technical work, but it is also labor-intensive and time-consuming.

If you really want to make a lot of money, it is far from enough to rely on yourself and Gendeloni. The production capacity cannot be increased, and the time and energy are not enough.

It is necessary to open a refining workshop and train enough refining apprentices to really make money lying down.

Patsy nodded immediately: "No problem, Master."

The business was over, and Rosen patiently cashed in the small reward for Pei Qian.

After a while, Patsy suddenly remembered something again.

"By the way, master, I have recently received many requests for customized paintings from old gentlemen. When are you free?"

Rosen was taken aback: "A lot, how much?"

"Two."

"How come there are so many?"

It's only been a few days, are all the old gentlemen in Silvermoon Castle so hungry?
Patsy explained with a smile.

"Master, you have opened this soul-purifying gallery and developed a warm and healthy painting style, which has given many honest gentlemen who are concerned about reputation an excellent opportunity to break through the shackles of morality."

"So, this part of the demand comes from new customers that have not been reached before."

Rosen understood immediately.

In other words, it was because of his series of operations that the gorgeous and uncommon oil paintings were gradually accepted by the upper class of Silvermoon Castle, and gradually grew into a mainstream art genre.

That is, draw a circle.

In this way, the pickiness from the moral aspect is covered by the elegant halo of art, and it seems less dazzling.

And people have a spiritual need to appreciate beauty, without moral pressure, those moral gentlemen will also enter the game.

But the price is too low, Rosen is not willing to paint.

"How much is the price?"

"Because these new customers have a high moral level but a relatively low economic level, they can only give 500 crowns a piece."

"Compared with before, there is always a psychological gap between a 500, and I am also busy with things now, I am afraid I don't have time to draw."

"Then I pushed for the master?"

It's a pity to push it, after all, it's a good income.

After thinking for a while, Rosen said, "Go ahead, but tell these customers that I'm busy and I need to see my mood."

"The delivery time is uncertain, the longest three or four months, or even half a year is possible."

"I remember."

She remembered something again.

"There is also the investigation task assigned by the master. I also got the answer this morning."

Rosen couldn't remember much at once: "What investigation mission?"

"The task of selling paintings by Candela."

"Oh, I remember. Where did he sell my pictures?"

Patsy giggled and began to explain in detail.

"He mainly sells your paintings to the big cities in the east. Such as Raging Waves City, Baisha City, Suiye City, etc., and they are not sold in general, but sold in auction houses."

"The publicity stunt is the work of the master of the Northern Territory's magic genius."

As soon as Rosen heard it, he knew that Candela must have made a lot of money.

Sure enough, Pessie broke out a shocking message.

"It is said that there is a painting called Bathing in the Forest, which was even taken into the golden hall of Thunder Castle by the Storm Duke of Raging City. The auction price was as high as 12000 crowns."

Rosen was very speechless.

He remembered that the painting had been sold to Candela for 50 crowns.

This guy actually sold the painting to the East, and he sold it for so much money, a full 240 times the profit!

No wonder he was so generous, he was willing to rent the Bailu Garden to himself for only one custom-made painting in three months.

By the way, people in the East are really rich.

"It seems that Kendela and I also have a huge space for cooperation in Yanhua."

Yanhua and magic tools are two ways to make money. If they are well managed, they should be able to earn funds for the subsequent construction of Xinyue Town.

Afterwards, while thinking about earning money from Yanhua, Luo Sen licked the cat. No, he licked his intelligence officer.

Pei Qian just nestled in his arms without moving, and after a while, she fell asleep.

Intelligence work is very tiring.

Rosen waited for her to fall asleep, then gently placed her on the small bed in the inner room of the office, covered her with a thin quilt, released a home protection, and then left quietly.

First find Uncle Harek who is also dizzy in the 'New Moon Town Temporary Town Affairs Building'.

Fortunately, the uncle found a lot of government assistants and shared a lot with him.

Give him the list and information of the unofficial mages you plan to hire.

"Uncle, hire these unofficial mages as soon as possible, and divide them into six levels depending on their abilities, and the monthly salary will be adjusted between 5 and 20."

Harrick looked at the list, his eyes widened: "280, this is a lot of money."

"I know."

Rosen smiled slightly: "I will earn this money as soon as possible."

He wasn't very sure at first, but after hearing about Candela's auction of pornographic paintings, he felt confident.

In addition, because they are all unofficial mages, apart from money, there is still a guarantee for casting spells.

According to the official mage order of the empire, an official mage can guarantee the spellcasting license of up to 8 informal mages at the same time.

Considering that the apprentices of many official mages will take up part of the quota, it is afraid that more than 100 official mages will be needed to get the spell-casting license together.

For an ordinary mage, it is extremely difficult to gather the help of more than 100 mages.

And the constraints of such small details are not too big, but they can effectively prevent careerists from taking advantage of loopholes to do big things and subvert traditions.

So, where can Rosen find such a large number of official mages to help?
Naturally, rely on the temple to send mages, and they can't be helped for nothing.

Exactly three days later was the Maple Leaf Tea Party, and it was time for him to fulfill the promise he had made to Bilegu.

Of course, before that, he had to go home and get ready.

(End of this chapter)