Lord of Industrialization

A large field by the river is covered with milkvetch, which is lush and green. It has just been harvested and is only as high as a palm. A group of sheep are grazing with their heads down.

White clouds drifted across the sky, and the weather was not as hot as the previous days.

A wooden dragonfly spun and flew into the air, flew into the distance for a while, and then exhausted its strength and landed on the grass.

A burst of melodious laughter came. Maria, wearing a riding outfit, ran over, picked up the wooden dragonfly, rubbed it vigorously in her white hands, and the new toy flew into the air again.

The underside of the wooden dragonfly's leaves are painted with bright paint, and when it flies into the air, it looks like several colorful circles layered on top of each other from the ground.

The Grand Duke of Mainz had a great-grandson who was a little younger than Frederick. Many toys, including this wooden dragonfly, were originally given to him, but now belong to Maria.

A white awning with beautiful tassels was set up on the grass under the river embankment, and the ground was covered with a thick carpet.

Sofia took the fruits, snacks and lunch out of the basket and placed them in the middle of the carpet, and was now lighting the tea stove on the shelf next to the carpet.

Although the weather is still very hot now, Sophia dare not give her daughter iced tea, which will easily spoil her stomach.

Lighting a fire is very simple. Just put the charcoal in the stove and stretch your finger like a flamethrower to spray out flames and burn them for a while.

You can't make much money selling matches in this world, and nearly half of healthy adults can make a small flame. On the contrary, there is a market for magic lighters with exquisite shell materials and exquisite decorations.

After finishing these tasks, Sophia looked into the distance. Her parasol was still on the river embankment. Just now, Frederick said that he was going to paint, so she lent it to him to block the sun.

At this time, Frederick was using charcoal to draw the layout of the camp for the victims on a piece of parchment.

He has been here for three days. Yesterday, he applied for a meeting with the Grand Duke of Mainz through Philip. What he got was the news that the Grand Duke and his family were going to a hot spring vacation. At the same time, Philip also got the command to command 500 soldiers of the principality to guard the territory, sell warehouses and ration food, and recruit a certain number of people. The power of corvee also implies that the relevant territories should do a good job in guiding disaster victims.

It was obvious that this incident was caused by King William trying to trick Frederick to death. The Grand Duke of Mainz did not want to look like he was going against the king by directly helping Frederick after the negotiations with the Principality of Bain collapsed.

So the Grand Duke and his family went to the hot springs for a vacation on a hot day without seeing Frederick. They gave Philip, who was the first to bear the brunt, several powers, and then asked other places to cooperate.

One look at this excuse showed that the Grand Duke of Mainz clearly disgusted the king.

Frederick didn't care about it anymore. Getting things done and done was the most important thing.

Building a shelter camp is now the top priority. Wesson leaders have sent people to inform them that Philip is using his new powers to concentrate manpower and material resources to assist.

Not to mention anything else, the amount of firewood needed is not a small amount, and trees cannot be cut down randomly. They have to go to firewood forests in special years.

In order to speed up, Frederick went to the field where the camp was set up to conduct on-site inspections, and could start working as soon as his people arrived.

Sophia thought he was out for fun, so she took her daughter with him.

But Frederick didn't have the time, so he could only let Maria play by herself.

A camp is not as simple as setting up a tent. It involves eating, drinking, sleeping, where supplies are stored, where the kitchen is, where people live, and where toilets are installed. These must be carefully considered.

Weisenberg's construction industry scholars provided a template, and when it arrived at the site, it was necessary to optimize the design based on actual conditions, such as where the water came from.

Even if someone dies in the camp, plans must be made for how to deal with the body.

"What are you drawing?" Maria had enough of playing with the wooden dragonfly and ran to sit next to Frederick. The distance between the two was exactly the width of her five fists, a perfect gap between a lady and a gentleman. distance.

At this time the clouds that covered the sun left, and Frederick gave her the parasol and said at the same time: "We are going to build a camp here."

"Are we going to build a new castle?!" Maria exclaimed happily, "Can the castle be purple? In the spring, all the flowers here are purple, so beautiful!!"

Frederick shook his head and said with a smile: "No, there are just many, many tents, and many people stay here for a few days and then leave."

I don’t know whether Maria understood it or not, but the little girl’s topic jumped to other places: “Oh, will you come when the flowers bloom here next spring? There are all purple flowers here, as well as little bees and beautiful little butterflies. It’s so fun!”

Frederick replied: "Next year there will be wheat in the fields, and there will be purple flowers on the other side of the river."

"Ah?" Maria's beautiful big eyes widened in surprise, "Why do the purple flowers and wheat have to move?"

Frederick said with a smile: "Because they are two good friends. Next year, the purple flowers will go to play with Maizi, and Maizi will go to play with purple flowers, but they both find that their good friends are not at home."

"Really?" Maria asked in disbelief.

"It's true!" Frederick said seriously, "You will know when you come here next spring."

Milkvetch is the most common fallow crop in the local area. It is sown in autumn. The flowering season from spring to early summer of the next year can provide a nectar source for bees. After the flowering season, it is harvested and fed to livestock. In late summer, the whole plant is plowed into the field and The roots with rhizobia are used as green manure, and then wheat is grown.

The fields on the other side of the river have finished harvesting beans and are now being plowed to plant vetch by the end of September.

Maria looked confused and said "Oh" several times.

At this time, Sofia waved to the two children to go back for snacks.

Maria ran a few steps with her parasol, looked at the river embankment under the scorching sun, and then turned back to Frederick.

"Let's go," the little girl said proudly, "I'll hold the umbrella for you."

As she spoke, she held up her parasol so that Frederick could also be covered.

It's just that the handle and ribs of this parasol are made of wood, so it's not light. The little girl's hands started to tremble after she held it up for a while.

Frederick took the parasol and decided to do it himself.

The servants brought kettles for the two of them to wash their hands, and Sofia let them have whatever snacks they wanted.

Frederick put a few pieces of gingerbread on his plate, placed them beside him, and finished the drawing while eating.

"Huh?" He looked at the bitten gingerbread and sighed, "It's so delicious."

There is a tradition here that ginger is used to nourish the stomach.

Sofia handed him a piece of applesauce pie drizzled with honey, smiled and said, "Eat more if you think it's delicious."

"Thank you." Frederick took the pie and put it aside. "I'll finish the drawing first and then eat it."

As he spoke, he continued to perfect the clay pipe between the water pump and the water storage tank.

Maria had her mouth full of applesauce pie, and Sophia gently wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief.

"Why are you eating so fast?" Sofia said, "It's all in your mouth."

Maria replied, "I thought the pie was bad."

"Why doesn't it taste good?" Sophia was very surprised.

Maria said: "Mom, look, Frederick doesn't even eat it. Doesn't he think it tastes bad?"

Sofia turned around and saw that Frederick was sitting on the carpet and writing and drawing on the parchment seriously, with an extremely focused expression.

She wanted to say something, but gave up. Her husband occasionally had this expression, and every time it appeared, he was dealing with something very important.

Frederick suddenly discovered that the original camp plan did not consider requirements such as fire evacuation, so he made adjustments.

After he finished revising and put down the charcoal pen, he heard Sophia ask herself: "You can just let others do these trivial things, why bother yourself?"

There was a trace of bitterness in the smile on Frederick's face, and he said a little tiredly: "There is no way, now I am the only one left in the Wesson family."

"I'm too young, which is a disadvantage. It's easy for people to have bad thoughts."

"In order to prevent my subordinates from having such thoughts, I can only do everything right, do my best, and lead them from one victory to another. Only then can I make them convinced of me and from the bottom of my heart. You worship me everywhere and fear me at the same time, and you won’t have any other thoughts.”

You know your own business, and managing a territory is not that simple.

The human heart is the most unpredictable and dangerous. Firstly, I have no way to see how favorably others feel about me. Secondly, I don’t have the absolute loyalty to summon people to serve as my base. I can only work hard to create the character of a genius child to ensure that my subordinates remain loyal to me. Confidence can at least raise the threshold for betraying yourself.

"Are you tired?" Sofia couldn't help but reached out and stroked Frederick's hair, feeling sorry for this little boy who was only a little older than her daughter.

Frederick just forced a smile and said nothing, just looking at the sheep approaching gradually.

If you don't want to become a fat sheep to be slaughtered, you can only be so tired.

Maria didn't understand the previous conversation, but only understood her mother's comment that Frederick was very tired, so she continued: "When you are tired, you should sleep more. Do you want me to sing to you? Father listened to me." The songs I sang made me sleep soundly!”

Frederick smiled and said to her: "Okay, I like to listen to singing the most."

Maria immediately put down the candied fruit in her hand and began to sing.

Frederick knew that her voice was pleasant, but he did not expect that the sound of nature would not be enough to describe her singing. The cheerful singing directly touched the depths of his soul, and his whole mood calmed down.

Not only him, but the sheep and shepherd dogs that were not far away also heard the singing and were immediately attracted. They formed a circle around the carpet and listened quietly to Maria singing.

After a while, even the flying birds landed on the crossbar of the awning, landed on the sheep, and a few kept flying around Maria.

Sofia looked at her daughter proudly, but Frederick's face was full of shock. This girl's talent in soul magic was so terrifying!